Nihilism, Mitzi and Oscar

Gloriously loopy, this is from "The I Don't Care Girl"! The movie's horrid, but has some great bits, such as this one with Mitzi Gaynor. Yes, and that's Oscar Levant and David Wayne(The Mad Hatter from "Batman"!) dressed as leopards.

Trippy Ginger Rogers Pig Latin

First time I really got into these types of movies was when I was just out of high school and discovering herb (not Edelman, him I was already familiar with). While watching them my old man who had finally been forced to buy a 25" color portable TV (his conditions/reasons for putting it off) would come in and yell, "What the hell are you watching THIS for?!?!?! We finally got a COLOR TV and THIS is what you watch?!!?" I was watching color *wink. Either way it was quite an overwhelming spectacle for the newly stoned Lex10, what with the shopping mall sized sets, the Busby Berkeley imagery, and whatnot. These particular few seconds are well and truly classic.

A couple of observations of these few seconds: The focus pulling going in and out bespeaks (?!) a time before cinematic technological perfection - there's humans at work, and it's poetically beautiful to me. Secondly, that Ginger Rogers is a real sexual response producer and at the time, I was in love with her . Third, trippy, innit?

Enjoy.

Jaan Pehechaan Ho

My favorite movie musical number ever, which circulated around for years on bootlegged VHS tapes from the Bollywood classic "Gumnaam" (I finally own a gorgeous DVD copy) before it surfaced for real in "Ghost World." Here it is in its original form:




now watch it lovingly referenced in "Om Shanti Om" - it starts about 2:10 with the familiar drum roll:



Thanks, Danielle!

Oliver Twist

Dickens + Iron Curtain Musicals + the Czech Language + Big Hair + the Twist =

Anyone speak Czech?

PS. Want more? I'm on a bender at Lethal Dose.

Glorifying The American Girl

The Congeroo's

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