Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

In honor of Cyd Charisse, who just died the other day: My problem is that I want to live in a world where this is how you woo a woman. And a bonus Something for Thursday: Gene Kelly and Cyd … Continue reading →

I am not apologizing for liking this song. Nope. Not apologizing. (But don’t look too closely into the hypnotic gaze of the Brothers Gibb. I think I just mailed them fifty bucks.)

I used this before back when he died, but hearing something beautiful only once seems to me a waste, so here’s Luciano again. “Nessun dorma….” I love this aria so much that I’m actually scared to someday see Turandot and … Continue reading →

Singin’ in the Rain has so many great numbers, that this one always seems to get overshadowed. Here, Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) has taken Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds) into an empty soundstage and set the scene with colored spotlights, a … Continue reading →

Two cues from James Horner’s masterful score to Braveheart: “A Gift of a Thistle” and that score’s best cue, “The Secret Wedding”. Gorgeous, dream-like, haunting music — even if Horner used Irish uilleann pipes for his score to a movie … Continue reading →

Ignore the images (from some anime or other) and just listen to Julie Andrews singing as Guinevere in Camelot. What a terribly sad, sad song! Lerner and Loewe manage to distill, in three minutes, the awful reality of the Guinevere-Lancelot … Continue reading →

Oh Audrey, I love you so! Sigh….