The Great Plotnik

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The Actress, You Know, There's Two Actresses With the Same Last Name and One's Pretty and The Other One's Glamorous And Who's the Pretty One?



The Little Bear sent Plotnik this photo this morning, taken, we are presuming, by her in Paris recently.

Plotnik looked at the woman in the photo and wanted to write back to L.B. that she reminded him of...of...but he couldn't remember the actress's name. But he remembered she was in that movie, that movie...and he couldn't remember the movie's name either.

The names were R-I-G-H T there -- of course the harder he tried to remember them, the further they receded.

However, he remembered that movie had a theme song and the theme song came right up into Plottie's brain. "Da da da, da-- da da da da, da da da da da da, da da --- and then the chorus -- da da da da da DAAAA! Da da da --- Waiting 'round the bend, my huckleberry friend MOON RIVER!"

Moon River! Right! Audrey Hepburn! Right! Bang Bang Bang, once he remembered the theme song.

(He also remembered Henry Mancini wrote it and that he plays it in the key of A.)

So it appears that Plotnik is one of those people who remember melodies and lyrics, but not faces or titles, and we knew that already.

3 Comments:

At 2:14 PM, Blogger Karen said...

Katharine was pretty too--before she became glamorous.

 
At 7:54 AM, Blogger notthatlucas said...

But I bet you can remember who batted leadoff for the '73 Dodgers and the number worn by the backup point guard for the '68 Lakers. And I'm pretty sure neither had a melody or lyric.

 
At 8:54 AM, Blogger DAK said...

Yes, that's very true. Plus recognize a player with the sound off by their batting stance. You can do that too, I'm sure. By the way, I hate Brian Johnson a lot more than poor old Bobby Thomson, though the end result was the same.

 

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