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Well, my word, folks. There's our Kansas man with a great Pink Floyd song of drums. I especially liked this verse, Tico:

"I woke to the sound of drums
The music played, the morning sun streamed in
I turned and I looked at you
And all but the bitter residues slipped away...slipped away"

Inspired by Tico's song, listeners:

As I walked out on the streets of Laredo.
As I walked out on Laredo one day,
I spied a poor cowboy wrapped in white linen,
Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay.

"I can see by your outfit that you are a cowboy."
These words he did say as I boldly walked by.
"Come an' sit down beside me an' hear my sad story.
"I'm shot in the breast an' I know I must die."

"It was once in the saddle, I used to go dashing.
"Once in the saddle, I used to go gay.
"First to the card-house and then down to Rose's.
"But I'm shot in the breast and I'm dying today."

"Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin.
"Six dance-hall maidens to bear up my pall.
"Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin.
"Roses to deaden the clods as they fall."

"Then beat the drum slowly, play the Fife lowly.
"Play the dead march as you carry me along.
"Take me to the green valley, lay the sod o'er me,
"I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong."

"Then go write a letter to my grey-haired mother,
"An' tell her the cowboy that she loved has gone.
"But please not one word of the man who had killed me.
"Don't mention his name and his name will pass on."

When thus he had spoken, the hot sun was setting.
The streets of Laredo grew cold as the clay.
We took the young cowboy down to the green valley,
And there stands his marker, we made, to this day.

We beat the drum slowly and played the Fife lowly,
Played the dead march as we carried him along.
Down in the green valley, laid the sod o'er him.
He was a young cowboy and he said he'd done wrong.

Hmmm. Wasn't there a movie inspired by that song?

Harry Houdini
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Harry Houdini became world-renowned for his stunts and feats of escapology even more so than his magical illusions.
Born: March 24, 1874
Budapest, Hungary
Died: October 31, 1926
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Occupation: magician, escapologist, stunt performer, actor, historian, pilot and amateur paranormal investigator.

Harry Houdini (born Ehrich Weiss; March 24, 1874 - October 31, 1926) was one of the most famous magicians, escapologists, and stunt performers of all time as well as an investigator of spiritualists. He legally changed his name to "Harry Houdini" in 1913.

Early life

Houdini was born on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary, to Jewish parents: his father was Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss (?-1892) and his mother was Cecilia Steiner (?-1913). In 1878, his family moved to the United States, where he spelled his name as Erich Weiss. At first, they lived in Appleton, Wisconsin, where his father served as rabbi of the Zion Reform Jewish Congregation. On June 6, 1882, Rabbi Weiss became a United States citizen, then after losing his tenure, Mayer moved to New York City with Ehrich in 1887, where they lived in a boarding-house on East Seventy-ninth Street. Mayer later was joined by the rest of the family once he found more permanent housing.

Career

In 1891, Ehrich became a professional magician, and began calling himself Harry Houdini because he was influenced by French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin and his friend Jack Hayman told him that in French adding an "i" to Houdin would mean "like Houdin". Initially, his magic career resulted in little success, though he met fellow performer Wilhelmina Beatrice (Bess) Rahner in 1893, and married her three weeks later. For the rest of his performing career, Bess would work as his stage assistant.

Houdini initially focused on cards and other traditional card acts. At one point he billed himself as the King of Cards. One of his most notable non-escape stage illusions was performed in London's hippodrome: he vanished a full-grown elephant (with its trainer) from a stage, beneath which was a swimming pool.

He soon began experimenting with escape acts, however. Harry Houdini's "big break" came in 1899, when he met the showman Martin Beck. Impressed by Houdini's handcuffs act, Beck advised him to concentrate on escape acts and booked him on the Orpheum vaudeville circuit. Within months, he was performing at the top vaudeville houses in the country. In 1900, Houdini travelled to Europe to perform. By the time he returned in 1904, he had become a sensation.

From 1904 and throughout the 1910s, Houdini performed with great success in the United States. He would free himself from handcuffs, chains, ropes and straitjackets, often while hanging from a rope or suspended in water, sometimes in plain sight of the audience. In 1913, he introduced perhaps his most famous act, the Chinese Water Torture Cell, in which he was suspended upside-down in a locked glass and steel cabinet full to overflowing with water.

He explained some of his tricks in books written in the 1920s. Many locks and handcuffs could be opened with properly applied force, others with shoestrings. Other times, he carried concealed lockpicks or keys, being able to regurgitate small keys at will. He was able to escape from a milk can which had its top fastened to its collar because the collar could be separated from the rest of the can from the inside. When tied down in ropes or straitjackets, he gained wiggle room by enlarging his shoulders and chest, and moving his arms slightly away from his body, and then dislocating his shoulders. His straitjacket escape was originally performed behind curtains, with him popping out free at the end. However, Houdini's brother who was also an escape artist billing himself as Theo Hardeen, after being accused of having someone sneak in and let him out and being challenged to escape without the curtain, discovered that audiences were more impressed and entertained when the curtains were eliminated, so that they could watch him struggle to get out. They both performed straitjacket escapes dangling upside-down from the roof of a building for publicity on more than one occasion. It is said that Hardeen once handed out bills for his show while Houdini was doing his suspended strightjacket escape and Houdini became upset because people thought it was Hardeen up there escaping, not Houdini.

Difficult though it was, Houdini's entire act, including escapes, was also performed on a coordinated but separate tour schedule by his brother, Theo Weiss ("Dash" to the Weiss family), under the name "Hardeen". The major difference between the two was in the straitjacket escape; Houdini dislocated both his shoulders to get out, but Hardeen could dislocate only one, giving Theo the disadvantage, since he had to always cross one arm on top of the other, whereas Houdini could cross them either way.

In 1910, while on a tour of Australia, Houdini brought with him a primitive bi-plane with which he made the first controlled powered aeroplane flight in Australia, at Diggers Rest, Victoria.[1] History records that there were several competitors for the record-making flight, but they narrowly missed out.


Debunking spiritualists

In the 1920s, after the death of his beloved mother, he turned his energies toward debunking self-proclaimed psychics and mediums, a pursuit that would inspire and be followed by latter-day magicians James Randi and P. C. Sorcar, and even Penn and Teller. Houdini's magical training allowed him to expose frauds who had successfully fooled many scientists and academics. He was a member of a Scientific American committee which offered a cash prize to any medium who could successfully demonstrate supernatural abilities. Thanks to Houdini's contributions, the prize was never collected. As his fame as a "ghostbuster" grew, Houdini took to attending séances in disguise, accompanied by a reporter and police officer. Possibly the most famous medium whom he debunked was the Boston medium Mina Crandon, a.k.a. Margery.

These activities cost Houdini the friendship of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle, a firm believer in spiritualism during his later years, refused to believe any of Houdini's exposés. Doyle actually came to believe that Houdini was a powerful spiritualist medium, had performed many of his stunts by means of paranormal abilities, and was using these abilities to block those of other mediums that he was 'debunking' (see Doyle's The Edge of The Unknown, published in 1931 after Houdini's death). This disagreement led to the two men becoming public antagonists.

Death

Houdini's last performance was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on October 24, 1926. The next day he was hospitalized at Detroit's Grace Hospital.

Houdini died of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at 1:26 pm on Halloween, October 31, 1926, at the age of 52. Houdini had sustained multiple blows to his abdomen from McGill University boxing student J. Gordon Whitehead in Montreal two weeks earlier. A long-standing part of Houdini's act was to ask a member of the audience to punch him in the abdomen in order to demonstrate the strength of his abdominal muscles, but Houdini was reclining on his couch after his performance, having an art student sketch him. When the student's friend came in and asked if it was true that Houdini could take any blow to the stomach, Houdini replied in the affirmative. In this instance, he was struck several times, without the opportunity to prepare himself for the blows. Despite popular belief, the appendicitis and not the blow was the cause of his death. He knew something was wrong, but taking the phrase "the show must go on" to its fullest extent, he refused to be hospitalized until he collapsed in the middle of a show, where his wife immediately rushed him to the hospital. [2]

Houdini's funeral was held on November 4 in New York, with over two thousand mourners in attendance. He was interred in the Machpelah Cemetery Queens, New York, with the crest of the Society of American Magicians inscribed on his gravesite. The Society holds their "Broken Wand" ceremony at the gravesite on the anniversary of his death to this day.

Legacy

* Houdini left a final sting for his spiritualist opponents: shortly before his death, he had made a pact with his wife, Bess Houdini, to contact her from the other side if possible and deliver a pre-arranged coded message. Every Halloween for the next 10 years, Bess held a séance to test the pact. In 1936, after a last unsuccessful seance on the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel, she put out the candle that she had kept burning beside a photograph of Houdini since his death, later (1943) saying "ten years is long enough to wait for any man."
* The United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp with a replica of Houdini's favorite publicity poster on July 3, 2002.


* In 1919, Houdini signed a contract with film producer B.A. Rolfe to star in his fifteen part serial The Master Mystery. As was common at the time, the film serial was released simultaneously with a novel. However, financial difficulties resulted in B.A. Rolfe Productions going out of business and Houdini was signed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation for whom he made two pictures before setting up his own film production company. Called the "Houdini Picture Corporation," he produced and starred in three films, writing the screenplay for one and directing two others. Although success in film eluded him and he gave up on the business in 1923, his celebrity became such that years later he would be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7001 Hollywood Blvd.
* A mostly fictionalized version of Houdini's life was made in a film in 1953 starring Tony Curtis. Most of the misconceptions about Houdini's life are due in part to this film. For example, it portrayed him dying from the Chinese Water Torture Cell, instead of the less spectacular peritonitis.
* The Tony award-winning musical "Ragtime", based on E. L. Doctorow's novel of the same name features Houdini as one of the numerous historical supporting characters.
* Houdini appears as a supporting character in Glen David Gold's novel "Carter Beats The Devil" concerning the rise of American magician Charles Joseph Carter during the Golden Age of magic.
* British singer Kate Bush recorded a song about Houdini's wife visiting mediums to see if his soul had survived which was included on her 1982 album The Dreaming, the cover of which showed Bush as Mrs Houdini, passing a small key to her husband via a kiss.
* Experiment 604 in Lilo and Stitch: The Series was named Houdini, in his honor.
* Houdini appears in the DC Comics graphic novel "Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop", published in 1993 as part of the Elseworlds series.
* Harry Houdini also appeared in the Image Comics title Spawn. In the two issue story-arc, (issues #19-#20) Houdini reveals to Spawn that he is actually a dimension-traveling hyper mage, ten times more powerful than his early 20th century stage act let on. Both Spawn and Houdini worked together to protect New York from extortion at the hands of physicists from the former Soviet Union who possessed a nuclear bomb. The disaster averted, Houdini again resumed his dimensional travels.
* Controversy surrounds the decision by the Outagamie Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin to reveal the details of how Houdini performed his Metamorphosis trick.
* On November 2, 2004, Houdini's last remaining niece, Marie H. Blood, passed away. Until shortly before her death, Ms. Blood attended magic conventions (including the Society of American Magicians's in New York, June 2002), signing autographs.
* Ironically, Houdini is often called upon in seances by "psychics", and other charlatans he sought to debunk.


Trivia

* The name "Harry" came from a family pet name for Ehrich, because people would often mispronounce Ehrich as Ehrie (rhymes with 'Harry').

* Houdini was related, by marriage, to Stooge Moe Howard. Howard was married to Houdini's cousin, Helen Schonberger.


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

Joseph Barbera
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Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera (born March 24, 1911) is an American animator, cartoon artist, storyboard artist, director, producer and co-founder, together with William Hanna of Hanna-Barbera (now known as Cartoon Network Studios). The studio produced well-known cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Scooby-Doo.

Early years

Joseph Barbera was born in New York City. He started his career as a Tailors delivery boy. During the Great Depression he tried unsuccessfully to become a magazine cartoonist. In 1932 he joined the Van Beuren Studio as an animator and scriptwriter. he worked on cartoons such as Cubby Bear, and Rainbow Paradesand also co produced Tom and Jerry. When Van Beuren closed down in 1936, Barbera moved over to the MGM studios.

Career

Lured by a substantive salary increase, Barbera left Terrytoons and New York for the new MGM cartoon unit and California in 1937. The following year he teamed up with William Hanna to direct cartoons; Barbera was the storyboard/layout artist, and Hanna was in charge of the timing. Their first venture was Puss Gets the Boot (1940), the first Tom and Jerry film, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best (Cartoon) Short Subject.

Hanna and Barbera's 17-year partnership on the Tom & Jerry series resulted in 7 Academy Awards for Best (Cartoon) Short Subject, and 14 total nominations, more than any other character-based theatrical animated series. Hanna and Barbera were placed in charge of MGM's animation division in late 1955; however this was short-lived as MGM closed the division in 1956. Following this they teamed up to produce the series The Ruff & Reddy Show, under the company name H-B Enterprises, soon changed to Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Hanna-Barbera Productions became by the late-1960s the most successful television animation studio in the business, producing hit programs such as The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! by the end of the decade. The studio thrived until 1991, when Hanna and Barbera sold it to Turner Entertainment. Hanna and Barbera stayed on as advisors and periodically worked on new Hanna-Barbera shows, including the What-a-Cartoon! series.

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

Norman Fell
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Norman Fell (March 24, 1924 - December 14, 1998) (born Norman Feld) was an American television and film actor most famous for his role as landlord Mr. Roper on the popular sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off, The Ropers.

Fell was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and studied drama at Temple University after serving as a tail gunner in the US Army Air Corps during World War II. Though he mostly acted on television he also had small roles in several motion pictures including Ocean's Eleven (1960), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Graduate (1967), in which he also played a landlord, Bullitt (1968), and Catch-22. He appeared alongside Ronald Reagan in Reagan's last film, The Killers (1964).

Norman Fell died of cancer at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, and was interred there at the Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery.

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

Steve McQueen
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Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 - November 7, 1980) was an American movie actor. Nicknamed "The King of Cool," he was considered one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s due to what many film goers consider a captivating on-screen persona. McQueen was considered a combative and archetypal "difficult movie star" who disliked working with directors or producers. To compensate, he would work only if paid a higher-than-average "movie star" salary for his films.


Early life

He was born Terence Steven McQueen in Beech Grove, Indiana. He never knew his father -- although McQueen did find the house where he lived approximately a year after his father's death. McQueen's father abandoned his wife and child shortly after McQueen was born. He was raised in Slater, Missouri by his uncle, where his mother left him. At the age of 12 McQueen moved with his mother to Los Angeles. When he was 14, his mother sent him to a reformatory school, Boy's Republic, in Chino, California. Soon McQueen left the school and drifted before joining the United States Marine Corps in 1947. In 1952, with financial assistance of the G.I. Bill, McQueen began studying acting and auditioned to study at Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio in New York. Of the 2000 people who auditioned that year, only McQueen and Martin Landau were accepted. McQueen made his Broadway debut in 1955 in A Hatful of Rain.


Key appearances

Wanted: Dead or Alive

After various live and filmed television guest appearances in the mid-1950's, McQueen gained both regular employment and his 'break-out' role with the 'Western' series Wanted: Dead or Alive. From 1958 to 1961, McQueen played "Josh Randall," a lone 'bounty-hunter' whose weapon of choice was a sawed-off Winchester repeating rifle nicknamed the 'Mare's Leg.' While the character of Randall traveled the 'Wild West' helping various people he met, it was the 'anti-hero' image of a bounty-hunter, played with precisely the right amount of mystery, alienation and detachment by McQueen, that made this show stand out from among the large group of typical Westerns on the U.S.'s 'small screen' in those days. The character had been introduced the previous year in an episode of Trackdown featuring Robert Culp, another western TV series.

The Magnificent Seven

McQueen moved into film in the mid-1950s with bit parts in Girl on the Run (1953) and Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). He secured his first lead role in the 1958 horror movie The Blob. He then replaced Sammy Davis, Jr. in the Frank Sinatra vehicle Never So Few in 1959 when Sinatra quarrelled with Davis. the director, John Sturges then cast McQueen in his next movie, promising to "give him the camera". Starring with with Yul Brynner, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn in The Magnificent Seven (1960), it would be McQueen's first major hit.

The Great Escape

McQueen's next big film was 1963's The Great Escape (which also starred Bronson and Coburn, as well as James Garner). (Quentin Tarantino has called the film the shortest three hour movie he's ever seen.)

Bullit and later films

Another successful film came in 1968 with Bullitt, which thrilled audiences with an unprecedented (and endlessly imitated) auto chase through San Francisco. Prior to that, he earned his only Academy Award nomination for the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles. McQueen also appeared in 1973's Papillon, the 1971 car race drama Le Mans and in The Getaway in 1972.

Personal life

McQueen was the world's highest paid actor by the time of The Getaway, largely because of his incomparable popularity in Asia {fact}}. After The Towering Inferno co-starring with his long time rival Paul Newman in 1974, McQueen did not return to film until 1978 with An Enemy of the People playing against type as an overweight heavily bearded character. The film was little-seen.


Marriages

McQueen married Philippines-born actress Neile Adams in 1957 and they had a son and a daughter before divorcing in 1972. He married Ali MacGraw in 1973; they divorced in 1978. He was married lastly to Barbara Minty in January 1980.

Motor Racer

McQueen was a motorcycle and racecar enthusiast. When he had the opportunity to drive in a movie, he often did so himself, performing many of his own stunts.

The most memorable were the classic chase in Bullitt and the motorcycle chase scene in The Great Escape. The jump over the fence was actually done by one of his riding buddies for insurance purposes.

During his acting career he considered becoming a professional race car driver. In the 1970 race 12 Hours of Sebring, Peter Revson and McQueen finished second with a Porsche 908/02.

The same car was used as a camera car for the Le Mans in the 24 Hours of Le Mans later that year, entered by his production company Solar Productions.

McQueen himself wanted to enter a Porsche 917 together with Jackie Stewart but this was not accepted.

He also competed in off-road motorcycle racing. In 1971, Solar Productions funded the now-classic motorcycle documentary On Any Sunday, in which McQueen himself is featured, along with racing legends Mert Lawwill and Malcolm Smith.

He owned several luxurious and exotic sportscars including:

* Porsche 917, Porsche 908 and Ferrari 512 race cars from the Le Mans film.
* Ferrari Lusso Berlinetta
* Jaguar XKSS
* Porsche 356 Speedster
* Range Rover

To his dismay, McQueen never was able to own the legendary Ford Mustang GT that he drove in Bullitt. There were two cars used for filming.

It is rumored that both models of the car mysteriously disappeared after the film wrapped (similar to the Easy Rider bikes).

The film's director Peter Yates recently stated in a radio interview that both vehicles are still extant (BBC Radio 4, 7 January 2006) (see [[1]]).


Death

After 1978 he appeared in two films, Tom Horn and The Hunter before he died in November of 1980, in Juárez, Mexico from a heart attack following an effort (using alternative therapies such as amygdalin) to fight mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure. It is unclear whether the asbestos exposure came from his racing career or from an experience in the United States Marine Corps.

In 1999, McQueen was posthumously inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame.


Trivia

* McQueen's height was 5'10½", many people think he was 5'9", but because of his small frame he would hunch, making him appear to be less.
* Served in U.S. Marine Corps 1947-1950.
* If McQueen had attended the house of actress Sharon Tate as planned on August 9, 1969, instead of going on a date, he could have been murdered along with 5 others by the followers of Charles Manson.
* He had a daily two hour exercise regime, involving weightlifting and at one point running 5 miles, 7 days a week.
* He had a reputation for demanding free items from studios when agreeing to do a film such as electric razors, jeans and several other products. It was later found out that McQueen requested these items because he was donating them to the Boys Republic, a reformatory school for displaced youth, where McQueen spent time in during his youth. McQueen was later said to have made occasional visits to the school to spend time with the students and play pool with them.
* Chuck Norris taught Steve Mcqueen's son karate, and later Steve McQueen convinced Chuck to attend acting classes.
* Turned down Ocean's Eleven (1960 film), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Apocalypse Now, Dirty Harry and Rambo.
* Was offered the Kevin Costner role in The Bodyguard when it was first proposed in 1976.
* Almost was a co-driver in a British Leyland rally team Triumph 2500 PI in the 1970 London-Mexico, but had to turn it down due to movie commitments.
* McQueen appeared in a commercial for the 2005 Ford Mustang which used scenes from Bullitt, and showed McQueen racing the new car around a race track built in a corn field, a la the baseball field in Field of Dreams. An earlier (circa 1997) advert, for the Ford Puma used a similar technique by splicing the Puma (with McQueen driving) into scenes from Bullitt all to the popular theme tune from that film.
* He was mentioned in various songs and quotes:
o Prefab Sprout released an album entitled Steve McQueen in 1985.
o McQueen was the subject of the 2002 Sheryl Crow song called "Steve McQueen" off the album C'mon C'mon - the video has her riding a motorcyle like in "The Great Escape", driving a GT-40 at Willow Springs raceway to simulate "LeMans", and being chased by NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr in a Bullitt Mustang
o the Harpo song "Moviestar" starts with the lyrics "You feel like Steve McQueen when you're driving in your car"
o The comedy duo of Richard 'Cheech' Marin and Tommy Chong (AKA "Cheech & Chong") in a skit entitled 'The Continuing Adventures of Pedro and Man' (on the Album 'Cheech and Chong's Greatest Hit'), 'Man' (Chong) says Pedro (Marin) drives, "Just like Steve McQueen", meaning he is driving well.
o Redneck conspiracy metal rock group Clutch claims "Steve McQueen got nothing on me" in their song "The House that Peterbilt."
o Along with Martin Sheen and James Dean, he is mentioned in the R.E.M. song "Electrolite."
o On the song "Gene by Gene" by Blur on their album Think Tank, the narrator claims to "...ride a bullet like Steve McQueen."
o Beastie Boys mention McQueen in their song High Plains Drifter, "I feel like Steve McQueen, a former movie star."
o In the 1996 film Beautiful Girls, Willie's girlfriend comments about how his father and brother took a liking to her upon their first meeting, which Willie remarks "They haven't felt this strongly about anyone since Steve McQueen died."
o In the Divine Comedy song "Absent Friends", Neil Hannon sings: "Steve McQueen jumped the first one clean/ But the great escape/ He tried to make/ Was not to be/ Maybe next time, Steve"
o Steve McQueen figures heavily in the 2000 film The Tao of Steve. The soundtrack includes a song titled "(I Just Wanna Be) Your Steve McQueen".
o In his song "Beautiful Life", Shy Nobleman sings "Greet the neighbor, Steve McQueen".
o A large section of the film Heat was closely based on the ending of McQueen's biggest hit, Bullitt.
o An episode of House (TV series) features the show's main character, House, naming a rat after McQueen
o The Drive By Truckers have a song called "Steve McQueen" on their 1998 album "Gangstabilly" (re-released in 2005)
o In an episode of "Arrested Development" a reference to McQueen is used when Lucille says to Buster, "...and now you think you're Steve McQueen" referencing to Buster's first date
o The movie Cars main character is named 'Lightning McQueen'
o The Supergrass track Prophet 15, from their 2002 release of Life on Other Planets, features the line "Che Guevara and Steve McQueen, right there, Oh Yeah".
o On the album Goats Head Soup by The Rolling Stones, McQueen is mentioned in the final song, Star Star: "Yeah, Ali McGraw got mad at you / For givin' head to Steve McQueen."
* Beginning in late 2005, Absolut Vodka released a commercial that features McQueen from stock footage. The theme of the commercial is styled as a montage revolving around a slogan that says "The Absolut ________", and set against a techno-rock music riff. The blanks are filled in with things that are regarded as supreme in their respective categories. It begins by showing footage of an astronaut driving a four-wheeled vehicle on the surface of the Moon and saying "The Absolut Road Trip". Various other things are shown such as the Statue of Liberty, to which the slogan says "The Absolut Welcome", and showing CBGB's saying "The Absolut Rock Club". Finally, the commercial ends dramatically showing McQueen stepping out of a car in Bullitt, the slogan saying "The Absolut Man".

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

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY !

Before resolving to jog five miles a day, visit a cardiologist to have your heart examined, a podiatrist to have your feet examined and a psychiatrist to have your head examined.

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It's a good idea that kids in Little League are exposed to umpires that are never wrong and always win arguments.

It helps prepare them for marriage.

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Thanks to Brian for submitting his comments on something I ran in the Jokeline the other day

From the Jokeline:

You know you're getting old when you can't tell the difference between a heart attack and an orgasm.

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Corollary 1:

And you know you're getting old AND desperate, when you'll risk the first for a chance of a second...

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Corollary 2:

And you know you're already too old when you don't care which one you get...

Brian

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Lately, whenever I get myself into a really embarrassing position I think, "How would Paris Hilton handle it?"

Then I remember that no one really wants to see me naked.

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According to Blender magazine, the average person spends three years of their life in the bathroom.

Do you know what's really pathetic?

If it turned out those were the best years of your life. - Jay Leno

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A sailor who had been at sea for a long time was anxious to be reunited with his girlfriend, so he sent her the following message a few days before his ship was due back in port.

"I have missed you so much and I can't wait to make love to you. I want you to come down to the pier to meet me, and I want you to bring the station wagon and have a mattress ready in the back so we can do "it" as soon as I step ashore."

The young lady who was just as anxious to make love, sent him a reply.

"I will get the station wagon ready as you said, but you had better be the first one off that ship, sailor, because I am not checking I.D. cards."

Am I the only one who thinks Harry Chapin bears a striking resemblance to Harry Houdini?

Ah, listeners, we know the hawk has completed his circling when he provides us with his list of delightful jokes. Thanks, Boston, for the big grin.

I was particularly fascinated with the bio of Houdini and McQueen. Back later, listeners, with thoughts on the celebs.

How interesting, Tico. Well, let's allow our staff to compare:

This is actually the photo of Houdini I was thinking of ...

Aah Letty found Oliver. He had a smash hit with that song from Hair. My daughter had the record - that and "Jean" -- and I thought Oliver had a really lovely voice.

Looking at the Houdini pic Tico posted, I see Paul Newman from thenose down. But not the eyes.

Did I ever mention that Harry Chapin kissed me backstage after a concert. - A concert he performed solo - once upon a time ago. I loved that man and his songs.

And the celebrity I'm remembering today is:

You're right, Tico. Your two bear a stronger resemblance:

Listening to The Cat's in the Cradle as we speak, and that goes out to our George.

And, here's a song that is for the great escape artist:

New Found Glory
» The Great Houdini

All dressed up
And nowhere to go
I think I'm taking this trip alone
Thirty seconds till I pass
The questions you will never ask
Your regrets will haunt you
You know I never had to

But I'm saving myself from you
And did you notice anything?
The change is me
Now it's safe to say
You will change your ways

I went to your house
But you weren't home
I'm sure you conveniently shut off your phone
I don't think that I'll ever be
The person that you want of me
When all that I can think about
It's you I have to figure out

But I'm saving myself from you
And did you notice anything
The change is me
Now it's safe to say
You will never change your ways
You would give up anything
To prove your point
There's nothing left to say
You will never change your ways

I'm saving myself from you
Yeah I'm saving myself from you

All dressed up
And nowhere to go
I think I'm taking this trip alone
Did you notice anything?
That changes me?
Now it's safe to say
You will never change your ways
You would give up anything
To prove your point
There's nothing left to say
You will never change your ways

Two questions for today?
How do those lyrics relate to Houdini, and what does Chapin mean by the cat's in the cradle

Well, there's our Raggedy with Steve. Boston Bob gave us an interesting note about him concerning the fact that he missed the Sharon Tate party and thus lived a little longer.

And of course we remember your kiss from that Chapin fellow, PA.

About Houdini now. Didn't he come to believe in the spiritual world? It seems that I recall his having declared that he would contact his wife after his death.

Later, folks, a teasing song for Steve of London, and snood of San Antone.

Well, folks. There are Barry Bonds--bearer bonds--and James Bond, so inspired by the power of prepositions, let's play a teasing song for another Steve and a Snood:



Artist: Paul McCartney & Wings Lyrics
Song: Live and Let Die Lyrics

When you were young and your heart was an open book,
You used to say live and let live.
(You know you did, you know you did, you know you did)
But if this ever-changing world in which we live in(that's the line)
Makes you give in and cry,
Say live and let die!
Live and let die,
Live and let die,
Live and let die.

What does it matter to ya,
When you've got a job to do you gotta do it well,
You gotta give the other fellow hell!

You used to say live and let live.
(You know you did, you know you did, you know you did)
But if this ever-changing world in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry,
Say live and let die!
Live and let die,
Live and let die,
Live and let die.

Pictures of you
They're still on my mind
You had the smile
That could light up the world
Now it rains
It seems the sun never shines

And I'll drive down
This lonely lonely road
Ooh I got this feelin'
Girl, I gotta let you go

'Cause now you've got to fly (fly high)
Fly to the angels
Heavens awaits your heart
And flowers bloom in your name
You've got to fly (fly high)
Fly to the angels
All the stars in the night
Shine in your name

You know it hurts me
Way deep inside
When I turn and look
And find that you're not there
I try to convince myself
That the pain, the pain
It's still not gone.

Still I'll drive down
this lonely lonely road
Ooh I got this feelin'
Girl, I gotta let you go

But now you've got to fly (fly high)
Fly to the angels
Heavens awaits your heart
And flowers bloom in your name
You've got to fly (fly high)
Fly to the angels
All the stars in the night
Shine in your name

FLYYYY!!!

Ooh yeah
And still I drive down
this lonely lonely road
ooh I got this feelin'
oh I can't let you go
BUT I KNOW that you've got to fly (fly high)
fly to the angels
Heaven awaits your heart
And flowers bloom in your name
You've gotta fly (fly high)
fly to the angels
All the stars in the sky
SHINE IN YOUR NAME YEAH
OW! ooh--ooh--ooh (repeat)

I'm gonna miss you
gonna miss you girl.

shari. Welcome back, dear, and here's a true picture of you:

I love it....such a likeness!

well, shari, now we both can fly.<smile>

Time for a station break:

This is cyberspace, WA2K radio.

There was a call to the studio this afternoon, and listeners, you'll never believe it, our own djjd was on the line!

which of course made me think of telephone-inspired lyrics




Long distance information give me Memphis, Tennessee
Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me
She could not leave her number but I know who placed the call
My uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall

Help me information to get in touch with my Marie
She's the only one who'd phone me here from Memphis, Tennessee
Her home is on the southside, high upon a ridge
Just a half a mile from the Mississippi bridge

Help me information more than that I cannot add
Only that I miss her and all the fun we had
But we were pulled apart because her mom did not agree
Tore apart our happy home in Memphis, Tennessee

The last time I saw Marie she was waving me goodbye
With hurry home drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye
Marie is only six years old, Information please
Try to put me through to her in Memphis, Tennessee