I created a Movie Maker project for “Les millionaires” by Serge Gainsbourg. I imported the song and placed the music on the audio timeline. I imported the first 100 images I’d gathered for the video and placed them in order in the video timeline. Tomorrow I might have them all uploaded or at least the second 100.
I weighed 87.3 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Kramer electric for the last of two sessions and it only went out of tune once.
Around midday I did my taxes.
I weighed 88.35 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back stopped at Freshco. But all the grapes were too soft and so I walked over to Metro where I bought three bags of green grapes and some soy based vanilla ice cream.
I weighed 87.55 kilos at 18.55.
I was caught up in my journal at 20:06.
I tried again to digitally record the cassette tape that has been so difficult over the last three weeks. The opening track of my band playing “Megaphor” live has always been the main track that has failed and just come through as noise when I tried to run the sound directly into my audio interface. This time I put a microphone to the speaker and plugged that into the audio interface. This time it recorded although the volume was low and the bass was too dominant. I’ll try it again tomorrow with the bass turned down and the volume higher.
I steamed a bunch of asparagus tips and had them in a salad with cucumber, tomato, avocado and pomegranate zaatar dressing while watching season 1, episode 21 of The Carol Burnett Show.
The VIP interview is with Queen Elizabeth as played by Carol. The interviewer is Harvey Korman who tells her he likes her crown. She says, “I got it this morning eating margarine”. That’s a reference to the old Imperial Margarine commercials in which a crown appears on the heads of people who eat it.
Betty Grable does a song and dance number to “Hello Dolly” by Jerry Herman.
The next skit depicts the final episode of a soap opera called As the Stomach Turns. Marian and Victoria are having tea when Victoria asks Marian about her son who went away fifteen years ago. Marian reveals to Victoria that he’s really her son. Victoria insists that she’s never had a baby but Marian assures her she did and informs her that she’s had amnesia for many years. Victoria now remembers. Bob Baxter the boy next door arrives as he got out of jail five minutes ago when it was found that he didn’t really murder Natalie Carter because she recently confessed that she lied at his trial. Bob tells her he’s getting married and brings his fiancé in, played by Martha Raye. Marian recognizes her as the conniving chorus girl Connie Canoga. They are getting married only three days after her wealthy husband died. Bob confesses that he is Marian’s missing son, who is really Victoria’s son. Victoria and Bob embrace and Victoria remembers that Connie pushed her into the Canoga Falls and that’s how she got amnesia. Victoria says, “You tried to kill me! Why? Why? Why?” Connie tells her, “Just one question at a time!” She tried to kill her because her husband fell in love with her just because she was a little prettier. Victoria comforts her, “That’s not true dear. I was a lot prettier”. Marian finds out that her son who only had six months to live is improving and they now give him seven months to live.” Marian reveals that her poor dead husband isn’t dead. He’s been in the basement for the last 15 years writing a song that will make them rich. Her elderly husband staggers downstairs and announces he finished the song. He is about to sing it when he has a heart attack and dies.
They have the Most Beautiful Legs Contest with five contestants sticking only their crossed legs out from behind curtain. The winner is decided by applause. Clearly the ones on the left are the best but it’s the ones on the right that win and they are Harvey Korman’s legs. The ones on the left are Betty Grable’s, who had the most famous legs in Hollywood.
Next Carol and Martha play two working class housewives sitting on a stoop. They sing “Flings” by Bob Merrill from the musical New Girl in Town.
In Carol’s biographical sketch, Carol, Roger, and Vickie’s 90 some years old Aunt Molly and Uncle Burt come to visit.
The final number is by Carol, Betty, and Martha. They sing the 1923 song “That Old Gang of Mine” by Billy Rose, Mort Dixon, and Ray Henderson. It was originally introduced in the Ziegfeld Follies.
Betty Grable was enrolled in dance school at the age of three and learned tap and ballet. She attended the Hollywood Professional School. Her mother lied about her age and got her a job as a chorus girl when she was only 13. She also entered her into multiple beauty contests. She attracted Hollywood’s attention while performing in Du Barry Was a Lady on Broadway. She made her film debut in Happy Days. She sang for the Ted Fio Rito orchestra even though she was not a great vocalist. She married Jackie Coogan in 1939 but divorced Uncle Fester shortly after. She co-starred in Down Argentine Way, Probation, This Way Please, College Swing, How to Marry a Millionaire, Tin Pan Alley, Footlight Serenade, A Yank in the RAF, and Mother Wore Tights. She starred in Coney Island, Sweet Rosie O’Grady, Springtime in the Rockies, The Dollie Sisters, I Wake Up Screaming, Million Dollar Legs, Pin-Up Girl, Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, That Lady in Ermine, When My Baby Smiles at Me, The Beautiful Blond from Bashful Bend, Wabash Avenue, My Blue Heaven, Call Me Mister, Meet Me After the Show, The Farmer Takes a Wife, Three For the Show, and How to be Very Very Popular. During WWII she became the most popular pin-up girl among US soldiers. In 1946 and 1947 she was the highest paid actress in Hollywood. She was making $300,000 a year which would be $5.4 million now. 20th Century Fox had her legs insured for $1 million. She said she was strictly a song and dance girl and could only act well enough to get by.
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