Names are for tombstones, baby

In honor of the recent Caribbean theme, I spent way too much time on YouTube looking for a clip of Jane Seymour reading the Tarot over a funkified 007 theme.* Dear sweet merciful heaven, Live and Let Die is such an appalling movie (which I loved when I was eight), and Ian Fleming? a racist putz. On the other hand, Geoffrey Holder rules:

You know the Wachowski brothers rewound this scene over and over and over until the munchies hit.

This made me thirsty, and I don't even like 7-Up:

And of course:

Click here to conclude the cantus interruptus. If you're anything like me, you will need to click. (You may not be.)

Note added later: you know the one. "A man comes. He travels quickly. He has purpose. He comes over water. He travels with others. He will oppose. He brings violence and destruction," which is my basic commute, whenever I take the Q train.

Comments

[Noel Maurer]

Carlos, I love you, man. This was a twofer. Hours of laughter.

Thinking, thinking. But more still wanted while doing so.

[Dennis Brennan]

Casting a West Indian as a turban-wearing majordomo named "Punjab" is exactly the kind of cross-cultural delight that I come to this blog to find.

My 2 1/2-year-old, Ryan, is in the "Annie" phase that, I gather, kids still go through. On the other hand, he seems to have a thing for musical theatre generally. He also likes the fast Robert Preston numbers in The Music Man. My wife and I re-watched Grease with him-- we didn't remember how sexually explicit it was.

[Carlos]

Did I ever link to this? "Musically, Jay-Z uses my melody exactly as written, except for the addition of rap beats," Strouse says. "But as the song was very percussive to start with, that’s not too worrying."

http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=827

I still remember one of the Onion guys playing the first few beats of the bass line and asking me to guess.

Anyway. You know, Grease and (of all things) Xanadu have made comebacks among preteens? Makes you wonder if the musical is just going through a dormant phase, waiting for the right time to burst from our chests.

(And there's the Tim Burton Sweeney Todd, which I'm sure one of my co-bloggers will have an opinion about.)

[Michael]

Crisp and clean! No caffeine! Never had it, never will! Ah-hahahaha!

I still quote that all the time, to the utter mystification of the (Hungarian) wife and (too damn young) kids. Once Holder gets in your head, I guess he's there forever.

[Doug M.]

I haven't seen the Burton Todd, and so should not express an opinion.

Geoffrey Holder connects to Tim Burton: he did the voiceover for the 2005 movie version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". (It's interesting to note that both movie versions are a mixture of cool and suck, but in completely different ways.)

"Live and Let Die" was my first grownup movie; I was nine. If I recall correctly, my parents couldn't get a babysitter, so they took me along. I must ask Mom about that sometime.

Doug M.

[lala]

are you so lonely it has come to Jane Seymour?? not even that one chick from Alias? come on, Yu!