9. januar 2017 arkiv

Farvel til Peter Sarstedt, 75 år

9. januar 2017

Selv om Peter Sarstedt har udsendt en lang ræ¦kke album, så skal vi helt tilbage til slutningen af tresserne for at finde ham på hitlister og på manges læber. Men sangene “Where do you go to (my lovely)?” og “Take off your clothes” blev han en del af tresserpoppen. Herefter blegnede hans stjerne noget. Han boede en del år i Danmark, hvorefter han blev en del af den britiske tresser-nostalgi-bølge, der sendte ham og andre rundt på scenerne for at fremføre fortidens sange. Men han fortsatte med at lave plader med nyt. Så sent som i 2013 udkom Restless Heart.

For en del år siden, så jeg ham optæ¦de på gaden i Aarhus i forbindelse med Aarhus Festuge. Og det var som at være tilbage i tresserne. De gode gamle sange, den velkendte stemme og et publikum, der godt kunne huske så langt tilbage.

Velkommen til Bølleland – også kaldet Trumpistan

9. januar 2017


Golden Globes 2017 — Meryl Streep by tvvideoclips

But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good; there was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh, and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose. O.K., go on with it.

O.K., this brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call him on the carpet for every outrage. That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in the Constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, because we’re gonna need them going forward, and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.

One more thing: Once, when I was standing around on the set one day, whining about something — you know we were gonna work through supper or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, “Isn’t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?” Yeah, it is, and we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight.

As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.

[Meryl Streep holdt en Golden Globe-tale, hvor hun italesatte sin frygt for, hvad der kommer til at ske efter d. 20. januar]

Jeg vil ikke male fanden på væggen, men Streep rammer plet med sit signalement af det, Trump står for.