Yes. Sheila guessed it! It’s (meant to be) Nicole Kidman from “Moulin Rouge” done from my DVD of it last night.
Please note my totally extreme gonads in showing you what the actual DVD looks like:
Her face is wider than I made it and I had trouble “finishing the hat” — (name THAT musical) — and her earring is a scribble and, well, a veritable bouillabaisse of other such issues. But I’m okay with it for a 15-minute challenge.
Cabaret?
Sunday in the Park with George! One of my favorites!!
Finishing the hat
How you have to finish the hat
How you watch the rest of the world from a window
While you finish the hat
I love that musical. I have it on videotape and have the record. Yes, the record.
I love Sondheim. And Mandy Patinkin’s voice. And Bernadette Peters…who I remember seeing on the Merv Griffin show, standing there, singing some ballad, tears pouring down her face, and I thought WOW. She is the coolest person EVER.
That enough of an answer? 🙂
Jayne — Yes! Mandy Patinkin put out a really great CD of old standards and such back in the late 80’s. Songs like “Pennies from Heaven” and “Once Upon a Time” and “I’ll Be Seeing You.” I used to have it and I need to get it again. I think it’s just called “Mandy” or something. Are you familiar with it? Tearjerking songs — all of them.
I’ve always loved Sondheim — even some of his weirder or more obscure works — “Passion” or “Pacific Overtures.” And “Sunday in the Park with George” was an obsession during a very specific dating relationship/time period in my life. I do love it, although there are some mixed memories there because of the context, you know?
Tracey! I have that! OH, it’s fabulous. Now I have to get out all of that stuff and play it tomorrow. Because it’s all playing in my head now, and so I just have to hear it all. Because, for instance, all day today I’ve had stuff from “Sunday” going through my head, and I’m just hearing
“No one is you, George, no one can be,
But no one is ME, George, no one is ME!”
God, that gets me.
Sigh.
Oh, and the context with Sunday…yeah, I get it. I have stuff like that, too. It seems like nothing is just what it is. There’s always a connection to whatever was going on in my life at that time. They’re intertwined. I’ve got a soundtrack.
You did that likeness in fifteen minutes? That’s terrific, Tracey! A real talent. The only time I ever made something look like a real person it was an accident – and I hadn’t met the person yet. (Really, a couple of years later I got a job at Friendly’s and one of the cooks looked like a dude I’d sketched for a Christmas card. Truly bizarre.)
/(Really, a couple of years later I got a job at Friendly’s and one of the cooks looked like a dude I’d sketched for a Christmas card. Truly bizarre.)/
Hahahahahaha!