What are your favorite YouTube rabbit holes?

[Ann72]

It happens to all of us once in awhile - we go down a YouTube rabbit hole 🙂

My favorites, with an example of each, are dance (https://youtu.be/UGsfzsWkybc), the Olympics (https://youtu.be/0B0tSnQKzwo), and VEEP (https://youtu.be/AmHWFmnioBM).  I could watch "Amy Brookheimer Is A Terrible Person" every week and never get tired of it.

What are some of yours?

[Ann72]

@Anna9170  OH MY LORD.  I had never seen that!  That finale was one of the most stirring things I've ever seen on the ice.  Amazing, Anna!

A little treat to have with your lunch from one of my other rabbit holes - this is a lesser-known Fred Astaire/Rita Hayworth number, short but charming.  She was my favorite partner for him.  https://youtu.be/Wh8-Z2bcyTM

[Anna9170]

@Ann72  

Darling 😂 , do not hold back, give me more of the same beautiful moments! 😍

Sometimes I feel like an old grandmother, because I look at such scenes and realize that before everything was soulier...

But, what is amazing. My eldest son is a student at a Film School in Barcelona since this year, and they have a huge amount of film material on the program for watching. Now they have just started, there is a small mix of silent movies and a little trying to understand the classics - Sidney Lumet, Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Haneke... And my 18 year old boy was delighted with the black and white old movies that I probably would not want to watch now). There is definitely some magic in these movies!

About Alex - sorry, there is a terrible quality, here is much better than the same program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYZYEaRKltM 

And Eugene, whom you don't love). In any case, they are both a huge event for figure skating.
This is one of the best performances of Plushchenko - Once Upon a time in America.😍
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCCZ2xRgvVo

And you know what they have the most unreal? Ha, of course these 3-4-3-4 jumps, ok. But, their track with steps is something fantastic. As you wrote above about the hands that should work, about the huge drive, emotions, it's in such tracks of steps I always get goosebumps. And a lot of people are jumping now perfectly, but no one can make such steps.

[Ann72]

@Anna9170  Before I run off and watch more Alex and some Plushenko, I have to tell you - it's amazing - like your son, my oldest daughter is an old film fanatic.  She just finished her masters in film and her professors adored her knowledge of classic Hollywood.  If you really want a treat, watch a pre-code film like "Trouble in Paradise."  Incredibly fresh and sexy.

My late best friend, Mary Cleere Haran, was a cabaret singer in New York, and Sidney Lumet had a huge crush on her.  She was always running off to have a meeting with a heartsick Sidney.

Okay, now for skating - I'm so so so excited about the steps!  (Like you, I'm always like, now you're done with your big jumps, let's get to the real soul of it all).

😘

[Ann72]

@Anna9170  Oh my, I 100% get Plushenko now.  His elegance is astonishing.  He evoked all of classic American film in a few movements, I couldn't get over it!  Yes, I see.  Thank you.

[Anna9170]

@Ann72  OMG, your eldest daughter a film maniac?  😎  And her education is also related to cinematography? 🤓
Here should play Indian music about the sisters who were separated in childhood and found each other many years later...🤣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUdJQSUcK_Y 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC_OcVCndi8 

[Ann72]

@Anna9170  LMAO, yes!!

But my mind is blown by Indian disco and Bollywood films being hugely popular in Russia in the 80s.  Somehow I think that cultural moment is amazing!  And wow, thank you for the introduction to Suresh Wadkar.  I thought that performance was amazing!

All I have for you in return is more Fred and Rita!  https://youtu.be/zxsVyKo0nNM

Goodnight darling!!

[Anna9170]

Darling, good morning! ☕

Yeah, more Rita and Fred! 😍they are amazing partners, such chemistry... 

And Patrick Swayze? He is my love) And in general favorite bright scenes from your favorite movies! 💃

You are right about Bollywood, in Russia there was an unbelievable fanaticism. In cinemas there were queues, and Amittah Batchan and Mithun Chakroborti were the most sex symbols. 😎 (De Niro, get out of here  🤣)

I love these movies for their stunning naivety, when it is immediately clear who is bad-bad and who is very kind and good. )))

[Ann72]

@Anna9170  Patrick Swayze!  Can't actually get enough of him.  🔥

Still can't get over that cultural marriage!  Have not watched enough Bollywood but the naivety I can see would be enormously comforting, especially at times like these.

[Anna9170]

@Ann72  
For your dinner - Spanish-Russian hello. preferably with a glass of Rioja. 🍷))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3auc9cPwD-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj8DVpDb_v0 

[Ann72]

@Anna9170  I can't wait 😘

[Ann72]

@Anna9170  That 19-year-old Plushenko! As soon as I saw it was "Carmen," I knew there'd be wonderful FOOTWORK.  It was great!

My computer's space bar is dying so I can't write more except thank you and big hug 😘

[Anna9170]

@Ann72  I can't edit my post anymore, but this is another perfect old school performance, even in a very very different field. Of course it is not Alex 😂, hell, but the School and the level of rhythmic gymnastics are clear. 😎

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSg2eVD6qpc

[Ann72]

@Anna9170  This was a surprise, but an excellent one.  Another top athlete/artist, at the top of her game.