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Hello everybody!

Nice to be here, good morning from Paris!


A little song to start the day:

She Spreads Her Wings

At night she spreads her wings
She dreams of bigger things
She floats above the town
She sings without a sound

She can be anywhere at all
She can be anyone at all

A glow and then a shine
What she hoped she would find
Tonight, tonight

She's got a picture in her mind
She can be anyone at all

At night she changed her mind
She left the world behind

Hello, Francis. Nice to see you. And goodnight from Kansas.

Hi, Tico! Good night to Kansas!

Hoping, you'll have "a smooth strike day" Francis :wink:



Qui, beaucoup d'paris
qui, tant de paris
tant de paris dans la tête d'quelqu'un
tant de paris dans la main d'quelqu'un
tant de paris dans le charme d'quelqu'un
qui, beaucoup de paris...
Paris,
une journée pleine de vagues
qui rient comme des blagues, Paris
Paris, paris de courage
couleur de l'orage
orage plein de paris, Paris
Paris, plein d'avanages
Paris, c'est toute une blague
pleine de paris...

tant de paris dans la tête d'quelqu'un
tant de paris dans la main d'quelqu'un
tant de paris dans le charme d'quelqu'un
qui, beaucoup de paris...
Paris,
une journée pleine de, pleine de Paris.

Le bon matin mes amis.


Marseillaise
( Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin)


Allons enfants de la patrie!
Le jour de gloire est arrivé;
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé.

L'étendard sanglant est levé.

Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Egorger vos fils, vos compagnes!

Refrain:

Aux armes, citoyens, formez vos bataillons,
Marchez, marchez, qu'un sang impur
abreuve nos sillons.

Que veut cet horde d'esclaves,
De traîtres, de rois conjurés?
Pour qui ces ignobles entraves,
Ces fers dès longtemps préparés?
Ces fers dès longtemps préparés?

Francais! Pour nous, ah quel outrage!
Quels transports il doit exciter!
C'est nous qu'on ose méditer
De rendre à l'antique esclavage?

Refrain

Amour sacré de la patrie,
Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs
Liberté, Liberté chérie!
Combats avec tes défenseurs
Combats avec tes défenseurs

Sous nos drapeaux que la Victoire
Accourt à tes mâles accents:
Que tes ennemis expirants
Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire

Refrain




The Marseillaise
(The War Song for the Army of the Rhine)
Forward children of the homeland!
The day of glory has arrived;
Against us, tyranny's bloody standard
Has been raised.


Do you hear the roar of ferocious soldiers
Coming from the countryside?
They are coming into your very homes
To slaughter your sons and wives!

Refrain:

To arms, citizens, form your battalions,
March on, march on, let impure
blood water our furrows.

What do they want, this horde of slaves,
traitors, and conspiratorial kings?
For whom are these vile shackles,
These irons ready for so long!
These irons ready for so long!

French people! For us, oh what an insult!
What transports they must excite!
Is it us that they are daring to consider
Returning to antiquated slavery?

Refrain

Sacred love of the homeland,
Guide and strengthen our avenging arms
Liberty, beloved Liberty!
Fight alongside your defenders
Fight alongside your defenders

Beneath our banners to which Victory
Rushes to hear your manly tone:
So that your dying enemies
Will see your triumph and our glory.

Refrain

A very punny Walter and a belligerent Try.

Thank you guys!

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

Francis, it is good to see you back on our little radio and thank you for the song, Paris.

Nice song, Walter, I think. <smile>

Try, thank goodness I know yours, buddy, both in French and English

I promise, listeners, not to play the Star Spangled Banner written by another Francis upon the bombardment of Fort McHenry.

Well, Letty needs her coffee fix. Back later, all.

You know, listeners, it's not often when someone puts one over on the media:

The Church of Kurt Cobain


Kurt Cobain surely would have appreciated the humor in it. In 1996 a Portland, Oregon, man set out to pull one over on the media. In a cleverly devised press release, Reverend Jim Dillon invited members of the local and national press to attend a rally in support of the new "Church of Kurt Cobain." When the day of the rally arrived, the young minister stood before the crowd of reporters and professed his hope that Gen-Xers joining the new church (there were 12 present at the rally) would find meaning in the late Nirvana singer's tragic life and in his music. He spoke of a new religion in which sermons would draw on the grunge group's lyrics. He claimed that the young people of today were in need of a new faith that spoke to their generation.

Soon after the rally was held, "Rev. Dillon," whose real name was Jerry Ketel and who was actually 34 years old, announced that the church was nothing more than a hoax. Its target was the mass media, which had both built Cobain up to idol status and contributed to his ultimate demise. Cobain, who was tormented by his stardom as well as his drug addiction, committed suicide by shooting himself in April 1994.

Love it!

Good Day to all.

Remembering Anthony Perkins (1932 - 1992)



and wishing a Happy Birthday to Robert Downey Jr. (1965)

Well, there's our Raggedy, folks. My word, PA. I haven't thought about Psycho in years. Poor Anthony; another victim of aids.

Now let's see. Was it Downey that starred in Charlie Chaplin? Letty always gets the two Roberts confused.

Anyway, listeners, here's a song by the Downey one, and I had no idea that he even sang. <smile>



The Futurist:

You have body
You give soul
You're a soul suvivor
It's so..it's so clear

I love long gone songs of olden
You sing throughout the year

It'll be like lovers
For the rest of our lives
I wont have to run around
You wont have to think twice

They'll take the walk
We'll sage the world
Sounds like October
A futurist nose
Our furious, curious, fantasist code

Gimme your body
Wont'cha give me your sweet soul
Love when you take over
I love when you take control

It'll be like lovers
For the rest of our lives
I wont have to run around
You wont have to think twice

They'll take the walk
We'll sage the world
Sounds like October
A futurist nose
Our furious, curious, fantasist code

There's a big...
There's an adventurous God out there
All these purple spheres
Where the creature...

It'll be like lovers
For the rest of our lives
No run around
Think twice..twice

They'll take the walk
(we'll sage the world)
We'll sage the world
Sounds like October
(we'll take) a futurist nose
Our furious, curious, fantasist code
Furious, curious, fantasist code
(one more line)
Our furious, curious, fantasist code

Here...
Hey...
Not alone, not alone, not alone, not alone
not alone, not alone...

Weird, no?

Wow. Robert Downey Jr. singing. I'm surprised. But , he is a talented guy.

Aha, Raggedy. Now I recall. The other Robert was Robert Lowe, a member of the brat pack.

Actually, PA, I found that song when I was trying to distinguish between the two Bob's.

Hmmmm. I do suppose, listeners, that he will be aLONG SHORTLY. Heh! Heh!

Éric Rohmer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Éric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, April 4, 1920, Nancy, France) is a French film director. He is regarded as a key figure in the post-war New Wave cinema and is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cinéma.

Scherer fashioned his pseudonym from the names of two famous artists: director Erich von Stroheim and writer Sax Rohmer, author of the Fu Manchu series.

Rohmer was the last of the French New Wave directors to become established, working as the editor of the Cahiers du cinéma periodical from 1957 to 1963, while most of his Cahiers colleagues (among them Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut) were making their name in international cinema.


Early career

His beginnings as a film director were halting, not completing his first feature, Le Signe Du Lion until 1959, and making little impact with it.

It was with his cycle of films entitled Six Moral Tales that his career began to take off. The first, La Boulangere de Monceau lasts 20 minutes, the second 60 minutes, the rest are feature-length. Each tale follows the same basic story, inspired by F.W. Murnau's Sunrise - a man, married or otherwise committed to a woman, is tempted by a second woman, but ultimately resists the temptation. It was the third in the series (but the fourth to be filmed), Ma Nuit Chez Maud (1969) that brought international recognition and the following film, Le Genou De Claire, secured it.

Later professional life

Rohmer's films invariably concentrate on intelligent, articulate protagonists who nevertheless frequently fail to own up to their real desires and it is the contrast between what they say and what they do that fuels much of the drama in his films.

Following the Moral Tales, Rohmer made two period films - Die Marquise von O... (1976) from a novella by Heinrich von Kleist and Perceval le Gallois (1978), based on a 12th century manuscript by Chrétien de Troyes. A highly literary man, Rohmer's films frequently refer to ideas and themes in plays and novels, such as references to Jules Verne (in The Green Ray), Shakespeare (in A Winter's Tale) and Pascal's Wager (in Ma Nuit Chez Maud).

He then embarked on a second series, the Comedies And Proverbs, each one based on a different proverb. This was followed by a third series in the 1990s: Tales Of The Four Seasons. Recently Rohmer, now well into his 80s, has turned once again to period drama with The Lady And The Duke and Triple Agent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Rohmer

Anthony Perkins
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 - September 12, 1992) was an American actor best known for his role as the serial killer Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. He was the son of American stage and film actor Osgood Perkins (James Ripley Osgood Perkins, 1891-1937) and his wife, Janet Esseltyn Rane.

Perkins' first movie was The Actress (1953); he received an Academy Award nomination for his role in his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956). Many people feel he deserved to win for his role as Norman Bates, and, had he at least got nominated, he would have been offered more serious leading roles. At one point, he was considered for the lead in West Side Story, but at 29, the producers felt he was too old to play a teenager.

After other acclaimed performances both in film and on Broadway, he starred in the 1960 film Psycho, followed by a critically-lauded portayal of Joseph K. in Orson Welles' cinematic adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial.

He went on to star in (and even direct) the sequels and prequel to Psycho, including Psycho II, Psycho III and Psycho IV: The Beginning while playing a few memorable characters, such as the chaplain in Catch-22 (1970). Despite these successes, most of his later work was made-for-TV movies.

Perkins also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1973 film The Last of Sheila together with composer / lyricist Stephen Sondheim.


Personal life

Perkins was bisexual, having had affairs with a number of men, including 1950s and 60s film star Tab Hunter, writer-model-actor Alan Helms, dancer Rudolf Nureyev and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale, with whom Perkins had a six-year relationship prior to his marriage to Berry Berenson. He claimed to have been exclusively homosexual until his late thirties, when he met the actress Victoria Principal. Dale married actress Anita Morris only 10 days before the Perkins-Berenson nuptials (Dale and Morris's son is television actor James Badge Dale).

Perkins died in 1992 of complications from AIDS.

His son, Osgood Perkins, credited as Oz Perkins, is also an actor and his other son, Elvis Perkins, is a musician.

One day before the ninth anniversary of his death, his widow, Berry Berenson, died on American Airlines Flight 11, the flight that was hijacked and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks.

Quote

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

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

Robert Downey Jr.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Robert Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor.

Early life

Downey, Jr. was born in New York City, New York. He is the son of Elsie and director Robert Downey Sr. Downey Jr.'s father was born with the surname Elias, and is of Jewish and Irish ancestry while Downey Jr.'s mother is of German and Scottish descent, although Downey, Jr. refers to himself as "half Jewish".[1]

His first film role was playing a puppy in his father's film POUND (1970).

Career

Having appeared in several small film roles from an early age, at 20 he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, but only appeared there for one season. He went on to star in The Pick-up Artist in 1987. The same year, he portrayed the drug-addicted rich boy in Less Than Zero, a role which came close to his later public life. In 1992 Downey starred as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, a role which garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. His other films include Only You, Natural Born Killers and lead role as a seventeenth-century doctor in Restoration, a film adaptation of Rose Tremain's novel of the same name.

In 2000, he became an acclaimed regular on the television series Ally McBeal. He won a Golden Globe award for his work on the show and was also nominated for an Emmy. He also appeared as a writer and singer on Vonda Shephard's Ally McBeal: For Once in My Life album and sang in a duet with Sting on The Police's "Every Breath You Take" hit dating from 1983.

Downey, Jr. appeared in Elton John video "I Want Love" in 2001. On November 23, 2004, he released his debut musical album "The Futurist" on Sony Classical, for which he designed the cover art. He was invited to open for Duran Duran in 2005. He had to decline the offer due to film commitments.

He works on a regular basis again, with three movies released in 2005 and seven announced for 2006. Among them are the already-released Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and Good Night, and Good Luck. as well as the upcoming A Scanner Darkly, Zodiac, The Shaggy Dog and Fur.


Private life

Downey, Jr. dated actress Sarah Jessica Parker in the 1980s, and was married to actress Deborah Falconer on May 29, 1992, a marriage that ended in divorce on April 26, 2004. They have a son named Indio. He married producer Susan Levin, (who he met on the set of Gothika) in a Jewish ceremony at Amagansett, New York, on August 27, 2005.

Downey, Jr. practices Wing Chun Kung Fu.

Drug addiction

On June 23, 1996, Robert Downey, Jr. was arrested for driving drunk and being in possession of Mexican Black Tar heroin, crack, cocaine and an unloaded .357 Magnum revolver.

On November 6, Malibu Municipal Judge Lawrence Mira sentenced Downey to three years probation for weapons and drugs charges. However, just over one year later on December 8, 1997, Judge Mira sentenced Downey to six months in jail for violating parole. Eighteen months later, Downey returned to Corcoran State Prison to serve a three-year sentence for a parole violation again on July 16, 1999.

A California state appellate court ordered Downey released from his term in state prison due to a sentencing error made by his trial judge in August 1999. An appeals court panel ordered his immediate release. The appeals court said Superior Court Judge Lawrence Mira did not take into account time Downey had spent in court-ordered rehab and ruled that the actor ended up serving more than enough time to fulfill his sentence.

Downey was arrested again in a Palm Springs, California hotel for cocaine and Valium possession and being under the influence of a controlled substance on November 25, 2000.

On April 24, 2001, he was arrested in Los Angeles for being under the influence of a controlled substance after he was found wandering in an alley. He was not charged.

The charges from the November 2000 arrest were dismissed in July 2002 due to California's Prop. 36. The judge had determined that Downey had been drug free for 14 months.

Downey has not had any more public incidents since that time and has allegedly remained clean and sober.

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

A blonde walks into an electronics store and
points to something behind the clerk.
"How much is that television set?" she asks.
"Sorry, we don't sell to blondes," the clerk said.

So, the girl walks out. The next day, she returns wearing
a brown wig. She again approaches the clerk and asks
"How much is that television set
behind you?"
The clerk replies, "Sorry, we don't sell to blondes."
Again, the girl walks out.

She again tries the next day, this time wearing a
red wig. She goes up to the clerk and asks
"How much is that television set behind you?"
The clerk again replies, "We don't sell to blondes!"

Well, the girl was kind of suspicious. She asks carefully,
"How do you know I'm a blonde?"
The clerk looks at the girl and says, "Because that's
not a television, it's a microwave!"


*~*~*~*~*

A blonde woman was speeding down the road in
her little red sports car and was pulled over
by a woman police officer who was also a blonde.

The blonde cop asked to see the blonde driver's
license. She dug through her purse and was
getting progressively more agitated.

"What does it look like?" she finally asked.
The policewoman replied, "It's square and it has your
picture on it."

The driver finally found a square mirror in
her purse, looked at it and handed it to the
policewoman.

"Here it is," she said.

The blonde officer looked at the mirror, then
handed it back saying, "Okay, you can go.
I didn't realize you were a cop."

*~*~*~*~*

A blonde enters a store that sells curtains. She tells the salesman,
"I'd like to buy a pair of pink curtains."

The salesman assures her that they have a large selection of pink
curtains. He shows her several patterns, but the blond seems to be
having a hard time choosing.

Finally she selects a lovely pink floral print. The salesman then asks,
what size curtains she needs. The blond tells him that they aren't
for a room, they are for her computer monitor.

The surprised salesan replies, " but Miss, computers do not need curtains!"

The blond says. "Helllll-OOOoooooo..., I've got Windoooooows!"

Well, folks, we know that our Bob has completed his celeb backgrounds when he ends up with what's new in blonde jokes.

Thanks, hawkman, ya done good. <smile>

My word, listeners. When I tried to find a song by Robert of the brat pack, I came across this fellow:



No wonder Letty says confused.

Seeing Charlie Chaplin, reminds me that; several years ago on a visit to London I was told he lived just across the river in Kennington. I decided to visit the street where he was born, but when I got there, it was being pulled down. The local public house was to suffer the same fate, so they were auctioning C.C. memorabilia for charity. I bought one of his cane walking sticks with a carved silver end on the handle.


'Smile'
Charlie Chaplin's Theme Music for 'Modern Times'
Lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons - 1954


Smile tho' your heart is aching,
Smile even tho' it's breaking,
When there are clouds in the sky
You'll get by,

If you smile
thro' your fear and sorrow,
Smile and maybe tomorrow,
You'll see the sun come shin-ing thro' for you

Light up your face with gladness,
Hide ev-'ry trace of sadness,
Al -'tho a tear may be ever so near,

That's the time,
You must keep on trying,
Smile, what's the use of crying,
You'll find that life is still worth-while,

If you just smile,