Moving SUX! My house is full of stuff that's piled deep and high and colored brown -- cardboard boxes.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Emeryville, California; Columbia Falls, Montana; Raleigh, North Carolina -- I notice a lot of people are looking for Lowell Jaeger's poetry book. Buy It! Buy It! Buy It!

Remembering my friend George-O at: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
Spitfires of the Spaceways
UPDATED! Wilma Deering & Dale Arden to the rescue; Bodacious Princess Aura I; Hapless Aura II; The fiery Emperor Ming; The Orson Welles Rumor Debunked; and BOTH incarnations of Jean Rogers!
Read my latest Spitfires in Context essay.

Thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's first illustrator of the 21st, for his recommendations -- HERE!

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: I have about a week of breathing room before we start taking down and putting up new shows at Hockaday Museum of Art. I'm working on my Members Only project too.

Media Watch: Andrea Bocelli will sing at Pavarotti's funeral in Modena, Italy tomorrow. Opera purists may complain that Bocelli is a Popular Singer who does arias as part of his shows -- so he is, and he sings SO NICELY! I totally disagree with the well-meaning sentiments of those who are saying that Luciano Pavarotti was Italy's last great voice.
Oh MAN! Some people ... (Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007) Eleven people from The Chaser's War on Everything (in Australia) have been charged with offences...Eight ABC cast and crew members and three hired drivers have been charged with entering a restricted area without justification. The group was arrested after staging a fake motorcade through Sydney's Central Business District and were stopped near the InterContinental Hotel where US President George W Bush is staying. One of the Chaser crew was dressed as Osama bin Laden. All 11 have been charged under the new APEC legislation with entering a restricted area without justification. They were all granted bail, but on the condition that none of the group can enter any of the declared security zones during APEC.
I heard on the BBC that they actually turned themselves in when they passed the second checkpoint, otherwise who knows what could have happened. Another crew from the show was hassled by Aussie cops today over another matter.


VERY fanciful collage of Pavarotti playing Phantom of the Opera (back) with Bocelli and original castmember Sarah Brightman (front).
All three singers have versions of Nessun Dorma on YouTube:
Luciano Pavarotti (1980)
Sarah Brightman
Andrea Bocelli