Leslie Gore; a short tribute Good bye

Leslie Gore; a short tribute Good bye

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Edward w Pritchard

I often like a woman based on her voice especially one I never get the opportunity to know.

I was sorry to see that Leslie Gore the singer passed away earlier this week. I always had a celebrity crush on her. By celebrity crush I mean the kind of feelings that would dissolve quickly if you knew anything about the real person not just the persona that they project as part of their urge to succeed and be well known.

Good bye Leslie Gore I enjoyed your music.

Here's what I wrote before about Leslie Gore:

My crush Lesley Gore misbehaved on the bus to nowhere/ draft 1 in progress

please watch Lesley Gore sing on you tube " sunshine lollipops and rainbows" from 1965's " Ski Party"

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

My crush Lesley Gore misbehaved on the bus to nowhere. See her on you tube perform " sunshine lollipops and rainbows" posted by orele 1. Lesley has been riding around on that bus singing the same upbeat song over and over for nearly fifty years never reaching her destination somewhere off in cosmic beach movie nirvana.

The short you tube video starring Lesley Gore singing presents a brief essay in video of how a group of budding actors and actresses vie for success in America while riding endlessly on a bus to nowhere and breaks new ground as two handsome leading men dress in drag and pretend to be girls to pursue some other girls. As you listen to the song " sunshine etc." that Lesley sings note how the other actors and actresses interact with the camera and adapt to Lesley Gore's light hearted and unaffected domination of the camera and the spotlight.

Duane Hickman, he played Doby Gillis before this role, is the center of Lesley's attention as she sings and dances in the narrow aisle of the bouncing bus. Lesley misbehaves by laying Duane's right hand and arm across her left breast as she dances, and that's after putting her arm around his neck earlier in the performance. There's a lot of subtle context going on in the number as Lesley dances and the bus rolls along back in 1965. Duane rolls his eyes appropriately, sex was just blossoming in America prior to the summer of Love of 1967, before that sex didn't exist in America, just by suggestion.

In the movie, " Ski Party" the bad guy is blond arrogant handsome Aron Kincaide.  See his reaction to Lesley inadvertently poking her elbow into his face.

They say Lesley Gore's sexuality is provocative. As she rides along singing and swaying on the bus to nowhere she seems always a Lady to me.

Good bye sweet innocent Leslie, may you someday reach cosmic celebrity beach movie nirvana.