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Where Were You?
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 23, 2014
Technically speaking, I wasn't, yet, at all on the night of Sunday, April 23, 1961 - 53 years ago tonight - but nonetheless I know where I would have wanted to be.
It's also the day on which we celebrate Shakespeare's birthday (450 this year, as I'm sure you've read or heard today), so may be there read more
Andy Hardy Takes a Trip
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 7, 2014
He didn't have all that many great scripts, but one contained a line that might sum up most of his life: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
It may be some measure of all of our foolishness that seven decades and more of his misbehavior, all too rarely leavened by flashes of the brilliance that ma read more
Andy Hardy Takes a Trip
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Apr 7, 2014
He didn't have all that many great scripts, but one contained a line that might sum up most of his life: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
It may be some measure of all of our foolishness that seven decades and more of his misbehavior, all too rarely leavened by flashes of the brilliance that ma read more
Sweater Boy
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 31, 2014
Sexy William Powell. Who knew? Amusing, intriguing, gallant, flirtatious, sure - but this level of va-va-va-voom is news to me. read more
Sweater Boy
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 31, 2014
Sexy William Powell. Who knew? Amusing, intriguing, gallant, flirtatious, sure - but this level of va-va-va-voom is news to me. read more
Shameless Sunday Camp Explosion: Fire Away
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 30, 2014
Camp refuses both the harmonies of traditional seriousness, and the risks of fully identifying with extreme states of feeling.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
I thought it might be nice (although that might not be quite the right word) to see our way out of Crawford Birth Week 2014 with this memor read more
Shameless Sunday Camp Explosion: Fire Away
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 30, 2014
Camp refuses both the harmonies of traditional seriousness, and the risks of fully identifying with extreme states of feeling.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
I thought it might be nice (although that might not be quite the right word) to see our way out of Crawford Birth Week 2014 with this memor read more
Plush Velvet Sometimes
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 23, 2014
Some powerful birthday juju in the air this weekend, carissimi...
Two titans, from two different worlds, but each cornerstones of what passes for a certain kind of modern sensibility, both celebrated anniversaries. Here to serenade them is the divine Miss Julie Wilson (still with us, 90 this read more
Plush Velvet Sometimes
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 23, 2014
Some powerful birthday juju in the air this weekend, carissimi...
Two titans, from two different worlds, but each cornerstones of what passes for a certain kind of modern sensibility, both celebrated anniversaries. Here to serenade them is the divine Miss Julie Wilson (still with us, 90 this read more
Oscars, Schmoscars
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 2, 2014
Unless and until we see something as fabulously demented as this, I'm not going to get too excited about all this Oscars red-carpet brouhaha.
I wonder if we'll see any of the old guard - who could show up? What's left of Mickey Rooney? I suppose there's a chance for Shirley Jones or Jan read more
Oscars, Schmoscars
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Mar 2, 2014
Unless and until we see something as fabulously demented as this, I'm not going to get too excited about all this Oscars red-carpet brouhaha.
I wonder if we'll see any of the old guard - who could show up? What's left of Mickey Rooney? I suppose there's a chance for Shirley Jones or Jan read more
Leading Man
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 26, 2014
Is it me, or is George Brent a little dishier than I remembered?
Brent is one of those performers who, although he was for two decades or more a household name, is now a distinctly misty figure, remembered vaguely as that stolid man next to Bette Davis in all those movies. He was in truth an read more
Leading Man
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 26, 2014
Is it me, or is George Brent a little dishier than I remembered?
Brent is one of those performers who, although he was for two decades or more a household name, is now a distinctly misty figure, remembered vaguely as that stolid man next to Bette Davis in all those movies. He was in truth an read more
Splendor at Twilight
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 24, 2014
Beauty is perhaps the least unconditional of gifts.
I'm doing what we so often do on a quiet evening, watching TCM, and tonight it's a particular - well, favorite doesn't seem quite right, given the sere, bitter tone of the film - but let's say favorite, for lack of a better word: Ship of Fools.
I read more
Splendor at Twilight
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 24, 2014
Beauty is perhaps the least unconditional of gifts.
I'm doing what we so often do on a quiet evening, watching TCM, and tonight it's a particular - well, favorite doesn't seem quite right, given the sere, bitter tone of the film - but let's say favorite, for lack of a better word: Ship of Fools.
I read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Mr. Music
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 15, 2014
What Camp taste responds to is "instant character"...
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Oh, Just about anybody can mark the birthday of the great Mr. Harold Arlen with Judy singing "The Man that Got Away" or Barbra blowing "A Sleepin' Bee" out of the water...
...But hereabouts we like to think we read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Mr. Music
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 15, 2014
What Camp taste responds to is "instant character"...
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Oh, Just about anybody can mark the birthday of the great Mr. Harold Arlen with Judy singing "The Man that Got Away" or Barbra blowing "A Sleepin' Bee" out of the water...
...But hereabouts we like to think we read more
Happy Valentine's (Gun)day!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 14, 2014
Let's usher in this Valentine's Day with a typical moment of introspective minimalism out of Bollywood...
Yes, it's dear Miss Priyanka Chopra starring as the love interest of both Mr. Ranveer Singh and Mr. Arjun Kapoor (he's the scruffier of the two). The film, Gunday, is the big Valentine's read more
Happy Valentine's (Gun)day!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 14, 2014
Let's usher in this Valentine's Day with a typical moment of introspective minimalism out of Bollywood...
Yes, it's dear Miss Priyanka Chopra starring as the love interest of both Mr. Ranveer Singh and Mr. Arjun Kapoor (he's the scruffier of the two). The film, Gunday, is the big Valentine's read more
Twentieth Century Blue
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 12, 2014
You know, when you think about it, I very rarely ask much of you, Gentle Readers, so I hope you won't mind if today I do.
And I'm not really asking all that much - only that you devote just under ten minutes of your busy lives to watching this remarkable, remarkable thing.
There. Now wasn't read more