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ZsaZsa Gabor is that old?

Hi everyone, and congrats to the Steelers, whoever they are, and for whatever they have done.


Here's a song for Calamity Jane, as I like to put a virtual smile on her face now and then.

She'll know what it's all about.......

THE OLDEST SWINGER IN TOWN (Lonnie Donegan)


When you score with a chick in a disco bar
Take her home in your hairy little car
Then you find you went to school with her ma and pa
You're the oldest swinger in town

And you won't look in the mirror in the light of day
Swear that you died it when your hair turns grey
When you zip up your trousers and your belly's in the way
Your the oldest swinger in town

Here you come, and there you go
Wide wheels, spots and a stereo
But the engine's cracked and the driver is too slow
You're the oldest swinger in town

When the barber takes a little less time each week
The kids don't understand a word you speak
When you walk into a disco and they offer you a seat
You're the oldest swinger in town

You prefer a pint of shandy to bacardi and coke
The sounds are too loud , there's too much smoke
You'd like another dance but you're afraid you'll get a stroke
You're the oldest swinger in town

Here you come with your chest all bare
A little silver ingot and a lot of silver hair
Like the dis-co king meets yogi bear
You're the oldest swinger in town

When your feelin as stiff as a skinheads boot
You Rub on vick where you used to splash brut
And the latest street fashion is your old wedding suit
You're the oldest swinger in town

When you have to go shopping for your sex appeal
Travolta shades and nine inch heels
They say a man is just as old as the woman he feels
You're the oldest Swinger in Town

And you look so mean 'cos your pants are too tight
Youre the oldest swinger in Town

And it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night
You're the oldest swinger in town

The oldest swinger in town.

She doesn't look it, does she Francis?

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Born: 6 February 1917
Budapest, Hungary


Lord Elpus: Once upon a time there was a city in the USA that manufactured steel called Pittsburgh, PA. The factories are long gone, but the Steelers remain.

Excerpt from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

"Hundreds of Steelers celebrants pour into the cold Oakland, South Side night
30 arrests in scattered incidents (The news this A.M. said 6)
Monday, February 06, 2006

Bill Cowher got his Gatorade dunking at 10:02 last night, and then Steeler Nation exploded.

Car horns blared, ale-fueled fans poured out of bars into the streets , private homes erupted in cheers and high-fives.

The Steelers had won one for the thumb, 21-10 over the Seattle Seahawks at Super Bowl XL in Detroit -- 26 long years after winning one for the pinkie.

The city will hold a parade for the Steelers at 11 a.m. tomorrow, starting at Mellon Arena and ending at Point State Park with a rally.

But many fans just couldn't wait that long to celebrate.

Thousands jammed Carson Street on the South Side and Forbes Avenue in Oakland.

Police had planned for the moment, announcing last week that major streets on the South Side, in Oakland and in the Strip District would be closed so celebrants and traffic wouldn't butt heads.

The strategy seemed to work, at least for a while. Early on, there were reports of small fires on the South Side and in Oakland, and some people shot off the obligatory firecrackers and bottle rockets.

Fans, dressed in everything from bulky layers to nothing above the waist, slipped and slid on the icy streets, but no one seemed to be bothered by the cold and blowing snow.

The revelry turned a little ugly in Oakland and on the South Side before the clock neared midnight, and early this morning, police reported they had made 30 arrests.

In Oakland, crowds of young people waved Terrible Towels, threw toilet paper and set off fireworks once the Steelers secured the win. About 10:30 p.m., a large group on Bigelow between the Cathedral and the William Pitt Union tipped over a lonely Dodge Neon, the only car on the street, and bashed out its windows.

People danced atop the car for 20 minutes, until police officers moved in, circled the vehicle and ordered everyone to leave. One brave man jumped back atop the Neon, but the police hauled him down and let him go after a lecture."

and that's just a brief rundown.

Now Raggedy, I wonder if you could help me out here.

There is a sentence in that news report, that goes...

"Bill Cowher got his Gatorade dunking at 10:02 last night, and then Steeler Nation exploded. "

Now, I'm pretty certain that these are English words that are being used, but I haven't a clue as to what it all means.

Is there a good translation site somewhere?

Bill Cowher -- coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American-rules
football club.
Gatorade -- a non-carbonated "sports drink". Many teams will
have a large container of it close by the team bench.
Gatorade dunking -- the custom of dousing the winning coach with
the contents of the Gatorade container as soon as the outcome is assured.
Steeler Nation -- a collective term for the supporters of the
above-mentioned club.
exploded -- figuratively: broke forth in exultation. literally: you
wouldn't want to be in Detroit if the Lions ever won the Super Bowl.

Language Course For Ellpus

Mary Leakey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Mary Leakey (February 6, 1913 - December 9, 1996) was a British physical anthropologist, who, along with others, discovered the first skull of a fossil ape on Rusinga Island. For much of her career she worked with her husband Louis Leakey in the Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines. She also discovered the Laetoli footprints.


History

Mary Leakey was born Mary Nicol on February 6, 1913 in London, England. Since her father worked as a painter, the Nicol family would move from place to place, visiting such locations as Italy and France. After a time, the family moved to Dordogne in France. In nearby Cabrerets, Abbe Lemozi was leading an excavation. It was here, her interest in prehistory was sparked. Mary's father died in 1926 and her mother placed her in a Catholic convent from where she was repeatedly expelled. After leaving the convent, she attended lectures for archaeology and geology at the University of London. She entered the field as an illustrator for Dr. Gertrude Canton-Thompson's book, The Desert Fayoum, and through Dr. Canton-Thompson, met Louis Leakey. She showed him her illustrations and he arranged for her to illustrate his book, Adam's Ancestors. They were married in 1936 and had three sons: Jonathan in 1940, Richard in 1944, and Philip in 1948. Louis died on October 1, 1972 of a heart attack. Mary died on December 9, 1996 at the age of 83.


Excavations

Her first important excavation was at Hembury Fort in Devon, England in May of 1934. Later that year, Mary performed her own excavation at Jaywick Sands. She also published her first scientific paper. The years 1935 to 1959, spent at Olduvai Gorge in the Serengeti plains of Northern Tanzania, yielded many stone tools from primitive stone-chopping instruments to multi-purpose hand axes. These finds came from Stone Age cultures dated as far back as 100,000 to two million years ago. The Leakeys unearthed a Proconsul africanus skull, dated to be twenty million years old, on Rusinga Island, in October of 1947. This skull was the first skull of a fossil ape ever to be found and to this day only three of these apes are known. Their next discovery, in 1959, was a 1.75 million-year-old Australopithecus boisei skull. They also found a less robust Homo habilis skull and bones of a hand. After reconstructing the hand, it was proven the hand was capable of precise manipulation. Many more remains were found at this site. In 1965 the husband and wife team uncovered a Homo erectus skull, dated at one million years old. After Mary's husband passed on, she continued her work at Olduvai and Laetoli. It was here at the Laetoli site, that she discovered Homo fossils that were more than 3.75 million-years-old. She also discovered fifteen new species and one new genus. From 1978 to 1981 Mary and her staff worked to uncover the Laetoli hominid footprint trail which was left in volcanic ashes some 3.6 million years ago. The years that followed this discovery were filled with research at Olduvai and Laetoli, the follow-up work to discoveries and preparing publications.

Awards

Mary and Louis were jointly awarded the Stopes Medal from the Geological Association in 1955. In March of 1962, the Leakey family took a trip to the United States to receive the Gold Hubbard Medal, the highest honor the National Geographic Society offers. In 1969, she earned her first Honorary Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

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

Zsa Zsa Gabor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Zsa Zsa Gabor (born February 6, 1917) is a Hungarian actress and socialite, who, like her two sisters, is best known for her beauty and wealthy lifestyle.

Zsa Zsa is known for her affection for jewels, her quick wit, as well as referring to everyone she speaks with as "darling", but acquired a reputation for matrimony. Zsa Zsa is also the only Gabor sister to bear a child.


Birth

She was born Sári Gábor in Budapest, Hungary, the second of three daughters born to Vilmos Gábor (a soldier) and Jolie Gabor (née Jancsi Tilleman).


Siblings

The birth years of the Gabor sisters may be fabrications to make them appear younger. Her sisters are Magda and Eva. Zsa Zsa often claimed to have won the "Miss Hungary" beauty contest in 1936, but Jolie sometimes claimed she had won it. Gabor's maternal family was Jewish and her maternal grandparents died in the Holocaust.


Husbands

She has had nine husbands:

* Burhan Belge, press director for the foreign ministry of Turkey, later known as a writer and diplomat. (1937-1941)
* Conrad Hilton, Hilton Hotel magnate (1942-1946)
* George Sanders, actor (1949-1954)
* Herbert Hutner, financial consultant (1964-1966)
* Joshua S. Cosden, Jr., oil heir and businessman, (1966-1967)
* Jack Ryan, inventor associated with the Barbie and Chatty Cathy dolls, (1975-1976)
* Michael O'Hara (1977-1982)
* Felipe de Alba was an invalid marriage; it was bigamous, Zsa Zsa was still married to Michael O'Hara, and it was performed by a ship's captain at sea, but not in international waters. An annullment was received. (1982)
* Frederick Prinz von Anhalt, (1986- )


Child

She and Hilton had one daughter, Francesca Hilton through husband George Sanders (actor). Sanders later married Zsa Zsa's sister, Magda, and committed suicide in 1972. In 2005 Zsa Zsa accused her daughter, Francesca Hilton, of larceny and fraud, and was forced to file suit against her in a California court. [1] [2]].


Porfirio Rubirosa

Zsa Zsa also had a relationship with Porfirio Rubirosa, a noted Dominican international playboy and sometime diplomat. She refused to leave George Sanders to marry him, whereupon Rubirosa thereupon married Barbara Hutton (for seventy-three days) and then renewed his relationship with Zsa Zsa.

Hollywood

Among the movies Zsa Zsa appeared in were her starring role as dancer Jane Avril in Moulin Rouge (1952), Lili (1953), Queen of Outer Space (1958), and Touch of Evil (1958). She also had a cameo appearance as herself in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Never really considered an actress, Zsa Zsa thrived as a media personality, and from the 1950s to 1970s was a staple of television talk shows hosted by Jack Paar, Mike Douglas, Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin, where she could be counted on to be amusing and combative.

Though her movies continued, their quality did not, and her later career was as a celebrity rather than a serious actress. The Gabor sisters (competing with each other for the limited number of roles they might play with Hungarian accents) often engaged in always well-publicized "feuds," but it was Zsa Zsa who seemed to thrive on adverse publicity.

Arrest


On June 14, 1989, Zsa Zsa was accused of slapping the face of a Beverly Hills police officer when he stopped her for a traffic violation [3]. She was found guilty of the assault in a well-publicized trial and sentenced to three days in jail (and required to pay $13,000 in court costs).

Gabor poked fun of her role in the incident by way of cameo appearances in movies such as The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (wherein she slapped a police car's light that was following her and remarked "This happens every ******* time that I go shopping"), the 1993 film version of The Beverly Hillbillies (in which she claimed that the officer had slapped her in what was described as a "drive-by slapping"), and A Very Brady Sequel (wherein she gloated upon the publicity she earned from the incident).

Recent health

Zsa Zsa was a passenger in an automobile accident that occurred November 27, 2002, that was initially reported as having sent her into a coma, but the report was in error. She was conscious by the time medical assistance arrived. She left the hospital in early January 2003, facing continued physical therapy.

On July 7, 2005, Zsa Zsa suffered a massive stroke leaving her in critical condition at a local hospital. She underwent surgery to remove a blockage in her carotid artery. She returned home on July 15 and is said to be making quite an excellent recovery, given her age, and her husband appears to be taking very good care of her.

Apocrypha

* In her biography she claims her love life began at an early age during her years in Istanbul, reportedly with a May-December affair with the fifty one year old Kemal Atatürk, to whom she lost her virginity at the age of fifteen.
* As her big fortune, mainly real estate and jewelry, resulted out of her short time marriages with millionaires and because of her own clear comments referring to this, once in a while she was called Hollywood's most expensive whore.
* Biographers speculate that her paternal family was originally Jewish as well, but converted to Catholicism in order to assimilate, although this has not been confirmed.

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

Patrick Macnee
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Patrick Macnee, born on February 6, 1922, in London, England as Daniel Patrick Macnee, is a British-born actor, probably best known for his television roles. He is not of Irish extraction despite his Gaelic sounding name. His parents divorced after his mother, Dorothea, declared her lesbianism, and had a live-in partner who helped pay for young Patrick's schooling. After nurturing his acting career in Canada, Macnee became an American citizen in 1959.

Despite numerous roles in theatre, on television and in cinema, Macnee is still best known as the inimitable secret agent John Steed in the series The Avengers. Initially a secondary character - the series was conceived as a vehicle for Ian Hendry, who played an associate of Steed's - Steed (and Macnee) became the centre of the show after Hendry's departure at the end of the first season, playing opposite a succession of female partners that included Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, and, finally, the little known Canadian-born actress Linda Thorson. Steed was also the central character of a revival, The New Avengers, in which he was teamed with characters Purdey played by Joanna Lumley and Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt).

During the 1960s, Macnee co-wrote two original novels based upon The Avengers, Dead Duck and Deadline. Other notable roles include his part in the James Bond movie A View to a Kill, a guest role in Alias Smith and Jones, and two villainous roles in Battlestar Galactica. He also presents the American 'paranormal' series, Mysteries, Magic and Miracles, as well as the ubiquitous Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury.

Patrick Macnee is the author of an autobiography entitled, Blind in One Ear.

He has been married three times, most successfully in his last marriage to Baba Majos de Nagyzsenye, to whom he has been married since 1988.

He has 2 children by his first marriage. He is a cousin of the late TV magician David Nixon.

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

Mamie Van Doren
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mamie Van Doren (born February 6, 1931) is an American actress and sex symbol.


Early life

She was born Joan Lucille Olander in Rowena, South Dakota, the daughter of Warner Carl Olander (March 30, 1908-June 4, 1992) and Lucille Harriet Bennett (January 21, 1912-August 27, 1995).

She is of three-quarters Swedish ancestry; the remainder is mixed English and German. Her mother named her after Joan Crawford. In 1939, the family moved to Sioux City, Iowa. In May 1942, they moved to Los Angeles.

In early 1946, Joan began working as an usherette at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The following year, she had a bit-part on an early television show. She also sang with Ted Fio Rito's band and entered beauty contests. In the summer of 1949, at age 18, she won the titles "Miss Eight Ball" and "Miss Palm Springs".

While appearing in the Miss Palm Springs contest, she was discovered by Howard Hughes.


Early career

She lunched with Hughes, who gave her a bit-part in Jet Pilot at RKO, which was her motion picture debut. Her line of dialogue consisted of one word, "Look!" Though production of the movie was in 1949 and 1950, it was not released until 1957. The following year, 1951, she posed for famous pin-up girl artist Alberto Vargas, the painter of the glamorous "Vargas Girls." His painting of Van Doren was on the July cover of Esquire.

She was briefly married at seventeen, when she and first husband, Jack Newman, eloped to Santa Barbara. But it turned out that he was abusive, so she quickly got out of the marriage.

She did a few more bit parts in movies at RKO, including His Kind of Woman (1951) starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell and Vincent Price. About her appearance in that one, Van Doren has said, "If you blinked you would miss me. I look barely old enough to drive."

She then began working on the stage. She was a showgirl in New York in Monte Proser's nightclub version of Billion Dollar Baby. Songwriter Jimmy McHugh discovered her for his musicals, then decided she was too good for the chorus line and should have dramatic training. She studied with Ben Bard and Bliss-Hayden. While appearing in the role of Marie in a showcase production of Come Back, Little Sheba, she was seen by Phil Benjamin, a casting director at Universal International.


Motion pictures

On January 20, 1953, she signed a contract with Universal. The studio had big plans for her, hoping she would bring the success that 20th Century Fox had with Marilyn Monroe, the reigning sex symbol of the era. It has been said that because the day she was signed was also the day President Eisenhower was inaugurated, the studio decided to give her the name Mamie for Ike's wife, Mamie Eisenhower, and Van Doren because it sounds Dutch.

Her first movie for Universal was Forbidden (1953), playing a singer. She then made All-American (1953), playing Susie Ward, a girl from the other side of the tracks who is the man-trap at a campus beer joint. In Yankee Pasha (1954) starring Tony Curtis and Rhonda Fleming, she played a slave girl, Lilith.

Van Doren starred as the "bad girl" archetype in several teenage cult movies of the 1950s. She also appeared in some of the first movies to feature Rock & Roll music. She became identified with this rebellious style, and made some Rock records.

While she and the other blonde bombshells did not attain the same level of superstar status as Monroe, Van Doren did become one of the leading sex symbols of the day. Marilyn, Mamie and Jayne Mansfield were known as the "Three M's," and Van Doren achieved legendary status as being the sole survivor (although she was currently referred to as "the poor man's Mansfield").

But while Monroe did Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Mansfield had a big success with Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, a part that was originally written for Van Doren, who turned it down, Universal stuck Van Doren with Francis the Talking Mule in Francis Joins the WACS.


Marriages, child & affairs

Van Doren has had five husbands, sportswear manufacturer Jack Newman (married 1950-divorced 1950), bandleader, composer and actor Ray Anthony (married 1955-divorced 1961), baseball player Lee Meyers (married 1966-divorced 1967), businessman Ross McClintock (married 1972-divorced 1973) and actor Thomas Dixon (married 1979-present).

She and Anthony had one son, Perry Ray Anthony (born March 18, 1956).

Her on-again off-again engagement to baseball player Bo Belinsky broke off for good in 1964. In her tell-all autobiography, she acknowledged numerous affairs, including ones with Clark Gable, Howard Hughes, Johnny Carson, Elvis Presley, Burt Reynolds, Jack Dempsey, Steve McQueen, Johnny Rivers, Robert Evans, Eddie Fisher, Warren Beatty, Tony Curtis, Steve Cochran, and Joe Namath.


Career continues

Some of Van Doren's more noteworthy movies include Teacher's Pet (1958) at Paramount, Born Reckless (1958) at Warner Bros., High School Confidential! (1958), and The Beat Generation (1959), the latter two at MGM.

But many of the productions she starred in were low-budget B-movies. They are largely unknown to later generations, though some have gained a following for their high camp value. Besides the casting decisions at Universal, a problem was her poor management in selecting a suitable project.

In 1959, Universal chose not to exercise the option in her contract. Van Doren was now a free agent and had to struggle to find work. Some of her later movies were foreign and independent productions, such as The Blonde from Buenos Aires (1961), The Candidate (1964), The Navy vs the Night Monsters (1966) and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968), which was directed by Peter Bogdanovich, who used another name, fearing the movie would ruin his reputation.

In 1963, she posed twice for Playboy to promote her movie Three Nuts In Search of a Bolt (1964), though she was never a Playmate.

In 1964, Van Doren was at the Whisky A Go-Go on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood when The Beatles were at the club, and a drunk George Harrison accidentally threw his drink on her when he was really trying to throw it on some bothersome journalists.

Van Doren also developed a nightclub act and did a lot of live theatre. She performed in stage productions of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Dames at Sea at the Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago, and appeared in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter and The Tender Trap at the Arlington Park Theatre.

During the war, she did tours for U.S. troops in Vietnam, for three months in 1968 and again in 1970. In addition to USO shows, she visited hospitals, including the wards of amputees and burn victims that many other celebrities stayed away from.

Her guest appearances on TV include The Bob Cummings Show, The Jack Benny Show, Fantasy Island, Burke's Law, Vega$, and L.A. Law.

In the 1970s, she did a nightclub act in Las Vegas.


Later life

Van Doren's autobiography titled Playing the Field: My Story, which she wrote with Art Aveilhe, was published in 1987 by GP Putnams, New York.

At age 60, she began having cosmetic surgery to maintain a youthful appearance and enlarge her breasts. She has written about this and discussed it in interviews.

More can be read about Van Doren and her past exploits at her personal website, where "the first authentic sex-kitten in cyberspace" gives one of the most intimate looks at a celebrity's personal life on the Internet. Included at her long, detailed site are photos, stories and anecdotes about the movie industry and her career, and an articulate and opinionated political weblog. "The Web is the perfect place for an appreciation of Hollywood Glamour. Take a look at it through my eyes, kids!"

Mamie Van Doren has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7057 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.

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

Ah, Raggedy. Thanks for the pix of Zsa Zsa, PA, and the background about the Steelers, as well. We will educate these Brits yet. To think that they call us colonials.

Francis, the reason she looks sooooo young is because she likes vodka martinis as opposed to gin martinis. Isn't it something that these upstart colonies must explain to the French about youth and booze?

Wandel and George have just taken a nobleman into their mentor room and carefully explained the real ENGLISH language. We may be young in years, Brit, but we still know stuff.

Incidentally, gatorade is supposed to replace the electrolytes that sweating takes out. Did that from memory, because when we camped on the beach, we kept it in our refrig in the motor home.

I'll let that lovely C.J. respond to Spanky/Sparky's dedication song, folks.

Natalie Cole
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Stephanie Natalie Maria Cole (born February 6, 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter.


Biography and Career

The daughter of celebrated crooner Nat King Cole, she was exposed to the greats of jazz, soul and blues at an early age and began perfoming at the age of 11. Her debut album in 1975, Inseparable, won her immediate praise, with the smash single "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" (#1 R&B, #6 Pop) winning her a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female, a category that had been monopolized by Aretha Franklin. She also was named the Grammys' Best New Artist of 1975.

More hits followed through 1980, including her biggest Pop hit, 1977's "I've Got Love On My Mind," as well as "Sophisticated Lady (She's A Different Lady)" (1976), "Our Love" (1978), and "Someone That I Used To Love" (1980). "I've Got Love On My Mind" and "Our Love" both earned certifications as Gold singles. But then her career hit a snag in the early 1980s due to a severe drug problem. By 1985, Natalie was clean, sober, and in fine voice, and ready to begin her comeback in earnest with the album Dangerous, released on the Modern label.

In 1987, she released Everlasting (on EMI Manhattan) which sold over 2 million copies in the U.S., and won Cole a Soul Train Award for Female Single of the Year for the #1 R&B ballad "I Live for Your Love". This album was the one that put Natalie Cole firmly back in the spotlight, yielding three major hit singles: "Jump Start," "I Live For Your Love" (#2 AC and #13 Pop as well as #1 R&B), and a successful remake of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" (#5 Pop, #16 AC, and #1 Dance). The album also included a taste of things to come in her career with a remake of one of her father's signature hits, "When I Fall In Love," which did moderately well on the AC chart. In 1989, the aptly-titled Good To Be Back gave her another across-the-board smash with "Miss You Like Crazy" (#1 both R&B and AC, and #7 Pop).

However, it was her 1991 album, Unforgettable... with Love, featuring her own arrangements of her father's greatest hits, that gave her the most success. Ironically, when Natalie began her career, she was determined not to capitalize on her father's name and wanted to forge her own identity by going after the soul market in earnest. For many years, she also found the prospect of recording her late father's songs too painful on a personal level. But Unforgettable... With Love certainly paid off. The set sold over 5 million copies in the United States alone, and won Cole several Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. The album featured a duet, the title track, with her father, created by splicing a recording of his vocals into the track. As a single, it reached #14 on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 chart, and went gold. The one sour spot in the album's success was that it strained Natalie's already-tumultuous relationship with her mother, Maria, who said in interviews at the time that she couldn't listen to the album or attend any of her daughter's concerts because she felt that the music really belonged to her late husband.

Natalie has released several more albums of pop standards in the years since; as a result of appealing to the "adult standards" audience, she has made only occasional forays onto the pop singles charts in that time (for example, "A Smile Like Yours," #8 AC and #84 Pop in 1997), although her albums still sell well. Her 1999 album Snowfall On The Sahara marked a return to the easy adult-contemporary soul that categorized her late-1980s hits, but for 2002's critically-praised Ask A Woman Who Knows, she turned more to the jazz side of the spectrum, covering songs made famous by Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Sarah Vaughan.


Battle With Drugs

In 2000, Cole released an autobiography, Angel on my Shoulder, which described her battle with drugs during much of her life. In the book, Cole admitted to using LSD, heroin and crack cocaine. Cole said she began experimenting with drugs while attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was arrested in Toronto, Canada for posession of heroin in 1975. Cole continued to spiral out of control - including an incident in which her young son Robert nearly drowned in the family swimming pool while she and her first husband Marvin Yancy were on a drug binge - until she entered rehab in 1983. [1]

In concert with the release of the book, her autobiography was turned into a made-for-TV movie, The Natalie Cole Story, which aired December 10, 2000 on NBC.

Natalie has been married three times and has a son Robert Yancy (by her first husband, the Reverend Marvin Yancy), born in 1977. She later married former Rufus drummer Andre Fischer, who co-produced Unforgettable... With Love.

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

Natalie Cole - Miss You Like Crazy Song Lyrics

Even though it's been so long
My love for you keeps going strong
I remember the things that we used to do
A kiss in the rain till the sun shine through
I tried to deny it but I'm still in love with you

CHORUS:
I miss you like crazy
I miss you like crazy
Ever since you went away
Every hour of every day

I miss you like crazy
I miss you like crazy
No matter what I say or do
There's just no getting over you

I can see the love shining in your eyes
And there comes a such a sweet surprise
If seeing's believing it's worth the wait
So hold and tell me it's not too late
We're so good together, we starting forever now

CHORUS

I miss you like crazy
I miss you baby
Love like ours will never end
Just touch me and we're there again

Just one night
And we'll have that magic feeling like we used to do
Hold on tight and whatever comes our way we gonna make it through
It seems believing is worth the wait
So hold and tell me it's not too late
We're so good together, we starting forever now

CHORUS

And I miss you, I missed you
All the tender love you gave me
A feeling gets this strong
You know the real thing's come along
And I miss you

I miss you like crazy baby
Only your sweet love can save me
I miss you like crazy
A love like ours will never end
Just touch me and we're there again
I miss you like crazy
I miss you like crazy
No matter what I say or do

These are the fifteen immutable laws of the universe.
They, since time immemorial, have remained unbroken.

(1) The law of Mechanical Repair: As soon as your hands become coated with grease or oil,
you will immediately have to scratch, blow your nose or go to the bathroom.

(2) The law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped,
will roll or slide to the nearest inaccessible place.

(3) The law of the Telephone: When you dial a wrong number you will never get a busy signal.

(4) Law of the Alibi: If you tell your boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire,
within three days while on your way to work, you will have a flat tire.

(5) Law of traffic variation: If you change lanes in a traffic jam, the lane you were in
will immediately begin to move faster than the one you moved into.

(6) Bath Theorem: When the naked body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

(7) Law of Close encounters: If there is anyone anywhere that you do not want to meet
when you are with someone you do not wish to be seen with, you will.

(8) Law of inverse results: When you are trying to prove to someone that a machine
will not work properly, it will.

(9) Law of bio mechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the
length of your reach.

(10) Theatre rule: At any important event, the people whose seats are farthest from
the aisle always arrive last.

(11) Law of Coffee: As soon as you sit down to a hot cup of coffee,
your boss will ask you to do something that will last until your coffee is cold.

(12) Murphy's law of lockers: If there are only two people in a locker room,
they will have adjacent lockers.

(13) Law of dirty carpets: The odds of a dropped open-faced jelly sandwich landing face
down on a carpet is determined by the quality, cost and newness of the carpet.

(14) Law of logical argument: Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.

(15) Brown's new shoe law: If a shoe fits perfectly, its ugly.

Ah, Bob, thanks for your bios, hawkman, and your basic laws are not only funny but absolutely true.

I have the cd of Natalie here somewhere singing with her dad. Really fabulous. The song is "Unforgettable". I'll be back in a bit with the lyrics.

Interesting information on the late film director, Francois Truffaut.

The article mentions that Truffaut liked American mystery novels. Two of Truffaut's films "Bride Wore Black" and "Mississipi Mermaid" were based on novels by the American writer, William Irish. Earlier, Hitchcock had used a novel by William Irish as the basis for "Rear Window".

Yes, Wandel, Bob always informs us of in depth information, and I didn't know of that Frenchman, nor of his penchant for copying Hitchcock. Trying to remember, "Rear Window". Need to check up on that, I guess.


The unusual thing about the following song, it that it is one of the few that changes key after the bridge:

By Natalie and Nat:

Unforgettable, that's what you are.
Unforgettable, though near or far.
Like a song of love that clings to me,
How the thought of you does things to me,
Never before has someone been more.

Unforgettable, in every way.
And forever more (and forever more)
That's how you'll stay (that's how you'll stay)

That's why darling it's incredible,
That someone so unforgettable,
Thinks that I am unforgettable too.

No never before, has someone been more

Unforgettable (unforgettable) in every way (in every way)
And forever more (and forever more)
That's how you'll stay (that's how you'll stay)

That's why darling, its incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am, unforgettable too

life's immutable laws --------------------------

the reason we have immutable laws that govern us is cos it isn't our life. if something can conceivably go wrong, it will.
we might live it but our life belongs to the beaurocrats, civil servants, the wielders of red tape as well as Murphy. life tben is a conspiracy. things might seem to be going along very nicely but that is to lead us into a sence of false security. happy smiling one minute and someone will suddenly dampen our spirits by "urinating on our shoes." the traffic cops will stop us for doing 35 in a 30 mph zone for a minute or so, a simple error on our tax form and the "spanish inquisition" will come down on us like a huge truck.
inevitably husbands suffer from these laws more than others, --- don't do as I do, do as I say your wife will say. don't leave your shoes there, put those newspapers out, but not that one cos I haven't read it yet. by the time you go to bed you have a severe pain in the neck to go with your wife's inevitable headache.....................................
as someone once said,,, stop the world, I want to get off

Hey, John. Absolutely. I have seen a lot of adages throughout our vast audience today, and I subscribe to them all. I guess that makes me a gestaltist.

Here's an interesting news item, listeners, from the world of behavior mod:

Birds can distinguish languages: researchers Mon Feb 6, 10:23 AM ET



TOKYO (AFP) - Pet birds can not only imitate sounds, they can distinguish between languages, potentially offering new clues on how the brain recognizes speech, Japanese researchers say.



It has already been confirmed that monkeys, mice and other mammals can recognize different languages but this is the first time that birds have been found to possess the ability, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported.

A research team exposed Java Sparrows to English and Chinese translations recorded by exchange students of two well-known Japanese novels, "The Tale of Genji" and Natsume Soseki's "I Am a Cat."

A bird sitting on a perch first listened to the English version and was only allowed to eat afterward. Then the researchers played English and Chinese recordings randomly and only allowed the bird to eat after hopping onto the perch with the English.

The birds correctly identified the English recording 75 percent of the time. The same results were achieved with another two birds that were permitted to eat only when Chinese was played.

"Humans are able to distinguish between languages, even ones they don't know, from the intonation and pronunciation, and it seems that paddy birds have the same ability," said Keio University experimental psychology professor Shigeru Watanabe, who led the research.

"If we study common traits in brain structure, this may shed light on the mechanisms of speech recognition," Watanabe was quoted as saying by the Mainichi Shimbun.

Watanabe said paddy birds like the Java Sparrow and parakeets, which are skilled vocally, learn sounds unique to their species after becoming adults, suggesting that they have a high ability to distinguish between sounds.

The researchers did not use Japanese because it was the language the birds normally listened to, the newspaper said.

(12) Murphy's law of lockers: If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

I've noticed that!

Also, that a new car is more likely to get a bump/dent than an old car. New cars (autos) seem to attract trouble like magnets.