Alien spam
I got some spam email in my mailbox that began this way: Who I am? Shiny green eyes, twenty two years… It went on to catalogue her other enticing body parts—“C cup,” for example, which I would have thought was … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Arts
Speaking of Obama and Jews…
…(and we were, at least sort of) did you know that some of his best friends are? And that he thinks he knows more about Judaism than any past president, because he read about it? By the way, at the … Continue reading →
Movie musicals and rub a dub dubbing, and Audrey Hepburn
In yesterday’s thread about the undeserving poor, commenter IGotBupkis took aim at the musical “My Fair Lady” versus the movie version of the play “Pygmalion.” His comment was rather long (go here to read the whole thing), but I’ll excerpt … Continue reading →
Suzanne Farrell
Perhaps you’ve never seen Suzanne Farrell dance. Perhaps you’ve never even heard of her. She’s sixty-six now and retired from performing for over twenty years. But in her heyday she was unique, and choreographer George Balanchine was besotted with her. … Continue reading →
RIP Paul Fussell
Author Paul Fussell has died at 88. I read only two things he wrote, but both of them were extraordinary. The first was his magnum opus, the one that made him famous (at least in some circles), The Great War … Continue reading →
And Harrison Ford’s…
…getting older too: In case you missed the reference, it’s to this song (Stevie Nicks is getting older, too…although a whole lotta botox and cosmetic filler helps): And by the way, Harrison Ford will turn 70 in July. Wow. He … Continue reading →
Another day, another dress
It’s hard to know quite what to say about Jennifer Lopez in this dress, except that it’s hideous, although JLo is a very attractive woman. What was she thinking? The only person who could pull this off would be a … Continue reading →
Etudes in Boston
I saw the Boston Ballet perform last night. The first dance was forgettable, the second a great classic, Jerome Robbins’ “Fancy Free.” That alone would have been worth the price of admission, with its Bernstein music, its swingy 40s ambiance, … Continue reading →
Dancing With the Stars update
It’s what you really want, isn’t it? For me to leave behind all the tedious blather about Obama, and offer some tedious blather about “Dancing With the Stars” instead? So let me just say that I’m sad today because the … Continue reading →
Penny from the block
I was reading the Wiki entry for Penny Marshall, “Laverne” of the TV show “Laverne and Shirley,” when I came across this astounding tidbit: In the 1950s, she grew up in an apartment on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx … Continue reading →
The PC “Fantasticks”
Last night I went to a performance of the musical “The Fantasticks.” It’s one of my favorites—charming and light, with extraordinarily beautiful music, and it conjures up magical childhood memories of the time my whole family went to the original … Continue reading →
Rita Hayworth: dancer
A fun juxtaposition, sent to me by a reader: Madonna’s got absolutely nothing on Rita Hayworth. Watch Hayworth make an incredibly sensuous strip tease out of taking off a single glove: Hayworth couldn’t sing; all her movie songs were dubbed, … Continue reading →