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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
On the Sunny Beach of Peppermint Bay
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 11, 2014
She was, as all the obituaries today have reminded us, famous in a way that in these days of debased notoriety beggars imagination.
While her films were rarely, in themselves, first-rate, she almost always was, truly talented and genuinely committed to whatever part (in memory almost always an orp read more
On the Sunny Beach of Peppermint Bay
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 11, 2014
She was, as all the obituaries today have reminded us, famous in a way that in these days of debased notoriety beggars imagination.
While her films were rarely, in themselves, first-rate, she almost always was, truly talented and genuinely committed to whatever part (in memory almost always an orp read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: She Went Wrong
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 8, 2014
Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Miss Dorothy Lamour may well wonder where exactly she went wrong; I would argue that it was when she agreed to appear in Pajama Party in the first place.
To be fair, though, while it's far from a great number, yo read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: She Went Wrong
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 8, 2014
Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Miss Dorothy Lamour may well wonder where exactly she went wrong; I would argue that it was when she agreed to appear in Pajama Party in the first place.
To be fair, though, while it's far from a great number, yo read more
Birthday Girl: Time to Say Goodbye
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 6, 2014
Saint Zsa Zsa of Gabor is 97 today. I cannot be alone both in wishing her well and in hoping that someday soon she'll be free. The great lady aside, there's clearly some powerful juju in the air on this date. Ms. Gábor Belge Hilton Sanders Hutner Cosden Ryan O'Hara de Alba von Anhalt ha read more
Birthday Girl: Time to Say Goodbye
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Feb 6, 2014
Saint Zsa Zsa of Gabor is 97 today. I cannot be alone both in wishing her well and in hoping that someday soon she'll be free. The great lady aside, there's clearly some powerful juju in the air on this date. Ms. Gábor Belge Hilton Sanders Hutner Cosden Ryan O'Hara de Alba von Anhalt ha read more
Consider My Mind Blown
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 14, 2014
Sometimes I'm startled by my own ignorance...
Am I the only person around who didn't know that Grandmama on The Addams Family was Jeannette MacDonald's big sister? The two are seen here on the set of Jeannette's 1942 epic Cairo. At that time the future TV ghoul was a moderately successf read more
Consider My Mind Blown
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 14, 2014
Sometimes I'm startled by my own ignorance...
Am I the only person around who didn't know that Grandmama on The Addams Family was Jeannette MacDonald's big sister? The two are seen here on the set of Jeannette's 1942 epic Cairo. At that time the future TV ghoul was a moderately successf read more
Rooms Worth a View
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 11, 2014
Now that's a drawing room.
From the prologue to Bride of Frankenstein, it's a cozy retreat for Mary Shelley and her circle (including the divine Una O'Connor in her brief turn as a glorified dog-walker - the lesser-known of the film's two dual roles), and it probably has as much to do with any pla read more
Rooms Worth a View
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 11, 2014
Now that's a drawing room.
From the prologue to Bride of Frankenstein, it's a cozy retreat for Mary Shelley and her circle (including the divine Una O'Connor in her brief turn as a glorified dog-walker - the lesser-known of the film's two dual roles), and it probably has as much to do with any pla read more
Otherwise Engaged
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 9, 2014
Sorry, kids - no time to write tonight. Grand Hotel is on TCM... read more
Otherwise Engaged
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 9, 2014
Sorry, kids - no time to write tonight. Grand Hotel is on TCM... read more
Wedding Bell Blues
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 7, 2014
Sad news out of Bollywood, kids...
If the reports are to be believed, over the New Year's holiday, longtime Café mascot John Abraham went and got married.
And all these years, I thought he was saving himself for me.
On the other hand, the putative bride is reported to be an Indian citizen living read more
Wedding Bell Blues
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 7, 2014
Sad news out of Bollywood, kids...
If the reports are to be believed, over the New Year's holiday, longtime Café mascot John Abraham went and got married.
And all these years, I thought he was saving himself for me.
On the other hand, the putative bride is reported to be an Indian citizen living read more
A Date That Will Live in Infamy
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 6, 2014
To paraphrase dear Mr. Yeats - "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last/Slouches towards Brentwood to be born"?
Loretta Young is 100 years old today. Heaven help us all.
I have to admit, however much I loathe her, recent years have been surprisingly kind to ol' Gretchen. The read more
A Date That Will Live in Infamy
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 6, 2014
To paraphrase dear Mr. Yeats - "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last/Slouches towards Brentwood to be born"?
Loretta Young is 1001 years old today. Heaven help us all.
I have to admit, however much I loathe her, recent years have been surprisingly kind to ol' Gretchen. The read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Folly of the Blonde
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 4, 2014
One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Marion Davies turned 116 earlier this week, so I thought it would be nice to showca read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion: Folly of the Blonde
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jan 4, 2014
One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
Marion Davies turned 116 earlier this week, so I thought it would be nice to showca read more
Shopping Daze
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Dec 18, 2013
Well, I'm glad to see that Alice Faye, at least has finished her Christmas shopping...
...'cause I sure as hell haven't.
In fact, I'm finding the whole season something of a trial. The good people of Golden Handcuffs go in for office parties in a big way, and so the past two weeks have a bee read more