Sweet November
La Cieca's DVR hard drive will be overflowing by the end of this November since the indispensable Turner Classic Movies has scheduled a whole month of "guest programmers." Among the celebrities gracing the tube to introduce their favorite flicks will be some of particular interest to the parterre crowd. For example, this Thursday, November 8, playwright/actor Charles Busch will take a brief respite from his Die Mommie Die duties on the New York boards to present a quartet of women's pictures: I Could Go on Singing
, The Hard Way, Escape and A Woman's Face.Iconic Harvey Fierstein arrives on November 26 to introduce The Catered Affair (upon which his upcoming Broadway musical is based), as well as the camp classic The Women
and two lesser-known pictures, The Boy with Green Hair and The Devil is a Sissy.
November 18 heralds the arrival of "one of the world’s most beloved and recognized figures in the worlds of opera and jazz," Renée Fleming. Films featured that day will include Red Dust, Captains Courageous, Test Pilot, Gone with the... oh, La Cieca begs your pardon, that was Victor Fleming.In fact, "The Beautiful Cineaste" has selected for our enjoyment a quartet of musical extravaganzas: The Great Waltz, Song of Love, Interrupted Melody and Maytime.
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4 Comments:
Interrupted Melody is funtastic. Eleanor Parker as Marjorie Lawrence with Eileen Farrell doing the vocals . Glorious moment when Lawrence does a running leap onto Grane in the Immolation scene as it has never been done before or since, and Tristan slightly abridged to 5 minutes with Lawrence struggling to her feet for an incandescant Liebestod.
What about Rhonda Fleming? The Spiral Staircase. Out of the Past. The Aspern Papers -- no, that was Susan Hayward.
Mon tres cher JJ--three days after the fact and no comments on the NYCO Vanessa? I'm interested in your comments on it--as I am in all things operatic.
Le JJ will see "Vanessa" tomorrow night and then will write about it for Gay City News.
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