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Bobby Short Slim Lamarr Mr. Thin Legs of 1918

I remember Red's playing on a Ruby Braff date from Storyville in Boston early 50s - came out on Savoy....also fine work with Muggsy Spanier - mid 50s on Decca.

Old Black Joe Rastus Stepin Fetchit

Weird Al Yankovic Yankee Doodle The Ugly American

Georgia O'Keefe Virginia Bottomley Idaho Red

Harry Champion Michael Winner Victor Ludorum

Karl Lagerfeld Sherry Lansing Marc Boxer

The Master of the Rolls The Earl of Sandwich The Great God Pan

Jocelyn Stevens Carol Reed Beverley Baxter

Dick Shawn Dick Shearer Bobby Lamb

Fearless Fosdyke Dudley Fosdick Don Elliott

she's that hip?

Don Ho Ho Chi Minh Minnie the Moocher

http://kindofcrap more to the point

Rose of the Bowery Flatbush Annie Marquess of Queensbury

True story - on BBC Radio2 when Bing Crosby's death was announced the presenter reached for the first Crosby record to hand, cued up the first track, told the listeners that Crosby was dead and started the record. The first thing heard was the old groaner singing, courtesy of Irving Berlin - "Heaven, I'm in Heaven.....

Ali McGraw Dangerous Dan McGrew Dante Alighieri

Cab Kaye Cy Laurie Ed Koch

Titus Oates Genesis P. Orridge Dean Rusk

Gary Trudeau Zonker Jimmy Thudpucker

Victor Krapp Old Mrs. McGlome Old Mother Riley

Rastignac Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown Aunt Jemima

Mr. Jelly Mr. Pastry Mr. Five by Five

We saw the film at 5 pm at our local 'art house' and the theater was uncharacteristically full - of very elderly people many with walking frames etc. Their pre-film conversation was very much along the lines of "This is the first time I've been to the movies in 20 years..." It seemed pretty obvious that they were there solely because of their memories of Julia Child as a TV personality 'back in the day" and those memories were more to do with Julia's TV persona than their interest in French Cookery. Having discovered Julie's blog long before the book and the movie I feel she was a bit short-changed but that's Hollywood and that's the way things go. Stanley Tucci gave a great under-stated performance - Streep I thought went a bit over the top at times. All in all, I'm glad they made the movie and I'm glad I saw it.

Job's Comforter Joe Comfort Lord Chesterfield