Category Archives: Performers

The Camera Loves…

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: …Cyd Charisse. Click on the image to enlarge. Related Eddie Pensier shared a great performance featuring Charisse and Ricardo Montalbán here.

Posted in Performers, Sex | Tagged Cyd Charisse, Dance, legs, leopard print | 3 Comments

NOT The Beatles

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: A Walrus appropriation. With a little Penny Lane thrown in.

Posted in Music, Performers | Tagged Beatles, Sowing the Seeds of Love, Tears for Fears | 4 Comments

Mina Mazzini

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

Posted in Music, Performers | Tagged Ennio Morricone, Italy, Mina Mazzini | 2 Comments

NOT The Beatles

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: A passable McCartney. The Nines–“Better”.

Posted in Music, Performers | Tagged Beatles, Better, The Nines | 1 Comment

Four Jazz Singers

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

Posted in Music, Performers | Tagged Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, jazz, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan | 3 Comments

Salomé, Five Ways

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee; And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Books Publishing and Writing, Music, Performers, Philosophy and Religion | Tagged alla nazimova, bernardino luini, five ways, henri regnault, oscar wilde, Richard Strauss, rita hayworth | 4 Comments

“Edouard et Caroline”

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Directed by Jacques Becker in 1951, this concise, smartly worked-out marital farce is a cynical companion piece to Becker’s earlier “Antoine et Antoinette.” When Daniel Gelin’s Edouard allows his wife Caroline to talk him into giving a piano … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers | Tagged Anne Vernon, Daniel Gelin, Edouard et Caroline, Film, France, Game, Jacques Becker, movies, Romantic Comedy | 2 Comments

Notes on “Snow Country”

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: An exceptionally beautiful melodrama that, though it never delivers on its narrative and thematic promises, is the kind of thing that seems to live in your memory even as you’re watching it. Director Shiro Toyoda is reminiscent … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers | Tagged Film, Japan, Keiko Kishi, movies, Shiro Toyoda, Snow Country | Leave a comment

NOT The Beatles

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: From Smyle, an obscure Dutch group looking for the knock-off sound, around 1971. The Lennon-styled singer went on to do the Beatles parts for the briefly famous Stars on 45 around 10 years later.