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Well, Walter created a thread for you, L.E. Did you not see it?

Yes, dear, your answer is correct.

I love the expression, ".....far away eyes...." incidentally, although I am not familiar with the song; however, L.E. I am familiar with "Something tells me I'm into something good." <smile>

You must listen to it, Letty.....slow "country" and very tongue in cheek.

Yes, I've seen Walter's marvellous thread, and have been chatting away over there. People ARE lovely on A2K, aren't they!

Some are a bit ugly, but I'm prepared to make allowances.


Oh well, I'd better shake my stuff, go and have a shave and sort out my best gladrags for later on. I fear I may have a slight hangover tomorrow morning.

See you later..............

Hurry back, birthday brat. <smile>

Another twist of fate in the news, listeners:


JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Billed as the world's first black Jesus movie, "Son of Man" portrays Christ as a modern African revolutionary and aims to shatter the Western image of a placid savior with fair hair and blue eyes.



The South African film, which premieres on Sunday at the U.S. Sundance festival in Utah, transports the life and death of Christ from first century Palestine to a contemporary African state racked by war and poverty.

Jesus is born in a shanty-town shed, a far cry from a manger in a Bethlehem stable. His mother Mary is a virgin, though feisty enough to argue with the angels. Gun-wielding authorities fear his message of equality and he ends up hanging on a cross.

here's one from me to Lord E. hope he "digs" the irony (an aside: i'm partial to irony, even in the titles of threads i start )

People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

Why don't you all f-fade away (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
And don't try to dig what we all s-s-say (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

Why don't you all f-fade away (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
And don't try to d-dig what we all s-s-say (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm not trying to cause a b-big s-s-sensation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Yeah, I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

Well, folks, I see our Yit is back with a generation gap. <smile>

Thanks for that, Mr. Turtle. Ah, the irony of it all.

and a song dedicated to Walter and Francis:

Yo
I was forced to live it
Other cats was brought up in it
Surrounded by drug spots, cemeteries, abortion clinics




I watch my older strong arms grow soft and timid
Until he got caught he sentenced and now he forced to been with
Up north's the sentence, I found a team to score and win with
And until this day we haven't lost a scrimmage
We floss a minute, we always know where to draw the limit
See the rich cop expensive **** to get the poor offended
My whole click related, until we situated
Seen five out the top ten that made it
Ballon'll get inflated due to diamonds and karats
The finest and fairest designed to blind the mind of a savage
Luckily I was raised by the Adriatic
That taught me how to keep my lyrics flaming crazy rapid
And still maintain an 80 average
Since Vegas was in a baby carriage
I always knew I would never sick of that train and care ****
I want to make the same impact that cocaine and crack did
What can I say I guess my moms raised me backwards
The streets ain't never offered me **** but a waiting casket
If I run I'm scared, but if I stay I'm dead

I'm confused
Sometimes I feel like I can't lose
Come back down to reality and tap the concrete with my shoes
I'm confused
Sometimes I feel like I can't lose
And my people keep telling me "Dog, get a grip"


[Verse 2-Ali Vegas]
We all awaiting Christ, others got money awaiting dice
Me, I had to stick with the stage and mic
My mother told me them toes that you step on today might be connected to that ass you kiss later in life
So I'ma take it like...
Throwing dice in great cracks, spending nights in state slacks
Life's a payback
I say life is a gift
They say with ever thing comes a price and a risk
Sleep was always nice with his fist and I was twice nice with the fifth
Eyes you to swift, I always wondered why the wise didn't rip
And why politicians always replace their lies with a myth
My mother always handled family ties with a twist
So I perfected my why's and my if's
So many try but they miss
When I die and I'm stiff, I want my music to be recognized more than this
I put a lot of thought in this since the days of being sent to the stores with lists
I decided rather poor or rich, Crisco is the closet I'm gone come to pouring Cris
And my rap lines is never bordemness
Just close your eyes and pick a side of the bone, I guess I got the shorter end

[Hook-Ali Vegas]
I'm confused
Sometimes I feel like I can't lose
Come back down to reality and tap the concrete with my shoes
I'm confused
Sometimes I feel like I can't lose
And my people keep telling me "Dog, get a grip"


[Verse 3-Ali Vegas]
Ayo it's hard to live where them losers crack jokes on retarded kids
And disrespectful kids get barred from the crib
Other cats stacking O's, dodging feds
God forbid I do something on earth that'll scar my kids
Lord knows my father did, starting fights in the bar with Mike
You get beat bloody with rods and pipes, just because you scar they knights
My squad will strike if the odds is right
Hundred killers with cars and bikes, hopped out on me and my moms one night
We had to flee in the lightning and rain
Now I see why Sleep smoke tress to ease and lighten the pain
As long as ideas keep enlightening the brain, and I keep writing them flames
Then I'ma be aiight in this game
Forget fighting with dames, keep it tight and my cypha won't change
Even if some judge try enditing the game
Most of y'all swift with the hands, but light in the aim

Yo I'm confused son...

Now I have a question for Letty.

Hey, Letty. Who, exactly, is Ali Vegas?

The Green Room is smoking, and the Plaza burning down
Throw my baby out the window, let the joint burn down
All because it's carnival time
Well, it's carnival time
Well it's carnival time
Everybody's having fun

The whole street is jumping from one side to the other
The joints are jamming packed, and I'm about to fall
All because it's carnival time
Well, it's carnival time
Well it's carnival time
Everybody's having fun

You bring a nickel, and I'll put a dime
Honk it together now and we can drink some wine
All because it's carnival time
Well, it's carnival time
Well it's carnival time
Everybody's drinking wine

The whole street is jumping from one side to the other
The joints are jamming packed, and I'm about to fall
All because it's carnival time
Well, it's carnival time
Well it's carnival time
Everybody's having fun

Do you really want to know?

Joy Adamson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Joy Adamson (January 20, 1910 - January 3, 1980) was a naturalist, best known as the author and main character of the book, Born Free, which described her experiences in saving the life of a lioness, Elsa.

She was born Joy Friedericke Victoria Gessner in Opava (Troppau), Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic). With her third husband, George Adamson, she made her home in Kenya on the shores of Lake Naivasha. She studied and painted animals in the wild, and became famous as a result of the publication of Born Free in 1960. Several sequels were also published, and a film was made in which Adamson was portrayed by Virginia McKenna.

In addition to her books about lions, Adamson also wrote two books about Pippa, a cheetah she took on in 1964, first meeting her in an elegant tea room in Nairobi.

Adamson later separated from her husband. On January 3, 1980, in a remote part of Kenya, her corpse was discovered by her assistant, Peter Morson (sometimes reported as Pieter Mawson). He assumed that Joy had been killed by a lion, and this was what was initially reported by the media.

Further police investigation found that Joy's wounds were too sharp and bloodless to have been caused by an animal, and concluded that Joy was murdered with a sharp instrument. The authorities questioned her former employees, as Adamson had a reputation for firing many of them. Paul Wakwaro Ekai, Adamson's 23-year-old former employee, was charged with the crime. Her estranged husband, George Adamson, also died at the hands of poachers nine years later in 1989.

Trivia

Adamson appeared in "The Bargain" and "Death Walks by Night," two second-season episodes of the British television crime drama The Vise, which were broadcast in 1955.

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

Federico Fellini
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 - October 31, 1993) was an Italian film-maker and director and one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. Fellini's films typically combine memory, dreams, and fantasy.

Life and work

Born in and raised in Rimini, his childhood experiences would later play an important part in many of his films. Fellini's first solo-directed film was Lo Sceicco Bianco (1951), with Alberto Sordi, written by Michelangelo Antonioni and Ennio Flaiano. In making this movie Fellini met Nino Rota, the musician who would follow him for the successful remainder of his career.

In addition to making films, he also wrote scripts for radio shows, for movies (mainly for Rossellini) and wrote comic gags for well known actors like Aldo Fabrizi. Fellini also produced several drawings (mostly pencil on paper), often humorous portraits. It is with these works that young Fellini encountered cinema: his first success was in drawing advertising pictures for movies.

During Mussolini's Fascist regime, he was an Avanguardista, and his first writings were for Alleanza Cinematografica Italiana (ACI), the production company of Vittorio Mussolini, son of Benito, who introduced him to Roberto Rossellini, husband of Swedish-born actress Ingrid Bergman.

In 1944, after Mussolini's downfall, Fellini opened a shop in Rome in which he sold his drawings. The shop was named (in English) "The Funny Face Shop", and contained works from Fellini and De Seta, Verdini, Camerini, Scarpelli, Majorana, Guasta, Giobbe, Attalo, Migneco (all writers, directors or otherwise intellectuals working for Italian cinema). In the same year he started his contribution to Rossellini's Roma città aperta, starring Aldo Fabrizi.

Fellini also took part in writing another of Rossellini's movies, Paisà. He wrote also for other directors such as Alberto Lattuada, Pietro Germi, and Luigi Comencini.

Fellini's wife, actress Giulietta Masina (married in 1943) was often in his movies. Other actors with whom Fellini frequently worked include Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi, and Anita Ekberg.

In 1945 Fellini had a son who survived for only 2 weeks; he was the only son of Fellini and Giulietta Masina.

In 1948 Fellini acted in Rossellini's Il Miracolo.

Throughout the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s his films were widely acclaimed and he was rewarded with several Oscars.

In 1991 Fellini's text "Trip to Tulum" was translated into English by Stefano Gaudiano and published in a graphic form in the magazine: Crisis with artwork by Milo Manara.

In 1993 he received an Academy Award ("Oscar") for his lifetime achievement. That same year, he died in Rome at the age of 73.

The Federico Fellini International Airport in Rimini, is named in his honor.

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

DeForest Kelley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 - June 11, 1999) was an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the 1966-1969 television series Star Trek (TOS) and the first six Star Trek motion pictures. He also had a cameo role in the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint".

He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Ernest David Kelley (a Baptist minister) and Clora Casey.

Kelley was also a veteran of the Second World War and served as an enlisted member of the Army Air Forces between March 10, 1943 and January 28, 1946. After an extended stay at Long Beach, California, he decided to relocate to the state permanently to pursue an acting career. While his mother encouraged him, his father hated the idea. In California, Kelley was spotted by a Paramount scout while doing a Navy Training film. Coincidently, Kelley originally wanted to pursue a career as a doctor.

Kelley's first movie was the low-budget film noir Fear in the Night. He went on to having a career playing minor characters, chiefly in Western movies and TV Westerns, prior to landing the part of Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy.

In 1999, Kelley died of stomach cancer in Woodland Hills, California at age 79. He was the first member of the original Star Trek cast to pass away.

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

Oh, I see, Walter. It's carnival time. That accounts for the confusion.

Well, Francis, I think I have answered that some time ago. Remember? <smile>

UhOh, Ali Vegas is a rapster, then. Strange that. Not one dirty word in that song. That kid's confused, methinks.

More chaos:


- Agents Of Chaos Lyrics - Words Of A Song

Switch on the TV, look at the screen
Money for a Rolls or a washing machine
I pay my money and I pay my rent
But every day it's always spent
Maybe it starts to be the same
Look out the window and it starts to rain
Someone is saying "it's time to die"
Send us some money and I'll tell you why
I'll tell you why

Broken cars in the street
Do you really want to eat?
Do you need all these things that you see on the screen?
I drive my car when i go home
It's hidden somewhere in the words of a song

I pay my stamps and I pay my tax
But it's not working and that's a fact

Slim Whitman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Slim Whitman (born January 20, 1924 in Tampa, Florida) is an American country music singer and songwriter.

Born Otis Dewey Whitman, Jr., he is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in country music history and yet at the same time is one of the most unrecognized by the American public at large. Growing up, Whitman liked the country music of Jimmie Rodgers that he was hearing on the radio but did not embark on a musical career until the end of World War II after he had served in the South Pacific with the United States Navy.

Self-taught on the guitar, Otis Whitman worked at a shipyard in Tampa while developing a musical career, eventually performing with a band known as the "Variety Rhythm Boys". Whitman's first big break came when agent Colonel Tom Parker heard him singing on the radio and offered to represent him. Signed with RCA Records, he was billed as the cowboy singer, "Slim Whitman" and released his first 45rpm single in 1948. He toured and sang at a variety of venues including on the popular radio show, the Louisiana Hayride. Nevertheless, he was not able to make a living from music and had to keep a part-time job. That changed in the early 1950s after he recorded a version of the Bob Nolan hit "Love Song of the Waterfall" that made it into the country music Top 10 chart. His next single, "Indian Love Call", was even more successful, going to the No.2 position, and actually saving the world in the 1996 movie Mars Attacks!, where it proves fatal to the invading Martians. A yodeler, Whitman avoided the "down on yer luck-buried in booze" songs, preferring instead to sing laid-back romantic melodies about simple life and love.

In 1955, in the United Kingdom, he had a No.1 hit on the pop music charts with "Rose Marie". With eleven weeks at the top of the charts, the song set a record that lasted for thity-six years. Soon after recording this big hit Whitman was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry and in 1957, along with other musical stars, he appeared in the film musical, Jamboree. Despite this type of exposure, he never achieved the level of stardom in the United States that he did in Britain where he had a number of hits during the 1950s and 60s. Throughout the early 1970s, he continued to record and was a guest on Wolfman Jack's musical television show, "The Midnight Special". At the time, Whitman's recording efforts were yielding only minor hits and in 1974 he stopped making new records.

Five years later, a collection of his best songs were put into an album and heavily marketed on television, finally making him a household name in the U.S. The success of the album brought more releases of old songs and regular tours for loyal fans in the U.S. and particularly in Europe that have continued for more than two decades.

For his contribution to the recording industry, Slim Whitman has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1709 Vine Street.

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

Well, folks. The hawk flew in and we didn't hear him. Sorry, Boston. I need to check through your bios again.

Incidentally, I think I saw a California condor floating above the intercoastal waterway this morning.

Strange sights, folks, 'cause the Brits sighted a whale in the Thames.

Signs of the times?

Patricia Neal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Patricia Neal (born January 20, 1926) is an American actress.

Born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky, she grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. She studied drama at Northwestern University, then appeared on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for Voice of the Turtle. In 1949, she debuted in film opposite Ronald Reagan in John Loves Mary.

Her appearance that same year in The Fountainhead coincided with a long romantic affair with her much older co-star, Gary Cooper. The affair had begun two years earlier, in 1947, when Neal was only 21, and by 1950, Cooper's wife had found out and sent Neal a telegram: "I HAVE HAD JUST ABOUT ENOUGH OF YOU. YOU HAD BETTER STOP NOW OR YOU WILL BE SORRY. MRS. GARY COOPER". Eventually the affair ended, but not before Cooper had gotten Neal pregnant, and then persuaded her to have an abortion. Guilty and scared, Neal ended the relationship, but not before Cooper's daughter, Maria (now Maria Cooper Janis) (b. 1937), spat at her in public. Ironically, many years later Maria Cooper and Neal would become friends

After her affair with Cooper, Neal met writer Roald Dahl at a party in 1951. They married on July 2, 1953, at Trinity Church in New York. The marriage produced five children: Olivia Twenty (April 20, 1955 - November 17, 1962), who died of measles encephalitis, Chantal Sophia (renamed Tessa to avoid rhyme), Theo Matthew Roald, Ophelia Magdalena, and Lucy Neal.

Neal starred in The Breaking Point, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Operation Pacific before 1952. She suffered a nervous breakdown in that year when her affair with Cooper came to an end, but she recovered, and returned in 1957 to star in A Face in the Crowd. In 1963, Neal won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Hud, but was unable to attend the telecast that year. She returned to the big screen in 1968 to star in The Subject Was Roses, for which she was again nominated for an Oscar.

In February, 1965, Neal suffered three crippling strokes while pregnant with her daughter Lucy, leaving her unable to walk and even speak for a time. Roald took personal control of her rehabiliation and she was able to leave the hospital three months later. On August 4, 1965, she successfully gave birth to her daughter. Dahl helped Neal through her rehabilitation, but wound up committing adultery with Neal's then-best friend, Felicity Ann d'Abreu Crosland (b. 1938-12-12). Neal and Dahl ended up divorcing on November 17, 1983, after 30 years of marriage.

Neal starred in the television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, which proved to be the pilot episode for The Waltons. She did not, however, reprise her role of the mother in the series. She was offered the role of "Mrs. Robinson" in The Graduate, but turned it down, feeling it had come too soon after her stroke.

In 1981 Glenda Jackson played her in a television movie, The Patricia Neal Story. In 1988 Neal published an autobiography, As I Am.

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

Hey, Boston. You finished with that Letty sandwich now?

Raold Dahl is another of my favorite short story writers, folks.

How does one say, "Beware of the Dog" in French. <smile>

Are you sure it's not this way?

Oh goodness gwacious, I did forget to say

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lord Ellpus.

Letty: That lady in the picture is one and the same - Patricia Neal. And the first picture is how I will always remember her - The Fountainhead, Three Secrets, The Bright Leaf , The Hasty Heart, and The Day the Earth Stood Still, to name a few. Her Oscar came later with Hud. She also gave a great performance in A Face in the Crowd with Andy Griffith. She led a tragic life.