50 thoughts on “So Long Debbie (and Carrie)”

  6. from uk  telegraph: Watch Carrie Fisher speak candidly about her mother Debbie Reynolds in new documentary Bright Lights

    “My mother is performing a show in Connecticut,” she says. “I tried to stop her, but that is like throwing yourself in front of a… what are those called? Not tiramisus… Tsunamis. See, she’s tsu-mommy.”

    Fisher reveals that she found her mother lying on the ground after one of her one-woman shows. “It doesn’t make sense to her that her body isn’t cooperating,” Fisher explains. “Age is hard for all of us, but she falls from a greater height.” 

  8. Debbie Reynolds sings “I Ain’t Down Yet” from her Oscar-nominated performance in “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” in this 1982 TV appearance

  10. Loved the Carrie story about Debbie’s closet.  “She woke up as my mother, entered her closet on one end and came out the other end as Debby Reynolds.  It was sort of a movie star car wash.”

     

  11. hey, bink, glad to see you on the trail again.  as to that inauguration aka coronation, what are the odds the scripture of the day will be  “go, sell all that you have and give to the poor”    🙂

  13. bbronc and flatus, any thoughts on this thought-y piece in vanity fair:
    Will Trump Turn on Putin?
    The fate of the world may hang on that decision.
    [….]
    The problem with George W. Bush was that he believed Iraqis really would greet American G.I.s with open arms. The problem with Barack Obama was that he believed the world really would be a better place if only America would allow it to be. Those on the left and right who insist on viewing their partisan foes cynically, who assume they lie and dissemble because those with whom they disagree are necessarily Neanderthals or traitors or simply dumb, run into the same pitfall that Russians run into when trying to decode America: their cynicism makes them naïve. It makes them not see what’s actually happening.   We don’t know what will replace Pax Americana, but we can be confident it will lack the same moral urgency. That may mean fewer wars, which would be good, but probably not. It will probably mean more pillaging, more Thrasymachus, more Aleppos. The soon-to-be commander in chief of the most powerful military on Earth, the president of the country with the biggest economy, has signaled to the predators of the planet that now is their moment. Anyone can be bought or sold. Let’s make a deal!

  14. jace, ya mean like what that feller mark warned “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

    ha! that assumes there’s still a soul to lose.

  15. Patd,

    Hadn’t thought of it in quite that way. Quoting Mark is most appropriate .

    Going foreword one might be well advised to store up their treasures in heaven down here on earth the Donald is likely to steal them.

  16. I was never into musicals with a few exceptions – Singin’ and Molly Brown were 2.  (The others were Paint your Wagon, South Pacific, Sound of Music and Rocky Horror)  I Also listened to Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair, but never watched them much.  Those were so damn good entertainment, who wouldn’t like them.  I mourn the loss of two such talented souls. Ironic that they died only a day apart.

  17. With all the news re Debbie Reynolds, I started wondering which of the MGM musical stars were still amongst us.   The only ones I can think of are Doris Day (Pajama Game/Love Me or Leave Me); Jane Powell (7 Brides for 7 Brothers/Royal Wedding/; Leslie Caron (Gigi/American in Paris/Daddy Long Legs); and Ann Blyth (Student Prince/Kismet).

    Just when Hollywood is actually trying to make good musicals again with live actors/singers with Les Miserables 2012,  La La Land this year and Greatest Showman next year.  On the burner but not totally confirmed film versions of Wicked and Alexander Hamilton.  Definitely a new era.

     

     

  18. Pogo,What I find amazing was that Debbie Reynolds was still working and performing regularly. She was a frequent attraction at the casinos in Laughlin Nevada. I never saw one of her shows but those who did said that she still put on a great show. What energy!

  23. Carrie told so many funny stories about her mother in her one woman show. The wildest was when Debbie decided her husband at the time would make a great father, but she was too old. So she asked Carrie to “carry” it. Carrie declined.

  24. Who won, or, are they still tugging?

    Debbie was great on “Will & Grace,” too.

    Is Nanette Fabray (Bandwagon) still with us?

  25. Four episodes into Season Two of West Wing.  Remember when seasons had more than 20 episodes?  It is amazing how many of the issues are still exactly the same 16 years after the start of the show and 10 years after its end.

    It is sort of depressing that those problems not only are not better but have actually gotten worse.  Sorkin’s “Walk & Talk” dialogue & conversations are still unrealistic except in some Poli Psy nerd’s fevered fantasy, but boy are they packed with real facts, history, and esoterica.  Lots of juicy stuff to research.

  26. I stumbled upon an E! news photo spread of 2016 celebrity deaths and  I lost count towards the end but there were nearly 150 photos in the slide show. Yes, there were many I never heard of or had just a vague memory of who they were, but I think it was still the longest In Memoriam type annual list I’ve seen. Add to that the death of civility and human decency and the strongest fear for the future of my country I’ve ever felt! So, while there have certainly been terrible things in other years, this year has left a very dour feeling over all.

    I’m going to watch Postcards From The Edge today in memory of Debbie & Carrie. If anyone hasn’t seen it today would be a perfect time to check it out.

  29. I found a nice copy of Wishful Drinking while perusing the Jersey City streets.

    most I saw of Carrie last couple of years was I started following her blog……it was great fun for awhile and then she went on to something else……or I did, I’m not sure

     

  30. sturg, I saw them as a kid.  State Fair was before my time but I’m sure I saw it on tv in the late 50s sometime.  Saw The Music Man at the Roebuck drive in theater.  I was a kid running around in the play area just in front of the screen and didn’t pay a lot of attention – I probably saw it later on tv as well.  Never went back to see what I had missed later in life but know a little about them.  Like I said, I wasn’t a fan of musicals, but what little I remember of the Music Man is funny stuff.

  31. I loved that Les Mis was nominated and hope that La La Land will take the big prize this year.  Greatest Showman is filming now for 2017 release.  Wicked is in early production stage but not cast.  They are aiming for  2019.  Hamilton stage production has been filmed with original broadway cast.  Whether it will eventually be released as a film or on some venue such as PBS Broadway series. is not known as yet.

    On line access for musical theater is great either paid or free:

    Broadway World:

    Great Performances:

  33. The music man……. Everything by Meridith Willson

    buddy Hackett , the buffalo bills, Robert Preston, and Shirley Jones? You kiddin’ me?

    there’s a hole in your whatchacallit

    🙂

  34. Put on the music man and if the opening scene don’t grab ya by the ass I’ll treat you for lunch at the nearest Crackle Barrel…..

  36. was “music man” on broadway the first to put cast out into audience? at the end the band comes down the aisle playing “76 trombones”… imagine all that sound around you. what a thrill!

  38. sturge, and if that opening scene doesn’t, this one surely will

     

    and folks, we got trouble right here in d.c. city…trouble with a capitol t… which rhymes with p and that stands for putin’s trump

  39. As I have pointed out ofttimes, usually without the least inducement, I once spent 43 days on a boat in the pacific ocean….the boat showed movies in the boat theater and as a very bored and lonely 15 yr old I went and saw them…….music man was one of them…….turned me inside out

  40. Barnum did it with circus performers which was great fun.  I saw it with the original Broadway cast of Jim Dale and Glenn Close.  I’ve always been surprised that the only musicals Close has done are Barnum and Sunset Boulevard.  She is scheduled to do Sunset revival on Broadway next year.

     

  42. Jamie44 – I have been watching West Wing for several years.  Every time I watch an episode one or more little things pop out that I missed the first dozen viewings.  Currently rewatching Cheers because I had watched Frasier and wanted to see his early years.  What a great time.  I did not watch any of these series when they were first on, so streaming is fun for me.  Interesting is Allison Janney was in one of the episodes of Frasier.  She was very young in it.  And Kelsy Grammer was so young in Cheers, thin and head hair.

    Good for Obama, toss a few of the Russkies out of here.  Maybe he could send the floater back to Putin as a make up kiss.

  43. Poor USC–lost to my USF Bulls in overtime. For us, the next big games will be the Buckeyes against Clemson–that one will be tough. It will be followed by the USC Women’s Basketball against Alabama on Sunday. That game we will be there rooting for the Gamecocks.

  45. I bought the first season of “Borgen,” on DVD.  It’s referred to as the Danish “West Wing.”   I used to rent movies from Blockbuster & not watch them.  Now, I buy DVDs to sit on a shelf and never watch.

     

  46. Obama exacted revenge on the Russians with the same calculated coolness used to take down that pesky housefly during an interview.

    Obama looks really old today, though.  Putin must be getting fillers injected into his face.

  47. Pogo–I did spend my couple of months in Montgomery going to AF school. The people were kind and the environs interesting; I liked it.

  50. “Now, I buy DVDs to sit on a shelf and never watch”

     

    Oh, the plights of the patriotic malcontents.  Thank God the apple-cart has been overturned.  Totally worth impending globo-thermonuclear war.

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