Over the last eight years, while President Obama attempted to do his job and a large percentage of our country medicated itself with important things like reality show star Kim Kardashian’s big ass, the…
Tag: Judy Garland
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On Stevie Phillips’ Memoir: Judy + Liza et. al.
Even by Hollywood standards, the majesty and misery of Judy Garland’s short life were extreme, marked by operatic intensity and an epic series of (mostly) public peaks and valleys. The Judy Garland story arc remains the…
Bing Crosby’s 10 Favorite Performers of All Time
Bing Crosby was, perhaps, the first multi-media superstar: radio, recordings, live performances, and film. Crosby was an Oscar-winning actor and the top-selling recording artist of the first half of the 20th-century. Despite all these…
October 6, 1963: CBS Broadcasts The Judy Garland Show Featuring Barbra Streisand
Frequent Stargayzing contributor Corinna Tormley and David Munk each share there thoughts on the historic performance. Corinna Tormley: I love Judy and I love Barbra and so was very aware of the show’s existence…
11 Performances that Should Have Won Oscars, John Richkus
I’ve always been a list maker. And because I’m a dyed-in-the-wool cineaste I’ve got movie lists up the wazoo. I’ve seen over 3,800 films and have them all listed in alphabetical order with the…
Pink’s “Over the Rainbow”: Whatever Happened to Phrase. Ing?
I should begin by saying I am a fan of Pink. I think she is as talented a pop singer who has come to the fore in the Internet age as any I’ve heard. …
Steve Allen’s 13 Favorite Songs, Courtesy of The Book of Lists 90s Edition
From The Book of Lists 90s Edition, here is Steve Allen’s list with the original introduction from the editors. I have taken the liberty of annotating his choices with writing credits, as well as…
David Munk Interviewed by the England’s Merry Band of Queer Misfits—The Ethel Mermaids
Several months ago I began to get to know a lovely lady in London called Corinna Tomrley. I think it was through Twitter, but it might have been Facebook—who can say with this much…
The Truth Comes Out! The Sexual Secrets of the Golden Age of Hollywood’s “Gentleman Hustler” Revealed!
Though there has been much written about whether iconic stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era were gay or bisexual, confirming the veracity of these allegations was nearly impossible during the period that the studios’ all-powerful…
Bette Midler’s “Merry Christmas”: 12 Holiday Songs You’ve (Probably) Never Heard, Day Ten
If the world were fair and just, “Merry Christmas,” which was memorably performed in the film by Judy Garland with all of the customary pathos one would expect, would have joined the singer’s Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, introduced a few years before in Meet Me in St. Louis, as a holiday standard.
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught, Part Two: Maple Munk Singing “Meet Me In St. Louis”
I’m happy to report that my niece Maple Munk, just shy of her fifth birthday is, if anything, exceeding my expectations as a budding pop culture aficionado! I’ve written before about what I reason…
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