 |  | Beautiful Dreamers | | New Center44 boutique L’Atelier de Laure carries a wide range of French material, but specializes in late19th Century Louis XVI style gilt mirrors. Here's a selection to whet your appetite. Click any photo to learn more. | | Song of the Week | "Beautiful Dreamer"
by Slim Whitman  |
In 1979, yodeling has-been Slim Whitman, who'd been discovered 30 years earlier by Col. Tom Parker, shot a modest TV commercial to help sell a greatest hits package. With his pencil moustache, slick jet black hair, and spangly rhinestone cowboy get-up, he looked like an extra from a saloon scene of a 1930s western. And yet, Whitman's "All My Best" became a late-night telemarketing phenomena and a cultural touchstone, going on to sell four million records and becoming the best-selling television-marketed album in history. "Beautiful Dreamer" was featured on Monica's January 15th show on WFMU and is available via iTunes and Amazon.
| | Tube of the Week |  | Based on the 1954 Broadway play by Sandy Wilson - as seen through the kaliedoscopic eyes of Ken Russell in 1971 - "The Boyfriend" stars Twiggy and Tommy Tune. Russell, who died in 2011, added a backstage story to the shenanigans and heightened both the campiness and the sweet, heartfelt innocence in an “all talking, all singing,” fever dream of a musical. Love it or hate it, it’s quite an experience.
Here’s the theatrical trailer. |
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