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i wish Louella Parsons "GOOD NEWS" from a 1949 MODERN SCREEN magazine had indeed been correct . . . she died twenty years later of an accidental overdose of barbiturates. .
" WHAT IS really the matter with Judy Garland? That is the question hurled at me everywhere I go.
All right, let's get at it.
Judy is a nervous and frail little girl who suffers from a sensitiveness almost bordering on neurosis. It is her particular temperament to be either walking in the clouds with excitement or way down in the dumps with worry. The least thing to go wrong leaves her sleepless and shattered.
She has never learned the philosophy of "taking it easy." Last year, when she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, she got in the habit of taking sleeping pills -- too many of them -- to get the rest she had to have. I'm not revealing any secrets telling you that. It was printed at the time. But for a highly emotional and highly strung girl to completely abandon sedatives, as Judy attempted to do when she realized she was taking too many, puts a terrific strain on the nervous system.
The trouble is, Judy does not take enough time to rest. The minute she starts feeling better she wants to go back to work. She cried like a baby when she learned she was not strong enough to make The Barkleys of Broadway with Fred Astaire so soon following The Pirate and Easter Parade.
"I'm missing the greatest role of my career," she sobbed. With Judy -- each role is always the greatest.
Sometimes I believe Judy's frail little form is packed with too much talent for her own good. She is an artist, and I mean ARTIST, at too many things.
She sings wonderfully and dances almost as well. And as for her acting -- well, listen to what Joseph Schenk, one of the really big men of our industry and head of 20th Century Fox (not Judy's studio) has to say. I sat next to Joe the night we saw Easter Parade. He told me, "Judy Garland is one of the great artists of the screen. She can do anything. I consider her as fine an actress as she is a musical comedy star. There is no drama I wouldn't trust her with. She could play such drama as Seventh Heaven as sensitively as a Janet Gaynor or a Helen Mencken." And I agree with every word Joe said.
I am happy to tell you as I report the Hollywood news this month that Judy is coming along wonderfully, resting and getting back the bloom of health. Soon we will have her back on the screen -- her long battle with old Devil Nerves behind her and forgotten."
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screen
magazine
judy
garland
louella
parsons
Added: 6th September 2007
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Posted By: Teresa |
 
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Hall & Oates, singing the well-received cover of the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" -Written by Barry Mann, Phil Spector and Cynthia Weil, the song is one of the foremost examples of producer Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" technique.
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Iwasbornahippie
Added: 4th April 2009
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Posted By: mia_bambina |
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WHAT A SONG and WHAT A VOICE.
This Is One Of Those One Hit Wonders.
Written and preformed by Bobby Hebb.
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Sixties,
Sunny,
Bobby
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Added: 1st February 2009
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Cass Elliot was born Ellen Naomi Cohen on Sept 19th 1941. Her restauranteur father nicknamed her'Cass' after the Trojan princess, Cassandra. She adopted the name Cass Elliot during her teens. The name Mama Cass evolved from her involvement with the Mamas and Papas.
This is what John Phillips said about Cass in an interview in August 1995 at Paramount Studios: "Her father had a deli in New York. I remember her as a little, chubby girl, with the stained apron on, behind the counter. [Laughs] We were sort of infamous in that area, and when she got to New York, she knew who we were, but we didn't know who she was. And she had met Denny, and Denny said, "I know this girl that sings wonderfully. We should have her over and sing with her." It happened to be that LSD was actually legal at the time. It wasn't a banned drug or anything. We searched all over the Village and found some contemporary artist who had some and he gave it to us. We were about to take it that night, when the knock on the door came and Cass came in. So we all had it together the same night, for the first time, and I think that formed a bond between the four of us that we just never stopped singing. We just went on and on and on and on, until the trip wore off, which was about four years later."
Cass Elliott died July 29, 1974. Contrary to what many people have been led to believe over the years, she did not choke on a sandwich. According to her doctor, the cause was heart failure.
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mama
cass
elliott
70s
music
Added: 19th September 2007
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Posted By: Sophia |
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One of entertainment's true good guys is Donny Osmond. Here he is, in his teen idol heyday, singing Sweet and Innocent in concert. The girls seem to like him, don't they?
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Added: 30th September 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Michael Landon once appeared on Hullabaloo (a short-lived NBC ripoff of ABC's Shindig) and sang You Were On My Mind--and here's the proof. Brace yourselves. This is not pleasant.
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Added: 1st October 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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William Shatner sings Elton John's Rocket Man at the 1978 Sci-Fi Awards show. Lava, even if there was a coin toss, I don't think there would be a winner.. lol
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man
william
shatner
scifi
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Added: 1st October 2007
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Posted By: Guido |
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In keeping with the questionable singing talents of Michael Landon and William Shatner, I proudly present Clark Gable's only song-and-dance number. Oh, the humanity of it all!
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Gable
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Added: 2nd October 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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The only time we ever heard the Little Tramp's voice was in Modern Times (1936) when he sang a nonsense song in a cabaret. If you don't understand the lyrics, it's okay. Nobody does. They are a mishmash of words from several languages with a bit of jibberish thrown in. (Some film historians claim that Chaplin was trying to make the point that actions speak louder than words.) Nevertheless it is rather odd to hear sounds come from the mouth of the silent cinema's greatest star.
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Times
Added: 3rd October 2007
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