The first verse I ever memorized
In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight! Let those who worship evil's might Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!
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Johnny B. Goode
Chuck wrote it. Chuck sang it. Chuck played the guitar on it. But let's always remember the great Lafayette Leake rocking that piano!
Richard III
I love that the first line heard in the Richard Loncraine/Ian McKellan film of Richard III is not by Shakespeare at all but by Christopher Marlowe! A nightclub singer sings "Come Live with Me and Be My Love."
The tune that keeps on giving
Several years ago, I posted about how very long it took me to connect Verdi's Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore to Gilbert and Sullivan's "Come friends, who plough the sea" from The Pirates of Penzance. Of course, I entirely neglected Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here.
Most retrograde to our desire
The probabiity that Hamlet studied under Martin Luther while at Wittenberg.
Dubbing
When Andie MacDowell and Hugh Grant are first together in Four Weddings and a Funeral, he makes an awkward joke about actress Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Andie McDowell's film debut was playing Jane in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan. Producers thought her southern accent too strong, so her voice was dubbed...by Glenn Close.
On the Couch
Unable to find the 1962 John Huston/Montgomery Clift Freud biopic featuring Susannah York as his patient, I have settled on the 1972 Lorenzo Music/Bob Newhart psychodrama The Bob Newhart Show featuring Florida Friebus as his.
Anna Karenina
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” -- from Anna Karenina
Herm
A herm is an ancient Greek sculpture in the form of a squared column topped with a male head, usually Hermes, and, at the appropriate distance down the otherwise unadorned column, genitalia.