Saturday, January 25, 2014

"Gin a body meet a body" Happy Birthday Robert Burns

The great Scot poet Robert Burns is not exactly a household name in the 21st century, outside of the yearly St. Andrew society dinners around the world. He did get a Google doodle a few years ago that called out his poem, "My Luve is like a red, red rose/That's newly sprung in June." He will never...

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

"RING OUT WILD BELLS": Peter O'Toole Got It

I haven't seen How to Steal a Million in forever, but when I did as a kid I remember Peter O'Toole exuberantly shouting "Ring Out Wild Bells" at the end when the alarms are all going off all over the place. He said it with such conviction, like he really knew what it meant beyond a line of dialogue...