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2013-08-27

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#1 Birthday Gam Shot

Neha Dhupia[Bollywood][Filmography](age 33)

Punjabi Sikh Design

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2013-08-27 06:42|| 2013-08-27 06:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Sikh design? None like I've seen before. But then again, there are many things I've not seen.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-08-27 10:10|| 2013-08-27 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Cn you sikh out some more?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-08-27 10:52|| 2013-08-27 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 To Bright Pebbles and all Rantburgers:

- "Sikh and ye shall find."

Posted by Flamble and Tenille1305 2013-08-27 11:30|| 2013-08-27 11:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Ben Turpin (September 19, 1869 July 1, 1940) was a cross-eyed American comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films.

Turpin was born Bernard Turpin in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 19, 1869, the son of a candy store owner.[2]

Turpin and his first wife, Carrie Le Mieux, an actress, were married in Chicago in 1907. In 1923, Mrs. Turpin became ill with influenza, which caused the loss of her hearing. Heartbroken, Turpin brought his seriously ill wife to the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec, hoping she would be healed.[4] She eventually became an invalid, with Turpin placing his career on hold to care for her. Carrie died on October 2, 1925.

He worked in vaudeville, burlesque, and circuses. Turpin had a distinctive appearance, with a small wiry frame, a brush mustache, and crossed eyes. Turpin's famous eyes, he said, only crossed as a young adult after he suffered an accident. Turpin was convinced that the crossed eyes were essential to his comic career; his co-workers recalled that after he received any blow to the head he made a point of looking himself in the mirror to assure himself that they had not become uncrossed.

Turpin famously bought a $25,000 insurance policy with Lloyd's of London, payable if his eyes ever uncrossed. (How serious this was is open to question; such publicity stunts centered around a performer's "trademark" were common at the time.) He developed a vigorous style of physical comedy, including an ability to stage comic pratfalls that impressed even his fellow workers in the rough-and-tumble world of silent comedy. One of his specialties was a forward tumble he called the "hundred an' eight'" (probably a corruption of "one hundred and eighty," referring to a 180-degree somersault). It was basically an interrupted forward somersault initiated by kicking one leg up turning over 180 degrees to land flat on the back or in a seated position.

The year 1929 saw many silent-film stars uncertain about their future employment, with the new talking pictures requiring new skills and techniques. Ben Turpin chose to retire. He had invested his earnings in real estate, and being highly successful at this, had no financial need for more work. Producers soon sought him out for gag appearances in films. He commanded a flat fee of $1000 per appearance, regardless of whether it was a speaking role or a fleeting cameo. Among the most memorable of these cameos was in Paramount's Million Dollar Legs (1932) starring W. C. Fields, Jack Oakie and Susan Fleming.

He starred in only one more short subject, Keystone Hotel (Warner Bros., 1935), a two-reel reunion of silent-era comedians. Turpin's speaking voice, incidentally, was a gritty rasp that retained elements of the New Orleans "Yat" accent of his youth. His last film role was in the Laurel and Hardy film Saps at Sea in 1940, in which his cross-eyed face served as a joke punchline. He was paid his $1000 for one quick shot of his face and just 16 words of dialogue.

Posted by Flamble and Tenille1305 2013-08-27 11:37|| 2013-08-27 11:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Phyllis Haver (January 6, 1899 November 19, 1960) was an American actress of the silent film era.

Haver auditioned for comedy producer Mack Sennett on a whim. Sennett hired her as one of his original Sennett Bathing Beauties. Within a few years, she appeared as a leading lady in two-reelers for Sennett Studios.

Later, while signed with DeMille-Pathé, Haver played the part of Roxie Hart in the first film adaptation of Chicago in 1927, opposite Hungarian film actor Victor Varconi. One reviewer called her performance "astoundingly fine," and added that Haver "makes this combination of tragedy and comedy a most entertaining piece of work."

She performed in the 1928 comedy film The Battle of the Sexes, directed by D. W. Griffith. The next year, she appeared with Lon Chaney, Sr., in his last silent film, Thunder.

Haver retired from the industry with two 'sound' films to her credit.

She married millionaire William Seeman with a service performed by New York Mayor James J. Walker at the home of Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist. The couple divorced in 1945.

Haver retired in Sharon, Connecticut. She died at age 61 from an overdose of barbiturates in 1960, a suspected suicide. Haver left no survivors

Posted by Flamble and Tenille1305 2013-08-27 11:40|| 2013-08-27 11:40|| Front Page Top

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