Whitney Houston’s comeback track was all over the blogosphere today, but this afternoon has been taken down, presumably because it wasn’t meant to be out yet.
I’m bummed that I didn’t get a chance to listen — I’ll have to track it down this weekend.
The track is called “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength”. Neither did I. For three YEARS I had her as a top pick in the dead pool. Her own strength? Last time I saw her, she didn’t know her own NAME.
Just sayin’. I’m glad she’s back, and I hope she does well.
Now ONE of these Whitneys below doesn’t belong. One of them is about to saw off her foot so she can smoke it. Can you guess which one?
ABBA has been approached to take over the 50 Michael Jackson dates at the 02 Arena in London.
I hope they rock these outfits, so we’ll all be dressed alike.
AEG is reportedly dangling millions in front of the group. I’ve read before that they don’t particularly need the dough, especially Benny and Bjorn, who have rocked Broadway and elsewhere with Mamma Mia for years now.
Money aside, I hear that the real reason this reunion is unlikely to happen is Agnetha, who hates crowds, fears fans, and hasn’t set foot on an airplane in over 20 years.
Although she seems to be okay with former bandmate Anni-Frid, (see the photo below), she goes out of her way to never be too close to Benny and Bjorn, and shunned them at the Stockholm premiere of Mamma Mia.
Agnetha didn’t pose with her other bandmates, Benny Andersson or Bjorn Ulvaeus - who also happens to be her former husband. And when it came to appearing on the hotel balcony with the cast, Agnetha kept her distance from the men who wrote the songs that made her famous.
According to a Swedish source: ‘She refused to do the picture which everyone wanted, which was the four of them together.’
It’s been 21 years since the Abba foursome were seen together in public - and the sticking point has always been Agnetha.
And likely will continue to be, when it comes to reuniting! Read the Daily Mail story here to find out why Agnetha was so miserable in the last years of ABBA.
Mollie Sugden was Mrs. Slocombe from Are You Being Served?. Boo. Hiss.
My favorite line of all time came from her:
“Have a look in my letterbox. And if you see my pussy, drop a sardine on the mat.”
The best of Mrs. Slocombe talking about her cat.
sigh.
Karl Maulden! Streets of San Francisco is what I remember, American Express commericals, too, with Karl telling me “Don’t leave home without it!”
It’s surprising today at work to hear a few people ask “who”? Guess I’m older than I remember. Most people are surprised to find that he was in A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and Patton. He also played Barbra Streisand’s abusive father in Nuts, the last thing I remember him in.
He, like Michael Jackson, was from Gary, Indiana.
Harve Presnell, I saw in Annie when it hit San Francisco in 1979. Kathleen Freeman starred opposite him as Miss Hannigan.
I was 14 and they were both fantastic. I didn’t think of him much since then until he popped up in Fargo as William Macy’s father-in-law, Wade Gustafson.
Presnell shoots Steve Buscemi in the face before being killed on a snowy rooftop.
