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An evening pause:
Tag: entertainment
Jibjab – Time for some campaigning
An evening pause: In celebration of election day. This might have been made for the 2008 election, but it is remarkably up-to-day now, three years later.
Judi Dench – Send in the Clowns
An evening pause: From a 1995 television profile of Dame Judi Dench, ending with her performance of “Send in the Clowns” from a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music.
Sports images of the 20th century
An evening pause: The best sports moments of the 20th century.
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – Falling Slowly
An evening pause: The Oscar-winning song from the film Once (2007), performed live.
Gene Pitney – Looking Through The Eyes Of Love
An evening pause: Some more good 1960s pop music on 1960s television.
The Piano
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The Haunting
An evening pause: Once again, for Halloween, this short but truly unnerving scene from Robert Wise’s The Haunting (1963), based on the story by Shirley Jackson. Captures what everyone imagines it would be like to sleep in a haunted house. And with no special effects at all.
Shirley Bassey – Two songs
An evening pause: From a 1964 music video, Shirley Bassey sings two songs, Cole Porter’s “I get a kick out of you,” followed by Ben King’s “I who have nothing.”
The Beatles performing Shakespeare
An evening pause: In honor of Shakespeare’s 400th birthday in 1964, the Beatles performed this short excerpt from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. How else could you see John Lennon dressed as a girl?
Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (mountains beyond mountains)
An evening pause:
The Grateful Dead – Mountains of the Moon
An evening pause: As performed in January 1969 for Playboy After Dark, at the Playboy mansion.