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Wednesday, 31 December 2008
A Hogmanay-Ne'erday Interlude: Auld Lang Syne Bookmark and Share
Posted on 12/31/2008 10:18 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
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1 Jan 2009
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Waterloo Bridge Is Fallen Woman, Fallen Woman
Or: "Myra Mains"*
Or: Man Hunt For Arcane References**
Or: Whorey Traditions
 
It would seem that the clip is in keeping with the hoary tradition that hookers, even those such as Jerry Stokes, played by Joan Bennett in Man Hunt (1941) with a heart of gold and a silver hat pin (a "lethal accessory" according to the daughter of mine who still hopes to attend Kingston), or Myra, played by Vivian Leigh, who meets her Waterloo in spite of her Auld Lang Syne accessory, a "lucky" Chinese New Year White Rabbit, must be conveniently disposed of without so much as a by-your-loo or like water under the...well, you know, bridge, lest their continued existence embarrass a gentleman.
 
 
 
 
*  -wish I'd thoughta' that one meself  - just the ticket for ringing up a mortuary: Could I please speak to Myra Mains?
**  sigh - too much to hope that Hugh was referencing the "White Wabbit"


1 Jan 2009
Paul Blaskowicz

What a handsome couple. 

" And here's a hand my trusty fLend"  sweet.

When Vivien Leigh was making Streetcar,  a jealous Laurence Olivier demanded to know  what she and Marlon B were often reported to be conspiratorily talking about on the set.  "If you must know - Christian Science!"



1 Jan 2009
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[What wild ones.]

A Streetcar Named Desuetude
Or: A Han Hogmanay-Ne'elday Intellude
Or: Stanley Steamed 
Or: Fishwife Beater
Or: Doubly Blessed & Possessed
 
 
"Hands? Trusty friends? Lucky lagomorphs?  I have always depended on the kindness of Granger's."
 
-Vivien Leigh, blanching on the set of Cleopatra
 
 
 
Joan Bennett! She's everywhere!  That is to say, not Joan, or Gordon, Bennett or Vivien Leigh, but Mary Baker Eddy, who was thrown off the set of Desire after getting kicked around by "Kowalski" who was at the time, as noted by Hugh, wearing the prototypical "wife beater", on account of hawking her script for Hello Dolly -Or The So-Called Death of Cornish.
 
Yes, I remember Penrith* and Pentreath
And misremember Caine Mutiny's Captain Queef**
 
* ht. Hugh
 





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