I hope you don’t mind, but I just had to find a video of actual walking.
dennisinseattle
Member
2 years ago
Ah, it’s time for the Audrey Hepbasset festival at the Parahound! No need to shrink behind the couch for this one. Save a seat for me, Cleo!
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
2 years ago
Gee, I sure hope they’re allowed to bring Cleo into the theater for the Audrey Hepbasset film festival. I would hate for her to miss it, seeing as how she idolizes Ms. Hepbasset.
I love the Parahound… it’s been beautifully restored.
I do wish these erstwhile movie palaces didn’t have to be chopped up to accommodate several screenings….
but the economic realities of running a theater today… with competition from YouTube, video streaming, and other forms of entertainment…
demand showing more than one film at a time, and even then, profits are scarce.
…
I think the basset cinema is doing better, overall, though, than its human counterpart.
Basset theaters can enjoy the luxury of running festivals and marathons, which dogs love, as long as there are plenty of treats…
while humans-only venues struggle to keep up with picky audiences who only want first-run films.
…
And here’s a chance to enjoy Audrey Hepbasset, from her early days to her prime, in luxurious surroundings, with Surround-Howl, and snacks.
I wonder how the kibblecorn compares with what we get at our local BassetPlexIV…
which is a nice theater, to be sure… but much more modern than the Parahound.
Maybe it has better technology… I don’t know.
I know we do love our ScaredyCat Row… but it doesn’t have the same glorious, old fashioned ambience.
….
Anybody want to come with me to Cleveland for a couple of days, just to catch “My Fair Basset” and “Biscuits at Tiffany’s”?
They’re wonderful movies…
“Biscuits at Tiffany’s” was made first…
Audrey Hepbasset played Holly Goploddingly, in her iconic little black dress.
It appears no less than four times in the film, with different jewelry to change its appearance.
It’s supposed to show that Holly is resourceful… she makes her living from rich men, who give her money and jewels, but it’s not enough to make her rich, herself, and she needs to appear well dressed.
….
Look at the human version.
Hah! As if!
A scrawny creature, trying to ooze the charisma and… let’s face it…. sex appeal… of Audrey Hepbasset.
They even had to change the character’s name because she’s just not heavy enough to plod like a basset.
…
Then there’s “My Fair Basset.”
Rex Harrisdog couldn’t howl very well, it’s true…. but they wrote some intricate barking songs for him that are quite memorable, and let him perform.
But they lied to Audrey!
She howled away during the filming, but afterward discovered that Eliza Doglittle’s songs had been overdubbed by Marnie Vixen.
Marnie couldn’t play Eliza, cos she’s a fox, not a basset…. but the producers felt that her voice was better for all those high howls.
Audrey Hepbasset was furious!
…
Just two years earlier, she had done her own howling, in “Biscuits at Tiffany’s”.
The producers liked neither her voice, nor the song. and threatened to cut it, over which Audrey reputedly exclaimed “Over my dead body!”
That might be why the producers of “My Fair Basset” went behind her tail, and didn’t tell her.
But it was foolish… because Audrey’s song in “Biscuits”, with her innocent howling, had won both a Grainy and a Golden Biscuit.
….
As ever, I can’t find a basset clip, but the human Audrey sang in her movie…. she was also not a professional singer, and had a similar struggle with producers…
…
Anyway… while we’re in Cleveland, we can also take in a few of the sights, like the Rock ’N Roll Hall of Fame, and the Rock ‘N Howl Hall of Fame.
Last time I went to the basset one was the year they inducted the Rolling Bones.
Cassell’s Dictionary of Classical Mythology
By: Jenny March (Dr. Jennifer R. March)
Publisher:
Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R OBB
This edition 2001
ISBN 0-304-35788-X
“Pygmalion ( 1 ). According to Apollodorus ( 3. 14. 3 ), Pygmalion was
a king of Cyprus whose daughter Metharme married CINYRAS, an
immigrant from Cilicia, but Ovid (Metamorphoses 10.243-97 tells
the more familiar – and more romantic – story. When Pygmalion
could find no living woman worthy of his love, he carved a won-
derful ivory statue of a woman lovelier than any ever born. So beau-
tiful was she that he fell passionately in love with her. At a festival
of APHRODITE he prayed to the gods to grant him a woman like his statue.
But Aphrodite saw into his heart, and she granted him what he really
wished: when he arrived home again, he found that his statue had
come to life. He married her, and she bore him a daughter, Paphos,
after whom the city of Paphos, the chief centre of Aphrodite’s worship
on Cyprus, was named.
The name Galatea was given to the statue-woman only in post-
classical times. In W.S. Gilbert’s comedy Pygmalion and Galatea, the
sculptor is married, and his wife Cynisca is jealous of his animated
statue. At last after a great deal of trouble, Galatea returns to her ori-
ginal state. In G. B. Shaw’s Pygmalion the sculptor becomes profes-
sor Henry Higgins, an expert in phonetics, and his Galatea is Eliza
Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, who is transformed by his educa-
tion from a guttersnipe into an elegant woman. Shaw’s version was
adapted into the popular musical My Fair Lady.”
Two, two, for the price of one! These posters are so beautiful and sparkly. I love them. Audrey Hepbasset ~ always and forever a favorite!
Love the Cliffords at the theater, also!
Well done, but not my taste.
Best espresso ever.
Slooow filtered.
Unfortunately, I don’t think one of those would fit in my house.
Ooh! Keurig has a new machine out!
It should have that on the watch face, like those old moon face clocks.
cannnnndygram!
Thanks! From the days when I watched SNL religiously.
I hope you don’t mind, but I just had to find a video of actual walking.
Ah, it’s time for the Audrey Hepbasset festival at the Parahound! No need to shrink behind the couch for this one. Save a seat for me, Cleo!
Gee, I sure hope they’re allowed to bring Cleo into the theater for the Audrey Hepbasset film festival. I would hate for her to miss it, seeing as how she idolizes Ms. Hepbasset.
It’s a canine theater… there’s no problem with dogs.
If they recognise Cleo, though, she’ll have to go through a security screening, including a pat-down and a detector wand…
you know, because of that incident last summer.
…
If she’s wise, she’s not carrying, anyway.
But I think that’s why she’s walking on all fours, and not acting like a glamorous diva.
She wants to pass for a normal family pet, and slip in unnoticed.
Ever try carrying an RPG in your shorts?
I have always been so impressed at how Audrey Hepbasset rocks that little black dress. She looks so slim and trim!
Well, as a pup during the evil cat wars, she had to exist on water and a piece of kibble per day. She got down to the size of a dachsund at one point.
https://people.com/movies/how-audrey-hepburn-survived-world-war-ii-starvation/
Yes.. she always thought it affected her body forever.
Thanks for that link.
Well worth the reading time.
Ooooh…a three-fer!
Two posters and a beautiful theater!
I love the Parahound… it’s been beautifully restored.
I do wish these erstwhile movie palaces didn’t have to be chopped up to accommodate several screenings….
but the economic realities of running a theater today… with competition from YouTube, video streaming, and other forms of entertainment…
demand showing more than one film at a time, and even then, profits are scarce.
…
I think the basset cinema is doing better, overall, though, than its human counterpart.
Basset theaters can enjoy the luxury of running festivals and marathons, which dogs love, as long as there are plenty of treats…
while humans-only venues struggle to keep up with picky audiences who only want first-run films.
…
And here’s a chance to enjoy Audrey Hepbasset, from her early days to her prime, in luxurious surroundings, with Surround-Howl, and snacks.
I wonder how the kibblecorn compares with what we get at our local BassetPlexIV…
which is a nice theater, to be sure… but much more modern than the Parahound.
Maybe it has better technology… I don’t know.
I know we do love our ScaredyCat Row… but it doesn’t have the same glorious, old fashioned ambience.
….
Anybody want to come with me to Cleveland for a couple of days, just to catch “My Fair Basset” and “Biscuits at Tiffany’s”?
They’re wonderful movies…
“Biscuits at Tiffany’s” was made first…
Audrey Hepbasset played Holly Goploddingly, in her iconic little black dress.
It appears no less than four times in the film, with different jewelry to change its appearance.
It’s supposed to show that Holly is resourceful… she makes her living from rich men, who give her money and jewels, but it’s not enough to make her rich, herself, and she needs to appear well dressed.
….
Look at the human version.
Hah! As if!
A scrawny creature, trying to ooze the charisma and… let’s face it…. sex appeal… of Audrey Hepbasset.
They even had to change the character’s name because she’s just not heavy enough to plod like a basset.
…
Then there’s “My Fair Basset.”
Rex Harrisdog couldn’t howl very well, it’s true…. but they wrote some intricate barking songs for him that are quite memorable, and let him perform.
But they lied to Audrey!
She howled away during the filming, but afterward discovered that Eliza Doglittle’s songs had been overdubbed by Marnie Vixen.
Marnie couldn’t play Eliza, cos she’s a fox, not a basset…. but the producers felt that her voice was better for all those high howls.
Audrey Hepbasset was furious!
…
Just two years earlier, she had done her own howling, in “Biscuits at Tiffany’s”.
The producers liked neither her voice, nor the song. and threatened to cut it, over which Audrey reputedly exclaimed “Over my dead body!”
That might be why the producers of “My Fair Basset” went behind her tail, and didn’t tell her.
But it was foolish… because Audrey’s song in “Biscuits”, with her innocent howling, had won both a Grainy and a Golden Biscuit.
….
As ever, I can’t find a basset clip, but the human Audrey sang in her movie…. she was also not a professional singer, and had a similar struggle with producers…
…
Anyway… while we’re in Cleveland, we can also take in a few of the sights, like the Rock ’N Roll Hall of Fame, and the Rock ‘N Howl Hall of Fame.
Last time I went to the basset one was the year they inducted the Rolling Bones.
It’ll be fun!
The human version of the theatre’s interior was photographed for Forbes Magazine in 2017 by Franco Vogt. LINK TO PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE IN GRENWICH, CONNECTICUTT. It is indeed from another age.
coffee milk shake
The following cite comes from:
Cassell’s Dictionary of Classical Mythology
By: Jenny March (Dr. Jennifer R. March)
Publisher:
Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R OBB
This edition 2001
ISBN 0-304-35788-X
“Pygmalion ( 1 ). According to Apollodorus ( 3. 14. 3 ), Pygmalion was
a king of Cyprus whose daughter Metharme married CINYRAS, an
immigrant from Cilicia, but Ovid (Metamorphoses 10.243-97 tells
the more familiar – and more romantic – story. When Pygmalion
could find no living woman worthy of his love, he carved a won-
derful ivory statue of a woman lovelier than any ever born. So beau-
tiful was she that he fell passionately in love with her. At a festival
of APHRODITE he prayed to the gods to grant him a woman like his statue.
But Aphrodite saw into his heart, and she granted him what he really
wished: when he arrived home again, he found that his statue had
come to life. He married her, and she bore him a daughter, Paphos,
after whom the city of Paphos, the chief centre of Aphrodite’s worship
on Cyprus, was named.
The name Galatea was given to the statue-woman only in post-
classical times. In W.S. Gilbert’s comedy Pygmalion and Galatea, the
sculptor is married, and his wife Cynisca is jealous of his animated
statue. At last after a great deal of trouble, Galatea returns to her ori-
ginal state. In G. B. Shaw’s Pygmalion the sculptor becomes profes-
sor Henry Higgins, an expert in phonetics, and his Galatea is Eliza
Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, who is transformed by his educa-
tion from a guttersnipe into an elegant woman. Shaw’s version was
adapted into the popular musical My Fair Lady.”
It’s Audrey Hepbasset Sparklies Poster Day!
Good Tuesday morning, StelBel and all things Sparkly phans!
Nice day for a walk here.
Hope y’all are having the best day. (((((HuGz!)))))
Mount Rushmore
For my question: http://www.gocomics.com/daddyshome
Funny…..and very true! Nice Cleo promotion.
Boo! 😀
Aw cmon! That’s phunny!
In the spoiler box is a very scary video.
I stumbled across it while trying to make sense of —
Mount Rushmore comment above (I still haven’t).
The spoiler title speaks for itself (the scary part begins at the 46 second mark).
You WON’T get it unless you go to the link.
“Mount Rushnore” is the answer.
The question, as Plods says, is posted at that link.
A bad joke/riddle posted on “Daddy’s Home”, where the subject today is Dad jokes…. with a link to “Cleo and Company” to find the answer.
It you start here, and then go there, it’s backwards, like on Jeopardy.
…
As a bonus, it’s a nice way to lure unsuspecting people into the Cleo trap!
Bwah ha ha!
Sneaky sucker huh?
Two, two, for the price of one! These posters are so beautiful and sparkly. I love them. Audrey Hepbasset ~ always and forever a favorite!
Love the Cliffords at the theater, also!
She broke Jed Clampett’s heart. I can’t forgive her for that.
And a nice avatar it is, too. Welcome back.
I could forgive her anything. I’m sure Jed Clampett got over it.
Good to see you again.
Hi! 😀