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Thank you Marcello. I fear you are right about docudramas. I actually didn't see "Lenny" as a film, but the LP is very enjoyable. I give you a more recent example of a misguided docudrama, "Beyond The Sea", the Bobby Darin bio. Nobody can doubt that it was a labour of love by Kevin Spacey, who played Darin. But it is not the same thing as seeing Darin's actual filmed appearances which are available. A&E did a decent bio a couple of years ago with tons of performance footage. There is always pressure to do bios of beloved, or interesting performers and Lenny Bruce is no exception. It always seems strange to make a fictional film when the real stuff is out there. "Ray" was an excellent docudrama, but the actual performance footage is much better than even Jamie Foxx's performance, excellent though it was. But, the Lenny soundtrack LP is very good, mostly for the music.

Clifford I don't know if the film is on DVD, although being a Fosse film, I would think it's more likely than if it were a fringe film. Hoffman was nominated for an Oscar for his role in it. I also don't think that there is a documentary, though it would make a great one. Bruce was funny and his humour groundbreaking at the time. These days he would almost be mainstream. The music is great though. ............................................. Having said all that, I googled "lenny bruce,documentary" and discovered that there are several, some by BBC and one of which is now being produced by Robert de Niro, but not released yet. So, check it out. I intend to see one, or all of them if I can locate them. Should be very interesting

The soundtrack from "Lenny", from the film with Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce, directed by Bob Fosse and the music produced and directed by Ralph Burns. This is an interesting album in that it has eight Bruce monologues by Hoffman, indespersed with great jazz of the period, most by Ralph Burns, but a great track of Miles Davis' "It Never Entered My Mind" is part of the music for the film. I picked this up on a whim, but it is a fine jazz album, with the added bonus of some of Lenny Bruce's standup bits that landed him in the hoosecow a couple of times. I really enjoyed listening to it.

On I GANGANITI DEL JAZZ label - Jazz Jazz - Live performances by Sarah Vaughan, who sings a fabulous version of Embraceable You and has a kick-ass take on My Hear Belongs To Daddy, backed by the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet. The rest of the tracks are: Dizzy Gillespie's Quintet - Be Bop Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band - Things To Come Miles Davis Quintet - Milestone Charlie Mingus and his Sextet - Pithecanthropus Eretus There are no cover notes on this album, but the music is amazing, with the live audience providing the excitement that a studio recording wouldn't have. LOVE this.

I don't think that any of the similar films, or sequels to "Night of the Living Dead" came anywhere near the creepiness of the original low-budget film. I have the Anniversary edition, which was two tapes, the second of which is interviews with Romero, John Landis, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper and Sam Raimi. Facinating discussion of the genre. The budget was practically nothing and the story was the thing. The last scene was genius. I haven't seen the latest one, directed by Romero, but "Night..." was a masterpiece of the genre, IMO.

Jazz 45s, unfortunately have not usually been treated with the same reverance as have LPs and even Jazz 78s. They tend to be scratched and dusty. Even in vintage vinyl outlets, in which the records are kept on shelves, in meticulous order, 45s are quite often just in a bin, not even always in their sleeves. Sad really, particularly since many sides that never made it to LPs were originally released on 45s which are floating out there, somewhere. In short, with some exceptions, 45s seem to have been treated as disposable.

Oh, I don't know that I could say that. Bruce Willis movies are pretty sub-standard, usually, but I really liked "Last Man Standing". It could have been because my guy Christopher Walken was part of the cast. His small part, for me, made the rest of the film worth seeing. The film was a gangster movie set in a dusty western town and was quite interesting and unusual, I thought.

No woman can truly fake orgasm. She can fool her partner, if he isn't familiar with what changes she experiences during an actual orgasm that she is having one though. It isn't about what she says or does to her partner. It's about actual physical changes that happen to her during the real thing. Considering how many women fake orgasm, I can't help but think that the majority of partners can't tell the difference. The larger problem is that she is not experiencing the release that her partner takes for granted, I think. I have no idea what happens in a woman's brain, or a man's for that matter. I do know that there are definite physical changes during real orgasm that cannot be faked. Whether their partner just prefers to just believe her when she says she experienced orgasm is a whole other thing. And yes it does matter.

I understand your misty-eyed-ness, Alexander. Love the "I talked her through it" part. Luckily, my oldest daughter was little when vinyl was just starting to be replaced by audio-tapes and had her own little record-player and several LPs, like the Muppets and Sesame Street issues. So, although she has CDs now, she does at least know about records and their care.

I come to Organissimo because, like close friends, no matter what damn fool discussions I have involved myself in, you continue to see value in my contributions to the site, no matter how small.

Krupa and Rich - Clef Records Personel: Dizzy Gillespie Roy Eldridge Illinois Jacquet Herb Ellis Flip Phillips Oscar Peterson Ray Brown Track List: Side 1 Buddy's Blues Bernie's Tune Side 2 Gene's Blues Sweethearts on Parade I Never Knew

Cream of Wheat, with real maple syrup, but just a touch. Like making a perfect egg, making Cream of wheat is an exact science. It has to be just right, not runny, not cement-like, and very hot. It should be just slightly salty. Some of the water to cook it can be pineapple juice, but only about a tablespoon or two. It is served in a steep-sided cereal bowl, not a flat one. Again, it must be hot. Even one lump is verboten also. NO milk. NO fruit. No nonsense. Mmm.

Well guys, here's my take on this unique body art. He takes his shirt off and...............INSTANT HEADACHE!!!!!! AND, that's quite aside from his overly voluptuous torso. YIKES!!!

"Golden Organ Favourites" - Lenny Dee- Decca Now, I'm a HUGE Jimmy Smith aficianado, so I didn't have really high expectations for Dee, since I barely remembered him from when I was a kid. Imagine my surprise when he majorly swung! Yes, indeedy [as they used to say]. This was recorded live and is really interesting. It isn't anything like what Smith does, of course, but I like it. The track list is: Side 1 April in Paris Twilight Time White Silver Sands Mr Lucky [The TV theme] The Happy Organ [which is the only one I remember hearing before] Tico Tico Side 2 Patricia, It's Patricia [heh heh] The Jitterbug Waltz Honky Tonk [bill Doggett's HUGE hit] Tequila [remember the Champ's version? This is much better.] You Can't Be True Dear Plantation Boogie

Benny Goodman Sextet - Columbia Krupa and Rich - Clef The Bob Cats Ball - Bob Crosby - Coral The King Of Swing Vol 1 - Benny Goodman - Columbia- recorded live. WOW!!

Look at the earlobes. I predict surgery in his future to cut off the bottoms of his lobes, which, without the grommetts in them, will hang down like batwings under a dowager's arms. Of course, the rest I don't know what he's going to do. YIKES!!!

Of course, the issue with tattoos is their permanence. Yes, you can have the actual ink lasored off, but the image, whatever it is, remains. I have no tattoos but have considered a discreet one, out of sight, but still haven't done it. Most of the people I know who have tattoos are quite young and they lean toward Asian symbols in black at the nape of their necks and at the small of their backs. I do, however, work with a young woman, newly enamoured with tattooing, who has several, the most odious one a detailed, full-colour image of a fairy, surrounded by flowers, which covers the entire back of one of her thighs. She also has an Asian symbol on the nape of her neck and something similar on her ankle. This same girl has a pierced librette [stud under her lower lip], a pierced tongue, a pierced eybrow and several piercings on each ear. I talked both my daughters out of having any tattoos, for obvious, I think reasons. There was no restriction on piercings, because mostly they grow in if you take out the hardware. I say mostly, because I've noticed a disturbing trend of having progressively larger grommett-like devices inserting into lobe piercings. After a certain point the hole becomes so large that merely taking out the grommett, isn't enough. Corrective surgery is required. That involves excising the bottom of the earlobe. YIKES!!

Ummmm. I love thick crust... ← The best thick crust pizza I ever had was from a little, Italian family-owned restaurant called Franco's in Prince George, B.C. Canada, where my daughter lives. The pizza crust was light and fluffy. The toppings were fresh and not mushed up. Light layers of whatever was around that day and sauce to die for, topped by just enough cheese. You could eat there, at little tables, served by the owner's family. Or they would deliver and, God knows how they did it, the crust never got soggy. The restaurant was in a really crummy part of town. Hookers and drunks staggering around was common. People felt like they were risking their lives going to the restaurant, but they went anyway. Sadly, the old man wanted to retire and none of the kids wanted to go into the business. It was sold to somebody from somewhere who didn't know from pizza and knew about cost control and selling franchises. DOOM!! But, I still remember that pizza from heaven itself. YUMMM.

OK. Last night I was flippin' through some records I bought last week. Tons of good stuff. But, I came across an album that I wondered why I had bought it. The title is "Garry Moore presents My Kind Of Music." To me, Garry Moore was a dull guy who hosted a TV show back in the late fifties, early sixties. The artists featured though were interesting, so I tossed it on the turntable. Side 1's tracks have George Barnes, Wild Bill Davison, Mel Henke, Randy Hall, Ernie Caceres and Sonny Terry. Nice stuff. Good background for what I was doing, which was reading. So, I flipped over to Side 2. WOW!! The first track was "Yesterdays" by Wild Bill. Backed by a complete string orchestra, but Wild Bill just rose above the whole shebang and SOARED!! Absolutely roof-raising!!! Worth the price of the album. I then read Moore's cover notes on the track: "In all deference to the other men, this was the side I had in mind when I started the album. I was sitting at Condon's one night with a friend of mine, Ted Beach. We wondered at the lyric quality behind the conception of Wild Bill's choruses on the ballads. And Ted said 'How I'd love to hear that against a lush background of strings." And at first the idea sounded a little nuts. But the more I rolled it around on my tongue the better it tasted. And this is the proof that the idea was sound. This, I think, is one of the really great records of all time. [ed. no truer words were ever spoken about a single track. This is beautiful.] It's the whole human race wailing it's heart out - with just enough guts to still sound mad about it. THIS one I know is great." AMEN GARRY!!!! Oh, and the last track has a medley, featuring everyone on the other tracks of the album and GARRY MOORE singing on "You Didn't Want Me Baby" and he is surprisingly good. But, the whole gang is there and EVERYONE has a solo. WOW!!! FIVE DOLLARS well spent. I'm a happy chick.

Gerry Mulligan Presents a Concert in Jazz. Mulligan on baritone sax and piano, Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone Don Ferrara, Nick Travis and Doc Severnson on trumpets Gene Quill on alto sax Willie Dennis on slide trombone Allan Ralph on bass trombone Jim Rieder on tenor sax Bill Crow on bass and the great Mel Lewis on drums Very nice!!!

Frank Foster.

"bashin' The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith". On Verve. Great version of Walk On The Wild Side on this album, my favourite. Love Jimmy!!!

Not so fast, Jazzmoose!!! Hoagy Carmichael.

I bought Blues Brothers 2000 for the performance by Jonny Lang in the teledating segment and for the huge medley featuring almost every living bluesman [and woman] at the very end, as well as the great gospel scene near the end. WOW!! Sure the premise is kinda dumb, but what the hell. Actually Napoleon Dynamite is interesting in parts, if you're into teenage angst. If I'd seen it in a theatre, paying vast sums, instead of at home I probably would have angrily walked out. But once I'm sitting on my sofa, committed to a film, I usually watch the whole thing.

Mention of the damnable "Chicken Dance" reminded me of a remark that my father made at a wedding years ago. He said that seeing normally sensible, dignified people doing the chicken dance in formal clothes at a fancy wedding reception was like seeing a preview of what HELL is surely like. And, Guy, you've got a year to get a gift, but don't wait a year to get a gift. If you don't get a thank you note within three months, then you can say that they haven't read Emily Post, for whatever satisfaction that gets you. This stuff is what sets us apart from the barnyard animals. THEY do the Chicken Dance, proudly, with enthusiasm and without shame.