OPEN POST: Manor Music Monday With Monique Van Voreen!
DJ L'i'l Scratch is in the hizzy, yo! Isn't that what the kids used to say? What do they say now? Subscribe and like? DJ Li'l Scratch doesn't care, because he's already on his 12th life - at least - his longevity credited to a regular diet of the 'nip, tuna and whiskey. Oh, and the ladies, including this fine specimen: Va-va-voom. Cherchez la femme. Ommph. All are appropriate responses to Belgian-born Monique Van Voreen, who hot-cha-cha-cha'd her way to heaven only five years ago. Monique, as you may know, had a highly eclectic and unusually long career. I say "unusually," because a long career is not generally associated with an actor who's first introduced like this: Back in the 1950s, she was the movie's latest sex-bomb. Yet she kept on working - well past the regulation sell-by date for sex symbols - in roles both large and small. She even conquered the Broadway stage (twice!). And, oh, yes, in her spare time, she published a succe...