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Burt Reynolds
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Burt Reynolds (born Burton Leon Reynolds on February 11, 1936 in Waycross, Georgia) is an American actor. He may be best remembered as the "Bandit" in the 1977 hit film Smokey and the Bandit.


Biography

Reynolds was born to a half-Irish, half-Cherokee Indian father and a mother of English descent. After graduating from Palm Beach High School in Palm Beach, Florida, Reynolds attended Florida State University on a college football scholarship, becoming an all-star Southern Conference halfback. While at Florida State, Reynolds joined the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, the football team's fraternity of choice. After a knee injury in 1955 and then a debilitating car accident, Reynolds switched from athletics to college drama and won the 1956 Florida State Drama Award. He was drafted by the Baltimore Colts National Football League team, but he never played professional football.

Reynolds won a scholarship to the Hyde Park Playhouse and moved to upstate New York. He did gigs as a stuntman for television programs until he was "discovered" in a revival of Mister Roberts in New York City and signed to a television acting contract. He made his Broadway debut in Look, We've Come Through.

Reynolds first starred on television, in the 1950s series Riverboat and went on to appear in a number of other shows, including a role as blacksmith Quint Asper on Gunsmoke from 1962 to 1965. His film debut was in 1961, in the movie Angel Baby. His breakout performance in Deliverance (1972) made him a star.

Reynolds gained additional notoriety in 1972 when he posed in the April (Vol. 172, No. 4) issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine. It is said to be the first America magazine centerfold of a (near) nude male.

In the 1980s, after Smokey and the Bandit, he became typecast in similar, less well-done and less successful movies. Comedian/actor Robert Wuhl, in a standup act in the late 80s, said that "Burt Reynolds makes so many bad movies, when someone else makes a bad movie Burt gets a royalty!"

During the first half of the 1990s, he was the star of the CBS television series Evening Shade, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1991). In 1997, Reynolds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Boogie Nights and won a Golden Globe Award for the movie. Reynolds has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Reynolds has also directed a few movies, the best-known being Sharky's Machine, released in 1981.

Reynolds was married to actress/comedienne Judy Carne from 1963 - 1965 and actress Loni Anderson from 1988 - 1993. The divorce from Loni Anderson became a highly publicized, bitter feud. He also had relationships with other actresses such as Sally Field and Dinah Shore. He was involved with actress Inger Stevens shortly before her suicide, and to date has refused to comment publicly about the relationship out of respect for her.

His autobiography, titled My Life, was published in 1994.

The bad press from his divorce caused Reynolds' already slowing career to nosedive and he had to declare bankruptcy in late 1996. Reynolds started a comeback with the movie Striptease (1996), and the critically acclaimed Boogie Nights (1997) put his career back on track. In early 2000, he created and toured Burt Reynolds' One Man Show. Many fans were astonished in 2003 to see photographs showing the unusual results of extensive plastic surgery on Reynolds [1].

In 2005, he co-starred in two remakes: the first one released was of the hit 1980's TV series The Dukes of Hazzard (as Boss Hogg). The second was of his The Longest Yard this time with Adam Sandler playing the role of Paul Crewe (Reynolds played that role in the 1974 original. This time around, Reynolds took on the role of Nate Scarborough.)

The continuing popularity and likeability of Burt Reynolds to the average citizen is illustrated by a little incident at a Minnesota Vikings game in the 2004 season. Reynolds was a guest in one of the club boxes. During a timeout, the camera happened to zoom in on him, his image picking up on the stadium video screen. Reynolds got a loud, spontaneous standing ovation from the Dome crowd, for nothing more than simply being Burt Reynolds.

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

Can you read these right the first time?

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?


Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this



There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UPthe kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so... time to shut UP...!

Oh...one more thing:


What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P

ah, folks. The funnies are always a signal that our hawkman is through for the day.

You left out one, Boston, and that is UPS. <smile>

UPS, UPS and away in our beautiful balloon.

Question: From whence cometh the name of the band, Led Zepplin?

Let's play one that everyone knows until we can peruse Bob's bio's

Nice midi clip, too.


Stairway To Heaven
Zeppelin IV


Right click here to download MIDI

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How ev'rything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven

Led Zeppelin - "When Jimmy Page was assembling the group, Keith Moon (drummer from The Who) got word of his plans and predicted the group would go down "like a lead balloon" (this is a common English expression). Bassist and keyboardist John Entwistle thought it would be "more like a lead zeppelin." Page took the phrase and manager Peter Grant changed the spelling to "led" in order to avoid mispronunciation."

kinda like "Iron Butterfly"

Well, there's our Francis with the correct answer. Thanks, Paris. Did you look that UP, or trace it down. <smile>

Or Steel Magnolias, dys.

Well, Miss Letty has company, so I shall be back later as soon as I can get down from up in under here.

Testing

Loud and clear

I miss lettys <smile>.........


I See Your <Smile> - Gloria Estefan

I get a little tongue-twisted
Ev'ry time I talk to you, when I see you
And I'm so glad that you just missed it
The way I stared to memorize your face
To kiss you in my mind
Love you all the time

(Chorus 1
'Cause, when I close my eyes
I still can see your <smile>
It's bright enough to light my life
Out of my darkest hour
Please believe it's true
When I tell you I love you

I've taken too many chances
Searching for the truth in love that's in my heart
Tell me if I've made the wrong advances
Tell me if i've made you feel ashamed
'Cause I know I have to do this
Would you hold my hand right through it?

(Repeat chorus 1)

(Bridge:)
I had to let you know just what would happen
Yes, I had to let you know the truth
I know I've got to do this
Would you hold my hand right through it?
Would you?

(Chorus 2
'Cause, when I close my eyes
I still can see your <smile>
It's bright enough to light my life
Out of my darkest hour

(Chorus 3
'Cause, when I close my eyes
I still can see your <smile>
It's bright enough to light my life
Out of my darkest hour
I know now this is true
When I tell you I love you

LOL, Bob. An Austrian friend of mine said lists of words with several meanings and pronunciations such a yours are used to teach English as a second language.

It's easy to understand why English is considered one of the most difficult languages to learn.

Nough, it is naught.

Don't know why this popped into my head, but it is one I will always remember.

1970) stan vincent

O-o-h child things are gonna get easier
O-o-h child things 'll get brighter
O-o-h child things are gonna get easier
O-o-h child things 'll get brighter

Someday we'll get it toghether and we'll get it undone
Someday when the world is much brighter
Someday we'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Someday when the world is much lighter

O-o-h child things are gonna get easier
O-o-h child things 'll get brighter
O-o-h child things are gonna get easier
O-o-h child things 'll get brighter

Someday we'll get it toghether and we'll get it undone
Someday when the world is much brighter
Someday we'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Someday when the world is much lighter

O-o-h child things are gonna get easier
O-o-h child things 'll get brighter
O-o-h child things are gonna get easier
O-o-h child things 'll get brighter

Someday we'll get it toghether and we'll get it undone
Someday when the world is much brighter
Someday we'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Someday when the world is much lighter

O-o-h child things are gonna get easier
O-o-h child things 'll get brighter
O-o-h child things are gonna get easier
O-o-h child things 'll get brighter
Right now right now

I love that song...I just heard it yesterday. Great pick, Diane.

ah, folks. My house guests are involved in books and TV, so I have a moment to drop in and run a test with Merry Andy.

Well, we have had most of our European friends on our station today except for the Brits.

Hey, blatham. Good to see you back and tell Lola not to be such a stranger.

Thanks to all of you, our little cyber station is still alive and on the air.

Diane, I am not familiar with that song, but if you like it, I probably would.

For all of us, a poem by an amateur:
Two people
from two different worlds
with different ideas
and different talents
can be so alike
not by looks or
by blood
but by feelings
you may try to to hid them
but they are always there
no matter how you change
no matter what happens
feelings are always there
they make you who you are
inside and out
that's how people from two
different worlds are so alike.

Not bad at all, listeners.

I'm currently working on a new opus titled ""Recombinant Strains" in the key of D, only, not in D and A.

Ok, cowboy punster; It might really be a big hit among the cell bunch.

A padded one, maybe and another kind as well:


I Got Stripes by the man in black:

On A Monday I Was Ar-rested (Uh Huh)
On A Tuesday They Locked Me In The Jail (Oh Boy)
On A Wednesday My Trial Was At-tested
On A Thursday They Said Guilty And The Judge's Gavel Fell

I Got Stripes --- Stripes Around My Shoulders
I Got Chains --- Chains Around My Feet
I Got Stripes --- Stripes Around My Shoulders
And Them Chains --- Them Chains They're About To Drag Me Down

On A Monday My Momma Come To See Me
On A Tuesday They Caught Me With A File
On A Wednesday I'm Down In Solitary
On A Thursday I Start On Bread And Water For A While

I Got Stripes --- Stripes Around My Shoulders
I Got Chains --- Chains Around My Feet
I Got Stripes --- Stripes Around My Shoulders
And Them Chains --- Them Chains They're About To Drag Me Down

I Got Stripes --- Stripes Around My Shoulders
I Got Chains --- Chains Around My Feet
I Got Stripes --- Stripes Around My Shoulders
And Them Chains --- Them Chains They're About To Drag Me

then we all sang "some enchanted gregorian evening"

When I went to a local concert recently, one held by The Blues Band, a troupe of wandering troubadors, they sang as an encore a song which was blues-style if not in pure blues form, a song which was all in one key, or rather all on one chord.
I think it was in the key of J

Do not surround me with wreaths of flowers
nor place upon my body the signs of a fetish
nor crescent, cross, phallus or sun
but bury me in an apple orchard that I may touch your lips again
bury me in an apple orchard that I may touch your lips again

look at me when you glance
at the spring apple flower
speak of me into a breeze
blowing over your fingers
taste of me when your lips taste the froth
foaming out of the apple meat


Do not surround me with wreaths of flowers
nor place upon my body the signs of a fetish
nor crescent, cross, phallus or sun
but bury me in an apple orchard that I may touch your lips again
bury me in an apple orchard that I may touch your lips again