M Is FOR MASHUP - March 30th, 2011
Now Thats A Mashup!
An interview with Chef Okeydokey
By DJ Useo
There's a swell new mashup collection newly released called 'Now Thats A Mashup'. It's 32 tracks by 32 mashup deejays in a release themed along the most appealing tracks released over the last few years. It features releases by the most well-known names on the scene, many of whom manage a good living in the bootlegging profession. DJ BC himself is rumoured to actually own the 9th largest diamond in the world, which he wears in his turban during live shows. If you're aware of mashups generally, then you are familiar with names like Go Home Productions, DJ Zebra & DJ Earworm. They are only the tip of the iceberg here as peeps like Eve Massacre, ToTom, Voicedude, & The Hood Internet lurk on this collection through their mixes. Trust me, the music mashed here is so cool, you'll be alternately dancing & sobbing with joy. I think my personal fave at the moment is Envision's track pairing Frank Sinatra & Flo Rida. I've actually found myself humming it in my sleep. lol.
I managed to get a quick interview with Chef Okeydokey who appears in cartoon likeness on the cover art. The Chef has been working in clip art advertising for 32 years now, having recently been the spokesman for Pasta Boy cereal. He met me after his weekday job washing bottles at a sperm bank. Exchange follows -
Useo - Hello, Chef Okeydokey. You look terrible. Are you ok?
Okeydokey - I will be as soon as I get a shower, a smoke & two fifths of rum. So what can I do for you? I'm in a hurry. That pasta may look good on the cans, but it makes me sit on the can! Ha Ha!
Useo - Ugh. Thanks for that vision. So, you are prominently shown all over the new mashup compilation 'Now Thats A Mashup', how did that come to occur?
Okeydokey - Oh, Mort, my agent gets all my gigs. He's a marketing whiz. He also represents this freak who looks like he's made of actual tires, & he's got that color-changing lizard & the cave-men, & vikings all signed with his agency. He told me he'd like to retain the mashup deejays as permanent clients, except he fears the corporate blowback over hiring bootleggers. Did you know those mashups piss off the labels?
Useo - Uh...no...uh...that's news to me. So how do you like the collection?Have you heard any of it?
Okeydokey - How could I not? Everywhere I go some shlep has it blaring on his ipod deck. I swear I dread waiting for the bus because I just know some fool will have that Kid Cudi-A Plus D mashup roaring at full volume. Why can't the kids listen to good music anymore, like Streisand, or Sinatra?
Useo - Actually,Sinatra is on the album twice. Each disc ends with him singing. The mashups nowadays get around to all kinds of music. There's some Stevie Wonder & Bob Marley on it as well.
Okeydokey - Hey, that sounds alright .I like that Stevie Wonder, & Bob Marley did that great song 'When the sun hits your eye like a big pizza pie,that's amore'!
Useo-Uhhh....You might be thinking of Dean Martin, but no harm done. Bob Marley probably really liked pizza, & twinkies & even snacks in general. So, in future will you be appearing on more mashup-related projects?
Okeydokey - Yeah,for sure-tenty (sic). Mort tells me I'll be smiling & giving the traditional 'thumbs-up' on the new MASHSTIX album in about 3 weeks. They even agreed to theme the collection along pasta lines. I think it's called 'Mashups About Linguini'. When Mort told me that, I joked they should sign me up for a big plateful! Lmao! Well,look,kid, I got'ta go, & I mean in the bathroom. Ravioli waits for no man.
Useo - Ugh! Well, thanks a lot for your time, Chef.I hope everything comes out alright for you...I mean..well, you know. See ya.
Okeydokey - Don't shake hands with me, kid, I don't know where you've been, or in who! Ha ha!
DJ Useo again here. Skip this part if you want, but here's the complete playlist for both discs. Grab the files in 256 kbps or 160
here -
( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/2011/03/now-thatsa-mashup-new-compilation.html )
disc 1 - playlist
01 - Sean Kingston - Beautiful Mashup (DJ Earworm)
(Sean Kingston vs Sean Kingston)
02 - Krazy Day N Nite (A Plus D)
(Pitbull vs Lil Jon vs Kid Cudi vs Crookers)
03 - Doctors Calvinize Dancing (ThE hOmOgEnIc ChAoS)
(Lady Sovereign vs Chemical Brothers vs Beastie Boys vs Alex C. & Y-ass vs Freemasons)
04 - HotMaus (DJ Lobsterdust)
(Van Halen vs Deadmau5)
05 - Not My Smoke Tonight (MarcJohnce)
(Christina Aguilera vs Deep Purple)
06 - Film Girls in Town (Copycat)
(Little Boots vs Duran Duran)
07 - Groove Is In The Girls (Dunproofin)
(Deee-lite vs The Prodigy)
08 - I Believe In A Thing Called Rave (10000 Spoons)
(Altern 8 vs The Darkness)
09 - AmpLive f/ Trackdemics and Micro Jaxson-Gary Is A Robot
(DJ Useo Transistor Mix)
10 - Strike Da Monsta (DJ Swiss Cheese)
(Monrose vs Culcha Candela)
11 - Dance To The Sound Of Unity (Eve Massacre)
(Math Head vs Afrika Bambaataa vs Bloc Party vs Dynamix II)
12 - Rockin With Mommy (dj BC)
(Funkadelic vs MC Lyte)
13 - Fumbling Over Modular Words (The Hood Internet)
(Edan vs Stereolab)
14 - Echo & The Bunnymen-Thorn Of Crowns
(Go Home Productions Remix)
15 - Hurting Lenny in the Ashram (Colatron)
(Nine Inch Nails vs Camille vs Larry King vs Lenny Kravitz vs John Foxx vs Skream vs Frank Sinatra)
disc 2 - playlist
01 - Queens of the Stooges (ToTom)
(The Stooges vs Queens Of The Stone Age)
02 - Dubstruck (Divide & Kreate)
(Apollo 440 vs AC/DC)
03 - Unwanted Whisper (The Kleptones)
(George Michael vs Bon Jovi)
04 -I Got More Than A Feeling (LongVersion) ([MMM] MadMixMustang)
(Black Eyed Peas vs Boston)
05 - ELO Diggity (Voicedude)
(Blackstreet vs Electric Light Orchestra)
06 - The (English) Beat-Save It For Later
(Party Ben vs Laidback Luke Remix)
07 - In-A-Gadda-Blue-Monday (DJ Schmolli)
(New Order vs Iron Butterfly)
08 - I Love The Way You Mix (Lie) (Mashup-Germany)
(15 asst)
09 - Wicked Sarabande (DJ Le Clown)
(Haendel vs Busta Rhymes)
10 - Im A Fireman (DJ Zebra)
(Spencer Davis Group vs Prodigy vs Beastie Boys vs Rolling Stones)
11 - Good Love Good Rock (DJ Moule)
(Led Zeppelin vs Joan Jett vs Does It Offend You Yeah? vs Peaches)
12 - Religion In The Wind (Lasso The Moon)
(R.E.M. vs Kansas)
13 - Cyprestition (Lenlow)
(Stevie Wonder vs Cypress Hill)
14 - Happy When I Get It In (DJ Riko)
(50 Cent vs Royksopp)
15 - Fireflies By Me (Dj MashUP)
(Owl City vs 50 Cent and NeYo)
16 - No Woman No Wild (Side)(Team9)
(Bob Marley vs Lou Reed)
17 - Fly Me To The Club (Envision)
(Frank Sinatra vs Flo-Rida f/ David Guetta)
Mix Of The Week
Pulled entirely out of a hat at random is DJ Vapour's 'DNBaachen 3 deck radio mix, March 2011'. It's great Techstep, & the handling of the tunes is superior. Grab yours
here -
( dirtybeatblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/mix-dj-vapour-dnbaachen-3-deck-radio.html )
Mashup Tip : Nothing really matters,so go wild!
Latest Useo Thing
I put Armand Van Helden On Anita Ward & got called a pervert. Lol.
Listen to the results here -
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/03/funk-bell-anita-ward-vs-armand-van.html )
Podgornio, the Mashup Psychic Predicts - Mashups will be the first music played when we land on Mars in 2018. It looks like it will be a...yes, a DJ Matt Hite track using Lady Gaga & Human League.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Jim Hightower: The War on Cold Medicine Isn't Working
Much of the success of American law enforcement can be traced to this important reality: Criminals tend to be stupid. In other words, they catch themselves.
John Robbins: Being Fat in America (Huffington Post)
The Heart Attack Grill literally celebrates obesity. Customers who are over 350 pounds eat for free. A scale is strategically placed at the center of the restaurant, so other diners can watch the weigh-ins. When customers exceed 350 pounds, says the restaurant's owner, "Everybody applauds and cheers for them. A big smile comes over their face, and for once they are finally accepted. They are not picked on here."
Lisa Yee: When Writing Becomes Real (Huffington Post)
My parents were teachers, so we didn't have a lot of money. However, I had something better. I had a library card. There were three books that I checked out over and over again.
The drain in Spain: the country's arts crisis (Guardian)
The country spent a fortune trying to place itself at the centre of the art world. So why do its best artists all leave? Adrian Searle travels to a nation in the grip of a cultural crisis.
"Everyone Loves You When You're Dead" By NEIL STRAUSS (Barnes and Noble)
Reviewed by Ward Sutton in cartoon format.
CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN: Caring for Your Book Collection (Wall Street Journal)
How Nancy Bass Wyden, co-owner of the Strand Bookstore, displays and stores books in her own home.
"Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life" by Nick Phillipson: A review by Yuval Levin
And yet Smith was more than a profoundly important figure in the history of moral philosophy, economics, and liberal political thought; he was also, in his eccentric way, a quite charismatic man.
Alexandra Alter: The Case of the Best-Selling Author (Wall Street Journal)
How Mary Higgins Clark, a former Pan Am stewardess, has stayed at the top of the publishing game since 1975.
Evan Sawdey: "20 Questions: Eisley" (Popmatters)
After leaving their major-label home and releasing the best album of their career, Eisley's Sherri DuPree-Bemis took some time out of her day to answer PopMatters' 20 Questions, revealing the importance of "Sun King", how awesome Abraham Lincoln was for rocking that beard, and why she'll always choose lightsabers each every time ...
Meghan Daum: 'Friday' and 15 minutes of flame (Los Angeles Times)
Rebecca Black's surprise YouTube music video hit, "Friday," was followed by tens of thousands of nasty Internet comments. Nowadays, this is how you know you've made it.
Stevie Nicks: The men, the music, the menopause (Guardian)
Fleetwood Mac's frontwoman is one of the last old-school rock stars left - and she's still walking the walk, finds Craig McLean.
David Medsker: A Chat with Ben Johnston of Biffy Clyro (bullz-eye)
"We are loath to be late to a musical party, especially when it involves any band that could be described as 'Anglo.' When Scottish power trio Biffy Clyro first popped up on our radar last week, well, we were embarrassed. An intense rock band with a fondness for melody and Muse-like tendencies, whose 2010 album Only Revolutions sent a whopping six (!) singles into the UK Top 40? How the hell did we miss these guys?"-David Medsker
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Called By Berlusconi's Defense
George Clooney
Silvio Berlusconi's defense lawyers on Tuesday named George Clooney, the Italian foreign minister and a bevy of showgirls as witnesses at the premier's upcoming prostitution trial, an attorney and news reports said.
Prosecutors, for their part, have asked to hear from 136 witnesses, including the Moroccan teenager at the center of the scandal and 32 other women who allegedly worked as prostitutes during parties at Berlusconi's villa, according to Italian news reports.
The 74-year-old Berlusconi is accused of having paid for sex with the Moroccan, who is known as Ruby and was 17 at the time, and then using his influence to try to cover it up. The premier denies wrongdoing.
Clooney was listed because Ruby once said she had seen the Hollywood star and his Italian girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis at one of Berlusconi's parties, according to the law firm representing Berlusconi.
George Clooney
Prosecutor Suggests Sing
Willie Nelson
A Texas prosecutor says Willie Nelson can resolve marijuana possession charges by agreeing to plead guilty, pay a fine - and sing "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" for the court.
County Attorney Kit Bramblett says he recommended the penalties to Hudspeth County's judge Becky Dean-Walker. Bramblett says the judge specifically demanded Nelson appear in court instead of pleading by mail, which is a common procedure in such cases.
Bramblett has told The Associated Press that the judge "wants to meet Willie."
Nelson was arrested Nov. 26 for marijuana possession at a Border Patrol checkpoint after an agent smelled an odor coming from his vehicle and decided to conduct a search.
Willie Nelson
Makes Impression
Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren is still making an impression in Hollywood.
The Oscar winning actress sank her feet in wet cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Monday, joining a long list of celebrity hand and foot prints in the courtyard of the famed Hollywood tourist spot.
The ceremony comes less than two weeks before the release of her latest movie, "Arthur." She plays the nanny to the irresponsible billionaire played by Russell Brand.
Mirren won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 film "The Queen."' She also got Oscar nominations for her roles in "The Madness of King George," "Gosford Park" and "The Last Station."
Helen Mirren
Season 5 Pushed Back To 2012
'Mad Men'
AMC says "Mad Men" is definitely coming back, but the new season won't be on the air until 2012.
The network's announcement on Tuesday came amid reports of ongoing negotiations between Lionsgate, the studio that produces the series, and its creator-executive producer, Matthew Weiner.
The announcement took note of the delayed start in shooting the new season, which will be the series' fifth. In the past, "Mad Men" has aired in the summer or early fall.
The much-acclaimed drama stars Jon Hamm as an advertising executive and divorced family man working in Manhattan in the 1960s.
'Mad Men'
Hospital News
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor returned to hospital for at least the fifth time this year on Tuesday after coughing up blood, a spokesman for the ailing actress said.
Gabor, 94, was briefly hospitalized last week with high blood pressure when she learned that Elizabeth Taylor had died. Her leg was amputated in January because of a gangrene infection.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Blames Abortion For Social Security Woes
Rick Santorum
In his latest trip to New Hampshire, Republican Rick Santorum says the Social Security system would be in much better shape if there were fewer abortions.
The former Pennsylvania senator and potential presidential candidate was asked about Social Security during an interview on WESZ-AM radio in Laconia on Tuesday morning.
He says the system has design flaws, but the reason it is in big trouble is that there aren't enough workers to support retirees. He blamed that on what he called the nation's abortion culture. He says that culture, coupled with policies that do not support families, deny America what it needs - more people.
Santorum has been a frequent visitor to New Hampshire, which holds the earliest presidential primary.
Rick Santorum
Judge OKs Support Order
Sam Kinison
A judge says it's too late for a man to contest nearly $200,000 in unpaid child support for a daughter who was likely fathered by comic Sam Kinison before he died in 1992.
Carl La Bove asked a judge to invalidate an agreement with his ex-wife that required him to make the payments.
Recent DNA tests have shown Kinison likely fathered the child born to La Bove's ex-wife.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Trent Lewis told La Bove during a brief hearing Tuesday that he was years late in contesting paternity and trying to nullify at least $188,000 in back child support.
Sam Kinison
Federal Lawsuit
Golden Globe Awards
The longtime producer of the Golden Globe Awards has asked a federal judge to uphold its broadcast deal with NBC, arguing that it helped restore the show's reputation after a scandal in the early 1980s.
Dick Clark Productions and the show's organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are locked in a federal lawsuit over who owns broadcast rights to the glitzy awards show, which draws in millions of viewers each year. The HFPA sued the production company last year claiming that it sold the broadcast rights to the show through 2018 without proper permission.
Attorneys for Dick Clark Productions, also known as dcp, however claim they have rights to produce the show as long as it airs on NBC.
They wrote in a filing Monday that the production company spent years restoring the reputation of the show after controversy about whether an award was improperly bestowed knocked the Globes off major networks for a decade. CBS canceled its broadcasts of the show after the HFPA awarded Pia Zadora a best newcomer award allegedly after intense lobbying by her husband.
Golden Globe Awards
Movie Showing Canceled
'El Santo'
The iconic Mexican wrestler "Santo" never took off his mask. But some of the villains in one of his movies took off a lot more than that. And it's causing a controversy about the sometimes cheesy but always heroic 1960s film star.
The Son of Santo is also a wrestler and he says release of the previously undistributed scenes could hurt his deceased father's image.
Guadalajara film festival director Ivan Trujillo says the restored scenes from the movie "Santo and the Treasure of Dracula" show topless female vampires.
The footage was found by a descendent of the film's producer the festival planned to show the movie in its entirety.
Trujillo says the showing was called off due to the son's protests.
'El Santo'
Returning Painting Looted By Nazis
Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum says it will return a 370-year-old painting that once belonged to an art dealer who fled Holland when the Nazis invaded in 1940.
Art dealer Jacques Goudstikker's collection was looted, with some works claimed by Adolf Hitler's deputy.
The Getty says it bought the 1640 Pieter Molijn painting called "Landscape With Cottage and Figures" in good faith at a 1972 auction.
An attorney for the Goudstikker family says at least four other museums in the United States and Canada have works from the collection and he hopes they will follow the Getty's lead.
Getty Museum
Won't Be Charged For Rehab Scuffle
Lindsay Lohan
Prosecutors say they will not pursue a battery case against Lindsay Lohan in connection with a December scuffle with a rehab worker.
Riverside County District Attorney's spokesman John Hall says prosecutors determined there was insufficient evidence to pursue a misdemeanor battery case against the actress.
A worker at a Betty Ford Center facility east of Los Angeles accused Lohan of battery in December. She was later fired after talking about the incident on camera with celebrity website TMZ.
Prosecutors had been reviewing potential evidence since then and announced the decision on Tuesday.
Lindsay Lohan
US Author Fights Back
Mahatma Gandhi
An American author on Tuesday angrily dismissed claims his new book on Mahatma Gandhi alleged that India's independence leader was a racist bisexual who left his wife for a body-builder.
Indian newspapers were outraged by reviews in the United States and Britain of Joseph Lelyveld's biography that focused on Gandhi's relationship with German-Jewish architect and amateur body-builder Hermann Kallenbach.
Gandhi lived with Kallenbach in Johannesburg for about two years from 1907 before leaving South Africa to return to India in 1914.
"How completely you have taken possession of my body," Gandhi was quoted as saying in a letter to Kallenbach. "This is slavery with a vengeance."
The book also details how Gandhi said cotton wool and Vaseline were "a constant reminder" of Kallenbach -- a reference the author believes might relate to enemas that Gandhi gave himself.
Mahatma Gandhi
US Syphilis Study
Guatemala
As U.S. doctors in Guatemala were wrapping up one of the most unethical medical experiments they had ever conducted, a Guatemalan medical official praised the lead researcher as noble and thanked him profusely.
The Guatemalan official's praising letter from more than 60 years ago is among thousands of documents released Tuesday concerning the doctor who led the study that infected Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis in the 1940s.
The records released by the National Archives reveal new information about Guatemalan officials' involvement in the research, though it's not clear if they were aware of all the details of what the U.S. doctors were doing.
The papers that belonged to U.S. Public Health Service researcher Dr. John C. Cutler were formerly housed at the University of Pittsburgh but lay in obscurity until a medical historian discovered them. Her finding made international news in October, when the U.S. government acknowledged the research had taken place and apologized for it.
From 1946-48, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau worked with several Guatemalan government agencies to do studies - paid for by the U.S. government - involving deliberately exposing test subjects to sexually transmitted diseases.
Guatemala
The Superlawyer Whose Death Went Unnoticed
Hollywood
For Arthur Crowley, messy personal lives were good for business.
Crowley, whom legendary producer Robert Evans once called "the toughest Irishman attorney west of Chicago," practically invented one of the stock characters of the current tabloid world: the celebrity divorce lawyer.
Today, few things move newsstand sales and boost online traffic more than broken vows. But long before the likes of Hollywood superlawyer Laura Wasser regularly made headlines extricating Angelina Jolie, Christina Aguilera and Ryan Reynolds from failed marriages, Crowley -- whose death one year ago at the age of 85 drew strangely little notice -- was turning big-league divorces into can't-miss showbiz theater.
Known for his outrageous legal gambits, Crowley won a $20 million settlement for Johnny Carson's third wife, $42 million for the first wife of then Los Angeles Lakers owner Jack Kent Cooke, dug up dirt on Steve McQueen, sued Howard Hughes and helped divvy up the Frank Sinatra estate.
Crowley learned to play rough with the powerful and famous by staring down all of Hollywood in the notorious Confidential magazine libel trial of 1957. Representing the publication -- the National Enquirer of its day -- in a case brought against it by the state of California, the attorney subpoenaed more than 100 stars including Elvis Presley and Clark Gable to testify whether stories about them were true. (Perhaps the most infamous was an article alleging that actress Maureen O'Hara all but had sex at the back of Grauman's Chinese Theater.)
Hollywood
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for March 21-27. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 23.95 million.
2. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 22.66 million.
3. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 21.3 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 19.46 million.
5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 16.56 million.
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 14.81 million.
7. "Castle," ABC, 12.03 million.
8. "Undercover Boss," CBS, 11.87 million.
9. "The Good Wife," CBS, 11.7 million.
10. "CSI: Miami," CBS, 11.19 million.
11. "Survivor: Redemption Island," CBS, 11 million.
12. "Amazing Race 18," CBS, 10.96 million.
13. "Modern Family," ABC, 10.9 million.
14. NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut vs. Arizona, CBS, 10.82 million.
15. NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky vs. Ohio State, CBS, 10.71 million.
16. "Secret Millionaire," ABC, 10.63 million.
17. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 10.28 million.
18. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 10.01 million.
19. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 9.7 million.
20. "House," Fox, 9.49 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Farley Granger
Farley Granger, the 1950s bobby sox screen idol who starred in the Alfred Hitchcock classics "Rope" and "Strangers on a Train," has died. He was 85.
Granger, who died at his Manhattan home, was an overnight Hollywood success story. He was a 16-year-old student at North Hollywood High School when he got the notion that he wanted to act and joined a little theater group.
Talent scouts for movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn saw the handsome youngster and signed him to a contract. His first movie was "The North Star" in 1943, a World War II story that starred Anne Baxter and Dana Andrews.
A decade later, at the height of his Hollywood stardom, he walked away from it to really learn his craft. He spent the rest of his career in a mix of movies, television and stage work.
Granger was born on July 1, 1925, in San Jose, Calif., where his father was a car dealer. The business went bust during the Depression and in 1933 the family moved to Los Angeles where he was subsequently spotted.
His career halted for U.S. Navy service during World War II - "I was chronically seasick." But when he was mustered out he returned to Hollywood and the Goldwyn publicity machine.
The magazines ran pictures of Granger in swim trunks cavorting with such stars as Debbie Reynolds, Ann Blyth and Jane Powell. But he said the only serious romance he had with a woman was with Shelley Winters.
In the 2007 memoir "Include Me Out," written with his partner Robert Calhoun, Granger says he was bisexual.
He writes about a Honolulu night that epitomized his life. A 21-year-old virgin and wartime Navy recruit, he was determined to change his status. He did so with a young and lovely female prostitute. He was about to leave the premises when he ran into a handsome Navy officer. Granger was soon in bed again.
"I lost my virginity twice in one night," he writes.
His lifelong romance with Winters was "very much a love affair."
A briefer affair with Ava Gardner began when both quarreled with their dates at a Hollywood Christmas party. "We met at the bar and left together," he recalled in the interview. "It was a short but pretty intense and enormously fun affair."
He also writes about his same-sex celebrity affairs. For a time, he lived with Arthur Laurents, writer of the stage and movie versions of "West Side Story" and "Gypsy." In New York, Granger says he had a two-night fling with Leonard Bernstein.
Beside the two Hitchcock thrillers, Granger appeared in "They Live By Night," "Roseanna McCoy," "Side Street," "The Story of Three Loves," "Edge of Doom" and "Hans Christian Andersen."
But he wasn't happy with most of the films he was offered. "I was on suspension most of the time for turning down scripts," he recalled. Finally, in 1953, he effectively fired his boss and headed for New York.
In New York, he studied with Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner, among the top and most famous acting coaches.
He made his Broadway debut in 1960 in "First Impressions," a musical version of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." He later did two years with Eva Le Gallienne's repertory troupe and a considerable stint as the lead in the long-running thriller "Deathtrap."
Granger continued to make films over the years, including "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing," "The Serpent," "The Man called Noon," "The Imagemaker" and "The Whoopee Boys." He made several movies in Italy including Luchino Visconti's "Senso."
He also appeared in several daytime soaps, including "As the World Turns," "Edge of Night" and "One Life to Live," for which he received a Daytime Emmy nomination.
But he said he preferred the stage: "I feel I'm much more relaxed in front of an audience than a camera. I feel the response. The live audience really turns me on and I like it.
Farley Granger
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