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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 08/16/09 at 11:51 am
There was a Festival this weekend...
http://www.darkshadowsfestival.com/page02.htm
Passed on it this year,though......
That's great I've always loved Dark Shadows :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 12:41 pm
There was a Festival this weekend...
http://www.darkshadowsfestival.com/page02.htm
Passed on it this year,though......
Dang Barnabas,Maggie and Willie 3 of my favs.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 08/16/09 at 12:44 pm
awww...
No love for Angelique ? :)
Dang Barnabas,Maggie and Willie 3 of my favs.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 4:24 pm
awww...
No love for Angelique ? :)
Nah ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/16/09 at 7:53 pm
Dark Shadows was creepy ... for a soap opera. ;D
I remember exactly where I was when told about Elvis' death. I had just woken up while on holiday/vacation with a friend and his family. I was a big fan... and couldn't believe it at first!
Babe Ruth did not look like much of an athlete ... h e must have had awesome natural ability!!!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/16/09 at 11:18 pm
Has it really been 32 years now?
32 years. Wow. You know, it's almost 30 years since Lennon died too.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/17/09 at 3:01 am
32 years. Wow. You know, it's almost 30 years since Lennon died too.
That will be December next year.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/17/09 at 5:37 am
The word of the day...Sidekick
A close companion or comrade.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/17/09 at 5:40 am
The person of the day...Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance (July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) was an American television actress, theater actress and singer. Often referred to as “TV’s most beloved second banana,” she is best known for her role as Ethel Mertz, sidekick to Lucille Ball on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, and as Vivian Bagley on The Lucy Show.
When Desi Arnaz and wife Lucille Ball were casting their new television sitcom I Love Lucy in 1951, director Marc Daniels, who had previously worked with Vance in a theater production, suggested her for the role of landlady Ethel Mertz. She was not the first choice, however. Lucille Ball wanted actress Bea Benaderet, a close friend. Because of a prior acting commitment, Benaderet had to decline playing the role. Arnaz then began searching for another actress. Daniels took Arnaz, along with producer Jess Oppenheimer, to see Vance in the John Van Druten play The Voice of the Turtle. While watching her perform, Arnaz was convinced he had found the right woman to play Ethel Mertz. Ball was less sure, since she had envisioned Ethel as much older and less attractive. In addition, Ball, firmly entrenched in film and radio, had never heard of Vance, primarily a theater actress. Nonetheless, the 42-year-old Vance was given the role on the new television program, which debuted October 15, 1951, on CBS.
Vance's Ethel Mertz character was the less-than-prosperous landlady of a New York City brownstone, owned by her and husband Fred Mertz. The role of Fred was played by William Frawley, who was 22 years her senior. While the actors shared great comedic and musical chemistry on-screen, they did not get along in real life. According to some reports, things first went sour when Frawley overheard Vance complaining about his age, stating that he should be playing her father rather than her husband. She used to skim through the script to see how many scenes she had with that "stubborn-headed little Irishman." Others recall that Frawley loathed Vance practically on sight. Vance, in turn, was put off by Frawley's cantankerous ways, in addition to his age. The hatred that Frawley and Vance had for each other was so strong that when he died in 1966, Vance while at a restaurant is reported to have shouted "Champagne for everyone!" when she received the news. Eventually, Ball overcame her resistance to Vance, and the two women formed a close friendship.
Honored for her work in 1953, Vance became the first actress to win an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actress". Vance accepted her award at the Emmy ceremony in February 1954. She was nominated an additional three times (for 1954, 1956 and 1957) before the end of the series.
In 1957, after the highly successful half-hour I Love Lucy episodes had ended, Vance continued playing Ethel Mertz on a series of hour-long specials titled The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show (later retitled The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour). In 1959, she divorced her third husband Philip Ober, who allegedly physically abused her. When the hour-long Lucy-Desi specials ended production in 1960, Vance and Frawley were given the opportunity to star in their own "Fred and Ethel" spin-off show. Although Frawley was interested, Vance declined. The program was retooled and broadcast as Guestward, Ho!, with Joanne Dru taking the female lead.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/17/09 at 5:51 am
The co-person of the day...Pearl Bailey
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American singer and actress. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952.
Bailey began by singing and dancing in Philadelphia’s black nightclubs in the 1930s, and soon started performing in other parts of the East Coast. In 1941, during World War II, Bailey toured the country with the USO, performing for American troops. After the tour, she settled in New York. Her solo successes as a nightclub performer were followed by acts with such entertainers as Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. In 1946, Bailey made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman. Bailey continued to tour and record albums in between her stage and screen performances.
In 1954, she took the role of Frankie in the film version of Carmen Jones, and her rendition of "Beat Out That Rhythm on the Drum" is one of the highlights of the film. She also starred in the Broadway musical House of Flowers. In 1959, she played the role of Maria in the film version of Porgy and Bess, starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge. Also that year she played the role of "Aunt Hagar" in the movie St. Louis Blues, alongside Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, and Nat King Cole.
In 1967, Bailey and Cab Calloway headlined an all-black cast version of Hello, Dolly! The touring version was so successful, producer David Merrick took it to Broadway where it played to sold out houses and revitalized the long running musical. Bailey was given a special Tony Award for her role and RCA made a second original cast album.. That is the only recording of the score to have an overture which was written especially for that recording.
The following year, she sang the national anthem at Shea Stadium, prior to game 5 of the 1969 World Series.
During the 1970s she had her own television show, and she also provided voices for animations such as Tubby the Tuba (1976) and Disney's The Fox and the Hound (1981). She returned to Broadway in 1975, playing the lead in an all-black production of Hello, Dolly!. She earned a B.A. in theology from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1985.
Later in her career, Bailey was a fixture as a spokesperson in a series of Duncan Hines commercials.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/17/09 at 5:54 am
* Honorable mention*...Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin (December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.
With George he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as "I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You", "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me", and the opera Porgy and Bess.
The success the brothers had with their collaborative works has often overshadowed the creative role that Ira played. However, his mastery of songwriting continued after the early death of George. He wrote additional hit songs with composers Jerome Kern ("Long Ago (and Far Away)"), Kurt Weill and Harold Arlen.
His critically acclaimed book Lyrics on Several Occasions of 1959, an amalgam of autobiography and annotated anthology, is an important source for studying the art of the lyricist in the golden age of American popular song.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/17/09 at 5:55 am
The person of the day...Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance (July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) was an American television actress, theater actress and singer. Often referred to as “TV’s most beloved second banana,” she is best known for her role as Ethel Mertz, sidekick to Lucille Ball on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, and as Vivian Bagley on The Lucy Show.
When Desi Arnaz and wife Lucille Ball were casting their new television sitcom I Love Lucy in 1951, director Marc Daniels, who had previously worked with Vance in a theater production, suggested her for the role of landlady Ethel Mertz. She was not the first choice, however. Lucille Ball wanted actress Bea Benaderet, a close friend. Because of a prior acting commitment, Benaderet had to decline playing the role. Arnaz then began searching for another actress. Daniels took Arnaz, along with producer Jess Oppenheimer, to see Vance in the John Van Druten play The Voice of the Turtle. While watching her perform, Arnaz was convinced he had found the right woman to play Ethel Mertz. Ball was less sure, since she had envisioned Ethel as much older and less attractive. In addition, Ball, firmly entrenched in film and radio, had never heard of Vance, primarily a theater actress. Nonetheless, the 42-year-old Vance was given the role on the new television program, which debuted October 15, 1951, on CBS.
Vance's Ethel Mertz character was the less-than-prosperous landlady of a New York City brownstone, owned by her and husband Fred Mertz. The role of Fred was played by William Frawley, who was 22 years her senior. While the actors shared great comedic and musical chemistry on-screen, they did not get along in real life. According to some reports, things first went sour when Frawley overheard Vance complaining about his age, stating that he should be playing her father rather than her husband. She used to skim through the script to see how many scenes she had with that "stubborn-headed little Irishman." Others recall that Frawley loathed Vance practically on sight. Vance, in turn, was put off by Frawley's cantankerous ways, in addition to his age. The hatred that Frawley and Vance had for each other was so strong that when he died in 1966, Vance while at a restaurant is reported to have shouted "Champagne for everyone!" when she received the news. Eventually, Ball overcame her resistance to Vance, and the two women formed a close friendship.
Honored for her work in 1953, Vance became the first actress to win an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actress". Vance accepted her award at the Emmy ceremony in February 1954. She was nominated an additional three times (for 1954, 1956 and 1957) before the end of the series.
In 1957, after the highly successful half-hour I Love Lucy episodes had ended, Vance continued playing Ethel Mertz on a series of hour-long specials titled The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show (later retitled The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour). In 1959, she divorced her third husband Philip Ober, who allegedly physically abused her. When the hour-long Lucy-Desi specials ended production in 1960, Vance and Frawley were given the opportunity to star in their own "Fred and Ethel" spin-off show. Although Frawley was interested, Vance declined. The program was retooled and broadcast as Guestward, Ho!, with Joanne Dru taking the female lead.
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So I guess they never had any other roles for her in the early 70's or maybe she was just too old. ???
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/17/09 at 6:30 am
The co-person of the day...Pearl Bailey
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American singer and actress. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952.
Bailey began by singing and dancing in Philadelphia’s black nightclubs in the 1930s, and soon started performing in other parts of the East Coast. In 1941, during World War II, Bailey toured the country with the USO, performing for American troops. After the tour, she settled in New York. Her solo successes as a nightclub performer were followed by acts with such entertainers as Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. In 1946, Bailey made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman. Bailey continued to tour and record albums in between her stage and screen performances.
In 1954, she took the role of Frankie in the film version of Carmen Jones, and her rendition of "Beat Out That Rhythm on the Drum" is one of the highlights of the film. She also starred in the Broadway musical House of Flowers. In 1959, she played the role of Maria in the film version of Porgy and Bess, starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge. Also that year she played the role of "Aunt Hagar" in the movie St. Louis Blues, alongside Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, and Nat King Cole.
In 1967, Bailey and Cab Calloway headlined an all-black cast version of Hello, Dolly! The touring version was so successful, producer David Merrick took it to Broadway where it played to sold out houses and revitalized the long running musical. Bailey was given a special Tony Award for her role and RCA made a second original cast album.. That is the only recording of the score to have an overture which was written especially for that recording.
The following year, she sang the national anthem at Shea Stadium, prior to game 5 of the 1969 World Series.
During the 1970s she had her own television show, and she also provided voices for animations such as Tubby the Tuba (1976) and Disney's The Fox and the Hound (1981). She returned to Broadway in 1975, playing the lead in an all-black production of Hello, Dolly!. She earned a B.A. in theology from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1985.
Later in her career, Bailey was a fixture as a spokesperson in a series of Duncan Hines commercials.
I still want to see Carmen Jones.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/17/09 at 7:22 am
So I guess they never had any other roles for her in the early 70's or maybe she was just too old. ???
She was on the Here's Lucy show(1968-1974)
After her departure from The Lucy Show, Vance appeared occasionally alongside Lucille Ball on reunion shows and made several guest appearances on Ball's third sitcom, Here's Lucy (1968-1974). In 1966 Vance did the national tour of Woody Allen's Don't Drink the Water. She had the leading role as the wife and mother of a family that takes a disastrous trip to Europe. In 1969, Vance returned to Broadway and starred in the comedy My Daughter, Your Son.
In 1973, Vance was diagnosed with breast cancer. The following year, she and her husband moved to Belvedere, California, so she could be near her sister. It was during this period that Vance played the part of "Maxine", who wheeled around a catering truck, dispensing Maxwell House coffee to office workers in a series of television commercials. In 1977, Vance suffered a stroke which left her partially paralyzed. Her final television appearance with Lucille Ball was on the CBS special Lucy Calls the President, which aired November 21, 1977.
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Vivian Vance, who never had children, died on August 17, 1979, at the age of 70, of bone cancer. After her death, Desi Arnaz remarked, "It’s bad enough to lose one of the great artists we had the honor and the pleasure to work with, but it’s even harder to reconcile the loss of one of your best friends."
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/17/09 at 10:14 am
She was on the Here's Lucy show(1968-1974)
After her departure from The Lucy Show, Vance appeared occasionally alongside Lucille Ball on reunion shows and made several guest appearances on Ball's third sitcom, Here's Lucy (1968-1974). In 1966 Vance did the national tour of Woody Allen's Don't Drink the Water. She had the leading role as the wife and mother of a family that takes a disastrous trip to Europe. In 1969, Vance returned to Broadway and starred in the comedy My Daughter, Your Son.
In 1973, Vance was diagnosed with breast cancer. The following year, she and her husband moved to Belvedere, California, so she could be near her sister. It was during this period that Vance played the part of "Maxine", who wheeled around a catering truck, dispensing Maxwell House coffee to office workers in a series of television commercials. In 1977, Vance suffered a stroke which left her partially paralyzed. Her final television appearance with Lucille Ball was on the CBS special Lucy Calls the President, which aired November 21, 1977.
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Vivian Vance, who never had children, died on August 17, 1979, at the age of 70, of bone cancer. After her death, Desi Arnaz remarked, "It’s bad enough to lose one of the great artists we had the honor and the pleasure to work with, but it’s even harder to reconcile the loss of one of your best friends."
Vivian was made a good team with Lucy on their shows. Very funny stuff.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/17/09 at 11:54 am
I think Vivian Vance got the shaft. She was just as funny as Lucy and an outstanding actress.
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/17/09 at 12:50 pm
I think Vivian Vance got the shaft. She was just as funny as Lucy and an outstanding actress.
Cat
I don't think Vivian got the credit she deserved, she was great but she wasn't as funny as Lucy. IMHO no female has ever been as funny as Lucy.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/17/09 at 6:13 pm
Vivian was made a good team with Lucy on their shows. Very funny stuff.
Lucille Ball also did Liviing With Lucy.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/18/09 at 1:47 am
Lucille Ball also did Liviing With Lucy.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/18/09 at 5:59 am
The word of the day...Pirate(s)
1.
1. One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation.
2. A ship used for this purpose.
2. One who preys on others; a plunderer.
3. One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization.
4. One that operates an unlicensed, illegal television or radio station.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/18/09 at 6:02 am
The person of the day...Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a professional baseball player and a Major League Baseball right fielder. He was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of seven children. On November 14, 1964, he married Vera Zabala at San Fernando Church in Carolina. The couple had three children: Roberto Jr., Luis Roberto and Enrique Roberto. He began his professional career playing with the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League (LBBPR). While he was playing in Puerto Rico, the Brooklyn Dodgers offered him a contract to play with the Montreal Royals. Clemente accepted the offer and was active with the team until he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Major League Baseball draft that took place on November 22, 1954.
Clemente played eighteen seasons in Major League Baseball from 1955 to 1972, all with Pittsburgh. He was awarded the National League’s Most Valuable Player Award in 1966. During the course of his career, Clemente was selected to participate in the league's All Star Game on twelve occasions. He won twelve Gold Glove Awards and led the league in batting average four different seasons. He was involved in charity work both in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries, often delivering baseball equipment and food to them. He died in an aviation accident on December 31, 1972, while in route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. His body was never recovered. He was elected to the Hall of Fame posthumously in 1973, thus becoming the first Latin American to be selected and the only current Hall of Famer for whom the mandatory five year waiting period was waived since the wait was instituted in 1954. Clemente is also the first Latino to win a World Series as a starter (1960), win a league MVP award (1966) and win a World Series MVP award (1971).
he 1970 season was the last one that the Pittsburgh Pirates played in Forbes Field before moving to Three Rivers Stadium; for Clemente, abandoning this stadium was an emotional situation. The Pirates' final game at Forbes Field took place on June 28, 1970. That day, Clemente noted that it was hard to play in a different field, saying, "I spent half my life there". The night of July 24, 1970 was declared "Roberto Clemente Night"; on this day, several Puerto Rican fans traveled to Three Rivers Stadium and cheered Clemente while wearing traditional Puerto Rican indumentary. A ceremony to honor Clemente took place, during which he received a scroll with 300,000 signatures compiled in Puerto Rico, and several thousands of dollars were donated to charity work following Clemente's request.
During the 1970 campaign, Clemente compiled an average of .352; the Pirates won the National League East but were subsequently eliminated by the Cincinnati Reds. In the offseason, Clemente experienced some tense situations while he was working as manager of the Senators and when his father, Melchor Clemente, experienced medical problems and was subjected to a surgery.
In the 1971 season, the Pirates won the National League and faced the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. Baltimore had won 100 games and swept the American League Championship Series, both for the third consecutive year, and were the defending World Series champions. The Orioles won the first two games in the series, but Pittsburgh won the championship in seven games. This marked the second occasion that Clemente had won a World Series with the Pirates. Over the course of the series, Clemente batted a .414 average (12 hits in 29 at-bats), performed well defensively, and hit a solo home run in the deciding 2-1 seventh game victory. Following the conclusion of the season, he received the World Series Most Valuable Player award. Struggling with injuries, Clemente only managed to appear in 102 games in 1972, but he still hit .312 for his final .300 season. On September 30, in a game at Three Rivers Stadium, he hit a double off Jon Matlack of the New York Mets for his 3,000th hit. It was the last at-bat of his career during a regular season, though he did play in the 1972 NLCS playoffs against the Cincinnati Reds. In the playoffs, he batted .235 as he went 4 for 17. His last game ever was at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium in the fifth game of the playoff series.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/18/09 at 6:05 am
The co-person of the day...Persis Khambatta
Persis Khambatta (2 October 1950 – 18 August 1998) was an Indian model, actress, and author.
Khambatta began modeling at the age of 13. At age 15, Khambatta became Miss India 1965, dressed in off-the-rack clothes she bought at the last minute.
She participated in the Miss Universe 1965 pageant, but did not achieve much success in Bollywood or other Indian movie industries, partially due to her relatively Western looks, which appeared unconventional for most Indian audiences. She later entered the world of international movies.
Khambatta became a model for companies such as Revlon. In 1975, she had small roles in Conduct Unbecoming and The Wilby Conspiracy. She went on to a brief movie career that included the role for which she is most recognized, as navigator Lieutenant Ilia, in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, (1979).
This led to roles in Nighthawks (1981), Megaforce (1982), and Warrior of the Lost World (1985), but she never again experienced the acting success she had found in Star Trek. Some Indian sources have claimed that her career decline was related to her refusal to strip for films or pose nude for Playboy for film promotion.
In 1979, she became the first citizen of India to present an Academy Award.
In 1985, she returned to India and tried to establish herself as a Bollywood actress. However, her sole Bollywood film Shingora was not a box-office success. Khambatta returned to Hollywood and performed in guest roles on various television series, such as Mike Hammer and MacGyver.
Khambatta was seriously injured in 1980, following a car crash in Germany, which left her with a large scar on her head. In 1983, she underwent a bypass operation.
In 1997, she wrote and published a coffee table book, called Pride of India, which featured several former Miss Indias. The book was dedicated to Mother Teresa and part of the royalties went to the Missionaries of Charity.
Her final appearance on film and TV in an acting part was that of an Indian ambassador in the pilot episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/18/09 at 6:58 am
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/18/09 at 3:52 pm
I remember Persis in Star Trek...bald head...really short dress! ::)
...and I think the Pirates of the Caribbean films are overrated!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/18/09 at 11:53 pm
I remember Persis in Star Trek...bald head...really short dress! ::)
...and I think the Pirates of the Caribbean films are overrated!
I didn't know Persis had passed away. :\'(
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/19/09 at 1:00 am
The word of the day...Pirate(s)
1.
1. One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation.
2. A ship used for this purpose.
2. One who preys on others; a plunderer.
3. One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization.
4. One that operates an unlicensed, illegal television or radio station.
When is speak Like A Pirate Day?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/19/09 at 1:02 am
The word of the day...Pirate(s)
1.
1. One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation.
2. A ship used for this purpose.
2. One who preys on others; a plunderer.
3. One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization.
4. One that operates an unlicensed, illegal television or radio station.
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I struggled to hear the dialouge in the Pirates movies.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/19/09 at 1:02 am
When is speak Like A Pirate Day?
The weekday that has the most "rrrrrrrrrrr's"? ;)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/19/09 at 1:10 am
The person of the day...Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a professional baseball player and a Major League Baseball right fielder. He was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of seven children. On November 14, 1964, he married Vera Zabala at San Fernando Church in Carolina. The couple had three children: Roberto Jr., Luis Roberto and Enrique Roberto. He began his professional career playing with the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League (LBBPR). While he was playing in Puerto Rico, the Brooklyn Dodgers offered him a contract to play with the Montreal Royals. Clemente accepted the offer and was active with the team until he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Major League Baseball draft that took place on November 22, 1954.
Clemente played eighteen seasons in Major League Baseball from 1955 to 1972, all with Pittsburgh. He was awarded the National League’s Most Valuable Player Award in 1966. During the course of his career, Clemente was selected to participate in the league's All Star Game on twelve occasions. He won twelve Gold Glove Awards and led the league in batting average four different seasons. He was involved in charity work both in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries, often delivering baseball equipment and food to them. He died in an aviation accident on December 31, 1972, while in route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. His body was never recovered. He was elected to the Hall of Fame posthumously in 1973, thus becoming the first Latin American to be selected and the only current Hall of Famer for whom the mandatory five year waiting period was waived since the wait was instituted in 1954. Clemente is also the first Latino to win a World Series as a starter (1960), win a league MVP award (1966) and win a World Series MVP award (1971).
he 1970 season was the last one that the Pittsburgh Pirates played in Forbes Field before moving to Three Rivers Stadium; for Clemente, abandoning this stadium was an emotional situation. The Pirates' final game at Forbes Field took place on June 28, 1970. That day, Clemente noted that it was hard to play in a different field, saying, "I spent half my life there". The night of July 24, 1970 was declared "Roberto Clemente Night"; on this day, several Puerto Rican fans traveled to Three Rivers Stadium and cheered Clemente while wearing traditional Puerto Rican indumentary. A ceremony to honor Clemente took place, during which he received a scroll with 300,000 signatures compiled in Puerto Rico, and several thousands of dollars were donated to charity work following Clemente's request.
During the 1970 campaign, Clemente compiled an average of .352; the Pirates won the National League East but were subsequently eliminated by the Cincinnati Reds. In the offseason, Clemente experienced some tense situations while he was working as manager of the Senators and when his father, Melchor Clemente, experienced medical problems and was subjected to a surgery.
In the 1971 season, the Pirates won the National League and faced the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. Baltimore had won 100 games and swept the American League Championship Series, both for the third consecutive year, and were the defending World Series champions. The Orioles won the first two games in the series, but Pittsburgh won the championship in seven games. This marked the second occasion that Clemente had won a World Series with the Pirates. Over the course of the series, Clemente batted a .414 average (12 hits in 29 at-bats), performed well defensively, and hit a solo home run in the deciding 2-1 seventh game victory. Following the conclusion of the season, he received the World Series Most Valuable Player award. Struggling with injuries, Clemente only managed to appear in 102 games in 1972, but he still hit .312 for his final .300 season. On September 30, in a game at Three Rivers Stadium, he hit a double off Jon Matlack of the New York Mets for his 3,000th hit. It was the last at-bat of his career during a regular season, though he did play in the 1972 NLCS playoffs against the Cincinnati Reds. In the playoffs, he batted .235 as he went 4 for 17. His last game ever was at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium in the fifth game of the playoff series.
...now that I can watch baseball on tv.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/19/09 at 1:13 am
The weekday that has the most "rrrrrrrrrrr's"? ;)
Like Septemberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/19/09 at 1:16 am
The person of the day...Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a professional baseball player and a Major League Baseball right fielder. He was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of seven children. On November 14, 1964, he married Vera Zabala at San Fernando Church in Carolina. The couple had three children: Roberto Jr., Luis Roberto and Enrique Roberto. He began his professional career playing with the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League (LBBPR). While he was playing in Puerto Rico, the Brooklyn Dodgers offered him a contract to play with the Montreal Royals. Clemente accepted the offer and was active with the team until he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Major League Baseball draft that took place on November 22, 1954.
Clemente played eighteen seasons in Major League Baseball from 1955 to 1972, all with Pittsburgh. He was awarded the National League’s Most Valuable Player Award in 1966. During the course of his career, Clemente was selected to participate in the league's All Star Game on twelve occasions. He won twelve Gold Glove Awards and led the league in batting average four different seasons. He was involved in charity work both in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries, often delivering baseball equipment and food to them. He died in an aviation accident on December 31, 1972, while in route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. His body was never recovered. He was elected to the Hall of Fame posthumously in 1973, thus becoming the first Latin American to be selected and the only current Hall of Famer for whom the mandatory five year waiting period was waived since the wait was instituted in 1954. Clemente is also the first Latino to win a World Series as a starter (1960), win a league MVP award (1966) and win a World Series MVP award (1971).
he 1970 season was the last one that the Pittsburgh Pirates played in Forbes Field before moving to Three Rivers Stadium; for Clemente, abandoning this stadium was an emotional situation. The Pirates' final game at Forbes Field took place on June 28, 1970. That day, Clemente noted that it was hard to play in a different field, saying, "I spent half my life there". The night of July 24, 1970 was declared "Roberto Clemente Night"; on this day, several Puerto Rican fans traveled to Three Rivers Stadium and cheered Clemente while wearing traditional Puerto Rican indumentary. A ceremony to honor Clemente took place, during which he received a scroll with 300,000 signatures compiled in Puerto Rico, and several thousands of dollars were donated to charity work following Clemente's request.
During the 1970 campaign, Clemente compiled an average of .352; the Pirates won the National League East but were subsequently eliminated by the Cincinnati Reds. In the offseason, Clemente experienced some tense situations while he was working as manager of the Senators and when his father, Melchor Clemente, experienced medical problems and was subjected to a surgery.
In the 1971 season, the Pirates won the National League and faced the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. Baltimore had won 100 games and swept the American League Championship Series, both for the third consecutive year, and were the defending World Series champions. The Orioles won the first two games in the series, but Pittsburgh won the championship in seven games. This marked the second occasion that Clemente had won a World Series with the Pirates. Over the course of the series, Clemente batted a .414 average (12 hits in 29 at-bats), performed well defensively, and hit a solo home run in the deciding 2-1 seventh game victory. Following the conclusion of the season, he received the World Series Most Valuable Player award. Struggling with injuries, Clemente only managed to appear in 102 games in 1972, but he still hit .312 for his final .300 season. On September 30, in a game at Three Rivers Stadium, he hit a double off Jon Matlack of the New York Mets for his 3,000th hit. It was the last at-bat of his career during a regular season, though he did play in the 1972 NLCS playoffs against the Cincinnati Reds. In the playoffs, he batted .235 as he went 4 for 17. His last game ever was at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium in the fifth game of the playoff series.
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I was fortunate enough to see Roberto Clemente play at Jarry Park in Montreal, maybe 1970 or 1971. He was a feared hitter. My first baseball cap was a Pittsburgh Pirates hat, because of him and Willie Stargell. I got Stargell's autograph on that day, sadly I did not get Clemente's.
When I heard the news that he died in a plane crash while helping others...it was a very sad day in our household. I remember him well, # 21.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/19/09 at 6:10 am
Like Septemberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr?
or December?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/19/09 at 6:20 am
or December?
....Febrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrruarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry ?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/19/09 at 6:59 am
I was fortunate enough to see Roberto Clemente play at Jarry Park in Montreal, maybe 1970 or 1971. He was a feared hitter. My first baseball cap was a Pittsburgh Pirates hat, because of him and Willie Stargell. I got Stargell's autograph on that day, sadly I did not get Clemente's.
When I heard the news that he died in a plane crash while helping others...it was a very sad day in our household. I remember him well, # 21.
You were very fortunate to see him play live, I never had that privilege. I remember when he died and when Thurman Munson died.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/19/09 at 7:03 am
I remember Persis in Star Trek...bald head...really short dress! ::)
...and I think the Pirates of the Caribbean films are overrated!
I've only seen the first Pirates of the Caribbean
I didn't know Persis had passed away. :\'(
I never realized it till I went to look up the deaths for August 18.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/19/09 at 7:13 am
The word of the day...Soup
1. A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.
2. A liquid rich in organic compounds and providing favorable conditions for the emergence and growth of life forms: primordial soup.
3. Slang. Something having the appearance or a consistency suggestive of soup, especially:
1. Dense fog.
2. Nitroglycerine.
4. A chaotic or unfortunate situation.
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Written By: ninny on 08/19/09 at 7:15 am
The person of the day...Groucho Marx
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of which he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as glasses, cigars, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows.
Groucho Marx made 26 movies, 13 of them with his brothers Chico and Harpo. Marx developed a routine as a wise-cracking hustler with a distinctive chicken-walking lope, an exaggerated greasepaint moustache and eyebrows, and an ever-present cigar, improvising insults to stuffy dowagers (often played by Margaret Dumont) and anyone else who stood in his way. As the Marx Brothers, he and his brothers starred in a series of popular stage shows and movies.
Their first movie was a silent film made in 1919 that was never released, and believed to have been destroyed at the time. A decade later, the team made some of their Broadway hits into movies, including The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers . Other successful films were Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera. One quip from Marx concerned his response to Sam Wood, the director of the classic film A Night at the Opera. Furious with the Marx Brothers' ad-libs and antics on the set, Wood yelled in disgust: "I cannot make actors out of clay." Without missing a beat, Groucho responded, "Nor can you make a director out of Wood."
Marx worked as a radio comedian and show host. One of his earliest stints was in a short-lived series in 1932 Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel, co-starring Chico. Most of the scripts and discs were thought to have been destroyed, but all but one of the scripts were found in 1988 in the Library of Congress.
In 1947, Marx was chosen to host a radio quiz program You Bet Your Life broadcast by ABC and then CBS, before moving over to NBC television in 1950. Filmed before a live audience, the television show consisted of Marx interviewing the contestants and ad libbing jokes, before playing a brief quiz. The show was responsible for the phrases "Say the secret woid and divide $100" (that is, each contestant would get $50); and "Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?" or "What color is the White House?" (asked when Marx felt sorry for a contestant who had not won anything). It ran for eleven years on television.
Groucho was the subject of an urban legend, about a supposed response to a contestant who had over a dozen children which supposedly brought down the house. In response to Marx asking in disbelief why she had so many children, the contestant replied "I love my husband," to which Marx responded, "I love my cigar, but I take it out once in a while." Groucho often asserted in interviews that this exchange never took place, but it remains one of the most often quoted "Groucho-isms" nonetheless.
Throughout his career he introduced a number of memorable songs in films, including "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" and "Hello, I Must Be Going", in Animal Crackers, "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It", "Everyone Says I Love You" and "Lydia the Tattooed Lady". Frank Sinatra, who once quipped that the only thing he could do better than Marx was sing, made a film with Marx and Jane Russell in 1951 entitled Double Dynamite.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/19/09 at 7:18 am
The co-person of the day...Hermione Baddeley
Hermione Baddeley (13 November 1906 – 19 August 1986) was a celebrated Academy Award-nominated English character actress of theatre, film and television.
Originally Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley, she was born in Broseley, Shropshire, England. A descendant of British Revolutionary War general Sir Henry Clinton, she and her older sister (the actress Angela Baddeley of Upstairs, Downstairs fame) moved in elevated social circles, Hermione's first husband being the Hon. David Pax Tennant, a descendant of William the Conqueror and elder brother of Stephen Tennant. Hermione was known for standout supporting performances in such films as Mary Poppins (as Ellen, the maidservant), The Belles of St. Trinian's, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Passport to Pimlico, The Pickwick Papers, Tom Brown's Schooldays and A Christmas Carol, although she first began making films back in the 1920s. She was a principal character in Brighton Rock (1947).
Hermione Baddeley received an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Simone Signoret's best friend, music teacher Elspeth, in Jack Clayton's Room at the Top (1959). With under three minutes of screen time, hers is the shortest role to be nominated for an Academy Award. In 1963, she was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore.
Her television roles brought her increased visibility; besides many guest appearances she became known to American TV audiences for her roles in Little House on the Prairie and Maude. Like fellow Mary Poppins maid Reta Shaw, she appeared on the show Bewitched, as Samantha's beloved childhood nanny. Toward the end of her career, Baddeley was also a sought-after voice-over actress (The Aristocats, The Secret of NIMH).
She continued to work sporadically on episodic television and feature films, until shortly before her death at 79, of a stroke, on August 19, 1986, in Los Angeles, California. Baddeley was interred in Amesbury Churchyard in Amesbury Wiltshire, England. Twice married, she was survived by two children.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/19/09 at 7:33 am
Groucho was THE funniest guy ever in movies! I still laugh at the Marx Bros A Day At the Races ....and Duck Soup!! ;D They crack me up!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/19/09 at 7:45 am
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere."
Groucho Marx
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/19/09 at 8:50 am
Groucho was THE funniest guy ever in movies! I still laugh at the Marx Bros A Day At the Races ....and Duck Soup!! ;D They crack me up!
My father loved all of the old comedy movies. He was a big fan of the Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/19/09 at 8:52 am
My father loved all of the old comedy movies. He was a big fan of the Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges.
Today's comedian are not quite the same?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/19/09 at 10:36 am
You were very fortunate to see him play live, I never had that privilege. I remember when he died and when Thurman Munson died.
Yeh. I saw Thurman Munson too, at Yankee Stadium.
Clemente was a special player. Amazing how he ends up with exactly 3000 hits.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/19/09 at 10:44 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/19/09 at 11:00 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8
Cat
I'm going to change the title to Missy The Tattooed Lady, because my daughter has gone out this summer and has gotten over a dozen.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/19/09 at 11:02 am
Today's comedian are not quite the same?
Not to my dads, he's 80 and I'm not sure if he could name any recent comedienne.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 08/19/09 at 11:09 am
I Love Groucho! I can never get enough of the Marx brothers films. Great Retro! You've outdone yourself again Ninny! :) :) :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/19/09 at 1:20 pm
I Love Groucho! I can never get enough of the Marx brothers films. Great Retro! You've outdone yourself again Ninny! :) :) :)
Thanks Vinny :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/19/09 at 6:14 pm
The word of the day...Soup
1. A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid pieces.
2. A liquid rich in organic compounds and providing favorable conditions for the emergence and growth of life forms: primordial soup.
3. Slang. Something having the appearance or a consistency suggestive of soup, especially:
1. Dense fog.
2. Nitroglycerine.
4. A chaotic or unfortunate situation.
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My favorite soup is Tomato and Chicken Noodle.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/19/09 at 7:19 pm
My favorite soup is Tomato and Chicken Noodle.
Chicken noodle is good. I love French Onion soup. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/09 at 1:34 am
Chicken noodle is good. I love French Onion soup. :)
Good to have on a cold day.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/09 at 1:34 am
Chicken noodle is good. I love French Onion soup. :)
Good to have on a cold day.
...or when feeling low or unwell.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/09 at 1:36 am
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/20/09 at 5:43 am
The word of the day...Roof
1.
1. The exterior surface and its supporting structures on the top of a building.
2. The upper exterior surface of a dwelling as a symbol of the home itself: three generations living under one roof.
2. The top covering of something: the roof of a car.
3. The upper surface of an anatomical structure, especially one having a vaulted inner structure: the roof of the mouth.
4. The highest point or limit; the summit or ceiling: A roof on prices is needed to keep our customers happy.
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Written By: ninny on 08/20/09 at 5:47 am
The person of the day...Kim Stanley
Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress, primarily in theatre but with occasional film performances.
Stanley began her acting career in theatre, and subsequently attended the The Actors Studio. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for role in The Chase (1952), and starred in the Broadway productions of Picnic (1953) and Bus Stop (1955). She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her roles in A Touch of the Poet (1959) and A Far Country (1962).
During the 1950s, Stanley was a prolific performer in television, and later progressed to film, with a well received performance in The Goddess (1959). She was the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and starred in Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), for which she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was less active during the remainder of her career; two of her later film successes were as the mother of Frances Farmer in Frances (1982), for which she received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and as Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (1983). She received an Emmy Award for her performance in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985).
She did not act during her later years, preferring the role of teacher, in Los Angeles and later Santa Fe, where she died in 2001, of uterine cancer.
Her first movie was The Goddess (1958), playing a tragic movie star modeled on Marilyn Monroe. In 1964, she starred in Seance on a Wet Afternoon, won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress for it and was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. In 1966, the filmed version of Strasberg's directed Three Sisters opened with Stanley reprising the role of Masha, and is the only time one can see her perform in a film alongside Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Shelley Winters and other well known names of the Actor's Studio.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Frances Farmer's possessive mother in Frances (1982). She also played Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (1983).
Stanley was the uncredited narrator in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. As the narrator, she represents the character "Jean Louise Finch" ("Scout") as an adult. Mary Badham portrays "Scout" as a child in the film.
She received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in the episode, A Cardinal Act of Mercy, on the TV series, Ben Casey (1963), and an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special for playing, "Big Mama," in Tennessee Williams' Southern melodrama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985).
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/20/09 at 5:49 am
The co-person of the day...George Adamson
George Adamson (3 February 1906 – 20 August 1989), also known as the "Baba ya Simba" ("Father of Lions" in Swahili), was a wildlife conservationist and author. He and his wife Joy Adamson are best known through the movie Born Free and best selling book with the same title, which is based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness an orphaned lioness cub they raised and later released into the wild. Several other films have been made based on Adamson's life.
Adamson was born 3 February 1906 in Dholpur, Rajasthan, India (then British India). He first visited Kenya in 1924. After a series of jobs, which included time as a gold prospector, goat trader, and professional safari hunter, he joined Kenya's game department in 1938 and was Senior Game Warden of the Northern Frontier District. Six years later he married Joy. It was in 1956 that he raised the lioness cub Elsa who became the subject of the 1966 feature film Born Free.
Adamson retired as a game warden in 1961 and devoted himself to his many lions. In 1970, he moved to the Kora National Reserve in northern Kenya to continue the rehabilitation of captive or orphaned big cats for eventual reintroduction into the wild. George and Joy separated in 1970, but continued to spend Christmas holiday together until she was murdered on January 3rd, 1980.
On 20 August 1989, the 83-year-old Adamson was shot to death at Kora Reserve by Somalian bandits when he went to the aid of a tourist..
He is buried at the reserve next to his lion friend named Boy. Also buried there are George's brother, Terrance Adamson and Supercub the lion.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/20/09 at 5:52 am
* Honorable mention*...Alan Reed
Alan Reed (August 20, 1907 – June 14, 1977) was an American actor and voice artist, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones and various spin-off series. He also appeared in The Tarnished Angels, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Viva Zapata!, Nob Hill and various other films, as well as a guest appearance on The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Reed died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. His final performance of Fred Flintstone was for the latter's cameo guest shot in an episode of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/20/09 at 7:06 am
* Honorable mention*...Alan Reed
Alan Reed (August 20, 1907 – June 14, 1977) was an American actor and voice artist, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones and various spin-off series. He also appeared in The Tarnished Angels, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Viva Zapata!, Nob Hill and various other films, as well as a guest appearance on The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Reed died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. His final performance of Fred Flintstone was for the latter's cameo guest shot in an episode of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics.
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Ah,Yes the voice of Fred Flinstone,no one will take his place of the voice of Fred. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/09 at 8:58 am
The word of the day...Roof
1.
1. The exterior surface and its supporting structures on the top of a building.
2. The upper exterior surface of a dwelling as a symbol of the home itself: three generations living under one roof.
2. The top covering of something: the roof of a car.
3. The upper surface of an anatomical structure, especially one having a vaulted inner structure: the roof of the mouth.
4. The highest point or limit; the summit or ceiling: A roof on prices is needed to keep our customers happy.
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Up On The Roof ~ Drifters
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/09 at 9:00 am
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/20/09 at 11:43 am
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Here is a good song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vua14HR8Cxg#
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/20/09 at 3:53 pm
Who played the voice of Barney Rubble?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/20/09 at 5:27 pm
Who played the voice of Barney Rubble?
Mel Blanc (1960-1989)
Frank Welker (1989-present)
Jeff Bergman(current comercials)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/21/09 at 1:02 am
Don't Jump Off The Roof Dad ~ Tommy Cooper
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/21/09 at 5:56 am
The word of the day...Synthesizer
1. One that synthesizes: a synthesizer of others' ideas.
2. Music. An electronic instrument, often played with a keyboard, that combines simple waveforms to produce more complex sounds, such as those of various other instruments.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/21/09 at 5:59 am
The person of the day...Robert Moog
Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (pronounced /ˈmoʊɡ/ to rhyme with "vogue") (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
The Moog synthesizer was one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments. Early developmental work on the components of the synthesizer occurred at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, now the Computer Music Center. While there, Moog developed the voltage controlled oscillators, ADSR envelope generators, and other synthesizer modules with composer Herbert Deutsch.
Moog created the first voltage-controlled subtractive synthesizer to utilize a keyboard as a controller and demonstrated it at the AES convention in 1964. In 1966, Moog filed a patent application for his unique low-pass filter U.S. Patent 3,475,623, which issued in October 1969. He held several dozen patents.
Robert Moog employed his theremin company (R. A. Moog Co., which would later become Moog Music) to manufacture and market his synthesizers. Unlike the few other 1960s synthesizer manufacturers, Moog shipped a piano-style keyboard as the standard user interface to his synthesizers. Moog also established standards for analog synthesizer control interfacing, with a logarithmic one volt-per-octave pitch control and a separate pulse triggering signal.
The first Moog instruments were modular synthesizers. In 1971 Moog Music began production of the Minimoog Model D which was among the first widely available, portable and relatively affordable synthesizers.
One of Moog's earliest musical customers was Wendy Carlos whom he credits with providing feedback that was valuable to the further development of Moog synthesizers. Through his involvement in electronic music, Moog developed close professional relationships with artists such as Don Buchla, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, John Cage, Gershon Kingsley, Clara Rockmore, and Pamelia Kurstin. In a 2000 interview, Moog said "I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers. They use my tools."
R.A. Moog Co. and Moog Music
The Moog Music logo
Main article: Moog Music
In 1953 at age 19, Robert Moog founded his first company, R.A. Moog Co., to manufacture theremin kits. During the 1960s, the company was employed to build modular synthesizers based on Moog's designs.
In 1972 Moog changed the company's name to Moog Music. Throughout the 1970s, Moog Music went through various changes of ownership, eventually being bought out by musical instrument manufacturer Norlin. Poor management and marketing led to Moog's departure from his own company in 1977.
In 1978 after leaving his namesake firm, Moog started making electronic musical instruments again with a new company, Big Briar. Their first specialty was theremins, but by 1999 the company expanded to produce a line of analog effects pedals called moogerfoogers. In 1999, Moog partnered with Bomb Factory to co-develop the first digital effects based on Moog technology in the form of plugins for Pro Tools software.
Despite Moog Music's closing in 1993, Robert Moog did not have the rights to market products using his own name throughout the 1990s. Big Briar acquired the rights to use the Moog Music name in 2002 after a legal battle with Don Martin who had previously bought the rights to the name Moog Music. At the same time, Moog designed a new version of the Minimoog called the Minimoog Voyager. The Voyager includes nearly all of the features of the original Model D in addition to numerous modern features.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/21/09 at 6:00 am
I used to have a synthesizer a Yamaha PSS-130.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/21/09 at 6:02 am
The co-person of the day...Wilt Chamberlain
Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999), nicknamed Wilt the Stilt, The Big Dipper, and Chairman of the Boards, was an American professional NBA basketball player for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers; and also played for the Harlem Globetrotters. The 7 foot 1 inch Chamberlain, who weighed 250 lbs as a rookie before bulking up to 275 lb and eventually over 300 lb with the Lakers, played the center position and is widely considered one of the greatest and most dominant players in the history of the NBA.
Chamberlain holds numerous official NBA all-time records, setting records in many scoring, rebounding and durability categories. Among others, he is the only player in NBA history to average more than 40 and 50 points in a season or score 100 points in a single NBA game. He also won seven scoring, nine field goal percentage, and eleven rebounding titles, and once even led the league in assists. Although suffering a long string of professional losses, Chamberlain had a successful career, winning two NBA titles, earning four regular-season Most Valuable Player awards, the Rookie of the Year award, one NBA Finals MVP award, and being selected to 13 All-Star Games and ten All-NBA First and Second teams. Chamberlain was subsequently enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978, elected into the NBA's 35th Anniversary Team of 1980, and chosen as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History of 1996.
After his basketball career, Chamberlain played volleyball in the short-lived International Volleyball Association, was president of this organization and enshrined in the IVA Hall of Fame for his contributions. Chamberlain was also a successful businessman, authored several books and appeared in the movie Conan the Destroyer. He was a lifelong bachelor, but became notorious for his claim to have had sex with 20,000 women, a statement which has entered popular culture.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/21/09 at 6:04 am
He must've been the tallest. :o
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/21/09 at 6:06 am
The flower for Friday...Orchid
1.
1. A member of the orchid family.
2. The flower of any of these plants, especially one cultivated for ornament.
2. A pale to light purple, from grayish to purplish pink to strong reddish purple.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/21/09 at 6:09 am
He must've been the tallest. :o
This guy was drafted by the Lakers, but never played.
Sun Mingming (traditional Chinese: 孫明明; simplified Chinese: 孙明明; pinyin: Sūn Míngmíng, born August 23, 1983) is a Chinese basketball player. He is one of the tallest players to ever play professional basketball,standing 7'9" (236 cm) and weighing 370 pounds (168 kg).
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/21/09 at 12:49 pm
The flower for Friday...Orchid
1.
1. A member of the orchid family.
2. The flower of any of these plants, especially one cultivated for ornament.
2. A pale to light purple, from grayish to purplish pink to strong reddish purple.
Do orchids have individual names for the plants?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/21/09 at 5:30 pm
Do orchids have individual names for the plants?
I found these types of orchids
Cattleya
Cymbidium
Dendrobium
Paphiopedilum
Phalaenopsis
Miltoniopsis
Reed Orchid
Native Orchids
Alaskan Rein Orchid
Calypso
Green Rein Orchid
Pacific Coralroot
Rattlesnake Plantain
Spotless Coralroot
Striped Coralroot
White Bog Orchid
Flower Power
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/21/09 at 6:42 pm
This guy was drafted by the Lakers, but never played.
Sun Mingming (traditional Chinese: 孫明明; simplified Chinese: 孙明明; pinyin: Sūn Míngmíng, born August 23, 1983) is a Chinese basketball player. He is one of the tallest players to ever play professional basketball,standing 7'9" (236 cm) and weighing 370 pounds (168 kg).
Wow,that's very interesting Ninny.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/21/09 at 6:48 pm
He must've been the tallest. :o
Sounds like he had the tallest story! (20,000 women) .....where can you find that many women ...with ladders? ;)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/21/09 at 7:11 pm
Sounds like he had the tallest story! (20,000 women) .....where can you find that many women ...with ladders? ;)
I couldn't even have sex with 20,000 women. :o
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/09 at 12:05 am
I couldn't even have sex with 20,000 women. :o
You can always atart counting.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/22/09 at 5:53 am
The word of the day...Hobo
1. One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.
2. A migrant worker.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/22/09 at 5:56 am
The person of the day...John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was a Grammy Award-winning influential African American singer-songwriter and blues guitarist, born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a half-spoken style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was rhythmically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen" (1948) and "Boom Boom" (1962).
Hooker's life experiences were chronicled by several scholars and often read like a classic case study in the racism of the music industry, although he eventually rose to prominence with memorable songs and influence on a generation of musicians.
* A Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
* Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980
* Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991
Grammy Awards:
* Best Traditional Blues Recording, 1990 for I'm in the Mood (with Bonnie Raitt)
* Best Traditional Blues Recording, 1998 for Don't Look Back
* Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, 1998, "Don't Look Back" (with Van Morrison)
* Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000
* Two of his songs, "Boogie Chillen" and "Boom Boom" were named to the list of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. "Boogie Chillen" was included as one of the Songs of the Century.
Discography
Singles
Hooker issued a large number of singles, with almost a hundred releases by 1960.
Here are ten of his early classic recordings:
* Detroit September 1948 - Boogie Chillen - Modern 627 (11/48) R&B #1 (Crown LP "The Blues")
* Detroit September 1948 - Hobo Blues - Modern 663 (3/49) R&B #5 (Crown LP "The Blues")
* Detroit September 1948 - Crawling King Snake - Modern 715 (10/49) R&B #6 (Crown LP "The Blues")
* Detroit August 7, 1951 - I'm In the Mood - Modern 835 (9/51) R&B #1 (Crown LP "The Blues")
* Detroit Early 1955 - The Syndicator b/w Hug And Squeeze - Modern 966 (8/55) (Crown LP "Sings The Blues")
* Chicago March 17, 1956 - Dimples - Vee-Jay 205 (8/56) (VJ LP "I'm John Lee Hooker")
* Chicago June 10, 1958 - I Love You Honey - Vee-Jay 293 (9/58) R&B #29 (VJ LP "I'm John Lee Hooker")
* Chicago March 1, 1960 - No Shoes - Vee-Jay 349 (4/60) R&B#21 (VJ LP "Travelin'")
* Chicago Late 1961 - Boom Boom - Vee-Jay 438 (4/62) R&B #16 (VJ LP "Burnin'")
* Chicago Mid 1964 - It Serves Me Right (To Suffer) - Vee-Jay 708 (11/65) (VJ/Dynasty LP "In Person")
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/22/09 at 5:59 am
The co-person of the day...Sebastian Cabot
Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot (July 6, 1918 – August 22, 1977) was an English film and television actor, best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman, "Giles French," in the 1960s sitcom Family Affair.
Cabot was born in London, England. His career began with a bit part in Foreign Affaires (1935); his first screen credit was in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936). Other British films such as Love on the Dole, Pimpernel Smith, Old Mother Riley: Detective, and Old Mother Riley: Overseas followed. In 1946, he portrayed Iago in Othello. By 1947, Cabot had relocated to Hollywood, and landed roles in such films as They Made Me A Fugitive, Third Time Lucky, The Spider and the Fly, Ivanhoe, Babes in Baghdad, The Love Lottery, Westward Ho the Wagons, and the 1954 Italian version of Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet. In 1960 he appeared in George Pal's production of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine as Dr. Hillyer. He was also the voice of Noah in the first recording of Igor Stravinsky's "musical play" The Flood. He also did some voice parts for animated films such as Disney's Jungle Book (1967) as Bagheera, The Sword In The Stone (1963) as Sir Ector, and narrator of Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) and Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
At about this time Cabot began taking on television work, appearing in such series as Along the Oregon Trail, The Adventures of Hiram Holliday, Checkmate (with co-stars Anthony George and Doug McClure), The Beachcomber, and an appearance in The Twilight Zone episode "A Nice Place to Visit", as the white-suited, courtly provider of a vain but disillusioned man's every wish. He appeared with James Best in the 1959-1960 western series Pony Express in the episode entitled "The Story of Julesburg". Cabot was also a regular panelist on the TV game show Stump the Stars. He also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. In 1964, Cabot hosted the short-lived television series, Suspense, and voiced or narrated a few other film and television projects, before he was cast as Giles French in the CBS series Family Affair with Brian Keith and Kathy Garver.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/22/09 at 7:02 am
The word of the day...Hobo
1. One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.
2. A migrant worker.
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They always want money. ::)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/09 at 2:00 pm
They always want money. ::)
...and ciggys!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/22/09 at 2:36 pm
...and ciggys!
..and booze!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/09 at 2:54 pm
..and booze!
...and then the money ?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/22/09 at 3:42 pm
...and then the money ?
money to buy themselves a cup of coffee.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/22/09 at 4:06 pm
money to buy themselves a cup of coffee.
...that's what they tell you! :-\\
That first hobo pic reminds me of the Nick Nolte mug shot!
....and who could forget Mr French!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/22/09 at 5:08 pm
...that's what they tell you! :-\\
That first hobo pic reminds me of the Nick Nolte mug shot!
....and who could forget Mr French!
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/22/09 at 5:17 pm
The co-person of the day...Sebastian Cabot
Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot (July 6, 1918 – August 22, 1977) was an English film and television actor, best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman, "Giles French," in the 1960s sitcom Family Affair.
Cabot was born in London, England. His career began with a bit part in Foreign Affaires (1935); his first screen credit was in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936). Other British films such as Love on the Dole, Pimpernel Smith, Old Mother Riley: Detective, and Old Mother Riley: Overseas followed. In 1946, he portrayed Iago in Othello. By 1947, Cabot had relocated to Hollywood, and landed roles in such films as They Made Me A Fugitive, Third Time Lucky, The Spider and the Fly, Ivanhoe, Babes in Baghdad, The Love Lottery, Westward Ho the Wagons, and the 1954 Italian version of Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet. In 1960 he appeared in George Pal's production of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine as Dr. Hillyer. He was also the voice of Noah in the first recording of Igor Stravinsky's "musical play" The Flood. He also did some voice parts for animated films such as Disney's Jungle Book (1967) as Bagheera, The Sword In The Stone (1963) as Sir Ector, and narrator of Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) and Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
At about this time Cabot began taking on television work, appearing in such series as Along the Oregon Trail, The Adventures of Hiram Holliday, Checkmate (with co-stars Anthony George and Doug McClure), The Beachcomber, and an appearance in The Twilight Zone episode "A Nice Place to Visit", as the white-suited, courtly provider of a vain but disillusioned man's every wish. He appeared with James Best in the 1959-1960 western series Pony Express in the episode entitled "The Story of Julesburg". Cabot was also a regular panelist on the TV game show Stump the Stars. He also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. In 1964, Cabot hosted the short-lived television series, Suspense, and voiced or narrated a few other film and television projects, before he was cast as Giles French in the CBS series Family Affair with Brian Keith and Kathy Garver.
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Mr. French.
Mr. French & Bill Davis, 2 men raising 3 kids. No woman in the house. :o
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 08/23/09 at 12:40 am
Oh God. I think I'm one of those Hobos.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/23/09 at 2:32 am
money to buy themselves a cup of coffee.
...coffee, don't believe it!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/23/09 at 2:33 am
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Which film is that from?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/23/09 at 6:29 am
Which film is that from?
No film it was when he was arrested
On September 12, 2002, Nolte was arrested for being under the influence of alcohol or drugs after police observed him swerving into oncoming traffic near his Malibu home. After undergoing blood tests it was determined he was under the influence of what is known as Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) (also known as liquid Ecstasy) a "date-rape drug" which is a powerful and banned depressant. He was sentenced to three years probation and to counseling and random drug testing.
He was 61-years-old at the time of his arrest. Nolte checked into a Connecticut rehabilitation center two days after the incident. His publicist, Paul Bloch said in a statement, that Notle, "voluntarily entered Silver Hill Hospital to receive advice and counsel that he feels he needs at this time."
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/23/09 at 6:34 am
No film it was when he was arrested
On September 12, 2002, Nolte was arrested for being under the influence of alcohol or drugs after police observed him swerving into oncoming traffic near his Malibu home. After undergoing blood tests it was determined he was under the influence of what is known as Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) (also known as liquid Ecstasy) a "date-rape drug" which is a powerful and banned depressant. He was sentenced to three years probation and to counseling and random drug testing.
He was 61-years-old at the time of his arrest. Nolte checked into a Connecticut rehabilitation center two days after the incident. His publicist, Paul Bloch said in a statement, that Notle, "voluntarily entered Silver Hill Hospital to receive advice and counsel that he feels he needs at this time."
The hobo looks better off than Nolte.... ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/23/09 at 6:35 am
The word of the day...Boat
1.
1. A relatively small, usually open craft of a size that might be carried aboard a ship.
2. An inland vessel of any size.
3. A ship or submarine.
2. A dish shaped like a boat: a sauce boat.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/23/09 at 6:39 am
The person of the day...Oscar HammersteinII
Oscar Hammerstein II (pronounced /ˈhæmərstaɪn/; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century.
Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song", and much of his work is considered to be part of the unofficial Great American Songbook. He wrote an estimated 850 songs, dozens of which have become standards. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with a number of famous composers, including Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg, but his most famous collaboration was with Richard Rodgers.
Hammerstein's name is often mispronounced /ˈhæmərstiːn/ HAM-ər-steen. Hammerstein himself, however, pronounced it /ˈhæmərstaɪn/ HAM-ər-styen.
Hammerstein's most successful and sustained collaboration began when he teamed up with Richard Rodgers to write a musical adaptation of the play Green Grow the Lilacs. Rodgers' first partner, Lorenz Hart, was originally going to collaborate with Rodgers on this piece, but his alcoholism had become out of control, and he was unable to write. Hart was also not certain that the idea had much merit, and the two therefore went separate ways. The adaptation became the first Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, entitled Oklahoma!, which opened on Broadway in 1943. It furthered the revolution begun by Show Boat, by thoroughly integrating all the aspects of musical theatre, with the songs and dances arising out of and further developing the plot and characters. William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird wrote that this was a "show, that, like "Show Boat", became a milestone, so that later historians writing about important moments in twentieth-century theatre would begin to identify eras according to their relationship to "Oklahoma." "After Oklahoma!, Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as Carousel, The King and I and South Pacific. The examples they set in creating vital plays, often rich with social thought, provided the necessary encouragement for other gifted writers to create musical plays of their own".
The partnership went on to produce such classic Broadway musicals as Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King and I, Me & Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music as well as the musical film State Fair (and its stage adaptation of the same name) and the television musical Cinderella, all of which were featured in the revue A Grand Night for Singing. Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast.
Hammerstein contributed the lyrics to some 850 songs, according to The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II, edited by Amy Asch. Dozens of these have become standards. Some of his best-known songs are "Ol' Man River" from Show Boat, "Indian Love Call" from Rose Marie, "People Will Say We're in Love" and "Oklahoma" (which has been the official State song of Oklahoma since 1953) from Oklahoma!, "Some Enchanted Evening", from South Pacifiic, "Getting to Know You" from The King and I, and the title song, "The Sound of Music" as well as "Climb Every Mountain".
Several albums of Hammerstein's musicals were named to the "Songs of the Century" list as compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Corporation:
* The Sound of Music — # 36
* Oklahoma! — # 66
* South Pacific — # 224
* The King and I — # 249
* Show Boat — # 312
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/23/09 at 6:43 am
The co-person of the day...Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. Known as the "Latin Lover", he was one of the most popular stars of the 1920s, and one of the most recognized stars from the silent film era. He is best known for his work in The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. His untimely death at age 31 caused mass hysteria among his female fans, propelling him into icon status
Displeased with playing "heavies", Valentino briefly entertained the idea of returning to New York permanently. He returned for a visit in 1917 staying with friends in Greenwich Village. It was here he met Paul Ivano; someone who would help his career greatly.
While traveling to Palm Springs, Florida to film Stolen Moments, Valentino read the novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Seeking out a trade paper, he discovered that Metro had bought the film rights to the story. In New York, he sought out Metro's Office; only to find June Mathis had been trying to find him. She cast him in the role of Julio Desnoyers. For director, Mathis had chosen Rex Ingram, with whom Valentino did not get along, leading Mathis to play the role of peace keeper between the two.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was released in 1921, becoming a commercial and critical success. It was one of the first films to make $1,000,000 at the box office, as well as the 6th best selling silent film ever.
Valentino with the Arabian Stallion Jadaan. Publicity photo for Son of the Sheik, 1926
Metro Pictures seemed unwilling to acknowledge it had made a star. Most likely due to Rex Ingram's lack of faith in him, the studio refused to give him a raise beyond the $350 a week he had made for Four Horsemen. For his follow up film, they forced him into bit part in a B film called Uncharted Seas. It was on this film that Valentino met his second wife, Natacha Rambova.
Rambova, Mathis, Ivano, and Valentino began work on the Alla Nazimova film Camille. Valentino was cast in the role of Armand, Nazimova's love interest. The film, mostly under the control of Rambova and Nazimova, was considered too avant garde by critics and the public.
Valentino's final film for Metro was the Mathis penned The Conquering Power. The film received critical acclaim and did well at the box office. After the film's release, Valentino made a trip to New York where he met with several French producers. Yearning for Europe, better pay, and more respect, Valentino returned and promptly quit Metr
On August 15, 1926, Valentino collapsed at the Hotel Ambassador in New York City, New York. He was hospitalized at the Polyclinic in New York and an examination showed him to be suffering from appendicitis and gastric ulcers which required an immediate operation. The operation was a success but Valentino's condition had become so aggravated by then that peritonitis set in and spread throughout his body. On August 18 his doctors gave an optimistic prognosis for Valentino and told the media that unless Valentino's condition changed for the worse there was no need for updates. However, on August 21 he was stricken with a severe pleuritis relapse that developed rapidly in his left lung due to the actor's weakened condition. The doctors realized that he was going to die, but decided to withhold the prognosis from the actor who believed that his condition would pass. During the early hours of August 23, Valentino was briefly conscious and chatted with his doctors about his future. He fell back into a coma and died a few hours later, at the age of 31.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/23/09 at 6:46 am
* Honorable mention* ...Brock Peters
Brock Peters (July 2, 1927 – August 23, 2005) was an American actor, best known for playing the role, in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, of Tom Robinson, the black man unjustly convicted of raping a white girl. He also gained recognition for his portrayal of Joseph Sisko, father of Benjamin Sisko on Deep Space Nine.
Peters made his film debut in Carmen Jones in 1954, but he really began to make a name for himself in such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and The L-Shaped Room. He received a Tony nomination for his starring stint in Broadway's Lost in the Stars.
He sang background vocals on the 1956 hit, "Banana Boat (Day-O)" by Harry Belafonte as well as Belafonte's 1957 hit, "Mama Look At Bubu."
In the movie Abe Lincoln, Freedom Fighter (1978), Peters plays Henry, a freed black slave who is falsely accused of robbery but, defended by Abe Lincoln, is found not guilty due to the fact he has a damaged hand and couldn't have committed the crime. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Peters plays Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white girl, whom Atticus Finch shows could not have committed due to the fact his hand (and arm) were damaged.
In radio, Peters was the voice of Darth Vader for the National Public Radio adaptation of the original Star Wars trilogy.
He also worked in the films Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Fleet Admiral Cartwright of Starfleet Command. Brock Peters also portrayed Joseph Sisko, father of Deep Space Nine's commanding officer, Benjamin Sisko, of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In early 2005, Peters guest starred in an episode of JAG's final season, "Bridging the Gulf", season 10 episode 15. He also played the role of a Colonial prosecutor trying to make a murder case against Starbuck in an episode of the original BattleStar Galactica.
Peters worked with Charlton Heston on several theater productions in the 1940s and 1950s. The two became friends and subsequently worked together on several films, including Major Dundee, Soylent Green, and Two-Minute Warning.
He also voiced Soul Power in the cartoon Static Shock (2000–2004).
He died in Los Angeles, California of pancreatic cancer on August 23, 2005 at the age of 78.
* Sergeant Brown in Carmen Jones (1954 film version)
* Crown in Porgy and Bess (1959 film version)
* Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
* Johnny in The L Shaped Room (1962)
* Aesop in Major Dundee (1965)
* Stephen Kumalo in Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's Lost in the Stars (stage revival and 1974 film version) — nominated for a Tony Award
* Rev. Canon Frederick Chasuble, D.D. in an all-black film version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1992)
* Lieutenant Hatcher in the film Soylent Green
* Darth Vader in the Star Wars radio series
* The Ogre in the Faerie Tale Theatre episode Puss in Boots.
* Det. Frank Lewis in The Young and the Restless
* Fleet Admiral Cartwright in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
* Lucius Fox in Batman: The Animated Series
* Joseph Sisko, Benjamin Sisko's father, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
* Dark Kat in SWAT Kats The Radical Squadron, Bloth in Pirates of Dark Water, Tormack in Galtar and the Golden Lance and Boneyard in Gravedale High.
* An uncredited voice-acting performance as the boxer Jack Johnson on the Miles Davis album A Tribute to Jack Johnson.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 08/23/09 at 6:52 am
As in....."We're gonna need a bigger boat"
The word of the day...Boat
1.
1. A relatively small, usually open craft of a size that might be carried aboard a ship.
2. An inland vessel of any size.
3. A ship or submarine.
2. A dish shaped like a boat: a sauce boat.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/23/09 at 6:53 am
The word of the day...Boat
1.
1. A relatively small, usually open craft of a size that might be carried aboard a ship.
2. An inland vessel of any size.
3. A ship or submarine.
2. A dish shaped like a boat: a sauce boat.
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Those are such nice boats.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 08/23/09 at 6:58 am
I've always been a fan...Loved His instantly recognizable voice.......
Also great in 1967's The IncidentFramed ,1975}
* Honorable mention* ...Brock Peters
Brock Peters (July 2, 1927 – August 23, 2005) was an American actor, best known for playing the role, in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, of Tom Robinson, the black man unjustly convicted of raping a white girl. He also gained recognition for his portrayal of Joseph Sisko, father of Benjamin Sisko on Deep Space Nine.
Peters made his film debut in Carmen Jones in 1954, but he really began to make a name for himself in such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and The L-Shaped Room. He received a Tony nomination for his starring stint in Broadway's Lost in the Stars.
He sang background vocals on the 1956 hit, "Banana Boat (Day-O)" by Harry Belafonte as well as Belafonte's 1957 hit, "Mama Look At Bubu."
In the movie Abe Lincoln, Freedom Fighter (1978), Peters plays Henry, a freed black slave who is falsely accused of robbery but, defended by Abe Lincoln, is found not guilty due to the fact he has a damaged hand and couldn't have committed the crime. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Peters plays Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white girl, whom Atticus Finch shows could not have committed due to the fact his hand (and arm) were damaged.
In radio, Peters was the voice of Darth Vader for the National Public Radio adaptation of the original Star Wars trilogy.
He also worked in the films Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Fleet Admiral Cartwright of Starfleet Command. Brock Peters also portrayed Joseph Sisko, father of Deep Space Nine's commanding officer, Benjamin Sisko, of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In early 2005, Peters guest starred in an episode of JAG's final season, "Bridging the Gulf", season 10 episode 15. He also played the role of a Colonial prosecutor trying to make a murder case against Starbuck in an episode of the original BattleStar Galactica.
Peters worked with Charlton Heston on several theater productions in the 1940s and 1950s. The two became friends and subsequently worked together on several films, including Major Dundee, Soylent Green, and Two-Minute Warning.
He also voiced Soul Power in the cartoon Static Shock (2000–2004).
He died in Los Angeles, California of pancreatic cancer on August 23, 2005 at the age of 78.
* Sergeant Brown in Carmen Jones (1954 film version)
* Crown in Porgy and Bess (1959 film version)
* Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
* Johnny in The L Shaped Room (1962)
* Aesop in Major Dundee (1965)
* Stephen Kumalo in Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's Lost in the Stars (stage revival and 1974 film version) — nominated for a Tony Award
* Rev. Canon Frederick Chasuble, D.D. in an all-black film version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1992)
* Lieutenant Hatcher in the film Soylent Green
* Darth Vader in the Star Wars radio series
* The Ogre in the Faerie Tale Theatre episode Puss in Boots.
* Det. Frank Lewis in The Young and the Restless
* Fleet Admiral Cartwright in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
* Lucius Fox in Batman: The Animated Series
* Joseph Sisko, Benjamin Sisko's father, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
* Dark Kat in SWAT Kats The Radical Squadron, Bloth in Pirates of Dark Water, Tormack in Galtar and the Golden Lance and Boneyard in Gravedale High.
* An uncredited voice-acting performance as the boxer Jack Johnson on the Miles Davis album A Tribute to Jack Johnson.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/23/09 at 7:26 am
The person of the day...Oscar HammersteinII
Oscar Hammerstein II (pronounced /ˈhæmərstaɪn/; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century.
Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song", and much of his work is considered to be part of the unofficial Great American Songbook. He wrote an estimated 850 songs, dozens of which have become standards. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with a number of famous composers, including Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg, but his most famous collaboration was with Richard Rodgers.
Hammerstein's name is often mispronounced /ˈhæmərstiːn/ HAM-ər-steen. Hammerstein himself, however, pronounced it /ˈhæmərstaɪn/ HAM-ər-styen.
Hammerstein's most successful and sustained collaboration began when he teamed up with Richard Rodgers to write a musical adaptation of the play Green Grow the Lilacs. Rodgers' first partner, Lorenz Hart, was originally going to collaborate with Rodgers on this piece, but his alcoholism had become out of control, and he was unable to write. Hart was also not certain that the idea had much merit, and the two therefore went separate ways. The adaptation became the first Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, entitled Oklahoma!, which opened on Broadway in 1943. It furthered the revolution begun by Show Boat, by thoroughly integrating all the aspects of musical theatre, with the songs and dances arising out of and further developing the plot and characters. William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird wrote that this was a "show, that, like "Show Boat", became a milestone, so that later historians writing about important moments in twentieth-century theatre would begin to identify eras according to their relationship to "Oklahoma." "After Oklahoma!, Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as Carousel, The King and I and South Pacific. The examples they set in creating vital plays, often rich with social thought, provided the necessary encouragement for other gifted writers to create musical plays of their own".
The partnership went on to produce such classic Broadway musicals as Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King and I, Me & Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music as well as the musical film State Fair (and its stage adaptation of the same name) and the television musical Cinderella, all of which were featured in the revue A Grand Night for Singing. Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast.
Hammerstein contributed the lyrics to some 850 songs, according to The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II, edited by Amy Asch. Dozens of these have become standards. Some of his best-known songs are "Ol' Man River" from Show Boat, "Indian Love Call" from Rose Marie, "People Will Say We're in Love" and "Oklahoma" (which has been the official State song of Oklahoma since 1953) from Oklahoma!, "Some Enchanted Evening", from South Pacifiic, "Getting to Know You" from The King and I, and the title song, "The Sound of Music" as well as "Climb Every Mountain".
Several albums of Hammerstein's musicals were named to the "Songs of the Century" list as compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Corporation:
* The Sound of Music — # 36
* Oklahoma! — # 66
* South Pacific — # 224
* The King and I — # 249
* Show Boat — # 312
Love his musicals!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/23/09 at 12:10 pm
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/23/09 at 12:14 pm
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Cat
Captain Carlos!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/23/09 at 1:08 pm
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Cat
Thanks for the nice pics Cat :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/23/09 at 1:08 pm
Love his musicals!
Me too :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/23/09 at 2:50 pm
The co-person of the day...Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. Known as the "Latin Lover", he was one of the most popular stars of the 1920s, and one of the most recognized stars from the silent film era. He is best known for his work in The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. His untimely death at age 31 caused mass hysteria among his female fans, propelling him into icon status
Displeased with playing "heavies", Valentino briefly entertained the idea of returning to New York permanently. He returned for a visit in 1917 staying with friends in Greenwich Village. It was here he met Paul Ivano; someone who would help his career greatly.
While traveling to Palm Springs, Florida to film Stolen Moments, Valentino read the novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Seeking out a trade paper, he discovered that Metro had bought the film rights to the story. In New York, he sought out Metro's Office; only to find June Mathis had been trying to find him. She cast him in the role of Julio Desnoyers. For director, Mathis had chosen Rex Ingram, with whom Valentino did not get along, leading Mathis to play the role of peace keeper between the two.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was released in 1921, becoming a commercial and critical success. It was one of the first films to make $1,000,000 at the box office, as well as the 6th best selling silent film ever.
Valentino with the Arabian Stallion Jadaan. Publicity photo for Son of the Sheik, 1926
Metro Pictures seemed unwilling to acknowledge it had made a star. Most likely due to Rex Ingram's lack of faith in him, the studio refused to give him a raise beyond the $350 a week he had made for Four Horsemen. For his follow up film, they forced him into bit part in a B film called Uncharted Seas. It was on this film that Valentino met his second wife, Natacha Rambova.
Rambova, Mathis, Ivano, and Valentino began work on the Alla Nazimova film Camille. Valentino was cast in the role of Armand, Nazimova's love interest. The film, mostly under the control of Rambova and Nazimova, was considered too avant garde by critics and the public.
Valentino's final film for Metro was the Mathis penned The Conquering Power. The film received critical acclaim and did well at the box office. After the film's release, Valentino made a trip to New York where he met with several French producers. Yearning for Europe, better pay, and more respect, Valentino returned and promptly quit Metr
On August 15, 1926, Valentino collapsed at the Hotel Ambassador in New York City, New York. He was hospitalized at the Polyclinic in New York and an examination showed him to be suffering from appendicitis and gastric ulcers which required an immediate operation. The operation was a success but Valentino's condition had become so aggravated by then that peritonitis set in and spread throughout his body. On August 18 his doctors gave an optimistic prognosis for Valentino and told the media that unless Valentino's condition changed for the worse there was no need for updates. However, on August 21 he was stricken with a severe pleuritis relapse that developed rapidly in his left lung due to the actor's weakened condition. The doctors realized that he was going to die, but decided to withhold the prognosis from the actor who believed that his condition would pass. During the early hours of August 23, Valentino was briefly conscious and chatted with his doctors about his future. He fell back into a coma and died a few hours later, at the age of 31.
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Women would swoon and some engaged in rumors that he was gay. In all honesty though no matter what he MADE the silent screen. There has been no one like him since.
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Written By: Womble on 08/23/09 at 4:11 pm
Nice photos, Cat. Nice retrospects, Ninny.
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/23/09 at 4:20 pm
Nice photos, Cat. Nice retrospects, Ninny.
Thanks.
Cat
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Written By: ninny on 08/24/09 at 5:54 am
Nice photos, Cat. Nice retrospects, Ninny.
Thanks :)
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Written By: Howard on 08/24/09 at 5:57 am
Very nice pictures Cat,I bet the weather was wonderful. :)
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Written By: ninny on 08/24/09 at 6:09 am
The word of the day...Chauffeur
One employed to drive a private automobile
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Written By: Howard on 08/24/09 at 6:12 am
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Happy Birthday Vincent Kennedy McMahon. :)
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Written By: ninny on 08/24/09 at 6:12 am
The person of the day...E.G Marshall
E. G. Marshall (June 18, 1914 – August 24, 1998) was an American actor, best known for his TV roles as the lawyer Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon Dr. David Craig on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors in the 1970s. Among his film roles, he is perhaps best known as the unflappable Juror #4 in Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama 12 Angry Men
Although most familiar from his television and movie roles, E. G. Marshall came from a distinguished Broadway background, appearing in the original New York productions of The Skin of Our Teeth, The Iceman Cometh, and lead roles in The Crucible and Waiting for Godot.
Marshall was the original host of the popular nightly radio drama The CBS Radio Mystery Theater (or CBSRMT), which ran on CBS radio affiliate stations across the United States between 1974 and 1982. CBSRMT was an ambitious and sustained attempt to revive the great drama of old-time radio. Each episode began with the ominous sound of a creaking door, slowly opening to invite listeners in for the evening's adventure. At the end of each show, the door would swing shut, with Marshall signing off, "Until next time, pleasant... dre-e-eams?" Marshall hosted the program for the first seven years. Failing health forced his departure in 1981, and he was replaced by actress Tammy Grimes for the final season.
Marshall also found fame playing in other television and film roles, usually as an authoritative figure. One of his best known television roles was as defense lawyer Lawrence Preston in the series The Defenders, which lasted from 1961 to 1965. He and future Brady Bunch star Robert Reed portrayed a father and son who worked in a law firm. This role garnered him two Emmy wins-one in 1962 and one in 1963. He also earned more prominence as dedicated neurosurgeon, Dr. Benjamin Craig, in The Bold Ones: The New Doctors, from 1969 to 1973, featuring unfamiliar actors David Hartman and John Saxon. Marshall reprised the role of Lawrence Preston for a 1997 Showtime television movie based on The Defenders called The Defenders: Payback. It featured the elder Preston and his descendants taking on legal cases in the 1990s. (Reed did not appear in the revival since he died in 1992. The movie acknowledged this absence by mentioning that Reed's character had died.) There was a second movie and plans for a series. The series was aborted after his death.
* 13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
* Call Northside 777 (1948)
* The Caine Mutiny (1954)
* Broken Lance (1954)
* The Left Hand of God (1955)
* The Bachelor Party (1957)
* Man on Fire (1957)
* 12 Angry Men (1957)
* The Buccaneer (1958)
* Town Without Pity (1961)
* The Chase (1966)
* The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
* The Learning Tree (1969)
* Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
* The Incredible Machine (1975)
* Interiors (1978)
* Superman II (1980)
* Creepshow (1982)
* Kennedy (1983)
* La Gran Fiesta (1984)
* My Chauffeur (1986)
* Power (1986)
* National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
* Consenting Adults (1992)
* Chicago Hope (1994 & 1995, 8 episodes)
* The Tommyknockers (1993)
* Nixon (1995)
* Absolute Power (1997)
* Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
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Written By: ninny on 08/24/09 at 6:15 am
The co-person of the day...Louis Prima
Louis Prima (7 December 1910 – 24 August 1978) was an Italian-American entertainer, singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter. Prima rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his seven-piece New Orleans style jazz band in the 1920s, then successively leading a swing combo in the 1930s, a big band in the 1940s, a Vegas lounge act in the 1950s, and a pop-rock band in the 1960s. In each of his musical endeavors, he incorporated his exuberant personality into his act.
Prima moved to Los Angeles to headline at the Famous Door nightclub. He appeared in several Hollywood movies, including a featured performance with Bing Crosby in the 1940 film Rhythm on the River. Prima and his Dixieland Gang continued to play club dates across the nation, including a 1939 stint at New York's Hickory House.
Big bands were big business then, and Prima apparently bowed to pressure from booking agents and formed a conventional big band in 1940. He exploited a distinctive, shuffling beat (which he called "Gleeby Rhythm"); this trademark Prima shuffle remained part of his repertoire for two decades. Prima sang most of the band vocals, with Lily Ann Carol as the "girl singer." Prima's high-powered drummer at this time was Jimmy Vincent, an energetic teenager who remained with the Prima band for many years.
In 1947 he added singer Cathy Ricciardi, who recorded under the name Cathy Allen. She was succeeded in 1949 by Keely Smith (who was to become his fourth wife), and the band concentrated on novelty songs like "Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo)" and "All Right, Louis, Drop the Gun." Prima's big band continued into the early 1950s, with a series of novelty recordings supervised (sometimes heavy-handedly) by record producer Mitch Miller.
Vegas years
The popularity of the big-band sound started to wane, and Prima began losing money, just as he needed it to support the pregnant Smith. Prima found work with Smith in small venues all over the East Coast. Eventually he called up his friend Bill Miller, who was then entertainment director of The Sahara nightclub and casino in Las Vegas, and asked for a job. His friend Cab Calloway warned him against the cramped Sahara lounge, but the financial pressure was too great. Prima telephoned saxophonist Sam Butera and instructed him to pick up a few musicians and go to Las Vegas in time for Prima's debut.
Prima acknowledged his new musicians for the opening-night crowd, and spontaneously asked Butera what the name of the band was. Butera ad-libbed, "The Witnesses!" From then on, Sam Butera and the Witnesses backed Prima and Smith on stage and records.
Prima and Smith worked hard throughout the 1950s, performing multiple shows a night and finishing at 6 a.m. Their efforts were rewarded with a resurgence in their popularity, and they were at least partly responsible for making the lounge at The Sahara a hotspot. On stage, Prima insisted on Smith adopting a humorless, poker-faced character that would play straight to Prima's zany ad libs. Smith actually had a fine sense of comedy that is often audible on the team's recordings; no matter how much the incorrigible Prima tried to disrupt her vocals, Smith would often come back with a funny remark of her own.
Louis Prima and Keely Smith were very much the model for Sonny & Cher: the exuberant Italian musician and the serious, exotic female singer, Smith and Cher both being of Cherokee descent (although Cher's heritage is primarily Armenian). Similarly, echoes of the stage banter between Prima and Butera would be heard years later in the early performances of the E Street Band and the interplay between Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons.
In 1959, Prima and Smith won the Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus for "That Old Black Magic."
In 1956 the Prima ensemble performed at the Sahara Hotel and Casino to record tracks for the album The Wildest!. It was an attempt by Capitol Records to capture the essence of the Vegas act. Over the next nine years, Prima and Smith raised two children, while he made scores of records, owned racehorses, appeared on television, and even opened a golf course. They outgrew the lounge and were promoted to the big room. They appeared in a few quickie musical films, including Senior Prom and Hey Boy! Hey Girl! Prima co-produced the feature Twist All Night, in which his band also appeared.
During this whirlwind of activity, according to Smith, the couple drifted farther and farther apart. One night, he refused to conduct for one of Smith's performances, delegating to Butera instead. A few days later they were in court, petitioning for divorce.
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Written By: Howard on 08/24/09 at 6:18 am
One of my father's favorites. :)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/24/09 at 7:27 am
Chauffeur....
...so good!
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Written By: Howard on 08/24/09 at 6:17 pm
Louie Prima also sang that David Lee Roth song.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/24/09 at 7:06 pm
Louie Prima also sang that David Lee Roth song.
Just A Gigolo
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/25/09 at 12:57 am
Just A Gigolo
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....only just?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/25/09 at 6:05 am
The word of the day...Cold
1.
1. Having a low temperature.
2. Having a temperature lower than normal body temperature.
3. Feeling no warmth; uncomfortably chilled.
2.
1. Marked by deficient heat: a cold room.
2. Being at a temperature that is less than what is required: cold oatmeal.
3. Chilled by refrigeration or ice: cold beer.
3. Lacking emotion; objective: cold logic.
4. Having no appeal to the senses or feelings: a cold decor.
5.
1. Not affectionate or friendly; aloof: a cold person; a cold nod.
2. Exhibiting or feeling no enthusiasm: a cold audience; a cold response to the new play; a concert that left me cold.
3. Devoid of sexual desire; frigid.
6. Designating a tone or color, such as pale gray, that suggests little warmth.
7. Having lost all freshness or vividness through passage of time: dogs attempting to catch a cold scent.
8.
1. Marked by or sustaining a loss of body heat: cold hands and feet.
2. Appearing to be dead; unconscious.
3. Dead: was cold in his grave.
9. Marked by unqualified certainty or sure familiarity.
10. So intense as to be almost uncontrollable: cold fury.
11. Characterized by repeated failure, especially in a sport or competitive activity: The team fell into a slump of cold shooting.
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Written By: ninny on 08/25/09 at 6:08 am
The person of the day...Truman Capote
Truman Capote (pronounced /ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊti/) (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) (born Truman Streckfus Persons) was an American writer many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays. In Cold Blood turned out to be a milestone in popular culture, being often credited with pioneering the "true crime" genre of nonfiction. From the time of its publication, its factuality and Capote's journalistic integrity have been called into question, and this has continued in the decades since his death.
Rising above a troubled childhood characterized by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations, he discovered his calling by the age of eleven and for the rest of his childhood honed his craft. As a professional writer, Capote started out as a composer of short stories. The critical success of one story, "Miriam" (1945) attracted the attention of the publisher Bennett Cerf, resulting in a contract with Random House to write a novel. The result was Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He attained instant celebrity as a result of the portrait photo which was used in promoting this first novel: in it he gazes smolderingly into the camera while reclining. He was invited to be a screenwriter. In the 1950s, his greatest success was a novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's, which was made into a very popular film starring Audrey Hepburn in the role of Holly Golightly. Capote's earned the most fame with In Cold Blood (1965), a journalistic work about the murder of four members of a Kansas farm family in their home, a book Capote spent four years writing. It was the peak of his career, although it was not his final book. In the 1970s, he maintained his celebrity by appearing on television talk shows. He spent years "on the skids" as an alcoholic.
The critical success of one of his short stories, "Miriam" (1945) attracted the attention of the publisher Bennett Cerf, resulting in a contract with Random House to write a novel. With an advance of $1,500, Capote returned to Monroeville and began Other Voices, Other Rooms, continuing to work on the manuscript in New Orleans, Saratoga Springs (New York), and North Carolina, eventually completing it in Nantucket, Massachusetts. It was published in 1948. Capote described this symbolic tale as "a poetic explosion in highly suppressed emotion." The novel is a semiautobiographical refraction of Capote's Alabama childhood. Decades later, writing in The Dogs Bark (1973), he commented:
Other Voices, Other Rooms was an attempt to exorcise demons, an unconscious, altogether intuitive attempt, for I was not aware, except for a few incidents and descriptions, of its being in any serious degree autobiographical. Rereading it now, I find such self-deception unpardonable.
The story focuses on 13-year-old Joel Knox following the loss of his mother. Joel is sent from New Orleans, Louisiana, to live with his father who abandoned him at the time of his birth. Arriving at Skully's Landing, a vast, decaying mansion in rural Alabama, Joel meets his sullen stepmother Amy, debauched transvestite Randolph, and defiant Idabel, a girl who becomes his friend. He also sees a spectral "queer lady" with "fat dribbling curls" watching him from a top window. Despite Joel's queries, the whereabouts of his father remain a mystery. When he finally is allowed to see his father, Joel is stunned to find he is a quadriplegic, having tumbled down a flight of stairs after being inadvertently shot by Randolph. Joel runs away with Idabel but catches pneumonia and eventually returns to the Landing where he is nursed back to health by Randolph. The implication in the final paragraph is that the "queer lady" beckoning from the window is Randolph in his old Mardi Gras costume. Gerald Clarke, in Capote: A Biography (1988) described the conclusion:
Finally, when he goes to join the queer lady in the window, Joel accepts his destiny, which is to be homosexual, to always hear other voices and live in other rooms. Yet acceptance is not a surrender; it is a liberation. "I am me," he whoops. "I am Joel, we are the same people." So, in a sense, had Truman rejoiced when he made peace with his own identity.
This much-discussed 1947 Harold Halma photo on the back of Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) was a key factor in Capote's rise to fame during the 1940s.
The scandalous Harold Halma photograph
When Other Voices, Other Rooms it made the The New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for nine weeks, selling more than 26,000 copies. The promotion and controversy surrounding this novel catapulted Capote to fame. A 1947 Harold Halma photograph used to promote the book showed a reclining, big eyed Capote gazing fiercely into the camera. Gerald Clarke, in Capote: A Biography (1988), wrote, "The famous photograph: Harold Halma's picture on the dustjacket of Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) caused as much comment and controversy as the prose inside. Truman claimed that the camera had caught him off guard, but in fact he had posed himself and was responsible for both the picture and the publicity." Much of the early attention to Capote centered around different interpretations of this photograph, which was viewed as a suggestive pose by some. According to Clarke, the photo created an "uproar" and gave Capote "not only the literary, but also the public personality he had always wanted." The photo made a huge impression on the 20-year-old Andy Warhol, who often talked about the picture and wrote fan letters to Capote. When Warhol moved to New York in 1949, he made numerous attempts to meet Capote, and Warhol's fascination with the author led to his first New York one-man show, Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote at the Hugo Gallery (June 16 – July 3, 1952).
Capote photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948
When the picture was reprinted along with reviews in magazines and newspapers, some readers were amused, but others were outraged and offended. The Los Angeles Times reported that Capote looked "as if he were dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality." The novelist Merle Miller issued a complaint about the picture at a publishing forum, and the photo of "Truman Remote" was satirized in the third issue of Mad (making Capote one of the first four celebrities to be spoofed in Mad). The humorist Max Shulman struck an identical pose for the dustjacket photo on his collection, Max Shulman's Large Economy Size (1948). The Broadway stage revue New Faces (and the subsequent film version) featured a skit in which Ronny Graham parodied Capote, deliberately copying his pose in the Halma photo. Random House featured the Halma photo in its "This is Truman Capote" ads, and large blowups were displayed in bookstore windows. Walking on Fifth Avenue, Halma overheard two middle-aged women looking at a Capote blowup in the window of a bookstore. When one woman said, "I'm telling you: he's just young," the other woman responded, "And I'm telling you, if he isn't young, he's dangerous!" Capote delighted in retelling this anecdote.
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Written By: ninny on 08/25/09 at 6:15 am
The co-person of the day...Paul Muni
Paul Muni (September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an American stage and film actor.
Muni began acting on Broadway in 1926. His first role, that of an elderly Jewish man in the play We Americans, was written by playwrights Max Siegel and Milton Herbert Gropper; it was also the first time that he ever acted in English. He was signed by Fox three years later, in 1929, and received an Oscar nomination for his first film The Valiant. However, he was unhappy with the roles and decided to return to Broadway.
In 1932, Paul Muni returned to Hollywood to star in such harrowing pre-Code films as the original Scarface and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. The acclaim that Muni received as a result of this performance led Warner Brothers Studios to sign a long-term contract with him. He received his second Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his performance as James Allen, but lost to Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII). Muni eventually won a long-overdue Oscar for his performance in the biographical drama The Story of Louis Pasteur. In 1946 Muni appeared on Broadway in A Flag is Born, refusing, along with co-stars Celia Adler and Marlon Brando, to accept compensation above the Actor's Equity minimum wage because of his commitment to the cause of creating a Jewish State in Israel.
Muni was nominated for a total of five Academy Awards, an impressive number by any standard but all the more remarkable for Muni since he only appeared in twenty-five films throughout his career. His other nominations may be seen in the table below. Some sources list Muni as a nominee for 'Best Actor' for the film Black Fury, but this is erroneous: Muni was actually a write-in candidate.
Film critic David Shipman called Muni "an actor of great integrity" and he prepared for his roles meticulously. Muni was widely recognized as an eccentric if talented individual. He would go into a rage whenever anyone wore red, but at the same time he could often be found between sessions relaxing with his violin. Over the years, he also became increasingly dependent on his wife, Bella, who terrified directors by forcing them to redo scenes that did not meet her satisfaction.
A dispute with Warner Bros. led to the termination of Muni's contract, the result of which was stardom for Humphrey Bogart. Bogart had been bombarding studio head Jack Warner with telegrams, begging to be cast as Roy Earle in the film High Sierra, a part that was supposed to have been played by Muni. But after Muni's departure from the studio, Warner told Bogart that the part was his (according to rumor, he made the offer on condition that Bogart stop sending him telegrams). After reigning as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the 1930s, Muni only made eight films between 1941 and 1959 (including a guest appearance as himself in the 1943 film Stage Door Canteen).
After several failed projects, Muni made a triumphant return to Broadway, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play in 1956 for the role of Henry Drummond in the play Inherit the Wind.
He retired from filmmaking in 1959, soon after receiving his fifth Academy Award nomination for The Last Angry Man; however, he made a final television appearance in the series Saints and Sinners in 1962. Muni died in Montecito, California in 1967 at the age of 71. Muni died the same year as his Angel On My Shoulder co-star Claude Rains.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6435 Hollywood Blvd.
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Written By: ninny on 08/25/09 at 6:20 am
* Honorable mention*...Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), who performed under the mononym Aaliyah (pronounced /əˈliːə/), was an American recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. At an early age, she appeared on Star Search and performed in concert alongside Gladys Knight. At age 12, Aaliyah was signed to Jive Records and Blackground Records by her uncle, Barry Hankerson. He introduced her to R. Kelly, who became her mentor, as well as lead songwriter and producer of her debut album. Age Ain't Nothing But a Number sold two million copies in the United States and was certified double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After facing allegations of an illegal marriage with Kelly, Aaliyah ended her contract with Jive and signed to Atlantic Records.
Aaliyah worked with record producers Timbaland and Missy Elliott for her second album, One in a Million, which sold two million copies in the United States and over eight million copies worldwide. In 2000, Aaliyah appeared in her first major film, Romeo Must Die. She also contributed to the film's soundtrack, where "Try Again" was released as a single. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 solely on radio airplay, making Aaliyah the first artist in Billboard history to achieve this feat. "Try Again" earned Aaliyah a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocalist.
After filming Romeo Must Die, Aaliyah filmed her part in Queen of the Damned. She released her third and final album, Aaliyah, in 2001. On August 25, 2001, Aaliyah and eight others were killed in an airplane crash in The Bahamas after filming the music video for the single "Rock the Boat". The pilot, Luis Morales III, was unlicensed at the time of the accident and had traces of cocaine and alcohol in his system. Aaliyah's family later filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Blackhawk International Airways, which was settled out of court. Since then, Aaliyah has achieved commercial success with several posthumous releases. Selling over 24 million records worldwide, she has been credited for helping redefine R&B and hip hop and has been named the "Queen of Urban Pop".
On August 25, 2001, at 6:45 pm (EST), Aaliyah and various members of her record company boarded a twin engine Cessna 402B (N8097W) at Marsh Harbour, Abaco Islands, The Bahamas, to travel to an airport in Opa-locka, Florida, after they completed filming the music video for "Rock the Boat". The crew had a flight scheduled the following day, but Aaliyah and her entourage were eager to return to the United States due to the filming finishing early, so they demanded that their heavy equipment be loaded on the plane rather than left behind. It resulted in the aircraft being well beyond the standard weight and balance tolerance provided by Cessna.
The plane crashed shortly after takeoff, about 200 feet (60 m) from the runway. Aaliyah, pilot Luis Morales III, hair stylist Eric Forman, Anthony Dodd, security guard Scott Gallin, video producer Douglas Kratz, stylist Christopher Maldonado, and Blackground Records employees Keith Wallace and Gina Smith were killed. According to findings from an inquest conducted by the coroner's office in The Bahamas, Aaliyah suffered from "severe burns and a blow to the head", in addition to severe shock. The coroner theorized that, even if Aaliyah had survived the crash, her recovery would have been virtually impossible given the severity of her injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report stated that "the airplane was seen lifting off the runway, and then nose down, impacting in a marsh on the south side of the departure end of runway 27." It also indicated that the pilot was not approved to pilot the plane he was attempting to fly. Morales falsely obtained his Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) license by showing hundreds of hours never flown, and he may also have falsified how many hours he had flown in order to get a job with his employer, Blackhawk International Airways. Additionally, an autopsy performed on Morales revealed traces of cocaine and alcohol in his system.
Further investigations determined the plane was over its total gross weight by 700 pounds and was loaded with one more passenger than it was allowed to carry. John Frank of the Cessna Pilots Association stated that the plane was "definitely overloaded". The NTSB reported that the total gross weight of the plane was "substantially exceeded", which caused the center of gravity to be pushed too far aft. Aaliyah's funeral was held on August 31, 2001, at the Saint Ignatius Loyola Church in New York, which was attended by over 800 mourners. After service, 22 white doves were released to symbolize each year of her life. Aaliyah was buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/25/09 at 7:00 am
The word of the day...Cold
1.
1. Having a low temperature.
2. Having a temperature lower than normal body temperature.
3. Feeling no warmth; uncomfortably chilled.
2.
1. Marked by deficient heat: a cold room.
2. Being at a temperature that is less than what is required: cold oatmeal.
3. Chilled by refrigeration or ice: cold beer.
3. Lacking emotion; objective: cold logic.
4. Having no appeal to the senses or feelings: a cold decor.
5.
1. Not affectionate or friendly; aloof: a cold person; a cold nod.
2. Exhibiting or feeling no enthusiasm: a cold audience; a cold response to the new play; a concert that left me cold.
3. Devoid of sexual desire; frigid.
6. Designating a tone or color, such as pale gray, that suggests little warmth.
7. Having lost all freshness or vividness through passage of time: dogs attempting to catch a cold scent.
8.
1. Marked by or sustaining a loss of body heat: cold hands and feet.
2. Appearing to be dead; unconscious.
3. Dead: was cold in his grave.
9. Marked by unqualified certainty or sure familiarity.
10. So intense as to be almost uncontrollable: cold fury.
11. Characterized by repeated failure, especially in a sport or competitive activity: The team fell into a slump of cold shooting.
Winter will be with us soon!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/25/09 at 7:09 am
....only just?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FvVcagZln0&feature=fvw
The Village People's version of Just A Gigolo.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/25/09 at 7:10 am
Winter will be with us soon!
don't remind of winter,I'm still enjoying the summer.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/25/09 at 7:48 am
Winter will be with us soon!
don't remind of winter,I'm still enjoying the summer.
Yep.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/25/09 at 11:03 am
Yep.
Indeed
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/25/09 at 2:54 pm
Then I'm going to be shoveling snow again. :P
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/25/09 at 5:05 pm
Then I'm going to be shoveling snow again. :P
Nobody likes doing that.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 08/25/09 at 7:28 pm
Then I'm going to be shoveling snow again. :P
Which is why I moved out of Queens and into Orlando.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/26/09 at 1:55 am
Then I'm going to be shoveling snow again. :P
I am looking forward to the snow again.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/26/09 at 6:15 am
I am looking forward to the snow again.
It's too cold.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 08/26/09 at 6:22 am
Ridiculously cold in New York in the winter.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/26/09 at 6:24 am
Ridiculously cold in New York in the winter.
plus it's bad waiting for public transportation.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/26/09 at 6:32 am
*the word of the day will be late today* we have to take Daniel to appointments.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/26/09 at 6:36 am
*the word of the day will be late today* we have to take Daniel to appointments.
Please take care in all you have to do.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/26/09 at 3:09 pm
Please take care in all you have to do.
Thanks..we ended up bringing Missy home for a few days.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/26/09 at 3:12 pm
The word of the day...Cobweb
1.
1. The web spun by a spider to catch its prey.
2. A single thread spun by a spider.
2. Something resembling the web of a spider in gauziness or flimsiness.
3. An intricate plot; a snare: caught in a cobweb of espionage and intrigue.
4. cobwebs Confusion; disorder: cobwebs on the brain.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/26/09 at 3:16 pm
The person of the day...Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer (28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French actor, who had appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After having a dramatic education, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s. Although moving to the U.S., he kept up the connection with french cinema. His most famous role was in the mystery-thriller Gaslight (1944). Other memorable performances were possibly in the era's highly praised romantic dramas, Algiers (1938) and Love Affair (1939). During his lifetime, he received four Academy Award nominations for Best Actor.
During this period, Boyer had continued making European films, and with Mayerling co-starring Danielle Darrieux in 1936 it made him an international star. This was followed by Orage (1938), opposite Michèle Morgan. The offscreen Boyer was bookish and private, far removed from the Hollywood high life. But onscreen he made audience swoon as he romanced Marlene Dietrich in The Garden of Allah (1936), Jean Arthur in History Is Made at Night (1937), Greta Garbo in Conquest (1937), and Irene Dunne in Love Affair (1939) - although today forgotten. The Garden of Allah established him as a major actor in the U.S., which was his first film in Technicolor.
In 1938, he landed his famous role, as Pepe le Moko, the thief on the run, in Algiers an English-language remake of the classic French film Pepe le Moko with Jean Gabin. Although he never invited costar Hedy Lamarr to "Come with me to the Casbah" in the movie, this line was in the movie trailer. The line would stick with him, thanks to generations of impressionists and Looney Tunes parodies. Boyer's role as Pepe Le Moko was already world famous when animator Chuck Jones based the character of Pepe le Pew, the romantic skunk introduced in 1945's Odor-able Kitty, on Boyer and his most well-known performance. Boyer's vocal style was also parodied on the Tom and Jerry cartoons, most notably when the Tom character was trying to woo a female cat (like for instance in The Zoot Cat).
from the trailer for All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Boyer played in three classic films of unrequited love: All This, and Heaven Too (1940), with Bette Davis; Back Street (1941), with Margaret Sullavan; and Hold Back the Dawn (1941), with Olivia de Havilland and Paulette Goddard.
In contrast to his glamorous image, Boyer began losing his hair early, had a pronounced paunch, and was noticeably shorter than leading ladies like Ingrid Bergman. When Bette Davis first saw him on the set of All This, and Heaven Too, she did not recognize him and tried to have him removed from the set.
In 1943, he was awarded an Honorary Oscar Certificate for "progressive cultural achievement" in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference (certificate). Boyer never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Best Actor four times in Conquest (1937), Algiers (1938), Gaslight (1944) and Fanny (1961), the latter also nominating him the Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance.
Charles Boyer is best known for his role in the 1944 film Gaslight in which he tried to convince Ingrid Bergman's character
* Tales of Manhattan (1942)
* The Heart of a Nation (1943, US version only)
* The Constant Nymph (1943)
* Flesh and Fantasy (1943, Third segment)
* Gaslight (1944)
* Together Again (1944)
* Congo (1945)
* Confidential Agent (1945)
* The Battle of the Rails (1946)
* Cluny Brown (1946)
* A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
* Arch of Triumph (1948)
* The 13th Letter (1951)
* The First Legion (1951)
* The Happy Time (1952)
* Thunder in the East (1952)
* The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
* The Cobweb (1955)
* Nana (1955)
* Lucky to Be a Woman (1956)
* Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
* Paris, Palace Hotel (1956)
* It Happened on the 36 Candles (1957) (uncredited)
* La Parisienne (1957)
* Maxime (1958)
* The Buccaneer (1958)
* Fanny (1961)
* Midnight Folly (1961)
* The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
* Adorable Julia (1962)
* Love Is a Ball (1963)
* A Very Special Favor (1965)
* How to Steal a Million (1966)
* Is Paris Burning? (1966)
* Casino Royale (1967)
* Barefoot in the Park (1967)
* Hot Line (1968)
* The April Fools (1969)
* The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
* Lost Horizon (1973)
* Stavisky (1974)
* A Matter of Time (1976)
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/26/09 at 3:18 pm
The co-person of the day...Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) (nicknamed "Slim," "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle") was an American aviator, author, inventor and explorer.
On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh, then a 25-year old U.S. Air Mail pilot, emerged from virtual obscurity to almost instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight from Roosevelt Field on Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh, an Army reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lindbergh used his fame to relentlessly help promote the rapid development of U.S. commercial aviation. In March, 1932, however, his infant son, Charles, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what was soon dubbed the "Crime of the Century" which eventually led to the Lindbergh family fleeing the United States in December 1935 to live in Europe where they remained up until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Before the United States entered WWII in December, 1941, Lindbergh had been an outspoken advocate of keeping the U.S. out of the world conflict (as was his Congressman father during World War I) and became a leader of the anti-war America First movement. Nonetheless, he supported the war effort after Pearl Harbor and flew many combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant, even though President Roosevelt had refused to reinstate his Army Air Corps colonel's commission that he had resigned earlier in 1939.
In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor, and active environmentalist.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/26/09 at 3:23 pm
Gaslight was a very good film ( the one he was in)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/26/09 at 6:10 pm
The person of the day...Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer (28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French actor, who had appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After having a dramatic education, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s. Although moving to the U.S., he kept up the connection with french cinema. His most famous role was in the mystery-thriller Gaslight (1944). Other memorable performances were possibly in the era's highly praised romantic dramas, Algiers (1938) and Love Affair (1939). During his lifetime, he received four Academy Award nominations for Best Actor.
During this period, Boyer had continued making European films, and with Mayerling co-starring Danielle Darrieux in 1936 it made him an international star. This was followed by Orage (1938), opposite Michèle Morgan. The offscreen Boyer was bookish and private, far removed from the Hollywood high life. But onscreen he made audience swoon as he romanced Marlene Dietrich in The Garden of Allah (1936), Jean Arthur in History Is Made at Night (1937), Greta Garbo in Conquest (1937), and Irene Dunne in Love Affair (1939) - although today forgotten. The Garden of Allah established him as a major actor in the U.S., which was his first film in Technicolor.
In 1938, he landed his famous role, as Pepe le Moko, the thief on the run, in Algiers an English-language remake of the classic French film Pepe le Moko with Jean Gabin. Although he never invited costar Hedy Lamarr to "Come with me to the Casbah" in the movie, this line was in the movie trailer. The line would stick with him, thanks to generations of impressionists and Looney Tunes parodies. Boyer's role as Pepe Le Moko was already world famous when animator Chuck Jones based the character of Pepe le Pew, the romantic skunk introduced in 1945's Odor-able Kitty, on Boyer and his most well-known performance. Boyer's vocal style was also parodied on the Tom and Jerry cartoons, most notably when the Tom character was trying to woo a female cat (like for instance in The Zoot Cat).
from the trailer for All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Boyer played in three classic films of unrequited love: All This, and Heaven Too (1940), with Bette Davis; Back Street (1941), with Margaret Sullavan; and Hold Back the Dawn (1941), with Olivia de Havilland and Paulette Goddard.
In contrast to his glamorous image, Boyer began losing his hair early, had a pronounced paunch, and was noticeably shorter than leading ladies like Ingrid Bergman. When Bette Davis first saw him on the set of All This, and Heaven Too, she did not recognize him and tried to have him removed from the set.
In 1943, he was awarded an Honorary Oscar Certificate for "progressive cultural achievement" in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference (certificate). Boyer never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Best Actor four times in Conquest (1937), Algiers (1938), Gaslight (1944) and Fanny (1961), the latter also nominating him the Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance.
Charles Boyer is best known for his role in the 1944 film Gaslight in which he tried to convince Ingrid Bergman's character
* Tales of Manhattan (1942)
* The Heart of a Nation (1943, US version only)
* The Constant Nymph (1943)
* Flesh and Fantasy (1943, Third segment)
* Gaslight (1944)
* Together Again (1944)
* Congo (1945)
* Confidential Agent (1945)
* The Battle of the Rails (1946)
* Cluny Brown (1946)
* A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
* Arch of Triumph (1948)
* The 13th Letter (1951)
* The First Legion (1951)
* The Happy Time (1952)
* Thunder in the East (1952)
* The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
* The Cobweb (1955)
* Nana (1955)
* Lucky to Be a Woman (1956)
* Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
* Paris, Palace Hotel (1956)
* It Happened on the 36 Candles (1957) (uncredited)
* La Parisienne (1957)
* Maxime (1958)
* The Buccaneer (1958)
* Fanny (1961)
* Midnight Folly (1961)
* The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
* Adorable Julia (1962)
* Love Is a Ball (1963)
* A Very Special Favor (1965)
* How to Steal a Million (1966)
* Is Paris Burning? (1966)
* Casino Royale (1967)
* Barefoot in the Park (1967)
* Hot Line (1968)
* The April Fools (1969)
* The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
* Lost Horizon (1973)
* Stavisky (1974)
* A Matter of Time (1976)
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never heard of this guy. ???
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/27/09 at 1:50 am
never heard of this guy. ???
He was in Gaslight. the mystery-thriller film.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/27/09 at 4:22 am
The co-person of the day...Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) (nicknamed "Slim," "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle") was an American aviator, author, inventor and explorer.
On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh, then a 25-year old U.S. Air Mail pilot, emerged from virtual obscurity to almost instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight from Roosevelt Field on Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris in the single-seat, single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh, an Army reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lindbergh used his fame to relentlessly help promote the rapid development of U.S. commercial aviation. In March, 1932, however, his infant son, Charles, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what was soon dubbed the "Crime of the Century" which eventually led to the Lindbergh family fleeing the United States in December 1935 to live in Europe where they remained up until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Before the United States entered WWII in December, 1941, Lindbergh had been an outspoken advocate of keeping the U.S. out of the world conflict (as was his Congressman father during World War I) and became a leader of the anti-war America First movement. Nonetheless, he supported the war effort after Pearl Harbor and flew many combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant, even though President Roosevelt had refused to reinstate his Army Air Corps colonel's commission that he had resigned earlier in 1939.
I always keep seeing the program on tv about the abduction of his son Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/27/09 at 6:08 am
The word of the day...Flood
1. An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry.
2. A flood tide.
3. An abundant flow or outpouring: received a flood of applications. See synonyms at flow.
4. A floodlight, specifically a unit that produces a beam of intense light.
5. Flood In the Bible, the covering of the earth with water that occurred during the time of Noah.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/27/09 at 6:19 am
The person of the day...Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan (born Stephen Ray Vaughan; October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, whose broad appeal made him an influential electric blues guitarist. To date, a total of 18 albums of Vaughan's work have been released. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Stevie Ray Vaughan #7 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, and Classic Rock Magazine ranked him #3 in their list of the 100 Wildest Guitar Heroes in 2007.
International spotlight
Tommy Shannon, the former bassist in Krackerjack, replaced Jackie Newhouse in 1981. In July, the band played a music festival in Manor, Texas and a videotape of the performance was given to Rolling Stones drummer, Charlie Watts. Double Trouble then played a private party for The Rolling Stones at New York's Danceteria nightclub. On July 17, 1982, Stevie and Double Trouble played the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the first unsigned act to perform at the event. A few in the audience started booing the loud band, though Stevie later met David Bowie and Jackson Browne after the show.
Bowie asked Stevie to play lead guitar on his new album Let's Dance. The album became Bowie's best-selling album of his career. Bowie also offered Stevie to go on his Serious Moonlight Tour. Stevie, however, could not promote his band outside the tour. Thus, Stevie declined to go on the tour.
Browne offered Stevie time in his recording studio in Los Angeles free of charge, and the band accepted the offer in November 1982. In the spring of the following year, music producer John Hammond heard a tape of the band's Montreux performance, and got the band a recording contract with Epic Records. Hammond is credited with discovering Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, among others. On June 13, 1983, the recordings in Browne's studio morphed into Texas Flood, Stevie and Double Trouble's debut album, and was released to glowing reviews, selling over half a million units. Along with making an appearance on Austin City Limits, readers of Guitar Player magazine voted Stevie Ray as "Best New Talent" and "Best Electric Blues Guitar Player", with Texas Flood as "Best Guitar Album".
On May 15, 1984, Couldn't Stand the Weather was released and hit number 31 on the Billboard charts. In October 1984, Stevie Ray and Double Trouble performed at Carnegie Hall. To celebrate his thirtieth birthday, Stevie brought along an all-star supporting band, including Dr. John on keyboards and his brother, Jimmie, on guitar, who wore custom tailored velvet mariachi suits. His wife and parents flew in from Texas to share in his triumph. In November 1984, Stevie won "Entertainer of the Year" and "Instrumentalist of the Year" at the National Blues Awards in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/27/09 at 6:21 am
The co-person of the day...Brian Epstein
Brian Samuel Epstein (pronounced /ˈɛpstaɪn/) (19 September 1934 – 27 August 1967) was a British music entrepreneur, and the manager of The Beatles. He also managed several other musical artists such as Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Cilla Black and The Remo Four. His management company was named NEMS Enterprises, after his family's music stores, called NEMS (North End Music Stores).
Epstein paid for The Beatles to record a demo in Decca's studios, which Epstein later persuaded George Martin to listen to, as Decca was not interested in signing the band. Epstein was then offered a contract by Martin on behalf of EMI's small Parlophone label, even though they had previously been rejected by almost every other British record company. Martin later explained that Epstein's enthusiasm and his confidence that The Beatles would one day become internationally famous convinced him to sign them.
Epstein died of an accidental drug overdose at his home in London in August 1967. The Beatles' early success has been attributed to Epstein's management and sense of style. Paul McCartney said of Epstein: "If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian.
he Beatles' name was supposedly first noticed by Epstein in issues of Mersey Beat, and on numerous posters around Liverpool, before he asked Bill Harry who they were, as Harry had previously convinced Epstein to sell the magazine at NEMS. (The Beatles were featured on the front page of its second issue). The Beatles had recorded the "My Bonnie" single with Tony Sheridan in Germany, and some months after its release Epstein asked Alistair Taylor about it in NEMS. Epstein's version of the story was that a customer, Raymond Jones, walked into the NEMS shop and asked him for the "My Bonnie" single, which made Epstein curious about the group. Taylor later claimed that he used the name of Jones (a regular customer) to order the single and paid the deposit himself, knowing that Epstein would notice it, and order further copies. Harry and McCartney later repudiated Epstein's story, as Harry had been talking to Epstein about The Beatles for a long time (being the group he promoted the most in the Mersey Beat magazine) and by McCartney saying, “Brian knew perfectly well who The Beatles were - they were on the front page of the second issue of 'Mersey Beat'.”
The Beatles were due to perform a lunchtime concert in the Cavern Club on 9 November 1961. Epstein asked Bill Harry to arrange for Epstein and his assistant Taylor to watch The Beatles perform, and Epstein and Taylor were allowed into the club without queuing, with a welcome message being announced over the club's public-address system by Bob Wooler, who was the resident DJ. Epstein later talked about the performance:
“ I was immediately struck by their music, their beat, and their sense of humour on stage — and, even afterwards, when I met them, I was struck again by their personal charm. And it was there that, really, it all started. ”
After the performance, Epstein and Taylor went into the dressing room — which he later called "as big as a broom cupboard" — to talk to them. The Beatles, all regular NEMS customers, immediately recognised Epstein, but before Epstein could congratulate them on their performance, George Harrison said, "And what brings Mr. Epstein here?" Epstein replied with, "We just popped in to say hello. I enjoyed your performance." He introduced Taylor, who merely nodded a greeting, and then said, "Well done, then. Goodbye," and left. Epstein and Taylor went to Peacock's restaurant in Hackins Hey for lunch, and during the meal Epstein asked Taylor what he thought about the group. Taylor replied that he honestly thought they were "absolutely awful", but there was something "remarkable" about them. Epstein waited a long time before saying anything further, just sitting there smiling slightly, but eventually saying, "I think they're tremendous!" Later, when Epstein was paying the bill, he grabbed Taylor's arm and said, "Do you think I should manage them?"
The Beatles played at The Cavern over the next three weeks, and Epstein was always there to watch them. Epstein contacted Allan Williams (their previous promoter/manager) to confirm that Williams no longer had any ties to them, but Williams advised Epstein "not to touch them with a barge pole", because of a Hamburg concert percentage the group had refused to pay him.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/27/09 at 6:24 am
The word of the day...Flood
1. An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry.
2. A flood tide.
3. An abundant flow or outpouring: received a flood of applications. See synonyms at flow.
4. A floodlight, specifically a unit that produces a beam of intense light.
5. Flood In the Bible, the covering of the earth with water that occurred during the time of Noah.
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Hurricane Agnes really did the Northwest in. Even after over 20 years my parents still talk about that.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/27/09 at 7:22 am
I hate when Pathmark gets flooded with water when there's a heavy rainstorm. :P
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 08/27/09 at 8:41 am
Very nice, Ninny. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/27/09 at 10:08 am
I hate when Pathmark gets flooded with water when there's a heavy rainstorm. :P
Do you have to mop it up?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/27/09 at 10:09 am
Very nice, Ninny. :)
Thank You :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/27/09 at 12:58 pm
I hate when Pathmark gets flooded with water when there's a heavy rainstorm. :P
Don't you get time off work when that happens?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/27/09 at 2:57 pm
Don't you get time off work when that happens?
No unfortunately I have to get the wagons when it rains but not when there's a huge flood outside then I can let the wagons sit in the rain all by themselves.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/27/09 at 2:58 pm
Do you have to mop it up?
I don't mop up anything that's the maintainence guy job.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/27/09 at 4:59 pm
I don't mop up anything that's the maintainence guy job.
Lucky him.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/27/09 at 5:00 pm
No unfortunately I have to get the wagons when it rains but not when there's a huge flood outside then I can let the wagons sit in the rain all by themselves.
Surely it is a health and safety issue here?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/28/09 at 5:46 am
The word of the day...Treasure
1. Accumulated or stored wealth in the form of money, jewels, or other valuables.
2. Valuable or precious possessions of any kind.
3. One considered especially precious or valuable.
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Written By: ninny on 08/28/09 at 5:49 am
The person of the day...John Huston
John Marcellus Huston (pronounced /ˈdʒɒn mɑrˈsɛləs ˈhjuːstən/; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He was known for directing the films The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952) The Misfits (1960), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), and Annie (1982). He was the son of actor Walter Huston and the father of actress Anjelica Huston and actor Danny Huston.
Huston began his film career as a screenwriter and made films mainly adapted from books or plays. Among other films, Huston worked on the scripts of Juarez (1939), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) and High Sierra (1941).
Huston's films were insightful about human nature and human predicaments. They also sometimes included scenes or brief dialogue passages that were remarkably prescient concerning environmental issues that came to public awareness in the future, in the period starting about 1970; examples include The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and The Night of the Iguana (1964). The Misfits (1960) was written by Arthur Miller and featured an all-star cast including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach, and was the last screen appearance of screen icons Gable and Monroe. It is well-known that Huston spent long evenings carousing in the Nevada casinos after filming, surrounded by reporters and beautiful women, gambling, drinking, and smoking cigars. Gable remarked during this time that "if he kept it up he would soon die of it."
After filming the documentary Let There Be Light on the psychiatric treatment of soldiers for shellshock, Huston resolved to make a film about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. The film, Freud the Secret Passion, began as a collaboration between Huston and Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre dropped out of the film and requested his name be removed from the credits. Huston went on to make the film starring Montgomery Clift as Freud.
In the 1970s, he was frequently an actor in Italian films, and continued acting until the age of 80 (Momo, 1986).
Huston is also famous to a generation of fans of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the Rankin/Bass animated adaptations of The Hobbit (1977) and The Return of the King (1980).
Many of his films were edited by Russell Lloyd, who was nominated for an Oscar for editing The Man Who Would Be King (1975).
The six-foot-two-inch, brown-eyed director also acted in a number of films, with distinction in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal (1963) for which he was nominated for the Academy award for Best Supporting Actor and in Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974) as the film's central corrupt businessman and incestuous father.
John Huston received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1983.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/28/09 at 5:51 am
The co-person of the day...Robert Shaw
Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English stage and film actor and writer, remembered for his performances in The Sting, From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, and in particular, Jaws, where he played the shark-obsessed fisherman Quint.
Shaw began his acting career in theatre, appearing in regional theatre throughout England. In 1952 he made his London debut on the West End at the Embassy Theatre in Caro William.
During the 1950s, Shaw starred in a British TV series which also appeared on American television as The Buccaneers. Shaw's best-known film performances include a turn as the dangerous enemy secret agent, Red Grant, in the second James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963); the relentless panzer officer Colonel Hessler in Battle of the Bulge (1965); a young Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (1966); Lord Randolph Churchill, in Young Winston (1972); the ruthless mobster Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting (1973); the tightly wound but coolly efficient heist mastermind/former mercenary soldier Bernard Ryder aka "Mr. Blue" in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974); the shark-obsessed fisherman Quint in Jaws (1975); and lighthouse keeper and treasure hunter Romer Treece in The Deep (1977).
Shaw was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in A Man for All Seasons.
He performed on stage as well, both in Britain and on Broadway, where his notable performances include Harold Pinter's Old Times and The Caretaker, Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Physicists directed by Peter Brooks, and The Man in the Glass Booth, inspired by the kidnapping and trial of Adolf Eichmann, written by Shaw himself, and directed by Pinter.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/28/09 at 5:54 am
* honorable mention*...Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby, the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude and as the mother of Orville Boggs in the Every Which Way films. In addition to her acting career, Gordon wrote numerous well-known plays, film scripts and books. Oscar nominated for both writing and acting, Gordon won an Oscar, an Emmy and two Golden Globe awards for her acting.
Gordon and husband Garson Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy films Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952). Both films were directed by George Cukor. The onscreen relationship of Hepburn and Tracy, seen in those films, was modelled on Gordon and Kanin's own marriage. Gordon and Kanin received Academy Awards nominations for both of those screenplays, as well as for that of a prior film, A Double Life (1947), which was also directed by Cukor.
In 1953's The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress. Gordon would go on to write three volumes of memoirs in the 1970s: My Side, Myself Among Others and An Open Book.
Gordon continued her on-stage acting career in the 1950s, and was nominated for a 1956 Tony, for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, a role she also played in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.
In 1966, Gordon was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award as Best Supporting Actress for Inside Daisy Clover opposite Natalie Wood. It was her first nomination for acting. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rosemary's Baby, a film adaptation of Ira Levin's bestselling horror novel about a satanic cult residing in an Upper West Side apartment building in Manhattan. In accepting the award, Gordon thanked the Academy by saying "I can't tell you how encouraging a thing like this is." That drew laughs because of her long career in the theater.
Gordon won another Golden Globe for Rosemary's Baby, and was nominated again, in 1971, for her role as Maude in the cult classic Harold and Maude (with Bud Cort as her love interest).
She went on to appear in twenty-two more films and at least that many television appearances through her seventies and eighties, including such successful sitcoms as Rhoda (which earned her another Emmy nomination) and Newhart. She also guest-starred on the late episode Columbo: Try and Catch Me. She made countless talk show appearances, in addition to hosting Saturday Night Live in 1977.
Gordon won an Emmy Award for a guest appearance on the sitcom Taxi, for a 1978 episode called "Sugar Mama," in which her character tries to solicit the services of a taxi driver, played by series star Judd Hirsch, as a male escort.
Her last Broadway appearance was as Mrs. Warren in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, produced by Joseph Papp at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1976. In the summer of 1976, Gordon starred in the leading role of her own play, Ho! Ho! Ho! at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts. She had a minor but memorable role as the mother of Orville Boggs (Geoffrey Lewis) in the Clint Eastwood films Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can.
Harold and Maude and Adam's Rib have both been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/28/09 at 5:57 am
The flower for Friday...Oleander
Oleander (Nerium oleander, (pronounced /ˈniːriəm ˈoʊliː.ændər/), is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae and is one of the most poisonous plants known. It is the only species currently classified in the genus Nerium. Other names include Adelfa, Alheli Extranjero, Baladre, Espirradeira, Flor de São Jose, Laurel de jardín, Laurel rosa, Laurier rose, Flourier rose, Olean, Aiwa, Rosa Francesca, Rosa Laurel, and Rose-bay (Inchem 2005), закум (Bulgarian), leander (Hungarian), leandru (Romanian), zakum, zakkum, zakhum (Turkish), zaqqum (Arabic); harduf (Hebrew: הרדוף); Kaneru (Sinhalese);arali (Tamil and Malayalam - South Indian languages); kanagillu (Kannada - South Indian language); kaner (in Hindi, and, also, in Punjabi-the language from North Indian state of Punjab); and in Chinese it is known as jia zhu tao (Chinese: 夹竹桃). The ancient city of Volubilis in Morocco took its name from the old Latin name for the flower.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/09 at 5:58 am
The word of the day...Treasure
1. Accumulated or stored wealth in the form of money, jewels, or other valuables.
2. Valuable or precious possessions of any kind.
3. One considered especially precious or valuable.
Daniel is your treasure at the moment.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/09 at 5:59 am
The person of the day...John Huston
Huston is also famous to a generation of fans of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the Rankin/Bass animated adaptations of The Hobbit (1977) and The Return of the King (1980).
I never knew that.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/28/09 at 6:04 am
Surely it is a health and safety issue here?
They told me to never go out in the thunderstorms.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/09 at 6:05 am
They told me to never go out in the thunderstorms.
...but still when it is heavy rain?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/28/09 at 6:05 am
Where did I see Ruth Gordon from? ???
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/28/09 at 6:06 am
...but still when it is heavy rain?
Yes,Pathmark cares for our safety.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/28/09 at 7:11 am
Where did I see Ruth Gordon from? ???
Every Which Way But loose?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/28/09 at 12:40 pm
The co-person of the day...Robert Shaw
Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English stage and film actor and writer, remembered for his performances in The Sting, From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, and in particular, Jaws, where he played the shark-obsessed fisherman Quint.
Shaw began his acting career in theatre, appearing in regional theatre throughout England. In 1952 he made his London debut on the West End at the Embassy Theatre in Caro William.
During the 1950s, Shaw starred in a British TV series which also appeared on American television as The Buccaneers. Shaw's best-known film performances include a turn as the dangerous enemy secret agent, Red Grant, in the second James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963); the relentless panzer officer Colonel Hessler in Battle of the Bulge (1965); a young Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (1966); Lord Randolph Churchill, in Young Winston (1972); the ruthless mobster Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting (1973); the tightly wound but coolly efficient heist mastermind/former mercenary soldier Bernard Ryder aka "Mr. Blue" in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974); the shark-obsessed fisherman Quint in Jaws (1975); and lighthouse keeper and treasure hunter Romer Treece in The Deep (1977).
Shaw was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in A Man for All Seasons.
He performed on stage as well, both in Britain and on Broadway, where his notable performances include Harold Pinter's Old Times and The Caretaker, Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Physicists directed by Peter Brooks, and The Man in the Glass Booth, inspired by the kidnapping and trial of Adolf Eichmann, written by Shaw himself, and directed by Pinter.
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He was a fabulius actor. He died much too soon. I liked him in "The Sting" (which is one of my favorite movies ever) and in Jaws, Pelham one two three and when he was younger in " From Russia with love"
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/28/09 at 7:17 pm
Every Which Way But loose?
Was she ever in a commercial? ???
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 08/28/09 at 7:58 pm
I loved Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby. She was such a wonderful Bitch....er.... I mean Witch. Nice work, Ninny. Kudos!!!!!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/28/09 at 8:36 pm
Robert Shaw played Henry the 8th in "A Man For All Seasons" probably one of the best performances I've seen. The red hair seem to fit him naturally which can't be said for most actors.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/29/09 at 5:12 am
The word of the day...Wagon
1. A four-wheeled, usually horse-drawn vehicle with a large rectangular body, used for transporting loads.
2.
1. A light automotive transport or delivery vehicle.
2. A station wagon.
3. A police patrol wagon.
3. A child's low, four-wheeled cart hauled by a long handle that governs the direction of the front wheels.
4. A small table or tray on wheels used for serving drinks or food: a dessert wagon.
5. Wagon The Big Dipper
6. Chiefly British. An open railway freight car.
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Written By: ninny on 08/29/09 at 5:15 am
The person of the day...Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6' 2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou, he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles.
In 1950, Marvin moved to Hollywood. He found work in supporting roles, and from the beginning was cast in various war films. As a decorated combat veteran, Marvin was a natural in war dramas, where he frequently assisted the director and other actors in realistically portraying infantry movement, arranging costumes, and even adjusting war surplus military prop firearms. His debut was in You're in the Navy Now (1951), and in 1952 he appeared in several films, including Don Siegel's Duel at Silver Creek, Hangman's Knot, and the war drama Eight Iron Men. He played Gloria Grahame's vicious boyfriend in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953). Marvin had a small but memorable role in The Wild One (1953) opposite Marlon Brando (Marvin's gang in the film was called "The Beetles"), followed by Seminole (1953) and Gun Fury (1953). He also had a small but memorable role as smartalecky sailor Meatball in The Caine Mutiny. He was again praised for his role as Hector the small town hood in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) with Spencer Tracy.
During the mid-1950s, Marvin gradually began playing more substantial roles. He starred in Attack (1956), and The Missouri Traveler (1958) but it took over one hundred episodes as Chicago cop Frank Ballinger in the successful 1957-1960 television series M Squad to actually give him name recognition. One critic described the show as "a hyped-up, violent Dragnet... with a tough-as-nails Marvin" playing a police lieutenant.
In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent co-starring roles such as The Comancheros (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; Marvin played Liberty Valance) and Donovan's Reef (1963), all with John Wayne. Marvin also guest-starred in Combat! "The Bridge at Chalons" (Episode 34, Season 2, Mission 1), and The Twilight Zone "The Grave" (1961, episode #72), in which he played a fearless gunman investigating the haunted grave of a man who swore to get revenge on him, and "Steel" (1963, episode #122 ), in which he played a former boxer who gets into the ring with a boxing robot.
Thanks to director Don Siegel, Marvin appeared in the groundbreaking The Killers (1964) playing an organized, no-nonsense, efficient, businesslike professional assassin whose character was copied to a great degree by Samuel L. Jackson in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. The Killers was also the first movie in which Marvin received top billing and the only time Ronald Reagan played a villain.
Along with Lee Marvin, actors (l to r) Gary Grimes, Charles Martin Smith and Ron Howard starred in The Spikes Gang (1974).
Marvin won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Actor for his comic role in the offbeat western Cat Ballou starring Jane Fonda. Following roles in The Professionals (1966) and the hugely successful The Dirty Dozen (1967), Marvin was given complete control over his next film. In Point Blank, an influential film with director John Boorman, he portrayed a hard-nosed criminal bent on revenge. In that film Marvin, who had selected Boorman himself for the director's slot, had a central role in the film's development, plot line, and staging. In 1968, Marvin also appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful Hell in the Pacific, co-starring famed Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune. He had a hit song with "Wand'rin' Star" from the western musical Paint Your Wagon (1969). By this time he was getting paid a million dollars per film, $200,000 less than Paul Newman was making at the time; he was also ambivalent about the business, even with its financial rewards:
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/29/09 at 5:17 am
The co-person of the day...Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (Swedish pronunciation: ( listen), English: /ˈbɜrɡmən/; 29 August, 1915 – 29 August, 1982) was a Swedish actress. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress in the first Tony Award ceremony in 1947. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is widely remembered for her performance as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942).
After completing one last film in Sweden and appearing in three moderately successful films (which included Adam Had Four Sons, Rage in Heaven and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) in the United States, Bergman joined Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 classic film Casablanca, which remains her best-known role. Bergman did not consider Casablanca to be one of her favorite performances. "I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart." About Bogart, she said "I never really knew him. I kissed him, but I didn't know him."
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946)
That same year, Bergman received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), which was also her first color film. The following year, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gaslight (1944). After losing to Ingrid Bergman for the 1944 Best Actress Academy Award, Barbara Stanwyck told the press she was a "member of The Ingrid Bergman Fan Club," declaring, "I don't feel at all bad about the Award because my favorite actress won it and has earned it by all her performances." Bergman received a third consecutive nomination for Best Actress with her performance as a nun in The Bells of St. Mary's (1945). Bergman had been considered for the role of Mother Maria-Veronica in 1944's The Keys of the Kingdom, but the part ultimately went to Rose Stradner, who was then the wife of the film's producer, Joseph Mankiewicz.
Later, Bergman would receive another Best Actress nomination for Joan of Arc (1948), an independent film based on the Maxwell Anderson play Joan of Lorraine, produced by Walter Wanger, and initially released through RKO. Bergman had championed the role since her arrival in Hollywood, which is one of the reasons she had played it on the Broadway stage in Anderson's play. Partly because of the pregnancy-out-of-wedlock scandal involving Bergman with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, the film, which was still in theatres when the scandal broke, was not a big hit with the public. Even worse, it received disastrous reviews, and although nominated for several Academy Awards, did not receive a Best Picture nomination. It was subsequently shorn of 45 minutes, and it was not until its restoration to full length in 1998 and its 2004 appearance on DVD that later audiences could see it as it was intended to be shown.
Bergman starred in the Alfred Hitchcock films Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and Under Capricorn (1949). Unlike her earlier Hitchcock films, Under Capricorn, the only one of the three made in color, was a slow-paced costume drama, and has never received the acclaim that the other films that Bergman made with Hitchcock have. Ingrid Bergman was a student of the acting coach Michael Chekhov during the 1940s. Coincidentally, it was his role in Spellbound, of which she was a star, that he received his only nomination for an Academy Award.
Between motion pictures, Bergman appeared in the stage plays Liliom, Anna Christie, and Joan of Lorraine. Furthermore, during a press conference in Washington, D.C. for the promotion of Joan of Lorraine, she protested against segregation after seeing it first hand at the theater she was acting in. This led to a lot of publicity and some hate mail.
Bergman went to Alaska during World War II in order to entertain US troops. Soon after the war ended, she also went to Europe for the same purpose, where she was able to see the devastation caused by the war. It was during this time that she began a relationship with the famous photographer Robert Capa. She became a smoker after needing to smoke for her role in Arch of Triumph.
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Written By: ninny on 08/29/09 at 5:21 am
*Honorable Mention*...Jean Hagen
Jean Hagen (August 3, 1923 - August 29, 1977) was an American film actress.
Her film debut was as a femme fatale in Adam's Rib in 1949. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) provided Hagen with her first starring role beside Sterling Hayden, and excellent reviews. She is arguably best remembered for her comic performance in Singin' in the Rain. As the vain and talentless silent movie star Lina Lamont, Hagen received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. MGM failed to provide her with a quality follow up role to enable her to build on her growing popularity.
By 1953, she had joined the cast of the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy. As the first wife of Danny Thomas, Hagen received three Emmy Award nominations, but after three seasons she grew dissatisfied and left the series. Thomas, who also produced the show, didn't appreciate Jean's departing the successful series, and her character was killed off rather than recast. This was the first TV character to be killed off a family sitcom. Marjorie Lord was cast a year later as Danny's second wife and played against Thomas successfully for several seasons. Hagen later made a notable appearance as Frida Daniels in The Shaggy Dog starring with Fred MacMurray. In 1960, she appeared as the character Elizabeth in the episode "Once Upon a Knight" of CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
Although she made frequent guest appearances in various television series, she was unable to successfully resume her film career, and for the remainder of her career played supporting roles, such as the friend of Bette Davis in Dead Ringer (1964). In the 1960s, Hagen's health began to decline and she spent many years hospitalised or in care.
In 1976, she made a comeback of sorts playing character roles in episodes of the television series Starsky and Hutch and The Streets of San Francisco, and made her final film appearance in the 1977 television movie Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/09 at 5:43 am
Robert Shaw played Henry the 8th in "A Man For All Seasons" probably one of the best performances I've seen. The red hair seem to fit him naturally which can't be said for most actors.
I have never seen the whole film and I wish to now.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/09 at 5:46 am
The person of the day...Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6' 2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou, he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles.
In 1950, Marvin moved to Hollywood. He found work in supporting roles, and from the beginning was cast in various war films. As a decorated combat veteran, Marvin was a natural in war dramas, where he frequently assisted the director and other actors in realistically portraying infantry movement, arranging costumes, and even adjusting war surplus military prop firearms. His debut was in You're in the Navy Now (1951), and in 1952 he appeared in several films, including Don Siegel's Duel at Silver Creek, Hangman's Knot, and the war drama Eight Iron Men. He played Gloria Grahame's vicious boyfriend in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953). Marvin had a small but memorable role in The Wild One (1953) opposite Marlon Brando (Marvin's gang in the film was called "The Beetles"), followed by Seminole (1953) and Gun Fury (1953). He also had a small but memorable role as smartalecky sailor Meatball in The Caine Mutiny. He was again praised for his role as Hector the small town hood in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) with Spencer Tracy.
During the mid-1950s, Marvin gradually began playing more substantial roles. He starred in Attack (1956), and The Missouri Traveler (1958) but it took over one hundred episodes as Chicago cop Frank Ballinger in the successful 1957-1960 television series M Squad to actually give him name recognition. One critic described the show as "a hyped-up, violent Dragnet... with a tough-as-nails Marvin" playing a police lieutenant.
In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent co-starring roles such as The Comancheros (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; Marvin played Liberty Valance) and Donovan's Reef (1963), all with John Wayne. Marvin also guest-starred in Combat! "The Bridge at Chalons" (Episode 34, Season 2, Mission 1), and The Twilight Zone "The Grave" (1961, episode #72), in which he played a fearless gunman investigating the haunted grave of a man who swore to get revenge on him, and "Steel" (1963, episode #122 ), in which he played a former boxer who gets into the ring with a boxing robot.
Thanks to director Don Siegel, Marvin appeared in the groundbreaking The Killers (1964) playing an organized, no-nonsense, efficient, businesslike professional assassin whose character was copied to a great degree by Samuel L. Jackson in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. The Killers was also the first movie in which Marvin received top billing and the only time Ronald Reagan played a villain.
Along with Lee Marvin, actors (l to r) Gary Grimes, Charles Martin Smith and Ron Howard starred in The Spikes Gang (1974).
Marvin won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Actor for his comic role in the offbeat western Cat Ballou starring Jane Fonda. Following roles in The Professionals (1966) and the hugely successful The Dirty Dozen (1967), Marvin was given complete control over his next film. In Point Blank, an influential film with director John Boorman, he portrayed a hard-nosed criminal bent on revenge. In that film Marvin, who had selected Boorman himself for the director's slot, had a central role in the film's development, plot line, and staging. In 1968, Marvin also appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful Hell in the Pacific, co-starring famed Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune. He had a hit song with "Wand'rin' Star" from the western musical Paint Your Wagon (1969). By this time he was getting paid a million dollars per film, $200,000 less than Paul Newman was making at the time; he was also ambivalent about the business, even with its financial rewards:
In the UK Lee Marvin had a number one hit with "Wand'rin' Star" and on the flip side was Clint Eastwood singing "I Talk to the Trees", with both songs from the film version of Paint Your Wagon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/09 at 6:00 am
The co-person of the day...Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (Swedish pronunciation: ( listen), English: /ˈbɜrɡmən/; 29 August, 1915 – 29 August, 1982) was a Swedish actress. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress in the first Tony Award ceremony in 1947. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is widely remembered for her performance as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942).
After completing one last film in Sweden and appearing in three moderately successful films (which included Adam Had Four Sons, Rage in Heaven and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) in the United States, Bergman joined Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 classic film Casablanca, which remains her best-known role. Bergman did not consider Casablanca to be one of her favorite performances. "I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart." About Bogart, she said "I never really knew him. I kissed him, but I didn't know him."
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946)
That same year, Bergman received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), which was also her first color film. The following year, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gaslight (1944). After losing to Ingrid Bergman for the 1944 Best Actress Academy Award, Barbara Stanwyck told the press she was a "member of The Ingrid Bergman Fan Club," declaring, "I don't feel at all bad about the Award because my favorite actress won it and has earned it by all her performances." Bergman received a third consecutive nomination for Best Actress with her performance as a nun in The Bells of St. Mary's (1945). Bergman had been considered for the role of Mother Maria-Veronica in 1944's The Keys of the Kingdom, but the part ultimately went to Rose Stradner, who was then the wife of the film's producer, Joseph Mankiewicz.
Later, Bergman would receive another Best Actress nomination for Joan of Arc (1948), an independent film based on the Maxwell Anderson play Joan of Lorraine, produced by Walter Wanger, and initially released through RKO. Bergman had championed the role since her arrival in Hollywood, which is one of the reasons she had played it on the Broadway stage in Anderson's play. Partly because of the pregnancy-out-of-wedlock scandal involving Bergman with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, the film, which was still in theatres when the scandal broke, was not a big hit with the public. Even worse, it received disastrous reviews, and although nominated for several Academy Awards, did not receive a Best Picture nomination. It was subsequently shorn of 45 minutes, and it was not until its restoration to full length in 1998 and its 2004 appearance on DVD that later audiences could see it as it was intended to be shown.
Bergman starred in the Alfred Hitchcock films Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and Under Capricorn (1949). Unlike her earlier Hitchcock films, Under Capricorn, the only one of the three made in color, was a slow-paced costume drama, and has never received the acclaim that the other films that Bergman made with Hitchcock have. Ingrid Bergman was a student of the acting coach Michael Chekhov during the 1940s. Coincidentally, it was his role in Spellbound, of which she was a star, that he received his only nomination for an Academy Award.
Between motion pictures, Bergman appeared in the stage plays Liliom, Anna Christie, and Joan of Lorraine. Furthermore, during a press conference in Washington, D.C. for the promotion of Joan of Lorraine, she protested against segregation after seeing it first hand at the theater she was acting in. This led to a lot of publicity and some hate mail.
Bergman went to Alaska during World War II in order to entertain US troops. Soon after the war ended, she also went to Europe for the same purpose, where she was able to see the devastation caused by the war. It was during this time that she began a relationship with the famous photographer Robert Capa. She became a smoker after needing to smoke for her role in Arch of Triumph.
She once came to the cinema where I worked and held the door open for her. She still had her charms as she did back then in the films she made.
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Written By: ninny on 08/29/09 at 6:39 am
She once came to the cinema where I worked and held the door open for her. She still had her charms as she did back then in the films she made.
I always thought of her as a very classy but down to earth person :)
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Written By: Howard on 08/29/09 at 6:53 am
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/09 at 9:45 am
I always thought of her as a very classy but down to earth person :)
There again, pre-autograph days.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/09 at 9:46 am
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That is a cart not a wagon.
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Written By: ninny on 08/29/09 at 10:52 am
That is a cart not a wagon.
;D
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Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/29/09 at 11:06 am
The person of the day...Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6' 2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou, he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles.
In 1950, Marvin moved to Hollywood. He found work in supporting roles, and from the beginning was cast in various war films. As a decorated combat veteran, Marvin was a natural in war dramas, where he frequently assisted the director and other actors in realistically portraying infantry movement, arranging costumes, and even adjusting war surplus military prop firearms. His debut was in You're in the Navy Now (1951), and in 1952 he appeared in several films, including Don Siegel's Duel at Silver Creek, Hangman's Knot, and the war drama Eight Iron Men. He played Gloria Grahame's vicious boyfriend in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953). Marvin had a small but memorable role in The Wild One (1953) opposite Marlon Brando (Marvin's gang in the film was called "The Beetles"), followed by Seminole (1953) and Gun Fury (1953). He also had a small but memorable role as smartalecky sailor Meatball in The Caine Mutiny. He was again praised for his role as Hector the small town hood in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) with Spencer Tracy.
During the mid-1950s, Marvin gradually began playing more substantial roles. He starred in Attack (1956), and The Missouri Traveler (1958) but it took over one hundred episodes as Chicago cop Frank Ballinger in the successful 1957-1960 television series M Squad to actually give him name recognition. One critic described the show as "a hyped-up, violent Dragnet... with a tough-as-nails Marvin" playing a police lieutenant.
In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent co-starring roles such as The Comancheros (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; Marvin played Liberty Valance) and Donovan's Reef (1963), all with John Wayne. Marvin also guest-starred in Combat! "The Bridge at Chalons" (Episode 34, Season 2, Mission 1), and The Twilight Zone "The Grave" (1961, episode #72), in which he played a fearless gunman investigating the haunted grave of a man who swore to get revenge on him, and "Steel" (1963, episode #122 ), in which he played a former boxer who gets into the ring with a boxing robot.
Thanks to director Don Siegel, Marvin appeared in the groundbreaking The Killers (1964) playing an organized, no-nonsense, efficient, businesslike professional assassin whose character was copied to a great degree by Samuel L. Jackson in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. The Killers was also the first movie in which Marvin received top billing and the only time Ronald Reagan played a villain.
Along with Lee Marvin, actors (l to r) Gary Grimes, Charles Martin Smith and Ron Howard starred in The Spikes Gang (1974).
Marvin won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Actor for his comic role in the offbeat western Cat Ballou starring Jane Fonda. Following roles in The Professionals (1966) and the hugely successful The Dirty Dozen (1967), Marvin was given complete control over his next film. In Point Blank, an influential film with director John Boorman, he portrayed a hard-nosed criminal bent on revenge. In that film Marvin, who had selected Boorman himself for the director's slot, had a central role in the film's development, plot line, and staging. In 1968, Marvin also appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful Hell in the Pacific, co-starring famed Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune. He had a hit song with "Wand'rin' Star" from the western musical Paint Your Wagon (1969). By this time he was getting paid a million dollars per film, $200,000 less than Paul Newman was making at the time; he was also ambivalent about the business, even with its financial rewards:
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Lee Marvin is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. For such a great actor his final resting place is very ordinary. I had to really look for it.
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Written By: ninny on 08/29/09 at 11:17 am
Lee Marvin is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. For such a great actor his final resting place is very ordinary. I had to really look for it.
Was this because of his service to the Marines.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/09 at 12:03 pm
;D
...of course, a wagon would carry more shopping ?
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/29/09 at 12:14 pm
I LOVE the movie Paint Your Wagon-I have it on VHS. Lee Marvin was great in that.
Ingrid Bergman was SOOOO beautiful. She was definitely a "classy chick". Casablanca is one of my ALL-TIME fav movies.
Jean Hagen delivered one of my ALL-TIME fav lines in Singin' In The Rain: "I make more money than Calvin Coolidge...put together." Carlos & I are ALWAYS saying that line because Calvin Coolidge was originally from this area (in fact, he was sworn in as Pres right here in our county).
Cat
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/09 at 12:18 pm
I LOVE the movie Paint Your Wagon-I have it on VHS. Lee Marvin was great in that.
Cat
That is another film I have not seen complete, but I certainly know the songs.
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/29/09 at 1:07 pm
That is another film I have not seen complete, but I certainly know the songs.
It's a funny movie-LONG but funny. Worth seeing IMO.
Cat
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Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/29/09 at 1:44 pm
Was this because of his service to the Marines.
Most likely. I just found it interesting that it's all very low key. It's a typical military type gravestone.
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Written By: ninny on 08/29/09 at 2:41 pm
My maiden name is Marvin, so when my sister & I were younger we would tell people that he was an uncle ;D
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/09 at 2:48 pm
My maiden name is Marvin, so when my sister & I were younger we would tell people that he was an uncle ;D
Have you heard of Hank Marvin, the lead guitarist of The Shadows the group that back Cliff Richard?
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Written By: ninny on 08/29/09 at 3:01 pm
Have you heard of Hank Marvin, the lead guitarist of The Shadows the group that back Cliff Richard?
I didn't really know about him till I got older, but he would've worked also because my ancestors come from England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/09 at 3:24 pm
I didn't really know about him till I got older, but he would've worked also because my ancestors come from England.
Hank Marvin was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. That is to the north of England.
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Written By: Howard on 08/29/09 at 3:46 pm
That is a cart not a wagon.
It almost looks the same.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/09 at 3:47 pm
It almost looks the same.
Is there such a thing as a shopping wagon?
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Written By: Howard on 08/29/09 at 3:47 pm
Is there such a thing as a shopping wagon?
I've never heard of a shopping wagon before. ???
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/29/09 at 3:48 pm
Lee Marvin is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. For such a great actor his final resting place is very ordinary. I had to really look for it.
My step-father is also buried in Arlington.
Cat
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/09 at 3:49 pm
My step-father is also buried in Arlington.
Cat
Will it be at Arlington where Edward Kennedy will be buried beside his brothers?
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Written By: Howard on 08/29/09 at 3:50 pm
Will it be at Arlington where Edward Kennedy will be buried beside his brothers?
Yes he will buried there.
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Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/29/09 at 6:25 pm
My step-father is also buried in Arlington.
Cat
Great you can visit Lee while you're visiting you're step-father. :)
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Written By: ninny on 08/29/09 at 6:54 pm
Hank Marvin was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. That is to the north of England.
My ancestors come from Lincolnshire.
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Written By: ninny on 08/29/09 at 6:55 pm
My step-father is also buried in Arlington.
Cat
Will it be at Arlington where Edward Kennedy will be buried beside his brothers?
I heard on the news 27 people are buried there a day.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/30/09 at 4:57 am
The word of the day...Face
1.
1. The surface of the front of the head from the top of the forehead to the base of the chin and from ear to ear.
2. A person: We saw many new faces on the first day of classes.
2. A person's countenance: a happy face.
3. A contorted facial expression; a grimace: made a face at the prospect of eating lemons.
4. Facial cosmetics: put one's face on.
5. Outward appearance: the modern face of the city.
6.
1. Value or standing in the eyes of others; prestige: lose face.
2. Self-assurance; confidence: The team managed to maintain a firm face even in times of great adversity.
7. Effrontery; impudence: had the face to question my judgment.
8. The most significant or prominent surface of an object, especially:
1. The surface presented to view; the front.
2. A façade.
3. Outer surface: the face of the earth.
4. A marked side: the face of a clock; the face of a playing card.
5. The right side, as of fabric.
6. An exposed, often precipitous surface of rock.
9. A planar surface of a geometric solid.
10. Any of the surfaces of a rock or crystal.
11. The end, as of a mine or tunnel, at which work is advancing.
12. The appearance and geologic surface features of an area of land; topography.
13. Printing.
1. A typeface or range of typefaces.
2. The raised printing surface of a piece of type.
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Written By: ninny on 08/30/09 at 5:00 am
The person of the day...Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor best known for his "tough guy" image, who starred in such classic films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Evil That Men Do and the popular Death Wish series. He was most often cast in the role of a policeman or gunfighter.
Bronson's first film role was as a Polish sailor in You're in the Navy Now in 1951, he also made several appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s. Bronson was nominated for an Emmy Award for his supporting role in a TV episode with the title "Memory in White." In the 1970s he became one of the top ten box-office stars. He made films in many genres including crime, western and others.
Bronson's last starring role in a theatrically released film was 1994's Death Wish V: The Face of Death. His health deteriorated in later years, and he underwent surgery in 1998. Bronson also suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
ne of Bronson's most memorable roles came when he was over the age of 50, in Death Wish (1974), the most popular film of his long association with director Michael Winner. He played Paul Kersey, a successful New York architect. When his wife (played by Hope Lange) is murdered and his daughter raped, Kersey becomes a crime-fighting vigilante by night. It was a highly controversial role, as his executions were cheered by crime-weary audiences. After the famous 1984 case of Bernhard Goetz, Bronson recommended that people not imitate his character. This successful movie spawned sequels over the next 20 years, in which Bronson also starred. His great nephew, Justin Bronson, was scheduled to star in a remake of Death Wish in 2008, but the film has not yet seen the light of day.
For Walter Hill's Hard Times (1975), he starred as a Depression-era street fighter making his living in illegal bare-knuckled matches in Louisiana, earning good reviews.
Charles Bronson highest box-office was 4th in 1975, beaten only by Robert Redford, Barbara Streisand and Al Pacino.
He was considered to play the role of Snake Plissken in Escape from New York (1981), but director John Carpenter thought he was too tough looking and too old for the part, and decided to cast Kurt Russell instead. In the years between 1976 and 1994, Bronson commanded high salaries to star in numerous films made by smaller production companies, most notably Cannon Films. Many of them were directed by J. Lee Thompson, a collaborative relationship that Bronson enjoyed and actively pursued, reportedly because Thompson worked quickly and efficiently. Thompson Ultra-violent films such as The Evil That Men Do and 10 To Midnight were blasted by critics, but provided him with well-paid work throughout the '80s. Bronson's last starring role in a theatrically released film was 1994's Death Wish V: The Face of Death.
Charles Bronson became very popular in Japan in the early 1990s with the bushy eyebrowed TV critic Nagaharu Yodogawa ("Sayonara, sayonara, sayonara!") hosting 1-2 seasons of his films every year on NTV, one of the main TV channels in Japan.
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Written By: ninny on 08/30/09 at 5:04 am
The co-person of the day...Vera-Ellen
Vera-Ellen (February 16, 1921 – August 30, 1981) was an American actress and dancer, principally celebrated for her filmed dance partnerships with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor.
In 1939, Vera-Ellen made her Broadway theatre debut in the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein musical Very Warm for May at the age of 18. She became one of the youngest Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, although she was not tall. This led to roles on Broadway in Panama Hattie, By Jupiter, and A Connecticut Yankee, where she was spotted by Samuel Goldwyn, who cast her opposite Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo in the film Wonder Man (1945).
She danced with Gene Kelly in Words and Music (1948) and On the Town (1949), and appeared in the last Marx Brothers film Love Happy (1949). She received top billing alongside Fred Astaire in Three Little Words (1950) and The Belle of New York (1952). She co-starred with Bing Crosby in White Christmas (1954) and Donald O'Connor in Call Me Madam (1953) and in Let's Be Happy (1957).
During the 1950s, she was reputed to have the "smallest waist in Hollywood", and is believed to have suffered from anorexia nervosa. All of her costumes in White Christmas, down to her robe and sleepwear, were designed to cover her neck, which was aged beyond her years due to her eating disorder. She retired from the screen in 1957
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/30/09 at 5:05 am
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We call 'em shopping trolleys over here... You'd be a 'trolley boy' here!
Looks like I missed some great actors yesterday. Lee Marvin was a wonderful character actor (even though it was always the same character)... ;D He was classic in Cat Ballou and downright evil as Liberty Valance. I liked him as Gillhooley in Donovan' Reef.
Ingrid Bergman was a cool beauty and was in many memorable films....ahhh, those were the days!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/30/09 at 5:11 am
I like these two as well.... Charlie was always playing the same character as well...but I really liked his movies. The Mechanic ...with Jan Michael Vincent always springs to mind when I think of CB.
Vera Ellen was a pretty actress who could dance and sing. I remember her dancing with both Astaire and Kelly. On the Town is the stand out in my mind for her. That picture does show she was awfully thin... :o
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 08/30/09 at 5:53 am
One of My favorite Actors.
Growing up I went to EVERY Bronson Film on opening weekend....Death Wish ,Breakout , Breakheart Pass , Hard Times , From Noon Till Three Posters hung on My bedroom walls {2 Friends worked in 2 local Theatres & got them for Me.}IN the 80's I continued My tradition of seeing all His releases the weekend they opened.
This past May, Telefon was released on DVD for the first time.
Several of His Films still have not made it to DVD.....Red Sun , The Stone Killer , From Noon Till Three,The White Buffalo and Love and Bullets have yet to be released.
There's a great DVD of a lot of Trailers from Bronson's Films:
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The person of the day...Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor best known for his "tough guy" image, who starred in such classic films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Evil That Men Do and the popular Death Wish series. He was most often cast in the role of a policeman or gunfighter.
Bronson's first film role was as a Polish sailor in You're in the Navy Now in 1951, he also made several appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s. Bronson was nominated for an Emmy Award for his supporting role in a TV episode with the title "Memory in White." In the 1970s he became one of the top ten box-office stars. He made films in many genres including crime, western and others.
Bronson's last starring role in a theatrically released film was 1994's Death Wish V: The Face of Death. His health deteriorated in later years, and he underwent surgery in 1998. Bronson also suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
ne of Bronson's most memorable roles came when he was over the age of 50, in Death Wish (1974), the most popular film of his long association with director Michael Winner. He played Paul Kersey, a successful New York architect. When his wife (played by Hope Lange) is murdered and his daughter raped, Kersey becomes a crime-fighting vigilante by night. It was a highly controversial role, as his executions were cheered by crime-weary audiences. After the famous 1984 case of Bernhard Goetz, Bronson recommended that people not imitate his character. This successful movie spawned sequels over the next 20 years, in which Bronson also starred. His great nephew, Justin Bronson, was scheduled to star in a remake of Death Wish in 2008, but the film has not yet seen the light of day.
For Walter Hill's Hard Times (1975), he starred as a Depression-era street fighter making his living in illegal bare-knuckled matches in Louisiana, earning good reviews.
Charles Bronson highest box-office was 4th in 1975, beaten only by Robert Redford, Barbara Streisand and Al Pacino.
He was considered to play the role of Snake Plissken in Escape from New York (1981), but director John Carpenter thought he was too tough looking and too old for the part, and decided to cast Kurt Russell instead. In the years between 1976 and 1994, Bronson commanded high salaries to star in numerous films made by smaller production companies, most notably Cannon Films. Many of them were directed by J. Lee Thompson, a collaborative relationship that Bronson enjoyed and actively pursued, reportedly because Thompson worked quickly and efficiently. Thompson Ultra-violent films such as The Evil That Men Do and 10 To Midnight were blasted by critics, but provided him with well-paid work throughout the '80s. Bronson's last starring role in a theatrically released film was 1994's Death Wish V: The Face of Death.
Charles Bronson became very popular in Japan in the early 1990s with the bushy eyebrowed TV critic Nagaharu Yodogawa ("Sayonara, sayonara, sayonara!") hosting 1-2 seasons of his films every year on NTV, one of the main TV channels in Japan.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 08/30/09 at 6:43 am
I remember as a little boy watching TV with my mother who loved the old Hollywood musicals. Vera-Ellen was in some of them. I always thought Vera was so classy and pretty . Nice retros, Ninny. Thanks for posting. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/30/09 at 6:54 am
Eyes Without A Face- Billy Idol.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/30/09 at 7:06 am
One of My favorite Actors.
Growing up I went to EVERY Bronson Film on opening weekend....Death Wish ,Breakout , Breakheart Pass , Hard Times , From Noon Till Three Posters hung on My bedroom walls {2 Friends worked in 2 local Theatres & got them for Me.}IN the 80's I continued My tradition of seeing all His releases the weekend they opened.
This past May, Telefon was released on DVD for the first time.
Several of His Films still have not made it to DVD.....Red Sun , The Stone Killer , From Noon Till Three,The White Buffalo and Love and Bullets have yet to be released.
There's a great DVD of a lot of Trailers from Bronson's Films:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51695MB272L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
I was just watching part of Death Wish on Cinemax this morning.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/30/09 at 7:06 am
I remember as a little boy watching TV with my mother who loved the old Hollywood musicals. Vera-Ellen was in some of them. I always thought Vera was so classy and pretty . Nice retros, Ninny. Thanks for posting. :)
Thank You :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/30/09 at 7:09 am
Charles Bronson was the ultimate bad guy.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/30/09 at 1:13 pm
Charles Bronson was the ultimate bad guy.
One of the best.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/09 at 1:32 pm
My ancestors come from Lincolnshire.
Have you attempted searching in that area for your family?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/09 at 1:33 pm
I heard on the news 27 people are buried there a day.
How big is Arlington National Cemetery?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/09 at 1:33 pm
The word of the day...Face
1.
1. The surface of the front of the head from the top of the forehead to the base of the chin and from ear to ear.
2. A person: We saw many new faces on the first day of classes.
2. A person's countenance: a happy face.
3. A contorted facial expression; a grimace: made a face at the prospect of eating lemons.
4. Facial cosmetics: put one's face on.
5. Outward appearance: the modern face of the city.
6.
1. Value or standing in the eyes of others; prestige: lose face.
2. Self-assurance; confidence: The team managed to maintain a firm face even in times of great adversity.
7. Effrontery; impudence: had the face to question my judgment.
8. The most significant or prominent surface of an object, especially:
1. The surface presented to view; the front.
2. A façade.
3. Outer surface: the face of the earth.
4. A marked side: the face of a clock; the face of a playing card.
5. The right side, as of fabric.
6. An exposed, often precipitous surface of rock.
9. A planar surface of a geometric solid.
10. Any of the surfaces of a rock or crystal.
11. The end, as of a mine or tunnel, at which work is advancing.
12. The appearance and geologic surface features of an area of land; topography.
13. Printing.
1. A typeface or range of typefaces.
2. The raised printing surface of a piece of type.
Let's face it, this is a popular thread.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/09 at 1:34 pm
The person of the day...Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor best known for his "tough guy" image, who starred in such classic films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Evil That Men Do and the popular Death Wish series. He was most often cast in the role of a policeman or gunfighter.
Bronson's first film role was as a Polish sailor in You're in the Navy Now in 1951, he also made several appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s. Bronson was nominated for an Emmy Award for his supporting role in a TV episode with the title "Memory in White." In the 1970s he became one of the top ten box-office stars. He made films in many genres including crime, western and others.
Bronson's last starring role in a theatrically released film was 1994's Death Wish V: The Face of Death. His health deteriorated in later years, and he underwent surgery in 1998. Bronson also suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
ne of Bronson's most memorable roles came when he was over the age of 50, in Death Wish (1974), the most popular film of his long association with director Michael Winner. He played Paul Kersey, a successful New York architect. When his wife (played by Hope Lange) is murdered and his daughter raped, Kersey becomes a crime-fighting vigilante by night. It was a highly controversial role, as his executions were cheered by crime-weary audiences. After the famous 1984 case of Bernhard Goetz, Bronson recommended that people not imitate his character. This successful movie spawned sequels over the next 20 years, in which Bronson also starred. His great nephew, Justin Bronson, was scheduled to star in a remake of Death Wish in 2008, but the film has not yet seen the light of day.
For Walter Hill's Hard Times (1975), he starred as a Depression-era street fighter making his living in illegal bare-knuckled matches in Louisiana, earning good reviews.
Charles Bronson highest box-office was 4th in 1975, beaten only by Robert Redford, Barbara Streisand and Al Pacino.
He was considered to play the role of Snake Plissken in Escape from New York (1981), but director John Carpenter thought he was too tough looking and too old for the part, and decided to cast Kurt Russell instead. In the years between 1976 and 1994, Bronson commanded high salaries to star in numerous films made by smaller production companies, most notably Cannon Films. Many of them were directed by J. Lee Thompson, a collaborative relationship that Bronson enjoyed and actively pursued, reportedly because Thompson worked quickly and efficiently. Thompson Ultra-violent films such as The Evil That Men Do and 10 To Midnight were blasted by critics, but provided him with well-paid work throughout the '80s. Bronson's last starring role in a theatrically released film was 1994's Death Wish V: The Face of Death.
Charles Bronson became very popular in Japan in the early 1990s with the bushy eyebrowed TV critic Nagaharu Yodogawa ("Sayonara, sayonara, sayonara!") hosting 1-2 seasons of his films every year on NTV, one of the main TV channels in Japan.
I saw him the other day in The Great Escape.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/09 at 1:36 pm
We call 'em shopping trolleys over here... You'd be a 'trolley boy' here!
We call him trollies too.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/30/09 at 2:36 pm
Let's face it, this is a popular thread.
Nice one Phil! ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/31/09 at 6:04 am
The word of the day...Princess
# A woman member of a royal family other than the monarch, especially a daughter of a monarch.
#
1. A woman who is a ruler of a principality.
2. A woman who is a hereditary ruler; a queen.
# A noblewoman of varying status or rank.
# The wife of a prince.
# A woman regarded as having the status or qualities of a prince
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/31/09 at 6:05 am
And let me guess,the person of the day is Princess Diana? ;)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/31/09 at 6:09 am
The person of the day...Diana,Princess of Wales
Diana
Princess of Wales
Spouse Charles, Prince of Wales
(29 July 1981 – 28 August 1996)
Issue
Prince William of Wales
Prince Harry of Wales
Full name
Diana Frances Spencer
House House of Windsor
Father John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer
Mother Frances Shand Kydd
Born 1 July 1961(1961-07-01)
Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk
Died 31 August 1997 (aged 36)
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
Burial Althorp, Northamptonshire
Diana, Princess of Wales, (Diana Frances; née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their sons, Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and fifteen other Commonwealth Realms.
A public figure from the announcement of her engagement to Prince Charles, Diana remained the focus of near-constant media scrutiny in the United Kingdom and around the world before, during and after her marriage, even in the years following her sudden death in a car crash, which was followed by a spontaneous and prolonged show of public mourning. Contemporary responses to Diana's life and legacy were mixed but a popular fascination with the Princess endures. The long-awaited Coroner's Inquest concluded in April 2008 that Diana had been unlawfully killed by the negligent driving of the following vehicles and the driver of the Mercedes in which she was travelling.
On 5 November 1981, Diana's first pregnancy was officially announced, and she frankly discussed her condition with members of the press corps. In the private Lindo wing of St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington on 21 June 1982, Diana gave birth to her first son and heir, William. There was some controversy in the media when she decided to take William, still a baby, on her first major overseas visit to Australia and New Zealand, but which was popularly applauded. By her own admission, Diana had not initially thought to, or insisted upon, bringing William until it was suggested by the Australian Prime Minister.
A second son, Henry was born a little over two years after William on 15 September 1984. According to Diana, she and Prince Charles were closest during her pregnancy with "Harry", as the younger prince became known. She was aware their second child was a boy, but did not share the knowledge with anyone else, including Prince Charles, who was hoping for a girl.
Even during her lifetime, when Diana underwent frequent and regular criticism for her choice of charities, her public image, relationship with the media, as well as her relationship with her husband and his family, Diana was universally regarded as a devoted mother who lavished her sons with attention and affection. Diana rarely deferred to Prince Charles or the royal family, and was often implacable when it came to her children. She chose their first given names, went against the royal custom of circumcision, dismissed a royal family nanny and hired one of her choosing, in addition to choosing their schools, clothes, planning their outings and taking them to school as often as her schedule permitted. She also negotiated her public duties around their time-tables.
Charity work
Starting in the mid- to late 1980s, the Princess of Wales became increasingly known for her support of numerous charities. This stemmed naturally from her role as Princess of Wales—she was expected to visit hospitals and other state agencies in the 20th century model of royal patronage. Diana, however, developed an interest in serious illnesses and health-related matters outside the purview of traditional royal involvement, including AIDS and leprosy. In addition, the Princess patronised charities and organisations working with the homeless, youth, drug addicts and the elderly. From 1989, she was President of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
Diana was most famously, in the last year of her life, the most visible supporter of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a campaign that went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 after her death, which many believed was a posthumous tribute to the Princess.
In April 1987, the Princess of Wales was one of the first public figures to be photographed touching a person infected with HIV. She contributed to changing the public opinion of AIDS sufferers during the subsequent years, as her involvement with a variety of AIDS charities, not only in the United Kingdom but in North America, Africa and Asia as well, was a consistent public role she embraced.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/31/09 at 6:10 am
And let me guess,the person of the day is Princess Diana? ;)
Excellent guess :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/31/09 at 6:12 am
The person of the day...Diana,Princess of Wales
Diana
Princess of Wales
Spouse Charles, Prince of Wales
(29 July 1981 – 28 August 1996)
Issue
Prince William of Wales
Prince Harry of Wales
Full name
Diana Frances Spencer
House House of Windsor
Father John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer
Mother Frances Shand Kydd
Born 1 July 1961(1961-07-01)
Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk
Died 31 August 1997 (aged 36)
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
Burial Althorp, Northamptonshire
Diana, Princess of Wales, (Diana Frances; née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their sons, Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and fifteen other Commonwealth Realms.
A public figure from the announcement of her engagement to Prince Charles, Diana remained the focus of near-constant media scrutiny in the United Kingdom and around the world before, during and after her marriage, even in the years following her sudden death in a car crash, which was followed by a spontaneous and prolonged show of public mourning. Contemporary responses to Diana's life and legacy were mixed but a popular fascination with the Princess endures. The long-awaited Coroner's Inquest concluded in April 2008 that Diana had been unlawfully killed by the negligent driving of the following vehicles and the driver of the Mercedes in which she was travelling.
On 5 November 1981, Diana's first pregnancy was officially announced, and she frankly discussed her condition with members of the press corps. In the private Lindo wing of St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington on 21 June 1982, Diana gave birth to her first son and heir, William. There was some controversy in the media when she decided to take William, still a baby, on her first major overseas visit to Australia and New Zealand, but which was popularly applauded. By her own admission, Diana had not initially thought to, or insisted upon, bringing William until it was suggested by the Australian Prime Minister.
A second son, Henry was born a little over two years after William on 15 September 1984. According to Diana, she and Prince Charles were closest during her pregnancy with "Harry", as the younger prince became known. She was aware their second child was a boy, but did not share the knowledge with anyone else, including Prince Charles, who was hoping for a girl.
Even during her lifetime, when Diana underwent frequent and regular criticism for her choice of charities, her public image, relationship with the media, as well as her relationship with her husband and his family, Diana was universally regarded as a devoted mother who lavished her sons with attention and affection. Diana rarely deferred to Prince Charles or the royal family, and was often implacable when it came to her children. She chose their first given names, went against the royal custom of circumcision, dismissed a royal family nanny and hired one of her choosing, in addition to choosing their schools, clothes, planning their outings and taking them to school as often as her schedule permitted. She also negotiated her public duties around their time-tables.
Charity work
Starting in the mid- to late 1980s, the Princess of Wales became increasingly known for her support of numerous charities. This stemmed naturally from her role as Princess of Wales—she was expected to visit hospitals and other state agencies in the 20th century model of royal patronage. Diana, however, developed an interest in serious illnesses and health-related matters outside the purview of traditional royal involvement, including AIDS and leprosy. In addition, the Princess patronised charities and organisations working with the homeless, youth, drug addicts and the elderly. From 1989, she was President of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
Diana was most famously, in the last year of her life, the most visible supporter of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a campaign that went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 after her death, which many believed was a posthumous tribute to the Princess.
In April 1987, the Princess of Wales was one of the first public figures to be photographed touching a person infected with HIV. She contributed to changing the public opinion of AIDS sufferers during the subsequent years, as her involvement with a variety of AIDS charities, not only in the United Kingdom but in North America, Africa and Asia as well, was a consistent public role she embraced.
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She was so pretty. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/31/09 at 6:13 am
The co-person of the day...John Ford
John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director of Irish heritage famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath. His four Best Director Academy Awards (1935, 1940, 1941, 1952) is a record, although only one of those films, How Green Was My Valley, also won Best Picture.
In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ford directed 140 films (although nearly all of his silent films are now lost) and he is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. Ford's films and personality were held in high regard by his colleagues, with Ingmar Bergman and Orson Welles among those who have named him as one of the greatest directors of all time.
In particular, Ford was a pioneer of location shooting and the long shot which frames his characters against a vast, harsh and rugged natural terrain. Ford has further influenced directors as diverse as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Peter Bogdanovich, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders, Pedro Costa, Judd Apatow, David Lean, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Quentin Tarantino, John Milius, Satyajit Ray, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard
John Ford began his career in film after moving to California in July 1914. He followed in the footsteps of his multi-talented older brother Francis Ford, twelve years his senior, who had left home years earlier and had worked in vaudeville before becoming a movie actor. Francis played in hundreds of silent pictures for Thomas Edison, Georges Melies and Thomas Ince, eventually progressing to become a prominent Hollywood actor-writer-director with his own production company (101 Bison) at Universal.
Jack Ford started out in his brother's films as an assistant, handyman, stuntman and occasional actor, frequently doubling for his brother, whom he closely resembled. Francis gave his younger brother his first acting role in The Mysterious Rose (November 1914). Despite an often combative relationship, within three years Jack had progressed to become Francis' chief assistant and often worked as his cameraman. By the time Jack Ford was given his first break as a director, Francis' profile was declining and he ceased working as a director soon afterward.
One notable feature of John Ford's films is that he used a 'stock company' of actors, far more so than many directors. Many famous stars appeared in at least two or more Ford films, including Harry Carey, Sr. (the star of 25 Ford silents), Will Rogers, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James Stewart, Woody Strode, Richard Widmark, Victor McLaglen, Vera Miles and Jeffrey Hunter. Many of his supporting actors appeared in multiple Ford films, often over a period of several decades, including Ben Johnson, Chill Wills, Andy Devine, Ward Bond, Grant Withers, Mae Marsh, Anna Lee, Harry Carey, Jr., Ken Curtis, Frank Baker, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, Hank Worden, John Qualen, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields, John Carradine, and Carleton Young. Core members of this extended 'troupe', including Ward Bond, John Carradine, Dobe Carey, Mae Marsh, Frank Baker and Ben Johnson, were informally known as the John Ford Stock Company.
Likewise, Ford enjoyed extended working relationships with his production team, and many of his crew worked with him for decades. He made numerous films with the same major collaborators, including producer and business partner Merian C. Cooper, scriptwriters Nunnally Johnson, Dudley Nichols and Frank S. Nugent, and cinematographers Ben F. Reynolds, John W. Brown and George Schneidermann (who between them shot most of Ford's silent films), Joseph H. August, Gregg Toland, Winton Hoch, Charles Lawton Jr., Bert Glennon, Archie Stout and William H. Clothie
Stagecoach (1939) was Ford's first western since 3 Bad Men in 1926, and it was his first with sound. Reputedly Orson Welles watched Stagecoach forty times in preparation for making Citizen Kane. It remains one of the most admired and imitated of all Hollywood movies, not least for its climactic stagecoach chase and the hair-raising horse-jumping scene, performed by the stuntman Yakima Canutt.
The Dudley Nichols-Ben Hecht screenplay was based on an Ernest Haycox story that Ford had spotted in Collier's magazine and he purchased the screen rights for just $2500. Production chief Walter Wanger urged Ford to hire Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich for the lead roles, but eventually accepted Ford's decision to cast Claire Trevor as Dallas and a virtual unknown, his friend John Wayne, as Ringo; Wanger reportedly had little further influence over the production.
In making Stagecoach Ford faced entrenched industry prejudice about the now-hackneyed genre which, ironically, he had helped to make so popular. Although low-budget western features and serials were still being churned out in large numbers by 'Poverty Row' studios, the genre had fallen out of favor with the big studios during the 1930s and they were regarded as B-grade 'pulp' movies at best. As a result, Ford shopped the project around Hollywood for almost a year, offering it unsuccessfully to both Joseph Kennedy and David O. Selznick before finally linking with Walter Wanger, an independent producer working through United Artists.
Stagecoach is significant for several reasons—it exploded industry prejudices by becoming both a critical and commercial hit, grossing over US$1 million in its first year (against a budget of just under $400,000), and its success singlehandedly revitalized the moribund genre, showing that Westerns could be "intelligent, artful, great entertainment -- and profitable". It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won two Oscars, for Best Supporting Actor (Thomas Mitchell) and Best Score. Stagecoach became the first in the series of seven classic Ford Westerns filmed on location in Monument Valley.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/31/09 at 6:14 am
She was so pretty. :)
Yes she was :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/31/09 at 11:45 am
With all due respect to Diana she pales in comparison to the lovely Queen Noor of Jordan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Noor_of_Jordan
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/31/09 at 12:37 pm
With all due respect to Diana she pales in comparison to the lovely Queen Noor of Jordan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Noor_of_Jordan
Are you talking about what she has accomplished or her looks?
Should she be compared as she has had more time in her life to do things.She has done many wonderful things, but we will never know what Princess Di could of accomplished.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/31/09 at 1:52 pm
Are you talking about what she has accomplished or her looks?
Should she be compared as she has had more time in her life to do things.She has done many wonderful things, but we will never know what Princess Di could of accomplished.
I'm not talking about just her looks. Diana had more drama than grace and poise. Queen Noor has grace and poise no drama. I assume you've never read Noor's book or seen her in action. Yes, Queen Noor has accomplished much more than Diana considering that Jordan is an Islamic country.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/31/09 at 6:05 pm
It's so sad that she was killed in a car crash,what a way to go. :\'(
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/09 at 3:02 am
It's so sad that she was killed in a car crash,what a way to go. :\'(
Some say murdered by a car crash.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/09 at 3:04 am
The person of the day...Diana,Princess of Wales
Diana
Princess of Wales
Spouse Charles, Prince of Wales
(29 July 1981 – 28 August 1996)
Issue
Prince William of Wales
Prince Harry of Wales
Full name
Diana Frances Spencer
House House of Windsor
Father John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer
Mother Frances Shand Kydd
Born 1 July 1961(1961-07-01)
Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk
Died 31 August 1997 (aged 36)
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
Burial Althorp, Northamptonshire
Diana, Princess of Wales, (Diana Frances; née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their sons, Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and fifteen other Commonwealth Realms.
A public figure from the announcement of her engagement to Prince Charles, Diana remained the focus of near-constant media scrutiny in the United Kingdom and around the world before, during and after her marriage, even in the years following her sudden death in a car crash, which was followed by a spontaneous and prolonged show of public mourning. Contemporary responses to Diana's life and legacy were mixed but a popular fascination with the Princess endures. The long-awaited Coroner's Inquest concluded in April 2008 that Diana had been unlawfully killed by the negligent driving of the following vehicles and the driver of the Mercedes in which she was travelling.
On 5 November 1981, Diana's first pregnancy was officially announced, and she frankly discussed her condition with members of the press corps. In the private Lindo wing of St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington on 21 June 1982, Diana gave birth to her first son and heir, William. There was some controversy in the media when she decided to take William, still a baby, on her first major overseas visit to Australia and New Zealand, but which was popularly applauded. By her own admission, Diana had not initially thought to, or insisted upon, bringing William until it was suggested by the Australian Prime Minister.
A second son, Henry was born a little over two years after William on 15 September 1984. According to Diana, she and Prince Charles were closest during her pregnancy with "Harry", as the younger prince became known. She was aware their second child was a boy, but did not share the knowledge with anyone else, including Prince Charles, who was hoping for a girl.
Even during her lifetime, when Diana underwent frequent and regular criticism for her choice of charities, her public image, relationship with the media, as well as her relationship with her husband and his family, Diana was universally regarded as a devoted mother who lavished her sons with attention and affection. Diana rarely deferred to Prince Charles or the royal family, and was often implacable when it came to her children. She chose their first given names, went against the royal custom of circumcision, dismissed a royal family nanny and hired one of her choosing, in addition to choosing their schools, clothes, planning their outings and taking them to school as often as her schedule permitted. She also negotiated her public duties around their time-tables.
Charity work
Starting in the mid- to late 1980s, the Princess of Wales became increasingly known for her support of numerous charities. This stemmed naturally from her role as Princess of Wales—she was expected to visit hospitals and other state agencies in the 20th century model of royal patronage. Diana, however, developed an interest in serious illnesses and health-related matters outside the purview of traditional royal involvement, including AIDS and leprosy. In addition, the Princess patronised charities and organisations working with the homeless, youth, drug addicts and the elderly. From 1989, she was President of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
Diana was most famously, in the last year of her life, the most visible supporter of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a campaign that went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 after her death, which many believed was a posthumous tribute to the Princess.
In April 1987, the Princess of Wales was one of the first public figures to be photographed touching a person infected with HIV. She contributed to changing the public opinion of AIDS sufferers during the subsequent years, as her involvement with a variety of AIDS charities, not only in the United Kingdom but in North America, Africa and Asia as well, was a consistent public role she embraced.
Technically I did see her twice, once at a screening of the a film with Prince Charles, and the other time I saw her Royal Standard drapped coffin along Kensington Gore on the day of her funeral.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/09 at 3:05 am
The co-person of the day...John Ford
John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director of Irish heritage famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath. His four Best Director Academy Awards (1935, 1940, 1941, 1952) is a record, although only one of those films, How Green Was My Valley, also won Best Picture.
In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ford directed 140 films (although nearly all of his silent films are now lost) and he is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. Ford's films and personality were held in high regard by his colleagues, with Ingmar Bergman and Orson Welles among those who have named him as one of the greatest directors of all time.
In particular, Ford was a pioneer of location shooting and the long shot which frames his characters against a vast, harsh and rugged natural terrain. Ford has further influenced directors as diverse as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Peter Bogdanovich, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders, Pedro Costa, Judd Apatow, David Lean, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Quentin Tarantino, John Milius, Satyajit Ray, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard
John Ford began his career in film after moving to California in July 1914. He followed in the footsteps of his multi-talented older brother Francis Ford, twelve years his senior, who had left home years earlier and had worked in vaudeville before becoming a movie actor. Francis played in hundreds of silent pictures for Thomas Edison, Georges Melies and Thomas Ince, eventually progressing to become a prominent Hollywood actor-writer-director with his own production company (101 Bison) at Universal.
Jack Ford started out in his brother's films as an assistant, handyman, stuntman and occasional actor, frequently doubling for his brother, whom he closely resembled. Francis gave his younger brother his first acting role in The Mysterious Rose (November 1914). Despite an often combative relationship, within three years Jack had progressed to become Francis' chief assistant and often worked as his cameraman. By the time Jack Ford was given his first break as a director, Francis' profile was declining and he ceased working as a director soon afterward.
One notable feature of John Ford's films is that he used a 'stock company' of actors, far more so than many directors. Many famous stars appeared in at least two or more Ford films, including Harry Carey, Sr. (the star of 25 Ford silents), Will Rogers, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James Stewart, Woody Strode, Richard Widmark, Victor McLaglen, Vera Miles and Jeffrey Hunter. Many of his supporting actors appeared in multiple Ford films, often over a period of several decades, including Ben Johnson, Chill Wills, Andy Devine, Ward Bond, Grant Withers, Mae Marsh, Anna Lee, Harry Carey, Jr., Ken Curtis, Frank Baker, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, Hank Worden, John Qualen, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields, John Carradine, and Carleton Young. Core members of this extended 'troupe', including Ward Bond, John Carradine, Dobe Carey, Mae Marsh, Frank Baker and Ben Johnson, were informally known as the John Ford Stock Company.
Likewise, Ford enjoyed extended working relationships with his production team, and many of his crew worked with him for decades. He made numerous films with the same major collaborators, including producer and business partner Merian C. Cooper, scriptwriters Nunnally Johnson, Dudley Nichols and Frank S. Nugent, and cinematographers Ben F. Reynolds, John W. Brown and George Schneidermann (who between them shot most of Ford's silent films), Joseph H. August, Gregg Toland, Winton Hoch, Charles Lawton Jr., Bert Glennon, Archie Stout and William H. Clothie
Stagecoach (1939) was Ford's first western since 3 Bad Men in 1926, and it was his first with sound. Reputedly Orson Welles watched Stagecoach forty times in preparation for making Citizen Kane. It remains one of the most admired and imitated of all Hollywood movies, not least for its climactic stagecoach chase and the hair-raising horse-jumping scene, performed by the stuntman Yakima Canutt.
The Dudley Nichols-Ben Hecht screenplay was based on an Ernest Haycox story that Ford had spotted in Collier's magazine and he purchased the screen rights for just $2500. Production chief Walter Wanger urged Ford to hire Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich for the lead roles, but eventually accepted Ford's decision to cast Claire Trevor as Dallas and a virtual unknown, his friend John Wayne, as Ringo; Wanger reportedly had little further influence over the production.
In making Stagecoach Ford faced entrenched industry prejudice about the now-hackneyed genre which, ironically, he had helped to make so popular. Although low-budget western features and serials were still being churned out in large numbers by 'Poverty Row' studios, the genre had fallen out of favor with the big studios during the 1930s and they were regarded as B-grade 'pulp' movies at best. As a result, Ford shopped the project around Hollywood for almost a year, offering it unsuccessfully to both Joseph Kennedy and David O. Selznick before finally linking with Walter Wanger, an independent producer working through United Artists.
Stagecoach is significant for several reasons—it exploded industry prejudices by becoming both a critical and commercial hit, grossing over US$1 million in its first year (against a budget of just under $400,000), and its success singlehandedly revitalized the moribund genre, showing that Westerns could be "intelligent, artful, great entertainment -- and profitable". It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won two Oscars, for Best Supporting Actor (Thomas Mitchell) and Best Score. Stagecoach became the first in the series of seven classic Ford Westerns filmed on location in Monument Valley.
Love his films.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 09/01/09 at 6:02 am
The word of the day...Hot
1.
1. Having or giving off heat; capable of burning.
2. Being at a high temperature.
2. Being at or exhibiting a temperature that is higher than normal or desirable: a hot forehead.
3. Causing a burning sensation, as in the mouth; spicy: hot peppers; a hot curry.
4.
1. Charged or energized with electricity: a hot wire.
2. Radioactive, especially to a dangerous degree.
5.
1. Marked by intensity of emotion; ardent or fiery: a hot temper.
2. Having or displaying great enthusiasm; eager: hot for travel.
6.
1. Informal. Arousing intense interest, excitement, or controversy: a hot new book; a hot topic.
2. Informal. Marked by excited activity or energy: a hot week on the stock market.
3. Violent; raging: a hot battle.
7. Slang. Sexually excited or exciting.
8. Slang.
1. Recently stolen: a hot car.
2. Wanted by the police: a hot suspect.
9. Close to a successful solution or conclusion: hot on the trail.
10. Informal.
1. Most recent; new or fresh: a hot news item; the hot fashions for fall.
2. Currently very popular or successful: one of the hottest young talents around.
3. Requiring immediate action or attention: a hot opportunity.
11. Slang. Very good or impressive. Often used in the negative: I'm not so hot at math.
12. Slang. Funny or absurd: told a hot one about the neighbors' dog.
13. Slang.
1. Performing with great skill and daring: a hot drummer.
2. Having or characterized by repeated successes: a player who is on a hot streak.
3. Fast and responsive: a hot sports car.
4. Unusually lucky: hot at craps.
14. Music. Of, relating to, or being an emotionally charged style of performance marked by strong rhythms and improvisation: hot jazz.
15. Bold and bright.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 09/01/09 at 6:07 am
The person of the day...Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008), known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, country guitarist, session musician, songwriter, and actor who appeared in over a dozen films. As a singer, he may be best known for "(Who Was The Man Who Put) The Line In Gasoline"; "Lord, Mr. Ford (What Have You Done)"; "Amos Moses"; "When You're Hot, You're Hot," for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1972; and "East Bound and Down", the theme song for the film Smokey and the Bandit, in which he co-starred.
After releasing the 1970 crossover hit "Amos Moses," a hybrid of rock, country, and Cajun styles, which reached #8 on the U.S. Pop charts, Reed teamed with Atkins for the duet LP Me & Jerry. During the 1970 television season, he was a regular on the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and in 1971 he issued his biggest hit, the chart-topper "When You're Hot, You're Hot," which was also the title track of his first solo album, reaching #9 Pop and #6 on Billboard's Easy Listening charts.
A second collaboration with Atkins, Me & Chet, followed in 1972, as did a series of Top 40 singles, which alternated between frenetic, straightforward country offerings and more pop-flavored, countrypolitan material. A year later, he scored his second number one single with "Lord, Mr. Ford" (written by Dick Feller), from the album of the same name.
Atkins, who frequently produced Reed's music, remarked that he had to encourage Reed to put instrumental numbers on his own albums, as Reed always considered himself more of a songwriter than a player. Atkins, however, thought Reed was a better fingerstyle player than he himself was; Reed, according to Atkins, helped him work out the fingerpicking for one of Atkins' biggest hits, "Yakety Axe." Reed, one of only four people to have the title of "Certified Guitar Player" (an award only bestowed to those who have completely mastered guitar), was given this title by Chet Atkins.
Reed was featured in animated form in a December 9, 1972 episode of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall" (prod. #61-10). He sang and played the song "Pretty Mary Sunlite." That song is played throughout the episode as Scooby and the gang search for Reed's missing guitar.
In the mid-1970s, Reed's recording career began to take a back seat to his acting aspirations. In 1974, he co-starred with his close friend Burt Reynolds in the film W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings. While he continued to record throughout the decade, his greatest visibility was as a motion picture star, almost always in tandem with headliner Reynolds; after 1976's Gator, Reed appeared in 1978's High Ballin and 1979's Hot Stuff. He also co-starred in all three of the Smokey and the Bandit films; the first, which premiered in 1977, landed Reed a Number 2 hit with the soundtrack's "East Bound and Down."
Reed also took a stab at hosting a TV variety show, filming two episodes of The Jerry Reed Show in 1976. The show featured music performances and interview segments, but did not contain the comedy skits that usually were a part of variety shows of the '70s. Guests included Tammy Wynette, Ray Stevens, and Burt Reynolds.
In 1978, he appeared as himself in the television show Alice.
In 1979, he released a record comprising both vocal and instrumental selections titled, appropriately enough, Half & Half. It was followed one year later by Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce, a tribute to the late singer/songwriter. He starred in a TV movie in that year entitled The Concrete Cowboys.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 09/01/09 at 6:23 am
The co-person of the day...Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.
Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois, (although he later lived for many years in the neighboring suburb of Oak Park, Ill.), the son of a businessman. He was educated at a number of local schools, and during the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent a half year at his brother's ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He then attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then the Michigan Military Academy. Graduating in 1895, and failing the entrance exam for the United States Military Academy (West Point), he ended up as an enlisted soldier with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. After being diagnosed with a heart problem and thus found ineligible for a commission, he was discharged in 1897.
Bookplate of Edgar Rice Burroughs showing Tarzan holding the planet Mars, surrounded by other characters from Burroughs' stories and symbols relating to his personal interests and career
Typsescript letter, with Tarzana Ranch letterhead, from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Ruthven Deane, explaining the design and significance of his bookplate
What followed was a string of seemingly unrelated and short stint jobs. Following a period of drifting and ranch work in Idaho, Burroughs found work at his father's firm in 1899. He married Emma Centennia Hulbert in 1900. In 1904 he left his job and found less regular work, initially in Idaho but soon back in Chicago.
By 1911, after seven years of low wages, he was working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler and began to write fiction. By this time Burroughs and Emma had two children, Joan and Hulbert. During this period, he had copious spare time and he began reading many pulp fiction magazines and has since claimed:
"...if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines."
Aiming his work at these pulp fiction magazines, his first story "Under the Moons of Mars" was serialized in The All-Story magazine in 1912 and earned Burroughs US$400 (roughly the equivalent of US$7600 in 2004).
Burroughs soon took up writing full-time and by the time the run of Under the Moons of Mars had finished he had completed two novels, including Tarzan of the Apes, which was published from October 1912 and went on to begin his most successful series. In 1913, Burroughs and Emma had their third and last child, John Coleman.
Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction and fantasy stories involving Earthly adventurers transported to various planets (notably Barsoom, Burroughs' fictional name for Mars, and Amtor, his fictional name for Venus), lost islands, and into the interior of the hollow earth in his Pellucidar stories, as well as westerns and historical romances. Along with All-Story, many of his stories were published in the Argosy Magazine.
Tarzan was a cultural sensation when introduced. Burroughs was determined to capitalize on Tarzan's popularity in every way possible. He planned to exploit Tarzan through several different media including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, movies and merchandise. Experts in the field advised against this course of action, stating that the different media would just end up competing against each other. Burroughs went ahead, however, and proved the experts wrong—the public wanted Tarzan in whatever fashion he was offered. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon.
In either 1915 or 1919, Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California, which he named "Tarzana." The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt that name when their town was formed in either 1927 or 1928.
Also the unincorporated community of Tarzan, Texas, was formally named in 1927 when the postal service accepted the name, reputedly coming from the popularity of the first (silent) "Tarzan of the Apes" film, starring Elmo Lincoln, and an early "Tarzan" comic strip.
In 1923 Burroughs set up his own company, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and began printing his own books through the 1930s.
Burroughs divorced Emma in 1934 and married the former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt in 1935, the former wife of his friend, Ashton Dearholt, and Burroughs adopted the Dearholts' two children. This couple divorced in 1942.
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Burroughs was a resident of Hawaii and, despite being in his late sixties, he applied for permission to become a war correspondent. This permission was granted, and so he became one of the oldest war correspondent for the U.S. during World War II. After the war ended, Burroughs moved back to Encino, California, where, after many health problems, he died of a heart attack on March 19, 1950, having written almost seventy novels.
The towns of Tarzana, Calif., and Tarzan, Texas, were named after Tarzan. The Burroughs crater on Mars is named in Burroughs's honor.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/09 at 6:25 am
The word of the day...Hot
1.
1. Having or giving off heat; capable of burning.
2. Being at a high temperature.
2. Being at or exhibiting a temperature that is higher than normal or desirable: a hot forehead.
3. Causing a burning sensation, as in the mouth; spicy: hot peppers; a hot curry.
4.
1. Charged or energized with electricity: a hot wire.
2. Radioactive, especially to a dangerous degree.
5.
1. Marked by intensity of emotion; ardent or fiery: a hot temper.
2. Having or displaying great enthusiasm; eager: hot for travel.
6.
1. Informal. Arousing intense interest, excitement, or controversy: a hot new book; a hot topic.
2. Informal. Marked by excited activity or energy: a hot week on the stock market.
3. Violent; raging: a hot battle.
7. Slang. Sexually excited or exciting.
8. Slang.
1. Recently stolen: a hot car.
2. Wanted by the police: a hot suspect.
9. Close to a successful solution or conclusion: hot on the trail.
10. Informal.
1. Most recent; new or fresh: a hot news item; the hot fashions for fall.
2. Currently very popular or successful: one of the hottest young talents around.
3. Requiring immediate action or attention: a hot opportunity.
11. Slang. Very good or impressive. Often used in the negative: I'm not so hot at math.
12. Slang. Funny or absurd: told a hot one about the neighbors' dog.
13. Slang.
1. Performing with great skill and daring: a hot drummer.
2. Having or characterized by repeated successes: a player who is on a hot streak.
3. Fast and responsive: a hot sports car.
4. Unusually lucky: hot at craps.
14. Music. Of, relating to, or being an emotionally charged style of performance marked by strong rhythms and improvisation: hot jazz.
15. Bold and bright.
Hot Hot Hot ~ The Arrows
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 09/01/09 at 6:29 am
*Honorable mention*...Yvonne De Carlo
Yvonne De Carlo (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American film and television actress, dancer and singer. In her six-decade career, her most prolific appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best-known film roles, such as Salome Where She Danced and The Ten Commandments, opposite Charlton Heston. In the 1960s, she gained a whole new generation of fans, playing "Lily Munster" on CBS television series The Munsters, opposite Fred Gwynne.
Her break came in 1945 playing the title role in Salome, Where She Danced. Though not a critical success, it was a box office favorite, and De Carlo was hailed as an up-and-coming star. Of the role, she was less sure, saying of her entrance, "I came through these beaded curtains, wearing a Japanese kimono and a Japanese headpiece, and then performed a Siamese dance. Nobody seemed to know quite why."
In 1947 she played her first leading role in Slave Girl and then in 1949 had her biggest success. As the female lead opposite Burt Lancaster in Criss Cross, she played a femme fatale, and her career began to ascend. The 1957 film Band of Angels featured her opposite Clark Gable in an American Civil War story, along with Sidney Poitier and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
The actress worked steadily for the next several years, although many of the films failed to advance her career.
Cast in The Ten Commandments (1956) in a leading role (as Zipporah, also spelled Sephora, Moses' wife), De Carlo became part of a major hit. The film was a huge success and De Carlo was praised for her restrained work in a feature in which several other performances were considered somewhat over-the-top.
Character actress
Prior to becoming a full-fledged moviestar, De Carlo also became a character actress, and made her debut on a 1952 episode of Lights Out. The part led to other roles in The Ford Television Theatre, Screen Directors Playhouse, Shower of Stars, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Playhouse 90, Bonanza, Burke's Law, 2 episodes of Follow the Sun, Adventures in Paradise, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Custer, The Name of the Game, 2 episodes of The Virginian, among many others.
Television series
The Munsters
The year 1964 was a rocky one for De Carlo, as she was deeply in debt. After having worked for over 30 years, her film career came to a sudden end, and she was suffering from depression. Her life changed, however, when she signed a contract with Universal Studios after receiving an offer to perform the female lead role in the cult sitcom The Munsters opposite Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster. She was also the producers' choice to play Lily Munster when Joan Marshall, who played Phoebe, was dropped from consideration for the role. The short-lived cult sitcom also starred familiar actor Al Lewis as Lily's father, Grandpa Munster, and unfamiliar actors Beverley Owen and Pat Priest as Marilyn Munster and Butch Patrick as Eddie Munster.
During its second season, ratings began to drop, thanks in part to the debut of Batman, which dominated the ratings, early in 1966. Later that year, De Carlo accepted an offer to reprise her role in a color Munster movie, Munster, Go Home! (1966), partially in hopes of renewing interest in the TV series. Despite the attempt Munsters was canceled after 70 episodes
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 09/01/09 at 6:29 am
Hot Hot Hot ~ The Arrows
Hot Blooded- Foreigner
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/09 at 6:50 am
Hot Blooded- Foreigner
Hot Love ~ T.Rex
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 09/01/09 at 6:50 am
Hot Hot Hot Buster Poindexter.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 09/01/09 at 6:53 am
Hot Child In The City - Nick Gilder
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 09/01/09 at 6:55 am
A group by the name of Arrow sang the original Hot Hot Hot in the late 70's.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 09/01/09 at 8:59 am
De Carlo was such a stunning beauty and a talented actress. It's almost a shame she was typecast. . . but hey if you're gonna be typecast you can't beat Lily Munster. 8)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 09/01/09 at 9:41 am
A group by the name of Arrow sang the original Hot Hot Hot in the late 70's.
Yep, Phil mentioned that in an earlier post. ;)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 09/01/09 at 9:44 am
De Carlo was such a stunning beauty and a talented actress. It's almost a shame she was typecast. . . but hey if you're gonna be typecast you can't beat Lily Munster. 8)
I've only seen her in The Ten Commandments and The Munsters.. and she is beautiful. :)