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23 comments

• DefinitelyTheOpera says:

  This ‘Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix’ is quite somethin’.

  Pieczonka recently had a recital of duets with her wife Laura Tucker, and Tucker explained to a journalist that ‘Mon coeur’ “requires all of my womanhood, if you know what I mean.” Mae would.

  on August 17, 2010 at 12:08 PM
• kashania says:

  Well, I think Ms West gives as womanly a rendition of this aria as has ever been heard.

  on August 17, 2010 at 2:33 PM
• Batty Masetto says:

  By all rights it should be a train wreck. Pitch is uncertain, she’s not even close to the beat sometimes – and yet she brings it off with her own loopy brand of integrity. That, ladies, is a star. I predict a great future for her …

  on August 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM
• LittleMasterMiles says:

  For me, she’s everything a Delilah needs to be.

  And nothing else.

  on August 17, 2010 at 4:46 PM
• La Cieca says:

  Though the singing is sublime, La Cieca’s favorite moment is La West’s exasperated spoken line to the stage manager, “Oh, I’m on, am I? Tell me, how’m I doing?”

  on August 17, 2010 at 4:50 PM
• armerjacquino says:

  I prefer to remember her in her prime:

  on August 17, 2010 at 4:54 PM
  • MontyNostry says:

    Singing Bonds … Dalton is nearly as good as Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia.

    on August 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM
  • callasorphan says:

    By this time she was filmed through Porcelain. One indeed has to know when it’s over.

    on August 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM
• manou says:

  Well – she was a Philistine.

  Or Phyllis Stein?

  on August 17, 2010 at 6:53 PM
  • Baltsamic Vinaigrette says:

    Phyllis Stein – wasn’t she married to Manny Faltz?

    on August 18, 2010 at 5:21 AM
    • manou says:

      Sister of Bee Ocean.

      on August 18, 2010 at 7:23 AM
• Quanto Painy Fakor says:

  on August 17, 2010 at 8:31 PM
  • Alto says:

    Once more, Wally Cox inspires the question:

    “What the fuck did Marlon Brando see in him?”

    on August 18, 2010 at 11:11 AM
    • La Cieca says:

      Well, apparently under those clothes he had a very nicely toned body, which surely is a lot more than you could say about Arthur Miller.

      on August 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM
    • Batty Masetto says:

      You mean besides being talented, incredibly quick, brilliantly funny and kinda cute?

      on August 18, 2010 at 11:28 AM
      • Batty Masetto says:

        Sorry, that was replying to Alto, not La C.

        on August 18, 2010 at 11:29 AM
      • Alto says:

        Wow. I can buy the nicely toned body, but “brilliantly funny”?

        on August 18, 2010 at 11:42 AM
      • Alto says:

        Actually, I’m sorry I started this, since I’ve made it a practice for all my argumentative posts to be in defense of someone who has been attacked.

        It’s just that Wally Cox was for me like Danny Kaye and Sammy Davis, Jr.: someone who had a following that was inexplicable to me, since I found them the reverse of entertaining.

        on August 18, 2010 at 11:50 AM
      • Batty Masetto says:

        Got it – But for the era, he’s pretty sharp. Even here – in a pretty dowdy, repressed fifties setting – he’s improvising all that stuff out of outer space. We’re used to seeing much wilder, raunchier goofing now so maybe it’s hard to see how original he was.

        on August 18, 2010 at 12:07 PM
      • BETSY_ANN_BOBOLINK says:

        I’ll change the subject for you. Can anyone say for sure that at least one panelist was fed the celebrity name ahead of time? I mean, sometimes the insight was beyond belief.

        ARLENE FRANCIS: Let’s see. We’ve established you’re not in politics and you’re not in medicine. Are you Snooky Lanson? (wild applause)

        And taking off the blindfolds would give the other panelists a chance to compose themselves so they don’t come up with a “Who the Hell is Snooky Lanson” look on their faces.

        I mean, it just wouldn’t do for a famous mystery guest not to be recognized by four terribly with-it New Yorkers. Right?

        on August 18, 2010 at 12:08 PM
      • La Cieca says:

        I don’t know that Arlene Francis is the best example here because I have always believed she was some kind of Armenian white witch with supernatural powers far superior to any blindfold.

        That plus she was (as we would say today) very connected and network-y in the interconnected world of New York arts, politics and society of those days and so from the time the mystery guest appeared she would be thinking, “who’s in town, who has a show opening, whose movie just opened, who’s chairing a charity, who’s just written a book” and so forth, on the assumption (usually correct) that the mystery guest would be promoting something.

        She worked more intuitively, I think, while Dorothy Kilgallen used the scientific method.

        on August 18, 2010 at 12:42 PM
    • richard says:

      Well according to rumor, a very impressive endowment. Supposedly there was a photo of Marlon Brando and Cox (NOT his face) in one of Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon.

      Here is a link to the photo. I don’t know if it’s cropped here, the description I read many years ago
      described Brando with a huge dick in his mouth. But maybe that’s a bit of embellishment and the phot contains all that was captured

      If all this is actually true, apparently Mr Cox was appropriately named

      http://laragmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Picture-21.png

      on August 19, 2010 at 2:27 PM
      • kashania says:

        I’ve seen the uncropped version of that photo. But I’m sure that it the member in question was of the black variety.

        on August 19, 2010 at 4:06 PM