AFTER A LOCAL MAN WAS KILLED

 

After a local man was killed

By a falling piano

It has been announced

A low-key funeral will follow

MY FAVOURITE THINGS, NOT

 

Black spot-on roses and fingerless mittens

Green stinging nettles and flea ridden kittens

All creepy crawlies and insects with wings

These are a few of my un-favourite things

 

When my back aches

When my head spins

When I’m fighting mad

I just remember my un-favourite things,
And then I feel twice as bad.

 

Girls in tight trousers too small for their arses

People pretending that they don’t wear glasses

Long bitter winters and damp dismal springs

These are a few of my un-favourite things

 

When my back aches

When my head spins

When I’m fighting mad

I just remember my un-favourite things,
And then I feel twice as bad.

 

People who talk while I’m watching the telly

Women who show off too much of their bellies

Anyone who whistles and tunelessly sings

These are a few of my un-favorite things

 

When my back aches

When my head spins

When I’m fighting mad

I just remember my un-favourite things,
And then I feel twice as bad.

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – CAREFREE (1938)

 

“Carefree” is a Musical Romantic Comedy, Written by Allan Scott, Ernest Pagano. Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde, Marian Ainslee, and Guy Endore and Directed by Mark Sandrich.

Stephen Arden (Ralph Bellamy) has a problem in the relationship with his fiancée, Amanda (Ginger Rogers), so he turns to his friend Dr. Tony Flagg (Fred Astaire), a psychiatrist, for help to understand why she keeps breaking off the engagement.

After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with Tony, so he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, however things get complicated when he realises that he’s in love with her.

It’s an interesting and amusing vehicle in which Ginger and Fred acquit themselves ably but are supported by a first-rate group of players headed by old friends like eager Jack Carson and irascible Clarence Kolb plus charming comedian Luella Gear.

HAMILTON THE MUSICAL

 

I went to see Hamilton the musical, but

I didn’t like it when all said and done

It was definitely musical without a doubt

But not one mention of Formula One

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934)

 

“The Gay Divorcee” is a Musical Romantic Comedy, written by George Marion Jr, Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman from the book by Dwight Taylor, musical adaptation Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein and Directed by Mark Sandrich.

The story concerns American dancer Guy Holden (Fred Astaire) and Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers), there’s clearly an attraction between them but Mimi keeps running off.

Then she visits a lawyer in London, Egbert 'Pinky' Fitzgerald (Edward Everett Horton) and tells him she wants a divorce from her absentee husband.

Meanwhile Mimi’s Aunt Hortense (Alice Brady) hires a professional Rodolfo Tonetti (Erik Rhodes) to play the correspondent in an apparent infidelity.

But what neither of them knows in that Guy and Pinky are friends so they travel down to Brightbourne together where the dancer meets Mimi again, but she thinks that he is the correspondent.

When the dust settles and the confusion has been cleared up Mimi’s husband Cyril (William Austin) turns up but he refuses to grant a divorce, luckily the waiter (Eric Blore) comes to the rescue.

The movie is a feast of song and dance and won the first Oscar for Best Song: “The Continental”, a twenty-two-minute production number.

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE SKY'S THE LIMIT (1943)

 

“The Sky's the Limit” is a Musical Romantic Comedy, screenplay by Frank Fenton and Lynn Root and Directed by Edward H. Griffith.

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell (Fred Astaire) and his squadron are on a coast-to-coast personal appearance tour, but he is tired and bored with all the attention and he knows he only has two weeks to have fun so he sneaks away from his famous squadron's train and goes in search of a few days leave away from the spotlight.

He travels incognito for a day or so in the guise of a carefree drifter until he goes to a Cabaret and meets photographer Joan Manion (Joan Leslie) and quickly falls for her.

Initially she gives him the brush off, but eventually she takes pity on him and tries to get him a job, but he is resistant, but he was only interested in being with her but eventually his time runs out and he has to leave, without her knowing his true identity.

Her boss sends her to do a story on the Flying Tigers, and she is still aware until the last moment that Fred is one of them, and they have a big kiss goodbye before he jumps on the plane.

 

Astaire and Leslie have a wonderful chemistry, in this very under-rated film even though many critics consider it to be one of Fred's worst movies, personally I don't understand why.

In addition, Robert Benchley puts in one of his best, patented befuddled speaker routines.

So, take my advice don't listen to the critics, watch the movie for yourself, it has wit, romance, good music, and trademark dance routines; I promise you will not be disappointed.