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Post by rawkitoff on Jul 6, 2010 12:38:23 GMT -5
hehe Joy, that is awesome that she was your first:) Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria was mine. I wanted to dress up as Victor for Halloween and my mom said no lol:) Didn't stop me from singing Le Jazz Hot in my living room, though!
I'll post in that thread too!
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Post by Joy on Jul 7, 2010 0:52:18 GMT -5
That role was quite a departure for Julie Andrews! I remember it well. I was 21 and in my first serious lez relationship. My GF was crazy about that flick.
It's reminiscent of Cabaret, which JJ often cites as having made a huge impact on her young and impressionable brain. (I recommend Christopher Isherwood's novel Goodbye to Berlin, upon which Cabaret was based.)
[edited to correct a factual error!]
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Post by rawkitoff on Jul 7, 2010 10:10:26 GMT -5
I was raised in musical theatre, and love Kander and Ebb's Cabaret...especially the updated version Sam Mendes directed at Donmar in London and Studio 54 in NYC. I was able to see the late Natasha Richardson in that.
Threepenny Opera is my favorite musical of all time, which is fitting as it is Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's seedy and very German version of Victorian England.
Julie also did 3 other films that were departures from her Mary Poppins persona...Star!, the story of Gertrude Lawrence, Darling Lili, in which she does a striptease, and S.O.B. where she bears her breasts.
My uncle worked with Julie, and i knew her daughter for a while when I was attempting to get a theatre group started. Julie had this sticker in her dressing room that said something like, "Mary Poppins is a junkie."
She's a clever, bawdy, and saucy gal for sure.
Ironic that Liza filled in for Julie in Victor/Victoria on Broadway. I only saw Julie, Anne Runolfson, and Toni Tenille in the part. Met Raquel Welch during the big backstage buzz after Julie's final performance, though.
There is youtube footage of Liza as Victor/Victoria. Haven't seen Welch's.
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Post by Joy on Jul 8, 2010 3:42:48 GMT -5
Wow, again I am more than impressed! Don't want to hijack this thread, but will just offer my theory that Mary Poppins and Bert are Wiccans.
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Post by rawkitoff on Jul 8, 2010 10:56:04 GMT -5
that's ok Joy! I'll start a new thread for us!
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Post by ralph on Aug 5, 2010 15:51:09 GMT -5
How did I first discover the band?
8 October 1976 they played Liverpool Erics and for me - and my mates - it was a wonderful experience... we met Cherie and Sandy West the next day and they said if you get yourselves down to Leeds, we'll put you on the guestlist. Leeds was the last gig of the tour so we made sure we got there - despite parental opposition!! That gig was absolutely fantastic and from that date forward, I've always had a special appreciation for the Runaways...
When they came back to the UK in 77 and 78 (with a revised line-up), I made sure I was at EVERY show - I was fortunate enough to have some personal interactions with various band members during that period, the memories of which have remained very dear to me over the years...
I haven't seen the film yet but will do so at the earliest opportunity...
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Post by rawkitoff on Aug 5, 2010 16:20:58 GMT -5
Ralph that story is awesome! Would love to hear more! Welcome to the board!
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Post by paulinajett on Aug 5, 2010 16:43:23 GMT -5
Great story thanks for sharing it with us Ralph And welcome to the board
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Post by DeadEndKid ★ on Aug 5, 2010 20:30:57 GMT -5
Thanx for sharing your story Ralph Welcome !
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Post by Joy on Aug 6, 2010 3:19:02 GMT -5
Whoa! Ralph! That's amazing! Thanks for sharing and welcome from me, too!
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Post by imamillion on Sept 25, 2010 22:17:42 GMT -5
When I was a teen, I'm basically one year younger than they are. I heard Heartbeat on the radio and fell instantly in love with it and had to get the album. But actually I had heard of them before that when the newspapers stated a new band was coming to town. I still remember the photo they had of them. So after I bought Queens of Noise, that was it, I was hooked and then ran out with my allowance money and bought the first album. I've been a die hard Runaways fanatic all of my life. But had no one to share it with as a teen.
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Post by Neon Boy on Oct 1, 2010 22:06:29 GMT -5
It was a blast for me that first time. Considering that I had just moved to the Mainland in the summer of 1976 to be a graduate student at the State University of NY at Stony Brook.
I had been a young teen lead guitarist at 15 (and 16-19) in a locally successful rock band in San Juan and that was an unusual thing to happen to boys of that age. Our 'competitors' (and great friends) were in their early twenties.
Anyway, time passed and it came time for me to 'grow up' and become a grad student by choice.
Little did I know that two of the hottest clubs of the time in the NY Metro area and suburbs would be featuring these great underage teenage girls including one (Lita) that could play lead guitar as good as any male of any age that I had seen! She was like the female Jeff Beck :-)
The clubs were "CBGBs" in the Bowery (terrible neighborhood) and "My Father's Place" in Roslyn, Long Island (Nassau County), MUCH better neighborhood.
It was the summer of 76 and I could not believe my eyes (or ears for that matter).
My 21 year old date (I was 26) said that I had brought her to the gates of rock freedom (or something to that effect).
Neither of us could believe that these teen girls (I could tell that they were, in spite of their makeup) were playing the music that was arriving to our ears!
Then I concentrated on my physics studies... and time passed... and then the movie came out decades later, almost the other day!
OVERDUE! :-)
"Bless Them!"
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Post by imamillion on Oct 2, 2010 15:28:26 GMT -5
Welcome Talicea!
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Post by Neon Boy on Oct 2, 2010 15:41:29 GMT -5
Please call me Tony :-) And Thanks!
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Post by queenofnoise on Oct 19, 2010 15:38:03 GMT -5
The VERY first time I discovered who the Runaways were I was 11 yrs old and I was watching MTV's top countdown. Lita Ford was in the top 10 for her Kiss Me Deadly video. Adam Curry said "Lita Ford, former Runaway" and with my tarded 11 yr old logic I seriously thought he meant she had ran away from home in her youth. LOL! But I watched her video and was completely drawn to her. I found out quickly that the Runaways were a BAND, and via Metal Edge magazine that she had been in this band with Joan Jett. I had already heard of Joan Jett but I really discovered her when she put out the video I Hate Myself For Loving You at the same time Lita's Kiss Me Deadly video was out. So I discovered both of them at the same time and I got into Joan's early 80's music.
I was totally into Lita and Joan and then I read that the Runaways had a singer named Cherie Currie who sang Cherry Bomb and I saw a pic of her. Another awesome girl I discovered, but Cherie was such a mystery to me for many years because she didn't have videos on MTV like Lita and Joan and I really had to dig for info about her. My mother saw Cherie on Oprah one day talking about the Runaways and her new book, and I was so mad that I didn't get to see the episode. At the same time the movie Cherry 2000 was out and I first heard the song Cherry Bomb on TV via this movie clip. WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS??!! I thought to myself. This was the coolest song I had ever heard, and I was 12 at the time and had no way to get ahold of it. Throughout my teenage years I had to really go out of my way to find music and info about the Runaways because in the days before the internet this stuff was really hard to find. I finally found the Best of The Runaways CD that I ordered from a music store and that's when I actually got to hear more of their music besides just Cherry Bomb.
OMG, I can't even describe the impact these ladies have had on me and my life. Cherie, Joan, Lita, and Jackie if any of you ever read this I just want to tell you THANK YOU for what you girls accomplished and what you did with that band. You all are my role models and you mean so much to me, more than I could ever let you know...
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