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Author Archives: Eddie Pensier
Vintage Photos Du Jour
Eddie Pensier writes: Papa Pensier (squinting little boy) and family. Lisbon, Portugal c.1935 Mama Pensier (squealing baby) and family. Buenos Aires, Argentina, c.1936. Related More cool old photos of my parents and grandparents.
Showtune Saturday: “Some Enchanted Evening”
Eddie Pensier writes: It’s big and lush and swoony and romantic. It’s a guy telling a girl about falling in love at first sight, and not missing out on it when it happens. This is the sort of song that … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Music, Performers
Tagged giorgio tozzi, mitzi gaynor, rodgers and hammerstein, rossano brazzi, showtune saturday, south pacific
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Showtune Saturday: “This Time The Dream’s On Me”
Eddie Pensier writes: The sublime Sylvia McNair treats us to her rendition of the Arlen/Mercer standard, which originally appeared in Blues in the Night (1941). It’s on her marvelous 1995 collaboration with André Previn*, Come Rain Or Come Shine: The … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Performers
Tagged andre previn, blues in the night, harold arlen, showtune saturday, sylvia mcnair, this time the dreams on me
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Manon Lescaut, Five Ways
Eddie Pensier writes: She done him so, so wrong. L’Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut is a scandalous novella written in 1731 by Abbé Antoine François Prévost. Frequently banned and censored, it’s the story of a bourgeois … Continue reading
Art Du Jour
Eddie Pensier writes: George Washington Lambert, The Sonnet, c.1907 Related More Lamberts in my Ladies of the AGNSW gallery. Donald of 2Blowhards was a Lambert fan.
Showtune Saturday (encore) “Barcelona”
Eddie Pensier writes: By popular demand, here’s a repeat of the clip I posted last February of “Barcelona” from Sondheim’s Company. It features Neil Patrick Harris. Oh and Christina Hendricks too, and did I mention that she takes her clothes … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Performers, Sex
Tagged big tits, christina hendricks, company, neil patrick harris, stephen sondheim
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“Khartoum” (1966)
Eddie Pensier writes: A gorgeous-looking Lawrence of Arabia wannabe, directed by Basil Dearden, about the defense of Khartoum by General Charles Gordon (Charlton Heston) against the forces of the “Mahdi” Muhammed Ahmed (Laurence Olivier). Khartoum features loads of wide desert … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged basil dearden, charles gordon, charlton heston, khartoum, Laurence Olivier
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Beer Day Out
Eddie Pensier writes: If you were imagining an ideal way to spend a warm spring Saturday, it might involve dozens of beers and tasty ethnic nibbles. Such was the case at Beer Day Out, a festival of craft beers sponsored by … Continue reading
Showtune Saturday: “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd”
Eddie Pensier writes: CORRECTION AND APOLOGY: Since this post was put up, the video has been taken off YouTube. Apologies, and I’ll try to find another one. If there’s a better opening to a performance on video, I’ve yet to … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Performers
Tagged audra mcdonald, bryn terfel, Emma Thompson, new york philharmonic, showtune saturday, stephen sondheim, sweeney todd
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