Greetings, fellow prostitots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with a bit of skiddly-doo, bop-bop-a-loo-bob and shoobee-doobee. These words were frequently accompanied by a wink, finger guns and tap dancing leaps, all prime words and moves from the early 1960s - just before jazz at last lost its popular hold to rock, which had been near-to-obliterating it years before. Now the job was done. Finito.  Also lost? Jazz babies, or femme jazz vocalists who were the star attraction at exclusive supper clubs, some of whom even got to cut an album or two. Like the hot-cha singing attraction, Peggy Connelly. And lucky you, tonight at the Manor's "Mack the Cat" nightclub and dinette, DJ Li'l Scratch will be playing Peggy till the early yawning hours.  At one time the wife of "Laugh-In's" Dick Martin, Peggy was a popular model, singer, dancer, and sometime TV and movie actress, in the 1950s and 60s - and a choice escort about to...

If, after voting for him in 2016, someone had come out and said they had regrets, one of my favorite old German friends, Schadenfreude, would have paid me a visit. I would have enjoyed their pain, their sorrow, their humiliation, but after they finally woke up, I still would have needed to see them make amends, do better, and educate themselves. I wouldn’t have befriended them or wanted them in my life. That’s asking too much. But I could have appreciated their remorse and horror at being so wrong and stupid. I wouldn’t have been sympathetic because ignorance is not an excuse when their orange messiah’s irredeemable psychopathic behavior was on full display and had been for decades. Eventually, I might have been able to tolerate them. Beyond those initial feckless fools, no MAGAt deserves grace, kindness, forgiveness, understanding, or any shred of decent treatment. They deserve to be shunned forever. They deserve hate. They deserve to be mocked and ridiculed. The only other thing they...

  Tony Lundon - Irish singer-songwriter, producer and director, former member of Liberty X - 47 Dylan Frances Penn - American actress and model - 35 Allison Williams - American actress - 38 Carmen Carrera - American tv personality, model, burlesque performer, actress - 41 Ty Dolla Sign - American singer-songwriter and record producer - 44 Nellie McKay - English-American singer-songwriter - 44 Courtney Peldon - American actress - 45 Kelli Giddish - American actress - 46 Kyle Howard - American actor - 48 Glenn Howerton - American actor, writer, producer and podcaster - 50 Lou Bega - German singer - 51 Bokeem Woodbine - American actor - 53 Aaron Lewis - American musician and singer, founding member of Staind - 54 Caroline Rhea - Canadian actress and stand-up comedian - 62 Jimmy Destri - American musician former member of Blondie - 72 Peabo Bryson - American singer-songwriter - 75 Max Weinberg - American drummer, tv personality, member of the E Street Band - 75 Ron Perlman - Ame...

I couldn't come up with anything from memory because my radical bohemian anti-corporate weed-smoking hippie adjacent alternative living parents thought watching television subjected us to capitalist propaganda, and a narrow materialistic view of the world that excluded everyone but conformist white heterosexuals. So there are many, many gaps in my television watching career. Not to say I never watched it, but it was mostly PBS, movie rentals, or basic cable. Nothing much has ever changed. I don't think it makes me superior. It just means the pop culture television landscape and I rarely connect. A week ago, I sent an email to my friends and family asking for links to commercials they remember. I received many back with a lot of stories and anecdotes about that time in their lives or how the world was then. These are some from the UK and the US. I couldn't link them all because some people sent me a lot, and then kept sending them. Some weren't in English, and I have no ...

  Sarah Cracknell - English singer-songwriter and lead singer of Saint Etienne - 59 Saoirse Ronan - American-born Irish actress - 32 Jessie James Decker - Italian-born American singer - 38 Brooklyn Decker - American model and actress - 39 Ilana Glazer - American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, producer, director - 39 Brendon Urie - American singer-songwriter and musician - 39 Matt McGorry - American actor - 40 Brian McFadden - Irish singer and tv presenter - 46 Claire Danes - American actress - 47 Jennifer Morrison - American actress and director - 47 Riley Smith - American actor - 48 Marley Shelton - American actress - 52 Claudia Jordan - American talk show host, actress, model, businesswoman - 53 Christina Moore - American actress - 53 Retta - American stand-up comedian and actress - 56 Art Alexakis - American musician, member of Everclear - 64 Magda Szubanski - Australian comedy actress, author, singer - 65 Vince Gill - American singer-songwriter and musician - 69 ...

Credit: Shaniqwa Jarvis/GQ Our first turd is Jonathan Majors. The actor domestic abuser has seen his career dry up before his very eyes, so like all desperate losers, he's chosen to align himself with the MAGA movement. Majors has signed on for a new acting project being produced by The Daily Wire, which is a media company owned by Ben Shapiro. The story is said to be in the vein of 80s and 90s movies like Red Dawn and Toy Soldiers , which are about groups of teenage boys who band together and fend off invading enemies. Oh, brother. The Daily Wire have been known to scoop up actors whose careers have been cancelled, including Armie Hammer and Gina Carano, so Majors is in good company.  Credit: Jordan Strauss/AP Second up is Timothée Chalamet. In a CNN and Variety town hall this month, the pasty actor pissed everyone off by saying that "no one cares" about the ballet and opera anymore. While the comment itself was pretty disparaging to the art forms, it's all the mo...

Credit: Getty The University of Massachusetts Lowell recently conducted a poll to see Americans' views on several topics, including public figures. With a net favourability rating of +65, Parton won the crown as America's most beloved public figure. Barack Obama distantly trailed her at +14 points and Taylor Swift was even lower at +3. Now you can only imagine who took the least favourable spots. I'll let you take some guesses.  Congratulations to Dolly! You can access the full poll here !

Neville Staple - Jamaican-born British singer - 71 Plastique Tiara - Vietnamese-American drag performer, dancer and model - 29 Summer Walker - American singer-songwriter - 30 Dakota Blue Richards - English actress - 32 Joss Stone - English singer-songwriter and actress - 39 Lights - Canadian musician, singer-songwriter - 39 Stephanie Pratt - American tv personality - 40 Kelli Garner - American actress - 42 Alessandra Ambrósio - Brazilian model - 45 David Banner - American rapper, record producer and actor - 52 Tricia Helfer - Canadian-American actress - 52 Zöe Lucker - English actress - 52 Will Packer - American film producer - 52 Jennifer Esposito - American actress and director - 53 Johnny Messner - American actor - 56 Lisa Stansfield - English singer-songwriter and actress - 60 Vincent Gallo - American actor, filmmaker and musician - 65 Jeremy Clarkson - English tv presenter, journalist and writer - 66 Bill Irwin - American actor, choreographer, clown and comedian - 76 Carl Fra...

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Brian Setzer - American guitarist, singer-songwriter - 67 Ian Nelson - American actor - 31 Sofia Carson - American actress and singer - 33 Daisy Ridley - English actress - 34 AJ Michalka - American actress, musician and singer-songwriter - 35 Maren Morris - American singer-songwriter - 36 Alex Pettyfer - British actor and model - 36 Haley Joel Osment - American actor - 38 Shay Mitchell - Canadian actress and entrepreneur - 39 Hayley Westenra - New Zealander classical crossover singer - 39 Barkhad Abdi - Somali-American actor - 41 Mandy Moore - American singer-songwriter and actress - 42 Jamie Chung - American actress and former reality tv personality - 43 Ryan Merriman - American actor - 43 Chyler Leigh - American actress, singer and model - 44 Michael Pitt - American actor, model and musician - 45 Laura Bell Bundy - American actress and singer - 45 Liz McClarnon - English singer-songwriter and actress - 45 Sean Avery - Canadian former professional ice hockey player - 46 Charli...

 

Gerard Way - American singer-songwriter and comic book writer - 49 Jackie Evancho - American singer - 26 Lil Nas X - American rapper, singer-songwriter - 27 Elle Fanning - American actress - 28 Kristen Stewart - American actress - 36 Jesse McCartney - American actor and singer-songwriter - 39 Jazmine Sullivan - American singer-songwriter - 39 Leighton Meester - American actress and singer - 40 Jay Baruchel - Canadian actor - 44 Albert Hammond, Jr. - American musician, member of The Strokes - 46 Yoanna House - American fashion model and tv host - 46 Keisha Knight Pulliam - American actress - 47 Rachel Stevens - English singer, businesswoman, model and actress - 48 Jenna Jameson - American businesswoman, writer, tv personality - 52 Austin Peck - American actor - 55 Cynthia Nixon - American actress, activist and theatre director - 60 Mark Pellegrino - American actor - 61 Marc Jacobs - American fashion designer - 63 Joe Scarborough - American tv host, attorney, commentator - 63 Ma...

It's hot and breezy today (the same could be said for that tramp Janine in Home-Ec!) so let's jump in my dad's new LeSabre convertible, go cruisin' and turn on the radio. There's bound to be something good playing. Ooooh, the new Carpenters song is on! So let's relax and have fun--after all, it's sunny, it's 1970 and it's Open Post, darlings! Photo Credit: AK

  Jacques Brel - Belgian singer-songwriter and actor - (1929-1978) Skai Jackson - American actress - 24 Evan Mock - American model, actor and skateboarder - 29 Gabriella Wilde - English actress and model - 37 Ezra Koenig - American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer - 42 Taran Noah Smith - American businessman and former actor - 42 Kirsten Storms - American actress - 42 Taylor Kitsch - Canadian actor and model - 45 Katee Sackhoff - American actress - 46 Emma Caulfield - American actress - 53 JR Bourne - Canadian actor - 56 Patricia Arquette - American actress - 58 Robin Wright - American actress and producer - 60 Julian Lennon - English singer, musician, photographer, author and philanthropist - 63 Dean Norris - American actor - 63 Donita Sparks - American singer-songwriter and guitarist, co-founder of L7 - 63 Izzy Stradlin - American musician, singer-songwriter, founding member of GNR - 64 Kane Hodder - American actor, stuntman and author - 71 Brenda Russell - Ame...