Ancient Roman entertainment

[Ed Cryer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285-qOZjt2g

Ed

[John W Kennedy]

On 2013-04-18 11:10:54 +0000, Ed Cryer said:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285-qOZjt2g

"Roman Scandals", a fascinating film, containing an early draft ("The
one without the parsley is the one without the poison.") of a famous
bit from a much later movie. Note that most of it, including this
sequence, is the Eddie Cantor character's dream; it's actually set in
then-present-day Rome, New York.

Be on the lookout for a nearly nude Lucile Ball.

--
John W Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is
about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W.
W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
-- C. S. Lewis. "An Experiment in Criticism"

[John W Kennedy]

On 2013-04-18 13:42:42 +0000, John W Kennedy said:
> then-present-day Rome, New York.

Or rather, it would seem (I haven't seen it in decades), West Rome, Oklahoma.

--
John W Kennedy
"The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show, in
their sophisticated and ingenious new ways, that, just as /Pooh/ is
suffused with humanism, our humanism itself, at this late date, has
become full of /Pooh./"
-- Frederick Crews. "Postmodern Pooh", Preface

[Ed Cryer]

John W Kennedy wrote:
> On 2013-04-18 13:42:42 +0000, John W Kennedy said:
>> then-present-day Rome, New York.
>
> Or rather, it would seem (I haven't seen it in decades), West Rome,
> Oklahoma.
>

I love that clip with the song. I can't say just why. It's silly and
frivolous. OK, so it has a lot of beautiful girls in it, and you might
say that's what Ed likes. But it's so redolent of its times.

Have you ever watched Woody Allen's "Paris at Midnight"? That's a more
sophisticated take on the same kind of nostalgia.

Ed