_'Royal Racists' Named as Charles and Kate
by U.K. Media
--Daily Beast
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Pin the Tail on the Donkey?
Thursday, November 30, 2023
To the ramparts, citizens
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Yes, Wonder Woman sings.
After her bullet-bouncing career as TV superhero in the 1970s, Lynda Carter carved out a second turn as a pop/jazz singer.
Rise Up arrived on YouTube yesterday.
No, it's not the Parachute Club tune.
Clip: Lynda Carter - Rise Up - Official Lyric Video
Song: Andra Day & Jennifer Decilveo
Cookie Monster takes flight
When Cookie Monster appeared on John Oliver's talk show, the puppet did schtick between videotape takes.
Cookie Monster's substantial comedy skills now belong to David Rudman, a veteran puppeteer. The late Frank Oz originated the fuzzy in 1966.
I watch these out-takes at least once a year.
Too late to take an improv class.
David Rudman / Cookie Monster
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
END OF THE LINE: The Traveling Wilburys
Song: Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty & Roy Orbison
And always, it could be verse
Charles the Poet made many visits to Bob and Ray. When someone tries to read you a poem, think of Charles. Poems, above and below.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Breaking Bad
Ground Search and Rescue
Kitchener-Waterloo
Kitchener-Waterloo
A large pig on highway near Fairway exit
Update: OPP are there and the pig truck
is just up the highway
waiting to put pig back on the truck.
Please drive with caution.
We've turned off comments and will update as we know more.
We've turned off comments and will update as we know more.
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Sadly, we already know The More.
Lydia the Tattooed Lady
Lydia, the Tattooed Lady was written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen.
Groucho first sang it in the Marx Brothers movie, At the Circus ( 1939 )
BEST BUDS: Bob and Don: A Love Story
"Somebody called me up and said 'Don Rickles needs a best friend. And nobody wants to do it."
--Bob Newhart
Most are aware that comedians Don Rickles and Bob Newhart were best friends.
A New Yorker short debuted last night, and underlines the bud-ship with clips and unseen footage that tugs at the heart. Judd Apatow produced the 20-minute documentary.
It's an elegant eulogy to an era.
Newhart is 94. Rickles died in 2017.
Clip: "Bob and Don: A Love Story" - Judd Apatow - The New Yorker
Monday, November 27, 2023
"Deefeecult for you, easy for me ... "
Senor Wences was so popular in the 1950s,
the ventriloquist got a record deal!
Senor Wences and "Johnny" were Ed Sullivan's second most-favorite act.
Topo Gigio the mouse was first
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Sunday, November 26, 2023
VIDEO VAULT: Roy Rogers sings Cole Porter with TRIGGER
The King of the Cowboys rides in to sing an unlikely Cole Porter song.
Movie money will make you do anything.
Trigger dances.
Say no more.
Clip: Roy Rogers & Trigger - Don't Fence Me In - Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 )
Song: Cole Porter
PERFORMANCE: Cole Porter, Bobby Short
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"You've got what Adam craved
when he with love for Eve was tortured
She only had an apple tree,
but you, you've got an orchard... "
There is only one Cole Porter.
Don't look now, but this song is nearly 100 years old.
Verse after verse, he just won't stop.
Four years after the tune above, Porter wrote You're the Top.
"Updated" many times thru the decades, Porter sings the orginal genius lyric, below...
Bobby Short specialized in little-known Cole Porter songs for three decades at New York city's Cafe Carlyle. Anybody here ever see Mabel Mercer?
Clips: You've Got That Thing - Bobby Short ( song 1929 )
You're the Top - Cole Porter ( song 1934 )
It's a slow roll to Christmas ...
"My family likes to set up our grudges at Thanksgiving, stew over them throughout December, then take our revenge at Christmas."
--Barbara Smaller / newyorker.com