Category Archives: Performers

Quote Du Jour

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: In my more than ten years of critical examination of motion pictures, I have never seen anything quite so unacceptable as the shots of the breasts of the character of Rio. This is the young girl whom … Continue reading →

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Jane Russell: Singer

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

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Showtune Saturday: “So In Love”

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: Hermann Prey, the great Austrian baritone known best for his German lieder interpretations, gives a heartfelt rendition of the standard from Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate. Yes, perhaps his English could be better, but can you doubt … Continue reading →

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Notes on “Every-Night Dreams”

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: There’s an almost cubist visual sensibility at work in this 1933 silent from director Mikio Naruse. Scenes are fractured into barrages of angles, the camera sometimes moving in on its subjects in kamikaze fashion. Many of the … Continue reading →

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Showtune Saturday: “Dentist”

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: Certainly the best song sung by Steve Martin playing a sadistic biker-dentist in a musical horror movie about a cannibalistic plant based on a stage musical derived from a Roger Corman film, ever. From Frank Oz’s Little Shop … Continue reading →

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Naked Lady of the Week: Lexi Belle

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Porn star Lexi Belle, AVN nominee for best three-way sex scene (G/G/B) and winner of the award for best three-way sex scene (B/B/G), knows about the good life: Along with her vegetarianism, she involves herself in animal volunteering, expressing a … Continue reading →

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Sunday Jazz Selection

Posted on August 10, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: A link to the streaming version of Chick Corea and Gary Burton, I’m Your Pal.

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Showtune Saturday: “The Making of ‘West Side Story'”

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: Bit of different to our normal Showtune Saturdays, rather than one number, this is a 90-minute documentary on the making of the 1984 recording of West Side Story. Astonishingly, it was the first time that Leonard Bernstein … Continue reading →

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Wimmin Singin Wednesday

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: I am enamoured of Rosemary Clooney’s interpretation of Cole Porter’s Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye.  How strange the change from major to minor. . . . As McCartney sang in another context entirely, she’s a woman, and she … Continue reading →

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Notes on “Turn Back the Clock”

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I had an okay time with this rather flimsy and almost Capraesque Lee Tracy film about an Average Joe who gets to relive the recent past. Because he knows what’ll happen, he makes himself into a financial … Continue reading →

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