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9/14/23.
The Australian music scene has been strong for the past 15 years. From "dolewave" to driving post-punk to punk, many of my favorite bands have come from down under.
Soft Covers (Melbourne, Australia) is one of the best new Australian bands I've heard in a while. Listen, and you might not think they sound much different from Go Get Mum, The Stroppies or Boomgates. And you know what, you might be partly right. But those vocals, melodies and hooks are just astounding. "The Real Housewives of Porpoise Spit" is one of my favorite songs of 2023, and "Every Week" sounds like it could be an early Chills song (or The Bats/Minisnap: Kaye Woodward!!).
This is being released by Brisbane-based label Little Lunch Records (they also released the excellent LP from Renovator's Delight).
#Soft Covers#Melbourne#Australia#Boomgates#Go Get Mum#The Chills#The Bats#Minisnap#Kaye Woodward#Renovator's Delight#Little Lunch Records#The Stroppies
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The Bats - Free All The Monsters
#the bats#robert scott#kaye woodward#paul kean#malcolm grant#jangle pop#flying nun records#free all the monsters#2011#Youtube
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LUCY & THE SWANS
BALL, CAPOTE & PALEY
The new FX series "Feud: Capote vs. The Swans" depicts a world that Lucille Ball knew all too well - wealth, fame and celebrity. Although she does not inhabit the New York Society of Babe Paley, Slim Keith, Ann Woodward, C.Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness and others, she and her Desilu empire lie just outside of it - her influence on the era keenly felt.
Episode 1 of the teleplay ("Pilot") begins in 1958, and takes us to the executive boardroom of CBS in New York. There, Bill Paley (Treat Williams) holds forth, a photo of Lucy and Desi prominently hovering over his shoulder.
In this room, the Paley and the CBS brass made programming moves played out on a schedule board. The Monday 9pm time slot is occupied by "I Love Lucy", with a small photo of Lucy and Desi (the same one that hung on the wall) tucked into the title card - as if they needed reminding of who they were! The only slight faux pas is that "I Love Lucy" (as a half hour series) did not run in 1958. Its final episode aired in May 1957. It then became an hour-long celebrity-driven musical comedy hour under the banner of "The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse." Paley and CBS probably wanted Lucy and Desi for a 7th season, but Desi had other plans. He wouldn't kill the Ricardos (metaphorically) but relegate them to specials, interspersed with Desilu productions of new drama and comedy. It is possible that the action of "Feud" in this scene lies somewhere in that murky period between Desi's plans, and Paley's wishes for a seventh season of the half-hour format.
In actuality, during 1958, the 9pm Monday time slot was occupied by "The Danny Thomas Show" (filmed at Desilu) and "The Ann Sothern Show" (produced by Desilu). Monday also featured the Desilu Western "The Texan," making the only half hour of CBS's Monday primetime NOT created by Lucy and Desi "Father Knows Best."
Episode 6 ("Hats, Gloves, and Effete Homosexuals") set in 1978 includes a luncheon conversation at La Cote that mentions Lucille Ball and Lucie Arnaz. Truman's new boyfriend Rick (Vito Schnabel) is a handyman who once fixed Ball's air conditioner in Palm Springs.
Truman has promised to bring Rick to see They're Playing our Song on Broadway starring Lucie Arnaz. Rick says that he met little Lucie while she was swimming laps.
BILL & BABE PALEY
The power and influence of William S. Paley cannot be underestimated. He literally built CBS (the Columbia Broadcasting System) from a small radio station to a multi-media conglomerate, serving as Chairman for much of its existence. He shepherded CBS from radio to television, and was responsible for giving the green light to Lucille Ball making the transition from "My Favorite Husband" to "I Love Lucy," bringing her real-life husband along for the ride. Without Paley and Lucy, CBS would not have gotten a foothold in an industry dominated by the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).
Paley's second wife was socialite Barbara Cushing Mortimer, who he married the year before he met Lucille Ball. Mortimer is best known as Babe Paley, and she was Truman Capote's favorite of the Swans. In "Lucy's Barbershop Quartet" (1963), the group needs to find a replacement singer for the group and Viv suggests the unseen character of Barbara Cushing, who is a soloist in their church choir. Although Lucy, Viv, Thelma, and Dorothy were definitely not swans (more like Danfield Ducks) the writers were tipping their hat to the big boss's wife.
A few years later, in "Lucy Meets Danny Kaye" (1964), Kaye telephones Bill Paley to see if he has any spare tickets for his show to give fan Lucy. The best he can do is tickets to "The Jackie Gleason Show." Paley does not appear, nor do we hear his voice.
In real life, Paley and Ball were both in the first group of inductees to the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1984. Ball and Paley sat at the same table together at the ceremony.
In 1976, he joined those paying tribute to Lucy on "Lucy and CBS: The First 25 Years." Paley and his wife Babe had homes in Manhasset Long Island, and Squam New Hampshire, respectively known as Kiluna Farm South, and Kiluna Farm North, where they entertained a myriad of celebrities, Lucille Ball among them.
TRUMAN CAPOTE
On screen Lucille Ball had little to no interaction with writer Truman Capote. But in her personal life, Ball was guest at at least one of his lavish parties. Gary and Lucy's photo album included a photo of the Mortons at a December 13, 1975 party hosted by Capote, Allan Carr, and John O'Shea in Lincoln Heights, a wealthy neighborhood of Los Angeles. The 'mug shot' was part of a party game where guests were 'arrested' and forced to pay bail in order to get released. The money was usually donated to the host's favorite charity.
In July 1978, Capote joined Lucille Ball at Westbury Music Fair to see Lucie Arnaz perform in "Annie Get Your Gun".
Capote's one foray into acting was in Neil Simon's Murder By Death (1976), a camp comedy send-up of Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries where Capote played the eccentric host, Lionel Twain. The film featured a few stars with close connections to Lucille Ball.
Peter Sellars (Sidney Wang) starred in Will The Real Mr. Sellars...?, an oddball film from 1969 with a very brief cameo by Lucille Ball courtesy of hidden camera footage.
Elsa Lanchester (Jessica Marbles) famously guest-starred on "I Love Lucy" as a woman who may - or may not be - a hatchet murderess. In 1973, she appeared on "Here's Lucy" as kooky bank robber Mumsie Westcott.
Although screen writer Neil Simon never wrote for Lucille Ball, or even appeared on the same screen with her, they did share credits on two television shows. He was a staff writer on “The Garry Moore Show,” which Lucy appeared on in 1960. Simon and Ball were both featured on “Bob Hope’s World of Comedy” (1976), but were not onstage at the same time. It was Lucie Arnaz who worked closest with Simon. She starred on Broadway in They’re Playing Our Song (for which Simon wrote the libretto) in 1978. She then took over the role of Bela in Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play Lost in Yonkers in 1992.
MISC. SWANS
Vivian Vance doing an in-character commercial for Swan dish soap on "The Lucy Show." Swan was made by Lever Brothers, and was discontinued in 1974.
SWAN SONGS
LUCY: "Would you begrudge an expectant swan her song?"
RICKY: "You seem to forget that this particular swan has no talent." ~ Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song (1952)
LUCY: “It’s time for that swan to hit the come-back trail.”
FRED: “That swan’s got a little ham in it.” ~ The Indian Show (1953)
#Capote and the Swans#Truman Capote#Swans#Feud#Feud: Capote vs the swans#Bill Paley#William Paley#Babe Paley#Capote#Paley#CBS#TV#Lucille Ball#Desi Arnaz#I Love Lucy#1958#Murder By Death#Vivian Vance#Lucie Arnaz#Gary Morton#Danny Kaye#Treat Williams
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Release: July 6, 2005
Lyrics:
Even an angel can end up falling
Don't you cry, because you're crawling
Start again, it's a beautiful morning
For satellites
Well, they said it was time for changing
Rise and shine
Everybody's making it, but you
And they told you to trust your dreaming
But it's hard to believe a feeling
That you just don't know
Even an angel can end up falling
Don't you cry, because you're crawling
Start again, it's a beautiful morning
For satellites
Even an angel can end up falling
Don't you cry, because you're crawling
Start again, it's a beautiful morning
For satellites
You can try and walk on water
In the end everybody
Walks all over you
No, you don't like the sight of mirrors
Cause you're scared that the face
Will see, will look just like before
Even an angel can end up falling
Don't you cry, because you're crawling
Start again, it's a beautiful morning
For satellites
Even an angel can end up falling
Don't you cry, because you're crawling
Start again, it's a beautiful morning
For satellites
All I want is you
Let me take you back
Where you once belong
All I want is you
It will be alright if you come along
You were never gone
Even an angel can end up falling
Don't you cry, because you're crawling
Start again, it's a beautiful morning
For satellites
Even an angel can end up falling
Don't you cry, because you're crawling
Start again, it's a beautiful morning
For satellites
Songwriter:
Even an angel can end up falling
Don't you cry, because you're crawling
Start again, it's a beautiful morning
For satellites
Satellites
Kaye Adelaide Woodward / Malcolm Ian Stewart Grant / Paul Christopher Kean / Robert Marshall Scott
SongFacts:
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The Bats - Another Door (from Foothills)
One of my favourite NZ indie pop bands The Bats have a new upcoming album called “Foothills.” Glad to see they are still at it!
#the bats#another door#foothills#christchurch#new zealand#flying nun records#robert scott#paul kean#malcolm grant#kaye woodward#indie rock#indie pop#music
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The Bats- FOOTHILLS (FLYING NUN RECORDS)
There’s very few things you can count on for consistency in this world, a few are Mike Trout’s stats each baseball season, the goodness of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, the quality of a Seinfeld episode and that New Zealand’s Bats are going to release a terrific record every few years. Well, here we are four years after their last one (2016’s The Deep Set) and they’re back with another set of jangly, melodic pop tunes that are consistently wonderful. Vocalist Bob Scott along with other guitarist Kaye Woodward and the rhythm section of bassist Paul Kean and drummer Malcolm Grant have been at it since 1982 and despite taking a few extended breaks (side projects, families, etc.) have never wavered. A few of the highlights on Foothills include the nimble “Warwick,” while “Another Door” is a bit more melancholy and slightly haunting but a beautiful song nonetheless and the gorgeous “Red Car” is another classic Bats tune. Elsewhere “Field of Vision’ picks up the pace a bit and keep listening until the end or you’ll miss the brilliant “Electric Sea View” which is a perfect way to end a record. Is this my favorite Bats record? No it’s not but it’s damn good and I’m proud to have it in my collection and the band should be damn proud for keeping this lovely thing going for so long. www.flyingnun.co.nz www.thebats.bandcamp.com
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The Bats: Foothills (Flying Nun Records, 2020)
Malcolm Grant, Robert Scott, Kaye Woodward, Paul Kean.
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2019 in memoriam.
Margaret “Pegi” Young, 66
Daryl Dragon, 76
“Mean” Gene Okerlund, 76
Herb Kelleher, 87
Verna Bloom, 80
Bonnie “Guitar” Buckingham, 95
Carol Channing, 97
Andrew G. Vajna, 74
Kaye Ballard, 93
Cardinal Fernando Sebastian Aguilar, 89
Richard Miller, 90
Betty “Julie” Adams, 92
Kristoff St. John, 52
Albert Finney, 82
Frank Robinson, 83
Jean-Thomas “Tomi” Ungerer, 87
Carmen Argenziano, 75
Jan-Michael Vincent, 74
Betty Ballantine, 99
Stanley Donen, 94
Peter Tork, 77
(Thomas) Morgan Woodward, 93
(Robert) Ted Lindsay, 93
Hal Blaine, 90
Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 85
Richard Dale, 81
Larry Cohen, 82
Nancy Gates, 93
Ermias “Nipsey Hussle” Asghedom, 33
Georgia Engel, 70
Berit “Bibi” Andersson, 83
Ken Kercheval, 83
John Havlicek, 79
John Singleton, 51
Peter Mayhew, 74
Leonard “Red” Kelly, 91
Jean Vanier, 90
Alvin Sargent, 92
Margaret “Peggy” Lipton, 72
Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, 98
Doris Day, 97
Thomas “Tim” Conway, 85
Ashley Massaro, 39
I.M. Pei, 102
(Bryan) Bart Starr, 85
Bill Buckner, 69
Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, 90
Malcolm “Dr. John” Rebennack; Jr., 77
Richard “Bushwick Bill” Shaw, 52
Dave Bartholomew, 100
(Hilda) Isabel Sarli, 89
(George) Max Wright, 75
Lido “Lee” Iacocca, 94
Arte Johnson, 90
(Henry) Ross Perot, 89
Elmore “Rip” Torn; Jr., 88
Cardinal Paolo Sardi, 84
Jus. John Stevens, 99
(Albert) David Hedison; Jr., 92
Rutger Hauer, 75
Cardinal Jose Manuel Estepa Llaurens, 93
Russi Taylor, 75
Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, 82
George Hilton, 85
D.A. Pennebaker, 94
Chloe “Toni” Morrison, 88
Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera, 87
Peter Fonda, 79
Richard Williams, 86
(Samuel) Larry Taylor, 77
David Koch, 79
Jessi Combs, 39
Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, 95
Valerie Harper, 80
Cardinal Jose De Jesus Pimiento Rodriguez, 100
Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, 96
Eddie Money (Mahoney), 70
Ric Ocasek, 75
(William) Barron Hilton, 91
Sid Haig, 80
Robert Hunter, 78
Cardinal William Levada, 83
Diahann Carroll, 84
Peter “Ginger” Baker, 80
Cardinal Serafim Fernandes De Araujo, 95
Robert Forster; Jr., 78
Robert Evans, 89
Branko Lustig, 87
Wat Misaka, 95
Michael J. Pollard, 80
George Atkinson III, 27
Chalmers “Bump” Elliott, 94
Jarad “Juice Wrld” Higgins, 21
Caroll Spinney, 85
Pete Frates, 34
Chuck Heberling, 94
Herman Boone, 84
Alta Willis, 72
J. Charles Jones, 82
Leland “Lee” Mendelson, 86
(John) Don Imus; Jr., 79
Claudine Auger, 78
Sue Lyon, 73
Cardinal Prosper Grech, 94
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CELEBRITY DEATHS 2019
JANUARY
Pegi Young - Jan. 1 (Folk Singer)
Bob Einstein - Jan. 2 (TV Actor)
Gene Okerlund - Jan. 2 (Sportscaster)
Daryl Dragon - Jan. 2 (Pop Singer)
Herb Kelleher - Jan. 3 (Entrepreneur)
Jo Andres - Jan. 6 (Director)
Annalise Braakensiek - Jan. 6 (TV Actress)
Kevin Fret - Jan. 10 (Rapper)
Mel Stottlemyre - Jan. 13 (Baseball Player)
Carol Channing - Jan. 15 (Stage Actress)
Hailie Masson - Jan. 17 (TikTok Star)
Windsor Davies - Jan. 17 (TV Actor)
Mary Oliver - Jan. 17 (Poet)
Boo the Pomeranian - Jan. 18 (Dog)
John Coughlin - Jan. 18 (Figure Skater)
Sean Dolan - Jan. 19 (Family Member) *Ethan & Grayson's Father*
Masazo Nonaka - Jan. 20 (Supercantenarian)
Emiliano Sala - Jan. 21 (Soccer Player)
Ashley Lovelace - Jan. 21 (Imstagram Star)
Kaye Ballard - Jan. 21 (Stage Actress)
Russell Baker - Jan. 21 (Memoirist)
Kevin Barnett - Jan. 22 (Comedian)
James Frawley - Jan. 22 (Director)
Oliver Mtukudzi - Jan. 23 (Reggae Singer)
Aloysius Pang - Jan. 24 (TV Actor)
Fatima Ali - Jan. 25 (Chef)
Michel Legrand - Jan. 26 (Composer)
Jayo Sama - Jan. 27 (Rapper)
Pepe Smith - Jan 28 (Rock Singer)
James Ingram - Jan. 29 (R&B Singer)
Dick Miller - Jan. 30 (Movie Actor)
FEBRUARY
Clive Swift - Feb. 1 (TV Actor)
Neal James - Feb. 1 (Reality Star)
*Kristoff St. John - Feb. 3 (Soap Opera Actor)
Julie Adams - Feb. 3 (TV Actress)
Matti Nykanen - Feb. 4 (Skier)
Albert Finney - Feb. 7 (Movie Actor)
John Dingell - Feb. 7 (Politician)
Frank Robinson - Feb. 7 (Baseball Player)
Fabio Legarda - Feb. 7 (Reggaeton Singer)
Cadet - Feb. 9 (Rapper)
Ron W. Miller - Feb. 9 (Entrepreneur)
Jan Michael Vincent - Feb. 10 (Movie Actor)
Pedro Morales - Feb. 12 (Wrestler)
Gordon Banks - Feb. 12 (Soccer Player)
Bruno Ganz - Feb. 15 (Movie Actor)
Saban Saulic - Feb. 17 (Folk Singer)
Sean Milliken - Feb. 17 (Reality Star)
*Karl Lagerfeld - Feb. 19 (Fashion Designer)
Stanley Donen - Feb. 21 (Director)
Beverley Owen - Feb. 21 (TV Actress)
Peter Tork - Feb. 21 (Pop Singer)
Brody Stevens - Feb. 22 (Comedian)
Morgan Woodward - Feb. 22 (TV Actor)
Clark James Gable - Feb. 22 (TV Actor)
Lisa Sheridan - Feb. 25 (TV Actress)
Mark Hollis - Feb. 25 (Rock Singer)
Christian Bach - Feb. 26 (Soap Opera Actress)
Nathaniel Taylor - Feb. 27 (TV Actor)
Andre Previn - Feb. 28 (Composer)
Anna Cunningham - Feb. 28 (TikTok Star)
MARCH
Katherine Helmond - March 1 (TV Actress)
Elly Mayday - March 1 (Model)
Janice Freeman - March 2 (Pop Singer)
**Luke Perry - March 4 (TV Actress)
Keith Flint - March 4 (Pop Singer)
Ted Lindsay - March 4 (Hockey Player)
King Kong Bundy - March 4 (Wrestler)
Chokoleit - March 9 (Comedian)
Jed Allan - March 9 (Soap Opera Actor)
Hal Blaine - March 11 (Drummer)
Felicite Tomlinson - March 13 (Instagram Star)
Mike Thalassitis - March 15 (Reality Star)
Lil Mister - March 15 (Rapper)
Dick Dale - March 16 (Guitarist)
Richard Erdman - March 16 (TV Actor)
Scott Walker - March 22 (Pop Singer)
Agnes Varda - March 29 (Director)
Nipsey Hussle - March 31 (Rapper)
APRIL
Wowaka - April 5 (Pop Singer)
Seymour Cassel - April 7 (Movie Actor)
Mya-Lecia Naylor - April 7 (TV Actress)
Earl Thomas Conley - April 10 (Country Singer)
Bibi Andersson - April 14 (Movie Actress)
Georgia Engel - April 15 (TV Actress)
Black Jezuss - April 15 (Rapper)
Alan García - April 17 (Politician)
Lorraine Warren - April 18 (Supernatural Investigator)
Julio Melgar - April 19 (World Music Singer)
Stefanie Sherk - April 20 (TV Actress)
Ken Kercheval - April 21 (TV Actor)
Mark Medoff - April 23 (Playwright)
John Singleton - April 29 (Director)
**Peter Mayhew - April 30 (Movie Actor)
MAY
Rachel Jones - May 4 (Blogger)
Rachel Held Evans - May 4 (Religious Author)
Max Azria - May 6 (Fashion Designer)
Jim Fowler - May 8 (TV Show Host)
Peggy Lipton - May 11 (TV Actress)
Pua Magasiva - May 11 (TV Actor)
Alvin Sargent - May 11 (ScreenWriter)
Elsa Patton - May 12 (Reality Star)
Doris Day - May 13 (Movie Actress)
*Grumpy Cat - May 14 (Cat)
Tim Conway - May 14 (TV Actor)
Isaac Kappy - May 14 (Movie Actor)
I.M. Pei - May 16 (Architect)
Ashley Massaro - May 16 (Wrestler)
Bob Hawke - May 16 (World Leader)
Herman Wouk - May 18 (Noveist)
Niki Lauda - May 20 (Race Car Driver)
Bart Starr - May 26 (Football Player)
Gabriel Diniz - May 27 (World Music Singer)
Bill Buckner - May 27 (Baseball Player)
Susan Anne Christman - May 29 (Family Member)
Leon Redbone - May 30 (Jazz Singer)
Patricia Bath - May 30 (Inventor)
Roky Erickson - May 31 (Rock Singer)
JUNE
José Antonio Reyes - June 1 (Soccer Player)
Ani Yudhoyono - June 1 (Political Wife)
Dr. John - June 6 (Jazz Singer)
Noemi Ban - June 7 (Non-Fiction Author)
Curlyhead.kidd - June 8 (Instagram Star)
Mary Duggar - June 9 (Reality Star)
Bushwick Bill - June 9 (Rapper)
Gabriele Grunewald - June 11 (Runner)
Sylvia Miles - June 12 (Movie Actress)
Sean McCann - June 13 (TV Actor)
Edith González - June 13 (Soap Opera Actress)
Franco Zeffirelli - June 15 (Director)
Bishop Bullwinkle - June 16 (Soul Singer)
Mohamed Morsi - June 17 (Politician)
Gloria Vanderbilt - June 17 (Entrepreneur)
Philippe Zdar - June 19 (DJ)
Judith Krantz - June 22 (Novelist)
Dave Bartholomew - June 23 (Songwriter)
Stephanie Niznik - June 23 (TV Actress)
Fame Reek - June 24 (Rapper)
Billy Drago - June 24 (Moive Actor)
Etika - June 25 (Youtube Star)
**Beth Chapman - June 26 (Reality Star)
Max Wright - June 26 (TV Actor)
Hella Sketchy - June 27 (Rapper)
JULY
Tyler Skaggs - July 1 (Baseball Player)
Lee Iacocca - July 2 (Entrepreneur)
Arte Johnson - July 3 (TV Actor)
Chris Cline - July 4 (Entrepreneur)
**Cameron Boyce - July 6 (TV Actor)
Martin Charnin - July 6 (Director)
Joao Gilberto - July 6 (Guitarist)
*Rip Torn - July 9 (Movie Actor)
Freddie Jones - July 9 (Movie Actor)
**Denise Nickerson - July 10 (Movie Actress)
Emily Hartridge - July 12 (Youtube Star)
Bianca Devins - July 14 (Instagram Star)
Rutger Hauer - July 19 (Movie Actor)
Gabe Khouth - July 23 (Voice Actor)
David Hedison - July 23 (TV Actor)
Beji Essebsi - July 25 (Politician)
Russi Taylor - July 26 (Voice Actress)
Carlos Cruz-Diez - July 27 (Pop Artist)
Dillon Henderson - July 28 (Youtube Star)
The King of Random - July 29 (Youtube Star)
Nick Buoniconti - July 30 (Football Player)
Harold Prince - July 31 (TV Producer)
AUGUST
Toni Morrison - Aug. 5 (Novelist)
David Berman - Aug. 7 (Rock Singer)
Ben Unwin - Aug. 14 (TV Actor)
Peter Fonda - Aug. 16 (Movie Actor)
Cedric Benson - Aug. 17 (Football Player)
Gina Lopez - Aug. 19 (Environmentalist)
Jessi Combs - Aug. 27 (TV Show Host)
Valerie Harper - Aug. 30 (TV Actress)
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Peter Lindbergh - Sept. 3 (Photographer)
Carol Lynley - Sept. 3 (Movie Actress)
Lashawn Daniels - Sept. 3 (Songwriter)
Chris March - Sept. 5 (Fashion Designer)
Jimmy Johnson - Sept. 5 (Guitarist)
Robert Mugabe - Sept. 6 (World Leader)
Robert Axelrod - Sept. 7 (Voice Actor)
Camilo Sesto - Sept. 8 (World Music Singer)
Robert Frank - Sept. 9 (Photographer)
Daniel Johnston - Sept. 11 (Folk Singer)
Eddie Money - Sept. 13 (Rock Singer)
Ric Ocasek - Sept. 15 (Rock Singer)
Phyllis Newman - Sept. 15 (Stage Actress)
Suzanne Whang - Sept. 17 (TV Actress)
Cokie Roberts - Sept. 17 (Journalist)
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Carl Ruiz - Sept. 21 (Chef)
Robert Hunter - Sept. 23 (Songwriter)
Linda Porter - Sept. 25 (TV Actor)
Jacques Chirac - Sept. 26 (Politician)
Jose Jose - Sept. 28 (World Music Singer)
Jessye Norman - Sept. 30 (Opera Singer)
Louie Rankin - Sept. 30 (Reggae Singer)
OCTOBER
Karel Gott - Oct. 1 (Pop Singer)
Kim Shattuck - Oct. (Rock Singer)
Diahann Carroll - Oct. 4 (TV Actress)
Ginger Baker - Oct. 6 (Drummer)
Rip Taylor - Oct. 6 (Movie Actor)
Larry Junstrom - Oct. 6 (Guitarist)
David Weisman - Oct. 9 (Film Producer)
*Robert Forster - Oct. 11 (Movie Actor)
Kadri Gopalnath - Oct. 11 (Saxophonist)
Sulli - Oct. 14 (TV Actress)
Elijah Cummings - Oct. 17 (Politician)
Alicia Alonso - Oct. 17 (Dancer)
Bill Macy - Oct. 17 (TV Actor)
Willie Brown - Oct. 22 (Football Player)
Robert Evans - Oct. 26 (Film Producer)
John Witherspoon - Oct. 29 (TV Actor)
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Walter Mercado - Nov. 2 (TV Show Host)
Laurel Griggs - Nov. 5 (Stage Actress)
Fred Cox - Nov. 20 (Football Player)
Goo Hara - Nov. 24 (Pop Singer)
Gary Rhodes - Nov. 26 (Chef)
Godfrey Gao - Nov. 27 (Model)
DECEMBER
Shelley Morrison - Dec. 1 (TV Actress)
Ron Leibman - Dec. 6 (TV Actor)
Juice WRLD - Dec. 8 (Rapper)
Caroll Spinney - Dec. 8 (Puppeteer)
Rene Auberjonois - Dec. 8 (TV Actor)
Marie Fredriksson - Dec. 9 (Pop Singer)
Philip McKeon - Dec. 10 (TV Actor)
Danny Aiello - Dec. 12 (Movie Actor)
Chuy Bravo - Dec. 14 (Reality Star)
Mama Cax - Dec. 16 (Blogger)
Claudine Auger - Dec. 18 (Movie Actress)
Sue Lyon - Dec. 26 (Movie Actress)
Don Imus - Dec. 27 (Radio Host)
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Jeff Bezos hack: UN experts demand probe of Saudi crown prince
UN human rights experts have demanded an immediate investigation into allegations Saudi Arabia's crown prince hacked Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone.
They said Mohammed bin Salman should also be investigated for "continuous, direct and personal efforts to target perceived opponents".
A message from a phone number used by the prince has been implicated in a breach of Mr Bezos's data.
The kingdom's US embassy has denied the "absurd" story.
But the independent UN experts - Agnes Callamard, special rapporteur on summary executions and extrajudicial killings, and David Kaye, special rapporteur on freedom of expression - said the crown prince's "possible involvement" had to be investigated.
Relations between Saudi Arabia and Mr Bezos - who also owns the Washington Post - worsened after Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi government and one of the newspaper's staff, was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
Mr Bezos's phone was hacked after he received a WhatsApp message in May 2018 that was sent from the crown prince's personal account, according to the Guardian newspaper, which broke the story.
An investigation into the data breach reportedly found that the billionaire's phone began secretly sharing huge amounts of data after he received the encrypted video file. (…)
The experts linked the case heavily to the Khashoggi murder, saying the Post reporter's phone had been hacked at the same time as Mr Bezos's.
They said there had been "a massive, clandestine online campaign against Mr Bezos and Amazon, apparently targeting him principally as the owner of the Washington Post".
The UN experts cited "a 2019 forensic analysis of Mr Bezos' iPhone that assessed with 'medium to high confidence' that his phone was infiltrated on 1 May 2018 via an MP4 video file sent from a WhatsApp account utilised personally by Mohammed bin Salman". (…)
A hack such as this is "horribly easy to do", says computer expert Prof Alan Woodward. The seemingly innocent video would have contained malware that surreptitiously installed itself on the targeted phone.
From there it would have been possible for the hacker to gain access to all the functions of the phone, from the GPS locator, to the camera, to the banking facilities and messaging apps.
Such access is made possible via bugs in the code and, last year, a security flaw in WhatsApp was revealed that would have allowed hackers to hide malicious code inside video files. (…)
This is what one gets for using Facebook-owned software and platforms… Facebook is evil and dangerous.
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10/6/23.
I'm still incredibly sad about the passing of Hamish Kilgour. It was nearly a year ago that I found out. He meant so much to me musically - his solo albums, The Clean, The Great Unwashed, The Mad Scene and The Sundae Painters.
I'm so grateful that Leather Jacket Records (Christchurch, New Zealand) is releasing a full LP of material from the collaborative band The Sundae Painters. The band is made up of Kaye Woodward and Paul Kean (The Bats, and Minisnap), Alec Bathgate (Tall Dwarfs and solo) and Hamish Kilgour (above bands plus a ton more). Not only are we getting an eight-song LP, but the artwork is clearly the work of Hamish as well.
Only "Sweet Dreams" is available, but what a bittersweet song. It sounds like Hamish is singing, and I really pray that he is enjoying some sweet sweet dreams wherever he is.
#The Sundae Painters#Christchurch#New Zealand#Hamish Kilgour#Kaye Woodward#Paul Kean#The Bats#Minisnap#The Clean#The Great Unwashed#The Mad Scene#Tall Dwarfs#Alec Bathgate#Leather Jacket Records#Bandcamp
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Carriage House Days
Just off the corner of Connecticut and N Streets in Washington, DC is a reasonably imposing red-brick urban mini-mansion, which, a small plaque informs you, once belonged to General Henry Robert, who, you probably don’t know, wrote Robert’s Rules of Order. But back in 1975 when I worked there as a file clerk, we called it “the Carriage House,” because of the large room in the basement which indeed had once been a carriage house.
Like everyone else in the Carriage House, I worked on the “White & Case Case” for the law firm of Arnold & Porter, started in the late forties by two New Deal alumni, Thurman Arnold and Abe Fortas, who were then joined by another New Dealer, Paul Porter. Fortas was appointed to the Supreme Court by his very good friend Lyndon Johnson, who ultimately but inadvertently all but ruined Fortas’ life by seeking to elevate him to Chief Justice, leading to a number of scandals that both prevented Fortas from getting the job and, later, forced him to resign from the Court altogether, which might not have happened if Fortas hadn’t been Jewish, and would have been the nation’s first Jewish Chief Justice.
This was all ancient history by the time my association with the firm—mute, inglorious, and brief—began. Thurman and Abe’s original idea, it seems, was to found an early version of a “boutique” law firm, handling just a few “interesting” cases. Unsurprisingly, that strategy fell by the wayside as Washington boomed. The firm was originally housed in a number of the row houses on N Street, most spectacularly by an impressive mansion on the corner of N and 19th that had been owned by Teddy Roosevelt when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the McKinley Administration. However, by the time I arrived at the Carriage House, most of the senior staff were housed in the I.A.M Building, a Washington, DC sized “skyscraper” on the corner of N and Connecticut, owned by the International Association of Machinists, whose president, William “Wimpy” Wimpisinger, was regarded by some as the most “dangerous” labor leader in America, though if Wimpy ever did anything dangerous, I never heard about it.
Most of the people in the Carriage House were young women, either paralegals or secretaries, which left me doubly the odd man out, or even trebly so, because I was quite possibly the oldest person there—of the regulars, at least—though a fortunately youthful appearance kept my presence and position there from looking as dubious as in fact it was.
I spent most of my time copying and collating documents. The enormous Xerox machines of the time could only copy a single page at a time—no automatic feeds and, of course, no automatic collating. I once spent three days assembling 50 copies of a 300-page document. Occasionally, I would read through transcripts of depositions and circle the names of "important" people whenever they appeared. One of the attorneys at many of these depositions would introduce himself at the start of each session in the following manner: "My name is Bobby Lawyer and I am an attorney."
I lived on Q Street, just a few blocks away from the Carriage House, in an efficiency I rented for $175 a month, furnished largely from what I scavenged from the street. I slept on a $50 mattress and listened to a $1200 stereo, both spread out on the floor. I sat in a worn wicker chair and ate from a worn card table, kept my books in a worn bookcase and my 100-odd jazz albums in a cardboard box.
The young women in the Carriage House who were single would often go to a bar they called “the Airplane”, located nearby on 19th St., but I was far too shy to do that. I would not have wanted to go to a “pick up” bar of any sort, and most certainly would not have wanted to go to a pick up bar frequented by women I knew at work.
However, there was a jazz club located in the basement of the town house right next to the Carriage House, “Harold’s Rogue and Jar”. I never found out what the name meant. I would go there occasionally and sit at the bar without talking to anyone. I would order a bacon cheeseburger with steak fries and a diet Coke. I can’t remember any of the names who appeared at the club, but it was serious jazz—nothing like the terrible “cool jazz” of today. The house drummer was a woman named Dottie Dodgione, who I think was the club manager as well. She was in her fifties, I would guess, with a stiff bouffant hairdo who wore pant suits, and ended each number with a furious solo. Sometimes, despite the jazz, the stress of being around so many people would get to me, and I would take my meal home, wrapped in heavy aluminum foil, and I would sit in my wicker chair and eat my rich bar food in peace and quiet and solitude.
After eight months at Arnold & Porter, I was fired, something anyone with the slightest percipience could have foreseen. Somewhere in Moby Dick Herman Melville warns sea captains not to hire “Platonists”—those with their eyes fixed only on invisible horizons—and he could have offered the same advice to law firms. But my time at the A&P was far from a complete loss. A month before I was fired, I was feeling so flush that I shopped for furniture, at Woodward & Lothrop, then DC’s largest department store. I chose a $400 sleeper sofa, blue and white plaid, a $150 butcher block table, and two Breuer chairs, which I had first seen in an optometrist’s shop and had thought were very classy. I didn’t have a credit card and didn’t know if Woodie’s would take a check, so I paid with $800 in cash, in the form of 16 fifties I had withdrawn from the bank the previous day. It was an investment that, though it might have seemed ill-timed, was in fact very much the reverse. Shortly after being fired, I started dating a young woman who would change my life significantly, a young woman who, I think, would not have dated a man who slept on a mattress on the floor and ate from a card table and a worn wicker chair.
Afterwords
The rear windows of the Carriage House faced on the alley behind N Street. A “celebrity” hair dresser, whose name I never learned, parked one of three classic cars that he drove to work each day in that alley—a funereal-looking green and black pre-war Rolls Royce, a post-war Rolls that was cream with red pinstriping, and, surely the pièce de résistance, a midnight-blue coffin-nosed Cord convertible with a tan roof, its chrome supercharger exhaust pipes gleaming in the sun. I wonder how many people would drive such cars in rush-hour traffic today.
The top floor of the IAM building had both offices for Arnold & Porter and the Machinists’ Union. The A&P had lots of attractive, stylish young women who worked as secretaries and receptionists. One of them who sat at the front desk of the top floor told me how difficult it was to keep a straight face when the Machinists’ big shots came swanking in in their horrible 70s-era polyester leisure suits—mint green with white piping and matching white shoes, or what smirky journalists liked to call a “full Cleveland”, white suit, white shirt, and white shoes.
Shortly after I left the A&P, the Carriage House was commandeered by Carolyn Agger, a senior partner and Abe Fortas’ wife. Carolyn, who had been housed in the IAM building, was afraid of elevators, and wanted an office in a building with a nice staircase.
A year or so after I left, Arnold & Porter deserted N Street entirely, building the “Thurmond Arnold Building” at the corner of New Hampshire and M, but they didn’t stay there long. The firm has now merged with a New York law firm, Kaye Scholer, becoming Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, with offices all around the world. The DC office is on Massachusetts Avenue, just southeast of Mt. Vernon Square, a stretch of road that constitutes one of several “lobbyist lanes” radiating from the Capitol.
During the McCarthy years, Arnold, Fortas, & Porter defended many people accused of communism. Fortas in particular was a frequent opponent of Joe McCarthy, but the opposition to his appointment as chief justice seemed to come mostly from southern Democrats, who often saw integration as a Jewish/communist plot. When Jesse Helms (R-NC) was elected to the Senate in 1972, one of his goals was to “get” the Jews. He was a furious opponent of Israel until the Reagan years, when it was finally explained to him that you couldn’t make it to the very top in DC unless you learned to play ball with AIPAC.
The White & Case Case involved another law firm, in New York. One of its senior partners, a Mr. Eply, was facing criminal charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, accusing him of criminal behavior based on the advice he gave to a White & Case client, Cortez Randell, a sixties wheeler and dealer who ended up doing time, though, I’m pretty sure, Eply did not. The SEC’s case against Eply was one of first impression, and naturally White & Case was willing to move heaven and earth to protect both Eply and other attorneys who might find themselves in legal peril merely for trying to turn an honest buck or two.
The story of Cortez Randell and his company, National Student Marketing, had been spectacular enough to be the subject of a book, out in paperback while the White & Case Case was still gaining momentum, called The Funny Money Game, by Andrew Tobias, perhaps not the first and certainly not the last up and coming Harvard graduate to make a name for himself by writing a book about his experiences on Wall Street under the tutelage of Mammon.
The way National Student Marketing “worked”—the reason why Cortez Randell got so rich so quickly and then imploded—was that Randell had either discovered or invented “synergy”. This meant buying out firms that provided goods or services complementary to whatever it was NSM was already selling—“better together”, one might say. But the “real” secret was that NSM didn’t buy other companies with money; it used NSM stock instead, which was better than money, because it increased in value every year.
There are lots of things wrong with this model—NSM was going to run out of “complementary” firms to buy, NSM stock was going up because the economy was expanding and all stocks were going up, not because NSM was so fabulous—but the biggest and simplest reason of all is that any financial instrument that can be better than money can also be worse than money, setting a pattern that has repeated itself a number of times since, on a scale far more spectacular than NSM’s. Someone comes up with a brilliant idea, a better mousetrap, and makes a lot of money, and creates a financial instrument based on that idea—be it a simple share of stock, a mortgage-backed security, a collateralized debt obligation, or whatever—that is “better” than money, and a lot of people get rich on that financial instrument. Eventually, however, the better mousetrap, whatever it is, stops being better, and becomes the new normal. It’s lost its edge. But the people who have gotten rich off their “better than money” gimmick can’t believe that, or won’t believe that. The line that went around among the Wall Street geniuses who almost sank the world’s economy back in 2008 was that you don’t stop playing “Musical Chairs” until the music stops, even if you see the chairs disappearing. However, when the music had stopped, they started singing—and telling lies—until there were no chairs left, leaving the government to pay for all the furniture they’d destroyed.
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CBS SALUTES LUCY: THE FIRST 25 YEARS
November 28, 1976
With Tributes By: William S. Paley, Desi Arnaz Sr., Milton Berle, Carol Burnett, Richard Burton, Johnny Carson, Sammy Davis Jr., Gale Gordon, Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Dean Martin, Jimmy Stewart, Danny Thomas, Vivian Vance, Dick Van Dyke, John Wayne, and Lucille Ball
Archive Footage: Mary Wickes, *Harpo Marx, William Frawley, Pat Moran, Maury Thompson, Edward Everett Horton, Teresa Tirelli, Ross Elliott, Jerry Hausner, Bess Flowers, Dick Martin, Donald Briggs, Joe Ruskin, Bryan O'Byrne, Danny Borzage, Morgan Woodward, Victor Romito, Elvia Allman, John Williams, Lloyd Corrigan, Ernesto Molinari, Rosa Barbato, Eva Gabor, *Lucie Arnaz, Larry J. Blake, Larry Keating, Robert Carson, *John Bubbles, Paul Winchell, Mel Torme, *Ken Berry, *Red Skelton, *George Burns, *Patty Andrews, *Wayne Newton, Jerry Newton, *Desi Arnaz Jr., Tommy Amato, Don Vincent, *Jack Benny, *William Holden, Harry Bartell, Hazel Pierce, Bennett Green, Dede Ball, Dick Patterson, Roy Rowan, Vanda Barra, and +Eddie Albert
* credited in voice over
+ not on DVD release
Archival footage from: “I Love Lucy” (1951-57), “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” (1957-60), “The Lucy Show” (1962-68), “Here's Lucy” (1968-74), “Carol + 2” (1964), “The Danny Kaye Show with Lucille Ball” (1962), and “Lucy In London” (1966).
Some stars mentioned in the opening credits by the announcer as “starring” do not actually appear in newly created tributes, but only in archival footage. This is likely due to negotiations with the stars agents (or estates) who gave permission for their images to be used in exchange for opening title credit. Those stars include: Patty Andrews, Jack Benny (died 1974), Ken Berry, John Bubbles, George Burns, William Holden, Harpo Marx (died 1964), and Wayne Newton, all of whom have considerable screen time in the clips. Although some of these names might have been used to lure viewers into watching (and not tuning away from) the two-hour program, it is probably not likely with someone like John Bubbles.
Some of those absent from archival footage include Mary Jane Croft, Kathryn Card, Doris Singleton, Charles Lane, Frank Nelson, Ann Sothern, and Sid Gould, all of whom made many appearances opposite Lucille Ball over the years.
The program was very well received and received a 29 rating and 39 share of audience, figures unheard of today. Because of the anniversary theme of the show, it was never repeated.
The special was issued on DVD by Image Entertainment. The cover photo is of Lucille Ball at the Emmy Awards.
CBS used other artwork, inexplicably based on her costume from “Lucy Goes To Scotland” (ILL S5;E17).
For the DVD release, eight minutes of the show were trimmed for a total running time of 97 minutes Among the missing segments was a tribute to the late William Frawley, hosted by Gale Gordon, featuring Frawley and Vivian Vance singing "Carolina in the Morning." Frawley died in 1966. In 1976 he was the only member of the main “I Love Lucy” cast to have passed away. Also missing is Lucy's soft-shoe of "Makin' Whoopee" with Eddie Albert. It is possible that the owners of the music copyrights were asking more for licensing fees than the DVD producers were willing to pay or that Albert declined permission for his image to be used. Naturally, it may also have just been an editorially decision to edit the show.
This special was produced before technology made restored, pristine prints available. Scenes from “I Love Lucy” (owned by CBS) are the clearest but clips from “The Lucy Show” and “Here's Lucy” (owned by others) are often quite poor.
This special is billed “The First 25 Years” but sadly Lucille Ball would only work for another decade, and not at CBS. Although it seemed like the Tiffany Network (who adopted their ‘CBS eye’ logo the same month “I Love Lucy” premiered) and Lucy would never part, Ball joined NBC in 1980, announcing her changed allegiance with a star-studded special “Lucy Moves to NBC.” The partnership was short-lived, however. In 1986 CBS declined to pick-up “Life With Lucy” (perhaps still stinging from her departure), so it went to ABC. This means Lucille Ball was seen on all three major networks.
INTRODUCTION
The tribute show is introduced by CBS Chairman William S. Paley. In 1964 episode of “The Lucy Show” (TLS S3;E15), Danny Kaye telephones Paley about getting tickets to his show for Lucy Carmichael. Paley, however, was not seen or heard.
To kick things off, a montage of memorable moments of Lucy on TV is underscored by Frank Sinatra singing “My Kind of Girl” by Leslie Bricusse.
LUCY & DESI
A clip from “The Audition” (ILL S1;E3) leads into an appearance by Desi Arnaz Sr. standing outside Stage 2 of General Service Studios where “I Love Lucy” was first shot. Desi describes this as a scene from their pilot. The unaired “I Love Lucy” pilot (not seen until 1990), included this same material, but it was re-staged for the actual series in October 1951. This leads into a compilation of clips of Lucy Ricardo making fun of Ricky's English. Desi estimates the he and Lucy did nearly 200 shows together. Including “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hours” (13), the un-aired pilot, and the “Christmas Special,” Desi is not far off. The total comes to 194 shows, not counting their guest appearances on other programs.
VITAMEATAVEGAMIN
Desi's awe and admiration of his ex-wife's craft and talent is demonstrated with a clip from the classic episode “Lucy Does a TV Commercial” (ILL S1;E30) aka “Vitameatavegamin.” Arnaz watched Lucy do the scene just off camera and his recognizable laugh can be heard on the soundtrack.
HAVING A BABY
Desi recalls the show that is closest to his heart: “Lucy is Enceinte” (ILL S2;E10). The clip that follows has Ricky singing “We’re Having a Baby (My Baby and Me)” first written in 1941 for the Broadway musical Banjo Eyes. For this special, the edit includes clips of other scenes of Lucy Ricardo when expecting, including “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” (ILL S2 E16).
SILENT COMEDY
To introduce his segment, Dick Van Dyke begins with pantomiming netting a butterfly on the set of his short-lived variety show “Van Dyke & Company.” A week later, Ball would guest star on the series. This intro was probably filmed at that time. Here he defines 'mime' for the audience and then introduces a clip of Lucy doing a silent movie skit as Charlie Chaplin from “Chris's New Year's Eve Party” (TLS S1;E14) and the mirror routine in “Lucy Meets Harpo Marx” (ILL S4;E28).
LUCY & THE DUKE
Western star John Wayne emerges from a back lot saloon and jokingly says that of all his on-screen opponents, the most formidable one was Lucy. A clip from 1966's “Lucy and John Wayne” (TLS S5;E10) follows. In the scene Lucy Carmichael is visiting the set of Wayne's latest western and (naturally) disrupts the shoot.
FRIENDS FOREVER
Vivian Vance, drinking a cup of tea in her home, talks about her beginnings on television as Mrs. Fred Mertz. Vance remembers the schemes Lucy got her involved in, mostly to get Lucy into show business. Clips include “The Operetta” (ILL S2;E5) with Lucy as Camille, the snaggle-toothed Queen of the Gypsies. In the clip, the chorus upstage her big number, “The Queen of the Gypsies” written by Eliot Daniel, who also wrote the series' theme song. Vance says they lived out their childhood fantasies on screen, like working in a chocolate factory. A clip from “Job Switching” (ILL S2;E1) has Lucy and Ethel on the candy wrapping assembly line at Kramer’s Candy Kitchen.
There is also a clip from “Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower” (TLS S1;E18) where Lucy Carmichael and Vivian Bagley install a home shower, only to get trapped inside as it fills with water.
TWO REDHEADS
To the music of the theme from her show, Carol Burnett (redhead #1) is seen backstage, sitting in a director's chair. She recalls meeting Lucy for the first time, when she came to the second night of Once Upon a Mattress on May 12, 1959. Carol fondly recalls that Lucy always called her “kid.” Carol introduces a clip from “Carol + 2” (1964) in which Lucy and Carol play night cleaning ladies at a talent agency singing “Chutzpah!”
Danny Kaye (redhead #2) comes down a staircase to talk about Lucy's skill at physical comedy.
Kaye: “Calling Lucille Ball 'just' a comedian is like calling Margot Fonteyne 'just' a dancer.”
The dance metaphor helps Kaye introduce a clip of Lucy's dancer-like physical agility in a sketch seen on the Emmy nominated “The Danny Kaye Show with Lucille Ball” (1962) in which Lucy and Kaye go to a Japanese restaurant and must adapt to the customs of the Tea House – all without dialogue.
LUCY AROUND THE WORLD
Kaye reports that Lucille Ball is on television in 78 different countries. This leads to clips from shows dubbed in French (“Lucy and the Great Bank Robbery” TLS S3;E5)...
Japanese (“Lucy Becomes an Astronaut” TLS S1;E16)...
Spanish (“Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her” ILL S1;E4)...
and capped off with the famous grape stomping scene from “Lucy's Italian Movie” (ILL S5;E23), which was already mostly in Italian, with (humorous) English subtitles.
Kaye states that Lucille Ball is so popular because she has universal appeal. He introduces a clip from “The Hollywood Unemployment Follies” (HL S3;E22) where Lucy Carter sings “Falling in Love Again (Never Wanted To)” in costume as Marlene Dietrich from the 1930 German film The Blue Angel to Gale Gordon.
ALWAYS GETTING IT
This conveniently leads to discovering Gale Gordon sitting on a park bench. He says he likes the quiet of the park as opposed to working with Lucy, because nothing can spill on him. He then casts a cautionary glance at the sky and says “Watch it, pigeons!” A series of clips from “Here's Lucy” reveals Gordon “getting it” - getting wet, dirty, and generally messy through a variety of assaults.
DANCING FOOL
Sammy Davis Jr. is discovered dancing on a stage. Davis is one of the only stars in the Tribute who appeared with Lucy on her show (in 1970), but is not seen in archival footage.
Sammy: “That lady does it all, man!”
He introduces clips of Lucy singing and dancing.
Lucy and John Bubbles do a soft-shoe in “Main Street USA” (TLS S5;E17);
A production number from “Lucy Helps Ken Berry” (TLS S6;E21);
A hobo number with Red Skelton in “Lucy Goes to Alaska” (LDCH 1959);
A soft shoe from “Lucy with George Burns” (TLS S5;E1);
Singing “The Pennsylvania Polka” with Lucie Arnaz and Patty Andrews in “Lucy and the Andrews Sisters” (HL S2;E6);
Tthe big finale from “Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map” (TLS S5;E18);
Playing banjo and singing “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” with Lucie Arnaz and Wayne Newton, while Desi Jr. plays drums in the background in “Lucy Sells Craig to Wayne Newton” (HL S1;E9).
A transitional clip from “Lucy Gets Jack Benny's Account” (TLS S6;E6) which ends with Lucy and Benny sinking in a pit of quicksand and leads into...
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
Bob Hope singing his signature song “Thanks for the Memory” with special lyrics about Lucy. A clip of “Lucy and Bob Hope” (ILL S6;E1) has Lucy undercover as a hot dog vendor at Yankee Stadium and Hope getting conked on the head with a fly ball. After the clip, Bob Hope says that the title of world's funniest lady is a tie between Lucille Ball and Milton Berle, which is a cue for a clip from 1958's “Milton Berle Hides Out at the Ricardos” (LDCH 1958) with Milton Berle in full drag as Mildred Burke.
STAR-STRUCK
Cut to Milton Berle standing in front of the Hollywood Brown Derby to introduce a clip from “Hollywood at Last!” (ILL S4;E16) starring William Holden. The iconic derby-shaped eatery was closed and razed in 1980. The derby dome could be glimpsed in the view from the Ricardo's Hollywood hotel room balcony. In the scene (set in a studio recreation of the restaurant), Lucy can't help but spy on the star in the next booth, ending with her clumsily causing a waiter to dump a tray of food on him.
BEING UPSTAGED
Johnny Carson, on the set of “The Tonight Show” reminisces about the time he played himself on “Here's Lucy” (S2;E11) where Lucy is picked from his audience to play “Stump the Band” and wins by singing “Snoops the Lawyer.” While she is singing, Carson sits on the arm of an aisle seat occupied by Lucy's real-life mom, Dede Ball.
A DATE WITH EDDIE
Feldman, that is, not Albert! Dean Martin says he loves working with Lucy. A clip from “Lucy Dates Dean Martin” (TLS S4;E21) has Lucy dating a man she thinks is Dean's stunt double, Eddie Feldman, but is actually Martin himself filling in for Feldman, who has to work. In the clip Martin sings “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime” causing Lucy Carmichael to remark “You even sing better than he does!”
SAM THE PLUMBER
Richard Burton comes out of his on-set trailer to talk about his 1970 guest-appearance on “Here's Lucy” (S3;E1) where he tried to pass himself off as Sam the Plumber, but is ensnared by Lucy, who has a leaky sink. He recites Shakespeare while fixing the sink, but Lucy Carter tells him not to quit his day job!
TWO LEFT FEET
Danny Thomas, is found standing on the set of his 1976 sitcom “The Practice.” A month earlier, Lucille Ball guest-starred on the series, which only lasted one season. He introduces a clip from “Lucy Helps Danny Thomas” (TLS S4;E7), which has Lucy as a clumsy showgirl turning Danny's TV show production number of “Broadway Melody” upside down!
25 YEARS OF LAUGHTER
The last segment, James Stewart stands at a podium and introduces the lady of the hour (or two), the first lady of television, Lucille Ball. Although Stewart was Ball's friend and neighbor, the two never acted opposite each other on film or television. They appeared together on many award shows and specials. He presents Lucy with a plaque from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences for 25 years of laughter. A montage of moments from Lucy's quarter-century career is accompanied by the song “Look at that Face” sung by Steve Lawrence as the credits roll.
This Date in Lucy History – November 28th
"Lucy and Pat Collins" (TLS S5;E11) – November 28, 1966
#Lucille Ball#CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years#CBS#TV#Lucy#desi arnaz sr.#William S. Paley#I Love Lucy#The Lucy Show#Here's Lucy#Carol + 2#The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour#The Danny Kaye Show with Lucille Ball#Lucy in London#Danny Kaye#Charlie Chaplin#Harpo Marx#John Wayne#Vivian Vance#Vitameatavegamin#Carol Burnett#Gale Gordon#Sammy Davis Jr.#Red Buttons#John Bubbles#Patty Andrews#Lucie Arnaz#Desi Arnaz Jr.#Wayne Newton#Ken Berry
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15 ways air travel might be different in the future, from immunity passports to blood tests, Business Insider
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Travel has essentially come to a standstill: The TSA reported 90% fewer passengers in the air than this time last year because of the coronavirus.
Airlines and airports are rethinking their health and safety regulations in order to get travelers flying again.
As is already the norm in many places, face coverings will likely become mandatory on flights.
Some experts predict the emergence of a social distance-friendly class, an in-flight janitor, and a document to prove immunity.
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While the coronavirus pandemic has all but devastated the travel industry, most experts agree that travel will rebound – it’s just a question of when.
It’s also a matter of how, as some experts predict a second, and even third wave of the coronavirus to hit, and don’t expect a return to relative normalcy until 2021.
Airlines are scrambling to get travelers flying again, and both airlines and airports are rethinking their safety and health regulations to earn passenger’s trust and avoid the virus’ spread.
A report by airline strategy firm SimpliFlying predicts a whopping 70 ways in which air travel might be different post-pandemic. “In total, over 70 different areas in the passenger journey are expected to either change or to be introduced from scratch to restore confidence in flying after COVID-19,” the report states.
Keep scrolling to see some of the most recent new procedures, as well as some potential future policies.
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Emirates began administering COVID-19 blood tests to passengers departing from its hub in Dubai in April. The tests gave results within 10 minutes. While the test is not yet available for widespread use, Adel Al Redha, the airline’s chief operating officer, said in a statement that they are hoping to “scale up testing capabilities in the future.”
Hong Kong recently introduced mandatory COVID-19 testing for all arrivals, making it the first airport to do so, and Japan’s Tokyo Narita Airport requires testing for passengers arriving from high-risk countries such as Italy or the US, though results are said to take up to two days.
Temperature checks might become the norm.
Air Canada was the first North American airline to say it will introduce mandatory temperature checks ahead of flights. This comes as part of its new CleanCare+ program, which will go into effect on May 15, and will also include a required health questionnaire, and an amenity kit complete with hand sanitizer.
CEO Calin Rovinescu said in a statement: “We have been a leader in progressively introducing new measures in response to COVID-19, such as introducing personal protective equipment for our employees and being the first North American carrier to require face coverings for customers. We are now the first airline in the Americas to administer pre-flight temperature checks system-wide.”
Frontier Airlines followed suit, saying that it will require pre-boarding temperature checks for all passengers starting June 1, and London’s Heathrow Airport also said it will begin experimenting with widespread temperature checks.
Etihad is trialing kiosks in Abu Dhabi that will monitor passengers’ health, and in Puerto Rico, thermal-imaging cameras will sound an alarm should anyone with a temperature higher than 100.3 degrees pass through Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan.
In the US, there is debate as to whether the TSA should start making temperature checks on passengers and employees mandatory. Airlines for America, a trade group that represents American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Southwest, spoke out in favor of these checks.
However, as Business Insider’s Aylin Woodward points out, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease says that between 25% and 50% of people who have contracted the virus are asymptomatic. That notwithstanding, even those who don’t show any symptoms can pass the illness on to others, so the effectiveness of temperature checks remains somewhat unclear.
You’ll probably have to cover your face throughout flights.
Since masks have become mandatory in public in many places, it comes as no surprise that most airlines are also making wearing them compulsory for passengers. In fact, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) recommends mandatory face coverings for both passengers and crew.
Forget crowded lines — you could start getting texts telling you it’s time to board.
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Heathrow’s chief executive John Holland-Kaye said that lines to board planes could be around half a mile long with social distancing measures in place and that airports don’t have enough space to implement this.
The New York Times reports that to combat crowded lines, “cellphone location data may cue your arrival to an airport, which can then check you in curbside and move you on to a security tunnel in which passengers continue moving – sci-fi style – as they are screened by TSA and health authorities.”
According to The Daily Mail, passengers may receive text messages when it’s their time to board, thereby eliminating the need to stand in line.
Flying could get more expensive.
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While some experts predict lower fares as airlines try to entice flyers, a press release by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) anticipates fares rising by up to 54% in some places due to social-distancing measures with fewer seats available to sell. According to the IATA, social-distancing measures would reduce planes’ maximum load factors to 62%, when most airlines need their planes to be 77% full to break even.
Airplane design could fundamentally change.
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Italian design firm Avio Interiors put forward renderings that posit a potential solution for keeping flights full while minimizing passengers’ exposure to each other. Its “Janus” design reverses the middle seat in each row of three, and includes transparent dividers that shield passengers from one another.
Instead of redesigning plane interiors entirely, Florian Barjot, an aeronautical engineer from France, created “PlanBay,” a removable shield that can be placed on middle seats that protect passengers both from behind and from neighboring seats.
A social distance-friendly class may emerge.
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Ross Dawson, author and futurist, previously told Insider that he believes that people will be “highly sensitized to the risk of a pandemic,” and foresees airlines having to step up their precautions, including possibly offering various degrees of distance between people. He even predicts the rise of a new kind of plane class that he somewhat jokingly refers to as an “isolation class,” which could be anything from seats with dividers between them to small rooms as we have seen in some airlines’ first-class cabins.
While short-lived, we’ve already seen the idea of paying extra for social distance when Frontier said it would begin charging $39 for a guaranteed empty seat next to your own. However, the initiative was dropped only days after being announced after drawing considerable criticism.
Full body disinfection booths could become commonplace, maybe even cleaning robots.
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Hong Kong International Airport is already testing booths that are said to disinfect people from head to toe in 40 seconds thanks to an antimicrobial spray, as well as cleaning robots that use an ultraviolet light sterilizer as well as an air sterilizer to disinfect public spaces.
Bags may need to get sanitized separately.
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SimpliFlying foresees luggage going through its own fogging or UV disinfection process prior to being loaded onto planes, which it dubs “sanitagging.”
Both terminals and plane cabins could become contactless.
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In an effort to minimize touchpoints, SimpliFlying predicts that seat-back pockets, which they say have been found to be the second-most contaminated spots on planes, will be left empty, or could be removed entirely.
Touchscreen entertainment systems may be replaced with various ways to use your own devices to enjoy in-flight entertainment.
“To replace the in-flight entertainment system, airlines might just ensure that a USB and power-outlets are available at every seat and that some form of device holder or stand is available,” the report suggests.
At airport terminals, SimpliFlying sees a rise in touchless kiosks (similar to those being trialed by Etihad in Abu Dhabi) that can both check passengers in and test their health, or a fully biometric check-in and immigration process based on facial recognition, which is already widespread at terminals with international routes.
Hot meals may be a thing of the past.
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In-flight food and drinks have widely been cut to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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Many airlines are currently either cutting food service entirely or switching to cold and pre-packaged meals. Instead of getting cups of water refilled, passengers will get their own bottle at the beginning of every flight to decrease touchpoints, according to SimpliFlying, which also suggests that passengers may begin buying their meals at touchless vending machines pre-flight.
In-flight janitors might become part of cabin crews.
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There might be people onboard flights dedicated to keeping “high-touch” areas clean.
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SimpliFlying brings up the possibility of in-flight janitors whose job will entail regularly cleaning the lavatories and any other “high-touch” areas during flights.
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Plexiglass shields between customer-facing airport employees and passengers have been recommended by the US Travel Association. These could become the norm everywhere, from check-in desks to shops and eateries.
You might need to show ID, as well as some sort of immunity document or health certificate.
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Thailand is already requiring passengers flying in from certain countries to present health certificates that deem them COVID-19-free before they can board flights to the country, and the IATA has suggested something similar, proposing an “immunity passport.” SimpliFlying compares these to the Yellow Fever cards passengers must show ahead of traveling to certain regions.
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As both bags and people may need to get sanitized, and health checks become the new normal, the process of checking in and boarding might start taking longer. “People may be required to show up four hours prior to departure depending on the specific airlines, airports, and procedures,” SimpliFlying predicts, adding that families with children and the elderly will likely be most inconvenienced, and that this may prompt business travelers to drive or take the train instead.
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OkQHA Hall of Fame Inductees 2019
Meet the horses and horsemen to be honored January 25 at the 15th annual Oklahoma Quarter Horse Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
The Ole Man (Credit: courtesy of Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association)
The Oklahoma Quarter Horse Hall of Fame was created in 2005 to recognize outstanding individuals, horses, ranches or businesses, whose contributions involving the American Quarter Horse significantly impacted the great state of Oklahoma’s equine industry.
This event is dependent on the generosity of donors who acknowledge those contributions with financial support.
The 15th Annual prestigious Oklahoma Quarter Horse Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is scheduled for Friday January 25, 2019 at the Embassy Suites Oklahoma City Downtown Medical Center, 741 North Phillips Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73104; (405) 239-9000; at approximately 5:00 pm.
The ceremony is a ticketed event, open to the public, benefitting the Hall of Fame. A cocktail reception will begin the proceedings followed by dinner and the induction ceremony.
Tickets are available for $55 from the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association, 5506 N Rockwell Ave, Bethany, OK 73008-2040, (405) 440-0694 voice, (405) 440-0649 fax, Email: [email protected], Website: www.okqha.com. If you wish to sponsor an inductee or their award that form is also found on the website.
The 2019 Inductees are:
Ronnie Austin, Ringling, OK
Ronnie Austin opens up his old worn wallet, he smiles at the image of Jesus he keeps on the inside fold. Ronnie has a lot of faith and he prays a lot. Ronnie is lucky to be alive. In September 2003 he was very tired when he traveled to Amarillo TX to compete at the inaugural American Quarter Horse Association Amateur Select World Championship Hors Show. Ronnie won Bayer Select Amateur Tie-Down World Championship.
In October of 2003 Ronnie and his wife Jessica headed to the doctor. He learned that he had leukemia. His headed to MD Anderson in Houston. He had to undergo intense chemotherapy and months with an experimental drug. Austin’s lifestyle of riding, roping, travel and work as a cattle buyer came to a complete stop that year as he fought for his health. He was released from isolation in November of 2003. His final round of chemo was in March 2004. His leukemia is in remission and he takes two pills and one shot a day.
He was determined to compete again in Amarillo. Although he qualified the horse, he could not practice much as he would have liked. So in September of 2004, Ronnie his young horse RR Sonita Norbert placed third at the AQHA Select World Championship horse show despite struggling with leukemia. Immediately afterwards, Ronnie headed back to MD Anderson for bone aspiration, blood work.
He bought some great horses from the Roos Ranch so that he could raise and show Quarter Horses. The first horse he raised which went to the PRCA National Finals Rodeo in tie down was RA Quick Silver. Turtle Powell won the PRCA World Champion Heading and AQHA Horse of The Year. That became his goal to send Oklahoma bred horses to the NFR. He raised CNN Smart Gunner, Little Smart Leo, RA Sonita Silver, Purple Prince and RR Sonita Norbert. Ronnie has mounted, partnered or sold horses to Matt Shiozawa, Adam Grey, Tyler Milligan and Ryan Jarrett.
Jerry Burgess, Grand Prairie, TX
Jerry Burgess has earned industry-wide respect as a premier stakes jockey for more than 25 years and as a racing official for more than 30 years.
He is the son of the late Melvin and Myra Burgess. At the age of 15, he began riding races in Oklahoma and Berryville, Arkansas, Ruidoso Downs and Los Alamitos Race Track in California. In 1962, Burgess became a full time professional quarter horse jockey who also attended Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma where he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1969.
Among his achievements were wins in the 1975 All American Futurity on Bugs Alive in 75, the 1980 Rainbow Futurity aboard Mighty Deck Three, 2 World Championship Classics aboard Oh Snaz and Alamitos Feature and riding two time world champion Dash for Cash in the Vessels Maturity and the Lubbock Downs Futurity. He was a four time winner of the Sunland Park Derby, a four time winner of the Raton Futurity, two time winner of the Oklahoma Futurity and a six time winner of the World Wide Appaloosa Futurity.
He has been inducted into two horse racing Halls of Fame: the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame at Remington Park in Oklahoma City in 2010, the Ruidoso Hall of Fame in Ruidoso in 2011 and is a recipient of the Pete Pederson Outstanding Steward Award in 2016.
After retiring as a jockey, he has worked as a steward at many tracks in Texas, Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico and Haileah Park in Florida. He is currently a steward at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie. He serves as one of two stewards from the Southwest Region who collaborates with ROAP on suggested improvements of racing regulations nationally.
Rick Chayer, Sperry, OK
Rick Chayer was born November 21, 1959 to Don and Wilma (Chestnut) Chayer. Rick’s family was extensively involved in the horse industry. While he was in high school he worked for Denny Hassett Quarter Horses. After he graduated from high school he went to work for Mark Chestnut. Rick considers Mark one of his mentors. It while working for Chestnut, Rick learned to rope.
Chayer worked for an elite list of world renowned equine operations such as Carol Rose Ranch, Wayne Jordan Quarter Horses, 7S Stuart Ranch, Lazy E Ranch And Arena and Eddie Crow.
While working at the Lazy E Ranch And Arena, he met a lady that would change his life, Dolly Jensen. Rick and Dolly started their partnership training horses in 1990. In 1993, they moved to Sperry, Oklahoma, where they had the opportunity to rent a big indoor arena and barn that sat on 160 acres north of Tulsa. It was on December 11, 1993 that the couple married, beginning another partnership. In 2004, Rick and Dolly were able to purchase the ranch and now call it home.
They have been fortunate to raise, train or show numerous AQHA World Champions and All American Quarter Horse Congress Champions, along with champions in amateur and youth. They have all trained Palomino Horse Breeders of America World Champions and Golden Horses. Rick Chayer has earned a total of -5384 lifetime points.
Rick and Dolly have focused their program on performance horse sale preparation for Pitzer Ranch Sales and Hershberger Performance Horse Sale annually.
Rick has served a volunteer with the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association as well as the American Quarter Horse Association. Rick served as an AQHA National Director in 2001, OQHA President in 2003, and was elevated to an AQHA Director At Large in 2017. He served on several AQHA Standing Committees and he is an AQHA Professional Horseman. Rick has earned the following judges cards, AQHA Specialized Event Roping, National Reined Cow Horse Association, AQHA Specialized Event Working Cow Horse, AQHA Versatility Ranch Horse, and AQHA Specialized Event Ranch Riding.
Rodney Reed, Wapanuka, OK
Rodney Reed was born on March 28, 1956 in Durant, Oklahoma to J. W. Reed and Alma Wanet (Hurt) Reed. He grew up in Wapanucka, Oklahoma and graduated from high school there in 1974. Rodney married Sheila Dunn on November 18, 1977 in Milburn,
Rodney began training horses at the age of 19. Reed saddled 1,420 winners, 18 Grade one winners, with earnings in the excess of 16.1 million. His major stakes wins included the Rainbow futurity, and Kansas Futurity, at Ruidoso Downs; the Heritage Place Futurity, 3 times, the Remington Park Futurity twice, the Blue Ribbon Futurity and Derby, an amazing 6 times each, and the Speed Horse Futurity, four times.
Among the stakes winners he saddled were the likes of Alamitos Dasher, Bugged Thoughts, Chicks Call Me, Clicken On, De Passem Okey, Endaleabull, Fast Del Rey, Fast First Prize, Feature Mr Jess, First Down Kelly, Heza Fast Dash, Phoebe’s Otoole, Rakin In The Cash, and Spit like Jagger, to name only a few. Started by Reed, the great Refrigerator won his first race at Ross Meadows in Ada, Oklahoma.
According to the American Quarter Horse Association, Reed won 1,764 races in his career with total earnings of more than $17.8 million. Rodney won 10 Remington Park training titles between 1990 and 2003, with an amazing nine titles in a row between 1995 and 2003. He won over 40 races in four of those years, with his top mark of 47 wins taking place in 2001, a Remington Park record, at the time. Reed was inducted into the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame at Remington Park in 2010.
Rodney’s biggest race, was the one for his life. Rodney became ill and was diagnosed with Cancer. Rodney’s wife Shelia, a major part of their winning horse operation, was now taking over his care and medical appointments. Rodney passed away April 23, 2018.
Dwight Van Dorn, Woodward, OK
Dwight Van Dorn was born Woodward OK in July 10, 1934 to Beulah (Parsons) and John Van Dorn of Harper County, Oklahoma. On June 6, 1953, Dwight Van Dorn marriedKaye F Pappe in Woodward. In 1956, they started the Top Hat Drive-In with Kaye’s father, Charles Pappe, which later became the Sonic Drive-In.
Dwight and his wife Kaye began Quarter Horse business in 1967 with the purchase of a cutting horse, Ron Bar Bailey. They bought a forty-eight acre “farm” in Edmond in 1969 and named it Van Valley Farms.
The Van Dorns acquired the future AQHA World Champion 1966 stallion. Baca’s Hard Luck. They raised and showed AQHA Champions Lil Peppy Mist and Miss Joe Glow and AQHA Superior Halter Horses Anita Dawn Tay and Mandan Feather.
Dwight and Kaye’s children, Mark, Martin, and Keri, all worked and showed horses for Van Valley Farms as well as being active in the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Youth Association.
Dwight was an Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association Board member, officer and became the 1982 President. He was an American Quarter Horse Association National Director. Dwight was one the OQHA members that were instrumental in moving the American Junior Quarter Horse World Championship Horse Show to Tulsa, OK. Kaye helped to organize hospitality for the AQHA World Quarter Horse Championship Horse Show in Oklahoma City OK and was the director in charge for 3 years. Dwight and Kaye were very involved for several years with the Oklahoma Junior Quarter Horse Association. Dwight was an AQHA Judging Contest awards breakfast sponsor for many years.
Later in their lives, Kaye was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Kaye passed away January of 1997 at the age of 62 after a valiant 9-year battle with the disease.
Then Dwight married Peggy Noble in April 1999. Ebonys Moonbeam owned by Peggy Van Dorn and shown primarily by Roger Branch had an impressive AQHA career.
Easy Date
A look at the pedigree of Easy Date reveals exactly why the bay filly took the racing industry by storm in the mid-70s. Easy Date was from Easy Jet’s second crop of foals, and she was out of the Roman Sandal (TB) mare Spot Cash.
With bloodlines rich in speed, Easy Date outshined the other racing prospects because of her even temperament and her aggressive attitude on the track. Legendary breeder and owner Walter Merrick of Sayre, Oklahoma, first noticed these traits.
Easy Date won the 1974 All American Quarter Horse Futurity, before a crowd of more than 20 million people who watched the live telecast of the $766,000 race. She was the first All American Quarter Horse Futurity winner by an All American Quarter Horse Futurity winner.
Easy Date won nine stakes at six tracks in three states, including the Kindergarten Futurity, the Rainbow Derby, the Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos and the Golden State Derby at Bay Meadows. Easy Date finished off the board only twice in her career. She also set the ¼-mile track record at Bay Meadows in May 1975. The bay retired with $849,710 in earnings, putting her at the top of the all-time money earners list in 1977.
She produced 11 foals that earned $101,931. The highest individual money earner was Toast The Host, a stakes-winning son of Raise Your Glass (TB).
Easy Date was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2002.
Laico Bird
Laico Bird was foaled in April 1965. A daughter of Good Bird (TB) and Paula Laico, she was bred by B R Campbell of Frederick, Oklahoma. Floyd H Jones Sr. purchased the filly for his two sons, Floyd H Jr. and Jimmy Ray Bailey Jones. The delicate feminine filly, standing just over 14 hands, garnered every laurel for which she was available, in the voting for the 1967 year end championships, by the American Quarter Horse Association racing Committee.
Laico Bird’s most outstanding accomplishments was becoming the world’s richest Quarter Horse with the astronomical earnings of $ 406,399.20. She achieved this by winning the All American Quarter Horse Futurity, Los Alamitos Futurity, Raton Futurity, Texas Futurity, Columbus Futurity, and placing second in the Rainbow futurity and Blue Ribbon Futurity. At age two, in 17 starts, she amassed; 11 wins, 5 second place finishes.
Laico Bird came back, as a three year old to win the Button and Bows Derby, placed second in the Raton Derby, Sunland Park Fall Derby, and third in the Rainbow Derby and Ruidoso Championship stakes. She retired with a race record of 34 starts, 17 firsts, 12 seconds, and 3 third place finishes, earning $ 435,653.00 in her lifetime.
Retired at the end of 1968, she was bred to Jet Deck to produce two fillies, both stakes horses. She died of a twisted intestine in May 1971.
The Ole Man
The Ole Man, he lived up to his name. Foaled in 1963, and was breeding well up to the day he died at age 32. The stallion was named for his Hall of Fame breeder, Frank Vessels Sr, the Ole Man who founded Los Alamitos Race Course, and both his sire and his dam are Hall of Famers.
Bred by Frank Vessels Sr., The Ole Man was by Three Bars (TB), arguably the most all-around influential Thoroughbred sire in Quarter Horse history. The sorrel colt was out of the Chicaro Bill mare Chicado V and was foaled shortly after the death of Vessels.
Rated SI 100, The Ole Man garnered eight wins, four seconds and seven thirds, and earned $20,657 out of 33 starts. From the time he earned his AAA rating, he won the Stallion Stakes and the Lightning Bar Stakes, and possessed the stamina, heart and soundness to run 24 races his 3- year-old year.
In September 1966, The Ole Man was purchased for $100,000 by Roy Browning stood the stallion on his Roy Browning Ranch at Shawnee, OK. A true all-around horse, The Ole Man sired 1,878 named foals in 28 crops, to be one of the very few sires of Superior champions in racing, performance and halter.
The Ole Man sired 554 horses that started in official Quarter Horse races, with 250 returning as winners and 15 of those in stakes, for earnings of $1,077,061. In AQHA shows, the stallion is represented by 10 AQHA Champions; 78 horses that earned 1,335.5 points in open halter and 14 that earned 702 points in youth halter; and 106 earners of 1,439.5 points in open performance, 21 earners of 48.5 in amateur performance and 35 earners of 1,029.5 points in youth performance classes, for a total of 4,555 points.
The Ole Man died in February 1995. The Ole Man was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2018.
Belle Mere Farms, Ltd (Dee & Betty Raper), Norman, OK
At one time, Belle Mere Farm Ltd. was one of the largest breeding farms in the Southwest. Owned and operated by Betty and her husband, 2010 Oklahoma Hall of Fame Inductee, Dee Raper. The early beginning was a farm just outside of Lexington, Oklahoma in 1983. In 1992 the farm moved to its present location in Norman, Oklahoma.
Over the past 50 years, Dee and Betty personally worked every aspect of the farm operations to ensure the high quality of care that Belle Mere Farm has built its reputation.
One of Belle Mere’s highlights was standing the legendary Easy Jet in 1985, an All American Quarter Horse Futurity winner and outstanding sire whose breeding fee was $15,000. Easy Jet would become an American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee in 1993. The fabled stallion was an Oklahoma Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee in 2005.
Their favorite stallion was 2015 Oklahoma Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee Bully Bullion. He stood on their farm for 32 years and was considered a part of the family before he passed away in 2004. The stallion that they felt had greatest impact on the Quarter Horse industry, was Mr Eye Opener who was not only a great sire of racehorses, but also one of the top broodmare sires of all times.
One year they stood 13 stallions on the farm. There were years when they bred as many as 1200 mares in a single year.
The Rapers also found time to volunteer their time. Both Dee and Betty are life members of Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing Association and Dee served as president of OQHRA from 1993 through 2001. Dee is also an American Quarter Horse Association Director Emeritus.
Char-Lin Ranch (Charles & Linda Cline), Cushing, OK
Char-Lin Ranch is a family owned and operated business raising 300 registered Quarter Horses and 2500 Angus Cattle. In July 1985, Charles and Linda Cline bought the ranch west of Cushing, OK as a place to retire after the sale of Cherokee Lines, Inc., the family owned trucking company with more than 100 trucks and even more trailers, hauling across the 48 contiguous states from 1963 to 1990.
In January 1989 the first buckskin colt CL Buckley was born. As a two-year old "Buckley" earned the title of IBHA World Champion and ABRA World Champion, and was also a finalist at the AQHA Amateur World Show. Buckley has sired the winners of over 190 of the 300 IBHA, ABRA, and PHBA World and Reserve World Championships, and top ten placings at the AQHA World Shows earned by offspring of Char-Lin Ranch
Linda’s philanthropy includes the OSU Charles and Linda Cline Equine Teaching Center, the Cline Family Equine Sciences Professorship OSU Horse Judging Team Endowment, OSU Cline Family Equine Internship Endowment, the Right Path Literacy Project and Therapeutic Horseback Riding, the Wounded Warrior Project, Love, I.N.C., Shiloh Camp, First United Methodist Church of Cushing, AQHA Foundation Scholarship Program.
In recognition of her years of support and philanthropy, Linda was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Oklahoma State University Animal Science Department in 2015. Later that year, she was named one of three DASNR Champions, the Division’s highest award for non-alumni.
Bud Breeding Oklahoma Spirit Award:
Governor Bill Anoatubby, Chickasaw Nation
Bill Anoatubby has served as the Governor of the Chickasaw Nation since 1987. Prior to that, he served as the first lieutenant governor from 1979-1987. Anoatubby has been active in tribal government since 1975. His previous positions include director of tribal health services, director of finance, special assistant to the governor and controller.
In 2010, under Governor Anoatubby’s leadership, the Chickasaw Nation, through its subsidiary Global Gaming RP, LLC purchased the Remington Park Racetrack and Casino in Oklahoma City, OK. In addition to the purchase of the track, Global Gaming also invested over $30 Million in renovations and upgrades to the facility. Remington Park is widely recognized and renowned for conducting the world’s premier Quarter Horse race meet which annually distributes from $13 Million to $15 Million in purse money to racing Quarter Horses during its yearly 50 day live race meet.
Bill and his wife Janice have two sons, Brian and Chris and five grandchildren, Brendan, Eryn, Chloe, Sydney and Preslea.
Bud Breeding Oklahoma Spirit Award:
Josh Blyden DVM (Interstate Equine) Washington, OK
Dr. Josh Blyden is a native of Oklahoma. He was born July 10, 1974 to Ellen Feaver and Art Blyden. His mother raised him in Norman, Oklahoma, where he graduated from Norman High School.
Josh attended college at the University of Oklahoma where he received a bachelor’s degree in zoology with a minor in philosophy. While attending OU, Josh met his wife and business partner Jessica Naifeh. They married in 2000 and moved to Stillwater for Josh to attend vet school. Upon receiving his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 2004, Dr. Blyden began his career working for Joe Carter, DVM.
In 2009, Dr. Blyden started his own equine practice with the assistance of his wife Jessica. In January 2014, after many years of taking care of an extensive client list, Dr. Blyden purchased Interstate Equine in Goldsby Oklahoma. The infrastructure at Interstate Equine provided the opportunity to achieve his goal of offering a broader range of services to his clients and the athletic horse. He is licensed in multiple states, travels frequently out of state to clients’ ranches, and attends many horse shows a year. Dr. Blyden’s areas of focus are equine sports medicine and internal medicine.
Josh and Jessica believe in giving back to the communities and the industry that have given so much to enhance their lives over the years. Dr. Blyden and Interstate Equine Hospital have been proud supporters of local rodeos, round-up clubs, OSU veterinary students, youth organizations in Cleveland and McClain Counties, Oklahoma 4-H Foundation, OAQHA, Gypsy Horse Show Association, the NRHA, OKQHA, AQHA. Dr. Blyden is also a proud member of many professional organizations including the NRHA, OKQHA, AQHA, OVMA, AVMA and Kiwanis. He recently created a scholarship in the name of the late Dr. David McCarroll, DVM, which he hopes to perpetuate through the American Quarter Horse Foundation.
Most of all Josh enjoys spending time with his wife Jessica and two daughters, Isabelle 14, Evelyn 9 and their menagerie of pets.
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SALEM, NY — Fort Salem Theater opens a co-production with Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill, from Friday, July 14, through Sunday, June 16, on the Mainstage at its Washington County venue. Souvenir: The Florence Foster Jenkins Musical is subtitled “A Fantasia” on the life of Mrs. Jenkins, the world’s most famous lousy singer.
The real-life Florence Foster Jenkins performed her vocals for society audiences in the late nineteen-thirties through 1944, singing mostly classical pieces and making several recordings. All the smart, famous people, including Cole Porter and Noel Coward, loved to hear her sing. The pinnacle of her singing career came in the fall of 1944 when two thousand people were turned away from her sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall.
Souvenir tells the story of Jenkins rise to renown in a twelve-year collaboration with Cosmé McMoon, her long-suffering piano accompanist. McMoon, a hugely unsuccessful songwriter, allied with Jenkins in an effort to bring meaning to his life. She allied with him because most of her other accompanists left in horror at her highly inaccurate attempts to duplicate melodies. Together they form what becomes a warm, platonic relationship: he working hard to get her to sing the right notes; she working hard to give him the sense of confidence he lacks in his personal life and his work.
Souvenir had its initial off-Broadway run at the York Theatre in Manhattan, and then, after a stop at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, opened on Broadway in late 2005. It starred Tony-winner Judy Kaye as Mrs. Jenkins. Meryl Streep was Oscar-nominated for playing the title role in the 2017 film, Florence Foster Jenkins.
Alison Davy
Jay Kerr
Starring in Fort Salem’s version, which had its own tryout at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill this past March, is opera diva Alison Davy. She has appeared in opera and oratorio internationally, including performances with the Prague Philharmonic, Centro Musica Antica and Parma Symphony in Italy, and Lincoln Center in New York City. She has sung with the Washington National Opera, at Caramoor, with the East Bay Chamber Orchestra in San Fransisco, in the Hamptons and at the White House. In fact, Alison has spent a lifetime singing pitch-perfect in preparation for this role in which she must consistently and amusingly sing off-key.
Ms. Davy is joined in Salem by the Fort’s artistic director, Jay Kerr, who, despite singing and acting appearances on Broadway while he was in college, has spent the majority of his seventy-one years, like McMoon, sitting behind the piano while someone else performs. He brings to the role of McMoon intimate knowledge of accompanying complicated performers, including Judy Kaye herself, and Sandy Dennis, Tovah Feldshuh, Anita Gillette, Donna McKechnie, Charlotte Rae, Elaine Stritch, and Joanne Woodward. He coached Broadway veteran Phil Silvers in his only Tony-award winning role, in Stephen Sondheim’s Forum in 1971.
Reviewers of the Catskill production called Alison Davy “laughingly brilliant,” and “endearing, with a giddy energy.” Comments on Kerr included “lovely, with just the right sense of the sardonic,” able to “lob one-liners at us with sculpted precision.” Cornelia Seckel, in the online Culturally Speaking Journal, wrote “Alison Davy and Jay Kerr, both outstanding actors and musicians, have a powerful connection, a bond so strong one forgets they are actors on a stage…”
Souvenir is directed by Florence Hayle, herself a Broadway performer who came out of retirement at the age of 82 to star in the 2011 Fort Salem musical, Senior Moments. J. Peter Bergman, in Berkshire Bright Focus, praises her vision as “a choice one, a grand one … wrapped in pretty parchment and a grand old satin bow.”
Souvenir: The Florence Foster Jenkins Musical plays July 14-16, Friday and Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday afternoon at 2 PM. Tickets and information are available online at fortsalemtheater.com or by calling the theater’s box office, (518) 854-9200.
Fort Salem Theater Hosts “Souvenir: The Florence Foster Jenkins Musical” SALEM, NY — Fort Salem Theater opens a co-production with Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill, from Friday, July 14, through Sunday, June 16, on the Mainstage at its Washington County venue.
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