To say that I’m an ardent fan of Mamma Mia isn’t enough.
First of all I love ABBA.
They were one of the musical groups of my time.
I ‘grew up’ listening to their music.
Time went by and the first movie came along. I couldn’t have enough of it. I’ve lost count of how many times I went to the theater to watch it. I even went to the ‘sing-a-long’ version.
Then the DVD came out and, of course, I ordered it.
Meryl Streep impressed me. So did the other members of the cast.
Well, of course I saw the prequel/sequel.
I loved it!!
Even learned about ABBA songs that I hadn’t heard.
The story line, acting, the music, the photography, the colors … all of it, joyful, fun, heartwarming!!
Cher – the 72-years-young song priestess – has just released another track from her upcoming dance album, “Dancing Queen.”
And. It. Is. Everything.
After releasing “Gimme Gimme Gimme” earlier this month, Cher has graced us with “SOS,” another gem from her September 28 album of Cher-inspired covers of ABBA hits.
After filming her role in “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” – which included her version of “Fernando” – Cher was said to have been bitten by the ABBA bug.
The dance-filled album will contain 10 new Cher-styled ABBA covers, including some of the group’s biggest hits, including “Waterloo” and “Dancing Queen.”
To say that I’m an ardent fan of Mamma Mia isn’t enough.
First of all I love ABBA. They were one of the musical groups of my time. I ‘grew up’ listening to their music.
Time went by and the first movie came along. I couldn’t have enough of it. I’ve lost count of how many times I went to the theater to watch it. I even went to the ‘sing-a-long’ version.
Then the DVD came out and, of course, I ordered it.
Meryl Streep impressed me. So did the other members of the cast.
Hence, I’m looking forward to this sequel which comes out this Friday.
Sad to say Meryl won’t be in it, except when ‘traveling to the past’. However, this has been made up by adding Cher, in my humble opinion.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is a 2018 musical romantic comedy film directed and written by Ol Parker, from a story by Parker, Catherine Johnson, and Richard Curtis. It is a follow-up to the 2008 film Mamma Mia!, which is based on the musical of the same name.
The film stars Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Dominic Cooper, Cher, and Meryl Streep.
Both a prequel and a sequel, the plot is set after the events of the first film but also features flashbacks to 1979 to tell the story of how Donna came to be on the island of Kalokairi and trying to figure out who fathered her daughter, Sophie.
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~~CHER Sings ‘Fernando’ to Andy Garcia in MAMMA MIA! 2~~
CLIP + Trailer
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Cher sings “Fernando” to Andy Garcia in Mamma Mia! 2 Here We Go Again song clip + trailer starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski, Lily James, Josh Dylan, Hugh Skinner, Jeremy Irvine, Alexa Davies, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Andy Garcia and Cher.
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~~9 NEW Mamma Mia! 2 Here We Go Again~~
CLIPS & SONGS + Trailers
9 new Mamma Mia! 2 Here We Go Again movie clips & songs.
Publicity trailers starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski, Lily James, Josh Dylan, Hugh Skinner, Jeremy Irvine, Alexa Davies, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Andy Garcia and Cher.
~~MAMMA MIA! 2 Here We Go Again Songs~~
BEHIND THE SCENES Bloopers & B-Roll
~~Published on Jul 14, 2018~~
Mamma Mia! 2 Here We Go Again behind-the-scenes movie b-roll, bloopers & songs ‘Waterloo’, ‘Mamma Mia’, ‘Fernando’, ‘My Love, My Life’, ‘Andante, Andante’ & ‘Dancing Queen’
Comedian Jimmy Fallon loves to make his celebrity guests partake in the hilarious “Wheel of Musical Impressions” segment of The Tonight Show.
It’s a fun game where a random singer is paired up with a random song title. Jimmy’s guest goes head to head with him to see who is better at doing a successful impression of the artist singing that song. The combinations that the “wheel” comes up with are pretty wild, and it almost always has everyone in stitches.
Some guests can do some pretty amazing impressions.
Here you have Céline Dion!
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Comedian Jimmy Fallon loves to make his celebrity guests partake in the hilarious “Wheel of Musical Impressions” segment of The Tonight Show.
It’s a fun game where a random singer is paired up with a random song title. Jimmy’s guest goes head to head with him to see who is better at doing a successful impression of the artist singing that song. The combinations that the “wheel” comes up with are pretty wild, and it almost always has everyone in stitches.
Some guests can do some pretty amazing impressions, and pop star Christina Aguilera is definitely one of them. She totally shined on the latest incarnation of the Wheel of Musical Impressions.
Céline Dion did work, work, work, work, work on “The Tonight Show” Thursday, July 21.
During a game of “Musical Impressions,” the singer broke out a little bit of Cher and Michael Jackson, but pulled out all the stops when Rihanna came up.
(Come Mr. DJ song pon de replay.)
Dion sang “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” to the tune of Rihanna’s “Work” before reaching her final form and twerking.
It’s not necessarily a staccato twerk, but we’ll give it to her.
(P.S. This post doesn’t even mention Dion’s Sia impression. This one’s all about the twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk.)
Jimmy challenges Céline to a game of random musical impressions, such as Sia singing “Hush, Little Baby.”
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In this blogging world, which I have been lucky enough to “traverse” through since I retired from my lifetime job, I have found incredible bloggers who definitely make this world a better place. I’m here learning new things everyday related to every topic that you may think about. And this is all because of you.
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Receiving any kind of award is always an honor. It’s always humbling. It’s always an eye opener in the sense that there IS someone out there who may “stumble” into this spot and find something that resonates with them and may even be helpful.
Blogging, some say, is losing ground on the Internet. Many people are now using Twitter or Snapchat or Instagram to convey their thoughts, leaving the more ‘old-fashioned’ blog behind.
But there are those who understand that, sometimes, a long form is best. Who know that it takes time, and craft, and WORDS as well as images to convey a thought, and to start a conversation.
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Meryl Streep, who in the late 1980’s raised awareness on pesticides and forming the group “Mothers and Others“, took the opportunity to speak at this charity concert in aid of the protecting the environment. “An Evening with Friends of the Environment” featured celebrity mothers Olivia Newton-John, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Cher, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin and Robin Williams (“the other in mother and others”). Filmed at the LA outdoor Greek Theater before a live audience, the celebrity cast sang What a Wonderful World at the concert’s finale.
“My friends and I are so very, very happy that you came here tonight to be with us on this warm, beautiful evening – in Los Angeles, in 1990. We’ve been sitting here tonight, perched on the edge of a mountain, on the rim of a continent, at the beginning of a new century. In ten years it will be the year 2000. I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but … how come ten years ago seems like twenty minutes – and the year 2000 seems like about thousand miles away.
I was thinking about where I was ten years ago.
Ten years ago I just had my first baby, and just had my first hit movie “Kramer vs. Kramer“. And I remember every Thursday I would put all the garbage and all the food and the cans and the bottles and the papers and everything, in one big plastic bag and I take it down to the street and it would just go away.
I don’t know where.
I think to New Jersey? That was back in the old days when they had landfills. But after Thursday I don’t know where they took it. I really didn’t think it was my problem, not like I do now.
Back then, I did think that I was environmentally conscious person. I heard then that sometimes there were steroids in the beef, so we ate a lot of fish. Since the oceans were pristine, we believed that we were eating clean. So much has changed since then, you know, that I wonder, what ten years from now, how things will be different.
My little girl said to me, “Momma, what will they have when I’m a grown-up, that we don’t have now?” And I think, she had in mind one of those personal proportion backpacks that just lift her off to the beach and back in three minutes. But what I wanted to say to her was that she would never have to worry, that her baby would get skin cancer from being out in the sun, because we would have done everything in our power to restore the Ozone layer. And I wanted to tell her that she’d be able to jog through town and take deep gulps of fresh air and not think two things about it.
And I wanted to tell her that she’d wake up to the sound of songbirds and that she could drink from the rivers. I think that might be just a mother’s dream. But one thing is certain: Whatever changes do occur in the next ten years, for better or for worse, is up to us. Right now. It’s not too late, but there is no time to wait. Thank you for coming”.
“Send in the Clowns” is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musicalA Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman‘s film Smiles of a Summer Night. It is a ballad from Act II in which the character Desirée reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life. Among other things, she looks back on an affair years earlier with the lawyer Fredrik. Meeting him after so long, she finds that he is now in an unconsummated marriage with a much younger woman. Desirée proposes marriage to rescue him from this situation, but he declines, citing his dedication to his bride. Reacting to his rejection, Desirée sings this song. The song is later reprised as a coda after Fredrik’s young wife runs away with his son, and Fredrik is finally free to accept Desirée’s offer.
The “clowns” in the title do not refer to circus clowns. Instead, they symbolize fools, as Sondheim explained in a 1990 interview:
I get a lot of letters over the years asking what the title means and what the song’s about; I never thought it would be in any way esoteric. I wanted to use theatrical imagery in the song, because she’s an actress, but it’s not supposed to be a circus. It’s a theater reference meaning “if the show isn’t going well, let’s send in the clowns”; in other words, “let’s do the jokes.” I always want to know, when I’m writing a song, what the end is going to be, so “Send in the Clowns” didn’t settle in until I got the notion, “Don’t bother, they’re here”, which means that “We are the fools.”
In a 2008 interview, Sondheim further clarified:
As I think of it now, the song could have been called “Send in the Fools”. I knew I was writing a song in which Desirée is saying, “aren’t we foolish” or “aren’t we fools?” Well, a synonym for fools is clowns, but “Send in the Fools” doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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