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"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green. After being recorded by Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra and Miles ( Read more... )

A big, flashy extravaganza like the great musicals of the 1940s and 1950s that Hollywood used to make, with lots of singing and dancing and gorgeous costumes -- the sequel to David Fincher's Alien 3. The aliens even have their own dance numbers, and they tap-dance, yet ( Read more... )

I associated the songs in the videos embedded below with the 1940s and early 1950s, when the relief at the end of World War II hadn't yet faded completely away, and the terror of the Cold War hadn't yet sunk its fangs all the way into our hearts. These are songs from a more civilized time, a time when real personal freedom seemed within reach of ( Read more... )

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Q: We have horsetail growing in our yard that will not go away no matter what we do. It's spreading to our neighbors. Any suggestions ( Read more... )

I just watched Defendor, a 2009 Canadian superhero film written and directed by Peter Stebbings, and starring Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Elias Koteas and Sandra Oh. The film tells the story of a mentally-challenged man -- one would hesitate to call him "mentally ill"; "intellectually challenged is more accurate -- who adopts the persona of a ( Read more... )

For sheer, unadulterated fun, you can't beat Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Five videos from the musical are behind the cut:( Read more... )

Those were the days

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YouTube - Where is your heart (Moulin Rouge)

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Orchestra performing the song from the 1952, John Huston movie. Conducted by the composer Percy Faith himself.

And see also YouTube - Zsazsa Gabor in "Moulin Rouge" (1952). Think ( Read more... )