The weather continues to be freezing with small flakes of snow falling layer upon layer but only creating a blanket of inches until overnight on Sunday morning when there was something of a thaw as the temperature here in the north east arose more than the midlands or south. This was unexpected as according to forecasts more snow with drifts should arrived over next 24 hours. So it is too early to believe a breakthrough has occurred. Yesterday it was - minus 10 when I got up and did not improve much during the day, some 21-22 Fahrenheit rising to 26-27 still below freezing.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Lets Dance and Riding High
Moten Swing
and Nice work if you can get it
I had been remiss about the plants outside having not prepared for winter before the cold weather but yesterday brought the containers and pots as much under cover as much as I could. The damage has been long done I fear with the earth frozen solid and solid ice in the base water holders. It was dispiriting as the continuing cold which brought back the sniffles as the day progressed into night. I decided to try and conserve fuel by going to bed earlier and staying later but the plan failed miserably as I awoke around four unable to sleep or become comfortable again because of a blocked nose so had to rise, make some coffee which I then drank only a little and played games against the computer for a couple of hours with the heat on, which I turned off again on going back to bed around 7 and then sleeping for just two and a have hours, but it was a good sleep and I now feel refreshed, psychologically happier with the thaw, suggesting it is not going to be a repeat of 1947. However it could be lull according to the forecast with heavy snow everywhere. The 10 am news featured that the situation in France and Germany is worse with the army on standby. This is no consolation
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Vibraphone Blues
Sheik of Araby
Peckin and Sunny Disposish
Season 2 of Babylon 5 has ended with my view that this is the best science fiction series todate confirmed. Episode 21 ‘Comes the Inquisitor’ is the first time that the series strayed off course with a divertissement which involved Jack the Ripper having been taken by the Vorlons and turned into the Inquisitor, someone who is used over the centuries test those who might stand against the Shadows should they rise again. His target is Delenn, and by association, Commander Sheridan and he subjects them to physical and psychological force. Despite the spurious need to embroider a well written tale by introducing a notorious historical figure, the verbal interrogation is excellent going through the various motives which often governs the belief in individual superiority over the judgement and experience of others. It is always desirable to severely question anyone who presumes to know what is good for others, especially those with idealistic or dangerous Missions which can put the safety and welfare of others at great risk, and yet without such individuals a society will degenerate until it is overtaken by stronger forces whose ways may be worse. Delenn and Sheridan pass the sternest of tests and prove that they are the right people in the right place at the right time.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Nagaski
Whispers in the dark
St Louis Blues
and Life goes to a Party
G’Kar starts to purchase weapons from funds raised by those of his race onboard the space station but has to do so at exorbitant rates. His leadership is questioned by those contributing and he seeks help from Sheridan, who uses the Rangers to find out about the family of one of those marooned on the space station and when they are able to enclose a visual message, he and the others accept the leadership of G’Kar, Sheridan gets wind that G’Kar is using the station to buy arms and uses Garibaldi to provide a solution which will enable the work of G’Kar to continue without directly involving the space station and its official neutrality.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Sugarfoot Stomp and Moonglow
I’m a Ding Dong Daddy
and I haven’t anyone but you
In the last episode of the second series The Fall of Night, the Sheridan faces his greatest challenge to date. There is evidence that the Centauri, buoyed by their successful slaughter of the Narn World with the help of the Shadows and the use of illegal weapons of mass destruction, have started to attack outposts of the Drazi and Pak’ma’ra who protest to Sheridan and who then reports to Earth. When earth sends high level members of the Ministry of Peace, Sheridan assumes that they have come to objectively report on the position. However the visitors are to try and defuse the situation and avoid Earth being drawn into the conflict until a non aggression treaty can be signed by Earth and the Centauri at the expense of everyone else.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Bumble Bee Stomp
Down South Camp Meeting
That Naughty Waltz and Sweet Leilani
Unknown to them Sheridan has been contacted by the only Narn fighting ship to escape the Centauri and Shadows blitz and which was in need of repairs and supplies. He offers help through the neutrality of the space station but when the news reaches the visitors they contact earth and order that the whereabouts of the Narn ship is disclosed. Sheridan refuses and maintains his position when a Centauri fighting craft arrives threatening to attack the station. The Commander orders the station and its fighters to be prepared to respond to any attempt to prevent the Narn spacecraft from leaving via the hyperspace link. When the Centauri ship opens fire Sheridan has no alternative but to respond. He destroys the Centauri warship and the Narn vessel escapes, much to the horror of the Ministry of Peace and Earth Government. However as Sheridan was right to take the action in the circumstances he is let off with a severe warning and an order to apologise in a public way to the Centauri government through Ambassador Mollari. The Centauri needed the neutrality of Earth at the time with the historical parallel of Germany in World War II and the British policy of Appeasement.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Bumble Bee Stomp
Down South Camp Meeting
That Naughty Waltz and Sweet Leilani
When Sheridan goes to eat humble pie at a reception he is the subject of a bomb attack while travelling in an overhead monorail where the reception is being held and he falls into a deep area of space within the station only to be rescued by Kosh who exits his suit. This is a symbolic gesture with everyone seeing Kosh in the form the Vorlons are willing to show with only Sheridan and Delenn seeing the true creature, angel like in the common depiction of the concept. Others see him as a manifestation of their Gods and all except the Centauri see what happens as an indication of Hope in the dark times ahead. Londo says he saw nothing leaving open the possibility that this was so or it was in a form which only reinforces his growing anxiety about the course being taken. This is an anxiety shared by Vir, his assistant, with that of Delenn’s assistant and they agree to meet for a drink and a casual chat on a regular basis.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Vieni Vieni and Sometimes I’m Happy
Always
When Buddha Smiles
The assistant to the Minister is a member of Nightwatch, which I thought was the name given to the group, including Sheridan and his senior officers, convinced that the former President had been assassinated with a view to installing a puppet replacement for the Psi Corps and their supporters, to defend those out to destroy democracy and develop an autocratic police state. In fact this episode confirms that Nightwatch is in effect the undercover secret police network of spies and informers set up on behalf of the new regime. An approach to Ivanova is rejected out of hand and others are also find their previous support challenged when tittle tattle it is used to arrest anyone who criticises the regime or expresses concerns about what is happening.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding day
Laughing at Life and Running Wild
You’ve turned the tables on me
Starfury fighter pilot Keffer who survived the experience of an encounter with a Shadow craft has his concerns reinforced by another pilot and then goes on his own to investigate. Before he and his craft are destroyed he manages to get a visual of the Shadows’ craft broadcast and this is picked up by a news station which relays around the universe. Thus the existence of the Shadows is known by the public and the attempts by Delenn, Sheridan and Kosh to prevent disclosure until there has been greater preparation to build a defence alliance has ended. The die is now cast.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Darktown Strutter’s Ball
My Gal Sal and Bugle Call Rag
Mama, that Moon is here again
The episode does raise some questions about the integrity of aspects of the story. Until this episode the impression has been given that space within the station was at a premium with the main transfer between levels by elevator. In a previous episode the Commander and Ivanova were to be charged rent for the proportion of their private quarters larger than other staff Although in fact the impression until then is that all the Ambassador and senior staff have the same accommodation space area. All the gardens, restaurants and bars are also modest in size although there has been reference to orchards and other areas for cultivation for the station population of a quarter of million. The only reason for such a large space where the apology is to take place and the overhead monorail is to fit the role of Kosh and the form he takes with its different impact on races and individuals. It was also my understanding that Kosh and other Vorlons can only exist in their special suits for a brief period and that otherwise they needed an especially controlled atmosphere which humans could only enter wearing protected space suits. What happens in this episode is therefore a puzzle, but does not reduce the overall excellence of the series.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Clarinet Marmalade and Time on my hands
Stardust and In the Shade of the old Apple Tree
When I first left school and went out to work I exerted my independence by going out in central London in the evenings after work. Buying a half season ticket for the Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall was one example and joining work a colleague and his friends for visits to Traditional Jazz clubs in and around Soho was another. I supported the repertory Theatre at Croydon and Concerts of USA Jazz musicians but visits to central London Theatre land were infrequent. One venture was the musical Irma La Douce. This was a Parisian musical first performed in Paris in 1956 and brought to the West End in 1958 and New York in 1960. The story is that of a Prostitute who is befriended by a Lawyer/Policeman who becomes her Pimp after a fight in which he rescues her from the existing man who becomes more violent and greedy. Nestor falls in love and cannot stand that she spends her evenings and nights serving a wide range of clients, despite the lifestyle this brings. He devises a plan to pretend to be an old wealthy client who insists on two visits a week paying 500 francs each time on the understanding she has no other clients. In order to fund the visits he has to sneak out at night and undertake heavy work in the Paris Markets, returning exhausted before she wakes and wanting to enjoy her days off. This leads to tension and her belief that he is seeing other women when she catches him returning home very tired one morning.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Benny Sent Me
Everybody Loves My Baby
Moonlight on the Highway and Josephine
This leads Irma to seeking solace with the older client and trying to persuade him to take her as his mistress. Nestor decides it is time to depose his arrival and hides the clothing and disguises in the River Seine, spotted by the former pimp who has been trailing Nestor who was seen with the money which the older man was to have paid Irma. Although the body is not found this is sufficient evidence to convict Nestor and he is sent to prison despite the defence of Crime Passionel. He escapes and returns recreating the role of the elderly client in order to convince the police there has been a miscarriage of justice so he can marry and live happy ever after with Irma who gives birth shortly after the ceremony. The show had ten numbers in each half and starred Keith Mitchell as Nestor and Elizabeth Seal as Irma. It won seven Tony awards including best musical and best actress in a musical.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Killer Diller an Someday Sweetheart
Caravan
Goodbye
I cannot remember if I have ever seen the 1963 film, a non musical with a core by Andre Previn touching on the main theme of the stage production. If I did may have quickly switched off because the film without the singing is a nonsense and a mixture of Inspector Clouseau and Guys and Dolls with Jack Lemmon as Nestor and Shirley McClain as Irma. The local hang out is Chez Moustache and the wealthy client is Lord X from the UK. The Propriety of the bar announces that in past roles he has been many things including an attorney who acts for Nestor and a doctor who then delivers the baby at the wedding. He arranges the prison escape using thin handkerchiefs after Nestor is able to wrench open the bar of his cell which happens to go down to the street. The owner adds, that’s another story to each of his incarnations. At the end of the film the last man to leave the church is none other than Lord X while Nestor is with Irma and his child, Moustache adds, that is another story. Fortunately a sequel was not created.
Benny Goodman 1 Mazhel
Mahzel and Tattletale
Eight, Nine and Ten
The best things in Life are free
I have been dipping in and out of the 4th and 5th years of the X files and when suddenly we are offered the first season untitled pilot in which Dana Sculley is assigned to work with agent Fox Mulder, pronounced Molda, in order to separately report on his work from a sceptical and scientific basis. At her appointment interview there is the Silent man smoking a cigarette who appears to represents the enemy throughout the series until the final episodes. The first assignment is to visit Oregon where a number of former High School young people have died or ended up in the local Mental Asylum having gone into the woods to celebrate graduation. One of these is Billy Miles who appears to be in a catatonic condition and is revealed to be the son of local Detective Miles who discourages the investigators from visiting the site where events occurred. The daughter of the County medical examiner is revealed to have attended the graduation Party and her father appears to be in league with the Police and other in covering up what happened.
Benny Goodman 1 Mazhel
Dizzy Fingers and You brought a new love to me
Close as pages in a book
Sweetheart of all my Dreams
Mulder insists on having one the coffin of one victim examined and finds remains which appear to be that of an alien. It also noticed that the two in the hospital have marks on their back and the body in the grave an implant in their nostril. An attempt to examine remains of other victims is thwarted and a fire attempts to destroy evidence at Sculley’s motel room. When they go to the site one time there is a reappearance of the bright light which we the audience have experienced earlier in the episode with a mysterious figure in the distance and too far away in the darkness to identify. They work out that Miles, the son is being directed at night to break away from the hospital and he responsible for bringing the victims to the woods and this includes the daughter of chemical examiner who vanishes when the white light appears and then vanishes leaving the boy normal with no marks on his back The boy explains under hypnosis that aliens abducted him and his classmates when they were in the woods at the Graduation party, Mulder submits the evidence of the nostril implant to his superiors although other case files goes missing. In the Pentagon the Cigarette smoking man puts the implant in a box in an giant room filled with row upon row of boxes in storage units suggesting that this is but one but of hundreds of thousands of pieces of evidence of evidence. The Pilot programme met with some success in the USA but did not immediately become a major mainstream national.
Benny Goodman 1
Two Little fishes and Five Loaves
Gotta be this or that and Love walked in
June is busting out all over
I had mixed feelings when the next episode of the first season of the X Files followed. Did this mean I was committed to watching the whole nine years back to back? “Deep Throat” is also about aliens or is it, and builds on the alleged Rosswell sightings and acquisition of a spaceship in 1947. Mulder is interested in investigating the case of an airforce Colonel who has disappeared for several months after getting into a state and being taken away by colleagues. Mulder is warned off the investigation before leaving by Deep Throat, someone who is to reappear and draws on the Deep Throat character in All the President’s Men, the book and film of the two journalists who broke the Watergate break-in story. Mulder and Sculley then find that the airbase is not any map. He makes enquiries with the local flying saucer watchers and is shown a photograph of a three pointed craft and they encounter a couple of young lovers who have a way into the airbase from where they watch mysterious aircraft of the kind in the photograph perform extraordinary aerobatics, travel at incredible speed and hover still.
Benny Goodman 1
Aint Misbehaving
Its only a paper Moon and My head says yes
How Little we know
I’m going to love that guy.
They then find that the missing Colonel has returned although his wife claims the man is different and Mulder finds that he has forgotten some of the basics of flying airforce jets. The case has to be closed but before leaving Mulder makes a visit to the Airbase where he is picked up and subjected to some treatment which makes him forget what he has seen. Some 6.9 million households were reported to have watched this episode in he USA, more than subsequent episodes in the first series
Benny Goodman 2
Mean to me
Putting on the Ritz
I knew new and Lazy River
Unlike Babylon Five and the X Files there is no grand design or master story to NCIS where the programme’s success arises from the interaction between the team of characters with the aging former Illya Keruakin, David McCullum, is the best known face from the past who plays the forensic doctor and psychological profiler Ducky - Dr Donald Mallard. The operational head of the homeland national unit Leroy Jethro Gibbs played by Mark Hammon who has a good TV career beforehand including a four episode spell in the West Wing. They are well supported by the Gothic Abigail-Abby Scuto -Pauline Perrette, forensic back room genius, and special agent Timothy McGhee (Sean Murray) the methodical and systematic but at times creative geek with the constant interplay between one night stand action man Tony DiNozzo(Michael Wetherly who has some insight into his behaviour and is exceptional at his job. All the agents including the field boss are in awe of Mosad placement Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) who speaks a dozen languages as well as being a markswoman who also uses her swiftness of movement and manual techniques to disable and if necessary kill. After a series of devastating incidents the boss leaves the unit to work with his hands and beach Cantina with his former mentor and work colleague in a Mexican hideaway. However when first Ziva David is framed he returns to clear her name and shortly afterwards he and his team also need all their skills to clear Tony from another frame although in my book the obvious suspect was the sudden appearance of a forensic assistant to Abby.
Benny Goodman 2
Sweet Sue Just You
Music Maestro Please
Making Whoopee and Cherokee
Parts of the Big Brother House nightly reviews are worth watching especially after the arrival of the multi millionaire 60 year old grandmother Ivana Trump, the former Olympic Skier and fashion model and wife of Donald. She has married twice since, with a legal separation from her last husband 24 years her junior and who has appeared in the Italian Celebrity Survivor show. Stephanie Beecham and the other USA contingent were suitable impressed although some of the young Brits had no idea. The first candidate setting himself up for eviction is the Swedish singer with a great voice but dubious social habits from smoking to bed sharing within the first week of arrival.
Benny Goodman 2
The Maid of Cadiz
Love is Just around the corner
I know what you know and the Bannister Slide
Sunday was a good day for TV with the film Tripple Cross, a new episode of Lark Rise to Candleford and of Hornblower. and the second in the new series of Wallander in which he and a former policeman explain the predicament of all those wedded to a work role which comes to an end suddenly because of a major error, in one instance sacked, and in the other filled with self doubt and regret about continuing. It was brilliant and will be the main subject for tomorrow with also reference to a Morse.
Benny Goodman 2
Benny’s Boogie
How High the Moon
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Lets Dance and Riding High
Moten Swing
and Nice work if you can get it
I had been remiss about the plants outside having not prepared for winter before the cold weather but yesterday brought the containers and pots as much under cover as much as I could. The damage has been long done I fear with the earth frozen solid and solid ice in the base water holders. It was dispiriting as the continuing cold which brought back the sniffles as the day progressed into night. I decided to try and conserve fuel by going to bed earlier and staying later but the plan failed miserably as I awoke around four unable to sleep or become comfortable again because of a blocked nose so had to rise, make some coffee which I then drank only a little and played games against the computer for a couple of hours with the heat on, which I turned off again on going back to bed around 7 and then sleeping for just two and a have hours, but it was a good sleep and I now feel refreshed, psychologically happier with the thaw, suggesting it is not going to be a repeat of 1947. However it could be lull according to the forecast with heavy snow everywhere. The 10 am news featured that the situation in France and Germany is worse with the army on standby. This is no consolation
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Vibraphone Blues
Sheik of Araby
Peckin and Sunny Disposish
Season 2 of Babylon 5 has ended with my view that this is the best science fiction series todate confirmed. Episode 21 ‘Comes the Inquisitor’ is the first time that the series strayed off course with a divertissement which involved Jack the Ripper having been taken by the Vorlons and turned into the Inquisitor, someone who is used over the centuries test those who might stand against the Shadows should they rise again. His target is Delenn, and by association, Commander Sheridan and he subjects them to physical and psychological force. Despite the spurious need to embroider a well written tale by introducing a notorious historical figure, the verbal interrogation is excellent going through the various motives which often governs the belief in individual superiority over the judgement and experience of others. It is always desirable to severely question anyone who presumes to know what is good for others, especially those with idealistic or dangerous Missions which can put the safety and welfare of others at great risk, and yet without such individuals a society will degenerate until it is overtaken by stronger forces whose ways may be worse. Delenn and Sheridan pass the sternest of tests and prove that they are the right people in the right place at the right time.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Nagaski
Whispers in the dark
St Louis Blues
and Life goes to a Party
G’Kar starts to purchase weapons from funds raised by those of his race onboard the space station but has to do so at exorbitant rates. His leadership is questioned by those contributing and he seeks help from Sheridan, who uses the Rangers to find out about the family of one of those marooned on the space station and when they are able to enclose a visual message, he and the others accept the leadership of G’Kar, Sheridan gets wind that G’Kar is using the station to buy arms and uses Garibaldi to provide a solution which will enable the work of G’Kar to continue without directly involving the space station and its official neutrality.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Sugarfoot Stomp and Moonglow
I’m a Ding Dong Daddy
and I haven’t anyone but you
In the last episode of the second series The Fall of Night, the Sheridan faces his greatest challenge to date. There is evidence that the Centauri, buoyed by their successful slaughter of the Narn World with the help of the Shadows and the use of illegal weapons of mass destruction, have started to attack outposts of the Drazi and Pak’ma’ra who protest to Sheridan and who then reports to Earth. When earth sends high level members of the Ministry of Peace, Sheridan assumes that they have come to objectively report on the position. However the visitors are to try and defuse the situation and avoid Earth being drawn into the conflict until a non aggression treaty can be signed by Earth and the Centauri at the expense of everyone else.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Bumble Bee Stomp
Down South Camp Meeting
That Naughty Waltz and Sweet Leilani
Unknown to them Sheridan has been contacted by the only Narn fighting ship to escape the Centauri and Shadows blitz and which was in need of repairs and supplies. He offers help through the neutrality of the space station but when the news reaches the visitors they contact earth and order that the whereabouts of the Narn ship is disclosed. Sheridan refuses and maintains his position when a Centauri fighting craft arrives threatening to attack the station. The Commander orders the station and its fighters to be prepared to respond to any attempt to prevent the Narn spacecraft from leaving via the hyperspace link. When the Centauri ship opens fire Sheridan has no alternative but to respond. He destroys the Centauri warship and the Narn vessel escapes, much to the horror of the Ministry of Peace and Earth Government. However as Sheridan was right to take the action in the circumstances he is let off with a severe warning and an order to apologise in a public way to the Centauri government through Ambassador Mollari. The Centauri needed the neutrality of Earth at the time with the historical parallel of Germany in World War II and the British policy of Appeasement.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Bumble Bee Stomp
Down South Camp Meeting
That Naughty Waltz and Sweet Leilani
When Sheridan goes to eat humble pie at a reception he is the subject of a bomb attack while travelling in an overhead monorail where the reception is being held and he falls into a deep area of space within the station only to be rescued by Kosh who exits his suit. This is a symbolic gesture with everyone seeing Kosh in the form the Vorlons are willing to show with only Sheridan and Delenn seeing the true creature, angel like in the common depiction of the concept. Others see him as a manifestation of their Gods and all except the Centauri see what happens as an indication of Hope in the dark times ahead. Londo says he saw nothing leaving open the possibility that this was so or it was in a form which only reinforces his growing anxiety about the course being taken. This is an anxiety shared by Vir, his assistant, with that of Delenn’s assistant and they agree to meet for a drink and a casual chat on a regular basis.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Vieni Vieni and Sometimes I’m Happy
Always
When Buddha Smiles
The assistant to the Minister is a member of Nightwatch, which I thought was the name given to the group, including Sheridan and his senior officers, convinced that the former President had been assassinated with a view to installing a puppet replacement for the Psi Corps and their supporters, to defend those out to destroy democracy and develop an autocratic police state. In fact this episode confirms that Nightwatch is in effect the undercover secret police network of spies and informers set up on behalf of the new regime. An approach to Ivanova is rejected out of hand and others are also find their previous support challenged when tittle tattle it is used to arrest anyone who criticises the regime or expresses concerns about what is happening.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding day
Laughing at Life and Running Wild
You’ve turned the tables on me
Starfury fighter pilot Keffer who survived the experience of an encounter with a Shadow craft has his concerns reinforced by another pilot and then goes on his own to investigate. Before he and his craft are destroyed he manages to get a visual of the Shadows’ craft broadcast and this is picked up by a news station which relays around the universe. Thus the existence of the Shadows is known by the public and the attempts by Delenn, Sheridan and Kosh to prevent disclosure until there has been greater preparation to build a defence alliance has ended. The die is now cast.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Darktown Strutter’s Ball
My Gal Sal and Bugle Call Rag
Mama, that Moon is here again
The episode does raise some questions about the integrity of aspects of the story. Until this episode the impression has been given that space within the station was at a premium with the main transfer between levels by elevator. In a previous episode the Commander and Ivanova were to be charged rent for the proportion of their private quarters larger than other staff Although in fact the impression until then is that all the Ambassador and senior staff have the same accommodation space area. All the gardens, restaurants and bars are also modest in size although there has been reference to orchards and other areas for cultivation for the station population of a quarter of million. The only reason for such a large space where the apology is to take place and the overhead monorail is to fit the role of Kosh and the form he takes with its different impact on races and individuals. It was also my understanding that Kosh and other Vorlons can only exist in their special suits for a brief period and that otherwise they needed an especially controlled atmosphere which humans could only enter wearing protected space suits. What happens in this episode is therefore a puzzle, but does not reduce the overall excellence of the series.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Clarinet Marmalade and Time on my hands
Stardust and In the Shade of the old Apple Tree
When I first left school and went out to work I exerted my independence by going out in central London in the evenings after work. Buying a half season ticket for the Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall was one example and joining work a colleague and his friends for visits to Traditional Jazz clubs in and around Soho was another. I supported the repertory Theatre at Croydon and Concerts of USA Jazz musicians but visits to central London Theatre land were infrequent. One venture was the musical Irma La Douce. This was a Parisian musical first performed in Paris in 1956 and brought to the West End in 1958 and New York in 1960. The story is that of a Prostitute who is befriended by a Lawyer/Policeman who becomes her Pimp after a fight in which he rescues her from the existing man who becomes more violent and greedy. Nestor falls in love and cannot stand that she spends her evenings and nights serving a wide range of clients, despite the lifestyle this brings. He devises a plan to pretend to be an old wealthy client who insists on two visits a week paying 500 francs each time on the understanding she has no other clients. In order to fund the visits he has to sneak out at night and undertake heavy work in the Paris Markets, returning exhausted before she wakes and wanting to enjoy her days off. This leads to tension and her belief that he is seeing other women when she catches him returning home very tired one morning.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Benny Sent Me
Everybody Loves My Baby
Moonlight on the Highway and Josephine
This leads Irma to seeking solace with the older client and trying to persuade him to take her as his mistress. Nestor decides it is time to depose his arrival and hides the clothing and disguises in the River Seine, spotted by the former pimp who has been trailing Nestor who was seen with the money which the older man was to have paid Irma. Although the body is not found this is sufficient evidence to convict Nestor and he is sent to prison despite the defence of Crime Passionel. He escapes and returns recreating the role of the elderly client in order to convince the police there has been a miscarriage of justice so he can marry and live happy ever after with Irma who gives birth shortly after the ceremony. The show had ten numbers in each half and starred Keith Mitchell as Nestor and Elizabeth Seal as Irma. It won seven Tony awards including best musical and best actress in a musical.
Benny Goodman Radio Broadcasts 1937
Killer Diller an Someday Sweetheart
Caravan
Goodbye
I cannot remember if I have ever seen the 1963 film, a non musical with a core by Andre Previn touching on the main theme of the stage production. If I did may have quickly switched off because the film without the singing is a nonsense and a mixture of Inspector Clouseau and Guys and Dolls with Jack Lemmon as Nestor and Shirley McClain as Irma. The local hang out is Chez Moustache and the wealthy client is Lord X from the UK. The Propriety of the bar announces that in past roles he has been many things including an attorney who acts for Nestor and a doctor who then delivers the baby at the wedding. He arranges the prison escape using thin handkerchiefs after Nestor is able to wrench open the bar of his cell which happens to go down to the street. The owner adds, that’s another story to each of his incarnations. At the end of the film the last man to leave the church is none other than Lord X while Nestor is with Irma and his child, Moustache adds, that is another story. Fortunately a sequel was not created.
Benny Goodman 1 Mazhel
Mahzel and Tattletale
Eight, Nine and Ten
The best things in Life are free
I have been dipping in and out of the 4th and 5th years of the X files and when suddenly we are offered the first season untitled pilot in which Dana Sculley is assigned to work with agent Fox Mulder, pronounced Molda, in order to separately report on his work from a sceptical and scientific basis. At her appointment interview there is the Silent man smoking a cigarette who appears to represents the enemy throughout the series until the final episodes. The first assignment is to visit Oregon where a number of former High School young people have died or ended up in the local Mental Asylum having gone into the woods to celebrate graduation. One of these is Billy Miles who appears to be in a catatonic condition and is revealed to be the son of local Detective Miles who discourages the investigators from visiting the site where events occurred. The daughter of the County medical examiner is revealed to have attended the graduation Party and her father appears to be in league with the Police and other in covering up what happened.
Benny Goodman 1 Mazhel
Dizzy Fingers and You brought a new love to me
Close as pages in a book
Sweetheart of all my Dreams
Mulder insists on having one the coffin of one victim examined and finds remains which appear to be that of an alien. It also noticed that the two in the hospital have marks on their back and the body in the grave an implant in their nostril. An attempt to examine remains of other victims is thwarted and a fire attempts to destroy evidence at Sculley’s motel room. When they go to the site one time there is a reappearance of the bright light which we the audience have experienced earlier in the episode with a mysterious figure in the distance and too far away in the darkness to identify. They work out that Miles, the son is being directed at night to break away from the hospital and he responsible for bringing the victims to the woods and this includes the daughter of chemical examiner who vanishes when the white light appears and then vanishes leaving the boy normal with no marks on his back The boy explains under hypnosis that aliens abducted him and his classmates when they were in the woods at the Graduation party, Mulder submits the evidence of the nostril implant to his superiors although other case files goes missing. In the Pentagon the Cigarette smoking man puts the implant in a box in an giant room filled with row upon row of boxes in storage units suggesting that this is but one but of hundreds of thousands of pieces of evidence of evidence. The Pilot programme met with some success in the USA but did not immediately become a major mainstream national.
Benny Goodman 1
Two Little fishes and Five Loaves
Gotta be this or that and Love walked in
June is busting out all over
I had mixed feelings when the next episode of the first season of the X Files followed. Did this mean I was committed to watching the whole nine years back to back? “Deep Throat” is also about aliens or is it, and builds on the alleged Rosswell sightings and acquisition of a spaceship in 1947. Mulder is interested in investigating the case of an airforce Colonel who has disappeared for several months after getting into a state and being taken away by colleagues. Mulder is warned off the investigation before leaving by Deep Throat, someone who is to reappear and draws on the Deep Throat character in All the President’s Men, the book and film of the two journalists who broke the Watergate break-in story. Mulder and Sculley then find that the airbase is not any map. He makes enquiries with the local flying saucer watchers and is shown a photograph of a three pointed craft and they encounter a couple of young lovers who have a way into the airbase from where they watch mysterious aircraft of the kind in the photograph perform extraordinary aerobatics, travel at incredible speed and hover still.
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Aint Misbehaving
Its only a paper Moon and My head says yes
How Little we know
I’m going to love that guy.
They then find that the missing Colonel has returned although his wife claims the man is different and Mulder finds that he has forgotten some of the basics of flying airforce jets. The case has to be closed but before leaving Mulder makes a visit to the Airbase where he is picked up and subjected to some treatment which makes him forget what he has seen. Some 6.9 million households were reported to have watched this episode in he USA, more than subsequent episodes in the first series
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Mean to me
Putting on the Ritz
I knew new and Lazy River
Unlike Babylon Five and the X Files there is no grand design or master story to NCIS where the programme’s success arises from the interaction between the team of characters with the aging former Illya Keruakin, David McCullum, is the best known face from the past who plays the forensic doctor and psychological profiler Ducky - Dr Donald Mallard. The operational head of the homeland national unit Leroy Jethro Gibbs played by Mark Hammon who has a good TV career beforehand including a four episode spell in the West Wing. They are well supported by the Gothic Abigail-Abby Scuto -Pauline Perrette, forensic back room genius, and special agent Timothy McGhee (Sean Murray) the methodical and systematic but at times creative geek with the constant interplay between one night stand action man Tony DiNozzo(Michael Wetherly who has some insight into his behaviour and is exceptional at his job. All the agents including the field boss are in awe of Mosad placement Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) who speaks a dozen languages as well as being a markswoman who also uses her swiftness of movement and manual techniques to disable and if necessary kill. After a series of devastating incidents the boss leaves the unit to work with his hands and beach Cantina with his former mentor and work colleague in a Mexican hideaway. However when first Ziva David is framed he returns to clear her name and shortly afterwards he and his team also need all their skills to clear Tony from another frame although in my book the obvious suspect was the sudden appearance of a forensic assistant to Abby.
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Sweet Sue Just You
Music Maestro Please
Making Whoopee and Cherokee
Parts of the Big Brother House nightly reviews are worth watching especially after the arrival of the multi millionaire 60 year old grandmother Ivana Trump, the former Olympic Skier and fashion model and wife of Donald. She has married twice since, with a legal separation from her last husband 24 years her junior and who has appeared in the Italian Celebrity Survivor show. Stephanie Beecham and the other USA contingent were suitable impressed although some of the young Brits had no idea. The first candidate setting himself up for eviction is the Swedish singer with a great voice but dubious social habits from smoking to bed sharing within the first week of arrival.
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The Maid of Cadiz
Love is Just around the corner
I know what you know and the Bannister Slide
Sunday was a good day for TV with the film Tripple Cross, a new episode of Lark Rise to Candleford and of Hornblower. and the second in the new series of Wallander in which he and a former policeman explain the predicament of all those wedded to a work role which comes to an end suddenly because of a major error, in one instance sacked, and in the other filled with self doubt and regret about continuing. It was brilliant and will be the main subject for tomorrow with also reference to a Morse.
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Benny’s Boogie
How High the Moon
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