Hurricane Cleanup reprint: Spooning with de Kooning
[We’re cleaning up after the hurricane and I didn’t have any time to write anything, this is a reprint of my first blog]
Spooning with de Kooning
DVD Corner:
The Criterion DVD Collection has just released the entire television series of the groundbreaking show “Spooning with de Kooning”. A short lived weekly interview program on the old Dumant Network in 1957. The show featured famed artist Willem de Kooning interviewing celebrities and newsworthy figures of the day while spooning them in an oversized bed. Shocking and controversial at the time it only lasted for 18 weeks. Disc one of the DVD features all 18 interviews, including those with Marlon Brando, Peggy Lee, Douglas MacArthur, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Robert Frost. Disc two which has bonus features including the complete uncensored interview between De Kooning and The Kingston Trio and a recent interview with pianist Dave Brubeck who wrote the theme music. The double disc also includes an extensive booklet with many recently unearthed photos and a New Yorker interview with de Kooning that was conducted right after the show was canceled.
de Kooning
Hope there wasn’t too much cleaning up to do and that you got off lightly. You should’ve set the dog on Irene, that way it might have missed you…
A shame we’ll never see the lost episodes of the Franz Kline cooking show, “Kline ‘n’ Dine.”