I just finished reading a great biography of Judy Garland entitled "Get Happy" by Gerald Clarke and it was amazing. A true tell all biography based on thousands of interviews, it told a story that made me happy, sad and at times, made me blush thinking about Judy Garland doing such things (she appar...

As I have done in the past, it is time once again to go through my many posts and clean up the World of Wonder a little bit. Since we are entering our fourth year on the web (hard to believe I know), I've accumulated a lot of files on my rapidshare account. So, as a public service to help clean up t...

This is how it’s done, kids. Rihanna and Chris Brown school us all on how to have chemistry on stage while performing their remix of “Umbrella” at the Jingle Ball in Chicago. Granted, it helps when the person you are singing to HAPPENS to be your boyfriend friend with benefits (we ...

Van Johnson, 92, a disarming and popular Hollywood star of 1940s musicals and comedies who later proved effective as a G.I. in "Battleground" and a conflicted naval officer in "The Caine Mutiny," died Dec. 12 at Tappan Zee Manor, a senior citizens home in Nyack, N.Y. No cause of death was reported....

  Liza Minnelli is about the last person whose recorded voice I'd ever want to sit around listening to—unless we're talking about the brilliant and undervalued Results album she did with The Pet Shop Boys  when she was only 43 and yet seemed to me at the time to have been 15+ y...

Barack rack rack rack Over the weekend I watched Over the Rainbow again. I couldn't even begin to list how many times I've seen The Wizard of Oz. I do remember a Washington theatre (no longer in existence) was playing it when I was very small. I was probably about age three or four and went with my ...

Here we go again. Magazines know that one of the easiest ways to engage their readers is to get them to react to the latest best-of list. So EW has gotten around to compiling a top 25 movie musicals list for its youngish readers who tend not to look at too many movies made before they were born, bas...

If you're looking for the absolutely gayest thing to do this Pride season, get this: It turns out the immortal Judy Garland never really croaked (but please don't tell that to the gays who rioted all those years ago at Stonewall, making history partly because they were pissed that Dorothy from The W...

While we wait for the Microsoft board to make its decision on what to do next in relation to Yahoo, here are some lovely ripped-off videos from YouTube to keep you entertained. BoomTown might start only writing about this takeover battle from Hell with musical accompaniment to make things seem more ...

Fred Astaire. Judy Garland. Irving Berlin’s Easter Parade Here’s Fred and Judy singing as homeless bums, “A Couple of Swells”. Some pretty voices for some faked up uglies, eh? ;) Tags: Easter Parade, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland Share This...