By: Mary Fran Bontempo The Supremes, The Ronettes, and more recently, TLC. Who doesn't love a great "girl group?" Bette Midler does, for sure. And now, the Divine Miss M. has taken her love of the girl group sound and treated her fans to her take on classic girl group songs with a new album titled, It's The Girls. With numbers by the groups above, as well as classics by some of the [...]
Jimmy Fallon and will.i.am rap about things they think are "Ew!" Hilarious. Enjoy and happy Monday!
By: Mary Fran Bontempo Well, this is a cross between fascinating and disturbing. The little nun warbling below, Sister Cristina, won Italy's version of the television show, The Voice, by singing, among other tunes, Madonna's "Like a Virgin." Yeah, I'm kind of leaning towards disturbing. Let us know what you think!
By: Mary Fran Bontempo It's Grand Torino without the gangs. Take a curmudgeonly old man, add a young new neighbor in need of some guidance, throw in lots of wisecracks, mix with a little conflict, have the kid learn and the cranky old guy redeem himself and there you have it--Grand Torino, or, in this case, St. Vincent, the new film starring Bill Murry in the title role. Murray takes on the old [...]
Such an adorable number by Derek Hough and Bethany Mota last week on DWTS. A classic, classically done! Emjoy!
By: Chrysa Smith 'Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony, please come around. Something is lost and needs to be found.' This is a little 'ditty' MaryFran will utter for things like finding parking places. Funny, leftover Catholic dogma doesn't really resonate as a serious prayer with me, but perhaps a plea? I giggle at it, I'll be darned if it doesn't work every time we're in the car together. So, it was no joking matter [...]
It just doesn't get more fun than this. Alfonso Ribeiro reprises the famous "Carlton" dance from his days on The Fresh Prince of Bel Aire in a fresh, new way. What a delight--enjoy!
