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Birthday Mermaid
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 8, 2012
The one and only Miss Esther Williams is 90-something today (her exact birthyear being lost in a discreet, MGM-imposed haze - my money's on 91). She may not have been the rangiest star ever, but how many performers can say that an entire genre was created around them, and that when they were d read more
Birthday Mermaid
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 8, 2012
The one and only Miss Esther Williams is 90-something today (her exact birthyear being lost in a discreet, MGM-imposed haze - my money's on 91). She may not have been the rangiest star ever, but how many performers can say that an entire genre was created around them, and that when they were d read more
Bombshell
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 5, 2012
What's getting headlines today, of course, is that it is, unbelievably, 50 years today since the death of Marilyn Monroe. Many, many others have written and will write about her today - her incandescent beauty, the ups and downs of her tangled, messy life, and the amazing way in which today, w read more
Bombshell
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Aug 5, 2012
What's getting headlines today, of course, is that it is, unbelievably, 50 years today since the death of Marilyn Monroe. Many, many others have written and will write about her today - her incandescent beauty, the ups and downs of her tangled, messy life, and the amazing way in which today, w read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion - and More!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jul 28, 2012
This rather marvelous mash-up appeared on my radar courtesy of the very dashing Craig Carruthers, amusing Twitterer and keeper of the flame of the startlingly-not-late, great Luise Rainer.
Perhaps it's been clattering around the Internet for ages and I'm just seeing it,&nbs read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion - and More!
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jul 28, 2012
This rather marvelous mash-up appeared on my radar courtesy of the very dashing Craig Carruthers, amusing Twitterer and keeper of the flame of the startlingly-not-late, great Luise Rainer.
Perhaps it's been clattering around the Internet for ages and I'm just seeing it,&nbs read more
Just Another Random Wednesday
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jul 26, 2012
Feeling in need of a cheering moment, I turned this morning to a clip that never fails to delight, and I thought I'd share it with you. Here we have the immortal Charlotte Greenwood, ambushed by a callow youth but holding her own. Greenwood-philes always know to pay extra-close read more
Just Another Random Wednesday
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jul 25, 2012
Feeling in need of a cheering moment, I turned this morning to a clip that never fails to delight, and I thought I'd share it with you. Here we have the immortal Charlotte Greenwood, ambushed by a callow youth but holding her own. Greenwood-philes always know to pay extra-close read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion (1)
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 16, 2012
Truth to tell, this week's SSCE entry isn't so much an explosion as an implosion. For the second week running, quite by chance, we find ourselves down in the depths of terrible '70s cinema.
It's natural enough, once a star becomes established and can claim a certain proven read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 16, 2012
Truth to tell, this week's SSCE entry isn't so much an explosion as an implosion. For the second week running, quite by chance, we find ourselves down in the depths of terrible '70s cinema.
It's natural enough, once a star becomes established and can claim a certain proven read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion (3)
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 9, 2012
In honor of the 121st birthday of the favorite son of Peru, Indiana, the inimitable Mr. Cole Porter, I thought it might be fun to have a look at what may well be the most (only?) enjoyable moment from one of Hollywood's greatest disasters.
Yes, it's "Find me a Primitive Man," deliver read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 9, 2012
In honor of the 121st birthday of the favorite son of Peru, Indiana, the inimitable Mr. Cole Porter, I thought it might be fun to have a look at what may well be the most (only?) enjoyable moment from one of Hollywood's greatest disasters.
Yes, it's "Find me a Primitive Man," deliver read more
Let's All Go to the Snack Bar...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 6, 2012
It was a good thing to be a teenager, as of today 79 years ago, or at least a teenager with access to a car, for on this day in 1933, the very first drive-in movie opened up.
Much later - yes, even I'm not quite old enough to have been there in '33 - the drive-in was someplace my older siblings cou read more
Let's All Go to the Snack Bar...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 6, 2012
It was a good thing to be a teenager, as of today 79 years ago, or at least a teenager with access to a car, for on this day in 1933, the very first drive-in movie opened up.
Much later - yes, even I'm not quite old enough to have been there in '33 - the drive-in was someplace my older siblings cou read more
Birthday Girl: Auntie Roz
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 4, 2012
Miss Rosalind Russell would have been 105 today, and a chance to think about her life and work is never something to pass up.
It's no secret how fond I am of Roz, and I know I trade far too frequently in superlatives, but still: she was, to my mind, Hollywood's most sensible star, the read more
Birthday Girl: Auntie Roz
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 4, 2012
Miss Rosalind Russell would have been 105 today, and a chance to think about her life and work is never something to pass up.
It's no secret how fond I am of Roz, and I know I trade far too frequently in superlatives, but still: she was, to my mind, Hollywood's most sensible star, the read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion (2)
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 2, 2012
Because some days, you just wanna fuckin' dance. It's an oldie, but beyond goodie, and I'm sure quite familiar already to many Café regulars. I'm amazed it hasn't featured here already. Probably the best dance anthem ever taken from a contemporary "headline opera read more
Shameless Saturday Camp Explosion
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 2, 2012
Because some days, you just wanna fuckin' dance. It's an oldie, but beyond goodie, and I'm sure quite familiar already to many Café regulars. I'm amazed it hasn't featured here already. Probably the best dance anthem ever taken from a contemporary "headline opera read more
Hey, Mr. Vijay...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 1, 2012
On weekend mornings (Fridays being Saturday here, remember), I like to catch up with the newspapers, and especially with the enjoyably tawdry equivalents of the "Living and Arts" sections of newspapers back home (the section that Father Muscato still calls "The Women's Page," since that's what it wa read more
Hey, Mr. Vijay...
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 1, 2012
On weekend mornings (Fridays being Saturday here, remember), I like to catch up with the newspapers, and especially with the enjoyably tawdry equivalents of the "Living and Arts" sections of newspapers back home (the section that Father Muscato still calls "The Women's Page," since that's what it wa read more