Not to be rude like Jane Austen 's Miss Emma Woodhouse but Renée Fleming seems to tell rather boring opera anecdotes. I'm not certain if she's like the name dropping Mrs Elton or poor Miss Bateshttps://t.co/1v5zfMYVPYpic.twitter.com/KZgsmAgywV
"Another new experience was a collaboration w/composer Desplat on 'The Shape of Water' del Toro 's beautiful fairy tale & Oscar winning triumph& I have to tell you this [boring] story…he took me into the largest film theater in NY &leaned over& said "can I get you some popcorn?" pic.twitter.com/ppvlhcKj9U
makes a reference to the George Gershwin song "They Can't Take that away from Me" written for the Astaire Rogers film "Shall We Dance":
There's possibly a bit of deliberate or inadvertent misdirection in this scene:
Harriet Smith: I read this book in high school containing love letters written by different presidents. I was thinking we could print out copies and put them on tables for your guests to read. Caroline Lee: I'm sorry, I thought we were discussing the music? Harriet Smith: Then we have the DJ play songs inspired by the letters. For example, Roosevelt letters to his wife were all about the little things: her smile, the way she slept, her laugh. Emma Woodhouse: Romantic, go on Smith: Then we dedicate a song from Teddy to Alice, and we play the Gershwins' "They Can't Take that away from Me." A classic.
When I thought of Gershwin music and the Roosevelts, I immediately thought of Franklin and Eleanor, since they were in the White House when the song was composed. However, the Democrat Roosevelts had more of a business versus romantic relationship.
Obviously, Theodore Roosevelt possessed a more romantic attachment to his wife than his cousin, Franklin, did to his:
'The light has gone out of my life' – Theodore Roosevelt's diary entry, Feb. 14, 1884, the day his wife & mother died. pic.twitter.com/vGPwLXjtXI
— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPix) May 21, 2017
On the topic of mashing up classics with new adaptations, a youtuber pointed out that the choreography to another Gershwin song from the same film "They All Laughed" could be synched up, if you squinted, to Stromae - <<Tous Les Mêmes>>
The blog title, "noli insipientium iniurias pati" is Latin for "Don't let the turkeys get you down." Benjamin Franklin bookcases the blog header title for two reasons:
1) He allegedly suggested the US adopt the turkey as its official mascot
2) His discovery of electricity helped Al Gore invent the internet
Quantum Physics equation under profile picture explained here
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