Thursday, October 12, 2006
Stereo Typewriter
I'm starting - just starting - to get caught upwith my sleep. While interviewing (interrogating?) a Mexican company I'm studying, a colleague interrupted the call with the chilling news of an airplane crashing into a building, this time a high-elevation traffic accident rather than something truly scary... I'm chilling out tonight watching a few old movies, including the black & white classic 'Cabin In The Sky' (see colorized photo, left)' Chock-full of brilliant African-American performers and plenty of stale stereotypes, it's nonetheless a piece of history, as the studio disclaimer informs us upon pressing 'play.' Based on a Broadway musical of the same name, it features Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Eddie "Rochester" Andersen. "Rochester" was a Jack Benny side-kick in the late radio and early TV era, quite a bit before my day....Columbus sailed the deep blue sea, in fourtee hundred and ninety three...
Tick Tick Tick Pavarotti turns 70 today, and Joan Rivers, 71....
You Go Hi Then Ho
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