Miss Peekaboo let me down with her crazy recipe. Bleah. Hmm, it’s the only one we have for her in the collection and the question is, would this recipe be good enough for the book? Answer no. Veronica may be dropped. Eek! The call is out – does anyone have any other Veronica Lake recipes? I do love her so… There will be a photo of her evaporated milk infused beef on the flickr site but I’m not linking to it, too horrific.
Here’s a link instead to Veronica with two of my other favourites Paulette Goddard and Dorothy Lamour singing “A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peekaboo Bang”. I’ve had an emotional gust this week and like Little Edie I have been a bit, “pulverised by this latest thing” but this clip always cheers me up. I first saw this courtesy of Matthew over at Movietonews. He will be pleased to hear that I watched Monkey Business last night and laughed out loud three or four times. When I first saw Harpo playing the harp in this movie I was AMAZED that he could play the harp and it took me about 3 weeks to realise that this was why he was called Harpo. Doh.
I haven’t spoken to anyone for two whole days. Last person was the cowgirl T-girl who dropped me off outside my house at 3.30 am on Saturday morning, asking for my number and suggesting we go out for dinner sometime. Next person will be the security guy at work tomorrow. Is this a good thing for my mind? Probably not. I’ve been lounging around in my kimono all weekend waiting for the rapture. Looks as though I’m not going up but staying down here with the other sinners. Well good! I’m going to make the most of it! Rapture! I’ve seen what I want to be, I’m going to have my party on TV, I’m going to hip-hop and I’m not gonna stop, just blast off, sure shot…
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This may brighten up your day–Photoplay online, scanned and in COLOUR! There’s some fantastic covers, including one of Bessie Love in a great feathered headdress from Broadway Melody of 1929 and Madge Bellamy looks great on the January 1929 cover. The link is http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22media%20history%20digital%20library%22
Sorry Veronica’s recipe is so bad–it doesn’t sound promising (indeed, the name conjures up institutional catering).
I’ve had those days when I spoke to nobody all weekend–much of my first year at Pittsburgh was that way. I vowed never again. I trust this is an aberration to an otherwise more social life–or at least a short lived interlude.
Woweeeeeeeeee! This is fabulous! You can be sure I’ll be spending many hours scouring these for recipes!
Hmm. Not sure about the weekend thing. There may be a few more of those coming up as I have vowed to get the book written by the end of October this year. Self imposed deadline as I want to be free to participate in NaNoWriMo in November. It’s tough but I think I can do it! In some ways I enjoy being on my own for a stretch of time, and I did a lot of deep thinking this weekend.
I’m having a Vincent Price themed party this Saturday though to celebrate the start of the Vincentennial so don’t worry too much!
I’ll bet one of the times you laughed out loud was when they were doing the Maurice Chevalier impressions. Am I right?
We’ve had our sofa delivered today – hurrah! – and are at last fully able to receive. So next time you have an empty weekend in the diary you know where to come…
Ha ha – yes! Correct! I also LOVED Groucho dancing with Thelma. And the harp thing really made me laugh. Looking forward to seeing that new sofa!
Jx