As Halloween fast approaches, let us reflect on the most terrifying of screen creatures ever unleashed on an unsuspecting public. No, not Dracula or Frankenstein or the Wolf Man. Jason and Freddy? Pfffft! Kids' stuff.
It's Lucille Ball as Mame, shot through so many layers of Vaseline, you wonder how gay men in Hollywood managed to schtup at all while they were filming this fascinating mess.
Yes, just watching it way back when killed a bit of my urge to schtup too that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteAnd it kept me from ever
smoking too.
So I guess it's not all a waste.
Oh. Oh. oh. What were they thinking? Was Angela Landsbury in jail? Why would you cast a woman who has the same vocal range as Cookie Monster in the lead of a musical?
ReplyDeleteand not to mention her singing!!!
ReplyDeletevaseline on the lense, honey, I think they covered the lense with burlap. Someone get Lucy another cigar. I love Lucy, but the woman sings like a garbage truck.
ReplyDeleteHer baritone reminds me of a hard-living duck, who has subsisted solely on Camels and Johnnie Walker Black since it was hatched.
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