And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
A few years back one of my sons had a bunch of kids over for movie night and watched the 1966 Batman movie with Lee Meriwether and then the Lego Batman movie and it was hilarious.
We saw Eartha Kitt perform here in Ottawa some years ago. Went both nights. She was 81 and had the audience in the palm of her hand - a dazzling show! She did a little skit with a 21-year-old usher: “How would you like to be 81 for a night?”, she asked him, rubbing the mic on her thigh, sloppily pouring champagne into his glass. . . She looked sexy in a green velvet dress slit on the side. Her vice was strong and clear and filled the hall. When she took her bows, l noticed she placed her hand on the shoulder of one of the violinists for balance. I read afterwards that this was her last show - not her last performance, but the last show she toured with. She died of cancer not long after. I got to shake her hand from the stage! “God bless you!”, l said. “Thank you.”, she answered. A sweet and dear lady. . .
My apologies: her voice, of course, filled the hall. I was distracted by the weather, sitting out here on the front porch on this perfect summer’s day, here in Ottawa, in October.
Did l mention that l also saw her perform at the Mocambo Club in San Francisco, in the seventies(!). I been around.
But Father Time had not touched her voice. She did a segue between two songs - “Ne me quittes pas”, by Jacques Brel, and a Piaf song. It was dazzling, and brought down the house. When she bent forward to take my hand at stage front, l did indeed see the neck of an elderly lady. Still, she filled out the sexy velvet dress and had great gams. “ You know you’re getting old when you can no longer do what you used to be able to do”, a lady friend told me once, driving me home from a concert after an ice storm. She is 85 plus. . .
A few years back one of my sons had a bunch of kids over for movie night and watched the 1966 Batman movie with Lee Meriwether and then the Lego Batman movie and it was hilarious.
ReplyDeleteJulie Newmar...not too bad for a 65ish woman.
ReplyDeleteLee Meriwether - Eartha Kitt - Julie Newmar
ReplyDeleteWe saw Eartha Kitt perform here in Ottawa some years ago. Went both nights. She was 81 and had the audience in the palm of her hand - a dazzling show! She did a little skit with a 21-year-old usher: “How would you like to be 81 for a night?”, she asked him, rubbing the mic on her thigh, sloppily pouring champagne into his glass. . . She looked sexy in a green velvet dress slit on the side. Her vice was strong and clear and filled the hall.
ReplyDeleteWhen she took her bows, l noticed she placed her hand on the shoulder of one of the violinists for balance. I read afterwards that this was her last show - not her last performance, but the last show she toured with. She died of cancer not long after.
I got to shake her hand from the stage! “God bless you!”, l said. “Thank you.”, she answered.
A sweet and dear lady. . .
This is a perfect example of how Father Time is not "gentle" on woman.
ReplyDeleteMy apologies: her voice, of course, filled the hall. I was distracted by the weather, sitting out here on the front porch on this perfect summer’s day, here in Ottawa, in October.
ReplyDeleteDid l mention that l also saw her perform at the Mocambo Club in San Francisco, in the seventies(!). I been around.
But Father Time had not touched her voice. She did a segue between two songs - “Ne me quittes pas”, by Jacques Brel, and a Piaf song. It was dazzling, and brought down the house.
ReplyDeleteWhen she bent forward to take my hand at stage front, l did indeed see the neck of an elderly lady. Still, she filled out the sexy velvet dress and had great gams.
“ You know you’re getting old when you can no longer do what you used to be able to do”, a lady friend told me once, driving me home from a concert after an ice storm. She is 85 plus. . .
I see Julie Newmar, and two posers.
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