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NEW YORK - A home movie showing a relaxed Marilyn Monroe apparently smoking marijuana has surfaced, retrieved from an attic some 50 years after it was filmed.
A raw reel-to-reel silent, color film taken at a private home in New Jersey was recently purchased by collector Keya Morgan for $275,000 from the person who took the film, who has asked to remain anonymous.
Damn, what is Rosie O'Donnell doing there in this '50s clip? Wow, she must be hella old now......lol
Girls smoking anything don't look attractive - it a big turn off for most men. But Marilyn looks SUPER HOT!!!
Here is the creepiest and most unusual music scoring of the sci-fi classic - "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951). This is the opening of the film without dialogue, the score
included electric violin, electric bass, 2 theremins* (treble &
bass), test oscillators, vibraphone, 4 pianos, 4 harps &
approximately 30 brass instruments. Unusual overdubbing &
tape-reversal techniques were used as well.
The film music composer
of this score Bernard Herrmann (1911-75) is particularly known for the
scores of Alfred Hitchcock's films (such as Psycho), he also composed
notable scores for many other movies (such as Citizen Kane & Taxi
Driver), radio broadcast & TV programs. His music is typified by
frequent use of ostinati (short repeating patterns), novel
orchestration & an ability to portray character traits not
altogether obvious from other elements of the film. In the last years
of Herrmann's life he did much to create interest in film scores as a
form of music worthy of appreciation & performance.
Last Friday legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite passed away in New York at the age of 92. His journalistic career covered such historic events as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the assassination of JFK and the first man on the moon.
Do you remember being a teenager in love? Well, that is a long time ago for me, but I do remember her. It seems like yesterday!
Just like the 1960s classic tune from Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 - "Mas Que Nada", the original "A Teenager In Love" is better than the remake.
"A Teenager in Love" is a song written by Doc Pomus and partner, Mort Shuman and originally sung by Dion and the Belmonts in 1959. In 1960 "A Teenager In Love" held three positions in the British Top 10. According to popular music historians, the song is considered one of the greatest songs in Rock and Roll history.
It reached #5 on the Billboard pop charts in the United States.
In 1970, it was covered by Simon and Garfunkel in their final show as a recording duo at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York. This song was covered several other times, for example by Marty Wilde, Connie Stevens and the Mutations in the Muppet Show, by Less Than Jake, and in 2002 by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and was released as a B-Side to the single "By The Way". It is also featured as a playable song in the Nintendo Wii Game Rayman Raving Rabbids 2.
Video Archive:
Italian-American rock/pop/doo-wop band Dion & The Belmonts live on U.S. national television on Dick Clark's American Bandstand in 1959 - Dion (full name Dion DiMucci) sings "A Teenager In Love". From 1959 - 1961, during the time Elvis served in the U.S. Army, Dion DiMucci & the Belmonts were the #1 music group in the United States. Dion DiMucci was 19 years old when he sang this hit song on national television, one month shy of his 20th birthday. Dick Clark wanted him on his show singing this song as an authentic teenager.
From "Organic Soundball" sung live by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (RHCP) featuring front man Anthony Kiedis. Kiedis sung the classic tune below key.
Present day - 64 year old Dion singing "A Teenager In Love" live at the Tropicana, Atlantic City 2004.
Happy Valentine's Day - Feliz Dia de San Valentin!
