(TV) Sexuality/Women on List, Please Weigh-in/ Spaced Out/ Ray Charles/Woke Up Dreaming

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

> you two have some kind of Teresa Stern thing going on?
Thanks for editing it out Keith

Despite the fact, that I like (but do 
not own) the music of Rufus Wainwright, 
I'm not a latent homosexual; 
I'm a blatant heterosexual.

And although I've had about a dozen 
dreams since 1981 in which either Television 
or Verlaine starred, I do not have any 
homoerotic feelings for Tom.  :>)

However, when he was in his twenties and 
thirties I thought he was a very striking, 
handsome man--with almost Messianic good 
looks.  Any of the women on the List care 
to comment about the younger (or older Tom)?

In the most recent large set of photos [believe 
Claudia sent the original link] from some 
Photo-shoot outside an off-day during Television's 
2005 Summer tour, he looks the unhealthiest 
I've ever seen him. (O' the ravages of time.)

Speaking of Wainwright, there was a tv-Special 
about 2-3 years ago hosted by Kevin Spacey in 
which he had 10 current singers/musicians pay 
tribute to John Lennon by having each sing a song 
composed by Lennon. Rufus was by far the best; he 
did a very soulful version of "???????????"--whereas 
Spacey butchered "Jealous Guy" -(Bryan Ferry did a 
nice cover of it on one of Roxy Music's live-cds.)

Back on topic, TV's comment about Ray Charles 
covering one of his songs is the second time in 
an interview that he's mentioned Charles covering 
one of his songs.

In a 1980s' interview he was asked about Bowie's 
cover of "Kingdom Come".  After he giving his 
2 cents on Bowie, he said he'd love to hear 
a Ray Charles cover of the song.

Speaking of Spacey/R. Charles, the reviews 
that I read of him in the Bobby Darin film-bio 
were pretty bad. (A few even called him presumptuous
and an ego-maniac [Spacey, not Darin].

I'm impressed that the stars in the current Johnny 
Cash movie both did their own singing, but IMHO 
the film is mostly a sanitized, Hollywood-ized 
version of his life (no matter what the Golden 
Globe voters might think). I was never a fan of 
Charles--I know who cares what I think! (all 
his stuff sounded the same to me and he seemed 
to be doing some sort show-biz shtick when he 
performed live---he was sort of the anti-Verlaine). 
(I did buy his album on which he covers "Eleanor 
Rigby", which still gives me chills---but  
that's an exception.) Maybe I'm getting into 
dangerous waters here, this is meant as a 
socio-musicology comment to get me back on topic: 
in all the years of attending Verlaine or 
Television shows I never saw an Afro-American 
In the audience.

Unlike the new Cash movie, the film that came out 
a few years ago on Charles' life portrayed both 
sides of the man including his period(s) of drug 
addiction and other sad situations.

Last but not least: if none of the women on the  
List respond to my plea above, I will punish 
the entire List [I know it's unfair, but just as 
Sister Felicitae would punish her entire 6th grade 
class when she'd 'catch' one student misbehaving] 
by subjecting you to a description---in some 
detail---of my Television/Verlaine dream of 2 
weeks ago, in which the band, The Cars, plays 
a role. 

 Leo

PS: Keith, were you nice enough to delete on the 
Frarpp/In World web-site, the typo about my sex?
"  
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