Wednesday 5th October, 2005
Rod in Concert
Holland, December 2005!
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A Thought for Today
Friendship never wears a mask. It removes
the necessity for masquerading and false faces.
This
One Does It For Me!
It's been awhile since I made a contribution to this column so today I'd
like to rectify that omission.
This week all South African movie lovers should be celebrating as one of our
local television stations, the free to air eTV, have scheduled "The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." It went out Monday for the first time and
knowing the station as I do I have no doubt it will be repeated a number
of times during the course of the next seven days.
Our foremost television critic Barry Ronge of The Sunday Times (who interviewed Rod on his
radio show a few years back) has selected it as his "pick of the week"
and quite rightly so. The broadcast Monday was late evening so I taped
it to watch at my leisure this coming weekend. While checking that the
recording went off without a hitch I was immediately charmed by the
opening sequence of Maggie Smith bicycling through the streets
of Edinburgh, a city in which I spent a number of my formative years.
And what a thrill to read the opening credits - "Original musical score
by Rod McKuen, arranged and conducted by Arthur Greenslade."
My wife Priscilla, the
practical one in the family, commented that when the movie was first
released back in 1969 she was still at school and now she's a lady of a
certain age whose children have left home! Who cares, it will still make
for some terrific viewing this weekend and I have just the bottle
of South African Shiraz for the occasion.
The featured lyric today, taken from the soundtrack, is one of my all
time favorite McKuen pieces.
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