Bread, Tulips and Roy Orbison

Next video watched, Bread and Tulips (Pani e Tulippani) Italian and subtitled in English. It was great! A light little comedy about a housewife who was on a coach tour with her familiy gets left behind at a motorway stop. She ends up in Venice instead of going home and it sort of has that "Shirley Valentine" feel without all the one-liners. Great shots of Venice. The characters she meets and makes friends with, mainly an older Icelandic man who talks very formally and a young scatty holistic masseuse across the hall are both great. The husband is frantic to find her but only, it seems, because he has nobody to iron his shirts and cook for him. He sends a somewhat hapless mama's boy plumber who loves detective novels to find her as a cheaper alternative to an expensive private investigator. The movie was absolutely delightful and ended very satisfactorily.

What's this got to do with Roy Orbison? Nothing. lol! I had today off and needed to buy my dad a birthday pressie and decided on a couple of cd's that he could play in the car. I picked up a Roy Orbison hits that i will probalby copy for myself before he gets it, and a Nat King Cole cd that has "Rambling Rose" on it. that was one of the songs in his limited repertoire when i was growing up. :) He's not that bad a singer but usually just gives you the chorus anyway LOL other songs that remind me of him are "White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" (remember, he's from the 1950's era) and then there's his Burle Ives impression that goes along with "Itty Bitty Tear"... you can always tell the difference between his BI impression and Arthur Godfrey. The songs are different LOL! :D Me dad is great! Silly at times, but great!