OK, maybe your grandparents, depending on how old you are.
The Glenn Miller story starring Jimmy Stewart is playing on TCM Sunday afternoon. It serves as a useful reminder why white America ought to get down on bended knee and thank God that black people stayed after they were emancipated.
I mean look at the guy. He looks like a bean counter in the NHL's New York office. His hits, which allegedly passed as "jazz" during the war, included, "In the Mood", and "Chattanooga Choo Choo." If you were going to stick your head in a gas oven, this would be the music you'd put on the phonograph.
Miller's plane allegedly disappeared in bad weather enroute to entertaining troops in WWII. There's some speculation he got nailed by friendly fire. Conspiracy theorists/FBI files suggest he died while nailing a French hooker.
Now THAT would be a movie.
9 comments:
You're an asshole. Ignorant, uneducated and not amusing.
I agree with anoymous. Well except for the ignorant, uneducated, and not amusing parts.
Hellfish ;)
so your saying he is an asshole?
I guess this is all about opinions, and lord knows the writer has opinions.
But we all must understand he is an ex-reporter, so as he stated earlier, the truth is not a requirement in his writing.
Mom's always been my harshest critic.
I can't wait for your takes on "The Benny Goodman Story" (1955) or "The Gene Krupa Story" (1959).
Bill will remember when we got a letter at the Gateway about an editorial I wrote where my critic suggested my priorities were "beer, hockey and women. In that order."
Bill said, "It's scary how this guy knows the real you" and "we should print this letter in 24-point bold."
Top 10 responses that came to mind but were rejected:
1. To paraphrase Bill Murray in Groundhog Day: "Guilty. Agreed if you mean "rude." Depends on how you define a B.A. from the UofA. and You're probably right.
2. Did I finally cross the line by mentioning "French hooker"?
3. Who knew Glen Miller's grandson read this blog.
4. Until you threaten to punch me in the mouth liks Slats did, I'm unimpressed by your outrage.
5. Blog. Unpaid. Complete made-up bullshit. What part don't you get?
6. According to Frank magazine I was "frogmarched" out of the Calgary broadsheet. The part about stalking Eric Duhatschek is TOTAL fiction.
7. When I wrote "your parents" I didn't necessarily have anonymous No. 1's parents in mind.
8. Wait till you read my entry about the time Glen Miller nailed a French hooker in Vernon.
9. My mom wanted to name me "Nostradamus." But my Dad rejected the idea, saying, "Nobody likes a know-it-all."
10. The more negative the comment, the harder I have to try next time to offend someone. And the thing I hate most in life is working hard.
"Bill will remember when..."
Ahhh, the good ol' days, when the world hadn't yet crushed our idealism like the doofus on Kids in the Hall.
Of the 10 possible responses, No. 5 is almost as funny as the Canuckle-bunker video.
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