I remember my brother breaking his arm. Mom was pregnant with my sister. I remember her running out of the room to help my brother. I was a month short of my third birthday. That's my earliest memory.
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How far back do you remember?
by dh inwhat are your first memories?
i started to write a post about this the other day but it turned into a bio, so i deleted it.. my first memory is my mom carrying me into a house and putting me on the floor with another boy, and talking to some guy behind me while i watched the other kid playing with a board game.
it turned out that the other kid was my older brother, the man was my real father who i never met, and because of the time frame of events i was well under a year old when this happened.. i also remember being rocked to sleep as a baby by my mom, and trying to tell her i wasn't tired but not being able to.. do you have early memories?
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SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS
by dh inthe topic here is made up words, can you think of any good ones... .
keep the faith, .
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I love Mary Poppins! Especially Arthur Treacher!
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Has Anyone Ever Met Any Celebrities?
by imallgrowedup inthis is a spin-off of another thread where my *mild and chaste* friend, mouthy, admitted to wanting to meet her dream man, tom jones, and that she would even go so far as to throw her bloomers at him, if that is what it would take to get his attention!
well, the mental picture this painted was far too much for me to bear, so i encouraged her to save her red polka-dotted "unmentionables", not only because she might need them in the future, but because i didn't think she'd have to go that far to get his attention.
and i said that - because of a personal experience with him.
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When I was 9 years old my father worked at a film festival in Dallas and I went over to check it all out. Gene Kelly was their guest and I got to meet Mr. Kelly and hang out w/his daughter, who was about my age. Mr. Kelly was larger than life and very kind to me. I stared at his legs the whole time because I thought he might dance!
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Blind Date.......Who's been on one? How'd it go?.......
by ScoobySnax ini need to know.
preferably before this coming saturday at 7:30 pm.
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My sister went on a blind date once - and next month they celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary - and a grandchild!
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Did You Ever Think That The Demons Were After You?
by minimus ini know so many jws that love to think satan and his demons are after them.
if they were being "persecuted", it was because of the devil and his demons.
if they got an ache or pain, it was because satan was trying to "discourage" them.......did you think the demons were trying to get you, too?
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Here I go again, misreading title threads...I thought it said - "Did you ever think that Matt Damon was after you?"
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Of the "stalking" class
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Ann Miller has passed away
by TresHappy indancer ann miller dies of cancer at 81
48 minutes ago
by bob thomas, associated press writer
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Dancer Ann Miller Dies of Cancer at 81 48 minutes ago By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES - Ann Miller ( news ), the raven-haired, long-legged actress and dancer whose machine-gun taps won her stardom during the golden age of movie musicals, died Thursday of lung cancer. She was 81.
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ReutersSlideshow: Dancer Ann Miller Dies at 81 Related Links ? Ann Miller (Yahoo! Movies) ? Ann Miller Biography (Women's International Ctr.) Miller died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said Esme Chandlee, her longtime friend and former publicist.
A onetime childhood dance prodigy, she reached the peak of her film career at MGM in the late 1940s and early '50s with "On the Town," "Easter Parade" and "Kiss Me Kate."
She remained a dazzling tapper in her 60s and earned millions on Broadway and touring with Mickey Rooney ( news ) in "Sugar Babies," a razzmatazz tribute to the era of burlesque.
"At MGM, I always played the second feminine lead; I was never the star in films," she once recalled. "I was the brassy, good-hearted showgirl. I never really had my big moment on the screen.
"`Sugar Babies' gave me the stardom that my soul kind of yearned for."
Rooney said Thursday that Miller "was a great talent. She is a great talent. I'll never think of her as being gone."
"She told me the last time I spoke to her she wasn't feeling too well, and I said, 'Keep your head up, kid.' I'm just very sad."
Miller's legs, pretty face and fast tapping (she claimed the record of 500 taps a minute) earned her jobs in vaudeville and night clubs when she first came to Hollywood. She adopted the stage name of Anne Miller. Her early film career included working as a child extra in films and as a chorus girl in a minor musical, "The Devil on Horseback."
An appearance at the popular Bal Tabarin in San Francisco won a contract at RKO studio, where her name was shortened to Ann.
Her first film at RKO, "New Faces of 1937," featured her dancing. She next played an acting hopeful in "Stage Door," with Katharine Hepburn ( news ), Ginger Rogers ( news ), Lucille Ball ( news ) and Eve Arden.
Most of her RKO films were low-budget musicals and comedies. A contract at Columbia Pictures started impressively with the role of the would-be ballerina in Frank Capra ( news )'s Oscar-winning "You Can't Take It with You."
Then she was cast in a series of wartime B musicals with titles like "True to the Army," "Priorities on Parade" and "Hey Rookie."
When Cyd Charisse ( news ) broke a leg before starting "Easter Parade" at MGM with Fred Astaire ( news ), Miller replaced her. That led to an MGM contract and her most enduring work.
She was teamed with Gene Kelly ( news ) and Frank Sinatra ( news ) in "On the Town," Red Skelton ( news ) in "Watch the Birdie," and Bob Fosse in "Kiss Me Kate."
Other MGM films included: "Texas Carnival," "Lovely to Look At," "Small Town Girl," "Deep in My Heart," "Hit the Deck" and "The Opposite Sex."
The popularity of musicals declined in the 1950s, and her film career ended in 1956. Miller remained active in television and the theater, dancing and belting songs on Broadway in "Hello, Dolly" and "Mame."
In later years, she astounded audiences in New York, Las Vegas and on the road with her dynamic tapping in "Sugar Babies" when. The show, starring her and Rooney, opened on Broadway in 1979 and toured for years. In 1990, she commented that "Sugar Babies" had made her financially independent.
Before each performance, she practiced for an hour.
"Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show," she remarked in a 1984 interview. "It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work ? that means hard ? there's no time for play."
She was born Johnnie Lucille Collier in Chireno, Texas, the first name dictated by her father, who had wanted a boy. After her parents divorced, she was called Annie, for reasons she never knew.
Growing up in Houston, Annie suffered from rickets, and dancing lessons helped straighten her legs. Her mother was almost totally deaf and could not find work. By the age of 12, Annie was almost full grown at 5 feet 5, and she danced to support her mother and herself.
While her career in Hollywood prospered, Miller became a regular figure in the town's night life, and she caught the eye of Louis B. Mayer, all-powerful head of MGM. They began dating and could be seen on the dance floors of Ciro's and Mocambo.
"I think one reason Mr. Mayer fancied himself in love with me was that he was lonely," she wrote in her 1972 autobiography, "Miller's High Life." Another reason: "He knew or reasoned that I was as virginal as the day I was born."
She declared that Mayer pleaded for marriage, but her ever-watchful mother would not allow it. She decided to accept the offer of marriage from steel heir Reese Milner.
It was a mistake. After giving birth to a daughter who died three hours later, she divorced Milner. Marriages to oilmen William Moss and Arthur Cameron also ended in divorce.
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How Did The Elderly Get Treated In Your Kingdom Hall?
by minimus inwere they truly valued as watchtower publications suggest or were they rarely thought of??
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I have to say very well. Most elderly people I knew in the congregation were well taken of, it was actually one Bible principle they actually followed in my congregation!
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Not a bark from the Martian Rover
by TresHappy innasa team loses contact with mars rover
thursday, january 22, 2004 posted: 1:17 pm est (1817 gmt).
the spirit rover reached for martian soil for the first time january 16. story tools
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Big Tex programming his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator
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Not a bark from the Martian Rover
by TresHappy innasa team loses contact with mars rover
thursday, january 22, 2004 posted: 1:17 pm est (1817 gmt).
the spirit rover reached for martian soil for the first time january 16. story tools
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NASA team loses contact with Mars rover
Thursday, January 22, 2004 Posted: 1:17 PM EST (1817 GMT)
The Spirit rover reached for Martian soil for the first time January 16.
Story Tools MISSIONS TO MARS Audio Slide Show: Spirit rolls off Interactive: Color panorama in Gusev crater Audio Slide Show: Spirit's take on Mars Gallery: First color images from Mars Interactive: Drive the rover (3-D animation)
? NASA's Mars rover missionsPASADENA, California (CNN) -- NASA researchers said Thursday they were unable to make contact with the Mars rover "Spirit" and the source of the problem was unknown.
Spirit project manager Pete Theisinger told reporters there is a "very serious anomaly" in communicating with the robot and the last exchange of information scientists had with the craft was Wednesday morning. Researchers continued attempting to contact the six-wheeled rover and remained hopeful that the problem could be resolved.
Scientists initially thought a storm in Australia was keeping them from sending signals to instruct the Spirit rover to drill into a Mars rock. But on Thursday, the problem appeared to be more serious than a passing storm.
The six-wheeled Spirit has sent dozens of highly-detailed pictures of the red planet's landscape since landing in Gusev crater on January 3 for a mission that was expected to last around 90 days. While many sleep-deprived scientists are poring through the data from Spirit, others are making final preparations for its rover twin, Opportunity, to land just past midnight Saturday. Opportunity is heading for the other side of the planet.
Each of the rovers is equipped with eight cameras designed to snap panoramas of the Martian surface with resolutions so sharp they retain crisp detail when blown up to the size of a movie screen, according to NASA.
Their microscopes, spectrometers and drills could unlock geologic secrets from billions of years ago, when scientists think the planet might have had conditions more suitable for life.
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Only one girl - she wanted to be my friend so bad. One time she called the house and my JW mom told her where I was (at the mall btw) and guess what, she made her way out there and had my name paged over the intercom!!! When I saw her, she says, "you want to go do something tonight?"
The Spirit rover reached for Martian soil for the first time January 16.
