Tell it to...
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 3:15 am
Great riposte, Lightning. Brings to mind an interesting question: I wonder if there are any women out there who've sparred with him or thrown his lines back at him that way. I'd be very curious to know what his response might have been.
Duke Ellington was a fabled ladies' man, and --according to legend, anyway-- he had an armamentarium of come-on lines that many women who'd usually know better found well-nigh irresistable when they came from him (e.g., "You've got to tell me your name, because last night when I saw you in my dreams I could only call you 'darling'). But he did get turned down on occasion; when this happened, they say, he simpply kept those eyes a-twinkling and that smile a-shining, and moved on to talk to someone else in the room.
The closest I've ever come to seeing any kind of back-and-forth banter between Leonard and a woman was an interview I read a few years ago, when the interviewer suggested that it was good to know that Leonard had matured since "Suzanne," becuase women were "getting sick and tired of hearing about "f#!*!ing perfect Suzanne and her f#!*!ing perfect body." She went on to suggest that Leonard's more reccent work was more "mature" because it contained more genuine "passion, desire, sensuality..." and probably a couple of other words, to which he responded: "Please continue -- you're turning me on."
She shot back: "Speaking of maturity..." [no doubt with raised eyebrows and a rather acerbic tone] and went into another question.
'T'would have been fun to have been a fly on the wall during that interview!
David
Duke Ellington was a fabled ladies' man, and --according to legend, anyway-- he had an armamentarium of come-on lines that many women who'd usually know better found well-nigh irresistable when they came from him (e.g., "You've got to tell me your name, because last night when I saw you in my dreams I could only call you 'darling'). But he did get turned down on occasion; when this happened, they say, he simpply kept those eyes a-twinkling and that smile a-shining, and moved on to talk to someone else in the room.
The closest I've ever come to seeing any kind of back-and-forth banter between Leonard and a woman was an interview I read a few years ago, when the interviewer suggested that it was good to know that Leonard had matured since "Suzanne," becuase women were "getting sick and tired of hearing about "f#!*!ing perfect Suzanne and her f#!*!ing perfect body." She went on to suggest that Leonard's more reccent work was more "mature" because it contained more genuine "passion, desire, sensuality..." and probably a couple of other words, to which he responded: "Please continue -- you're turning me on."
She shot back: "Speaking of maturity..." [no doubt with raised eyebrows and a rather acerbic tone] and went into another question.
'T'would have been fun to have been a fly on the wall during that interview!
David
) Thanks to my dear friend Pete, I've now seen a video of LC singing Hallelujah - and Lord am I a believer in the HALLELUJAH phenomenon 
. I guess an alternative might be to type your postings in Word, do spellcheck, and then cut-and-paste them to here.