#THE COURT JESTER FULL MOVIE YOUTUBE SERIES#

Well worth a look by avid readers with an eye for an informative yet uncommon title.'

Through anecdotes, historical details, analyses, and commentary, Otto brilliantly delineates the court jester, and quotations and illustrations do much to enhance this eminently readable text. Otto's lively, well-researched text proves that there are centuries of other examples and that the jester has a rich tradition worldwide. If you don't love this number, you'll never 'get' Danny Kaye and there's no point in trying.'Mention a court jester, and one pictures a whimsical creature in a belled hat or, perhaps, the ill-fated character in King Lear. I think what they showed at the museum last night was the first time they performed it and what I've embedded below is the second but it's still great.

#THE COURT JESTER FULL MOVIE YOUTUBE SERIES#

The closer was a duet with Louis Armstrong from the CBS series which I believe was so popular that they had Armstrong back on a season or two later so they could do it again. Getting back to the program, they showed some wonderful clips, including a powerful scene with Mr. And I went there with a superb comedy writer friend, Ron Friedman, who among his many other credits was a writer on Danny's CBS series. Kat is her daughter, a very talented singer who I raved about back in this message and this one. It's still being assembled and I've volunteered to help in any way I can. Karen is the widow of the great Stanley Kramer and we talked about a forthcoming deluxe DVD of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Lee, handily defying age.Īlso spoke with Karen and Kat Kramer. I also got to talk briefly to Julie Newmar and Vin Scully who were there and like Ms. It was about as good as she's been in everything she's ever done, which is a pretty high bar. I hope I made clear how good she was in that film. My favorite moment of the party was congratulating Michele Lee on getting a better intro than she got the last time I saw her and us discussing what I wrote here about that night. Deena is spearheading and guiding the DVD project and others related to her father's legacy. The panel consisted of Tony Charmoli (choreographer on Danny's CBS series), George Schlatter (producer of Laugh-In and other shows on which Danny appeared), Michele Lee (two-time guest on the series), Carl Reiner (occasional co-star) and Deena Kaye (Danny's daughter). The debut was celebrated tonight with an event at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills and I was there, courtesy of panel moderator Leonard Maltin. Some of them are coming out on DVD and the first release, which features two Christmas episodes, is now out. In the sixties, he did four seasons of a variety show for CBS that I remember fondly. Still, he managed to make a personal connection with every single person in that amphitheater as he told stories and sang every single song for which he was ever known. The place seats more than 17,000 people, it was pretty full that night…and from the seats we were in, Danny Kaye was about the size of a Rice Krispie. When I was around ten or so, my parents took me to see him perform one evening at the Hollywood Bowl. A lot of folks who worked with him didn't get along with the guy on a personal basis but even they acknowledged his talent and watched him as fans. I'm sure he was in something bad at some point but I can't recall what it might have been. I was always a big admirer of Danny Kaye, an amazing entertainer.

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