Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered

Elizabeth Montgomery

Ella Fitzgerald

The problem With Viviane Ventura

I saw this wonderful girl in a first season episode of The Wild Wild West and looked her up. The main problem with Viviane Ventura is that she also went by Vivienne Ventura, Vivian Ventura, and Vivianne Ventura, which confuses things. I contacted her web site about maybe getting some photos, but I never got an answer. Ah well. Here are the few I could find.

Pssst! Behind ya again!

Soaking Up Some Jazz

Soul Street - Oliver Nelson, King Curtis, & Jimmy Forrest

I Hope in Time a Change Will Come - Oliver Nelson

Mo Better Blues - Branford Marsalis & Terence Blanchard

Dat Dere - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

Julie Christie Saturday

(Just cleaning up some of the extra Julie Christie
stuff on my hard drive.)



(If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be
a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats has some good ones.)

Weep The Wild Wind

Weep The Wild Wind (1942) is a weally silly movie with Pauwette Goddard, John Wayne, Way Milland, Waymond Massey, Wobert Pweston, and Susan Hayward. Cecil B. DeMeww pwoduced and diwected it. Pauwette Goddard weally, weally wanted to pway Scawwett O'Hawa in Gone With the Wind, but they wouldn't wet her. So she did this one instead. Weep The Wild Wind features a giant fake octopus. Wegend has it that Ed Wood stole the fake octopus for his weally weird 1955 movie, Bwide of the Monster.

(Silly wabbit!)

Cry Terror (1958)

Cry Terror! (1958)
Written and directed by Andrew L. Stone.
With Inger Stevens, James Mason, Angie Dickinson, Nevile Brand, Jack Klugman, and Rod Steiger.
MGM: 96 minutes

We could discuss this early look at modern airline terrorism and how it reflects America's naïveté about things to come. We might argue that the cold-blooded sexpot Angie Dickinson plays is a preview of the character she later played in The Killers. We could debate the role of televised "news" as it feeds both paranoia and terrorism in today's world. We might ponder Neville Brand's knife-wielding speed-freak character as early Meth Man.

Nahhhhh. . .

We'll just look at the pretty pictures.

More Shapely Sharpe

Darling Karen Sharpe brightens up a 1965 episode of
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. the way she brightened up a
1966 episode of The Wild Wild West.

Kitchen Tricks

Last night I came home from work and switched on Turner Classic Movies, the best dadburn channel on television, and the very last scene of The Servant was showing. Which means I'd already missed all the kitchen table scenes with Sarah Miles, dagnabbit! Rats! Drat! Etc. Well, anyway, LUCKILY, somebody had them up on YouTube for us to enjoy. So...all is not lost.

The Plumbing scene

The Smokin' scene

Ruby's Fine Lines

Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Stevens.