Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Written by Musgo Del Jefe Ten years before she would play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Audrey Hepburn transformed herself from the daughter of a chauffeur to a sophisticated woman as the lead in Sabrina. This DVD release is one of three new releases in the new Paramount Centennial Collection. Also part of this initial release are other 1950s classics, Sunset Boulevard and Hepuburn's...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... to sing with classical techniques. It wasn't until the 1960s that a schism appeared. Starring as Eliza Doolittle in a school production of My Fair Lady in 1968 made me determined that I would become a professional singer, although by the fourth performance I'd lost my voice. The second chance I had to perform it was one of the most magical times of my life. Your Trivial Pursuit question:...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Six months ago if you had told Thaddeus Martin -- nickname Creepa -- that he would soon be living the life of Eliza Doolittle, the unpolished street girl-turned-proper lady in My Fair Lady, he would have punched you out.
iBlog126 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Source: The Miami Herald Six months ago if you had told Thaddeus Martin -- nickname Creepa -- that he would soon be living the life of Eliza Doolittle, the unpolished street girl-turned-proper lady in My Fair Lady, he would have punched you out. ''Punched you the hell out,'' Martin, 24, says with a laugh one recent morning in the kitchen of the Miami Gardens house he shares with his...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
... budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations. It's as if you took the head of Eliza Doolittle, filled it with the brains of Chauncey Gardener and then put it in charge of your homeowners association. She just spews things that are supposed to sound 'smart' knowing full well that no interviewer is going to stop her by asking "What the fuck are you talking about?...
Interesting Thing of the Day (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
... in London named Henry Higgins makes a wager with a friend that he can rid a working-class girl, Eliza Doolittle, of her Cockney accent and teach her to speak like a proper lady. In one of his many drills, he insists that Eliza fill her mouth with marbles and then read a series of phrases. So of course I said, “Oh, just like Demosthenes.” Morgen gave me one of her patented looks...
Opinion L.A. (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
For all of you who are comparing Sarah Palin to Eliza Doolittle, the original before-and-after Miss Makeover, you would do well to remember the original ending to George Bernard Shaw's play, ``Pygmalion,'' not the sappy happy-ending Broadway and Hollywood spin-off versions. In the original, Eliza gives her her ''creator,'' Henry Higgins, the metaphorical ''lydy-like'' middle finger...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
Bill Kristol was on Fox Sunday Morning defending Sarah Palin, his Eliza Doolittle, and her $150,000 shopping spree. She doesn't shop at Nieman Marcus, he says. They just went and bought clothing for her to wear, she isn't responsible for those price tags. How was she to know? Nice try. Here's how it works...
Marion in Savannah (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
In Part II of today’s flood of columnists MoDo writes about “A Makeover With an Ugly Gloss,” and says with the McCain campaign running on an “average Joe” theme, aides costumed their Eliza Doolittle for a ball when she should have been dressing for a bailout. Bobo, poor thing, admits his side is “Ceding the [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
For all of you who are comparing Sarah Palin to Eliza Doolittle, the original before-and-after Miss Makeover, you would do well to remember the...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
With the McCain campaign running on an “average Joe” theme, aides costumed their Eliza Doolittle for a ball when she should have been dressing for a bailout.
Bring it On! (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
... go, this one is more comedic than constitutional. In the irony-challenged Republican party , an Eliza Doolittle is nothing unusual. It’s just mystifying how everyone is dwelling on the symbolism of the affair when there’s untouched meat to be chewed. Controlling budgets is one of the tick marks on Sarah Barracuda’s Big List of Bestest Experience©. It’s right there after shaking her...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
... grammar could do with improvement though: ‘It ain’t me’ and ‘I didn’t do nothing to him’ is more Eliza Doolittle than Jane Austen. WENT ON TO: Be nominated for Best Actress in the Oscars for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride And Prejudice in 2005 and Best Actress in the Baftas for her portrayal of Cecilia Tallis in Atonement in 2007. She is now the second highest-paid actress...
Jossip (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Well since we all know how much Sarah Palin likes charging thing to the corporate card (haha, just like a woman), it should come as no surprise how much the Republican National Committee has spent on turning Eliza Doolittle into a genteel woman. Oh, but somehow the number is still pretty shocking: CONTINUED » Permalink | post a [...]
Colin McEnroe | To Wit (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Kids fly free. The fashion bill. It takes a heap of money -- more than most of us make in a year --to fix up Eliza Doolittle. I wonder if include that shiny red jacket she's been wearing lately. Wonder...
