“Just Be Polite and You Will Never Go Wrong”
If, as a child, I loved Ann-Magret’s “My Rival” in Viva Las Vegas, as a man-about-town in my early 20s, it was the redhead’s “Appreciation” that really did it for me. “Once I met a nice old man upon...
View Article“Do I Smash The Mirror-or-or-or”
In the New York Times review of Tommy, Vincent Canby wrote that Ann-Margret “sings and dances as if the fate of Western civilization depended upon it.” When watching the movie, it’s hard not to believe...
View Article“I Know It’s Class.”
Let’s just say Ann-Margret’s definition of class is questionable. But if you do not watch this Canada Dry commercial (there will be a test), then we are no longer speaking.
View ArticleAnn-Margret Style Choices
On my way to school one morning, I draped my coat over my shoulders like Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas. Before I could leave, my mother pointed out that boys couldn’t wear their coats over their...
View ArticleAnn-Margret Goes to Rio
If you ever have a few hours to kill at your desk, dive down the rabbit hole of Ann-Margret concert performances on YouTube. You will not be disappointed! Just check out this campy performance of “I Go...
View ArticleMovin’ With Nancy Sinatra
That Ann-Margret rabbit hole had a secret tunnel I tumbled down that involves Nancy Sinatra. Watch her 1967 TV special, Movin’ with Nancy, in its entirety!
View ArticleLee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret, Together Again?
I had no idea that Lee Hazlewood and Ann-Margret collaborated on 1969’s The Cowboy & The Lady. Did you? I mean, never before have I felt this let down by my educations both formal and informal...
View ArticlePlease Enjoy Ann-Margret’s Leonine Mane
Ann-Margret duets with Desi Arnaz Jr. on Here’s Lucy. This isn’t even the weirdest musical moment on that show.
View ArticleBoulevard of Broken Dreams Part XIII
Like Truman Capote’s Mr. Revercomb in short story “Master Misery,” I will buy your dreams. This just in… “Last night I dreamed that Mia and I were getting hot dogs, and she ordered hers with oil and...
View ArticleLiza and Ann-Margret Together At Last
Well hell, who are we kidding? I have never once thought to myself in a moment of indecision or duress, “What would [insert Hollywood hunk's name here] do?” I am much more likely to ponder what these...
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