Yesterday it was Milk Duds, and today it is popcorn. I sure hope they’re going Dutch! I’m running late; I have to go draw new cartoons now.
Movie Moves
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274 responses to “Movie Moves”
Yep, sounds like my kind of woman…trash with class. 🙂
Jackie, and John in Richmond Texas, this seems appropriate for both of you. If you can find the video of the original musical, you ought to watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLKbc2hvxk
Bernadette Peters is melodious but that dress and body were mesmerizing! Then I went on to watch her sing and dance to “All That Jazz”. I love her. Also Old Bear’s song. So beautiful.
I love women with those strong, perfect voices, trained for broadway, opera, not just bubblegum fluff and mouthing lyrics.
Jackie, I got distracted by the song and forgot why I was looking up Bernadette to begin with. The self-description you gave made me think of a movie I had seen Ms. Peters in. Here’s the best photo I can find:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AusUZoXeyYQ/TUbreG6f-KI/AAAAAAAAA9U/fSKvA4AExAA/s1600/longest-yard-bernadette.JPG
Louise Tucker is a trained mezzo soprano – she did only 2 albums 1982 & 1983.
Since then she has done only opera
I fell in love with her voice back then – on the album jacket she looks like a lady you would not want to mess with.
Off to the arms of Morpheus.
OB
My big hair was never that big!
I got distracted too, went to Dame Judi Dench singing Sondheim in A Little Night Music and then her singing Cabaret which I did not realize she had originated. I guess because I have only seen her recently on PBS I didn’t realize she was a singer.
Somehow I got to Chicago and Cell Block Tango and All That Jazz, I will end up staying up all night watching musical numbers!
Love, Jackie
Now *there’s* an image to take to bed with me.
http://i.imgur.com/p8rVSIO.jpg
Judi Dench… loved her as Titania in Royal Shakespeare Company’s Midsummer Night Dream so many years ago…
http://www.georgehunka.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/midsummer.jpg
And Diana Rigg played Helena in that same production:
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/28900000/Diana-Rigg-A-Midsummer-Night-s-Dream-diana-rigg-28911691-1000-666.jpg
That photo of Bernadette Peters is far sexier than any of the Victoria Secrets angels. What is this from?
Good morning Villagers….
Got a secret to tell you all…..when I wake up, I wake up depressed. I just do.
I grab my coffee, check whether.com…..and come here…..and then I begin to smile.
Thanks…..like I said, you all are fam damily.
love to all…..
Jerry, if I didn’t know better, I would think you were buying that surplus in Washington….and yes, I would like to hear the rest of the story 🙂
GR 😉 I do love that song
Gall and Ruth Ann 🙂 thank you
I am a little late to the party (some of us get to sleep at night, unlike Debbe and some others in this village) but wanted to share a hemp story or two.
Old Bear: Speaking of “hemp”, our property was used in WWII to grow rope hemp as well. The ditch on two sides of the yard still has some of it crop up from time to time. We were able to train our youngest daughter (now 36 years old) quite well on recognizing the stuff. Also, when I was a student at Indiana University in the mid to late 1960’s some students planted weed in the flower beds around the State Police post in Bloomington, Indiana. It grew well for several years before being discovered and removed, if I remember correctly.
Some of us have trouble sleeping SAM, thus nocturnal visits or early morning. I am going to try to get back to sleep though. Debbe, I relate to depression and opening the door to the Village for a visit, hard to leave too.
SAM, there is an ornamental plant often grown in Victorian gardens whose name escapes me right now but it bears a striking resemblance to hemp and perhaps it was? Often used as a large tall plant in middle of ornamental, structured flower beds with graduated smaller flowers working out toward edges, Victorian design style.
Anyway, when I sold silk flowers the Chinese made a foliage plant that was supposed to be this plant but which those who would recognize it swore was actually hemp foliage. We never sold many of them so I have no idea why the Chinese manufacturers kept making the thing or why our buyers even placed orders?
Love, Jackie
Think I mentioned when I was an ag student in the early 60’s we had a student in ag classes from a wealthy Mexican family who just did not fit the mold for a farmer, horticulturalist, animal industry or any other type of ag industry. He always joked that his family had sent him to America to learn modern crop production to return home and improve their main product, which apparently was marijuana and cocaine at the time.
He wasn’t joking.
Love, Jackie
GR, “Help Me Make It Though the Night” is a great favorite and I didn’t say so. I ended up looking for Kris doing it himself in that gravely voice.
Ghost before the days of diet anything I had a heavy Coke habit, more than 20 a day usually nonstop, when I first became anorexic because I’d drink Coke and skip eating most of the time.
Do you know how many empty calories that is? Anyway, one of my friends told me he had the perfect guy for me as his family began Coke. Which turned out to be true more or less and thus began a long off and on relationship that ended badly of course. I still have the Coke habit!
What kind of cateteria is Arlo running? No hot pepper sauces, no fish sauce.
Aralia. I remembered the plant! Aralia of which there are dozens looks like pot plant.
Jackie, I believe that very sexy and glamorous photo of Bernadette Peters was from “Pennies from Heaven”. The pneumatic and pulchritudinous Ms. Peters does indeed do cheesecake good. Real good.
I guess y’all aren’t Shakespeare fans…
As a 15 year-old I was fascinated by all those fairies wearing mostly body paint. But it was on PBS and was the Royal Shakespeare Company doing it, so my mom said it was “cultural” and told us to watch it while she and Dad were out…
Ron: that is a good version of Midsummer Night’s Dream and Dame Judi’s costume, or lack of it, is quite interesting. Hard to beat the 1939 version with Mickey Rooney as Puck and Cagney as Bottom, however.
OF due 1210-1230 CST. Peace, emb
I am a might snobbish about Shakespeare. The best productions are played live in small theaters.
No mustard, no ketchup, no ajiki, no soy sauce, no sriracha sauce, no wasabi…
Reminds me, must make a pot of marinara sauce or a pot of chili…or both.