Our very dear TJB has reminded me that today is Dusty's birthday. Here puts a wistful, almost anesthetized, and very, very effective spin on a song I don't otherwise associate with her.
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Monday, April 16, 2018
Birthday Girl: Trouble Proof
Our very dear TJB has reminded me that today is Dusty's birthday. Here puts a wistful, almost anesthetized, and very, very effective spin on a song I don't otherwise associate with her.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Birthday Girl: The Pre-Teased Superstar
Well, it's deepest gray and pouring rain here in Our Nation's Capital, and I have to admit that my seasonal funk continues. If anything, though, were to drive away the clouds, I think it would be spending some time, as I've done this afternoon, in the very personable company of today's Birthday Girl.
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Birds, Bees, Finns, Eels... and Eartha
This gem recently popped up on my feed over at the FaceBooks, and not having seen it previously, I was even more than usually transported than I generally am by the insinuating charms of Miss Eartha Kitt.
Friday, January 20, 2017
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Of Love and Broccoli, or, How I Spent My Tuesday
So not all that long ago, I was chatting cybernetically with the frenetically cultured, enormously soigné TJB (who really must be encouraged, sternly, to write more for public consumption), and he recommended a specific movie, available on YouTube, that I really must see. I filed it away.
Or thought I did.
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Birthday Girl: The Wisdom of Eve
I suppose it says something about me more than anything else, but my feed over at Facebook just plain lit up with the news that yesterday was the birthday of the heavenly Miss Eve Arden.
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Birthday Girl: It was a Party
We need a little cheering up hereabouts, and who better to take on that daunting task than today's birthday girl, the heavenly Miss Ann Miller?
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Up to the Glitter
Well, darlings, on the (I'm sure very) off chance that your weekend hasn't turned out to be quite as soigné as perhaps you were hoping, why don't we drop in on Mr. Hefner and see what's happening up at his place? As it turns out, the marvelous soul queen Carla Thomas has popped by as well, doing something rather magical to "Where do I Go?" from Hair.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Whatever Happened to Finnan Haddie?
Here to celebrate this festive day we have an old familiar number in what I imagine is a rather unfamiliar setting. As Mr. Cole Porter rolls in his grave, the one and only Miss Violetta Villas and her Double-Knit Dancers give us their interpretation of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy."
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Hey There, Birthday Girl!
The indefatigable (and indefatigably glamourous) Miss Mitzi Gaynor turns an ever-youthful 83 today, and we can all thank our lucky stars that still she's with us.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Cat and Mouse
Let's not even address the oddity of encountering an Amy Winehouse Siamese while actually in Siam; what troubles me is whether there's any significance to the fact that Her Majesty is prey and the other two predators. That only one was actually a Rock Star (before becoming a ChocStar) pales in comparison.
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
What's My Wednesdays? #9: Love & Marriage
You'll have to click on the image to view today's WMW?, as the naughty
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This week, a day-late salute to birthday boy Mr. Steve Lawrence, and (at 19:30) a very special Mystery Challenger. It really is a lovely episode if your time allows you to take it all in, if only to appreciate both Arlene's fur shrug and Dorothy's wiglet (and at least one other Hair Hall of Fame potential entry).
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Memory Lane: The Love We Feel
Ah, the joys of 1990! It was a remarkable year, for me at least - the first full year in a rather glam job, one that brought with it the first trips abroad, to London and Paris, Berlin (West and East) and Tokyo. Not to mention a memorable cross-country car trip, New York to San Francisco, as '90 turned into '91. Whatever the destination, this number was most definitely on the soundtrack...
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Accept No Substitutes
"...the Camp sensibility is one that is alive to a double
sense in which some things can be taken."
sense in which some things can be taken."
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
In the recent televisual Sound of Music, Poor Miss Carrie Underwood was given the unenviable task of filling the shoes of the likes of Miss Martin and Miss Andrews. The phenomenon is hardly new.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Together as Salt and Pepper, Just as You Should Be
"Two loves have I," she sang, "My country and Paree..." One day brought those loves together like none other.
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