June 25, 1997
Listening to Lena Home doing “Just one of those things” on a CD of Cole Porter music, I remembered her “star” qualities. Then I noticed somewhere in a news item that she is now eighty years old.
In my generation there was an adage or axiom about her: If you did not fall in love with her, don’t bother to go home. Just take a taxi to the funeral home; you are dead already!
I believe that is an accurate appraisal. Lena Home has surpassing beauty, extraordinary musical talent, charismatic personality, and that undefinable and matchless quality called “presence.”
There was no need for me to take a cab to the funeral home.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
10 years ago
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