White Christmas
Over the past three days, I’ve been watching White Christmas (1954) in little increments (sometimes drunk), between essay writing and paper pushing and classes. Oh, what a ride it’s been! The film stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye alongside Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen and it’s pretty good, if I dare say so myself. ”Don’t Be That Way” as sung by Bing is one of my favorite oldey-timey songs, so it is with this song in mind and the fact that he was the basis of the swooner crooner rooster of Looney Toons fame that I forgive him his violent trespasses against his children, which, apparently are not an absolute fact anyway.
So, wanna see what nearly ruins the movie for me? Here is an image captured from White Christmas:
Can’t see what I’m talkin’ ’bout? Look closer:
Vera-Ellen! In the middle! The poor girl has no waist at all! And what’s more, it seems the people in charge somehow thought that this was a good look for her! Girl needs some bûches de Noël, like, plural. Poor thing. According to WikiP, “she was known to have the smallest waist in Hollywood from the mid 1940s through the 1960s.” One wonders who took over that title in the 60s.
Remember kids: pig out on Christmas or you’ll ruin the family photos later by making everyone cringe when they have to look at your bony body! Not Christmassy.
-d.
