2009 saw a return to traditional Offshore Racing and the trophy was won by Drew Langdon in Silverline Buzzi Bullet.

Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven sons of Count Ludovico Pecci and his wife Anna Prosperi Buzzi.

It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and featured, at various times, Chelsea Brown, Johnny Brown, Ruth Buzzi, Judy Carne, Richard Dawson, Henry Gibson, Arte Johnson, Goldie Hawn, Larry Hovis, Jeremy Lloyd, Dave Madden, Pigmeat Markham, Gary Owens, Pamela Rodgers, Barbara Sharma, Alan Sues, Lily Tomlin and Jo Anne Worley.

With Ruth Buzzi ..." This maneuver gave Johnson star billing, but made it sound like he was still part of the ensemble cast.

Except for holdovers Dawson, Owens, Buzzi, and only occasional appearances from Tomlin, a new cast was brought in.

However, Owens was not in the 1967 pilot and Buzzi missed two first-season episodes.

In 1649, however, the new chief architect Carlo Buzzi introduced a striking revolution: the façade was to revert to original Gothic style, including the already finished details within big Gothic pilasters and two giant belfries.

Henry's oft-mentioned wife Chloe was seen in one episode, played by Ruth Buzzi.

Buzzi was born at Westerly Hospital, Westerly, Rhode Island, the daughter of Rena Pauline and Angelo Peter Buzzi, a nationally recognized stone sculptor.

She was raised in Wequetequock, Connecticut, in a rock house overlooking the ocean at Wequeteqouck Cove, where her father owned Buzzi Memorials, a business still operated by her older brother, Harold.

Buzzi's first national exposure came when she teamed up with Dom DeLuise in a comical magic act in which he played an incompetent magician and Buzzi was his " sidekick " named " Shakuntala " who never spoke but always sported a wide grin.

Buzzi was a member of the regular repertory company on the CBS variety show The Entertainers ( 1964 – 1965 ).

Ruth Buzzi was the only featured player to appear in every episode of Laugh-In including the initial pilot for the show and the Laugh-In television special.

Buzzi, as Gladys, was featured in most of the Dean Martin Roasts from the MGM Hotel in Las Vegas.

Buzzi was inducted in 2002 into the Television Hall of Fame ( presented by the National Broadcasters Association, which bestowed the honor to Buzzi as well as the producers, director and cast of the top rated television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ).

Buzzi was in 1971 inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.

Five times, Buzzi was nominated by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Awards in several categories from comedy and variety to Best Performer in a Children's Television Program ; she was recognized not only for making people laugh, but for her versatility as an actress ; she is remembered for a guest starring dramatic role on Medical Center with Greg Evigan in which she played the wife of a fatally ill man played by Don Rickles.

Buzzi received a Clio Award for Best Spokesperson in a television commercial for her series of Clorox-2 commercials, and was among the first of only a few Caucasian women to ever win an NAACP Image Award.

Ruth Buzzi guest starred as a music and comedy performer on dozens of prime time television specials with colleagues including Jonathan Winters, Carol Burnett, Jim Nabors, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lee Lewis, Wayne Newton, Anne Murray, Rolf Harris, Dom DeLuise, Tony Orlando and was in a show created for Debbie Reynolds called Aloha Paradise, to name just a few.

In 2008 Ruth Buzzi was named a " Distinguished Woman of Northwood " by the Board of Regents of Northwood University.

Ruth Buzzi graduated with honors from the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California and was one of the first recipients of the Pasadena Playhouse Alumni Achievement Award along with her former classmates Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman.

The dancers were usually Goldie Hawn, Judy Carne and Chelsea Brown ; Ruth Buzzi and Jo Anne Worley popped up rarely, as did frequent guest Pamela Austin.

In the fourth episode of the series, Kermit the Frog is asked by guest Ruth Buzzi if he felt a gag or routine would be funny enough for the show, to which he turns to the camera and replies, " That's up to the laugh track.

Notable guest stars in the two specials included Frank Gorshin reprising his role as The Riddler from Batman, Howard Morris as Dr. Sivana, Gabriel Dell as Mordru, Charlie Callas as Sinestro, Jeff Altman as the Weather Wizard, Ruth Buzzi as Aunt Minerva, Mickey Morton as Solomon Grundy, June Gable as Rhoda Rooter, Pat Carroll as Hawkman's mother, A ' leshia Brevard as Giganta, William Schallert playing the Scarlet Cyclone ( more commonly referred to as " Retired Man ") and Brad Sanders as " Ghetto Man ".

However, Sid and Marty Krofft persuaded Nabors to star in the Saturday-morning children's television show The Lost Saucer, about two bumbling androids, Fi ( Ruth Buzzi ) and Fum ( Nabors ), who travel through time with two children.

Before leaving New York for a career in Los Angeles as a television star, Buzzi played in a Bob Fosse classic Broadway show, Sweet Charity, with Gwen Verdon in the original cast ; she had to leave the show in which she had several small roles, one of them " the Singing Fairy ," to become a regular performer on The Steve Allen Show, on CBS.

The Round Britain Powerboat has been run on 3 previous occasions-1969, 1984 and 2008, the previous winners were Timo Mäkinen, Fabio Buzzi and Vassilis Pateras.

Ruth Buzzi became a regular on the Sesame Street children's television series.

** Tyrone F. Horneigh ( pronounced " hor-NIGH ," presumably to satisfy the censors ) – A dirty old man coming on to Gladys Ormphby ( Ruth Buzzi ) seated on a park bench, who almost invariably clobbered him with her purse.

Buzzi also performed as Gladys on Sesame Street and The Dean Martin Show, most notably in the Celebrity Roasts.

* Ruth Buzzi, actress and comedian on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In TV series

Buzzi also guested as Chloe, the usually never-seen but often mentioned wife of phone company worker Henry Beesmeyer on Alice.

Buzzi also played the role of the eccentric Nurse Kravitz on NBC's daytime soap Passions.

Ruth Buzzi recreated her own voice for the Gladys Ormphby character in its cartoon series called Baggy Pants and the Nitwits with Artie Johnson bringing his character to life on the show, as well.

Buzzi received 5 Emmy Award nominations and won the coveted Golden Globe Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1973 for her work on Laugh-In.

Buzzi was a presenter at the 2009 Emmy Awards along with several members of her debut series, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, presenting the Emmy trophy to Jon Stewart for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Buzzi and her husband are avid automobile collectors, with some of their vehicles being currently on loan to and / on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California including a 1957 Chevrolet convertible that is annually exhibited as part of the display honoring the cars of Steve McQueen.

* Ruth Buzzi on Twitter

The first twenty large paintings, all tempera on canvas, were painted by Il Cerano ( 4 paintings ), Giovanni Mauro della Rovere ( Il Fiammenghino ) ( 3 ), Il Duchino ( 7 ), Procaccini ( 1 ), Carlo Buzzi ( 2 ), Domenico Pellegrini ( 1 ), and Morazzone.

The Lost Saucer was about two time-travelling futuristic androids named Fi ( Ruth Buzzi ) and Fum ( Jim Nabors ) who land their flying saucer on present day Earth.

File: IMG 6015-Milano-Sant ' Eustorgio-Cappella Visconti-Ciborio ( Carlo Buzzi, 1643 )-Foto Giovanni Dall ' Orto-2-Mar-2007. jpg | Altar in Milan, concentrating on the natural patterns of the stone

In the pilot, she looked different, without the ponytail on her wig, and was voiced by Ruth Buzzi.

In 1968 the band performed " You've Got The Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo " on the TV series Laugh-In, with appearances by the park-bench oldtimers duo played by Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson.