What Day Is Thanksgiving? Nov 22, 2009
In the Irving Berlin movie starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, Holiday Inn, each holiday is introduced with the picture of a calendar and an animation of the symbol for a holiday. Thanksgiving follows suit with a calendar introduction, but it is different because the turkey on the calendar cannot decide upon which Thursday to settle: the third or the forth. (Suite101.com)
Rolfing around the Christmas tree - Harris and Quo aim for the Christmas number one Nov 18, 2009
Harris's track has been taken from compilation album It's Christmas Time, which is released later this month, and features seasonal recordings by Slade, Girls Aloud, Lady GaGa and Bing Crosby. The single was inspired by the Harris's memories of growing up in Western Australia in the 1930s, where the Christmas Day ritual was eating roast turkey in the blazing heat. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Farnsworth full of stunts, hunts Nov 18, 2009
" A master of his craft, last year Diamond was nominated for an Emmy as the Outstanding Stunt Coordinator of the Year. While he rides horses and has done "darn near everything" as a stuntman, his favorite stunt work these days is driving. He loves NASCAR racing, and he gets to drive the cars in commercials. "Driving those cars really helped me appreciate what those guys go through," he says.Those early family hunting trips definitely planted seeds as Diamond has hunted big game all over the... (ESPN -- Outdoors)
A Ranch Fit for a King (of Texas) Nov 16, 2009
He would hold court sometimes at the main ranchhouse where he would have, you know, potentates from the Middle East, Bing Crosby and Will Rogers. And this was the life. (CBS News)
Mullins wants to focus on writing Nov 13, 2009
Web Search powered by YAHOO. He had been told - on more than one occasion - that having a baby would be a life-altering experience. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Best Christmas Family Movies Nov 6, 2009
Things hilariously go from bad to really bad as Clark struggles to have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny Kaye ... A fantastic 1954 holiday movie starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. (Suite101.com)
Breeders' Cup Sprint has plenty of inside speed Nov 4, 2009
He broke from post 1 in each of his last two starts, easy wins in the Bing Crosby and Pat O'Brien stakes at Del Mar. "I didn't want the rail; post 1 is not great," said trainer Bob Baffert, who won the previous two renewals of the Sprint with Midnight Lute. (ESPN -- Horse Racing)
Andy Williams: Hitting The High Notes Oct 19, 2009
His musical range allowed him to seamlessly duet with any singer, whether singing R Ray Charles, rock 'n' roll with the Beach Boys, or pop standards with Vic Damone, Tony Bennett and Bing Crosby. (CBS)The show made Andy Williams a household name, and helped launched other careers, like Elton John. (CBS News)
Top tomb hit Oct 15, 2009
And Bing Crosby recorded Little Drummer Boy with David Bowie shortly before he died in 1977. Your Score. (BBC News -- UK)
Thomas Tull; Hollywood comes to the Steelers Oct 4, 2009
The Pirates once had Bing Crosby as a minority owner, and another film producer, Howard Baldwin, owned the Penguins for much of the 1990s. Tull was not your average fan even before he became a partner in the Steelers. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
@ The Movies: Top Holiday DVD Picks Sep 19, 2009
"White Christmas" (1954): Not nearly as serious as "It's a Wonderful Life," "White Christmas" follows a pair of Army buddies-turned-entertainers Bob Wallace and Phil Davis (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) and a sister-singing duo Betty and Judy Haynes (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) who come together to stage a show to save a resort owed by Wallace and Davis' former Army commander. The musical includes such standout songs as "Sisters" and "Gee! I Wish I Was Back in the Army" and is topped off by... (KERO 23, CA)
DAVID BROOKS: Our nation lacks humility Sep 18, 2009
"All anybody can do is thank God it's over," Bing Crosby, the show's host, said. "Today our deep down feeling is one of humility," he added. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
How Americans dealt with the Depression Sep 13, 2009
For some, like Bing Crosby, whose intimate singing style was the closest musical approximation of FDR s homey amiability, it was the president s style which was of the essence; for others, like Steinbeck, it was the substance - his second-inaugural evocation of one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. Popular culture was, in this era, lagging a step behind politics, scrambling to keep up with Roosevelt s umbilical attachment to the American people. (Boston Globe)
Tonga Room a landmark? Not so fast Sep 9, 2009
After a cameo appearance by Paul Gauguin - the French artist who traded Paris for Polynesia - we fast-forward to the 1930s, when Bing Crosby starred in "Waikiki Wedding" and "Trader Vic" Bergeron draped his establishments in fishing nets and matted grass. By the time the Fairmont hopped onto the tiki bandwagon in 1967, bringing in Santa Monica's Howard Hirsch Interior Design for a makeover, there were 30 years of tropical fantasia to draw on. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Kat Edmonson brings fresh face, and voice, to Tanglewood jazz fest Aug 30, 2009
Growing up in Houston, she got acquainted with the American songbook through the old records her mother played on the stereo and the old movies she popped into the VCR: musicals with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye, and Bing Crosby. By the time she was 9, she was writing songs. (Boston Globe)
White Christmas Returns To Broadway Aug 25, 2009
"You can't have the holidays without Irving Berlin, he said. "White Christmas" is a lavish interpretation of the movie that starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. McCollum says casting will be announced later. More Stories Job of the Week - Waco Police Department is accepting applications for their next police officer recruiting class. We offer a competitive salary, paid training, health insurance, and the ability to make a difference in your community. Deadline is... (KWTX.com, TX)
‘Eldorado’ exits on road to redemption Jul 31, 2009
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby they re not. But director-actor Bouli Lanners and costar Fabrice Adde are on a comedy road to Eldorado, even if it takes place in a flat patch of mostly deserted Belgian landscape rather than some Hollywood Shangri-La, and silence, not show tunes, dominates the soundtrack. (Boston Globe)
Pageants or Pop? Jul 27, 2009
Prejean sang the classic "" jingle that Bing Crosby wrote for the horse racing track in 1937. So will there be a record deal in the works along with her newly-inked book deal. (Fox News)
Griffin: Songs in the key of life Jul 23, 2009
However, I was delighted to hear Bonde swing on a star, as she performed the song made famous by Bing Crosby in the 1944 hit movie Going My Way. Bing played a young priest, and the great Barry Fitzgerald an old one; their take on the priesthood was light-hearted and droll, and they charmed many movie-goers, including me. (Medford Transcript, MA)
• Hanks, Stewart and high-desert Hollywood Jul 21, 2009
Singer Bing Crosby, who at one time owned several ranches in Elko County, had previously owned part of Winecup-Gamble. The scope of the spread - which includes two landing strips and a railroad spur - is breathtaking. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Sherlock Holmes’s staying power Jul 19, 2009
The Holmes-Watson dynamic would live on in Abbott and Costello, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon - and never more so than when Johnny donned his turban as Carnac, a character no less infallible than Holmes. A character as distinctive as Holmes, let alone as solemn, presents a big comic target. (Boston Globe)
Charles Eastman, 'gifted,' 'eccentric' film writer Jul 11, 2009
and his mother was Bing Crosby s longtime secretary. As a young teenager, Mr. Eastman acted in little theater. (Boston Globe)
Bob Mitchell, 96; organist who played in silent films Jul 11, 2009
The group, also known as the Mitchell Singing Boys, sang Ave Maria with Bing Crosby in the 1944 film Going My Way and were conducted by Cary Grant in 1947 s The Bishop s Wife. Mr. Mitchell appeared with the ensemble in Blondie in Society, released in 1941. (Boston Globe)
Johnny Mercer is the overlooked great American songwriter Jun 28, 2009
It was a style that took the crooning of Bing Crosby (whom he succeeded in Paul Whiteman s Orchestra) a crucial step further in the artistic relaxation of racial boundaries. Where Crosby nodded in the direction of black vocal style, Mercer ambled right on over. (Boston Globe)
Palin Descent from Mayflower Pilgri... Jun 27, 2009
Famous Brewster descendants include chef Julia Child, singer Bing Crosby, actress Katharine Hepburn, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, politicians Jay and Nelson Rockefeller, U. S. Presidents Zachary Taylor and William Taft, and airplane pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright. SOURCES: Presented by William Addams Reitwiesner, a Library of Congress staff member, from data primarily compiled by genealogists Robert Battle and Michael Hurdle; arranged in this form by the current author. (Suite101.com)
Needham Senior Notes (June 18) Jun 16, 2009
Singer-guitarist Ron Goldman will perform June 19 at 1:30 p.m. Goldman performs songs by artists such as Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Barbra Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Mathis and many others. Ron has played nationally in nightclubs, restaurants, residential communities, expositions, public festivals and private functions. (Needham Tab, MA)
New Microsoft search service doesn't match Google Jun 4, 2009
But you also get links to a surfboard company, an energy drink, and a video of Bing Crosby singing a duet with David Bowie. Ask bing about Google, and you get all things Google. (Boston Globe)
Bob Hope Gets His Own Stamp May 29, 2009
The Postal Service Honors The Legendary Comedian. Approaching six years after his death, comedian Bob Hope gets the ultimate tribute as the subject of a U.S. postage stamp. (Suite101.com)
High Time Movie (1960) May 17, 2009
Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld Star in Musical Comedy Film. Bing Crosby plays a wealthy businessman who heads back to college in the 1960 movie High Time ... Bing Crosby stars as widower Harvey Howard, with Fabian and Tuesday Weld as his young college schoolmates. (Suite101.com)
Louisville: Where New Plays Go to Be Born Apr 12, 2009
It opens with a recording of Bing Crosby singing "Dear Hearts and Gentle People," then slides into a series of Rockwellian scenes: a Thanksgiving dinner; a high school couple on a first date, accompanied by a recorded 1950s lesson in dating etiquette. In between, the actors create rickety constructions out of found objects (a football, a blonde wig, a skirt on a hanger); badger audience members for details of their sex life; parade on and off the stage in an assortment of absurdist masks and... (Time.com)
Augusta's revived Broad St. Apr 7, 2009
Luigi's, 590 Broad St., near the Museum of History, old-fashioned spaghetti-and-meatballs joint, with Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters on booth jukeboxes. 706-722-4056. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
String master Bill Tapia brings ukulele back Apr 4, 2009
While he's only gained fame late in life, he spent much of his career in the company of musical royalty as an ace accompanist to stars like Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong. Tapia returns to the Bay Area for performances tonight at Santa Cruz's Kuumbwa Jazz Center and Saturday at Berkeley's Freight ge with bassist Ruth Davies, drummer Akira Tana and Hawaiian jazz singer Mihana, the same cast captured on his forthcoming album "Livin' It Live" (recorded partly at the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Famous North Dakotans on radio Mar 15, 2009
After becoming the lead female vocalist for Benny Goodman's band, Lee was a featured vocalist on the radio programs "The Bob Crosby Show," "The Bing Crosby Show" and "Meet Me at Parkys.". During the later '40s, she was the hostess of "Rhapsody in Rhythm" and "The Chesterfield Supper Club." In 1951, Lee was the star of "The Peggy Lee Show.". (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
The Voyage of the Yes TV Movie (197... Mar 9, 2009
William Stratton wrote the teleplay for Andrew J. Fenady Productions and Bing Crosby Productions. Lee H. Katzin (Le Mans, The Salzburg Connection, Sky Heist) directed. (Suite101.com)
Greenspring’s Old-Time Radio Celebrity Mar 4, 2009
They appeared with Sammy Kaye, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and Al Jolson. Bing Crosby told Scott at a rehearsal that he was colorblind. (South County Chronicle, VA)
Has Greater Union overreacted? Mar 2, 2009
How did Bing Crosby introduce us to his quintessential Chrissie croon White Christmas. In 1942's Holiday Inn. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
National Film Month: Time warp, anyone? Mar 1, 2009
He used "Bing" for his stage name because of his admiration for US comedian Bing Crosby. Besides producing films in which he starred Bing Slamet also released music albums and was part of comedy group. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
...the Republicans failed to lead and continue to fail to impress. … Feb 26, 2009
Jim, based on your column s name today On the road to socialism , are you making a movie with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. If you can t stand Obama,and the Democrats, Delta is ready when you are. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Hollywood offers economic insights Feb 25, 2009
When World War II was at its peak in 1944, Going My Way, starring singer Bing Crosby, was the highest-grossing movie and won Best Picture. The lighthearted musical comedy was meant to lift the spirits of a country stuck in a devastating war. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Academy needs to get in tune Feb 18, 2009
Bing Crosby and Carol Richards were the first to press it to wax (a year later), but this version should have seen Oscar gold. 6 "Love Me Tender", Elvis Presley. (Vancouver Sun)
Movie: The Great Santini (1979) Feb 14, 2009
Lewis John Carlino and an uncredited Herman Raucher wrote The Great Santini for Bing Crosby Productions. Carlino (The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Class) directed. (Suite101.com)
Pebble Beach: Trails And Tees Feb 12, 2009
Ever since Bing Crosby became the World War II generation's reigning crooner, Pebble Beach has been synonymous with preternaturally green swaths of turf, men in $300 polo shirts and homes only movie stars and moguls could afford ... Visit Pebble Beach for trails as well as tees Articles Ever since Bing Crosby became the World War II generation's reigning crooner, Pebble Beach has been synonymous with preternaturally green swaths of turf, men in $300 polo shirts and homes only movie stars and... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Houseworks: Get used to snow, it's here for awhile Feb 9, 2009
Snow is; not, however, the light, fluffy stuff that Hallmark cards and Hollywood movie stars (Bing Crosby and Jimmy Stewart have a lot to answer for) would have you believe. Snow is; as a matter of fact, among the heaviest substances on Earth and can, the moment it is scooped off the sidewalk, increase in weight past all understanding and maintain that weight right up until the moment it is deposited at some point off the sidewalk. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Visit Pebble Beach for trails as well as tees Feb 8, 2009
Ever since Bing Crosby became the World War II generation's reigning crooner, Pebble Beach has been synonymous with preternaturally green swaths of turf, men in $300 polo shirts and homes only movie stars and moguls could afford. But gated entries and six golf courses notwithstanding, this enchanted knob of the Monterey Peninsula actually is more forest than fairway, and the woods are scored by paths that common folk are welcome to roam at no charge. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Nancy Franklin: Tina Fey’s “30 Rock.” Feb 8, 2009
Baldwin has to know how good he is, but he wears it lightly, and you actually take pleasure from how much pleasure you re taking from his performance just as you do, say, when Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby sing that put- er-there-pal number Well, Did You Evah. in High Society. (New Yorker)
Where is Americas best hotel? Feb 7, 2009
Several decades later, the Ranch boasted a guest list that could substitute for a gossip page: Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Audrey Hepburn, Groucho Marx, Winston Churchill, Sinclair Lewis, Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock have all stayed here. John Houston finished writing the screenplay for The African Queen while in residence; Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh were married on the grounds; and Oprah regularly puts up her guests here. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Christmas for Javier Feb 7, 2009
-- As Bing Crosby sang in "I'll Be Home For Christmas". RANDOM McDONALD'S, Conn. (ESPN -- Outdoors)
