Todd Haynes: "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story": I drank on an empty stomach last night, so i just discovered lots of drafts. i remember This tho!

Todd Haynes [Far from heaven, Safe] burst upon the scene two years after his graduation with his now-infamous 43-minute "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" (1987).

Seizing upon the inspired gimmick of using Barbie and Ken

dolls to sympathetically recount the story of the pop star's death from anorexia, he spent months making miniature dishes, chairs, costumes, Kleenex and Ex-Lax boxes, and Carpenters' records to create the film's

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Unfortunately, Richard Carpenter's enmity for the film led to the serving of a "cease and desist" order in 1989, and despite the director's offer "to only show the film in clinics and schools, with all money going to the Karen Carpenter memorial fund for anorexia research," "Superstar" remains buried, one of the few films in modern America that cannot be seen by the general public.

Intricate, doll-size muse-en-scene.

The result was both audacious.

and accomplished as

The dolls seemingly ceased to be dolls

leaving the audience weeping for the tragic singer.

Tabata Yoshio: 大利根月夜 +(STEREO Ver.田端義夫 - 1994 ) I'M NOT SAYIN' NUTHIN', THAT'S YOUR JOB!

大利根月夜

かえり船(STEREO Ver.)

I agree, Tabata Yoshio is great, and we are so luckly that he is still alive, and still performs (And I know this is an old clip, haha, but he just performed live last year I think it was)

Tabata Yoshio is awesome. So glad to see a live version of him playing as he is well before my time. Man, his sound is so great. Awesome.

Very Nice. I'm from Sicily and I love Japan, it's a beautiful island and hard-working

So beautiful song and performer!...Thx for the emotion!!!

この曲を聴くたびに復員兵の皆さんの苦労が伝わり涙が出ます。

Lonnie Donegan: Grand Coolie Dam + Jack Of Diamonds + [Paddy Madison and Lee Stone] [SIX-FIVE Special-1958 THESE GIRLS ARE UNDRESSIN' HIS SKIFFLE! ]

SIX-FIVE Special (1958) - part 5of6

1) Lonnie Donegan - "Grand Coolie Dam", "Jack Of Diamonds"

2) Paddy Madison and Lee Stone

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The Six-Five Special was a British television programme launched in February 1957 when both television and rock'n'roll were in their infancy in Britain.

It was the BBC's first attempt at a rock'n'roll programme, a very great innovation at the time and subsequently much imitated, even today. It was called the "Six-Five Special" because of the time it was broadcast - it went out, live of course as all programmes did then, at five past six on a Saturday evening.

Jack Good was the producer and disc jockey Pete Murray was its presenter who used the catchphrase "Time to jive on the old six five". Its resident band was Don Lang and his Frantic Five. The show opened with film of a steam train accompanied by the programme's theme song, played and sung by the Frantic Five.

The show was originally scheduled to last six weeks but, as a result of Jack Good ignoring the guidance given to him by the BBC management not to show the young audience alongside the performers, it continued indefinitely.

The BBC interfered with Good's vision of what the show should be by cluttering it with educational and information elements, as per their Public Service Broadcasting policy. The relationship between Good and the BBC became strained and they eventually fired him, resulting in a big loss of viewing audience.

Jack Good would quickly join the ITV company ABC to create "Oh Boy!", which was the show he'd wanted to make from day one. It featured non-stop music and lost the tedious "public service-inspired" elements as part of its more frenzied pace, and trounced the further-diluted "Six-Five Special" in the ratings.

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