Peter Pan, part 3 December 26, 2007
Posted by Jeff in Comden and Green, Musicals, Peter Pan, Theater, Trivia questions.add a comment
Mary Martin (1913-1990) was, along with Ethel Merman, one of the last performers to make a lifetime star career for themselves almost exclusively on Broadway and television, while making almost no movies in Hollywood.
My favorite Christmas carol … and my least December 25, 2007
Posted by Jeff in Folk, Music, Trivia questions, Weirdness.add a comment
Jester Hairston wrote “Mary’s Boy Child” for Harry Belafonte, and no one has ever sung it better.
Great Expectations, fulfilled December 14, 2007
Posted by Jeff in 1946 through 1960, Movies, Trivia questions.3 comments
When we think of British films, we tend to think small … Kind Hearts and Coronets … A Hard Day’s Night … The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner … British movie studios have never been rolling in pounds sterling, and their best films tend to reflect a more intimate tone.
Except, of course, for David Lean.
¡Mi Tio es infermo, pero la carretera es verde! December 9, 2007
Posted by Jeff in Trivia questions, Weirdness.add a comment
Here are the answers to the Trivial Pursuit card that flashes at 1:10 of yesterday’s Weird Al video:
Seriously, she’s an alcoholic/addict with a dysfunctional family, a somewhat underrated actress and a really terrible singer.
No.
Page 704 (US version); page 564 (UK version).
Five.
Below the fold, the questions …
Who took Marky’s Maypo? October 24, 2007
Posted by Jeff in 1946 through 1960, Cartoons, John Hubley, Movies, Trivia questions.add a comment
In the Maypo commercials produced by John and Faith Hubley, the actor who did the voices of Marky’s father and his uncle Ralphie was…
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“I want my Maypo!” October 23, 2007
Posted by Jeff in 1946 through 1960, Cartoons, John Hubley, Movies, Trivia questions.add a comment
Like many great filmmakers, John and Faith Hubley took on commercial jobs during the 1950s and 1960s to pay the bills at their studio. This work paid for their great animated films such as “Cockaboody“, “Moonbird” and “The Tender Game“.
The best-known of these were their commercials for Maypo, a maple-flavored breakfast cereal, from which any child of my generation can remember the catchphrase that titles this post.
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The new small talk October 10, 2007
Posted by Jeff in 1961 through 1989, Movies, Musicals, Theater, Trivia questions.add a comment
Of those of us who have actually heard of George Bernard Shaw (the answer to yesterday’s question), the image at left is most likely what we think of when we think of him.
When I saw the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady, I was young enough that I remember equating Al Hirschfeld’s image of GBS in the clouds, with the strings tied to his fingers, with my image of God. This proved an even more appropriate metaphor as I grew older: by high school, my two favorite playwrights were Shaw and Bertolt Brecht.
Other children acquire their spirituality from church, or their parents. I got mine from the cover of a Lerner & Loewe album. Ah, but I was a strange child …
And he didn’t earn the Oscar October 9, 2007
Posted by Jeff in 1929 through WWII, Legit, Movies, Theater, Trivia questions.5 comments
Who is the only person ever to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar?
Your Chamber of Commerce dollars at work October 2, 2007
Posted by Jeff in Opera, Theater, Trivia questions.add a comment
What world-famous opera singer has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame …
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