Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Phil wrote: > For the jazz fans here, I just returned from seeing a marvelous 2007 > documentary about the jazz singer Anita O'Day. Really a scintillating > film about one of jazz's less-appreciated geniuses. Her creativity had > me in tears a lot of the time. The NYT review is here: > http://tinyurl.com/depk4m Phil, O'Day wrote an autobiography--High Times, Hard Times. (Forgive me if you've read it already.) It's a hoot. Quite funny, in a very dark way. Here's the first line: "Joe Glaser, who was my booking agent for many years, used to say, 'Anita, you've got a million dollars' worth of talent and no class." And, yeah, she could sing. --John, delurking after a couple of years of silence ***************************************** John Edwin Mason Documentary and Motor Sports Photography: http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/ Charlottesville, Virginia Cape Town, South Africa