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That's actually a very perceptive observation.

Can't say that it was a hit, but I saw the video many times on MTV. My wife has had the pleasure of seeing them live! Did they sound like the record?

Hey, man, you're the one who hipped me to Mr. Show! With the velveteen touch of a dandy fop! Thanx! You're very welcome. The time is now, children are our future.... Life is precious, and God and the bible...

Hey, man, you're the one who hipped me to Mr. Show! With the velveteen touch of a dandy fop! Thanx!

That shit is kind of... cool! Dave Kehr, the DVD critic for the New York Times, recently described legendary Hollywood dance director Busby Berkeley as often seeming to be "working under the influence of drugs yet to be discovered." I propose that those drugs have finally been discovered, and are now widely (ab)used by the band-directors of American High Schools/Universities.

Ooooh-Wheee! Didn't know they even made that many! Ahh, those pimps at Newbury! God bless 'em. For my part, I probably got at least 40 or 50 of the damn thing in the past several months...

What'djathink? I got this myself, and I have to say that it's a flawed, yet intelligent and powerful film. Especially for what is, in essence, a mere monster movie. Kind of difficult, unfortunately, to see the great actor Dana Andrews in latter days, clearly drunken in several scenes. Peggy Cummins, the most fatale of femmes in Gun Crazy is good in a good girl role, and villain Niall MacGinnis is magnificent, the ultimate scary clown. Director Tourneur is still in his prime, and the flick is surprisingly chilling and affecting. Glenn Erickson, AKA "DVDSavant," suggests that the controversial scenes explicitly showing the demon were shot actually by Tourneur, barring the close-ups. I'm inclined to believe him. Erickson even defends the close-ups as well, which is where I part company with him. But imagine the movie without them, and I believe that the long-shots of the demon, perhaps cut by several frames in an ideal world, are quite effective in the context of the film.

I voted "all of the above" though agree with many that Mahogony is an exception. By the way, it must be noted here that "I'm just a Bill" was written by Frishburg but sung by Jack Sheldon. "Conjunction Junction" was written by Dorough, sung by Sheldon. See Here

I must admit that I retain an affection for Merv, as well as for Rick Moranis's devastatingly funny impression of him on SCTV.

OUCH! That youtube clip is stricty from cringeville! I recall coming home from school in the afternoons in the early 1970s and flipping on the tube to watch Griffin and/or Douglas myself. I remember seeing acts from the sublime to the ridiculous, or sometimes both, , like the Mills Brothers, Charo, Buddy Hackett, etc. Quite an education, in its own way. If you're anywhere near the same age as I am, Randy, you saw Griffin/Douglas more than Carson because your parents wouldn't let you stay up late enough to see The Tonight Show.

Sad news for this Bostonian.

I'm more worried about the rumored casting of Mel Gibson as Orrin Keepnews.

My dog once barked Bolero.

If you have to ask, you'll never know...

Hogarth was so good that you can practically smell what it sounds like!

Been meaning to get to that one. I read his short stories a few years ago and was blown away.

"I never got to say goodbye to him." "I did ...a lot."

The O'Day documentary will be showing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston all this coming week. I'll try to catch it this weekend.

Have you seen the original Brit version?

Thanks for the recommendation. I just ordered a copy of this, it is yet another victim of the concord purge so, carpe diem Just got this from Newbury Comics a few weeks ago and am enjoying mightily. I'm well on my way to owning every Wilbur Ware session extant.

Love Durham myself. Great arranger it's true, but also an electric guitar pioneer and a swell trombonist. I managed to scour up the first four Lunceford Masters of Jazz discs between Newbury Comics and Amazon, and they are indeed magnificent. The Lunceford short that ghost mentions as an extra on the Astaire/Rogers disc is almost worth the price of admission in itself.

He's too good?

OK, not all of the above were actually 'popular" in the most obvious sense (though some were, to varying degrees, and all of them aimed to be).

Three that come to mind: George Clinton: "Atomic Dog" Marvin Gaye: "Sexual Healing" Kid Creole and the Coconuts: "Underachiever" And how about: They Might Be Giants: "Don't Let's Start" Marshall Crenshaw: "You're My Favorite Waste of Time" Aztec Camera: "Oblivious" And three more: Chic: "Rebels Are We" Warren Zevon: "Let Nothing Come Between Us" XTC: "No Language in Our Lungs" Last three (for now): Talking Heads: "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" Grandmaster Flash: "The Message" Prince: "Starfish and Coffee"

Yes, the earlier films (before they had a kid; a classic symptom of "Jumping the Shark") were a little more fun, as Nick and Nora partied non-stop. In one of the last films, the kid was a young Dean Stockwell!