Dear Facebook friends (and hopefully, others), I’ve recently noticed that some of you seem very upset about privacy issues and have been posting messages all in caps (ostensibly to show that it is super…
Year: 2013
Blog posts
Mary Tyler Moore Performing Paul McCartney’s “With a Little Luck”
“Of course I enjoy watching the venerable Miss Moore apply the same “Mary-isms” to the top-ten Wings hit as she did to any random confrontation with Lou Grant, but what really thrills me is the expression of pain on David Letterman’s face.”
“Cher” Day: Acknowledging October 17, 1975
38 years ago today I got home from school and put on my wig, heels and false eyelashes and lumbered down to the basement of our split level at 15 Overhill Road. With Bridget…
Movie Quote of the Day: May Robson in A Star is Born (1937)
“Esther, everyone in this world who has ever dreamed about better things has been laughed at, don’t you know that? But there’s a difference between dreaming and doing. The dreamers just sit around and…
Natalie Cole Gave Fever to Birdland, October 7th, 2013
I’ve been hearing for quite a while Jim Caruso’s Cast Party is by far the most amazing open mic night in Manhattan. I was so glad to finally stop by and check it out…
25: An Elegy for Steven Stern
25 years ago today Steven Stern lost his short, brave fight against AIDS. I still haven’t wrapped my head around it. He’s been gone longer than the number of years he was physically here…
Melismania! The Art of Good Singing Has a Terrible Case of the Runs
I recently received a thoughtful email regarding my Stargayzing piece about Christina Aguilera’s musical identity crisis. In addition to expressing strong feelings about the relative aspects of what I perceive as Aguilera’s disappointing artistic trajectory,…
Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, & Shirley Eder: Hollywood’s Original Two-Faced Women
By Stargayzing guest blogger Corinna Tomrley* Shirley Eder may be known to those who are serious about their classic Hollywood trivia, but to many her name will not ring a bell. Although not as renowned…
Annie Ross at the Metropolitan Room, New York City: The Singer as Actor
One of the beautiful things about the culture of jazz and cabaret music is that life experience, and the emotional deepening that it confers on its artists, is considered an attribute, not a reason…
Behind the Scenes at MGM’s 1974 Premiere of That’s Entertainment
Ten years before the home video explosion of the 1980s and decades before TCM and YouTube brought the full measure of film history into our homes, MGM studios mined their rich archive to create…
Quote of the Day: Joni Mitchell on Fame and Music
“The trick is, if you listen to the music and you see me, you’re not getting anything out of it. If you listen that music and you see yourself, it will probably make you…
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