[Ed. Note: This thrilling clip of Mitzi Gaynor and four gorgeous men is from the dress rehearsal of the February 16, 1964 episode of the Ed Sullivan show. Famed British rockers, the Beatles, also appeared on Sullivan’s show that night, their second of three consecutive weekly appearances.] It’s quite a rousing jangling version of what …
I was doing chores outside this morning, and had a pebble in my shoe. Of course I ignored it to get things done, plus had garden soil on my hands. It kinda grew in irritation. Has this happened to you? Then when you get to take the shoe off, this little pebble comes out. You …
This early Saturday Night Live video (season 3) is astonishing too, and bizarre, and awesome — for a couple reasons. 1. John Belushi’s Samurai character. He did it in a number of contexts, I think some of the cultural context is lost now, or maybe it was never there and that was the point, an …
The Revenant!!! Yes, there’s a lot of anguish and pain on screen, and I had questions about how they might have enriched the story more, but as filmmaking, it’s fantastic. Gripping, poetic, beautiful and utterly transporting… You will see things you haven’t seen before. Winter is coming, upper Missouri River 1823 (Montana, the Dakotas) and …