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Post by coopfan on Mar 8, 2007 22:41:58 GMT -5
I wasn't aware that there is a Gary Cooper rapper but I am not aware of much of anything with rappers.
Dan
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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on Mar 8, 2007 23:51:32 GMT -5
All over myspace, that's all there is in the music section.
It's sad, but now I have two profiles up.
Thanks to Angie, I uploaded her songs she sent.
So we'll soon override those rappers, it's only a matter of time, now.
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Post by Miss Retro on Mar 16, 2007 12:31:53 GMT -5
wow I didn't know either there was a gary cooper rapper lol I guess im not into rap either, but anyway yeah, we'll show them who the REAL Gary Cooper was and still is in the memory of many of us who share the same interests  |
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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on Mar 16, 2007 13:08:31 GMT -5
lol, Yes.
I noticed there were "Cooper" rappers when I checked myspace for his music. AND, I thought about "wait...wasn't 'Hangin' with Mr. Cooper' a tv show in the 90's?"
*Sigh* I want my Gary...
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Post by Miss Retro on Mar 24, 2007 11:09:10 GMT -5
Gary Cooper
Original name: Frank James Cooper
Birth: May 7, 1901
Death: May 13, 1961
Actor. His career lasted over thirty six years in which he received five Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning twice and also received an Honorary Award from the Academy for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, had gained for the motion picture industry. He was born Frank James Cooper in Helena, Montana to English parents and spent part of his childhood around Helena - his father served as a Montana Supreme Curt Justice and owned a ranch north of the capital - his mother never took to the rustic life of Montana and her desire for her two sons to receive a proper British education was the source of constant contention between the couple. She finally won out and was allowed to take the boys to England. However, She hustled them back home at the start of World War I. Frank learned all his riding skills and horsemanship while working on the ranch as a hand.. He attended Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa studying graphics and art with intentions of pursuing a career as a commercial artist or a cartoonist. An avid outdoors man, he spend a summer working as a seasonal ranger in Yellowstone National Park. When his father resigned from the state Supreme Court and moved to California, young Frank followed. Frank was sidetracked from this goal of becoming a commercial artist after landing a job as an extra in a motion picture in Hollywood. He essentially produced and directed his own screen test, then spent almost a year hauling it around Hollywood trying to get someone to take a look. It led to a part in a short film with Eileen Sedgewick which in turn led to a long-term contract with Paramount Studios. After a name change to Gary Cooper, he appeared in over a hundred films. A few of the many: Wings, The Virginian, A Farewell to Arms, Alice in Wonderland, Sergeant York, Friendly Persuasion, The Hanging Tree and his last The Naked Edge - Nominations for Best Actor: 'Beau Geste, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Saratoga Trunk - Oscar for Best Actor: 'Sargeant York' and 'High Noon.' This movie also gained him the Golden Globe Award. His marriage to Veronica 'Rocky' Balfe, a New York socialite was an unusual union. Many entanglements came during the marriage - he was often seen in the company of other women and she in the company of other men. The marriage however endured. When told at age 59, he had incurable cancer, a special Oscar was presented to him and Jimmy Stewart strode to the Academy Award microphone to tearfully accept the honorary Oscar for Cooper in 1961, which in reality was his final farewell. Gary Cooper watched at home with his wife and daughter Marie. Less than four weeks later they were with him again when he passed away at his Beverly Hills home at age 60 and 6 days after his birthday. After a Requiem Mass at the Church of The Good Shepherd, he was interred in the Grotto Section of Holy Cross Cemetery located in the Los Angeles suburb of Culver City. Postscript: His wife remarried after his death and relocated to her home area in New York. She literally took Gary with her by exhumation and then re-burial at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery on Long Island beneath a bronze plaque and nearby a three-ton rose colored boulder symbolic of the California landscape where he made so many western movies. (bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Cause of death: Cancer
Search Amazon for Gary Cooper
Posthumous reunions [?]:
High Noon cast
Burial:
Sacred Heart Cemetery
Southampton
Suffolk County
New York, USA
Plot: Jesus & Mary Section
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Post by Miss Retro on Mar 24, 2007 11:14:54 GMT -5
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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on Mar 25, 2007 4:05:51 GMT -5
I know; it's so creepy that you can leave virtual flowers.... Who'd ever thunk it  |
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Post by Miss Retro on Apr 7, 2007 0:27:55 GMT -5
I know amazing what you can do with computers nowadays! wow  I think the only thing I like about this era is computers! LOL ;D |
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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on Apr 7, 2007 15:51:46 GMT -5
LOL, Exactly! The computers are great...but then again...they're terrible
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Post by coopfan on May 4, 2007 0:53:22 GMT -5
I always tell everyone including my dad that computers are our friends. I really couldn't live without one I don't think. This is the only good thing about the modern age we live in besides dvd's with Gary Cooper on them and CD's with Jim Reeves (I've always hated the old hissing LP's) and before that I guess you had to listen to be singing live or not at all. I think right around 1953 is where I would like to be right now though with Gary Cooper still alive and Jim Reeves just starting to take off.
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Post by coopfan on May 4, 2007 1:21:38 GMT -5
I visit find a grave all the time out of curiousity as to what people's grave sites look like and to pay my respects. I have never left virtual flowers though.
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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on May 4, 2007 1:29:39 GMT -5
No, that's where I draw the line. That is beyond creepy...and to pay money for it?!
Gosh, I just wanna see the gravesite as well, but once I saw the "send virtual flowers" I stole the photo and fled as quickly as I could!
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Post by butterscotchgreer on May 15, 2007 19:59:17 GMT -5
oh i certainly agree with you kim. i would flee quickly too.
i dont ever really visit that site, is it really worth it to see peoples graves there?
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Post by coopfan on May 15, 2007 22:10:18 GMT -5
I'm not morbid or anything but I did have a curiosity to see what that big stone looked like that they placed on Gary's grave.
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Post by coopfan on May 22, 2007 23:12:40 GMT -5
I just couldn't find anything to post on Gary tonight. I looked all over the internet for new reviews for the MGM box set and all I found were depressing reviews of all the latest John Wayne releases and a fellow by the name of Tyrone Power  I did find a couple of Gary Cooper dolls for Kim though:  www.littlebigtoys.com/gary_cooper.htmlwww.goantiques.com/scripts/images,id,1054215.html sorry the second link will not post right for some reason on this board but if you copy and past it, it will bring up better pictures of the High noon dolls. |
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Post by coopfan on May 22, 2007 23:31:09 GMT -5
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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on May 22, 2007 23:32:39 GMT -5
LOLOL, That's what he gets for outselling Gary in Target.
That place made me sick. I went to go find the boxed set at Target and their walls were stacked full of John Wayne stuff....
I WANT that figurine of Gary, though....I want it so badly!!
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Post by coopfan on May 22, 2007 23:35:09 GMT -5
Which one the beau Gest or High Noon one?
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