There are Memories and then… There are Memories…
Today, being Saturday and most things that needed to be done being so done yesterday, there was some time in which to do not much, so HBO was tuned to and a movie called “The Last of the Blonde Bombshells” caught my attention. A simple musical I thought… easy to pass the time. Well, it was a musical -of sorts- with a top cast, including Dame Judi Dench and a singer I had not thought about for quite some time, albeit one of my years ago very favorites: Cleo Laine. Mind you, I didn’t know she was on the cast, it just happened along the way to a happy finish. The storyline is about an all-female ( plus a male drummer with blonde wig and all) English swing band (“swing” as it pertained to those times ) which had become famous during WWII. The movie is taking place in the present, so that long past story had taken place some 50+years ago, the plot switching back and forth between then and now. The main character somehow meets up again with drummer-boy ( anoth...