Grrrr. Monday again? So soon?
Hey ho - at least we have tonight's Polari to look forward to - our headliner is none other than "Mr Tom Daley" Dustin Lance Black, so I am foaming at the gash to see if his adoring hubby will be in attendance...
Meanwhile, today would have been the eternal Miss Judy Garland's birthday (and we're very close indeed to the 50th anniversary of her untimely death), so on this Tacky Music Monday, what better way to get ourselves woken and out of the door than a feast of showbiz pizazz from the lady herself?
Have a good week, peeps.
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm, 10th June 1922 – 22nd June 1969)
Good grief, she died when she was 47. I have been reading. I didn't realise she was so young. These film/recording studios wreck talent don't they? They suck out as much as they can and spit out the husk.
ReplyDeleteHave a good week, m'dear!
Sx
Rumour has it that the studios got her hooked on "uppers" and "downers" as early as her teenage years in The Wizard of Oz, in order to "cope" with the filming schedules - and she battled with addiction for the rest of her life.
DeleteIt is quite scary how many stars died too soon because of addiction - Dinah Washington was only 39; Marilyn was 36; Dorothy Dandridge was 42; and of course there was a slew of them in the '60s and '70s (Hendrix, Joplin etc.)...
Jx
Worth remembering that the pressure to stay thin had a lot to do with it, especially in the case of the women. Judy was a great singing actress and an extraordinary person, I don't want to define her by how she died, but it needs to get mentioned more. Ridiculous anyway, she still had an audience whatever she weighed
DeleteBy the end she was skeletal. Terrible, really. Jx
DeletePeople don't really talk about her in terms of women's body image, she's before Princess Diana, Lena Zavaroni, Karen Carpenter, Audrey Hepburn and anyone else who people think about in those terms
DeleteEternal is the word for this amazing star
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the Daleys
I can't wait! Jx
DeleteQuiet please, there's a lady on stage.
ReplyDeletePut your hands together and help her along
DeleteAll that's left of the singer's all that's left of the song
Rise to the occasion
Give her one last celebration
Quiet please, there's a lady on stage
Conductor, turn the final page
When it's over we can all go home
She lives on, on the stage alone
Love that song. Dusty Springfield's version is heartbreaking. Jx
"Ohhhhhh, how can you see with all that light?"
ReplyDeleteI'd foam too over lance....but I'm still recovering dear.
Lance was utterly gorgeous, and a truly lovely person. [More on that, later, I have no doubt.] The sex-god Tom was probably looking after the kiddie-winkie, as he didn't show... Jx
DeleteWatched I Could Go On Singing a few days ago, she is so relaxed and natural onscreen, it never seems like acting. Some actors become a complete new person every part they play, Judy's one who acts as if everything is happening to her, she convinces you that way. She has such a rapport with children on the screen.
ReplyDeleteA massive loss to the world of show-business - and an underestimated acting talent, to boot. Jx
DeleteI've seen talk clips of her from the last two years of her lives, and she truly looks bad, yet the charisma still comes through.
ReplyDeleteShe was still a charming woman, despite the fact it was obvious there were extreme problems hiding behind all that bravura... Jx
DeleteShe crammed so much into her short life.
ReplyDeleteThat's why we adore her so. Jx
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