From: owner-precious-things-digest To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #228 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Tuesday, 12 November 1996 Volume 01 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- I've got the will to drive myself sleepless Re: various More about Jean Harlow than you wanted to know. Missing Harlow paragraph Tori on Acoustic Cafe - Update Re: Tori on Acoustic Cafe - Update ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Traumachik@aol.com Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:21:20 -0500 Subject: I've got the will to drive myself sleepless Another question from the Queen of Stupid Inquiries... I heard somewhere that a Tori sample is on the first Soul Coughing album. Does anyone know what they sampled and where it was used? Also, there is a live review of Tori in the latest issue of ROCKRGRL magazine. Since it's kinda long, and I want to have some courtesy, I won't print the entire thing. There was another Tori-related inquiry I wanted to make, but for tthe life of me I can't recall what it was. Hopefully no one will mind if I ask anyone this: has anyone heard of Leah Andreone? She's been compared to Tori and she's pretty good. How about Luna? - --Chelsea ------------------------------ From: Laurie-Wan Kenobi Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:52:06 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: various On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, meredith wrote: > Laurie quoted from "Not The Red Baron": > > "not Judy G, not Jean Jean Jean with a hallowed heart > > That reminds me, the way Tori sings "hallowed" sounds like what might happen > were she to sing "Harlow" -- > Jean Harlow was another starlet from the same era as Judy Garland, I > believe. I'm not sure if the verbal half-pun was intended, but with Tori, > one never knows... :) I am sure it was. These movie stars seem to show up a lot in Tori's music, so it seems that she is an old-movie buff, so it seems sensible to assume that she was talking about Jean Harlow. (Is that how it is spelled?) Lots of seems in there. -=-laurie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: I love the dream that you've begun :: :: beneath the evergreen :: :: I love the pebble and the sun :: :: and all that's in between :: :: -=-Leonard Cohen :: :: Into the air, into the earth, into the fire. I am with you. :: :: -=-Orson Scott Card :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ------------------------------ From: Charlie Poole Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:50:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: More about Jean Harlow than you wanted to know. On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Laurie-Wan Kenobi wrote: > On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, meredith wrote: > > > Laurie quoted from "Not The Red Baron": > > > "not Judy G, not Jean Jean Jean with a hallowed heart > > > > That reminds me, the way Tori sings "hallowed" sounds like what might happen > > were she to sing "Harlow" -- > > Jean Harlow was another starlet from the same era as Judy Garland, I > > believe. I'm not sure if the verbal half-pun was intended, but with Tori, > > one never knows... :) > > I am sure it was. These movie stars seem to show up a lot in Tori's > music, so it seems that she is an old-movie buff, so it seems sensible to > assume that she was talking about Jean Harlow. (Is that how it is > spelled?) Lots of seems in there. Jean Harlow was one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the screens of Hollywood. All of the following is copied from: http://www.autographics.com/harlow.html. This is a web site involving autographs and collecting. Harlow's early career was far from spectacular. She was the target of tart press notices and was frequently singled out by critics for poor performances. But the public began responding to her vulgar platinum-blonde glamour in such films as Warner's THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) and Columbia's PLATINUM BLONDE (1931). The turning point in her career was provided by a contractual switch to MGM in 1932. Now she worked for a permanent studio with a vested interest in developing her career and star image. In just months the coarse, flashy, whorish sexpot underwent a transformation into a subtle actress with a natural flair for comedy. Cast opposite such red-blooded male counterparts as Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, Harlow quickly developed into a superstar. Film critics courageously reversed their opinions of her acting, praising her vitality and comic talent in such career highlights as RED DUST (1932), BOMBSHELL (1933), DINNER AT EIGHT (1933), CHINA SEAS (1935), RIFFRAFF (1935), and LIBELED LADY (1936). However, in contrast, the private life of America's sex symbol of the 30s was unhappy. In July of 1932 she married Paul Bern, a former director and by then right-hand man of Irving Thalberg, MGM's production genius. Several months later Bern committed suicide. His suicide note, widely interpreted as hinting at impotence on his part, caused Miss Harlow much adverse publicity, which somehow failed to affect her career. In 1933 she married Harold Rosson, the director of photography on several of her films, but the union lasted only one year. She then became engaged to her sometime co-star William Powell. They ran away but never married. Harlow became quite ill during the filming of SARATOGA (1937). She was hospitalized and treated for remic poisoning. She died on June 7 of that year, of cerebral edema, at age 26. Her short life was the subject of a rather sensational 1964 biography and two quickie 1965 films, one starring Carroll Baker, the other Carol Lynley. Neither star could even remotely capture Harlow's legendary sparkle and glamour. Hope you enjoyed this. I'm sure that Tori is attracted to the beauty and tragedy of Harlow's life. I hope that make this information Tori-levent. In Tori, Charlie - -- +-------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+ | C.W. Poole | "Charlie" | cpoole@indiana.edu | +-------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+ | To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance | | with sad. --Tori Amos | | I have spent a lifetime learning how to cry. --Janis Ian | *----------------------------------------------------------------* ------------------------------ From: Charlie Poole Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:59:00 -0500 (EST) Subject: Missing Harlow paragraph I left out the whole first paragraph of the Jean Harlow info I sent earlier. I'm sooo embarassed. You'd think I'd never e-mailed before. In Tori, Charlie JEAN HARLOW. Birth Name: Harlean Carpenter Born: March 3, 1911, Kansas City, MO Died: 1937. The daughter of a dentist, she eloped at 16 with a young businessman. The newlyweds settled in Los Angeles, where the bride soon found work as an extra in films (MORAN OF THE MARINES, 1928; LOVE PARADE, 1929; CITY LIGHTS, 1931, etc.). In between such parts in features, she was displayed more prominently in Hal Roach comedy shorts, notably DOUBLE WHOOPEE (1928) with Laurel and Hardy. She had a featured part in Paramount's THE SATURDAY NIGHT KID (1929) but went unnoticed and returned to shorts, working for Al Christie. She had by this time disposed of her real name and taken her mother's maiden name, Jean Harlow. In 1929 she obtained a divorce and was now fully committed to a movie career. Opportunity knocked in the person of Howard Hughes, who was converting his WWI aviation saga, HELL'S ANGELS (1930), to sound. The film had been started in 1927 and now had to be largely reshot, with an English-speaking girl to take the place of the heavy-accented Swede Greta Nissen. Hughes signed Harlow to a contract and after the film's completion began loaning her out to other studios at a profit. - -- +-------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+ | C.W. Poole | "Charlie" | cpoole@indiana.edu | +-------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+ | To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance | | with sad. --Tori Amos | | I have spent a lifetime learning how to cry. --Janis Ian | *----------------------------------------------------------------* ------------------------------ From: Charlie Poole Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 00:53:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: Tori on Acoustic Cafe - Update Again, my apologies to all of you who will receive multiple copies of this message. Acoustic Cafe is a 2-hour program, not one hour. It starts at 6 AM on WTTS in Bloomington. >From their information page: Acoustic Cafe is a two-hour, weekly syndicated radio show focusing on yesterday and today's singer-songwriters and highlighted by in-studio interviews and live acoustic performances. It's good music, plain and simple, whether it's legends like James Taylor, CSNY and Emmylou Harris, newer voices like John Gorka, Eleanor McAvoy, and Ani DiFranco, or today's hitmakers, like Mary Chapin Carpenter, John Hiatt, Blues Traveler and Son Volt. As of September, 1996, Acoustic Cafe can be heard in 42 cities in the United States, and in over 800 cities in 59 countries around the world on the Voice of America network. For more info check out their web site at Acoustic Cafe To find out if their is a station in your area that broadcasts Acoustic Cafe go to: Acoustic Cafe On Your Dial At least I was right about the date for Tori. She's listed on Acoustic Cafe Upcoming Guests Enjoy. In Tori, Charlie - -- +-------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+ | C.W. Poole | "Charlie" | cpoole@indiana.edu | +-------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+ | To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance | | with sad. --Tori Amos | | I have spent a lifetime learning how to cry. --Janis Ian | *----------------------------------------------------------------* ------------------------------ From: "Kevin Hawkins" Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 02:29:38 -0600 Subject: Re: Tori on Acoustic Cafe - Update Well, sorry for bludgeoning everyone, but I thought you might like to know what our dear Tori will be doing! This is a snippet of mail I received from...err, someone. :) The three songs are "Om La Boomleigh", "This Old Man (with a new intro)", and "Abbey Road". In addition, the segment include an interview portion with Tori. Hope that brightens eberyone's day. :) Hey, it better! I typed this with a broken hand! (Well, not *with* the broken hand...) Kevin ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #228 *************************************