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Keith Carradine

Keith Carradine

Keith Carradine (born August 8, 1949, in San Mateo, California) is an actor born into a family of actors. His father, John Carradine, appeared in dozens of horror films. His half-brother, David Carradine is best known for his role as Kwai Chang in the Kung Fu TV series, and more recently as the title character in Kill Bill. His brother, Robert Carradine, appeared in the Revenge of the Nerds series of films and has had other significant roles. All three Carradine brothers appeared as the Younger brothers in Walter Hill's 1980 film The Long Riders, with Keith playing Jim Younger. His daughter by actress Shelley Plimpton is Martha Plimpton, who was conceived when her parents appeared together in the Broadway musical Hair. Carradine's first notable film appearance was in director Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller in 1971. He went on to play one of the principal characters in Altman' critically acclaimed 1975 movie Nashville and his song from that movie, "I'm Easy", was a popular music hit in 1976. He has worked several times in the offbeat films of Altman's protégé Alan Rudolph, playing a disarmingly candid madman in Choose Me (1984), an incompetent petty criminal in Trouble in Mind (1985) and an American artist in 1930s Paris in The Moderns (1988). He also had a cameo role as Will Rogers in Rudolph's 1994 film about Dorothy Parker, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. Other works include Emperor of the North Pole (1973), Pretty Baby (1978), Chiefs, a television miniseries in 1983, and My Father My Son, a television movie in 1988, In 1984 he appeared in the video for Madonna's single Material Girl. During the shooting of the video Carradine and Madonna had a short affair. Most recently, Keith Carradine has enjoyed a starring role on the ABC sitcom Complete Savages, and played Wild Bill Hickok in the HBO series Deadwood. He has also appeared as a host of the factual Wild West Tech show on the History Channel. In the 2005 miniseries Into the West, produced by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks, Carradine played Richard Henry Pratt. He has two children by his ex-wife Sandra Will.

External links


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August 8

August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining.

Events


- 1509 - The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned in the town of Chittoor in the present-day state of Andhra Pradesh, India. His accession marks the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire after a period of internal strife.
- 1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage.
- 1588 - Battle of Gravelines ends - Defeated by the English during an invasion attempt, the surviving parts of the Spanish Armada begin to sail home. Only 67 of the original 130 ships will later reach Spain and most of these will be in poor condition.
- 1605 - The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
- 1647 - Battle of Dangan Hill - Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces.
- 1786 - Mont Blanc is climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.
- 1839 - Beta Theta Pi was founded in Oxford, OH.
- 1844 - During a meeting held in Nauvoo, the Quorum of Twelve, headed by Brigham Young, is created as the leading body of the Mormon Church.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (Davis will refuse the request upon receipt).
- 1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
- 1911 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law will take effect in 1913.
- 1918 - World War I: Battle of Amiens - Canadian troops, backed by Australians, begin a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines. German General Erich Ludendorff will later call this the "black day of the German army."
- 1929 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight (will end on August 29).
- 1930 - Betty Boop premieres in the animated film "Dizzy Dishes".
- 1938 - The Mauthausen concentration camp opens.
- 1942 - World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs are executed (two others cooperate and receive life imprisonment instead).
- 1942- Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which leads to the start of a historical civil disobedience movement across India
- 1945 - World War II - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria with more than 1 million troops. Japan surrenders on August 15
- 1945 - The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States, and that nation becomes the third to join the new international organization.
- 1949 - Bhutan becomes independent
- 1962 - Elizabeth Ann Duncan becomes the last woman to be executed in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1977. She and the two men she hired to murder her pregnant daughter-in-law in 1958 die in San Quentin's gas chamber.
- 1963 - Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
- 1967 - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
- 1968 - Jurō Wada, a doctor at the Sapporo Medical School, successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant.
- 1969 - An iconic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AbbeyRoad.jpg picture] of the Beatles is taken to be used on their album Abbey Road.
- 1972 - Richard Nixon accepts the nomination as candidate for the presidency at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida and chooses Maryland Govenor Spiro Agnew to be his running mate.
- 1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew goes on television to denounce accusations he had taken kickbacks from contractors while governor of Maryland. He calls the charges as "damned lies" and vows not to resign. (See also October 10)
- 1973 - Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped from a Tokyo hotel.
- 1974 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective the next day, August 9).
- 1976 - Boston, the self-titled debut album for the rock band Boston is released. It sells over 17 million copies and becomes the #1 best-selling debut album in history.
- 1978 - Odie makes his first appearance in the cartoon strip Garfield
- 1988 - General Ne Win, ruler of Burma since 1962, suddenly resigns.
- 1988 - Chicago's Wrigley Field installs lights and attempts to play first game at night.
- 1989 - STS-28: The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
- 1991 - Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built
- 1999 - The series finale of Mystery Science Theater 3000 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel.
- 2000 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.

Births


- 1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
- 1602 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
- 1605 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
- 1646 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
- 1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
- 1693 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
- 1694 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
- 1720 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
- 1814 - Esther Morris, suffragist and the first U. S. woman judge (d. 1902)
- 1839 - Nelson Miles, U.S. general (d. 1925)
- 1866 - Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
- 1875 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
- 1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1880 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
- 1891 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
- 1892 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
- 1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (d. 1953)
- 1901 - Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1902 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 1905 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
- 1907 - Benny Carter, American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
- 1908 - Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)
- 1910 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1911 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
- 1915 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)
- 1919 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
- 1920 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist
- 1921 - William Asher, American film producer
- 1921 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist
- 1921 - Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
- 1921 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist
- 1921 - Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer
- 1922 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1922 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985)
- 1925 - Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (d. 1994)
- 1929 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
- 1931 - Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist
- 1932 - Mel Tillis, American singer
- 1936 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
- 1936 - Keith Barron, English actor
- 1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
- 1938 - Connie Stevens, American singer and actress
- 1939 - Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
- 1944 - Peter Weir, Australian film director
- 1944 - Uli Derickson, Czech-born flight attendant
- 1944 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
- 1949 - Keith Carradine, American actor
- 1951 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
- 1952 -Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
- 1952 - Robin Quivers, American radio personality
- 1953 - Don Most American actor
- 1954 - Nigel Mansell, English race car driver
- 1955 - Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
- 1956 - Branscombe Richmond, American actor
- 1958 - Deborah Norville, American reporter and television host
- 1961 - The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2)
- 1966 - Chris Eubank, English boxer
- 1973 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
- 1974 - Ulises De la Cruz, Ecuadoran footballer
- 1976 - J.C. Chasez, American singer (
- NSYNC)
- 1976 - Drew Lachey, American singer
- 1978 - Louis Saha, French footballer
- 1979 - Richard Harwood, British cellist
- 1980 - Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
- 1980 - Pat Noonan, American soccer player
- 1981 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter
- 1981 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
- 1988 - Princess Beatrice of York

Deaths


- 869 - Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)
- 1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
- 1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
- 1588 - Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter
- 1604 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
- 1684 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
- 1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
- 1759 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer
- 1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
- 1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
- 1887 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
- 1898 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
- 1902 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
- 1911 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
- 1933 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
- 1940 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
- 1944 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
- 1965 - Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
- 1972 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
- 1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
- 1985 - Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
- 1987 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
- 1991 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
- 1995 - Joan Croydon, theatre actress who made one movie (The Bad Seed) (b. 1923)
- 1996 - Nevill Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1905)
- 1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
- 2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
- 2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2005 - John H. Johnson, African-American publisher; billionaire (b. 1918)
- 2005 - Gene Mauch, American athlete and manager (b. 1925)
- 2005 - Monica Sjoo, Swedish artist (cancer)
- 2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances


- Taiwan: Father's Day. (In Mandarin, Ba Ba means father and 8-8, or August 8).
- Sweden - Namesday of Queen Silvia, an Official Flag Day.

Religious observances


- Roman Catholic Church: Memorial of St Dominic de Guzman, priest, (1170-1221).

External links


- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/8 BBC: On This Day]
- [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20050808.html The New York Times: On This Day] ---- August 7 - August 9 - July 8 - September 8 -- listing of all days ko:8월 8일 ms:8 Ogos ja:8月8日 simple:August 8 th:8 สิงหาคม

1949

1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday.

Events

January-February


- January 4 - RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage
- January 4 - February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Nevada - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish
- January 5 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
- January 11 - Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded snowfall.
- January 22 - Communist forces enter Peking
- January 25 - The first Emmy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
- January 25 - In the first Israeli election, David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
- January 26 - Australian Citizenship comes into being.
- February 1 - Rationing of clothes ends in Britain
- February 8 - Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced to life imprisonment for treason against the Hungarian Communist government.
- February 12 - The Vatican announces the excommunication of all persons involved in the trial and conviction of Cardinal Mindszenty.
- February 14 - The Knesset (Israeli parliament) first convenes.
- February 14 - Antonio Carmona re-elected president of Portugal for lack of opposing candidate
- February 19 - Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
- February 22 - Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.

March-April

Yukon, Oklahoma
- March 1 - World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires
- March 1 - Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch
- March 2 - The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II under Captain James Gallagher lands in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight. It was refueled in flight four times.
- March 3 - The Tucker automobile Corporation folds.
- March 12 - The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California as the first train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.
- March 28 - United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly.
- March 31 - The former British colony of Newfoundland joins Canada as its 10th province.
- April 1 - Éire leaves the Commonwealth and becomes the Republic of Ireland
- April 4 - NATO is formed.
- April 18 - Éire formally became the Republic of Ireland.
- April 20 - Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst goes up the Yangtze River to evacuate British Commonwealth refugees escaping the advance of the Mao's communist forces. Under heavy fire it rans aground off Rose Island. After an aborted rescue attempt at April 26 it anchors 10 miles upstream. Negotiations with the communist forces to let the ship leave drag on for weeks
- April 23 - Chinese communist troops take Nanking
- April 29 - News Review reveals that neither Selhurst College nor its headmaster H. Rochester Sneath exist

May-June


- May 5 - The Council of Europe is founded by the signing of the Treaty of London.
- May 9 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
- May 11 - Israel is admitted to the U.N. as its 59th member.
- May 11 - Siam changes its name to Thailand.
- May 12 - Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
- May 20 - The AFSA (predecessor of the NSA) is established.
- May 22 - After two months in Bethesda Naval Hospital, James Forrestal commits suicide, under circumstances that seem suspicious to many.
- May 23 - The Federal Republic of Germany is established.
- EDSAC, the first stored-program computer, begins operation at Cambridge University.
- June 2 - Transjordan becomes kingdom of Jordan
- June 6 - With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the Indian government, Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial Buddhist control.
- June 8 - Red Scare: Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
- June 8 - George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- June 29 - Last US troops withdraw from South Korea
- June 29 - Dock strike in the UK
- June 29 - Beginning of Apartheid - The South African Citizenship Act suspends the granting of citizenship to British Commonwealth immigrants after five years and imposes a ban on mixed marriages
- July 31 - Captain Kerans of HMS Amethyst decides to make a break after the nightfall under heavy fire from both sides of the river and successfully rejoins the fleet at Woosung the next day

August


- August 5 - In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 8000
- August 5 - 6.75 Richter scale earthquake kills 6000 in Ecuador
- August 8 - Bhutan becomes independent
- August 14 - Gang of Salvatore Giuliano explodes mines under police barracks outside Palermo, Sicily
- August 14 - Military coup in Syria ousts the president
- August 28 - Last surviving veterans of the United States Civil War meet in Indianapolis - all six
- August 29 - First meeting of the Council of Europe
- August 29 - Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb.

September


- September 5 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
- September 6 - Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
- September 7 - Federal Republic of Germany officially founded. Konrad Adenauer is the first federal chancellor
- September 9 - Albert Guay affair: dynamite bomb destroys Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3 in Quebec
- September 13 - Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership of Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal
- September 17 - Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
- September 24 - Laszlo Rajk, ex-foreign minister of Hungary, is sentenced to death.
- September 29 - First Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves design for the Flag of the People's Republic of China.
- September 29 - Mrs. Iva Toguri D'Aquino is found guilty of broadcasting for Japan as "Tokyo Rose" during World War II.

October-December


- October 1 - Birth of the People's Republic of China.
- October 7 - Democratic Republic of Germany DDR established officially
- October 13 - Severe flooding in Guatemala
- October 16 - Civil war ends in Greece - communist troops surrender
- October 17 - Chinese communist troops take Canton,_China
- October 27 - An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
- November 24 - Opening day at the ski resort Squaw Valley California.
- November 26 - The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution. [http://lawmin.nic.in/coi.htm]
- December 8 - Nationalist Chinese finish their evacuation to Taiwan.
- December 10- Robert Gordon (Bob) Menzies elected.
- December 14 - Traicho Kostov, ex-vice prime minister of Bulgaria, is sentenced to death.
- December 15 - Typhoon strikes fishing fleet off Korea - several thousand reported dead.
- December 16 - Sukarno elected president of Republic of Indonesia.
- December 17 - Burma recognizes People's Republic of China.
- December 27 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants Indonesia sovereignty.
- December 30 - India recognizes People's Republic of China.

An Unknown Date


- The Fourth Geneva Convention is signed.
- Pamir is the last commercial sailing ship to sail round Cape Horn.

Births

January


- January 2 - Christopher Durang, American playwright
- January 7 - Steven Williams, American actor
- January 8 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian chef
- January 10 - George Foreman, American boxer
- January 10 - James Lapine, American stage director and librettist
- January 10 - Linda Lovelace, American actress (d. 2002)
- January 11 - Kalev Ots, Estonian statesman
- January 12 - Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born film director
- January 13 - Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)
- January 14 - Lawrence Kasdan, American director and screenwriter
- January 17 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
- January 18 - Philippe Starck, French designer
- January 19 - Robert Palmer, English musician (d. 2003)
- January 20 - Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden
- January 24 - John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
- January 30 - Peter Agre, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- January 31 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher

February


- February 2 - Brent Spiner, American actor
- February 9 - Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
- February 10 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
- February 10 - Harold Sylvester, American actor
- February 15 - Ken Anderson, American football player
- February 18 - Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
- February 19 - Dan Bunten, American computer game designer(d. 1998)
- February 22 - Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver
- February 25 - Ric Flair, American professional wrestler

March


- March 2 - Gates McFadden, American actress
- March 2 - Eddie Money, American singer
- March 2 - JPR Williams, Welsh rugby player
- March 3 - Jesse Jefferson, baseball player
- March 6 - Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan
- March 6 - Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer
- March 7 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
- March 10 - Larry Wall, American computer programmer
- March 12 - Bill Payne, American musician (Little Feat)
- March 13 - Julia Migenes, American soprano
- March 16 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
- March 16 - Victor Garber, Canadian actor
- March 17 - Patrick Duffy, American actor
- March 22 - Fanny Ardant, French actress
- March 23 - Ric Ocasek, American musician (The Cars)
- March 24 - Nick Lowe, American musician
- March 26 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
- March 30 - Marcia Ball, American musician
- March 30 - Lene Lovich, American singer

April-June


- April 1 - Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
- April 1 - Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer
- April 3 - Richard Thompson, British musician and songwriter
- April 6 - Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 7 - John Oates, American musician (Hall and Oates)
- April 14 - John Shea, American actor
- April 16 - Sandy Hawley, Canadian jockey
- April 17 - Claudia de Santa-Fe, American painter and sculptor
- April 18 - Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
- May 4 - John Force, American race car driver
- May 9 - Billy Joel, American musician
- May 18 - Rick Wakeman, English musician and songwriter (Yes)
- May 18 - Bill Wallace, Canadian musician (The Guess Who)
- May 19 - Archie Manning, American football player
- May 24 - Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
- May 26 - Philip Michael Thomas, American actor
- May 26 - Hank Williams Jr., American singer
- May 31 - Tom Berenger, American actor
- June 8 - Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist
- June 13 - Ann Druyan, writer
- June 14 - Jimmy Lea, English musician (Slade)
- June 14 - Harry Turtledove, American historian and novelist
- June 21 - John Agard, British poet and playwright
- June 21 - Jane Urquhart, Canadian author
- June 24 - Albert Zappelli, American Educator

July-September


- July 3 - Jan Smithers, American actress
- July 15 - Carl Bildt, Prime Minister of Sweden
- July 17 - Charlie Steiner, American sportscaster
- July 22 - Alan Menken, American composer
- July 26 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
- August 6 - Alan Campbell, Irish minister
- August 7 - Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze
- August 12 - Mark Knopfler, Swiss guitarist
- August 15 - Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
- August 23 - Shelley Long, American actress
- August 23 - Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
- August 25 - Martin Amis, English novelist
- August 31 - Richard Gere, American actor
- August 31 - H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 1 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
- September 3 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004)
- September 7 - Lee McGeorge Durrell, American author, television presenter, and zookeeper
- September 7 - Gloria Gaynor, American singer
- September 14 - Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
- September 15 - Joe Barton, American politician
- September 17 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress Elvira
- September 18 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
- September 23 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
- September 27 - Mike Schmidt, baseball player

October-December


- October 1 - Isaac Bonewits, American author and occultist
- October 2 - Lorraine Bracco, American actress
- October 8 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
- October 14 - Katy Manning, British actress
- October 20 - Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
- October 21 - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
- October 22 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990)
- November 5 - Armin Shimerman, American actor
- November 6 - Arturo Sandoval, Cuban musician
- November 7 - Aiswarya, Queen of Nepal (d. 2001)
- November 7 - Judi Bari, American environmental activist (d. 1997)
- November 24 - Nicholas Richard Ainger, British politician
- November 26 - Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
- November 29 - Alexander Godunov, Russian-born dancer and actor (d. 1995)
- December 3 - John Akii-Bua Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997)
- December 4 - Jeff Bridges, American actor
- December 4 - Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born comedienne, actress, and singer
- December 7 - Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
- December 12 - Bill Nighy, English actor
- December 13 – Randy Owen, lead singer of the country music band Alabama
- December 14 - Bill Buckner, baseball player
- December 15 - Don Johnson, American actor
- December 17 - Paul Rodgers, British singer (Free)
- December 22 - Maurice Gibb, Australian musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
- December 22 - Robin Gibb, Australian musician (The Bee Gees)
- December 24 - Randy Neugebauer, American politician
- December 25 - Sissy Spacek, American actress
- December 25 - Joe Louis Walker, American musician
- December 26 - José Ramos Horta, Foreign Minister of East Timor, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Unknown date


- William Hope, Canadian actor

Deaths


- January 6 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
- January 11 - Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1889)
- January 14 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
- January 28 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
- February 12 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
- March 30 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
- April 19 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
- May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- May 9 - Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
- May 22 - James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (suicide) (b. 1892)
- May 22 - Klaus Mann, German writer (suicide) (b. 1906)
- June 10 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
- June 14 - Russell Doubleday, American author and publisher (b. 1872)
- July 9 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born composer (b. 1874)
- July 12 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
- July 18- Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
- August 18 - Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
- August 30 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
- September 8 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
- September 13 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
- September 19 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
- September 19 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
- October 27 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (plane crash) (b. 1916)
- October 27 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (plane crash) (b. 1919)
- December 6 - Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1885)
- December 11 - Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (b. 1875)
- December 16 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
- December 28 - Hervey Allen, American author (b. 1889)
- December 28 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)

Nobel Prizes


- Physics - Yukawa Hideki
- Chemistry - William Francis Giauque
- Medicine - Walter Rudolf Hess, Antonio Caetano De Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
- Literature - William Faulkner
- Peace - John Boyd Orr Category:1949 ko:1949년 ms:1949 ja:1949年 simple:1949 th:พ.ศ. 2492

John Carradine

John Carradine (February 5, 1906 - November 27, 1988) was an American actor. Born Richmond Reed Carradine in New York City, he began his career in show business as a Shakespearean dramatic actor and made his cinematic debut in 1930 under the name Peter Richmond. He adopted the stage name "John Carradine" in 1933, and took the name as his own two years later. He appeared in more than 200 movies, mostly in B-movies, usually playing eccentric, mad or diabolical characters, especially in the horror genre with which he had become identified as a "star" by the mid-1940s. He also appeared in ten John Ford productions (including The Grapes of Wrath (1940)), portrayed Biblical hero Aaron in The Ten Commandments (1956), and made numerous television cameos (notably on The Munsters, in recurring guest appearances as mortician Mr. Gateman). He also did considerable stage work, much of which provided his only opportunity to work in a classic drama context, and appeared on Broadway. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, John Carradine has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6240 Hollywood Blvd. In 2003, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Carradine's idiosyncratic habit of strolling Hollywood streets while reciting Shakespearean soliloquies earned him the nickname "Bard of the Boardwalk". Four sons, David, Robert, Keith and Bruce are also actors. John Carradine appeared with his son David in several episodes of Kung Fu" - "Dark Angel", "The Nature of Evil", and "Ambush". He died on a visit to Milan, Italy, at the age of 82.

See also


- John Carradine filmography

External links


- Carradine, John Carradine, John Carradine, John Carradine, John Carradine, John Carradine, John Carradine, John

Kung Fu (TV series)

Kung Fu is a television series that ran for three years beginning in 1972, created by Ed Spellman, directed by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller. Miller was also a writer for, and co-producer of, the series; his episode, [http://www.kungfu-guide.com/1kingmtn.html King of the Mountain], won the 1972 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama. The episode, [http://www.kungfu-guide.com/4eyeforeye.html An Eye for an Eye], also won two Emmy Awards, one for Best Director (Jerry Thorpe) and one for Best Cinematography (Jack Woolf). Kung Fu is about the adventures of a Shaolin monk in the Wild West armed only with his skill in martial arts. It was produced by Warner Brothers for ABC, and starred David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine and Rad Pera as the young Caine. Also part of the regular cast were Keye Luke as the blind Master Po and Philip Ahn as Master Kan. The pilot for this series was a 1972 TV movie of the same name.

Overall series plot summary

In the late 19th century, Kwai Chang Caine was the orphaned son of an American man and a Chinese woman. He was raised in a Shaolin monastery, and was trained by the monks to be a Shaolin master. After becoming a master, due to a violent incident he had to flee China to escape legal prosecution, ending up in the western United States looking for his half-brother. Although it was his intention to escape notice, the demands of morality and the responsibility to use what he had been taught in the monastery to aid the innocent against injustice, forced him to come into the open from time to time to right a serious wrong—and then to move on in a further search for anonymity and security. After many adventures, the television series ended and Kwai Chang Caine passed beyond the eyes of fictive history.

General background

As Herbie Pilato indicates on pp. 32 and 157 of his text, The Kung Fu Book of Caine, Carradine (who at the time the show was being cast in 1971/1972, was the better known actor) was chosen for the lead role over Bruce Lee, due to Carradine's abilities as a dancer (it was only after the series began that Lee found fame with Enter the Dragon). Years later, Lee's son, Brandon Lee, would become a pivotal figure in two sequels to the series. In the first, Kung Fu: The Movie (1986) Caine (Carradine) is forced to fight his hitherto unknown son, Chung Wang (Lee). In the second, Kung Fu: The Next Generation (1987), the story moves to the present and centers around the story of Johnny Caine (Lee) who is the great-grandson of Kwai Chang Caine. The set of the Shaolin Temple was originally a set used for the 1967 film adaptation of the musical, Camelot. It was inexpensively and effectively converted for the setting in China. The show makes frequent use of flashbacks in which Caine recalls a particular lesson from his training as a student/disciple at the monastery. The name given to him while at the monastery, Grasshopper, would become a pop culture reference. The first season of the series was released on DVD in North America in 2003, but was controversial with viewers due to the decision to use a simulated widescreen format, letterboxing the episodes which were originally produced in full frame. The second and third seasons of the series have also been released on DVD in North America in 2005.

Later series

Two decades later a second, related series running in syndication followed the adventures of a descendant of Kwai Chang Caine. Entitled Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, it again starred Carradine, this time co-starring Chris Potter as his son. The second series ran for four years, from the beginning of 1993 through the end of 1996. David Carradine later appeared on an episode of the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire, in which his real-life brother Robert Carradine played one of the main characters - that of Lizzie's father. Though his character is not named, he is shown to be a master of Kung Fu and trains Lizzie's brother Matt in much the same way that Caine was taught as a child. Lizzie's father also makes cryptic comments at the end about how the mysterious stranger is, "like a brother to him". The assumption is that Carradine was reprising his role, showing that after all his efforts he had finally found his brother.

References

For extensive notes on episodes, plots, etc., see
- The Kung Fu Book, by Robert Anderson. ISBN 155698328X
- The Kung Fu Book of Caine: The Complete Guide to TV's First Mystical Eastern Western by Herbie J. Pilato. ISBN 0804818266

External links


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- [http://www.tv.com/kung-fu/show/2162/episode_guide.html tv.com]
- [http://www.kungfu-guide.com/ Unofficial Kung Fu site] ja:燃えよ!カンフー Category:Western television series Category:ABC network shows Category:1970s TV shows in the United States Category:1990s TV shows in the United States

Robert Carradine

] Robert Carradine (born March 24, 1954) is an American actor. He was born in Hollywood, California, and is the son of John Carradine, the brother of Keith Carradine and the half-brother of David Carradine. He has two daughters, one from an affair with Susan Snyder and one from his marriage to Edie Mani. He made his film debut in 1972 in The Cowboys with John Wayne, and was in Massacre at Central High in 1976. One of his more successful films was 1984's Revenge of the Nerds as the nerd named Lewis Skolnick. Younger audiences may recognize Robert Carradine best for his role as Hilary Duff's father on the Disney TV series Lizzie McGuire.

Partial filmography


- The Cowboys - 1972
- Mean Streets - 1973
- The Pom-Pom Girls - 1976
- Massacre at Central High - 1976
- Orca (movie) - 1977
- Coming Home - 1978
- The Long Riders - 1980
- The Big Red One - 1980
- Tag: The Assassination Game - 1982
- Wavelength (movie) - 1983
- Revenge of the Nerds - 1984
- Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise - 1987
- Rude Awakening - 1989
- Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation - 1992
- Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love - 1994
- Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire - 2000
- Max Keeble's Big Move - 2001 (as Max's Father)
- The Lizzie McGuire Movie - 2003

External link


- Carradine, Robert Carradine, Robert Carradine, Robert Carradine, Robert Carradine, Robert Carradine, Robert Carradine, Robert

Walter Hill

Walter Hill (born California 1942) is a prominent American film director. Hill broke into the film industry after working on The Getaway for Sam Peckinpah. His passion has been the Western and he is an admirer of the work of John Ford. However, the majority of his successes have been with thrillers and comedies. The films of Walter Hill often involve situations in which the main characters are under a lot of stress. Life is difficult for Hill’s protagonists and seems to have always been so. Hill’s characters are often people (usually men) who prefer to get through life on their own because they do not have a lot of faith in humanity. Hill's 1975 breakthrough film was Hard Times, featuring standout performances from James Coburn as a fast-talking promoter of illegal street fights in 30's New Orleans and Charles Bronson (in what many consider to be his finest performance) as his noble, but pragmatic boxer protagonist. Hill's followup film was The Driver, starring Ryan O'Neal as the laconic getaway driver and Bruce Dern as the driven cop hot on O'Neal's tail. In 1979, Hill directed The Warriors - a stylish and stylised fable of New York gangs. The 1980s were undoubtably Hill's Golden Era. Working at a pace of 1 film a year, he turned out some of the decade's finest action and comedy fare, including 48 Hours, the Long Riders, Brewster's Millions, Crossroads, Streets of Fire and Southern Comfort. Hill enjoyed a major box office hit with the Eddie Murphy Nick Nolte film 48 Hours. The sequel, Another 48 Hours was thought by many critics to be merely a retread of the original and it fared poorly at the box office. In 1987, he directed Extreme Prejudice, a contemporary Western with Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside and Clancy Brown. This tale of childhood friends who are on both sides of the law includes a showdown that lovingly pays homage to Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. In itself this is no mean feat as the latter's bloody finale is one of cinema's most visceral climaxes ever. The 1990s found Hill's brand of action and narrative on the wane, and his output bagan to become less and less frequent. Johnny Handsome, starring Mickey Rourke and Lance Henriksen was a muted tale of redemption, harking back to the stylised crime-world of Streets Of Fire and The Warriors, but without the spark or driven narrative of those other films. Likewise, his film biography of Geronimo, with a screenplay written by John Milius, was well received by the critics but fared poorly at the box office. A biopic - Wild Bill, starring Jeff Bridges and Ellen Barkin disappeared without a trace. Only his 1997 retelling of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo - Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis stood out as a reminder of the type of classic storytelling and visual panache he is capable of. The one curio in Walter Hill's filmography is 1997's Supernova a film which is credited to Thomas Lee - a pseudonym that reflected Hill's obvious desire not to be associated with the finished product. He was co-producer and one of the originators of the Alien series of films and he wrote the story for Aliens, the second film in the series. He retained a producer credit for the other sequels Alien³ and Alien: Resurrection. More recently, Walter Hill has been working in TV, directing episodes of Deadwood - a Western miniseries. Hill, along with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, John Milius, Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, and Francis Ford Coppola, can be regarded as part of a 1970s generation of directors who modernised american cinema. Hill, Walter Hill, Walter Hill, Walter ja:ウォルター・ヒル

Jim Younger

James Hardin Younger (January 15, 1848-October 19, 1902) was a western outlaw and member of the James-Younger gang. Born in Missouri on January 15, 1848. He was the ninth of fourteen children born to Henry Washington Younger and Bersheba Leighton Fristoe. Jim Younger joined the Confederate Army during the American Civil War with his brother Cole eventually joining Quantrill's Raiders in 1864. Jim was later captured by Union troops in the same ambush that Quantrill died in. He was imprisoned until the end of the war. After the war Jim tried his hand at various activities, including starting a horse ranch. In 1873 he joined the James-Younger gang, a gang founded by his brother Cole along with Frank and Jesse James. It's uncertain how much time he spent with the gang, but he was present when his brother John was killed by Pinkertons in Roscoe, Missouri in 1874. He left the gang and spent the next two years working a ranch in San Luis Obispo, California. Jim returned to the gang in time to join the ill fated 1876 bank job in Northfield, Minnesota. Part of his jaw was shot off and he was captured and sentenced to life imprisonment. Paroled in 1901 with his brother Cole. After his release he became engaged to Alix Mueller, who had met him in prison 20 years after the northield robbery. Due to the terms of his parole however Jim couldn't marry, so he commited suicide on October 19, 1902. His body was returned to Lees Summit, Missouri for burial. Younger, Jim Younger, Jim Younger, Jim Younger, Jim Younger, Jim Younger, Jim Younger, Jim

Hair (musical)

Hair, subtitled The American Tribal Love/Rock Musical, is a musical about hippies and was a significant part of the drug, music and peace-love culture of the 1960s. It is famous for originally being performed with all the players totally naked in some scenes. It was written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni (lyrics), and Galt MacDermot (music). The original cast previewed a few performances at a go-go club called The Cheetah. It premiered off-Broadway, with much fanfare, as the inaugural performance of the Public Theater, on October 17, 1967, and moved to the Biltmore Theater on Broadway on April 29 1968 where it stayed for 1,472 performances. It opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London on September 27 1968, continuing for 1,998 performances until closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973. It went on to stage productions across the world and continues to be performed today. A movie version of Hair was directed by Milos Forman in 1979 with a cast including Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo and John Savage. It came tenth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals" (wherein Nation refers to the United Kingdom). [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/paige/essentialvote.shtml]

Political and cultural significance

The show challenged many of the norms held by Western society at the time. It caused controversy when it was first staged, and much publicity was provoked by the Act I finale which included male and female nudity. This became a legal issue when the show left New York on tour. Stage nudity was acceptable in New York at that time but was unknown elsewhere in the U.S. The show was also charged with the desecration of the American flag and the use of obscene language. The case eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court. The show also effectively marked the end of stage censorship in the United Kingdom.

Story outline

STAGE STORY: The show follows 'The Tribe', a group of politically-active, long-haired 'Hippies of the Age of Aquarius' fighting against conscription to the Vietnam War. Among them are Claude and Berger — a pair of friends battling against Claude's draft notice (which is a battle they ultimately lose and Claude decides that the tribe life isn't for him and goes to Vietnam, unlike the movie's story), and Sheila, who is in love with both of them, but doesn't always have time for them because she is always protesting somewhere. Together with Jeanie, Woof, Crissy, Hud, and Dionne, they epitomise the hippy days of the late Sixties. The many songs include "Aquarius", "Good Morning Starshine", "Let the Sunshine In", "Hare Krishna", "Easy to be Hard", and the title song, "Hair". MOVIE STORY: Claude is divided between his loyalty to the tribe and the pressure he feels to conform to his draft notice. In the end, Claude reports for boot camp. When Sheila recieves a letter from Claude, the tribe decides to go to Nevada and visit him. When they arrive the base is under lock down and Berger sneaks in to take Claude's place so Claude can see Sheila and the tribe one more time. Unexpectedly, Claude's unit gets sent to Vietnam before Claude comes back, and Berger goes to Vietnam in his place, where he is killed. Songs in the play celebrate life and sexuality in all their diverse aspects.

Players


- The original New York "tribe" (i.e., cast) included James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Shelley Plimpton, Kim Milford, Melba Moore, Paul Jabara, and Diane Keaton (in a minor role). Keaton did not appear nude in the musical's finale.
- The original London tribe included Paul Nicholas, Richard O'Brien, Melba Moore, Elaine Paige, Tim Curry, Marsha Hunt, and Alex Harvey.
- The original Berlin tribe included Donna Summer.
- A special benefit performance of the show was performed at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York City on September 20, 2004. The tribe included: Shoshana Bean, JM J. Bullock, Liz Callaway, Gavin Creel, Harvey Fierstein, Ana Gasteyer, Annie Golden, Jennifer Hudson, Jai Rodriguez, RuPaul, Michael McKean, and others.

Later productions

The Endicott Performing Arts Center Repertory Company in Endicott, New York will present a production of "HAIR" March 10,11,12,17,18,19 2006. See http://www.endicottarts.com for more info.
- James Rado has given his blessing to an updating of the musical's script to place it in the context of the 2003 Gulf War instead of the Vietnam War. The new show is due to open at the Gate Theatre, London in September 2005. UPDATE: As of 10/28/05, Rado no longer supports said updating despite excellent reviews and a sell out run at the Gate. It is unknown why.
- Original producer Michael Butler is helping New York City's LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts launch a production of Hair December 8-11, 2005 and December 16-17, 2005. See [http://www.laguardiahs.org the LaGuardia website] for details.
- The University of Vermont mounted a production of "Hair" at the Royall Tyler Theater from November 9-20, 2005. http://www.uvmtheatre.org/performances-hair.shtml
- West Virginia Wesleyan College is performing "HAIR" at Atkinson Theater in Buckhannon, West Virginia from November 9-13, 2005. The show will feature: Jamie Markel, Kati Coleman, Carrie Greenberg, Erin Wolford, AJ Spencer, David Green, and Taavon Gamble. Also, a special Interfaith 'Be-In' inspired by the Divine Hair-Mass in F lead by Junior religion major Cody Sweet will be taking place on November 8, 2005. For more information: http://www.wvwc.edu
- Brown University is producing HAIR March 9-12 & 16-19, 2006 under the direction of Chris Bayes. For more info check out: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Theatre/hair.htm
- Glendale College, in Glendale, CA is producing HAIR for three weekends in March, 2006 under the direction of Ken Gray. For more information go to http://www.glendale.cc.ca.us/theatre/

Soundtrack Listing

Original Off-Broadway Songlist (taken from the recent remastered CD):
- Ain't Got No
- I Got Life
- Air
- Going Down
- Hair
- Dead End
- Frank Mills
- Hare Krishna
- Where Do I Go?
- Electric Blues
- Easy to Be Hard
- Manchester
- White Boys
- Black Boys
- Walking in Space
- Aquarius
- Good Morning Starshine
- Exanaplanetooch (
- )
- The Climax (
- )
- Opening
- Red Blue and White
- Sentimental Ending (
- ) Possible initial Broadway list (taken from Great Rock Musicals by Stanley Richards):
- Aquarius
- Introductions: 1. Manchester 2. Manhattan (
- ) 3. Colored Spade 4. Sodomy
- Ain't Got No
- I Got Life
- Air
- Initials
- Going Down
- Hair
- My Conviction
- Dead End
- Don't Put It Down
- Frank Mills
- Hare Krishna
- Where Do I Go
- Electric Blues
- Easy to Be Hard
- Manchester (reprise)
- White Boys
- Black Boys
- Walking in Space
- Prisoners in Niggertown
- Walking in Space (reprise)
- Good Morning, Starshine
- The Bed
- Exanaplanetooch (
- )
- Climax (
- )
- Sentimental Ending (
- ) Broadway song list (taken from the recent remastered CD):
- Aquarius
- Donna
- Hashish
- Sodomy
- Colored Spade
- Manchester England
- I'm Black
- Ain't Got No
- I Believe in Love
- Ain't Got No Grass
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