Watching this movie, Ball of Fire, for, uh, research, and I discover Barbara Stanwick playing, and I'm not kidding, Sugarpuss O'shea, a siren of swing to Gary Cooper's professor Higgins, but the point is, Gene Krupa was a little rock star in 1941 youtu.be/FUqd6-11lsQ?...
Holy crap! Re-watching this, I have to give it to you: Krupa really steals the scene! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. 🙏
I love this movie so much. And Barbara is 🔥. Also, Anemone nemorosa...
I was in a little town on the Maine coast last week and this song come on at the restaurant where we were having dinner. So I told my dinner companion about the movie and it's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs storyline.
That’s the good stuff. The musical version of waffles. With Barbara as the butter and syrup!
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Ultimate live drum solo (with a Krupa reference).
I LOVE that film. Stanwick was quite the gorgeous siren as she wins over the professors and the way to hot Gary Cooper.
I love this movie so much. I love the remake with Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo only a tiny bit less.
A remake, you say? With *Danny Kaye*??? OMG!!!
I'm always impressed with your research. Always learn something. Like your descriptions of SF? You've clearly counted every step on the Filbert Steps. So I'm sure this is important research. And Gene Krupa was the shit.
Though I can’t for the life of me figure out where you could be if coming from Sonoma and the Development Center is across Sonoma Creek to the right.
One of my super powers is the ability to move geography around.
I hadn’t considered that! I figured buildings move, creeks change course, and sometimes authors have to take creative liberties. I did think about it way longer than I should have, though.
But now I've started Anima Rising and can tell already I'm going to learn something new.
We always do; In every book he writes.
Right now I'm starting to learn that I need a job that would allow me to sit in Viennese coffee houses all day drinking coffee and playing chess or cards, reading the newspaper, and write it all off for tax purposes as "research."
It's a good gig.
Gene Krupa was fire!