Another old movie: The Pleasure Seekers

The Pleasure Seekers(Movie Clip) The Ones That Fly
Evidently they like Vegas stylings at this Madrid nightspot, Ann-Margret (as American "Fran") in hot pink with the title tune by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, in Jean Negulesco's The Pleasure Seekers, 1964.



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Pleasure Seekers, The -- (Movie Clip) Las Meninas
Newly arrived American Susie (Pamela Tiffin) in Madrid at The Prado, with Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, El Greco's Crucifixion, and playboy Emilio (Tony Franciosa), in Jean Negulesco's The Pleasure Seekers, 1964.

1974 Super Beetle: Car & Track

original url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyvcPXcTK2U

Orson Welles on Cavett, etc

Above:"Orson shmoozes about Winston Churchill." Below, this is via a story from Slate discussing this radio interview clip, from 1940, when Welles was on KSAT radio in San Antonio, talking with H.G. Wells.

Natalie Wood tv commercial c. 1981

The Night The Roof Fell In

The Dick Van Dyke Show: "The Night The Roof Fell In" (aka Rashomon Lite)

[via Slate.]

"Let Your Learning Be Your Eyes" Les McCann

song: "Let Your Learning Be Your Eyes" by Les McCann, from 1975

Daffy the commando, etc

Original link is here, from close-captioned cartoons.

14 September 2011: Agnes Moorehead and Tim Holt

via Elbert Ventura's article at Slate.

Gore Vidal n' Norman Mailer on Cavett

The original link is here.

And now it's Friday

But it's been a week, so it's next Friday.

Here's an interview with Aldous Huxley from 1958.

It's Thursday

You object, perhaps understandably, that Valley of the Dolls was not literature, apart from in the statutory sense. I haven't read it, so I don't know.

Slate's 7 July photo gallery of arty broads[link].

The Cranes are flying/ Летят журавли

Peter Bogdanovich discusses John Simon c. 1970

The Damned don't cry (no really, they don't...)

Dick Burton on Electronovision®

Cry, baby

Richard Harris re Brando

Brigitte Dale's "How to Be Popular"

Grey Gardens 1975

Grey Gardens is a documentary by the Mayles brothers, who appear occasionally in the mirror.

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