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Thanks for showing how black people stereotype nervous whites as rascists.

She always tried to sabotage the grand beauty of her looks and now she has finally succeeded. But nothing she can do will ever flaw the beauty of her voice.

Harry Warren was to songwriters what Millard Fillmore was to presidents. Note how his name appears in the smallest possible print in the bottom right hand corner. As a joke Harold Arlen had a showcard printed up saying "Irving Berlin presents his production of 42 St". This song beat out Chee...

Vanessa & Jane Fonda had something in common. Jane's father was distant and disapproving like Vanessa's. Her mother commited suicide. Her father did not tell her of this. She read it in a fan magazine. I suspect that both women transferred the massive resentments that they felt towards their...

The staff and customers at IHOP are certainly willing to express their disapproval of a beatdown. Does this mean that they are more sensitive than the staff & customers at McDonalds or am I missing some detail??

She's got this Mae West quality of bringing out the suggestiveness in the lyric. She has a lot of good humored sex appeal. I think she would have been a bigger star in our era than hers. At any rate, her prettiness is not dated..

For all the slapstick, she radiates a lot of sex appeal.. I think she would have been a much bigger star in our era. We're bond with sexpots with substance abuse problems. I saw most of Love Parade on TCM tonight. I liked her better than Jeanette McDonald.

He seems like a decent and honorable person. I wonder who is more stereotypical of gays in the military: this man or Rep Massa who would occasionally "snorkel" the men he served with? I don't ask this rhetorically or sarcastically. I don't know. .

The execution proved to the Shiites and the Sunnis that Saddam was dead. It was not done elegantly, but his death demonstrably caused the insurgency to lose momentum. Sorry Barnicle, but history has judged. The death of Saddam was a pivot point and the turn was towards democracy.

When you've married a succession of super models and travel in your own private jet, this song no longer resonates.

This is the best version. Shane's slum of a mouth tells you what the song's all about.. Rod Stewart has a version, but I don't think singers with their own private jet can put it across the way Shane does.

The many topical references locate this song in a time and place. Interesting to note that the "nimble thread of Fred Astaire's dancing feet" has lasted longer than the nose on the great Durante and cellophane as something great.

She married an English nobleman back when it was cool to marry English noblemen. Her life had a happy ending. She was said to be a better dancer than her brother, and she was clearly better looking. Even with thick hair, he was no matinee idol. She looks adorable. Can you imagine a cute gir...

This is an irresistible song. I must have heard it a million times. Until just this minute I never knew that Dooley wore tan shoes, and not tennis shoes. Tennis shoes with pink shoelaces is kind of cool. But tan shoes? This has ruined the song for me.

I'm an American of Irish descent. I have screwed up my life in many ways. It would be pleasant to think that my failures were secondary to British Imperialism. Perhaps in some ultimate way they are, but perhaps America is itself a product of British Imperialism. It's a mixed bag. The Brtis ...

Edwards, the former VP pick, was a smarmy hypocrite. Biden's son worked for hedge fund that was feeding Madoff. Biden's daughter was photographed doing coke. Stern spent his early career mocking celebrities that ditched their wives and married supermodels. What he says about Palin is probably...

Mbekei, the former president of South Africa, in his ignorance and bigotry prohibited the use of HIV retroviral drugs. Several hundred thousand women & children died. Couric would never ask a hard question about this to an ANC supporter or even report it... That's white culture: damn the Becks...

Without hair, she is striking. With hair, she is a striking beauty. With all that grand talent and beauty, she should have been a much bigger star. For someone not an addict or drunk, she sure knew how to sabotage a career, Or maybe it really was integrity.

Why would someone with this much beauty sabotage herself so much? There is nothing much to be said for her bald head look..

Panty, the American word, has a subliminal erotic charge. Knickers, the British word, has zero eroticism and is kind of comical.

If the young Sinead stood next to the young Elizabeth Taylor, Sinead would be the one you looked at. She's having a good hair day here, but why would she want to sabotage all that beauty at other times.

During my twenties I didn't have ins. I was healthy & broke. No worry. If I got sick, I would declare bankruptcy & go on Medicaid. Now I would have to buy ins. and be that much poorer. I don't see how Obama's plan will help the working poor in their twenties.

How little Hollywood stars knew about hyping their movies back then or even about hyping themselves. She seems very unrehearsed and unscripted and, of course, beautiful.

One of the catchiest tunes of all time. Nena is not a dancer.

I know it's a parody but, really, she looks just like one would think a MSNBC producer looks like. I think that's why so many people are taking it seriously. I know that in real life MSNBC producers have fuzzy orange hair and big red noses, but she looks like what the public thinks an MSNBC pro...

I think this is Hammerstein's best libretto. His words are a better fit with Kern than with Rodgers. Robeson has the best version of Ole Man RIver. This was a great old movie that still keeps flowing.

Much as water seeks its own level, shit seeks its own asshole.

This music doesn't get old, but I do. I put it in a place and a time that has passed for me. Rudy Vallee (!) had a great rendition of Brother Can You Spare a Dime. Who thinks Rudy Vallee is cool? Maybe Miles will join Mozart and Gershwin but I won't be around to find out.

She's attractive and smart. I don't know if she's ready to be President, but there's nothing here to disqualify her. She's a good person. Win or lose I wish her luck.

I've read a fair number of the Bronte novels. There is nothing kitsch or quaint in them. Haworth seems crudded over with kitsch but you can see what a hard town it is underneath the ye olde crap. Thanks for posting.

Is Karen Gorney any relation to the composer? This is a great song. I like the Rudy Vallee version best. I think his was the big hit during the Depression. There's no begging or self pity but lots of pride & defiance in his voice.

Rudy Vallee had the original hit version of this song. Go figure. But that's the version that people alive then wanted to hear. They probably would have felt Waits' version too depressing for the Depression.