This is a very neat little movie, once you accept Karloff playing a Greek. Similar in one way to “And Then There Were None,” it’s a murder mystery with a group of people stuck on an island. Except here the killer is known. Who will the plague take next?
Billet Ballet
For Prue, on her birthday. Something Prue once said, that made me laugh out loud was, “I assure you, Douglas, not all men who are ballet dancers are gay!”
Armstrong-Jones had a distinctive approach to his casual photos of women, having them wear one of his shirts, it seems. Here is one he took of Prue…
… and one he took of another friend, who Prue says, “wasn’t Tony’s type.”
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Repeating Myself
Somebody (you know who you are!) really liked my recent post with Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Fakin’ It’. This one is another favorite of mine that I have featured previously. Here there be musical magic.
Hard to believe that’s been five-and-a-half years already since I happened to cross paths with Donovan, as recounted here.
The Man and His Music
Ian Whitcomb has died. I am heartbroken over the passing of such a treasure of a man. A great delight for me in recent years has been connecting with Ian and his pal Jim Dawson on their Wednesday night LuxuraMusic program. This is such a terrible loss.
Ian never fully recovered from surgery he had last year. He developed complications and returned to the hospital in early March. It’s rumored that he caught Covid-19 there, but that has yet to be confirmed. What has been confirmed is that he died this afternoon.
Follow-up: Definitely NOT Covid-19.
Correction: Although word of his passing did not appear until yesterday, Ian died on Sunday. Here is a remembrance from Jim Dawson: https://luxuriamusic.com/ian-whitcomb-1941-2020/
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