May 16, 2012
Hip to Be Square
TUTTLE MODE
by James Tuttle
Gentle reader,
Okay, so don’t tell anyone, but I’ve been watching Smash on NBC from the very first episode. That surprised me because I hate musicals, aside from Cabaret and Chicago, both of which are among my favorite films, but that’s because the songs are integral to the plot; they’re largely about singers and dancers.
Tyson Paige in Hipster-with-a trust-fund swimwear. (Ph: Steven Chee)
My Fair Lady gets a pass, too, because Audrey Hepburn was so beautiful and Cecil Beaton’s Ascot scene was so brilliant, but if I hear so much as the first two bars of “Seventy-six Trombones” or “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top” I will claw my way through the fucking wall to get out of there.
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