A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: With the death of film director Roy Ward Baker yesterday, I think it appropriate to watch a clip from one of his classics, A Night to Remember (1958). This understated but frighteningly powerful film captured the reality of the Titanic’s sinking in a style that is unfortunately rare today.
An evening pause: A belated memorial to Kate McGarrigle, who passed away from cancer on January 18, 2010. Here she and her sister Anna sing their classic, “Heart like a Wheel”, Cafe Lena 1990.
An evening pause: Engineer spice.
An evening pause:The Muppets (1978). Jim Henson singing, “I don’t want to live on the Moon.”
An evening pause: October 4, 1957, the space age began.
An evening pause: More Loony Tunes! To Duck or Not to Duck.
An evening pause: Fred Astaire, dancing on the ceiling, from Royal Wedding (1951).
An evening pause: This Persian kitten rules.
An evening pause: How about some dancing robots?
An evening pause: August 2, 2010: The first flight of a human powered ornithopter, an aircraft propelled by flapping wings.
An evening pause: Hand dance by Up and Over it.
An evening pause: Henry Fonda and John Wayne in Fort Apache (1948).
“Sergeant, pour me some scripture.”
An evening pause: The stairway to heaven, in Hawaii.
An evening pause: How about some Loony Tunes silliness: Yankee Doodle Daffy.
An evening pause: A walk through an unidentified slot canyon somewhere on the Colorado Plateau in the Navaho reservation.
An evening pause: Fields of Gold, played by Sungha Jung. Man, can this kid play the guitar!
An evening pause: Though Gustav Holst entitled the fourth movement of his The Planets suite Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, its sweeping melody has always invoked for me the open and majestic plains and mountains of the American west. Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the BBC Philharmonic orchestra.
An evening pause: Loreena McKennitt singing her musical version of Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott.
An evening pause: A real cat burgler!
An evening pause: Here’s another Rube Goldberg machine, this time created for a music video from the band OK Go.
