Credit: ReddHedd at firedoglake, who has an almost completely unrelated entry, but I just loved the picture.
I've been thinking about comedy teams a little bit; mainly because I got Jerry Lewis' book about him & Dean from the library.
There's a post working it's way through my mind about what style of show business I think each man represents. And the style in which I want to be.
But that's Dean & Jerry, and that's another post. The Hope & Croby Road movies (my favorites: Morocco and Singapore) were sexy and breezy and easy.
By the time I became aware of Bob Hope he was already the living embodiment of the military-industrial complex (I had a similar problem with Frank Sinatra).
It was only through his radio shows and films like these that I came to appreciate him. And how the hell can anything be wrong when Bing sings? He and Hope may not have been the best of friends off-camera, but who can deny how well they worked together in front of it?
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