- Smith, who has no e-mail address and hasn’t a clue about how to find her Internet Movie Database resume, totally missed the much-viewed online clip of her greatest Downton Abbey zingers from earlier this year that was titled (Bleep) the Dowager Countess Says. It is explained to her this way: “First you put someone in their place, then you ring the bell, then you stare and sigh, then you deliver another putdown.” Her reaction: “Who would put that online? Who would assemble it?”
- She never understood the popularity of her Downton Abbey inquiry, “What is a weekend?” Smith explains: “It’s a good line, but I never thought it was that funny.” Her favorite? “Put that in your pipe and smoke it,” which was her signoff after rival Isobel (Penelope Wilton) accused her of meddling in the romantic affairs of her son.
- Talk of a sequel to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has Smith puzzled. “I heard that and thought, ‘It would have to be in a funeral home.’ We are all in an old people’s home. Where else would you put the sequel?”
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Maggie Smith---funny without even trying to be!
Friday, September 14, 2012
Ethel Merman & Mary Martin Interview Part 1 (by NealeUK)
Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, two of the most beloved women of the old-time Broadway musical!
Today’s folks may know Mary Martin from her signature role as Peter Pan in the 1960 televised musical adaptation. And, one of Ethel Merman’s best known roles is that of pistol wielding Annie Oakley, in 1946’s Annie Get Your Gun, which was later made into a musical film in 1950, starring Betty Hutton as Annie.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Mary Martin was such a loving individual. Look at how warm she is to everyone, never hesitating to give a compliment or to hold a hand. I think if I was in show-business back in her day, she and I would have been friends, probably.
And, will you get a load of silent-film star, Lillian Gish! When she describes how movies were made about 100 years ago—-WOW!
JOAN CRAWFORD’S EERIE LAST WORDS:
I am in the process of reading my Joan Crawford biography, and I find her to be a very interesting character-study. She was a woman of contradictions that even she did not know. And, ya wanna hear something weird? Play this video! All those voice-mails from her. If played from beginning to end, you’ll be thinking WHOA!
Monday, September 10, 2012
(via Image detail for -Desi Arnaz Lucille Ball Lucie Desiree Arnaz)
Desi was such a natural father! I love him for that! And, that’s mostly why I can’t stand to see him get old, because I can feel what his kids must have been feeling—-that the world wasn’t just about to lose a great man, but that two lucky kids were about to lose a dear dad.
I love you, Desi!
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Remembering Desilu as Star Trek celebrates 45 years!
Even if you are a non-Treki, like myself, there was no way you could be on the internet yesterday and not know about Star Trek’s 45th anniversary! As one of my Facebook friend’s statuses informed me, Google was in on the party in its usually unique way, with a special Google sign, designed just for the occasion:
Needless to say, my friend was bowled over by excitement, after she saw the fun graphic honoring one of her very favorite shows. And, although I am not a Treki (Star Trek fan) myself, I must admit that this anniversary means a lot to me, too, thanks to a little bit of history calledDesilu!
In case some of you aren’t aware, Desilu was the name of the television production company ran by Desi Arnaz (company president) and his wife, TV comedian, Lucille Ball (vice-president). And, according to A Book by Desi Arnaz as-well as several other sources, the company was, at its peak, the biggest, most active TV production studio in the world, producing more programs and more episodes than any other company! So, it should come as little surprise that it was this very same, successful studio that first brought Star Trek into people’s homes 45 years ago!
That’s right, I may not be aStar Trekfan per se, but I am a Lucy-Desi fan, all the way! So, I am very proud of them for helping to launch such timeless programs asStar Trekall those years ago. And, even though the studio was eventually sold to Paramount, at which time it was renamedParamount Television Studios, the history ofStar Trekand other shows pioneered there will keep the memory of its original incarnation alive.
So, as you think ofStar Trekon its 45th anniversary, don’t forget to rememberDesilutoo—-the place where it all began.
Happy 45th, Star Trek fans!