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by Janet Spencer Come along with Tidbits as we learn surprising facts about favorite films! FAVORITE FILM FACTOIDS • Johnny Depp based the character of Jack Sparrow on Keith Richards. Keith Richards then played Jack Sparrow’s father in the 3rd “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie. • Woody in “Toy Story” was originally slated to be a ventriloquist dummy. • Every time John Travolta is in the bathroom in “Pulp Fiction” something bad happens. • O.J. Simpson was considered for the lead in “The Terminator” but didn’t get the part because he was “too likable” to play a villain. • Paul Schrader wrote the script for “Taxi Driver” in two weeks. • “Independence Day” was shot in 72 days. • In 2008, “The Dark Knight” made more money in its first six days than “Batman Begins” made in its entire run in 2005. • The scene in “The Breakfast Club” where the characters sit in a circle on the floor of the library and say why they got detention was not scripted. Hughes told them to wing it. • Worldwide ticket sales for the “Saw” franchise put it at just shy of a billion dollars, making it the world’s highest earning horror franchise. (cont)
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MOVIE FACTOIDS (cont)
• Animators in “Up” drew every single one of the 10,297 balloons that lifted the cartoon house into the air. • In “V For Vendetta” the character V tips over black and red dominoes to form a giant letter V. This scene involved 22,000 dominoes and required four people 200 hours to set up. The scene itself lasts just 30 seconds. • “Babe” is about a pig who dreams of becoming a sheepdog. Although the pig looks the same throughout the film, it actually took 48 different pigs. • • In order to create Smaug’s lair in “The Hobbit,” the film’s crew used up every single bit of gold paint in the entire country of New Zealand, where filming was taking place. • Chris Pratt stole his Star-Lord costume from the set of “Guardians of the Galaxy” to have it available so he could show up in costume to visit sick children in the hospital. • For the 2013 flick “Dallas Buyers Club” the film’s budget was so low that the makeup budget was $250. The film’s artists were able to work with that, and the film won an Oscar for Makeup and Hairstyling. • Because of its microscopic budget and major success at the box office, the 2007 film “Paranormal Activity” made a return on investment of nearly 20,000%. It cost just $60,000 to make and another $400,000 to market, and brought in over $89 million. • When Leonardo DiCaprio smashed his hand on the dinner table in “Django Unchained” he accidentally crushed a glass with his palm and bled badly. He stayed in character and continued with the scene. Director Quentin Tarantino was so impressed that he used this take in the final print, and when he called cut, the room erupted in cheers. • • James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan was contractually forbidden from wearing a full tuxedo in any non-James Bond movie. (cont)
• Check bagged frozen vegetables with the squeeze test: If it is hard and solid, it has thawed and refrozen, so you should choose another bag. • “My family drink sodas from the plastic bottles. At the beginning of storm season, I fill a dozen or so about three-quarters full and put them in the freezer. They are good in coolers and such, but mostly they fill space, making the freezer not have to work so hard. And if we lose power, they help to keep frozen foods frozen longer.” -- T.R. in Georgia • “My family has always used mayonnaise as a salve on minor burns. I heard you can use toothpaste, too.” -- Sam P. via e-mail • “I love to put photos of family on the fridge. I found that the photos were getting ruined from grease and moisture in the air. To get around that I cleaned and laminated them. Afterward, I hot-glued little magnets to the backs, and now I can move them around to accommodate new photos. There are so many, and it gives me pleasure to look at them.” -C.R. in Oklahoma. • Use a paper plate as a splatter guard in the microwave. It will not sag down into your food, and will not get dragged off to the side by any rotation.
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TIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #35 Aug. 24th 2020 MOVIE FACTOIDS (cont) • • The original script was entitled “The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy.” They changed it when Paul Newman signed on in the role of Butch, requiring top billing. • The town of Woodstock, Illinois, placed a bronze plaque on the ground where the character Bill Murray repeatedly stood in the movie “Groundhog Day.” It says, “Bill Murray Stepped Here.” • In the zombie flick “I Am Legend” Will Smith grew so fond of his canine co-star, Abbey, that he tried to adopt her when filming was finished, but the dog’s trainer would not give her up. • In a climactic scene in the spaghetti western “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” a bridge is blown up. A misunderstanding led to the 1. Which James Bond actor wore a toupee in dynamite around bridge being detonated every James Bondthe movie he appeared in? before cameras were ready to film it, requir2. One of these appears in every single scene of ing the bridge and the whole thing “Fight Club” asbea rebuilt social statement. to be shot again. 3. This horror flick was filmed in just 18 days. • Sylvester Stallone wanted to make sure the 4. This was the looked very first host itsIV” own boxing scenes realfilm in to “Rocky so website, in 1994 he instructed Dolph Lundgren to actually hit 5. “The Blues to Brothers” set left a world record him. A punch the chest Stallone infor innumber of cars wrecked. How many cars? tensive care for four days. • In the 1979 “Mad Max” film, funds were running low so director George Miller offered his own van for a crash scene. • On the set of the “Hunger Games” Jennifer Lawrence boasted to co-star Josh Hutcherson that she could kick all the way over his head. “Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay Instead,you shea gave him adollars concussion. thousand for a kiss and • In “Gone Ben IAffleck refused fifty Girl,” cents foractor your soul. know, because to wearI aturned New York Yankees ball cap for a down the first offer often heldasouttofor thefilming fifty scene, evenenough going and so far halt cents.”finally -Marilyn Monroe over the tiff. They compromised with him wearing a Mets cap instead.
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® of Idaho TIDBITS of Kootenai Issue #35 Aug. 24th 2020 TidbitsCounty, Dallas County MOVIE FACTOIDS (cont) • In the Italian version of “Star Wars” Darth Vadar’s name is changed to “Darth Fener” because “Vader” in Italian sounds too much like the word for “toilet.” • When members of the Irish Army Reserves were used as extras in “Braveheart” some scenes had to be re-shot as some soldiers were wearing wrist watches and sunglasses. • The word “man” is used 147 times in the film “The Big Lebowski” averaging 1.5 times per minute. The phrase “old sport” is said 55 times during “The Great Gatsby.” • One scene in “The Great Gatsby” required a downpour of rain. Because the weather forecast was for clear skies, the film crew purchased over 25,000 gallons of water from a local dam, only to have it pour down rain for the next three days. • While “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” was being shot in the Bahamas in 2006, Hurricane Wilma interrupted the schedule. The crew had to be evacuated. • “Forrest Gump” has more minutes of CGI screen time than “Jurassic Park.” • Filmmaker Sam Raimi, best known for directing “The Evil Dead” and a trilogy of Spiderman films, owns an Oldsmobile Delta 88. He considers the car to be lucky and makes sure that it shows up in all of his movies. In the film “The Quick and the Dead” which is set in the pre-automobile era of 1881, the vehicle is disguised as a wagon. • The iconic red stapler coveted by Milton in the 1999 film “Office Space” was created by the prop department. They needed a bright color, so they chose red. After the movie’s release, Swingline stapler company received thousands of requests for red staplers. Despite discontinuing the color years before, Swingline brought it back due to popular demand and the red stapler has been its best seller ever since.
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• A tarantula discovered in 2015 near Folsom Prison, California, was given the scientific name “Aphonopelma johnnycashi” after Johnny Cash, in honor of his song “Folsom Prison Blues.” • For that matter, “The Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin had a snail named after him, the “Crikey steveirwini,” a rare species of tree snail with a khaki-colored shell discovered in 2009. • Some 60% of human DNA is identical to that of a banana. • The maddening but addictive Rubik’s Cube was created by accident. Professor of architecture Erno Rubik built a twistable box with colorful rows of labels on each side in an attempt to design blocks that could move without collapsing the entire structure. After rotating a few rows and mixing up the colors, the real challenge began: realigning the hues! It took Rubik about a month to restore his cube to its original condition. • “Slaughterhouse-Five” author Kurt Vonnegut was such a big fan of the TV series “Cheers” that he once told reporters he would rather have written scripts for the show than all his bestselling novels. • Peppermint oil does a better job of promoting hair growth than hair-growth medication. • Speaking of hair, following the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, thousands of hairstylists and alpaca farmers donated over 19 warehouses worth of cut locks to absorb it. • Looking for a possible reason to like Monday? It’s the least rainy day of the week. While the exact science behind this is unclear, researchers believe it’s likely due to the decrease in man-made pollution over the weekend. • The tradition of knocking on wood for good luck originated with primitive pagans who tapped on trees to summon the protective spirits residing in them. • Thought for the Day: “There are years that ask questions, and years that answer. “ -- Zora Neale Hurston (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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By Dr. Holly Carling
HEALTH DETECTIVES
What is a “Health Detective” and what does she do? When someone is sick, there is a reason for it. The body doesn’t just suddenly decide “Hey! I have nothing else to do today, maybe I’ll make my immune system go haywire, or maybe I’ll just make the heart shut down, or just for kicks, I'm gonna give this person a migraine!” It doesn’t happen that way. Although the easy fix is to take a drug to suppress the immune system, bring a damaged heart back to quasi functioning (with drugs), or stop the migraine with another drug, that isn’t identifying what went wrong. If you believe in the body’s innate ability to heal itself and you believe in the body’s intelligence, you probably already know that there is an error in the mechanism somewhere. But where? Some answers are easy and obvious, mostly they aren’t. That’s where the health detective comes in. The most important question for a health detective to ask is WHY? Nothing in the body happens for no reason. Good or bad, if there is a symptom, the body is trying to accomplish something or warn you of something. It’s up to us to interpret it. One of the first things to look at is “What is missing that the body needs, that if not there in sufficient quantities, the body can’t do its job?”. The body can’t make things such as strong blood vessels, brain cells, brain or sex hormones, antiinflammatory hormones or anything else without certain nutrients. If coming up short, the body will either make sub-standard tissue or hormones or simply not enough.
What’s missing? Is it missing because it isn’t in the diet, or because the body cannot assimilate it. If it’s not in the diet, the remedy is easy – get it in your mouth! If it is an issue of assimilation, where is the breakdown? The mouth? The stomach? The intestines? Where? And when identified, why is that system or tissue compromised? Dig and keep digging until you get to the answer.The other thing to look at is what is present that shouldn’t be there. “What is blocking the body from doing what it inherently wants to do and knows how to do?”. Certain dietary habits like the consumption of sugar, caffeine, alcohol – anything that strips nutrients from the body, falls into this category. Lack of movement can cause congestion of the liver, blood stream, lymphatic system, water accumulation, etc. Lack of movement can also cause issues with the cardiovascular system, blood sugar, emotional hormones, etc. Toxicity from any number of chemicals – either from foods, water, employment and other sources can interfere with function. When identified, corrections can be put in place. Some of those corrections are simple lifestyle changes, other solutions are a change in dietary habits. Some are so deficient in nutrients that they need nutritional supplementation to satisfy the deficits. Others need care such as acupuncture or chiropractic to get some of the systems kicked into gear and functioning again. If you are tired of not feeling well, perhaps you need to get extra help from a Health Detective!
Dr. Holly Carling is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, Doctor of Naturopathy, Clinical Nutritionist and Master Herbologist with over three decades of experience. Dr. Carling is currently accepting new patients and offers natural health care services and whole food nutritional supplements in her Coeur d’ Alene clinic. Visit Dr. Carling’s website at www.vitalhealthcda.com to learn more about Dr. Carling, view a list of upcoming health classes and read other informative articles. Dr. Carling can be reached at 208-765-1994 and would be happy to answer any questions regarding this topic.
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Caught in the Act
The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General has been extremely busy. What’s astonishing is the criminals who actually think they’re going to get away with their crimes. A gun store thief claimed, in court in front of a judge, that he had been awarded two Purple Hearts. He was trying to get a lower sentence on a couple of other firearms offenses, including stealing 87 guns from a store and then being a felon in possession of guns. Among other things, he claimed Iraq service and said he got the medals for saving another soldier. He showed photos of his (fake) Purple Heart certificates. Nobody was fooled. Then there was the idiot who defrauded cemetery services customers out of a half million dollars by taking the payments and using them for personal gain and gambling. Let’s not forget the fool who shot up the inside of a VA hospital with a gun he had tucked in his wheelchair. He won’t see daylight for a long time. Sometimes, though, the OIG handles emotionally tough cases, like the VA hospital nursing assistant that murdered seven hospitalized veterans and was planning to kill an eighth by injecting them all with lethal doses of insulin. In one case medical staff discovered the patient’s blood sugar level and were able to revive him ... until the nursing assistant came back and injected him again, killing him. Nursing assistants are not allowed (or trained to) administer medication. Multiple law enforcement agencies cooperated, leaving no stone unturned to rein in the killer, conducting 350 interviews, serving 60 subpoenas and so much more. Still, there are many unanswered questions, such as why wasn’t the insulin locked up to keep unauthorized people out of it? Why didn’t anyone notice a pattern that went on for over a year? But the biggest question might never be answered: Why? Why on earth did she do this? (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
TRIVIA TEST By Fifi Rodriguez --1. LITERATURE: What was the name of Hermione’s pet cat in the “Harry Potter” series? 2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the name of the metal band that attaches a pencil and an eraser? 3. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a group of giraffes called? 4. GEOGRAPHY: Which state claims Mackinac Island in Lake Huron? 5. TELEVISION: What was the name of the coffeehouse in the “Friends” sitcom? 6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: How many presidents have died in office? 7. MEDICAL: What is the common name for lachrymation? 8. LANGUAGE: What is the American English version of a British flannel? 9. HISTORY: Who was the last czar of Russia? 10. MUSIC: What was the original name of the pop rock group Maroon 5? Answers 1. Crookshanks 2. A ferrule 3. A tower 4. Michigan 5. Central Perk 6. Eight 7. Flow of tears 8. A washcloth 9. Nicholas II 10. Kara’s Flowers (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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History reminds us to face adversity with action
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More than 30 years ago Lidwin Dirne felt outrage and frustration to injustice. She channeled those feelings into something incredible that has impacted the health of our community for years. Lidwin’s friend and neighbor Mary Ellen had died because she didn’t have access to basic health care. The unfairness of a single mother dying needlessly sparked a revolution that forever changed this community. Lidwin founded a volunteer health clinic to serve the underserved. The response was incredible and that tiny clinic eventually became Heritage Health. The beauty of Lidwin’s efforts was that she turned a negative into a positive. She brought the community together, unified with the belief that all people should have access to a doctor, a dentist, a mental health professional, an addiction specialist. The mission of Heritage Health is to provide hope, inspire change and extend life for our patients and the communities we serve. Our team of nearly 300 employees served 28,000 patients last year during 161,837 patient visits. Heritage Health is North Idaho’s largest provider of integrated medical, dental, mental health, behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services. Mike Baker CEO Heritage Health We’re not alone. Community Health Centers like Heritage Health have been quietly serving their communities for over 50 years. During this time, health centers have delivered comprehensive, high-quality care to all patients regardless of their ability to pay. Heritage Health had a total economic impact of $51 million last year and was responsible directly and indirectly for nearly 430 jobs. Heritage Health was responsible for $40 million in savings to the overall health system, delivering care at 24% lower cost to the Medicaid system resulting in $14 million in savings to the Medicaid program. Numbers aside, Heritage Health saves lives and makes the community a safer and healthier place to live. Heritage Health works collaboratively with many other health care providers, non-profit organizations and employers to serve the community. We’re on the frontlines of the battle against COVID-19 too. We’re actively testing and treating our patients and helping those with the virus to recover. These are scary and divisive times, but like our founder, we are doing our best to take a scary situation and make the most of it. The nation celebrated the great work of community health centers during National Health Center Week August 9th through the 15th. We’re proud to be a community health center and a pillar of the North Idaho community. Thank you to all of the volunteers, employees and board members who have forged our legacy and continue to lead us into the future.
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PHOTO: Rosie Perez, Spike Lee in “Do the Right Thing” Photo Credit: Universal Pictures
August is an imposing thing. Down where I live, the heat is so fully embodied that it’s something you have walk through rather than merely feel. It’s its own entity with a trickster personality that encourages poor choices and snap judgments, a dealer of bad moods and a constant source of aggravation -- and I have air conditioning! But I’m not alone in feeling this way. Study after study shows that hot weather can have a powerful effect on a person, and not a positive one. Here are four films where heat had a cameo, if not a headline role. “12 Angry Men” (1957) -- A classic by director Sidney Lumet, “12 Angry Men” centers around the jurors in a murder trial where a young man is accused of murdering his father with a knife. The jurors are hung by one man, Juror No. 8 (Henry Fonda), who forces the others, over the course of the hottest day of the year cramped in a stuffy juror’s room, to debate and review not only the evidence of the case, but also their own prejudices and motivations. “Body Heat” (1981) -- Sexy and sultry as the sweltering heat of South Florida, Kathleen Turner makes her feature debut as Matty, a young wife to a much older, absentee husband. She finds an ardent and adoring lover in bumbling lawyer Ned (William Hurt), who’d truly do anything for her -- even unburden her of her husband. In true noir fashion, the pair enact a plot to do just that, but you should never trust a dame. This is one hot and steamy thriller! “Do the Right Thing” (1989) -- A Brooklyn neighborhood finds racial tensions simmering on the hottest day of the year, and there are plenty of spoons to stir the pot of trouble that’s ready to boil over. Mookie (Spike Lee) works at a local pizza shop owned by Sal (Danny Aiello). When two neighborhood residents demand Sal add Black celebrities to his Italian-American Wall of Fame and he refuses, the protest turns violent. The story is as relevant today as it was when it hit theaters. “Falling Down” (1993) -- Michael Douglas plays William Foster, laid off from his defenseindustry job, who is on the way to his ex-wife’s house for his daughter’s birthday when his car’s AC stops working and he gets caught in endless LA gridlock. In that moment, he goes buck nuts crazy, leaves that junker on the side of the road and tears across the LA landscape with a fierce thirst for vengeance on purveyors of little injustices, like the fast food restaurant that won’t serve you breakfast if you’re even a minute too late. He’s pursued by a detective (Robert Duval) on his last day before retirement. NEW TV RELEASES “His Dark Materials” Season 1 “The Good Doctor” “The High Note” “NCIS: New Orleans” Season 6 “Blue Bloods” Season 10 “Why Women Kill” Season 1 (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• On Sept. 2, 1666, the Great Fire of London breaks out in the house of King Charles II’s baker near London Bridge. When the Great Fire finally was extinguished on Sept. 6, more than 80% of London was destroyed and 100,000 people were left homeless. • On Sept. 3, 1939, Britain and France declare war on Germany. The first casualty of that declaration was the British ocean liner Athenia, which was sunk by a German U-30 submarine. • On Sept. 6, 1943, a new high-speed train traveling between New York City and Washington, D.C., derails, killing 79 people and seriously injuring 100 more. The Congressional Limited traveled at a then-unprecedented speed of 65 mph. • On Sept. 4, 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus enlists the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. The armed Arkansas militia troops surrounded the school while an angry crowd of some 400 whites jeered, booed and threatened to lynch the frightened teenagers. • On Sept. 5, 1969, Lt. William Calley is charged with premeditated murder in the deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in March 1968. Calley, a platoon leader, had led his men in a massacre that was only stopped when a pilot landed his helicopter between the Americans and the fleeing South Vietnamese. • On Sept. 1, 1972, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky during the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fischer became the first American to win the competition since its inception in 1866. • On Aug. 31, 1997, shortly after midnight, Diana, Princess of Wales dies in a car crash in Paris. She was 36. Her boyfriend, the Egyptian-born socialite Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the car died as well. A swarm of paparazzi on motorcycles had been aggressively tailing their car. (c) 2020 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Elders often say they want to stay in their own homes.
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Coronavirus Scammers
Scammers have come up with even more ways to defraud us, this time using the coronavirus. Contact tracers are people who make calls when someone you know has tested positive for the coronavirus. Their job is to trace the possible path the virus has taken from person to person. They only need health information and the places you’ve been, not financial or personal information. If someone calls you who insists on knowing additional information as part of the contact tracing, hang up. If you get emails or calls from someone saying they have a cure for the virus, or a sure-fire method of being certain you don’t get it, hang up. Their next questions will likely be to ask for your personal or financial information, or a credit card number so you can pay for shipping. Don’t fall for it. There are no approved test kits or cures that can be handed out to the general public. If you get email that’s supposedly from the government asking about where to send your stimulus relief check, ignore it. The government is not going to contact you about that. They’ll send your check (if you’re eligible for one) in the mail or they’ll deposit it directly into your account, the same one where they deposit your Social Security benefit. Scammers also will pretend to be people from your bank. If you get a robocall saying you qualify for lowcost coronavirus insurance, hang up. If you get suspicious email that looks like it might be from the government with information about coronavirus, don’t open it, and especially don’t click on any links. Those can put a virus or tracer on your computer. To stay up on the news about the virus, use a legitimate source: www. ftc.gov/coronavirus. On that site you’ll find more information about avoiding coronavirus scams. Beware ... and stay safe. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
They've lived there for decades and see no reason to move. However, many times their neighborhoods have changed so much that they are no longer safe. Even if the neighborhoods are safe, many of the old neighbors have died or moved away, and the elders become isolated. Many times a move to assisted living can give elders a new lease on life. Older homes that seniors hang onto often have bathrooms and bedrooms on a second floor. I've seen seniors sleep on the living room couch because they don't want to make the trip up the stairs to go to bed. This is often unhealthy for their bodies, and if the only bathroom is up a long flight of stairs, they still must climb. Stairs are not only an obstacle because of the energy it takes to climb them, they present a real hazard when it comes to falls. Change can be hard for anyone and elders are often reluctant to change the way things have always been. Decades of their lives may be tied to the home they live in, and the idea of moving away is terrifying, so they insist what they have is what they want. But the old home isn't necessarily the best place for them. Family members or caregivers need to move slowly and with compassion when they try to convince an elder to move from the family home. However, once the adjustment is made, many elders are thrilled with the change. Why? Here are five reasons. Safety. Assisted living centers are set up to provide a safe, comfortable environment for elders… Meals. Appetites can diminish as we age, plus many people don't enjoy eating alone… In assisted living, meals are provided and they often offer many choices of food. But the biggest plus may be that people have company for their meals… Transportation. …they can generally arrange transportation for seniors who need to get to clinic appointments… Less worry. …In assisted living, they don't have to worry about repair responsibilities. If something doesn't work properly, they or a loved one can alert the administration and the problem should be fixed… Socialization. Socialization is perhaps the most important reason why many people who insist that they will hate assisted living end up thriving… In assisted living, even those who swore they'd hate it often find, once they adjust, that they again enjoy the company of peers. They play cards, listen to music, exercise, have snacks, go to community events and have people come in to entertain them… (by Carol Bradley Bursack, Editor-in-Chief, “Elder Care Link”.)
LindaDavis Director of building relationships. 208.457.3403 www.LodgeLiving.net
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1. Name the group that originally called itself Daddy. 2. Who first released "Don't Leave Me This Way"? 3. Name the first artist to release "Respect." 4. Which '60s song was investigated by the Feds for alleged filthy lyrics? 5. Name the song that contains this lyric: "Too real is this feeling of make-believe, Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal." Answers 1. Supertramp. They made a change because there was a group called Daddy Longlegs. The British rockers netted their first Top 10 hit in 1979 with "The Logical Song," off the "Breakfast in America" album. 2. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, in 1975. Thelma Houston's disco version followed two years later and won a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female. 3. No, it wasn't Aretha Franklin. It was Otis Redding, in 1965. But it was Aretha's version that went into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. 4. "Louie, Louie," by the Kingsmen, in 1963. It's actually the story of a Jamaican sailor, written in 1955. Look up Richard Berry's original version. 5. "The Great Pretender," first released by The Platters in 1955, followed by Freddie Mercury in 1987. The song made the Rolling Stone list of greatest songs of all time.
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