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"No, not B-flat, you fools! B-natural!"

by | 3:37 pm | Jul 12, 2006

Margaret Hamilton stars in the title role of The Licia Albanese Story.

(Actually, that is Margaret Hamilton, but the role is that of an eccentric Texas millionairess who hires a high school band to accompany her performance of the national anthem in the Astrodome. It’s the opening scene of Robert Altman‘s 1970 film Brewster McCloud. Amusing, though, to see how, three decades post-Wicked Witch, La Hamilton can so expertly dominate the screen in a cameo role.)

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  • CALLASORPHAN says:

    willym I’m sorry to shatter your belief that Uncle Jeff just never found the right Catholic woman to marry. You know he and Visconti (Sp?)helped to educate my mum to the fact that there were “different” kinds of men in the world, She grew very jealous in 1954-1955 at the good times Correli, Leonard B. and Visconti were having after rehearsals and all she had was to go home to her hubby–after all she was newly slim and blond!

    on July 16, 2006 at 9:01 AM
  • ljc says:

    I thought about Dressler after I sent off my comment. On the idea of new operas, how bout a musical version of Werner Herzog’s film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, which is about just that?

    on July 16, 2006 at 10:43 AM
  • Willym says:

    ljc – could lead to very soulfoul music…. sorry I know I shouldn’t have but….

    No! Not Corelli….. yes please Corelli…

    on July 16, 2006 at 4:42 PM
  • CALLASORPHAN says:

    I’m not saying that Corelli was … However, all I do know is mums was furious L.B., Vicontti (Sp?) and Corelli had so many good times together in the evenings—I guess those boys could party. Maybe it was because of the HUGH crush she had on Vicontti which was a BIG waste of time on her part.

    on July 17, 2006 at 9:46 AM
  • ljc says:

    Herzog bet a film student that the kid could not finish a film class film he was working on. the kid finished the film and WH did his end of the bet by setting up a camera and filming himself eating his shoe. There is a film of it somewhere not on dvd yet. On the topic of WH the opera role of the century would have to be whoever could sing the role of Klaus Kinski in The Dream of Klaus Kinski. Someone start composing.

    on July 17, 2006 at 11:00 PM
  • ljc says:

    Would Corelli have been a good partying buddy? If he got too cronked he might have tried to kill a baritone at the bar or someone at the next table, like deStefano or Panerai.

    on July 17, 2006 at 11:15 PM
  • CALLASORPHAN says:

    Those dangerous Italians can be very exciting indeed!

    on July 18, 2006 at 9:16 AM
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