Showing posts with label Oscar Levant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Levant. Show all posts
Monday, December 9, 2019

Oscar Levant: a spill of brilliance

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  Oscar Levant, Oscar Levant! I am too exhausted now from a truly gruesome sick-week  to go into a long prologue about who he was, and...
Friday, November 15, 2019

More troll stop-motion gifs!

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BLOGGER'S NOTE: I am, I really AM working on a serious post for this blog, about the common points/affinities between legend...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Gershwin home movies: who ARE these people?

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Oh how I wish I had encountered this little snippet of greatness when I was in my Oscar Levant fever back in 2012-13.  Now, every time I...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

Oscar Levant: Rhapsody in Black

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Since my enthusiasm so often runs ahead of my knowledge, I'm writing this in advance of knowing anything about my subject. Or ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

The Gershwin cartoon: it's here! It's very clear!

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I was gobsmacked to find this. I went on YouTube and searched under "Gershwin cartoons", knowing such an absurd thing could n...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Up in smoke: what happened to George Gershwin?

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George #1: dredged out of rare archival footage, in turn dredged up by documentarians. Here we see the godlike, melancholy Gershwin...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

"Again, the Rhapsody": George Gershwin revisited

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I'm all afizz tonight, and for an unexpected reason. I just came out the other side of one of those old Hollywood juggernauts, the ...