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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 1:43 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITq7TZGhls
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 1:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITq7TZGhls
...with Jason Mraz singing?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 1:48 pm
The co-birthday of the day...Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedienne, singer-songwriter, activist, and media personality.
Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the south. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her first Golden Globe Award for her role in the film. In 1990, she starred as Oda Mae Brown, a psychic helping a slain man find his killer in the blockbuster film Ghost. This performance won her a second Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Notable later films include Sister Act (1992) and its sequel (1993), Made in America (1993), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Girl, Interrupted (1999) and Rat Race (2001). She is also acclaimed for her role as the bartender Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Goldberg has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television. She was the co-producer and center square of the latest edition game show Hollywood Squares from 1998 to 2002. She has achieved success on Broadway and in the music industry, and is one of 10 people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. In addition, she has won a British Academy Film Award, four People's Choice Awards and has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Currently, Goldberg is moderator and co-host of The View, which earned her an Emmy in 2009
Goldberg's on-screen talent first emerged in 1981-82 in Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away, an avant-garde ensemble feature by San Francisco filmmaker William Farley. Goldberg created The Spook Show, a one-woman show devised of different character monologues, in 1983. Director Mike Nichols was instantly impressed and offered to bring the show to Broadway. The self-titled show ran from October 24, 1984 to March 10, 1985 for a total of 156 sold-out performances. While on Broadway, Goldberg's performance caught the eye of director Steven Spielberg. He was about to direct the film The Color Purple, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker. Having read the novel, she was ecstatic at being offered a lead role in her first motion picture. Goldberg received compliments on her acting from Spielberg, Walker, and music consultant Quincy Jones. The Color Purple was released in late 1985, and was a critical and commercial success. It was later nominated for 11 Academy Awards including a nomination for Goldberg as Best Actress. The movie did not win any of its Academy Award nominations, but Goldberg won the Golden Globe Award.
A comedic and dramatic balance
Goldberg starred in Penny Marshall's directorial debut, 1986 Jumpin' Jack Flash, and began a relationship with David Claessen, a director of photography on the set, and the couple married later that year. The movie was a success, and during the next two years, three additional motion pictures featured Goldberg, Burglar, Fatal Beauty, and The Telephone. Though not as successful as her prior motion pictures, Goldberg still garnered awards from the NAACP Image Awards. Claessen and Goldberg divorced after the box office failure of The Telephone, which Goldberg was under contract to star in. She tried to sue the producers, but with no luck. The 1988 movie, Clara's Heart, was critically acclaimed, and featured a young Neil Patrick Harris. As the 1980s concluded, she participated in the numerous HBO specials of Comic Relief with fellow comedians Robin Williams and Billy Crystal.
Goldberg at Comic Relief in 2006
In January 1990, Goldberg starred with Jean Stapleton in the TV situation comedy Bagdad Cafe. The show ran for two seasons on CBS. Simultaneously, Goldberg starred in The Long Walk Home, portraying a woman in the Civil Rights Movement. She played a psychic in the 1990 film Ghost, and became the first black female to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in nearly 50 years. Premiere Magazine named her character, Oda Mae Brown, to the list of Top 100 best movie characters of all time.
Goldberg starred in Soapdish and had a recurring role on Star Trek: The Next Generation as Guinan which she would reprise in two Star Trek movies. On May 29, 1992, Sister Act was released. The motion pictured grossed well over US$100 million and Goldberg was nominated for a Golden Globe. Next, she starred in Sarafina!. During the next year, she hosted a late-night talk show, The Whoopi Goldberg Show and starred in two more motion pictures Made in America and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. From 1994 to 1995, Whoopi appeared in Corrina, Corrina, The Lion King (voice), The Pagemaster (voice), Boys on the Side, and Moonlight and Valentino. Goldberg became the first African-American female to host the Academy Awards in 1994. She hosted the Awards again in 1996, 1999, and 2002. Goldberg released four motion pictures in 1996: Bogus (with Gerard Depardieu and Haley Joel Osment), Eddie, The Associate (with Dianne Wiest) and Ghosts of Mississippi (with Alec Baldwin and James Woods). During the filming of Eddie, Goldberg began dating co-star Frank Langella, a relationship which lasted until early 2000. Goldberg wrote Book in October 1997, a collection featuring insights and opinions. In November and December 2005, Goldberg revived her one-woman show on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in honor of its 20th anniversary.
From 1998 to 2001, Goldberg took supporting roles in the How Stella Got Her Groove Back with Angela Basset, Girl, Interrupted with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, Kingdom Come, and Rat Race with an all-star ensemble cast. She also played the voice of Liz on the first four seasons of popular PBS program The Magic Schoolbus. She starred in the successful ABC-TV versions of Cinderella, A Knight in Camelot, and the TNT Original Movie, Call Me Claus. In 1998, she gained a new audience when she became the "Center Square" on Hollywood Squares, hosted by Tom Bergeron. She also served as Executive Producer, for which she was nominated for 4 Emmys. She left the show in 2002, and the "Center Square" was filled in with celebrities for the last two on-air seasons without Goldberg. In 2003, Goldberg returned to television, starring in the NBC comedy, Whoopi, which was canceled after one season. On her 48th birthday, Goldberg was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. During the next two years, she became a spokeswoman for Slim Fast and produced two television sitcoms: Lifetime's original drama Strong Medicine that ran for six seasons and Whoopi's Littleburg, a Nickelodeon show for younger children. Goldberg made guest appearances on the Hit CW Network comedy, Everybody Hates Chris, as an elderly character named Louise Clarkson. She produced the Noggin sitcom Just For Kicks, in early 2006. She was a guest at Elton John's 60th birthday bash and concert at Madison Square Garden on March 25, 2007.
The View
On September 4, 2007, Goldberg became the new moderator and co-host of The View, replacing Rosie O'Donnell. O'Donnell stated on her official blog that she wanted Goldberg to be moderator. Goldberg's debut as moderator drew 3.4 million viewers, 1 million fewer than O'Donnell's debut ratings. After two weeks, however, The View was averaging 3.5 million total viewers under Goldberg, a 7% increase from 3.3 million under O'Donnell the previous season.
Goldberg's first appearance on the show was controversial when she made statements about Michael Vick's dogfighting as being "part of his cultural upbringing" and "not all that unusual" in parts of the South. Another comment that stirred controversy was the statement that the Chinese "have a very different relationship to cats" and that "you and I would be very pissed if somebody ate kitty."
Some defended Goldberg, including her co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, saying that her comments were taken out of context by the press, because she repeated several times that she did not condone what Vick did.
On more than one occasion, Goldberg has expressed strong disagreement and irritation with different remarks made by Elisabeth Hasselbeck, such as on October 3, 2007, when Hasselbeck commented that Hillary Clinton's proposed US$ 5,000 baby entitlement might lead to fewer abortions because of women wanting to keep the money.
Goldberg also created controversy when on September 28, 2009, during a discussion of Roman Polanski's case, she opined that Polanski's rape of a thirteen year old in 1977 was not "rape-rape". Goldberg later clarified that she was "only referring" to the legal charge against Polanksi at the time 30 years ago, which was later classified as statutory rape, i.e. unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, and that her comment was not in support of his freedom.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwuH07qIAUk
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 1:49 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwuH07qIAUk
Our favourite moment of Ghost.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/13/09 at 2:33 pm
Wow,for a second there I thought it was Bette Midler's birthday.
lol ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/13/09 at 2:35 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiS8YokFzeY
Nice song, it use to be my mother in law & sister in laws song..now they don't talk to each other. :-\\
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 2:37 pm
lol ;D
He-He!!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/13/09 at 2:38 pm
...with Jason Mraz singing?
Very tranquil :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 3:11 pm
Very tranquil :)
He has a soothing voice.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 3:12 pm
Wow,for a second there I thought it was Bette Midler's birthday.
That will be December 1st.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/13/09 at 8:26 pm
That will be December 1st.
Oh Ok.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 11:19 pm
Oh Ok.
Which more than likely be included then.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 6:57 am
I've never seen the whole film,only bits & pieces.
I think it is a very long film.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/14/09 at 7:53 am
The word of the day...Polo
1. A game played by two teams of three or four players on horseback who are equipped with long-handled mallets for driving a small wooden ball through the opponents' goal.
2. Water polo.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/14/09 at 7:55 am
Are those equestrians?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 7:56 am
The word of the day...Polo
1. A game played by two teams of three or four players on horseback who are equipped with long-handled mallets for driving a small wooden ball through the opponents' goal.
2. Water polo.
http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Polo_mints_2006-01-03.JPG/250px-Polo_mints_2006-01-03.JPG
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 7:56 am
Are those equestrians?
The word of the day...Polo
1. A game played by two teams of three or four players on horseback who are equipped with long-handled mallets for driving a small wooden ball through the opponents' goal.
2. Water polo.
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc47/bablog/Polo/DSC03174.jpg
This are.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/14/09 at 8:02 am
The birthday of the day...Charles
Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1952, he has been heir apparent to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms. After earning a bachelor of arts from Trinity College, Cambridge, Charles served a tour of duty with Royal Navy in 1971-1976. He married Lady Diana Spencer before an enormous worldwide television audience in 1981. They had two children, Prince William of Wales in 1982 and Prince Harry of Wales in 1984. The couple separated in 1992 following numerous tabloid allegations concerning their relationship. They divorced in 1996 after Diana publicly accused the prince of having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. Diana died in a car crash in 1997 and in 2005 the Prince married Parker Bowles.
The prince is well known for his charity work and sponsors the Prince's Trust, The Prince's Regeneration Trust, and the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment. He has been outspoken concerning architecture and the conservation of old buildings and has produced a book on the subject called A Vision of Britain (1989). He has also expressed controversial views concerning herbal and other alternative medical treatment. Since 1958, his major title has been HRH The Prince of Wales. However, he may use other titles depending on where he visits, for example The Duke of Rothesay when visiting Scotland, or The Duke of Cornwall when visiting South West England.
Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on 26 July 1958, though his investiture as such was not conducted until 1 July 1969, wherein he was crowned by his mother in a televised ceremony held at Caernarfon Castle, and gave his replies and speech in both Welsh and English. The following year he took his seat in the House of Lords, and later in the decade became the first member of the Royal Family since King George I to attend a British Cabinet meeting, having been invited by Prime Minister James Callaghan so that the Prince might see the workings of the British government and Cabinet at first hand. Charles also began to take on more public duties, founding his The Prince's Trust in 1976, and travelling to the United States in 1981.
Around the same time, the Prince expressed an interest in serving as Governor-General of Australia; Commander Michael Parker explained: "The idea behind the appointment was for him to put a foot on the ladder of monarchy, or being the future King and start learning the trade." However, because of a combination of nationalist feeling in Australia and the dismissal of the government by the Governor-General in 1975, nothing came of the proposal. Charles accepted the decision of the Australian ministers, if not without some regret; he reportedly stated: "What are you supposed to think when you are prepared to do something to help and you are told you are not wanted?" Conversely, Tom Gallagher wrote that Charles had been offered the Romanian throne by monarchists in that country; an offer that was reportedly turned down.
The Prince is at present the oldest man to hold the title of Prince of Wales since it became one that is granted to the heir apparent. He is also the oldest heir apparent in Commonwealth realms' history, the third longest serving heir apparent, and the third longest serving Prince of Wales in British history, in each case behind Edward VII and George IV. If he ascends to the throne after 18 September 2013, Charles would be the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom to do so; only William IV was older when he became monarch than Charles is now.
Military training and career
Prince Charles arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in the United States, 1981
Following in the tradition of Princes of Wales before him, Charles spent time in the navy and air force. After Royal Air Force training that he requested and received during his second year at Cambridge, on 8 March 1971 the Prince flew himself to the Royal Air Force College Cranwell to train as a jet pilot. After the passing out parade in September of that year, he then embarked on a naval career, enrolling in a six week course at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth and then serving on the guided missile destroyer HMS Norfolk (1971-1972) and the frigates HMS Minerva (1972-1973) and HMS Jupiter (1974). Charles also qualified as a helicopter pilot at RNAS Yeovilton in 1974, just prior to joining 845 Naval Air Squadron, operating from HMS Hermes, and on 9 February 1976, the Prince took command of the coastal minehunter HMS Bronington for his last nine months in the navy. In total, Prince Charles has qualified to fly a Chipmunk basic pilot trainer, a Harrier T Mk.4 V/STOL fighter, a BAC Jet Provost jet pilot trainer, a Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, a F-4 Phantom II fighter jet, an Avro Vulcan jet bomber, and a Spitfire classic WWII fighter.
Early romances
Prince Charles' love life was always the subject of speculation and press fodder. In his youth, he was linked to a number of women, including Georgina Russell, daughter of the British Ambassador to Spain; Lady Jane Wellesley, daughter of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington; Davina Sheffield; Fiona Watson, a model; Susan George; Lady Sarah Spencer; Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg; Dale, Baroness Tryon; Janet Jenkins; and Jane Ward. Irrespective of the truth of the romantic rumours, the hurdles of marriage made some of these matches manifestly implausible; as the heir apparent to the Commonwealth realms' thrones, Charles was expected to father future monarchs. Also, like other members of the Royal Family, he was legally obliged to obtain his mother's approval under the Royal Marriages Act 1772 before he could marry, and his choice would have to survive the immense popular interest any marriage proposal would immediately arouse.
Charles was given written advice on dating and the selection of a future consort from his father's "Uncle Dickie", Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma: "In a case like yours, the man should sow his wild oats and have as many affairs as he can before settling down, but for a wife he should choose a suitable, attractive, and sweet-charactered girl before she has met anyone else she might fall for... It is disturbing for women to have experiences if they have to remain on a pedestal after marriage." Mountbatten had a unique qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne: he had invited George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and their daughters to visit Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, having also detailed Cadet Prince Philip to keep the young princesses company, creating the first documented meeting of Charles' future parents. In early 1974, Mountbatten began corresponding with Elizabeth and Philip's eldest son about a potential marriage to Mountbatten's granddaughter, Hon. Amanda Knatchbull (b. 26 June 1957), and recommended that the twenty-five year old prince get done with his bachelor's experimentation. Charles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother, Patricia Brabourne (who was also his godmother), about his interest in her daughter, to which she replied approvingly, though suggesting that a courtship was premature.
This did not daunt Mountbatten, who, four years later, obtained an invitation for himself and Amanda to accompany Charles on his 1980 tour of India. Both fathers, however, objected; Philip complaining that the Prince of Wales would be eclipsed by his famous uncle (who had served as the last British Viceroy and first Governor-General of India), while John, Baron Brabourne warned that a joint visit would rivet media attention on the cousins before they could decide on becoming a couple, thereby potentially dashing the very prospect for which Mountbatten hoped. However, before Charles was to depart alone for India, Mountbatten was assassinated in August 1979. When Charles returned, he proposed to Amanda. However, in addition to her grandfather, she had lost her paternal grandmother and youngest brother Nicholas in the attack and now recoiled from the prospect of becoming a core member of the Royal Family. In June 1980, Charles officially turned down Chevening House, placed at his disposal since 1974, as his future residence. Chevening, a stately home in Kent, was bequeathed, along with an endowment, to the Crown by the last Earl Stanhope, Amanda's childless great-uncle, in the hope that Charles would eventually occupy it.
First marriage
Although Charles first met Lady Diana Frances Spencer in 1977 – while visiting Diana's home, Althorp, as the companion of her elder sister, Sarah – he did not consider her romantically until the summer of 1980. While sitting together on a bale of hay at a friend's barbecue in July, he mentioned Mountbatten's death, to which Diana replied that Charles had looked forlorn and in need of care during his uncle's funeral. Soon, according to Charles' chosen biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, "without any apparent surge in feeling, he began to think seriously of her as a potential bride." She accompanied the Prince on visits to Balmoral and Sandringham, eliciting enthusiastic responses from most of the Royal Family.
Although the Queen offered Charles no direct counsel, his cousin Norton Knatchbull (Amanda's eldest brother) and his wife, Penny, did. But Charles was angered by their objections that he did not seem in love with Diana and that she seemed too awestruck by his position. Meanwhile, the couple continued dating, amidst constant press speculation and paparazzi coverage. When Prince Philip told him that the intrusive media attention would injure her reputation if he did not come to a decision about marrying her soon, and realising that Diana met the Mountbatten criteria (and, apparently, the public's) for a proper royal bride, Charles construed his father's advice as a warning to proceed without further delay.
Engagement and wedding to Diana
Main article: Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer
Charles and Diana's wedding commemorated on a 1981 British Crown (25 pence).
Prince Charles proposed to Diana in February 1981, she accepted, and when he asked her father for her hand, he consented. After the British and Canadian privy councils gave their approval for the union (which was sought as the couple was expected to produce an heir to those countries' thrones), the Queen-in-Council gave the legally required assent, and, 29 July, Charles and Diana were married at St. Paul's Cathedral, before 3,500 invited guests and an estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million people. All of the Queen's Governors-General, as well as Europe's crowned heads, attended (save for King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who was advised not to attend because the newlyweds' honeymoon would involve a stop over in the disputed territory of Gibraltar). Most of Europe's elected heads of state were also amongst the guests, with the exceptions of the President of Greece, Constantine Karamanlis (who declined because Greece's exiled monarch, Constantine II, a kinsman and friend of the bridegroom, had been invited as "King of the Hellenes"), and the President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery (who was advised by Taoiseach Charles Haughey not to attend because of the dispute over the status of Northern Ireland).
The couple made their homes at Highgrove, near Tetbury, and Kensington Palace. Almost immediately, the new Princess of Wales became a star attraction, chased by the paparazzi, and her every move followed by millions through the mass media. The couple had two children: Princes William (born 21 June 1982) and Harry (born 15 September 1984). Charles set precedent by being the first royal father to be present at his children's births.
Separation and divorce
The union between the Prince and Princess of Wales soon became troubled; despite their similarities, such as their mutual devotion to charity work – Diana focusing on AIDS sufferers, while Charles devoted his efforts to marginalised groups in urban centres – within five years, the "fairytale" marriage was on the brink of collapse. The continued presence of Camilla Parker-Bowles in events and circumstances that also involved the royal couple became intolerable to Diana. Allies of Charles who spoke publicly, if anonymously, against Diana alleged that she was unstable and temperamental; one by one, she apparently dismissed each of Charles' long-standing staff members and fell out with his friends, as well as members of her own family – her father, mother, and brother – as well as members of the Royal Family, such as Sarah, Duchess of York. The Princess sought counsel outside of the generally accepted sources of advice, to the chagrin of the palace. In response to the succour sought by the Prince, Diana responded in kind. Charles, however, was also blamed for the marital troubles, as he resumed his adulterous affair with Parker-Bowles. Though they remained a couple in public, Charles and Diana had effectively separated by the late 1980s, the Prince living in Highgrove and the Princess at Kensington Palace. Their increased periods apart and obvious discomfort in each other's presence began to be noticed by the media, and this, plus evidence and recriminations of infidelity, were broadcast in tabloids and the news. By 1992 the marriage was over in all but name; in December of that year, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, John Major, announced in the British parliament the Prince and Princess' formal separation, after which the media began to take sides, starting what came to be known as the War of the Waleses. In October 1993, Diana wrote to a friend that she believed her husband was now in love with Tiggy Legge-Bourke and wanted to marry her. The marriage of Charles and Diana was formally ended in divorce on 28 August 1996.
Second marriage
In 1993, the British tabloids came into the possession of recordings of a 1989 mobile telephone conversation allegedly between the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles, in which Charles expressed regret for the indignities she had endured because of her relationship with him, and which revealed graphic expressions of a physical intimacy between the two. In a television interview the following year, Charles admitted that he had committed adultery "once it was clear the marriage had broken down," and said in the same interview that his father had approved of the taking of a mistress. This assertion, however, was vehemently denied by the Duke of Edinburgh, and the implication of condoned adultery caused a significant rift between father and son. When it was later confirmed that it had been Camilla Parker-Bowles with whom Charles was having an affair, her husband, Andrew, immediately demanded a divorce from his wife and thereafter remained silent on the subject of his wife's ongoing affair with the Prince.
Charles and Camilla in Jamaica, 13 March 2008.
On 31 August 1997, a year after the Prince and Princess divorced, Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris, along with her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. The Prince of Wales overruled the palace protocol experts – who argued that as Diana was no longer a member of the Royal Family, the responsibility for her funeral arrangements belonged to her blood relatives, the Spencers – and flew to Paris, with Diana's sisters, to accompany his ex-wife's body home. He also insisted that, as the mother of the presumed future king (her son William), she be given a formal royal funeral; a new category of formal funeral was especially created for her.
Charles attempted to make his relationship with Parker-Bowles more public and accepted, having her become his unofficial, occasional companion at events. This coming out temporarily ceased at the time of the Princess of Wales' death, but Charles and Parker-Bowles were photographed in public together in 1999, following a birthday party for Parker-Bowles' sister, Annabel Elliott; this was regarded as a sign that the relationship was now official, a feeling that was further enhanced when Parker-Bowles met the Queen in June 2000. Parker-Bowles moved into Charles' household in 2003, resulting in decorative changes to both homes, though Buckingham Palace was explicit in pointing out that public funds had not been used for the renovations. Marriage between the Prince of Wales and Parker-Bowles remained elusive, however: As the future Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the prospect of Charles marrying a divorcée, and one with whom he had conducted an illicit relationship, was seen as controversial. Opinion – of both the public and the church – shifted, though, to a point where civil marriage was seen as an agreeable solution.
Engagement and wedding to Camilla
Main article: Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles
Clarence House announced on 10 February 2005 that Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles were engaged; the Prince presented Parker-Bowles with an engagement ring that had belonged to his grandmother. In a Privy Council meeting on 2 March, the Queen's consent to the marriage (as required by the Royal Marriages Act 1772) was recorded. In Canada, however, the Department of Justice announced its decision that the Queen's Privy Council for Canada was not required to meet to give its consent to the marriage, as the union would not result in offspring and thus would have no impact on the succession to the Canadian throne.
The marriage was to have been on 8 April of that year, and was to take place in a civil ceremony at Windsor Castle, with a subsequent religious blessing at St George's Chapel. But, because the conduct of a civil marriage at Windsor Castle would oblige the venue thereafter to be available to anyone wishing to be married there, the location was changed to the Windsor Guildhall. On 4 April it was announced that the marriage would be delayed by one day to allow for the Prince of Wales and some of the invited dignitaries to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Charles' parents did not attend the marriage ceremony; the Queen's reluctance to attend arising from her position as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh did, however, attend the service of blessing, and held a reception for the newlyweds at Windsor Castle, afterwards. The wedding made Charles the first member of the Royal Family to be civilly wed in England. Official documents had been published by BBC that stated such a marriage was illegal, though these were dismissed by Clarence House, and explained to be obsolete by the sitting government.
The plight of various peoples has been a target of Charles' efforts, predominantly the long-term unemployed, people who have been in trouble with the law, people who are in difficulty at school, and people who have been in care. The Prince's Trust is the main outlet through which Charles works with young people, offering loans to groups, business people, and others who've had difficulty receiving outside support. Fundraising concerts are regularly held in benefit of the trust, with leading pop, rock, and classical musicians taking part. In Canada, Charles has also supported humanitarian projects, taking part, along with his two sons, in the ceremonies marking the 1998 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and helping to launch the Canadian Youth Business Foundation in Saskatchewan in 2001, when he also visited Scott Collegiate, an inner-city school in Regina.
After spending time in the Northwest Territories in 1975, Charles formed a special interest in the Canadian north, as well as Canada's Aboriginal Peoples, the leaders of which he met and sometimes took time to walk and meditate with. Reflecting this association, the Prince of Wales has been conferred with special titles from First Nations communities: in 1996, Cree and Ojibway students in Winnipeg named the Prince Leading Star, and in 2001 he was dubbed Pisimwa Kamiwohkitahpamikohk, or "the sun looks at him in a good way", during his first visit to the province of Saskatchewan. He was also one of the first world leaders to express strong concerns about the human rights record of Nicolae Ceauşescu, initiating objections in the international arena, and subsequently supported the FARA Foundation, which runs Romanian orphanages.
Charles attended the Bilderberg Group conference in 1986 specifically to attend a debate on the South Africa economic crisis.
Hobbies and sports
Since his youth, the Prince was an avid player of polo, as a part of competitive teams until 1992, and strictly for charity from then until 2005, after which he ceased to participate because of two notable injuries he suffered during play: in 1990 he broke his arm, and in 2001 was briefly unconscious after a fall. Charles also frequently took part in fox hunting, before the sport was banned in the United Kingdom in 2005. By the late 1990s, as opposition to the activity was growing, the Prince of Wales' participation in this activity was viewed as a "political statement" by those opposed to it, such as the League Against Cruel Sports, which launched the attack against Charles after he took his sons on the Beaufort Hunt in 1999, at a time when the government was trying to ban the hunting of foxes with hounds.
Charles has also pursued the visual arts, focusing on watercolour, and exhibiting and selling a number of his paintings, as well as publishing books on the subject. In university he dabbled in acting, appearing in amateur productions of a comedic nature, an enjoyment of which continued later into the Prince's life, as evidenced by his organising of a comedy gala to celebrate his 60th birthday. He also has an interest in illusionism, becoming a member of The Magic Circle after passing his audition by performing the cups and balls effect. The Prince acts today as patron of a number of theatres, acting troupes, and orchestral ensembles, including the Regina Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and is reportedly a fan of Canadian singer and song writer Leonard Cohen. He is also a collector of automobiles, particularly the British marque Aston Martin, having acquired numerous models and such tight connections with the brand – being a frequent visitor to the factory and its service department, and a guest of honour at most of the company's special launch events – that special Prince of Wales edition Aston Martins have been created on occasion. He is known to like Ipswich Town Football Club, after a visit to Portman Road after they were the first football club in England to support his supported charity.
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The birthday of the day...Charles
Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1952, he has been heir apparent to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms. After earning a bachelor of arts from Trinity College, Cambridge, Charles served a tour of duty with Royal Navy in 1971-1976. He married Lady Diana Spencer before an enormous worldwide television audience in 1981. They had two children, Prince William of Wales in 1982 and Prince Harry of Wales in 1984. The couple separated in 1992 following numerous tabloid allegations concerning their relationship. They divorced in 1996 after Diana publicly accused the prince of having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. Diana died in a car crash in 1997 and in 2005 the Prince married Parker Bowles.
The prince is well known for his charity work and sponsors the Prince's Trust, The Prince's Regeneration Trust, and the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment. He has been outspoken concerning architecture and the conservation of old buildings and has produced a book on the subject called A Vision of Britain (1989). He has also expressed controversial views concerning herbal and other alternative medical treatment. Since 1958, his major title has been HRH The Prince of Wales. However, he may use other titles depending on where he visits, for example The Duke of Rothesay when visiting Scotland, or The Duke of Cornwall when visiting South West England.
Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on 26 July 1958, though his investiture as such was not conducted until 1 July 1969, wherein he was crowned by his mother in a televised ceremony held at Caernarfon Castle, and gave his replies and speech in both Welsh and English. The following year he took his seat in the House of Lords, and later in the decade became the first member of the Royal Family since King George I to attend a British Cabinet meeting, having been invited by Prime Minister James Callaghan so that the Prince might see the workings of the British government and Cabinet at first hand. Charles also began to take on more public duties, founding his The Prince's Trust in 1976, and travelling to the United States in 1981.
Around the same time, the Prince expressed an interest in serving as Governor-General of Australia; Commander Michael Parker explained: "The idea behind the appointment was for him to put a foot on the ladder of monarchy, or being the future King and start learning the trade." However, because of a combination of nationalist feeling in Australia and the dismissal of the government by the Governor-General in 1975, nothing came of the proposal. Charles accepted the decision of the Australian ministers, if not without some regret; he reportedly stated: "What are you supposed to think when you are prepared to do something to help and you are told you are not wanted?" Conversely, Tom Gallagher wrote that Charles had been offered the Romanian throne by monarchists in that country; an offer that was reportedly turned down.
The Prince is at present the oldest man to hold the title of Prince of Wales since it became one that is granted to the heir apparent. He is also the oldest heir apparent in Commonwealth realms' history, the third longest serving heir apparent, and the third longest serving Prince of Wales in British history, in each case behind Edward VII and George IV. If he ascends to the throne after 18 September 2013, Charles would be the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom to do so; only William IV was older when he became monarch than Charles is now.
Military training and career
Prince Charles arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in the United States, 1981
Following in the tradition of Princes of Wales before him, Charles spent time in the navy and air force. After Royal Air Force training that he requested and received during his second year at Cambridge, on 8 March 1971 the Prince flew himself to the Royal Air Force College Cranwell to train as a jet pilot. After the passing out parade in September of that year, he then embarked on a naval career, enrolling in a six week course at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth and then serving on the guided missile destroyer HMS Norfolk (1971-1972) and the frigates HMS Minerva (1972-1973) and HMS Jupiter (1974). Charles also qualified as a helicopter pilot at RNAS Yeovilton in 1974, just prior to joining 845 Naval Air Squadron, operating from HMS Hermes, and on 9 February 1976, the Prince took command of the coastal minehunter HMS Bronington for his last nine months in the navy. In total, Prince Charles has qualified to fly a Chipmunk basic pilot trainer, a Harrier T Mk.4 V/STOL fighter, a BAC Jet Provost jet pilot trainer, a Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, a F-4 Phantom II fighter jet, an Avro Vulcan jet bomber, and a Spitfire classic WWII fighter.
Early romances
Prince Charles' love life was always the subject of speculation and press fodder. In his youth, he was linked to a number of women, including Georgina Russell, daughter of the British Ambassador to Spain; Lady Jane Wellesley, daughter of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington; Davina Sheffield; Fiona Watson, a model; Susan George; Lady Sarah Spencer; Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg; Dale, Baroness Tryon; Janet Jenkins; and Jane Ward. Irrespective of the truth of the romantic rumours, the hurdles of marriage made some of these matches manifestly implausible; as the heir apparent to the Commonwealth realms' thrones, Charles was expected to father future monarchs. Also, like other members of the Royal Family, he was legally obliged to obtain his mother's approval under the Royal Marriages Act 1772 before he could marry, and his choice would have to survive the immense popular interest any marriage proposal would immediately arouse.
Charles was given written advice on dating and the selection of a future consort from his father's "Uncle Dickie", Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma: "In a case like yours, the man should sow his wild oats and have as many affairs as he can before settling down, but for a wife he should choose a suitable, attractive, and sweet-charactered girl before she has met anyone else she might fall for... It is disturbing for women to have experiences if they have to remain on a pedestal after marriage." Mountbatten had a unique qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne: he had invited George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and their daughters to visit Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, having also detailed Cadet Prince Philip to keep the young princesses company, creating the first documented meeting of Charles' future parents. In early 1974, Mountbatten began corresponding with Elizabeth and Philip's eldest son about a potential marriage to Mountbatten's granddaughter, Hon. Amanda Knatchbull (b. 26 June 1957), and recommended that the twenty-five year old prince get done with his bachelor's experimentation. Charles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother, Patricia Brabourne (who was also his godmother), about his interest in her daughter, to which she replied approvingly, though suggesting that a courtship was premature.
This did not daunt Mountbatten, who, four years later, obtained an invitation for himself and Amanda to accompany Charles on his 1980 tour of India. Both fathers, however, objected; Philip complaining that the Prince of Wales would be eclipsed by his famous uncle (who had served as the last British Viceroy and first Governor-General of India), while John, Baron Brabourne warned that a joint visit would rivet media attention on the cousins before they could decide on becoming a couple, thereby potentially dashing the very prospect for which Mountbatten hoped. However, before Charles was to depart alone for India, Mountbatten was assassinated in August 1979. When Charles returned, he proposed to Amanda. However, in addition to her grandfather, she had lost her paternal grandmother and youngest brother Nicholas in the attack and now recoiled from the prospect of becoming a core member of the Royal Family. In June 1980, Charles officially turned down Chevening House, placed at his disposal since 1974, as his future residence. Chevening, a stately home in Kent, was bequeathed, along with an endowment, to the Crown by the last Earl Stanhope, Amanda's childless great-uncle, in the hope that Charles would eventually occupy it.
First marriage
Although Charles first met Lady Diana Frances Spencer in 1977 – while visiting Diana's home, Althorp, as the companion of her elder sister, Sarah – he did not consider her romantically until the summer of 1980. While sitting together on a bale of hay at a friend's barbecue in July, he mentioned Mountbatten's death, to which Diana replied that Charles had looked forlorn and in need of care during his uncle's funeral. Soon, according to Charles' chosen biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, "without any apparent surge in feeling, he began to think seriously of her as a potential bride." She accompanied the Prince on visits to Balmoral and Sandringham, eliciting enthusiastic responses from most of the Royal Family.
Although the Queen offered Charles no direct counsel, his cousin Norton Knatchbull (Amanda's eldest brother) and his wife, Penny, did. But Charles was angered by their objections that he did not seem in love with Diana and that she seemed too awestruck by his position. Meanwhile, the couple continued dating, amidst constant press speculation and paparazzi coverage. When Prince Philip told him that the intrusive media attention would injure her reputation if he did not come to a decision about marrying her soon, and realising that Diana met the Mountbatten criteria (and, apparently, the public's) for a proper royal bride, Charles construed his father's advice as a warning to proceed without further delay.
Engagement and wedding to Diana
Main article: Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer
Charles and Diana's wedding commemorated on a 1981 British Crown (25 pence).
Prince Charles proposed to Diana in February 1981, she accepted, and when he asked her father for her hand, he consented. After the British and Canadian privy councils gave their approval for the union (which was sought as the couple was expected to produce an heir to those countries' thrones), the Queen-in-Council gave the legally required assent, and, 29 July, Charles and Diana were married at St. Paul's Cathedral, before 3,500 invited guests and an estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million people. All of the Queen's Governors-General, as well as Europe's crowned heads, attended (save for King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who was advised not to attend because the newlyweds' honeymoon would involve a stop over in the disputed territory of Gibraltar). Most of Europe's elected heads of state were also amongst the guests, with the exceptions of the President of Greece, Constantine Karamanlis (who declined because Greece's exiled monarch, Constantine II, a kinsman and friend of the bridegroom, had been invited as "King of the Hellenes"), and the President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery (who was advised by Taoiseach Charles Haughey not to attend because of the dispute over the status of Northern Ireland).
The couple made their homes at Highgrove, near Tetbury, and Kensington Palace. Almost immediately, the new Princess of Wales became a star attraction, chased by the paparazzi, and her every move followed by millions through the mass media. The couple had two children: Princes William (born 21 June 1982) and Harry (born 15 September 1984). Charles set precedent by being the first royal father to be present at his children's births.
Separation and divorce
The union between the Prince and Princess of Wales soon became troubled; despite their similarities, such as their mutual devotion to charity work – Diana focusing on AIDS sufferers, while Charles devoted his efforts to marginalised groups in urban centres – within five years, the "fairytale" marriage was on the brink of collapse. The continued presence of Camilla Parker-Bowles in events and circumstances that also involved the royal couple became intolerable to Diana. Allies of Charles who spoke publicly, if anonymously, against Diana alleged that she was unstable and temperamental; one by one, she apparently dismissed each of Charles' long-standing staff members and fell out with his friends, as well as members of her own family – her father, mother, and brother – as well as members of the Royal Family, such as Sarah, Duchess of York. The Princess sought counsel outside of the generally accepted sources of advice, to the chagrin of the palace. In response to the succour sought by the Prince, Diana responded in kind. Charles, however, was also blamed for the marital troubles, as he resumed his adulterous affair with Parker-Bowles. Though they remained a couple in public, Charles and Diana had effectively separated by the late 1980s, the Prince living in Highgrove and the Princess at Kensington Palace. Their increased periods apart and obvious discomfort in each other's presence began to be noticed by the media, and this, plus evidence and recriminations of infidelity, were broadcast in tabloids and the news. By 1992 the marriage was over in all but name; in December of that year, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, John Major, announced in the British parliament the Prince and Princess' formal separation, after which the media began to take sides, starting what came to be known as the War of the Waleses. In October 1993, Diana wrote to a friend that she believed her husband was now in love with Tiggy Legge-Bourke and wanted to marry her. The marriage of Charles and Diana was formally ended in divorce on 28 August 1996.
Second marriage
In 1993, the British tabloids came into the possession of recordings of a 1989 mobile telephone conversation allegedly between the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles, in which Charles expressed regret for the indignities she had endured because of her relationship with him, and which revealed graphic expressions of a physical intimacy between the two. In a television interview the following year, Charles admitted that he had committed adultery "once it was clear the marriage had broken down," and said in the same interview that his father had approved of the taking of a mistress. This assertion, however, was vehemently denied by the Duke of Edinburgh, and the implication of condoned adultery caused a significant rift between father and son. When it was later confirmed that it had been Camilla Parker-Bowles with whom Charles was having an affair, her husband, Andrew, immediately demanded a divorce from his wife and thereafter remained silent on the subject of his wife's ongoing affair with the Prince.
Charles and Camilla in Jamaica, 13 March 2008.
On 31 August 1997, a year after the Prince and Princess divorced, Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris, along with her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. The Prince of Wales overruled the palace protocol experts – who argued that as Diana was no longer a member of the Royal Family, the responsibility for her funeral arrangements belonged to her blood relatives, the Spencers – and flew to Paris, with Diana's sisters, to accompany his ex-wife's body home. He also insisted that, as the mother of the presumed future king (her son William), she be given a formal royal funeral; a new category of formal funeral was especially created for her.
Charles attempted to make his relationship with Parker-Bowles more public and accepted, having her become his unofficial, occasional companion at events. This coming out temporarily ceased at the time of the Princess of Wales' death, but Charles and Parker-Bowles were photographed in public together in 1999, following a birthday party for Parker-Bowles' sister, Annabel Elliott; this was regarded as a sign that the relationship was now official, a feeling that was further enhanced when Parker-Bowles met the Queen in June 2000. Parker-Bowles moved into Charles' household in 2003, resulting in decorative changes to both homes, though Buckingham Palace was explicit in pointing out that public funds had not been used for the renovations. Marriage between the Prince of Wales and Parker-Bowles remained elusive, however: As the future Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the prospect of Charles marrying a divorcée, and one with whom he had conducted an illicit relationship, was seen as controversial. Opinion – of both the public and the church – shifted, though, to a point where civil marriage was seen as an agreeable solution.
Engagement and wedding to Camilla
Main article: Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles
Clarence House announced on 10 February 2005 that Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles were engaged; the Prince presented Parker-Bowles with an engagement ring that had belonged to his grandmother. In a Privy Council meeting on 2 March, the Queen's consent to the marriage (as required by the Royal Marriages Act 1772) was recorded. In Canada, however, the Department of Justice announced its decision that the Queen's Privy Council for Canada was not required to meet to give its consent to the marriage, as the union would not result in offspring and thus would have no impact on the succession to the Canadian throne.
The marriage was to have been on 8 April of that year, and was to take place in a civil ceremony at Windsor Castle, with a subsequent religious blessing at St George's Chapel. But, because the conduct of a civil marriage at Windsor Castle would oblige the venue thereafter to be available to anyone wishing to be married there, the location was changed to the Windsor Guildhall. On 4 April it was announced that the marriage would be delayed by one day to allow for the Prince of Wales and some of the invited dignitaries to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Charles' parents did not attend the marriage ceremony; the Queen's reluctance to attend arising from her position as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh did, however, attend the service of blessing, and held a reception for the newlyweds at Windsor Castle, afterwards. The wedding made Charles the first member of the Royal Family to be civilly wed in England. Official documents had been published by BBC that stated such a marriage was illegal, though these were dismissed by Clarence House, and explained to be obsolete by the sitting government.
The plight of various peoples has been a target of Charles' efforts, predominantly the long-term unemployed, people who have been in trouble with the law, people who are in difficulty at school, and people who have been in care. The Prince's Trust is the main outlet through which Charles works with young people, offering loans to groups, business people, and others who've had difficulty receiving outside support. Fundraising concerts are regularly held in benefit of the trust, with leading pop, rock, and classical musicians taking part. In Canada, Charles has also supported humanitarian projects, taking part, along with his two sons, in the ceremonies marking the 1998 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and helping to launch the Canadian Youth Business Foundation in Saskatchewan in 2001, when he also visited Scott Collegiate, an inner-city school in Regina.
After spending time in the Northwest Territories in 1975, Charles formed a special interest in the Canadian north, as well as Canada's Aboriginal Peoples, the leaders of which he met and sometimes took time to walk and meditate with. Reflecting this association, the Prince of Wales has been conferred with special titles from First Nations communities: in 1996, Cree and Ojibway students in Winnipeg named the Prince Leading Star, and in 2001 he was dubbed Pisimwa Kamiwohkitahpamikohk, or "the sun looks at him in a good way", during his first visit to the province of Saskatchewan. He was also one of the first world leaders to express strong concerns about the human rights record of Nicolae Ceauşescu, initiating objections in the international arena, and subsequently supported the FARA Foundation, which runs Romanian orphanages.
Charles attended the Bilderberg Group conference in 1986 specifically to attend a debate on the South Africa economic crisis.
Hobbies and sports
Since his youth, the Prince was an avid player of polo, as a part of competitive teams until 1992, and strictly for charity from then until 2005, after which he ceased to participate because of two notable injuries he suffered during play: in 1990 he broke his arm, and in 2001 was briefly unconscious after a fall. Charles also frequently took part in fox hunting, before the sport was banned in the United Kingdom in 2005. By the late 1990s, as opposition to the activity was growing, the Prince of Wales' participation in this activity was viewed as a "political statement" by those opposed to it, such as the League Against Cruel Sports, which launched the attack against Charles after he took his sons on the Beaufort Hunt in 1999, at a time when the government was trying to ban the hunting of foxes with hounds.
Charles has also pursued the visual arts, focusing on watercolour, and exhibiting and selling a number of his paintings, as well as publishing books on the subject. In university he dabbled in acting, appearing in amateur productions of a comedic nature, an enjoyment of which continued later into the Prince's life, as evidenced by his organising of a comedy gala to celebrate his 60th birthday. He also has an interest in illusionism, becoming a member of The Magic Circle after passing his audition by performing the cups and balls effect. The Prince acts today as patron of a number of theatres, acting troupes, and orchestral ensembles, including the Regina Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and is reportedly a fan of Canadian singer and song writer Leonard Cohen. He is also a collector of automobiles, particularly the British marque Aston Martin, having acquired numerous models and such tight connections with the brand – being a frequent visitor to the factory and its service department, and a guest of honour at most of the company's special launch events – that special Prince of Wales edition Aston Martins have been created on occasion. He is known to like Ipswich Town Football Club, after a visit to Portman Road after they were the first football club in England to support his supported charity.
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Written By: ninny on 11/14/09 at 8:06 am
The co-birthday of the day...Yanni
Yanni (born Yiannis Hrysomallis (pronounced Chrysomallis), (Greek: Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης, classical transcription Giannis Chrysomallis), on November 14, 1954 in Kalamata, Greece) is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. After receiving a B.A. in psychology, he would instead seek a life in music though he had no formal training and could not read a note.
He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time. His breakthrough success came with the 1994 release of Yanni Live at the Acropolis, deemed to be the second best-selling music video of all time, (behind Michael Jackson's video for Thriller with nine million units). Yanni has since performed live in concert before in excess of two million people in more than 20 countries around the world. He has accumulated more than 35 platinum and gold albums globally, with sales totaling over 20 million copies. Yanni is considered to be one of the top fundraisers of all time for public television. His compositions have been included in all Olympic Games television broadcasts since 1988, and his music has been used extensively in television and televised sporting events. His music is frequently described as "new age", though he prefers the term "contemporary instrumental". The regents of the University of Minnesota conferred upon Yanni the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.
Dare to Dream was released in 1992. It was Yanni’s first Grammy-nominated album and featured "Aria", a song based on The Flower Duet and popularized by an award-winning British Airways commercial. A second Grammy-nominated album, In My Time, was released in 1993. His music has been used extensively in television and televised sporting events, including the Super Bowl, Wide World of Sports, U.S. Open, Tour de France, World Figure Skating Championships, The Olympics, and ABC News.
Yanni's breakthrough commercial success came with the release of his album and video, Yanni Live at the Acropolis, filmed on September 23, 1993 at the 2,000-year-old Herod Atticus Theater in Athens, Greece, and released in 1994. This was Yanni’s first live album and utilized a full orchestra under the supervision of the Iranian conductor, Shahrdad Rohani, in addition to his core band. Subsequently, the concert was broadcast in the US on PBS and quickly became one of their most popular programs ever, having been seen in 65 countries by half a billion people. It has almost continuously remained on the charts since its release and is the second best-selling music video of all time, selling more than 7 million copies worldwide, (behind Michael Jackson's video for Thriller with nine million units). A composition from this album, "Acroyali/Standing in Motion", was determined to have the "Mozart Effect," by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine because it is similar to Mozart's K 448 in tempo, structure, melodic and harmonic consonance and predictability. He has appeared on several major PBS Pledge TV Specials such as A Decade Of Excellence, including segments from Live at the Acropolis, Tribute, and Live at Royal Albert Hall, London.
In March 1997, Yanni became one of the few Western artists permitted to perform and record at the Taj Mahal in India. Later that year he performed at the Forbidden City in China. From these two events he created his next live album and video, Tribute, which was released in 1997. Armen Anassian, Conductor, concedes that he had some doubts about the artist's plans to perform at India's Taj Mahal and China's Forbidden City for Tribute: "To be honest, a few years ago when he was talking about it, the idea was so amazing. I myself was very skeptical, understandably so. But the truth is, it happened. We did it." Anassian describes Yanni as "very optimistic" and has observed that "nothing really fazes him." That outlook carries over naturally to his music. "I don't think it's a goal, per se. He's very honest with his own feelings. His music really comes from the heart. He writes music with ease, the music comes out with relative ease. The feel-good portion of the music is a by-product. It coincides with what the people love to hear." Lighting Designers Lee Rose and David "Gurn" Kaniski received an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Drama Series, Variety Series, Miniseries or a Special" for both Live at the Acropolis and Tribute .
2000s
In 2000, after a two-year sabbatical, Yanni released his first studio album in seven years: If I Could Tell You.
Yanni also toured in 2003–2004 with the debut of the Ethnicity album extending his "One World, One People" philosophy. This album sparked what would become the 4th largest concert tour of the year ranked by Billboard Magazine.
On May 6, 2004, the regents of the University of Minnesota conferred upon Yanni the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.
He kicked off his 2004–2005 "Yanni Live!" tour at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, and his next live album and video, Yanni Live! The Concert Event was released in 2006.
On March 6, 2006, Yanni was arrested after a fight with his girlfriend, Silvia Barthes. On March 31, 2006, the domestic abuse charges against Yanni were dropped.
In 2008, in collaboration with producer Ric Wake, Yanni showcased vocal artists singing his songs on Yanni Voices. On March 24, 2009, Disney Pearl Imprint released Yanni Voices, the artist's first studio album in six years, and its Buena Vista Concerts division produces the tour that began in April 2009.
Autobiography
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Yanni's autobiography, Yanni in Words, co-authored by David Rensin, was released in February 2003. It is a memoir which includes information about his early childhood in Greece, his college years in Minnesota, his success as an international music artist with his exploration into the creative process by which he composes, and his nine-year relationship with actress Linda Evans. The book coincided with the release of his 13th album Ethnicity and was a New York Times best seller.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 9:06 am
The birthday of the day...Charles
Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1952, he has been heir apparent to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms. After earning a bachelor of arts from Trinity College, Cambridge, Charles served a tour of duty with Royal Navy in 1971-1976. He married Lady Diana Spencer before an enormous worldwide television audience in 1981. They had two children, Prince William of Wales in 1982 and Prince Harry of Wales in 1984. The couple separated in 1992 following numerous tabloid allegations concerning their relationship. They divorced in 1996 after Diana publicly accused the prince of having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. Diana died in a car crash in 1997 and in 2005 the Prince married Parker Bowles.
The prince is well known for his charity work and sponsors the Prince's Trust, The Prince's Regeneration Trust, and the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment. He has been outspoken concerning architecture and the conservation of old buildings and has produced a book on the subject called A Vision of Britain (1989). He has also expressed controversial views concerning herbal and other alternative medical treatment. Since 1958, his major title has been HRH The Prince of Wales. However, he may use other titles depending on where he visits, for example The Duke of Rothesay when visiting Scotland, or The Duke of Cornwall when visiting South West England.
Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on 26 July 1958, though his investiture as such was not conducted until 1 July 1969, wherein he was crowned by his mother in a televised ceremony held at Caernarfon Castle, and gave his replies and speech in both Welsh and English. The following year he took his seat in the House of Lords, and later in the decade became the first member of the Royal Family since King George I to attend a British Cabinet meeting, having been invited by Prime Minister James Callaghan so that the Prince might see the workings of the British government and Cabinet at first hand. Charles also began to take on more public duties, founding his The Prince's Trust in 1976, and travelling to the United States in 1981.
Around the same time, the Prince expressed an interest in serving as Governor-General of Australia; Commander Michael Parker explained: "The idea behind the appointment was for him to put a foot on the ladder of monarchy, or being the future King and start learning the trade." However, because of a combination of nationalist feeling in Australia and the dismissal of the government by the Governor-General in 1975, nothing came of the proposal. Charles accepted the decision of the Australian ministers, if not without some regret; he reportedly stated: "What are you supposed to think when you are prepared to do something to help and you are told you are not wanted?" Conversely, Tom Gallagher wrote that Charles had been offered the Romanian throne by monarchists in that country; an offer that was reportedly turned down.
The Prince is at present the oldest man to hold the title of Prince of Wales since it became one that is granted to the heir apparent. He is also the oldest heir apparent in Commonwealth realms' history, the third longest serving heir apparent, and the third longest serving Prince of Wales in British history, in each case behind Edward VII and George IV. If he ascends to the throne after 18 September 2013, Charles would be the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom to do so; only William IV was older when he became monarch than Charles is now.
Military training and career
Prince Charles arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in the United States, 1981
Following in the tradition of Princes of Wales before him, Charles spent time in the navy and air force. After Royal Air Force training that he requested and received during his second year at Cambridge, on 8 March 1971 the Prince flew himself to the Royal Air Force College Cranwell to train as a jet pilot. After the passing out parade in September of that year, he then embarked on a naval career, enrolling in a six week course at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth and then serving on the guided missile destroyer HMS Norfolk (1971-1972) and the frigates HMS Minerva (1972-1973) and HMS Jupiter (1974). Charles also qualified as a helicopter pilot at RNAS Yeovilton in 1974, just prior to joining 845 Naval Air Squadron, operating from HMS Hermes, and on 9 February 1976, the Prince took command of the coastal minehunter HMS Bronington for his last nine months in the navy. In total, Prince Charles has qualified to fly a Chipmunk basic pilot trainer, a Harrier T Mk.4 V/STOL fighter, a BAC Jet Provost jet pilot trainer, a Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, a F-4 Phantom II fighter jet, an Avro Vulcan jet bomber, and a Spitfire classic WWII fighter.
Early romances
Prince Charles' love life was always the subject of speculation and press fodder. In his youth, he was linked to a number of women, including Georgina Russell, daughter of the British Ambassador to Spain; Lady Jane Wellesley, daughter of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington; Davina Sheffield; Fiona Watson, a model; Susan George; Lady Sarah Spencer; Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg; Dale, Baroness Tryon; Janet Jenkins; and Jane Ward. Irrespective of the truth of the romantic rumours, the hurdles of marriage made some of these matches manifestly implausible; as the heir apparent to the Commonwealth realms' thrones, Charles was expected to father future monarchs. Also, like other members of the Royal Family, he was legally obliged to obtain his mother's approval under the Royal Marriages Act 1772 before he could marry, and his choice would have to survive the immense popular interest any marriage proposal would immediately arouse.
Charles was given written advice on dating and the selection of a future consort from his father's "Uncle Dickie", Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma: "In a case like yours, the man should sow his wild oats and have as many affairs as he can before settling down, but for a wife he should choose a suitable, attractive, and sweet-charactered girl before she has met anyone else she might fall for... It is disturbing for women to have experiences if they have to remain on a pedestal after marriage." Mountbatten had a unique qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne: he had invited George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and their daughters to visit Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, having also detailed Cadet Prince Philip to keep the young princesses company, creating the first documented meeting of Charles' future parents. In early 1974, Mountbatten began corresponding with Elizabeth and Philip's eldest son about a potential marriage to Mountbatten's granddaughter, Hon. Amanda Knatchbull (b. 26 June 1957), and recommended that the twenty-five year old prince get done with his bachelor's experimentation. Charles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother, Patricia Brabourne (who was also his godmother), about his interest in her daughter, to which she replied approvingly, though suggesting that a courtship was premature.
This did not daunt Mountbatten, who, four years later, obtained an invitation for himself and Amanda to accompany Charles on his 1980 tour of India. Both fathers, however, objected; Philip complaining that the Prince of Wales would be eclipsed by his famous uncle (who had served as the last British Viceroy and first Governor-General of India), while John, Baron Brabourne warned that a joint visit would rivet media attention on the cousins before they could decide on becoming a couple, thereby potentially dashing the very prospect for which Mountbatten hoped. However, before Charles was to depart alone for India, Mountbatten was assassinated in August 1979. When Charles returned, he proposed to Amanda. However, in addition to her grandfather, she had lost her paternal grandmother and youngest brother Nicholas in the attack and now recoiled from the prospect of becoming a core member of the Royal Family. In June 1980, Charles officially turned down Chevening House, placed at his disposal since 1974, as his future residence. Chevening, a stately home in Kent, was bequeathed, along with an endowment, to the Crown by the last Earl Stanhope, Amanda's childless great-uncle, in the hope that Charles would eventually occupy it.
First marriage
Although Charles first met Lady Diana Frances Spencer in 1977 – while visiting Diana's home, Althorp, as the companion of her elder sister, Sarah – he did not consider her romantically until the summer of 1980. While sitting together on a bale of hay at a friend's barbecue in July, he mentioned Mountbatten's death, to which Diana replied that Charles had looked forlorn and in need of care during his uncle's funeral. Soon, according to Charles' chosen biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, "without any apparent surge in feeling, he began to think seriously of her as a potential bride." She accompanied the Prince on visits to Balmoral and Sandringham, eliciting enthusiastic responses from most of the Royal Family.
Although the Queen offered Charles no direct counsel, his cousin Norton Knatchbull (Amanda's eldest brother) and his wife, Penny, did. But Charles was angered by their objections that he did not seem in love with Diana and that she seemed too awestruck by his position. Meanwhile, the couple continued dating, amidst constant press speculation and paparazzi coverage. When Prince Philip told him that the intrusive media attention would injure her reputation if he did not come to a decision about marrying her soon, and realising that Diana met the Mountbatten criteria (and, apparently, the public's) for a proper royal bride, Charles construed his father's advice as a warning to proceed without further delay.
Engagement and wedding to Diana
Main article: Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer
Charles and Diana's wedding commemorated on a 1981 British Crown (25 pence).
Prince Charles proposed to Diana in February 1981, she accepted, and when he asked her father for her hand, he consented. After the British and Canadian privy councils gave their approval for the union (which was sought as the couple was expected to produce an heir to those countries' thrones), the Queen-in-Council gave the legally required assent, and, 29 July, Charles and Diana were married at St. Paul's Cathedral, before 3,500 invited guests and an estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million people. All of the Queen's Governors-General, as well as Europe's crowned heads, attended (save for King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who was advised not to attend because the newlyweds' honeymoon would involve a stop over in the disputed territory of Gibraltar). Most of Europe's elected heads of state were also amongst the guests, with the exceptions of the President of Greece, Constantine Karamanlis (who declined because Greece's exiled monarch, Constantine II, a kinsman and friend of the bridegroom, had been invited as "King of the Hellenes"), and the President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery (who was advised by Taoiseach Charles Haughey not to attend because of the dispute over the status of Northern Ireland).
The couple made their homes at Highgrove, near Tetbury, and Kensington Palace. Almost immediately, the new Princess of Wales became a star attraction, chased by the paparazzi, and her every move followed by millions through the mass media. The couple had two children: Princes William (born 21 June 1982) and Harry (born 15 September 1984). Charles set precedent by being the first royal father to be present at his children's births.
Separation and divorce
The union between the Prince and Princess of Wales soon became troubled; despite their similarities, such as their mutual devotion to charity work – Diana focusing on AIDS sufferers, while Charles devoted his efforts to marginalised groups in urban centres – within five years, the "fairytale" marriage was on the brink of collapse. The continued presence of Camilla Parker-Bowles in events and circumstances that also involved the royal couple became intolerable to Diana. Allies of Charles who spoke publicly, if anonymously, against Diana alleged that she was unstable and temperamental; one by one, she apparently dismissed each of Charles' long-standing staff members and fell out with his friends, as well as members of her own family – her father, mother, and brother – as well as members of the Royal Family, such as Sarah, Duchess of York. The Princess sought counsel outside of the generally accepted sources of advice, to the chagrin of the palace. In response to the succour sought by the Prince, Diana responded in kind. Charles, however, was also blamed for the marital troubles, as he resumed his adulterous affair with Parker-Bowles. Though they remained a couple in public, Charles and Diana had effectively separated by the late 1980s, the Prince living in Highgrove and the Princess at Kensington Palace. Their increased periods apart and obvious discomfort in each other's presence began to be noticed by the media, and this, plus evidence and recriminations of infidelity, were broadcast in tabloids and the news. By 1992 the marriage was over in all but name; in December of that year, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, John Major, announced in the British parliament the Prince and Princess' formal separation, after which the media began to take sides, starting what came to be known as the War of the Waleses. In October 1993, Diana wrote to a friend that she believed her husband was now in love with Tiggy Legge-Bourke and wanted to marry her. The marriage of Charles and Diana was formally ended in divorce on 28 August 1996.
Second marriage
In 1993, the British tabloids came into the possession of recordings of a 1989 mobile telephone conversation allegedly between the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles, in which Charles expressed regret for the indignities she had endured because of her relationship with him, and which revealed graphic expressions of a physical intimacy between the two. In a television interview the following year, Charles admitted that he had committed adultery "once it was clear the marriage had broken down," and said in the same interview that his father had approved of the taking of a mistress. This assertion, however, was vehemently denied by the Duke of Edinburgh, and the implication of condoned adultery caused a significant rift between father and son. When it was later confirmed that it had been Camilla Parker-Bowles with whom Charles was having an affair, her husband, Andrew, immediately demanded a divorce from his wife and thereafter remained silent on the subject of his wife's ongoing affair with the Prince.
Charles and Camilla in Jamaica, 13 March 2008.
On 31 August 1997, a year after the Prince and Princess divorced, Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris, along with her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. The Prince of Wales overruled the palace protocol experts – who argued that as Diana was no longer a member of the Royal Family, the responsibility for her funeral arrangements belonged to her blood relatives, the Spencers – and flew to Paris, with Diana's sisters, to accompany his ex-wife's body home. He also insisted that, as the mother of the presumed future king (her son William), she be given a formal royal funeral; a new category of formal funeral was especially created for her.
Charles attempted to make his relationship with Parker-Bowles more public and accepted, having her become his unofficial, occasional companion at events. This coming out temporarily ceased at the time of the Princess of Wales' death, but Charles and Parker-Bowles were photographed in public together in 1999, following a birthday party for Parker-Bowles' sister, Annabel Elliott; this was regarded as a sign that the relationship was now official, a feeling that was further enhanced when Parker-Bowles met the Queen in June 2000. Parker-Bowles moved into Charles' household in 2003, resulting in decorative changes to both homes, though Buckingham Palace was explicit in pointing out that public funds had not been used for the renovations. Marriage between the Prince of Wales and Parker-Bowles remained elusive, however: As the future Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the prospect of Charles marrying a divorcée, and one with whom he had conducted an illicit relationship, was seen as controversial. Opinion – of both the public and the church – shifted, though, to a point where civil marriage was seen as an agreeable solution.
Engagement and wedding to Camilla
Main article: Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles
Clarence House announced on 10 February 2005 that Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles were engaged; the Prince presented Parker-Bowles with an engagement ring that had belonged to his grandmother. In a Privy Council meeting on 2 March, the Queen's consent to the marriage (as required by the Royal Marriages Act 1772) was recorded. In Canada, however, the Department of Justice announced its decision that the Queen's Privy Council for Canada was not required to meet to give its consent to the marriage, as the union would not result in offspring and thus would have no impact on the succession to the Canadian throne.
The marriage was to have been on 8 April of that year, and was to take place in a civil ceremony at Windsor Castle, with a subsequent religious blessing at St George's Chapel. But, because the conduct of a civil marriage at Windsor Castle would oblige the venue thereafter to be available to anyone wishing to be married there, the location was changed to the Windsor Guildhall. On 4 April it was announced that the marriage would be delayed by one day to allow for the Prince of Wales and some of the invited dignitaries to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Charles' parents did not attend the marriage ceremony; the Queen's reluctance to attend arising from her position as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh did, however, attend the service of blessing, and held a reception for the newlyweds at Windsor Castle, afterwards. The wedding made Charles the first member of the Royal Family to be civilly wed in England. Official documents had been published by BBC that stated such a marriage was illegal, though these were dismissed by Clarence House, and explained to be obsolete by the sitting government.
The plight of various peoples has been a target of Charles' efforts, predominantly the long-term unemployed, people who have been in trouble with the law, people who are in difficulty at school, and people who have been in care. The Prince's Trust is the main outlet through which Charles works with young people, offering loans to groups, business people, and others who've had difficulty receiving outside support. Fundraising concerts are regularly held in benefit of the trust, with leading pop, rock, and classical musicians taking part. In Canada, Charles has also supported humanitarian projects, taking part, along with his two sons, in the ceremonies marking the 1998 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and helping to launch the Canadian Youth Business Foundation in Saskatchewan in 2001, when he also visited Scott Collegiate, an inner-city school in Regina.
After spending time in the Northwest Territories in 1975, Charles formed a special interest in the Canadian north, as well as Canada's Aboriginal Peoples, the leaders of which he met and sometimes took time to walk and meditate with. Reflecting this association, the Prince of Wales has been conferred with special titles from First Nations communities: in 1996, Cree and Ojibway students in Winnipeg named the Prince Leading Star, and in 2001 he was dubbed Pisimwa Kamiwohkitahpamikohk, or "the sun looks at him in a good way", during his first visit to the province of Saskatchewan. He was also one of the first world leaders to express strong concerns about the human rights record of Nicolae Ceauşescu, initiating objections in the international arena, and subsequently supported the FARA Foundation, which runs Romanian orphanages.
Charles attended the Bilderberg Group conference in 1986 specifically to attend a debate on the South Africa economic crisis.
Hobbies and sports
Since his youth, the Prince was an avid player of polo, as a part of competitive teams until 1992, and strictly for charity from then until 2005, after which he ceased to participate because of two notable injuries he suffered during play: in 1990 he broke his arm, and in 2001 was briefly unconscious after a fall. Charles also frequently took part in fox hunting, before the sport was banned in the United Kingdom in 2005. By the late 1990s, as opposition to the activity was growing, the Prince of Wales' participation in this activity was viewed as a "political statement" by those opposed to it, such as the League Against Cruel Sports, which launched the attack against Charles after he took his sons on the Beaufort Hunt in 1999, at a time when the government was trying to ban the hunting of foxes with hounds.
Charles has also pursued the visual arts, focusing on watercolour, and exhibiting and selling a number of his paintings, as well as publishing books on the subject. In university he dabbled in acting, appearing in amateur productions of a comedic nature, an enjoyment of which continued later into the Prince's life, as evidenced by his organising of a comedy gala to celebrate his 60th birthday. He also has an interest in illusionism, becoming a member of The Magic Circle after passing his audition by performing the cups and balls effect. The Prince acts today as patron of a number of theatres, acting troupes, and orchestral ensembles, including the Regina Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and is reportedly a fan of Canadian singer and song writer Leonard Cohen. He is also a collector of automobiles, particularly the British marque Aston Martin, having acquired numerous models and such tight connections with the brand – being a frequent visitor to the factory and its service department, and a guest of honour at most of the company's special launch events – that special Prince of Wales edition Aston Martins have been created on occasion. He is known to like Ipswich Town Football Club, after a visit to Portman Road after they were the first football club in England to support his supported charity.
Is he back home for his birthday for he has been touring Canada?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 9:09 am
The birthday of the day...Charles
...is known to like Ipswich Town Football Club, after a visit to Portman Road after they were the first football club in England to support his supported charity.
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It Prince Charles supports Ipswich Town, why is he drinking for a Liverpool FC mug?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 9:11 am
It Prince Charles supports Ipswich Town, why is he drinking for a Liverpool FC mug?
Ipswich Town FC would be the biggest football club to Sandringham.
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Written By: ninny on 11/14/09 at 10:13 am
It Prince Charles supports Ipswich Town, why is he drinking for a Liverpool FC mug?
he has to support every team.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 10:18 am
he has to support every team.
...in Wales?
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Written By: ninny on 11/14/09 at 11:31 am
...in Wales?
All of the United Kingdom?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 11:34 am
All of the United Kingdom?
There are many major football teams in the UK, and loyal should be shown to only one club.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 2:50 pm
The word of the day...Polo
1. A game played by two teams of three or four players on horseback who are equipped with long-handled mallets for driving a small wooden ball through the opponents' goal.
2. Water polo.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 6:12 am
There are many major football teams in the UK, and loyal should be shown to only one club.
I thought how he's royalty he might support more than one team in the United Kingdom, privately he can support one team.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 6:15 am
I thought how he's royalty he might support more than one team in the United Kingdom, privately he can support one team.
True, he has to show no bias between one side and another.
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Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 6:17 am
The word of the day...Subway
1.
1. An underground urban railroad, usually operated by electricity.
2. A passage for such a railroad.
2. An underground tunnel or passage, as for a water main or for pedestrians.
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Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 6:19 am
The birthday of the day...Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.
Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II. During the 1960s she became known internationally for her popular upbeat hits, including "Downtown," "I Know a Place," "My Love," "Colour My World," "A Sign of the Times," and "Don't Sleep in the Subway". With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, she is the most successful British female solo recording artist as cited in the Guinness Book of World Records.
In 1958, Clark was invited to appear at the Paris Olympia where, despite her misgivings and a bad cold, she was received with acclaim. The following day she was invited to the office of Vogue Records to discuss a contract. It was there that she met publicist Claude Wolff, to whom she was attracted immediately, and when told he would work with her if she signed with the label, she agreed. Her initial French recordings were huge successes, and in 1960 she embarked on a concert tour of France and Belgium with Sacha Distel, who remained a close friend until his death in 2004. Gradually she moved further into the continent, recording in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and establishing herself as a multi-lingual performer.
1962 EP
In June 1961, Clark married Wolff, first in a civil ceremony in Paris, then a religious one in her native England. Wanting to escape the strictures of child stardom imposed upon her by the British public, and anxious to escape the influence of her father, she relocated to France, where she and Wolff had two daughters, Barbara Michelle and Katherine Natalie, in quick succession. (Their son Patrick was born in 1972.) While Clark focused on her new career in France, she continued to achieve hit records in the U.K. into the early 1960s, developing a parallel career on both sides of the Channel. Her 1961 recording of "Sailor" became her first #1 hit in the U.K., while such follow-up recordings as "Romeo" and "My Friend the Sea" landed her in the British Top Ten later that year. In France, "Ya Ya Twist" (a French-language cover of the Lee Dorsey rhythm and blues song "Ya Ya" and the only successful recording of a twist song by a female) and "Chariot" (the original version of "I Will Follow Him") became smash hits in 1962, while German and Italian versions of her English and French recordings charted as well. Her recordings of several Serge Gainsbourg songs also were big sellers.
In 1964, Clark scored the French crime caper A Couteaux Tirés (aka Daggers Drawn) and played a cameo as herself in the movie. Although it was only a mild success, it added a new dimension — that of film composer — to her career. (In 1989 she composed the score for the French educational film Pétain; six of its themes were released on the CD In Her Own Write in 2007.)
In 1963 and 1964, Clark's British recording career foundered. The composer-arranger Tony Hatch, who had been assisting her with her work for "Vogue" in France and Pye Records in the U.K., flew to her home in Paris with new song material he hoped would interest her, but she found none of it appealing. Desperate, he played for her a few chords of an incomplete song that had been inspired by his recent first trip to New York City, which he suggested might be offered to "The Drifters". Upon hearing the melody, Clark told him that if he could write lyrics as good as the melody, she wanted to record the tune as her next single. Thus "Downtown" came into being.
"Downtown" era
Neither Clark, who was performing in Canada when the song first received major air-play, nor Hatch realized the impact the song would have on their respective careers. Released in four different languages in late 1964, "Downtown" was a success in the U.K., France (in both the English and the French versions), The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Italy, and also Rhodesia, Japan, and India. During a visit to London, Warner Brothers executive Joe Smith heard it and acquired the rights for the United States. "Downtown" went to #1 on the American charts in January 1965, and three million copies were sold in America. It was the first of fifteen consecutive Top 40 hits Clark achieved in the United States, including "I Know a Place", "My Love", "A Sign of the Times", "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love", "This Is My Song" (from the Charles Chaplin film A Countess from Hong Kong), and "Don't Sleep in the Subway." The American recording industry honored her with Grammy Awards for "Best Rock & Roll Record" for "Downtown" in 1964 and for "Best Contemporary Female Vocal Performance" for "I Know a Place" in 1965. In 2003, her recording of "Downtown" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Ad for the NBC-TV special that sparked controversy even before it aired
Clark's recording successes led to frequent appearances on American variety programs hosted by Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin, guest shots on Hullabaloo, Shindig!, The Kraft Music Hall, and The Hollywood Palace, and inclusion in musical specials such as The Best on Record and Rodgers and Hart Today.
In 1968, NBC-TV invited Clark to host her own special in the U.S., and in doing so she inadvertently made television history. While singing a duet of "On the Path of Glory," an anti-war song that she had composed, with guest Harry Belafonte, she touched his arm, to the dismay of a representative from the Chrysler Corp., the show's sponsor, who feared that the brief moment would offend Southern viewers at a time when racial conflict was still a major issue in the U.S. When he insisted that they substitute a different take, with Clark and Belafonte standing well away from one another, Clark and her husband Wolff, the producer of the show, refused, destroyed all other takes of the song, and delivered the finished program to NBC with the touch intact. The program aired on April 8, 1968, with high ratings and critical acclaim. (To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original telecast, Clark and her husband, who had served as executive producer of the show, appeared at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan on September 22, 2008, to discuss the broadcast and its impact, following a broadcast of the program.)
Clark later was the hostess of two more specials, another one for NBC, and one for ABC - one which served as a pilot for a projected weekly series. Clark declined the offer in order to please her children, who disliked living in Los Angeles, Calif.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Clark toured in concerts extensively throughout the States, and she often appeared in supper clubs such as the Copacabana in New York City, the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, and the Empire Room at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where she consistently broke house attendance records. During this period, she also appeared in print and radio ads for the Coca Cola Corp., television commercials for Plymouth automobiles, print and TV spots for Burlington Industries, television and print ads for Chrysler Sunbeam, and print ads for Sanderson Wallpaper in the U.K.
Clark revived her movie career in the late 1960s, starring in two big musical films. In Finian's Rainbow (1968), she starred opposite Fred Astaire, and she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance. The following year she was cast with Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a musical adaptation of the classic James Hilton novella. (Her last film to date has been the British production Never Never Land, released in 1980.) After that, her output of musical hits in the States diminished markedly, although she continued to record and make television appearances into the 1970s. By the mid-1970s, Clark scaled back her career in order to devote more time to her family.
Herb Alpert and his A&M record label benefitted from Clark's interest in encouraging new talent. In 1968, she brought French composer/arranger Michel Colombier to the States to work as her musical director and introduced him to Alpert. (He went on to co-write Purple Rain with Prince, composed the acclaimed pop symphony Wings, and a number of soundtracks for American films.) Richard Carpenter publicly has credited her with bringing him and his sister, Karen, to Alpert's attention when they performed at a premiere party for Clark's film Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
Post-"Downtown" era
In 1954, Clark had starred in a stage production of The Constant Nymph, but it wasn't until 1981, at the urging of her children, that she returned to legitimate theatre, starring as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music in London's West End. Opening to rave reviews and what was then the largest advance sale in British theatre history, Clark — proclaimed by Maria Von Trapp herself as "the best Maria ever" — extended her initial six-month run to thirteen to accommodate the huge demand for tickets. In 1983, she took on the title role in George Bernard Shaw's Candida. Later stage work includes Someone Like You in 1989 and 1990, for which she composed the score; Blood Brothers, in which she made her Broadway debut in 1993 at the Music Box Theatre, followed by the American tour; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, appearing in both the West End and American touring productions from 1995 through 2000. In 2004, she repeated her performance of Norma Desmond in a production at the Cork Opera House in the Republic of Ireland, which was later broadcast by the BBC. With more than 2500 performances, she has played the role more often than any other actress.
In both 1998 and 2002, Clark toured extensively throughout the U.K. In 2000, she presented a self-written one-woman show, highlighting her life and career, to large critical and audience acclaim at the St. Denis Theater in Montreal. A 2003 concert appearance at the Olympia in Paris has been issued in both DVD and compact disc formats. In 2004, she toured Australia and New Zealand, appeared at the Hilton in Atlantic City, the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto, Humphrey's in San Diego, and the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, and participated in a multi-performer tribute to the late Peggy Lee at the Hollywood Bowl. Following another British concert tour in early spring 2005, she appeared with Andy Williams in his Moon River Theater in Branson, Missouri, for several months, and she returned for another engagement in the fall of 2006, following scattered concert dates throughout the U.S. and Canada.
In November 2006, Clark was the subject of a BBC Four documentary entitled Petula Clark: Blue Lady and appeared with Michael Ball and Tony Hatch in a concert at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane broadcast by BBC Radio the following month. In December that year she made her first appearance in Iceland. Duets, a compilation including Dusty Springfield, Peggy Lee, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, and the Everly Brothers, among others, was released in February 2007, and Solitude and Sunshine, a studio recording of all new material by composer Rod McKuen, was released in July of that year. She was the host of the March 2007 PBS pledge-drive special My Music: The British Beat, an overview of music's British invasion of the United States in the 1960s, followed by a number of concert dates throughout the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. She can be heard on the soundtrack of the 2007 independent film Downtown: A Street Tale. Une Baladine (in English, a wandering minstrel), an authorized pictorial biography by Francoise Piazza, was published in France and Switzerland in October 2007, and the following month Clark promoted it in bookshops and at book fairs.
Clark was presented with the 2007 Film & TV Music Award for Best Use of a Song in a Television Program for "Downtown" in the ABC series Lost. She completed a concert tour of England and Wales in Summer 2008, followed by concerts in Switzerland and the Philippines. Then & Now, a compilation of greatest hits and several new Clark compositions, entered the British album charts in June 2008 and won Clark her first-ever Silver Disc for an album. Open Your Heart: A Love Song Collection, a compilation of previously unreleased material and new and remixed recordings, was released in January 2009. Additionally, her 1969 NBC special Portrait of Petula, already released on DVD for Region 2 viewers, is also being produced for Region 1.
In 1998, Clark was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II by being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 6:20 am
The word of the day...Subway
1.
1. An underground urban railroad, usually operated by electricity.
2. A passage for such a railroad.
2. An underground tunnel or passage, as for a water main or for pedestrians.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 6:21 am
The birthday of the day...Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.
Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II. During the 1960s she became known internationally for her popular upbeat hits, including "Downtown," "I Know a Place," "My Love," "Colour My World," "A Sign of the Times," and "Don't Sleep in the Subway". With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, she is the most successful British female solo recording artist as cited in the Guinness Book of World Records.
In 1958, Clark was invited to appear at the Paris Olympia where, despite her misgivings and a bad cold, she was received with acclaim. The following day she was invited to the office of Vogue Records to discuss a contract. It was there that she met publicist Claude Wolff, to whom she was attracted immediately, and when told he would work with her if she signed with the label, she agreed. Her initial French recordings were huge successes, and in 1960 she embarked on a concert tour of France and Belgium with Sacha Distel, who remained a close friend until his death in 2004. Gradually she moved further into the continent, recording in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and establishing herself as a multi-lingual performer.
1962 EP
In June 1961, Clark married Wolff, first in a civil ceremony in Paris, then a religious one in her native England. Wanting to escape the strictures of child stardom imposed upon her by the British public, and anxious to escape the influence of her father, she relocated to France, where she and Wolff had two daughters, Barbara Michelle and Katherine Natalie, in quick succession. (Their son Patrick was born in 1972.) While Clark focused on her new career in France, she continued to achieve hit records in the U.K. into the early 1960s, developing a parallel career on both sides of the Channel. Her 1961 recording of "Sailor" became her first #1 hit in the U.K., while such follow-up recordings as "Romeo" and "My Friend the Sea" landed her in the British Top Ten later that year. In France, "Ya Ya Twist" (a French-language cover of the Lee Dorsey rhythm and blues song "Ya Ya" and the only successful recording of a twist song by a female) and "Chariot" (the original version of "I Will Follow Him") became smash hits in 1962, while German and Italian versions of her English and French recordings charted as well. Her recordings of several Serge Gainsbourg songs also were big sellers.
In 1964, Clark scored the French crime caper A Couteaux Tirés (aka Daggers Drawn) and played a cameo as herself in the movie. Although it was only a mild success, it added a new dimension — that of film composer — to her career. (In 1989 she composed the score for the French educational film Pétain; six of its themes were released on the CD In Her Own Write in 2007.)
In 1963 and 1964, Clark's British recording career foundered. The composer-arranger Tony Hatch, who had been assisting her with her work for "Vogue" in France and Pye Records in the U.K., flew to her home in Paris with new song material he hoped would interest her, but she found none of it appealing. Desperate, he played for her a few chords of an incomplete song that had been inspired by his recent first trip to New York City, which he suggested might be offered to "The Drifters". Upon hearing the melody, Clark told him that if he could write lyrics as good as the melody, she wanted to record the tune as her next single. Thus "Downtown" came into being.
"Downtown" era
Neither Clark, who was performing in Canada when the song first received major air-play, nor Hatch realized the impact the song would have on their respective careers. Released in four different languages in late 1964, "Downtown" was a success in the U.K., France (in both the English and the French versions), The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Italy, and also Rhodesia, Japan, and India. During a visit to London, Warner Brothers executive Joe Smith heard it and acquired the rights for the United States. "Downtown" went to #1 on the American charts in January 1965, and three million copies were sold in America. It was the first of fifteen consecutive Top 40 hits Clark achieved in the United States, including "I Know a Place", "My Love", "A Sign of the Times", "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love", "This Is My Song" (from the Charles Chaplin film A Countess from Hong Kong), and "Don't Sleep in the Subway." The American recording industry honored her with Grammy Awards for "Best Rock & Roll Record" for "Downtown" in 1964 and for "Best Contemporary Female Vocal Performance" for "I Know a Place" in 1965. In 2003, her recording of "Downtown" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Ad for the NBC-TV special that sparked controversy even before it aired
Clark's recording successes led to frequent appearances on American variety programs hosted by Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin, guest shots on Hullabaloo, Shindig!, The Kraft Music Hall, and The Hollywood Palace, and inclusion in musical specials such as The Best on Record and Rodgers and Hart Today.
In 1968, NBC-TV invited Clark to host her own special in the U.S., and in doing so she inadvertently made television history. While singing a duet of "On the Path of Glory," an anti-war song that she had composed, with guest Harry Belafonte, she touched his arm, to the dismay of a representative from the Chrysler Corp., the show's sponsor, who feared that the brief moment would offend Southern viewers at a time when racial conflict was still a major issue in the U.S. When he insisted that they substitute a different take, with Clark and Belafonte standing well away from one another, Clark and her husband Wolff, the producer of the show, refused, destroyed all other takes of the song, and delivered the finished program to NBC with the touch intact. The program aired on April 8, 1968, with high ratings and critical acclaim. (To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original telecast, Clark and her husband, who had served as executive producer of the show, appeared at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan on September 22, 2008, to discuss the broadcast and its impact, following a broadcast of the program.)
Clark later was the hostess of two more specials, another one for NBC, and one for ABC - one which served as a pilot for a projected weekly series. Clark declined the offer in order to please her children, who disliked living in Los Angeles, Calif.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Clark toured in concerts extensively throughout the States, and she often appeared in supper clubs such as the Copacabana in New York City, the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, and the Empire Room at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where she consistently broke house attendance records. During this period, she also appeared in print and radio ads for the Coca Cola Corp., television commercials for Plymouth automobiles, print and TV spots for Burlington Industries, television and print ads for Chrysler Sunbeam, and print ads for Sanderson Wallpaper in the U.K.
Clark revived her movie career in the late 1960s, starring in two big musical films. In Finian's Rainbow (1968), she starred opposite Fred Astaire, and she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance. The following year she was cast with Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a musical adaptation of the classic James Hilton novella. (Her last film to date has been the British production Never Never Land, released in 1980.) After that, her output of musical hits in the States diminished markedly, although she continued to record and make television appearances into the 1970s. By the mid-1970s, Clark scaled back her career in order to devote more time to her family.
Herb Alpert and his A&M record label benefitted from Clark's interest in encouraging new talent. In 1968, she brought French composer/arranger Michel Colombier to the States to work as her musical director and introduced him to Alpert. (He went on to co-write Purple Rain with Prince, composed the acclaimed pop symphony Wings, and a number of soundtracks for American films.) Richard Carpenter publicly has credited her with bringing him and his sister, Karen, to Alpert's attention when they performed at a premiere party for Clark's film Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
Post-"Downtown" era
In 1954, Clark had starred in a stage production of The Constant Nymph, but it wasn't until 1981, at the urging of her children, that she returned to legitimate theatre, starring as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music in London's West End. Opening to rave reviews and what was then the largest advance sale in British theatre history, Clark — proclaimed by Maria Von Trapp herself as "the best Maria ever" — extended her initial six-month run to thirteen to accommodate the huge demand for tickets. In 1983, she took on the title role in George Bernard Shaw's Candida. Later stage work includes Someone Like You in 1989 and 1990, for which she composed the score; Blood Brothers, in which she made her Broadway debut in 1993 at the Music Box Theatre, followed by the American tour; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, appearing in both the West End and American touring productions from 1995 through 2000. In 2004, she repeated her performance of Norma Desmond in a production at the Cork Opera House in the Republic of Ireland, which was later broadcast by the BBC. With more than 2500 performances, she has played the role more often than any other actress.
In both 1998 and 2002, Clark toured extensively throughout the U.K. In 2000, she presented a self-written one-woman show, highlighting her life and career, to large critical and audience acclaim at the St. Denis Theater in Montreal. A 2003 concert appearance at the Olympia in Paris has been issued in both DVD and compact disc formats. In 2004, she toured Australia and New Zealand, appeared at the Hilton in Atlantic City, the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto, Humphrey's in San Diego, and the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, and participated in a multi-performer tribute to the late Peggy Lee at the Hollywood Bowl. Following another British concert tour in early spring 2005, she appeared with Andy Williams in his Moon River Theater in Branson, Missouri, for several months, and she returned for another engagement in the fall of 2006, following scattered concert dates throughout the U.S. and Canada.
In November 2006, Clark was the subject of a BBC Four documentary entitled Petula Clark: Blue Lady and appeared with Michael Ball and Tony Hatch in a concert at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane broadcast by BBC Radio the following month. In December that year she made her first appearance in Iceland. Duets, a compilation including Dusty Springfield, Peggy Lee, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, and the Everly Brothers, among others, was released in February 2007, and Solitude and Sunshine, a studio recording of all new material by composer Rod McKuen, was released in July of that year. She was the host of the March 2007 PBS pledge-drive special My Music: The British Beat, an overview of music's British invasion of the United States in the 1960s, followed by a number of concert dates throughout the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. She can be heard on the soundtrack of the 2007 independent film Downtown: A Street Tale. Une Baladine (in English, a wandering minstrel), an authorized pictorial biography by Francoise Piazza, was published in France and Switzerland in October 2007, and the following month Clark promoted it in bookshops and at book fairs.
Clark was presented with the 2007 Film & TV Music Award for Best Use of a Song in a Television Program for "Downtown" in the ABC series Lost. She completed a concert tour of England and Wales in Summer 2008, followed by concerts in Switzerland and the Philippines. Then & Now, a compilation of greatest hits and several new Clark compositions, entered the British album charts in June 2008 and won Clark her first-ever Silver Disc for an album. Open Your Heart: A Love Song Collection, a compilation of previously unreleased material and new and remixed recordings, was released in January 2009. Additionally, her 1969 NBC special Portrait of Petula, already released on DVD for Region 2 viewers, is also being produced for Region 1.
In 1998, Clark was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II by being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
She recommended that you do not sleep in the subway.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 6:22 am
The word of the day...Subway
1.
1. An underground urban railroad, usually operated by electricity.
2. A passage for such a railroad.
2. An underground tunnel or passage, as for a water main or for pedestrians.
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Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 6:22 am
The co-birthday of the day...Ed Asner
Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American film and television actor and former President of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. More recently, he provided the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's newest film, Up.
Before he landed his role with Mary Tyler Moore, Asner guest starred in such television series as NBC's The Outlaws (1962) and in the series finale of CBS's The Reporter in the episode entitled "Vote for Murder." The Reporter focuses on a fictitious New York Globe newspaper as seen through the lives of two of its employees, played by Harry Guardino and Gary Merrill.
Asner is best best known for his character Lou Grant, who was first introduced on the The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. In 1977, after the end of the Mary Tyler Moore show, Asner's character was given his own show, Lou Grant, which ran from 1977-1982. In contrast to the Mary Tyler Moore show, which was a thirty minute comedy, the Lou Grant show was an hour long award-winning drama about journalism.
Asner is also known for his acclaimed role as Captain Davies, from the mini-series Roots, the man who kidnapped Kunta Kinte and sold him into slavery, a role that earned Asner an Emmy Award. While Asner's character in Roots was highly developed, full of metaphors on tortured ethics and the morality of slavery, biographer Alex Haley would later admit he had no idea who the actual Captain was who had commanded the historic slaver which had kidnapped his ancestor.
Asner was a member of the Playwrights Theatre Company in Chicago, but left for New York before members of that company regrouped as the Compass Players in the mid-1950s. He later made guest appearances with the successor to Compass, The Second City, and is considered part of The Second City extended family. Asner has also had an extensive voice acting career. He provided the voices for J. Jonah Jameson on the 1990s animated television series Spider-Man, Hudson on Gargoyles, Jabba the Hutt on the radio version of Star Wars, Master Vrook from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, Roland Daggett on Batman: The Animated Series, Cosgrove on Freakazoid!, Ed Wuncler on The Boondocks, and Granny Goodness in various DC Comics animated series. Both he and his late friend Linda Gary voiced many cartoons for the Filmation company. In 1993, he narrated the short documentary Legacy for Efrain, which explores the impact of the nonprofit world hunger organization Heifer International. In 2001 was the protagonist for "Papa Giovanni XXIII" fiction for Rai One (Italy). He made an appearance on the show Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2001. In February 2009, Asner guest-starred in the web series Star-ving. More recently, Asner provided the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the 2009 Pixar film Up. He received great critical praise for the role, with one critic going so far as to suggest "They should create a new category for this year's Academy Award for Best Vocal Acting in an animated film and name Asner as the first recipient." Asner is the only actor to win the Emmy award for a sitcom and a drama for the same role—Lou Grant.
In 2009, Asner was given the Lifetime Feel Good Achievement Award at that year's Feel Good Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Although popularly known as Ed Asner, professionally he prefers the name Edward Asner.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 6:41 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtjDSuyvMA
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/15/09 at 7:55 am
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What a delicious word of the day. :)
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Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 8:35 am
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What a delicious word of the day. :)
;D
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Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 8:37 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtjDSuyvMA
Great song :)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 8:47 am
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What a delicious word of the day. :)
That is too large for me to eat.
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Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 4:20 pm
That is too large for me to eat.
I can only eat one half at a time, it's usually good for later.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/15/09 at 8:01 pm
I can only eat one half at a time, it's usually good for later.
That's why I get the $5 deal with Chips and drink(chips and drink not included)
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Written By: Frank on 11/15/09 at 8:04 pm
Petula Clark. Wonderful singer. Nice voice.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/15/09 at 8:05 pm
Petula Clark. Wonderful singer. Nice voice.
I bet she eats Subway.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 11/15/09 at 8:06 pm
I bet she eats Subway.
Don't sleep in the subway sandwich
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/15/09 at 8:07 pm
Don't sleep in the subway sandwich
eat Subway on a Subway. ;D
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/15/09 at 8:22 pm
I liked her in Finnian's Rainbow.
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 8:23 pm
I liked her in Finnian's Rainbow.
Cat
I remember that film. :)
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/15/09 at 8:24 pm
I remember that film. :)
I have a copy of it on VHS.
Cat
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/15/09 at 8:29 pm
Here is one of the songs from it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS5jXMHXU84
Cat
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 2:15 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoSok_4wOVg
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 2:38 am
I liked her in Finnian's Rainbow.
Cat
Was Tommy Steele in that?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 6:37 am
Was Tommy Steele in that?
Yes,along with Fred Astaire.
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Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 6:43 am
The word of the day...Coast
1.
1. Land next to the sea; the seashore.
2. Coast The Pacific coast of the United States.
2. A hill or other slope down which one may coast, as on a sled.
3. The act of sliding or coasting; slide.
4. Obsolete. The frontier or border of a country.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/16/09 at 6:45 am
How about Coast Soap?
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Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 6:46 am
The birthday of the day...Martha Plimpton
Martha Campbell Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American actress.
Plimpton began her career in modeling, securing an early 1980s campaign for Calvin Klein, making an impression as a sophisticated, but tomboyish little girl. She made her screen debut in 1981, when at the age of 11 she had a small part in the film Rollover, she appeared in the Deep South independent drama The River Rat opposite Tommy Lee Jones. Her breakthrough performance was as Stef Steinbrenner in the 1985 feature film The Goonies. She also appeared that year in a featured role on the television sitcom Family Ties.
This would begin a trend of Plimpton being repeatedly cast in the role of a rebellious tomboy for several years, beginning with her critically lauded performance as the Reverend Spellgood (Andre Gregory)'s daughter in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast starring Harrison Ford. It was on the set of this film that she met her future real-life love interest, River Phoenix. A critically praised but commercially unsuccessful venture with Barbara Hershey in the 1987 film Shy People was followed by a performance in the quirky 1988 ensemble comedy Stars and Bars. This was released shortly before Plimpton's second collaboration with River Phoenix in the film Running on Empty, an Academy Award-nominated film for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award.
Plimpton began what became a career trend, mixing small independent film appearances with supporting roles in big-budget films. She appeared in the 1989 Woody Allen film Another Woman; that year, she co-starred with Jami Gertz as a cancer patient in the German film Zwei Frauen (released in America as Silence Like Glass). The film was nominated for Outstanding Feature Film at the German Film Awards.
Plimpton's most high-profile performance since The Goonies was in the 1989 Steve Martin film Parenthood. Plimpton had shaved her head bald to play a cancer patient in Zwei Frauen, and her reputation for playing rebellious teenagers secured her the role of the indignant teenage daughter (who shaves her head) of Dianne Wiest. Coincidentally, Plimpton appeared alongside Joaquin Phoenix (then credited as Leaf Phoenix), the younger brother of her former boyfriend, River, where he portrayed her on-screen brother.
River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton on the red carpet at the 61st Academy Awards, 1989.
In 1991 Plimpton appeared in the Robert De Niro film Stanley & Iris in a supporting role. In 1992, Plimpton appeared as a lesbian terrorist in the independent film Inside Monkey Zetterland. She also played the starring role in the film Samantha.
The success of Samantha garnered Plimpton a variety of roles in 1993. She appeared with Cuba Gooding, Jr., in the television film Daybreak and was a part of the mostly improvised television film Chantilly Lace. She had a featured role in the big-budget films Josh and S.A.M. and played the lead in the critically blasted film adaptation of the Carolyn Chute novel The Beans of Egypt, Maine. As a testament to her own "indie cred", Plimpton also appeared that year as herself in the independent film My Life's in Turnaround, a movie about filmmakers trying to make a movie.
Plimpton continued to make appearances in featured roles in both independent films and mainstream movies from 1994 through 1997, most notably as a close friend of radical feminist Valerie Solanas in the film I Shot Andy Warhol.
In 1997 the Showtime Network cast Plimpton as the female lead in a television film called The Defenders: Payback. The show was a retooling of the classic television show by the same name, and the characters were descendants of character Lawrence Preston, a role reprised by actor E.G. Marshall. The intent was to spin the program off into a series akin to Law & Order, but Marshall died in 1998. Two additional episodes (The Defenders: Choice of Evils and The Defenders: Taking the First) were aired as specials that year. The decision was made to not continue production (despite high ratings and critical praise) due to Marshall's death.
Plimpton became involved with The Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago where she appeared in Hedda Gabler (2001) among others. In 1998 she appeared in the John Waters film Pecker; the film was lambasted but Plimpton's work was praised. This also occurred with her appearance in the 1999 crafty 200 Cigarettes. In 1999 Plimpton had a recurring role in the television drama ER as Meg Corwyn. In 2001, she co-starred with Jacqueline Bisset in The Sleepy Time Gal, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival.
In 2002, she appeared in the documentary film Searching for Debra Winger and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her guest appearance on the television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Plimpton was the voice of Miss Crumbles in the 2004 animated film Hair High by Bill Plympton. In 2004, she also guest-starred on an episode of the program 7th Heaven; she received her first writing credit for a different episode of the show that year entitled "Red Socks." She continues to act in television, film and on stage. She has begun narrating audiobooks, notably the novel Diary by Chuck Palahniuk and Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh. Plimpton had a recurring role on the NBC show Surface, which aired in the 2005-06 season.
From October 2006 until May 2007, she was in The Coast of Utopia, a trilogy of plays by Tom Stoppard that played at the Lincoln Center. For her work in this play she won a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a Tony award. (The Tony was awarded to fellow cast member Jennifer Ehle.)
In October 2007 Plimpton completed a starring role in A Midsummer Night's Dream on Broadway in New York City. She then began rehearsals for the play Cymbeline. She and friend Richard began a production company called Everything is Horrible. They have produced a number of short films for the internet.
In November 2008, she earned unanimously rave reviews as Gladys Bumps in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of the classical Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey on Broadway.
Plimpton is friends with singer Lucy Wainwright Roche. In 2008, she sang a duet with Roche on the Roche's E.P. 8 More singing the Bruce Springsteen song Hungry Heart.
Plimpton received her second nomination for a Tony Award in 2008, Best Performance by a Featured Actress In a Play, for her work in Top Girls at the Biltmore Theater.
Plimpton appeared in the 2008 Entertainment Weekly photo issue spread as one of "The Hardest Working Actors In Showbiz." In the spread she appears with Lance Reddick, Celia Weston, John Slattery, Bobby Cannavale, James Rebhorn, Lynn Cohen, Matt Servitto and Bob Balaban. Plimpton says in the write-up about her "I went to jury duty the other day, and somebody said, 'You always play drug addicts!' I've played a few on TV, and I imagine because the shows get replayed, it seems like more. But yeah, people tend to see me as this pregnant teenage heroin addict."
In 2009, Plimpton received her third consecutive Tony nomination, for Featured Actress in a Musical in Pal Joey.
She is referenced in the Lawrence Arms song "Light Breathing (Me and Martha Plimpton in a fancy elevator)," a song detailing the singer unexpectedly stepping into an elevator with her and being unable to overcome shyness to ask her out.
Plimpton is going to be in the 2009-2010 season of Grey's Anatomy. The director and writers have announced that she will be in a multi-episode arc as a young patient's mother.
Filmography
Year Film Role Other notes
1981 Rollover Fewster's Older Daughter
1984 The River Rat Jonsy
1985 The Goonies Stef Steinbrenner Nominated, Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress- Motion Picture, Young Artist Award
1986 A Life in the Day
The Mosquito Coast Emily Spellgood Nominated, Best Young Female Superstar in Motion Pictures, Young Artist Award
1987 Shy People Grace Nominated, Best Supporting Female, Independent Spirit Award
1988 Stars and Bars Bryant
Running on Empty Lorna Phillips Nominated, Best Young Actress in a Motion Picture- Drama Young Artist Award
Another Woman Laura
1989 Zwei Frauen Claudia Jacoby
Parenthood Julie Buckman
1990 Stanley and Iris Kelly King
1992 A Blink of Paradise Mother
Inside Monkey Zetterland Sofie
Samantha Samantha
1993 The Perfect Woman
Josh and S.A.M. Alison (The Liberty Maid)
1994 The Beans of Egypt, Maine Earlene Pomerleau
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Jane Grant
1995 The Last Summer in the Hamptons Chloe
1996 I Shot Andy Warhol Stevie
Beautiful Girls Jan
I'm Not Rappaport Laurie Campbell
1997 Colin Fitz Ann
Eye of God Ainsley Dupree
1998 Music from Another Room Karen Swan
Pecker Tina
1999 200 Cigarettes Monica
2001 The Sleepy Time Gal Rebecca
2004 Hair High Miss Crumbles Voice
2006 Marvelous Gwen
2007 Dante's Inferno Celia
2008 Gone to the Dogs Leslie
Puppy Love Leslie
2010 I Thought About You Gloria
Small Town Murder Scenes Sam
Remember Me Helen Craig
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Written By: Howard on 11/16/09 at 6:47 am
The birthday of the day...Martha Plimpton
Martha Campbell Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American actress.
Plimpton began her career in modeling, securing an early 1980s campaign for Calvin Klein, making an impression as a sophisticated, but tomboyish little girl. She made her screen debut in 1981, when at the age of 11 she had a small part in the film Rollover, she appeared in the Deep South independent drama The River Rat opposite Tommy Lee Jones. Her breakthrough performance was as Stef Steinbrenner in the 1985 feature film The Goonies. She also appeared that year in a featured role on the television sitcom Family Ties.
This would begin a trend of Plimpton being repeatedly cast in the role of a rebellious tomboy for several years, beginning with her critically lauded performance as the Reverend Spellgood (Andre Gregory)'s daughter in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast starring Harrison Ford. It was on the set of this film that she met her future real-life love interest, River Phoenix. A critically praised but commercially unsuccessful venture with Barbara Hershey in the 1987 film Shy People was followed by a performance in the quirky 1988 ensemble comedy Stars and Bars. This was released shortly before Plimpton's second collaboration with River Phoenix in the film Running on Empty, an Academy Award-nominated film for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award.
Plimpton began what became a career trend, mixing small independent film appearances with supporting roles in big-budget films. She appeared in the 1989 Woody Allen film Another Woman; that year, she co-starred with Jami Gertz as a cancer patient in the German film Zwei Frauen (released in America as Silence Like Glass). The film was nominated for Outstanding Feature Film at the German Film Awards.
Plimpton's most high-profile performance since The Goonies was in the 1989 Steve Martin film Parenthood. Plimpton had shaved her head bald to play a cancer patient in Zwei Frauen, and her reputation for playing rebellious teenagers secured her the role of the indignant teenage daughter (who shaves her head) of Dianne Wiest. Coincidentally, Plimpton appeared alongside Joaquin Phoenix (then credited as Leaf Phoenix), the younger brother of her former boyfriend, River, where he portrayed her on-screen brother.
River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton on the red carpet at the 61st Academy Awards, 1989.
In 1991 Plimpton appeared in the Robert De Niro film Stanley & Iris in a supporting role. In 1992, Plimpton appeared as a lesbian terrorist in the independent film Inside Monkey Zetterland. She also played the starring role in the film Samantha.
The success of Samantha garnered Plimpton a variety of roles in 1993. She appeared with Cuba Gooding, Jr., in the television film Daybreak and was a part of the mostly improvised television film Chantilly Lace. She had a featured role in the big-budget films Josh and S.A.M. and played the lead in the critically blasted film adaptation of the Carolyn Chute novel The Beans of Egypt, Maine. As a testament to her own "indie cred", Plimpton also appeared that year as herself in the independent film My Life's in Turnaround, a movie about filmmakers trying to make a movie.
Plimpton continued to make appearances in featured roles in both independent films and mainstream movies from 1994 through 1997, most notably as a close friend of radical feminist Valerie Solanas in the film I Shot Andy Warhol.
In 1997 the Showtime Network cast Plimpton as the female lead in a television film called The Defenders: Payback. The show was a retooling of the classic television show by the same name, and the characters were descendants of character Lawrence Preston, a role reprised by actor E.G. Marshall. The intent was to spin the program off into a series akin to Law & Order, but Marshall died in 1998. Two additional episodes (The Defenders: Choice of Evils and The Defenders: Taking the First) were aired as specials that year. The decision was made to not continue production (despite high ratings and critical praise) due to Marshall's death.
Plimpton became involved with The Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago where she appeared in Hedda Gabler (2001) among others. In 1998 she appeared in the John Waters film Pecker; the film was lambasted but Plimpton's work was praised. This also occurred with her appearance in the 1999 crafty 200 Cigarettes. In 1999 Plimpton had a recurring role in the television drama ER as Meg Corwyn. In 2001, she co-starred with Jacqueline Bisset in The Sleepy Time Gal, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival.
In 2002, she appeared in the documentary film Searching for Debra Winger and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her guest appearance on the television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Plimpton was the voice of Miss Crumbles in the 2004 animated film Hair High by Bill Plympton. In 2004, she also guest-starred on an episode of the program 7th Heaven; she received her first writing credit for a different episode of the show that year entitled "Red Socks." She continues to act in television, film and on stage. She has begun narrating audiobooks, notably the novel Diary by Chuck Palahniuk and Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh. Plimpton had a recurring role on the NBC show Surface, which aired in the 2005-06 season.
From October 2006 until May 2007, she was in The Coast of Utopia, a trilogy of plays by Tom Stoppard that played at the Lincoln Center. For her work in this play she won a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a Tony award. (The Tony was awarded to fellow cast member Jennifer Ehle.)
In October 2007 Plimpton completed a starring role in A Midsummer Night's Dream on Broadway in New York City. She then began rehearsals for the play Cymbeline. She and friend Richard began a production company called Everything is Horrible. They have produced a number of short films for the internet.
In November 2008, she earned unanimously rave reviews as Gladys Bumps in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of the classical Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey on Broadway.
Plimpton is friends with singer Lucy Wainwright Roche. In 2008, she sang a duet with Roche on the Roche's E.P. 8 More singing the Bruce Springsteen song Hungry Heart.
Plimpton received her second nomination for a Tony Award in 2008, Best Performance by a Featured Actress In a Play, for her work in Top Girls at the Biltmore Theater.
Plimpton appeared in the 2008 Entertainment Weekly photo issue spread as one of "The Hardest Working Actors In Showbiz." In the spread she appears with Lance Reddick, Celia Weston, John Slattery, Bobby Cannavale, James Rebhorn, Lynn Cohen, Matt Servitto and Bob Balaban. Plimpton says in the write-up about her "I went to jury duty the other day, and somebody said, 'You always play drug addicts!' I've played a few on TV, and I imagine because the shows get replayed, it seems like more. But yeah, people tend to see me as this pregnant teenage heroin addict."
In 2009, Plimpton received her third consecutive Tony nomination, for Featured Actress in a Musical in Pal Joey.
She is referenced in the Lawrence Arms song "Light Breathing (Me and Martha Plimpton in a fancy elevator)," a song detailing the singer unexpectedly stepping into an elevator with her and being unable to overcome shyness to ask her out.
Plimpton is going to be in the 2009-2010 season of Grey's Anatomy. The director and writers have announced that she will be in a multi-episode arc as a young patient's mother.
Filmography
Year Film Role Other notes
1981 Rollover Fewster's Older Daughter
1984 The River Rat Jonsy
1985 The Goonies Stef Steinbrenner Nominated, Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress- Motion Picture, Young Artist Award
1986 A Life in the Day
The Mosquito Coast Emily Spellgood Nominated, Best Young Female Superstar in Motion Pictures, Young Artist Award
1987 Shy People Grace Nominated, Best Supporting Female, Independent Spirit Award
1988 Stars and Bars Bryant
Running on Empty Lorna Phillips Nominated, Best Young Actress in a Motion Picture- Drama Young Artist Award
Another Woman Laura
1989 Zwei Frauen Claudia Jacoby
Parenthood Julie Buckman
1990 Stanley and Iris Kelly King
1992 A Blink of Paradise Mother
Inside Monkey Zetterland Sofie
Samantha Samantha
1993 The Perfect Woman
Josh and S.A.M. Alison (The Liberty Maid)
1994 The Beans of Egypt, Maine Earlene Pomerleau
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Jane Grant
1995 The Last Summer in the Hamptons Chloe
1996 I Shot Andy Warhol Stevie
Beautiful Girls Jan
I'm Not Rappaport Laurie Campbell
1997 Colin Fitz Ann
Eye of God Ainsley Dupree
1998 Music from Another Room Karen Swan
Pecker Tina
1999 200 Cigarettes Monica
2001 The Sleepy Time Gal Rebecca
2004 Hair High Miss Crumbles Voice
2006 Marvelous Gwen
2007 Dante's Inferno Celia
2008 Gone to the Dogs Leslie
Puppy Love Leslie
2010 I Thought About You Gloria
Small Town Murder Scenes Sam
Remember Me Helen Craig
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She aged gracefully.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 6:47 am
How about Coast Soap?
I use to use that years ago. I use body wash now,but not coast.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 6:48 am
She aged gracefully.
Yes she did :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: danootaandme on 11/16/09 at 6:48 am
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/16/09 at 6:49 am
Yes she did :)
And her Father is George Plimpton.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 6:50 am
The co-birthday of the day...Diana Krall
Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer. She is known for her contralto vocals
n 1993, Krall released her first album, Stepping Out, which she recorded with John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton. It caught the attention of producer Tommy LiPuma, who produced her second album, Only Trust Your Heart (1995).
Her third album, All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio (1996), was nominated for a Grammy and continued for 70 weeks in the Billboard jazz charts. Love Scenes (1997) quickly became a hit record with the trio of Krall, Russell Malone (guitar) and Christian McBride (bass).
In August 2000, Krall was paired on a 20-city tour with Tony Bennett. They were paired again for a song on the TV series Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...
Orchestral arrangements by Johnny Mandel provided the background on When I Look In Your Eyes (1999); more Grammy nominations came along, and she was rewarded as Best Jazz Musician of the Year. The band mix was kept, following arrangements on The Look of Love (2001) created by Claus Ogerman; this record achieved platinum status and reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200. The Look of Love went to number one on the Canadian album charts and went quadruple platinum in that country. The title track from the album, a cover of the Casino Royale standard popularized in the late 1960s by Dusty Springfield and Sergio Mendes, reached number 22 on the adult contemporary chart.
In September 2001, Krall began a world tour. Her concert at the Paris Olympia was recorded and released as her first live record. Diana Krall - Live in Paris topped the Billboard jazz charts, went top 20 on the Billboard 200 and went top five in Canada. It garnered her second Grammy (Best Vocal Jazz Record) and a Juno Award. The album included covers of Billy Joel's "Just The Way You Are" (a hit on U.S. smooth jazz radio) and Joni Mitchell's "A Case Of You."
After marrying Elvis Costello, she worked with him as a lyricist and started to compose her own songs, resulting in the album The Girl in the Other Room. The album, released in April 2004, quickly rose to the top five in the United Kingdom and made the Australian top 40 album charts.
She also joined Ray Charles on his Genius Loves Company album in 2004 on the song, "You Don't Know Me".
In late May 2007, Krall was featured in a Lexus ad campaign. She also sang, "Dream a Little Dream of Me" with piano accompaniment by pianist Hank Jones.
"Quiet Nights", her latest album, was released on 31 March 2009.
Krall also produced Barbra Streisand's album Love Is The Answer, released on 29 Sep 2009.
Grammy history
Diana Krall Grammy Award History
Year Category Title Label Result Notes
1996 Best Jazz Vocal Performance All for You Impulse! Nominated
1997 Jazz Vocal Performance Love Scenes Impulse! Nominated
1999 Jazz Vocal Performance When I Look in Your Eyes Verve Winner
1999 Album of the Year When I Look in Your Eyes Verve Nominated
2002 Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals "Better Than Anything" Umvd Labels Nominated on the album Ask A Woman Who Knows (Natalie Cole)
2002 Best Jazz Vocal Album Live in Paris Verve Winner
2005 Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) "Why Should I Care" Verve Nominated arranger (Diana Krall)
From the Clint Eastwood film True Crime
2007 Best Jazz Vocal Album From This Moment On Verve Nominated
Honours
In 2000, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia. In 2003 she was given an honorary Ph.D. (Fine Arts) from the University of Victoria. In 2004, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
She is an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Adella Krall, mother of Diana Krall, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996 and died May 2002 at the age of 61.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 6:52 am
And her Father is George Plimpton.
No Keith Carradine,who is the brother of David is her father.
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Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 6:53 am
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Thanks, that brings back memories of sledding in my youth. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: danootaandme on 11/16/09 at 6:54 am
Martha is Keith Carradines daughter.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 11/16/09 at 8:30 am
Nice Bio on Martha Plimpton, Ninny. She's a fine actress.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 8:33 am
Nice Bio on Martha Plimpton, Ninny. She's a fine actress.
Yes I've always liked her. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 2:53 pm
The word of the day...Coast
1.
1. Land next to the sea; the seashore.
2. Coast The Pacific coast of the United States.
2. A hill or other slope down which one may coast, as on a sled.
3. The act of sliding or coasting; slide.
4. Obsolete. The frontier or border of a country.
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One of my favourite tv programs, Coast, which journies around the coast of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 2:53 pm
How about Coast Soap?
Do you use it?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 2:54 pm
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It's all high tech now.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 4:04 pm
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One of my favourite tv programs, Coast, which journies around the coast of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today.
Sounds interesting.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/16/09 at 5:41 pm
Do you use it?
Our Family uses the body wash Coast.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:50 am
Sounds interesting.
The series shows varies areas of the coastline of the UK (and recently France and Norway).
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:51 am
The word of the day...Coast
1.
1. Land next to the sea; the seashore.
2. Coast The Pacific coast of the United States.
2. A hill or other slope down which one may coast, as on a sled.
3. The act of sliding or coasting; slide.
4. Obsolete. The frontier or border of a country.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 6:28 am
This does not show up.
Yes, they have it now if the person who posted the pic originally has been inactive for a while the pic won't show up :-[
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 6:33 am
The word of the day...Raging
1. Very active and unpredicatable; volatile: a raging debate; a raging fire.
2. Remarkable; extraordinary: a raging hit on prime-time TV.
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Written By: Howard on 11/17/09 at 6:36 am
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Ah yes,Triple H,the best raging people in the wrestling business,aka The Cerebral Assassin.
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Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 6:37 am
The birthday of the day...Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of the Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the prevention of the decaying of motion picture film stock.
Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, and violence. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era, directing landmark films such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas; all of which he collaborated on with actor Robert De Niro. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed and earned an MFA in film directing from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Although the Vietnam War had started at the time, Scorsese (who had struggled with asthma since his childhood) did not serve in the military. He attended New York University's film school (B.A., English, 1964; M.F.A., film, 1966) making the short films What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963) and It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964). His most famous short of the period is the darkly comic The Big Shave (1967), which featured an unnamed man who shaves himself until profusely bleeding, ultimately slitting his own throat with his razor. The film is an indictment of America's involvement in Vietnam, suggested by its alternative title Viet '67.
Also in 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film, the black and white I Call First, which was later retitled Who's That Knocking at My Door with fellow student, actor Harvey Keitel, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, both of whom were to become long-term collaborators. This film was intended to be the first of Scorsese's semi-autobiographical 'J.R. Trilogy', which also would have included his later film, Mean Streets. Even in embryonic form, the "Scorsese style" was already evident: a feel for New York Italian American street-life, rapid editing, an eclectic rock soundtrack, and a troubled male protagonist.
1970s
From there he became friends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. Indeed, it was Brian De Palma who introduced Scorsese to a young actor named Robert De Niro. During this period the director worked as one of the editors on the movie Woodstock and met actor-director John Cassavetes, who would also go on to become a close friend and mentor.
Mean Streets
Main article: Mean Streets
In 1972 Scorsese made the Depression-era exploiter Boxcar Bertha for B-movie producer Roger Corman, who had also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and John Sayles launch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese that entertaining films could be shot with next to no money or time, preparing the young director well for the challenges to come with Mean Streets. Following the film's release, Cassavetes encouraged Scorsese to make the films that he wanted to make, rather than someone else's projects.
Championed by influential movie critic Pauline Kael, Mean Streets was a breakthrough for Scorsese, De Niro, and Keitel. By now the signature Scorsese style was in place: macho posturing, bloody violence, Catholic guilt and redemption, gritty New York locale (though the majority of Mean Streets was actually shot in Los Angeles), rapid-fire editing, and a rock soundtrack. Although the film was innovative, its wired atmosphere, edgy documentary style, and gritty street-level direction owed a debt to directors Cassavetes, Samuel Fuller, and early Jean-Luc Godard. (Indeed the film was completed with much encouragement from Cassavetes, who felt Boxcar Bertha was undeserving of the young director's prodigious talent.)
In 1974, actress Ellen Burstyn chose Scorsese to direct her in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Although well regarded, the film remains an anomaly in the director's early career, as it focuses on a central female character. Returning to Little Italy to explore his ethnic roots, Scorsese next came up with Italianamerican, a documentary featuring his parents, Charles and Catherine Scorsese.
Taxi Driver
Main article: Taxi Driver
The iconic Taxi Driver followed in 1976 - Scorsese's dark, urban nightmare of one lonely man's slow, deliberate descent into insanity.
The film is important for various reasons. Foremost, it established Scorsese as an accomplished filmmaker operating on a highly skilled level along with cinematographer Michael Chapman whose style tends towards high contrasts, strong colors and complex camera movements. Also, the groundbreaking performance of Robert De Niro as the troubled and psychotic Travis Bickle, instantly became one of the cinema's most legendary turns. The film also co-starred Jodie Foster in a highly controversial role as an underage prostitute, and Harvey Keitel as her pimp, Matthew a.k.a. "Sport."
Taxi Driver also marked the start of a series of collaborations with writer Paul Schrader, whose influences included the diary of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer and Pickpocket a film by the French director Robert Bresson. Writer/director Schrader often returns to Bresson's work in films such as American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, and Scorsese's later Bringing Out the Dead.
Already controversial upon its release, Taxi Driver hit the headlines again five years later, when John Hinckley, Jr., made an assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan. He subsequently blamed his act on his obsession with Jodie Foster's Taxi Driver character (in the film, De Niro's character, Travis Bickle, makes an assassination attempt on a senator).
Taxi Driver won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes film festival, also receiving four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, although all were unsuccessful.
Scorsese was subsequently offered the role of Charles Manson in the movie Helter Skelter and a part in Sam Fuller's war movie The Big Red One, but he turned both down. However he did accept the role of a gangster in exploitation movie Cannonball directed by Paul Bartel. In this period there were also several directorial projects that never got off the ground including Haunted Summer, about Mary Shelley and a film with Marlon Brando about the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee.
New York, New York and The Last Waltz
Main articles: New York, New York (film) and The Last Waltz
The critical success of Taxi Driver encouraged Scorsese to move ahead with his first big-budget project: the highly stylized musical New York, New York. This tribute to Scorsese's home town and the classic Hollywood musical was a box-office failure.
New York, New York was the director's third collaboration with Robert De Niro, co-starring with Liza Minnelli (a tribute and allusion to her father, legendary musical director Vincente Minnelli). The film is best remembered today for the title theme song, which was popularized by Frank Sinatra. Although possessing Scorsese's usual visual panache and stylistic bravura, many critics felt its enclosed studio-bound atmosphere left it leaden in comparison to his earlier work. Often overlooked, it remains one of the director's early key studies in male paranoia and insecurity (and hence is in direct thematic lineage with Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, as well as the later Raging Bull and The Departed).
The disappointing reception New York, New York received drove Scorsese into depression. By this stage the director had also developed a serious cocaine addiction. However, he did find the creative drive to make the highly regarded The Last Waltz, documenting the final concert by The Band. It was held at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, and featured one of the most extensive lineups of prominent guest performers at a single concert, including Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and Van Morrison. However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delayed the release of the film until 1978.
Another Scorsese-directed documentary entitled American Boy also appeared in 1978, focusing on Steven Prince, the cocky gun salesman who appeared in Taxi Driver. A period of wild partying followed, damaging the director's already fragile health.
1980s
Raging Bull
Main article: Raging Bull
By several accounts (Scorsese's included), Robert De Niro practically saved Scorsese's life when he persuaded Scorsese to kick his cocaine addiction to make what is widely considered his greatest film, Raging Bull. Convinced that he would never make another movie, he poured his energies into making this violent biopic of middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta, calling it a Kamikaze method of film-making. The film is widely viewed as a masterpiece and was voted the greatest film of the 1980s by Britain's Sight & Sound magazine. It received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Robert De Niro, and Scorsese's first for Best Director. De Niro won, as did Thelma Schoonmaker for editing, but best director went to Robert Redford for Ordinary People.
Raging Bull, filmed in high contrast black and white, is where Scorsese's style reached its zenith: Taxi Driver and New York, New York had used elements of expressionism to replicate psychological points of view, but here the style was taken to new extremes, employing extensive slow-motion, complex tracking shots, and extravagant distortion of perspective (for example, the size of boxing rings would change from fight to fight). Thematically too, the concerns carried on from Mean Streets and Taxi Driver: insecure males, violence, guilt, and redemption.
Although the screenplay for Raging Bull was credited to Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin (who earlier co-wrote Mean Streets), the finished script differed extensively from Schrader's original draft. It was re-written several times by various writers including Jay Cocks (who went on to co-script later Scorsese films The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York). The final draft was largely written by Scorsese and Robert De Niro.
The American Film Institute chose Raging Bull as the #1 sports film on their list of the top 10 sports films.
The King of Comedy
Main article: The King of Comedy (1983 film)
Scorsese's next project was his fifth collaboration with Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy (1983). A satire on the world of media and celebrity, it was an obvious departure from the more emotionally committed films he had become associated with. Visually, it was far less kinetic than the style Scorsese had developed up until this point, often using a static camera and long takes. The expressionism of his recent work here gave way to moments of almost total surrealism. It still bore many of Scorsese's trademarks, however, such as its focus on a troubled loner who ironically becomes famous through a criminal act (murder and kidnapping, respectively).
The King of Comedy failed at the box office, but has become increasingly well regarded by critics in the years since its release. German director Wim Wenders numbered it among his fifteen favourite films. Also, Scorsese apparently believes that this is the best performance De Niro ever gave for him.
Next Scorsese made a brief cameo appearance in the movie Pavlova: A Woman for All Time, originally intended to be directed by one of his heroes, Michael Powell. This led to a more significant role in Bertrand Tavernier's jazz movie Round Midnight.
In 1983 Scorsese began work on a long-cherished personal project, The Last Temptation of Christ, based on the 1951 (English translation 1960) novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, who was introduced to the director by actress Barbara Hershey when they were both attending New York University in the late 1960s. The movie was slated to shoot under the Paramount Pictures banner, but shortly before principal photography was to commence, Paramount pulled the plug on the project, citing pressure from religious groups. In this aborted 1983 version, Aidan Quinn was cast as Jesus, and Sting was cast as Pontius Pilate. (In the 1988 version, these roles were played respectively by Willem Dafoe and David Bowie.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 6:38 am
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Ah yes,Triple H,the best raging people in the wrestling business,aka The Cerebral Assassin.
Who was the guest host last night?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/17/09 at 6:39 am
Who was the guest host last night?
Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 6:42 am
The co-birthdays of the day...Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels, CM (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.
n 1975, Michaels co-created (with fellow NBC employee Dick Ebersol and president of the network Herb Schlosser) the TV show NBC's Saturday Night, which in 1977 changed its name to Saturday Night Live. The show, which is performed live in front of a studio audience, immediately established a reputation for being cutting edge and unpredictable. It became a vehicle for launching the careers of some of the most successful comedians in the world.
Originally the producer of the show, Michaels was also a writer and later became executive producer. He occasionally appears on-screen as well, where he's known for being deadpan. Throughout the show's history, SNL has been nominated for more than 80 Emmy Awards and has won 18. It has consistently been one of the highest-rated late-night television programs. Michaels has been with SNL for all seasons except for his hiatus in the early 1980s (seasons 6–10).
His daughter Sophie once appeared in an episode, during the show's 30th season hosted by Johnny Knoxville during the monologue where Lorne introduces Johnny Knoxville to his daughter and Sophie shocks Knoxville with a taser.
Perhaps Michaels's best-known appearance occurred in the first season when he offered the Beatles $3000 - a deliberately paltry sum - to reunite on the show. He later upped his offer to $3200, but the money was never claimed. According to an interview in Playboy magazine, John Lennon and Paul McCartney happened to be in New York City that night and saw the show. They very nearly went, but changed their minds as it was getting too late to get to the show on time, and they were both tired.
He has had combative relationships with several cast members, and is generally portrayed by media onlookers as a harsh but effective boss. One source of conflict is his rather active disdain of improvisation during the performances of SNL, despite the extensive background and training in improvisational comedy many of SNL's performers have had.
Other work
Michaels started Broadway Video in 1979, producing such shows as The Kids in the Hall.
During his SNL hiatus, Michaels created another sketch show entitled The New Show, which debuted on Friday nights in prime time on NBC in January 1984.
In the 1980s, Michaels appeared in an HBO mockumentary titled The Canadian Conspiracy about the supposed subversion of the United States by Canadian-born media personalities, with Lorne Greene as the leader of the conspiracy. Michaels was identified as the anointed successor to Greene.
Michaels is also an Executive Producer of "Late Night" on NBC and also works as executive producer of the NBC show "30 Rock".
Honors
In 1999, Michaels was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. In 2002, Michaels was made a member of the Order of Canada for lifetime achievement, and awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 2003, he received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
In 2004, he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Speaking at the awards ceremony, original Saturday Night Live cast member Dan Aykroyd described Michaels as "the primary satirical voice of the country."
In Canada, Michaels also received a 2006 Governor General's Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.
In 2008, Michaels was awarded the Webby for Film & Video Lifetime Achievement. With the allotted 5-words allowed to each recipient, his five word acceptance speech was "Five words is not enough."
Michaels in popular culture
Dr. Evil, a character of Mike Myers's in the Austin Powers films, has been rumored to be partly based on Michaels. Myers has denied the rumors, saying that the two share only a voice.
Mark McKinney of the comedy team, The Kids in the Hall has stated that his character, Don Roritor, the president of Roritor Pharmaceuticals in the film Brain Candy, is based on Lorne Michaels.
Michaels was played by Ari Cohen in the 2002 TV movie Gilda Radner: It's Always Something.
Michaels has been featured on two episodes of The Simpsons:
* In season four's "Homer the Heretic", Homer initially drools over the prospect of an interview with Michaels in Playdude magazine, then exclaims "wait, that's no good!" and flips the page.
* In the season ten episode, "Homer to the Max", when Homer and Marge go to a garden party, they see Lorne Michaels (voiced by Harry Shearer, a former SNL castmember) and Homer says "uh-oh, here comes Lorne Michaels. Pretend you don't see him". When Michaels introduces himself, Homer loudly exclaims: "Anyway Marge, how do you feel about the economy?" And Michaels walks off sadly.
In the 2007 episode of The Office, The Job, Jim Halpert, played by John Krasinski, swears he saw Lorne Michaels at a bar in New York while out on the town with his then-girlfriend, Karen Fillipelli.
In a 2008 interview with Playboy Magazine, Tina Fey admitted that Alec Baldwin's character on 30 Rock is inspired by Michaels.
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* Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., CC, O.Ont (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music. As a singer-songwriter, he came to prominence in the 1960s, and entered the international music charts in the 1970s with songs such as "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974), "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976). His songs have been recorded by some of the world's most renowned recording artists, including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, George Hamilton IV, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Richie Havens, Harry Belafonte, Tony Rice, Sandy Denny (with Fotheringay), Scott Walker, Sarah McLachlan and John Mellencamp. Robbie Robertson of The Band declared that Lightfoot was one of his "favourite Canadian songwriters and is absolutely a national treasure." Lightfoot was a featured musical performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta.
In 1965, Lightfoot signed a management contract with Albert Grossman, who also represented Bob Dylan. That same year, he signed a recording contract with United Artists and released his own version of "I'm Not Saying" as a single. Appearances at the Newport Folk Festival, the Tonight Show, and New York's Town Hall increased his following and his reputation. In 1966, he released his debut album Lightfoot!, which brought him increased recognition as both a singer and a songwriter. It featured many now-famous songs, including "For Lovin' Me," "Early Mornin' Rain," "Steel Rail Blues," and "Ribbon of Darkness." On the strength of the Lightfoot! album, which mixed Canadian and universal themes, Lightfoot became one of the first Canadian singers to achieve real stardom in his own country without having to move to the United States.
Between 1966 and 1969, Lightfoot recorded four additional albums for United Artists: The Way I Feel (1967), Did She Mention My Name? (1968), Back Here on Earth (1968), and the live recording Sunday Concert (1969). During those years, he consistently placed singles in the Canadian top 40, including "Go-Go Round", "Spin, Spin", and "The Way I Feel". His biggest hit of the era was a rendition of Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", which peaked at #3 on the Canadian charts in December 1965. Internationally, Lightfoot's albums from this time were well-received, but did not produce any hit singles. Outside of Canada, he remained better known as a songwriter than as a performer.
Lightfoot's success as a live performer continued to grow throughout the late 1960s. He embarked on his first Canadian national tour in 1967, and also performed in New York City. Between 1967 and 1974 Lightfoot toured Europe and was well-received on two tours of Australia.
UA would later consistently release "Best of" album compilations in the 1970s, after Gordon Lightfoot became a success on his next label Warner Bros./Reprise.
The Warner Bros./Reprise years
Lightfoot was signed to Warner Bros./Reprise in 1970 and had a major hit in the United States with his recording of "If You Could Read My Mind." The song was originally featured on his 1970 album Sit Down Young Stranger, which did not sell well. After the success of the song, the album was re-released under the new title If You Could Read My Mind. It reached #5 nationally and the success of the song represented a major turning point in Gordon Lightfoot's career. It also had only the second recorded version of "Me and Bobby McGee" as well as "The Pony Man","Your Love's Return" and "The Minstrel of The Dawn".
Over the next seven years, he recorded a series of successful albums that established him as a singer-songwriter:
* Summer Side of Life (1971), with songs "Ten Degrees and Getting Colder", "Miguel", "Cabaret", "Nous Vivons Ensemble" and the title track.
* Don Quixote (1972), with "Beautiful", "Looking At The Rain", "Christian Island (Georgian Bay)" and the title track which is a concert favorite.
* Old Dan's Records (1972), with the title track and also the two sided single "That Same Old Obsession"/"You Are What I Am" and the songs "It's Worth Believin'" and "Can't Depend On Love".
* Sundown (1974), besides the title track includes "Carefree Highway", "Seven Island Suite", "The Watchman's Gone", "High and Dry", "Circle Of Steel" and "Too Late for Prayin'" .
* Cold on the Shoulder (1975). Along with title track are songs "Bend In The Water", "The Soul Is The Rock", "Rainbow Trout", "All The Lovely Ladies" and the hit "Rainy Day People".
* A double compilation LP Gord's Gold (in 1975) containing nine rerecorded versions of his most popular songs from the United Artists era.
* Summertime Dream (1976), along with "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" are the songs "Race Among The Ruins", "Spanish Moss", "Never Too Close" and the title track.
* Endless Wire (1978) with "Daylight Katy", "If Children Had Wings", "Sweet Guenevire", "The Circle Is Small", and the title track.
During the 1970s, Lightfoot's songs covered a wide range of subjects, including "Don Quixote" about Cervantes' famous literary character, "Ode To Big Blue" about the widespread killing of whales, "Beautiful" about the simple joys of love, "Carefree Highway" about the freedom of the open road, "Protocol" about the futility of war, and "Alberta Bound" which was inspired by a lonely teenaged girl named Grace he met on a bus while travelling to Calgary in 1971.
In 1972, Lightfoot curtailed his touring schedule after contracting Bell's palsy, a condition that left his face partially paralyzed for a time. Despite his illness, Lightfoot had several major hits during the 1970s. In 1974, his classic single "Sundown" from the album Sundown, went to No.1 on the American and Canadian charts. He performed it twice on NBC's "The Midnight Special" series. "Carefree Highway" (about the actual highway in Phoenix, Arizona) was the follow-up single from the same album. It charted in the Top 10 in both countries. Lightfoot wrote it after traveling from Flagstaff, Arizona on Interstate 17 to Phoenix.
In 1976, Lightfoot had a hit song about a Lake Superior shipwreck. In late November 1975, Lightfoot read a Newsweek magazine article about the tragic loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinking during a severe storm on November 10, in which all 29 crew members died. His song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," most of the lyrics of which were based on the facts contained in the article, reached #2 on the United States Billboard charts, and was a #1 hit in Canada. "Sundown" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" continue to receive heavy airplay on many classic rock stations. In 1978, Lightfoot had another top 40 hit on the United States Hot 100, "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It In Your Eyes)," which reached #33.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Lightfoot recorded six more original albums and a compilation for Warner Bros./Reprise: Dream Street Rose (1980), Shadows (1982), Salute (1983), East of Midnight (1986), another compilation Gord's Gold, Vol. 2 (1988), Waiting for You (1993), and A Painter Passing Through (1998).
The album Dream Street Rose has the folk-pop sound that Lightfoot established during the previous decade. In addition to the title song, it produced songs such as "Ghosts Of Cape Horn" and "On The High Seas". He also included the Leroy Van Dyke's 1950s composition "The Auctioneer," a bluegrass-like number that for Lightfoot was a concert staple from the mid 60s to the 80s, .
The album Shadows represents a departure from the acoustic sound of the 1970s and introduces an adult-contemporary sound. Songs like "Shadows" and "Thank You for the Promises" contain an underlying sadness and resignation. The 1982 American released single "Baby Step Back" marked his last time in the top 50 in that country. The 1983 album Salute produced no hit singles; the 1986 East Of Midnight album had several Adult Contemporary songs like "A Passing Ship","Morning Glory" and "I'll Tag Along" (East of Midnight). A single from East of Midnight, "Anything For Love" actually made the Billboard Country & Western chart.
In April 1987, Lightfoot filed a lawsuit against composer Michael Masser, claiming that Masser's melody for the song "The Greatest Love of All" — recorded by George Benson (1977) and Whitney Houston (1985) — stole 24 bars from Lightfoot's 1971 hit song "If You Could Read My Mind." The transitional section that begins "I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow" of the Masser song has the exact same melody as "I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone, and I just can't get it back" of Lightfoot's song. Lightfoot later stated that he didn't want people thinking that he had stolen his melody from Masser.
Lightfoot rounded out the decade with his follow-up compilation Gord's Gold, Vol. 2, in late 1988, which again contained re-recorded versions of his most popular songs, including a re-make of the 1970 song, "The Pony Man". The original had been brisk in pace, acoustic and only about three minutes long. This new version was slower, clocking in at around four minutes plus.
During the 90s Lightfoot returned to his acoustic roots and recorded two albums. Waiting for You (1993) includes songs like "Restless", "Wild Strawberries" and Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells." 1998's A Painter Passing Through reintroduced a sound more reminiscent of his early recordings, with songs like "Much To My Surprise", "Red Velvet", "Drifters", and "I Used To be a Country Singer". Throughout the decade, Lightfoot played about 50 concerts a year. In 1999 Rhino Records released Songbook, a four CD boxed set of Lightfoot recordings with rare and unreleased tracks from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s plus a small hardback booklet for his fans that described how he created his songs and gave facts about his career.
In April 2000, Lightfoot taped a live concert in Reno, Nevada — a one hour show that was broadcast by CBC in October, and as a PBS special across the United States. PBS stations offered a videotape of the concert as a pledge gift, and a tape and DVD were released in 2001 in Europe and North America. This was the first Lightfoot concert video ever released. In April 2001, Lightfoot performed at the Tin Pan South Legends concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, closing the show. In May, he performed "Ring Them Bells" at Massey Hall in honour of Bob Dylan's sixtieth birthday.
Illness and recovery
By January 2002, Lightfoot had written 30 new songs for his next studio album. He recorded guitar and vocal demos of some of these new songs. In September, before the second concert of a two-night stand in Orillia, Lightfoot suffered severe stomach pain and was airlifted to McMaster Medical Centre in Hamilton, Ontario. He underwent surgery for a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, and he remained in serious condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Lightfoot endured a six-week coma and a tracheotomy, and he underwent four surgical operations. All of his remaining 2002 concert dates were canceled. More than three months after being taken to the McMaster Medical Center, Lightfoot was released in December to continue his recovery at home.
In 2003, Lightfoot underwent follow-up surgery to continue the treatment of his abdominal condition. In November, he signed a new recording contract with Linus Entertainment and began rehearsing with his band for the first time since his illness.
In January 2004, Lightfoot completed work on his album Harmony, which he mostly recorded prior to his illness. The album was released on his new home label of Linus Records on May 11 of that year. It was his 20th original album. It included a single and new video for "Inspiration Lady." Other songs were "Clouds Of Loneliness," "Sometimes I Wish," "Flyin' Blind" and "No Mistake About It." The album also contained the upbeat yet reflective Marshall Tucker(Band)/Allman Brothers Band-sounding track called "End Of All Time," which was unlike what most people perceive as a Gordon Lightfoot song.
In July 2004, he made a surprise comeback performance since falling ill at Mariposa in Orillia, performing "I'll Tag Along" solo. In August, he performed a five-song solo set in Peterborough, Ontario, at the flood relief benefit. In November, he made his long-awaited return to the concert stage with two sold-out benefit shows in Hamilton, Ontario.
Lightfoot returned to the music business with his new album selling well and an appearance on Canadian Idol, where the six top contestants each performed a song of his, culminating in a group performance - on their own instruments - of his Canadian Railroad Trilogy. In 2005, he made a low-key tour called the Better Late Than Never Tour.
On September 14, 2006, while in the middle of a performance, Lightfoot suffered a minor stroke that eventually left him without the use of the middle and ring fingers on his right hand. He returned to performing nine days later and for a brief time used a substitute guitarist for more difficult guitar work. Since early 2007, however, Lightfoot has regained full use of his right hand and plays all of the guitar parts in concert as he originally wrote them. He has continued to perform well into 2009.
While a tour was being planned for 2008, Lightfoot's manager, Barry Harvey, died at age 56 on 4 December 2007. In late 2009, Lightfoot undertook a 26 city tour.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 6:44 am
Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Is he still the same? Back in the 70's & 80's he had a big ego.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/17/09 at 6:44 am
Lorne Michaels,one of the best in the business.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/17/09 at 6:45 am
Is he still the same? Back in the 70's & 80's he had a big ego.
I guess you haven't been watching,years ago,he suffered a hip problem and therefore needed hip replacement surgery,he just turned 55.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 7:48 am
I guess you haven't been watching,years ago,he suffered a hip problem and therefore needed hip replacement surgery,he just turned 55.
No I haven't watched in years not since my son was about 10 years old (1999) I hope he is OK.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 11/17/09 at 9:15 am
I like the raging photos. Thanks for sharing, Ninny. :)
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Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 10:06 am
I like the raging photos. Thanks for sharing, Ninny. :)
Thanks :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/17/09 at 11:45 am
I love Gordon Lightfoot.
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 1:30 pm
I love Gordon Lightfoot.
Cat
Me too,he has some great songs.
This is one of them
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 1:56 pm
Yes, they have it now if the person who posted the pic originally has been inactive for a while the pic won't show up :-[
Blast!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 1:57 pm
The word of the day...Raging
1. Very active and unpredicatable; volatile: a raging debate; a raging fire.
2. Remarkable; extraordinary: a raging hit on prime-time TV.
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One film I have still not seen.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 1:58 pm
The birthday of the day...Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of the Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the prevention of the decaying of motion picture film stock.
Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, and violence. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era, directing landmark films such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas; all of which he collaborated on with actor Robert De Niro. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed and earned an MFA in film directing from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Although the Vietnam War had started at the time, Scorsese (who had struggled with asthma since his childhood) did not serve in the military. He attended New York University's film school (B.A., English, 1964; M.F.A., film, 1966) making the short films What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963) and It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964). His most famous short of the period is the darkly comic The Big Shave (1967), which featured an unnamed man who shaves himself until profusely bleeding, ultimately slitting his own throat with his razor. The film is an indictment of America's involvement in Vietnam, suggested by its alternative title Viet '67.
Also in 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film, the black and white I Call First, which was later retitled Who's That Knocking at My Door with fellow student, actor Harvey Keitel, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, both of whom were to become long-term collaborators. This film was intended to be the first of Scorsese's semi-autobiographical 'J.R. Trilogy', which also would have included his later film, Mean Streets. Even in embryonic form, the "Scorsese style" was already evident: a feel for New York Italian American street-life, rapid editing, an eclectic rock soundtrack, and a troubled male protagonist.
1970s
From there he became friends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. Indeed, it was Brian De Palma who introduced Scorsese to a young actor named Robert De Niro. During this period the director worked as one of the editors on the movie Woodstock and met actor-director John Cassavetes, who would also go on to become a close friend and mentor.
Mean Streets
Main article: Mean Streets
In 1972 Scorsese made the Depression-era exploiter Boxcar Bertha for B-movie producer Roger Corman, who had also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and John Sayles launch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese that entertaining films could be shot with next to no money or time, preparing the young director well for the challenges to come with Mean Streets. Following the film's release, Cassavetes encouraged Scorsese to make the films that he wanted to make, rather than someone else's projects.
Championed by influential movie critic Pauline Kael, Mean Streets was a breakthrough for Scorsese, De Niro, and Keitel. By now the signature Scorsese style was in place: macho posturing, bloody violence, Catholic guilt and redemption, gritty New York locale (though the majority of Mean Streets was actually shot in Los Angeles), rapid-fire editing, and a rock soundtrack. Although the film was innovative, its wired atmosphere, edgy documentary style, and gritty street-level direction owed a debt to directors Cassavetes, Samuel Fuller, and early Jean-Luc Godard. (Indeed the film was completed with much encouragement from Cassavetes, who felt Boxcar Bertha was undeserving of the young director's prodigious talent.)
In 1974, actress Ellen Burstyn chose Scorsese to direct her in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Although well regarded, the film remains an anomaly in the director's early career, as it focuses on a central female character. Returning to Little Italy to explore his ethnic roots, Scorsese next came up with Italianamerican, a documentary featuring his parents, Charles and Catherine Scorsese.
Taxi Driver
Main article: Taxi Driver
The iconic Taxi Driver followed in 1976 - Scorsese's dark, urban nightmare of one lonely man's slow, deliberate descent into insanity.
The film is important for various reasons. Foremost, it established Scorsese as an accomplished filmmaker operating on a highly skilled level along with cinematographer Michael Chapman whose style tends towards high contrasts, strong colors and complex camera movements. Also, the groundbreaking performance of Robert De Niro as the troubled and psychotic Travis Bickle, instantly became one of the cinema's most legendary turns. The film also co-starred Jodie Foster in a highly controversial role as an underage prostitute, and Harvey Keitel as her pimp, Matthew a.k.a. "Sport."
Taxi Driver also marked the start of a series of collaborations with writer Paul Schrader, whose influences included the diary of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer and Pickpocket a film by the French director Robert Bresson. Writer/director Schrader often returns to Bresson's work in films such as American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, and Scorsese's later Bringing Out the Dead.
Already controversial upon its release, Taxi Driver hit the headlines again five years later, when John Hinckley, Jr., made an assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan. He subsequently blamed his act on his obsession with Jodie Foster's Taxi Driver character (in the film, De Niro's character, Travis Bickle, makes an assassination attempt on a senator).
Taxi Driver won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes film festival, also receiving four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, although all were unsuccessful.
Scorsese was subsequently offered the role of Charles Manson in the movie Helter Skelter and a part in Sam Fuller's war movie The Big Red One, but he turned both down. However he did accept the role of a gangster in exploitation movie Cannonball directed by Paul Bartel. In this period there were also several directorial projects that never got off the ground including Haunted Summer, about Mary Shelley and a film with Marlon Brando about the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee.
New York, New York and The Last Waltz
Main articles: New York, New York (film) and The Last Waltz
The critical success of Taxi Driver encouraged Scorsese to move ahead with his first big-budget project: the highly stylized musical New York, New York. This tribute to Scorsese's home town and the classic Hollywood musical was a box-office failure.
New York, New York was the director's third collaboration with Robert De Niro, co-starring with Liza Minnelli (a tribute and allusion to her father, legendary musical director Vincente Minnelli). The film is best remembered today for the title theme song, which was popularized by Frank Sinatra. Although possessing Scorsese's usual visual panache and stylistic bravura, many critics felt its enclosed studio-bound atmosphere left it leaden in comparison to his earlier work. Often overlooked, it remains one of the director's early key studies in male paranoia and insecurity (and hence is in direct thematic lineage with Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, as well as the later Raging Bull and The Departed).
The disappointing reception New York, New York received drove Scorsese into depression. By this stage the director had also developed a serious cocaine addiction. However, he did find the creative drive to make the highly regarded The Last Waltz, documenting the final concert by The Band. It was held at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, and featured one of the most extensive lineups of prominent guest performers at a single concert, including Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and Van Morrison. However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delayed the release of the film until 1978.
Another Scorsese-directed documentary entitled American Boy also appeared in 1978, focusing on Steven Prince, the cocky gun salesman who appeared in Taxi Driver. A period of wild partying followed, damaging the director's already fragile health.
1980s
Raging Bull
Main article: Raging Bull
By several accounts (Scorsese's included), Robert De Niro practically saved Scorsese's life when he persuaded Scorsese to kick his cocaine addiction to make what is widely considered his greatest film, Raging Bull. Convinced that he would never make another movie, he poured his energies into making this violent biopic of middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta, calling it a Kamikaze method of film-making. The film is widely viewed as a masterpiece and was voted the greatest film of the 1980s by Britain's Sight & Sound magazine. It received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Robert De Niro, and Scorsese's first for Best Director. De Niro won, as did Thelma Schoonmaker for editing, but best director went to Robert Redford for Ordinary People.
Raging Bull, filmed in high contrast black and white, is where Scorsese's style reached its zenith: Taxi Driver and New York, New York had used elements of expressionism to replicate psychological points of view, but here the style was taken to new extremes, employing extensive slow-motion, complex tracking shots, and extravagant distortion of perspective (for example, the size of boxing rings would change from fight to fight). Thematically too, the concerns carried on from Mean Streets and Taxi Driver: insecure males, violence, guilt, and redemption.
Although the screenplay for Raging Bull was credited to Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin (who earlier co-wrote Mean Streets), the finished script differed extensively from Schrader's original draft. It was re-written several times by various writers including Jay Cocks (who went on to co-script later Scorsese films The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York). The final draft was largely written by Scorsese and Robert De Niro.
The American Film Institute chose Raging Bull as the #1 sports film on their list of the top 10 sports films.
The King of Comedy
Main article: The King of Comedy (1983 film)
Scorsese's next project was his fifth collaboration with Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy (1983). A satire on the world of media and celebrity, it was an obvious departure from the more emotionally committed films he had become associated with. Visually, it was far less kinetic than the style Scorsese had developed up until this point, often using a static camera and long takes. The expressionism of his recent work here gave way to moments of almost total surrealism. It still bore many of Scorsese's trademarks, however, such as its focus on a troubled loner who ironically becomes famous through a criminal act (murder and kidnapping, respectively).
The King of Comedy failed at the box office, but has become increasingly well regarded by critics in the years since its release. German director Wim Wenders numbered it among his fifteen favourite films. Also, Scorsese apparently believes that this is the best performance De Niro ever gave for him.
Next Scorsese made a brief cameo appearance in the movie Pavlova: A Woman for All Time, originally intended to be directed by one of his heroes, Michael Powell. This led to a more significant role in Bertrand Tavernier's jazz movie Round Midnight.
In 1983 Scorsese began work on a long-cherished personal project, The Last Temptation of Christ, based on the 1951 (English translation 1960) novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, who was introduced to the director by actress Barbara Hershey when they were both attending New York University in the late 1960s. The movie was slated to shoot under the Paramount Pictures banner, but shortly before principal photography was to commence, Paramount pulled the plug on the project, citing pressure from religious groups. In this aborted 1983 version, Aidan Quinn was cast as Jesus, and Sting was cast as Pontius Pilate. (In the 1988 version, these roles were played respectively by Willem Dafoe and David Bowie.
One of my favourtie film directors.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:00 pm
The birthday of the day...Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of the Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the prevention of the decaying of motion picture film stock.
Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, and violence. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era, directing landmark films such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas; all of which he collaborated on with actor Robert De Niro. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed and earned an MFA in film directing from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Although the Vietnam War had started at the time, Scorsese (who had struggled with asthma since his childhood) did not serve in the military. He attended New York University's film school (B.A., English, 1964; M.F.A., film, 1966) making the short films What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963) and It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964). His most famous short of the period is the darkly comic The Big Shave (1967), which featured an unnamed man who shaves himself until profusely bleeding, ultimately slitting his own throat with his razor. The film is an indictment of America's involvement in Vietnam, suggested by its alternative title Viet '67.
Also in 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film, the black and white I Call First, which was later retitled Who's That Knocking at My Door with fellow student, actor Harvey Keitel, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, both of whom were to become long-term collaborators. This film was intended to be the first of Scorsese's semi-autobiographical 'J.R. Trilogy', which also would have included his later film, Mean Streets. Even in embryonic form, the "Scorsese style" was already evident: a feel for New York Italian American street-life, rapid editing, an eclectic rock soundtrack, and a troubled male protagonist.
1970s
From there he became friends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. Indeed, it was Brian De Palma who introduced Scorsese to a young actor named Robert De Niro. During this period the director worked as one of the editors on the movie Woodstock and met actor-director John Cassavetes, who would also go on to become a close friend and mentor.
Mean Streets
Main article: Mean Streets
In 1972 Scorsese made the Depression-era exploiter Boxcar Bertha for B-movie producer Roger Corman, who had also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and John Sayles launch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese that entertaining films could be shot with next to no money or time, preparing the young director well for the challenges to come with Mean Streets. Following the film's release, Cassavetes encouraged Scorsese to make the films that he wanted to make, rather than someone else's projects.
Championed by influential movie critic Pauline Kael, Mean Streets was a breakthrough for Scorsese, De Niro, and Keitel. By now the signature Scorsese style was in place: macho posturing, bloody violence, Catholic guilt and redemption, gritty New York locale (though the majority of Mean Streets was actually shot in Los Angeles), rapid-fire editing, and a rock soundtrack. Although the film was innovative, its wired atmosphere, edgy documentary style, and gritty street-level direction owed a debt to directors Cassavetes, Samuel Fuller, and early Jean-Luc Godard. (Indeed the film was completed with much encouragement from Cassavetes, who felt Boxcar Bertha was undeserving of the young director's prodigious talent.)
In 1974, actress Ellen Burstyn chose Scorsese to direct her in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Although well regarded, the film remains an anomaly in the director's early career, as it focuses on a central female character. Returning to Little Italy to explore his ethnic roots, Scorsese next came up with Italianamerican, a documentary featuring his parents, Charles and Catherine Scorsese.
Taxi Driver
Main article: Taxi Driver
The iconic Taxi Driver followed in 1976 - Scorsese's dark, urban nightmare of one lonely man's slow, deliberate descent into insanity.
The film is important for various reasons. Foremost, it established Scorsese as an accomplished filmmaker operating on a highly skilled level along with cinematographer Michael Chapman whose style tends towards high contrasts, strong colors and complex camera movements. Also, the groundbreaking performance of Robert De Niro as the troubled and psychotic Travis Bickle, instantly became one of the cinema's most legendary turns. The film also co-starred Jodie Foster in a highly controversial role as an underage prostitute, and Harvey Keitel as her pimp, Matthew a.k.a. "Sport."
Taxi Driver also marked the start of a series of collaborations with writer Paul Schrader, whose influences included the diary of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer and Pickpocket a film by the French director Robert Bresson. Writer/director Schrader often returns to Bresson's work in films such as American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, and Scorsese's later Bringing Out the Dead.
Already controversial upon its release, Taxi Driver hit the headlines again five years later, when John Hinckley, Jr., made an assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan. He subsequently blamed his act on his obsession with Jodie Foster's Taxi Driver character (in the film, De Niro's character, Travis Bickle, makes an assassination attempt on a senator).
Taxi Driver won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes film festival, also receiving four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, although all were unsuccessful.
Scorsese was subsequently offered the role of Charles Manson in the movie Helter Skelter and a part in Sam Fuller's war movie The Big Red One, but he turned both down. However he did accept the role of a gangster in exploitation movie Cannonball directed by Paul Bartel. In this period there were also several directorial projects that never got off the ground including Haunted Summer, about Mary Shelley and a film with Marlon Brando about the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee.
New York, New York and The Last Waltz
Main articles: New York, New York (film) and The Last Waltz
The critical success of Taxi Driver encouraged Scorsese to move ahead with his first big-budget project: the highly stylized musical New York, New York. This tribute to Scorsese's home town and the classic Hollywood musical was a box-office failure.
New York, New York was the director's third collaboration with Robert De Niro, co-starring with Liza Minnelli (a tribute and allusion to her father, legendary musical director Vincente Minnelli). The film is best remembered today for the title theme song, which was popularized by Frank Sinatra. Although possessing Scorsese's usual visual panache and stylistic bravura, many critics felt its enclosed studio-bound atmosphere left it leaden in comparison to his earlier work. Often overlooked, it remains one of the director's early key studies in male paranoia and insecurity (and hence is in direct thematic lineage with Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, as well as the later Raging Bull and The Departed).
The disappointing reception New York, New York received drove Scorsese into depression. By this stage the director had also developed a serious cocaine addiction. However, he did find the creative drive to make the highly regarded The Last Waltz, documenting the final concert by The Band. It was held at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, and featured one of the most extensive lineups of prominent guest performers at a single concert, including Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood and Van Morrison. However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delayed the release of the film until 1978.
Another Scorsese-directed documentary entitled American Boy also appeared in 1978, focusing on Steven Prince, the cocky gun salesman who appeared in Taxi Driver. A period of wild partying followed, damaging the director's already fragile health.
1980s
Raging Bull
Main article: Raging Bull
By several accounts (Scorsese's included), Robert De Niro practically saved Scorsese's life when he persuaded Scorsese to kick his cocaine addiction to make what is widely considered his greatest film, Raging Bull. Convinced that he would never make another movie, he poured his energies into making this violent biopic of middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta, calling it a Kamikaze method of film-making. The film is widely viewed as a masterpiece and was voted the greatest film of the 1980s by Britain's Sight & Sound magazine. It received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Robert De Niro, and Scorsese's first for Best Director. De Niro won, as did Thelma Schoonmaker for editing, but best director went to Robert Redford for Ordinary People.
Raging Bull, filmed in high contrast black and white, is where Scorsese's style reached its zenith: Taxi Driver and New York, New York had used elements of expressionism to replicate psychological points of view, but here the style was taken to new extremes, employing extensive slow-motion, complex tracking shots, and extravagant distortion of perspective (for example, the size of boxing rings would change from fight to fight). Thematically too, the concerns carried on from Mean Streets and Taxi Driver: insecure males, violence, guilt, and redemption.
Although the screenplay for Raging Bull was credited to Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin (who earlier co-wrote Mean Streets), the finished script differed extensively from Schrader's original draft. It was re-written several times by various writers including Jay Cocks (who went on to co-script later Scorsese films The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York). The final draft was largely written by Scorsese and Robert De Niro.
The American Film Institute chose Raging Bull as the #1 sports film on their list of the top 10 sports films.
The King of Comedy
Main article: The King of Comedy (1983 film)
Scorsese's next project was his fifth collaboration with Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy (1983). A satire on the world of media and celebrity, it was an obvious departure from the more emotionally committed films he had become associated with. Visually, it was far less kinetic than the style Scorsese had developed up until this point, often using a static camera and long takes. The expressionism of his recent work here gave way to moments of almost total surrealism. It still bore many of Scorsese's trademarks, however, such as its focus on a troubled loner who ironically becomes famous through a criminal act (murder and kidnapping, respectively).
The King of Comedy failed at the box office, but has become increasingly well regarded by critics in the years since its release. German director Wim Wenders numbered it among his fifteen favourite films. Also, Scorsese apparently believes that this is the best performance De Niro ever gave for him.
Next Scorsese made a brief cameo appearance in the movie Pavlova: A Woman for All Time, originally intended to be directed by one of his heroes, Michael Powell. This led to a more significant role in Bertrand Tavernier's jazz movie Round Midnight.
In 1983 Scorsese began work on a long-cherished personal project, The Last Temptation of Christ, based on the 1951 (English translation 1960) novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, who was introduced to the director by actress Barbara Hershey when they were both attending New York University in the late 1960s. The movie was slated to shoot under the Paramount Pictures banner, but shortly before principal photography was to commence, Paramount pulled the plug on the project, citing pressure from religious groups. In this aborted 1983 version, Aidan Quinn was cast as Jesus, and Sting was cast as Pontius Pilate. (In the 1988 version, these roles were played respectively by Willem Dafoe and David Bowie.
MS can be seen as the passenger watching silhouette in Taxi Driver.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:02 pm
* Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., CC, O.Ont (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music. As a singer-songwriter, he came to prominence in the 1960s, and entered the international music charts in the 1970s with songs such as "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974), "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976). His songs have been recorded by some of the world's most renowned recording artists, including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, George Hamilton IV, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Richie Havens, Harry Belafonte, Tony Rice, Sandy Denny (with Fotheringay), Scott Walker, Sarah McLachlan and John Mellencamp. Robbie Robertson of The Band declared that Lightfoot was one of his "favourite Canadian songwriters and is absolutely a national treasure." Lightfoot was a featured musical performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta.
In 1965, Lightfoot signed a management contract with Albert Grossman, who also represented Bob Dylan. That same year, he signed a recording contract with United Artists and released his own version of "I'm Not Saying" as a single. Appearances at the Newport Folk Festival, the Tonight Show, and New York's Town Hall increased his following and his reputation. In 1966, he released his debut album Lightfoot!, which brought him increased recognition as both a singer and a songwriter. It featured many now-famous songs, including "For Lovin' Me," "Early Mornin' Rain," "Steel Rail Blues," and "Ribbon of Darkness." On the strength of the Lightfoot! album, which mixed Canadian and universal themes, Lightfoot became one of the first Canadian singers to achieve real stardom in his own country without having to move to the United States.
Between 1966 and 1969, Lightfoot recorded four additional albums for United Artists: The Way I Feel (1967), Did She Mention My Name? (1968), Back Here on Earth (1968), and the live recording Sunday Concert (1969). During those years, he consistently placed singles in the Canadian top 40, including "Go-Go Round", "Spin, Spin", and "The Way I Feel". His biggest hit of the era was a rendition of Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", which peaked at #3 on the Canadian charts in December 1965. Internationally, Lightfoot's albums from this time were well-received, but did not produce any hit singles. Outside of Canada, he remained better known as a songwriter than as a performer.
Lightfoot's success as a live performer continued to grow throughout the late 1960s. He embarked on his first Canadian national tour in 1967, and also performed in New York City. Between 1967 and 1974 Lightfoot toured Europe and was well-received on two tours of Australia.
UA would later consistently release "Best of" album compilations in the 1970s, after Gordon Lightfoot became a success on his next label Warner Bros./Reprise.
The Warner Bros./Reprise years
Lightfoot was signed to Warner Bros./Reprise in 1970 and had a major hit in the United States with his recording of "If You Could Read My Mind." The song was originally featured on his 1970 album Sit Down Young Stranger, which did not sell well. After the success of the song, the album was re-released under the new title If You Could Read My Mind. It reached #5 nationally and the success of the song represented a major turning point in Gordon Lightfoot's career. It also had only the second recorded version of "Me and Bobby McGee" as well as "The Pony Man","Your Love's Return" and "The Minstrel of The Dawn".
Over the next seven years, he recorded a series of successful albums that established him as a singer-songwriter:
* Summer Side of Life (1971), with songs "Ten Degrees and Getting Colder", "Miguel", "Cabaret", "Nous Vivons Ensemble" and the title track.
* Don Quixote (1972), with "Beautiful", "Looking At The Rain", "Christian Island (Georgian Bay)" and the title track which is a concert favorite.
* Old Dan's Records (1972), with the title track and also the two sided single "That Same Old Obsession"/"You Are What I Am" and the songs "It's Worth Believin'" and "Can't Depend On Love".
* Sundown (1974), besides the title track includes "Carefree Highway", "Seven Island Suite", "The Watchman's Gone", "High and Dry", "Circle Of Steel" and "Too Late for Prayin'" .
* Cold on the Shoulder (1975). Along with title track are songs "Bend In The Water", "The Soul Is The Rock", "Rainbow Trout", "All The Lovely Ladies" and the hit "Rainy Day People".
* A double compilation LP Gord's Gold (in 1975) containing nine rerecorded versions of his most popular songs from the United Artists era.
* Summertime Dream (1976), along with "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" are the songs "Race Among The Ruins", "Spanish Moss", "Never Too Close" and the title track.
* Endless Wire (1978) with "Daylight Katy", "If Children Had Wings", "Sweet Guenevire", "The Circle Is Small", and the title track.
During the 1970s, Lightfoot's songs covered a wide range of subjects, including "Don Quixote" about Cervantes' famous literary character, "Ode To Big Blue" about the widespread killing of whales, "Beautiful" about the simple joys of love, "Carefree Highway" about the freedom of the open road, "Protocol" about the futility of war, and "Alberta Bound" which was inspired by a lonely teenaged girl named Grace he met on a bus while travelling to Calgary in 1971.
In 1972, Lightfoot curtailed his touring schedule after contracting Bell's palsy, a condition that left his face partially paralyzed for a time. Despite his illness, Lightfoot had several major hits during the 1970s. In 1974, his classic single "Sundown" from the album Sundown, went to No.1 on the American and Canadian charts. He performed it twice on NBC's "The Midnight Special" series. "Carefree Highway" (about the actual highway in Phoenix, Arizona) was the follow-up single from the same album. It charted in the Top 10 in both countries. Lightfoot wrote it after traveling from Flagstaff, Arizona on Interstate 17 to Phoenix.
In 1976, Lightfoot had a hit song about a Lake Superior shipwreck. In late November 1975, Lightfoot read a Newsweek magazine article about the tragic loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinking during a severe storm on November 10, in which all 29 crew members died. His song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," most of the lyrics of which were based on the facts contained in the article, reached #2 on the United States Billboard charts, and was a #1 hit in Canada. "Sundown" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" continue to receive heavy airplay on many classic rock stations. In 1978, Lightfoot had another top 40 hit on the United States Hot 100, "The Circle Is Small (I Can See It In Your Eyes)," which reached #33.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Lightfoot recorded six more original albums and a compilation for Warner Bros./Reprise: Dream Street Rose (1980), Shadows (1982), Salute (1983), East of Midnight (1986), another compilation Gord's Gold, Vol. 2 (1988), Waiting for You (1993), and A Painter Passing Through (1998).
The album Dream Street Rose has the folk-pop sound that Lightfoot established during the previous decade. In addition to the title song, it produced songs such as "Ghosts Of Cape Horn" and "On The High Seas". He also included the Leroy Van Dyke's 1950s composition "The Auctioneer," a bluegrass-like number that for Lightfoot was a concert staple from the mid 60s to the 80s, .
The album Shadows represents a departure from the acoustic sound of the 1970s and introduces an adult-contemporary sound. Songs like "Shadows" and "Thank You for the Promises" contain an underlying sadness and resignation. The 1982 American released single "Baby Step Back" marked his last time in the top 50 in that country. The 1983 album Salute produced no hit singles; the 1986 East Of Midnight album had several Adult Contemporary songs like "A Passing Ship","Morning Glory" and "I'll Tag Along" (East of Midnight). A single from East of Midnight, "Anything For Love" actually made the Billboard Country & Western chart.
In April 1987, Lightfoot filed a lawsuit against composer Michael Masser, claiming that Masser's melody for the song "The Greatest Love of All" — recorded by George Benson (1977) and Whitney Houston (1985) — stole 24 bars from Lightfoot's 1971 hit song "If You Could Read My Mind." The transitional section that begins "I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow" of the Masser song has the exact same melody as "I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone, and I just can't get it back" of Lightfoot's song. Lightfoot later stated that he didn't want people thinking that he had stolen his melody from Masser.
Lightfoot rounded out the decade with his follow-up compilation Gord's Gold, Vol. 2, in late 1988, which again contained re-recorded versions of his most popular songs, including a re-make of the 1970 song, "The Pony Man". The original had been brisk in pace, acoustic and only about three minutes long. This new version was slower, clocking in at around four minutes plus.
During the 90s Lightfoot returned to his acoustic roots and recorded two albums. Waiting for You (1993) includes songs like "Restless", "Wild Strawberries" and Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells." 1998's A Painter Passing Through reintroduced a sound more reminiscent of his early recordings, with songs like "Much To My Surprise", "Red Velvet", "Drifters", and "I Used To be a Country Singer". Throughout the decade, Lightfoot played about 50 concerts a year. In 1999 Rhino Records released Songbook, a four CD boxed set of Lightfoot recordings with rare and unreleased tracks from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s plus a small hardback booklet for his fans that described how he created his songs and gave facts about his career.
In April 2000, Lightfoot taped a live concert in Reno, Nevada — a one hour show that was broadcast by CBC in October, and as a PBS special across the United States. PBS stations offered a videotape of the concert as a pledge gift, and a tape and DVD were released in 2001 in Europe and North America. This was the first Lightfoot concert video ever released. In April 2001, Lightfoot performed at the Tin Pan South Legends concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, closing the show. In May, he performed "Ring Them Bells" at Massey Hall in honour of Bob Dylan's sixtieth birthday.
Illness and recovery
By January 2002, Lightfoot had written 30 new songs for his next studio album. He recorded guitar and vocal demos of some of these new songs. In September, before the second concert of a two-night stand in Orillia, Lightfoot suffered severe stomach pain and was airlifted to McMaster Medical Centre in Hamilton, Ontario. He underwent surgery for a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, and he remained in serious condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Lightfoot endured a six-week coma and a tracheotomy, and he underwent four surgical operations. All of his remaining 2002 concert dates were canceled. More than three months after being taken to the McMaster Medical Center, Lightfoot was released in December to continue his recovery at home.
In 2003, Lightfoot underwent follow-up surgery to continue the treatment of his abdominal condition. In November, he signed a new recording contract with Linus Entertainment and began rehearsing with his band for the first time since his illness.
In January 2004, Lightfoot completed work on his album Harmony, which he mostly recorded prior to his illness. The album was released on his new home label of Linus Records on May 11 of that year. It was his 20th original album. It included a single and new video for "Inspiration Lady." Other songs were "Clouds Of Loneliness," "Sometimes I Wish," "Flyin' Blind" and "No Mistake About It." The album also contained the upbeat yet reflective Marshall Tucker(Band)/Allman Brothers Band-sounding track called "End Of All Time," which was unlike what most people perceive as a Gordon Lightfoot song.
In July 2004, he made a surprise comeback performance since falling ill at Mariposa in Orillia, performing "I'll Tag Along" solo. In August, he performed a five-song solo set in Peterborough, Ontario, at the flood relief benefit. In November, he made his long-awaited return to the concert stage with two sold-out benefit shows in Hamilton, Ontario.
Lightfoot returned to the music business with his new album selling well and an appearance on Canadian Idol, where the six top contestants each performed a song of his, culminating in a group performance - on their own instruments - of his Canadian Railroad Trilogy. In 2005, he made a low-key tour called the Better Late Than Never Tour.
On September 14, 2006, while in the middle of a performance, Lightfoot suffered a minor stroke that eventually left him without the use of the middle and ring fingers on his right hand. He returned to performing nine days later and for a brief time used a substitute guitarist for more difficult guitar work. Since early 2007, however, Lightfoot has regained full use of his right hand and plays all of the guitar parts in concert as he originally wrote them. He has continued to perform well into 2009.
While a tour was being planned for 2008, Lightfoot's manager, Barry Harvey, died at age 56 on 4 December 2007. In late 2009, Lightfoot undertook a 26 city tour.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:04 pm
I like the raging photos. Thanks for sharing, Ninny. :)
The top one will make a good wallpaper for the computer.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:05 pm
I love Gordon Lightfoot.
Cat
Ditto!
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/17/09 at 2:24 pm
Me too,he has some great songs.
This is one of them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2DjqB0SO9M&feature=related#
One of my favs, too.
Cat
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:26 pm
One of my favs, too.
Cat
Another great classic song.
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Written By: Howard on 11/17/09 at 4:01 pm
No I haven't watched in years not since my son was about 10 years old (1999) I hope he is OK.
he's ok.
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Written By: Frank on 11/17/09 at 4:41 pm
Lorne Michaels. I remember during the 1st season of SNL when he offered the Beatles to reunite on the show for like $300 ;D
Being from Canada, Gordon Lightfoot is an icon here. Great songs. Saw him in concert a few years back. Had a nice time.
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Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 5:04 pm
One of my favs, too.
Cat
Another great classic song.
On the episode of Cold Case I was watching this afternoon they played If You Could Read My Mind.
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Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 5:08 pm
Lorne Michaels. I remember during the 1st season of SNL when he offered the Beatles to reunite on the show for like $300 ;D
Being from Canada, Gordon Lightfoot is an icon here. Great songs. Saw him in concert a few years back. Had a nice time.
IVe always thought Gordon has lots of talent. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0DqPSF2fyo&feature=PlayList&p=D6C94AFC4D0A36EC&index=0&playnext=1
Another great song
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Written By: Frank on 11/17/09 at 5:26 pm
IVe always thought Gordon has lots of talent. :)Another great song
Yes, and "If you read my mind" is his best song.
I also went to University with his son, Fred. He was a couple of years younger than me (Fred, not Gordon ;))
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Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 7:01 pm
Yes, and "If you read my mind" is his best song.
I also went to University with his son, Fred. He was a couple of years younger than me (Fred, not Gordon ;))
That's cool. :)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:13 am
Yes, and "If you read my mind" is his best song.
I also went to University with his son, Fred. He was a couple of years younger than me (Fred, not Gordon ;))
Wow!!!
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Written By: ninny on 11/18/09 at 7:08 am
The word of the day...Valley
1. An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.
2. An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.
3. A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley, as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet.
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Written By: ninny on 11/18/09 at 7:12 am
The birthday of the day...Linda Evans
Linda Evans (born on November 18, 1942) is an American actress known primarily for her roles on television. She rose to fame as Barbara Stanwyck's daughter, Audra Barkley, on the 1960s Western, The Big Valley (1965-1969). Evans' most prominent role was as Krystle Carrington on the 1980s ABC prime-time television soap opera Dynasty, a role she played from 1981-1989.
She was born Linda Evenstad in Hartford, Connecticut. The name Evenstad is Norwegian and Linda Evans is of Norwegian descent.
Evans' first guest-starring role was on an episode of Bachelor Father, which starred her future series' lead, John Forsythe. She would co-star with him on Dynasty, as the wife of a oil multimillionaire more than two decades later. Before then, she co-starred opposite longtime actress Barbara Stanwyck on The Big Valley. During her third and fourth and final seasons on air, her screen time had been reduced, due to her new marriage with Derek, but was on the show for the entire run.
During the 1980s, Linda Evans and her Dynasty co-star, Joan Collins, became the two most celebrated female television stars of the decade, displaying an on-screen adversarial chemistry. For her role as Krystle, Evans was nominated five times for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a TV Drama series (every year from 1982 to 1986), winning in 1982 in a tie with Barbara Bel Geddes of rival soap Dallas. Evans won five People's Choice Awards as Favorite Actress in a Drama Series in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1986, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead actress in a Drama Series in 1983.
Due to her character's name on Dynasty, she starred in an ad campaign for Crystal Light beverages, starting in 1984.
Evans has been married twice. She was first married to actor and film producer John Derek from 1968 to 1974. Evans' second marriage was to Stan Herman, a property executive, from 1976 to 1981. In the 1990s Linda dated Yanni.
Regularly listed as one of the most beautiful women in America, she appeared in Playboy magazine at the behest of her then-husband John Derek in 1971, those photos published a second time in 1982 when she was turning forty.
Melora Hardin as Evans (with Bartholomew John as John Forsythe) in Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure (2005)
For her contribution to the television industry, Linda Evans has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Blvd. After she left Dynasty, Evans semi-retired from acting and only made occasional television appearances. She now resides in Rainier, Washington, and owns a small chain of fitness centers. In the 1990s, Evans hosted infomercials for Rejuvenique, a mask for toning facial muscles. She also published the "Linda Evans Beauty and Exercise" book in 1983.
In 2005 actress Melora Hardin portrayed Evans in Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, a fictionalized television movie based on the creation and behind the scenes production of Dynasty.
In 2006, Evans reunited with her Dynasty castmates for the non-fiction reunion special Dynasty: Catfights and Caviar. She then starred in the stage play Legends opposite her former Dynasty rival Collins.
In 2009, Evans appeared in and won the British TV programme Hell's Kitchen, working under Michelin-starred chef Marco Pierre White.
Filmography
* Twilight of Honor (1963)
* Those Calloways (1965)
* Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
* Childish Things (1969)
* The Klansman (1974)
* Mitchell (1975)
* Avalanche Express (1979)
* Tom Horn (1980)
* Trekkies (1997, documentary)
Television work
* Bachelor Father in episode "A Crush on Bentley" with future Dynasty co-star John Forsythe (1960)
* The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (5 episodes, 1960-1962)
* The Eleventh Hour as Joan Clayton in episode entitled "Where Ignornant Armies Clash" (1963)
* The Big Valley (1965-1969)
* Female Artillery (1973)
* Nakia (1974)
* The Rockford Files (first season) as Claire Prescott in episode "Claire" (1975)
* The Rockford Files (second season) as Audrey Wyatt in episode "The Farnsworth Strategem" (1975)
* The Big Rip-Off (1975)
* Hunter (1976, pilot for series)
* Hunter (1977, canceled after 8 episodes)
* Nowhere to Run (1978)
* Standing Tall (1978)
* Dynasty (1981-1989)
* Bare Essence (1982)
* Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (1983)
* North and South, Book II (1986, miniseries)
* The Last Frontier (1986)
* She'll Take Romance (1990)
* Dynasty: The Reunion (1991)
* The Gambler Returns: Luck of the Draw (1991)
* Dazzle (1995)
* The Stepsister (1997)
* Hells Kitchen winner (UK) (2009)
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/18/09 at 7:15 am
The co-birthday of the day...Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor, comedian and writer.
Wilson's initial acting role was as "Dignan" in the Wes Anderson film Bottle Rocket. He also worked with Anderson as a creative collaborator on Anderson's next two directorial efforts, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Wilson did not appear as an actor in Rushmore, but he did make two "appearances": he and Anderson acknowledged on the Criterion Collection DVD audio commentary that Wilson appears as Rosemary Cross's dead husband, Edward Appleby. When Max Fischer visits Miss Cross in Appleby's boyhood bedroom, photographs of a young Owen Wilson are incorporated in the set for the scene. Wilson and Anderson can also be seen driving go-carts in the background during a shot of Max Fisher posing on his go-cart.
Wilson quickly landed roles in big-budget movies such as The Cable Guy, directed by Ben Stiller, an early admirer of Bottle Rocket. After minor appearances in action films like Anaconda, Armageddon and The Haunting, Wilson appeared in two dramatic roles: supporting actor in Permanent Midnight, which starred Stiller as a drug-addicted TV writer; and a role as a serial killer in The Minus Man. He also made a cameo in the Girl skateboarding video Yeah Right! in 2003.
Movie star
Wilson at the London premiere of You, Me and Dupree, 2006
Wilson got his big break with the 2000 comedy action hit Shanghai Noon, starring opposite Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan. The film grossed nearly US$100 million worldwide. His fame continued to rise after starring alongside Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell in the 2001 film Zoolander.
Gene Hackman took notice of Wilson's performance in Shanghai Noon and recommended Wilson to co-star in the 2001 action film Behind Enemy Lines. Also in 2001, Wilson and Anderson collaborated on their third film, The Royal Tenenbaums, which was a financial and critical success. The comedy featured an all-star cast, including Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Danny Glover, Seymour Cassel and brother Luke. Owen Wilson had a memorable supporting role in the film as Eli Cash, a drug-addled bon vivant who becomes a literary celebrity. It earned the writing team an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Wilson returned to the buddy comedy genre in 2002 with the action comedy I Spy, co-starring Eddie Murphy. This big-screen remake of the television series flopped at the box office. He then reunited with Chan to make Shanghai Knights (2003) and the movie remake of the television series Starsky & Hutch (2004). Due to his busy schedule as an actor and an ongoing sinus condition, Wilson was unavailable to collaborate on the script for Wes Anderson's fourth feature, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The 2004 film was ultimately co-written by filmmaker Noah Baumbach. However, Wilson did star in the film as Bill Murray's would-be son, Ned Plimpton—a role written specifically for Wilson.
Wilson partnered with Vince Vaughn in the 2005 Wedding Crashers which grossed over $200 million in the US alone. Also in 2005, Owen collaborated with his brothers by appearing in The Wendell Baker Story, written by brother Luke, directed by Luke and brother Andrew. In 2006, Wilson provided the voice of Lightning McQueen in the Disney/Pixar film Cars, starred in You, Me and Dupree with Kate Hudson, and appeared with Stiller in Night at the Museum as Jedidiah, the cowboy, an uncredited role.
Wilson has appeared in nine movies with Stiller (a long-time friend) to date: The Cable Guy (1996), Permanent Midnight (1998), Meet the Parents (2000), Zoolander (2001), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Meet the Fockers (2004), Night at the Museum (2006), and the sequel Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009).
Wilson has appeared in another Wes Anderson film, The Darjeeling Limited, which screened at the 45th annual New York Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival and opened September 30, 2007, co-starring Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody. Wilson next starred in the Judd Apatow comedy, Drillbit Taylor, released in March 2008. He acted in Kyle Gulutzan and Sean George Casey's production of Roundabout, scheduled for release December 2008. He most recently released a film adaptation of John Grogan's best-selling memoir, Marley & Me (2009), co-starring Jennifer Aniston.
Wilson's many collaborations on high-grossing comedy movies have led the media to consider him part of the Frat Pack, along with other comedy actors such as Vince Vaughn, Luke Wilson, Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell.
Owen also provided the voice for the Whackbat Coach Skip in Wes Anderson's version of Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Filmography
Year Film Role Notes
1996 Bottle Rocket Dignan Also Executive producer/Writer
Also appeared in the short of the same name
The Cable Guy Robin's date
1997 Anaconda Gary Dixon
1998 Permanent Midnight Nicky
Armageddon Oscar
1999 Heat Vision and Jack Heat Vision Voice Only
Television film
The Haunting Luke Sanderson
Breakfast of Champions Monte Rapid
The Minus Man Vann Siegert
2000 Meet the Parents Kevin Rawley
Shanghai Noon Roy O'Bannon
2001 Behind Enemy Lines Lt. Chris Burnett
The Royal Tenenbaums Eli Cash Also Executive producer/Writer
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Zoolander Hansel McDonald Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
2002 I Spy Alex Scott
2003 Shanghai Knights Roy O'Bannon Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
Yeah Right! Himself Cameo
2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Ned Plimpton Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
Meet the Fockers Kevin Rawley Cameo
Around the World in 80 Days Wilbur Wright Cameo
Starsky & Hutch Ken Hutchinson MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss
Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
The Big Bounce Jack Ryan
2005 The Wendell Baker Story Neil King
Wedding Crashers John Beckwith MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
2006 Night at the Museum Jedediah Smith Uncredited
You, Me and Dupree Randolph Dupree Also Producer
Cars Lightning McQueen Voice Only
2007 The Darjeeling Limited Francis Whitman
2008 Drillbit Taylor Drillbit Taylor
Marley & Me John Grogan
2009 Night at the Museum 2 Jedediah Smith
Fantastic Mr. Fox Coach Skip Voice Only
2010 Little Fockers Kevin Rawley
2011 Cars 2 Lightning McQueen Voice Only
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: danootaandme on 11/18/09 at 7:20 am
He's 41! He looks more like 25
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/18/09 at 7:49 am
The co-birthday of the day...Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor, comedian and writer.
Wilson's initial acting role was as "Dignan" in the Wes Anderson film Bottle Rocket. He also worked with Anderson as a creative collaborator on Anderson's next two directorial efforts, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Wilson did not appear as an actor in Rushmore, but he did make two "appearances": he and Anderson acknowledged on the Criterion Collection DVD audio commentary that Wilson appears as Rosemary Cross's dead husband, Edward Appleby. When Max Fischer visits Miss Cross in Appleby's boyhood bedroom, photographs of a young Owen Wilson are incorporated in the set for the scene. Wilson and Anderson can also be seen driving go-carts in the background during a shot of Max Fisher posing on his go-cart.
Wilson quickly landed roles in big-budget movies such as The Cable Guy, directed by Ben Stiller, an early admirer of Bottle Rocket. After minor appearances in action films like Anaconda, Armageddon and The Haunting, Wilson appeared in two dramatic roles: supporting actor in Permanent Midnight, which starred Stiller as a drug-addicted TV writer; and a role as a serial killer in The Minus Man. He also made a cameo in the Girl skateboarding video Yeah Right! in 2003.
Movie star
Wilson at the London premiere of You, Me and Dupree, 2006
Wilson got his big break with the 2000 comedy action hit Shanghai Noon, starring opposite Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan. The film grossed nearly US$100 million worldwide. His fame continued to rise after starring alongside Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell in the 2001 film Zoolander.
Gene Hackman took notice of Wilson's performance in Shanghai Noon and recommended Wilson to co-star in the 2001 action film Behind Enemy Lines. Also in 2001, Wilson and Anderson collaborated on their third film, The Royal Tenenbaums, which was a financial and critical success. The comedy featured an all-star cast, including Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Danny Glover, Seymour Cassel and brother Luke. Owen Wilson had a memorable supporting role in the film as Eli Cash, a drug-addled bon vivant who becomes a literary celebrity. It earned the writing team an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Wilson returned to the buddy comedy genre in 2002 with the action comedy I Spy, co-starring Eddie Murphy. This big-screen remake of the television series flopped at the box office. He then reunited with Chan to make Shanghai Knights (2003) and the movie remake of the television series Starsky & Hutch (2004). Due to his busy schedule as an actor and an ongoing sinus condition, Wilson was unavailable to collaborate on the script for Wes Anderson's fourth feature, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The 2004 film was ultimately co-written by filmmaker Noah Baumbach. However, Wilson did star in the film as Bill Murray's would-be son, Ned Plimpton—a role written specifically for Wilson.
Wilson partnered with Vince Vaughn in the 2005 Wedding Crashers which grossed over $200 million in the US alone. Also in 2005, Owen collaborated with his brothers by appearing in The Wendell Baker Story, written by brother Luke, directed by Luke and brother Andrew. In 2006, Wilson provided the voice of Lightning McQueen in the Disney/Pixar film Cars, starred in You, Me and Dupree with Kate Hudson, and appeared with Stiller in Night at the Museum as Jedidiah, the cowboy, an uncredited role.
Wilson has appeared in nine movies with Stiller (a long-time friend) to date: The Cable Guy (1996), Permanent Midnight (1998), Meet the Parents (2000), Zoolander (2001), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Meet the Fockers (2004), Night at the Museum (2006), and the sequel Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009).
Wilson has appeared in another Wes Anderson film, The Darjeeling Limited, which screened at the 45th annual New York Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival and opened September 30, 2007, co-starring Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody. Wilson next starred in the Judd Apatow comedy, Drillbit Taylor, released in March 2008. He acted in Kyle Gulutzan and Sean George Casey's production of Roundabout, scheduled for release December 2008. He most recently released a film adaptation of John Grogan's best-selling memoir, Marley & Me (2009), co-starring Jennifer Aniston.
Wilson's many collaborations on high-grossing comedy movies have led the media to consider him part of the Frat Pack, along with other comedy actors such as Vince Vaughn, Luke Wilson, Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell.
Owen also provided the voice for the Whackbat Coach Skip in Wes Anderson's version of Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Filmography
Year Film Role Notes
1996 Bottle Rocket Dignan Also Executive producer/Writer
Also appeared in the short of the same name
The Cable Guy Robin's date
1997 Anaconda Gary Dixon
1998 Permanent Midnight Nicky
Armageddon Oscar
1999 Heat Vision and Jack Heat Vision Voice Only
Television film
The Haunting Luke Sanderson
Breakfast of Champions Monte Rapid
The Minus Man Vann Siegert
2000 Meet the Parents Kevin Rawley
Shanghai Noon Roy O'Bannon
2001 Behind Enemy Lines Lt. Chris Burnett
The Royal Tenenbaums Eli Cash Also Executive producer/Writer
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Zoolander Hansel McDonald Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
2002 I Spy Alex Scott
2003 Shanghai Knights Roy O'Bannon Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
Yeah Right! Himself Cameo
2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Ned Plimpton Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
Meet the Fockers Kevin Rawley Cameo
Around the World in 80 Days Wilbur Wright Cameo
Starsky & Hutch Ken Hutchinson MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss
Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
The Big Bounce Jack Ryan
2005 The Wendell Baker Story Neil King
Wedding Crashers John Beckwith MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
2006 Night at the Museum Jedediah Smith Uncredited
You, Me and Dupree Randolph Dupree Also Producer
Cars Lightning McQueen Voice Only
2007 The Darjeeling Limited Francis Whitman
2008 Drillbit Taylor Drillbit Taylor
Marley & Me John Grogan
2009 Night at the Museum 2 Jedediah Smith
Fantastic Mr. Fox Coach Skip Voice Only
2010 Little Fockers Kevin Rawley
2011 Cars 2 Lightning McQueen Voice Only
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He's a good actor.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/18/09 at 9:15 am
He's 41! He looks more like 25
I know :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 1:11 pm
The word of the day...Valley
1. An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.
2. An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.
3. A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley, as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet.
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More piccys for wallpaper on the computer.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: nally on 11/18/09 at 1:15 pm
Like 400 hundred children and a crop in the field ;D
400 hundred children?!? That would be 40,000 altogether! :o :D ;D ;D
I was thinking more along the lines of "400 children..." and a crack in the field.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: nally on 11/18/09 at 1:16 pm
More piccys for wallpaper on the computer.
Of course!! I love scenic photos. Maybe I'll use one of those for my desktop when I get my own computer (whenever that is).
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 1:20 pm
400 hundred children?!? That would be 40,000 altogether! :o :D ;D ;D
I was thinking more along the lines of "400 children..." and a crack in the field.
Do we have a parody coming up?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 1:24 pm
400 hundred children?!? That would be 40,000 altogether! :o :D ;D ;D
I was thinking more along the lines of "400 children..." and a crack in the field.
Lucille as song by Kenny Rogers....
"In a bar in Toledo across from the depot
On a bar stool she took off her ring
I thought I'd get closer so I walked on over
I sat down and asked her name
When the drinks finally hit her
She said I'm no quitter
But I finally quit livin' on dreams
I'm hungry for laughter and here ever after
I'm after whatever the other life brings
In the mirror I saw him and I closely watched him
I thought how he looked out of place
He came to the woman who sat there beside me
He had a strange look on his face
The big hands were calloused
He looked like a mountain
For a minute I thought I was dead
But he started shaking, his big heart was breaking
He turned to the woman and said
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hungry children and a crop in the field
I've had some bad times lived through some sad times
But this time your hurting won't heal
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
After he left us I ordered more whiskey
I thought how she'd made him look small
From the lights of the bar room to a rented hotel room
We walked without talking at all
She was a beauty but when she came to me
She must have thought I'd lost my mind
I couldn't hold her 'cos the words that he told her
Kept coming back time after time
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hungry children and a crop in the field
I've had some bad times lived through some sad times
But this time your hurting won't heal
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille"
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: nally on 11/18/09 at 1:42 pm
Do we have a parody coming up?
Let me check...
On Amiright, there are already 12 parodies of that song.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 1:44 pm
Let me check...
On Amiright, there are already 12 parodies of that song.
Twelve already?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 1:46 pm
Let me check...
On Amiright, there are already 12 parodies of that song.
I like "Loose Wheel".
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: nally on 11/18/09 at 1:47 pm
Twelve already?
The first one was written sometime in 2001 or '02 (before commentary was enabled on parodies), and the most recent one was submitted in March of 2009. So it probably hasn't gotten parodied very often.
I like "Loose Wheel".
I just looked at that one (www.amiright.com/parody/70s/kennyrogers12.shtml). The "4 hungry children" line was parodied as "4 old bald tires". Funny stuff.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 1:49 pm
The first one was written sometime in 2001 or '02 (before commentary was enabled on parodies), and the most recent one was submitted in March of 2009. So it probably hasn't gotten parodied very often.
I just looked at that one (www.amiright.com/parody/70s/kennyrogers12.shtml). The "4 hungry children" line was parodied as "4 old bald tires". Funny stuff.
I am still trying to find that British parody of the song, done at the time when the record was in the charts.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:04 pm
I am still trying to find that British parody of the song, done at the time when the record was in the charts.
Still looking.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: nally on 11/18/09 at 2:07 pm
Still looking.
Do you remember any words to it? If so, you could try googling a small phrase of the lyrics, with "quotation marks."
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:10 pm
Do you remember any words to it? If so, you could try googling a small phrase of the lyrics, with "quotation marks."
True, it was by the Barron Knights, who were known for parodies of pop songs, and it could had been them who sung the four hundred children.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: nally on 11/18/09 at 2:12 pm
True, it was by the Barron Knights, who were known for parodies of pop songs, and it could had been them who sung the four hundred children.
Oh, so they possibly made a parody with the misheard line? Sometimes mishearing a song lyric can inspire a parody.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 11/18/09 at 4:04 pm
We have a series of Big Valley (with Linda Evans) on DVD. By the look of some of her pics she is one of those actresses who seem to think she needs collagen shots in her top lip! I have no idea why they do this...it really alters their face ....and not in a desirable way! :-\\
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/18/09 at 4:07 pm
Of course!! I love scenic photos. Maybe I'll use one of those for my desktop when I get my own computer (whenever that is).
I just did for mine,I enjoy her scenic photos. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/18/09 at 5:30 pm
We have a series of Big Valley (with Linda Evans) on DVD. By the look of some of her pics she is one of those actresses who seem to think she needs collagen shots in her top lip! I have no idea why they do this...it really alters their face ....and not in a desirable way! :-\\
i use to watch that show every week.I had the hots for Heath :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 11/18/09 at 5:31 pm
i use to watch that show every week.I had the hots for Heath :)
Now THERE'S a big surprize! .................NOT!!!!! ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/18/09 at 5:31 pm
400 hundred children?!? That would be 40,000 altogether! :o :D ;D ;D
I was thinking more along the lines of "400 children..." and a crack in the field.
He'd have to sell crack just to raise the kids :D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/18/09 at 5:32 pm
Now THERE'S a big surprize! .................NOT!!!!! ;D
Hey I could of said Jarrod or Nick
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/18/09 at 5:34 pm
Of course!! I love scenic photos. Maybe I'll use one of those for my desktop when I get my own computer (whenever that is).
Are you saving for one?...P.C. or Mac?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 11/18/09 at 7:19 pm
Hey I could of said Jarrod or Nick
Nope...it was ALWAYS Heath with the girls! ::)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: nally on 11/18/09 at 8:37 pm
I just did for mine,I enjoy her scenic photos. :)
Well, I don't have my own computer just yet, so I can't do it.
Are you saving for one?...P.C. or Mac?
When I get one, it'll be a P.C.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:38 am
Oh, so they possibly made a parody with the misheard line? Sometimes mishearing a song lyric can inspire a parody.
I will be asking colleagues at work now.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/19/09 at 5:29 am
The word of the day...Lane
1.
1. A narrow country road.
2. A narrow way or passage between walls, hedges, or fences.
2. A narrow passage, course, or track, especially:
1. A prescribed course for ships or aircraft.
2. A strip delineated on a street or highway to accommodate a single line of vehicles: a breakdown lane; an express lane.
3. Sports. One of a set of parallel courses marking the bounds for contestants in a race, especially in swimming or track.
4. Sports. A wood-surfaced passageway or alley along which a bowling ball is rolled.
5. Sports. An unmarked lengthwise area of a playing field or ice rink viewed as the main playing area for a particular position, such as a wing in soccer.
6. Basketball. The rectangular area marked on a court from the end line to the foul line.
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Written By: ninny on 11/19/09 at 5:33 am
The birthday of the day...Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962), is an American actor, film director and producer.
Foster began acting in commercials at 3 years old, and her first significant role came in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute, Iris, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a backwoods hermit in Nell (1994). Other popular films include Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007) and Nim's Island (2008).
Foster's films have spanned a wide variety of genres, from family films to horror. She has also won three Bafta Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a People's Choice Award, and has received two Emmy nominations.
Foster made nearly 50 film and television appearances before she attended college. She began her career at age three as a Coppertone Girl in a television commercial and debuted as a television actress in a 1968 episode of Mayberry R.F.D. In 1969, she appeared in an episode of Gunsmoke, where she was credited as "Jody Foster". Although not a regular on The Courtship of Eddie's Father, she appeared from time to time as Eddie's friend Joey Kelly. She made her film debut in the 1970 TV movie Menace on the Mountain and was featured as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone in 1976. As a child, Foster made a number of Disney movies, including Napoleon and Samantha (1972) and One Little Indian (1973), and continued to star in Disney films into her early teens. She also co-starred with Christopher Connelly in the 1974 TV series Paper Moon and alongside Martin Sheen in the 1976 cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. As a teenager, Foster made several appearances on the French pop music circuit as a singer. Commenting on her years as a child actress, which she describes as an "actor's career", Foster has said that "it was very clear to me at a young age that I had to fight for my life and that if I didn't, my life would get gobbled up and taken away from me." She hosted Saturday Night Live at age 14, making her the youngest person to host at that time until Drew Barrymore hosted at the age of seven. She also said,
"I think all of us when we look back on our childhood, we always think of it as somebody else. It's just a completely different place. But I was lucky to be around in the '70s and to really be making movies in the '70s with some great filmmakers – the most exciting time, for me, in American Cinema. I learned a lot from some very interesting artists — and I learned a lot about the business at a young age, because, for whatever reason, I was paying attention; so it was kind of invaluable in my career."
Foster was originally considered for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but was unable to pull out of her contract with Disney. She made her debut (and only official) musical recordings in France in 1977: two 7" singles, "Je T'attends Depuis la Nuit des Temps" b/w "La Vie C'est Chouette" and "When I Looked at Your Face" backed with "La Vie C'est Chouette." The A-side of the former is sung in French, the A-side of the latter in English. The B-side of both is mostly spoken word and is performed in both French and English. These three recordings were included on the soundtrack to Foster's 1977 French film Moi, fleur bleue.
Foster starred in three films in 1976 — Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone, and Freaky Friday. She was nominated for the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Taxi Driver. She won two British Academy Film Awards in 1977 — the BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performances in Bugsy Malone opposite Scott Baio and Taxi Driver opposite Robert De Niro. She received a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Freaky Friday. As a teenager, she also starred in the Disney adventure Candleshoe (1977) and the coming-of-age drama Foxes (1980).
Reagan assassination attempt
John Hinckley, Jr. became obsessed with Foster after watching Taxi Driver a number of times, and stalked her while she attended Yale, sending her love letters to her campus mail box and even talking to her on the phone. On March 30, 1981, he attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan (shooting and wounding Reagan and three others) and claimed his motive was to impress Foster, then a Yale freshman. The media stormed the Yale campus in April "like a cavalry invasion," and followed Foster relentlessly. In 1982, Foster was called to testify during his trial. After she responded to a question by saying that "I don't have any relationship with John Hinckley," Hinckley threw a pen at her and yelled "I'll get you, Foster!"
Another man, Edward Richardson, followed Foster around Yale and planned to shoot her, but decided against it because she "was too pretty." This all caused intense discomfort to Foster, who has been known to walk out of interviews if Hinckley's name is even mentioned. In 1991, Foster cancelled an interview with NBC's Today Show when she discovered Hinckley would be mentioned in the introduction. Foster's only public reactions to this were a press conference afterwards and an article entitled "Why Me?" that she wrote for Esquire in December 1982. In that article she wrote that returning to work on the film Svengali with Peter O'Toole "made me fall in love with acting again" after the assassination attempt had shaken her confidence. In 1999, she discussed the experience with Charlie Rose of 60 Minutes II.
Adult career
At the 61st Academy Awards Governor's Ball, March 29, 1989
Unlike other child stars such as Shirley Temple or Tatum O'Neal, Foster successfully made the transition to adult roles, but not without initial difficulty. Several of the films in her early adult career were financially unsuccessful, such as The Hotel New Hampshire, Five Corners, and Stealing Home. She had to audition for her role in The Accused. She won the part and the first of her two Golden Globes and Academy Awards and a nomination for a BAFTA Award as Best Actress for her role as a rape survivor. She starred as FBI trainee Clarice Starling in the 1991 horror film The Silence of the Lambs, for which she won her second Academy Award and Golden Globe, and won her first BAFTA Award for Best Actress. This "sleeper" film marked a breakthrough in her career, grossing nearly $273 million in theaters and becoming her first blockbuster.
Foster made her directorial debut in 1991 with Little Man Tate, a critically acclaimed drama about a child prodigy, in which she also co-starred as the child's mother. She also directed Home for the Holidays (1995), a black comedy starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr. In 1992, Foster founded a production company called Egg Pictures in Los Angeles. It primarily produced independent films until it was closed in 2001. Foster said that she did not have the ambition to produce "big mainstream popcorn" movies, and as a child, independent films made her more interested in the movie business than mainstream ones. Foster played Laurel Sommersby in Sommersby opposite Richard Gere, who would comment that "She's very much a close-up actress, because her thoughts are clear."
She starred in two films in 1994, first in the hugely successful western spoof Maverick and later in Nell, in which she starred as an isolated woman who speaks an invented language and must return to civilization. Foster's performance earned her nominations for her fourth Academy Award, a Golden Globe, an MTV Movie Award and won her a Screen Actors Guild Award and a People's Choice Award. In 1997, she starred alongside Matthew McConaughey in the sci-fi movie Contact, based on the novel by scientist Carl Sagan. She portrayed a scientist searching for extraterrestrial life in the SETI project. She commented on the script that "I have to have some acute personal connection with the material. And that's pretty hard for me to find." Contact was her first science fiction film, and her first experience with a bluescreen. She commented,
"Blue walls, blue roof. It was just blue, blue, blue. And I was rotated on a lazy Susan with the camera moving on a computerized arm. It was really tough."
The film was another huge commercial success and earned Foster nominations for numerous awards, including a Golden Globe. In 1998, an asteroid, 17744 Jodiefoster, was named in her honor. In 1999, Foster starred in the non-musical remake of The King and I entitled Anna and the King, which became an international commercial success.
In 2002, Foster took over the lead role in the thriller Panic Room after Nicole Kidman dropped out due to a previous injury. The film costarred Dwight Yoakam, Forest Whitaker, Kristen Stewart and Jared Leto and was directed by David Fincher. It grossed over $30 million in its opening weekend in the United States, Foster's biggest box office opening success of her career so far. She then performed in the French-language film Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) (2004), speaking French fluently throughout. Foster returned in the 2005 film Flightplan which opened once again in the top position at the U.S. box office and was a worldwide hit. Foster portrayed a woman whose daughter disappears on an airplane that her character, an engineer, had helped to design.
In 2006, she starred in Inside Man, a thriller directed by Spike Lee and co-starring Denzel Washington and Clive Owen, which again opened at the top of the U.S. box office and became another international hit. In 2007, she starred in The Brave One directed by Neil Jordan and co-starring Terrence Howard, another urban thriller that opened at #1 at the U.S. box office Foster's performance in the film would earn her a sixth Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination and another People's Choice nomination, for Favorite Female Action Star. Commenting on her latest roles, Foster has said that she enjoys appearing in mainstream genre films that have a "real heart to them".
In 2008, Foster starred in Nim's Island alongside Gerard Butler and Abigail Breslin, portraying a reclusive writer who is contacted by a young girl after her father goes missing at sea. The film was the first comedy that Foster has starred in since Maverick in 1994, and was also a commercial success.
Current projects
Foster was set to direct, as well as reunite with actor Robert De Niro, for the film Sugarland; however, the film was shelved indefinitely in 2007. Foster is developing a biopic of Leni Riefenstahl. She is set to star opposite and direct her Maverick co-star Mel Gibson in a black comedy entitled The Beaver.
Foster provided her voice in a tetralogy episode of The Simpsons entitled "Four Great Women and a Manicure".
Filmography
Actress
Year Film Role Notes
1968 Mayberry, R.F.D. bit parts in 2 episodes TV series
1970 Adam 12 Mary in Season 3 / Episode 6—Log 55 Missing Girl TV
1970 Menace on the Mountain Suellen McIver TV
1972 Kansas City Bomber Rita
Napoleon and Samantha Samantha
My Sister Hank Henrietta "Hank" Bennett TV
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan Anne Chan (voice) TV series
1973 Rookie of the Year Sharon Lee TV
Alexander, Alexander Sue TV
The Addams Family Pugsley (voice) TV series
Kung Fu Alethea Patricia Ingram TV series
Tom Sawyer Becky Thatcher
One Little Indian Martha McIver
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Audrey
Smile, Jenny, You're Dead Liberty Cole TV
Paper Moon Addie Loggins TV series
1975 The Secret Life of T.K. Dearing T.K. Dearing TV
1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Rynn Jacobs Saturn Award for Best Actress
Freaky Friday Annabel Andrews Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Bugsy Malone Tallulah BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role also for Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver Iris Steensma BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role also for Bugsy Malone
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Echoes of a Summer Deirdre Striden aka The Last Castle
1977 Candleshoe Casey Brown
Casotto Teresina Fedeli aka Beach House
Stop Calling Me Baby! (Moi, fleur bleue) Isabelle Tristan (aka Fleur bleue)
1980 Foxes Jeanie Nominated — Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Major Motion Picture
Carny Donna
1982 O'Hara's Wife Barbara O'Hara
1983 Svengali Zoe Alexander
1984 The Blood of Others (Le Sang des autres) Hélène Bertrand
The Hotel New Hampshire Frannie Berry
1986 Mesmerized Victoria Thompson
1987 Siesta Nancy
Five Corners Linda Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female
1988 The Accused Sarah Tobias Academy Award for Best Actress
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Tied with Sigourney Weaver for Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey and Shirley MacLaine for Madame Sousatzka
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Stealing Home Katie Chandler
1990 Catchfire Anne Benton aka Backtrack
1991 Little Man Tate Dede Tate
The Silence of the Lambs Clarice Starling Academy Award for Best Actress
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
1992 Shadows and Fog Prostitute
1993 Sommersby Laurel Sommersby
1994 Nell Nell Kellty David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Maverick Mrs. Annabelle Bransford
1997 Contact Dr. Eleanor Arroway Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
The X-Files Betty (voice) episode "Never Again"
1998 The Uttmost Herself Documentary
Psycho Woman in background
1999 Anna and the King Anna Leonowens
2002 Panic Room Meg Altman Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Sister Assumpta
Tusker Minnie animated voice over
2003 Abby Singer Herself
2004 A Very Long Engagement Elodie Gordes Un long dimanche de fiançailles
2005 Flightplan Kyle Pratt Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony herself guest appearance in episode 8
2006 Inside Man Madeline White
2007 The Brave One Erica Bain Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Irish Film Award for Best International Actress
2008 Nim's Island Alexandra Rover
2009 The Simpsons Maggie Simpson TV, animated voiceover
Producer
Year Title Notes
1986 Mesmerized co-producer
1994 Nell
1995 Home for the Holidays
1998 The Baby Dance (TV) executive producer
2000 Waking the Dead executive producer
2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
2007 The Brave One executive producer
Director
Year Title Notes
1988 Tales from the Darkside (1 episode, "Do Not Open This Box")
1991 Little Man Tate
1995 Home for the Holidays
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Written By: ninny on 11/19/09 at 5:39 am
The co-birthdays of the day...Meg Ryan
Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra (born November 19, 1961), professionally known as Meg Ryan, is an American film actress whose lead roles in five 1990s romantic comedies - When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, French Kiss, City of Angels and You've Got Mail - grossed over $870 million worldwide.
At age 18, through her mother's connections, Ryan booked her first television commercial, doing chin-ups and giggling to promote "Tickle" deodorant.
After a role in Rich and Famous, Ryan played "Betsy Stewart" in the daytime drama As the World Turns, from 1982 to 1984; she was featured in a popular romantic story arc. Several TV film and smaller movie roles followed, including Amityville 3-D and Promised Land; for her role in the latter she received her first Independent Spirit Award nomination.
In 1986, she played, "Carole Bradshaw," (wife of naval aviator "Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw"; played by Anthony Edwards) in Top Gun, and appeared in several scenes. Ryan played "Lydia Maxwell" in the movie Innerspace, which also starred her former husband, Dennis Quaid. Ryan then appeared in a film-noir remake (D.O.A.) and an action film (The Presidio).
Hit films
Her first full-blown hit in a leading role was the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally... (1989) which paired her with comedic leading man Billy Crystal. Her portrayal of Sally Albright, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination, is memorable for her depiction of a theatrically faked orgasm in Katz's Delicatessen in Manhattan.
Ryan then starred in The Doors and in Prelude to a Kiss. Both films were moderately successful. 1993 saw the release of the hugely successful romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle, which paired Ryan with leading man Tom Hanks for the second of three times. (The first was in Joe Versus the Volcano, which earned a "cult following" but was a critical and commercial disappointment.)
Meg Ryan in 2006.
She made several attempts to break away from the romantic comedy ingenue stereotype and garnered critical acclaim for her work in When a Man Loves a Woman, in which she played an alcoholic, and in Courage Under Fire, portraying a captain in the Gulf War. Both films were substantial successes at the box office. Many of her films of the 1990s were hits not only in North America, but also abroad. In 1994, Ryan won Harvard's Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year. That same year, People Magazine dubbed her one of "the 50 most beautiful people in the world." In 1995, critic Richard Corliss called her "the current soul of romantic comedy." That same year, she appeared opposite Kevin Kline in Lawrence Kasdan's French Kiss, a romantic comedy that catered to her America's Sweetheart persona. The film grossed slightly over $100 million.
In 1997, Ryan voiced the lead role in the animated film Anastasia, which garnered good reviews and enjoyed box office success. In 1998, Ryan starred in two films. City of Angels drew positive reviews and became a financial success, topping nearly $200 million worldwide. You've Got Mail once again paired Ryan with Hanks, earning her a third Golden Globe nomination and making over $250 million worldwide. She also appeared in 1998's Hurlyburly with Sean Penn.
In 2000, Ryan starred in the action thriller Proof of Life opposite Russell Crowe. Though the film was a critical and commercial flop, her $15 million paycheck established her as one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood.
That same year, Ryan starred opposite Diane Keaton in the comedy, Hanging Up, which received poor reviews, but grossed over $51 million. A year later, she once again returned to her romantic comedy roots in the film, Kate & Leopold. In 2003, she broke away from her usual roles, starring in Jane Campion's erotic crime thriller In the Cut. Though Ryan's decision to appear nude in a lengthy and rather graphic love scene for the first time in her career earned her much media attention, the movie failed with critics and grossed only $23 million in theaters. Ryan was quickly mentioned in Adam Sandler's 1995 movie Billy Madison. In the scene comedian Norm MacDonald asks Sandler "Who would you rather bone? Jack Nicholson or Meg Ryan?" Sandler says "Jack Nicholson now or 1974?" MacDonald says "74" Sandler then says "Meg Ryan".
Recent projects
Cheryl Hines and Ryan at the 2009 premiere of Serious Moonlight.
George Gallo's My Mom's New Boyfriend (originally titled Homeland Security, and released in Australia and New Zealand as My Spy) was shot in the fall of 2006, in Shreveport, Louisiana, and released in 2008. The romantic comedy stars Ryan opposite Antonio Banderas. Ryan was joined by former co-star Tom Hanks's son, Colin, who plays her son in the film. In 2007 she played the role of Sarah Hardwicke in In the Land of Women, co-starring Adam Brody and Kristen Stewart.
Ryan's next project was a remake of 1939's The Women and began filming in New York in August 2007. The $18 million remake of the George Cukor classic was directed by Murphy Brown creator Diane English and produced by the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger. Ryan played the central character, Mary Haines, a wealthy woman who is one of the last to find out that her husband is cheating on her with a shop girl. The leading role was originally made famous by actress Norma Shearer. Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing and Candice Bergen also starred in the remake.
Ryan appeared in The Deal, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The film was never distributed but was released on DVD in 2009.
Her most recent film project is the upcoming comedy Serious Moonlight which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009.
In June 2009, it was reported that Ryan will guest star on the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm
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* Ted Turner
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support UN causes, which created the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden support for the UN. Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors.
Turner's media empire began with his father's billboard business, which he took over at 24 after his father's suicide. The business, Turner Outdoor Advertising, was worth $1 million when Turner took it over in 1963. Purchase of an Atlanta UHF station in 1970 began the Turner Broadcasting System. Cable News Network revolutionized news media, covering the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 and the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Turner turned the Atlanta Braves baseball team into a nationally popular franchise and launched the charitable Goodwill Games.
Turner's penchant for controversial statements earned him the nickname "The Mouth of the South".
In addition to donations, Turner has devoted his assets to environmentalism and capitalism. He owns more land than any other American and uses much of it for ranches to re-popularize bison meat (for his Ted's Montana Grill chain), amassing the largest herd in the world. He also created the environmental animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Turner was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame on April 26, 2007.
fter leaving Brown University, Turner returned to the South in late 1960 to become general manager of the Macon, Georgia branch of his father's business. Following his father's March 1963 suicide, Turner became president and chief executive of Turner Advertising Company when he was 24 and turned the firm into a global enterprise. He joined the Young Republicans because "he felt at ease among these budding conservatives and was merely following in Ed Turner's far-right footsteps," according to "It Ain't As Easy As It Looks."
During the Vietnam War Era, Turner’s business, which “had virtual monopolies in Savannah, Macon, Columbus, and Charleston” and was “the largest outdoor advertising company in the Southeast,” according to "It Ain’t As Easy As It Looks", prospered. The book observed that Turner “discovered his father had sheltered a substantial amount of taxable income over the years by personally lending it back to the company” and “discovered that the billboard business could be a gold mine, a tax-depreciable revenue stream that threw off enormous amounts of cash with almost no capital investment.” In the late 1960s, Turner used the profits to buy Southern radio and TV stations.
In 1975, after the FCC allowed Turner’s WTCG-TV-Channel 17 in Atlanta to use a satellite on December 27, 1976 to broadcast old movies, situation comedy reruns, cartoons, and sport nationwide to cable-TV subscribers, WTCG-TV Super-Station (later WTBS) was reaching two million subscribers and Turner was worth $100 million. He bought a 5,000-acre (20 km2) plantation in Jacksonboro, South Carolina for $2 million.
As cable systems developed, many carried his stations to free their schedules. This increased his viewers and advertising. He bought the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks in 1976 partially to provide programming for WTBS. For most of his first decade as owner of the Braves, Turner was a very hands-on owner. In 1977, he sent manager Dave Bristol on a "scouting trip" so he could manage the team himself. However, he only ran the team for one game (a loss) before National League president Chub Feeney told him that managers are not allowed to own financial interest in their club. He said, "Managing isn't that difficult; you just have to score more runs than the other guy". However, in the mid-1980s Turner began leaving day-to-day operations in the hands of the baseball operations staff.
Turner made the Braves a household name even before their run of success in the 1990s and early 2000s. He used WTBS' superstation status to beam Braves games into nearly every home in North America. At one point, he suggested to pitcher Andy Messersmith who wore number 17, that he change his surname to "Channel" to promote the television station. However, that didn't last long, as Feeney ordered him to scrap the promotion.
Turner Field, first used for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium and then converted into a baseball-only facility for the Braves, is named after him.
Turner founded the Goodwill Games in 1986.
CNN
Turner created CNN in 1980. He said: "We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event... and when the end of the world comes, we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off."
After five years, CNN outgrew its home, a former country club on the outskirts of Midtown, Atlanta. Turner purchased the Omni International from developer Tom Cousins and moved CNN there. The complex was rechristened the CNN Center. As Omni International, the complex had never succeeded. Cousins sold it to Turner along with the Atlanta Hawks. CNN moved into the end of the tower that once housed The World of Sid and Marty Krofft. Turner was instrumental in the revival of Atlanta's downtown.
In 1984, Turner launched Cable Music Channel, competition to MTV. The channel was short-lived, but helped mold and launch the original but now changed format of VH1.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/19/09 at 6:50 am
The word of the day...Lane
1.
1. A narrow country road.
2. A narrow way or passage between walls, hedges, or fences.
2. A narrow passage, course, or track, especially:
1. A prescribed course for ships or aircraft.
2. A strip delineated on a street or highway to accommodate a single line of vehicles: a breakdown lane; an express lane.
3. Sports. One of a set of parallel courses marking the bounds for contestants in a race, especially in swimming or track.
4. Sports. A wood-surfaced passageway or alley along which a bowling ball is rolled.
5. Sports. An unmarked lengthwise area of a playing field or ice rink viewed as the main playing area for a particular position, such as a wing in soccer.
6. Basketball. The rectangular area marked on a court from the end line to the foul line.
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There's also Penny Lane.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/19/09 at 7:07 am
There's also Penny Lane.
The 3rd to the last pic is Penny Lane
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Written By: Womble on 11/19/09 at 8:21 am
Nice "Lane" photos, Ninny. Very scenic. Thanks for sharing. :)
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/19/09 at 12:57 pm
The birthday of the day...Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962), is an American actor, film director and producer.
Foster began acting in commercials at 3 years old, and her first significant role came in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute, Iris, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a backwoods hermit in Nell (1994). Other popular films include Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007) and Nim's Island (2008).
Foster's films have spanned a wide variety of genres, from family films to horror. She has also won three Bafta Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a People's Choice Award, and has received two Emmy nominations.
Foster made nearly 50 film and television appearances before she attended college. She began her career at age three as a Coppertone Girl in a television commercial and debuted as a television actress in a 1968 episode of Mayberry R.F.D. In 1969, she appeared in an episode of Gunsmoke, where she was credited as "Jody Foster". Although not a regular on The Courtship of Eddie's Father, she appeared from time to time as Eddie's friend Joey Kelly. She made her film debut in the 1970 TV movie Menace on the Mountain and was featured as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone in 1976. As a child, Foster made a number of Disney movies, including Napoleon and Samantha (1972) and One Little Indian (1973), and continued to star in Disney films into her early teens. She also co-starred with Christopher Connelly in the 1974 TV series Paper Moon and alongside Martin Sheen in the 1976 cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. As a teenager, Foster made several appearances on the French pop music circuit as a singer. Commenting on her years as a child actress, which she describes as an "actor's career", Foster has said that "it was very clear to me at a young age that I had to fight for my life and that if I didn't, my life would get gobbled up and taken away from me." She hosted Saturday Night Live at age 14, making her the youngest person to host at that time until Drew Barrymore hosted at the age of seven. She also said,
"I think all of us when we look back on our childhood, we always think of it as somebody else. It's just a completely different place. But I was lucky to be around in the '70s and to really be making movies in the '70s with some great filmmakers – the most exciting time, for me, in American Cinema. I learned a lot from some very interesting artists — and I learned a lot about the business at a young age, because, for whatever reason, I was paying attention; so it was kind of invaluable in my career."
Foster was originally considered for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but was unable to pull out of her contract with Disney. She made her debut (and only official) musical recordings in France in 1977: two 7" singles, "Je T'attends Depuis la Nuit des Temps" b/w "La Vie C'est Chouette" and "When I Looked at Your Face" backed with "La Vie C'est Chouette." The A-side of the former is sung in French, the A-side of the latter in English. The B-side of both is mostly spoken word and is performed in both French and English. These three recordings were included on the soundtrack to Foster's 1977 French film Moi, fleur bleue.
Foster starred in three films in 1976 — Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone, and Freaky Friday. She was nominated for the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Taxi Driver. She won two British Academy Film Awards in 1977 — the BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performances in Bugsy Malone opposite Scott Baio and Taxi Driver opposite Robert De Niro. She received a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Freaky Friday. As a teenager, she also starred in the Disney adventure Candleshoe (1977) and the coming-of-age drama Foxes (1980).
Reagan assassination attempt
John Hinckley, Jr. became obsessed with Foster after watching Taxi Driver a number of times, and stalked her while she attended Yale, sending her love letters to her campus mail box and even talking to her on the phone. On March 30, 1981, he attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan (shooting and wounding Reagan and three others) and claimed his motive was to impress Foster, then a Yale freshman. The media stormed the Yale campus in April "like a cavalry invasion," and followed Foster relentlessly. In 1982, Foster was called to testify during his trial. After she responded to a question by saying that "I don't have any relationship with John Hinckley," Hinckley threw a pen at her and yelled "I'll get you, Foster!"
Another man, Edward Richardson, followed Foster around Yale and planned to shoot her, but decided against it because she "was too pretty." This all caused intense discomfort to Foster, who has been known to walk out of interviews if Hinckley's name is even mentioned. In 1991, Foster cancelled an interview with NBC's Today Show when she discovered Hinckley would be mentioned in the introduction. Foster's only public reactions to this were a press conference afterwards and an article entitled "Why Me?" that she wrote for Esquire in December 1982. In that article she wrote that returning to work on the film Svengali with Peter O'Toole "made me fall in love with acting again" after the assassination attempt had shaken her confidence. In 1999, she discussed the experience with Charlie Rose of 60 Minutes II.
Adult career
At the 61st Academy Awards Governor's Ball, March 29, 1989
Unlike other child stars such as Shirley Temple or Tatum O'Neal, Foster successfully made the transition to adult roles, but not without initial difficulty. Several of the films in her early adult career were financially unsuccessful, such as The Hotel New Hampshire, Five Corners, and Stealing Home. She had to audition for her role in The Accused. She won the part and the first of her two Golden Globes and Academy Awards and a nomination for a BAFTA Award as Best Actress for her role as a rape survivor. She starred as FBI trainee Clarice Starling in the 1991 horror film The Silence of the Lambs, for which she won her second Academy Award and Golden Globe, and won her first BAFTA Award for Best Actress. This "sleeper" film marked a breakthrough in her career, grossing nearly $273 million in theaters and becoming her first blockbuster.
Foster made her directorial debut in 1991 with Little Man Tate, a critically acclaimed drama about a child prodigy, in which she also co-starred as the child's mother. She also directed Home for the Holidays (1995), a black comedy starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr. In 1992, Foster founded a production company called Egg Pictures in Los Angeles. It primarily produced independent films until it was closed in 2001. Foster said that she did not have the ambition to produce "big mainstream popcorn" movies, and as a child, independent films made her more interested in the movie business than mainstream ones. Foster played Laurel Sommersby in Sommersby opposite Richard Gere, who would comment that "She's very much a close-up actress, because her thoughts are clear."
She starred in two films in 1994, first in the hugely successful western spoof Maverick and later in Nell, in which she starred as an isolated woman who speaks an invented language and must return to civilization. Foster's performance earned her nominations for her fourth Academy Award, a Golden Globe, an MTV Movie Award and won her a Screen Actors Guild Award and a People's Choice Award. In 1997, she starred alongside Matthew McConaughey in the sci-fi movie Contact, based on the novel by scientist Carl Sagan. She portrayed a scientist searching for extraterrestrial life in the SETI project. She commented on the script that "I have to have some acute personal connection with the material. And that's pretty hard for me to find." Contact was her first science fiction film, and her first experience with a bluescreen. She commented,
"Blue walls, blue roof. It was just blue, blue, blue. And I was rotated on a lazy Susan with the camera moving on a computerized arm. It was really tough."
The film was another huge commercial success and earned Foster nominations for numerous awards, including a Golden Globe. In 1998, an asteroid, 17744 Jodiefoster, was named in her honor. In 1999, Foster starred in the non-musical remake of The King and I entitled Anna and the King, which became an international commercial success.
In 2002, Foster took over the lead role in the thriller Panic Room after Nicole Kidman dropped out due to a previous injury. The film costarred Dwight Yoakam, Forest Whitaker, Kristen Stewart and Jared Leto and was directed by David Fincher. It grossed over $30 million in its opening weekend in the United States, Foster's biggest box office opening success of her career so far. She then performed in the French-language film Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) (2004), speaking French fluently throughout. Foster returned in the 2005 film Flightplan which opened once again in the top position at the U.S. box office and was a worldwide hit. Foster portrayed a woman whose daughter disappears on an airplane that her character, an engineer, had helped to design.
In 2006, she starred in Inside Man, a thriller directed by Spike Lee and co-starring Denzel Washington and Clive Owen, which again opened at the top of the U.S. box office and became another international hit. In 2007, she starred in The Brave One directed by Neil Jordan and co-starring Terrence Howard, another urban thriller that opened at #1 at the U.S. box office Foster's performance in the film would earn her a sixth Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination and another People's Choice nomination, for Favorite Female Action Star. Commenting on her latest roles, Foster has said that she enjoys appearing in mainstream genre films that have a "real heart to them".
In 2008, Foster starred in Nim's Island alongside Gerard Butler and Abigail Breslin, portraying a reclusive writer who is contacted by a young girl after her father goes missing at sea. The film was the first comedy that Foster has starred in since Maverick in 1994, and was also a commercial success.
Current projects
Foster was set to direct, as well as reunite with actor Robert De Niro, for the film Sugarland; however, the film was shelved indefinitely in 2007. Foster is developing a biopic of Leni Riefenstahl. She is set to star opposite and direct her Maverick co-star Mel Gibson in a black comedy entitled The Beaver.
Foster provided her voice in a tetralogy episode of The Simpsons entitled "Four Great Women and a Manicure".
Filmography
Actress
Year Film Role Notes
1968 Mayberry, R.F.D. bit parts in 2 episodes TV series
1970 Adam 12 Mary in Season 3 / Episode 6—Log 55 Missing Girl TV
1970 Menace on the Mountain Suellen McIver TV
1972 Kansas City Bomber Rita
Napoleon and Samantha Samantha
My Sister Hank Henrietta "Hank" Bennett TV
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan Anne Chan (voice) TV series
1973 Rookie of the Year Sharon Lee TV
Alexander, Alexander Sue TV
The Addams Family Pugsley (voice) TV series
Kung Fu Alethea Patricia Ingram TV series
Tom Sawyer Becky Thatcher
One Little Indian Martha McIver
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Audrey
Smile, Jenny, You're Dead Liberty Cole TV
Paper Moon Addie Loggins TV series
1975 The Secret Life of T.K. Dearing T.K. Dearing TV
1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Rynn Jacobs Saturn Award for Best Actress
Freaky Friday Annabel Andrews Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Bugsy Malone Tallulah BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role also for Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver Iris Steensma BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role also for Bugsy Malone
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Echoes of a Summer Deirdre Striden aka The Last Castle
1977 Candleshoe Casey Brown
Casotto Teresina Fedeli aka Beach House
Stop Calling Me Baby! (Moi, fleur bleue) Isabelle Tristan (aka Fleur bleue)
1980 Foxes Jeanie Nominated — Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Major Motion Picture
Carny Donna
1982 O'Hara's Wife Barbara O'Hara
1983 Svengali Zoe Alexander
1984 The Blood of Others (Le Sang des autres) Hélène Bertrand
The Hotel New Hampshire Frannie Berry
1986 Mesmerized Victoria Thompson
1987 Siesta Nancy
Five Corners Linda Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female
1988 The Accused Sarah Tobias Academy Award for Best Actress
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Tied with Sigourney Weaver for Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey and Shirley MacLaine for Madame Sousatzka
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Stealing Home Katie Chandler
1990 Catchfire Anne Benton aka Backtrack
1991 Little Man Tate Dede Tate
The Silence of the Lambs Clarice Starling Academy Award for Best Actress
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
1992 Shadows and Fog Prostitute
1993 Sommersby Laurel Sommersby
1994 Nell Nell Kellty David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Maverick Mrs. Annabelle Bransford
1997 Contact Dr. Eleanor Arroway Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
The X-Files Betty (voice) episode "Never Again"
1998 The Uttmost Herself Documentary
Psycho Woman in background
1999 Anna and the King Anna Leonowens
2002 Panic Room Meg Altman Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Sister Assumpta
Tusker Minnie animated voice over
2003 Abby Singer Herself
2004 A Very Long Engagement Elodie Gordes Un long dimanche de fiançailles
2005 Flightplan Kyle Pratt Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony herself guest appearance in episode 8
2006 Inside Man Madeline White
2007 The Brave One Erica Bain Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Irish Film Award for Best International Actress
2008 Nim's Island Alexandra Rover
2009 The Simpsons Maggie Simpson TV, animated voiceover
Producer
Year Title Notes
1986 Mesmerized co-producer
1994 Nell
1995 Home for the Holidays
1998 The Baby Dance (TV) executive producer
2000 Waking the Dead executive producer
2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
2007 The Brave One executive producer
Director
Year Title Notes
1988 Tales from the Darkside (1 episode, "Do Not Open This Box")
1991 Little Man Tate
1995 Home for the Holidays
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I remember Napoleon and Samantha (with Johnny Whitaker who also was in just about everything-and Michael Douglas). I also remember the Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane-in fact, I saw that at the theatre. (Does that date me? :-\\ )
I thought she played Gloria Hickey on the Partridge Family but not according to the IMDB.
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/19/09 at 1:02 pm
Nice "Lane" photos, Ninny. Very scenic. Thanks for sharing. :)
I'm glad you like them :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 11/19/09 at 1:02 pm
I remember Napoleon and Samantha (with Johnny Whitaker who also was in just about everything-and Michael Douglas). I also remember the Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane-in fact, I saw that at the theatre. (Does that date me? :-\\ )
I thought she played Gloria Hickey on the Partridge Family but not according to the IMDB.
Cat
I think she also played a little girl in an episode of "The Courtship of Eddie's father", the one where he wanted to paint her...with no clothes on
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/19/09 at 1:14 pm
I remember Napoleon and Samantha (with Johnny Whitaker who also was in just about everything-and Michael Douglas). I also remember the Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane-in fact, I saw that at the theatre. (Does that date me? :-\\ )
I thought she played Gloria Hickey on the Partridge Family but not according to the IMDB.
Cat
from youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9niAG8Zymu0#
looks like Jodie to me.
IMDB says it Patti Cohoon, but I found this
Girl on the Balance Beam
Born: January 27, 1959
Birthplace: Whittier, CA
Contact Info: n/a
Current Projects: n/a
Other Webpages: Internet Movie Database
June 15th (1998) interview with Patti Cohoon
I was born in Whittier, California, January 27, 1959. The youngest of four girls: Terry, Judy, Susie and then ME. I understand my Mom was really hoping for a boy for a change, but my Dad was loving having a bunch of little girls running around who adored him.
As the story goes, since I started talking, I used to mimic every TV show, and especially commercials. None of the sisters seemed real interested in the TV, so finally, when I was nine-years-old, probably after driving everyone crazy, a friend of my Mom's, Meg, looked into how to get me started in television. Now, no one we knew was in the entertainment business so somewhere Meg found an advertisement for an actors organization called S.E.G (Screen Extras Guild--now not in existence) that said it was always looking for new talent.
My mom and Nana (Grandma) drove me from Orange County up to L.A. (about a fifty minute ride with no traffic) to meet with the guild, and they were so excited they got me a job immediately. On -- guess what -- the pilot episode of The Brady Bunch. I was Susan Olsen's stand-in. Well that was pretty fun, but not exactly what I had in mind. I wanted to be the one who had the lines when the camera started rolling. Fortunately the kids, and their mothers on The Brady Bunch set, were very nice and suggested that I meet with their agent Toni Kelman (four out of the six "Brady" kids were with her agency).
We met with Toni. I loved her, she loved me, my Mom loved us both and off we went. I did my first commercial in less than a month and booked the Here Comes the Brides series not long after.
I believe I was a pretty good little actress, but I think what helped me the most was that I was tiny, and very short for my age, so I could play much younger roles.
I've been trying to remember some interesting things about working on Emergency!, I know when I see the show again, I'll remember once more, what comes to mind right off was that I found it so ironic that I was hired to do this show (these were the days when I didn't have to audition for all parts on shows. I had done a lot of work by then and they were offered to me via my agent). About nine months before I did the show, I was practicing gymnastics with my High School team. I had qualified to go to the California State Championships for the balance beam and vault events and two days before the competition, I fell from the beam and broke my collar bone in three places. So here I am, doing a show where I fall off the balance beam. The Emergency! director loved the fact that I could do a lot of my own work on the beam. They did have a double on some of the stunts, not that I couldn't do them mind you, but they didn't want me to hurt myself and not finish the show. They did however, let me do the shot where I fall off the beam and look like I hit my head. I told them what I was best at, unfortunately, was falling off. They agreed and the shot was mine.
copyright 1997
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Series Regulars:
Here Comes the Brides
Glen Campbell Show
Apples Way
The Runaways
Movie of the Week
Death Takes a Holiday
The Hunted Lady
Variety Shows w/"The Mike Curb Congregation"
Sonny & Cher Show
Tony Bennett Special - Hawaii
Jose Feliciano Special - New York
1973 Grammy Awards Show
Michael LeGrande Special
1974 Academy Awards Show
Concerts w/MCC Group
Yahama Festival - Japan
Caesar's Palace - Las Vegas
(w/Sammy Davis Jr)
Caesar's Palace - Las Vegas
(w/Steve Lawrence and Edie Gourmet)
10 week tour with Liberace
Republican Convention - Miami
Presidential Inauguration Concerts
White House Concerts
Guest Star and Co-Star Roles:
Mayberry RFD
F.B.I.
Medical Center
Jackson 5 Special
Marcus Welby M.D.
Interns
Courtship of Eddie's Father
Night Gallery
The Girl with Something X-tra
Sigmond and the Sea Monsters
Gunsmoke (5 episodes)
Dirty Sally
Lucas Tanner
Live Option
P.J.& the President's Son
(ABC afterschool special w/Lance Kerwin)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(w/Jason Robards)
Faith for Today
Dr. Dan (pilot)
Cat Ballou (pilot)
"Kid Power" Cartoon Series
(sang songs in several episodes)
No mention of The Partridge Family.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/19/09 at 4:07 pm
I remember when Jodie Foster started out as a little girl in films.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: nally on 11/19/09 at 5:50 pm
Nice "Lane" photos, Ninny. Very scenic. Thanks for sharing. :)
ditto that ;)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/20/09 at 6:43 am
ditto that ;)
Thanks Jeff :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/20/09 at 6:54 am
The word of the day...Family
1.
1. A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.
2. Two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another, and reside usually in the same dwelling place.
2. All the members of a household under one roof.
3. A group of persons sharing common ancestry. See Usage Note at collective noun.
4. Lineage, especially distinguished lineage.
5. A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra.
6.
1. A group of like things; a class.
2. A group of individuals derived from a common stock: the family of human beings.
7. Biology. A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera.
8. Linguistics. A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family.
9. Mathematics. A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation.
10. Chemistry. A group of elements with similar chemical properties.
11. Chemistry. A vertical column in the periodic table of elements.
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Written By: ninny on 11/20/09 at 6:57 am
The birthday of the day...Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson (born November 20, 1932) is a British-born American actor, comedian, game show panelist, and host. He is best known for his role as Bob Crane's British non-commissioned officer, Corporal Peter Newkirk, on the World War II situation comedy Hogan's Heroes, and as the original host of the Family Feud game show from 1976–1985 on ABC and in syndication, and again in syndication from 1994 to 1995, replacing Ray Combs. Dawson also appeared as a panelist on the 1970s version of Match Game on CBS, from 1973–1978.
aving married British sex symbol Diana Dors, Dawson moved to Los Angeles, California, where he gained fame in the hit show Hogan's Heroes as Cpl. Peter Newkirk, opposite Bob Crane's lead character. The war-related sitcom was one of the highest-rated shows on television during its six-year run from 1965 to 1971. Earlier, in 1963, a svelte, dapper young Dawson had appeared in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show in the role of Brit entertainer "Racy Tracy" Rattigan. In 1965, Dawson had a small role at the end of the film King Rat, starring George Segal, playing a 1st recon paratrooper, Capt. Weaver, sent to free allied POW's in a Japanese camp.
Late 1960s and early 1970s
In 1967, Dawson released a psychedelic 45rpm single including the songs "His Children's Parade" and "Apples & Oranges" on Carnation Records. Dawson was also in the movie The Devil's Brigade, as Private Hugh McDonald, in 1968. Dawson and Dors eventually divorced, and he gained custody of both their children, Gary and Mark. Immediately following the cancellation of Heroes, Dawson performed as a regular on the popular NBC variety show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In from 1971 to 1973, and would also be a regular on The New Dick Van Dyke Show from 1973 to 1974. Dawson also appeared as a panelist on the 1972–73 syndicated revival of I've Got a Secret.
Mid-1970s to mid-1980s
After Laugh-In left the airwaves in 1973, game show pioneer Mark Goodson signed Dawson to appear as a regular on Match Game '73, alongside Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, and host Gene Rayburn. Dawson, who had already served a year as panelist for Goodson's revival of I've Got a Secret, proved to be a solid and funny gameplayer and was the frequent choice of contestants for the "Head-To-Head Match" portion of the show's "Super-Match" bonus round, in which, after winning prize money in the "Audience Match" portion, the contestant and Dawson (or any celebrity the contestant chose) had to obtain an exact match to the requested fill-in-the-blank prompt. In a classic episode of Match Game '77, he and fellow panelist Debralee Scott revolted when their answer "Finishing School" did not match the answer "school" in the judges's minds; thus sparking the "School Riot." On the show Dawson would sit in the lower middle seat, directly below fellow regular Somers.
Dawson hosted a one-season syndicated revival of Masquerade Party in 1974; the program featured regular panelists Bill Bixby, Lee Meriwether, and Nipsey Russell. Produced by Stefan Hatos and Monty Hall (of Let's Make a Deal fame), the program was not popular enough to warrant a second season.
Richard Dawson (host) and contestants from the 1976-1985 original version of Family Feud, his greatest professional success
Match Game (1975) and Family Feud (1976)
In 1975, during his tenure as one of Match Game's regular panelists, Dawson was hired by Mark Goodson to host an upcoming project titled Family Feud, which debuted on July 12, 1976, on ABC's daytime schedule. Unlike his flop with Masquerade Party, Family Feud became a breakout hit (particularly the syndicated nighttime version), eventually surpassing the ratings of Match Game in late 1977. In 1978 he left Match Game and won a Daytime Emmy Award for Best Game Show Host for his work on Family Feud. One of his trademarks, kissing all the female contestants, was one of the things that made the show appear to be a warm and friendly program. He was nicknamed The Kissing Bandit. However, Dawson was actually not averse to insulting contestants or sparking controversy, a fact which tended to escape references to the program. During 1983, Dawson made an appearance on Mama's Family as himself hosting an episode of Family Feud where the Harpers come in for a visit. After Dawson became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1984, he showed his passport and photo during the introduction of an episode of Family Feud. He continued hosting the Feud until both editions were canceled, the ABC edition on Flag Day, 1985, and the syndicated edition on September 13, 1985.
Mid-1980s – present career
Dawson parodied his TV persona in 1987 by co-starring in the action movie The Running Man, in which he acted out the evil, egotistical, dark-sided game-show host Damon Killian. Of Dawson's performance, film critic Roger Ebert wrote, "Playing a character who always seems three-quarters drunk, Dawson chain-smokes his way through backstage planning sessions and then pops up in front of the cameras as a cauldron of false jollity. Working the audience, milking the laughs and the tears, he is not really much different than most genuine game show hosts--and that's the movie's private joke."
Dawson hosted an unsold pilot for a revival of the classic game show You Bet Your Life that was to air on NBC in 1988, but the network declined to pick up the show, which would eventually have two failed renditions with hosts Buddy Hackett and Bill Cosby. On September 12, 1994, Dawson, returned to the syndicated edition of Family Feud, replacing Ray Combs for what became the final season of the show's official second run (1988–1995). On Dawson's first show back, he received a 25 second standing ovation when he walked out. Afterwards, he said "If you do too much of that, I won't be able to do a show for you because I'll cry." The final episode aired on May 26, 1995. He was considered for the current version of Family Feud, but elected to retire instead of accepting the offer to host.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/20/09 at 6:59 am
The co-birthday of the day...Estelle Parsons
Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927) is an American theatre, film and television actress, and occasional theatrical director.
After studying law, Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting. She worked for the television program Today and made her stage debut in 1961. During the 1960s, Parsons established her career on Broadway before progressing to film. She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and was also nominated for her work in Rachel, Rachel (1968).
Parsons worked extensively in film and theatre during the 1970s and later directed several Broadway productions. More recently her television work includes a role in the award-winning sitcom Roseanne. Nominated on four occasions for a Tony Award, in 2004 Parsons was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Moving to New York City, she worked as a writer, producer and commentator for The Today Show. She began performing Off-Broadway in 1961, and received a Theatre World Award in 1963 for her performance in Whisper into My Good Ear/Mrs. Dally Has a Lover (1962).
Parsons has received Tony Award nominations for her work in The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968), And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (1971), Miss Margarida's Way (1978), and Morning's at Seven (2002). She played the Widow Begbick in the American premiere of the Weill – Brecht opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1970), and performed as Mrs. Peacham to Lotte Lenya's Jenny in Threepenny Opera on tour and in New York City. She also played "Ruth" in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway in 1981. From June 17, 2008, through May 17, 2009, she played the role of "Violet Weston" in August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. She will continue playing the role during the show's national tour beginning July 24, 2009, in Denver.
As a director, Parsons has a number of Broadway credits, including a production of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and As You Like It in 1986. Off-Broadway, she directed Dario Fo's Orgasmo Adulto Escapes From the Zoo (1983). She also served as the Artistic Director of the Actors Studio for five years, ending in 2003.
Her film career includes an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and a nomination for Rachel, Rachel (1968). She also received a BAFTA Award nomination for her role in Watermelon Man (1970), and appeared in I Never Sang for My Father (1971), Two People (1973), A Memory of Two Mondays (1974), For Pete's Sake (1975), Dick Tracy (1990) and Boys on the Side (1995). She was also the original choice to play the part of Pamela Voorhees in the 1980 film Friday the 13th; the part later went to Betsy Palmer.
On television, Parsons played the part of Roseanne and Jackie's pretentious mother, Beverly, on the 1988-1997 sitcom Roseanne. Her other television credits include appearances in The Patty Duke Show, Frasier, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, All In The Family, Archie Bunker's Place, Open Admissions, the TV-movie The UFO Incident: The Story of Betty and Barney Hill (opposite James Earl Jones), and the PBS production of June Moon. In 1957 Parson's played opposite Phil Silvers on The Phil Silvers Show, Episode 76 - Bilko's Double Life.
In 2004, Parsons was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/20/09 at 7:54 am
The word of the day...Family
1.
1. A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.
2. Two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another, and reside usually in the same dwelling place.
2. All the members of a household under one roof.
3. A group of persons sharing common ancestry. See Usage Note at collective noun.
4. Lineage, especially distinguished lineage.
5. A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra.
6.
1. A group of like things; a class.
2. A group of individuals derived from a common stock: the family of human beings.
7. Biology. A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera.
8. Linguistics. A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family.
9. Mathematics. A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation.
10. Chemistry. A group of elements with similar chemical properties.
11. Chemistry. A vertical column in the periodic table of elements.
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We Are Family,I got my sisters and me.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/20/09 at 9:48 am
We Are Family,I got my sisters and me.
Sister Sledge
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 11/20/09 at 1:06 pm
Richard Dawson was funny as Newkirk and in those Match game shows. Watching reruns of both still makes me laugh.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/20/09 at 1:17 pm
Richard Dawson was funny as Newkirk and in those Match game shows. Watching reruns of both still makes me laugh.
I always liked him :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 2:59 pm
The word of the day...Lane
1.
1. A narrow country road.
2. A narrow way or passage between walls, hedges, or fences.
2. A narrow passage, course, or track, especially:
1. A prescribed course for ships or aircraft.
2. A strip delineated on a street or highway to accommodate a single line of vehicles: a breakdown lane; an express lane.
3. Sports. One of a set of parallel courses marking the bounds for contestants in a race, especially in swimming or track.
4. Sports. A wood-surfaced passageway or alley along which a bowling ball is rolled.
5. Sports. An unmarked lengthwise area of a playing field or ice rink viewed as the main playing area for a particular position, such as a wing in soccer.
6. Basketball. The rectangular area marked on a court from the end line to the foul line.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 3:02 pm
The word of the day...Lane
1.
1. A narrow country road.
2. A narrow way or passage between walls, hedges, or fences.
2. A narrow passage, course, or track, especially:
1. A prescribed course for ships or aircraft.
2. A strip delineated on a street or highway to accommodate a single line of vehicles: a breakdown lane; an express lane.
3. Sports. One of a set of parallel courses marking the bounds for contestants in a race, especially in swimming or track.
4. Sports. A wood-surfaced passageway or alley along which a bowling ball is rolled.
5. Sports. An unmarked lengthwise area of a playing field or ice rink viewed as the main playing area for a particular position, such as a wing in soccer.
6. Basketball. The rectangular area marked on a court from the end line to the foul line.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt93ozVf6DE ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 3:06 pm
The birthday of the day...Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962), is an American actor, film director and producer.
Foster began acting in commercials at 3 years old, and her first significant role came in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute, Iris, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a backwoods hermit in Nell (1994). Other popular films include Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007) and Nim's Island (2008).
Foster's films have spanned a wide variety of genres, from family films to horror. She has also won three Bafta Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a People's Choice Award, and has received two Emmy nominations.
Foster made nearly 50 film and television appearances before she attended college. She began her career at age three as a Coppertone Girl in a television commercial and debuted as a television actress in a 1968 episode of Mayberry R.F.D. In 1969, she appeared in an episode of Gunsmoke, where she was credited as "Jody Foster". Although not a regular on The Courtship of Eddie's Father, she appeared from time to time as Eddie's friend Joey Kelly. She made her film debut in the 1970 TV movie Menace on the Mountain and was featured as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone in 1976. As a child, Foster made a number of Disney movies, including Napoleon and Samantha (1972) and One Little Indian (1973), and continued to star in Disney films into her early teens. She also co-starred with Christopher Connelly in the 1974 TV series Paper Moon and alongside Martin Sheen in the 1976 cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. As a teenager, Foster made several appearances on the French pop music circuit as a singer. Commenting on her years as a child actress, which she describes as an "actor's career", Foster has said that "it was very clear to me at a young age that I had to fight for my life and that if I didn't, my life would get gobbled up and taken away from me." She hosted Saturday Night Live at age 14, making her the youngest person to host at that time until Drew Barrymore hosted at the age of seven. She also said,
"I think all of us when we look back on our childhood, we always think of it as somebody else. It's just a completely different place. But I was lucky to be around in the '70s and to really be making movies in the '70s with some great filmmakers – the most exciting time, for me, in American Cinema. I learned a lot from some very interesting artists — and I learned a lot about the business at a young age, because, for whatever reason, I was paying attention; so it was kind of invaluable in my career."
Foster was originally considered for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but was unable to pull out of her contract with Disney. She made her debut (and only official) musical recordings in France in 1977: two 7" singles, "Je T'attends Depuis la Nuit des Temps" b/w "La Vie C'est Chouette" and "When I Looked at Your Face" backed with "La Vie C'est Chouette." The A-side of the former is sung in French, the A-side of the latter in English. The B-side of both is mostly spoken word and is performed in both French and English. These three recordings were included on the soundtrack to Foster's 1977 French film Moi, fleur bleue.
Foster starred in three films in 1976 — Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone, and Freaky Friday. She was nominated for the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Taxi Driver. She won two British Academy Film Awards in 1977 — the BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performances in Bugsy Malone opposite Scott Baio and Taxi Driver opposite Robert De Niro. She received a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Freaky Friday. As a teenager, she also starred in the Disney adventure Candleshoe (1977) and the coming-of-age drama Foxes (1980).
Reagan assassination attempt
John Hinckley, Jr. became obsessed with Foster after watching Taxi Driver a number of times, and stalked her while she attended Yale, sending her love letters to her campus mail box and even talking to her on the phone. On March 30, 1981, he attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan (shooting and wounding Reagan and three others) and claimed his motive was to impress Foster, then a Yale freshman. The media stormed the Yale campus in April "like a cavalry invasion," and followed Foster relentlessly. In 1982, Foster was called to testify during his trial. After she responded to a question by saying that "I don't have any relationship with John Hinckley," Hinckley threw a pen at her and yelled "I'll get you, Foster!"
Another man, Edward Richardson, followed Foster around Yale and planned to shoot her, but decided against it because she "was too pretty." This all caused intense discomfort to Foster, who has been known to walk out of interviews if Hinckley's name is even mentioned. In 1991, Foster cancelled an interview with NBC's Today Show when she discovered Hinckley would be mentioned in the introduction. Foster's only public reactions to this were a press conference afterwards and an article entitled "Why Me?" that she wrote for Esquire in December 1982. In that article she wrote that returning to work on the film Svengali with Peter O'Toole "made me fall in love with acting again" after the assassination attempt had shaken her confidence. In 1999, she discussed the experience with Charlie Rose of 60 Minutes II.
Adult career
At the 61st Academy Awards Governor's Ball, March 29, 1989
Unlike other child stars such as Shirley Temple or Tatum O'Neal, Foster successfully made the transition to adult roles, but not without initial difficulty. Several of the films in her early adult career were financially unsuccessful, such as The Hotel New Hampshire, Five Corners, and Stealing Home. She had to audition for her role in The Accused. She won the part and the first of her two Golden Globes and Academy Awards and a nomination for a BAFTA Award as Best Actress for her role as a rape survivor. She starred as FBI trainee Clarice Starling in the 1991 horror film The Silence of the Lambs, for which she won her second Academy Award and Golden Globe, and won her first BAFTA Award for Best Actress. This "sleeper" film marked a breakthrough in her career, grossing nearly $273 million in theaters and becoming her first blockbuster.
Foster made her directorial debut in 1991 with Little Man Tate, a critically acclaimed drama about a child prodigy, in which she also co-starred as the child's mother. She also directed Home for the Holidays (1995), a black comedy starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr. In 1992, Foster founded a production company called Egg Pictures in Los Angeles. It primarily produced independent films until it was closed in 2001. Foster said that she did not have the ambition to produce "big mainstream popcorn" movies, and as a child, independent films made her more interested in the movie business than mainstream ones. Foster played Laurel Sommersby in Sommersby opposite Richard Gere, who would comment that "She's very much a close-up actress, because her thoughts are clear."
She starred in two films in 1994, first in the hugely successful western spoof Maverick and later in Nell, in which she starred as an isolated woman who speaks an invented language and must return to civilization. Foster's performance earned her nominations for her fourth Academy Award, a Golden Globe, an MTV Movie Award and won her a Screen Actors Guild Award and a People's Choice Award. In 1997, she starred alongside Matthew McConaughey in the sci-fi movie Contact, based on the novel by scientist Carl Sagan. She portrayed a scientist searching for extraterrestrial life in the SETI project. She commented on the script that "I have to have some acute personal connection with the material. And that's pretty hard for me to find." Contact was her first science fiction film, and her first experience with a bluescreen. She commented,
"Blue walls, blue roof. It was just blue, blue, blue. And I was rotated on a lazy Susan with the camera moving on a computerized arm. It was really tough."
The film was another huge commercial success and earned Foster nominations for numerous awards, including a Golden Globe. In 1998, an asteroid, 17744 Jodiefoster, was named in her honor. In 1999, Foster starred in the non-musical remake of The King and I entitled Anna and the King, which became an international commercial success.
In 2002, Foster took over the lead role in the thriller Panic Room after Nicole Kidman dropped out due to a previous injury. The film costarred Dwight Yoakam, Forest Whitaker, Kristen Stewart and Jared Leto and was directed by David Fincher. It grossed over $30 million in its opening weekend in the United States, Foster's biggest box office opening success of her career so far. She then performed in the French-language film Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) (2004), speaking French fluently throughout. Foster returned in the 2005 film Flightplan which opened once again in the top position at the U.S. box office and was a worldwide hit. Foster portrayed a woman whose daughter disappears on an airplane that her character, an engineer, had helped to design.
In 2006, she starred in Inside Man, a thriller directed by Spike Lee and co-starring Denzel Washington and Clive Owen, which again opened at the top of the U.S. box office and became another international hit. In 2007, she starred in The Brave One directed by Neil Jordan and co-starring Terrence Howard, another urban thriller that opened at #1 at the U.S. box office Foster's performance in the film would earn her a sixth Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination and another People's Choice nomination, for Favorite Female Action Star. Commenting on her latest roles, Foster has said that she enjoys appearing in mainstream genre films that have a "real heart to them".
In 2008, Foster starred in Nim's Island alongside Gerard Butler and Abigail Breslin, portraying a reclusive writer who is contacted by a young girl after her father goes missing at sea. The film was the first comedy that Foster has starred in since Maverick in 1994, and was also a commercial success.
Current projects
Foster was set to direct, as well as reunite with actor Robert De Niro, for the film Sugarland; however, the film was shelved indefinitely in 2007. Foster is developing a biopic of Leni Riefenstahl. She is set to star opposite and direct her Maverick co-star Mel Gibson in a black comedy entitled The Beaver.
Foster provided her voice in a tetralogy episode of The Simpsons entitled "Four Great Women and a Manicure".
Filmography
Actress
Year Film Role Notes
1968 Mayberry, R.F.D. bit parts in 2 episodes TV series
1970 Adam 12 Mary in Season 3 / Episode 6—Log 55 Missing Girl TV
1970 Menace on the Mountain Suellen McIver TV
1972 Kansas City Bomber Rita
Napoleon and Samantha Samantha
My Sister Hank Henrietta "Hank" Bennett TV
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan Anne Chan (voice) TV series
1973 Rookie of the Year Sharon Lee TV
Alexander, Alexander Sue TV
The Addams Family Pugsley (voice) TV series
Kung Fu Alethea Patricia Ingram TV series
Tom Sawyer Becky Thatcher
One Little Indian Martha McIver
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Audrey
Smile, Jenny, You're Dead Liberty Cole TV
Paper Moon Addie Loggins TV series
1975 The Secret Life of T.K. Dearing T.K. Dearing TV
1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Rynn Jacobs Saturn Award for Best Actress
Freaky Friday Annabel Andrews Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Bugsy Malone Tallulah BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role also for Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver Iris Steensma BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role also for Bugsy Malone
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Echoes of a Summer Deirdre Striden aka The Last Castle
1977 Candleshoe Casey Brown
Casotto Teresina Fedeli aka Beach House
Stop Calling Me Baby! (Moi, fleur bleue) Isabelle Tristan (aka Fleur bleue)
1980 Foxes Jeanie Nominated — Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Major Motion Picture
Carny Donna
1982 O'Hara's Wife Barbara O'Hara
1983 Svengali Zoe Alexander
1984 The Blood of Others (Le Sang des autres) Hélène Bertrand
The Hotel New Hampshire Frannie Berry
1986 Mesmerized Victoria Thompson
1987 Siesta Nancy
Five Corners Linda Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female
1988 The Accused Sarah Tobias Academy Award for Best Actress
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Tied with Sigourney Weaver for Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey and Shirley MacLaine for Madame Sousatzka
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Stealing Home Katie Chandler
1990 Catchfire Anne Benton aka Backtrack
1991 Little Man Tate Dede Tate
The Silence of the Lambs Clarice Starling Academy Award for Best Actress
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
1992 Shadows and Fog Prostitute
1993 Sommersby Laurel Sommersby
1994 Nell Nell Kellty David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Maverick Mrs. Annabelle Bransford
1997 Contact Dr. Eleanor Arroway Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
The X-Files Betty (voice) episode "Never Again"
1998 The Uttmost Herself Documentary
Psycho Woman in background
1999 Anna and the King Anna Leonowens
2002 Panic Room Meg Altman Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Sister Assumpta
Tusker Minnie animated voice over
2003 Abby Singer Herself
2004 A Very Long Engagement Elodie Gordes Un long dimanche de fiançailles
2005 Flightplan Kyle Pratt Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony herself guest appearance in episode 8
2006 Inside Man Madeline White
2007 The Brave One Erica Bain Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Irish Film Award for Best International Actress
2008 Nim's Island Alexandra Rover
2009 The Simpsons Maggie Simpson TV, animated voiceover
Producer
Year Title Notes
1986 Mesmerized co-producer
1994 Nell
1995 Home for the Holidays
1998 The Baby Dance (TV) executive producer
2000 Waking the Dead executive producer
2002 The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
2007 The Brave One executive producer
Director
Year Title Notes
1988 Tales from the Darkside (1 episode, "Do Not Open This Box")
1991 Little Man Tate
1995 Home for the Holidays
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 3:08 pm
The 3rd to the last pic is Penny Lane
It's in heart!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 3:12 pm
The word of the day...Family
1.
1. A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.
2. Two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another, and reside usually in the same dwelling place.
2. All the members of a household under one roof.
3. A group of persons sharing common ancestry. See Usage Note at collective noun.
4. Lineage, especially distinguished lineage.
5. A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra.
6.
1. A group of like things; a class.
2. A group of individuals derived from a common stock: the family of human beings.
7. Biology. A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera.
8. Linguistics. A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family.
9. Mathematics. A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation.
10. Chemistry. A group of elements with similar chemical properties.
11. Chemistry. A vertical column in the periodic table of elements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSDh94eQTAk
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/20/09 at 3:28 pm
Sister Sledge had a number of hits.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 3:29 pm
Sister Sledge had a number of hits.
Frankie reached #1 over here.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 3:30 pm
Sister Sledge had a number of hits.
We Are Family only reached #8 over here.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/20/09 at 3:30 pm
Frankie reached #1 over here.
I'm talking hits from 1979-1984
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/20/09 at 4:23 pm
Frankie reached #1 over here.
I don't even know that song.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 4:25 pm
I don't even know that song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPCQHR0kuy4
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 4:26 pm
I don't even know that song.
A much better version, the actual single....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pFO1Y-ikiE
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/20/09 at 4:53 pm
A much better version, the actual single....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pFO1Y-ikiE
It's ok.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 4:54 pm
It's ok.
It has a good steady beat to it, which makes it a catchy song.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 5:38 am
Yesterday, last year.
The word or phrase of the day...Disco lights
I really don't see any definition,so basically lights at a disco
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 7:24 am
Yesterday, last year.
WOW, really cool. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 7:29 am
The word of the day...cactus
# Any of various succulent, spiny, usually leafless plants native mostly to arid regions of the New World, having variously colored, often showy flowers with numerous stamens and petals.
# Any of several similar plants
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 7:33 am
The birthday of the day...Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jean Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, film director and producer, whose career has spanned nearly four decades. Hawn is perhaps best known for her roles in Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Wildcats, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and The Banger Sisters. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1969 film Cactus Flower. She is also the mother of actors Oliver Hudson and Kate Hudson. Hawn has maintained a relationship with her long-time boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell since 1983.
Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967-1968 television season, her role being that of the girlfriend of a radio disc jockey, with a stereotypical "dumb blonde" personality. Her next role, which brought her to international attention, was as one of the regular cast members on the 1960s sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. On the show, she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, and deliver a polished performance a moment after. Noted equally for her chipper attitude as for her bikini and painted body, Hawn personified something of a 1960s "It" girl.
Hawn's Laugh-In persona was parlayed into three popular film appearances in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Cactus Flower, There's a Girl in My Soup and Butterflies Are Free. Hawn had made her feature film debut in a bit role as a giggling dancer in the 1968 film The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, in which she was billed as "Goldie Jeanne", but in her first supporting role, in Cactus Flower (1969), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1970s
After Hawn's Academy Award win, her film career took off. She starred in a string of above average and successful comedies starting with There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), $ (1971), Butterflies Are Free (1972) and Shampoo (1975) as well as proving herself in the dramatic league with the satirical dramas The Girl from Petrovka and The Sugarland Express both in 1974. She also hosted two television specials: Pure Goldie in 1971 and The Goldie Hawn Special in 1978. The latter was a sort of comeback for Hawn, who had been out of the spotlight for two years since the 1976 release of The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, while she was focusing on her marriage and the birth of her son. On the special she performed show tunes and comedy bits alongside comic legend George Burns, teen matinee idol Shaun Cassidy, popular television star John Ritter (during his days on Three's Company) and even the Harlem Globetrotters joined her for a montage. The special later went on to be nominated for a prime-time Emmy. This came four months before the feature film release of Foul Play (with Chevy Chase), which became a box office smash and revived Hawn's career in the film industry. The plot centered around an innocent woman in San Francisco who becomes mixed up in a murder plot. Hawn's next film, Mario Monicelli's Lovers and Liars (1979), was a box office bomb. In 1972 Hawn recorded and released a solo country LP for Warner Brothers, titled Goldie. It was recorded with the help of Dolly Parton and Buck Owens. Allmusic gives the album a favorable review, calling it a "sweetly endearing country-tinged middle of the road pop record".
1980s
Hawn's popularity continued into the 1980s, starting with Private Benjamin (1980), a comedy which not only starred Hawn but was also her foray into producing. Private Benjamin, which also starred Eileen Brennan and Armand Assante, garnered Hawn her second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress. Hawn's box office success continued with an assortment of pictures, including comedies like Seems Like Old Times (1980), Protocol (1984) and Wildcats (1986) (Hawn also served as executive producer on the latter two) and dramas like Best Friends (1982) and Swing Shift (1984).
At the age of thirty-nine, Hawn posed for the cover of Playboy's January 1985 issue, which went on to be one of their highest selling issues. Hawn posed in a giant martini glass wearing nothing but a white collar shirt, a loosened black tie, and a pair of red stilettos. The headline read: "A SPARKLING PLAYBOY INTERVIEW WITH GOLDIE HAWN". Her last film of the 1980s was opposite partner Kurt Russell (for the third time) in the 1987 comedy Overboard, a critical and box office disappointment which questioned the likability and bankability of the two paired together onscreen.
1990s
Hawn's career slowed down after 1987, but was revived somewhat in 1990 with the action comedy Bird on a Wire, a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with action favorite Mel Gibson. Hawn had mixed success in the early 1990s, with the thriller Deceived (1991) and the drama CrissCross (1992). But her role opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in 1992's film Death Becomes Her garnered her much attention. Earlier that year, she starred in HouseSitter (1992), a screwball comedy with Steve Martin, which was a commercial and critical success. Hawn was absent from the screen again for four years, while caring for her mother who died of cancer in 1994. Hawn made her entry back into the film business with producing the satirical comedy Something to Talk About starring Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid, as well as making her foray into directing with the television film Hope (1997) starring Christine Lahti and Jena Malone.
Hawn returned to the screen again in 1996 as the aging, alcoholic actress Elise Elliot in the financially and critically successful The First Wives Club, opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton, with whom she covered the Lesley Gore hit "You Don't Own Me" for the film's soundtrack. Hawn also performed a cover version of the Beatles' song, "A Hard Day's Night", on George Martin's 1998 album, In My Life. She continued her tenure in the '90s with Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners (1999), a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit. The film was critically panned and was not successful at the box office.
2000s
In 2001, Hawn was reunited with former co-stars Warren Beatty (her co-star in $ and Shampoo) and Diane Keaton for the comedy Town & Country, a critical and financial fiasco. Budgeted at an estimated US$90 million, the film opened to little notice and grossed only $7 million in its North American theatrical run. As of 2009, her last film appearance was in The Banger Sisters (2002), opposite Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush.
In 2005, Hawn's autobiography, A Lotus Grows in the Mud, was published. Hawn has said that the book is not a Hollywood tell-all, but rather a memoir and record of what she has learned in her life so far. Hawn announced in an interview with AARP's magazine that her next film project would be called Ashes to Ashes and co-star her partner Kurt Russell. The film is about a New York widow who loses her late husband's ashes in India.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 7:37 am
The co-birthday of the day...Stan Musial
Stanley Frank "Stan" Musial (born November 21, 1920), born Stanisław Franciszek Musiał, (pronounced /ˈmjuːziəl/), is a retired Polish-American professional baseball player who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Nicknamed "Stan the Man", Musial played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1963. A 24-time All-Star selection, Musial accumulated 3,630 hits and 475 home runs during his career, was named the National League's Most Valuable Player three times, and was a member of three World Series championship teams.
Musial was born in Donora, Pennsylvania, where he frequently played baseball in both informal and organized settings, eventually playing on the baseball team at Donora High School. Signed to a professional contract by the St. Louis Cardinals as a pitcher in 1938, by the time Musial made his Major League debut on September 17, 1941, he had been converted into an outfielder. Musial quickly established himself as a consistent and productive hitter, leading the National League in six different offensive categories in 1943 while concurrently earning his first MVP award. After winning his second World Series in 1944, Musial missed the entire 1945 season while serving with the United States Navy.
Receiving his nickname of "The Man" from Brooklyn Dodger fans in 1946, Musial continued his consistent hitting and annual All-Star appearances. In 1948 Musial finished one home run shy of winning baseball's Triple Crown. After struggling offensively in 1959, Musial utilized a personal trainer to increase his productivity until deciding to retire in 1963. Musial served as the Cardinals' General Manager in 1966 and 1967, in addition to overseeing various businesses both before and after his playing career, such as a restaurant. Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969 on his first ballot, Musial was selected for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999.
Musial made his major league debut during the second game of a doubleheader at Sportsman's Park on September 17, 1941. The Cardinals were in the midst of a pennant race with the Brooklyn Dodgers; in twelve games, Musial collected 20 hits for a .426 batting average. Despite Musial's late contributions, the Cardinals finished two and one-half games behind the 100-game-winning Brooklyn Dodgers.
Cardinals manager Billy Southworth used Musial as the left fielder to begin 1942, sometimes lifting him for a pinch-hitter against left-handed pitching. Musial was hitting .315 by late June, as the Cardinals resumed battling the Dodgers for first place in the National League. The Cardinals took sole possession of first place on September 13, but it was only when Musial caught a fly ball to end the first game of a doubleheader on September 27 that they clinched the pennant with their 105th win of the season. Finishing the season with a .315 batting average and 72 RBIs in 140 games, Musial received national publicity in September when St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports editor J. Roy Stockton named Musial as his choice for Rookie of the Year in a Saturday Evening Post article.
The Cardinals played the American League champion New York Yankees in the 1942 World Series. Representing the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 1 at Sportsman's Park, Musial grounded out with the bases loaded to seal a Yankees victory. Musial's first hit of the Series was an RBI single that provided the margin of victory in Game 2, allowing the Cardinals to tie the Series. Over the next three games at Yankee Stadium, Musial had three more hits as the Cardinals defeated the Yankees in the series four games to one, finishing the series with a .222 batting average and two runs scored.
Musial's 1943 started with a brief contract holdout in spring training. Musial was selected to his first All-Star Game in 1943 and finished the regular season leading the National League in hits (220), doubles (48), triples (20), total bases (347), on-base percentage (.425), and slugging percentage (.562). This performance earned him his first National League Most Valuable Player award, finishing ahead of teammate Walker Cooper in balloting. After romping to another National League pennant by 18 games, the Cardinals again faced the Yankees in the 1943 World Series. Musial had a single as part of the Cardinals' Game 1 loss, and scored a run in a Game 2 win. The Cardinals did not win another game in the Series, but the loser's bonus share paid to Cardinals players ($4,321.99) still amounted to nearly two-thirds of Musial's 1943 regular season salary.
The realities of World War II began to encroach on Musial's baseball career in 1944, as Musial underwent a physical examination as prelude to possible service in the United States armed forces. Musial ultimately remained with the Cardinals for the entire season, posting a .347 batting average with 197 hits. The Cardinals claimed the National League pennant for the third consecutive season, and faced St. Louis' other team, the Browns in the 1944 World Series. The Browns took a 2-1 lead, while Musial hit .250 with zero RBIs. Musial broke out in Game 4 with a two-run home run, single, double, and a walk as part of a 5-1 Cardinals win. The Cardinals went on to defeat the Browns in six games, with Musial posting a .304 batting average for the Series.
Musial entered the United States Navy on January 23, 1945, and was initially assigned to non-combat duty at the Naval Training Station in Bainbridge, Maryland. On ship repair duty at Pearl Harbor later in the year, Musial was able to play baseball every afternoon in the naval base's eight-team league. After being granted emergency leave to see his ailing father in January 1946, Musial spent a brief time assigned to the Philadelphia Navy Yard before being honorably discharged from the Navy in March.
1946-1949
Rejoining the Cardinals under new manager Eddie Dyer, Musial posted a .388 batting average by the middle of May 1946. Musial also became close friends with new teammate Red Schoendienst, who had joined the Cardinals during Musial's absence in 1945. During the season, Musial (who was under contract to the Cardinals for $13,500 in 1946) was offered a five-year, $125,000 contract, plus a $50,000 bonus to join the Mexican League. Musial declined the offer, and after manager Dyer spoke to club owner Sam Breadon, Musial was given a $5,000 raise later in 1946.
Every time Stan came up they chanted, Here comes the man!
—Cardinals traveling secretary Leo Ward relates Dodger fans' nickname for Musial to sportswriter Bob Broeg
It was also during the 1946 season that Musial acquired his nickname of the "The Man." During the June 23 game against the Dodgers at Ebbets Field, St. Louis Post-Dispatch sportswriter Bob Broeg heard Dodger fans chanting whenever Musial came to bat, but could not understand the words. Later that day over dinner, Broeg asked Cardinals traveling secretary Leo Ward if he had understood what the Dodger fans had been chanting. Ward said that, "Every time Stan came up they chanted, 'Here comes the man!'" "'That man,' you mean," Broeg said. "No, the man," replied Ward. Broeg mentioned this story in his Post-Dispatch column, and Musial was thereafter known as Stan "The Man."
In June 1946, Dyer began to use Musial as a first baseman. The Cardinals finished the season tied with the Brooklyn Dodgers, prompting a three-game playoff for the pennant. Musial's Game 1 triple and Game 2 double contributed to the Cardinals' two-games-to-none series victory. Facing the Boston Red Sox in the 1946 World Series, Musial had six hits and four RBI, as the Cardinals won the Series four games to three. Musial won his second MVP Award, receiving 22 out of a possible 24 first-place votes, and finishing ahead of Brooklyn's Dixie Walker.
Musial began the 1947 season by hitting .146 in April. On May 9, team doctor Dr. Robert Hyland confirmed a previous diagnosis of appendicitis, while also discovering that Musial was also suffering from tonsilitis. Musial received treatment for the conditions, yet did not have either the appendix or tonsils surgically removed until after the conclusion of the 1947 season. Despite his health woes, Musial finished the year with a batting average of .312.
Fully recovered from his previous ailments, Musial recorded his 1,000th career hit on April 25 of the 1948 season. After a May 7 St. Louis Globe-Democrat article criticized baseball players for appearing in cigarette advertisements, Musial made a personal decision to never again appear in such ads. By June 24, Musial's batting average was .408, prompting Brooklyn pitcher Preacher Roe to comically announce his new method for retiring Musial as: "Walk him on four pitches and pick him off first." Given a mid-season pay raise by new Cardinals owner Robert E. Hannegan for outstanding performance, Musial hit a home run in the 1948 All-Star Game. On September 22, Musial registered five hits in a game for the fourth time in the 1948 season, tying a mark set by Ty Cobb in 1922. Musial finished 1948 leading the major leagues in batting average (.376), hits (230), doubles (46), triples (18), total bases (429), and slugging percentage (.702). Winning the NL batting title by a 43-point margin, with an on-base percentage lead of 27 points and a 138-point slugging margin—the latter being the largest gap since Rogers Hornsby's 1925 season—Musial became the first National League player to win the N.L. MVP award for a third time.
If a home run Musial hit during a rainout game had been counted in his season totals, he would have won the Triple Crown by leading the National League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in. Speaking to Peter Golenbock, Musial later recalled:
"In ‘48 I came within one home run of the Triple Crown. I had one home run rained out, actually, and Red Schoendienst reminded me that I hit another ball in Shibe Park in Philadelphia that hit the speakers of the PA system above the fence, and (umpire) Frank Dascoli called it a two-base hit. Red said it should have been a home run, or else I’d have led the league in everything."
In his memoirs, sportswriter Bob Broeg noted, "If it had counted, would have... been the only player of this century to lead the league in runs, hits, double, triples, and slugging percentage. What a year!"
Anticipating life after his baseball career, Musial began the first of several business partnerships with Julius "Biggie" Garagnani in January 1949, opening "Stan Musial & Biggie's" restaurant. Musial approached the 1949 season with the intent to consciously try to hit more home runs, stating he had hit 39 home runs the previous season "without trying." His new focus on hitting for power backfired, as pitchers began using the outside part of the plate to induce Musial to ground out to the first or second baseman. Musial soon stopped swinging for the fences, and regained his consistent offensive production by the end of May. Musial earned his sixth consecutive All-Star Game selection, and led the National League in hits (207) while playing in every game. However, the Cardinals finished one game behind the Dodgers in the standings.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/21/09 at 7:44 am
The word of the day...cactus
# Any of various succulent, spiny, usually leafless plants native mostly to arid regions of the New World, having variously colored, often showy flowers with numerous stamens and petals.
# Any of several similar plants
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Cactuses are dangerous plants.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 7:48 am
Cactuses are dangerous plants.
I like the holiday cactus, but it needs lots of care.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/21/09 at 7:49 am
I like the holiday cactus, but it needs lots of care.
and plenty of water.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 7:54 am
and plenty of water.
So true.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/21/09 at 7:57 am
So true.
but cactuses don't grow like flowers too.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 9:16 am
but cactuses don't grow like flowers too.
Only the holiday cactus.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 9:21 am
The word of the day...cactus
# Any of various succulent, spiny, usually leafless plants native mostly to arid regions of the New World, having variously colored, often showy flowers with numerous stamens and petals.
# Any of several similar plants
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 9:22 am
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A Cactus Snow Globe
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 9:24 am
Cactuses are dangerous plants.
You can look but not touch ?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 9:46 am
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A Cactus Snow Globe
Nice,I've never seen one, they probably have a lot near the desert.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 9:47 am
Nice,I've never seen one, they probably have a lot near the desert.
The snow begs a question here.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 9:50 am
The snow begs a question here.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 9:50 am
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Solved!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 9:57 am
Solved!
I found this on WikiAnswers
I used to live in the Sonoran Desert, which covers parts of California, Arizona and the state of Sonora in Mexico. It does snow there from time to time. In fact, we had a white out in Tucson, AZ on Easter 2000 or 2001. It was brief and didn't accumulate, but it DID snow.
The mountain ranges surrounding Tucson (Rincons, Santa Ritas, Tuscons, Catalinas and Tortolitas) all gather a bit of white at the peaks. I went for a hike in the Catalinas on Mt Lemmon, which reaches 9,157 ft above sea level. It was April but there was snow so deep that the waist high trail markers were protruding thru the snow, hovering an inch or so above the powder.
It also snows in the Mojave desert, which lies just north of the Sonoran, and covers parts of California, Utah, Nevada and Arizona. The Mojave Desert can be called the High Desert, with the Sonoran Desert referred to as the Low Desert.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 9:58 am
I found this on WikiAnswers
I used to live in the Sonoran Desert, which covers parts of California, Arizona and the state of Sonora in Mexico. It does snow there from time to time. In fact, we had a white out in Tucson, AZ on Easter 2000 or 2001. It was brief and didn't accumulate, but it DID snow.
The mountain ranges surrounding Tucson (Rincons, Santa Ritas, Tuscons, Catalinas and Tortolitas) all gather a bit of white at the peaks. I went for a hike in the Catalinas on Mt Lemmon, which reaches 9,157 ft above sea level. It was April but there was snow so deep that the waist high trail markers were protruding thru the snow, hovering an inch or so above the powder.
It also snows in the Mojave desert, which lies just north of the Sonoran, and covers parts of California, Utah, Nevada and Arizona. The Mojave Desert can be called the High Desert, with the Sonoran Desert referred to as the Low Desert.
I knew tha California has the extremes in the weather, but never in a desert.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 10:04 am
I knew tha California has the extremes in the weather, but never in a desert.
It sounds like it is a rare occurrence
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 10:04 am
It sounds like it is a rare occurrence
...and look at it another way, the weather climate are changing all over the world.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 10:07 am
...and look at it another way, the weather climate are changing all over the world.
So true,the ice is melting.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 10:09 am
So true,the ice is melting.
Have seen or heard of the flooding in the north of England, where it has been the wettest day since records have began.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 10:19 am
Have seen or heard of the flooding in the north of England, where it has been the wettest day since records have began.
It's gradually changing.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 10:35 am
It's gradually changing.
The real test for state of the weather is this winter, if we have another bad one (very snowy) I and we all can gather something is going on.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/21/09 at 11:54 am
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These are all photos that I took in Puerto Rico.
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 11:56 am
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These are all photos that I took in Puerto Rico.
Cat
There in no snow thee.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/21/09 at 12:13 pm
There in no snow thee.
Nope. Doesn't snow in Puerto Rico.
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 12:14 pm
Nope. Doesn't snow in Puerto Rico.
Cat
Only very hot.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/21/09 at 12:22 pm
Only very hot.
They have two seasons-hot and hotter.
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 12:24 pm
They have two seasons-hot and hotter.
Cat
Not the place for me, I struggle with the British summer, if it does arrive.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/21/09 at 12:32 pm
Not the place for me, I struggle with the British summer, if it does arrive.
Tell me about it. I don't do heat well, myself. The things we do for love.
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 12:55 pm
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These are all photos that I took in Puerto Rico.
Cat
Very nice :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 12:56 pm
Tell me about it. I don't do heat well, myself. The things we do for love.
Cat
I hate when it is really hot out.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/21/09 at 8:18 pm
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Why do cactuses never have flowers? ???
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Written By: gibbo on 11/21/09 at 8:29 pm
I like Goldy Hawn .... but she another of those actresses that will not age gracefully and insists on altering her features to achieve a younger look. I just see it it as deforming their looks and it has a strange effect... :-\\
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Written By: wildcard on 11/21/09 at 8:30 pm
^^ cacti and and some have beautiful flowers
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/21/09 at 8:30 pm
Why do cactuses never have flowers? ???
They do.
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Cat
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Written By: Howard on 11/21/09 at 8:32 pm
They do.
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Cat
Wow,those are really beautiful. :)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 8:35 am
They do.
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Cat
Do Cactus Flowers have a pleasant aroma?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/22/09 at 9:03 am
The word of the day...Time
1.
1. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
2. An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading.
3. A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes.
4. A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: checked her watch and recorded the time, 6:17 A.M.
5. A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time.
2.
1. An interval, especially a span of years, marked by similar events, conditions, or phenomena; an era. Often used in the plural: hard times; a time of troubles.
2. times The present with respect to prevailing conditions and trends: You must change with the times.
3. A suitable or opportune moment or season: a time for taking stock of one's life.
4.
1. Periods or a period designated for a given activity: harvest time; time for bed.
2. Periods or a period necessary or available for a given activity: I have no time for golf.
3. A period at one's disposal: Do you have time for a chat?
5. An appointed or fated moment, especially of death or giving birth: He died before his time. Her time is near.
6.
1. One of several instances: knocked three times; addressed Congress for the last time before retirement.
2. times Used to indicate the number of instances by which something is multiplied or divided: This tree is three times taller than that one. My library is many times smaller than hers.
7.
1. One's lifetime.
2. One's period of greatest activity or engagement.
3. A person's experience during a specific period or on a certain occasion: had a good time at the party.
8.
1. A period of military service.
2. A period of apprenticeship.
3. Informal. A prison sentence.
9.
1. The customary period of work: hired for full time.
2. The period spent working.
3. The hourly pay rate: earned double time on Sundays.
10. The period during which a radio or television program or commercial is broadcast: "There's television time to buy" (Brad Goldstein).
11. The rate of speed of a measured activity: marching in double time.
12. Music.
1. The meter of a musical pattern: three-quarter time.
2. The rate of speed at which a piece of music is played; the tempo.
13. Chiefly British. The hour at which a pub closes.
14. Sports. A time-out.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/22/09 at 9:06 am
The birthday of the day...Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam (pronounced /ˈɡɪliəm/) (born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several well-regarded films including Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Fisher King (1991), and 12 Monkeys (1995). He is the only "Python" not born in Britain, but gained British citizenship in 1968.
Terry Gilliam started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist; one of his early photographic strips for Help! featured future Python cast-member John Cleese. When Help! folded, Gilliam went to Europe, jokingly announcing in the very last issue that he was "being transferred to the European branch" of the magazine, which of course didn't exist. Moving to England, he animated features for Do Not Adjust Your Set, which also featured future Pythons Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.
Monty Python
Gilliam was a part of Monty Python's Flying Circus since its outset, at first credited as an animator (his name was listed separately after the other five in the closing credits), later as a full member. His cartoons linked the show's sketches together, and defined the group's visual language in other media (such as LP and book covers, and the title sequences of their films). Gilliam's surreal animations have a distinctive, memorable style, mixing his own art, characterized by soft gradients and odd, bulbous shapes, with backgrounds and moving cutouts from antique photographs, mostly from the Victorian era.
Besides doing the animations, he also appeared in several sketches, though he rarely had any main roles and did considerably less acting in the sketches. He did however have some notable sketch roles such as Cardinal Fang of the Spanish Inquisition, "I Want More Beans!" and the Screaming Queen in a cape and mask singing "Ding dong merrily on high."
More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play (generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (which he also co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors' performances) and the jailer in Life of Brian.
Directing
With the gradual break-up of the Python troupe between The Life of Brian in 1979 and The Meaning of Life in 1982, Gilliam went on to become a motion picture writer and director, especially building upon his experience in the field he had acquired during the making of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Gilliam says he used to think of his films in terms of trilogies, starting with Time Bandits in 1981. The 1980s saw Gilliam's self-written Trilogy of Imagination about "the ages of man" in Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible." All three movies focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination; Time Bandits, through the eyes of a child, Brazil, through the eyes of a thirty-something year old, and Munchausen, through the eyes of an elderly man.
Throughout the 1990s, Gilliam directed his Trilogy of Americana, The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), which were based on scripts by other people, played on North American soil, and while still being surreal, had less fantastical plots than his previous trilogy.
Themes, philosophy, and style
Terry Gilliam at Cannes, 2001
"Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it - I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things." - Terry Gilliam: Salman Rushdie talks with Terry Gilliam
As for his background and philosophy in writing and directing, Gilliam said on the TV show First Hand on RoundhouseTV: "There's so many film schools, so many media courses which I actually am opposed to. Because I think it's more important to be educated, to read, to learn things, because if you're gonna be in the media and if you'll have to say things, you have to know things. If you only know about cameras and 'the media', what're you gonna be talking about except cameras and the media? So it's better learning about philosophy and art and architecture literature, these are the things to be concentrating on it seems to me. Then, you can fly...!"
His films are usually highly imaginative fantasies. His long-time co-writer Charles McKeown comments about Gilliam's recurring interests, "the theme of imagination, and the importance of imagination, to how you live and how you think and so on that's very much a Terry theme." Most of Gilliam's movies include plot-lines that seem to occur partly or completely in the characters' imaginations, raising questions about the definition of identity and sanity. He often shows his opposition to bureaucracy and authoritarian regimes. He also distinguishes "higher" and "lower" layers of society, with a disturbing and ironic style. His movies usually feature a fight or struggle against a great power which may be an emotional situation, a human-made idol, or even the person himself, and the situations do not always end happily. There is often a dark, paranoid atmosphere and unusual characters who formerly were normal members of society. His scripts feature black comedy and often end with a dark tragicomic twist.
As Gilliam is fascinated with the Baroque due to the historical age's pronounced struggle between spirituality and logical rationality, there is often a rich baroqueness and dichotomous eclecticity about the movies, with, for instance, high-tech computer monitors equipped with low-tech magnifying lenses in Brazil, and in The Fisher King a red knight covered with flapping bits of cloth. He also is given to incongruous juxtapositions of beauty and ugliness, or antique and modern. Regarding Gilliam's theme of modernity's struggle between spirituality and rationality whereas the individual may become dominated by a tyrannical, soulless machinery of disenchanted society, film critic James Keith Hamel observed a specific affinity of Gilliam's movies with the writings of economic historian Arnold Toynbee and sociologist Max Weber, specifically the latter's concept of the Iron cage of modern rationality.
His films have a distinctive look not only in mise-en-scene but even moreso in photography, often recognizable from just a short clip; Roger Ebert has said "his world is always hallucinatory in its richness of detail." Most of his movies are shot almost entirely with extremely wide lenses of 28 mm focal length or less, and extremely deep focus. In fact, over the years, the 14mm lens has become informally known as "The Gilliam" among film-makers due to the director's frequent use of it since at least Brazil.
Production problems
Terry Gilliam at IFC Center. 4 October 2006.
Gilliam has made a few extremely expensive movies beset with production problems. After the lengthy quarreling with Universal Studios over Brazil, Gilliam's next picture, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen cost around US$46 million, and then earned only about US$8 million in US ticket sales, as it saw no wide domestic release due to financial issues at Columbia Pictures, which was in the process of being sold at the time.
In the mid-1990s, Gilliam and Charles McKeown developed a script for Time Bandits 2; the project never came to be, as several of the original actors had died. He also attempted to direct a version of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, which collapsed due to disagreements over its budget and choice of lead actor.
In 1999, Gilliam attempted to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, budgeted at US$32.1 million, among the highest-budgeted films to use only European financing; but in the first week of shooting, the actor playing Don Quixote (Jean Rochefort) suffered a herniated disc, and a flood severely damaged the set. The film was canceled, resulting in an insurance claim worth US$15 million. Despite the cancellation, the story behind the whole production was filmed by a second crew hired by Gilliam to document the process. This production story was made into the documentary Lost in La Mancha. In recent years, both Gilliam and the film's co-lead, Johnny Depp, have expressed interest in reviving the project. However, the insurance company involved in the failed first attempt withheld the rights to the screenplay for several years. The production was finally restarted in 2008.
Gilliam has attempted twice to adapt Alan Moore's Watchmen comics into a film. Both attempts (in 1989 and 1996, respectively) were unsuccessful. Most recently, unforeseeable problems again befell a Gilliam project when actor Heath Ledger died in New York City during the filming of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Gilliam has encountered some successes though. His first successful feature, Time Bandits (1981), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) was nominated for four Academy Awards (and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards), The Fisher King (1991) (his first film not to feature a member from Python) was nominated for five (and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US$168 million worldwide whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US$105 million worldwide. However, according to Box Office Mojo, his films have grossed an average of $26,009,723.
Recurring collaborators in Gilliam's films
Ever since his first Python-independent feature Jabberwocky, Gilliam has shown a propensity to work with particular actors in numerous productions. Up until the 1990s, each of Gilliam's non-Python films was to feature at least one of his fellow Monty Python alumni (particularly Michael Palin, John Cleese, and Eric Idle), and for his finished projects Gilliam has worked with the following actors more than once (in order of first film appearance):
* Derrick O'Connor (Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, Brazil)
* Ian Holm (Time Bandits, Brazil)
* Peter Vaughan (Time Bandits, Brazil)
* Jack Purvis (Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen)
* Jim Broadbent (Time Bandits, Brazil)
* Charles McKeown (Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
* Katherine Helmond (Time Bandits, Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
* Jonathan Pryce (Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Brothers Grimm)
* Simon Jones (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys)
* Robin Williams (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King; also was to play Cavaldi in The Brothers Grimm until objections by producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein)
* Jeff Bridges (The Fisher King, Tideland)
* Michael Jeter (The Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
* Christopher Plummer (Twelve Monkeys, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
* Christopher Meloni (Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
* Johnny Depp (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus; held the title role in Gilliam's first attempt at directing The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in 2000)
* Verne Troyer (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
* Heath Ledger (The Brothers Grimm, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
* Peter Stormare (The Brothers Grimm, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
Other notable recurring collaborators include Gilliam's cinematographers Roger Pratt (Brazil, The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys) and Nicola Pecorini (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Brothers Grimm, Tideland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), and his co-writer McKeown.
Gilliam and Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, is a fan of Gilliam's work. Consequently, he was Rowling's first choice to direct Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2000. Warner Bros. refused to consider Gilliam as director, instead selecting Chris Columbus for the job. Recently, Gilliam stated in relation to this episode, "I was the perfect guy to do Harry Potter. I remember leaving the meeting, getting in my car, and driving for about two hours along Mulholland Drive just so angry. I mean, Chris Columbus' versions are terrible. Just dull. Pedestrian."
Despite rumors to the contrary, Gilliam has stated that he will never direct any Potter film. In a 2005 interview with Total Film Magazine, he stated that he wouldn't enjoy working on such an expensive project due to interference from studio executives.
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Written By: ninny on 11/22/09 at 9:09 am
The co-birthday of the day...Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genres. Her 1998 book, Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day, made the best-seller list in The New York Times. She is married to actor Christopher Guest (Lord Haden-Guest) and, as the wife of a lord, is titled Lady Haden-Guest, but she chooses not to use the title when in the United States. She is currently the spokeswoman for Activia. She is also a blogger for The Huffington Post online newspaper.
Curtis's film debut was the 1978 horror Halloween, playing the role of Laurie Strode, the only central teenage character in the film who is not killed. The film was a major success and was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time, earning status as a classic horror film. Curtis was subsequently cast in several horror films, garnering her the title of a "scream queen".
Her next film following Halloween was the horror film, The Fog, which was directed by Halloween director John Carpenter. The film opened in February 1980 to mixed reviews but strong box office, further cementing Curtis as a horror film starlet. Her next film, Prom Night, was a low-budget Canadian slasher film released in July 1980. The film, for which she earned a Genie Award nomination for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress, was similar in style to Halloween, yet received negative reviews which marked it as a disposable entry in the then active "slasher film" genre. That year, Curtis also starred in Terror Train, which opened in October and met with a negative reaction akin to Prom Night. Both films performed only moderately well at the box office. Curtis had a similar function in both films - the main character whose friends are murdered, and is practically the only protagonist to survive. Film critic Roger Ebert, who had given negative reviews to all three of Curtis' 1980 films, said that Curtis "is to the current horror film glut what Christopher Lee was to the last one-or Boris Karloff was in the 1930s". Curtis later appeared in Halloween II, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and Halloween: Resurrection, as well as giving an uncredited voice role in Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
Her role in 1983's Trading Places helped Curtis leave her horror queen image behind. 1988's A Fish Called Wanda achieved near cult status – while showcasing her as a first rate comic actress. She won a Golden Globe for her work in 1994's True Lies. Her recent successful film roles include Disney's Freaky Friday (2003), opposite Lindsay Lohan. The movie was filmed at Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California, near where Curtis and Guest make their home with their children. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in this movie.
Spending Christmas with the Kranks, she convinced Reader's Digest "... that telling the truth is something she does all the time".
In October 2006, Curtis told Access Hollywood that she has closed the book on her acting career to focus on family. However, she returned to acting after she was cast in June 2007 in Disney's live-action-animated film, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, co-starring opposite Piper Perabo as one of two live-action characters in the film.
Television
Curtis made her TV debut in an episode of Columbo, but her first starring role was opposite Richard Lewis in the situation comedy Anything But Love, which ran for four seasons from 1989 through 1992. She appeared as nurse Lt. Duran in the short-lived television series of Operation Petticoat; based on the big-screen version which stars her real-life father. Her role as Hannah Miller received both a Golden Globe and People's Choice Award. She also earned a Golden Globe nomination for her work in TNT's adaptation of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles. More recently, Curtis starred in the CBS television movie Nicholas' Gift, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Curtis also appeared in the science fiction series, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and an early episode of The Drew Carey Show. Jamie Lee Curtis also appeared as a panelist on episodes of Match Game.
Children's books
Working with illustrator Laura Cornell, Curtis has written a number of critically-acclaimed children's books, all published by HarperCollins Children's Books.
* When I was Little: A Four-Year Old's Memoir Of Her Youth, 1993.
* Tell Me Again About The Night I was Born, 1996.
* Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day, 1998; listed on the New York Times best-seller list for 9 weeks.
* Where Do Balloons Go?: An Uplifting Mystery, 2000.
* I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem, 2002.
* It's Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel, 2004.
* Is There Really A Human Race?, 2006.
* Big Words for Little People, ISBN 9780061127595, 2008.
* My Friend Jay, 2009, edition of one, presented to Jay Leno
Inventions
In 1987, Curtis filed a US patent application that subsequently issued as Patent No. 4,753,647. This is a modification of a diaper with a moisture proof pocket containing wipes that can be taken out and used with one hand. Curtis has refused to allow her invention to be marketed until companies start selling biodegradable diapers
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 9:22 am
The word of the day...Time
1.
1. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
2. An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading.
3. A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes.
4. A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: checked her watch and recorded the time, 6:17 A.M.
5. A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time.
2.
1. An interval, especially a span of years, marked by similar events, conditions, or phenomena; an era. Often used in the plural: hard times; a time of troubles.
2. times The present with respect to prevailing conditions and trends: You must change with the times.
3. A suitable or opportune moment or season: a time for taking stock of one's life.
4.
1. Periods or a period designated for a given activity: harvest time; time for bed.
2. Periods or a period necessary or available for a given activity: I have no time for golf.
3. A period at one's disposal: Do you have time for a chat?
5. An appointed or fated moment, especially of death or giving birth: He died before his time. Her time is near.
6.
1. One of several instances: knocked three times; addressed Congress for the last time before retirement.
2. times Used to indicate the number of instances by which something is multiplied or divided: This tree is three times taller than that one. My library is many times smaller than hers.
7.
1. One's lifetime.
2. One's period of greatest activity or engagement.
3. A person's experience during a specific period or on a certain occasion: had a good time at the party.
8.
1. A period of military service.
2. A period of apprenticeship.
3. Informal. A prison sentence.
9.
1. The customary period of work: hired for full time.
2. The period spent working.
3. The hourly pay rate: earned double time on Sundays.
10. The period during which a radio or television program or commercial is broadcast: "There's television time to buy" (Brad Goldstein).
11. The rate of speed of a measured activity: marching in double time.
12. Music.
1. The meter of a musical pattern: three-quarter time.
2. The rate of speed at which a piece of music is played; the tempo.
13. Chiefly British. The hour at which a pub closes.
14. Sports. A time-out.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 9:25 am
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 9:27 am
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 9:29 am
The birthday of the day...Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam (pronounced /ˈɡɪliəm/) (born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several well-regarded films including Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Fisher King (1991), and 12 Monkeys (1995). He is the only "Python" not born in Britain, but gained British citizenship in 1968.
Terry Gilliam started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist; one of his early photographic strips for Help! featured future Python cast-member John Cleese. When Help! folded, Gilliam went to Europe, jokingly announcing in the very last issue that he was "being transferred to the European branch" of the magazine, which of course didn't exist. Moving to England, he animated features for Do Not Adjust Your Set, which also featured future Pythons Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.
Monty Python
Gilliam was a part of Monty Python's Flying Circus since its outset, at first credited as an animator (his name was listed separately after the other five in the closing credits), later as a full member. His cartoons linked the show's sketches together, and defined the group's visual language in other media (such as LP and book covers, and the title sequences of their films). Gilliam's surreal animations have a distinctive, memorable style, mixing his own art, characterized by soft gradients and odd, bulbous shapes, with backgrounds and moving cutouts from antique photographs, mostly from the Victorian era.
Besides doing the animations, he also appeared in several sketches, though he rarely had any main roles and did considerably less acting in the sketches. He did however have some notable sketch roles such as Cardinal Fang of the Spanish Inquisition, "I Want More Beans!" and the Screaming Queen in a cape and mask singing "Ding dong merrily on high."
More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play (generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (which he also co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors' performances) and the jailer in Life of Brian.
Directing
With the gradual break-up of the Python troupe between The Life of Brian in 1979 and The Meaning of Life in 1982, Gilliam went on to become a motion picture writer and director, especially building upon his experience in the field he had acquired during the making of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Gilliam says he used to think of his films in terms of trilogies, starting with Time Bandits in 1981. The 1980s saw Gilliam's self-written Trilogy of Imagination about "the ages of man" in Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible." All three movies focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination; Time Bandits, through the eyes of a child, Brazil, through the eyes of a thirty-something year old, and Munchausen, through the eyes of an elderly man.
Throughout the 1990s, Gilliam directed his Trilogy of Americana, The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), which were based on scripts by other people, played on North American soil, and while still being surreal, had less fantastical plots than his previous trilogy.
Themes, philosophy, and style
Terry Gilliam at Cannes, 2001
"Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it - I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things." - Terry Gilliam: Salman Rushdie talks with Terry Gilliam
As for his background and philosophy in writing and directing, Gilliam said on the TV show First Hand on RoundhouseTV: "There's so many film schools, so many media courses which I actually am opposed to. Because I think it's more important to be educated, to read, to learn things, because if you're gonna be in the media and if you'll have to say things, you have to know things. If you only know about cameras and 'the media', what're you gonna be talking about except cameras and the media? So it's better learning about philosophy and art and architecture literature, these are the things to be concentrating on it seems to me. Then, you can fly...!"
His films are usually highly imaginative fantasies. His long-time co-writer Charles McKeown comments about Gilliam's recurring interests, "the theme of imagination, and the importance of imagination, to how you live and how you think and so on that's very much a Terry theme." Most of Gilliam's movies include plot-lines that seem to occur partly or completely in the characters' imaginations, raising questions about the definition of identity and sanity. He often shows his opposition to bureaucracy and authoritarian regimes. He also distinguishes "higher" and "lower" layers of society, with a disturbing and ironic style. His movies usually feature a fight or struggle against a great power which may be an emotional situation, a human-made idol, or even the person himself, and the situations do not always end happily. There is often a dark, paranoid atmosphere and unusual characters who formerly were normal members of society. His scripts feature black comedy and often end with a dark tragicomic twist.
As Gilliam is fascinated with the Baroque due to the historical age's pronounced struggle between spirituality and logical rationality, there is often a rich baroqueness and dichotomous eclecticity about the movies, with, for instance, high-tech computer monitors equipped with low-tech magnifying lenses in Brazil, and in The Fisher King a red knight covered with flapping bits of cloth. He also is given to incongruous juxtapositions of beauty and ugliness, or antique and modern. Regarding Gilliam's theme of modernity's struggle between spirituality and rationality whereas the individual may become dominated by a tyrannical, soulless machinery of disenchanted society, film critic James Keith Hamel observed a specific affinity of Gilliam's movies with the writings of economic historian Arnold Toynbee and sociologist Max Weber, specifically the latter's concept of the Iron cage of modern rationality.
His films have a distinctive look not only in mise-en-scene but even moreso in photography, often recognizable from just a short clip; Roger Ebert has said "his world is always hallucinatory in its richness of detail." Most of his movies are shot almost entirely with extremely wide lenses of 28 mm focal length or less, and extremely deep focus. In fact, over the years, the 14mm lens has become informally known as "The Gilliam" among film-makers due to the director's frequent use of it since at least Brazil.
Production problems
Terry Gilliam at IFC Center. 4 October 2006.
Gilliam has made a few extremely expensive movies beset with production problems. After the lengthy quarreling with Universal Studios over Brazil, Gilliam's next picture, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen cost around US$46 million, and then earned only about US$8 million in US ticket sales, as it saw no wide domestic release due to financial issues at Columbia Pictures, which was in the process of being sold at the time.
In the mid-1990s, Gilliam and Charles McKeown developed a script for Time Bandits 2; the project never came to be, as several of the original actors had died. He also attempted to direct a version of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, which collapsed due to disagreements over its budget and choice of lead actor.
In 1999, Gilliam attempted to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, budgeted at US$32.1 million, among the highest-budgeted films to use only European financing; but in the first week of shooting, the actor playing Don Quixote (Jean Rochefort) suffered a herniated disc, and a flood severely damaged the set. The film was canceled, resulting in an insurance claim worth US$15 million. Despite the cancellation, the story behind the whole production was filmed by a second crew hired by Gilliam to document the process. This production story was made into the documentary Lost in La Mancha. In recent years, both Gilliam and the film's co-lead, Johnny Depp, have expressed interest in reviving the project. However, the insurance company involved in the failed first attempt withheld the rights to the screenplay for several years. The production was finally restarted in 2008.
Gilliam has attempted twice to adapt Alan Moore's Watchmen comics into a film. Both attempts (in 1989 and 1996, respectively) were unsuccessful. Most recently, unforeseeable problems again befell a Gilliam project when actor Heath Ledger died in New York City during the filming of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Gilliam has encountered some successes though. His first successful feature, Time Bandits (1981), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) was nominated for four Academy Awards (and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards), The Fisher King (1991) (his first film not to feature a member from Python) was nominated for five (and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US$168 million worldwide whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US$105 million worldwide. However, according to Box Office Mojo, his films have grossed an average of $26,009,723.
Recurring collaborators in Gilliam's films
Ever since his first Python-independent feature Jabberwocky, Gilliam has shown a propensity to work with particular actors in numerous productions. Up until the 1990s, each of Gilliam's non-Python films was to feature at least one of his fellow Monty Python alumni (particularly Michael Palin, John Cleese, and Eric Idle), and for his finished projects Gilliam has worked with the following actors more than once (in order of first film appearance):
* Derrick O'Connor (Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, Brazil)
* Ian Holm (Time Bandits, Brazil)
* Peter Vaughan (Time Bandits, Brazil)
* Jack Purvis (Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen)
* Jim Broadbent (Time Bandits, Brazil)
* Charles McKeown (Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
* Katherine Helmond (Time Bandits, Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
* Jonathan Pryce (Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Brothers Grimm)
* Simon Jones (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys)
* Robin Williams (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King; also was to play Cavaldi in The Brothers Grimm until objections by producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein)
* Jeff Bridges (The Fisher King, Tideland)
* Michael Jeter (The Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
* Christopher Plummer (Twelve Monkeys, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
* Christopher Meloni (Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
* Johnny Depp (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus; held the title role in Gilliam's first attempt at directing The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in 2000)
* Verne Troyer (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
* Heath Ledger (The Brothers Grimm, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
* Peter Stormare (The Brothers Grimm, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
Other notable recurring collaborators include Gilliam's cinematographers Roger Pratt (Brazil, The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys) and Nicola Pecorini (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Brothers Grimm, Tideland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), and his co-writer McKeown.
Gilliam and Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, is a fan of Gilliam's work. Consequently, he was Rowling's first choice to direct Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2000. Warner Bros. refused to consider Gilliam as director, instead selecting Chris Columbus for the job. Recently, Gilliam stated in relation to this episode, "I was the perfect guy to do Harry Potter. I remember leaving the meeting, getting in my car, and driving for about two hours along Mulholland Drive just so angry. I mean, Chris Columbus' versions are terrible. Just dull. Pedestrian."
Despite rumors to the contrary, Gilliam has stated that he will never direct any Potter film. In a 2005 interview with Total Film Magazine, he stated that he wouldn't enjoy working on such an expensive project due to interference from studio executives.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 9:29 am
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 9:31 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avNSz8MxlGo&feature=related
One of the best bits with John Cleese playing Robin Hood as Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 9:32 am
The co-birthday of the day...Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genres. Her 1998 book, Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day, made the best-seller list in The New York Times. She is married to actor Christopher Guest (Lord Haden-Guest) and, as the wife of a lord, is titled Lady Haden-Guest, but she chooses not to use the title when in the United States. She is currently the spokeswoman for Activia. She is also a blogger for The Huffington Post online newspaper.
Curtis's film debut was the 1978 horror Halloween, playing the role of Laurie Strode, the only central teenage character in the film who is not killed. The film was a major success and was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time, earning status as a classic horror film. Curtis was subsequently cast in several horror films, garnering her the title of a "scream queen".
Her next film following Halloween was the horror film, The Fog, which was directed by Halloween director John Carpenter. The film opened in February 1980 to mixed reviews but strong box office, further cementing Curtis as a horror film starlet. Her next film, Prom Night, was a low-budget Canadian slasher film released in July 1980. The film, for which she earned a Genie Award nomination for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress, was similar in style to Halloween, yet received negative reviews which marked it as a disposable entry in the then active "slasher film" genre. That year, Curtis also starred in Terror Train, which opened in October and met with a negative reaction akin to Prom Night. Both films performed only moderately well at the box office. Curtis had a similar function in both films - the main character whose friends are murdered, and is practically the only protagonist to survive. Film critic Roger Ebert, who had given negative reviews to all three of Curtis' 1980 films, said that Curtis "is to the current horror film glut what Christopher Lee was to the last one-or Boris Karloff was in the 1930s". Curtis later appeared in Halloween II, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and Halloween: Resurrection, as well as giving an uncredited voice role in Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
Her role in 1983's Trading Places helped Curtis leave her horror queen image behind. 1988's A Fish Called Wanda achieved near cult status – while showcasing her as a first rate comic actress. She won a Golden Globe for her work in 1994's True Lies. Her recent successful film roles include Disney's Freaky Friday (2003), opposite Lindsay Lohan. The movie was filmed at Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California, near where Curtis and Guest make their home with their children. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in this movie.
Spending Christmas with the Kranks, she convinced Reader's Digest "... that telling the truth is something she does all the time".
In October 2006, Curtis told Access Hollywood that she has closed the book on her acting career to focus on family. However, she returned to acting after she was cast in June 2007 in Disney's live-action-animated film, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, co-starring opposite Piper Perabo as one of two live-action characters in the film.
Television
Curtis made her TV debut in an episode of Columbo, but her first starring role was opposite Richard Lewis in the situation comedy Anything But Love, which ran for four seasons from 1989 through 1992. She appeared as nurse Lt. Duran in the short-lived television series of Operation Petticoat; based on the big-screen version which stars her real-life father. Her role as Hannah Miller received both a Golden Globe and People's Choice Award. She also earned a Golden Globe nomination for her work in TNT's adaptation of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles. More recently, Curtis starred in the CBS television movie Nicholas' Gift, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Curtis also appeared in the science fiction series, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and an early episode of The Drew Carey Show. Jamie Lee Curtis also appeared as a panelist on episodes of Match Game.
Children's books
Working with illustrator Laura Cornell, Curtis has written a number of critically-acclaimed children's books, all published by HarperCollins Children's Books.
* When I was Little: A Four-Year Old's Memoir Of Her Youth, 1993.
* Tell Me Again About The Night I was Born, 1996.
* Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day, 1998; listed on the New York Times best-seller list for 9 weeks.
* Where Do Balloons Go?: An Uplifting Mystery, 2000.
* I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem, 2002.
* It's Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel, 2004.
* Is There Really A Human Race?, 2006.
* Big Words for Little People, ISBN 9780061127595, 2008.
* My Friend Jay, 2009, edition of one, presented to Jay Leno
Inventions
In 1987, Curtis filed a US patent application that subsequently issued as Patent No. 4,753,647. This is a modification of a diaper with a moisture proof pocket containing wipes that can be taken out and used with one hand. Curtis has refused to allow her invention to be marketed until companies start selling biodegradable diapers
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I see a John Cleese connection here.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/22/09 at 10:11 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4vQ6y5gyoM
I love that movie, besides the Python connection,I'm also a fan of David Warner.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 10:14 am
I love that movie, besides the Python connection,I'm also a fan of David Warner.
The same David Warner as in The Omen?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: wildcard on 11/22/09 at 11:57 am
To everything turn tun turn
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 12:55 pm
To everything turn tun turn
There is a season turn tun turn
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/22/09 at 1:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ5LmQmQZqg
When I first read that "Time" was the word of the day, my guess was Cyndi Lauper as the person of the day. (I always try to guess who the person of the day is.)
Jamie Lee Curtis is in one of my all-time favorite films-Trading Places. :D ;D ;D ;D
I love that movie, besides the Python connection,I'm also a fan of David Warner.
David Warner has a resumé as long as the Encyclopedia Britannica and it is amazing that most people don't know his name but they recognized his face.
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Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/09 at 1:19 pm
David Warner has a resumé as long as the Encyclopedia Britannica and it is amazing that most people don't know his name but they recognized his face.
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Cat
Mr David Warner.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/22/09 at 2:42 pm
The same David Warner as in The Omen?
Yes.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/22/09 at 2:48 pm
When I first read that "Time" was the word of the day, my guess was Cyndi Lauper as the person of the day. (I always try to guess who the person of the day is.)
Jamie Lee Curtis is in one of my all-time favorite films-Trading Places. :D ;D ;D ;D
David Warner has a resumé as long as the Encyclopedia Britannica and it is amazing that most people don't know his name but they recognized his face.
http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=24735.0
Cat
He does lot of villainous roles, I also liked him in Time After Time.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/22/09 at 8:48 pm
Time is of the essence.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/22/09 at 9:30 pm
When I first read that "Time" was the word of the day, my guess was Cyndi Lauper as the person of the day. (I always try to guess who the person of the day is.)
Jamie Lee Curtis is in one of my all-time favorite films-Trading Places. :D ;D ;D ;D
David Warner has a resumé as long as the Encyclopedia Britannica and it is amazing that most people don't know his name but they recognized his face.
http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=24735.0
Cat
Time After Time..Great song :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/23/09 at 6:30 am
The word of the day...Help
1. To give assistance to; aid: I helped her find the book. He helped me into my coat.
2. To contribute to the furtherance of; promote.
3. To give relief to: help the needy.
4. To ease; relieve: medication to help your cold.
5. To change for the better; improve: A fresh coat of paint will help a scarred old table.
6. To refrain from; avoid or resist. Used with can or cannot: couldn't help laughing.
7. To wait on, as in a store or restaurant.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/23/09 at 6:35 am
I need HELP for today's birthday, I just don't know who to pick. Nobody really stands out for me. I hate to say out but one of the one's that stood out for me is Miley Cyrus. So if anyone would like to do the birthday & co-birthday of the day...please do so.Thanks.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 11/23/09 at 6:40 am
Someone needs help.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/23/09 at 9:36 am
Someone needs help.
HELP!!!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/23/09 at 11:43 am
Maxwell Caulfield
Chuck Schumer
Steve Landesberg
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/23/09 at 12:41 pm
Maxwell Caulfield
Chuck Schumer
Steve Landesberg
Cat
We'll do Chuck Schumer as he is a senator from NY.
Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is the senior U.S. Senator from the State of New York, serving since 1999. A Democrat, in 2005 he became chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In November 2006, he was elected to the new post of Vice Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus. In this position, he is the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin.
In 1998, Schumer ran for Senate. He won the Democratic Senate primary with 51 percent of the votes against Geraldine Ferraro (21 percent) and Mark Green (19 percent). He then received 55 percent of the vote in the general election, defeating three-term incumbent Republican Al D'Amato (44 percent).
In 2004, Schumer handily won re-election against Republican Assemblyman Howard Mills of Middletown and Conservative Marilyn O'Grady. Many New York Republicans were dismayed by the selection of Mills over the conservative Michael Benjamin, who held significant advantages over Mills in both fundraising and organization. Benjamin publicly accused GOP Chairman Sandy Treadwell and Governor George Pataki of trying to muscle him out of the senate race and undermine the democratic process. Schumer defeated Mills, the second-place finisher, by 2.8 million votes and won reelection with 71 percent of the vote, the most lopsided margin ever for a statewide election in New York. Schumer won every county in the state except one, Hamilton County in the Adirondacks, the least populated and most Republican county in the state. Mills conceded defeat minutes after the polls closed, before returns had come in.
A SurveyUSA poll from April of 2009 placed Schumer's approval rating at 62%, with 31% disapproving.
Committee assignments
Schumer currently serves on the following Senate Committees in the 111th United States Congress:
* Committee on Finance
o Subcommittee on Health Care
o Subcommittee on Taxation, IRS Oversight, and Long-Term Growth
o Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions and Family Policy
* Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
o Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
o Subcommittee on Financial Institutions
o Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment
* Committee on the Judiciary
o Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
o Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights
o Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs
o Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security (Chairman)
o Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security
* Committee on Rules and Administration (Chairman)
* Joint Committee on the Library (Vice Chair)
* Joint Committee on Printing (Chairman)
* Joint Economic Committee (Vice Chair)
* International Narcotics Control Caucus
Legislative record
While serving in the House of Representatives, Schumer authored the Assault Weapons Ban in 1994 with California Senator Dianne Feinstein, which expired in 2004. The National Rifle Association and other gun groups (see gun politics) have criticized him for allegedly not knowing much about guns, pointing to various errors regarding the subject. Supporters of gun control legislation, however, give him much of the credit for passage of both the Assault Weapons Ban and the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act despite intense lobbying from opponents. The Assault Weapons Ban, which banned semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and handguns possessing certain cosmetic features, expired in September 2004 despite attempts by Schumer to extend it. He was one of 16 Senators to vote against the Vitter Amendment, which prohibited funding for the confiscation of legally owned firearms during a disaster.
Schumer is strongly pro-choice, and has been give a 100 percent rating by NARAL. He voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
He was criticized by video game players for siding with Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-Connecticut), promoting regulation of video games. He is known to attack Eidos Interactive for the game 25 to Life, urging Sony Computer Entertainment and Microsoft to end their license agreements with Eidos Interactive.
Schumer has also focused on banking and consumer issues, counter-terrorism, and debate over confirmation of federal judges, as well as economic development in New York.
He received a "B" on the Drum Major Institute's 2005 Congressional Scorecard on middle-class issues.
Foreign policy
Schumer was a supporter of the Iraq War Resolution, is an AIPAC member, and a strident pro-Israel member of Congress, although he was very critical of President George W. Bush's strategy in the Iraq War; He suggested that a commission of ex-generals be appointed to review it. Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice has criticized Schumer for his stance on the issue of torture.
In 2006, Schumer led a bipartisan effort, with the help of Republicans like Congressman Peter T. King (NY), to stop a deal approved by the Bush administration to transfer control of six United States ports to a corporation owned by the government of United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dubai Ports World. (See Dubai Ports World controversy.) The 9/11 Commission reported that, despite recent alliances with the U.S., the UAE had strong ties to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The measure in the House was H.R 4807, and in the Senate, S. 2333; these were introduced to require a 45 day review of this transfer of ownership. On March 9, 2006, Dubai Ports World withdrew its application to operate the ports. The senator also is involved with legislation to address the Darfur genocide. Last year, he cosponsored two bills calling for peace in Darfur. Both bills, S.455 and S.684, passed in the Senate. He also voted in favor of measures to help increase the efficiency of peace keepers serving in Darfur.
LGBT Issues
Schumer at New York City's gay pride parade in 2007.
Sen. Schumer recently reversed himself on the issue of same-sex marriage. At a private risotto dinner with gay leaders at the Gramercy Tavern on March 22, 2009, Schumer said he not only now supports same-sex marriage, but also backs a full reversal of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Political style
Schumer's propensity for publicity is the subject of a running joke among many commentators, leading Bob Dole to quip that "the most dangerous place in Washington is between Charles Schumer and a television camera." Barack Obama joked that Schumer brought along the press to a banquet as his "loved ones." Schumer frequently schedules media appearances on Sundays, in the hope of getting television coverage, typically on subjects other than legislative matters. His use of media has been cited by some as a successful way to raise a politician's profile nationally and among his constituents
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/23/09 at 12:44 pm
The co birthday..Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby (born Bruce Randall Hornsby, November 23, 1954, Williamsburg, Virginia) is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and the seamless improvisations contained within.
Hornsby's recordings have been recognized on a number of occasions with industry awards, including the Best New Artist Grammy in 1987 with Bruce Hornsby and the Range, the Best Bluegrass Recording Grammy in 1989, and the Best Pop Instrumental Grammy in 1993.
Hornsby has also achieved recognition for his solo albums and performances, his current live act Bruce Hornsby & the Noise Makers, his bluegrass project with Ricky Skaggs, his jazz act The Bruce Hornsby Trio, and his appearances as a session- and guest-musician. He also collaborated with the Grateful Dead and was a part time member of the band from September 1990 to April 1992.
In 1984 he formed Bruce Hornsby and the Range, who were signed to RCA Records in 1985. Besides Hornsby, Range members were David Mansfield (guitar, mandolin, violin), George Marinelli (guitars and backing vocals), Joe Puerta (bass guitar and backing vocals), and John Molo (drums).
"The Way It Is" (1986)
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The song's discussion of the troubled economy and race relations resonated with the American public and it remains Hornsby's best-known song.
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Hornsby's recording career started with the biggest hit he has had to date, entitled "The Way It Is". It topped the American music charts in 1986. With a propulsive yet contemplative piano riff and the refrain, That's just the way it is / Some things will never change / That's just the way it is / But don't you believe them, the song was catchy and described aspects of the American Civil Rights movement and institutional racism. The song also hit a nerve with the American public, reflecting dissatisfaction with perceived economic decline in the early-to-mid 1980s. In years to come, the song would be sampled by at least six rap artists, including Tupac Shakur, E-40, and Mase.
With the success of the single worldwide, the album The Way It Is went multi-platinum and produced another top five hit with "Mandolin Rain" (co-written, as many of Hornsby's early songs were, with his brother John Hornsby). "Every Little Kiss" also did respectably well. Other tracks on the album helped establish what some labeled the "Virginia sound", a mixture of rock, jazz, and bluegrass with an observational Southern feel. Bruce Hornsby and the Range would go on to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987, beating out Glass Tiger, Nu Shooz, Simply Red and Timbuk3.
Hornsby and the Range's sound is somewhat distinctive. For one, Hornsby's consistent use of syncopation in his piano solos was different from other pianists during the 1980s. Hornsby used a brighter piano sound, which was typical for 1980's Pop Music. There is also extensive use of synthesizers used as background for Hornsby's solos, most notable on the tracks "The Show Goes On" and "The Road Not Taken". John Molo's drumbeats were often looped throughout the recorded versions of songs. They are typical double-time beats, which allowed Hornsby and the rest of the band to do more with their solos.
Bruce Hornsby Timeline
1984-1991 Bruce Hornsby and the Range
1990-1992 Grateful Dead
1993-1995 Solo Albums: Harbor Lights & Hot House
1996-1998 Further Festivals & The Other Ones, Solo Album: Spirit Trail
1998-present Bruce Hornsby and the Noise Makers
2007-present Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby
2007-present The Bruce Hornsby Trio (with Christian McBride & Jack DeJohnette)
Hornsby and the Range's second album, Scenes From The Southside (on which Peter Harris replaced Mansfield) was released in 1988. It featured such hits as "Look Out Any Window" and "The Valley Road" which many critics noted due to their "more spacious" musical arrangements, allowing for "more expressive" piano solos from Hornsby. The song "Jacob's Ladder" was featured as well, having originally been written by Hornsby for musician friend Huey Lewis; Lewis' version became a number one hit from his album Fore!. Scenes was successful as an album, once again offering slices of "Americana" and "small-town nostalgia," but it would be the group's last album to perform so well in the singles market.
In 1988, Hornsby first appeared on stage with the Grateful Dead, a recurring collaboration that would continue until the band's dissolution. Hornsby went on to appear on stage frequently as a guest before becoming a regular fixture in the touring lineup for the Dead a few years later. During the late 1980s and early 1990s Hornsby worked extensively as a producer and sideman, notably producing a comeback album for Leon Russell, an idol of Hornsby's. In 1989 Hornsby co-wrote and played piano on Don Henley's big hit "The End of the Innocence," and in 1991 played piano on Bonnie Raitt's popular hit "I Can't Make You Love Me". Bruce continues to feature both of these songs in his own concerts. He also
During this era he slowly began to slip jazz and bluegrass elements into his music, first in live performance settings and later on studio work. In 1989, he first performed at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. He also reworked his hit "The Valley Road" with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for their album Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two. The song won at the 1990 Grammy Awards for Best Bluegrass Recording.
A Night On The Town was released in 1990, on which he teamed up with jazz musicians Wayne Shorter and Charlie Haden as well as bluegrass pioneer Bela Fleck. A change in style became apparent as the album was much more rock- and guitar-driven, making use of Jerry Garcia's guitar work on a number of tracks, perhaps most prominently on the single "Across the River". In concert, Hornsby and the Range began to stretch out their songs, incorporating more and more "freewheeling musical exchanges." Critics received the album quite well, praising it for its production, its political relevance, and Hornsby's gestures toward expanding out of a strictly pop sound by incorporating jazz and bluegrass. Ultimately, though, the core "rock band" sound of the Range limited Hornsby's aspirations, and after a final three-week tour in 1991, Hornsby disbanded the outfit to enter a new phase of his career. Drummer John Molo continued to perform regularly with Hornsby for another few years, although other members pursued separate musical endeavors. Following Hornsby's and Molo's involvement with The Other Ones, Molo left Hornsby to become the primary drummer with Phil Lesh and Friends.
Hornsby playing accordion in New York's Central Park
The Grateful Dead
Bruce Hornsby played over a hundred shows with the Grateful Dead, beginning in 1988 and continuing until Jerry Garcia's death in 1995.
Between September 1990 and March 1992, Hornsby played piano (and frequently accordion) at every Grateful Dead gig, following the death of Brent Mydland. After that period, Vince Welnick became the sole keyboardist, although Hornsby still sat in with the band on occasion.
Hornsby's own music evolved significantly during this time period. Critics have suggested that Dead's vibrant tradition of melding folk music and the blues with psychedelic rock in "loose-knit expressions" and extended jamming "further pushed outside the confines of mainstream pop." Critics have also commented upon the "close musical connection" formed between Hornsby and Jerry Garcia, suggesting that Hornsby's particular style of jazz-fueled improvisation added to the band's repertoire, and helped to revitalize and refocus Jerry Garcia's guitar solos in the band's sound. Hornsby's friendship with Garcia would continue, both inside and outside the band, as the two would "challenge" each other to expand their musicianship through several other album and live collaborations. Above all, Hornsby's musical versatility and ability to slip in and out of extended freeform jams won over longtime Grateful Dead fans.
Hornsby originals "The Valley Road" and "Stander on the Mountain" appeared several times in the Dead's setlists. Hornsby also co-performs the improvisation "Silver Apples of the Moon" for the Grateful Dead's Infrared Roses.
Beginning in the early 1990s, and continuing to the present, Hornsby's own live shows have drawn Deadheads; he reflects upon this phenomenon as follows: "I've always liked the group of fans that we've drawn from the Grateful Dead time, because those fans are often adventurous music listeners." Hornsby has paid tribute to his time with the Dead by performing a number of their songs during his concerts and by various homages on studio and live albums.
In 1994 the Grateful Dead were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the ninth annual induction dinner. Bruce Hornsby was their presenter. To this day, Hornsby continues to work with Dead-related projects, such as Bob Weir's Ratdog, Mickey Hart's solo projects, and in 2005 participated in a tribute concert to Jerry Garcia, "Comes a Time." He has also sat in with The Other Ones and The Dead.
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Written By: gibbo on 11/23/09 at 4:10 pm
Bruce Hornsby was home on the range!
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Written By: Frank on 11/23/09 at 5:25 pm
Bruce Hornsby was home on the range!
That's just the way it is with gibbo.
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Written By: Howard on 11/23/09 at 5:31 pm
He had hits like Mandolin Rain and The Way It Is,Did he have any other hits beside those? ???
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Written By: Frank on 11/23/09 at 5:38 pm
He had hits like Mandolin Rain and The Way It Is,Did he have any other hits beside those? ???
Every little kiss was another one.
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Written By: Howard on 11/23/09 at 5:38 pm
Every little kiss was another one.
oh yeah I remember that song.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:15 am
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:16 am
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Written By: ninny on 11/24/09 at 6:39 am
The word of the day...String(s)
1. A cord usually made of fiber, used for fastening, tying, or lacing.
2. Something configured as a long, thin line: limp strings of hair.
3. A plant fiber.
4. A set of objects threaded together: a string of beads.
5. A series of similar or related acts, events, or items arranged or falling in or as if in a line. See synonyms at series.
6. Computer Science. A set of consecutive characters.
7. Informal.
1. A set of animals, especially racehorses, belonging to a single owner; a stable.
2. A scattered group of businesses under a single ownership or management: a string of boutiques.
8. Sports. A group of players ranked according to ability within a team: He made the second string.
9. Music.
1. A cord stretched on an instrument and struck, plucked, or bowed to produce tones.
2. strings The section of a band or orchestra composed of stringed instruments.
3. strings Stringed instruments or their players considered as a group.
10. Architecture.
1. A stringboard.
2. A stringcourse.
11. Games. The balk line in billiards.
12. Sports. A complete game consisting of ten frames in bowling.
13. Informal. A limiting or hidden condition. Often used in the plural: a gift with no strings attached.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 6:40 am
The word of the day...String(s)
1. A cord usually made of fiber, used for fastening, tying, or lacing.
2. Something configured as a long, thin line: limp strings of hair.
3. A plant fiber.
4. A set of objects threaded together: a string of beads.
5. A series of similar or related acts, events, or items arranged or falling in or as if in a line. See synonyms at series.
6. Computer Science. A set of consecutive characters.
7. Informal.
1. A set of animals, especially racehorses, belonging to a single owner; a stable.
2. A scattered group of businesses under a single ownership or management: a string of boutiques.
8. Sports. A group of players ranked according to ability within a team: He made the second string.
9. Music.
1. A cord stretched on an instrument and struck, plucked, or bowed to produce tones.
2. strings The section of a band or orchestra composed of stringed instruments.
3. strings Stringed instruments or their players considered as a group.
10. Architecture.
1. A stringboard.
2. A stringcourse.
11. Games. The balk line in billiards.
12. Sports. A complete game consisting of ten frames in bowling.
13. Informal. A limiting or hidden condition. Often used in the plural: a gift with no strings attached.
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How long is a piece of string?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 11/24/09 at 6:44 am
How long is a piece of string?
I think it can be any size.
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Written By: ninny on 11/24/09 at 7:03 am
The birthday of the day...Bev Bevan
Bev Bevan (born Beverley Bevan, 24 November 1944, Sparkhill, Birmingham, England) is an English rock musician, who was the drummer and one of the original members of The Move and the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). After the end of ELO in 1986, he founded ELO Part II without the original ELO singer-songwriter, Jeff Lynne.
Bevan also served as the touring drummer for Black Sabbath from 1983-1984, and played percussion on The Eternal Idol album in 1987.
After education at Moseley Grammar School where he gained two O level passes, he worked as a trainee buyer in a city centre department store called The Beehive with school friend Jasper Carrott. His professional music career started with a stint with Denny Laine in his group Denny Laine and the Diplomats, then with Carl Wayne and The Vikings, followed by The Move in 1966. The Electric Light Orchestra released their first album in 1971, by which time The Move existed only as a recording outfit. They released their final single, "California Man" in 1972, and the subsequent successes of the Electric Light Orchestra, and the Roy Wood led Wizzard, led to their being laid to rest.
Bevan has a deeply pitched singing voice. While with The Move he lent lead vocals to two tracks: a remake Of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" and the country and western spoof, "Ben Crawley Steel Co".
In 1980 Bevan published a biography of the Electric Light Orchestra. He also made a solo single in 1976, a cover version of the Sandy Nelson instrumental, "Let There Be Drums".
In 1983 he replaced Bill Ward from Black Sabbath for their Born Again tour. Bevan also appeared in two music videos ("Trashed" and "Zero the Hero").
After the death of Carl Wayne in 2004, he formed a new band, Bev Bevan's Move, with Phil Tree and former ELO Part II colleagues Phil Bates and Neil Lockwood, to play a set comprising mostly The Move classics on tour. Bates left in July 2007 to re-join ELO Part II, by then renamed to The Orchestra.
Bevan currently presents a radio show on BBC Radio West Midlands on Sunday afternoons. He also reviews records for the Midlands' Sunday Mercury and has a blog on their website.
Bevan played on all but one Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part II albums (the exception being 2001's Zoom which marked Lynne's return to recording under the ELO name, with only Richard Tandy present from previous band line-ups).
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Written By: ninny on 11/24/09 at 7:06 am
The co-birthdays of the day...Penny Jones
Penny Halsall, née Penelope Jones (b. November 24, 1946 in Preston, Lancashire, England) better known by her pen name of Penny Jordan, is a best-selling and prolific English writer of over 200 romance novels. She started writing regency romances as Caroline Courtney, and now writes contemporary romances as Penny Jordan and historical romances as Annie Groves (her mother's maiden name). She has also signed novels as Melinda Wright and Lydia Hitchcock. Her books have sold over 70 million copies worldwide and has been translated into many languages.
Widowed, she lives in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, surrounded by her pets
By her early twenties, Jordan was writing for herself, but her writing career began in earnest when she was 30, encouraged and supported by her husband. He bought her, at a time when he could ill afford it, the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first books.
She entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she did not win, an agent, who was looking for a new-style Georgette Heyer, contacted the R.N.A..
In March 1979, she published her first novel under the pseudonym Caroline Courtney, Duchess in Disguise, the same year she published other 4 books. Under this penname she published 25 regency romances until 1986. Her novels was published by different editorials: Arlington Books, Warner Books, G.K. Hall, Corgi Books, Prior...
From 1981 to 1983, she signed 3 air-hostess romps as Melinda Wright and 2 thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock, published by Columbine House.
Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan, 1981/08
In 1981, Mills & Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey signed as Penny Jordan. Since then, almost 70 million copies of her 167 Mills & Boon (or Harlequin) novels have been sold worldwide.
Some of Penny Jordan's novels are part of series, created by her or in collaboration with other authors. Her favourite Penny Jordan's Series is The Perfect Crightons. The surname for Crighton family came from her late mother in law as it was her family name prior to her marriage. The Crighton live in the fictional town Haslewich, inspired in Nantwich, the Hasle is a play on her own married surname.
Ellie Price as Annie Groves, 2003/08
Since 2003, she returned to writing historical novels as Annie Groves (she has adopted her mother's maiden-name). Jordan gains much of her inspiration from human interest stories in the news as well as her own family history. She adapted a story told by her grandmother Elsie Jones in Ellie Pride. This novel also begins a family saga.
Bibliography
As Caroline Courtney
Single novels
* Duchess in Disguise (1979)
* A Wager for Love (1979)
* Love Unmasked (1979)
* Guardian of the Heart (1979)
* Dangerous Engagement (1979)
* Love's Masquerade (1980)
* The Fortunes of Love (1980)
* The Romantic Rivals (1980)
* Heart of Honour (1981)
* Destiny's Duchess (1981)
* The Masquerading Heart (1981)
* Abandoned for Love (1981)
* The Tempestuous Affair (1981)
* Love of My Life (1981)
* Love Triumphant (1981)
* Lover's Victory (1981)
* The Courier of Love (1982)
* Love in Waiting (1982)
* Libertine in Love (1982)
* The Daring Heart (1982)
* Forbidden Love (1982)
* Hearts or Diamonds (1985)
* Prisoner of Passion (1985)
* Dual Enchantment (1985)
* Conspiracy of Kisses (1986)
As Melinda Wright
Single novels
* The Concorde Affair (1981)
* Love at 30,000 Feet (1982)
* Flight into Ecstasy (1983)
As Lydia Hitchcock
Single novels
* The Ducetti Lair (1981)
* The Geneva Touch (1982)
As Penny Jordan
Single Novels
* Falcon's Prey (1981)
* Tiger Man (1981)
* Marriage without Love (1981)
* Blackmail (1982)
* Long Cold Winter (1982)
* Caged Tiger (1982)
* Daughter of Hassan (1982)
* Northern Sunset (1982)
* Island of the Dawn (1982)
* An Unbroken Marriage (1982)
* Bought with His Name (1982)
* Escape from Desire (1982)
* Desire's Captive (1983)
* Forgotten Passion (1983)
* Man Hater (1983)
* Rescue Operation (1983)
* Flawed Marriage (1983)
* Phantom Marriage (1983)
* Sudden Engagement (1983)
* Passionate Protection (1983)
* Savage Atonement (1983)
* The Inward Storm (1984)
* Love's Choices (1984)
* Response (1984)
* Shadow Marriage (1984)
* Wanting (1984)
* Darker Side of Desire (1984)
* Rules of the Game (1984)
* Campaign for Loving (1985)
* Permission to Love (1985)
* Taken Over (1985)
* Time Fuse (1985)
* You Owe Me (1985)
* What You Made Me (1985)
* The Friendship Barrier (1985)
* Only One (1985)
* The Six-Month Marriage (1985)
* Exorcism (1985)
* Fire With Fire (1985)
* Injured Innocent (1985)
* The Hard Man (1985)
* Desire for Revenge (1985)
* Capable of Feeling (1986)
* A Man Possessed (1986)
* Return Match (1986)
* Desire Never Changes (1986)
* Research into Marriage (1986)
* A Reason for Marriage (1986)
* Loving (1986)
* Stronger Than Yearning (1986)
* Too Short a Blessing (1987)
* Passionate Relationship (1987)
* A Savage Adoration (1987)
* For One Night (1987)
* An Expert Teacher (1987)
* Substitute Lover (1987)
* Levelling the Score (1987)
* Fight for Love (1987)
* Payment in Love (1988)
* Special Treatment (1988)
* Force of Feeling (1988)
* Without Trust (1988)
* Potential Danger (1988)
* Lover's Touch (1988)
* Power Play (1988)
* A Reason for Being (1989)
* Beyond Compare (1989)
* Equal Opportunities (1989)
* Valentine's Night (1989)
* So Close and No Closer (1989)
* Free Spirit (1989)
* Bitter Betrayal (1989)
* Silver (1989)
* A Rekindled Passion (1989)
* Rival Attractions (1990)
* Time for Trust (1990)
* Unspoken Desire (1990)
* Breaking Away (1990)
* Out of the Night (1990)
* Game of Love (1990)
* The Hidden Years (1990)
* A Kind of Madness (1990)
* Second Time Loving (1990)
* Payment Due (1991)
* A Forbidden Loving (1991)
* A Time to Dream (1991)
* Dangerous Interloper (1991)
* Second-Best Husband (1991)
* A Cure for Love (1991)
* Stranger Form the Past (1991)
* Past Passion (1991)
* Law of Attraction (1992)
* Lesson to Learn (1992)
* Mistaken Adversary (1992)
* Lingering Shadows (1992)
* Past Loving (1992)
* Passionate Possession (1992)
* A Matter of Trust (1992)
* Tug of Love (1992)
* Yesterday's Echoes (1993)
* For Better for Worse (1993)
* French Leave (1994)
* Cruel Legacy (1994)
* Power Games (1995)
* Unwanted Wedding (1995)
* The Trusting Game (1995)
* Her Christmas Fantasy (1996)
* Stranger From The Past (1997)
* Mission: Make-Over (1997)
* To Love, Honour and Betray (1998)
* Wanting His Child (1999)
* One Intimate Night (1999)
* The City-Girl Bride (2001)
* Christmas Eve Wedding (2002)
* Now or Never (2003)
* Sweet Revenge (2005)
* The Christmas Bride (2006)
* Her Lover Her Husband (2006)
* The Italian Duke's Wife (2006)
* The Sheikh's Blackmailed Mistress (2008)
* The Boss's Marriage Arrangement (2008)
The Bride's Bouquet Series
1. Woman to Wed? (1996)
2. Best Man to Wed? (1996)
3. Too Wise to Wed? (1996)
* The Bride's Bouquet (Omnibus) (2000)
* Duet: Woman to Wed? / Best Man to Wed? (2005)
The Perfect Crightons Series
1. A Perfect Family (1997)
2. The Perfect Seduction (1997)
3. Perfect Marriage Material (1997)
4. The Perfect Match? (1997)
5. The Perfect Lover (1998)
6. The Perfect Sinner (1999)
7. The Ultimate Surrender (2000)
8. The Perfect Father (2000)
9. A Perfect Night (2000)
10. Coming Home (2000)
11. Starting Over (2001)
* The Crightons: The Perfect Seduction / Perfect Marriage Material / The Perfect Match? (by Request 3's) (2001)
* Women and Love: The perfect lover / The perfect father / The perfect night (2002)
Fantasy in the Night Series
1. Fantasy for Two (1998)
2. One Night in His Arms (1998)
Sweet Revenge Or Seduction Series
1. Mistress Assignment (1999)
2. Lover by Deception (1999)
3. A Treacherous Seduction (1999)
4. The Marriage Resolution (1999)
Sheikh's Arabian Nights Series
1. The Sheikh's Virgin Bride (2003)
2. One Night with the Sheikh (2003)
3. Possessed by the Sheikh (2005)
4. Taken By The Sheikh (2007)
Jet Set Wives Series
1. Bedding His Virgin Mistress (2005)
2. Expecting The Playboy's Heir (2005)
3. Blackmailing the Society Bride (2005)
* Jet Set Wives (Omnibus) (2008)
Silk Series
1. Silk (2008)
2. Sins (2009)
The Leopardi Brothers Saga
1. Captive At the Sicilian Billionaire's Command (2009)
2. The Sicilian Boss's Mistress (2009)
3. The Sicilian's Baby Bargain (2009)
For Her Eyes Only Series Multi-Author
* An Unforgettable Man (1995)
Dangerous Liaisons Series Multi-Author
* An Unforgettable Man (1995)
The Big Event Series Multi-Author
* Marriage Make Up (1998)
Amnesia Series Multi-Author
* Back in the Marriage Bed (2000)
Greek Tycoons Series Multi-Author
* The Demetrios Virgin (2001)
* The Mistress Purchase (2004)
Red-Hot Revenge Series Multi-Author
* The Marriage Demand (2001)
Wedlocked! Series Multi-Author
* The Blackmail Baby (2002)
* Marco's Convenient Wife (2002)
* Mistress to Her Husband (2004)
Do Not Disturb Series Multi-Author
* The Tycoon's Virgin (2002)
By Royal Command Series Multi-Author
* The Blackmail Marriage (2003)
* The Italian Duke's Mistress (2006)
Mistress to a Millonaire Series Multi-Author
* Mistress of Convenience (2004)
* The Mistress Purchase (2004)
Foreign Affairs Series Multi-Author
* Mistress of Convenience (2004)
Greek Tycoons Series Multi-Author
* The Mistress Purchase (2004)
Desert Brides Series Multi-Author
1. Prince of the Desert (2006)
Dinner At 8 Series Multi-Author
* The Christmas Bride (2006)
Uncut Series Multi-Author
* Master of Pleasure (2006)
The Royal House Of Niroli Series Multi-Author
1. The Future King's Pregnant Mistress (2007)
8. A Royal Bride At the Sheikh's Command (2008)
Mistress to a Millionaire Series Multi-Author
* Virgin For The Billionaire's Taking (2008)
Collections
* Penny Jordan Collection (1984)
* Best of Penny Jordan: Falcon's Prey / Tiger Man (1986)
* Penny Jordan Omnibus: Shadow Marriage / Man-hater / Passionate Protection (1992)
* Penny Jordan Collection: Fire with Fire / Capable of Loving / Substitute Lover (1993)
* Two complete stories by Penny Jordan: Game of Love / Time for Trust (1995)
* Mistletoe Magic (1996)
* Marriage of Convenience: Loving / Injured Innocent / The Six-Month Marriage (2000)
* Collector's edition: A Perfect Family / To Love, Honor and Betray / The Perfect Sinner (2000)
* A Collection: Shadow Marriage / Man-Hater / Passionate Protection (2002)
* Duet: Stronger Than Yearning / Silver (2004)
* Sweet Seduction (2005)
* Duet: Rules of the Game / Passionate Possession (2005)
* Duet: Perfect Family / Fantasy for Two (2006)
* The Sheikh's Bride (2006)
Omnibus in collaboration
* Sunsational (1991) (Fantasy by Emma Darcy / Rent-A-Bride by Emma Goldrick / You Owe Me by Penny Jordan / Lovers in the Afternoon by Carole Mortimer)
* Matched By Mistake (1996) (Passionate Protection by Penny Jordan / Hotline by Gina Wilkins / Forbidden Surrender by Carole Mortimer)
* Yours, Mine And Ours (1997) (Penny Jordan with Cathy Gillen Thacker and Marisa Carroll)
* Christmas Treats (1998) (Figgy Pudding by Penny Jordan / A man for all seasonings by Day Leclaire / All the trimmings by Lindsay Armstrong)
* Wedded Bliss (1999) (They're Wed Again by Penny Jordan / The Man She'll Marry by Carole Mortimer)
* A Man for Mum! (1999) (Wanting His Child by Penny Jordan / The Boss and the Baby by Leigh Michaels / One Mum Too Many by Vicki Lewis Thompson)
* Nearly Weds! (1999) (Making Sure of Sarah by Betty Neels / The Man She'll Marry by Carole Mortimer / They're Wed Again! by Penny Jordan
* Christmas Presents (1999) (Penny Jordan with Anne McAllister and Sally Wentworth)
* Latin Lovers (2000) (A Spanish Christmas by Penny Jordan / The Christmas Eve Bride by Lynne Graham / Christmas in Venice by Lucy Gordon)
* Wed Again! (2001) (They're Wed Again! by Penny Jordan / Anne Mather / The Man She'll Marry by Carole Mortimer)
* Christmas with a Latin Lover (2001) (The Christmas Eve Bride by Lynne Graham / A Spanish Christmas by Penny Jordan / Christmas in Venice by Lucy Gordon)
* What Women Want! (2002) (Penny Jordan with Darcy Maguire)
* City Girls (2002) (Penny Jordan with Liz Fielding and Jessica Hart)
* Winter Weddings (2002) (Christmas Eve Wedding by Penny Jordan / A Scandalous Courtship by Gail Whitiker / Snowbound Sweetheart by Judy Christenberry)
* For Love Or Money (2003) (Unwanted Wedding by Penny Jordan / The Borghese Bride by Sandra Marton)
* Greek Millionaires (2004) (Penny Jordan with Anne McAllister and Sara Craven)
* Strictly Business (2004) (The Temp and the Tycoon / The Fiance Deal by Liz Fielding with Penny Jordan and Hannah Bernard)
* Boardroom to Bedroom (2005) (The Boss's Marriage Arrangement by Penny Jordan / His Darling Valentine by Carole Mortimer)
* Plain Jane Makeover (2005) (Penny Jordan with Miranda Lee and Barbara McMahon)
* The Mills and Boon Collection: 3 Full-Length Stories (2006) (Penny Jordan with Margaret Way and Caroline Anderson)
* Marco's Convenient Wife Penny Jordan / The Mistress's Secret by Julia James) (2006)
* The Innocence Collection (2007) (Innocent Bride by Penny Jordan / Innocent Desires by Carole Mortimer / Innocent Seduction by Kay Thorpe)
Graphic Novels
* Response: Graphic Novel (2005) art by Takako Hashimoto
As Annie Groves
Pride Family Series
1. Ellie Pride, 2003
2. Connie's Courage, 2004
3. Hettie of Hope Street, 2005
World War II Series
1. Goodnight Sweetheart, 2006
2. Some Sunny Day;, 2006
3. The Grafton Girls, 2007
4. As Time Goes By, 2007
Single novels
* Across the Mersey, 2008
* Daughters of Liverpool, 2008
* The Heart of the Family, 2009
* Where the Heart Is, 2009
* I have no pics of her : :-[