Calling all hepcats! DJ Li'l Scratch is layin' down some swingin' tracks at the Manor's "Pork Sword" lounge tonight. But first, have you seen the 1980's sitcom "It's a Living?" If you have, then you know about "Sonny Mann," the comically boorish lounge singer played by Paul Kreppel (in a performance that used to annoy me, though now I find it oddly endearing).
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Kreppel had to have been lampooning Buddy Greco, at least vocally, a fantastic Vegas lounge singer who surely originated the phrases "Who loves ya', baby!" and "Ring-a-ding-ding!" and "The meatloaf's fantastic! We're open all night!"
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And while I make fun of Buddy, his LP, "16 Most Requested Songs" is winningly primeval. This is how songs like "The Lady Is A Tramp" and "She Loves Me" were first performed - or so I imagine - and in fact, how they should always be performed, with unconscious glitz and boy-yo razzmatazz. Dig it, daddy!
BTW, looking for Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post? It's RIGHT HERE.
Credit: Jordi Linares Riveras Here are Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway at the Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico as promo for The Devil Wears Prada 2 . The two are looking very chic in their outfits and sunglasses, conspicuously not wearing florals for Spring. Groundbreaking! The movie is set for release in May. Will you be checking it out?
Seen here in a fetching eyelet-embroidered gown, La Lana's life had much turmoil: her father's premature passing, seven tumultuous marriages as well as innumerable affairs (one of them ending with a dreadful finality on Good Friday, 1958). But far more devastating to her than any of those misfortunes were the critic's assessments of her performances. In her first technicolor feature, 1948's "The Three Musketeers," Pauline Kael wrote, "As Lady de Winter, Lana Turner sounds like a drive-in waitress exchanging quips with hot-rodders." And 20 years later, Kael was even more damning in her opinion of Turner in "Madame X": "She's not Madame X, she's brand X." Let's not even get into what some blogger had to say about Lana in "Portrait In Black" (my favorite of her films): "Indeed, Lana Turner takes all the prizes for making 'Portrait in Black' so watchable for me because hers is one of those truly awf...
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