[78-L] Olde-timers

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
>> You can actually make it through Can Can? I couldn't!

Well, it isn't an easy dance to do, even when we were younger.

>> Or anything else with Shirley MacLaine, for that matter. 

Oh! You mean the MOVIE!  That's different.  Neither could Krushchev, for
that matter.

>> Seriously, I was raised on early Chevalier records and it was
>> pathetic to see him slog through Gigi and Can Can (playing 
>> the same part).  Take him out and shoot him, I say.

C'mon, weren't you waiting for him to shag one of the leetle girls
prancing thru the park with that dirty old man LEERING at them?  Then
you could have Roman Polanskied him.  

Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. wrote:
> One of the very few French performers who did well in the States.
> Piaf, Reinhart, Trenet, even Baker all flopped here.

Marcel Marceau?  Aznavour?  French Fries?  French Vanilla?  Champagne?  
 

> Probably shouldn't have. Says more for our tastes than for their talents.

I LIKE French Fries!

Mike (who really did ask for ketchup in Paris) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

(and who really did get a scolding from the waiter!)