...it's called Easy Living.
Sorry. I've been holed up all day, watching Blu-Ray discs for May's High-Definition DVD Consumer Guide, and this is the best I've got.
And by "best I've got," I mean the facile linking of a classic Mitchell Leisen film, scripted by Preston Sturges and starring Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold, to one of the most lumpen dumbfuck (and incidentally, when I say "dumbfuck" I really mean, um, "dumbfuck"—seriously, these yoyos made Deep Purple look like the Arditti String Quartet) hair-rock combos of the early 1970s, to wit:
Like I said. Best I've got. The Leisen film is one of Universal's latest four (the other three are Leisen's Brackett-and-Wilder-scripted Midnight, She Done Him Wrong, and Wilder's directorial debut The Major and the Minor) in its one-time "Studio Classics," now "Cinema Classics" editions, and it looks great, and you should get it.
NOOOOOO! You did NOT just post the sublime Leisen film alongside Uriah Heep!
and we were having such a beautiful blog relationship too ...
Posted by: Campaspe | May 01, 2008 at 07:19 PM
Oh, gosh, I didn't know what I would be giving up...(by which to say, I hope I haven't caused permanent damage to said relationship...)
But come now. I'm the first to admit that I'm frequently animated by the imp of the perverse...
Posted by: Glenn Kenny | May 01, 2008 at 07:27 PM
To quote Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds, "You have a choice!"
You chose to post that clip. You didn't have to, but you chose to do so anyway.
Now, you must live with the consequences.
Posted by: Aaron Aradillas | May 01, 2008 at 07:46 PM
They all look like Doug Henning.
Posted by: bill | May 01, 2008 at 08:16 PM
This will be a useful video to use on Boomers who complain about how us damn kids don't know anything about music.
Posted by: Dan | May 02, 2008 at 12:48 AM
Ah, Uriah Heep. Like Jethro Tull, one of those bands you learn in high school (albeit in different classes) is not actually named for one of the band members. btw, is it a sign of the general dumbfuckedness that they named themselves after a Dickens character who was underhanded and generally kinda weaselly? Not that the shoe doesn't necessarily fit, but...
Posted by: tk | May 02, 2008 at 05:28 PM
I can't believe you're all bagging on Uriah Heep...
Kinda like picking on the retarded kid, no?
Posted by: abominog | May 02, 2008 at 05:49 PM
In the first edition of the Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll, they give a very complimentary write-up of Mott the Hoople and the band's leader, Ian Hunter. To top it off, a full page photo is included, with a caption saying it's Hunter. It's not - it's David Byron, lead singer of Uriah Heep. For a great, but hard luck band like Mott, this somehow was perfect.
Oh, and I can't wait to get my copy of "Easy Living." I love you, Jean Arthur.
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