Sing Out!

Where, indeed.

That Most Effeminate Of All Ghosts

Alright, so I guess it is the nostalgia aspect. I vividly remember the shaking house and the dancing broom. Ideal touchstones, as is the quite dramatic logo music attending the ABC intro.

I Love The Closing

For some reason, this defines bittersweet for me: touching, sentimental, and somehow hopeful. Or not.

Astaire. . . In A Baby’s Gown!?

Brilliantly comic, and sad to think that Nanette Fabray (between Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan) is the only one left from “The Band Wagon” (1953, dir Vincente Minelli).

Und Vorbei. . . Whatever

Great choreography and Liza Minnelli’s inimatable love-her or hate-her style in the iconic “Mein Lieber Herr” number from “Cabaret” (1972, dir Bob Fosse, who of course also did the choreography).

Truly Oscar-Worthy

Two fine actresses (Maggie Smith [as Miss Brodie] and Celia Johnson [as Miss Mackay]) square off in this brilliantly constructed scene, with poor Gordon Jackson left with woefully little to do. The little-heralded (outside of select thetrical circles) Smith shocked Academy audiences with her win for Best Actress, but it was a deserved win nonetheless, in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969, dir Ronald Neame).