As I sit here typing this, at 9 a.m. on Monday, Jeremy Renner is currently in the hospital. Most reports state that he is in critical but stable condition as the result of an accident involving a snow plow. That’s pretty much all the details that anyone has right now. Hopefully, by the time this pots goes live, his condition will have improved. My thoughts are with him and his family.
Did you know that John Travolta was singer, even before he starred in Grease?
I didn’t, until I came across the video below on YouTube. Apparently, Travolta released two albums before he played Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever. (After Saturday Night Fever was a hit, a third compilation album was released. It was called — I kid you not — Travolta Fever.) As a singer, Travolta’s biggest, non-Grease hit was a 1976 cover of a song called Let Her In. The song spent five months on the U.S. charts and it peaked at number ten. It was an even bigger hit in Canada, where Travolta’s sensitive song stylings were appreciated by the most polite people to ever knock out each other’s teeth at a hockey game.
From 1976, here is John Travolta performing Let Her In.
Enjoy!
For the past few months, I’ve been watching and reviewing episodes of the original Fantasy Island. One of the keys to that show’s success was the enigmatic partnership between Mr. Roarke and Tattoo. Even though it’s usually pretty easy to see that Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize did not like each other, their exchanges are usually the highlight of any episode. Of course, after years of high ratings and television fame, Villechaize was fired from Fantasy Island when he demanded more money. Without Tattoo, the series was canceled after one season so …. well, they probably should have just given him the money.
Anyway, one thing that I recently discovered about Herve Villechaize is that he had a musical career! In 1981, at the height of the show’s popularity, he released a song called “Why?” It’s all about trying to understand why people have to fight and why people cannot just accept the wisdom of peace-loving children. The video at the top of this post was recorded for a TV show on which Villechaize appeared. Unfortunately, I don’t know which show it was for and the video upload itself is not the best quality. Apparently, the split-screen visual effect that gives us two Herves singing at once was a part of the show.
That said, this is as close as we have to an actual music video for Herve Villechaize’s Why? so I’m sharing with it. What better way to start a new year than with a plea for peace?
Why do we always have to fight?
Enjoy!
Here comes 2023!
Enjoy!
Wow, look at you getting ready for New Year’s Eve!
If you’re ever feeling like you’ve reached a dead end, just remember that Rob Dyrdek’s receptionist is more famous than you are and …. well, that probably won’t help.
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Through the Shattered Lens