Anonymous just asked THE FUTURIST! what Lerner and Lloyd (his gay neighbors) did for the holidays. As he understands it the boys performed in the Utter Despair NJ Christmas Talent Show. This year they performed TURKEY LURKEY TIME from PROMISES PROMISES the musical version of Billy Wilder’s film THE APARTMENT. It has a great score by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
Lerner and Lloyd got their friend Wendy Starlinger to perform with them as Miss De La Hoya from Petty Cash. THE FUTURIST! wishes he had seen it. He heard it was fantastically festive and stirring … and that Lerner ripped his favorite suit pants in the crotch area during a very forceful leg kick. He has always wanted to see a production of PROMISES PROMISES.
Above is the original 1968 Broadway cast performing the number. THE FUTURIST! offers this to you so that you can envision the Utter Despair highlight … except with guys and one girl.
Strudel, the “Enhanced” Eggnog Lapping Christmas Cat, is sleeping it off this Holiday Week.
A 1949 Christmas Eve with Joan Crawford and her purchased children.
Please listen … it is a wonderfully heart warming broadcast which then turns lukewarm and then into pure ice cube-like manufactured cheer.
Myrna Loy & William Powell in The Thin Man (1934, dir. Woody Van Dyke) (via)
She grinned at me. “You got types?”
“Only you, darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.”
-Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man (1929)
SATURDAY MUSIC FOR THE CHRISTMAS WEEKEND
THE FUTURIST! really does not like Christmas music. It’s the same old songs done over and over again by singers of the past and the present. Every well known warbler puts out a Christmas compilation to rake in the holiday green.
Several years ago, THE FUTURIST! heard this Christmas album by The McGarrigle Sisters. It seems they actually put on a stage show with guests and members of their own extended “famous” musical family. It has traditional seasonal songs, yes … but different arrangements and odder songs that you’ve never heard before. At least, THE FUTURIST! had never heard before. The songs seem to center on the “true” meaning of this seasonal event and not the snow and the shopping and materialism. This is one of those rare CDs that THE FUTURIST! can play in its entirety and not want to skip a single track.
Here is a tune by Rufus Wainwright entitled SPOTLIGHT ON CHRISTMAS.
THE FUTURIST! is trying to have a happy Christmas in Utter Despair, NJ - It’s been a tough year for him and his loved ones. But, he extends his warm thoughts to his readers. He raises a Yuletide martini to you all.
Cheers.
(via ezequielgaray)
The Duke takes time out (in 1955) from fighting Commies to urge you buy Christmas Seals.
Special cameo from director William Wellman.
Marlene Dietrich - Der Trommelmann (The Little Drummer Boy)
THE FUTURIST! is in a Teutonic Yuletide swoon.
THE FUTURIST! believes this Flogging Christmas Outdoor Decoration, erected on the lawn of The Utter Despair Catholic Church, would be more appropriate at Easter time.
Hmmmm ….
The Nativity Cooking Timer.
The Holy way of making sure your Christmas Goose is properly blessed with an inner core temperature of 140 degrees in the correct amount of roasting minutes.
photo courtesy of whyismarko
