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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/06/09 at 12:23 pm
No royalty, I would think some staff do live there.
Do you know how many rooms there are?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/09 at 12:30 pm
Do you know how many rooms there are?
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, acquired Hampton Court as his country residence. Within a year, he became Henry VIII's Lord High Chancellor. Wolsey built many rooms in honor of his monarch and expanded the manor, including a system of pipes laid to supply pure spring water to the property from miles away. With a staff of 500 and 1,000 rooms, Hampton Court eventually exceeded the grandiosity of any of Henry VIII's palaces. The King's covetous eye, however, fell upon the property in 1526 and Wolsey was forced to "gift" Hampton Court to the king in an attempt to regain his rapidly diminishing royal favor. Much of the 1000 room palace exists as it did at the time of the last monarch to reside there, George II in 1760. The Queen still owns this property and it is occupied and meticulously maintained. In addition to the main house, the gardens and outdoor attractions are very popular with visitors.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/06/09 at 12:44 pm
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, acquired Hampton Court as his country residence. Within a year, he became Henry VIII's Lord High Chancellor. Wolsey built many rooms in honor of his monarch and expanded the manor, including a system of pipes laid to supply pure spring water to the property from miles away. With a staff of 500 and 1,000 rooms, Hampton Court eventually exceeded the grandiosity of any of Henry VIII's palaces. The King's covetous eye, however, fell upon the property in 1526 and Wolsey was forced to "gift" Hampton Court to the king in an attempt to regain his rapidly diminishing royal favor. Much of the 1000 room palace exists as it did at the time of the last monarch to reside there, George II in 1760. The Queen still owns this property and it is occupied and meticulously maintained. In addition to the main house, the gardens and outdoor attractions are very popular with visitors.
1000 wow. Is it open year round?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/09 at 12:46 pm
1000 wow. Is it open year round?
Open all year round, but must be closed at Christmas.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/06/09 at 12:48 pm
I think being Catholic might help ;D
Well yeah, other than that the guidelines are pretty flimsy.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/06/09 at 12:50 pm
There is an exhibition on there at the moment on King Henry VIII and his wives.
One of those times where I wish I wasn't in America. :(
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/06/09 at 2:12 pm
Well yeah, other than that the guidelines are pretty flimsy.
The only real requirements are that he be a Catholic male who is not a schismatic, not a heretic, is not notorious for simony, and has reached the age of reason.
I'm sure you have to rise through the ranks first, most Popes that are picked are Cardinals, you have a outside chance if your a Bishop
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/06/09 at 2:32 pm
The only real requirements are that he be a Catholic male who is not a schismatic, not a heretic, is not notorious for simony, and has reached the age of reason.
I'm sure you have to rise through the ranks first, most Popes that are picked are Cardinals, you have a outside chance if your a Bishop
Not a heretic, that takes all the fun out of it. >:( Age of reason for some that's 17 for others it's 63. Actually some Pope's were made popes because either their Dad was one or Uncle. I think they reconsidered that after a few abused the power. Male . . . guess you've heard the legend of Pope Joan?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/06/09 at 3:16 pm
Not a heretic, that takes all the fun out of it. >:( Age of reason for some that's 17 for others it's 63. Actually some Pope's were made popes because either their Dad was one or Uncle. I think they reconsidered that after a few abused the power. Male . . . guess you've heard the legend of Pope Joan?
She came under the rules before they changed in 1059
However, the death of Henry III and the rise of child emperor Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor allowed Pope Nicholas II to promulgate In Nomine Domini in 1059, ensuring that all future elections (and, eventually, conclaves) would conform to a basic process that has remained largely unchanged for a millennium
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/06/09 at 3:19 pm
She came under the rules before they changed in 1059
However, the death of Henry III and the rise of child emperor Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor allowed Pope Nicholas II to promulgate In Nomine Domini in 1059, ensuring that all future elections (and, eventually, conclaves) would conform to a basic process that has remained largely unchanged for a millennium
She was disguising herself as a man. Guess they had to do something about that glitch.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/06/09 at 3:51 pm
I thought I had somehow picked up the history channel here... ;) :o ;D Interesting banter girls....
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/06/09 at 3:52 pm
I thought I had somehow picked up the history channel here... ;) :o ;D Interesting banter girls....
We try. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/06/09 at 3:55 pm
We try. :)
I know you are both trying..... ;)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/06/09 at 4:18 pm
I know you are both trying..... ;)
Life isn't worth living without a little stress. Based on that we're helping your longevity. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/06/09 at 4:46 pm
Life isn't worth living without a little stress. Based on that we're helping your longevity. :)
....and you continue to try... ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/06/09 at 6:01 pm
I have loads of favorite Rick James songs. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 2:41 am
I have loads of favorite Rick James songs. :)
I only really know one song from Rick James.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/07/09 at 2:50 am
I only really know one song from Rick James.
....and that would be Super Freak?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 2:52 am
....and that would be Super Freak?
You have it in one.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/07/09 at 2:58 am
You have it in one.
That's because it is the only RJ song I have heard too.... ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 2:59 am
That's because it is the only RJ song I have heard too.... ;D
...and then it was all down to MC Hammer to knowledge of this song.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/07/09 at 3:03 am
That's because it is the only RJ song I have heard too.... ;D
That makes 3 of us.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 3:08 am
That makes 3 of us.
Is it worth checking out YouTube?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/07/09 at 5:33 am
Is it worth checking out YouTube?
Mary Jane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhreCLlcq3Q#
Bustin Out(On Funk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EukUbkzy6w8&feature=related#
Ghetto Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iqVZygcqBg&feature=related#
Party All The Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5LX16zia2k#
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/07/09 at 5:39 am
The word of the day...Mess
1. A disorderly or dirty accumulation, heap, or jumble: left a mess in the yard.
2.
1. A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty condition: The kitchen was a mess.
2. A confused, troubling, or embarrassing condition; a muddle: With divorce and bankruptcy proceedings pending, his personal life was in a mess.
3. One that is in such a condition: clothes that were a mess after painting the ceiling; made a mess of their marriage.
3.
1. An amount of food, as for a meal, course, or dish: cooked up a mess of fish.
2. A serving of soft, semiliquid food: a mess of porridge.
4.
1. A group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, who regularly eat meals together.
2. Food or a meal served to such a group: took mess with the enlistees.
3. A mess hall.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/07/09 at 5:42 am
The person of the day...Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted over 31 years, from 1926 to 1957. Hardy’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 1500 Vine Street, Hollywood, California.
In 1927, Laurel and Hardy began sharing screen time together in Slipping Wives, Duck Soup (no relation to the Marx Brothers film of the same name) and With Love and Hisses. Roach Studios' supervising director Leo McCarey, realizing the audience reaction to the two, began intentionally teaming them together, leading to the start of a Laurel and Hardy series late that year. With this pairing, he created arguably the most famous double act in movie history. They began producing a huge body of short movies, including The Battle of the Century (1927) (with one of the largest pie fights ever filmed), Should Married Men Go Home? (1928), Two Tars (1928), Unaccustomed As We Are (1929, marking their transition to talking pictures) Berth Marks (1929), Blotto (1930), Brats (1930) (with Stan and Ollie portraying themselves, as well as their own sons, using oversized furniture to sets for the 'young' Laurel and Hardy), Another Fine Mess (1930), Be Big! (1931), and many others. In 1929, they appeared in their first feature, in one of the revue sequences of Hollywood Revue of 1929 and the following year they appeared as the comic relief in a lavish all-color (in Technicolor) musical feature entitled: The Rogue Song. This film marked their first appearance in color. In 1931 they made their first full length movie (in which they were the actual stars), Pardon Us although they continued to make features and shorts until 1935. Perhaps their greatest achievement, however, was The Music Box (1932), which won them an Academy Award for best short film—their only such award.
In 1936, Hardy's personal life suffered a blow as he and Myrtle divorced. Whilst waiting for a contractual issue between Laurel and Hal Roach to be resolved, Hardy made Zenobia with Harry Langdon. Eventually, however, new contracts were agreed and the team was loaned out to General Services Studio to make The Flying Deuces. While on the lot, Hardy fell in love with Virginia Lucille Jones, a script girl, whom he married the next year. They enjoyed a happy, successful marriage until his death.
Laurel and Hardy also began performing for the USO, supporting the Allied troops during World War II. They also made A Chump at Oxford (1940) (which features a moment of role reversal, with Oliver becoming a temporarily concussed subordinate to Stan) and Saps at Sea (1940).
Beginning in 1941, Laurel and Hardy's films began to decline in quality. They left Roach Studios and began making films for 20th century Fox, and later MGM. Although they were financially better off, they had very little artistic control at the large studios, and hence the films lack the very qualities that had made Laurel and Hardy worldwide names.
In 1947, Laurel and Hardy went on a six week tour of Great Britain. Initially unsure of how they would be received, they were mobbed wherever they went. The tour was then lengthened to include engagements in Scandinavia, Belgium, France, as well as a Royal Command Performance for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Biographer John McCabe said they continued to make live appearances in the United Kingdom and France for the next several years, until 1954, often using new sketches and material that Laurel had written for them.
Oliver Hardy in The Fighting Kentuckian, 1949.
In 1949, Hardy's friend, John Wayne, asked him to play a supporting role in The Fighting Kentuckian. Hardy had previously worked with Wayne and John Ford in a charity production of the play What Price Glory? while Laurel began treatment for his diabetes a few years previously. Initially hesitant, Hardy accepted the role at the insistence of his comedy partner. Frank Capra later invited Hardy to play a cameo role in Riding High with Bing Crosby in 1950.
In 1950-51, Laurel and Hardy made their final film. Atoll K (also known as Utopia) was a simple concept; Laurel inherits an island, and the boys set out to sea, where they encounter a storm and discover a brand new island, rich in uranium, making them powerful and wealthy. However, it was produced by a consortium of European interests, with an international cast and crew that could not speak to each other. In addition, the script needed to be rewritten by Stan to make it fit the comedy team's style, and both suffered serious physical illness during the filming.
In 1955, the pair had contracted with Hal Roach Jr. to produce a series of TV shows based on the Mother Goose fables. They would be filmed in color for NBC. However, this was never to be. Laurel suffered a stroke, which required a lengthy convalescence. Hardy had a heart attack and stroke later that year, from which he never physically recovered.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/07/09 at 5:45 am
The co-person of the day...Peter Jennings
eter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. A high-school dropout, he transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists.
Jennings started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio show at the age of nine. In 1965, ABC News tapped him to anchor its flagship evening news program. His inexperience marred his first short stint in the anchor chair, and Jennings became a foreign correspondent in 1968, honing his reporting skills in the Middle East.
He returned as one of World News Tonight's three anchors in 1978, and was promoted to the role of sole anchor in 1983. Jennings formed part of the "Big Three" news anchors who dominated American evening news in the 1980s and 1990s. In addition to anchoring, Jennings hosted several news specials and moderated presidential debates. Having always been fascinated with the United States, Jennings became a naturalized United States citizen in 2003. His death, which closely followed the retirements of Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, marked the end of the "Big Three" era.
Jennings' debut on September 5, 1983 marked the beginning of a steady climb in the ratings for ABC News. He spent his first year at the anchor desk educating himself on American domestic affairs in preparation for the 1984 presidential campaign season. In June 1984, Jennings, who later admitted that his political knowledge was limited at the time, co-anchored ABC's coverage of the Democratic National Convention with David Brinkley. "I had not covered an election campaign in 16 years," Jennings said, "so here was I going to co-anchor with David Brinkley in 1984, and he wasn't even sure I knew who the faces belonged to, and he was right." Jennings and ABC were criticized for suddenly halting coverage of the convention for 30 minutes and airing a rerun of Hart to Hart instead.
Despite a shaky start at the anchor desk, Jennings' broadcast began to climb in the ratings. Jennings was praised for his performance during the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, when he anchored ABC's coverage of the event for 11 straight hours. By 1989, competition among the three nightly newscasts had risen to fever pitch. When the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area, media pundits praised Jennings and ABC News for their prompt on-air response, while criticizing the delayed reaction of Tom Brokaw and NBC News. The next month, Brokaw redeemed himself by scooping the other networks with news of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was World News Tonight, however, that ended the year at the top; ABC's evening newscast spent the last 13 weeks of the year in first place, and its average ratings for the entire year beat CBS for the first time.
Jennings' on-air success continued in 1990, and World News Tonight consistently led the ratings race. In January, he anchored the first installment of Peter Jennings Reporting – hour-long, prime-time ABC News specials dedicated to exploring a single topic. His inaugural program on gun violence in America drew praise. His second installment of Peter Jennings Reporting in April, "From the Killing Fields", focused on US policy towards Cambodia. The program alleged that the federal government was covertly supporting the Khmer Rouge's return to power in the Asian nation, a charge that the Bush administration initially denied. On July 18, though, the White House announced that it was ending recognition of the Khmer Rouge.
When the Gulf War started on January 16, 1991, Jennings began a marathon anchoring stint to cover the story, spending 20 of the first 48 hours of the war on-air, and leading ABC News to its highest-ever ratings. After interrupting regular Saturday morning cartoons on January 19 to broadcast a military briefing from Saudi Arabia, Jennings and ABC became concerned about the emotional impact of the war coverage on children. Out of that concern, Jennings hosted a 90-minute special, War in the Gulf: Answering Children's Questions the next Saturday morning; the program featured Jennings, ABC correspondents, and American military personnel answering phoned-in questions and explaining the war to young viewers.
On October 13, 1991, breaking news forced ABC News to interrupt regular Saturday morning programming again. Jennings was once again mindful of his audience, prefacing the coverage of the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with remarks for children. "You may hear some not very nice language," said Jennings. He noted that Thomas and his accuser, Anita Hill, "have a very painful disagreement about some things the woman says the man did to her when they were working together...You can ask your parents to tell you more." Jennings continued to produce special programs aimed at young viewers, anchoring Growing Up in the Age of AIDS, a frank, 90-minute-long discussion on AIDS in February 1992, and Prejudice: Answering Children's Questions, a forum on racism in April 1992.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/07/09 at 5:48 am
The flower for Friday...Gardenia
1. Any of various shrubs and trees of the Old World tropics that belong to the genus Gardenia, especially G. jasminoides native to China, having glossy evergreen leaves and large, fragrant, usually white flowers.
2. The flower of this plant.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 6:27 am
Another fine mess?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/07/09 at 7:23 am
....and that would be Super Freak?
You And I
Mary Jane
Cold Blooded
17
Glow
You Turn Me On
Give It To Me Baby
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 7:24 am
You And I
Mary Jane
Cold Blooded
17
Glow
You Turn Me On
Give It To Me Baby
These are not familiar to me.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/07/09 at 7:30 am
These are not familiar to me.
Those were songs from 1980-1985.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/07/09 at 7:30 am
The Pathmark parking lot is a mess. :P
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 08/07/09 at 7:46 am
I love the old "Laurel and Hardy" films. I always check the TV listings for those films. Thanks for the nice retrospect on Oliver Hardy, Ninny.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 7:48 am
I love the old "Laurel and Hardy" films. I always check the TV listings for those films. Thanks for the nice retrospect on Oliver Hardy, Ninny.
The one in hosptial, boiled eggs and walnuts?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/07/09 at 8:28 am
I love the old "Laurel and Hardy" films. I always check the TV listings for those films. Thanks for the nice retrospect on Oliver Hardy, Ninny.
What's your favorite?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 9:34 am
What's your favorite?
Way Out West
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/07/09 at 10:22 am
I love the old "Laurel and Hardy" films. I always check the TV listings for those films. Thanks for the nice retrospect on Oliver Hardy, Ninny.
Your Welcome :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/07/09 at 10:34 am
Way Out West
Good one..I also liked A Chump At Oxford
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 11:34 am
Good one..I also liked A Chump At Oxford
There is also that piano moving one.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 12:44 pm
Stan Laurel, one half of the world's most famous comedy duo, used to live at No. 8 Dockwray Square, North Shields, between 1897 and 1901 – when his father managed the town's Theatre Royal.
The house is no longer there, but a blue plaque is in situ between numbers 6 and 7. In 1989, a statue of Laurel was also erected in the square.
The steps that lead down from Dockwray Square to the North Shields Fish Quay were supposed to have inspired the piano-moving scene in their film The Music Box.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 12:47 pm
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The stairs that were used in The Music Box are still standing, located between 932-935 Vendome Street, just south of Sunset Boulevard in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Above is a picture of how the stairs look today. Not only were the stairs used in The Music Box but they are featured in an earlier Laurel & Hardy film from 1927, Hats Off. In this film the boys were delivering vacuum cleaners. At the base of the stairs you will find a plaque ackowledging the significance of these steps. The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board has made this location a cultural landmark. Not only is their plague but there is now also a street sign for this particular location.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 12:52 pm
Type "923 N Vendome St, Los Angeles, California 90026, United States" into Google Street View and the piano location can be seen.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 12:57 pm
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of their appearance in Southend, the Saps At Sea Tent organised a Laurel and Hardy Convention which was attended by 100 devotees from the UK, Europe and America. As part of the celebrations, a blue plaque was unveiled on Southend Pier by Sir John Mills. Other celebrities present were John Inman, Jack Douglas, Vicky Michelle, Bella Emburg and Joe Goodman. It was intended that the blue plaque be placed on the Pier after restoration work had been completed. The plaque is currently housed in the Pier Museum and it is hoped that it will soon be placed in a suitable and permanent place to commemorate the week when Laurel and Hardy were in our town in 1952.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/07/09 at 4:00 pm
There was a commercial years ago with Laurel And Hardy lookalikes.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 4:02 pm
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of their appearance in Southend, the Saps At Sea Tent organised a Laurel and Hardy Convention which was attended by 100 devotees from the UK, Europe and America. As part of the celebrations, a blue plaque was unveiled on Southend Pier by Sir John Mills. Other celebrities present were John Inman, Jack Douglas, Vicky Michelle, Bella Emburg and Joe Goodman. It was intended that the blue plaque be placed on the Pier after restoration work had been completed. The plaque is currently housed in the Pier Museum and it is hoped that it will soon be placed in a suitable and permanent place to commemorate the week when Laurel and Hardy were in our town in 1952.
On my trip to Southend-on-Sea two years back, I looked for this plaque and could not find it.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/07/09 at 4:07 pm
The flower for Friday...Gardenia
1. Any of various shrubs and trees of the Old World tropics that belong to the genus Gardenia, especially G. jasminoides native to China, having glossy evergreen leaves and large, fragrant, usually white flowers.
2. The flower of this plant.
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Those are really beautiful flowers. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/07/09 at 4:13 pm
Thanks for not posting a picture of me under the word mess. :D
Peter Jennings, that voice and demmeaner made watching the news tolerable.
Laurel and Hardy meets Dracula a true unsung classic. I love watching Bela Lugosi trying to keep a straight face. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 4:15 pm
Laurel and Hardy meets Dracula a true unsung classic. I love watching Bela Lugosi trying to keep a straight face. :)
I have never seen that and want to now.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/07/09 at 4:18 pm
I have never seen that and want to now.
I've seen March of The Wooden Soldiers.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/07/09 at 4:19 pm
I have never seen that and want to now.
It's really neat seeing Bela trying to be Dracula with all the silliness around him. Shear enjoyment to watch. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/07/09 at 4:20 pm
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The stairs that were used in The Music Box are still standing, located between 932-935 Vendome Street, just south of Sunset Boulevard in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Above is a picture of how the stairs look today. Not only were the stairs used in The Music Box but they are featured in an earlier Laurel & Hardy film from 1927, Hats Off. In this film the boys were delivering vacuum cleaners. At the base of the stairs you will find a plaque ackowledging the significance of these steps. The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board has made this location a cultural landmark. Not only is their plague but there is now also a street sign for this particular location.
Very interesting
Thanks for not posting a picture of me under the word mess. :D
Peter Jennings, that voice and demmeaner made watching the news tolerable.
Laurel and Hardy meets Dracula a true unsung classic. I love watching Bela Lugosi trying to keep a straight face. :)
Laurel and Hardy meets Dracula that's a great one.
I've seen March of The Wooden Soldiers.
Another good one.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 4:17 am
There is world famous Laurel and Hardy Museum devoted to Stan and Olly in Ulverston, Cumbria the birthplace of Stan Laurel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 4:23 am
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The plaque says it all.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/08/09 at 5:45 am
The word of the day...Box
1.
1. A container typically constructed with four sides perpendicular to the base and often having a lid or cover.
2. The amount or quantity that such a container can hold.
2. A square or rectangle: Draw a box around your answer.
3.
1. A separated compartment in a public place of entertainment, such as a theater or stadium, for the accommodation of a small group.
2. An area of a public place, such as a courtroom or stadium, marked off and restricted for use by persons performing a specific function: a jury box.
4. A small structure serving as a shelter: a sentry box.
5. Chiefly British. A small country house used as a sporting lodge: a shooting box.
6. A box stall.
7. The raised seat for the driver of a coach or carriage.
8. Baseball.
1. An area on a diamond marked by lines designating where the batter may stand.
2. Any of various designated areas for other team members, such as the pitcher, catcher, and coaches.
9. Sports. A penalty box.
10. Printing. Featured printed matter enclosed by hairlines, a border, or white space and placed within or between text columns.
11. A hollow made in the side of a tree for the collection of sap.
12. A post office box.
13.
1. An inbox.
2. An outbox.
14.
1. An insulating, enclosing, or protective casing or part in a machine.
2. A signaling device enclosed in a casing: an alarm box.
15. A cable box.
16.
1. Informal. A television.
2. A very large portable radio.
17. Chiefly British. A gift or gratuity, especially one given at Christmas.
18. An awkward or perplexing situation; a predicament.
19. Vulgar Slang. The vulva and the vagina.
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Written By: ninny on 08/08/09 at 5:48 am
The person of the day...Louise Brooks
Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, famous for pioneering the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W. Pabst films: in Pandora's Box (1929), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), and Prix de Beauté (Miss Europe) (1930) . She starred in 17 silent films and, late in life, authored a memoir, Lulu in Hollywood.
Brooks made her screen debut in the silent The Street of Forgotten Men, in an uncredited role in 1925. Soon, however, she was playing the female lead in a number of silent light comedies and flapper films over the next few years, starring with Adolphe Menjou and W. C. Fields, among others.
Brooks in The Canary Murder Case (1929)
She was noticed in Europe for her pivotal vamp role in the Howard Hawks directed silent "buddy film," A Girl in Every Port in 1928.
It has been said that her best American role was in one of the early sound film dramas, Beggars of Life (1928), as an abused country girl on the run with Richard Arlen and Wallace Beery playing hoboes she meets while riding the rails. Much of this film was shot on location, and the boom microphone was invented for this film by the director William Wellman, who needed it for one of the first experimental talking scenes in the movies. By this time in her life, she was rubbing elbows with the rich and famous, and was a regular guest of William Randolph Hearst and his mistress, Marion Davies, at San Simeon, being close friends with Davies' niece, Pepi Lederer. Her distinctive bob haircut, which became eponymous, and is still recognised to this day, had helped start a trend, as many women in the Western world began to wear their hair as both she and fellow film star Colleen Moore did. Soon after the film Beggars Of Life was made, Brooks, who loathed the Hollywood "scene," refused to stay on at Paramount after being denied a promised raise, and left for Europe to make films for G. W. Pabst, the great German Expressionist director.
Paramount attempted to use the coming of sound films to strongarm the actress, but she called the studio's bluff. It was not until 30 years later that this rebellious move would come to be seen as arguably the most savvy of her career, securing her immortality as a silent film legend and independent spirit. Unfortunately, while her initial snubbing of Paramount alone would not have finished her in Hollywood altogether, her refusal after returning from Germany to come back to Paramount for sound retakes of The Canary Murder Case (1929) irrevocably placed her on an unofficial blacklist. Actress Margaret Livingston was hired to dub Brooks's voice for the film, and the studio claimed that Brooks' voice was unsuitable for work in sound pictures.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/08/09 at 5:50 am
The co-person of the day...Alan Napier
Alan Napier (born Alan William Clavering; 7 January 1903 – 8 August 1988) was an English character actor. He is best known for playing Alfred in the 1960s live-action Batman television series.
Napier was a cousin of Neville Chamberlain, Britain's prime minister from 1937 to 1940 and a great-great-grandson of author Charles Dickens. He was stage-struck from childhood and after graduating from Clifton College, the tall 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), booming-voiced Napier studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then later was engaged by the Oxford Players, where he worked with such raw young talent as Sir John Gielgud and Robert Morley. He continued working with the cream of Britain's acting crop during his ten years (1929–1939) on the West End stage. He came to New York City in 1940 to co-star with Gladys George in Lady in Waiting. Though his film career had begun in England in the 1930s, he had very little success before the cameras until he arrived and joined the British community in Hollywood in 1941. There he spent time with such people as James Whale. He usually played dignified, sometimes WASPish roles of all sizes in such films as Cat People (1942), The Uninvited (1943), and House of Horror (1946).
In The Song of Bernadette, he played the ethically questionable psychiatrist who is hired to declare Bernadette mentally ill. He appeared in two Shakespeare films: the Orson Welles Macbeth, in which he played a priest that Welles added to the story, who spoke lines originally uttered by other characters, and MGM's Julius Caesar, in which he played Cicero. He also played the vicious Earl of Warwick in Joan of Arc. In 1949, he made an appearance on the short-lived television anthology series Your Show Time as Sherlock Holmes, in an adaptation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band". In the 1950s he appeared on TV in four episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
In 1966, he was the first to be cast on the smash-hit TV series Batman, as Bruce Wayne's faithful butler Alfred, a role he played until the series' cancellation in 1968.
I had never read comics before I . My agent rang up and said, 'I think you are going to play on "Batman,"' I said 'What is "Batman"?' He said, 'Don't you read the comics?' I said, 'No, never.' He said, 'I think you are going to be Batman's butler.' I said, 'How do I know I want to be Batman's butler?' It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard of. He said, 'It may be worth over $100,000.' So I said I was Batman's butler.
Napier's career extended into the 1980s, with TV roles in such miniseries as QB VII and such weeklies as The Paper Chase.
Napier is the grandfather of actor Brian Forster, best known as portraying (the second) Chris Partridge on the television series, The Partridge Family, and the great-grandfather of actor James Napier, who is perhaps most notable for his roles on the television series' The Tribe and Power Rangers Dino Thunder.
Napier died from a stroke on 8 August 1988, in Santa Monica, California at the age of 85. His final resting place is at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/08/09 at 6:00 am
I am unfamiliar with Louise Brooks work. Interesting reading though...
I thought I didn't know Alan Naoier until I got to the Batman part... wow he already looked 85 when he made Batman..he would have been 63-65 years of age at that time.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/08/09 at 6:00 am
It's also the 35th Anniversary of Richard Nixon's impeachment.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 6:09 am
Living in A Box by Living In A Box (1987)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/08/09 at 6:10 am
Living in A Box by Living In A Box (1987)
A song with the name of the group as the same as the title.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 6:11 am
Doomed postbox turned into shrine
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 6:11 am
A song with the name of the group as the same as the title.
A rarity with a catchy song.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/08/09 at 6:12 am
A rarity with a catchy song.
must have been a one hit wonder.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 6:16 am
must have been a one hit wonder.
Not in the UK.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/08/09 at 6:18 am
Not in the UK.
must have been a US thing.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 6:21 am
must have been a US thing.
Have you checked a US Chart website?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 6:22 am
must have been a one hit wonder.
The song "Living in a Box" was later covered by Bobby Womack, who had also worked with Living in a Box on their debut album.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/08/09 at 6:23 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHt_GzOgjvA
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 6:23 am
Living in A Box by Living In A Box (1987)
Living in a Box were a British pop band from the 1980s and early 1990s
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/08/09 at 6:23 am
Little boxes on the hillside ... and they're all made out of ticky tacky ... and they all look just the same!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/08/09 at 6:24 am
Living in a Box were a British pop band from the 1980s and early 1990s
What about other hits?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 6:25 am
Little boxes on the hillside ... and they're all made out of ticky tacky ... and they all look just the same!
Now that song takes me back to my childhood years.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/08/09 at 6:25 am
Living in A Box by Living In A Box (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHt_GzOgjvA
I was just about to post the song, good job Howie.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/08/09 at 6:27 am
I was just about to post the song, good job Howie.
You're Welcome. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/08/09 at 6:28 am
Now that song takes me back to my childhood years.
I thought it might. Likewise myself....
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/08/09 at 6:28 am
What about other hits?
Room In Your Heart
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 6:29 am
What about other hits?
The hits of Living In A Box:
Living In A Box #5
1987 Scales Of Justice #30
1987 So The Story Goes (Featuring Bobby Womack) #34
1988 Love Is The Art #45
1989 Blow The House Down #10
1989 Gatecrashing #36
1989 Room In Your Heart #5
1989 A Different Air #57
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/08/09 at 6:30 am
Little boxes on the hillside ... and they're all made out of ticky tacky ... and they all look just the same!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN3rN59GlWw#
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 6:31 am
I thought it might. Likewise myself....
Without looking it up, I am trying to remember who sang it. I know it is not Leapy Lee.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/08/09 at 6:44 am
Without looking it up, I am trying to remember who sang it. I know it is not Leapy Lee.
Just listened to ninny's link of Pete Seeger singing Little Boxes (and it's the version I remember). Interesting ssocial commentary song ...
There is also a good original version on youtube sung by Malvina Reynolds (an early folk singer)...
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/08/09 at 6:52 am
Without looking it up, I am trying to remember who sang it. I know it is not Leapy Lee.
He did Little Arrows.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/08/09 at 6:54 am
He did Little Arrows.
Here they came falling out of the blue...little arrows for me and for you!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/08/09 at 6:58 am
Here they came falling out of the blue...little arrows for me and for you!
My father has some Country music tapes and he use to play this all the time to my kids..They loved the song,well at least they did when they were young.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 7:06 am
Just listened to ninny's link of Pete Seeger singing Little Boxes (and it's the version I remember). Interesting ssocial commentary song ...
There is also a good original version on youtube sung by Malvina Reynolds (an early folk singer)...
Was is Pete Seeger, I would not had guess that
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 7:06 am
He did Little Arrows.
That I am aware of.
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Written By: ninny on 08/08/09 at 7:25 am
Was is Pete Seeger, I would not had guess that
A hardcore version by Rise Against
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55HfltSYVs&feature=related#
My son just saw them in concert last week....lucky him :-\\
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 2:48 am
A hardcore version by Rise Against
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55HfltSYVs&feature=related#
My son just saw them in concert last week....lucky him :-\\
Will I have to turn the sound down on my speakers for this?
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Written By: ninny on 08/09/09 at 6:14 am
Will I have to turn the sound down on my speakers for this?
Most likely.
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Written By: ninny on 08/09/09 at 6:20 am
The word of the day...Palace
1. The official residence of a royal personage.
2. Chiefly British. The official residence of a high dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.
3.
1. A large or splendid residence.
2. A large, often gaudily ornate building used for entertainment or exhibitions.
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Written By: gibbo on 08/09/09 at 6:33 am
I have always liked that 'fairy tale castle' pic. It's in Bavaria or Lichtenstein isn't it? :-\\
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 6:42 am
The word of the day...Palace
1. The official residence of a royal personage.
2. Chiefly British. The official residence of a high dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.
3.
1. A large or splendid residence.
2. A large, often gaudily ornate building used for entertainment or exhibitions.
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Buckingham Palace, been there, but never in it!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 6:43 am
The word of the day...Palace
1. The official residence of a royal personage.
2. Chiefly British. The official residence of a high dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.
3.
1. A large or splendid residence.
2. A large, often gaudily ornate building used for entertainment or exhibitions.
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Alexandra Palace, north London, been close by it, but never in it.
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Written By: ninny on 08/09/09 at 6:50 am
The person of the day...Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group.
One of its original founders, Garcia performed with The Grateful Dead for their entire three-decade career (which spanned from 1965 to 1995); and also founded and participated in a variety of side projects, including the Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, and Legion of Mary. Garcia co-founded the New Riders of the Purple Sage with John Dawson and David Nelson. He also released several solo albums, and contributed to a number of albums by other artists over the years as a session musician. He was well known by many for his distinctive guitar playing and was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" cover story.. Later in life, Garcia was sometimes ill because of his unstable weight, and in 1986 went into a diabetic coma that nearly cost him his life. Although his overall health improved somewhat after that, he also struggled with heroin addiction, and was staying in a California drug rehabilitation facility when he died of a heart attack in August 1995
Garcia was well-noted for his "soulful extended guitar improvisations", which would frequently feature interplay between himself and his fellow band members. His fame, as well as the band's, arguably rested on their ability to never play a song the same way twice. Often, Garcia would take cues from rhythm guitarist Bob Weir on when to solo, remarking that "there are some kinds of ideas that would really throw me if I had to create a harmonic bridge between all the things going on rhythmically with two drums and Phil innovative bass playing. Weir's ability to solve that sort of problem is extraordinary. Harmonically, I take a lot of my solo cues from Bob."
When asked to describe his approach to soloing, Garcia commented: "It keeps on changing. I still basically revolve around the melody and the way it’s broken up into phrases as I perceive them. With most solos, I tend to play something that phrases the way the melody does; my phrases may be more dense or have different value, but they’ll occur in the same places in the song. "
Garcia and the band toured almost constantly from their formation in 1965 until Garcia's death in 1995, a stint which gave credit to the name "endless tour". Periodically, there were breaks due to exhaustion or health problems, often due to unstable health and drug use of Garcia. During their three decade span, the Grateful Dead played 2,314 shows.
Garcia's mature guitar-playing melded elements from the various kinds of music that had enthralled him. Echoes of bluegrass playing (such as Arthur Smith and Doc Watson) could be heard. But the "roots music" behind bluegrass had its influence, too, and melodic riffs from Celtic fiddle jigs can be distinguished. There was also early rock (like Lonnie Mack, James Burton and Chuck Berry), contemporary blues (such as Freddie King and Lowell Fulson), country and western (such as Roy Nichols and Don Rich), and jazz (like Charlie Christian) to be heard in Jerry's style. Don Rich was the sparkling country guitar player in Buck Owens's "the Buckaroos" band of the 1960s, but besides Rich's style, both Garcia's pedal steel guitar playing (on Grateful Dead records and others) and his standard electric guitar work, were influenced by another of Owens's Buckaroos of that time, pedal-steel player Tom Brumley. And as an improvisational soloist, John Coltrane was one of his greatest personal and musical influences.
Jerry Garcia in 1969
Garcia later described his playing style as having "descended from barroom rock and roll, country guitar. Just 'cause that's where all my stuff comes from. It's like that blues instrumental stuff that was happening in the late Fifties and early Sixties, like Freddie King." Garcia's style varied somewhat according to the song or instrumental to which he was contributing. His playing had a number of so-called "signatures" and, in his work through the years with the Grateful Dead, one of these was lead lines making much use of rhythmic triplets (examples include the songs "Good Morning Little School Girl", "New Speedway Boogie", "Brokedown Palace", "Deal", "Loser", "Truckin'", "That's It for the Other One", "U.S. Blues", "Sugaree", and "Don't Ease Me In").
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 6:53 am
The word of the day...Palace
1. The official residence of a royal personage.
2. Chiefly British. The official residence of a high dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.
3.
1. A large or splendid residence.
2. A large, often gaudily ornate building used for entertainment or exhibitions.
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Blenheim Palace, I have always by passed it.
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Written By: ninny on 08/09/09 at 6:53 am
The co-person of the day...Sharon Tate
Sharon Marie Tate (January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American actress. During the 1960s she played small television roles before appearing in several films. After receiving positive reviews for her comedic performances, she was hailed as one of Hollywood's promising newcomers and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Valley of the Dolls (1967). She also appeared regularly in fashion magazines as a model and cover girl.
Married to the film director Roman Polanski in 1968, Tate was eight and a half months pregnant when she was murdered in her home, along with four others, by followers of Charles Manson.
A decade after the murders, Tate's mother, Doris, in response to the growing cult status of the killers and the possibility that any of them might be granted parole, organized a public campaign against what she considered shortcomings in the state's corrections system which led to amendments to the California criminal law in 1982, which allowed crime victims and their families to make victim impact statements during sentencing and at parole hearings. Doris Tate was the first person to make such an impact statement under the new law, when she spoke at the parole hearing of one of her daughter's killers, Charles "Tex" Watson. She later said that she believed the changes in the law had afforded her daughter dignity that had been denied her before, and that she had been able to "help transform Sharon's legacy from murder victim to a symbol of victims' rights".
After filming Tate remained in London where she immersed herself in the fashion world and nightclubs. Around this time she met Roman Polanski.
A color screenshot from the film, The Fearless Vampire Killers. Tate is sitting in a large ceramic bathtub, filled with bubbles up to her shoulders. Strands of hair from her red wig are draped over her face, as she looks, smiling, at Roman Polanski, who is leaning towards her at the side of the bathtub.
Tate with Roman Polanski in The Fearless Vampire Killers
Tate and Polanski later agreed that neither of them had been impressed by the other when they first met. Polanski was planning The Fearless Vampire Killers, which was being co-produced by Ransohoff, and had decided that he wanted the red-headed actress Jill St. John for the female lead. Ransohoff insisted that Polanski cast Tate, and after meeting with her, he agreed that she would be suitable on the condition that she wore a red wig during filming. The company traveled to Italy for filming where Tate's fluent Italian proved useful in communicating with the local crew members. A perfectionist, Polanski had little patience with the inexperienced Tate, and said in an interview that one scene had required seventy takes before he was satisfied. In addition to directing, Polanski also played one of the main characters, a guileless young man who is intrigued by Tate's character and begins a romance with her. As filming progressed, Polanski praised her performances and her confidence grew. They began a relationship, and Tate moved into Polanski's London apartment after filming ended. Jay Sebring traveled to London where he insisted on meeting Polanski. Although friends later said he was devastated, he befriended Polanski and remained Tate's closest confidante. Polanski later commented that Sebring was a lonely and isolated person, who viewed Tate and himself as his family.
Tate returned to the United States to film Don't Make Waves with Tony Curtis, leaving Polanski in London. Tate played the part of Malibu, and was the inspiration for the popular "Malibu Barbie" doll. The film was intended to capitalize on the popularity of beach movies and the music of such artists as the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean. Tate's character, billed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity as "Malibu, Queen of the Surf", wore little more than a bikini for most of the film. Disappointed with the film, she began referring to herself sarcastically as "sexy little me". Before the film's release, a major publicity campaign resulted in photographs and life-sized cardboard figures of Sharon Tate being displayed in cinema foyers throughout the United States; a concurrent advertising campaign by Coppertone featured Tate. The film opened to poor reviews and mediocre ticket sales and Tate was quoted as confiding to a reporter, "It's a terrible movie", before adding, "Sometimes I say things I shouldn't. I guess I'm too outspoken."
Polanski returned to the United States, and was contracted to direct the film version of Ira Levin's novel, Rosemary's Baby. Polanski later admitted that he had wanted Tate to star in the film and had hoped that someone would suggest her, as he felt it inappropriate to make the suggestion himself. The producers did not suggest Tate, and Mia Farrow was cast. Tate reportedly provided ideas for some of the key scenes, including the scene in which the protagonist, Rosemary, is impregnated. She also appeared uncredited as a guest in a party scene. A frequent visitor to the set, she was photographed there by Esquire magazine and the resulting photographs generated considerable publicity for both Tate and the film.
A March 1967 article about Tate in Playboy magazine began, "This is the year that Sharon Tate happens..." and included six nude or partially nude photographs taken by Roman Polanski during filming of The Fearless Vampire Killers. Tate was optimistic: Eye of the Devil and The Fearless Vampire Killers were each due for release, and she had been signed to play a major role in the film version of Valley of the Dolls. One of the all-time literary bestsellers, the film version was highly publicized and anticipated, and while Tate acknowledged that such a prominent role should further her career, she confided to Polanski that she did not like either the book or the script.
Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins and Judy Garland were cast as the other leads. Susan Hayward replaced Garland a few weeks later when Garland was dismissed. Director Mark Robson was highly critical of the three principal actresses but, according to Duke, directed most of his criticism at Tate. Duke later said Robson "continually treated like an imbecile, which she definitely was not, and she was very attuned and sensitive to this treatment." Polanski later quoted Robson as saying to him, "That's a great girl you're living with. Few actresses have her kind of vulnerability. She's got a great future."
In interviews during production, Tate expressed an affinity for her character, Jennifer North, an aspiring actress admired only for her body. Some magazines commented that Tate was viewed similarly and Look magazine published an unfavorable article about the three lead actresses, describing Tate as "a hopelessly stupid and vain starlet". Tate, Duke and Parkins developed a close friendship which continued after the completion of the film. Tate promoted the film enthusiastically. She frequently commented on her admiration for Lee Grant, with whom she had played several dramatic scenes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 6:54 am
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Hampton Court Palace on a rainy day.
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Written By: ninny on 08/09/09 at 6:56 am
* Honorable mention*...Bernie Mac
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough (October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008), better known by his stage name Bernie Mac, was an American actor and comedian. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Mac gained popularity as a stand-up comedian. He joined comedians Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D.L. Hughley as The Original Kings of Comedy.
After briefly hosting the HBO show Midnight Mac, Mac appeared in several films in smaller roles. His most noted film role was as Frank Catton in the remake Ocean's Eleven and the titular character of Mr. 3000. He was the star of The Bernie Mac Show, which ran from 2001-2006, earning him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. His other films included starring roles in Friday,The Players Club, Head of State, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Bad Santa, Guess Who, Pride, Soul Men, and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the solid organs, but had said the condition was in remission in 2005. Despite having the disease, his death on August 9, 2008 was caused by complications from pneumonia.
Mac started as a stand-up comedian in Chicago's Cotton Club. After he won the Miller Lite Comedy Search at the age of 32, his popularity as a comedian began to grow. A performance on HBO's Def Comedy Jam thrust him into the spotlight. He opened for Dionne Warwick, Redd Foxx and Natalie Cole. He also had a short-lived talk show on HBO titled Midnight Mac. Later, Mac also acted in minor roles and got his big break as "Pastor Clever" in Ice Cube's 1995 film Friday. Following that role, Mac also worked in many other films and had some television appearances in titles including, Booty Call, How to Be a Player, Life and What's the Worst That Could Happen?. Mac was one of the few African American comedic actors able to break from the traditional "black comedy" genre, having roles in the 2001 remake of Ocean's Eleven and becoming the new Bosley for the Charlie's Angels sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. In 2003, he gave an impressive performance in a supporting role as the villain "Gin Slagel, The Store Dick" in Bad Santa. He also starred in Guess Who?, a comedic remake of the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and made an appearance in the 2007 film Transformers as the car salesman "Bobby Bolivia." He served as the voice of Zuba in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
In 2001, Fox gave Mac his own semi-autobiographical sitcom called The Bernie Mac Show. In the show, he suddenly becomes custodian of his sister's three children after she enters rehab. It was a success, in part because it allowed Mac to stay true to his stand-up comedy roots, breaking the fourth wall to communicate his thoughts to the audience. The show contained many parodies of events in Bernie's actual life. It was not renewed after the 2006 season. Viewers were left without a conclusion for the series, and no ending to the storyline of Bernie and Wanda trying to have a baby. Among other awards, the show won an Emmy for ‘Outstanding Writing’, the Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, and last but not least, the Humanitas Prize for television writing that promotes human dignity. His character on The Bernie Mac Show was ranked #47 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time."
In 2004, Bernie Mac had his first starring role as a retired baseball player in the film Mr. 3000. In the 2003 National League Championship Series, Mac sang "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" at Wrigley Field with the Chicago Cubs leading the Florida Marlins in the series 3-2 and in Game 6 by a 3-0 score. Instead of saying "root, root, root for the Cubbies" Mac said, "root, root, root for the champions!" The Cubs lost the game and the series, with some fans claiming that Mac helped jinx the Cubs. Mac later admitted that he had hated the North Side's Cubs his whole life, being a die-hard fan of the South Side's White Sox, and was seen during the White Sox' 2005 World Series victory at U.S. Cellular Field.
Mac in premiere of Transformers in June 2007
He was number 72 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time. On March 19, 2007, Mac told David Letterman on the CBS Late Show that he would retire from his 30-year career after he finished shooting the comedy film, The Whole Truth, Nothing but the Truth, So Help Me Mac. "I'm going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit," Mac told Letterman. "I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977."
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Written By: ninny on 08/09/09 at 7:00 am
I have always liked that 'fairy tale castle' pic. It's in Bavaria or Lichtenstein isn't it? :-\\
The one in the pic is.....
Neuschwanstein, the Fairytale Castle near Munich.The palace has appeared in several movies, and was the inspiration for Sleeping Beauty Castle at both Disneyland Park and Hong Kong Disneyland.
There is also..Lichtenstein Castle is a fairy-tale styled castle located near Honau in the Swabian Alb, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its self-descriptive name in English means "light (colored) stone
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Written By: ninny on 08/09/09 at 7:02 am
Buckingham Palace, been there, but never in it!
Blenheim Palace, I have always by passed it.
You've been to quite a lot of palaces,next time go in and enjoy them.
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Written By: Howard on 08/09/09 at 7:06 am
* Honorable mention*...Bernie Mac
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough (October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008), better known by his stage name Bernie Mac, was an American actor and comedian. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Mac gained popularity as a stand-up comedian. He joined comedians Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D.L. Hughley as The Original Kings of Comedy.
After briefly hosting the HBO show Midnight Mac, Mac appeared in several films in smaller roles. His most noted film role was as Frank Catton in the remake Ocean's Eleven and the titular character of Mr. 3000. He was the star of The Bernie Mac Show, which ran from 2001-2006, earning him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. His other films included starring roles in Friday,The Players Club, Head of State, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Bad Santa, Guess Who, Pride, Soul Men, and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the solid organs, but had said the condition was in remission in 2005. Despite having the disease, his death on August 9, 2008 was caused by complications from pneumonia.
Mac started as a stand-up comedian in Chicago's Cotton Club. After he won the Miller Lite Comedy Search at the age of 32, his popularity as a comedian began to grow. A performance on HBO's Def Comedy Jam thrust him into the spotlight. He opened for Dionne Warwick, Redd Foxx and Natalie Cole. He also had a short-lived talk show on HBO titled Midnight Mac. Later, Mac also acted in minor roles and got his big break as "Pastor Clever" in Ice Cube's 1995 film Friday. Following that role, Mac also worked in many other films and had some television appearances in titles including, Booty Call, How to Be a Player, Life and What's the Worst That Could Happen?. Mac was one of the few African American comedic actors able to break from the traditional "black comedy" genre, having roles in the 2001 remake of Ocean's Eleven and becoming the new Bosley for the Charlie's Angels sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. In 2003, he gave an impressive performance in a supporting role as the villain "Gin Slagel, The Store Dick" in Bad Santa. He also starred in Guess Who?, a comedic remake of the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and made an appearance in the 2007 film Transformers as the car salesman "Bobby Bolivia." He served as the voice of Zuba in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
In 2001, Fox gave Mac his own semi-autobiographical sitcom called The Bernie Mac Show. In the show, he suddenly becomes custodian of his sister's three children after she enters rehab. It was a success, in part because it allowed Mac to stay true to his stand-up comedy roots, breaking the fourth wall to communicate his thoughts to the audience. The show contained many parodies of events in Bernie's actual life. It was not renewed after the 2006 season. Viewers were left without a conclusion for the series, and no ending to the storyline of Bernie and Wanda trying to have a baby. Among other awards, the show won an Emmy for ‘Outstanding Writing’, the Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, and last but not least, the Humanitas Prize for television writing that promotes human dignity. His character on The Bernie Mac Show was ranked #47 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time."
In 2004, Bernie Mac had his first starring role as a retired baseball player in the film Mr. 3000. In the 2003 National League Championship Series, Mac sang "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" at Wrigley Field with the Chicago Cubs leading the Florida Marlins in the series 3-2 and in Game 6 by a 3-0 score. Instead of saying "root, root, root for the Cubbies" Mac said, "root, root, root for the champions!" The Cubs lost the game and the series, with some fans claiming that Mac helped jinx the Cubs. Mac later admitted that he had hated the North Side's Cubs his whole life, being a die-hard fan of the South Side's White Sox, and was seen during the White Sox' 2005 World Series victory at U.S. Cellular Field.
Mac in premiere of Transformers in June 2007
He was number 72 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time. On March 19, 2007, Mac told David Letterman on the CBS Late Show that he would retire from his 30-year career after he finished shooting the comedy film, The Whole Truth, Nothing but the Truth, So Help Me Mac. "I'm going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit," Mac told Letterman. "I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977."
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Bernie Mac,gone too soon. :(
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/09/09 at 9:06 am
Bernie Mac,gone to soon. :(
Sad but true. :\'(
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/09/09 at 3:16 pm
I always watched The Bernie Mac Show.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/09/09 at 7:12 pm
I always watched The Bernie Mac Show.
Me too.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 7:17 am
Is Janine baby-sitting again?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/10/09 at 7:18 am
Is Janine baby-sitting again?
I think she may be sitting all week....
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/10/09 at 7:18 am
word of the day is?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 8:12 am
I think she may be sitting all week....
Baby-Sitting Boogie ?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/10/09 at 8:51 am
Is Janine baby-sitting again?
I think she may be sitting all week....
Yes, but we had problems with the cable company, but everything is OK now.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 8:54 am
Yes, but we had problems with the cable company, but everything is OK now.
Naughty cable company!
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Written By: ninny on 08/10/09 at 8:56 am
The word of the day...Chef
A cook, especially the chief cook of a large kitchen staff.
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Written By: ninny on 08/10/09 at 8:56 am
Naughty cable company!
Yep ;D
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 8:59 am
The word of the day...Chef
A cook, especially the chief cook of a large kitchen staff.
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My wife used to keep seeing Jamie Oliver on her weekend trips to a certain part of north London.
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Written By: ninny on 08/10/09 at 8:59 am
The person of the day...Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. Alongside, Bill Withers, the Sherman Brothers, Steve Cropper and John Fogerty, Hayes & Porter were named to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of their string of successful hit songs for Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas and others In the late 1960s. Their hit song "Soul Man" by Sam & Dave has been recognized as one of the best or most influential songs of the past 50 years by the Grammy Hall of Fame, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone magazine, and the RIAA Songs of the Century.
In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971) as the Stax label's premier artist. In addition to his work in popular music, Hayes was a film score composer for motion pictures. His best known work, for the 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft, earned Hayes an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-American in a non-acting category) and two Grammy Awards. He received a third Grammy for the album Black Moses.
In 1992, in recognition of his humanitarian work, he was crowned an honorary king of Ghana's Ada district. Hayes also acted in motion pictures and television; from 1997 to 2005, he provided the voice for the character "Chef" on the Comedy Central animated TV series South Park.
ayes launched a comeback on the Virgin label in 1995 with Branded, an album of new material that earned impressive sales figures as well as positive reviews from critics who proclaimed it a return to form. A companion album released around the same time, Raw and Refined, featured a collection of previously unreleased instrumentals, both old and new.
In a rather unexpected career move shortly thereafter, Hayes charged back into the public consciousness as a founding star of Comedy Central's controversial — and wildly successful — animated TV series, South Park. Hayes provided the voice for the character of "Chef," the amorous elementary-school lunchroom cook, from the show's debut on August 13, 1997 (one week shy of his 55th birthday), through the end of its ninth season in 2006. The role of Chef drew on Hayes's talents both as an actor and as a singer, thanks to the character's penchant for making conversational points in the form of crudely suggestive soul songs. An album of songs from the series appeared in 1998 with the title Chef Aid: The South Park Album reflecting Chef's popularity with the show's fans, and the Chef song "Chocolate Salty Balls" became a number-one U.K. hit. Ironically, when South Park leaped to the big screen the following year with the smash animated musical South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Hayes/Chef was the only major character who did not perform a showcase song in the film; his lone musical contribution was "Good Love," a track on the soundtrack album which originally appeared on Black Moses in 1971 and is not heard in the movie (more on Chef below).
Hayes was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. The same year, a documentary highlighting Isaac's career and his impact on many of the Memphis artists in the 1960s onwards was produced, "Only The Strong Survive".
In 2004, Hayes appeared in a recurring minor role as the Jaffa Tolok on the television series Stargate SG-1. The following year, he appeared in the critically acclaimed independent film Hustle & Flow.
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Written By: ninny on 08/10/09 at 9:02 am
The co-person of the day...Leo Fender
Clarence Leonidas Fender (August 10, 1909 - March 21, 1991), also known as Leo Fender, was a Greek-American inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, now known as Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, and later founded MusicMan and G&L Musical Products (G&L Guitars). His guitar, bass, and amplifier designs from the 1950s continue to dominate popular music more than half a century later. Marshall and many other amplifier companies have used Fender instruments as the foundation of their products. Fender and inventor Les Paul are often cited as the two most influential figures in the development of electric instruments in the 20th centur
Fender recognized the potential for an electric guitar that was easy to hold, easy to tune, and easy to play. He also recognized that players needed guitars that would not feed back at dance hall volumes as the typical arch top would. In addition, Fender sought a tone that would command attention on the bandstand and cut through the noise in a bar. By 1949, he had begun working in earnest on what would become the first Telecaster (which was called the Broadcaster in its earlier years) at the Fender factory in Fullerton, California.
Although he never admitted it, Fender seemed to base his practical design on the Rickenbacker Bakelite. (Smith, Richard (May 1998). History of the Fender Telecaster. ) One of the Rickenbacker's strong points—a detachable neck that made it easy to make and service—was not lost on Fender, who was a master at improving already established designs. Not surprisingly, his first prototype was a single-pickup guitar with a detachable hard rock maple neck and a pine body painted white. (Smith, Richard (May 1998). History of the Fender Telecaster. )
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 9:13 am
The person of the day...Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. Alongside, Bill Withers, the Sherman Brothers, Steve Cropper and John Fogerty, Hayes & Porter were named to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of their string of successful hit songs for Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas and others In the late 1960s. Their hit song "Soul Man" by Sam & Dave has been recognized as one of the best or most influential songs of the past 50 years by the Grammy Hall of Fame, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone magazine, and the RIAA Songs of the Century.
In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971) as the Stax label's premier artist. In addition to his work in popular music, Hayes was a film score composer for motion pictures. His best known work, for the 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft, earned Hayes an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-American in a non-acting category) and two Grammy Awards. He received a third Grammy for the album Black Moses.
In 1992, in recognition of his humanitarian work, he was crowned an honorary king of Ghana's Ada district. Hayes also acted in motion pictures and television; from 1997 to 2005, he provided the voice for the character "Chef" on the Comedy Central animated TV series South Park.
ayes launched a comeback on the Virgin label in 1995 with Branded, an album of new material that earned impressive sales figures as well as positive reviews from critics who proclaimed it a return to form. A companion album released around the same time, Raw and Refined, featured a collection of previously unreleased instrumentals, both old and new.
In a rather unexpected career move shortly thereafter, Hayes charged back into the public consciousness as a founding star of Comedy Central's controversial — and wildly successful — animated TV series, South Park. Hayes provided the voice for the character of "Chef," the amorous elementary-school lunchroom cook, from the show's debut on August 13, 1997 (one week shy of his 55th birthday), through the end of its ninth season in 2006. The role of Chef drew on Hayes's talents both as an actor and as a singer, thanks to the character's penchant for making conversational points in the form of crudely suggestive soul songs. An album of songs from the series appeared in 1998 with the title Chef Aid: The South Park Album reflecting Chef's popularity with the show's fans, and the Chef song "Chocolate Salty Balls" became a number-one U.K. hit. Ironically, when South Park leaped to the big screen the following year with the smash animated musical South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Hayes/Chef was the only major character who did not perform a showcase song in the film; his lone musical contribution was "Good Love," a track on the soundtrack album which originally appeared on Black Moses in 1971 and is not heard in the movie (more on Chef below).
Hayes was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. The same year, a documentary highlighting Isaac's career and his impact on many of the Memphis artists in the 1960s onwards was produced, "Only The Strong Survive".
In 2004, Hayes appeared in a recurring minor role as the Jaffa Tolok on the television series Stargate SG-1. The following year, he appeared in the critically acclaimed independent film Hustle & Flow.
One of those distinct voices.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/10/09 at 9:44 am
One of those distinct voices.
Yes indeed
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 10:40 am
Yes indeed
My son knows him from South Park, but if you lived during the 70's.....
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Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/10/09 at 12:44 pm
My favorite chefs will always be the lovely women of "Two Fat Ladies". They were great, no frills or fancy stuff. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/10/09 at 3:22 pm
My son knows him from South Park, but if you lived during the 70's.....
Same with my kids..I'm sure that Timmy has heard the theme from Shaft,not sure about Missy.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 3:24 pm
Same with my kids..I'm sure that Timmy has heard the theme from Shaft,not sure about Missy.
Shaft is international well known, great film too.
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Written By: Howard on 08/10/09 at 3:24 pm
Issac Hayes was a legend.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/10/09 at 3:39 pm
Shaft is international well known, great film too.
It's been at least 10 years since I've seen it.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/10/09 at 3:40 pm
It's been at least 10 years since I've seen it.
I've seen it plenty of times.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 3:42 pm
It's been at least 10 years since I've seen it.
Over ten years for me and then it was after a few drinks and a late night screening.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/10/09 at 3:43 pm
Shaft is international well known, great film too.
Richard Roundtree was a legend.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/11/09 at 6:09 am
The word of the day...Hound
1.
1. A domestic dog of any of various breeds commonly used for hunting, characteristically having drooping ears, a short coat, and a deep resonant voice.
2. A dog.
2. A contemptible person; a scoundrel.
3.
1. One who eagerly pursues something: a gossip hound.
2. A devotee or an enthusiast: a coffee hound.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/11/09 at 6:13 am
The person of the day...Peter Cushing
Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally Vincent Price. A familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, he also starred as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and in two Doctor Who cinema films, Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD in 1965 and 1966.
ushing was born in Kenley, Surrey, the son of George Edward Cushing and Nellie Marie Cushing née King. He was raised there and in Dulwich, South London. Cushing left his first job as a surveyor's assistant to take up a scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After working in repertory theatre in Worthing, West Sussex, he left for Hollywood in 1939, debuting in The Man in the Iron Mask, then returned in 1941 after roles in several films. In one of them A Chump at Oxford (1940), he appeared alongside Laurel and Hardy. His first major film part was as Osric in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948).
In the 1950s, he worked in television, most notably as Winston Smith in the BBC's adaptation of the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954), scripted by Nigel Kneale. Cushing drew much praise for his performance in this production, although he always felt that his performance in the surviving version of the broadcast — it was performed live twice in one week, then a common practice, and only the second version exists in the archives — was inferior to the first. During many of his small screen performances, Cushing also starred as Fitzwilliam Darcy in the BBC's 1952 production of Pride and Prejudice and as King Richard II in Richard of Bordeaux in 1955.
Hammer Horror
Peter Cushing as Sir Mark Ashley with Christopher Lee in Nothing But the Night (1972).
His first appearances in his two most famous roles were in Terence Fisher's films The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958). Cushing is closely associated with playing Baron Victor Frankenstein and Lawrence Van Helsing in a long string of horror films produced by Hammer Horror. He later said that career decisions for him meant choosing roles where he knew the audience would accept him. "Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do." He also said "If I played Hamlet, they'd call it a horror film."
Cushing was often cast opposite the actor Christopher Lee, with whom he became best friends. "People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher," he said in an interview published in ABC Film Review in November 1964.
In the mid-1960s, he played the eccentric "Doctor" in two movies (Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks — Invasion Earth 2150 AD) based on the television series Doctor Who. He made a conscious decision to play the part as a lovable, avuncular figure, in an effort to escape from his perceived image as a "horror" actor. "I do get terribly tired with the neighbourhood kids telling me 'My mum says she wouldn't want to meet you in a dark alley'." he said in an interview in 1966. He also appeared in the cult series The Avengers and then again in its successor, The New Avengers. In 1986, he played the role of Colonel William Raymond in Biggles. In Space: 1999, he appeared as a Prospero-like character called Raan.
He was one of many stars to guest on The Morecambe and Wise Show — the standing joke in his case being the idea that he was never paid for his appearance. He would appear, week after week, wearily asking hosts Eric and Ernie, "Have you got my five pounds yet?" When Cushing was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1989, one of the guests was Ernie Wise, who promptly presented him with a five pound note, but then, with typical dexterity, extorted it back from him. Cushing was absolutely delighted with this, and cried: "All these years and I still haven't got my fiver!"
Cushing played Sherlock Holmes many times, starting with Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), the first Holmes film made in colour. Cushing, who resembled classic Holmes portrayer Basil Rathbone, seemed a natural for the part, and he played the part with great fidelity to the written character - that of a man who is not always easy to live with or be around - which had not been done up to that point. He followed this up with a performance in 16 episodes of the BBC series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (1968), of which only six episodes remain. Finally, Cushing played the detective in old age, in The Masks of Death (1984) for Channel 4.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/11/09 at 6:34 am
The co-person of the day...Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist, but had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. He died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related, single-car crash. In December 1956, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967. More recently, in 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London. In 2000, Pollock was the subject of an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Ed Harris
Pollock observed Indian sandpainting demonstrations in the 1940s. Other influences on his dripping technique include the Mexican muralists and also Surrealist automatism. Pollock denied "the accident"; he usually had an idea of how he wanted a particular piece to appear. His technique combined the movement of his body, over which he had control, the viscous flow of paint, the force of gravity, and the absorption of paint into the canvas. It was a mixture of controllable and uncontrollable factors. Flinging, dripping, pouring, and spattering, he would move energetically around the canvas, almost as if in a dance, and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see.
Studies by Taylor, Micolich and Jonas have examined Pollock's technique and have determined that some works display the properties of mathematical fractals.They assert that the works become more fractal-like chronologically through Pollock's career. The authors even speculate that Pollock may have had an intuition of the nature of chaotic motion, and attempted to form a representation of mathematical chaos, more than ten years before "Chaos Theory" itself was proposed. Other expertssuggest that Pollock may have merely imitated popular theories of the time in order to give his paintings a depth not previously seen.
In 1950, Hans Namuth, a young photographer, wanted to photograph and film Pollock at work. Pollock promised to start a new painting especially for the photographic session, but when Namuth arrived, Pollock apologized and told him the painting was finished. Namuth's comment upon entering the studio:
“ A dripping wet canvas covered the entire floor. . . There was complete silence. . . Pollock looked at the painting. Then, unexpectedly, he picked up can and paint brush and started to move around the canvas. It was as if he suddenly realized the painting was not finished. His movements, slow at first, gradually became faster and more dance like as he flung black, white, and rust colored paint onto the canvas. He completely forgot that Lee and I were there; he did not seem to hear the click of the camera shutter. . . My photography session lasted as long as he kept painting, perhaps half an hour. In all that time, Pollock did not stop. How could one keep up this level of activity? Finally, he said 'This is it.' ”
“ Pollock’s finest paintings… reveal that his all-over line does not give rise to positive or negative areas: we are not made to feel that one part of the canvas demands to be read as figure, whether abstract or representational, against another part of the canvas read as ground. There is not inside or outside to Pollock’s line or the space through which it moves…. Pollock has managed to free line not only from its function of representing objects in the world, but also from its task of describing or bounding shapes or figures, whether abstract or representational, on the surface of the canvas.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/11/09 at 7:18 am
The word of the day...Hound
1.
1. A domestic dog of any of various breeds commonly used for hunting, characteristically having drooping ears, a short coat, and a deep resonant voice.
2. A dog.
2. A contemptible person; a scoundrel.
3.
1. One who eagerly pursues something: a gossip hound.
2. A devotee or an enthusiast: a coffee hound.
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You aint nothing but a hound dog.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/11/09 at 7:21 am
The word of the day...Hound
1.
1. A domestic dog of any of various breeds commonly used for hunting, characteristically having drooping ears, a short coat, and a deep resonant voice.
2. A dog.
2. A contemptible person; a scoundrel.
3.
1. One who eagerly pursues something: a gossip hound.
2. A devotee or an enthusiast: a coffee hound.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/11/09 at 7:22 am
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I used to watch that kids show.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/11/09 at 7:24 am
The person of the day...Peter Cushing
Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally Vincent Price. A familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, he also starred as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and in two Doctor Who cinema films, Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD in 1965 and 1966.
ushing was born in Kenley, Surrey, the son of George Edward Cushing and Nellie Marie Cushing née King. He was raised there and in Dulwich, South London. Cushing left his first job as a surveyor's assistant to take up a scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After working in repertory theatre in Worthing, West Sussex, he left for Hollywood in 1939, debuting in The Man in the Iron Mask, then returned in 1941 after roles in several films. In one of them A Chump at Oxford (1940), he appeared alongside Laurel and Hardy. His first major film part was as Osric in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948).
In the 1950s, he worked in television, most notably as Winston Smith in the BBC's adaptation of the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954), scripted by Nigel Kneale. Cushing drew much praise for his performance in this production, although he always felt that his performance in the surviving version of the broadcast — it was performed live twice in one week, then a common practice, and only the second version exists in the archives — was inferior to the first. During many of his small screen performances, Cushing also starred as Fitzwilliam Darcy in the BBC's 1952 production of Pride and Prejudice and as King Richard II in Richard of Bordeaux in 1955.
Hammer Horror
Peter Cushing as Sir Mark Ashley with Christopher Lee in Nothing But the Night (1972).
His first appearances in his two most famous roles were in Terence Fisher's films The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958). Cushing is closely associated with playing Baron Victor Frankenstein and Lawrence Van Helsing in a long string of horror films produced by Hammer Horror. He later said that career decisions for him meant choosing roles where he knew the audience would accept him. "Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do." He also said "If I played Hamlet, they'd call it a horror film."
Cushing was often cast opposite the actor Christopher Lee, with whom he became best friends. "People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher," he said in an interview published in ABC Film Review in November 1964.
In the mid-1960s, he played the eccentric "Doctor" in two movies (Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks — Invasion Earth 2150 AD) based on the television series Doctor Who. He made a conscious decision to play the part as a lovable, avuncular figure, in an effort to escape from his perceived image as a "horror" actor. "I do get terribly tired with the neighbourhood kids telling me 'My mum says she wouldn't want to meet you in a dark alley'." he said in an interview in 1966. He also appeared in the cult series The Avengers and then again in its successor, The New Avengers. In 1986, he played the role of Colonel William Raymond in Biggles. In Space: 1999, he appeared as a Prospero-like character called Raan.
He was one of many stars to guest on The Morecambe and Wise Show — the standing joke in his case being the idea that he was never paid for his appearance. He would appear, week after week, wearily asking hosts Eric and Ernie, "Have you got my five pounds yet?" When Cushing was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1989, one of the guests was Ernie Wise, who promptly presented him with a five pound note, but then, with typical dexterity, extorted it back from him. Cushing was absolutely delighted with this, and cried: "All these years and I still haven't got my fiver!"
Cushing played Sherlock Holmes many times, starting with Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), the first Holmes film made in colour. Cushing, who resembled classic Holmes portrayer Basil Rathbone, seemed a natural for the part, and he played the part with great fidelity to the written character - that of a man who is not always easy to live with or be around - which had not been done up to that point. He followed this up with a performance in 16 episodes of the BBC series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (1968), of which only six episodes remain. Finally, Cushing played the detective in old age, in The Masks of Death (1984) for Channel 4.
Back in the late 70's, I had ticket for a private screening of this new film called Star Wars, and in the seat in front of me was Peter Cushing.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/11/09 at 7:24 am
I used to watch that kids show.
So did I.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/11/09 at 7:26 am
So did I.
It was based on Huckleberry Finn.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/11/09 at 7:32 am
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I used to watch that kids show.
So did I.
Make that 3 of us :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/11/09 at 7:33 am
Back in the late 70's, I had ticket for a private screening of this new film called Star Wars, and in the seat in front of me was Peter Cushing.
Lucky you. Did he seem like a nice person?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/11/09 at 7:34 am
Make that 3 of us :)
I thought it was one of my favorite kids shows to watch on a Saturday Morning.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/11/09 at 7:37 am
I thought it was one of my favorite kids shows to watch on a Saturday Morning.
Yes it would have to be up in my top also.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/11/09 at 7:43 am
Lucky you. Did he seem like a nice person?
Seem yes, I did not disturb him, Nowadays if a celeb is seen, I am chasing for an autograph.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/11/09 at 7:45 am
Seem yes, I did not disturb him, Nowadays if a celeb is seen, I am chasing for an autograph.
Your lucky to have that chance, living out in the country I doubt that I'll ever meet a celebrity.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/11/09 at 7:47 am
Your lucky to have that chance, living out in the country I doubt that I'll ever meet a celebrity.
It all depends on where you are at the time (fate?), and the chances increase if you frequent the smae place. Live in a small village, nothing happens. Live in a big metropolis of a city, anything goes!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/11/09 at 7:48 am
Your lucky to have that chance, living out in the country I doubt that I'll ever meet a celebrity.
Which one would you want to meet?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/11/09 at 7:58 am
Which one would you want to meet?
Well if I met Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney or Sir Anthony Hopkins I would probably faint before giving a chance to ask for an autograph.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/11/09 at 8:04 am
Well if I met Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney or Sir Anthony Hopkins I would probably faint before giving a chance to ask for an autograph.
btw, Elton John has his London just down from the road to me. Never seen him yet.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/11/09 at 8:47 am
btw, Elton John has his London just down from the road to me. Never seen him yet.
He doesn't spend much time there? Does he have another home in England,I know he has one in or around Atlanta,GA,and somewhere in France.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/11/09 at 10:03 am
He doesn't spend much time there? Does he have another home in England,I know he has one in or around Atlanta,GA,and somewhere in France.
His main British home is near Windsor in Berkshire, I know his has a place somewhere in France and he must have an American base.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/11/09 at 11:29 am
Back in the late 70's, I had ticket for a private screening of this new film called Star Wars, and in the seat in front of me was Peter Cushing.
Way cool.
Cat
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/11/09 at 11:44 am
Way cool.
Cat
Back then I was not chasing autographs.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/11/09 at 11:45 am
Make that 3 of us :)
4 of us
Which one would you want to meet?
Paul McCartney
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/11/09 at 3:35 pm
4 of usPaul McCartney
We can go to a Paul McCartney concert.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/11/09 at 4:34 pm
4 of us
Paul McCartney
Two of Us.... was the Beatles.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/11/09 at 5:12 pm
We can go to a Paul McCartney concert.
I'll pay by redeeming my Karma points
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/12/09 at 1:03 am
We can go to a Paul McCartney concert.
Hopefully today, I will be within a cricket throw of Sir Paul McCartney London base and round the corner from the Abbey Road Crossing.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/12/09 at 1:20 am
Hopefully today, I will be within a cricket throw of Sir Paul McCartney London base and round the corner from the Abbey Road Crossing.
Web Cam time to see Philip!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/12/09 at 1:27 am
Web Cam time to see Philip!
I cannot promise what time I could be there, I am meeting friends and do not want to push them into it.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/12/09 at 1:33 am
I cannot promise what time I could be there, I am meeting friends and do not want to push them into it.
Have fun!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/12/09 at 1:34 am
Have fun!
I hope to, I have not seen my friends for some while now.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/12/09 at 1:39 am
I hope to, I have not seen my friends for some while now.
Then you will have a good day today. Seize the day!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/12/09 at 1:42 am
Then you will have a good day today. Seize the day!
By midday rain is expected....
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/12/09 at 1:47 am
By midday rain is expected....
umbrella just in case.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/12/09 at 2:11 am
umbrella just in case.
No, I live dangerously.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/12/09 at 3:52 am
No, I live dangerously.
Mr Steed ...you aren't! ;D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/12/09 at 5:52 am
The word of the day...Pond
A still body of water smaller than a lake.
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Written By: ninny on 08/12/09 at 6:03 am
The person of the day...Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting.
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935. Fonda's career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath, an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts and 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda moved toward both more challenging, darker epics as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (portraying a villain who kills, among others, a child) and lighter roles in family comedies like Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity; his family and close friends called him "Hank". In 1999, he was named the sixth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
Despite approaching his seventies, Fonda continued to work in both television and film through the 1970s. In 1970, Fonda appeared in three films, the most successful of these ventures being The Cheyenne Social Club. The other two films were Too Late the Hero, in which Fonda played a secondary role, and There Was a Crooked Man, about Paris Pitman Jr. (played by Kirk Douglas) trying to escape from an Arizona prison.
Fonda made a return to both foreign and television productions, which provided career sustenance through a decade in which many aging screen actors suffered waning careers. He starred in the ABC television series The Smith Family between 1971 and 1972. 1973's TV-movie The Red Pony, an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, earned Fonda an Emmy nomination. After the unsuccessful Hollywood melodrama, Ash Wednesday, he filmed three Italian productions released in 1973 and 1974. The most successful of these, My Name Is Nobody, presented Fonda in a rare comedic performance as an old gunslinger whose plans to retire are dampened by a "fan" of sorts.
Fonda continued stage acting throughout his last years, including several demanding roles in Broadway plays. He returned to Broadway in 1974 for the biographical drama, Clarence Darrow, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Fonda's health had been deteriorating for years, but his first outward symptoms occurred after a performance of the play in April 1974, when he collapsed from exhaustion. After the appearance of a heart arrhythmia brought on by prostate cancer, a pacemaker was installed following surgery and Fonda returned to the play in 1975. After the run of a 1978 play, First Monday of October, he took the advice of his doctors and quit plays, though he continued to star in films and television.
In 1976, Fonda appeared in several notable television productions, the first being Collision Course, the story of the volatile relationship between President Harry Truman (E.G. Marshall) and General MacArthur (Fonda), produced by ABC. After an appearance in the acclaimed Showtime broadcast of Almos' a Man, based on a story by Richard Wright, he starred in the epic NBC miniseries Captains and Kings, based on Taylor Caldwell's novel. Three years later, he appeared in ABC's Roots: The Next Generations, but the miniseries was overshadowed by its predecessor, Roots. Also in 1976, Fonda starred in the World War II blockbuster Midway.
Fonda finished the 1970s in a number of disaster films. The first of these was the 1977 Italian killer octopus thriller Tentacoli (Tentacles) and the mediocre Rollercoaster, in which Fonda appeared with Richard Widmark and a young Helen Hunt. He performed once again with Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Fred MacMurray, and José Ferrer in the killer bee action film The Swarm. He also acted in the global disaster film Meteor, with Sean Connery, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden, and then the Canadian production City on Fire, which also featured Shelley Winters and Ava Gardner. Fonda had a small role with his son, Peter, in 1979's Wanda Nevada, with Brooke Shields.
As Fonda's health continued to suffer and he took longer breaks between filming, critics began to take notice of his extensive body of work. In 1979, the Tony Awards committee gave Fonda a special award for his achievements on Broadway. Lifetime Achievement awards from the Golden Globes and Academy Awards followed in 1980 and 1981, respectively.
Fonda continued to act into the early 1980s, though all but one of the productions he was featured in before his death were for television. These television works included the critically acclaimed live performance of Preston Jones' The Oldest Living Graduate, the Emmy nominated Gideon's Trumpet (co-starring Fay Wray in her last performance).
On Golden Pond in 1981, the film adaptation of Ernest Thompson's play, marked one final professional and personal triumph for Fonda. Directed by Mark Rydell, the project provided unprecedented collaborations between Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, along with Fonda and his daughter, Jane. The elder Fonda played an emotionally brittle and distant father who becomes more accessible at the end of his life. Jane Fonda has said that elements of the story mimicked their real-life relationship, and helped them resolve certain issues. She bought the film rights in the hope that her father would play the role, and later described it as "a gift to my father that was so unbelievably successful."
Premiered in December 1981, the film was well received by critics, and after a limited release on December 4 On Golden Pond developed enough of an audience to be widely released on January 22. With eleven Academy Award nominations, the film earned nearly $120 million at the box office, becoming an unexpected blockbuster. In addition to wins for Hepburn (Best Actress), and Thompson (Screenplay), On Golden Pond brought Fonda his only Oscar - for Best Actor (it also earned him a Golden Globe Best Actor award). Fonda was by that point too ill too attend the ceremony, and his daughter Jane Fonda accepted on his behalf. She said when accepting the award that her dad would probably quip, "Well, ain't I lucky."
After Fonda's death, some film critics called this performance "his last and greatest role" (though this overlooks one subsequent performance in Summer Solstice, a television film with Myrna Loy).
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/12/09 at 6:06 am
The co-person of the day...Loretta Young
Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress.
She was billed as "Gretchen Young" in the 1917 film, Sirens of the Sea. It wasn't until 1928 that she was first billed as "Loretta Young", in The Whip Woman. That same year she co-starred with Lon Chaney in the MGM film Laugh, Clown, Laugh. The next year, she was anointed one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars.
In 1930, Young, then 17, eloped with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers and married him in Yuma, Arizona. The marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together (appropriately titled Too Young to Marry) was released.
from the trailer for Cause for Alarm! (1951)
During the Second World War, Young made Ladies Courageous (1944; reissued as Fury in the Sky), the fictionalized story of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. It depicted a unit of female pilots during WW2 who primarily flew bombers from the factories to their final destinations.
Young made as many as seven or eight movies a year and won an Oscar in 1947 for her performance in The Farmer's Daughter. The same year she co-starred with Cary Grant and David Niven in The Bishop's Wife, a perennial favorite that still airs on television during the Christmas season and was later remade as The Preacher's Wife with Whitney Houston. In 1949, Young received another Academy Award nomination (for Come to the Stable) and in 1953 appeared in her last film, It Happens Every Thursday.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/12/09 at 6:38 am
On Golden Pond is my favorite Henry Fonda movie. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Womble on 08/12/09 at 6:47 am
I've always admired Loretta Young. I remember when I was little my mother used to watch reruns of the 'Loretta Young Show' on TV in the afternoons. Ms. Young was a fine actress. Very nice retrospect, Ninny. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/12/09 at 6:47 am
On Golden Pond is my favorite Henry Fonda movie. :)
Mine too, I love that movie. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/12/09 at 6:48 am
I've always admired Loretta Young. I remember when I was little my mother used to watch reruns of the 'Loretta Young Show' on TV in the afternoons. Ms. Young was a fine actress. Very nice retrospect, Ninny. :)
Thank You :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/12/09 at 7:13 am
The person of the day...Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting.
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935. Fonda's career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath, an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts and 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda moved toward both more challenging, darker epics as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (portraying a villain who kills, among others, a child) and lighter roles in family comedies like Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity; his family and close friends called him "Hank". In 1999, he was named the sixth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
Despite approaching his seventies, Fonda continued to work in both television and film through the 1970s. In 1970, Fonda appeared in three films, the most successful of these ventures being The Cheyenne Social Club. The other two films were Too Late the Hero, in which Fonda played a secondary role, and There Was a Crooked Man, about Paris Pitman Jr. (played by Kirk Douglas) trying to escape from an Arizona prison.
Fonda made a return to both foreign and television productions, which provided career sustenance through a decade in which many aging screen actors suffered waning careers. He starred in the ABC television series The Smith Family between 1971 and 1972. 1973's TV-movie The Red Pony, an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, earned Fonda an Emmy nomination. After the unsuccessful Hollywood melodrama, Ash Wednesday, he filmed three Italian productions released in 1973 and 1974. The most successful of these, My Name Is Nobody, presented Fonda in a rare comedic performance as an old gunslinger whose plans to retire are dampened by a "fan" of sorts.
Fonda continued stage acting throughout his last years, including several demanding roles in Broadway plays. He returned to Broadway in 1974 for the biographical drama, Clarence Darrow, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Fonda's health had been deteriorating for years, but his first outward symptoms occurred after a performance of the play in April 1974, when he collapsed from exhaustion. After the appearance of a heart arrhythmia brought on by prostate cancer, a pacemaker was installed following surgery and Fonda returned to the play in 1975. After the run of a 1978 play, First Monday of October, he took the advice of his doctors and quit plays, though he continued to star in films and television.
In 1976, Fonda appeared in several notable television productions, the first being Collision Course, the story of the volatile relationship between President Harry Truman (E.G. Marshall) and General MacArthur (Fonda), produced by ABC. After an appearance in the acclaimed Showtime broadcast of Almos' a Man, based on a story by Richard Wright, he starred in the epic NBC miniseries Captains and Kings, based on Taylor Caldwell's novel. Three years later, he appeared in ABC's Roots: The Next Generations, but the miniseries was overshadowed by its predecessor, Roots. Also in 1976, Fonda starred in the World War II blockbuster Midway.
Fonda finished the 1970s in a number of disaster films. The first of these was the 1977 Italian killer octopus thriller Tentacoli (Tentacles) and the mediocre Rollercoaster, in which Fonda appeared with Richard Widmark and a young Helen Hunt. He performed once again with Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Fred MacMurray, and José Ferrer in the killer bee action film The Swarm. He also acted in the global disaster film Meteor, with Sean Connery, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden, and then the Canadian production City on Fire, which also featured Shelley Winters and Ava Gardner. Fonda had a small role with his son, Peter, in 1979's Wanda Nevada, with Brooke Shields.
As Fonda's health continued to suffer and he took longer breaks between filming, critics began to take notice of his extensive body of work. In 1979, the Tony Awards committee gave Fonda a special award for his achievements on Broadway. Lifetime Achievement awards from the Golden Globes and Academy Awards followed in 1980 and 1981, respectively.
Fonda continued to act into the early 1980s, though all but one of the productions he was featured in before his death were for television. These television works included the critically acclaimed live performance of Preston Jones' The Oldest Living Graduate, the Emmy nominated Gideon's Trumpet (co-starring Fay Wray in her last performance).
On Golden Pond in 1981, the film adaptation of Ernest Thompson's play, marked one final professional and personal triumph for Fonda. Directed by Mark Rydell, the project provided unprecedented collaborations between Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, along with Fonda and his daughter, Jane. The elder Fonda played an emotionally brittle and distant father who becomes more accessible at the end of his life. Jane Fonda has said that elements of the story mimicked their real-life relationship, and helped them resolve certain issues. She bought the film rights in the hope that her father would play the role, and later described it as "a gift to my father that was so unbelievably successful."
Premiered in December 1981, the film was well received by critics, and after a limited release on December 4 On Golden Pond developed enough of an audience to be widely released on January 22. With eleven Academy Award nominations, the film earned nearly $120 million at the box office, becoming an unexpected blockbuster. In addition to wins for Hepburn (Best Actress), and Thompson (Screenplay), On Golden Pond brought Fonda his only Oscar - for Best Actor (it also earned him a Golden Globe Best Actor award). Fonda was by that point too ill too attend the ceremony, and his daughter Jane Fonda accepted on his behalf. She said when accepting the award that her dad would probably quip, "Well, ain't I lucky."
After Fonda's death, some film critics called this performance "his last and greatest role" (though this overlooks one subsequent performance in Summer Solstice, a television film with Myrna Loy).
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Was Henry Fonda the one that was suffering from dementia? ???
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/12/09 at 8:22 am
Was Henry Fonda the one that was suffering from dementia? ???
No. He was still acting in his mid seventies.I believe his character in On Golden Pond had dementia.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/12/09 at 2:45 pm
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Loretta Young.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: seamermar on 08/12/09 at 4:08 pm
Well ninni, I must admite you're gonna get out of me something esle than a simple sailor ;)
You're faithful got me from the start, posting each and every day for people's delight.
I would like read the whole thread but I have still so much to learn, I'm on my way...more or less.
Pond speaks smooth and sweet to me.
I love laying down beside a pond,
with nothing to do but yawn and dream
of breaking once for all my bonds ;)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/12/09 at 4:09 pm
umbrella just in case.
The rain arrived around five o'clock.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/12/09 at 4:10 pm
On Golden Pond is my favorite Henry Fonda movie. :)
I saw the film ages ago on its original release and I remember enjoying it.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/13/09 at 5:47 am
Well ninni, I must admite you're gonna get out of me something esle than a simple sailor ;)
You're faithful got me from the start, posting each and every day for people's delight.
I would like read the whole thread but I have still so much to learn, I'm on my way...more or less.
Pond speaks smooth and sweet to me.
I love laying down beside a pond,
with nothing to do but yawn and dream
of breaking once for all my bonds ;)
Thanks you find the beginning a lot different than the end,with twist and turns in the middle. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/13/09 at 5:52 am
The word of the day...Lamp
A device that produces light, such as an electric lamp.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/13/09 at 5:56 am
The person of the day...Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (pronounced /ˈflɒɾəns ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneering English nurse, writer and noted statistician.
Florence Nightingale's most famous contribution came during the Crimean War, which became her central focus when reports began to filter back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On 21 October 1854, she and a staff of 38 women volunteer nurses, trained by Nightingale and including her aunt Mai Smith, were sent (under the authorization of Sidney Herbert) to Turkey, about 545 km across the Black Sea from Balaklava in the Crimea, where the main British camp was based.
Nightingale arrived early in November 1854 at Selimiye Barracks in Scutari (modern-day Üsküdar in Istanbul). She and her nurses found wounded soldiers being badly cared for by overworked medical staff in the face of official indifference. Medicines were in short supply, hygiene was being neglected, and mass infections were common, many of them fatal. There was no equipment to process food for the patients.
Death rates did not drop; on the contrary, they began to rise. The death count was the highest of all hospitals in the region. During her first winter at Scutari, 4,077 soldiers died there. Ten times more soldiers died from illnesses such as typhus, typhoid, cholera and dysentery than from battle wounds. Conditions at the temporary barracks hospital were so fatal to the patients because of overcrowding and the hospital's defective sewers and lack of ventilation. A Sanitary Commission had to be sent out by the British government to Scutari in March 1855, almost six months after Florence Nightingale had arrived, and effected flushing out the sewers and improvements to ventilation. Death rates were sharply reduced. It is directly through her thorough observations that the association linking sanitary conditions and healing became recognized and established. “Within 6 months of her arrival in Scutari, the mortality rate dropped from 42 percent to 2.2 percent“. Florence insisted on adequate lighting, diet, hygiene, and activity. “She understood even then that the mind and body worked together, that cleanliness, the predecessor to our clean and sterile techniques of today, was a major barrier to infection, and that it promoted healing”.
Nightingale continued believing the death rates were due to poor nutrition and supplies and overworking of the soldiers. It was not until after she returned to Britain and began collecting evidence before the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army that she came to believe that most of the soldiers at the hospital were killed by poor living conditions. This experience influenced her later career, when she advocated sanitary living conditions as of great importance. Consequently, she reduced deaths in the army during peacetime and turned attention to the sanitary design of hospitals.
The Lady with the Lamp
During the Crimean campaign, Florence Nightingale gained the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp", deriving from a phrase in a report in The Times:
She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds.
The phrase was further popularised by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1857 poem "Santa Filomena":
Lo! in that hour of misery
A lady with a lamp I see
Pass through the glimmering gloom,
And flit from room to room.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/13/09 at 5:59 am
The co-person of the day...H.G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), usually known as H. G. Wells, was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. Wells and Jules Verne are each often referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction".
Wells was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist, and his later works became increasingly political and didactic. His middle period novels (1900-1920) were more realistic; they covered lower middle class life (The History of Mr Polly) and the 'New Woman' and the Suffragettes (Ann Veronica). He was a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary.
Wells's first non-fiction bestseller was Anticipations (1901). When originally serialised in a magazine it was subtitled, "An Experiment in Prophecy", and is considered his most explicitly futuristic work. Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the book is interesting both for its hits (trains and cars resulting in the dispersion of population from cities to suburbs; moral restrictions declining as men and women seek greater sexual freedom; the defeat of German militarism, and the existence of a European Union) and its misses (he did not expect successful aircraft before 1950, and averred that "my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea").
Statue of a The War of the Worlds tripod, erected as a tribute to H. G. Wells in Woking town centre, UK.
His early novels, called "scientific romances", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon. He also wrote other, non-fantastic novels that have received critical acclaim including Kipps and the satire on Edwardian advertising, Tono-Bungay.
Wells wrote several dozen short stories and novellas, the best known of which is "The Country of the Blind" (1904). His short story "The New Accelerator" was the inspiration for the Star Trek episode Wink of an Eye.
Though Tono-Bungay was not a science-fiction novel, radioactive decay plays a small but consequential role in it. Radioactive decay plays a much larger role in The World Set Free (1914). This book contains what is surely his biggest prophetic "hit." Scientists of the day were well aware that the natural decay of radium releases energy at a slow rate over thousands of years. The rate of release is too slow to have practical utility, but the total amount released is huge. Wells' novel revolves around an (unspecified) invention that accelerates the process of radioactive decay, producing bombs that explode with no more than the force of ordinary high explosive— but which "continue to explode" for days on end. "Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century," he wrote, "than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible... they did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands." Leó Szilárd acknowledged that the book inspired him to theorise the nuclear chain reaction.
Wells also wrote nonfiction. His bestselling two-volume work, The Outline of History (1920), began a new era of popularised world history. It received a mixed critical response from professional historians. Many other authors followed with 'Outlines' of their own in other subjects. Wells reprised his Outline in 1922 with a much shorter popular work, A Short History of the World, and two long efforts, The Science of Life (1930) and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931). The 'Outlines' became sufficiently common for James Thurber to parody the trend in his humorous essay, "An Outline of Scientists" — indeed, Wells's Outline of History remains in print with a new 2005 edition, while A Short History of the World has been recently reedited (2006).
From quite early in his career, he sought a better way to organise society, and wrote a number of Utopian novels. The first of these was A Modern Utopia (1905), which shows a worldwide utopia with "no imports but meteorites, and no exports at all"; two travellers from our world fall into its alternate history. The others usually begin with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realise a better way of living: whether by mysterious gases from a comet causing people to behave rationally and abandoning a European war (In the Days of the Comet (1906)), or a world council of scientists taking over, as in The Shape of Things to Come (1933, which he later adapted for the 1936 Alexander Korda film, Things to Come). This depicted, all too accurately, the impending World War, with cities being destroyed by aerial bombs. He also portrayed the rise of fascist dictators in The Autocracy of Mr Parham (1930) and The Holy Terror (1939), though in the former novel, the tale is revealed at the end to have been Mr Parham's dream vision.
H. G. Wells in 1943
Wells contemplates the ideas of nature versus nurture and questions humanity in books such as The Island of Doctor Moreau. Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote the first dystopia novel, When the Sleeper Wakes (1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers. The Island of Doctor Moreau is even darker. The narrator, having been trapped on an island of animals vivisected (unsuccessfully) into human beings, eventually returns to England; like Gulliver on his return from the Houyhnhnms, he finds himself unable to shake off the perceptions of his fellow humans as barely civilised beasts, slowly reverting back to their animal natures.
Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of W. N. P. Barbellion's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919. Since "Barbellion" was the real author's pen name, many reviewers believed Wells to have been the true author of the Journal; Wells always denied this, despite being full of praise for the diaries, but the rumours persisted until Barbellion's death later that year.
In 1927, Florence Deeks sued Wells for plagiarism, claiming that he had stolen much of the content of The Outline of History from a work, The Web, she had submitted to the Canadian Macmillan Company, but who held onto the manuscript for eight months before rejecting it. Despite numerous similarities in phrasing and factual errors, the court found Wells not guilty.
In 1934, Wells predicted that the world war he had described in The Shape of Things to Come would begin in 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true one year early.
In 1936, before the Royal Institution, Wells called for the compilation of a constantly growing and changing World Encyclopedia, to be reviewed by outstanding authorities and made accessible to every human being. In 1938, he published a collection of essays on the future organisation of knowledge and education, World Brain, including the essay, "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia."
Near the end of the second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of intellectuals and politicians slated for immediate execution upon the invasion of England in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion. The name "H. G. Wells" appeared high on the list for the "crime" of being a socialist. Wells, as president of the International PEN (Poets, Essayists, Novelists), had already angered the Nazis by overseeing the expulsion of the German PEN club from the international body in 1934 following the German PEN's refusal to admit non-Aryan writers to its membership
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 6:47 am
The person of the day...Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (pronounced /ˈflɒɾəns ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneering English nurse, writer and noted statistician.
Florence Nightingale's most famous contribution came during the Crimean War, which became her central focus when reports began to filter back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On 21 October 1854, she and a staff of 38 women volunteer nurses, trained by Nightingale and including her aunt Mai Smith, were sent (under the authorization of Sidney Herbert) to Turkey, about 545 km across the Black Sea from Balaklava in the Crimea, where the main British camp was based.
Nightingale arrived early in November 1854 at Selimiye Barracks in Scutari (modern-day Üsküdar in Istanbul). She and her nurses found wounded soldiers being badly cared for by overworked medical staff in the face of official indifference. Medicines were in short supply, hygiene was being neglected, and mass infections were common, many of them fatal. There was no equipment to process food for the patients.
Death rates did not drop; on the contrary, they began to rise. The death count was the highest of all hospitals in the region. During her first winter at Scutari, 4,077 soldiers died there. Ten times more soldiers died from illnesses such as typhus, typhoid, cholera and dysentery than from battle wounds. Conditions at the temporary barracks hospital were so fatal to the patients because of overcrowding and the hospital's defective sewers and lack of ventilation. A Sanitary Commission had to be sent out by the British government to Scutari in March 1855, almost six months after Florence Nightingale had arrived, and effected flushing out the sewers and improvements to ventilation. Death rates were sharply reduced. It is directly through her thorough observations that the association linking sanitary conditions and healing became recognized and established. “Within 6 months of her arrival in Scutari, the mortality rate dropped from 42 percent to 2.2 percent“. Florence insisted on adequate lighting, diet, hygiene, and activity. “She understood even then that the mind and body worked together, that cleanliness, the predecessor to our clean and sterile techniques of today, was a major barrier to infection, and that it promoted healing”.
Nightingale continued believing the death rates were due to poor nutrition and supplies and overworking of the soldiers. It was not until after she returned to Britain and began collecting evidence before the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army that she came to believe that most of the soldiers at the hospital were killed by poor living conditions. This experience influenced her later career, when she advocated sanitary living conditions as of great importance. Consequently, she reduced deaths in the army during peacetime and turned attention to the sanitary design of hospitals.
The Lady with the Lamp
During the Crimean campaign, Florence Nightingale gained the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp", deriving from a phrase in a report in The Times:
She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds.
The phrase was further popularised by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1857 poem "Santa Filomena":
Lo! in that hour of misery
A lady with a lamp I see
Pass through the glimmering gloom,
And flit from room to room.
Two Brits and there are Blue Plaques
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/13/09 at 6:50 am
The word of the day...Lamp
A device that produces light, such as an electric lamp.
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Wow,those are such beautiful lamps. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/13/09 at 8:07 am
Wow,those are such beautiful lamps. :)
I could take a few myself.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 11:46 am
Two Brits and there are Blue Plaques
Off the top of my head, in Greater London, H.G. Wells has three plaques and Florence Nightingale has one.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 11:48 am
Ladies first:
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In a house on this site, Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910, lived and died.
10 South Street, W1
Westminster 1955
Note: New plaque on rebuilt premises. Original plaque erected by the Duke of Westminster and removed when the house was pulled down in 1929.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 11:57 am
Ladies first:
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In a house on this site, Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910, lived and died.
10 South Street, W1
Westminster 1955
Note: New plaque on rebuilt premises. Original plaque erected by the Duke of Westminster and removed when the house was pulled down in 1929.
I think there could another plaque for Florence Nightingale, I will check on it on my next visit to cricket at Lord's.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 11:58 am
Off the top of my head, in Greater London, H.G. Wells has three plaques and Florence Nightingale has one.
On research, I make it four plaques for H G Wells....
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 11:59 am
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The H.G. Wells plaque being unveiled at Chiltern Court, Baker St., London, where Wells resided between 1930 and 1936. The unveiling was performed by the Lord Mayor of Westminster (left) and Lord Hattersley, former deputy-leader of the Labour Party.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 12:03 pm
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In Bromley, on a wall of a superstore, indicating the site of the birthplace of H.G. Wells.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 12:06 pm
There are two more, but cannot locate online properly. One in Sutton and another close to Regent's Park, on the house where he died (I think).
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/13/09 at 12:15 pm
You forgot THIS lamp:
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Cat
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 12:32 pm
The word of the day...Lamp
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Only $15?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 12:32 pm
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A very famous lamp.
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Written By: ninny on 08/13/09 at 12:47 pm
On research, I make it four plaques for H G Wells....
4..It makes you wonder who has the most blue plaques.
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Written By: ninny on 08/13/09 at 12:49 pm
You forgot THIS lamp:
http://www.flickstongue.com/collect/Leglamps/red_ryder_leg_lamp.jpg
Cat
http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/9/0/Disney-Genie-of-the-Lamp-9070.jpg
A very famous lamp.
Real cool lamps.Here is an interesting one
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 12:49 pm
4..It makes you wonder who has the most blue plaques.
In Greater London it is the author Charles Dickens, but once my database is up and running I can answer it much better.
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Written By: ninny on 08/13/09 at 1:48 pm
In Greater London it is the author Charles Dickens, but once my database is up and running I can answer it much better.
Does the number of plaques represent the number of places you lived at?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 1:49 pm
Does the number of plaques represent the number of places you lived at?
Not necessary lived at, it can also be associated with.
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Written By: ninny on 08/13/09 at 1:58 pm
Not necessary lived at, it can also be associated with.
Who would you like to see get a blue plaque?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/13/09 at 2:00 pm
Who would you like to see get a blue plaque?
Spike Milligan, my favourite comedian, already has a plaque on the office where he worked in Bayswater, London.
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Written By: ninny on 08/13/09 at 2:10 pm
Spike Milligan, my favourite comedian, already has a plaque on the office where he worked in Bayswater, London.
I've been reading about the plaques and I see the oldest was put up in 1867 for Napoleon, I find that odd. Why was he chosen for the first and not someone like Shakespeare or John Milton?
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Written By: Howard on 08/13/09 at 2:54 pm
You forgot THIS lamp:
http://www.flickstongue.com/collect/Leglamps/red_ryder_leg_lamp.jpg
Cat
Oh Wow leglamps,maybe they sell them on Ebay? ???
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Written By: ninny on 08/14/09 at 6:17 am
The word of the day...Letter
1.
1. A written symbol or character representing a speech sound and being a component of an alphabet.
2. A written symbol or character used in the graphemic representation of a word, such as the h in Thames. See Note at Thames.
2. A written or printed communication directed to a person or organization.
3. A certified document granting rights to its bearer. Often used in the plural.
4. Literal meaning: had to adhere to the letter of the law.
5. letters (used with a sing. verb)
1. Literary culture; belles-lettres.
2. Learning or knowledge, especially of literature.
3. Literature or writing as a profession.
6. Printing.
1. A piece of type that prints a single character.
2. A specific style of type.
3. The characters in one style of type.
7. An emblem in the shape of the initial of a school awarded for outstanding performance, especially in varsity athletics.
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Written By: ninny on 08/14/09 at 6:20 am
The person of the day...Gale Sondergaard
Gale Sondergaard (February 15, 1899 – August 14, 1985) was an American actress.
Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse (1936). She played supporting roles in various films during the late 1930s and early 1940s, including The Cat and the Canary (1939), The Mark of Zorro (1940) and The Letter (1940). She was nominated for a second Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Anna and the King of Siam (1946) but by the end of the decade her film appearances were fewer.
Married to the director Herbert Biberman, Sondergaard supported him when he was accused of communism and named as one of the Hollywood Ten in the early 1950s, and her film career was destroyed as a result. She moved with Biberman to New York City and worked in theatre, and acted in film and television occasionally from late 1960s. She moved back to Los Angeles where she died from cerebrovascular thrombosis.
Sondergaard made her first film appearance in Anthony Adverse (1936) as "Faith Paleologue" and became the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this performance. Her career as an actress flourished during the 1930s, and included a role opposite Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola (1937).
Walt Disney Studios used her as the main inspiration for the Wicked Queen in the animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Originally cast as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (1939), she was replaced by Margaret Hamilton when MGM decided to change the Wicked Witch from a glamorous character, and Sondergaard, fearing it could damage her career, refused to wear the necessary disfiguring makeup.
In 1940 she played the role of the exotic and sinister wife in The Letter, supporting Bette Davis. She received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the King's principal wife in Anna and the King of Siam in 1946.
In 1978 Sondegaard played the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna in a production of Marcelle Maurette's play Anastasia at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Written By: ninny on 08/14/09 at 6:27 am
The co-person of the day...Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant (27 December 1906 – 14 August 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.
rom 1947 to 1949, Levant regularly appeared on NBC radio's Kraft Music Hall, starring Al Jolson. He not only accompanied Jolson on the piano and played classical and popular solos, but often joked and ad-libbed with Jolson and his guests. This includes comedy sketches. The pairing of the two entertainers was inspired. Their individual ties to George Gershwin --- Jolson introduced Gershwin's "Swanee"-- undoubtedly had much to do with their rapport. Both Levant and Jolson play themselves in the Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945).
Levant in An American in Paris (1951)
Between 1958 and 1960, Levant hosted a television talk show on KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, The Oscar Levant Show, which later became syndicated. It featured his piano playing along with monologues and interviews with top-name guests such as Fred Astaire and Linus Pauling. A full recording of only one show is known to exist, that with Astaire, who paid to have a kinescope recording of the broadcast made, so that he could assess his performance. This is likely the only Astaire performance to have imperfections, as it was live, and Levant would repeatedly change the tempo of his accompaniment to Astaire's singing during the bridges between verses, which appeared to get him quite off balance at first. He did not dance, as the studio space was extremely small. The show was highly controversial, eventually being taken from the air after a comment about Marilyn Monroe's conversion to Judaism: "Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her". He later stated that he "hadn't meant it that way". Several months later, the show began to be broadcast in a slightly revised format -- it was taped in order to provide a buffer for Levant's antics. This, however, failed to prevent Levant from making comments about Mae West's sex life that caused the show to be canceled for good. Levant was also a frequent guest on Jack Paar's talk show.
The 1920s and 1930s wit Alexander Woollcott, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, once said of him: "There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix."
Open about his neuroses and a notorious hypochondriac, Levant was in later life addicted to prescription drugs and was frequently committed to mental hospitals by his wife, June. Despite his afflictions, Levant was considered a genius by some, in many areas. (He himself wisecracked "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.") His playing of the Tchaikovsky and Anton Rubinstein piano concerti, as well as Gershwin, is a testimony to his talents.
Levant drew increasingly away from the limelight in his later years. Upon his death in Beverly Hills, California of a heart attack at the age of 65, he was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. In their routines, some comics have claimed, apocryphally, and citing an old joke, that hypochondriac Levant's epitaph was inscribed, "I told them I was ill."
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Written By: ninny on 08/14/09 at 6:30 am
* Honorable mention*...Bruno Kirby
Bruno Kirby (April 28, 1949 – August 14, 2006) was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for his roles in the Hollywood films City Slickers, When Harry Met Sally..., and The Godfather Part II.
Kirby was a popular character actor through the late 1980s and early '90s, although the frequency of his film appearances waned. Kirby's film debut was in the little-seen The Young Graduates (1971). Early television appearances included the series Room 222 and The Super, but it was his role in The Godfather Part II, as the young Pete Clemenza, that raised his profile in Hollywood. He can be glimpsed in the pilot episode of M*A*S*H, playing the character Boone, though he has no lines. In The Super, Kirby portrayed Richard Castellano's son. Coincidentally, Castellano appeared in The Godfather (1972) as hefty Pete Clemenza, a prominent member of the Corleone crime family, and Kirby subsequently played a younger version of Clemenza in the sequel, The Godfather Part II.
Described by film critic Leonard Maltin as "the quintessential New Yorker or cranky straight man", Kirby displayed his talents in a series of comedies, typically playing fast-talking, belligerent, yet strangely likeable characters. His most well-known roles include a fellow colleague to Albert Brooks' film editor in Modern Romance, a talkative limo driver in This Is Spinal Tap (1984), the jealous, comedically-impaired U.S. Army officer Lt. Hauk in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) and a shifty assistant to Marlon Brando — a parody of his Godfather role — in The Freshman (1990). Kirby balanced comedies with dramatic roles in Donnie Brasco as a double dealing mobster.
On television, Kirby was memorable as Garry Shandling's agent Brad Brillnick in seasons three and four of the comedy cult classic It's Garry Shandling's Show.
Kirby and comedian Billy Crystal made a popular screen team in When Harry Met Sally... (1989) and City Slickers (1991). Both featured Kirby's character as the opinionated best friend to Crystal's character. However, Kirby refused to sign on for the sequel City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold unless script changes were made. Kirby's character was replaced by a new character played by Jon Lovitz, and the movie, while successful both critically and commercially, did not reach the popularity of the first.
In 1991, Kirby made his Broadway debut to great critical acclaim when he replaced Kevin Spacey in Neil Simon's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play Lost in Yonkers. In the last decade of his life, Kirby (and his unforgettable voice) had a last great success in the animated children's classic Stuart Little (1999), and was increasingly working on television. He starred as Barry Scheck in a 2000 CBS drama American Tragedy about the O.J. Simpson case. He played a paroled convict out for revenge in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. More recently, he played Phil Rubenstein in the HBO series Entourage.
In The Larry Sanders Show, Kirby (as himself) gets 'bumped' in the last episode. The final episode of season 3, part 1 of Entourage (entitled: "Sorry, Ari") is dedicated to Kirby's memory as is his last cinematic role in the motion picture Played.
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Written By: Reynolds1863 on 08/14/09 at 6:35 am
You forgot THIS lamp:
http://www.flickstongue.com/collect/Leglamps/red_ryder_leg_lamp.jpg
Cat
It says "fragile". Must be Italian. ;D
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Written By: ninny on 08/14/09 at 6:35 am
The Flower for Friday...Iris
Iris is a genus of between 200–300 species of flowering plants with showy flowers. It takes its name from the Greek word for a rainbow, referring to the wide variety of flower colors found among the many species. As well as being the scientific name, iris is also very widely used as a common name; for one thing, it refers to all Iris species, though some plants called thus belong to other closely related genera. In North America, a common name for irises is flags, while the plants of the subgenus Scorpiris are widely known as junos, particularly in horticulture. It is a popular garden flower in the United States.
The genera Belamcanda (blackberry lily), Hermodactylus (snake's head iris), Neomarica (walking iris) and Pardanthopsis are sometimes included in Iris.
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Written By: Howard on 08/14/09 at 7:05 am
The word of the day...Letter
1.
1. A written symbol or character representing a speech sound and being a component of an alphabet.
2. A written symbol or character used in the graphemic representation of a word, such as the h in Thames. See Note at Thames.
2. A written or printed communication directed to a person or organization.
3. A certified document granting rights to its bearer. Often used in the plural.
4. Literal meaning: had to adhere to the letter of the law.
5. letters (used with a sing. verb)
1. Literary culture; belles-lettres.
2. Learning or knowledge, especially of literature.
3. Literature or writing as a profession.
6. Printing.
1. A piece of type that prints a single character.
2. A specific style of type.
3. The characters in one style of type.
7. An emblem in the shape of the initial of a school awarded for outstanding performance, especially in varsity athletics.
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There's also love letters.
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Written By: ninny on 08/14/09 at 7:15 am
There's also love letters.
Love Letter In The Sand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7TTkmC7HX8#
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Written By: gibbo on 08/14/09 at 7:24 am
That pic of the letter hugging a woman is creepy!
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Written By: Paul on 08/14/09 at 7:28 am
There's also love letters.
And especially for you, Howard...French letters! But we won't go there! ;)
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Written By: gibbo on 08/14/09 at 7:31 am
And especially for you, Howard...French letters! But we won't go there! ;)
Now...why not? Howard is a very attractive man...I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you went there....with him! ::)
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Written By: Howard on 08/14/09 at 7:32 am
Now...why not? Howard is a very attractive man...I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you went there....with him! ::)
Go where? ???
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Written By: gibbo on 08/14/09 at 7:34 am
Go where? ???
Err...something to do with the French alphabet. ;D
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Written By: Howard on 08/14/09 at 7:35 am
Err...something to do with the French alphabet. ;D
P?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/14/09 at 7:36 am
There's also Love letter By "Giggles".
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/14/09 at 7:37 am
Go where? ???
You've been condo emed :D
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/14/09 at 7:38 am
You've been Condo emed :D
I don't want to even know. ::)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/09 at 1:47 am
That pic of the letter hugging a woman is creepy!
I hope that is not sent through the post.
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Written By: ninny on 08/15/09 at 7:45 am
The word of the day...Cuisine
1. A characteristic manner or style of preparing food: Spanish cuisine.
2. Food; fare.
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Written By: ninny on 08/15/09 at 7:49 am
The person of the day...Julia Child
Julia Child (born Julia Carolyn McWilliams August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author and television personality. She introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many cookbooks and television programs, notably The French Chef which premiered in 1963. Her most well-known cookbook is Mastering the Art of French Cooking, published in 1961.
1962 appearance on a book review show on the National Educational Television (NET) station of Boston, WGBH, led to the inception of her television cooking show after viewers enjoyed her demonstration of how to cook an omelette. The French Chef debuted February 11, 1963, on WGBH and was immediately successful. The show ran nationally for ten years and won Peabody and Emmy Awards, including the first Emmy award for an educational program. Though she was not the first television cook, Child was the most widely seen. She attracted the broadest audience with her cheery enthusiasm, distinctively charming warbly voice, and unpatronising and unaffected manner.
In 1972 The French Chef became the first television program to be captioned for the deaf albeit in the preliminary technology of open captioning.
Child's second book, The French Chef Cookbook, was a collection of the recipes she had demonstrated on the show. It was soon followed in 1971 by Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two, again in collaboration with Simone Beck, but not with Louisette Bertholle, with whom they had ended their partnership. Child's fourth book, From Julia Child's Kitchen, was illustrated with her husband's photographs and documented the color series of The French Chef, as well as providing an extensive library of kitchen notes compiled by Child during the course of the show.
In 1981, she founded the educational American Institute of Wine and Food in Napa, California, with vintners Robert Mondavi and Richard Graff to "advance the understanding, appreciation and quality of wine and food," a pursuit she had already begun with her books and television appearances.
Julia Child at the Miami Book Fair International of 1989
In the 1970s and 1980s, she was the star of numerous television programs, including Julia Child & Company and Dinner at Julia's; at the same time she also produced what she considered her magnum opus, a book and instructional video series collectively entitled The Way To Cook, which was published in 1989.
She starred in four more series in the 1990s that featured guest chefs: Cooking with Master Chefs, In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs, Baking With Julia, and Julia Child & Jacques Pépin Cooking at Home. She collaborated with Jacques Pépin many times for television programs and cookbooks. All of Child's books during this time stemmed from the television series of the same names.
Beginning with In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs, the Childs' home kitchen in Cambridge was fully transformed into a functional set, with TV-quality lighting, three cameras positioned to catch all angles in the room, a massive center island with a gas stovetop on one side and an electric stovetop on the other, but leaving the rest of the Childs' appliances alone, including "my wall oven with its squeaking door." This kitchen backdrop hosted nearly all of Child's 1990s television series.
Child's last book was the autobiographical My Life in France, published posthumously in 2006 and written with her husband's great nephew, Alex Prud'homme. The book recounts Child's life with her husband, Paul Child, in post-World War II France.
In popular culture
Child was a favorite of audiences from the moment of her television debut on public television in 1963 and she was a familiar part of American culture and the subject of numerous references. In 1966, she was featured on the cover of Time with the heading, "Our Lady of the Ladle". In a 1978 Saturday Night Live sketch, she was affectionately parodied by Dan Aykroyd, continuing with a cooking show despite profuse bleeding from a cut to the thumb. It has been told that Julia loved this sketch so much, she would show it to friends at parties. Jean Stapleton portrayed her in a 1989 musical, Bon Appétit!, based on one of her televised cooking lessons. The title derived from her famous TV sign-off: "This is Julia Child. Bon appétit!". She was also the inspiration for the character "Julia Grownup" on the Children's Television Workshop program, The Electric Company (1971–1977), and was portrayed or parodied in many other television and radio programs and skits, including The Cosby Show (1984–1992) by character Heathcliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) and Garrison Keillor's radio series A Prairie Home Companion by voice actor Tim Russell. Julia Child's TV show is briefly portrayed in the 1986 movie, "The Money Pit" starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long. Julia's show was briefly portrayed in the 1985 Madonna film Desperately Seeking Susan
In 2009, Child was part of the focus of the feature film Julie & Julia, with Meryl Streep portraying Child.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/15/09 at 7:51 am
The co-person of the day...Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. Despite many notable film performances, she chose to remain primarily a stage actress.
t Shaw's insistence, she starred as Eliza Doolittle in the film Pygmalion (1938) with Leslie Howard as Professor Higgins. This performance earned her her first Oscar nomination and became one of her most famous film roles. Her 1939 nomination marked the first time a British actress in a British film had been nominated for an Academy Award. She was also the first actress to utter the word "bloody" in a British film, when Eliza utters the line "Not bloody likely, I'm going in a taxi!".
Wendy Hiller in Pygmalion (1938)
She followed up this success with another Shaw adaptation, Major Barbara with Rex Harrison and Robert Morley, in 1941. The ground-breaking film team of Powell and Pressburger signed her for their 1943 film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, but she was forced to back out due to pregnancy. The role eventually went to Deborah Kerr. Determined to work with Hiller, the pair eventually teamed her with Colonel Blimp star Roger Livesey in the 1945 I Know Where I'm Going!, which became a classic of British cinema.
Despite her early film success and offers from Hollywood, she returned to the stage full-time after 1945 and only occasionally accepted film roles. With her return to film in the 1950s, she portrayed an abused colonial wife in Carol Reed's Outcast of the Islands (1952), but had already transitioned into mature, supporting roles with Sailor of the King (1953) and a memorable victim of the Mau Mau uprising in Something of Value (1957). She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1959 for the film Separate Tables (1958), as a lonely hotel manageress and mistress of Burt Lancaster. She remained uncompromising in her indifference to film stardom, as evidenced by her surprising reaction to her Oscar win "never mind the honour, cold hard cash is what it means to me." She received a third Oscar nomination for her performance as the simple, unrefined, but dignified Lady Alice More, opposite Paul Scofield as Thomas More, in A Man for All Seasons (1966). She reprised her London stage role in the southern gothic Toys in the Attic (1963), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as the elder spinster sister of Dean Martin and Geraldine Page.
Her portrayal of the domineering, possessive mother in Sons and Lovers (1960) earned her a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actress. Her role as the grand Russian princess in a huge commercial success, Murder on the Orient Express (1974), won her international acclaim and the Evening Standard British Film Award as Best Actress. Other notable roles included a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi Germany with her dying husband in Voyage of the Damned (1976) and the formidable London Hospital matron in The Elephant Man (1980).
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/09 at 10:07 am
The word of the day...Cuisine
1. A characteristic manner or style of preparing food: Spanish cuisine.
2. Food; fare.
I feel hungry now!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/15/09 at 10:22 am
I feel hungry now!
Bon Appetit. :)
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/09 at 11:58 am
Bon Appetit. :)
Thanks, I did eat something but it was not so grand.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Frank on 08/15/09 at 12:29 pm
The co-person of the day...Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. Despite many notable film performances, she chose to remain primarily a stage actress.
t Shaw's insistence, she starred as Eliza Doolittle in the film Pygmalion (1938) with Leslie Howard as Professor Higgins. This performance earned her her first Oscar nomination and became one of her most famous film roles. Her 1939 nomination marked the first time a British actress in a British film had been nominated for an Academy Award. She was also the first actress to utter the word "bloody" in a British film, when Eliza utters the line "Not bloody likely, I'm going in a taxi!".
Wendy Hiller in Pygmalion (1938)
She followed up this success with another Shaw adaptation, Major Barbara with Rex Harrison and Robert Morley, in 1941. The ground-breaking film team of Powell and Pressburger signed her for their 1943 film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, but she was forced to back out due to pregnancy. The role eventually went to Deborah Kerr. Determined to work with Hiller, the pair eventually teamed her with Colonel Blimp star Roger Livesey in the 1945 I Know Where I'm Going!, which became a classic of British cinema.
Despite her early film success and offers from Hollywood, she returned to the stage full-time after 1945 and only occasionally accepted film roles. With her return to film in the 1950s, she portrayed an abused colonial wife in Carol Reed's Outcast of the Islands (1952), but had already transitioned into mature, supporting roles with Sailor of the King (1953) and a memorable victim of the Mau Mau uprising in Something of Value (1957). She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1959 for the film Separate Tables (1958), as a lonely hotel manageress and mistress of Burt Lancaster. She remained uncompromising in her indifference to film stardom, as evidenced by her surprising reaction to her Oscar win "never mind the honour, cold hard cash is what it means to me." She received a third Oscar nomination for her performance as the simple, unrefined, but dignified Lady Alice More, opposite Paul Scofield as Thomas More, in A Man for All Seasons (1966). She reprised her London stage role in the southern gothic Toys in the Attic (1963), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as the elder spinster sister of Dean Martin and Geraldine Page.
Her portrayal of the domineering, possessive mother in Sons and Lovers (1960) earned her a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actress. Her role as the grand Russian princess in a huge commercial success, Murder on the Orient Express (1974), won her international acclaim and the Evening Standard British Film Award as Best Actress. Other notable roles included a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi Germany with her dying husband in Voyage of the Damned (1976) and the formidable London Hospital matron in The Elephant Man (1980).
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I remember her is Murder on the orient express, and I liked that film.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/15/09 at 2:49 pm
I used to watch Julia Child on television.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/16/09 at 2:10 am
I remember her is Murder on the orient express, and I liked that film.
That was the first film I saw in a West End cinema in London.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: gibbo on 08/16/09 at 3:13 am
I think Wendy Hiller may have been the Grandmother character in Anne of Green Gables (the mini series). :-\\
....and regarding Cousine....
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 6:46 am
The word of the day...Hotel
An establishment that provides lodging and usually meals and other services for travelers and other paying guests.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/16/09 at 6:48 am
Elvis,still the king of rock N' roll.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/16/09 at 6:50 am
The word of the day...Hotel
An establishment that provides lodging and usually meals and other services for travelers and other paying guests.
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Fawlty Towers, the hotel used for the tv series sadly burnt down, it has been demolished and now a housing estate has been built over the site. The true location of the old hotel has almost been lost now.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/16/09 at 6:51 am
There's also Hotel California.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 6:51 am
The person of the day...Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977; middle name sometimes spelled Aron)a was an American singer and actor. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as Elvis and is also sometimes referred to as The King of Rock 'n' Roll or The King.
Presley began his career in 1954 as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing "black" and "white" sounds, made him popular—and controversial—as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. Presley had a versatile voice and he had unusually wide success encompassing many genres, including rock and roll, gospel, blues, country, ballads and pop. To date, he has been inducted into four music halls of fame.
In the 1960s, Presley made the majority of his 31 movies, most of which were poorly reviewed but financially successful musicals. In 1968, he returned to live performances in a television special, which led to a string of successful tours across the U.S., notably in Las Vegas, for the remainder of his career. In 1973, Presley staged the first global live concert via satellite (Aloha from Hawaii), reaching at least one billion viewers live and an additional 500 million on delay.
Throughout his career, he set records for concert attendance, television ratings and recordings sales. He is one of the best-selling solo artists in the history of music, selling over one billion records worldwide, and he is regarded as one of the most important figures of twentieth century popular culture. Among his many awards and accolades are 14 Grammy nominations (3 wins) from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which he received at age 36, and being named One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation for 1970 by the United States Jaycees.
Health problems, prescription drug dependence, and other factors led to his death at age 42.
On January 10, 1956, Presley made his first recordings for RCA in Nashville, Tennessee. Despite Scotty, Bill and D.J. being in the studio with him, RCA enlisted the talents of already established stars Floyd Cramer and Chet Atkins also to "...fatten the sound." The session produced "Heartbreak Hotel/I Was The One" which was released on January 27. The public reaction to "Heartbreak Hotel" prompted RCA to release it as a single in its own right (February 11). By April it had hit number one in the U.S. charts, selling in excess of one million copies.
National exposure
On March 3, 1955, Presley made his first television appearance on the TV version of Louisiana Hayride on KSLA-TV, but failed an audition for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts on CBS-TV later that month. To increase the singer's exposure, Parker finally brought Presley to national television after booking six appearances on CBS's Stage Show in New York, beginning January 28, 1956. Presley was introduced on the first program by Cleveland DJ Bill Randle. He stayed in town and on January 30, he and the band headed for the RCA's New York Studio. The sessions yielded eight songs, including "My Baby Left Me" and "Blue Suede Shoes". The latter was the only hit single from the collection, but the recordings marked the point at which Presley started moving away from the raw, pure Sun sound to the more commercial and mainstream sound RCA had envisioned for him.
The iconic cover of Elvis Presley's debut RCA Victor album. Photo taken on January 31, 1955
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/16/09 at 6:53 am
The person of the day...Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977; middle name sometimes spelled Aron)a was an American singer and actor. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as Elvis and is also sometimes referred to as The King of Rock 'n' Roll or The King.
Presley began his career in 1954 as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing "black" and "white" sounds, made him popular—and controversial—as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. Presley had a versatile voice and he had unusually wide success encompassing many genres, including rock and roll, gospel, blues, country, ballads and pop. To date, he has been inducted into four music halls of fame.
In the 1960s, Presley made the majority of his 31 movies, most of which were poorly reviewed but financially successful musicals. In 1968, he returned to live performances in a television special, which led to a string of successful tours across the U.S., notably in Las Vegas, for the remainder of his career. In 1973, Presley staged the first global live concert via satellite (Aloha from Hawaii), reaching at least one billion viewers live and an additional 500 million on delay.
Throughout his career, he set records for concert attendance, television ratings and recordings sales. He is one of the best-selling solo artists in the history of music, selling over one billion records worldwide, and he is regarded as one of the most important figures of twentieth century popular culture. Among his many awards and accolades are 14 Grammy nominations (3 wins) from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which he received at age 36, and being named One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation for 1970 by the United States Jaycees.
Health problems, prescription drug dependence, and other factors led to his death at age 42.
On January 10, 1956, Presley made his first recordings for RCA in Nashville, Tennessee. Despite Scotty, Bill and D.J. being in the studio with him, RCA enlisted the talents of already established stars Floyd Cramer and Chet Atkins also to "...fatten the sound." The session produced "Heartbreak Hotel/I Was The One" which was released on January 27. The public reaction to "Heartbreak Hotel" prompted RCA to release it as a single in its own right (February 11). By April it had hit number one in the U.S. charts, selling in excess of one million copies.
National exposure
On March 3, 1955, Presley made his first television appearance on the TV version of Louisiana Hayride on KSLA-TV, but failed an audition for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts on CBS-TV later that month. To increase the singer's exposure, Parker finally brought Presley to national television after booking six appearances on CBS's Stage Show in New York, beginning January 28, 1956. Presley was introduced on the first program by Cleveland DJ Bill Randle. He stayed in town and on January 30, he and the band headed for the RCA's New York Studio. The sessions yielded eight songs, including "My Baby Left Me" and "Blue Suede Shoes". The latter was the only hit single from the collection, but the recordings marked the point at which Presley started moving away from the raw, pure Sun sound to the more commercial and mainstream sound RCA had envisioned for him.
The iconic cover of Elvis Presley's debut RCA Victor album. Photo taken on January 31, 1955
Has it really been 32 years now?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/16/09 at 6:54 am
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EEK! ^ :o
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Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 6:58 am
The co-person of the day...Bela Lugosi
Béla Lugosi (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956) was a Hungarian-American actor of stage and screen, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version. In the last years of his career he featured in several of Ed Wood's low budget films.
A number of factors worked against Lugosi's career in the mid-1930s. Universal changed management in 1936, and per a British ban on horror films, dropped them from their production schedule; Lugosi found himself consigned to Universal's non-horror B-film unit, at times in small roles where he was obviously used for "name value" only. Throughout the 1930s Lugosi, experiencing a severe career decline despite popularity with audiences (Universal executives always preferred his rival Karloff), accepted many leading roles from independent producers like Nat Levine, Sol Lesser, and Sam Katzman. These low-budget thrillers indicate that Lugosi was less discriminating than Boris Karloff in selecting screen vehicles, but the exposure helped Lugosi financially if not artistically. Lugosi tried to keep busy with stage work, but had to borrow money from the Actors' Fund to pay hospital bills when his only child, Bela George Lugosi, was born in 1938.
His career was given a second chance by Universal's Son of Frankenstein in 1939, when he played the plum character role of Ygor, a sly hunchback, in heavy makeup and beard. The same year saw Lugosi playing a straight character role in a major motion picture: he was a stern commissar in MGM's Greta Garbo comedy Ninotchka. This small but prestigious role could have been a turning point for the actor, but within the year he was back on Hollywood's Poverty Row, playing leads for Sam Katzman. These horror, comedy, psycho, and mystery B-films were released by Monogram Pictures. At Universal, he often received star billing for what amounted to a supporting part. The Gorilla had him playing straight man to Patsy Kelly, in a role she told Bose Hadleigh was her finest.
Ostensibly due to injuries received during military service, Lugosi developed severe, chronic sciatica. Though at first he was treated with pain remedies such as asparagus juice, doctors increased the medication to opiates. The growth of his dependence on pain-killers, particularly morphine and methadone, was directly proportional to the dwindling of screen offers. In 1943, he finally played the role of Frankenstein's monster in Universal's Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, which this time contained dialogue (Lugosi's voice had been dubbed over Lon Chaney, Jr's, line readings at the end of 1942's The Ghost of Frankenstein because Ygor's brain had been transplanted into the Monster). Lugosi continued to play the Monster with Ygor's consciousness but with groping gestures because the Monster was now blind. Ultimately, all of the Monster's dialogue and all references to his sightlessness were edited out of the released film, leaving a strange, maimed performance characterized by unexplained gestures and lip movements with no words coming out. He also got to recreate the role of Dracula a second and last time on film in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in 1948. By this time, Lugosi's drug use was so notorious that the producers weren't even aware that Lugosi was still alive, and had penciled in actor Ian Keith for the role.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was Bela Lugosi's last "A" movie. For the remainder of his life he appeared—less and less frequently—in relatively obscure, low-budget features. From 1947 to 1950 he performed in summer stock, often in productions of Dracula or Arsenic and Old Lace, and during the rest of the year made personal appearances in a touring "spook show" and on television. While in England to play a six-month tour of Dracula in 1951, he co-starred in a lowbrow movie comedy, Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (also known as Vampire over London and My Son, the Vampire). Upon his return to America, Lugosi was interviewed for television, and revealed his ambition to play more comedy, though wistfully noting, "Now I am the boogie man." Independent producer Jack Broder took Lugosi at his word, casting him in a jungle-themed comedy, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla. Another opportunity for comedy came when Red Skelton invited Lugosi to appear in a sketch on his live CBS program. Lugosi memorized the script for the skit, but became confused on the air when Skelton began to ad lib. This was depicted in the Tim Burton film Ed Wood, with Martin Landau as Lugosi. Though Burton did not actually identify the comedian in the biopic, the events depicted were correct.
Late in his life, Bela Lugosi again received star billing in movies when filmmaker Edward D. Wood, Jr., a fan of Lugosi, found him living in obscurity and near-poverty and offered him roles in his films, such as Glen or Glenda and as a Dr. Frankenstein-like mad scientist in Bride of the Monster. During post-production of the latter, Lugosi decided to seek treatment for his addiction, and the premiere of the film was said to be intended to help pay for his hospital expenses. According to Kitty Kelley's biography of Frank Sinatra, when the entertainer heard of Lugosi's problems, he helped with expenses and visited at the hospital. Lugosi would recall his amazement, since he didn't even know Sinatra.
The extras on an early DVD release of Plan 9 from Outer Space include an impromptu interview with Lugosi upon his exit from the treatment center in 1955, which provide some rare personal insights into the man. During the interview, Lugosi states that he is about to go to work on a new Ed Wood film, The Ghoul Goes West. This was one of several projects proposed by Wood, including The Phantom Ghoul and Dr. Acula. With Lugosi in his famed Dracula cape, Wood shot impromptu test footage, with no storyline in mind, in front of Tor Johnson's home, a suburban graveyard and in front of Lugosi's apartment building on Carlton Way. This footage ended up in Plan 9 from Outer Space.
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/16/09 at 6:59 am
We need more Dracula roles.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 7:01 am
*Honorable mention*...Babe Ruth
George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 - August 16, 1948), also popularly known as "Babe", "The Bambino", and "The Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935. Ruth originally broke into the Major Leagues with the Boston Red Sox as a starting pitcher, but after he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, he was converted to an outfielder and subsequently became one of the league's most prolific hitters. Ruth was a mainstay in the Yankees' lineup that won 4 World Series titles during his tenure with the team. After a short stint with the Boston Braves in 1935, Ruth retired. In 1936, Ruth became one of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Ruth has since become regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture. He has been named the greatest baseball player in history in various surveys and rankings, and his home run hitting prowess and charismatic personality made him a larger than life figure in the "Roaring Twenties". Off the field he was famous for his charity, but also was noted for his often reckless lifestyle. Ruth is crediting with changing baseball itself. The popularity of the game exploded in the 1920s, largely due to him. Ruth ushered in the "live-ball era," as his big swing led to escalating home run totals that not only excited fans, but helped baseball evolve from a low-scoring, speed-dominated game to a high-scoring power game.
In 1998, The Sporting News ranked Ruth Number 1 on the list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players." In 1999, baseball fans named Ruth to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. In 1969, he was named baseball's Greatest Player Ever in a ballot commemorating the 100th anniversary of professional baseball. In 1993, the Associated Press reported that Ruth was tied with Muhammad Ali as the most recognized athletes in America, in a Sports Marketing Group study, with over 97% of Americans identifying both Ruth and Ali. According to ESPN, he was the first true American sports celebrity superstar whose fame transcended baseball. In a 1999 ESPN poll, he was ranked as the third-greatest US athlete of the century, behind Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali.
Ruth was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season (1927), setting the season record which stood for 34 years until broken by Roger Maris in 1961. Ruth's lifetime total of 714 home runs at his retirement in 1935 was a record for 39 years, until broken by Hank Aaron in 1974. Unlike many power hitters, Ruth also hit for average: his .342 lifetime batting is tenth highest in baseball history, and in one season (1923) he hit .393, a Yankee record. His .690 career slugging percentage and 1.164 career on-base plus slugging (OPS) remain the major league records. Ruth dominated in the era in which he played. He led the league in home runs during a season 12 times, slugging percentage 13 times, OPS 13 times, runs scored eight times, and runs batted in (RBIs) six times. Each of those totals represents a modern record (and also an all-time record, except for RBIs).
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Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 7:03 am
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Fawlty Towers, the hotel used for the tv series sadly burnt down, it has been demolished and now a housing estate has been built over the site. The true location of the old hotel has almost been lost now.
I did not realize that,when did that happen?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 7:04 am
There's also Hotel California.
My family was just talking about that song last night.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 7:05 am
Has it really been 32 years now?
I know it's hard to believe. :\'(
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EEK! ^ :o
EEK is right :o
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/16/09 at 7:06 am
My family was just talking about that song last night.
Was it that creepy?
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Howard on 08/16/09 at 7:06 am
I know it's hard to believe. :\'(EEK is right :o
And this is what he would like today if he hadn't passed on.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 7:14 am
We need more Dracula roles.
Who would we get to play him..maybe Johnny Depp
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/16/09 at 7:47 am
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EEK! ^ :o
Now that is frightening!
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/16/09 at 7:49 am
My family was just talking about that song last night.
That was to be my second choice of hotel to be mentioned of here.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 7:58 am
Was it that creepy?
It was interesting.
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: Michael C. on 08/16/09 at 9:10 am
Johnny Depp has gotten the rights to Dark Shadows......not Dracula...But Barnabas Collins will do.....
Who would we get to play him..maybe Johnny Depp
Subject: Re: ninny's Person & Word of the Day
Written By: ninny on 08/16/09 at 11:00 am
Johnny Depp has gotten the rights to Dark Shadows......not Dracula...But Barnabas Collins will do.....
That's great I've always loved Dark Shadows :)