Beach, beach, beach
Here’s the thing about puns, Betsy: summer going to enjoy them and summer not.
The breakdown:
Les Pecheurs du Perle Mesta (11:00-2:00 LRT KLASIKA). The Hostess with the Mostest goes muff-diving. Nicole Cabell and Gerald Finley. 3 F.K.
The Leg End of St. Elizabeth (11:19-2:00 CESKY ROZHLAS). Lizzie shoulda read that Shark Alert sign. No data to rate.
Karolinas Sominex (12:00-1:15 SVERIGES P2) That Kennedy girl seems to have a barbiturate problem. No data to rate.
A rectal by Christiane Karg (12:00-2:00 BR KLASIK). The Kargs would like you to meet their daughter, the proctologist. No data to rate
Cozy, Fan Tittie (1:00-4:30 WFMT affiliates) Cozy, waft that palm frond a little lower. Kurzak, maybe Pirgu, good. The others so-so. 3 F.K.
Mayfair Lady (1:00-4:30 BBC 3) The Duchess of Argyll is slumming again. No data to rate.
Peer Ammo, eh, Tisbe? (1:00-4:00 DEUTSCHLANDRADIO KULTUR): The Duke’s right behind her, and he’s packin’.
Your dice, Orfeo Ed (1:00-4:00 CBC TWO) Damn! Snake eyes. Zazzo and Bayrakhdarian make this one hard to beat 2 F.K.
La donna e mobile lago. (1:00-6:00 LYRIC FM) It’s that new regie Rigoletto, staged underwater. Florez, Di Donato. Cherce! Very cherce! 2 F.K.
Music from the Polish Broke (1:00-3:00 DWOJKA POLSKIE) No data to rate. They’re going on right after the London Homeless.
No jeans is you jeans (1:00-5:00 KBYU). 3 F.K. I bought these pants off a street cart in Brighton Beach.
Wart hair (1:00-4:00 NPR) 2 F.K. Phillip Addis and Michele Lozier are seeing a dermatologist.
King for a Day, but a real Queen at Night (1:00-5:00 RADIO CLASICA DE ESPANA) 2 F.K. About as good a recording as this is likely to get.
Rig O’Letto. (1:00-5:00 RTP ANTENA 2) 3 F.K. Rig’s only half Irish. Nucci, Ciofi, and Run-for-the-Hills Grigolo.
“In dreschen jahr a glimpse of stocking . . .” (1:00-5:00 WRR) 2 F.K. because it’s already on disc and we can’t do anything about it.
Kharmen (1:00-5:00 DR P2) 3 F.K. Uria-Monzon, Secco. Her past was bound to catch up with her sooner or later.
“So Romey owed what Julie et . Burma-Shave.” (1:00-4:15 WCLV) The road-sign’s a classic, the performance not so much. Machaidze and Grigolo make this a 4 F.K.
Do not Cast your Pollux before swine or you’ll end up with well-chewed pollocks. (1:30-4:00 BARTOK RADIO.) No data to rate.
Le’s count our hoffmanns and see if we got enough for a ticket to Toledo. (1:30-4:30 RADIO OESTERREICH) No data to rate, except that there might be some interest in the fact that Artur Shack-n Cruise is subbing for Rolando Villazon.
Yves-a. (2:00-5:00 CESKY ROZHLAS VLTAVA) 1 F.K. The story of Saint-Laurent’s sex change.
Ellie’s sort of a moron. (2:00-5:00 HR2 KULTUR) 3 F.K. Persson and Villazon spell train-wreck to me.
“You has a big tear dere.” “Tear? Vere?” “Vere tear? Dere!” (2:00-6:00 KLARA) Heinrich wondered why his heinie was so drafty. 3 F.K. Villazon and Koch.
Lee dripped mustard on his best verbot. (2:00-4:30 RADIO STEPHANSDOM). 2 F.K. Hell, it was recorded back in 1963; it HAS to be great!
Rinaldo quaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind. (2:00-5:00 SVERIGES RADIO P2) 3 F.K. Okay, people fleeing Vittorio Grigolo, please use Aisle 2. People fleeing Sonia Prina, please use Aisle 4.
The Furs of Destiny. (2:55-6:00 LATVIA RADIO KLASIKA) The PETA people are at the door, Destiny! 3 F.K. Urmana? Alarez? You’re really into this masochism thing, aren’t you.
Are the Serses on the 8th floor or the 9th? (3:00-6:00 RADIO TRE) No data to rate.
La Casa della Cieca never closes.
Clitoid——--who did sing the Migmon? Do you still recall? It would have been a nice vehicle for von Stade.
Bingo!
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/10/arts/opera-thomas-mignon-at-santa-fe.html
Cammiest, I was von Stade!
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/10/arts/opera-thomas-mignon-at-santa-fe.html
OOOPS! Didn’t see that.
LOL No I wasn’t von Stade, she was herself.
You are not!!! You *ARE* Lorna Hansen Forbes, and no other!!!!
Well, on a bad day, I may morph into Ethel Whitehead.
Funny, the other morning TCM played TDDC and Harriet Craig, back to back. I love when Mr. Craig flicks the ashes on the carpet and breaks the vase! lol
Wendell Corey’s Macho Moment, most assuredly!
How did he wind up playing opposite Joan. Can’t imagine her schtupping him!! Then, one never knows….
That film, TDDC, is such a DARK one and a little atypical. It is also a little late in the day for JC to be enacting the femme fatale. She does get by as she is so practised in her art of mantrap enchanteresse but it strains one suspension of disbelief, to use that phrase once again.
I will have to go view it again several times. One thing is certain: I really do love the noir genre and it all began with that TMC viewing of “Sudden Fear”. It is too bad she didn’t win her Oscar for that instead!
Well, here we are again, Clita my love: all roads lead to Joan. So glad to have discovered her, thanks to your loving devotion, after all these years.
A true shame we never had a Met Mignon production featurimg Dessay, in her prime, as a Philine, a more perfect role for her there could not have been.
From what I have read, Cammie dear, Joan schlepped (I write “schtupped” and out came “schlepped” from my computer lol) anyone she could! It didn’t, however, work with John Wayne (thank God,or I’d be nauseous). She did it with her co-stars and directors. She also, I have read, had a little fling with Barbara S. Can anyone imagine those two going at it?
Sorry, Wrong Number!
I just had supper so, no, I can not imagine that one but
Hollywood IS a snakepit and I am sure one must find consolation somehow whem faces with mind numbing and heart crushing pressures of a career there.
That reminds me--I had the opportunity of seeing “My week with Marilyn” this past week, unexpectedly charming. Have you seen it?
No I haven’t see theMmarilyn film, but an old friend saw it and said it was wonderful. I will try Netflix.
Not to change the subject but rather to return to the subject, sort of, the Saturday thread, i have just returned from an “Opera in Cinema” showing of a production of ERNANI, from Tratto Comunale di Bologna (co-produced eith the Teatro Massimo di Palermo) and wondering if anyone has also seen this tramission?
Was it the one with Dimitra Theodossiou as Elvira?
Sissignore. The very same.
It was pretty good -- certainly as good (and sometimes better) than most of the ‘early’ Verdi we get from the Met (and other venues) these days. Somebody had put it up on utube for awhile -- it might still be there but I don’t know for sure because when I listened to it all the way through, I decided that the audio quality was rather poor (for my tastes). So I kept my original audio-only broadcast which has quite decent sound. The performance itself was worth a catch, I thought.
The costumes were sumptuous and looked very expensive
I am too tires now to go into it but what I found so very thought provoking was the manner in which the character of Silva was depicted and, especially so, as I had seen the same man, Furlanetto, portray that personaggio in a very different manner at the Met, earlier this year. It also made me appreciate the direction and emphasis on being “camera ready”!