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Diva/Mensch pair for Sept 4, 2024
Two 1962 Grammy winners: Diva: Song of the Year - - "What Kind of Fool Am I?," Sammy Davis Jr. Mensch: Record of the Year - - "I Left My...
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Aug 301 min read
Fabulous Friday: LH&R, Playboy After Dark
I recently discovered Playboy After Dark on YouTube. I know that two "best of" compilations have been released on DVD but I want a...
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Aug 281 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Aug 28, 2024
The 1961 winners of Best Performance by a Vocal Group were Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross for High Flying. I went full tilt boogie nutso...
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Aug 231 min read
Fabulous Friday: the Criterion Closet
Are you familiar with the Criterion Collection? They're a media company that planted in the 1980s distributing the work of Janus Films on...
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Aug 211 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Aug 21, 2024
The Song of the Year for 1960 was "Theme of Exodus. " Why do you suppose it was "of" and not "from"? I find that slightly puzzling. The...
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Aug 202 min read
Rock My Soul, Aug 16, 2024
Debbie, Bob, and I saw Rock My Soul at the Dance Hall in Kittery, Maine on Aug 16, 2024. They're a choir of about 20 singers aided by a...
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ladiesvoices
Aug 192 min read
CDA x 4: Delon, Donahue, Marshall, Rowlands
They're coming fast and furious! My brother Howard told me about the two cinematic icons on the list, Alain Delon and Gena Rowlands - - I...
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ladiesvoices
Aug 161 min read
Fabulous Friday: M O'Hara and J Candy on J Carson
This is so sweet. Miss O'Hara is priceless. I love her old school precise way of speaking.
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Aug 141 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Aug 14, 2024
Frank Sinatra's Come Dance With Me won Album of the Year in 1959. Billy May won the Grammy for Best Arrangement. Diva: Sinatra Mensch:...
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Aug 92 min read
Fabulous Friday: "I Didn't Know About You"
The Diva this week is Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington's recording of a song Ellington wrote with lyricist Bob Russell, "I Didn't Know...
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Aug 71 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for Aug 7, 2024
I'm starting a new long-term theme. I looked at movies and the Oscars in my last theme - - now I'm going to look at music and the...
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Aug 22 min read
Fabulous Friday: "Invitation"
Do you know the movie and/or the song "Invitation"? The movie Invitation is a slight 1952 drama directed by Gottfried Reinhardt. I only...
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Aug 13 min read
*Oh, Mary!* July 29, 2024
David Jay and I saw Oh, Mary! on Broadway on July 29, 2024. It's a play written by and starring Cole Escola. I saw them (they use the...
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Jul 311 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for July 31, 2024
Let's revisit the big hit movie from last summer (no, I'm not talking about Oppenheimer): Diva: Barbie Mensch: Ken
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Jul 261 min read
Fabulous Friday: "My Sharona"
Tuesday night I was talking to a friend and adding his contact info to my phone. I asked him: ME: And please tell me your wife's name....
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Jul 241 min read
Diva/mensch pair for July 24 ,2024
A few weeks ago I saw the Kronos Quartet in concert morphed with a film about them. https://www.divamensch.com/kronos-quartet-june-2024...
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ladiesvoices
Jul 212 min read
*Titanique,*
Karen and I saw Titanique off Broadway on July 6, 2024. I explained the premise to my mother the day before: ME: It's about Celine Dion...
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Jul 201 min read
CDA: Bob Newhart
I was saddened to hear about the death of Bob Newhart, age 94. He was known for Newhart and his recent appearances on The Big Bang...
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Jul 191 min read
Fabulous Friday: Tallulah Bankhead double feature
What could be better than Bette Davis talking about Tallulah Bankhead? Well how about Tallulah Bankhead talking to Marlene Dietrich? Here...
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Jul 171 min read
Diva/Mensch pair for July 17, 2024
With apologies to the immortal Stendahl: Diva: red Mensch: black
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Fabulous Friday: Suzanne Charny
Last week I sent out the big dance sequence from the movie of Sweet Charity. The lead female dancer was Suzanne Charny. She was damn...
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*Ainadamar,* Nov 6, 2024
Karen, Stephanie, and I saw *Ainadamar* at the Met on Nov 6, 2024. It's an opera by composer Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry...
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