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Gail Davis
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Gail Davis (born October 5, 1925; died March 15, 1997) was an American actress.

The daughter of a small town medical doctor, she was born Betty Jeanne Grayson in a hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas. Her family lived in McGehee, Arkansas where she was raised until they moved to Little Rock. She had been singing and dancing since childhood and after graduating from high scool in Little Rock, she went to study drama at girl's college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania before completing her education at the University of Texas in Austin. While at university she met and married Bob Davis with whom she had a daughter.

She and her husband moved to Hollywood, California to pursue a career in motion pictures and in 1947, as "Gail Davis," she made her motion picture debut in a comedy film short. She then appeared in minor roles in another four films until landing a supporting role under star Roy Rogers in a 1948 Western film called The Far Frontier. Between then and 1953, Davis appeared in more than three dozen films, of which all but three were in the Western genre and that included fourteen films with the singing cowboy star, Gene Autry. In 1950, she began to guest star in television Westerns, notably in the "Lone Ranger" and "Cisco Kid" series plus more than a dozen appearances on the "Gene Autry Show".

Between 1954 and 1956, Gail Davis starred as the Western sharpshooter, Annie Oakley in the Annie Oakley television series on the ABC network. An adroit horseback rider, Davis also toured North America in Gene Autry's travelling rodeo. After her retirement from the entertainment business, she made guest appearances at western memorabilia shows and film festivals.

Gail Davis passed away from cancer in 1997 in Los Angeles, California and was interred there in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

For her contribution to the television iductry, Gail Davis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6385 Hollywood Blvd. In 2004, she was posthumously inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Davis

Kate Winslet
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English actress most famous for her role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic.

Her career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children's science-fiction serial Dark Season in 1991, followed by an appearance in an episode of the medical drama Casualty in 1993, also for the BBC.

Winslet's film career took off in 1994 when she performed her first leading role as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures. Since then she has acted in several films, such as Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Finding Neverland, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, earning her four Oscar nominations and four Golden Globes.

Kate Winslet has also enjoyed a brief taste of success as a singer, with her single "What If" from the "Christmas Carol: The Movie" soundtrack.

On November 22, 1998 Winslet married director Jim Threapleton with whom she has a daughter named Mia Honey. After her divorce in 2001, she began a relationship with director Sam Mendes. Winslet married Mendes on May 24, 2003 on the island of Anguilla in the West Indies and their son Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes was born on December 22, 2003.

On January 25, 2005 Winslet was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. She eventually lost to Hilary Swank. This tied her for the record for most Academy Award nominations for an actress before the age of 30. This nomination was preceded by nominations for Best Supporting Actress in Sense and Sensibility and Iris. Winslet was also nominated for Best Actress in Titanic, but lost to Helen Hunt. She was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress in that film and in Finding Neverland, but lost to Imelda Staunton.

Her home town of Reading has named a street - Winslet Place - in her honour, built on the site of a demolished cinema.

Winslet is famous for her curvaceous figure, and the media, in England in particular, have enthusiastically documented her weight fluctuations over the years. Winslet, a former anorexic, has been outspoken about her refusal to lose weight in order to conform to the Hollywood "ideal". In February 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Winslet which had been airbrushed to make her look dramatically thinner than she really was; Winslet issued a statement saying that the alterations were made without her consent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Winslet

A good day to all.

Today's birthdays:

1520 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
1641 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
1658 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
1695 - John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
1703 - Jonathan Edwards, American minister (d. 1758)
1712 - Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
1713 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
1781 - Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
1795 - Alexander Keith, Founded the Alexander Keith's brewing company in 1820 (d. 1873)
1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and statistician (d. 1908)
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886)
1878 - Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
1882 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
1887 - René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1976)
1889 - Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (d. 1936)
1894 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
1902 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
1902 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
1903 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
1905 - Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
1907 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1908 - Joshua Logan, American film director and writer (d. 1988)
1911 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966)
1917 - Allen Ludden, American television game show host (d. 1981)
1919 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
1921 - Bill Willis, American football player
1922 - Jose-Froilan Gonzalez, Argentine race car driver
1922 - Bil Keane, American cartoonist (The Family Circus)
1922 - Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (d. 1985)
1923 - Glynis Johns, British actress
1924 - Bill Dana, American actor and comedian
1925 - Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997)
1926 - Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979)
1928 - Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974)
1929 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
1930 - Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut
1933 - Diane Cilento, Australian actress
1934 - Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002)
1935 - Diahann Carroll, American actress
1936 - Václav Havel, playwright and President of the Czech Republic
1937 - Barry Switzer, American football coach
1938 - Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist, wife of John Kerry
1941 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
1943 - Steve Miller, American musician
1948 - Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
1948 - Zoran Živković, Serbian writer
1949 - B. W. Stevenson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
1950 - Jeff Conaway, American actor
1951 - Karen Allen, American actress
1952 - Clive Barker, English writer
1952 - Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor
1954 - Bob Geldof, Irish musician
1957 - Mark Geragos, American attorney
1958 - André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
1958 - Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian
1960 - Daniel Baldwin, American actor
1962 - Michael Andretti, American race car driver
1963 - Caron Keating, Irish TV personality (d. 2004)
1965 - Mario Lemieux, Canadian hockey player
1965 - Patrick Roy, Canadian hockey player
1967 - Guy Pearce, English-born actor
1972 - Grant Hill, American basketball player
1975 - Kate Winslet, English actress
1980 - Paul Thomas, American musician (Good Charlotte)
1983 - D.J. "Voovy" Muszynski, musician
1983 - Nicky Hilton, American heiress

Good morning, WA2K fans and contributors.

Thanks to all for the music and bio's. I was especially intrigued with dj's Dan Bern, so I did a walk through the archives and found this song:


Albuquerque Lullaby
Song Lyrics
I have a friend
Sits in his office
Where he's had his big success
Now he cries all day
He says the Internet
Is stealing his royalties
Talks of his glory days
I say no one cares about your glory days

Backroads New Mexico
There's an old abandoned church
Windows boarded up
Never sees a coat of paint
Sometimes I drive by and dream
Of hearing the preacher preach
But it's a dragstrip for the kids
You can hear their tires screech

Don't let your heart
Get broken by this world
Don't let your heart
Get broken
At the bottom of the ocean
You might find a pearl
Don't let your heart
Get broken by this world

Drop by Albuquerque sometime
When you need to
I'll sing you an Albuquerque Lullaby. . . .

So baby when I close my eyes
You know it's you I see
You know I'm pulling for you
As you go on your way
Don't ever hesitate
To say what's goin' on
Ain't nothin black and white
Always some new place to turn

Don't let your heart
Get broken by this world.

That one is for dys and Diane.

More acknowledgement later, as often the interviews get lost in one single message.

edgar, I think, more than likely, that Perry Como had what my sister referred to as a casual and understated voice of velvet. Thanks, Texas for those songs.

McTag. I don't believe that you have a fear of flying, Brit. The next thing we know, you'll be flying to the moon. <smile>

Bob, king of the Boston bio's, I do know something of Goddard, father of the rocket, and it's such a pity that the man, like many men of extreme intelligence, are never recognized in their time. Tesla was one as well.

Raggedy, we here always appreciate your celeb updates, gal. Donald Pleasence has done a lot of villain flicks, as well as horror films. Oh, my goodness, listeners. Halloween, and its sequels, are part of a scary memory. Why is it, do you suppose, that audiences love to be frightened?

Speaking of frightened, Jonathan Edwards knew how to eloquently scare his audience into Puritan submission, especially with his famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an angry God.

I do believe, folks, that we are seeing those tactics again since they worked so well before. (no smile this time)

The wind is really ferocious here. Get rid of Stan and up swirls Tammy.

"I hear the cottonwoods whistlin' above
Tammy, Tammy
Tammy's in love
The old hooty owl hooty-hoos to the dove
Tammy, Tammy
Tammy's in love..."

You are referring to Tammy Faye Bakker, I assume, Brit.

Ah, the eyes of Tammy Faye,
She was born with them that way.
Mixed with tears
And cheap mascara
She is really quite a tarot
And a card to be awara,
So they say

All the girls in Paris France
Love to do the Can Can Dance
Kick their legs up in the air
Shake, shake, shake their derrier

If you go to Paris France
You can do the Can Can dance
Easy now as un deux trois
Everybody ooh la la

Do the Can Can
Kick your legs up in the air
Do the Can Can
Shake, shake, shake your derriere

Do the Can Can
Easy now as un deux trois
Do the Can Can
Everybody ooh la la la, ooh la la la, ooh la la la

Chorus:
Oh can you do the Can Can?
If you can then I can
I can Can Can if you Can Can
Can you Can Can

Oh we can do the Can Can
Yes oui we we Can Can
We can Can Can
Yes oui we can Can

Everyone in Paris France
Loves to do the Can Can dance
When you go you'll Can Can too
So follow me merci beaucoup

You can Can Can everyday
At the Moulin Rouge cafe
Every day, s'il vous plait, be tres gai,
Drink cafe, eat flambee, wear lame,
Be risqué, s'il vous plait, everyday, ole, ole

Chorus

Do the Can Can, everybody do the Can Can
Do the Can Can, everybody do the Can Can

I can Can Can, you can Can Can, he can Can Can, she can Can Can
Mon ami, in Gay Paris, it's tres chic chic, oui oui, we Can Can

Everybody do the Can Can
Ooh the Maitre d' even he can Can Can
We can Can Can yes we can can Can Can!



Jacques Offenbach, born June 20, 1819, in Cologne (Germany), died 125 years ago (Oct. 5, 1880) in Paris (France).

Jacques Offenbach, original name Jacob Offenbach, composer who created a type of light burlesque French comic opera known as the opérette, which became one of the most characteristic artistic products of the period.
He was the son of a cantor at the Cologne Synagogue, Isaac Juda Eberst, who had been born at Offenbach am Main. The father was known as "Der Offenbacher," and the composer was known only by his assumed name, Offenbach. Attracted by the more tolerant attitude in Paris to the Jews, Offenbach's father took him there in his youth, and in 1833 he was enrolled as a cello student at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1844, having been converted to Catholicism, he married Herminie d'Alcain, the daughter of a Spanish Carlist. In 1849, after playing the cello in the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique, he became conductor at the Théâtre Français. In 1855 he opened a theatre of his own, the Bouffes-Parisiens, which he directed until 1866 and where he gave many of his celebrated operettas, among them Orphée aux enfers (1858; Orpheus in the Underworld). He then produced operettas at Ems in Germany and an opéra-ballet in Vienna, Die Rheinnixen (1864; Rhine Spirits). Returning in 1864 to Paris, he produced at the Variétés his successful operetta La Belle Hélène (1864). Other successes followed, including La Vie Parisienne (1866), La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867), and La Périchole (1868). From 1872 to 1876 he directed the Théâtre de la Gaîté, and in 1874 he produced there a revised version of Orphée aux enfers. Described then as an opéra-féerique ("a fairy-like opera"), this venture was a financial failure. In 1876 he made a tour of the United States. The remaining years of his life were devoted to composition.

His only grand opera, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), remained unfinished at his death. It was orchestrated and provided with recitatives by Ernest Guiraud, who also introduced the famous barcarole taken from Die Rheinnixen. Described as an opéra-fantastique, it was first produced at the Opéra-Comique on Feb. 10, 1881. Gaîté Parisienne, a suite of Offenbach's music arranged by Manuel Rosenthal, remains a popular orchestral work as well as ballet score.

Offenbach is credited with writing in a fluent, elegant style and with a highly developed sense of both characterization and satire (particularly in his irreverent treatment of mythological subjects); he was called by Rossini "our little Mozart of the Champs-Elysées." Indeed, he was almost as prolific as Mozart. He wrote more than 100 stage works, many of which, transcending topical associations, were maintained in the repertory of the 20th century. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved October 5, 2005, from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service )

Alas, Walter, I lost my voice(response)

Well, let's see, listeners, if I have regained it.

I love those lyrics, Walter. Much better than "Shake your Boody."

Pump up the jam
Pump it up
While your feet are stompin'
And the jam is pumpin'
Look at here the crowd is jumpin'

Pump it up a little more
Get the party going on the dance floor
Seek us that's where the party's at
And you'll find out if you're too bad

I don't want a place to stay
Get your boody on the floor tonight
Make my day
I don't want a place to stay
Get your boody on the floor tonight
Make my day

Make my day
Make my day
Make my day
Make my day

Yo!
Pump up the jam
Pump it up
While your feet are stompin'
And the jam is pumpin'
Look at here the crowd is jumpin'
Pump it up a little more
Get the party going on the dance floor
Seek us that's where the party's at
And you'll find out if you're too bad

I don't want a place to stay
Get your boody on the floor tonight
Make my day
I don't want a place to stay
Get your boody on the floor tonight
Make my day

Make my day
Make my make my make make my day
Make my day
Make my day
Make my make my make make my day

and I am familiar with Offenbach, because (as I told Francis) I was a cast member in La Belle Helene.

Question of the day:

What Hollywood star said, "....make my day..."

Come on creep...

(mayor of Carmel)

Well, listeners, maybe this will work.

And Francis wins a song by Clint.

I have this song on cd, and he actually sang it as it was inspired by the book/movie, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.



That old black magic has me in its spell, that old black magic that you weave so well.
Those icy fingers up and down my spine
That same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
The same old tingle that I feel inside, and then that elevator starts its ride
And down and down I go, round and round I go, like a leaf that's caught in the tide.
I should stay away, but what can I do?
I hear your name and I'm aflame
Aflame with such a burning desire that only your kiss can put out the fire.
For you're the lover I have waited for, the mate that fate had me created for.
And every time your lips meet mine, darling, down and down I go, round and round I go
In a spin, loving the spin I'm in, under that old black magic called love.

Ah, black magic and voodoo. Perfect for Halloween

Wheels are made for rollin', mules are made to pack
I never seen a sight that didn't look better lookin' back.....

I always thought I was born under a wanderin' star...

McTag, you are a wonder.

More wheels, folks:

Song: Looking Back to See

Jim Ed Brown & the Browns

I was looking back to see if you were looking back to see
If I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me
You were cute as you could be standing looking back at me
And it was plain to see that I'd enjoy your company

One Sunday afternoon as I was ridin' down the street
I met a cute little girl all dressed up so sweet
And the way that she was stacked I wish I'd've had a Cadillac
For who would notice me just drivin' this model T
I was looking back to see...
[ piano - guitar ]
Now listen baby it doesn't matter to me
Even in your model T you're as cute as you can be
If you'll come sit by my side I will take for a ride
And I will guarantee we'll have fun oh man alive
I was looking back to see...
(Oh me oh gee) perhaps you'd notice me if I wadn't drivin' this model T
So I was looking back to see...

That's a see song by the sea. <smile>

... which leads to an "instrumental break" with

Wheels, by Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra

followed by

Wheels, from The String-A-Longs

:wink:

It is delightful to have our European friends here, folks.

Walter, t'were it not for Mrs. Walter, I would most certainly dedicate a song to you with the lyrics ".....but until the day that one comes along; I'll string along with you..."

From whence cometh those lyrics, folks?

While we are waiting, news from the art world:


Paris' Pompidou Defies Dadaism Prediction By JOELLE DIDERICH, Associated Press Writer
Mon Oct 3, 1:38 PM ET



PARIS - German-born artist Max Ernst once quipped that it was impossible to stage an exhibition on Dadaism, saying it was like trying to capture the violence of an explosion by presenting the shrapnel.


The early 20th-century avant-garde art movement was born out of the despair many artists felt over the deaths of millions of soldiers in World War I. As they rejected the society they considered responsible for the slaughter, these poets, painters and photographers lashed out at establishment values with absurdist slogans and provocative images.

In a bid to capture the explosive energy of the era, France's Pompidou Center has staged a sprawling dada retrospective which it billed as the largest in 40 years.

Letty, dear lady- you may not be an angel, but I think you are!

ah, McTag. What a beautiful way of letting us know that you know. Thanks, Brit.

If all will bear with me, I am trying to get permission to do a radio auction on a painting.

If it works, I might just give it away. hee hee. No offense, Francis.

Oops, too bad. Now I will have to return it to Dada.