'Stead of treated, we get tricked

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1. And now, our special late-breaking edition of Dawn Over Marblehead brings you this important bulletin:

THAT WAS BERNADETTE PETERS IN THE MOVIE MUSICAL OF ANNIE I MEAN I KNEW ABOUT TIM CURRY AND CAROL BURNETT WHO DOESN'T AND I'VE ALWAYS BEEN WILLING TO TAKE MY MOTHER'S WORD FOR IT THAT THE BALD GUY WAS ALBERT FINNEY BUT I AM FOR SOME REASON SURPRISED BY WAIT A MINUTE ANN REINKING WAS ALSO IN THIS THING LOOK I DON'T EVEN HAVE THAT MUCH NOSTALGIA ATTACHED TO THIS MOVIE BUT WHY AM I NOT WATCHING AT LEAST THE MUSICAL NUMBERS RIGHT NOW?

(The Onion A.V. Club caused me to think about latter-day movie musicals. I find it difficult to believe Little Shop of Horrors (1986) was the last classical example of the form, but I agree that Chicago (2002) was not even slightly it.)

2. In slightly less shouty news, I am planning to spend tonight at the Anti-Morris on Vinal Avenue and then at Nosferatu (1922) at the Brattle if I can work out tickets, considering their online service seems to give my browser fits.

3. This would be the traditional mix.

Carbon Leaf, "Follow the Lady"

She assigned a witch to spell my heart and now I'm drawn to her
Siren song, draw the ships, orchestrate the eclipse of this amateur

Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, "Episode 7: The Schizoid Man"

I see you at night
Swear I'm not dreaming
You're a ball of light
And I wake up screaming

The Pack a.d., "Haunt You"

I died
I'll haunt you

The Secret History, "Count Backwards (Rock 'n' Roll Never Dies)"

Bela Lugosi's dead and I don't feel so hot myself

Hans Conried, "Dressing Song (Do-Mi-Do Duds)"

So come and dress me in the blossoms of a million pink trees
Come on and dress me up in liverwurst and Camembert cheese
Come on and dress me up in pretzels—dress me up in bock beer suds

Happy Halloween.

P.S. Courtesy of selidor: this article.

Comments

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

So have you yet had the opportunity to watch Pennies from Heaven and be terribly disappointed by the fact that everyone in the movie (including Bernadette Peters and Christopher Walken) are lip synching?

I suppose in fairness, she was yet the major Broadway star that we know now. Instead she was Steve Martin's girlfriend so she was just in his movies.

They still should have let her sing.

That's pretty much the only reason why i don't like that movie. I see what it was trying to do. I like what it was trying to do, but when you give us great actors who can sing and then make them lip synch - there are just no words.

[sovay]

So have you yet had the opportunity to watch Pennies from Heaven and be terribly disappointed by the fact that everyone in the movie (including Bernadette Peters and Christopher Walken) are lip synching?

No, but I'd want to see the original British series first anyway. The idea has never bothered me: the point of the songs is those specific versions, not contemporary actors' reinterpretations. Fair point if you really wanted to hear Peters and Walken, though.

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the article link. I have to go to arXiv every day to check up on various references, so to find this wonderful in-joke made my Halloween. Of course, most of my coworkers don't know the context and did not find it in the slightest bit funny.

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Of course, most of my coworkers don't know the context and did not find it in the slightest bit funny.

"13 pages, 10 figures. Before you charter a boat, please look up the collected works of HP Lovecraft."

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

You forgot the Turing one.

Happy Halloween, and may all the shades who brush your hand be kindly ones.

[sovay]

You forgot the Turing one.

What Turing one?

Happy Halloween, and may all the shades who brush your hand be kindly ones.

To you, too.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Everyone Says I Love You followed pretty tight movie-musical format (deliberately, of course), although the music was not original. Worked for me.

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Everyone Says I Love You followed pretty tight movie-musical format (deliberately, of course), although the music was not original. Worked for me.

I don't know that one at all. It's in the Moulin Rouge fix-up line—classical or popular songs repurposed? (To be fair, Singin' in the Rain is the same way, only most people have never heard another version of "All I Do Is Dream of You.")

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

It's a mid-1990s Woody Allen picture with one of the best Groucho tributes I've seen. And a wacky romance which takes in a sociopath, "lovely Early American chandeliers," and an ER doctor whose brother-in-law is a jeweler. The usual Allen Valentine-to-New-York visuals are very pretty. Oh, and the coltish twins are adorable...

I like it, modulo some Woody Allen creeperness (the Allen character's teenaged daughter eavesdrops on someone's therapy sessions and tells her dad about them so he can attempt to woo the patient).

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness, I'd forgotten this one! Just in time for All Souls' Day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kIemJFVxKU

[sovay]

Oh, goodness, I'd forgotten this one! Just in time for All Souls' Day.

Thank you!

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It's a mid-1990s Woody Allen picture with one of the best Groucho tributes I've seen.

See, I am not wired for Woody Allen, but that's tempting.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Ah, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k3TrlsW2tw

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween.

Thanks! Happy Halloween to you as well!

Thanks for the tracks.

I hope you have an enjoyable evening. May tickets to Nosferatu be available to you despite the goblins and gremlins of website and browser design. May the textured silence of octiron Anti-Morris bells be most profound. 'Tis pity there's too much salty water in the way for said side to pay a visit to the Swan and Three Cygnets in Durham where the staff refused to serve Morris dancers as their bells allegedly violated the pub's no-music policy.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved that article; cheers for that. We're safe so long as the Morris-men don't discover mime. *shudder*

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved that article; cheers for that.

Most welcome.

We're safe so long as the Morris-men don't discover mime. *shudder*

Indeed. Morris-mimes are a very disturbing thought.

A dear friend of mine* had the idea of a movie about people using Irish stepdancing as a combat form called "Enter the Leprechaun". I proposed that the next movie in the trilogy should introduce a Martial Morris side.**

*Who at least used to do step and céili and a bit of sean nós dancing, herself--I hope she still does.
**But not as antagonists. That sort of thing is massively overdone, and particularly annoying on a personal level cos several good friends of mine met through Irish music are English.

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We're safe so long as the Morris-men don't discover mime.

Here; I am afraid it comes in two parts, because it came from the internet in the long-ago days of obscure music piracy, but have Stan Roger's "The Idiot" and its Morris-baiting introduction.

"At any event, they get together at folk festivals, and they gather around in their little clot or mob, and they do their little dances. And there's nothing really alarming about this, except for the fact that every once in a while they will arm themselves with cudgels or bludgeons or some kind of blunt instrument like that, and, to the accompaniment of accordion and violin, they will rhythmically and ritually hit each other again and again and again—and this is considered to be entertainment, or some kind of British fertility ritual, or something."

"It works, too. We've played this song and impregnated whole audiences."

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May tickets to Nosferatu be available to you despite the goblins and gremlins of website and browser design.

gaudior handled the ticket-buying. It all worked out. It was good.

'Tis pity there's too much salty water in the way for said side to pay a visit to the Swan and Three Cygnets in Durham where the staff refused to serve Morris dancers as their bells allegedly violated the pub's no-music policy.

Hah. I was left wondering if the same troupe went back with their bells pointedly muffled.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure I read something years and years ago on alt.fan.pratchet about "stealth Morris" (no bells, or bells plugged with cotton-wool.)

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I hope you got to Nosferatu; they were showing Der Golem (1920) at the Town Hall here tonight. I'd have gone if I hadn't been at the reading.

Whenever I think of Morris, I follow it with Pratchett. "And turn...and kill!"

[sovay]

I hope you got to Nosferatu; they were showing Der Golem (1920) at the Town Hall here tonight. I'd have gone if I hadn't been at the reading.

Damn! I can see that would be a temptation. We not only got to Nosferatu, we got first-row balcony seats. I'd never seen it in a theater, never mind with live music; neither had rushthatspeaks; gaudior had never seen it at all. Everybody had a good time. I even had a chance to eat dinner (an impressively unwieldy sandwich from a nearby coffeeshop: it fell apart all over its waxed paper when I tried to pick it up, I apologized to everyone around me and ate it in stages, wishing I'd had the foresight to steal a fork), which I really hadn't been sure about giving the respective timings of the Morris and the movie. I considered it an entirely successful Halloween night.

Whenever I think of Morris, I follow it with Pratchett. "And turn...and kill!"

The Anti-Morris was Pratchett-inspired. It's turned into a genuine folk tradition: Angela and Jeremy are justifiably proud that the children of friends of theirs have grown up thinking that dancing the sun down into the dark with a black-draped drum and silenced bells is just what you do for Halloween.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

THAT WAS BERNADETTE PETERS IN THE MOVIE MUSICAL OF ANNIE

Huh. And I was just thinking a while back, "Who played Rooster's girlfriend? I should watch that movie again in case it's someone I would now recognize."

[sovay]

And I was just thinking a while back, "Who played Rooster's girlfriend? I should watch that movie again in case it's someone I would now recognize."

I wasn't even wondering! I just went to Wikipedia to check the release date and there she was! That was a hell of a cast for the adult characters.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Rent was an actual musical movie and in the last decade.

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Rent was an actual musical movie and in the last decade.

Thank you. I never saw the movie or the original stage production; I discovered the original cast recording sometime after college.