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Jeannie Out Of the Bottle is the autobiography by US actress Barbara Eden known for the role of Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie and it has been released 3 weeks ago. in this book Barbara tells about her career from working with people like Paul Newman,Elvis Presley, Laurence Harvey, Tony Randall, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty as well as Larry Hagman, marilyn Monroe and others and talks about the behind the scenes of I Dream Of Jeannie as well as other TV shows,films, stage works, concerts and others. We also follow her from being an struggling actress @ 20th Century Fox to struggling to survive a few weeks at Ciro's Sunset Strip supper club as a chorus girl to being a sidekick for Johnny Carson on live TV and also tells about the personal problems including an still born child to her first husband Michael Ansara, an abusive 2nd marriage drug addicted 2nd husband, the death of her mother and the accidental heroin death of her son Matthew in 2001 and somehow she has survived it all wi...

Last Saturday April 23rd I went to see the Darren J Ray band @ Carina Leagues Club and it was FANTASTIC. It was my 13th time Seeing Darren J Ray which I am mainly used to see Fabulous sounds of the 60's show as well with the Love Bugs but it was kind the first time i have seen just the band and they were just GREAT anyway which the line-up on the night were Heidi, Darren J Ray, Scotty MacFarlane and Brent who was playing with the band for the first time. The songs they did in this show comparison to the 60's show were stuff from 50's,60's,70's 80''s and it sounded great. Heidi in one set wore an cowboy hat and in another wearing an wig when she was giving chocolate eggs and she sang great too. I met Scotty's mum,dad and fiance and they're really nice people and the show finished at 11.30pm which was an FANTASTIC night despite an little problem concerning 2 people fighting. I always enjoy seeing Darren and the Band live which it's been 5 years thi...

On Good Friday April 22nd I went to the South bank Cinema to see the movie "Rio". Blu(Jesse Eisenberg) an baby Macaw bird who is unable to fly has been stolen from his habitat in the Brazilian rainforest and is been raised by Linda (Leslie Mann)in Minnesota. 15 Years Linda is working at a bookshop Linda meets scientist Tulio (Rodrigo Santoro) who persuades Linda to return Blu to Rio as Blu is one of the last of his species and teams with Jewel(Anne Hathaway) who is an Macaw bird which they start falling in love and together to save the other spices which leads to interesting and hilarious stuff throughout the movie. it's an very good and a very funny movie as well as excellent performances by Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie mann, Rodrigo Santoro, George Lopez, Jake T Austin, Jemanie Clement,Jamie Foxx, Will.I.Am, Bernardo de Paula, Tracy Morgan, Wanda Skyes and others. the effects are just excellent, John Powell does the music, John C Donkin,Bruce Anderson and Chr...

It was announced in July last year(2010)by harperCollins Publishers that US actress Susan Lucci known as Erica Kane on US Daytime soap "All My Children" and it has been released which it's called "All My Life". In this book Susan tells about her career including the role of Erica Kane that she has been playing on All My Children since it began on January 5th 1970, doing cabaret shows,Tv movies, guest roles on other TV shows, doing the musical Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway, performing on the American show "Dancing With the Stars" with Tony Dovolani doing the tango as well as building an career as a entrepreneur with a signature of products. Susan also talks about the darker moments including the childhood guilt over the death of her grandmother, nearly losing her eyesight and career in a car accident in 1967, her son Andreas' life threatening illness after birth, coping with her husband Austrian businessman Helmut Huber's cancer and a miscarri...

Red My Uncensored Life In Rock) is the autobiography by American rock singer Sammy Hagar of Montrose and Van halen. In this book he tells about his upbringing in California, playing in local bands and writing songs about the things that he loved fast cars, loud parties and lots of good times. Having been in 2 successful bands Montrose from 1973-75 and Van Halen having replaced David lee Roth in 1985 until 1996 which he tells about the tensions with Eddie van halen, the stadium tours, the divided friendships and his controversial exit from the band. After leaving the group Sammy went into another direction which he went into the Tequlia business and creating Cabo Wabo one of the most successful tequlia brands in the world. He still performs with his bands Chickenfoot and the Waboritas and reunited with van halen from 2003-05. it's an excellent book and Sammy tells a lot of great stories in this book which Joel Selvin who had written an book called The Summer Of Love and other books ...

Just last Saturday April 16th I went to the ROcklea showgrounds for the KUstomer Kroozers Reunion which had rockabilly groups from Brisbane in the 80's and it was an FANTASTIC. I had been doing Ten Pin Bowling in the morning and had to get home to go get ready to Rocklea which I had chicken niblets and pasta salad for lunch, got changed and dad took me to the bus stop. I caught the bus to South Bank, caught a train to ROcklea and I arrived to see the Reno Brothers halfway as I did'nt get there until about 2.30pm. Throughout the afternoon and early evening saw a lot of great bands the Wildcards,the Shakin Quavers, the Convertibles and the Slingshots which they were all GREAT and FANTASTIC and also really rocked the place away. there was a lot of great cars on display and stalls as well and saw my friends Karen,Paulie,Laura, bettie Butcher, Kat,Les,Jodie, karie,Vicki,Rhea,Ramona,Sheri,Walter, Michael, Lori Lee and met an girl named Casey and also saw Greg an guy I went to a gro...

Last Saturday night I went to see Fabulous Sounds of the 60's show with Darren J Ray and the Love Bugs @ Kedron Wavell which it was my 12th time in 5 years seeing and it was FANTASTIC which they put on an FANTASTIC show as always. The show started @ 8pm with Greg Newman 4BH radio personality compering the show as it started with A World Of Our Own sang by Kaitlyn and then did an mixture of Beatles,Stones, Psychedelia and others which they had an trivia to name the song and if you got the answer you get an record which I got an Marianne Faithful album when I got the answer of King of the road by Roger Miller. there was an interval which I saw my friend Michael and the 2nd half had an mixture of surf music, girl group stuff, bit of Elvis, bit of Johnny O'Keeffe as well as a dance competition and finished off with Hey Jude which the Love Bugs girls wore Beatles shirts when they came on stage throughout the song and the line-up of the Love Bugs were Kaitlyn, Heidi,Nicole and Gen...

After making the highly successful album "Tommy" an rock opera about an boy who was deaf dumb and blind who became an leader of a messianic movement in 1969 British rock band the WHO were going to do an follow up called Lifehouse. It was songwriter and guitarist Pete Townshend's idea and it was going to be an concept work work of multiple dimensions an big budget feature film, an theater event, double album, song cycle, concert performance piece and general purpose statement about youth,modern society, spiritual harmony and the future of rock'n'roll and did the shows @ the Young Vic from January-April 1971 but the idea for Lifehouse was abandoned. The who went to New york in march to start recording songs for the album at the Record Plant in New York with manager Kit Lambert but these recordings were rejected and went back to London to record with Glyn Johns. the recordings for Who's Next began in may 1971 @ Stargroves and eventually Olympic Studios which las...

On march 12th I did the shave for a cure for the 3rd time which it's to raise money for leukemia and I did it at the carina Leagues Club. My Mum came with me and one of the workers named Sammy Clarke cut my hair which she did an excellent job doing it. I raised about $2,200 which most of it came from my work friends,ten pin bowling friends, my Mum and others and I truly appreciate the support which I would have not done it without the support. I enjoy doing the shave for a cure and I enjoy doing this for a very good good cause . I aimed to raise $ 2,000 which I am glad that i got that goal and had nearly $500 more than I did last year. i look forward to it again next year as I will aim for $2,500

Last Saturday night I went to the QPAC Concert hall to see the show "CLass of 59" show which was put together by Australian rock legend Lonnie Lee. It's celebrating an time in history when Rock'n'roll was starting as well as a decade that created legends and influenced an culture as well as the songs that still endures as well as the hits and the flair is not forgotten and also going down memory lane with Elvis,Buddy, Jerry Lee, Chuck, Bill, the Everly brothers and the Fonz. Lonnie Lee opened the first half of the show doing his famous hits, some recent songs and other people's songs that influenced him including Elvis Presley and Johnny Ray which he was on for about 45 minutes and there was an interval which i bought an CD by Scott Cameron(Buddy Holly) as well as before the show started Lonnie Lee's Cd volume 4 which has recording ofr HMV & sunshine labels from 1964-70. the second half had the Class Of 59 band with Scott Cameron(Buddy Holly), Leon Is...