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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/15/09 at 7:27 am
Thanks, Ninny for the retrospect on Phil Carey. I've always thought he was a fine actor and little appreciated. A nice choice on your part as usual to recognize a person's achievements.
I remember him mostly from One Life To Live.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 7:29 am
Was he any relation to Jim Carey?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 9:19 am
Was he any relation to Jim Carey?
From what I can see online Jim Carrey is no relation to Phil Carey.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/15/09 at 12:15 pm
I remember him mostly from One Life To Live.
Yup-me, too. I LOVED him as Asa. I was a BIG OLTL fan for many, many years. He used to crack me up all the time.
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 3:36 pm
From what I can see online Jim Carrey is no relation to Phil Carey.
maybe it was because of the double "rr".
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 3:43 pm
maybe it was because of the double "rr".
Jim Carrey was born in Canada and Phil Carey was born in New Jersey, USA
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 3:44 pm
Jim Carrey was born in Canada and Phil Carey was born in New Jersey, USA
Yeah,two different states.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 3:48 pm
Yeah,two different states.
Two different countries.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 3:49 pm
Two different countries.
and 2 different genres of film.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 3:49 pm
maybe it was because of the double "rr".
There is a retired American ice hockey goaltender with the name of Jim Carey.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 3:50 pm
and 2 different genres of film.
Completely
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 3:51 pm
Jim Carrey was born in Canada and Phil Carey was born in New Jersey, USA
Has Canada lowered itself that much, so low that it's become a US State?
That's it, I'm moving to Iowa.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 3:51 pm
Has Canada lowered itself that much, so low that it's become a US State?
That's it, I'm moving to Iowa.
That is Ontario, Canada.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 3:52 pm
Completely
One did comedy and the other I'm not sure what Phil Carey was in.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 3:53 pm
That is Ontario, Canada.
USA can have Ontario.
Won't miss it.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 3:54 pm
USA can have Ontario.
Won't miss it.
I love The US Of A.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 3:55 pm
USA can have Ontario.
Won't miss it.
How about Toronto or Montreal?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 3:56 pm
I'll keep The USA.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 3:56 pm
One did comedy and the other I'm not sure what Phil Carey was in.
Comedy ? The only time Jim Carey has made me laugh was in Liar Liar.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 3:57 pm
How about Toronto or Montreal?
Toronto is in Ontario, they can have it.
Montreal remains in Canada.
Since I was born in Montreal, if MTL moves to the states, do I become American? (he says, packing his bags to move to Italy in that case)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 3:58 pm
Toronto is in Ontario, they can have it.
Oh yes.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 3:59 pm
Montreal remains in Canada.
Since I was born in Montreal, if MTL moves to the states, do I become American? (he says, packing his bags to move to Italy in that case)
The Olympic city.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 3:59 pm
Toronto is in Ontario, they can have it.
Montreal remains in Canada.
Since I was born in Montreal, if MTL moves to the states, do I become American? (he says, packing his bags to move to Italy in that case)
Which is closer to the Niagara Falls?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 4:00 pm
Comedy ? The only time Jim Carey has made me laugh was in Liar Liar.
And some of his early stand-up Comedy was funny.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:00 pm
Comedy ? The only time Jim Carey has made me laugh was in Liar Liar.
and how about his other ones? ???
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:01 pm
And some of his early stand-up Comedy was funny.
Only some?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 4:01 pm
Which is closer to the Niagara Falls?
From Niagara Falls,
Toronto is a 2 hour drive away (or 90 minutes if you go fast)
Montreal is a 7 hour drive away (estimate)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:01 pm
and how about his other ones? ???
I found Mask unfunny and that other Ace Ventura the same.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:02 pm
Only some?
he was also on HBO Late Night Comedy.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:02 pm
From Niagara Falls,
Toronto is a 2 hour drive away (or 90 minutes if you go fast)
Montreal is a 7 hour drive away (estimate)
You do wish to leave Toronto fast?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:03 pm
I found Mask unfunny and that other Ace Ventura the same.
Mask wasn't that great either.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 4:05 pm
You do wish to leave Toronto fast?
There's lots to see in Toronto, there's the CN Tower. (about 1800 feet high)
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/3096628-CN_Tower_and_Toronto_Skyline-Toronto.jpg
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 4:09 pm
Only some?
Some of it is very funny, kind of unique, his physical comedy is good, imitations of certain people.
Didn't like Ace Ventura or The mask. Liar Liar was good, some of "Dumb and Dumber" was good. Didn't like "The Cable guy"
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:10 pm
Some of it is very funny, kind of unique, his physical comedy is good, imitations of certain people.
Didn't like Ace Ventura or The mask. Liar Liar was good, some of "Dumb and Dumber" was good. Didn't like "The Cable guy"
I prefer Robin Williams
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 4:13 pm
I prefer Robin Williams
Robin Williams is 100000000 times funnier than Jim Carey
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:13 pm
I prefer Robin Williams
Robin Williams is funny.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:14 pm
Robin Williams is 100000000 times funnier than Jim Carey
Robin Williams is funny.
Agreed!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:15 pm
He had some memorable films.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 4:20 pm
He had some memorable films.
Robin Williams or Jim Carrey?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:26 pm
Robin Williams?
Good Morning Vietnam, Mrs Doubtfire.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:28 pm
Robin Williams or Jim Carrey?
Robin Williams.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:29 pm
Good Morning Vietnam, Mrs Doubtfire.
Moscow On The Hudson.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 4:30 pm
Good Morning Vietnam, Mrs Doubtfire.
The World according to Garp, Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, Patch Adams
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:31 pm
The World according to Garp, Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, Patch Adams
Silent Listener.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:32 pm
The World according to Garp, Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, Patch Adams
Much much better films.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:33 pm
Much much better films.
Patch Adams was funny too.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:34 pm
Patch Adams was funny too.
He has made serious films too, like One Hour Photo and that one where in WW2 he makes up news reports from the radio.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:35 pm
He has made serious films too, like One Hour Photo and that one where in WW2 he makes up news reports from the radio.
One Hour Photo was creepy.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:36 pm
One Hour Photo was creepy.
Too creepy
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:37 pm
Too creepy
he kept developing film.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:40 pm
he kept developing film.
...and was too friendly with his customers.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:41 pm
...and was too friendly with his customers.
the creepy part was he invaded people's privacy.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:41 pm
the creepy part was he invaded people's privacy.
Into their own homes.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/15/09 at 4:42 pm
Into their own homes.
and was caught by the police later.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 4:47 pm
Glad I missed that movie.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:47 pm
and was caught by the police later.
Let us do not spoil it for those that have not seen it.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:47 pm
Glad I missed that movie.
Did it miss you?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/15/09 at 4:47 pm
;D ;D
USA can have Ontario.
Won't miss it.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:48 pm
...and that one where in WW2 he makes up news reports from the radio.
Jakob The Liar, Robin Williams plays a Jewish man in Nazi-occupied Poland who begins relaying fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances in order to keep hope.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/15/09 at 4:54 pm
Funniest Jim Carrey Movie moment....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opsGIvlkMvI
Jim....doin' a bad OZZY impersonation,lip syncin' to Guns & Roses.................
I found Mask unfunny and that other Ace Ventura the same.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 4:56 pm
He must be almost 50 now? (Jim Carrey)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/15/09 at 4:57 pm
Almost....He's 47...I looked it up
He must be almost 50 now? (Jim Carrey)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 4:58 pm
He must be almost 50 now? (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey was born January 17, 1962, so he is 47
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 4:59 pm
Jim Carrey was born January 17, 1962, so he is 47
Just a little older than I am.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/15/09 at 5:01 pm
And a little younger than Me
Just a little older than I am.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/15/09 at 5:05 pm
What does all of this have to do with Phil Carey?
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 5:10 pm
What does all of this have to do with Phil Carey?
Cat
It centred around Howard asking if Jim Carrey was related to Phil Carey.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/15/09 at 5:17 pm
:-
What does all of this have to do with Phil Carey?
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 5:22 pm
I am now trying to think of which Phil Carey films I have seen
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 5:29 pm
And a little younger than Me
So he's the "Jan Brady" as the middle child (You are the oldest, I'm the youngest)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/15/09 at 5:39 pm
Dude...You know that makes You "THINDY" Brady....?... ;D
So he's the "Jan Brady" as the middle child (You are the oldest, I'm the youngest)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 5:43 pm
Dude...You know that makes You "THINDY" Brady....?... ;D
theven thilver thwans thwam thilently theaward
Marthia Marthia Marthia
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/15/09 at 5:47 pm
"oooohhhhh...MY NOSE !!!!!!!"..........
theven thilver thwans thwam thilently theaward
Marthia Marthia Marthia
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 5:53 pm
"oooohhhhh...MY NOSE !!!!!!!"..........
I'm actually reading a book Maureen McCormick ( Marcia) wrote where she tells all in her life. I'm about half way through it. She actually hurt her nose around the time of the episode when she got into a car accident while reaching for her cigarette lighter to light her cig. Marcia Brady smokes! :o
Title: "Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice"
She was a total cocaine addict for years and had it bad (after the show was over)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/15/09 at 5:55 pm
I read it...It was pretty wild...
Smoking.......that's the least She did.... ;) :D
I'm actually reading a book Maureen McCormick ( Marcia) wrote where she tells all in her life. I'm about half way through it. She actually hurt her nose around the time of the episode when she got into a car accident while reaching for her cigarette lighter to light her cig. Marcia Brady smokes! :o
Title: "Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice"
She was a total cocaine addict for years and had it bad (after the show was over)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/15/09 at 6:00 pm
I read it...It was pretty wild...
Smoking.......that's the least She did.... ;) :D
sold herself for cocaine many times.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 07/15/09 at 6:31 pm
Wow...there are pages of banter today! :o :)
I remember Philip Carey in Calamity Jane. He did a good job in that film as Lieutenant Danny Gilmartin...
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/15/09 at 6:34 pm
Wow...there are pages of banter today! :o :)
I remember Philip Carey in Calamity Jane. He did a good job in that film as Lieutenant Danny Gilmartin...
Blame it on Howard. :D ;D ;D ;D
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 07/15/09 at 6:35 pm
Blame it on Howard. :D ;D ;D ;D
Cat
No problems...MOST things can be blamed on Howard! :D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/15/09 at 6:46 pm
And You didn't buy ?
sold herself for cocaine many times.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 07/15/09 at 6:55 pm
And You didn't buy ?
,,,,was awaiting a better offer from Jan perhaps?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 07/15/09 at 8:05 pm
,,,,was awaiting a better offer from Jan perhaps?
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 11:38 pm
I remember Philip Carey in Calamity Jane. He did a good job in that film as Lieutenant Danny Gilmartin...
Was Doris Day in that?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/16/09 at 12:29 am
,,,,was awaiting a better offer from Jan perhaps?
I had SUCH A CRUSH on Marcia back in the day. :P She was "SUPER GROOVY". Hard to picture her as a cokehead but she was.
http://z.hubpages.com/u/17224_f260.jpg
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/16/09 at 5:52 am
Was Doris Day in that?
Yes she was Calamity Jane.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/16/09 at 6:01 am
The word of the day...Cradle
1. A small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers.
2.
1. The earliest period of life: had an interest in music almost from the cradle.
2. A place of origin; a birthplace: the cradle of civilization.
3.
1. A framework of wood or metal used to support something, such as a ship undergoing construction or repair.
2. A framework used to protect an injured limb.
4. A low flat framework that rolls on casters, used by a mechanic working beneath an automobile. Also called creeper.
5. The part of a telephone that contains the connecting switch upon which the receiver and mouthpiece unit is supported.
6.
1. A frame projecting above a scythe, used to catch grain as it is cut so that it can be laid flat.
2. A scythe equipped with such a frame.
7. A boxlike device furnished with rockers, used for washing gold-bearing dirt.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/16/09 at 6:14 am
The person of the day...Harry Chapin
Harry Forster Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer and songwriter known for folk rock songs such as "Taxi," "W*O*L*D," and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle" as well as his masterful folk musical based on the biblical book of John, "Cotton Patch Gospel". Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger, with his work being widely recognized as a key player in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977. In 1987, Chapin was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work. Chapin was resolved to leave his imprint on Long Island. He envisioned a Long Island where the arts flourished and universities expanded and humane discourse was the norm. "He thought Long Island represented a remarkable opportunity," said Chapin's widow, Sandy.
Chapin served on the boards of the Eglevsky Ballet, the Long Island Philharmonic, Hofstra University. He energized the now-defunct Performing Arts Foundation (PAF) of Huntington.
In the mid-1970s, Chapin focused on his social activism, including raising money to combat hunger in the United States. His daughter Jen said: "He saw hunger and poverty as an insult to America". He co-founded the organization World Hunger Year with legendary radio DJ Bill Ayres, before returning to music with On the Road to Kingdom Come. He also released a book of poetry, Looking...Seeing, in 1977. Many of Chapin's concerts were benefit performances (for example, a concert to help save the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, New York), and sales of his concert merchandise were used to support World Hunger Year.
Chapin's social causes at times caused friction among his band members and then-manager Fred Kewley. Chapin donated an estimated third of his paid concerts to charitable causes, often performing alone with his guitar to reduce costs.
One report quotes his widow saying soon after his death — "only with slight exaggeration" — that "Harry was supporting 17 relatives, 14 associations, seven foundations and 82 charities. Harry wasn't interested in saving money. He always said, 'Money is for people,' so he gave it away." Despite his success as a musician, he left little money and it was difficult to maintain the causes for which he raised more than $3 million in the last six years of his life . The Harry Chapin Foundation was the result.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/16/09 at 6:17 am
The co-person of the day...John F Kennedy Jr.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr., John Kennedy or John-John, was an American journalist, lawyer, and pilot. The son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Kennedy was killed in a plane crash along with his wife and sister-in-law in 1999.
In 1995, he founded George, a glossy politics-as-lifestyle monthly which sometimes took editorial aim even at members of his own family. He controlled 1 per cent of the company's shares. After Kennedy's death, the magazine was bought out by Hachette Filipacchi Magazines his partners in George and continued for over a year. With falling advertising sales, the magazine folded in early 2001. Before Kennedy was killed in a plane crash, however, he had conceded that he "might have to wind it up by the end of the year".
On July 16, 1999, Kennedy was killed along with his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette when the aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. He was flying a Piper Saratoga II HP from Essex County Airport in New Jersey to Martha's Vineyard. Kennedy and his wife were travelling together to the wedding of his cousin Rory in Hyannis, Massachusetts, while Lauren was to have been dropped off at Martha's Vineyard en route.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/16/09 at 6:22 am
Some Brady's doing commercials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvHcFlMGKoQ#
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/16/09 at 7:12 am
The word of the day...Cradle
1. A small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers.
2.
1. The earliest period of life: had an interest in music almost from the cradle.
2. A place of origin; a birthplace: the cradle of civilization.
3.
1. A framework of wood or metal used to support something, such as a ship undergoing construction or repair.
2. A framework used to protect an injured limb.
4. A low flat framework that rolls on casters, used by a mechanic working beneath an automobile. Also called creeper.
5. The part of a telephone that contains the connecting switch upon which the receiver and mouthpiece unit is supported.
6.
1. A frame projecting above a scythe, used to catch grain as it is cut so that it can be laid flat.
2. A scythe equipped with such a frame.
7. A boxlike device furnished with rockers, used for washing gold-bearing dirt.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d170/burnoutbruce/IMG001301.jpg
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s10/kaky_jazz/cradle.jpg
http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv240/nedleietta/026.jpg
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http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii128/beckyandkayla/cradleside1.jpg
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There's also "robbing the cradle".
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/09 at 7:22 am
The person of the day...Harry Chapin
Harry Forster Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer and songwriter known for folk rock songs such as "Taxi," "W*O*L*D," and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle" as well as his masterful folk musical based on the biblical book of John, "Cotton Patch Gospel". Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger, with his work being widely recognized as a key player in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977. In 1987, Chapin was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work. Chapin was resolved to leave his imprint on Long Island. He envisioned a Long Island where the arts flourished and universities expanded and humane discourse was the norm. "He thought Long Island represented a remarkable opportunity," said Chapin's widow, Sandy.
Chapin served on the boards of the Eglevsky Ballet, the Long Island Philharmonic, Hofstra University. He energized the now-defunct Performing Arts Foundation (PAF) of Huntington.
In the mid-1970s, Chapin focused on his social activism, including raising money to combat hunger in the United States. His daughter Jen said: "He saw hunger and poverty as an insult to America". He co-founded the organization World Hunger Year with legendary radio DJ Bill Ayres, before returning to music with On the Road to Kingdom Come. He also released a book of poetry, Looking...Seeing, in 1977. Many of Chapin's concerts were benefit performances (for example, a concert to help save the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, New York), and sales of his concert merchandise were used to support World Hunger Year.
Chapin's social causes at times caused friction among his band members and then-manager Fred Kewley. Chapin donated an estimated third of his paid concerts to charitable causes, often performing alone with his guitar to reduce costs.
One report quotes his widow saying soon after his death — "only with slight exaggeration" — that "Harry was supporting 17 relatives, 14 associations, seven foundations and 82 charities. Harry wasn't interested in saving money. He always said, 'Money is for people,' so he gave it away." Despite his success as a musician, he left little money and it was difficult to maintain the causes for which he raised more than $3 million in the last six years of his life . The Harry Chapin Foundation was the result.
Cats in the Cradle is such a wonderful song.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/09 at 7:23 am
There's also "robbing the cradle".
The same as a cradle-snatcher?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/09 at 7:24 am
The co-person of the day...John F Kennedy Jr.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr., John Kennedy or John-John, was an American journalist, lawyer, and pilot. The son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Kennedy was killed in a plane crash along with his wife and sister-in-law in 1999.
In 1995, he founded George, a glossy politics-as-lifestyle monthly which sometimes took editorial aim even at members of his own family. He controlled 1 per cent of the company's shares. After Kennedy's death, the magazine was bought out by Hachette Filipacchi Magazines his partners in George and continued for over a year. With falling advertising sales, the magazine folded in early 2001. Before Kennedy was killed in a plane crash, however, he had conceded that he "might have to wind it up by the end of the year".
On July 16, 1999, Kennedy was killed along with his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette when the aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. He was flying a Piper Saratoga II HP from Essex County Airport in New Jersey to Martha's Vineyard. Kennedy and his wife were travelling together to the wedding of his cousin Rory in Hyannis, Massachusetts, while Lauren was to have been dropped off at Martha's Vineyard en route.
Was the deaths purely accidental or now ripe of conspiracy theories?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/16/09 at 7:24 am
The same as a cradle-snatcher?
a term used in dating someone younger than your age.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/09 at 7:26 am
a term used in dating someone younger than your age.
The same.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/16/09 at 7:33 am
The same.
I have never robbed the cradle.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 07/16/09 at 7:38 am
My brother still has the 45 to Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. It never fails to bring tears to my eyes.
I also think if John-John had lived he might have become a Senator.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/16/09 at 7:54 am
There's also "robbing the cradle".
That's what my mother in law said when I first started to date Tim, because I'm 6 years older than him.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/16/09 at 7:56 am
Cats in the Cradle is such a wonderful song.
My brother still has the 45 to Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. It never fails to bring tears to my eyes.
I also think if John-John had lived he might have become a Senator.
It is a great song and makes me sad also because it reminds me of Tim & Timmy.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/16/09 at 12:10 pm
Cats in the Cradle is such a wonderful song.
Agreed. Beautiful song.
Shouldl have used that song somewhere in the film "Field of dreams"
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/09 at 12:17 pm
Agreed. Beautiful song.
Shouldl have used that song somewhere in the film "Field of dreams"
Now that is one film I still have not seen.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/16/09 at 12:18 pm
Now that is one film I still have not seen.
It's one of my favorite films
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/09 at 12:21 pm
It's one of my favorite films
I will make a point of seeing it next time it is on.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/16/09 at 1:04 pm
My brother still has the 45 to Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. It never fails to bring tears to my eyes.
I also think if John-John had lived he might have become a Senator.
I heard on the news that one of his friends said that he wanted to be president.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/09 at 1:05 pm
I heard on the news that one of his friends said that he wanted to be president.
Like father like son?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/16/09 at 1:08 pm
I LOVE Harry Chapin. I think I cried when he died. Every time we drive through Scranton, Pennsylvania, I have to play 30,000 Lbs of Bananas. :D ;D ;D ;D
The two songs that really get me are Taxi & WOLD. I love the line, "Sometimes I get this crazy dream that I just take off in my car. But you can travel on 10,000 miles and still stay where you are."
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/16/09 at 3:11 pm
Like father like son?
Most likely.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/09 at 3:45 pm
I LOVE Harry Chapin. I think I cried when he died. Every time we drive through Scranton, Pennsylvania, I have to play 30,000 Lbs of Bananas. :D ;D ;D ;D
The two songs that really get me are Taxi & WOLD. I love the line, "Sometimes I get this crazy dream that I just take off in my car. But you can travel on 10,000 miles and still stay where you are."
Cat
I do not think I have heard Taxi, I must find it on YouTube.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/16/09 at 5:26 pm
I do not think I have heard Taxi, I must find it on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dwksSbD34
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/16/09 at 6:44 pm
I do not think I have heard Taxi, I must find it on YouTube.
Nice song.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/16/09 at 7:05 pm
If Harry Chapin was still alive,would he have continued to make good music? ???
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/16/09 at 7:50 pm
If Harry Chapin was still alive,would he have continued to make good music? ???
Certainly. Why not?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 1:38 am
If Harry Chapin was still alive,would he have continued to make good music? ???
Oh yes, and the same opinion is for Buddy Holly and Harry Nilsson
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 2:58 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dwksSbD34
Cat
Many thanks.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/17/09 at 5:56 am
The word of the day...Strange
1. Not previously known; unfamiliar.
2.
1. Out of the ordinary; unusual or striking.
2. Differing from the normal.
3. Not of one's own or a particular locality, environment, or kind; exotic.
4.
1. Reserved in manner; distant.
2. Not comfortable or at ease; constrained.
5. Not accustomed or conditioned: She was strange to her new duties.
6. Archaic. Of, relating to, or characteristic of another place or part of the world; foreign.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/17/09 at 5:59 am
The person of the day...Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired for her deeply personal and intimate approach to singing. Critic John Bush wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", and "Lady Sings the Blues". She also became famous for singing jazz standards written by others, including "Easy Living" and "Strange Fruit."
Holiday was recording for Columbia in the late 1930s when she was introduced to "Strange Fruit", a song based on a poem about lynching written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx. Meeropol used the pseudonym "Lewis Allan" for the poem, which was set to music and performed at teachers' union meetings. It was eventually heard by Barney Josephson, proprietor of Café Society, an integrated nightclub in Greenwich Village, who introduced it to Holiday. She performed it at the club in 1939, with some trepidation, fearing possible retaliation. Holiday later said that the imagery in "Strange Fruit" reminded her of her father's death, and that this played a role in her resistance to performing it. In a 1958 interview, she also bemoaned the fact that many people did not grasp the song's message: "They'll ask me to 'sing that sexy song about the people swinging'", she said.
When Holiday's producers at Columbia found the subject matter too sensitive, Milt Gabler agreed to record it for his Commodore Records. That was done in April, 1939 and "Strange Fruit" remained in her repertoire for twenty years. She later recorded it again for Verve. While the Commodore release did not get airplay, the controversial song sold well, though Gabler attributed that mostly to the record's other side, "Fine and Mellow", which was a jukebox hit.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/17/09 at 6:03 am
The co-person of the day...Chas Chandler
Bryan James "Chas" Chandler (18 December 1938 — 17 July 1996) was an English musician, record producer and manager of several successful music acts.
Born in the Heaton district of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he began his career playing bass guitar in a trio with Alan Price. After vocalist Eric Burdon joined them the group was renamed The Animals and became one of the most successful R&B bands ever. Chandler's most famous bass lines are the opening foundation riffs of their 1965 hits "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" and "It's My Life". Chandler was also the most prominent of the group's backing vocalists and did occasional songwriting with Burdon.
After the group split up in late 1966, Chandler reinvented himself, becoming manager of Jimi Hendrix and recruiting other musicians to form The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He also produced their first two albums. Chandler was also instrumental in introducing Hendrix to Eric Clapton. It was through this introduction that Hendrix got a chance to play with Clapton and Cream on stage.
Chandler then went on to manage and produce the English rock band Slade for twelve years, as well as Nick Drake. During this time, Chandler bought and ran IBC Studios for four years and launched Barn Records.
He later helped develop Newcastle Arena, a ten-thousand seat sports and entertainment venue that opened in 1995.
Popular legend tells that Chandler once got into a heated argument with Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. The argument then led to a trailer-rocking brawl, where Chandler nearly bit Bonham's ear off, though this incident might simply be a myth.
Chandler had one son, Steffan, from his first marriage. He later married Madeleine Stringer, the 1977 Miss United Kingdom and the sixth runner-up at Miss World 1977, and they had a son, Alex, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Katherine, together.
Chandler died of a heart condition in Newcastle in 1996, days after performing his final solo show.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/17/09 at 6:06 am
The flower for Friday...Snapdragon
Any of several plants of the genus Antirrhinum, especially the widely cultivated Mediterranean herb A. majus, having showy racemes of two-lipped, variously colored flowers.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 07/17/09 at 6:56 am
Nice retrospects on the people of the day, Ninny.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/17/09 at 7:06 am
There's something strange about this.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/17/09 at 8:50 am
Nice retrospects on the people of the day, Ninny.
Thanks :)
There's something strange about this.
Strange for us loonies ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 1:08 pm
The word of the day...Strange
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Strange = economical
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 1:09 pm
The co-person of the day...Chas Chandler
Bryan James "Chas" Chandler (18 December 1938 — 17 July 1996) was an English musician, record producer and manager of several successful music acts.
Born in the Heaton district of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he began his career playing bass guitar in a trio with Alan Price. After vocalist Eric Burdon joined them the group was renamed The Animals and became one of the most successful R&B bands ever. Chandler's most famous bass lines are the opening foundation riffs of their 1965 hits "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" and "It's My Life". Chandler was also the most prominent of the group's backing vocalists and did occasional songwriting with Burdon.
After the group split up in late 1966, Chandler reinvented himself, becoming manager of Jimi Hendrix and recruiting other musicians to form The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He also produced their first two albums. Chandler was also instrumental in introducing Hendrix to Eric Clapton. It was through this introduction that Hendrix got a chance to play with Clapton and Cream on stage.
Chandler then went on to manage and produce the English rock band Slade for twelve years, as well as Nick Drake. During this time, Chandler bought and ran IBC Studios for four years and launched Barn Records.
He later helped develop Newcastle Arena, a ten-thousand seat sports and entertainment venue that opened in 1995.
Popular legend tells that Chandler once got into a heated argument with Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. The argument then led to a trailer-rocking brawl, where Chandler nearly bit Bonham's ear off, though this incident might simply be a myth.
Chandler had one son, Steffan, from his first marriage. He later married Madeleine Stringer, the 1977 Miss United Kingdom and the sixth runner-up at Miss World 1977, and they had a son, Alex, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Katherine, together.
Chandler died of a heart condition in Newcastle in 1996, days after performing his final solo show.
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You found a plaque for him!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/17/09 at 2:11 pm
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How did you get that photo of me? I thought that I burned that.
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/17/09 at 3:13 pm
Strange = economical
I wonder where the seat belt are ::)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/17/09 at 3:13 pm
You found a plaque for him!
Lucky for me it was in Photobucket :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/17/09 at 3:14 pm
How did you get that photo of me? I thought that I burned that.
Cat
I have my ways ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 3:15 pm
Lucky for me it was in Photobucket :)
That plaque is in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a good distance from London.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 07/17/09 at 3:27 pm
How did you get that photo of me? I thought that I burned that.
Cat
;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 3:28 pm
Lucky for me it was in Photobucket :)
Lets hope there is no more of these?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 3:29 pm
I wonder where the seat belt are ::)
Yet to be installed.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/17/09 at 4:54 pm
Always been a big fan of Her incredible talent.....Funny...I hadn't heard Strange Fruit in year & recently {about 2 weeks ago} heard it again....What a haunting song.....
I'm also a big fan of Diana Ross' portrayal of Billie in Lady Sings the Blues.
The person of the day...Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired for her deeply personal and intimate approach to singing. Critic John Bush wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", and "Lady Sings the Blues". She also became famous for singing jazz standards written by others, including "Easy Living" and "Strange Fruit."
Holiday was recording for Columbia in the late 1930s when she was introduced to "Strange Fruit", a song based on a poem about lynching written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx. Meeropol used the pseudonym "Lewis Allan" for the poem, which was set to music and performed at teachers' union meetings. It was eventually heard by Barney Josephson, proprietor of Café Society, an integrated nightclub in Greenwich Village, who introduced it to Holiday. She performed it at the club in 1939, with some trepidation, fearing possible retaliation. Holiday later said that the imagery in "Strange Fruit" reminded her of her father's death, and that this played a role in her resistance to performing it. In a 1958 interview, she also bemoaned the fact that many people did not grasp the song's message: "They'll ask me to 'sing that sexy song about the people swinging'", she said.
When Holiday's producers at Columbia found the subject matter too sensitive, Milt Gabler agreed to record it for his Commodore Records. That was done in April, 1939 and "Strange Fruit" remained in her repertoire for twenty years. She later recorded it again for Verve. While the Commodore release did not get airplay, the controversial song sold well, though Gabler attributed that mostly to the record's other side, "Fine and Mellow", which was a jukebox hit.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 6:35 pm
I'm also a big fan of Diana Ross' portrayal of Billie in Lady Sings the Blues.
That was one film I saw ages ago in the mid 70's, I could do with seeing it again.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/17/09 at 6:57 pm
That was one film I saw ages ago in the mid 70's, I could do with seeing it again.
and that film was in honor of Billie Holiday.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/17/09 at 9:40 pm
How did you get that photo of me? I thought that I burned that.
Cat
Got it from Sham Wow guy
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/18/09 at 5:16 am
The word of the day...Sky
1. The expanse of air over any given point on the earth; the upper atmosphere as seen from the earth's surface.
2. The appearance of the upper atmosphere, especially with reference to weather. Often used in the plural: Threatening skies portend a storm.
3. The celestial regions; the heavens: stars in the southern sky.
4. The highest level or degree: reaching for the sky.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/18/09 at 5:20 am
The person of the day...Jack Hawkins
Colonel John Edward "Jack" Hawkins (September 14, 1910 - July 18, 1973) was an English film actor of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.
* Birds of Prey (1930)
* The Lodger (1932)
* The Good Companions (1933)
* Peg of Old Drury (1935)
* The Next of Kin (1942)
* The Fallen Idol (1948)
* Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
* The Small Back Room (1949)
* The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
* State Secret (1950)
* The Black Rose (1950)
* No Highway in the Sky (1951)
* Angels One Five (1952)
* Mandy (1952)
* The Planter's Wife (1952)
* The Cruel Sea (1953)
* Malta Story (1953)
* Twice Upon a Time (1953)
* The Intruder (1953)
* The Seekers (1954)
* Front Page Story (1954)
* Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
* The Prisoner (1955)
* The Long Arm (1956)
* Fortune is a Woman (1957)
* Man in the Sky (1957)
* Decision Against Time (1957)
* The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
* The Two-Headed Spy (1958)
* Gideon's Day (USA title: Gideon of Scotland Yard) (1958)
* The League of Gentlemen (1959)
* Ben-Hur (1959)
* Five Finger Exercise (1962)
* Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
* Zulu (1964)
* Guns at Batasi (1964)
* The Third Secret (1964)
* Lord Jim (1965)
* Judith (1966)
* Shalako (1968)
* Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
* Monte Carlo or Bust (1969)
* Waterloo (1970)
* Jane Eyre (1970)
* When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
* Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
* Kidnapped (1971)
* Young Winston (1972)
* Theatre of Blood (1973)
* Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/18/09 at 5:34 am
The co-person of the day...Jane Austen
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque, and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.
Austen lived her entire life as part of a small and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to Austen's development as a professional writer. Austen's artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about thirty-five years old. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried and then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth.
From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.
Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the eighteenth century and are part of the transition to nineteenth-century realism. Austen's plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Like those of Samuel Johnson, one of the strongest influences on her writing, her works are concerned with moral issues.
During Austen's lifetime, because she chose to publish anonymously, her works brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews. Through the mid-nineteenth century, her novels were admired only by members of the literary elite. However, the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869 introduced her to a wider public as an appealing personality and kindled popular interest in her works. By the 1940s, Austen was widely accepted in academia as a "great English writer". The second half of the twentieth century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship, which explored many aspects of her novels: artistic, ideological, and historical. In popular culture, a Janeite fan culture has developed, centred on Austen's life, her works, and the various film and television adaptations of them.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/18/09 at 6:53 am
The word of the day...Sky
1. The expanse of air over any given point on the earth; the upper atmosphere as seen from the earth's surface.
2. The appearance of the upper atmosphere, especially with reference to weather. Often used in the plural: Threatening skies portend a storm.
3. The celestial regions; the heavens: stars in the southern sky.
4. The highest level or degree: reaching for the sky.
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I love blue skies. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 07/18/09 at 1:22 pm
Loved Jack Hawkins in Theater of Blood. Good film and he was great in it.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 07/18/09 at 5:31 pm
The co-person of the day...Jane Austen
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque, and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.
Austen lived her entire life as part of a small and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to Austen's development as a professional writer. Austen's artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about thirty-five years old. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried and then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth.
From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.
Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the eighteenth century and are part of the transition to nineteenth-century realism. Austen's plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Like those of Samuel Johnson, one of the strongest influences on her writing, her works are concerned with moral issues.
During Austen's lifetime, because she chose to publish anonymously, her works brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews. Through the mid-nineteenth century, her novels were admired only by members of the literary elite. However, the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869 introduced her to a wider public as an appealing personality and kindled popular interest in her works. By the 1940s, Austen was widely accepted in academia as a "great English writer". The second half of the twentieth century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship, which explored many aspects of her novels: artistic, ideological, and historical. In popular culture, a Janeite fan culture has developed, centred on Austen's life, her works, and the various film and television adaptations of them.
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I love Jane Austin's books. My favorite is Pride and Prejudice. She actually was quite a feminist for her time. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/18/09 at 5:58 pm
I love Jane Austin's books. My favorite is Pride and Prejudice. She actually was quite a feminist for her time. :)
Me too, when I was a security guard between rounds I did a lot of reading,she was one of the authors I read.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/18/09 at 6:55 pm
Mr.Blue Sky-ELO.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/18/09 at 7:09 pm
Mr.Blue Sky-ELO.
Sky Pilot - Animals.
how high can you fly?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/18/09 at 7:10 pm
Sky Pilot - Animals.
how high can you fly?
I can't fly.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/18/09 at 7:12 pm
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/18/09 at 7:14 pm
How high is the Sky?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 1:25 am
There's A Goldmine In The Sky ~ Pat Boone
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 2:26 am
How high is the Sky?
The sky starts as soon as the ground ends! There is also no distinct end to the sky. As you go higher and higher, the atmosphere just gets less and less dense very gradually and just fades away, and so there is no well-defined edge where it stops.
You can say however, that 99% of the atmosphere within an altitude of 31 km above sea level (31,000 meters, or 101,706 feet). For comparison, Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world is only 8,846 meters or 29,028 feet. Because the atmosphere is dropping off slowly, you have to go all the way out to 42 km (137,795 ft) if you want to include 99.9% of the atmosphere.
Although it is in fact somewhat arbitrary, the boundary of the earth's atmosphere and outer space is said to be 100 kilometers. When a space craft is re-entering the Earth atmosphere, it is at an elevation of about 120 kilometers that atmospheric drag becomes noticeable.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 2:28 am
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles
The Lucy referred to in the song was a classmate of Julian's at Heath House School named Lucy O'Donnell, born in Weybridge in 1963. Her married name is Lucy Vodden.
In 2009, Julian Lennon learned that Vodden, who lives in Surrey, England, suffers from a terminal case of lupus. Lennon sent her flowers with a personally written card. After learning that O'Donnell was taking solace from gardening and looking at plants, Lennon sent her gift vouchers for a garden centre. O'Donnell, who saw Lennon in the intervening years one time at a concert of his, reacted by saying, "It was lovely of Julian."
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 2:28 am
I can't fly.
I believe I can fly!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 2:29 am
Mr.Blue Sky-ELO.
Sun is shinin' in the sky there ain't a cloud in sight.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 07/19/09 at 3:48 am
Mr Blue Sky was a great song.
Sky High - Jigsaw (wasn't this the theme to "The Man From Hong Kong"?)
Blown Round By The Wind
Thrown Down In a Spin
I Gave You Love
I Thought That We Had Made It To The Top
I Gave You All I Had To Give
Why Did It Have To Stop
You've Blown It All Sky High
By Telling Me a Lie
Without a Reason Why
You've Blown It All Sky High
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 3:49 am
Mr Blue Sky was a great song.
"Please turn me over"
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/19/09 at 6:28 am
Mr Blue Sky was a great song.
Sky High - Jigsaw (wasn't this the theme to "The Man From Hong Kong"?)
Blown Round By The Wind
Thrown Down In a Spin
I Gave You Love
I Thought That We Had Made It To The Top
I Gave You All I Had To Give
Why Did It Have To Stop
You've Blown It All Sky High
By Telling Me a Lie
Without a Reason Why
You've Blown It All Sky High
Love that song.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/19/09 at 6:31 am
The Lucy referred to in the song was a classmate of Julian's at Heath House School named Lucy O'Donnell, born in Weybridge in 1963. Her married name is Lucy Vodden.
In 2009, Julian Lennon learned that Vodden, who lives in Surrey, England, suffers from a terminal case of lupus. Lennon sent her flowers with a personally written card. After learning that O'Donnell was taking solace from gardening and looking at plants, Lennon sent her gift vouchers for a garden centre. O'Donnell, who saw Lennon in the intervening years one time at a concert of his, reacted by saying, "It was lovely of Julian."
That was real nice of Julian. I have an Aunt who has Lupus and she suffers all the time.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/19/09 at 6:36 am
The word of the day...Grass
1.
1. The grass family.
2. The members of the grass family considered as a group.
2. Any of various plants having slender leaves characteristic of the grass family.
3. An expanse of ground, such as a lawn, covered with grass or similar plants.
4. Grazing land; pasture.
5. Slang. Marijuana.
6. Electronics. Small variations in amplitude of an oscilloscope display caused by electrical noise.
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Written By: ninny on 07/19/09 at 6:39 am
The person of the day...Pat Hingle
Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American actor.
ingle was traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures. One of his notable roles was the father of the character played by Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961). While he was probably best known in recent times for playing Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels, Hingle had a long list of television and movie credits to his name, going back to 1948. Among them are Hang 'Em High (1968), Sudden Impact (1983), Road To Redemption (2001), When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Grifters (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992), The Land Before Time (1988), Wings (1996), and Shaft (2000).
Along with Michael Gough, who played Alfred Pennyworth, he was one of only two actors to appear in the four Batman films from 1989-1997. In Hingle's appearance as Commissioner Gordon (Batman & Robin), he worked with Uma Thurman (who portrayed Poison Ivy), whose first husband, Gary Oldman, succeeded him in the role in Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). Hingle also worked with Christian Bale in Shaft, who would go on to portray Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins and Dark Knight.
Other roles
Hingle originated the role of Gooper in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He also starred as Victor Franz in the premiere production of The Price by Arthur Miller. In the 1997 revival of the musical 1776, Hingle played Benjamin Franklin, with Brent Spiner as John Adams. In 2002, he was a regular cast member of ABC's series The Court. He also played Horace in 1995's The Quick and the Dead. He also had a role on an episode of the 60's TV show "The Fugitive". He also played the head cop in San Palo in the fourth Dirty Harry installment, Sudden Impact.
In 2006, he appeared in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as the original owner of Dennit Racing.
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Written By: ninny on 07/19/09 at 6:52 am
The co-person of the day...Jack Warden
Jack Warden (September 18, 1920 – July 19, 2006) was an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated American character actor.
Warden had his first credited film role in The Man with My Face in 1951, and in 1952 he began a three-year role in the television series Mr. Peepers. After a role as a sympathetic corporal in From Here to Eternity (1953), Warden's breakthrough film role was his performance as Juror No. 7, a salesman who wants a quick decision in a murder case, in 12 Angry Men (1957).
Warden guest starred on many television series over the years, including two 1960 episodes of Barton MacLane's The Outlaws on NBC, and thereafter on Marilyn Maxwell's Bus Stop on ABC. He received a supporting actor Emmy Award for his performance as Chicago Bears coach George Halas in Brian's Song (1971), and was twice nominated for his starring role in the 1980's comedy series, Crazy Like a Fox. Additionally, Warden was nominated for Academy Awards as Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He also had notable roles in such films as All the President's Men (1976), ...And Justice for All and Being There (both 1979), Used Cars (in which he played a celebrated dual role in 1980), The Verdict (1982), Problem Child (1990) and its sequel (1991), While You Were Sleeping (1995), and the Norm Macdonald film Dirty Work (1998).
Warden appeared in over one hundred movies, typically playing gruff cops, sports coaches, trusted friends and similar roles, during a career which spanned six decades. His last film was 2000's The Replacements, opposite Gene Hackman and Keanu Reeves.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/19/09 at 6:54 am
I always wondered why cats eat grass? ???
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/19/09 at 7:07 am
Pat Hingle + Splendor in the Grass = Person & Word of the day...............Excellent !!!!!
I was watching Pat Hingle last night in an old episode of The Six Million Dollar Man in the episode Pilot Error.
A great character Actor...always lending an air of Confidence & Authority........
The person of the day...Pat Hingle
Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American actor.
ingle was traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures. One of his notable roles was the father of the character played by Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961). While he was probably best known in recent times for playing Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels, Hingle had a long list of television and movie credits to his name, going back to 1948. Among them are Hang 'Em High (1968), Sudden Impact (1983), Road To Redemption (2001), When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Grifters (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992), The Land Before Time (1988), Wings (1996), and Shaft (2000).
Along with Michael Gough, who played Alfred Pennyworth, he was one of only two actors to appear in the four Batman films from 1989-1997. In Hingle's appearance as Commissioner Gordon (Batman & Robin), he worked with Uma Thurman (who portrayed Poison Ivy), whose first husband, Gary Oldman, succeeded him in the role in Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). Hingle also worked with Christian Bale in Shaft, who would go on to portray Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins and Dark Knight.
Other roles
Hingle originated the role of Gooper in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He also starred as Victor Franz in the premiere production of The Price by Arthur Miller. In the 1997 revival of the musical 1776, Hingle played Benjamin Franklin, with Brent Spiner as John Adams. In 2002, he was a regular cast member of ABC's series The Court. He also played Horace in 1995's The Quick and the Dead. He also had a role on an episode of the 60's TV show "The Fugitive". He also played the head cop in San Palo in the fourth Dirty Harry installment, Sudden Impact.
In 2006, he appeared in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as the original owner of Dennit Racing.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/19/09 at 7:09 am
Grazing In The Grass-Friends Of Distinction.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/19/09 at 7:17 am
Grazing In The Grass-Friends Of Distinction.
Good song..There is the band Grass Roots :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/19/09 at 7:18 am
Good song..There is the band Grass Roots :)
they had some good hits.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 07/19/09 at 8:02 am
The person of the day...Pat Hingle
Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American actor.
ingle was traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures. One of his notable roles was the father of the character played by Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961). While he was probably best known in recent times for playing Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels, Hingle had a long list of television and movie credits to his name, going back to 1948. Among them are Hang 'Em High (1968), Sudden Impact (1983), Road To Redemption (2001), When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Grifters (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992), The Land Before Time (1988), Wings (1996), and Shaft (2000).
Along with Michael Gough, who played Alfred Pennyworth, he was one of only two actors to appear in the four Batman films from 1989-1997. In Hingle's appearance as Commissioner Gordon (Batman & Robin), he worked with Uma Thurman (who portrayed Poison Ivy), whose first husband, Gary Oldman, succeeded him in the role in Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). Hingle also worked with Christian Bale in Shaft, who would go on to portray Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins and Dark Knight.
Other roles
Hingle originated the role of Gooper in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He also starred as Victor Franz in the premiere production of The Price by Arthur Miller. In the 1997 revival of the musical 1776, Hingle played Benjamin Franklin, with Brent Spiner as John Adams. In 2002, he was a regular cast member of ABC's series The Court. He also played Horace in 1995's The Quick and the Dead. He also had a role on an episode of the 60's TV show "The Fugitive". He also played the head cop in San Palo in the fourth Dirty Harry installment, Sudden Impact.
In 2006, he appeared in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as the original owner of Dennit Racing.
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Well done, Ninny. Thanks for sharing.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/19/09 at 9:01 am
Well done, Ninny. Thanks for sharing.
I have a good time looking people up. It also good to reflex on great people who you may or may not remember.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 12:35 pm
Green Green Grass of Home ~ Tom Jones
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/19/09 at 12:41 pm
Green Green Grass of Home ~ Tom Jones
Another good song :)
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Written By: ninny on 07/20/09 at 6:30 am
The word of the day...Hornet
Hornets are the largest eusocial wasps, that reach up to 55 mm (2.2 in) in length. The true hornets make up the genus Vespa, and are distinguished from other vespines by the width of the vertex (part of the head behind the eyes), which is proportionally larger in Vespa; and by the anteriorly rounded gasters (the section of the abdomen behind the wasp waist).
twin-engine medium-size shipboard fighter/attack aircraft, its official designation is F/A-18. It is heavier than the F-16, but lighter than either the F-14 or the F-15. The F-18E “Super Hornet” made its first carrier landing in 1997, and, like the F-18F, is easily recognizable by the rectangular engine intakes, which reduce radar reflection and supply more mass flow for its powerful engines. It was expected to enter service in 2000.
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Written By: ninny on 07/20/09 at 6:33 am
The person of the day...Bruce Lee
Bruce Jun Fan Lee (李振藩, 李小龍; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān, Lǐ Xiăolóng; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was an American-born Chinese Hong Kong martial artist, philosopher, instructor, martial arts actor, film director, screenwriter, and the founder of the Jeet Kune Do concept. He is considered by many as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century, and a cultural icon. He was also the father of actor Brandon Lee and of actress Shannon Lee. His younger brother Robert was a musician and member of a popular Hong Kong beat band called The Thunderbirds and was something of a heartthrob in Hong Kong in the 1960s.
Lee was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in Hong Kong until his late teens. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim, and sparked the second major surge of interest in Chinese martial arts in the West. The direction and tone of his films changed and influenced martial arts and martial arts films in Hong Kong and the rest of the world as well. He is mainly noted for his roles in five feature length films, Lo Wei's The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Way of the Dragon (1972), directed and written by Bruce Lee; Warner Brothers' Enter the Dragon (1973), directed by Robert Clouse, and The Game of Death (1978).
Lee became a very iconic figure, particularly among the Chinese, as he portrayed Chinese national pride and Chinese nationalism in his movies. He primarily practiced Chinese martial arts (Kung Fu as a popular westernized term, or Gung Fu in Lee's own word, or more phonetically corrected Gong Fu), particularly Wing Chun.
Lee's father Hoi-Chuen was a famous Cantonese Opera star. Thus, through his father, Bruce was introduced into films at a very young age and appeared in several short black-and-white films as a child. Lee had his first role as a baby who was carried onto the stage. By the time he was 18, he had appeared in twenty films.
While in the United States from 1959–1964, Lee abandoned thoughts of a film career in favor of pursuing martial arts. William Dozier invited Lee for an audition, where Lee so impressed the producers with his lightning-fast moves that he earned the role of Kato alongside Van Williams in the TV series The Green Hornet. The show lasted just one season, from 1966 to 1967. Lee also played Kato in three crossover episodes of Batman. This was followed by guest appearances in a host of television series, including Ironside (1967) and Here Come the Brides (1969).
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/20/09 at 6:38 am
The co-person of the day...James Doohan
James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan (March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. Doohan's characterization of the Scottish Chief Engineer of the Starship Enterprise was one of the most recognizable elements in the Star Trek franchise. He also made several contributions behind the scenes for the Star Trek franchise. Many of the characterizations, mannerisms, and expressions that he established for Scotty and other Star Trek characters have become entrenched in popular culture.
Prior to becoming an actor, Doohan served with Canadian forces during World War II, and was seriously wounded at the invasion of Normandy at Juno Beach on D-Day. After recovering from his injuries he became a pilot and flew an artillery observation plane until the end of the war. After the war he became an actor and spent many years working on Canadian and American radio and television.
Following his success with Star Trek, he supplemented his income and showed continued support for his fans by making numerous public appearances. Doohan often went to great lengths to buoy the large number of fans who have been inspired to make their own accomplishments in engineering and other fields, as a result of Doohan's work and his encouragement. Doohan was considered by some to be one of the most giving and affable stars of the Star Trek franchise.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 8:40 am
The word of the day...Hornet
Hornets are the largest eusocial wasps, that reach up to 55 mm (2.2 in) in length. The true hornets make up the genus Vespa, and are distinguished from other vespines by the width of the vertex (part of the head behind the eyes), which is proportionally larger in Vespa; and by the anteriorly rounded gasters (the section of the abdomen behind the wasp waist).
twin-engine medium-size shipboard fighter/attack aircraft, its official designation is F/A-18. It is heavier than the F-16, but lighter than either the F-14 or the F-15. The F-18E “Super Hornet” made its first carrier landing in 1997, and, like the F-18F, is easily recognizable by the rectangular engine intakes, which reduce radar reflection and supply more mass flow for its powerful engines. It was expected to enter service in 2000.
The Green Hornet?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 8:41 am
The word of the day...Hornet
Hornets are the largest eusocial wasps, that reach up to 55 mm (2.2 in) in length. The true hornets make up the genus Vespa, and are distinguished from other vespines by the width of the vertex (part of the head behind the eyes), which is proportionally larger in Vespa; and by the anteriorly rounded gasters (the section of the abdomen behind the wasp waist).
twin-engine medium-size shipboard fighter/attack aircraft, its official designation is F/A-18. It is heavier than the F-16, but lighter than either the F-14 or the F-15. The F-18E “Super Hornet” made its first carrier landing in 1997, and, like the F-18F, is easily recognizable by the rectangular engine intakes, which reduce radar reflection and supply more mass flow for its powerful engines. It was expected to enter service in 2000.
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Too close for comfort?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 8:42 am
The person of the day...Bruce Lee
Bruce Jun Fan Lee (李振藩, 李小龍; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān, Lǐ Xiăolóng; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was an American-born Chinese Hong Kong martial artist, philosopher, instructor, martial arts actor, film director, screenwriter, and the founder of the Jeet Kune Do concept. He is considered by many as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century, and a cultural icon. He was also the father of actor Brandon Lee and of actress Shannon Lee. His younger brother Robert was a musician and member of a popular Hong Kong beat band called The Thunderbirds and was something of a heartthrob in Hong Kong in the 1960s.
Lee was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in Hong Kong until his late teens. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim, and sparked the second major surge of interest in Chinese martial arts in the West. The direction and tone of his films changed and influenced martial arts and martial arts films in Hong Kong and the rest of the world as well. He is mainly noted for his roles in five feature length films, Lo Wei's The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Way of the Dragon (1972), directed and written by Bruce Lee; Warner Brothers' Enter the Dragon (1973), directed by Robert Clouse, and The Game of Death (1978).
Lee became a very iconic figure, particularly among the Chinese, as he portrayed Chinese national pride and Chinese nationalism in his movies. He primarily practiced Chinese martial arts (Kung Fu as a popular westernized term, or Gung Fu in Lee's own word, or more phonetically corrected Gong Fu), particularly Wing Chun.
Lee's father Hoi-Chuen was a famous Cantonese Opera star. Thus, through his father, Bruce was introduced into films at a very young age and appeared in several short black-and-white films as a child. Lee had his first role as a baby who was carried onto the stage. By the time he was 18, he had appeared in twenty films.
While in the United States from 1959–1964, Lee abandoned thoughts of a film career in favor of pursuing martial arts. William Dozier invited Lee for an audition, where Lee so impressed the producers with his lightning-fast moves that he earned the role of Kato alongside Van Williams in the TV series The Green Hornet. The show lasted just one season, from 1966 to 1967. Lee also played Kato in three crossover episodes of Batman. This was followed by guest appearances in a host of television series, including Ironside (1967) and Here Come the Brides (1969).
"Everybody was Ku Fung dancing"
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/20/09 at 8:45 am
Too close for comfort?
I wonder if there was any windows shattering.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 8:46 am
I wonder if there was any windows shattering.
With the sonic booms?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/20/09 at 9:33 am
My mother had a few of these (in different colors)
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AMC Hornet Sportabout
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/20/09 at 12:27 pm
My mother had a few of these (in different colors)
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AMC Hornet Sportabout
Cat
She must of liked them. I almost bought a AMC Gremlin when I was a teenager, but my dad said they were junk.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 12:30 pm
She must of liked them. I almost bought a AMC Gremlin when I was a teenager, but my dad said they were junk.
Dad's always know the best!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/20/09 at 1:42 pm
She must of liked them. I almost bought a AMC Gremlin when I was a teenager, but my dad said they were junk.
She had something like 3 of them-bought a new one almost every 2 years or so. I don't know if she did that because they were cheap or because they were cheap as in they kept dying on her. :D ;D ;D ;D
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 07/20/09 at 1:49 pm
"Everybody was Ku Fung dancing"
Many kids in my school wanted to be Bruce Lee when he was popular back in the early 70's
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 1:51 pm
Many kids in my school wanted to be Bruce Lee when he was popular back in the early 70's
As Enter The Dragon had an 'X' Certificate, at schhol age I never got to see, and even to this day I have only seen clips from it.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/20/09 at 2:04 pm
Dad's always know the best!
In this case so true.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 2:05 pm
In this case so true.
I do my bit to that claim.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/20/09 at 4:57 pm
I hate a hornet's nest. :o
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 4:59 pm
I hate a hornet's nest. :o
Can it be a noisy affair?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/20/09 at 5:00 pm
Can it be a noisy affair?
Oh yeah definitely.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 5:04 pm
Oh yeah definitely.
...and dangerous?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/20/09 at 5:06 pm
...and dangerous?
yeah cause you might get stung by a wasp. :o
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 5:07 pm
yeah cause you might get stung by a wasp. :o
Can the stings be lethal?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/20/09 at 5:39 pm
Can the stings be lethal?
If your allergic it could be deadly..At least 40 deaths occur each year in the U.S. as a result of bee or wasp stings.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 07/20/09 at 8:02 pm
My Fav Bruce Lee fight scene.....Bruce squaring off with Kareem Abdul Jabbar in Game of Death.
The person of the day...Bruce Lee
Bruce Jun Fan Lee (李振藩, 李小龍; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān, Lǐ Xiăolóng; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was an American-born Chinese Hong Kong martial artist, philosopher, instructor, martial arts actor, film director, screenwriter, and the founder of the Jeet Kune Do concept. He is considered by many as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century, and a cultural icon. He was also the father of actor Brandon Lee and of actress Shannon Lee. His younger brother Robert was a musician and member of a popular Hong Kong beat band called The Thunderbirds and was something of a heartthrob in Hong Kong in the 1960s.
Lee was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in Hong Kong until his late teens. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim, and sparked the second major surge of interest in Chinese martial arts in the West. The direction and tone of his films changed and influenced martial arts and martial arts films in Hong Kong and the rest of the world as well. He is mainly noted for his roles in five feature length films, Lo Wei's The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Way of the Dragon (1972), directed and written by Bruce Lee; Warner Brothers' Enter the Dragon (1973), directed by Robert Clouse, and The Game of Death (1978).
Lee became a very iconic figure, particularly among the Chinese, as he portrayed Chinese national pride and Chinese nationalism in his movies. He primarily practiced Chinese martial arts (Kung Fu as a popular westernized term, or Gung Fu in Lee's own word, or more phonetically corrected Gong Fu), particularly Wing Chun.
Lee's father Hoi-Chuen was a famous Cantonese Opera star. Thus, through his father, Bruce was introduced into films at a very young age and appeared in several short black-and-white films as a child. Lee had his first role as a baby who was carried onto the stage. By the time he was 18, he had appeared in twenty films.
While in the United States from 1959–1964, Lee abandoned thoughts of a film career in favor of pursuing martial arts. William Dozier invited Lee for an audition, where Lee so impressed the producers with his lightning-fast moves that he earned the role of Kato alongside Van Williams in the TV series The Green Hornet. The show lasted just one season, from 1966 to 1967. Lee also played Kato in three crossover episodes of Batman. This was followed by guest appearances in a host of television series, including Ironside (1967) and Here Come the Brides (1969).
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/21/09 at 6:17 am
The word of the day...Jester
1. One given to jesting.
2. A fool or buffoon at medieval courts.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 6:20 am
The word of the day...Jester
1. One given to jesting.
2. A fool or buffoon at medieval courts.
"Jester song an twilight!"
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/21/09 at 6:20 am
The person of the day...Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone, MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967), was a South African-born British actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, and The Adventures of Robin Hood.
He commenced his film career in 1925 in The Masked Bride, appeared in a few silent movies, and played the detective Philo Vance in the 1930 movie The Bishop Murder Case, based on the best-selling novel. Like George Sanders and Vincent Price after him, Rathbone made a name for himself in the 1930s by playing suave villains in costume dramas and swashbucklers, including David Copperfield (1935) as the abusive stepfather Mr. Murdstone; Anna Karenina (1935) as her distant husband, Karenin; The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) portraying Pontius Pilate; Captain Blood (1935); A Tale of Two Cities (1935), as the Marquis St. Evremonde; The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) playing his best remembered villain, Sir Guy of Gisbourne; The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938); and The Mark of Zorro (1940) as Captain Esteban Pasquale. He also appeared in several early horror films: Tower of London (1939), as Richard III, and Son of Frankenstein (1939), portraying the dedicated surgeon Baron Wolf Frankenstein, son of the monster's creator.
He was admired for his athletic cinema swordsmanship (he listed fencing among his favourite recreations). He fought and lost to Errol Flynn in a duel on the beach in Captain Blood and in an elaborate fight sequence in The Adventures of Robin Hood. He was involved in noteworthy sword fights in Tower of London; The Mark of Zorro and The Court Jester (1956). Despite his real-life skill, Rathbone only won once onscreen, in Romeo and Juliet (1936). Rathbone earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performances as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936), and as King Louis XI in If I Were King (1938). In The Dawn Patrol (1938), he played one of his few heroic roles in the 1930s, as a Royal Flying Corps (RFC) squadron commander brought to the brink of a nervous breakdown by the strain and guilt of sending his battle-weary pilots off to near-certain death in the skies of 1915 France. Errol Flynn, Rathbone's perennial foe, starred in the film as his successor when Rathbone's character is promoted.
According to Hollywood legend, Rathbone was Margaret Mitchell's first choice to play Rhett Butler in the film version of her novel Gone with the Wind. The reliability of this story may be suspect, however, as on another occasion, Mitchell chose Groucho Marx for the role, apparently in jest.
Despite his film success, Rathbone always insisted that he wished to be remembered for his stage career. He said that his favorite role was that of Romeo.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/21/09 at 6:25 am
The co-person of the day...Alan Shepard Jr.
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) (Rear Admiral, United States Navy, Ret.) was the second person and the first American in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the moon.
At age 47, and the oldest astronaut in the program, Shepard made his second space flight as commander of Apollo 14, January 31–February 9, 1971, America's third successful lunar landing mission. Shepard piloted his Lunar Module Antares to the most accurate landing of the entire Apollo program. This was the first mission to successfully broadcast color television pictures from the surface of the Moon, using the vidicon tube. (The color camera on Apollo 12 provided a few brief moments of color telecasting before it was inadvertently pointed at the sun, effectively ending its usefulness.) While on the Moon, Shepard played golf with a Wilson six-iron head attached to a lunar sample scoop handle . Despite thick gloves and a stiff spacesuit which forced him to swing the club with one hand only, Shepard struck two golf balls with a six iron, driving the second, as he jokingly put it, "miles and miles and miles."
Following Apollo 14, Shepard returned to his position as Chief of the Astronaut Office in June, 1971. He was promoted to Rear Admiral before finally retiring both from the Navy and NASA on August 1, 1974.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 6:26 am
The co-person of the day...Alan Shepard Jr.
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) (Rear Admiral, United States Navy, Ret.) was the second person and the first American in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the moon.
At age 47, and the oldest astronaut in the program, Shepard made his second space flight as commander of Apollo 14, January 31–February 9, 1971, America's third successful lunar landing mission. Shepard piloted his Lunar Module Antares to the most accurate landing of the entire Apollo program. This was the first mission to successfully broadcast color television pictures from the surface of the Moon, using the vidicon tube. (The color camera on Apollo 12 provided a few brief moments of color telecasting before it was inadvertently pointed at the sun, effectively ending its usefulness.) While on the Moon, Shepard played golf with a Wilson six-iron head attached to a lunar sample scoop handle . Despite thick gloves and a stiff spacesuit which forced him to swing the club with one hand only, Shepard struck two golf balls with a six iron, driving the second, as he jokingly put it, "miles and miles and miles."
Following Apollo 14, Shepard returned to his position as Chief of the Astronaut Office in June, 1971. He was promoted to Rear Admiral before finally retiring both from the Navy and NASA on August 1, 1974.
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With space and the moon landing in mind.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/21/09 at 7:21 am
no one likes to be a court jester.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 7:22 am
no one likes to be a court jester.
Do jesters earn good money?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/21/09 at 7:23 am
Do jesters earn good money?
Would it be full or part time?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 7:25 am
Would it be full or part time?
It has to be full time please.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/21/09 at 7:27 am
It has to be full time please.
Me too.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 8:19 am
Me too.
Do you have the qualifications for the position?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 07/21/09 at 9:52 am
Did anyone see the video tape of when Alan Shepherd punched that Apollo conspiracy theorist? Needless to say I think they guy deserved a punch from Alan.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 9:57 am
Did anyone see the video tape of when Alan Shepherd punched that Apollo conspiracy theorist? Needless to say I think they guy deserved a punch from Alan.
I can understand the hatred towards the Apollo conspiracy theorists, and is it true that Neil Armstrong never signs an autograph?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 07/21/09 at 10:01 am
I can understand the hatred towards the Apollo conspiracy theorists, and is it true that Neil Armstrong never signs an autograph?
No he doesn't sign autographs. :(
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 12:16 pm
No he doesn't sign autographs. :(
So if anyone offers a Neil Armstrong autograph, it is to be treated as a forgery.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 07/21/09 at 12:24 pm
So if anyone offers a Neil Armstrong autograph, it is to be treated as a forgery.
Yes, however I think he does do autographs every once in a while for a charity organization but not for the average autograph seeker.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 12:24 pm
Yes, however I think he does do autographs every once in a while for a charity organization but not for the average autograph seeker.
Has he published an autobiogrpahy?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 07/21/09 at 12:35 pm
Has he published an autobiogrpahy?
Not that I could find, however Buzz Aldrin has.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 12:37 pm
Not that I could find, however Buzz Aldrin has.
Thanks, for I was thinking the book publishers at a book signing session would have an interesting time.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/21/09 at 3:47 pm
Do you have the qualifications for the position?
just try to be funny and act in front of an audience.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 3:48 pm
just try to be funny and act in front of an audience.
You must have a good act?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/21/09 at 3:50 pm
You must have a good act?
Yes all jesters should have a good act and to try to make people laugh.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 4:18 pm
Yes all jesters should have a good act and to try to make people laugh.
Visual gags more than just telling jokes.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/09 at 1:07 am
Yes all jesters should have a good act and to try to make people laugh.
Slapstick works.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/22/09 at 5:40 am
The word of the day...Girl(s)
1. A female child.
2. A daughter: our youngest girl.
3. Often Offensive. A woman, especially a young woman.
4. Informal.
1. A woman socializing in a group of women: a night out with the girls.
2. Used as a familiar form of address to express support of or camaraderie with a woman.
5. Informal. A female sweetheart: cadets escorting their girls to the ball.
6. Offensive. A female servant or employee.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/22/09 at 5:47 am
The person of the day...Estelle Getty
Estelle Scher-Gettleman (July 25, 1923 – July 22, 2008), better known by her stage name Estelle Getty, was an Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning American actress, who appeared in film, theatre and television. She is best known for her long-running role as Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls from 1985 to 1992, on The Golden Palace from 1992 to 1993 and on Empty Nest from 1993 to 1995. In her later years, after retiring from acting, she battled Lewy body dementia.
She is best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on the popular 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls. Her character was the wise-cracking Sicilian mother of Dorothy Zbornak, played by Beatrice Arthur (the other main characters being played by Betty White and Rue McClanahan); in real life, Getty was in fact one year younger than Arthur. Getty won an Emmy Award in 1988 for Outstanding Supporting Actress.
During her time on the The Golden Girls, she wrote an autobiography, with Steve Delsohn, titled If I Knew Then, What I Know Now... So What? (Contemporary Books, 1988). She further capitalized on her success by releasing an exercise video for senior citizens in 1993.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/22/09 at 5:51 am
The co-person of the day...Florenz Ziegfeld
Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld, Jr. (March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932) was an American Broadway impresario. He is best known for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907-1931), inspired by the Folies Bergères of Paris. He was known as the "glorifier of the American girl".
His stage spectaculars, known as the Ziegfeld Follies, began with Follies of 1907 and were produced annually until 1931. These extravaganzas, with elaborate costumes and sets, featured beauties chosen personally by Ziegfeld in production numbers choregraphed to the works of prominent composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern.
The Follies featured many performers who, though well-known from previous work in other theatrical genres, achieved unique financial success and publicity with Ziegfeld. Included among these are Fanny Brice, W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Marilyn Miller, Will Rogers, Bert Williams and Ann Pennington.
His promotion of the Polish-French Anna Held, including press releases about her milk baths, brought her fame and set a pattern of star-making through publicity. Ziegfeld helped oversee her meteoric rise to national fame. It was Held who first suggested an American imitation of the Parisian Follies to Ziegfeld. Ziegfeld never married Held, but they maintained a common-law relationship, outrageously scandalous in that day and age, which ended in 1913, allegedly solely because he moved his mistress into an apartment one floor up from theirs.
The following year, Ziegfeld married actress Billie Burke, best known for playing Glinda Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. They had one child, Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson, born in 1916. The family lived on his estate in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida
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Written By: Howard on 07/22/09 at 6:04 am
The word of the day...Girl(s)
1. A female child.
2. A daughter: our youngest girl.
3. Often Offensive. A woman, especially a young woman.
4. Informal.
1. A woman socializing in a group of women: a night out with the girls.
2. Used as a familiar form of address to express support of or camaraderie with a woman.
5. Informal. A female sweetheart: cadets escorting their girls to the ball.
6. Offensive. A female servant or employee.
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Hey Girl... I want you to know.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/09 at 6:46 am
Girls just want to have fun.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/09 at 4:41 pm
Was he any relation to Jim Carey?
Is he related to Mariah Carey?
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Written By: Howard on 07/22/09 at 4:42 pm
Is he related to Mariah Carey?
No relation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/09 at 4:45 pm
No relation.
It has already been proven?
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Written By: Howard on 07/22/09 at 4:47 pm
It has already been proven?
Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. She is the third and youngest child of Patricia Carey (née Hickey), a former opera singer and vocal coach of Irish descent, and Alfred Roy Carey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/09 at 4:49 am
Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. She is the third and youngest child of Patricia Carey (née Hickey), a former opera singer and vocal coach of Irish descent, and Alfred Roy Carey.
Thanks.
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Written By: ninny on 07/23/09 at 5:53 am
The word of the day...Trail
1. To allow to drag or stream behind, as along the ground: The dog ran off, trailing its leash.
2. To drag (the body, for example) wearily or heavily.
3.
1. To follow the traces or scent of, as in hunting; track.
2. To follow the course taken by; pursue: trail a fugitive.
4. To follow behind: several cruisers trailed by an escorting destroyer.
5. To lag behind (an opponent): trailed the league leader by four games.
v.intr.
1. To drag or be dragged along, brushing the ground: The queen's long robe trailed behind.
2. To extend, grow, or droop loosely over a surface: vines trailing through the garden.
3. To drift in a thin stream: smoke trailing from a dying fire.
4. To become gradually fainter; dwindle: His voice trailed off in confusion.
5. To walk or proceed with dragging steps; trudge.
6. To be behind in competition; lag: trailing by two goals in the second period.
n.
1.
1. A marked or beaten path, as through woods or wilderness.
2. An overland route: the pioneers' trail across the prairies.
2.
1. A mark, trace, course, or path left by a moving body.
2. The scent of a person or animal: The dogs lost the trail of the fox.
3. Something that is drawn along or follows behind; a train: The mayor was followed by a trail of reporters.
4. A succession of things that come afterward or are left behind: left a trail of broken promises.
5. Something that hangs loose and long: Trails of ticker tape floated down from office windows.
6. The part of a gun carriage that rests or slides on the ground.
7. The act of trailing.
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Written By: ninny on 07/23/09 at 6:05 am
The person of the day...Van Heflin
mmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. (December 13, 1908 – July 23, 1971) was an American film and theatre actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942).
Heflin began his acting career on Broadway in the early 1930s before being signed to a contract by RKO Radio Pictures. He made his film debut in A Woman Rebels (1936). He was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was initially cast in supporting roles in films such as Santa Fe Trail (1940), and Johnny Eager (1942), winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the latter performance.
MGM began to groom him as a leading man in B movies, and provided him with supporting roles in more prestigious productions. Heflin continued to hone his acting skills throughout the early 1940's. He provided a compelling characterization of the embattled President Andrew Johnson in the movie entitled "Tennessee Johnson" (1942), playing opposite (and at odds with) Lionel Barrymore who, in the role of Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, failed to have Johnson convicted in an impeachment trial by the slimmest of margins. According to the IMDB (Internet Movie Database), Heflin served during WWII as a combat cameraman in the Ninth Air Force in Europe.
His best-known film became the 1953 classic western Shane, in which he co-starred with Alan Ladd. Among his other notable film credits are Presenting Lily Mars (1943), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Possessed (1947), Green Dolphin Street (1947), Act of Violence (1948), The Three Musketeers (1948), The Prowler (1951) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957).
Heflin also performed on stage throughout his acting career. Credits include The Philadelphia Story on Broadway opposite Katharine Hepburn and Joseph Cotten, and the Arthur Miller plays A Memory of Two Mondays and A View From the Bridge.
Heflin's last major role was in Airport (1970). He played "D. O. Guerrero", a failure who attempts to blow himself up on an airliner so his wife (played by Maureen Stapleton) can collect on a life insurance policy.
He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his contributions to motion pictures at 6309 Hollywood Boulevard, and for television at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Written By: ninny on 07/23/09 at 6:08 am
The co-person of the day...Vic Morrow
Victor "Vic" Morrow (February 14, 1929 – July 23, 1982) was an American actor. He was the father of actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Morrow's first movie role was in Blackboard Jungle (1955), after which he went into television. On April 16, 1959, he appeared in the premiere of NBC's 1920s crime drama The Lawless Years in the episode "The Nick Joseph Story". Morrow then appeared from 1960-1961 as Joe Cannon in three episodes of NBC's The Outlaws with Barton MacLane. On October 6, 1961, he guest starred in the ABC television series Target: The Corruptors! with Stephen McNally and Robert Harland.
He was cast in the lead role in ABC's Combat!, a World War II drama which aired from 1962-1967. He also worked as a television director. After Combat! ended, he worked in several films. Morrow appeared in two episodes of Australian-produced anthology series The Evil Touch (1973), one of which he also directed. He memorably played the homicidal sheriff alongside Martin Sheen in the 1974 TV film The California Kid, and had a key role in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears. He also played Injun Joe in 1973 telefilm Tom Sawyer which was filmed in Upper Canada Village. A musical version was released in theaters that same year.
Morrow, along with two young children, My-Ca Dinh Le (aged 7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (aged 6), died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1982). At the time of his death, Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a bigot who was taken back in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: a Jewish Holocaust victim, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a Vietnamese man about to be killed by United States soldiers.
Morrow, My-Ca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen were shooting a scene for the Vietnam sequence; they were running from a pursuing helicopter. The helicopter was flying at a low level when pyrotechnic explosions caused the helicopter to lose control and crash on top of the three. Morrow and Le were both decapitated by the blades; Chen was also fatally injured. The helicopter crew received minor injuries.
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Written By: ninny on 07/23/09 at 6:13 am
* Honorary mention*..Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
On November 14, 1910, Curtiss demonstration pilot Eugene Ely took off from a temporary platform mounted on the forward deck of the cruiser USS Birmingham. His successful takeoff and ensuing flight to shore marked the beginning of a relationship between Curtiss and the Navy that remained significant for decades. At the end of 1910, Curtiss established a winter encampment at San Diego to teach flying to Army and Naval personnel. It was here that he trained Lt. Theodore Ellyson, who was to become U.S. Naval Aviator #1. The original site of this winter encampment is now part of Naval Air Station North Island and is referred to by the Navy as "The Birthplace of Naval Aviation".
Through the course of that winter, Curtiss was able to develop a float (pontoon) design that would enable him to take off and land on water. Demonstrations of this advancement were of great interest to the Navy, but more significant as far as the Navy was concerned, was Eugene Ely successfully landing his Curtiss pusher (the same aircraft used to take off from the Birmingham) on a makeshift platform mounted on the rear deck of the battleship USS Pennsylvania. This was the first arrester-cable landing on a ship and the precursor of modern day carrier operations.
Curtiss custom built floats and adapted them onto a Model D so it could take off and land on water to prove the concept. Back in Hammondsport six months later, in July 1911, Curtiss sold the U.S. Navy their first aircraft, the A-1 Triad. The A-1, which was primarily a seaplane, was equipped with retractable wheels, also making it the first amphibian. Curtiss trained the Navy's first pilots and built their first aircraft. For this he is considered in the USA to be "The Father of Naval Aviation". The A-1 was immediately recognized as so obviously useful, it was purchased by the U.S. Navy, Russia, Japan, Germany, and Britain. Curtiss won the Collier Trophy for designing this aircraft.
Around this time Curtiss met the retired English naval officer John Cyril Porte who was looking for a partner to produce an aircraft with him in order to win the Daily Mail prize for the first transatlantic crossing. In 1912 Curtiss produced the two-seat "Flying Fish", a larger craft that became classified as a flying boat because the hull sat in the water; it featured an innovative notch in the hull that Porte had recommended for breaking clear of the water at takeoff. Curtiss correctly surmised that this configuration was more suited to building a larger long-distance craft that could operate from water, and was also more stable when operating from a choppy surface. In collaboration with Porte, in 1914 Curtiss designed the "America", a larger flying boat with two engines, for the Atlantic crossing.
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Written By: gibbo on 07/23/09 at 6:20 am
Combat was one of my favourites afternoon shows in the 70's... What an awful way to die! I remember hearing about it at the time...
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/09 at 6:31 am
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 07/23/09 at 7:06 am
Combat was one of my favourites afternoon shows in the 70's... What an awful way to die! I remember hearing about it at the time...
Yes I had nightmares about losing my head.
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Written By: ninny on 07/23/09 at 7:08 am
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
"The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" is a popular song published in 1913 with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll. In the song the singer expresses his love for June who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The chorus is:
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
On the trail of the lonesome pine—
In the pale moonshine our hearts entwine,
Where she carved her name and I carved mine;
Oh, June, like the mountains I'm blue—
Like the pine I am lonesome for you,
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
On the trail of the lonesome pine.
"The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" has been recorded numerous times, probably most notably by Laurel and Hardy, and was featured in their 1937 film Way Out West. This version was also released as a single in 1975 in the UK, where it reached number 2 in the charts. The song was also recorded by Vivian Stanshall, the English frontman of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/23/09 at 7:11 am
I always love to eat trail mix.
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Written By: Womble on 07/23/09 at 9:27 am
Kudos, Ninny ! Nice work !
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/09 at 9:28 am
"The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" is a popular song published in 1913 with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll. In the song the singer expresses his love for June who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The chorus is:
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
On the trail of the lonesome pine—
In the pale moonshine our hearts entwine,
Where she carved her name and I carved mine;
Oh, June, like the mountains I'm blue—
Like the pine I am lonesome for you,
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
On the trail of the lonesome pine.
"The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" has been recorded numerous times, probably most notably by Laurel and Hardy, and was featured in their 1937 film Way Out West. This version was also released as a single in 1975 in the UK, where it reached number 2 in the charts. The song was also recorded by Vivian Stanshall, the English frontman of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
I should have the Laurel and Hardy single somewhere and I would love to hear the Vivian Stanshall verson.
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Written By: Frank on 07/23/09 at 12:35 pm
The co-person of the day...Vic Morrow
Victor "Vic" Morrow (February 14, 1929 – July 23, 1982) was an American actor. He was the father of actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Morrow's first movie role was in Blackboard Jungle (1955), after which he went into television. On April 16, 1959, he appeared in the premiere of NBC's 1920s crime drama The Lawless Years in the episode "The Nick Joseph Story". Morrow then appeared from 1960-1961 as Joe Cannon in three episodes of NBC's The Outlaws with Barton MacLane. On October 6, 1961, he guest starred in the ABC television series Target: The Corruptors! with Stephen McNally and Robert Harland.
He was cast in the lead role in ABC's Combat!, a World War II drama which aired from 1962-1967. He also worked as a television director. After Combat! ended, he worked in several films. Morrow appeared in two episodes of Australian-produced anthology series The Evil Touch (1973), one of which he also directed. He memorably played the homicidal sheriff alongside Martin Sheen in the 1974 TV film The California Kid, and had a key role in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears. He also played Injun Joe in 1973 telefilm Tom Sawyer which was filmed in Upper Canada Village. A musical version was released in theaters that same year.
Morrow, along with two young children, My-Ca Dinh Le (aged 7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (aged 6), died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1982). At the time of his death, Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a bigot who was taken back in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: a Jewish Holocaust victim, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a Vietnamese man about to be killed by United States soldiers.
Morrow, My-Ca Dinh Le, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen were shooting a scene for the Vietnam sequence; they were running from a pursuing helicopter. The helicopter was flying at a low level when pyrotechnic explosions caused the helicopter to lose control and crash on top of the three. Morrow and Le were both decapitated by the blades; Chen was also fatally injured. The helicopter crew received minor injuries.
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I remember him in "Captains and the Kings", a 70's mini-series.
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Written By: ninny on 07/23/09 at 12:52 pm
Kudos, Ninny ! Nice work !
Thanks :)
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Written By: ninny on 07/24/09 at 6:08 am
The word of the day...Mouse
1.
1. Any of numerous small rodents of the families Muridae and Cricetidae, such as the common house mouse (Mus musculus), characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, and a long naked or almost hairless tail.
2. Any of various similar or related animals, such as the jumping mouse, the vole, or the jerboa.
2. A cowardly or timid person.
3. Informal. A discolored swelling under the eye caused by a blow; a black eye.
4. pl. mice or mous·es (mous'ĭz). Computer Science. A hand-held, button-activated input device that when rolled along a flat surface directs an indicator to move correspondingly about a computer screen, allowing the operator to move the indicator freely, as to select operations or manipulate text or graphics.
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Written By: ninny on 07/24/09 at 6:11 am
The person of the day...Peter Sellers
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, commonly known as Peter Sellers (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was a British comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr. Strangelove, as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, as Clare Quilty in the original 1962 screen version of Lolita, in comedy films such as The Millionairess and The Party, and as the guileless man-child Chance in his penultimate film, Being There.
Sellers rose to fame on the BBC Home Service radio series The Goon Show. His ability to speak in different accents (e.g., French, Indian, American, British, German), along with his talent to portray a range of characters to comedic effect, contributed to his success as a radio personality and screen actor and earned him national and international nominations and awards. Many of his characters became ingrained in public perception of his work. Sellers's private life was characterized by turmoil and crises, and included emotional problems and substance abuse. Sellers was married four times—his second wife was the Swedish actress Britt Ekland—with three children from two of his marriages.
Sellers's film success arrived with British comedies, including The Ladykillers, I'm All Right Jack and The Mouse That Roared. He began receiving international attention for his portrayal of an Indian doctor in The Road to Hong Kong, the seventh and last in the "Road" series, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.
Playing as Sonny MacGregor an impersonator of sorts in the Sonny MacGregor Show in The Naked Truth (1957)
Sellers found further international acclaim with The Millionairess with Sophia Loren. The film inspired the George Martin-produced novelty hit single Goodness Gracious Me and its follow-up Bangers and Mash, both featuring Sellers and Loren. He starred in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita as Clare Quilty, opposite James Mason as Humbert Humbert. In portraying Quilty, Sellers proved a scene stealer.
A breakthrough came with Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in which he portrayed three characters: U.S. President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake of the RAF. Muffley and Strangelove appeared in the same room throughout the film. Sellers was also cast in the role of Major T. J. 'King' Kong. Initially, Sellers struggled with the character's Texas accent, but screen writer Terry Southern made a recording of his own Texan accent, which Sellers apparently mastered after repeated listenings. However, during a scene in a plane designed for the set, Sellers fell 15 feet and broke his leg, preventing additional cockpit scenes and forcing Kubrick to replace Sellers with Slim Pickens. For his performance in all three roles, Sellers was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, but lost to Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.
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Written By: ninny on 07/24/09 at 6:15 am
The co-person of the day...Chief Dan George
Chief Dan George, OC (July 24, 1899–September 23, 1981) was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band located on Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He was also an Academy Award-nominated actor and an author.
n 1960, when he was already 60 years old, he got his first job acting in a CBC Television series, Cariboo Country, as the character "Ol' Antoine". He performed the same role in a Walt Disney Studios movie, Smith!, adapted from an episode in this series (based on Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse, a novella by Paul St. Pierre). At the age of 71, George won several awards for his role in the film Little Big Man, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He continued to act in other films, such as The Outlaw Josey Wales, Harry and Tonto and Americathon, and on television, including a role in the miniseries Centennial, based on the book by James A. Michener, as well as appearing in a 1973 episode of the original Kung Fu series, with David Carradine.
George played the role of Rita Joe's father in George Ryga's stage play, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, in performances at Vancouver, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and Washington.
During his acting career, George worked to promote better understanding by non-aboriginals of the First Nations people. His soliloquy, Lament for Confederation, an indictment of the appropriation of native territory by white colonialism, was performed at the city of Vancouver's celebration of the Canadian centennial in 1967. This speech is credited with escalating native political activism in Canada, as well as touching off widespread pro-native sentiment among non-natives.
In 1971, George was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2008 Canada Post issued a postage stamp in its "Canadians in Hollywood" series featuring Dan George.
He died in Vancouver in 1981 at the age of 82. He was interred at Burrard Cemetery.
He was included on the famous Golden Rule Poster under "Native Spirituality" with the quote "We are as much alive as we keep the earth alive".
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Written By: Howard on 07/24/09 at 6:58 am
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Aw,that's so cute,I used to have gerbils. :)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/09 at 7:17 am
The word of the day...Mouse
1.
1. Any of numerous small rodents of the families Muridae and Cricetidae, such as the common house mouse (Mus musculus), characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, and a long naked or almost hairless tail.
2. Any of various similar or related animals, such as the jumping mouse, the vole, or the jerboa.
2. A cowardly or timid person.
3. Informal. A discolored swelling under the eye caused by a blow; a black eye.
4. pl. mice or mous·es (mous'ĭz). Computer Science. A hand-held, button-activated input device that when rolled along a flat surface directs an indicator to move correspondingly about a computer screen, allowing the operator to move the indicator freely, as to select operations or manipulate text or graphics.
I am holding one right now.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/09 at 7:18 am
The person of the day...Peter Sellers
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, commonly known as Peter Sellers (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was a British comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr. Strangelove, as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, as Clare Quilty in the original 1962 screen version of Lolita, in comedy films such as The Millionairess and The Party, and as the guileless man-child Chance in his penultimate film, Being There.
Sellers rose to fame on the BBC Home Service radio series The Goon Show. His ability to speak in different accents (e.g., French, Indian, American, British, German), along with his talent to portray a range of characters to comedic effect, contributed to his success as a radio personality and screen actor and earned him national and international nominations and awards. Many of his characters became ingrained in public perception of his work. Sellers's private life was characterized by turmoil and crises, and included emotional problems and substance abuse. Sellers was married four times—his second wife was the Swedish actress Britt Ekland—with three children from two of his marriages.
Sellers's film success arrived with British comedies, including The Ladykillers, I'm All Right Jack and The Mouse That Roared. He began receiving international attention for his portrayal of an Indian doctor in The Road to Hong Kong, the seventh and last in the "Road" series, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.
Playing as Sonny MacGregor an impersonator of sorts in the Sonny MacGregor Show in The Naked Truth (1957)
Sellers found further international acclaim with The Millionairess with Sophia Loren. The film inspired the George Martin-produced novelty hit single Goodness Gracious Me and its follow-up Bangers and Mash, both featuring Sellers and Loren. He starred in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita as Clare Quilty, opposite James Mason as Humbert Humbert. In portraying Quilty, Sellers proved a scene stealer.
A breakthrough came with Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in which he portrayed three characters: U.S. President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake of the RAF. Muffley and Strangelove appeared in the same room throughout the film. Sellers was also cast in the role of Major T. J. 'King' Kong. Initially, Sellers struggled with the character's Texas accent, but screen writer Terry Southern made a recording of his own Texan accent, which Sellers apparently mastered after repeated listenings. However, during a scene in a plane designed for the set, Sellers fell 15 feet and broke his leg, preventing additional cockpit scenes and forcing Kubrick to replace Sellers with Slim Pickens. For his performance in all three roles, Sellers was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, but lost to Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.
Thanks, I was wondering why July 24th was a familiar date for me, I just could not place it.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/09 at 7:19 am
The person of the day...Peter Sellers
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, commonly known as Peter Sellers (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was a British comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr. Strangelove, as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, as Clare Quilty in the original 1962 screen version of Lolita, in comedy films such as The Millionairess and The Party, and as the guileless man-child Chance in his penultimate film, Being There.
Sellers rose to fame on the BBC Home Service radio series The Goon Show. His ability to speak in different accents (e.g., French, Indian, American, British, German), along with his talent to portray a range of characters to comedic effect, contributed to his success as a radio personality and screen actor and earned him national and international nominations and awards. Many of his characters became ingrained in public perception of his work. Sellers's private life was characterized by turmoil and crises, and included emotional problems and substance abuse. Sellers was married four times—his second wife was the Swedish actress Britt Ekland—with three children from two of his marriages.
Sellers's film success arrived with British comedies, including The Ladykillers, I'm All Right Jack and The Mouse That Roared. He began receiving international attention for his portrayal of an Indian doctor in The Road to Hong Kong, the seventh and last in the "Road" series, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.
Playing as Sonny MacGregor an impersonator of sorts in the Sonny MacGregor Show in The Naked Truth (1957)
Sellers found further international acclaim with The Millionairess with Sophia Loren. The film inspired the George Martin-produced novelty hit single Goodness Gracious Me and its follow-up Bangers and Mash, both featuring Sellers and Loren. He starred in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita as Clare Quilty, opposite James Mason as Humbert Humbert. In portraying Quilty, Sellers proved a scene stealer.
A breakthrough came with Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in which he portrayed three characters: U.S. President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake of the RAF. Muffley and Strangelove appeared in the same room throughout the film. Sellers was also cast in the role of Major T. J. 'King' Kong. Initially, Sellers struggled with the character's Texas accent, but screen writer Terry Southern made a recording of his own Texan accent, which Sellers apparently mastered after repeated listenings. However, during a scene in a plane designed for the set, Sellers fell 15 feet and broke his leg, preventing additional cockpit scenes and forcing Kubrick to replace Sellers with Slim Pickens. For his performance in all three roles, Sellers was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, but lost to Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.
Thanks, I was wondering why July 24th was a familiar date for me, I just could not place it.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/24/09 at 7:21 am
The person of the day...Peter Sellers
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, commonly known as Peter Sellers (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was a British comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr. Strangelove, as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, as Clare Quilty in the original 1962 screen version of Lolita, in comedy films such as The Millionairess and The Party, and as the guileless man-child Chance in his penultimate film, Being There.
Sellers rose to fame on the BBC Home Service radio series The Goon Show. His ability to speak in different accents (e.g., French, Indian, American, British, German), along with his talent to portray a range of characters to comedic effect, contributed to his success as a radio personality and screen actor and earned him national and international nominations and awards. Many of his characters became ingrained in public perception of his work. Sellers's private life was characterized by turmoil and crises, and included emotional problems and substance abuse. Sellers was married four times—his second wife was the Swedish actress Britt Ekland—with three children from two of his marriages.
Sellers's film success arrived with British comedies, including The Ladykillers, I'm All Right Jack and The Mouse That Roared. He began receiving international attention for his portrayal of an Indian doctor in The Road to Hong Kong, the seventh and last in the "Road" series, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.
Playing as Sonny MacGregor an impersonator of sorts in the Sonny MacGregor Show in The Naked Truth (1957)
Sellers found further international acclaim with The Millionairess with Sophia Loren. The film inspired the George Martin-produced novelty hit single Goodness Gracious Me and its follow-up Bangers and Mash, both featuring Sellers and Loren. He starred in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita as Clare Quilty, opposite James Mason as Humbert Humbert. In portraying Quilty, Sellers proved a scene stealer.
A breakthrough came with Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in which he portrayed three characters: U.S. President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake of the RAF. Muffley and Strangelove appeared in the same room throughout the film. Sellers was also cast in the role of Major T. J. 'King' Kong. Initially, Sellers struggled with the character's Texas accent, but screen writer Terry Southern made a recording of his own Texan accent, which Sellers apparently mastered after repeated listenings. However, during a scene in a plane designed for the set, Sellers fell 15 feet and broke his leg, preventing additional cockpit scenes and forcing Kubrick to replace Sellers with Slim Pickens. For his performance in all three roles, Sellers was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, but lost to Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.
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I wonder if Peter Sellers worked together with Steve Martin?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/09 at 7:22 am
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/09 at 7:23 am
I wonder if Peter Sellers worked together with Steve Martin?
As far as I know, they only share the same role of Inspector Jacques Clousseau.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 07/24/09 at 7:24 am
As far as I know, they only share the same role of Inspector Jacques Clousseau.
Peter Sellers would've been proud.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/09 at 7:25 am
Peter Sellers would've been proud.
I would think not, the role belongs to Peter Sellers.