Spirited Away
An evening pause: As it is the Halloween weekend, how about an appropriate clip from Hayao Miyazaki’s surreal masterpiece, Spirited Away (2001).
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
An evening pause: In honor of the anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash, Bing Crosby singing “Brother, can you spare a dime?”
New leaks discovered on Discovery, on launchpad
Engineers have discovered two new leaks on Discovery as it sits on the launchpad. It appears the Monday launch has been delayed at least one day.
Charlie the Unicorn
An evening pause: Now for something completely different.
John Denver: Annie’s song
An evening pause:
To fly
An evening pause: Let’s go flying!
Nowhere Man
An evening pause: From Yellow Submarine (1968). Some trivia: the dialogue was spoken by actors, not the Beatles.
The calla lillies are in bloom again
An evening pause: This scene, from Stage Door (1937), is considered by many to be Katherine Hepburn’s greatest film moment: “The calla lillies are in bloom again.” Though powerful on its own, in the full context of the movie the scene is even more heart-breaking, and a true tour de force for Hepburn.
Bugs Bunny – Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
An evening pause:
We’re a couple of swells…
An evening pause: Fred Astaire and Judy Garland from Easter Parade (1948).
Machu Picchu from above
An evening pause: A hike up Huayna Picchu, the mountain that looks down on Machu Picchu in Peru.
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain 2007
An evening pause: