SFist: Photo du Jour 157

June 27, 2008

Photo du Jour 157

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Photo by (the phenomenal) Darwin Bell

"I never will forget Jeanette MacDonald..."

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Comments (15)

[1] | 06/27/08 03:10PM

Please. Judy Garland's version kicked Jeannette McDonald's opera-y version in the ass.

Garland sang it with MEANING!!!

[2] | 06/27/08 03:15PM

did i ever tell you how much i love you, bc? because i do. and i agree:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8fj6X0l2QgY

[3] | 06/27/08 03:27PM

She's HAMMERED!
I support being shnockered!

[4] | 06/27/08 03:27PM

...opera-y version...

Come to think of it- that was Blackie Norton's (Clark Gable) problem with Mark Blake's (Jeanette MacDonald) rendition of the song in " target="_blank">the movie that made this song famous

[5] | 06/27/08 03:28PM

whoops.. lemme try that code-thingy again...

" target="_blank">in the movie that made this song famous

[6] | 06/27/08 03:29PM

GAAH!! I'm talkin' about this movie, of course...

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0028216/

I am SO glad it's Friday...

[7] | 06/27/08 04:06PM

First, Brock, you are such a gay.

Second, Bluecanary is totally and completely wrong. McDonald's version of "San Francisco" is far superior to the drunken ramblings of Judy Garland warbling incoherently as she schlepped from one end of the stage to the other trying to remember where she put her "dolls." Just ask Lorna Luft, she'll tell you!

[8] | 06/27/08 04:11PM

TAYM,
garland was a genius, one of the first punk rock stars, ever. macdonald was an innocuous cow.

[9] | 06/27/08 04:41PM

I've never understood the gays and Garland. The fact that the homosexshal rights movement basically owes its existence to rampaging drag queens in mourning over old Judy keeling over dead from too many pills and drinks is one of the more bizarre aspects of our history. Judy Garland didn't even like the gays! Ask La Luft! She even passed on her homophobia to Liza who married that unfortunate gay, David Guest, and then proceed to gay bash him until he escaped her clutches in divorce court!

All this being said and despite Judy Garland laying the groundwork for sloppy punk rock stagemanship to later be emulated by the likes of G.G. Allin, McDonald's version of "San Francisco" is still the best one. I'm now going to close my office door and listen to it over and over again. So neener, neener, neener.

[10] | 06/27/08 04:50PM

OK,

A.) she is not drunk. Don't you see how thin she is? That's all PILLS, baby. PILLS!

B.) I'm a female, so your analysis of Garland love doesn't apply to me. Maybe Brock, but not me.

C) there are other renditions where she is not under the influence and she sounds awesome.

Any song about SF should be peppy and upbeat and brimming with life. It should be the musical equivalent of prancing, foot stomping, and lots of exclamation points. Not that dirge-like warbling of McDonald, who reminds me of that hideous singer in the wedding scene of Steel Magnolias. How this wimpy excuse for a songstress ever had a career baffles me.

[11] | 06/27/08 04:53PM

And Garland can't be blamed for any possible animosity toward gays she may have had (and I've never heard she had any), since she married one in hopes of tossing her virginity out the window and only found out later that, oh wait, he didn't want to have sex with her.

I have a feeling that would irritate most anyone.

[12] | 06/27/08 05:12PM

uppers and downers and tranqs, oh my.
uppers and downers and tranqs, oh my...

[13] | 06/27/08 05:16PM

she didn't sleep for three days before the carnegie hall concert. let's see rufus wainwright do that.

[14] | 06/27/08 05:23PM

"she didn't sleep for three days before the carnegie hall concert."

Because she was too busy standing in abandoned alleyways hollering things like "Judy Garland!" at the top of her lungs like a jive turkey. Well, someone should have warned her that Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a gay waiting out there for me...

[15] | 06/27/08 09:32PM

I am neither gay nor female.

That Garland clip is awesome.