OMG! A Florence Henderson and Jose Ferrer musical LP!

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It's "The Girl Who Came to Supper".

I'm still opening up boxes of my old albums, and I had no idea that I had this one!

How exciting is that? I can't wait to listen to it!!

[LouisianaLiberal]

1. Didn't know he sang. Great actor though.

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I know how you feel about discovering albums. When my father died two years ago, I found a stack of my grandfather's Caruso records in perfect condition. I don't have a record player though, so no idea what they sound like.

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2. Is that Ferrer doing his award-winning Cryano?

And yes, Florence was a huge success in musicals before she did the TV stuff. I think her first musical performance was 1951 (maybe 1953?).

I found a bunch of old stuff I didn't remember buying or knew that I had - many of them were surely bought by me because they were on sale (lots of old library albums I got for ten cents each, so I just bought everything), performers I didn't know who they were at the time, but which now, 15 years later, I know a lot more of them and so I keep going, "WOW! That's an original Jasquin Desprez! Holy Shit - that's an original Dave Brubeck! Fuck - that's an original Harry Partch recording! Unbelievable - two early first press Elvis Costellos!" Especially with a lot of the stuff from the 1950s that's in my collection, were people I didn't know who they were when I bought them.

What a blast!!

[jpgray]

3. Goddam, could he play Shaddam IV!

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4. You are GODDAMN right on that one!

He played the hell out of that role - fucking incredible. And the woman who played Mohiam was also brilliant, and the two of them together were pure heaven.

And that's EMPEROR Shaddam IV, peon.

Actually, everyone in that movie was fucking incredible. The SciFi version was better in terms of being understandable and holding to the book, but the Lynch version had the god-actors.

In terms of movies that are pure acting heaven, Lynch's Dune is way up there, even if it doesn't make the list of movies that are way up there.

Patrick Stewart saying "Moods are a thing for cattle!" is priceless, as well!

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5. Great casting throughout that film.

With the possible exception of bespeedoed Sting, that is. The script decisions and "additions," however (yelling weapons? hitting a styrofoam rock? spontaneous precipitation?) were a little bit much.

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6. I wish that Lynch had just stuck to the book. He's such a genius,

and does such great stuff, he could easily have done the world's quintessential Dune movie for all time if he hadn't felt the need to fuck with it.

I'm actually surprised there weren't any murderous midgets in it. Though perhaps Alia fits that bill.

And, my God, the little girl that played Alia in that one - she was so amazingly cold and chilling and murderous. Wow! It's gotta be tough to get a child to act that way, and she fuckin' nailed it.

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7. Sian Philips played Mohiam

She could do the brilliant cold blooded spider woman like no one else, check out her Livia in I, Claudius - perfect and chilling.

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8. Well, I listened to it today - Florence had a hell of a voice! Wow!

Jose - well, Jose could have used a little more training. Nice boominess and depth to it, but I can see why he turned to non-musical acting, where his true talents were/are.

Sure was fun to listen to! I might listen to it again soon.