Celebreality

[barton]

I heart Elaine May, ever since I was a teen and saw her as the socially inept rich girl in....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067482/

(A New Leaf, 1971)

This is a charming comedy, and I think it would still hold up pretty well.

[Donotremove]

Barton, I have a video copy of A New Leaf and it is, as they say, timeless.

[nytempsperdu]

Yes, I love that one, too.  

And going further back, once in a while I'll find myself quoting from this (and I'm amazon amazed at how much a new one of these recordings would bring--whoa!)
http://www.amazon.com/Evening-Nichols-Elaine-Original-Recording/dp/B000007Q8O
like  (Sigh)  "It's hard to believe Bartok died on Central Park West" (another sigh)
or
"I'm going away... to become a dental assistant... in Saudi Arabia...and if I can teach one Saudi Arabian the rules of proper oral hygiene, well..."
or
(not May but Nichols in a perfect imitation of the recording of Dylan Thomas reading Under Milk Wood or A Child's Christmas in Wales
"When I was a boy in Youngstown"  (hope whiskeypriest has heard this)


(My family puts up with so much.)

[barton]

Wow.  ACCIW, the recording, was a staple at our family holiday gatherings.  Would love to hear Nichols riffing off Thomas. 

[nytempsperdu]

Well then, I heart your family.  I think I made a cassette tape from a library copy, as I did for ever so many such treasures, and would not be at all surprised to find it should I ever excavate the unopened boxes that have come with us in our last 3 moves.  (3 moves, btw, is a significant number.  I have sometimes said I had to marry my husband--after all, he helped me move 3 times.) 

But I will interrupt Celebreality no more.     

[madupont]

lhoffman,
I knew that I still had this somewhere,after posting it over here, where-ever almost a year and a half ago. Thought it was in here at
Celebreality. Originally,traced it to The Washington Post. There is a heart-wrenching account of getting up to vote for the last election and discovering that his wife was not waking up.
When you posted this, I didn't realize that he had just passed away himself at age 90.

http://www.blackvoices.com/boards/welcome/welcome/bv-welcome-forum/-/28485/message/1

[madupont]

Wow.  ACCIW, the recording, was a staple at our family holiday gatherings.  Would love to hear Nichols riffing off Thomas. 

Barton,
          Bound to be better than Elizabeth Taylor riffing as a character actor in Under Milk Wood. Just one of the mistakes Richard Burton made after a long run in the verse play, which was then recorded( something that we listened to intently back in the Fifties until we had practically memorized the lines.

Taylor played Rosie Probert, which seemed to manifest a more Caitlin Thomas bent, characteristics of open-marriage;but Burton could hardly get out of the arrangement, it was just another sign of who rulled the roost.  He would have been better off with Rachel Griffith who, of course, wasn't around at the time
(wasn't born until 1968; and outstandingly known for doing her Welsh bit in the film:Very Annie Mary ).

[nytempsperdu]

Loved Very Annie Mary, the first thing I saw Griffiths in.  As for Caitlin Thomas ruling the roost, my memory (admittedly growing faultier daily) of reading of his bio was of her trying to figure how to take care of the family while he did his drunken poet philanderer act.

[madupont]

Caitlin Thomas was very much simpatico to Dylan's way of life and helped to commit publicity for him. You have to read the New York accounts of the people who were his fellow literary celebrities at the time he did his tour there before his death in St. Vincent's Hospital(which was relied upon in those days as "the Village Hospital" if you had an emergency or needed help).  As a flaming red-headed party person, good at making entrances,scenes, and exits, there isn't a man of the male literary elite who attended those parties with the Thomases who doesn't have a "story or a comment" about Caitlin that hasn't seen print.

My dance teacher, from childhood through teen-age years into  young adulthood before I went to New York to continue dance-studies, was also a flaming red-head with a Welsh name who made it quite clear that she and Dylan Thomas had an affair during that period when she was studying with Louis Horst(at one time Martha Graham's accompanist)and with Jose Limon.

All of the places that Dylan Thomas was taken to as hip places to drink, or discovered on his own, remained to become the gathering spots of the next generation of American poets in the Village.  Originally, the poets of New York had lived in the West Village(as seen in Warren Beatty's film,Reds) and in the post-WW2 years they cropped up in the East Village, following a literary transition where many fiction-writers shared communal lodging in Brooklyn where they had the ultimate view of "the City" and preparing a tradition for movie actors to follow which led to the death of Heath Ledge.

People still go to South of Houston on Prince street for Sunday brunch at Vesuvio; and to Hudson street's White Horse Bar in the West Village to emulate Thomas.

[madupont]

http://www.bvnewswire.com/2010/04/12/oprah-winfrey-kitty-kelley-book/?icid=main|htmlws-bv-n|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bvnewswire.com%2F2010%2F04%2F12%2Foprah-winfrey-ki

I expressed myself via another great book of hers which I commented upon in the Book Reviews forum to shed some light on the ruckus about to ensue now. The snippet of video contained with this link makes it obvious why Oprah's friends or those who are beholden to her in some way fear having any connection hosting publicity.   It is all explained at a "nother" media websight, try FOXNews.com for todays entertainment news which would consider Oprah just another political enemy.

However the girls who went to school with  her when she did, know all; I checked with them when I would hear a name in passing that slipped Oprah's lips on the air, and would ask straight out,"Is that our Robert Taylor?"etc, because we are all of an age to have had our own stories demeaned by people who don't know diddley.

[Gintaras]

That didn't last long,

Oksana Grigorieva Kicks Mel Gibson To The Curb Without Second Thoughts

[madupont]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/04/kitty_kelleys_new_book_oprah_h.html?hpid=topnews

The other side of a tv personality?

[madupont]

That didn't last long,

Oksana Grigorieva Kicks Mel Gibson To The Curb Without Second Thoughts

"Sara Says:
What scum bags these people are. She now has two kids with two different fathers and never married, nice work...and Mel Gibson now father of 8 and still an idiot. "

I am wondering if Sara Says is weezo's new posting pseudonym? Sounds just like her.

[barton]

Again, proof that truth is at least as entertaining as fiction:

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-sandra-bullock-asked-to-return-razzie-statue.html


Can't you just feel the wacky comedy script that wants to be written here?  I'm already envisioning a scene with Bullock, tense hostage situation with her and the Razzie she refuses to surrender, hordes of cops and feds, maybe she's got a pair of ammo belts draped across her fluttering bosom,  goes and grabs some actual people, too....take it in a Dog Day Afternoon direction....this could be big....give Aniston a call?

[Gintaras]

Too bad she wasn't asked to return the Oscar, but maybe she values her Razzie more?