Sybil Bruncheon's WHO'Z DAT?... Happy Birthday to Marni Nixon (February 22, 1930 – July 24, 2016)...

Born Margaret Nixon McEathron, and known professionally as Marni Nixon. She was an American soprano and ghost singer for featured actresses in musical films. She was the singing voice of many leading actresses and stars on the soundtracks of several musicals, including Deborah Kerr in THE KING AND I, Natalie Wood in WEST SIDE STORY, and Audrey Hepburn in MY FAIR LADY, although her roles were concealed from audiences when the films were released. Several of the songs she dubbed appeared on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list.

Besides her voice work in films, Nixon's career included roles of her own in film, television, opera and musicals on Broadway and elsewhere throughout the United States, performances in concerts with major symphony orchestras, and recordings.

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February 15th...

(Harold Arlen – 2/15/1905, Galileo Galilei – 2/15/1564, Mummie – 2/15/??, John Adams – 2/15/1947 , Chris Farley – 2/15/1964, Susan B. Anthony – 2/15/1820, Cesar Romero – 2/15/1907, Claire Bloom – 2/15/1931, John Barrymore – 2/15/1882, Cyrus McCormick – 2/15/1809, Gale Sondegaard – 2/15/1899/, Kevin McCarthy – 2/15/1914, Harvey Korman – 2/15/1927) 

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*Tour-ette from our cozy, little circle on a blizzardy Tuesday before Valentines Day! 2/13/2024

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Sybil Bruncheon's "Winter Woes & Warnings"...

...and so, as the Winter wore on day after day, week after week, and Kiki Sanderson's 40th Birthday drew near, Kiki began to slowly unravel. "Old!" she thought. "I'm getting old...and I'm.... bored!..... bored with myself….bored with this unending Winter. Maybe I'll throw myself a special Birthday party...a party that my friends will talk about and remember.... and remember how glamorous and clever I was! Oh YES! GLAMOROUS AND CLEVER!!!". ...and as she trailed off to the kitchen, she made the decision to make a delicious butter cream frosting and serve her own head as a Birthday cake to her friends...

("Now!! Where did I put those candles?... Gee, I hope someone blows me out right away!”…)

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Sybil Bruncheon's "WHO'Z DAT?"... Aquarius Goes Hollywood!... The ACTORS!

[Clockwise from upper left: Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy); Jimmy Durante; S.Z. Sakall; Clark Gable; Edward Arnold; Ronald Colman, Ronald Reagan, John Carradine]

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*Tour-ette from my little driveway-garden after a middle-of-the-night ice storm! 2/25/2022

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Sybil Bruncheon's "Who'z Dat?"... Happy, Happy Birthday to PINOCCHIO (February 23,1940)...

On February 23rd, 1940, Walt Disney's PINOCCHIO was released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures. It wasn't just the children who sat thunderstruck at the visuals, imagination, and deeply moving story of a little toy that wanted to "be real".... When Monstro the Whale swept onto the giant movie screens of America with surging waves and tiny seagulls skittering out of the way to emphasize the appalling scale, when the ironically named Pleasure Island towering over the boys began to whirl into a terrifying nightmare of glittering lights and donkey-ears, and when the final resolution of death and transfiguration took place with the Blue Fairy and Jiminy Cricket standing by, gasps, screams, and tears flowed freely...

Whatever Disney's personal issues and prejudices were, his ability to mobilize the great talents that made one iconic piece of art after another at his studios remains fixed. 82 years later, even the stills from this and so many of his other films are spellbinding... "Cartoon"??? "Cartoon"... The word is laughable...

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*Tour-ette from Wegmans in the fresh produce department with... um... God knows what!!!

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*Tour-ette on finally taking down the Christmas tree at the end of January... oh well... 1/29/2022

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Sybil Bruncheon’s GREAT MOMENTS IN THE ARTS!!... February 25th, 1918...

On this date, February 25th, 1918, Vaslav Nijinsky staged his new ballet, “SIS KOOM-BAH!”… the heartbreaking story of a sensitive young man in college who decides against all sound advice to become a cheerleader for the Ladies’ Cross-Country & Obstacle-Course Croquet Team. Although teased and even assaulted mercilessly with oblong vegetables by a gang of traveling salesmen, he becomes the captain and inspires the other cheerleaders to win state competitions. Tragically, in the final act, the young man is struck by a fierce “dambuster shot” and he pitches into a swamp on the grounds of the Key Largo Secretarial Sciences Academy. Nijinsky reused his dying swan choreography to great effect as the drowning cheerleader…. tangled in a treacherous thicket of… um… wickets… The critics were rapturous!

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