it means if you put up a youtube video with her music in it, the video will be immediately taken down
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 15:18 (two years ago)
Ah. How weird that the Connie Francis team is so on it! Or is it all handled by YouTube?
― Alba, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 15:41 (two years ago)
bit of a mystery box, but you get the feeling that there has been some sort of central edict which they are just following
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:07 (two years ago)
Don't fuck with Connie Stevens
― Alba, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:53 (two years ago)
Connie Francis I mean, lol
vg+
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 18:45 (two years ago)
Habermas
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 22:48 (two years ago)
I was sure that he died not that long ago, but eventually realised I was thinking of Enzensberger
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 02:04 (two years ago)
i mean up to about an hour ago AS Byatt would have been an answer.
― Fizzles, Friday, 17 November 2023 19:32 (two years ago)
ramblin’ jack elliott (92) (of course he's upthread, at 90)
(im watching on old arena doc abt woody guthrie and elliott popped up as he should, everyone else in the doc is dead but not he)
― mark s, Saturday, 18 November 2023 19:58 (two years ago)
speaking of arena, ken morse lol (79)
also upthread no doubt
― mark s, Saturday, 18 November 2023 19:59 (two years ago)
Eddie Palmieri, 86. It was Charlie Palmieri that died, not him! RIP Charlie
― sophie glanced up, looking concerned (Matt #2), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 02:47 (two years ago)
94 year old Bob Newhart is on Twitter calling attention to the 20th anniversary of the film Elf.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 03:23 (two years ago)
Shecky Greene hanging on at 97!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 04:37 (two years ago)
I mean, how the fuck is somebody who partied hard with the Rat Pack in <the '50s> still alive?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 04:39 (two years ago)
Chubby Checker.
Not only still alive, but not as old as I thought.
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 26 November 2023 10:53 (two years ago)
Russ Abbot (76)
― AlanSmithee, Sunday, 26 November 2023 15:45 (two years ago)
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 22:48
I'm guessing we all found this out the same way (that dreadful statement) lol
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 26 November 2023 15:56 (two years ago)
(BTW my son would love this thread.
He asks the same few questions every time he hears a song.
1. Who mote dis HAAH? (Samspeak for Who wrote this song?)
2. He dead?
3. How ode is he?)
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 26 November 2023 16:07 (two years ago)
Leslie Caron, 90
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 November 2023 19:49 (two years ago)
As is the documentary, Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Actor, although she digs a lot deeper in the memoir. Also just found this interview from two years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/21/i-am-very-shy-its-amazing-i-became-a-movie-star-leslie-caron-at-90-on-love-art-and-addiction
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 17:50 (two years ago)
TIL that Leslie Caron is a woman. I always thought that was a man.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 27 November 2023 18:15 (two years ago)
Heh. Another link: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/12/movies/dance-the-ballerina-in-leslie-caron-the-actress.html
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 18:39 (two years ago)
Married to Peter Hall, one for that other thread about unlikely marriages.
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Monday, 27 November 2023 18:52 (two years ago)
Ha. I didn’t know who Peter Hall was until I watched the documentary I just mentioned last night. Still don’t quite grok his significance.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 18:58 (two years ago)
Didn’t know about his third wife either.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:02 (two years ago)
Warren Beatty originally conceived What's New, Pussycat? as a vehicle for himself and Caron during their relationship.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:14 (two years ago)
... playing the roles ultimately portrayed by Peter O'Toole & Romy Schneider after Beatty had falling out with producer Charles Feldman.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:16 (two years ago)
Yes. And then Charles K. Feldman said she was too old and he wanted to cast his own girlfriend, Capucine, instead, and then eventually got fed up with his protégé Beatty and kicked him off the project as well.(X post!)
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:17 (two years ago)
According to Caron, he did indeed say “What’s new, pussycat?” on the phone, at least to the womenfolk.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:18 (two years ago)
You may also know that Feldman had dated Angie Dickinson as well, which is how Burt Bacharach got involved with the project.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 19:20 (two years ago)
My sister and I were just talking about Gigi.
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:14 (two years ago)
And then Charles K. Feldman said she was too old and he wanted to cast his own girlfriend, Capucine, instead
Who was older than Leslie Caron.
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:19 (two years ago)
Ah yes, you are right. The “too old” was for another movie, Bonnie and Clyde.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:23 (two years ago)
Which Beatty then offered to Natalie Wood.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:24 (two years ago)
Other Bonnie candidates included Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Sharon state, Julie Christie and Yvette Mimieux, I think.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:42 (two years ago)
Leslie Caron did play a key role by introducing Beatty to François Truffaut, who first brought the project to his attention, and then convincing him he should do the film while he was vacillating about doing a “Western.”
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:45 (two years ago)
"Sharon state" = My Favorite Pavement Song
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:45 (two years ago)
Aargh, autocorrect ffs typoHe had original been angling for a role in Fahrenheit 451
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:46 (two years ago)
But lol in any case
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:47 (two years ago)
Ann-Margret was also considered.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 November 2023 20:56 (two years ago)
Maybe more of a case of faulty memory, but I could have sworn I heard that Dr. Ruth had passed at one point in the recent past. Nope!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 16:08 (two years ago)
^^
95! Who knew?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 16:15 (two years ago)
Bobby Banas, dancer and actor, 90. He gained a lot of new fans several years ago when someone uploaded a video to Youtube of him tearing up the floor in 1964.
― alimosina, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:14 (two years ago)
Barbara Holdridge, 93 or 94, co-founder of Caedmon Records.
― alimosina, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:16 (two years ago)
Must admit I’d not heard of him, but after searching for him on YouTube realised that I’d seen him in this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lULozLuFm-I
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:35 (two years ago)
john mayall turned 90 today
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 01:28 (two years ago)
somehow Supernatural actor Mark Sheppard survived this: https://coveredgeekly.com/mark-sheppard-died-4-times-yesterday-and-now-in-recovery/
― StanM, Sunday, 3 December 2023 06:38 (two years ago)
Mitzi Gaynor, 91
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 22:31 (five months ago) link
Now 92
― alimosina, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 01:08 (two years ago)
Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon turns 87 today.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 01:47 (two years ago)