NANCY SINATRA
“THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING”
Watch The VIDEO
NANCY
TV SPECIAL
.
.
KATE MOSS
Stuart Weitzman Ad
THESE BOOTS
.
.
These Boots Are Made for Walking
Obama Gives Biden Medal of Freedom
President Barrack Obama give Vice President Joe Biden The MEDAL of FREEDOM
The WHITE HOUSE, Washington DC, January 12th, 2017
President Barack Obama had a surprise up his sleeve Thursday at a tribute to the vice president, awarding Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction.
Biden will be the third vice president to be awarded a Medal of Freedom.
Just eight days from their last day in office, Obama ran through Biden’s legacy almost in its entirety, including the vice president’s work as a young Delaware senator, as an advocate for women’s safety, and in his two terms in executive office, calling him a “lion of American history.”
“Behind the scenes, Joe’s honest and candid counsel has made me a better president and commander in chief. From the Situation Room to our weekly lunches to our huddles when everyone has left the room, he has been unafraid to give it to me straight,” Obama said.
For the past eight years, the close-knit relationship between Obama and Biden has become easy fodder for meme creators and internet dwellers alike, a phenomenon the two of them have come to recognize. The tribute “gives the internet one last chance to talk about our bromance,” Obama joked.
A teary-eyed and surprised Biden accepted the send-off by thanking the president for his support throughout the past two terms in office. He also thanked his family, noting the many trials — including the car accident that killed his first wife and first daughter, and, more recently, the death of his son Beau Biden to cancer — they have overcome together.
This is the second time Obama has honored Biden this week; he also thanked the VP in his farewell speech on Tuesday.
“To Joe Biden, the scrappy kid from Scranton who became Delaware’s favorite son: You were the first choice I made as a nominee, and the best,” Obama said in Chicago. “Not just because you have been a great vice president, but because in the bargain, I gained a brother.”
JOE BIDEN
“I Love this Guy” !!!
“He’s one of the Greatest Guys Ever !”
…. Author DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE
JOE BIDEN Will be the 46th PRESIDENT of THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA
THE BROMANCE
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN
PRESIDENT OBAMA & JOE BIDEN
Elvis Presley Suspicious Minds
ELVIS “Rockin IT”
SUSPICIOUS MINDS
My FAVORITE ELVIS SONG EVER
“DAM HE WAS A HANDSOME SON of a BITCH” !!!
THE LIP !!
BLOW Us a KISS !!!!
ELVISThe Early Days
The BADASS COOKBOOK
ELVIS FRIED CHICKEN RECIPE
.
Sinatra Sings “One For My Baby”
FRANK & HIS SALOON SONGS
. . .
ONE FOR MY BABY
Performed at RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
I Was at THIS SHOW
IT Was The FIRST NIGHT of a 5 NIGHT ENGAGEMENT
and I HAD TICKETS For Both The 1st and 5th NIGHTS
NOTHING LIKE IT
IT’S Said That FRANK was SINGING of Very LATE NIGHTS at One of His
FAVORITE SPOTS PJ CLRKE’S when he was SING THIS SONG
“ONE FOR MY BABY”
And One For The Road
Copyright photo by Daniel Zwicke
FRANK SINATRA with LAUREN BACALL at PJ CLARKE’S
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
George Michael “You Are Loved & Missed by Millions”
REST in PEACE Dear GEORGE
Dear GEORGE
YOU WILL BE GREATLY MISSED
FREEDOM
A POP MASTERPIECE From GEORGE MICHAEL
There’s a moment in George Michael’s music video for “Freedom! ’90” where director David Fincher’s camera zooms in on a leather jacket hanging in a closet. It’s the piece Michael sported proudly three years earlier in the music video for “Faith” — the item that helped Michael reinvent himself from the squeaky-clean teen idol in Wham! into a bad-ass sex god of the 1980s. But with “Freedom! ’90,” Michael sought to overhaul his image once again. And a few moments later, that leather jacket spontaneously combusts; ditto the “Faith” video’s Wurlitzer jukebox and his Gretsch guitar. Goodbye to all that.
“They were horrified,” Michael recalled of his label Sony’s reaction, in an MTVinterview in 2004. “Why would you burn something that made Sony $150 million dollars? But I quite enjoyed it.”
It might be hard to imagine now, but when George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” music video was released in 1990, it was nothing short of revolutionary. Its creator, who was embroiled in a dispute with his label, Sony, over his refusal to heavily promote his album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, chose not to star in his own music video. Instead, he scored a cast of lip-synching supermodels — Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, plus a crew of male models — who vamped gorgeously in a dark and dingy space. And for a Grammy-winning artist who was shaped into a global pop star thanks to MTV, Michael was slyly flipping off the network that helped make him a star.
“George was thumbing his nose at MTV with the video,” producer Simon Straker told EW in 1991.
THE GIRLS of FREEDOM
Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patiz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford
But once it hit airwaves, “Freedom! ’90” went into heavy rotation on the cable channel, scored five MTV Video Music Awards nominations (it won zero), became one of the most memorable videos of the last two-and-a-half decades, and served as a rallying anthem for the LGBT movement. It was such a classic, in fact, that Michael himself tried to recapture some of that supermodel magic for his 1992 single “Too Funky.”
“One of my better ideas was getting five gorgeous supermodels [miming to the song] that people still want to look at today,” Michael said in an interview at the time, according to the biography Careless Whispers. “If you’re going to say to your record company, ‘Look, I’m not going to be in this video,’ I’d say that’s a fairly good consolation prize really, you know, those five gorgeous babes.”
While Michael chose not to get in front the camera, he was heavily involved in its creative execution. The inspiration for supermodel stars came after Michael saw a portrait of the women shot by Peter Lindbergh for the January 1990 cover of British Vogue. And he hired director David Fincher, who’d had success helming Madonna’s “Express Yourself” video, and top stylist Camilla Nickerson. The team holed up on a London soundstage for several days. “They were long days,” Turlington told Harper’s Bazaar. “I don’t recall any specific direction from David Fincher. He was focused on the lighting I recall. George was there the whole time and very involved.”
As Nickerson told Allure in a definitive history of the video, “It was epic. It had a grandeur and a Blade Runner feel.”
Michael was friendly with his model cast prior to shooting, but they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into upon arriving on set. Evangelista reportedly had to be convinced to participate. And Michael had sent his stars music to learn just days before production began. Turlington recalled to Bazaar that each model largely shot her parts separately. And the scenes were somewhat uncomfortable. “I do remember feeling a little bit like, ‘Oh, why did I get stuck in the tub? I want the big glamour-puss hair. I want to be wearing the heels or blowing cool smoke rings, like Tatjana,” Crawford told Allure. “But if you were working with good people, you just did what they asked.”
Off-camera, however, the vibe on-set was jovial among cast and crew. “We’d drink red wine and sing songs in the evening because it kind of went on late,” hair stylist Guido told Allure. “And George was just like one of the gang, in the trailers, hanging out.”
“Freedom! ’90” would go on to become one of Michael’s signature songs — he performed it at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics — and the video remains a defining moment in MTV’s history. As for Michael bidding farewell to his past as an ’80s pop icon and embracing an uncertain future at the dawn of a new decade, he felt vindicated: “I thought that was a wonderful way to get rid of the image, really… I felt that way,” he told MTV in 2004. “I wanted to get rid of that. I felt like I’d cornered myself again.”
The SUPER MODELS of the FREEDOM VIDEO
The Most BEAUTIFUL GROUP of MOMEN Ever Assembled
on GEOREGE MICHAELS “FREEDOM” Video
A Young GEORGE MICHAEL
The WHAM DAYS
GOD BLESS YOU GEORGE
George Michael and Linda Evangelista on the set of FREEDOM
,
Madonna Carpool Karaoke
MADONNA
Carpool Karaoke
VOGUE
BORDERLINE
“KEEP PUSING MY LOVE OVER”
OVER THE BORDERLINE
.
.
The Phrase “Back Into The Wind Cold” is Coined
HOW COLD IS IT ?
Dam it’s Cold out!
“IT’S BACK INTO THE WIND COLD,” Daniel Zwicke said as he walk back home to his Greenwich Village apartment on Thursday afternoon December 15, 2016 . The temperature outside on the Island of Manhattan was 23 degrees. Yes it was cold, but with Winds gusting at 40 MPH it was quite bone-chilling-cold with the real feel temperature at a freezing 6 degrees with The Wind Chill Factor calculated in. It was Fucking Cold Out, or best-selling cookbook author coined the phrase for the first time in recorded history, it was “Back into the Wind Cold,” for that’s literally what Daniel said he did as he walked down Minetta Street as the blistering cold wind blew in his face. Daniel says that it was so cold with the strong winds blowing into his face that just as he had done since walking to school as a young boy in East Rutherford New Jersey, he simply turned his back into the wind to help keep his un-protected face a bit warmer against the freezing cold wind on that December day in the year 2016 .
Daniel was all bundled up with a pair of Levis jeans, a T-Shirt, a long sleeve Tee over that with another shirt over that and a very thick and warm wool cardigan shawl sweater over that. Daniel had his Barbour Jacket covering those 4 Layers, a scarf around his neck with a wool knit cap and gloves, along with a pair of Chuck Taylor Converse Sneakers. Yes Daniel was all bundled up and ready for the bitter cold, yet one thing he was missing. Something to cover his face. Well he was in pretty good shape and not that cold at all, all except that after walking 7 blocks from the cafe at the Marlton Hotel, Daniel’s face started getting cold. So cold that as he walked the final two blocks to his house, Daniel just had to put his back into the wind to help things along.
This our friends is a story of the way that fair city New York can sometimes be Back into the Wind Cold.
BRYANT PARK
NEW YORK CITY
on
A BACK INTO THE WIND DAY
ROCKEFELLER CENTER CHRISTMAS TREE
CHRISTMAS TIME
NEW YORK
Guess What ?
IT’S BACK INTO THE WIND COLD
CHRISTMAS TIME in NEW YORK
Caffe Reggio New York
Caffe Reggio is a New York City coffeehouse first opened in 1927 at 119 Macdougal Street in the heart of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
Italian cappuccino was introduced in America by the founder of Caffe Reggio, Domenico Parisi, in the early 1920s.[1] Inside the cafe, against the back wall, there is still the original espresso machine, made in 1902, that Domenico Parisi bought with his savings when he opened the cafe in 1927.
The Caffe Reggio has been featured in many movies, including The Godfather Part II, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, The Kremlin Letter, Shaft, Serpico, The Next Man, In Good Company, Inside Llewyn Davis and others. Many celebrities have been spotted or photographed in this location. In 1959, presidential hopeful John F. Kennedy made a speech outside the coffee shop. In 2010, the cafe was honored with a Village Award[2] by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation for its status as a beloved and essential part of the neighborhood.
Caffe Reggio has a bench from a palazzo of the Florentine Medici family of Renaissance fame. The bench is not roped-off and guests can sit on it and admire a painting from an artist of the school of Caravaggio.
All photos by Daniel Bellino Zwicke
BACCHUS by CARAVAGGIO
Not in Caffe Reggio
SUNDAY SAUCE
is GREENWICH VILLAGE ITALIAN
SUNDAY SAUCE is AVAILABLE in Paperback on AMAZON.com .. Click
Bourbon Old Fashion Cocktail
An Old Fashion and New Orleans. Two things I Love dearly. And drinking Old Fashions in New Orleans and Bourbon Old Fashions to be more specific is a favorite pastime of mine, especially at such fine Bars as Napoleon House, The Long Bar at Tujague’s, or at Arnaud’s and Galatoire’s.
The first thing i order from my waiter at my beloved Galatoire’s is a Bourbon Old Fashion. They make them perfectly here, muddling an Orange Slice with sugar, Maraschino Cherry, Soda, and Angostora Bitters before filling the glass with Ice and adding my Bourbon. The waiter brings my Old Fashion and I’m in Heaven. I’m at Galatoire’s in New Orleans. It’s one of my favorite restaurants in the World. I have my drink, sitting in the main dining room looking the menu over. “Oh Bliss.”
What to have for lunch. Shall I get a Gumbo, Raw Oysters, or Oysters Rockefeller to start? Decisions, Decisions! And my main Course? Trout Almondine, Shrimp Clemenceau, or Filet Mignon topped with Fried Oysters and Hollandaise. Think I’ll go for a Cup of Gumbo, followed by the Oysters Rockefellor, and Trout Almondine for my main. They should go with my Bourbon Old Fashion quite nicely.
What, “No Wine with Your Meal,” you ask. knowing what a Wine freak I am.
“No, not in New Orleans my friends.” I do not drink Wine in the Cresent City. It’s all pretty much Cocktails when I’m down there, maybe a Beer or two, but no Wine what-so-ever in New Orleans for me. Hey it’s the way to go in New Orleans. That’s what you do down there, Cocktails are preferred throughout the meal over Wine. And that’s fine by me. It just seems to go better. My Bourbon Old Fashion and all the fine Creole Cuisine. I Love it.
So, if you’re ever down there, in that wonderful city on the Mississippi, New Orleans, go to Galatoire’s, Antoine’s, Arnauds’s. Order yourself a nice Lunch or Dinner, and don’t forget to get a couple Bourbon Old Fashions to go with your meal. It’s a match made in Heaven, Creole Food and an Old Fashion in New Orleans, Louisiana. “Do it.”
by Daniel Bellino Zwicke
.
Beast of Burden The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, & Keith Richards … The ROLLING STONES
Watch This Video for one of The STONES Best Live Performances ever .. Unfortunately the image quality isn’t very good, but Luckily the sound is .. There used to be a better quality video up on Youtube of this particular performance but for whatever reason it was taken down … This video is of a Stones Concert in Texas 1978 around the time of the release of SOME GIRLS, one of The ROLLING STONES Best Albums of All-Time with such great songs as this Beast of Burden, Some Girls, Miss You, When The Whip Comes Down, Shattered, and The Girl with The Far Away Eyes …
So even though the video quality isn’t that great, you can still enjoy watching this great performance by The World’s Greatest Rock Band of All-Time, The ROLLING STONES …
Check out MICK jumping all around and dancing up a storm as only Mick can do. And if you’re a big guitar fan, check out Keith & Ronnie on their Dueling Les Paul’s (Gibson Les Paul Guitars).
MICK & THE BOYS
.
Here’s another fine rendition of BEAST of BURDEN by The ROLLING STONES Live 1981
..
theDannyReport 