Born Again Redneck: Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin married for 60 years

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin married for 60 years

Last night we watched Band Wagon, the musical with Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire made in 1953. I used to be completely in love with Charisse when I was a kid so I decided to look her up on IMdB and found that she was born on 8th March 1921 in Amarillo, Texas and has been married to the same husband, singer Tony Martin, for 60 years.

The beauty I fell in love with when I was a boy.

The way Cyd Charisse, 86, is now with husband Tony Martin, 94.

With the Bushes in 2006 when they presented her with the National Arts Medal.

Dancing in the Dark with Fred Astaire in Band Wagon.

This is the only decent YouTube video of Tony Martin singing - with Barbara Stanwyk in 1940.

Tony Martin singing last year at the age of 94.

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Name: Patrick Joubert Conlon

Location: Robin's Wood, Oregon, United States

I was born and raised in a small village in South Africa and then spent half my life living in big cities all over the world but eventually settled down on a farm in Oregon.

I regard myself as a classical Lockean/Jeffersonian liberal but, since leftists have stolen the word "liberal," I now think of myself as a middle-class, middle-brow, middle-of-the-road Republican.

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From Fred Thompson's blog, Fred08 on November 26th, 2007:

More Praise for Fred’s Tax Relief Plan - Patrick Joubert Conlon at Born Again Redneck called the plan, “music to a businessman’s ears.”

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"This blog interested me first because of the title. But the quality of Patrick Joubert Conlon's writing has kept me coming back. His style is not presumptuous or pompous or condescending; it's plain and simple. Good old American English. Which is funny because Mr. Conlon was born and lived in South Africa for his first twenty one years and after that spent eight years in England before finding his home here in the U. S. His blog provides a rare outsider/insider perspective on the U. S. of A. He's been linked to by CNN on a couple of occasions and one of his posts was cited by the official Fred08 website. He does a lot of politics but also some lighter fare as well. He frequently posts spectacular photos taken on his Oregon farm."