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Fabulous Friday: "When Will I Be Loved"
Another wonderful performance by Ronstadt: "When Will I Be Loved?"
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Jul 17, 20201 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 7/15/20
I don't think *Bewitched* was the first TV show to replace one of its stars, but could we say it was one of the most notable? We went...
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Jul 15, 20201 min read
CDA: Kelly Preston and Naya Rivera
Kelly Preston was best known as John Travolta's wife, but she was also a wonderful actor. Here's her best scene in her best movie, *Jerry...
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Jul 14, 20201 min read
Open Space recital, 7/11/20
I heard Melissa Reardon (viola) and Raman Ramakrishnan (cello) in an Open Space recital on 7/11/20. This is an online recital series...
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Jul 13, 20202 min read
Fabulous Friday: "Desperado"
I love The Eagles, but Linda Ronstadt's recording of "Desperado" is so much better than theirs. Here she is singing it in that 1977...
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Jul 10, 20201 min read
CDA: Kevin Rafferty
Stephanie Jutt (one of my most devoted readers) alerted me to the death of director and producer Kevin Rafferty. Thanks for the alert,...
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Jul 9, 20201 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 7/8/20
Samantha had a look-alike cousin named Serena. Yes, identical cousins, all the way! One pair of matching bookends, different as night and...
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Jul 8, 20201 min read
CDA: Cordero, Daniels, Downs, Morricone
Oh my, so many alerts! Four, to be precise. First is Nick Cordero, the Tony-nominated actor who recently died of COVID-19 at 41. Richard...
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Jul 7, 20202 min read
Fabulous Friday: Mystery Guest, Julie London again
I gave you a 1957 Mystery Guest appearance by Julie London in June, and today I give you two more trips to London, in 1959 and 1961. She...
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Jul 3, 20201 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 7/1/20
June was a tribute to those fabulous TV shows from the 50s and 60s. I'm turning over July to our current fixation, *Bewitched.* I always...
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Jul 1, 20201 min read
CDA: Carl Reiner
This one made me sad. What a treasure he was, and what a mitzvah to the whole world that he lived as long as he did. He was one of the...
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Jun 30, 20201 min read
Fabulous Friday: "Barbie a la Mambo"
Here's the last of my homemade videos, and the best one! I took a very short song by Perez Prado, "Mambo #8," and made a video with...
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Jun 26, 20201 min read
CDA: Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher was a Hollywood director who had his heyday in the 80s and 90s. He planted his flag with *St. Elmo's Fire* and *The Lost...
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Jun 25, 20201 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 6/24/20
Richard and I found an airing of *Lost in Space,* once a week on Sunday nights at 1 AM. We watched an episode when we got up on Sunday...
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Jun 24, 20201 min read
CDA: Ian Holm
The wonderful Ian Holm! I think the first thing I saw him in was *Chariots of Fire,* but I've since seen him in so many wonderful movies:...
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Jun 20, 20201 min read
Fabulous Friday: Handel meets *Psycho*
The story behind this video is rather involved. I was a big fan of Jill Feldman's recording of "Tra le fere," a show-stopping aria from...
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Jun 19, 20202 min read
CDA: Vera Lynn
This was one of those awful cases of, "Jeez, she was still alive?" She was 103, dear old girl. CNN called her "the sweetheart of the...
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Jun 18, 20201 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 6/17/20
Two 1950s housewives: Diva: Lucy Ricardo Mensch: Donna Stone
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Jun 17, 20201 min read
Fabulous Friday: Julie London
Remember last week I said I had something special up my sleeve for the month of June, and I used a Mystery Guest appearance by Julie...
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Jun 12, 20201 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 6/10/20
Today's pair: Diva: Eddie Haskell Mensch: Wally Cleaver I love that Mrs. Cleaver has never fooled by Eddie, and that Eddie always thought...
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Jun 10, 20201 min read
CDA: Catherine O'Hara
Oh my I was not prepared for this one. My brother Howard texted me yesterday to alert me to the death of the extraordinary Catherine O'Hara at the too young age of 71. Like many of my generation I first encountered her on SCTV. My favorite of her characters was Lola Heatherton, a dimly talented nightclub performer, her name pointing us to Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon mainstays Lola Falana and Joey Heatherton. She was delightful in Beetlejuice (1988) but I'm not so into
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2 days ago2 min read
Fabulous Friday: Alanis Morissette
I've asked my friend Jori Hume to write a few Fabulous Fridays in the Rock and Roll Woman series. Jori is a friend from high school, without a doubt the coolest person ever to attend Delavan-Darien High School. I was about to write "ever to graduate from" but I bet there are some cool people who were dropouts! Jori is cooler than any of them. I'll hand the baton to Jori: Do you remember the first time you heard “You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morissette? Picture it: Kansas City.
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3 days ago2 min read
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