What We're Watching: Cinderella (1957)

One of our top favorite shows:  the 1957 live television version starring Julie Andrews in the title role and Jon Cypher as the Prince.  Amazingly, they are both still alive, nearly seventy years later.

Bonus:  This 2004 making-of video features interviews with several cast members, including Andrews and Cypher.

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The Tale of Rojair and Rijard

Fantastic Landscape by Thomas Moran

The preceding post, about King and King, has reminded me of something I had nearly forgotten about.  Nothing important, but I'll share it with my truckbuds.  First, I have to tell you a little story.

Some years back, your Head Trucker was browsing through a flea market on the outskirts of town and came across a nifty old leather suitcase, the kind from the 1930's, with hand stitching and polished cowhide.  I bought it, thinking it would be just right to store old family papers and photographs in.

But when I got it home, I found a bulge in the silk lining that seemed unusual.  So I carefully peeled back one side, and underneath I discovered some old letters written in French and a typescript that seemed to be a translation of something, with penciled marks in the margins.  I thought maybe it might have some historical or literary value, and took it around to the literature departments at a couple of colleges in the area; but the professors said that without an original manuscript, the "translation," if that's what it was, was worthless - might even be a hoax.

So I just brought it all home and have kept it all these years. 

Click on Read More below to see the story . . . .

What a Wonderful Prince

Found at Joe.My.God.:  a funny, homemade dramatization of the children's book King & King, written by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland, which the anti-gay forces in Maine and California have used as part of their attack on equal marriage.

Of course, no gay fairy tale would be complete without a bitchy queen trying to run the show.  Figures.
 
Though actually I love the story.  Who wants to try on this here glass cowboy boot?