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navigator. How wonderful to see you back, my young friend. So glad that your brother is better.

Now let's see. Eiffel 65. Have to check that one out, I guess. Back after going through the archives, listeners.

Thanks Letty, thanks Francis, how can we tell it's the same song I saw?I'm

afraid that I only can recognise it by listening or watching it. Sorry guys



Maybe I should do some googling. So, what language is this ?

It's all right, navigator. I have never heard of eiffel 65. I thought it was Italian.

My, my, listeners. I hope our Bob is all right. Maybe he is away for the holiday.

How about a compressed poem, listeners:

to another Advent day.

*****



Clouds

Wandering the meadows of distant memory;
Most familiar faces are strangers now to me;
Intimate reflections, broken in the glass,
Evade the eye of knowing as I file them under 'Past';
With utmost care and diligence I sweep them all away;
Someone might trip over them, one future sunny day.

Billy the Kid
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Henry McCarty (November 23, 1859 - July 14, 1881) better known as Billy the Kid but also known by the alias William Henry Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and murderer who was a participant in the Lincoln County War. He is reputed to have killed 21 men, one for each year of his life, but the figure is probably closer to nine (four on his own and five with the help of others). McCarty had blue eyes, smooth cheeks, and was unusually friendly; traits that few other outlaws in the American West had at the time.


Biography

Little is known about McCarty's early childhood but he was probably born in New York City. The exact names of his parents, and thus McCarty's own surname, are not known for certain. Variations for his parents' names include: Catherine McCarty or Katherine McCarty Bonney for his mother and William Bonney or Patrick Henry McCarty for his father (who probably died around the end of the American Civil War). In 1873 his mother married William Antrim and the family moved to Silver City, New Mexico. His stepfather was a bartender and carpenter but soon became more interested in prospecting for fortune than in his wife and stepsons.

Faced with an indigent husband, McCarty's mother took in boarders in order to provide for her sons. She was by now afflicted with tuberculosis even though she was seen by her boarders and neighbors as "a jolly Irish lady, full of life and mischief". The following year, on 16 September 1874, his mother died of her condition and at 14 McCarty was forced to find work in a hotel. The manager was impressed by the young boy, boasting that he was the only kid who ever worked for him that didn't steal anything. His school teachers thought that the young orphan was "no more of a problem than any other boy, always quite willing to help with chores around the schoolhouse".

On September 23, 1875 McCarty was arrested for hiding a bundle of stolen clothes for a man playing a prank on a Chinese laundryman. Two days after McCarty was thrown in jail, the scrawny teen escaped by worming his way up the jailhouse chimney. From that point onward McCarty would be a fugitive.

He eventually found work as an itinerant ranch hand and shepherd in southeastern Arizona. In 1877 he became a civilian teamster at Camp Grant Army Post with the duty of hauling logs from a timber camp to a sawmill. The civilian blacksmith at the camp, Frank "Windy" Cahill, took pleasure in bullying young McCarty. On August 17 Cahill attacked McCarty after a verbal exchange and threw him to the ground. McCarty retaliated by drawing his gun and shooting Cahill, who died the next day. Once again McCarty was in custody, this time in the Camp's guardhouse awaiting the arrival of the local marshal. Before the marshal could arrive, however, McCarty escaped.

Again on the run, McCarty next turns up in the house of a Heiskell Jones in Pecos Valley, New Mexico. Apaches had stolen McCarty's horse which forced him to walk many miles to the nearest settlement, which was Mrs. Jones's house. She nursed the young man, who was near death, back to health. The Jones's family developed a strong attachment to McCarty and gave him one of their horses.

He later became embroiled in the infamous Lincoln County War in which his newest friend and employer, John Tunstall, was killed. McCarty would exact revenge by gunning-down the deputy who killed his friend, another deputy and the county sheriff. Now an even more wanted man than before, McCarty went into hiding but soon started to steal livestock from white ranchers and Apaches on the Mescalero reservation.

In autumn 1878, retired Union General Lew Wallace became the new territorial governor of New Mexico. In order to restore peace to Lincoln County, Wallace proclaimed an amnesty for any man involved in the Lincoln County War that was not already under indictment. McCarty was, of course, under several indictments (some of which unrelated to the Lincoln County War) but Wallace was intrigued by rumors that McCarty was willing to surrender himself and testify against other combatants if amnesty could be extended to him. In March of 1879 Wallace and McCarty met to discuss the possibility of a deal. True to form, McCarty greeted the governor with a revolver in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. After several days to think the issue over, McCarty agreed to testify in return for an amnesty.

Part of the agreement was for McCarty to submit to a show arrest and a short stay in jail until the conclusion of his courtroom testimony. Even though his testimony helped to indict one of the powerful House faction leaders, John Dolan, the district attorney defied Wallace's order to set McCarty free after testifying. A skilled escape artist, McCarty slipped out of his handcuffs and fled.

For the next year he survived by stealing and rustling as he did before. He did hang around Fort Sumner on the Pecos River and developed a fateful friendship with a local bartender named Pat Garrett who was later elected sheriff of Lincoln County. As sheriff, Garrett was charged with arresting his friend Henry McCarty who by now was almost exclusively known as "Billy the Kid".

Garrett set-up many traps and ambushes in an attempt to apprehend McCarty but the Kid seemed to have an animal instinct that warned him of danger. However, McCarty's instinct failed him at an abandoned stone building located in a remote location called Stinking Springs. Garrett's men surrounded the building during the night and waited for sunrise. One of McCarty's companions named Thomas O'Folliard had a hat similar to McCarty's and was shot dead by the posse after leaving the structure to feed his horse. Soon afterward somebody from within the building reached for the horse's halter rope but Garrett shot and killed the horse (the horse's body then blocked the only exit). Without transportation there wasn't any chance of escape, but the besieged and hungry group didn't surrender until later that day when the posse was cooking a meal.


McCarty was jailed in the town of Mesilla while waiting for his April 1881 trial. Deliberation took exactly one day and McCarty was convicted of murdering Sheriff William Brady and on April 13 he was sentenced by Judge Warren Bristol to hang. His execution was scheduled for May 13 and he was sent to Lincoln to await this date. He was under guard by James Bell and Robert Ollinger on the top floor of the building formerly known as the House before and during the Lincoln County War. On April 28 McCarty somehow escaped and killed both of his guards while Garrett was out of town. It is not known how McCarty was able to do this, but it is widely believed that a friend or Regulator sympathizer left a pistol in the privy that one of the guards escorted McCarty to daily. It is thought that McCarty shot Bell with the pistol when McCarty reached the top of a flight of stairs in the House. After that, the story goes, McCarty stole Ollinger's ten-gauge double barrel shotgun and waited for Ollinger by the window in the room he was being held in. From here McCarty is thought to have shot Ollinger as he paused from running across the street upon hearing "Hello Bob" from McCarty.

This would be, however, McCarty's last escape; according to Pat Garrett he and two of his remaining deputies were questioning McCarty's friend, Pete Maxwell on July 14, 1881 in Maxwell's darkened bedroom in Old Fort Sumner, when McCarty unexpectedly entered the room. The Kid didn't recognize Garrett in the poor lighting conditions and asked "¿Quien es? ¿Quien es?" (Spanish for "Who is it? Who is it?). Realizing his predicament and being unarmed, McCarty turned to flee when Garrett shot him twice in the back.

Henry McCarty, the infamous "Billy the Kid", was buried in a plot in-between his dead friends Tom O'Folliard and Charlie Bowdre the next day at Fort Sumner's cemetery.

New Mexico governor Bill Richardson is considering pardoning McCarty as of June 2004, stating "I have to decide whether to pardon him. But not right away - after the investigation, after the state gets more publicity."


Left-handed or right-handed?

For most of the 20th century, it was widely assumed that Billy the Kid was left-handed. This belief came from the fact that the only known photograph of Billy, an undated ferrotype, shows him with a Model 1873 Winchester rifle in his right hand and a gun belt with a holster on his left side, where a left handed person would typically wear a pistol. The belief became so entrenched that in 1958, a biographical film was made about Billy the Kid called The Left Handed Gun starring Paul Newman.

It wasn't until late in the 20th century when it became general knowledge that the familiar ferrotype was actually a reverse image. The familiar version shows Billy's Model 1873 Winchester with the loading port on the left side. All Model 1873s had the loading port on the right side proving the image was a negative and that Billy was in fact wearing his pistol on his right hip. Even though the image has been proven to be a negative, the idea of a left handed Billy the Kid continues to widely circulate.

Another idea that is going around is that Billy the Kid was not only right-handed, but left-handed as well, making him ambidextrous. Many believe this, mostly because so many heard that he was left-handed, and so many heard that he was right-handed. Many that believe that this is incorrect think that it is just a rumor to stop all the arguments, and it may be, even though a majority of Billy the Kid sites do say that he is ambidextrous.


Brushy Bill

In 1950, a lawyer named William Morrison located a man named Ollie P. Roberts, nick-named Brushy Bill, who claimed to be the actual Billy the Kid, and that he indeed had not been shot and killed by Pat Garrett in 1881. Although generally rejected, it is still a very heated debate, with very convincing evidence leading either way. Some say Brushy was actually born in 1868, others say he was born in 1879, but he himself claimed to be born on December 31, 1859.

Another claimant, known to be a hoax, was John Miller, who claimed to be Billy the Kid in 1938.

Later photographic analysis has proven that neither Brushy Bill nor John Miller could have been Billy the Kid. Nevertheless, the town of Hico, Texas (Brushy Bill's residence) has capitalized on the Kid's infamy by opening the Billy The Kid Museum, where visitors can review the evidence and decide for themselves.

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

Boris Karloff
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Boris Karloff (November 23, 1887 - February 2, 1969), born William Henry Pratt, was a famous actor in horror films. He was often billed as "Karloff the Uncanny".

A son of Edward John Pratt Jr, the Deputy Commissioner of Customs, Salt and Opium, Northern Division, Indian Salt Revenue Service, and his third wife, Eliza Sarah Millard, the future actor was born in Camberwell, London, and brought up in Enfield. His maternal grandmother was Eliza Julia Edwards, a sister of Anna Leonowens, whose stories about life in the royal court of Siam (now Thailand) were the basis of the musical "The King and I". Through her, Karloff could claim distant East Indian ancestry, as it seems that Eliza Edwards and her sister, Anna, were the children of a mixed-race marriage. Karloff, however, often claimed Russian ancestry to explain his exotic looks, though his daughter Sara Karloff publicly denied any knowledge of Slavic forebears.

Orphaned in his youth, he was raised by his elder brothers and sister and attended Enfield Grammar School before moving to Uppingham School in Rutland, and eventually the University of London. Karloff's first goal in life was to join the foreign service -- his brother, Sir John Henry Pratt, became a distinguished British diplomat -- but instead he fell into acting. In 1909, Pratt travelled to Canada, changing his name to something more in keeping with his new vocation while on his way to an acting job with the Jeanne Russell Theater Co. in Kamloops, British Columbia. He spent years testing the waters in North America while living in smaller towns like Kamloops and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. In 1912, while appearing in a play in Regina, Saskatchewan, Karloff volunteered to be a rescue worker following a devastating tornado. He also lived in Minot, North Dakota for a year, performing in an opera house above a hardware store. For health reasons, he did not fight in the First World War.

Once he arrived in Hollywood, California, Karloff made many silent films, before appearing as the Monster in Frankenstein (1931), the film that made him a star. A year later, he played another iconic character, Imhotep, in The Mummy.

Karloff (who, in the wake of Frankenstein's success, was billed for a time only by his last name) was a very fine actor who played a wide variety of roles in other genres besides horror. He gave an excellent performance in the 1934 John Ford epic The Lost Patrol.

In contrast to the characters he played on screen, Karloff was known in real life as a very kindly gentleman who gave generously especially to children's charities. Karloff was also a charter member of the Screen Actors Guild, and was especially outspoken as regards working conditions on sets (some extremely hazardous) that actors were expected to deal with in the mid-1930s.

An enthusiastic performer, he was able to return to the Broadway stage in the original production of Arsenic and Old Lace in 1941, in which he played a character enraged to be frequently mistaken for Karloff. Somewhat less successful was his work in the J. B. Priestley play The Linden Tree. He also appeared with Jean Arthur as Captain Hook in the play Peter Pan, and was nominated for a Tony Award for his work opposite Julie Harris in The Lark.

In later years, Karloff hosted and acted in a number of television series, most notably Thriller and The Veil, the latter of which was never broadcast and only came to light in the 1990s. In the 1960s, Karloff successfully spoofed his image in the 1963 cult classic film The Terror, directed by Roger Corman, and appeared as "retired horror film actor" Byron Orlok (a lightly-disguised version of himself) in Peter Bogdanovich's critically acclaimed 1968 film Targets which was one of his final film appearances.

In the mid-1960s, he narrated the made-for-television animated feature How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Due to an error in the credits, it is sometimes erroneously stated that Karloff sang the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch". The song was actually sung by American voice actor Thurl Ravenscroft.

Boris Karloff lived out his final years at his appropriately named cottage, 'Roundabout', in the Hampshire village of Bramshott. After a long battle with emphysema, he contracted pneumonia, succumbing to it in the King Edward VIII Hospital, Midhurst, Sussex, on February 2, 1969, at the age of 81. He was cremated, following a requested low-key service, at Guildford Crematorium, Godalming, Surrey, where he is commemorated by a plaque in the Garden of Remembrance. A memorial service was held at St. Paul's, Covent Garden (The Actors' Church), London, where there is also a plaque.

However, even death could not put an immediate halt to Karloff's media career. Three films Karloff shot in Mexico just prior to his death were released over a two-year period after his passing, but were dismissed as undistinguished efforts by critics. Also, a few years prior to his death, he lent his name to a comic book for Gold Key Comics entitled Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery. An illustrated likeness of Karloff continued to introduce each issue of this publication for nearly a decade after the real Karloff died.

For his contribution to film and television, Boris Karloff was awarded two stars on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame at the following locations:

1737 Vine Street (motion pictures}

6664 Hollywood Blvd. (television}

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

Finally, there's our Bob of Boston. Thank goodness you are back with us and your bio's make WA2K completer. Heh! Heh!

So, Bob Mr. Pratt's cottage was named Roundabout? That song I know.


Yes
» Roundabout

I'll be the roundabout
the words will make you out and out
you spend the day
your way.
Call it morning driving
through the sound and in
and out the valley
in and around the lane
mountains come out of the sky
and they stand there one mile over
we'll be there and we'll see you
ten true summers we'll be back
and laughing too
twenty-four before my love
you'll see I'll be there with you.
The music dance and sing
they make the children really ring
I spend the day your
your way.
Call it...
I will remember you
your silhouette will charge the view
of distant atmosphere.
Call it...
Along the drifting cloud
the eagle searching down on the land
I'll be the roundabout
the words will make you out and out
catching the swirling wind
the sailor sees the rim of the land
I'll be the roundabout...
The eagles dancing wings
create as weather spins out of hand
I'll be the roundabout...
go closer hold the land
feel partly no more than grains of sand
I'll be the roundabout...
We stand so lose all time
a thousand answers by in your hand
I'll be the roundabout...
next to your deeper fears
we stand surrounded by a million years
I'll be the roundabout...

todays installment of bands by alphabet "F"

Stone Blue
Foghat

Wind tearin' through the backstreet, I hear the rhythm of my heart beat,
Rain blowin' to my face, I'm tired of being in the wrong place.

Blues knockin' on my back door, I can't jump from the second floor,
Turn up the radio higher and higher, rock and roll music set my ears on fire.

When I was stone blue, rock and roll sure helped me through.
When I was stone blue, rock and roll sure helped me through.

Laid off work and I can't be free, I need some rock 'n' roll therapy.
Put on a 45 and let the needle ride, jukebox jumps and I'll be satisfied.

When I was stone blue, rock and roll sure helped me through.
When I was stone blue, rock and roll sure helped me through.

Oh, let me ride on your mystery train, ride through the night in the pourin' rain.
Rock and roll in my soul, got me losin' control, let it roll!

Stone blue, rock and roll sure helped me through,
When I was stone blue, rock and roll sure helped me through.

{Rod - Slide Solo}

Rock and roll in my soul, got me losin' control,
Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll, let it roll!

When I was stone blue, rock and roll sure helped me through.
When I was stone blue, rock and roll sure helped me through.
(Stone blue) Walkin' on a backstreet,
(Stone blue) I hear the rhythm of my heartbeat.
(Stone blue) Pick up the beat 'n' start to run,
(Stone blue) I'll be home before the mornin' sun.
(Stone blue) Rain blowin' to my face,
(Stone blue) I'm tired of bein' in the wrong place.

{Instrumental}

When I was stone blue, rock and roll sure helped me through.
When I was stone blue, rock and roll sure helped me through.
Turn up my radio, turn it up, yeah, higher and higher,
Turn it up, turn it up, whoo, yeah, higher and higher.

{Instrumental}

You gotta help me through - you gotta help me through,
You gotta help me through - you gotta help me through,
You gotta help me through - you gotta help me through,
You gotta help me through - you gotta help me through.
When I was stone blue, when I was stone blue,
Gotta help me through, help me through...


Juke Box Hero
Foreigner

Standing in the rain, with his head hung low
Couldn't get a ticket, it was a sold out show
Heard the roar of the crowd, he could picture the scene
Put his ear to the wall, then like a distant scream

He heard one guitar, just blew him away
He saw stars in his eyes, and the very next day
Bought a beat up six string in a secondhand store
Didn't know how to play it, but he knew for sure

That one guitar, felt good in his hands
Didn't take long, to understand
Just one guitar, slung way down low
Was one way ticket, only one way to go

So he started rockin'
Ain't never gonna stop
Gotta keep on rockin'
Someday he's gonna make it to the top

And be a juke box hero, got stars in his eyes
He's a juke box hero
He took one guitar, juke box hero, stars in his eyes
Juke box hero, he'll come alive tonight

In a town without a name, in a heavy downpour
Thought he passed his own shadow, by the backstage door
Like a trip through the past, to that day in the rain
And that one guitar made his whole life change

Now he needs to keep rockin'
He just can't stop
Gotta keep on rockin'
That boy has got to stay on top

And be a juke box hero, got stars in his eyes
He's a juke box hero, got stars in his eyes
Yeah, juke box hero, got stars in his eyes
With that one guitar he'll come alive
Come alive tonight

Yeah, he's gotta keep rockin'
He just can't stop
Gotta keep on rockin'
That boy has got to stay on top

And be a juke box hero, got stars in his eyes
He's a juke box hero, got stars in his eyes
Just one guitar, put stars in his eyes
He's just a juke box hero, aah aah aah
Juke box hero, juke box hero, he's got stars in his eyes
Stars in his eyes


Buggin' [Remix]

They wanna hear the thanksgiving song! all right..
This is uhh, this is the thanksgiving song
I hope you enjoy it.

[starts playing]
Love to eat turkey
Love to eat turkey

Shout from crowd: I love you adam!
Adam sandler: ohhh, I love you!
Love to eat turkey
'cause it's good
Love to eat turkey
Like a good boy should
'cause it's turkey to eat
So good

Adam sandler: that clappin's messing my head up man. I appreciate it. but I was trying to think of the next line and all I hear is clapping. here we go... thanks anyways

Turkey for me
Turkey for you
Let's eat the turkey
In my big brown shoe
Love to eat the turkey
At the table
I once saw a movie
With betty grable
Eat that turkey
All night long
Fifty million elvis fans
Can't be wrong
Turkey lurkey doo and
Turkey lurkey dap
I eat that turkey
Then I take a nap

Thanksgiving is a special night
Jimmy walker used to say dynomite
That's right
Turkey with gravy and cranberry
Can't believe the mets traded darryl strawberry
Turkey for you and
Turkey for me
Can't believe tyson
Gave that girl v.d.

White meat, dark meat
You just can't lose
I fell off my moped
And I got a bruise
Turkey in the oven
And the buns in the toaster
I'll never take down
My cheryl tiegs poster
Wrap the turkey up
In aluminum foil
My brother likes to masturbate
With baby oil
Turkey and sweet potato pie
Sammy davis jr.
Only had one eye

Turkey for the girls and
Turkey for the boys
My favorite kind of pants
Are corduroys
Gobble gobble goo and
Gobble gobble gickel
I wish turkey
Only cost a nickel
Oh I love turkey on thanksgiving

Happy thanksgiving everybody!

HERE IS THE NEWS FROM THE BBC......

The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a peerage. He will now be known as the Lord of the Flies.

The Minister for Health has announced that there is now a 10 month waiting list for pregnancy testing at most hospitals.

To mark the opening of a sports hall for juvenile delinquents, the Prime Minister up rooted a tree and snapped it in half.

In the money markets, the Pound had another good day yesterday. It rose sharply at ten o'clock, then had a light breakfast and went for a stroll in the park.

SPORTS NEWS......

In todays big football match between Germany and England, fighting on the terraces was interrupted when playing broke out on the pitch.



Next week, we will be interviewing the lady who loves Nicholas Parsons, and a Parson who loves knickerless ladies.



Now....bak to the music.

Bat Masterson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


W. B. "Bat" Masterson (November 24, 1853 or 1856 - October 25, 1921) was a legendary figure of the American West. He lived an adventurous life which included stints as a buffalo hunter, U.S. Army scout, gambler, frontier lawman, U.S. Marshal, and, finally, sports editor and columnist for a New York newspaper.

Early life

Some details of Masterson's early life are disputed. He is reported to have been born on November 24 of either 1853 or 1856 in either Quebec, Canada, or in Illinois, U.S.A. His birth name was either William Barclay Masterson or Bartholomew Masterson, but it is known that during his adult life he called himself "The Genius".

Some report that he was called "Bat" as a nickname for Bartholomew. A more colourful account is that he was called "Bat" because he carried a cane which he used as a club during fights.

Masterson was the second of five children and was raised on farms in New York, Illinois, Kansas and Quebec. In his late teens, he and two of his brothers, Ed and Jim, left their family's farm in Kansas to become buffalo hunters. While traveling without his brothers he took part in the Battle of Adobe Walls (Texas)' fighting against an overwhelming number of Comanche Indians. He then spent some time as a U.S. Army scout in a campaign against the Kiowa and Comanche Indians.


Gunfighter and lawman

His first gunfight took place in Sweetwater (later Mobeetie), Texas in 1876 when he was attacked by a man in a fight over a girl. The other man died of his wounds. Masterson was shot in the pelvis. This injury resulted in his carrying a cane for the rest of his life.

In 1877, he joined his brothers in Dodge City, Kansas. Jim was a partner in a saloon there and Ed was a deputy sheriff. Soon after his arrival, Masterson came into conflict with the local marshal over the treatment of a man being arrested. He was jailed and fined, although his fine was later returned by the City Council. He served, alongside Wyatt Earp, as a sheriff's deputy and within a few months he was elected County Sheriff of Ford County, Kansas. Fighting in Colorado on the Santa Fe side of its war against the Rio Grande railroad, Masterson continued as Ford County sheriff until he was voted out of office in 1879. During this same period his brother Ed was Marshal of Dodge City and was killed in the line of duty.

For the next several years, he made a living as a gambler moving through several of the legendary towns of the Old West. He visited Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, Arizona, leaving shortly before the famous "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral." He spent a year as Marshal of Trinidad, Colorado.

By 1891, he was living in Denver, Colorado, where he bought the Palace Variety Theater. He married an actress, Emma Walters, on November 21, 1891. He continued to travel in the boomtowns of the West, gambling and promoting prize fights. He began writing a weekly sports column for George's Weekly, a Denver newspaper, and opened the Olympic Athletic Club to promote the sport of boxing.

Bat Masterson lived in the American West during a violent and frequently lawless period. He was well-known as a gunman. Reports on the number of people he killed range from one or two, to as many as 26.

Life in New York

He arrived in New York City in 1902 and was almost immediately arrested for conducting a crooked faro game and carrying a concealed weapon. The crooked gaming charges were dismissed and he was fined $10 for carrying the gun.

For the next 20 years, he lived and worked within walking distance of Longacre Square, now Times Square. He became one of the "Broadway guys" that Damon Runyon wrote short stories about. The character of "Sky Masterson" in Runyon's Guys and Dolls is based on Bat Masterson.

He became sports editor of and columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph. During this period, he was also a frequent visitor at Theodore Roosevelt's White House. In 1905, Roosevelt appointed Masterson U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of New York. This appointment lasted until Roosevelt left office in 1909.

In 1921, Masterson died of a heart attack while working. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.


Quotes

* "Every dog, we are told, has his day, unless there are more dogs than days."

* "When a man is at the racetrack he roars longer and louder over the twenty-five cents he loses through the hole in the bottom of his pocket than he does over the $25 he loses through the hole in the top of his pocket."

* "There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way."

* "New York is the biggest boobtown in the world. They'll buy any Goddamned thing here."

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

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (November 24, 1864 - September 9, 1901) was a French painter.

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa was born in Albi, Tarn in the Midi-Pyrénées Region of France. From an old aristocratic family which had lost much of its prestige, he was the son of Comte Alphonse and Comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec. Henri was their first child, a brother was born in August 28, 1867 but died the next year. His parents were first cousins and a lot of intra-marriage had already taken place within the familes. This was done to preserve the family wealth, but led to development of genetic defects as the result of inbreeding.

At age 12 he fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14 his right thigh bone, and because of a genetic disorder which prevented his bones from healing properly, his legs ceased to grow. He reached maturity with a body trunk of normal size but with abnormally short legs, described by Jean Bouret as having "developed the torso of a grown man on the legs of a small boy; and his handsome face changed gradually into a thick-lipped, monstrously masculine and sensual mask covered in black stubble." He was only 4 1/2 feet (1.5 meters) tall.

Unable to participate in activities a normal body would have permitted, Toulouse-Lautrec lived for his art. He became an important post-impressionist painter, art nouveau illustrator, and lithographer, and recorded the bohemian lifestyle of Paris at the end of the 19th century. In the mid-1890s, Toulouse-Lautrec contributed illustrations to the humorous magazine, Le Rire.

He was deemed "the soul of Montmartre", the Parisian quarter where he made his home. His paintings portray life at the Moulin Rouge and other Montmartre and Parisian cabaret and theaters, and in the brothels that he frequented regularly (and where he perhaps contracted syphilis). Two of the well-known people he portrayed were singer Yvette Guilbert, and Louise Weber, known as the outrageous La Goulue, a dancer who created the "French Can-Can."

Toulouse-Lautrec taught painting to and encouraged the efforts of Suzanne Valadon, one of his models and probably his mistress. She is believed the one from whom he contracted syphilis.

An alcoholic for most of his adult life, shortly before his death he entered a sanatorium.

He died due to the complications of alcholism and syphilis, at the age of almost 37, at the family estate in Malromé and is buried in Verdelais, Gironde, a few miles from his birthplace.

His last words were "Old fool" in reference to his father who was there when he died.

After his death, his mother, The Comtesse Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Maurice Joyant, his art dealer, promoted his art, and his mother contributed funds for a museum to be built in Albi, his birthplace, to house his works.

Toulouse-Latrec is said to have been a genius of an artist whose remarkable powers of observation were matched by a profound sympathy with humanity. He never exibited any remorse at being born with his deformities. He lived life to the fullest, made many friends and was always accepted in spite of his short stature.

Before 2005, his paintings sold for as much as $14.5 million.

He is portrayed by John Leguizamo in the film Moulin Rouge!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec

What a life Toulouse led!
(thank you, BobSmyth)


LordE, you are in fine fettle today...

Geraldine Fitzgerald
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Geraldine Fitzgerald (24 November 1913 - 17 July 2005) was an Irish-American actress.

Fitzgerald was born in Greystones, County Wicklow, south of Dublin, Ireland. Inspired by her aunt, the actress/director Shelah Richards, Fitzgerald began her acting career in 1932 in theatre in her native Dublin before moving to London in 1934 to appear in British films. She quickly came to be regarded as one of the British film industry's most promising young performers and her most successful film of this period was The Mill on the Floss (1937).

Her success led her to America and Broadway in 1938, and while appearing opposite Orson Welles in the Mercury Theatre production of Heartbreak House, she was seen by the film producer Hal B. Wallis who signed her to a seven-year film contract. She achieved two significant successes in 1939; she received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Isabella Linton in Wuthering Heights and had an important role in Dark Victory, with both films achieving great box office success.

She appeared in Watch on the Rhine (1943) for Warner Bros. and Wilson (1944) for Fox, but her career was hampered by her frequent clashes with the management of the studio, and the suspensions that resulted. She lost the role of 'Brigid O'Shaughnessy', the villainess of The Maltese Falcon due to her clashes with Jack Warner. Although she continued to work frequently throughout the 1940s the quality of her roles diminished and her career began to lost momentum. She became a U.S. citizen during World War 2 in a display of solidarity with her adopted country. In 1946 she left Hollywood to return to New York where she married her second husband Stuart Scheftel, a grandson of Isidor Straus. She returned to Britain to film So Evil My Love (1948) and received strong reviews for her performance as an alcoholic adultress. In 1951 she appeared in The Late Edwina Black before returning to America.

The 1950s provided her with very few opportunities in film, but in the 1960s she asserted herself as a character actress, and her career enjoyed a revival. Among her successful films of this period were Ten North Frederick (1961), The Pawnbroker (1964) and Rachel, Rachel (1968). Her other films include The Mango Tree (1977), for which she received an Australian Film Institute "Best Actress" nomination, Arthur (1981) starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, and John Gielgud and in 1988 she joined the original cast and reprised her role as Arthur's strong-willed but loving Grandmother in Arthur 2, and Poltergeist II: The Other Side in (1986).

From the 1940s she began to act more on stage and she won acclaim for her performance in the 1971 revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night. She also achieved success as a theatre director. Among her accomplishments on Broadway is a Tony Award nomination in 1982 for the production Mass Appeal, one of the first women to receive a nomination for directing.

She also appeared frequently on television in such series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Robert Montgomery Presents, Naked City, St. Elsewhere and Cagney and Lacey. She received an Emmy Award nomination for a guest role in The Golden Girls in 1989. She starred in a pilot for her own television series, produced by Barbra Streisand and titled Mabel and Max, but it was not a success.

In 1990 she began a career as a cabaret singer with the show Streetsongs which played three successful runs on Broadway and was the subject of a PBS television special.

Geraldine Fitzgerald has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to television, at 6353 Hollywood Boulevard.

Fitzgerald died in New York, New York, on July 17, 2005, following a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease at the age of 91.

She was the mother of the film director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (Let It Be and Brideshead Revisited) by her first marriage and a daughter, Susan Scheftel by her second mariage.

She was also a great-aunt of the actress Tara Fitzgerald, and a cousin of the Australian novelist Nevil Shute.

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

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

Today's birthdays:

1273 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (d. 1284)
1394 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)
1420 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (d. 1473)
1583 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
1615 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
1630 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
1632 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
1655 - King Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
1690 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
1713 - Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary (d. 1784)
1713 - Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist (d. 1768)
1729 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
1787 - Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1863)
1801 - Ludwig Bechstein, German narrator and poet (d. 1860)
1811 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
1826 - Carlo Collodi, Italian author (d. 1890)
1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author (d. 1924)
1853 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter and policeman (d. 1921)
1859 - Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
1868 - Scott Joplin, American musician (d. 1917)
1874 - Charles Miller, 'Father of Brazilian football' (d. 1953)
1876 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)
1877 - Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
1881 - Al Christie, film director and producer (d. 1951)
1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
1888 - Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955)
1888 - Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
1894 - Herbert Sutcliffe, England cricketer (d. 1978)
1895 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)
1905 - Irving Allen, American film producer and director (d. 1991)
1912 - Garson Kanin, American writer (d. 1999)
1912 - Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (d. 1986)
1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (d. 2005)
1916 - Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer and publisher
1917 - Howard Duff, American actor
1921 - John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)
1924 - Victor Grinich Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)
1925 - William F. Buckley Jr., American writer and political commentator
1925 - Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 - Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
1927 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
1930 - Bob Friend, baseball player
1934 - Alfred Schnittke, German composer (d. 1998)
1938 - Oscar Robertson, American basketball player
1941 - Pete Best, British musician, original drummer of The Beatles
1942 - Billy Connolly, British comedian
1943 - Dave Bing, American basketball player
1946 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
1947 - Dwight Schultz, American actor
1948 - Steve Yeager, baseball player
1951 - Chet Edwards, American politician
1955 - Ian Botham, England cricketer
1955 - Elvis Ramone, American drummer (The Ramones)
1955 - Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
1957 - Denise Crosby, American actress
1960 - Amanda Wyss, American actress
1962 - John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
1964 - Brad Sherwood, American comedian
1964 - Robert Trujillo, American bassist (Metallica)
1967 - Russell Watson, British singer
1971 - Keith Primeau, Canadian hockey player
1976 - Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
1978 - Katherine Heigl, American actress

LE- your news are really funny!

Time for a bit of celebrity gossip or a "Big Yawn."

Elton John is going too marry his boyfriend, according to Yahoo

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051124/wl_canada_nm/canada_elton_col

I might be old fashioned but I guess it's a matter of each to his own.