"With a Heavy Heart I Regret To Inform You" Dept.:

Eartha Kitt passed away this afternoon after an extended battle with colon cancer. She was 82. A lot of people are going to mention her two episodes of Batman where she played Catwoman. I have a better story for y'all, and I'll post it tomorrow.


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"As Good As It Gets - Jazz Oddities" Dept.:

Each of these songs is sung by someone who is best known to most of us for their work on the SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! series of cartoon shorts. Thing is, all of these people are also well respected jazz perfomers in their own right.

Grady ("I GOT SIX!") Tate, delivers solid soul

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"Longbox Playhouse Proudly Presents" Dept.:

Patsy Walker and Hedy Wolfe, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Al Hartley.


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"Educating Rachel - Margaret Atwood" Dept.:

Maggie Atwood interviewed by Bill Moyer on the subject of religion
Notice how she called the Q&A "Question Period"? That just made the expat Canadians chuckle....

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Margaret Atwood provides VALUBLE KNOWLEDGE for all Canadians

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"With A Heavy Heart I Regret To Inform You" Dept.:Cyd Charisse passed away Tuesday evening at the age of 86 having arrived at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center the previous day showing the effects of an apparent heart attack ( Read more... )

"Juvenile Sigh-Induction By Means of Jaw-Dropping Feminine Pulchritude" Dept.:

Apparently Megan Fox's next movie has her standing in a chilly lake for a while...


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That Sherry Miller - She's got RAZZ-Ma-TAZZ!

"Kanadian Korner - The Great White North" Dept.:I had a crush on Sherry Miller from the age of 10 or so as this series of adverts for Spumante Bambino ran in the late 70s and early 80s. In an odd coincidence a rather attractuive young woman was in the shop about two years ago asking if we had any wine ( Read more... )

I've been watching the old PETER GUNN DVD set I bought years ago...

"Women We Love" Dept.:At the time Marilyn Monroe broke really big, every studio did what they always do and still do - looked strictly at the superficial aspects of the thing that their competition had done to make some money, and then fired off some knock off versions of the ( Read more... )

"With A Heavy Heart I Regret To Inform You" Dept.:

This one is one of the rough ones, folks.


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"Women We Love" Dept.:While I've got y'all squishy for Lynda Barry, I found this bit of Ron Mann's classic 1980's documentary about comics, COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL, that someone had ripped up to YouTube. Granted, it's not as cool as any of Lynda's 6 or 7 appearances on The David Letterman Show, but it gives you a good sense of where she's coming ( Read more... )