Wednesday, July 31, 2013

As If We Never Said Goodbye


Oh, darlings, such good news - I'm almost as happy about it as Sandy, Bing, Pearlie Mae, and Bob!

After far too long, our own dear Thombeau has, in a lovely DollyLevi-ische way, come back to the lights of 14th Street - or at least to his own cozy corner of the digiverse, the splendiferous, long-missed, and wholly invaluable Redundant Variety Hour.  It's a festival of entertainment so wrong it's very, very right.  Where else might you find the Lennon Sisters in corsets, Tom Jones waxing histrionic in doubleknit, and Gwen Verdon in gaucho mode - to cite only the current top three numbers?

Hurry on over, carissimi, and let your clever host expand your consciousness.  Soon you, too, will understand the central importance of Ann Miller to Western civilization, experience the profound surreality of '70s Italian prime-time television, and, possibly most importantly, learn that there has never been a more crucial forum for bringing together the greatest talent in the world than the pinnacle of twentieth-century performance art, Hollywood Palace.  If it's your first taste, I'm deeply jealous; if, like me, you're rediscovering old friends (in the company of an even older one, the Master of Fabulon himself), well, at least now you know what you're doing in the evenings for the next week or so.

But do eventually come back this way - I can't tell you how I'd miss you if you didn't...

11 comments:

  1. yes, the dear has returned, unlike little sheba.

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  2. So glad to see this return, I notice a little redecorating has taken place while it slumbered. All to the good. While I love all the clips the commercials (or And Now a Word from Our Sponsor) make my heart beat a little faster. Where else would you find the Merm peddling the now forgotten Vel dish detergent to the tune of Everything's Coming Up Roses or a totally insane woman shilling Banquet Giblet Gravy and Sliced Turkey whilst possessed by the devil! You just can't find that kind of stuff nowadays sadly.

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    1. Hi Joel! I'm so glad you enjoy those commercials. More to come! (The Giblet Lady is one of my all-time faves.)

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  3. Dear, sweet Muscato! As so often happens, you have positively made my day! XOXOXO

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  4. Where was Jo Ann Castle?

    We wuz robbed.

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    1. Oh, I wouldn't worry - she's bound to show up sooner or later.

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    2. With her piano painted to match her dress.

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    3. Miss Castle is coming soon. But I draw the line at Joe Feeney and Myron Floren!

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    4. Voila!

      http://redundantvarietyhour.blogspot.com/2013/08/pretty-in-pink.html

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    5. Yay! A spritely moment in what seems to have been a rathr rocky life.... Viva Jo Ann!

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