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".)
Hubba hubba
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.
Well, our crack police force with the help of Kate Rusch has outed another felon, in this case, self-professed "Alpine Geek" Brian Biggs, who ostensibly creates internet websites and helps film companies produce documentary footage when he is not downloading child pornography. The town randomly chooses who it subjects to these "perp walk", but in this case, I'm hoping the town administration is finally "woke" to the caustically degrading, horrific activity of pedophiles, and will begin the immediate removal/renaming of any pikas connected to any individuals historically linked to the sexual molestation of pre-teen girls. Plans for the next collector set include an adult pika humping an underage pika
Emails to the town board through my regular account are now blocked from public view. So much for transparency. But what the hell do you readers care? It's just free news to you that you can edify yourself with as you sit on your couches eating Fritos, doing nothing except allowing your democracy to circle down the drain while the front line fighters get mowed down on your behalf. Hi all - Two things that I would be interested in the town media exploring when they get the time: 1) Those of you who have ever driven on our nation's interstate highway system may be familiar with the occasional annoying practice of some truck drivers occupying both lanes of the interstate (passing lane and driving lane) on the two-lane sections and not passing each other, just driving side by side for miles and miles and miles (generally well below the posted speed limit for normal driving conditions) without allowing anyone behind them to pass. I'm sure this is illegal, but without enf...
According to the IMDb website, some portion of the movie Hostiles was filmed in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Does this look like Pagosa Springs? The movie is gorgeously shot, and the locations are breathtaking. Being somewhat familiar with Pagosa Springs, though, I'm having trouble matching any of the exteriors with anything within a 10-mile radius of Pagosa Springs. According to IMDb The railway station at Chama, New Mexico served as the stand-in for Butte, Montana. Chama is about 50 miles away from Pagosa Springs, and Pagosa Springs definitely sent some of its own down to Chama to serve as extras, one of whom is currently pedaling coal from the Chama location on Ebay. A big-budget movie filming in a community of 2000 is generally a newsworthy event. Filming of Hostiles took place in the summer of 2016, and Pagosa Springs' newspaper of record, the Sun , made no mention of stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, or director Scott Cooper hanging ou...
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