now you see me now you don't: the fame or shadow of a radio show
...no less fascinating for that. (Wed, 4 Sept 2013)
has Viva now become a 'radio' whore...
___^~
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Manchester police in Britain to record attacks on goths, emos and punks as hate crimes
Decision follows campaign by Sophie Lancaster Foundation, a charity set up in memory of girl fatally attacked. The first hate crime trial of its kind begins this week.
BBC radio segment on this (Sept8) - (15.48)
BBC radio segment on this (Sept8) - (15.48)
and
“how female comics
make feminism funny”-
BBC radio show (Sept 5-segment at 16.10) plus Alan Cumming on his new film and being first name billed with Liza Minnelli
BBC radio show (Sept 5-segment at 16.10) plus Alan Cumming on his new film and being first name billed with Liza Minnelli
Monday, September 2, 2013
Limelight- Charles Chaplin
Arriving back in NYC jet-lagged, jilted
and kinda glowing that I was back where I belonged, I took myself to MoMA and a
screening (a very poor one MoMA ..hmmm) of Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight. (The link is old..) Half or very nearly ‘sozzled’ one night too
long ago I remember seeing this and ‘somewhere in my youth or childhood’. There is a very enterprising Brit (or is it
Scottish)- ouch- don’t won’t to get the nomenclature wrong there – company Park Circus
who issued a Blu ray several years ago.
The beauty, the intricacy, the casting the EVERYTHING about
this film just leaves you speechless. And Chaplin could so easily be from the
Brando school of acting 20 years later! Such is his naturalistic performance.
(Chaplin’s last film was with Brando and, as if his other talents weren’t
enough, he could even compose a hit main film theme as he did with Limelight). When you read what happened to Chaplin, one
becomes so sad. So angry. And moreover so scared as to whether such a thing could
happen again in this country. The world’s greatest talents against the
talentless in Washington slapped in the face by them as if they deserved
nothing better than a gas chamber.
The elements of beauty (and therefore the sublime I
guess) just haunt you in Limelight. And of course
truth. How else could that be when Chaplin married playwright Eugene O’Neill’s
daughter.
Friday, August 30, 2013
don't give up when music is still there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuFIzHifuu4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MHxPuWld5o
but: some fun.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOoFgZ6hn8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MHxPuWld5o
but: some fun.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOoFgZ6hn8
Monday, July 16, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
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