Not too long before Buddy Holly died, he recorded three, and only three, absolutely delightful songs in glorious sounding stereo. Here they are, transferred for maximum audio fidelity.
Author: DOuG pRATt
Colbert gets Rich
Oh, dear. Two Colbert clips in a row. Well, it’s too late now…
Here is Colbert interviewing NY Times columnist Frank Rich two nights ago.
The Farce is with him
You don’t have to know what Stephen Colbert’s “Green Screen Challenge” is to enjoy this great video clip from last night’s show. I did a quick search of YouTube and don’t see it posted yet, but plenty of past entries are available there. Search for something like ‘colbert green jedi’.
Joanne Waffle Pratt (1927-2005)
My late mother’s maiden name was, no fooling, Waffle. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York the semester before Grace Kelly started there.
Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion.
Audio Adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of OZ, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1961
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< 7° of Separation
Click the picture below to see the entire cover to the January, 1965 issue of a humor magazine called HELP! The Beatles’ movie HELP! wasn’t released until August, 1965, leading one to speculate what possible influence Terry Gilliam’s bit of airbrushed artistic whimsy may have had on the title. Yes, that’s Terry Gilliam the animator, director and Monty Python troupe member who is listed as contributing editor.
HELP! was the brainchild of Harvey Kurtzman. In an earlier posting I have a link to a gallery with one of Kurtzman’s early comic-book stories. Kurtzman is still remembered today as the man who started MAD Magazine. One evening, Gilliam, who had replaced HELP! staffer Gloria Steinem, went to an off-Broadway show that featured a performer named John Cleese. They met and Cleese was talked into performing a photo comic strip for the magazine. Look for that in a future posting. After HELP! folded, Gilliam later caught up with Cleese in London, and then there was something completely different.
