Jag har nu betat av den första Allen-filmen i serien. Efter att tänkt noga om vilken jag skulle se, föll lotten på Woodys första film. Den filmen som han gjorde debut med som manusförfattare: “What’s new Pussycat?” (1965) – titlen kommer förövrigt från Warren Beatty (som sade detta till sin dåvarande flickvän)

Jag kan säga att jag ännu är skeptisk. Visst gillar jag Peter Sellers som har en av huvudrollerna, men i den här filmen blir det bara för mycket. Peter O’Toole gör inte heller saken bättre, trots att han är en bra skådespelare.. Uppenbarligen ska filmen vara en komedi, men jag skrattade fan inte en enda gång. Kanske det blir bättre i nästa film som jag väljer att se, detta är ju trots allt debuten.

hello nice reederz its dennis the vizsla dog hay thats rite its time for the sunday awards and meem show!!! now as yoo may rekall i reesently tryed to up the produkshun valyooz of the show by hiring a prodooser but that effert went a littel bit awri however i hav come up with an eeven better way to improov the show i hav brawt in the faymus minstrel bert bockarock to rite me a theem song!!!

ha ha of korse yoo ar not yohan sebastchin bock i noo that ennyway it is time to git on to the awards!!! first we hav this frum my frends at crumsnatchers its the clever foto capshun award!!!

to see the orijinal foto and the capshuns yoo can visit crumsnatchers heer!!! thanks to evrywun hoo voted for my capshun!!!

ha ha wot a silly guy thinks he wrote the theem frum the big lebowski!!!! ok my other award of the week is the best of pals award frum my gud frends martha and bailey basset!!!

now yoo wil no dowt rekognize this award as the wurk of the verry talented purple hatter!!! thanks for mayking all theez wunderful awards purple hatter!!! martha and bailey passd this award on to all there frends so i wil do the saym!!! and thats a rap for this week thaynks for watching!!! ok bye

Such a fun song to sing along to. Sometimes I forget that Tom Jones was used to be young too… Funny what time does.

What’s new pussycat? Woah, Woah
What’s new pussycat? Woah, Woah
Pussycat, Pussycat
I’ve got flowers
And lots of hours
To spend with you.
So go and powder your cute little pussycat nose!
Pussycat, Pussycat
I love you
Yes, I do!
You and your pussycat nose!
What’s new pussycat? Woah, Woah
What’s new pussycat? Woah, Woah
Pussycat, Pussycat
You’re so thrilling
And I’m so willing
To care for you.
So go and make up your cute little pussycat face!
Pussycat, Pussycat
I love you
Yes, I do!
You and your pussycat face!
What’s new pussycat? Woah, Woah
What’s new pussycat? Woah, Woah
Pussycat, Pussycat
You’re delicious
And if my wishes
Can all come true
I’ll soon be kissing your sweet little pussycat lips!
Pussycat, Pussycat
I love you
Yes, I do!
You and your pussycat lips!
You and your pussycat eyes!
You and your pussycat nose!

Title: Cat People (1982)
Rated: R
Written by: DeWitt Bodeen & Alan Ormsby
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
Tagline: An Erotic Fantasy About the Animal in Us All!

By Jen Ellingsworth

Pre-Screening Memories: My 13-year-old conscience knew it was wrong to want to see “Cat People.”

In 1984, though, there were few things on my mind other than Duran Duran, my kick-ass Lisa Frank sticker collection and this forbidden movie I was going to watch before my parents got home from work.

With feline stealth I slunk into my older brother’s room – where he proudly displayed his latest acquisition, a Sony Betamax VCR (he paid $800 for it). I’d procured the tape from a classmate who shared my obsession with horror films.

The movie proved effective in that it scared the crap out of me.

Irena (a young Nastassja Kinski), is orphaned as an infant by her animal-trainer parents. She’s reunited with her minister brother Paul (William McDowell), who’s horny as a tomcat. It’s later revealed Irena and Paul are über-cat/humans who transform into giant panthers during intercourse with others. They return back to human only after they kill their mates.

Wow! As if that weren’t enough of an engaging plot, turns out the only way to stop the transformation is sex with a sibling. It was almost too much for me handle. I’d seen nudity in films before, sure, but this movie was so gory I had nightmares for weeks and couldn’t go near the family cat, Tigger.

I remember in one scene, Paul is transforming from cat back to human (so slick were the special effects!), and (gag) eats some glistening leftover fur-skin from his stomach.

Paul continues to sleep with, and maul, numerous lovers, while Irena starts dating a zookeeper Oliver (John Heard). Thing is, she can’t have sex with him because then she’d have to eat him. Paul’s killed while in panther form, Irena’s sexually frustrated and poor Oliver’s looking more and more like a tempting plate of Fancy Feast.

Twenty-three years later, I remember little more about this film other than a man’s arm is eaten by a panther through the bars of a cage in one of the final scenes. I’ve yet to see something so gruesome in a movie. Not even “Kill Bill” had more blood. (Editor’s note: ‘Kill Bill’ link is the over-the-top Crazy 88 scene, you have been warned.)

New Memories?

Hit Maker - remade

Burt Bacharach, composer, arranger, director, piano, vocals (b. 12 May, 1928, Kansas City, Missouri, USA).

One of the major songwriters of the Twentieth Century. Bacharach’s sophisticated, but easily memorable, melodies and sun-drenched arrangements define the 1960s as perfectly as anything by the Beatles.

Though Bacharach had a distinctly classical musical education – Martinu, Cowell and Milhaud were among his teachers – his allegiance was always with pop and jazz rather than the concert hall. Following spells working as an accompanist for Vic Damone and Marlene Dietrich his song writing abilities won him chart success in the USA.

Bacharach’s first impact on the British singles chart was with Michael Holliday’s cover version of “Story of My Life”. This success was cemented with “Magic Moments” by Perry Como. Both these songs were co-written with lyricist Hal David who became his regular song-writing partner.

Together they provided a stream of hits for many US artists, notably Dionne Warwick who worked with them so frequently she was almost a member of the team. Many of these records got into the British charts, but there were classy covers too, by Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield and Sandie Shaw.

The title Hit Maker! says it all and the album includes; “Don’t Make Me Over”, “Walk on By” (both originally recorded by Dionne Warwick), “Always Something There to Remind Me” (Warwick, covered by Sandie Shaw),  “24 Hours From Tulsa” (Gene Pitney) and “Anyone Who Had a Heart” (Warwick covered by Cilla Black).  Though his own hit single “Trains and Boats and Planes” is included, Hit Maker! is a compilation of greatest hits, only performed by the composer instead of the singers normally associated with them.  Even though vocals are missing the songs benefit from his further thoughts on their arrangements. 

During the decade Burt Bacharach also added his signature sound to movies and TV shows including  What’s New Pussycat, Casino Royale and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. His score for Butch Cassidy… won Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Song (“Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head”) plus a Golden Globe.

May 1965 – Hit Maker! Burt Bacharach Plays the Bacharach Hits

- (UK) London HAR8233 Highest Chart Position 3

   (US) Kapp KS 3428 failed to chart

Re-released in USA as The Man! – Burt Bacharach – His Songs, Kapp KS3447 Oct. 1965, and as Burt Bacharach Plays His Hits Kapp KS3577 ? 1966 and again in ?, 1969 as MCA Records MCL 1738  with additional track “A House is Not a Home”

1  Don’t Make Me Over  (Bacharach, David)

2  Walk on By (Bacharach, David)

3  Don’t Go Breaking My Heart  (Bacharach, David)

4  Blue on Blue  (Bacharach, David)

5  The Last One to Be Loved (Bacharach, David)

6  There’s Always Something There to Remind Me (Bacharach, David)

7  24 Hours From Tulsa (Bacharach, David)

8  Trains and Boats and Planes (Bacharach, David)

9  Wives and Lovers (Bacharach, David)

10 Anyone Who Had a Heart  (Bacharach, David) 

Recorded: unknown (possibly Decca Studios, London)

Producer: Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach arranger, director, piano, vocals; unknown session orchestra and chorus

CD reissues:

      1997 Universal 83089

     2006 Universal 93063 (with What’s New Pussycat?/My Little Red Book (sung by Joel Grey/Tony Middleton)

     2003 What the World Needs Now A&M 000080002 contains tracks 6 and 8

Interesting compilation of love songs. It does not include “Green Green Grass of Home” so that is a negative right off the bat for me. This seems very “thrown together” and I don’t recommend it as a purchase. Most of the performances are terribly orchestrated and the song selection pretty much stinks.

I have three or four other import CDs that I purchased over the years while trying to find the ultimate Tom Jones collection. Those CDs don’t fit the bill either. They turned out to be culled from the many TV performances of Jones and his guests from his variety show days of the Sixties.

Here’s the so-so Track List:

1. Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings
2. Never Give Away Love (Stereo Version)
3. Help Yourself
4. Dr. Love
5. It’s Not Unusual (2nd Studio Version)
6. When I Fall In Love
7. Hello Young Lovers
8. He’ll Have To Go
9. If You Go Away
10. Wichita Lineman
11. Let It Be Me
12. Love’s Been Good To Me
13. I Can’t Stop Loving You
14. What The World Needs Now Is Love
15. I Need Your Loving
16. Without You (Non C’e Che Lei)
17. If Ever I Would Leave You
18. I Was Made To Love Her

So I guess my search will continue on. If anyone has any suggestions I am quite open to hear them. I just want to have a nice collection of Tom’s greatest hits and best performed selections of his hey-day. I watched his TV variety show religiously and sorely miss it. Dude was a helluva performer!

Since I am not recommending this particular CD as a “must own” I decided to share with you some of Mr. Jones’ great live performances as found on youtube, instead of posting any of the mundance versions found on this particular compilation.

What’d I Say Live – 1964

I Wanna Know Live – circa 1969

What’s New Pussycat

Green, Green Grass of Home

I Who Have Nothing Live – 1974

Hope you enjoyed these performances. You can learn more about the music career of Tom Jones, born Thomas John Woodward in South Wales, by reading Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s Biography of Tom at AllMusic.

I thank you for stopping by.

Un petit bijou où Woody Allen essaye de récupérer un livre que Romy Schneider s’est fait subtiliser par un robuste blondinet, à la bibliothèque …A voir ou à revoir, ne serait-ce que pour le galbe du mollet de Romy sur son escabeau.

Extrait de “what’s new, Pussycat”, de Woody Allen (1965)

Quelqu’un aurait-il une version sous-titrée ou française ?

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