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February 13
BIRTHDAYS
Carol Lynley~69
Kim Novak~79
TCM SCHEDULE
TCM PRIMETIME -WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: GREECE
8:00 PM Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras Cast: Yves Montand , Jean-Louis Trintignant , Jacques Perrin .
10:15 PM Guns of Navarone, The (1961)
A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy a pair of Nazi guns.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck , David Niven , Anthony Quinn .
1:00 AM Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
A sponge diver and an American anthropologist try to salvage a priceless statue from the Mediterranean floor.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Alan Ladd , Clifton Webb , Sophia Loren .
Carol Lynley~69
Kim Novak~79
TCM SCHEDULE
TCM PRIMETIME -WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: GREECE
8:00 PM Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras Cast: Yves Montand , Jean-Louis Trintignant , Jacques Perrin .
10:15 PM Guns of Navarone, The (1961)
A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy a pair of Nazi guns.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Gregory Peck , David Niven , Anthony Quinn .
1:00 AM Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
A sponge diver and an American anthropologist try to salvage a priceless statue from the Mediterranean floor.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Alan Ladd , Clifton Webb , Sophia Loren .
Forrest Tucker
Trivia
Played semi-pro football in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Tucker was a 1938 graduate of Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, VA. Other alumni include Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty and Sandra Bullock.
Left acting to join the army during World War II, and eventually became a 2nd Lt. After the war he resumed his acting career.
Father of Brooke Tucker.
Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke on the western spoof "F Troop" (1965).
In the mid-1970s, Tucker toured with the Roy Radin Vaudeville Revue, a variety show in which he was featured telling Irish tales and singing Irish folk songs. Theatrical producer Roy Radin was later the victim in the so-called "Cotton Club Murder." Movie producer Robert Evans, who was producing The Cotton Club (1984) at the time of his brutal killing, had been in contact with Radin as a potential investor in the film.
Played semi-pro football in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Tucker was a 1938 graduate of Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, VA. Other alumni include Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty and Sandra Bullock.
Left acting to join the army during World War II, and eventually became a 2nd Lt. After the war he resumed his acting career.
Father of Brooke Tucker.
Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke on the western spoof "F Troop" (1965).
In the mid-1970s, Tucker toured with the Roy Radin Vaudeville Revue, a variety show in which he was featured telling Irish tales and singing Irish folk songs. Theatrical producer Roy Radin was later the victim in the so-called "Cotton Club Murder." Movie producer Robert Evans, who was producing The Cotton Club (1984) at the time of his brutal killing, had been in contact with Radin as a potential investor in the film.
Lorne Greene
Mini Biography
Canadian-born Lorne Greene began acting while attending Canada's Queen's University, and after graduation got a job in radio broadcasting. His rich, deep, authoritarian voice quickly propelled him to prominence as Canada's top newscaster. He left Canada in the early 1950s for a film career in Hollywood, and soon began appearing regularly in television, films and on radio. His greatest successes came in two television series, the long-running Western "Bonanza" (1959), in which he played the patriarch of a wealthy frontier family, and the sci-fi series "Battlestar Galactica" (1978).
IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com
Canadian-born Lorne Greene began acting while attending Canada's Queen's University, and after graduation got a job in radio broadcasting. His rich, deep, authoritarian voice quickly propelled him to prominence as Canada's top newscaster. He left Canada in the early 1950s for a film career in Hollywood, and soon began appearing regularly in television, films and on radio. His greatest successes came in two television series, the long-running Western "Bonanza" (1959), in which he played the patriarch of a wealthy frontier family, and the sci-fi series "Battlestar Galactica" (1978).
IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com
February 12
BIRTHDAYS
Forrest Tucker~1919-1986
Lorne Greene~1915-1987
TCM SCHEDULE
TCM PRIMETIME -WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: NEW YORK
8:00 PM Funny Girl (1968)
Comedienne Fanny Brice fights to prove that she can be the greatest star and find romance even though she isn't pretty.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Barbra Streisand , Omar Sharif , Kay Medford .
10:45 PM Hester Street (1975)
A Russian immigrant brings over his wife only to realize they are now strangers.
Dir: Joan Micklin Silver Cast: Steven Keats , Carol Kane , Mel Howard .
12:30 AM Marty (1955)
A lonely butcher finds love despite the opposition of his friends and family.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Ernest Borgnine , Betsy Blair , Esther Minciotti .
Forrest Tucker~1919-1986
Lorne Greene~1915-1987
TCM SCHEDULE
TCM PRIMETIME -WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: NEW YORK
8:00 PM Funny Girl (1968)
Comedienne Fanny Brice fights to prove that she can be the greatest star and find romance even though she isn't pretty.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Barbra Streisand , Omar Sharif , Kay Medford .
10:45 PM Hester Street (1975)
A Russian immigrant brings over his wife only to realize they are now strangers.
Dir: Joan Micklin Silver Cast: Steven Keats , Carol Kane , Mel Howard .
12:30 AM Marty (1955)
A lonely butcher finds love despite the opposition of his friends and family.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Ernest Borgnine , Betsy Blair , Esther Minciotti .
Gypsy Rose Lee
Trivia
Older sister of June Havoc.
Gypsy Rose started dancing and stripping at burlesque houses at the age of 15 with the assistance of fellow dancer "Tessie The Tassel Twirler." She retired from burlesque 8 years later to appear in films but documented her rise to fame and adventurous relationship with her mother in the autobiographical book, "Gypsy."
Mother of Erik Lee Preminger.
In the 1940s, Gypsy Rose Lee was in love with the theatrical impresario Michael Todd, who produced two Broadway shows starring Lee ("Star and Garter" and "The Naked Genius"). She married William Kirkland in 1942 in an attempt to make the already-married Todd jealous. They divorced in 1944. While married to Kirkland, she had a brief fling with Otto Preminger. The fruit of their affair was a boy named Erik Lee, who has been known successively as Erik Kirkland, Erik de Diego, and Erik Lee Preminger.
At one of her weddings, Gypsy had a chimpanzee as a ring bearer.
When she was diagnosed with cancer in 1969, she called it "a present from mother".
She had many pets, including cats, turtles, guinea pigs, and Chinese crested dogs.
Although she was a "stripper," she never actually got undressed.
The walls of her Los Angeles home were adorned with pictures by Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, and Dorothea Tanning, all of which were reportedly gifts to her by the artists themselves.
Like her mother, Lee was married three times.
Older sister of June Havoc.
Gypsy Rose started dancing and stripping at burlesque houses at the age of 15 with the assistance of fellow dancer "Tessie The Tassel Twirler." She retired from burlesque 8 years later to appear in films but documented her rise to fame and adventurous relationship with her mother in the autobiographical book, "Gypsy."
Mother of Erik Lee Preminger.
In the 1940s, Gypsy Rose Lee was in love with the theatrical impresario Michael Todd, who produced two Broadway shows starring Lee ("Star and Garter" and "The Naked Genius"). She married William Kirkland in 1942 in an attempt to make the already-married Todd jealous. They divorced in 1944. While married to Kirkland, she had a brief fling with Otto Preminger. The fruit of their affair was a boy named Erik Lee, who has been known successively as Erik Kirkland, Erik de Diego, and Erik Lee Preminger.
At one of her weddings, Gypsy had a chimpanzee as a ring bearer.
When she was diagnosed with cancer in 1969, she called it "a present from mother".
She had many pets, including cats, turtles, guinea pigs, and Chinese crested dogs.
Although she was a "stripper," she never actually got undressed.
The walls of her Los Angeles home were adorned with pictures by Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, and Dorothea Tanning, all of which were reportedly gifts to her by the artists themselves.
Like her mother, Lee was married three times.
Eva Gabor
Actor
Eva Gabor played the lovably silly Lisa Douglas on Green Acres, a 1965-70 sitcom about city sophisticates who move to the country. Gabor and her sisters Zsa Zsa and Magda were a popular trio of celebrity beauties in their day, with Zsa Zsa and Eva being nearly interchangeable -- blondes in furs with Hungarian accents. Eva Gabor had a scattershot career in Hollywood movies; her best-known role was probably the high-strung Paris beauty Liane d'Exelmans in the 1958 musical Gigi. Eva Gabor also appeared on Broadway, notably in the 1950 hit The Happy Time.
Gabor was married five times... She did voices for the Disney animated films The Aristocats (1970) and The Rescuers (1977)
Eva Gabor played the lovably silly Lisa Douglas on Green Acres, a 1965-70 sitcom about city sophisticates who move to the country. Gabor and her sisters Zsa Zsa and Magda were a popular trio of celebrity beauties in their day, with Zsa Zsa and Eva being nearly interchangeable -- blondes in furs with Hungarian accents. Eva Gabor had a scattershot career in Hollywood movies; her best-known role was probably the high-strung Paris beauty Liane d'Exelmans in the 1958 musical Gigi. Eva Gabor also appeared on Broadway, notably in the 1950 hit The Happy Time.
Gabor was married five times... She did voices for the Disney animated films The Aristocats (1970) and The Rescuers (1977)
Leslie Nielsen
Personal Quotes
Doing nothing is very hard to do . . . you never know when you're finished.
The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other four-letter words were used up.
[on the part of his career when he played almost exclusively bad guys] The best part is always the heavy. And the meaner and crueler and the worse you are, the more vicious you are as the heavy, the better the hero looks when he whips you. So, the heavy is liable to be a very dramatic, fine acting part. I told my agent at that time, "I want to play heavies who are really vicious and cruel and terrible. I want them to know that they're terrible and I want them to enjoy it."
[on his wrestling a "wild grizzly bear" (it was actually a docile honey bear] in Day of the Animals (1977)] I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.
When people are laughing, they don't beat up on you. You're secure and safe. It's when they stop laughing that it's dangerous.
[Touring in Ireland with Robert Goulet]: That was a wonderful time. Halfway through, we were joined by a friend, a mad Armenian. We were enjoying ourselves so much, with a drink here and a drink there, what we should have done - like mountaineers - was to tie ropes around our waists, so if anybody fell, we would know.
[on using his famous 'farting machine']: You have to have some body movement, some wiggling of legs and hips in rhythm with the sound of breaking wind. Actually in the north, in Fort Norman, that used to be the way we said goodnight, although, of course, then we did it naturally.
[on Lorne Greene]: The hair would stand up on my arms, his voice was so magnificent. When I met him, Lorne looked exactly the way he sounded, the patriarch. I could never have imagined him riding the range, herding the cattle, as he did in "Bonanza" (1959). But he became a friend who was always there, always gentle, always friendly.
[on specializing in serious roles in his early years]: Actually I always wanted to do comedy, but I never made th effort because I was a coward. I didn't have the courage. I was a closet comedian. I was too self-conscious and lacking in confidence.
Doing nothing is very hard to do . . . you never know when you're finished.
The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other four-letter words were used up.
[on the part of his career when he played almost exclusively bad guys] The best part is always the heavy. And the meaner and crueler and the worse you are, the more vicious you are as the heavy, the better the hero looks when he whips you. So, the heavy is liable to be a very dramatic, fine acting part. I told my agent at that time, "I want to play heavies who are really vicious and cruel and terrible. I want them to know that they're terrible and I want them to enjoy it."
[on his wrestling a "wild grizzly bear" (it was actually a docile honey bear] in Day of the Animals (1977)] I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.
When people are laughing, they don't beat up on you. You're secure and safe. It's when they stop laughing that it's dangerous.
[Touring in Ireland with Robert Goulet]: That was a wonderful time. Halfway through, we were joined by a friend, a mad Armenian. We were enjoying ourselves so much, with a drink here and a drink there, what we should have done - like mountaineers - was to tie ropes around our waists, so if anybody fell, we would know.
[on using his famous 'farting machine']: You have to have some body movement, some wiggling of legs and hips in rhythm with the sound of breaking wind. Actually in the north, in Fort Norman, that used to be the way we said goodnight, although, of course, then we did it naturally.
[on Lorne Greene]: The hair would stand up on my arms, his voice was so magnificent. When I met him, Lorne looked exactly the way he sounded, the patriarch. I could never have imagined him riding the range, herding the cattle, as he did in "Bonanza" (1959). But he became a friend who was always there, always gentle, always friendly.
[on specializing in serious roles in his early years]: Actually I always wanted to do comedy, but I never made th effort because I was a coward. I didn't have the courage. I was a closet comedian. I was too self-conscious and lacking in confidence.
February 11
BIRTHDAYS
Burt Reynolds~75
Eva Gabor~1919--1995
Leslie Nielsen~1926-2010
TCM SCHEDULE
TCM PRIMETIME -WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: NEW YORK
8:00 PM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn , Alan Arkin , Richard Crenna .
10:00 PM Apartment, The (1960)
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon , Shirley MacLaine , Fred MacMurray .
12:15 AM Three Days of the Condor (1975)
A CIA researcher uncovers top secret information and finds himself marked for death.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Redford , Faye Dunaway , Cliff Robertson
Burt Reynolds~75
Eva Gabor~1919--1995
Leslie Nielsen~1926-2010
TCM SCHEDULE
TCM PRIMETIME -WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: NEW YORK
8:00 PM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn , Alan Arkin , Richard Crenna .
10:00 PM Apartment, The (1960)
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon , Shirley MacLaine , Fred MacMurray .
12:15 AM Three Days of the Condor (1975)
A CIA researcher uncovers top secret information and finds himself marked for death.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Redford , Faye Dunaway , Cliff Robertson
