Fun video from the wedding reception of Tony Award Winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, the guy who wrote “In the Heights” on Broadway.
It’s kind of a Puerto Rican/Jewish wedding thing…
I loved it…
When they legalize Gay Marriage in North Carolina, I expect our friends to recreate this…
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I saw this on my alma mater, W&L’s,website earlier today…
And I’ll never forget going to the Kentucky Derby with my Washington and Lee friends in 1978 when Secretariat was still a vivid, recent memory….
He was one of the greatest sports stars to ever come out of the commonwealth.
He is the subject of a new movie starring Diane Lane and John Malkovich.
He is a horse.
The 1973 winner of the Triple Crown will jump from the pages of history to the multiplex when the Walt Disney Pictures film “Secretariat” opens across the country Friday, giving folks the chance to learn — or be reminded — of the Virginia roots of both the famed horse and the family who owned him.
Secretariat was born at The Meadow, a Caroline County horse farm founded by Washington and Lee University graduate Christopher Chenery. Secretariat, who lived and trained for two years at The Meadow, won the Triple Crown in blue-and-white racing silks — the school colors of Chenery’s alma mater.
via Secretariat’s gallop into greatness, movie fame has W&L tie – Roanoke.com.
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There’s a great CD recording of “Porgy and Bess” with Sammy and Ella…
Here’s Sammy doing a great job of covering the male songs on a TV Special from 1973:
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After all the trips down memory lane with my old pictures and friends on Facebook tonight, this just seems appropriate.
We certainly danced the night away to this song by the Tams more nights than I can remember when we were in College…
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We had the privilege of seeing the last performance of “The Glass Menagerie” at Triad Stage tonight. Our season tickets are usually for earlier in the run, but we had to move them later due to a conflict. I really wish we had seen it earlier so I could encourage more people to go see it. It was truly stellar.
Preston Lane’s post-modern staging, incorporating video and a striking, yet minimalist set was brilliantly executed. His direction was spot on. Preston and Triad Stage always do good work when presenting Tennessee William’s work, but they really raised the bar with this production.
While I love Tennessee Williams and know his work very well, “The Glass Menagerie” is usually my least favorite of his plays. It could have something to do with Southern Mother thing hitting a little too close home! But, anyway, this was a whole new take on the play. I’ve seen this play many, many times and for the first time, to me, it really seemed to be Tom’s play and it was not overshadowed by Amanda.
All four actors gave lovely performances. It was a beautifully balanced ensemble consisting of Kate Goehring as Amanda/The Mother, Cheryl Koski as Laura/The Daughter, Matthew Carlson as The Son/Tom and Tyler Hollinger as Jim/ The Gentleman Caller. Great work by all.
If you missed this one, you really missed a treasure. It’s nights like this that I am grateful that we have Triad Stage here in Greensboro. Innovative, interesting theatre is always a treasure, but even more so when it’s in your own backyard.
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Now I feel really old…..
It was 40 years ago today, Shirley Partridge taught the band to play.
OK, so maybe it was Keith.
Either way, “The Partridge Family,” a landmark show about a fictional singing group that produced a very real teen idol who, in turn, helped sell the records the group performed on the show, is 40 years old. It premiered back on Sept. 25, 1970, quickly turning David Cassidy, now 60, into a teenybopper sensation.
MORE: Come On Get Happy! “The Partridge Family” Turns 40.
And a little video of their Greatest Hit:
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Only on Fox News:
Caught in a disaster? You’d better hope you’re wearing the Emergency Bra. Simply unsnap the bright red bra, separate the cups, and slip it over your head — one cup for you, and one for your friend.
Dr. Elena Bodnar won an Ignoble Award for the invention last year, an annual tribute to scientific research that on the surface seems goofy but is often surprisingly practical. And now Bodnar has brought the eBra to the public; purchase one online for just $29.95.
“The goal of any emergency respiratory device is to achieve tight fixation and full coverage. Luckily, the wonderful design of the bra is already in the shape of a face mask and so with the addition of a few design features, the Emergency Bra enhances the efficiency of minimizing contaminated bypass air flow,” explains the eBra website.
It sounds silly, but Bodnar, a Ukraine native who now lives in Chicago, started her medical career studying the effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. If people had had cheap, readily available gas masks in the first hours after the disaster, she said, they may have avoided breathing in Iodine-131, which causes radiation sickness.
The bra-turned-gas masks could have also been useful during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and for women caught outside during the dust storms that recently enveloped Sydney, she said.
“You have to be prepared all the time, at any place, at any moment, and practically every woman wears a bra,” she said. Her patented devices also look pretty, no different from a conventional bra, she added.
According to a report on tech news site CNET, there are plans for a “counterpart device for men” in the works, though the precise shape it will take has yet to be revealed.
via FOXNews.com – In Case of Emergency, Please Remove Your Bra.
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Julie Andrews singing a Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer song…
I remember loving this song the first time I heard it…
It’s from the 1970 film “Darling Lily” with Julie and Rock Hudson…
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God, this makes me feel old…
On Monday, September 20, The Paris Theater in New York City filled to standing-room only for a 25th-anniversary screening of the seminal teen classic ‘The Breakfast Club.’ The event, organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, celebrated not just the 1985 hit, but the life of writer-director John Hughes, who passed away last August at the age of 59.
After the screening, the audience was treated to a special 90-minute Q&A with four of its stars: Judd Nelson (“Bender”), Anthony Michael Hall (“Brian”), Molly Ringwald (“Claire”) and Ally Sheedy (“Allison”). Notably absent was the other main cast member, Emilio Estevez, who Ringwald joked was “the Greta Garbo of the Brat Pack — he just wants to be left alone.” The night was moderated by noted Hughes fan Kevin Smith, who declared, “I saw this movie when I was 14 years old, and from that moment on, I wanted to join the Breakfast Club. Tonight, thanks to one omission, I can. Tonight only, I’m standing in for the jock.”
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Lost in the 21st Century 
That’s the Way I Always Heard It Should Be…
I can’t count the nights I had a nightcap and listened to this song in Danville when I was in my early 20’s and trying to get my act together…
It could be the theme song of my other blog…. http://www.mysoutherngothiclife.com
Happily, my life turned out differently. I learned “to be just me first by myself”.
And didn’t end up by myself…
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