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Tooting my own horn
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- Elisabeth Vincentelli
- Brooklyn, NY, United States
- I'm a Brooklyn-based writer/editor specializing in entertainment and outdoors recreation. Past jobs include drama critic/features writer at the New York Post and arts & entertainment editor at Time Out New York. Why all the French stuff? I am, indeed, from France, and have been living in America for over 25 years.
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- Happiness is a lukewarm gun
- Unwowed by Irena's Vow
- There's a new king in town
- Unimpressed
- Baby talk
- Thrilling actors rock Yasmina Reza
- Keep cool, daddy-o
- Boosting the Wooster
- Rooms with a view
- Blitz Spirit
- Eurovision coming!
- How do you say?
- 33 1/3 variations
- Driven to Distracted
- The Savannah Disputation
- Guys are from Mars
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6 comments:
I'm liking Turkey best this year, I think, and then France and Ireland. Moldova and Montenegro are also pretty good... Norway not so much. Norwegian boys with violins is a little too Cotton Eyed Joe for me.
Lots of strings on stage this year: sex and violins! The classical-pop crossover is in full force. I'm liking Estonia, Moldova, the second half of Ukraine. But Sweden? Ayeee!
Some of the Eastern European countries are holding on to their languages but I agree, there's too much English overall. There have been entries in made-up languages. There's something about the way esperanto sounds that's just not all that conducive to disco somehow...
Loved your commentary on WNYC Elizabeth! I want to figure out how to watch Eurovision on an American Network... Does anyone know? I know you can stream it from eurovision.tv but what about through regular tv? We are trying to get a big early morning party together and I don't think we can fit into my apartment (where I would watch through Polish dish network..). Thanks -k. konopka
Alas it's not broadcast in the US at all, as far as I know. For shame! My mom in France tapes it and sends me DVRs. Before that I bought the official DVDs, but it's more fun to watch an actual broadcast to get the bitchy commentaries. (Jean-Paul Gaultier did it in France last year.)
Thanks Elisabeth! What a shame. I'll have to jam everyone in my tiny apartment! -k. konopka
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