Moshpitting at the Met April 27, 2008
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From the Vienna Staatsoper production of Gaetano Donizetti’s La fille du régiment, Juan Diego Flórez sings “Pour me rapprocher de Marie”.
Equity wins silver in Houston April 22, 2008
Posted by Jeff in Labor, Movies, Theater, Zook.2 comments
Above: Marie Dressler (foreground) and chorus girls from the Ziegfeld Follies picketing on Broadway, 1919.
My original screenplay Equity has been awarded a Silver Remi for Best Dramatic Screenplay at the 2008 WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.
For some reason, they love me in Texas April 11, 2008
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For the second year in a row, one of my screenplays has won a Remi Award from the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.
Michael Jeter, 1952–2003 April 6, 2008
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From the Tony Award telecast of June 3, 1990, Brent Barrett and Michael Jeter perform “We’ll Take A Glass Together” from the musical Grand Hotel:
Bush tied to child prostitution ring March 17, 2008
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This was originally posted on democrats.com.
George Bush has been tied to a prostitution ring involving as many as 50,000 women and girls and is expected to resign or be impeached, according to Congressional sources.
Giuseppe di Stefano, 1921-2008 March 3, 2008
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The last of the great 20th-century Italian tenors, the man whom Luciano Pavarotti called a role model, has died at the age of eighty-seven.
Yeah, thanks, Ralph February 27, 2008
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You can’t even rely on the shadowy puppetmasters any more February 26, 2008
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Not like in the good old days …
If every Obama supporter was this smart and passionate … February 18, 2008
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… I would be a lot more enthusiastic about him …
Happy Valentine’s Day, from Eleanor February 14, 2008
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Eleanor Steber, that is, singing “Depuis le jour” from Gustave Charpentier’s Louise.
The (possibly apocryphal) story is that she recorded this for HMV because she was too hung over to sing the Mozart arias she had been hired to perform.
An non-break from not blogging February 11, 2008
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Back in the summer of 2006, my friend Bob was so scornful of bloggers, that to avoid his snark I told him the only reason I was setting up a … well, a non-blog … was to promote my writing projects.
By my calculation, this is my six hundredth non-post on my non-blog, representing at least one post per day pretty much without fail since I started.
“Chattanooga Choo Choo” February 10, 2008
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From Sun Valley Serenade (1941), an intro by the Glenn Miller Orchestra segues into …
“I Got A Gal In Kalamazoo” February 9, 2008
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A year after Sun Valley Serenade, Glenn Miller, the Nicholas Brothers and Harry Warren and Max Gordon continue their survey of songs about American cities with funny names …
“Lucky Numbers” February 8, 2008
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From The Black Network, a 1936 short, fifteen-year-old Harold and twenty-two-year-old Fayard Nicholas perform “Lucky Numbers” by Cliff Hess.
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