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Carol Elaine Channing (born January 31, 1921) is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards (including one for lifetime achievement), a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. Channing is best remembered for originating, on Broadway, the musical-comedy roles of bombshell Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and matchmaking widow Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly!
Channing was born in Seattle, Washington, the only child of George and Adelaide (née Glaser; 1886–1984) Channing. Her father was a city editor at the Seattle Star; his newspaper career took the family to San Francisco when Carol was only two weeks old. Her father later became a successful Christian Science practitioner, editor, and teacher. She attended Aptos Middle School and Lowell High School in San Francisco. At Lowell, Channing was a member of its famed Lowell Forensic Society, the nation's oldest high-school debate team.
According to Channing's memoirs, when she left home to attend Bennington College in Vermont, her mother informed her that her father, a journalist who Carol had believed was born in Rhode Island, had in fact been born in Augusta, Georgia, to a German-American father and an African-American mother. According to Channing's account, her mother reportedly did not want [Channing] to be surprised "if she had a black baby". Channing kept this a secret to avoid any problems on Broadway and in Hollywood, ultimately revealing it only in her autobiography, Just Lucky I Guess (published in 2002). Her autobiography contains a photograph of her mother but has no photos of her father or son. The book states her father's birth certificate was destroyed in a fire.
Actors: Carol Channing (actress), Vaughn Juares (editor), Quentin Crisp (actor), Evan Lurie (composer), Lea DeLaria (actress), Christine K. Walker (producer), Stephen Sorrentino (actor), Barbara Kingsley (actress), Michelle Hutchison (actress), Tim Tucker (actor), Emil Herrera (actor), Grant Richey (actor), Marie Domingo (producer), Sara Moore (writer), Sara Moore (actress),
Genres: Comedy,[There's that moment of apprehension just before the
plane lands, and in your mind you see headlines, and
Tom Brokaw, and reporters standing in fields with their
backs to the wreckage. And you wonder if you even had
to be on this flight, driving is so much less stress.
Now you see the runway getting closer, and you hold
your breath. . .]
The warm, dry air
of another town
reminds me of the time
I wasted on you.
Did you miss your flight?
I’ll call the airline
and see if it’s delayed.
Didn’t get much sleep last night.
I could be with you,
waiting in the wings,
waiting in the wings.
Well here we go.
I’m 16 years old again,
awkward and shy
and unsure of myself.
I cough and laugh
I shift my weight and smile
and think of how much I hate you
for putting me through this.
The warm, dry air
of another town
reminds me of the time I wasted on you.
I wasted so much time on you.
So here we go.
I’m 16 years old again,
awkward and shy
and unsure of myself.
I cough and laugh
shift my weight and smile
and think of how much I hate you
for putting me through this.
And when my plane lands
I’ll be so far away from here.