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The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#25
Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:28pm
And here is a terrif website of all of the LIFE covers:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/life
It should also be noted that they were known for their amazing photography.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#26
Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:29pmHa, believe it or not doodle, I got into Follies before I saw The Women for the first time.
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#27
Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:30pmIt coulda been Reno Sweeney, couldn't itta been?
Joined: 12/31/69
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#28
Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:36pmI was just thinking of a non-USA, non-English speaking observer trying to fathom the depths of tawdriness of the Reno strip. I don't think you can really appreciate that reference until you've smelled Reno.
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#29
Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:40pmBut the Reno reference isn't about the tawdriness of it is, is it? I've always assumed Carlotta had been through Reno to get a divorce.
Joined: 12/31/69
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#30
Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:41pm
Shirley Temple? Of all the obscure references in "I'm Still Here" why is only poor old Brenda Frazier updated?
BF4Eva
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#31
Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:43pm
^Phyllis, I agree with you and that's consistent with the interpretation on the Follies website (not saying that that makes it definitive - just stating that it supports our position.)
Referring to Reno the city and not Reno as a person also makes sense because it parallels the next line about Beverly Hills. It would be quite odd to say that she was cast as Reno (or perhaps saw the show - not sure which interpretation you were aiming for) and then immediately follow that up by saying she's been through Beverly Hills.
Joined: 12/31/69
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#32
Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:44pm
See Phyllis I always saw it more as "I've been through Reno (a godforsaken hell hole where I played three shows a night singing Harold Arlen songs to people playing penny slots), I've been through Beverly Hills ( Where I bought a beautiful house with a pool when I had that TV show).
But that might relate more to my personal experiences than Carlota.
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#33
Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:49pmUh oh Joe, don't let AfterEight see your link to that VF article or you'll become the (second) biggest misogynist on here!
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#34
Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:55pmDecades before there was Kim Kardashian there was Brenda Frazier.
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#35
Posted: 6/6/12 at 4:56pm
A world without Kim Kardashian?!
I'll drink to that.
Joined: 12/31/69
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#37
Posted: 6/6/12 at 7:05pmI knew Reno as the quickie divorce city from nearly every sitcom of the 1960's and 70's.
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#38
Posted: 6/6/12 at 7:14pm"When I pulled my hamstring I went to a misogynist." ~ Brittany S. Pierce
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#39
Posted: 6/6/12 at 7:26pm
The Pinter reference is so spot on. A "trendy" playwright who people praised but wrote plays that no one could understand.
Sidebar: when Deb Monk would sing the Pinter line there was a Pinter play which totally fit the bill playing next door at the old Laura Pels (who was like an European Lady who lunched herself). And if you sat thru MOONLIGHT, you could hear the opening number of COMPANY coming thru the cheap walls.
Now let's rediscuss the Seagrams' building.
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#40
Posted: 6/6/12 at 9:41pm
Bernadette Peters and Richard Chamberlin perform "Barcelona" from a 1979 television special.
http://www.bluegobo.com/production/2886492/video/10505
I forgot how good this is.
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#41
Posted: 6/6/12 at 9:45pmI always thought Brenda Frazier was more Paris Hilton than Kardashian.
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#42
Posted: 6/6/12 at 10:01pm
She was neither of them, really, because she was a society girl:
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#43
Posted: 6/6/12 at 11:52pm
"beebe's bathysphere".
I had the great fortune, back in 2001, of having Steve S explain this lyric to me in the skanky basement of the Belasco, between shows during previews of the Follies revival. He was fast asleep on a hideous old prop chair next to that telephone booth nr the men's room. He woke up as I passed by, I said hello - we chatted. Real story - I found it really hard to listen to him, 'cause he has these crazy facial tics, and he was very disheveled. I love how he doesn't give a **** about clothing! Anyway, his dad took him to the NY World's Fair when he was about 10, saw the bathyphere, was fascinated, and, of course!? remembered this 25-30 yrs later for a lyric. Just like Steve!!!
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#44
Posted: 6/7/12 at 7:35amPerfect Classic Sondheim Anecdote. Did he wake up, deliver a pearl of wisdom, and then go right back to sleep? Like a character in a contemporary Alice in Wonderland...
Joined: 12/31/69
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#45
Posted: 6/7/12 at 10:12amThat story gives me the heebie-jeebies.
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#46
Posted: 6/8/12 at 7:24am
"Vanity Fair is misogynist? "
When discussing the ladies who lunch, at any rate... (Apparently)
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#47
Posted: 6/8/12 at 8:09am
^
The song is misogynistic.
A hateful song, and a deformation of the truth.
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#48
Posted: 6/8/12 at 8:24am
I believe you mean the Truth.
The Ladies Who Lunch Lyric Question#49
Posted: 6/8/12 at 8:37am
"Deformation"?
What do you even think that means?
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