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POPSStarbucks Closing Stores Well, I for one am not surprised. Finally people have come to their senses. Don't get me wrong, I too love Starbucks but I've always wondered how they could be so successful by selling expensive coffee and very little else. I consider their brews to be a luxury which I can only occasionally afford to delve into. To me they don't sell a product or service which really competes with the already established businesses in the vicinity and when they open more than one store within a limited region, then they're only really competing with themselves. They're robbing business from Starbucks... not the McDonalds, Wendys or Dunkin Donuts next door. Now, if they can only sell a good cup of coffee at half the price and give free refills, then they've sold me. But hey, haven't I just described places which have been doing that for decades?
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POPSIsnt It Romantic? - Maurice Chevalier - Jeanette MacDonald
I'm a huge fan of the films of the 1930s (don't mistakingly lump the 30s and 40s together... they are entirely different animals altogether!!!) The 30s began with sound films just arriving on the heels of several decades of 'silent' film and the great depression in full swing. People were looking for escapism and Hollywood provided with a creativity seldom seen sense! Taking advantage of the new technology of sound-on-film, the studios quickly churned-out musicals with energetic abandon. Depression-era audiences gobbled these films up with a passion. Surprisingly, 75 years later and we have yet to match the artistic techniques of the very first musicals. Perhaps the best musical of all time is 'LOVE ME TONIGHT' from 1932. Director Rouben Mamoulian, composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Larry Hart created an unprecedented integration of song, story and cinema. Watch this musical snippet which begins in Paris with Maurice Chevalier singing "Isn't It Romantic" in his shop. The unforgetabl
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