This was going to be a straightforward introduction to Detroit native Della Reese (1931-2017), who once sat next to a friend of mine on a plane, but it got sidetracked, as always, by devoted fanboys on YouTube, who insist on making every waking hour of a famous person's life into its own mini-documentary.
(BTW, I finally caught the joke about an alternative reading of "Isle of Dogs" being "I Love Dogs". Watch Hollywood quickly churn out imitators like "Isle of Ice Cream" and "Isle of Drawing Moustaches on Concert Posters".)
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The gold standard for the Damn Yankees tune "Whatever Lola Wants" was the originator, Gwyneth Evelyn "Gwen" Verdon (wife of Bob Fosse, despite his philandering), who did not have, despite what Wikipedia claims, "the exquisite beauty of a pin-up girl". She was a fabulous dancer and choreographer, but there was no confusion over who was who when she taught pin-up girls like Lana Turner and Rita Hayworth how to dance. Della, too, is a bit of a reach with her longish everything, including face, but for straightforward singing of this rather lightweight number, I'd take Della or Sarah Vaughan or even Bebe Neuwirth (killing it in this Letterman clip from 1994) over Gwen as the Devil's chanteuse Lolita "Lola" Banana.
All building up sideways to the collapse of a space-age pedestrian bridge in Florida (outlaw bridges) and a 2007 movie you likely haven't seen, filmed in Egypt and Morocco with an American lead and French production company. Here's the poster, but check out the YouTube clip that highlights the song, and then rent the entire two hours from Nexflix on your next date night. Exotic sparks will fly, and as Bebe hints rather ribaldly, someone's SAG card will likely be showing before all's said and done.
The Estes Park Economic Development Corporation (EPEDC) is patting itself on the back because "the award for 'Small Community of the Year' was presented" to them by the Economic Development Council of Colorado (EDCC) "on behalf of a town that sets its sights on building a more resilient, inclusive, and vibrant community and economy after recovering from the devastating Colorado floods in 2013." How has the following economic development been beneficial to Estes Park? The Estes Park Event Center, completed in spring 2014, has not brought all the big events expected from outside of our community. It is not profitable. The Estes Park Medical Center (i.e., Park Hospital District) did not have the money to build the EPMC/Anschutz Wellness Training Center within the two years specific in the "Contract for Sale of Lot 4" to John Cullen, owner of the Stanley Hotel (i.e., Grand Heritage Hotel Group, LLC). Since the money was not raised, according
Trustee Cenac is very anti-government involvement in constituents' problems, which is interesting, since she takes up one of the precious six seats on the town board, which is ostensibly a local government entity, organized to protect and serve the local taxpayers. If you go back through any noise ordinance discussion over the past six years, you will find, without fail, when she buzzes in to talk (and she never feels uncompelled to share this laissez faire opinion), that she constantly and consistently lectures the audience on where they choose to live determining whether they have any right to complain. This is known as victim blaming - If you are raped, it is because of the way you dress, if your business is vandalized by a customer bent on destruction, it is because your windows aren't strong enough to withstand getting hit with a large rock, and, God forbid, if you can't tolerate 14 straight hours of 100+ decibel noise, it is because your ears are pansies and you pic
Jeez we have a bunch of milquetoast pretend journalists in town. The guy who was arrested locally a few clicks back, Keaton M.A. Krell, is the same guy who sexually assaulted a bunch of underage females in Linn County, Kansas, and, brazenly, got away with it. The airtight connection is through his wife or ex-wife or whoever star pupil and non-profit wunderkind Candace Krell is. But even then, c'mon, how many folks named Keaton M.A. Krell are running around diddling little girls? Get some cojones, POR (paper of record) and POR (podcast of record). You did the work (sort of) now publish the findings. Stop hiding behind the town as an excuse to avoid going to press - the PIO and TA aren't going to give you anything because they are scared of their own shadows. For the low IQ crowd and too easily unconvinced: Note how Candace Krell used to give her home address on LinkedIn as Estes Park, Colorado Here's another big whoopsie And this And this And this
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