Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Our Continuing Series: Paul Robeson Playing Softball





Golden West said...

That was way more entertaining than "Last Tango In Paris"!

SippicanCottage said...

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Exhibit A: Golden West

Casey Klahn said...

Gauguin would be pleased.

OregonGuy said...

"Socks up, boss!"

Johnny Glendale said...

The most surrealistic moment I've had since the early 80's.

Anonymous said...

OK, I haven't clicked the Play arrow yet, because I am fascinated by the freeze frame. In my mind, it flips back and forth between images.

First is the normal. I see a handsome man wearing a flowered headband, a black earring, and a short, dark lei. He smiles at his female partner. There is a black shadow under his chin, tucked into his lei.

Then, suddenly, I am looking at a grotesque, huge-headed tiki-man. His lump-of-coal eye glares at the audience, his lump-of-coal mouth under his lumpish potato nose intones "Ooooh!" as his fat chin wobbles on his chest.

OK, I've watched the video, and I see it is the handsome man who is real. But I still cannot shake the vision of the swollen mask.

I probably would not have been tricked if the lei appeared in its true colors, and not so very near the skin tone of its wearer.

Anonymous said...

Oh, and I forgot to mention: the tiki-man is wearing a santa cap. I don't know why I don't see that on the handsome man.

H. Gillham said...

Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.

That's what I got.

teresa said...

Was this filmed at the Tahiti pavilion at the '67 World's Fair?
Mr. Christian sure did have an eye for the raven-haired Polynesian lasses.

Marlon Brando's life is a long weird movie(and I don't even know the half of it).

SippicanCottage said...

Hi teresa- I have no idea if that's the case.

Brando's whole thang in that video is about as strange a thing as I've seen, and let me tell you, I've seen the Internets