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Diane Ladd
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Diane Ladd (born November 29, 1932 in Meridian, Mississippi) is an American television and film actress. She was born Rose Diane Lanier and raised Catholic. She is a distant relation of the late great playwright Tennessee Williams.

She had a supporting role in Roman Polański's 1974 film Chinatown, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role as Flo in the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. That film inspired the TV series Alice in which Flo was portrayed by Polly Holliday. When Holliday left Alice, Ladd was cast in the show as Flo's replacement, waitress Isabelle "Belle" Dupree. Despite her success in the film version, Ladd's role in the television spinoff proved unpopular with viewers of the series and she appeared for only the 1980-1981 season. In 2004, Ladd played psychic Mrs. Druse in Stephen King's miniseries Kingdom Hospital.

Ladd was formerly married to Bruce Dern and is the mother of film actress Laura Dern, with whom she co-starred in the films Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose. Ladd is now she is married to Robert Charles Hunter.


Trivia

While Ladd appeared in the TV series Alice, which was based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, in which she also appeared, she did not reprise Flo, the character she played in the film. Instead, she played Belle, a character who was created essentially to replace Flo, when Polly Holliday (who played Flo in the TV series) left star in her own spinoff series, Flo. Both Holliday and Ladd hastened their departures due to a mutual dislike of lead actress Linda Lavin.

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

Good morning, Bob.

We wanted to make certain that your bios were complete before commenting.

Strange, even after looking at Diane Ladd's picture, I could not recall her. and what a surprise about C.S. Lewis. I checked out Shadowlands and the plot seemed as esoteric as The Little Prince.

Very interesting about C.S. Lewis and his preoccupation with Jesus. His conclusions were provocative.

and now listeners, a little mood music by Eric Clapton:


If the night turned cold and the stars looked down
And you hug yourself on the cold cold ground.
You wake the morning in a stranger's coat,
No one would you see.
You ask yourself, who'd watch for me?
My only friend, who could it be?
It's hard to say it, I hate to say it, but it's probably me.

When your belly's empty and the hunger's so real
And you're too proud to beg and too dumb to steal,
You search the city for your only friend,
No one would you see.
You ask yourself, who'd watch for me?
A solitary voice to speak out and set me free.
I hate to say it, I hate to say it, but it's probably me.

You're not the easiest person I ever got to know
And it's hard for us both to let our feelings show.
Some would say I should let you go your way,
You'll only make me cry.
But if there's one guy, just one guy
Who'd lay down his life for you and die,
I hate to say it, I hate to say it, but it's probably me.

When the world's gone crazy and it makes no sense
And there's only one voice that comes to your defense.
The jury's out and your eyes search the room
And one friendly face is all you need to see.
And if there's one guy, just one guy
Who'd lay down his life for you and die,
I hate to say it, I hate to say it, but it's probably me.

I hate to say it, I hate to say it, but it's probably me...

Back Home Again :: John Denver

This song appears on fifteen albums, and was first released on the Back Home Again Album, and has also been released on the Favourites, the Greatest Hits Vol 2, Voice of America, John Denver (Italian), The Very Best of John Denver (Double CD), The Rocky Mountain Collection, The Country Roads Collection and Country Classics Albums. Live versions appear on the Live In London, the Live at the Sydney Opera House, The Wildlife Concert and The Best of John Denver Live Albums. An updated studio version also appears on the Love Again and A Celebration of Life Albums.


There's a storm across the valley, clouds are rollin' in
The afternoon is heavy on your shoulders
There's a truck out on the four lane a mile or more away
The whinin' of his wheels just makes it colder

He's an hour away from ridin' on your prayers up in the sky
And ten days on the road are barely gone
There's a fire softly burnin', supper's on the stove
But it's the light in your eyes that makes him warm

Hey it's good to be back home again
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long-lost friend
Yes 'n' hey, it's good to be back home again

There's all the news to tell him, how'd you spend your time
What's the latest thing the neighbors say
And your mother called last Friday, âSunshine❠made her cry
You felt the baby move just yesterday

Hey it's good to be back home again - yes it is
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long-lost friend
Yes 'n' hey, it's good to be back home again

Oh the time that I can lay this tired old body down
Feel your fingers feather soft upon me
The kisses that I live for, the love that lights my way
The happiness that that livin' with you brings me

It's the sweetest thing I know of, just spending time with you
It's the little things that make a house a home
Like a fire softly burnin' supper on the stove
The light in your eyes that makes me warm

Hey it's good to be back home again
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long-lost friend
Yes 'n' hey, it's good to be back home again

Hey it's good to be back home again - you know it is
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long-lost friend
Hey, it's good to be back home again
I said hey it's good to be back home again

Words and music by John Denver

Well, for goodness sake, Bob. Why couldn't I locate those lyrics. Thanks, Boston.

Anyway, Rog. That was for you via the hawkman.

More mood music, listeners:



Artist: Nina Simone
Song: Can't get out of this mood


Jimmy MacHugh, Loesser

All day long before my eyes come little visions of you,
They shouldn't, they mustn't, but they do.
Can't get out of this mood,
Can't get over this feeling,
Can't get out of this mood,

Last night your lips were appealing,
The thrill should have been all gone by today, in the usual way,
But it's only your arms that I'm out of.
Can't get out of this dream
What a fool to dream of you,
Twasn't part of my scheme to sigh and tell you that I love you,
But now I'm saying it, I'm playing it dumb,
Can't get out of this mood,
Heartbreak here I come.

I can't get over this feeling,
Last night your lips were appealing,
The thrill should have been all gone by today, in the usual way,
But it's only your arms that I'm out of.
What a fool to dream of you,
To sigh and tell you that I love you,
But now I'm playing it, now I'm playing it dumb,
I can't get out of this mood,
Heartbreak, heartbreak here I come.

Weather report:

Snowstorm Knocks Out Power Across Plains By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press Writer
1 minute ago



BISMARCK, N.D. - Broad areas of the Dakotas remained shut down Tuesday by the Plains' first blizzard of the season, with highways closed by blowing, drifting snow and thousands of people without electricity as temperatures hit the low teens.






Five deaths had been blamed on slippery roads in Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas. A sixth person was killed by a tornado spun off by the huge storm system in Arkansas.

Travelers trying to get home after Thanksgiving had been stranded in hotels, truck stops and churches across the Plains.

The storm was heading toward the Great Lakes on Tuesday after dumping snow as far south as the Texas Panhandle. As much as 20 inches of snow fell at Kennebec, S.D., while Chamberlain, S.D., was choked by drifts up to 8 feet high.

The snow, ice up to 5 inches thick and wind gusting to 70 mph had snapped power lines.

Utility officials estimated that 50,000 customers were blacked out across eastern South Dakota on Tuesday, and many communities in North Dakota also had no electricity. The morning's low at Grand Forks, N.D., was 14 degrees.

Power companies in North Dakota said it could take days to restore power because the storm tore down major transmission lines.

Firefighters in Fairmount, N.D., offered the town's roughly 400 residents rides to the community center, which has a backup generator, but the blackout also shut down the town's pumps.

"We still have water but it's getting pretty low here," Fairmount Fire Chief Dave Jacobson said.

Utility crews were out early Tuesday working to restore electricity in northwestern Minnesota.

"Bless 'em, they're just the cavalry," said Chris Kling, a spokeswoman for Otter Tail Power Co.

At Hankinson, N.D., people took refuge at the Dakota Magic Casino, which also has its own generator, said customer service representative Cheri Braun. "Our hotel can't hold any more," she said.

Interstate 94 remained shut Tuesday by poor visibility and icy pavement for about 100 miles across eastern North Dakota from Fargo to Jamestown, and I-29 was barricaded from Fargo to Watertown, S.D., a stretch of about 140 miles. About 200 miles of east-west I-90 remained closed across central South Dakota from Mitchell to Kadoka.

Farther south, however, Colorado and Kansas had reopened more than 400 miles of eastbound I-70 between Denver and Salina, Kan., after two days. To the east, Minnesota had reopened I-94 east of the North Dakota line.

Almost 1,000 people spent Sunday night in shelters along I-70 in Kansas, including more than 200 on cots and exercise mats at Fort Hays State University in Hays, officials said.

Among those at Fort Hays State were Mike and Ilona Dorsey, returning to Denver after visiting relatives in Topeka.

"We stopped at every town from Colby to here and couldn't get a hotel," Dorsey told The Hays Daily News. "Everything was filled."

Numerous other highways also remained closed in the Dakotas, as well as eastern Colorado and northwest Kansas.

The same storm whipped up tornadoes that destroyed at least eight homes in Arkansas on Sunday and damaged more than 30 homes at Fort Riley, Kan.

The storm was retaining most of its clout as it headed toward the Great Lakes.

Hey, Tico. Better check in if you can.

On the local news last night, a fire caused the lights to go out in Daytona Beach. More about that later, folks

Good afternoon.

Today's birthdays are:

1338 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (d. 1368)
1427 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (d. 1464)
1484 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (d. 1551)
1627 - John Ray, English naturalist (d. 1705)
1690 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
1752 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (d. 1819)
1762 - Pierre-Andre Latreille, French zoologist (d. 1833)
1781 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1865)
1797 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (d. 1848)
1799 - Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer and educator (d. 1888)
1802 - Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and novelist (d. 1827)
1803 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (d. 1853)
1803 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (d. 1879)
1813 - Franz von Miklosich, Slovenian linguist (d. 1891)
1816 - Morrison Waite, 7th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1888)
1825 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)
1832 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (d. 1888)
1849 - Sir John Ambrose Fleming, British physicist (d. 1945)
1856 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1921)
1874 - Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1876 - Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician (d. 1977)
1881 - Julius Raab, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1964)
1894 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (d. 1970)
1895 - Busby Berkeley, American film director, and choreographer (d. 1976)
1895 - William Tubman, President of Liberia (d. 1971)
1896 - Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (d. 1986)
1898 - C. S. Lewis, Irish writer (d. 1963)
1901 - Mildred Harris, American actress (d. 1944)
1904 - Egon Eiermann, German architect (d. 1970)
1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American civil rights leader and politician (d. 1972)
1915 - Billy Strayhorn, American musician and composer (d. 1967)
1916 - Fran Ryan, American actress (d. 2000)
1917 - Merle Travis, American singer (d. 1983)
1918 - Madeleine L'Engle, American author
1921 - Dagmar, American television personality (d. 2001)
1927 - Vin Scully, baseball announcer
1928 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
1932 - Jacques Chirac, President of France
1932 - Diane Ladd, American actress
1933 - John Mayall, British blues musician
1939 - Peter Bergman, American comedian
1940 - Chuck Mangione, American musician
1941 - Bill Freehan, American baseball player
1942 - Philippe Huttenlocher, Swiss baritone
1943 - Sue Miller, American author
1944 - Felix Cavaliere, American musician and producer
1947 - Petra Kelly, German politician (d. 1992)
1949 - Jerry Lawler, American professional wrestler and commentator
1949 - Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director
1953 - Alex Grey, American artist
1954 - Joel Coen, American film director, producer, and writer
1955 - Howie Mandel, Canadian actor
1956 - Hinton Battle, American dancer
1956 - Leo Laporte, American television personality
1960 - Cathy Moriarty, American actress
1961 - Kim Delaney, American actress
1963 - Andrew McCarthy, American actor
1964 - Don Cheadle, American actor
1965 - Ellen Cleghorne, American comedian
1967 - John Layfield, American professional wrestler
1969 - Mariano Rivera, Panamanian baseball player
1969 - Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch international footballer
1970 - Mark Pembridge, Welsh international footballer
1971 - Gena Lee Nolin, American actress
1973 - Ryan Giggs, Welsh international footballer
1976 - Anna Faris, American actress
1976 - Ehren McGhehey, American actor and skateboarder
1976 - Maja Vučić, Croatian singer
1977 - Maria Petrova, Russian figure skater
1982 - Ashley Force, American race car driver
1982 - Krystal Steal, American pornographic actress
1990 - Dylan & Blake Tuomy-Wilhoit, American actors (Full House)

There's our Raggedy, listeners. I wondered where you were PA. My word, girl. I read Little Women and Little Men when I was a wee thing, but the movie that I saw was with Wynona Rider. (sp). Thanks, gal, for the updates.

Now I must check out Billy Strayhorn, cause I know that he's in Bud's book of jazz.

As M.C. Hammer might say, folks, ya can't touch this <smile>



Satin Doll
Duke Ellington

Cigarette holder which wigs me
Over her shoulder, she digs me.
Out cattin' that satin doll.

Baby, shall we go out skippin?
Careful, amigo, you're flippin',
Speaks Latin that satin doll.

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be.
I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me,
Switch-a-rooney!

Telephone numbers well you know,
Doin' my rhumbas with uno
And that 'in my Satin Doll.

By Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and Johnny Mercer.

I know, folks, we've played that one before, but it's worth another spin, right?

You can't play Satin Doll too many times for this listener.

Ah, Raggedy. That makes us kindred spirits.

Hello Letty, sorry for not being around much over the past week, but I have been delving into the archives down at the church, in the nearby village of Wallop under Bottom.

You see, I am President of the Yokel Society of Great Britain, and have been gathering old bits of forgotten history related to our local area, in order to give a speech at the forthcoming Village Idiots Dinner, when they will be celebrating Michaelmas about three months too late.
Their Christmas gathering is scheduled for the end of March.

Anyway, I came across something that would be ideal for broadcast on your wonderful radio station.

You see...before the days of newspapers, the events of the day were retailed by the street ballad singers. The local baladeer back in the late seventeenth century, was a fellow by the name of Rambling Sid Rumpo.

I have found the songsheet to his catchy little number, entitled "The ballad of the Woggler's Mooly", which I have arranged to have performed for you, live on air.

Now....what IS a Woggler's Mooly, I hear you ask.

Well, a mooly is a sort of smoked cuttlefish of the whelk family, or a brother-in-law you might say, to the common variety of whelk.
Now....these were considered a great delicacy in those days. And of course they had to be woggled before you could eat them. Nowadays, of course, you can get them frozen and pre-woggled, but they don't taste the same, somehow.

Now this ballad is a sad story that first appeared in 1638 on a broadsheet, discovered in Rambling Sid's left sock, when he was subjected to a full body search. 75% of it is written in the language of the day, whilst the remaining 40% uses words and terms that stretch back to the dark ages.

Don't ask me what some of the words mean, as I haven't a bloody clue.

So, for the first time on worldwide radio, here is the Wallop under Bottom Celestial Singers (CD available for £5.99 from Spratt's Emporium in the High Street).....singing:-

"THE BALLAD OF THE WOGGLER'S MOOLY"


<shuffle shuffle....cough....shuffle>

Everyone ready? OK? You at the back there, stop doing that, your head will cave in.......OK?

One Two A One Two Three Four....

"Joe, he was a young cordwangler,
Munging greebles he did go,
And he loved a bogler's daughter
By the name of Chiswick Flo.

Vain she was and like a grusset
Though her gander parts were fine,
But she sneered at his cordwangle
As it hung upon the line.

So he stole a woggler's mooly
For to make a wedding ring,
But the Bow Street Runners caught him
And the judge said "He will swing."

Oh, they hung him by the postern,
Nailed his mooly to the fence
For to warn all young cordwanglers
That it was a grave offence.

There's a moral to this story,
Though your cordwangle be poor,
Keep your hands off other's moolies,
For it is against the law."



Thank you, and goodnight from Droitwich Manor.

Listeners, I don't know about you, but Ellpus' Woogler's Mooly gave me the first real laugh that I have had today.

I swear, Brit, I know that you wrote that yourself, and it is AMAZING, onomatopoeias and all, right folks?

Alas, the song was indeed written by Rambling Sid Rumpo.

He was on Brit radio back in the sixties and early seventies, on a programme called "Round the Horne".

He was better known as Kenneth Williams.

The waffling bit was mine, though.

TUESDAY 29 NOVEMBER



Documentary

ONE Life

10:35pm - 11:25pm

BBC1




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5/7 - The Naked Rambler

Documentary series about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. A look at notorious naturist rambler Steve Gough and his girlfriend, who walked from Lands End to John O'Groats in the nude. The film observes the public's reaction - will they be allowed to roam free, will they be arrested or will they be attacked?

Can WA2K match this ????????????????????

Well, then, Ellpus, you delivered it well, Brit.

I will delve further into the archives and find some more.


Watch this space.......

Well, John, my goodness. You and the Lord may be able to do so; I'm not certain about the rest of us. Sometimes I watch the young and the restofus.

THE FUSE

It's coming from so far away
It's hard to say for sure
Whether what I hear is music or the wind
Through an open door
There's a fire high in the empty sky
Where the sound meets the shore
There's a long distance loneliness
Rolling out over the desert floor

And the years that I spent lost in the mystery
Fall away leaving only the sound of the drum
Like a part of me
It speaks to the heart of me
Forget what life used to be
You are what you choose to be
It's whatever it is you see
That life will become

Whatever it is you might think you have
You have nothing to lose
Through every dead and living thing
Time runs like a fuse
And the fuse is burning
And the earth is turning

Though the years give way to uncertainty
And the fear of living for nothing strangles the will
There's a part of me
That speaks to the heart of me
Though sometimes it's hard to see
It's never far from me
Alive in eternity
That nothing can kill

Oh Lord
Art there really people starving still?
Look out beyond the walls of Babylon
How long will their needs go unfilled
I want to say right now I'm going to be around
When the walls and towers are crumbling down
And I will tune my spirit to the gentle sound
Of the waters lapping on a higher ground

Jackson Brown