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October 19, 2007
Is That Rain?
Dear god it's actually raining outside! I had forgotten what it looks like! ;o)
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October 18, 2007
Deborah Kerr Dies at 86
LONDON, England (AP) -- Deborah Kerr, who shared one of Hollywood's most famous kisses and made her mark with such roles as the correct widow in "The King and I" and the unhappy officer's wife in "From Here to Eternity," has died. She was 86.Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died Tuesday in Suffolk in eastern England, her agent, Anne Hutton, said Thursday.
For many she will be remembered best for her kiss with Burt Lancaster as waves crashed over them on a Hawaiian beach in the wartime drama "From Here to Eternity."
Kerr's roles as forceful, sometimes frustrated women pushed the limits of Hollywood's treatment of sex on the screen during the censor-bound 1950s.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated Kerr a six times for best actress, but never gave her an Academy Award until it presented an honorary Oscar in 1994 for her distinguished career as an "artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance."
My favorite role of hers was in An Affair to Remember. Rest in peace Ms. Kerr.
Found via CNN.
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The Last of the Rat Pack Joey Bishop Dies at 89
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Joey Bishop, the stone-faced comedian who found success in nightclubs, television and movies but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack, has died at 89.He was the group's last surviving member. Peter Lawford died in 1984, Sammy Davis Jr. in 1990, Dean Martin in 1995, and Sinatra in 1998.
Bishop died Wednesday night of multiple causes at his home in Newport Beach, publicist and longtime friend Warren Cowan said Thursday.
The Rat Pack -- originally a social group surrounding Humphrey Bogart -- became a show business sensation in the early 1960s, appearing at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in shows that combined music and comedy in a seemingly chaotic manner.
Reviewers often claimed that Bishop played a minor role, but Sinatra knew otherwise. He termed the comedian "the Hub of the Big Wheel," with Bishop coming up with some of the best one-liners and beginning many jokes with his favorite phrase, "Son of a gun!"
Found via CNN.
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October 15, 2007
The Mom Song
"The Mom Song"
Get up now
Get up now
Get up out of bed
Wash your face
Brush your teeth
Comb your sleepyhead
Here's your clothes and your shoes
Hear the words I said
Get up now! Get up and make your bed
Are you hot? Are you cold?
Are you wearing that?
Where's your books and your lunch and your homework at?
Grab your coat and gloves and your scarf and hat
Don't forget! You gotta feed the cat
Eat your breakfast, the experts tell us it's the most important meal of all
Take your vitamins so you will grow up one day to be big and tall
Please remember the orthodontist will be seeing you at 3 today
Don't forget your piano lesson is this afternoon so you must play
Don't shovel
Chew slowly
But hurry
The bus is here
Be careful
Come back here
Did you wash behind your ears?
Play outside, don't play rough, will you just play fair?
Be polite, make a friend, don't forget to share
Work it out, wait your turn, never take a dare
Get along! Don't make me come down there
Clean your room, fold your clothes, put your stuff away
Make your bed, do it now, do we have all day?
Were you born in a barn? Would you like some hay?
Can you even hear a word I say?
Answer the phone! Get off the phone!
Don't sit so close, turn it down, no texting at the table
No more computer time tonight!
Your iPod's my iPod if you don't listen up
Where are you going and with whom and what time do you think you're coming home?
Saying thank you, please, excuse me makes you welcome everywhere you roam
You'll appreciate my wisdom someday when you're older and you're grown
Can't wait till you have a couple little children of your own
You'll thank me for the counsel I gave you so willingly
But right now I thank you not to roll your eyes at me
Close your mouth when you chew, would appreciate
Take a bite maybe two of the stuff you hate
Use your fork, do not burp or I'll set you straight
Eat the food I put upon your plate
Get an A, get the door, don't get smart with me
Get a grip, get in here, I'll count to three
Get a job, get a life, get a PHD
Get a dose of,
"I don't care who started it!
You're grounded until you're 36"
Get your story straight and tell the truth for once, for heaven's sake
And if all your friends jumped off a cliff would you jump, too?
If I've said it once, I've said at least a thousand times before
That you're too old to act this way
It must be your father's DNA
Look at me when I am talking
Stand up straighter when you walk
A place for everything and everything must be in place
Stop crying or I'll give you something real to cry about
Oh!
Brush your teeth, wash your face, put your PJs on
Get in bed, get up here, say a prayer with mom
Don't forget, I love you
And tomorrow we will do this all again because a mom's work never ends
You don't need the reason why
Because, because, because, because
I said so, I said so, I said so, I said so
I'm the mom, the mom, the mom, the mom, the mom!!
Ta da!!!
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October 12, 2007
Congratulations Mr. Gore!
(CNN) -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work raising awareness about global warming.The Nobel committee cited them "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
"Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming," Ole Danbolt Mjoes, chairman of the Nobel committee, said in making the announcement.
"Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming."
The Nobel committee praised Gore as being "one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians."
He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted," said Mjoes
Congratulations go out this morning to Mr. Gore! Keep up the good work sir!
Found via CNN.
Update: 9:00 AM: See Mr. Gore's comments here.
Update: 4:21 PM: The MOMocrats have a nice suggestion for Mr. Gore as well! Check it out here.
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October 10, 2007
Fall
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October 1, 2007
What Are You Listening To Monday Vocals Edition
“After You, Who?”: John Barrowman, Swings Cole Porter
“I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face”: The London Theatre Orchestra & Chorus, More Magic of the Musicals
“On the Street Where You Live”: Harry Connick, Jr., 25
“The Best Is Yet to Come”: Michael Bublé, Call Me Irresponsible
“Hey There Reprise / If You Win You Lose”: Harry Connick, Jr. & Kelli O'Hara, Harry On Broadway, Act I
“Think of Me (From "The Phantom of the Opera")”: John Barrowman & Claire Moore, Aspects of Andrew Lloyd Webber
“I Need to Be In Love “: Harry Connick, Jr., Harry On Broadway, Act I
“It's All Right With Me”: John Barrowman, Swings Cole Porter
“I Only Have Eyes for You”: Harry Connick, Jr., Only You
“They Can't Take That Away from Me”: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Pure Ella
“I've Got You Under My Skin”: Michael Bublé, It's Time
“Georgia Rose”: Queen Latifah, Trav'lin' Light
“It Had to Be You (Big Band and Vocals)”: Harry Connick, Jr., When Harry Met Sally... (Music from the Motion Picture)
“Half of April (Most of May)”: Michael Feinstein, Forever
“Isn't It Romantic”: Ella Fitzgerald, The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books (Box Set)
“Baby It's Cold Outside”: Lee Ann Womack and Harry Connick, Jr., The Season for Romance
What are you listening to?
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