RIP: Yvonne De Carlo, AKA Lily Munster

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_en_tv/obit_de_carlo

'Munsters' star Yvonne De Carlo dies

By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES -
Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's slapstick comedy "The Munsters," has died. She was 84.

De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.

De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."

But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.

I've changed my music listening habits of late

I have a modest music collection of 500 some albums combining mine and my wife's CD libraries. I ripped them originally on my desktop and have a complete copy on my laptop. I created a play list recently that consisted of music that I don't often listen to, simply because I didn't listen to it very often. I trimmed out music longer than ten minutes and some concept albums like Roger Waters' Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking where you really should listen to the whole album in one sitting. I also trimmed out the music that I frequently listen to: Peter Gabriel, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Devo, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, etc.

And that was kind of cool. Heard a lot of stuff that I hadn't heard, obviously I didn't make a big dent in my library.

We picked up several CDs when we were in Phoenix in mid-December and for Xmas, so I created a new play list and listened to those new discs. But I didn't want to just random the list because that tends to produce dupes without playing everything, so I decided to sort the play list by track number.

Don't ask why, I'm just occasionally weird that way.

But it did let me listen to everything new with no songs played twice.

And now I've gone a little bit too weird. I created a play list of EVERYTHING in my music library. I deleted all of the Xmas and Jazz, then worked through the dupes from greatest hits albums and such.

Now I'm listening to it in alphabetical order. I'm down from 6400 songs, 508 albums, 18 days to 4900 songs, 459 album, 14 days and I'm up to AF.

This morning on the way to work I listened to Bach, Mendelssohn, Cirque du Soleil, Bob Marley, Eileen Ivers, Oysterband, Neil Young, and the Moody Blues. Coming up I've got Mahler, Crash Test Dummies, Devo, Ofra Haza, Melisa Etheridge, Fats Waller, Supertramp, and Talking Heads. And that will take me into AI.

Fortunately I'm quite resistant to musical whiplash. My wife, however, is not, so I have a "traveling" play list with ten artists or so.