“Something for Everyone” – an intermission
by richibi
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to my mind, the already formidable
then Angela Lansbury, 1970,
should’ve been at least nominated
for an Oscar, not to mention won
it, for her indelible impression of
Countess von Ornstein, an
aristocrat if there ever was one,
in the delightful “Something for
Everyone“
she has no money left after the
Second World War, but lives still
in her castle, which remains, as
stipulated in the relevant
documentation, in the family
into perpetuity
but she has trouble getting the
strawberries which she feels
are her right still, among other
threatened entitlements, out of
her sheer nobility
the young Micheal York, as Konrad,
on a bicycle trip through Austria,
sees the castle – Neuschwanstein,
in actuality, Ludwig ll‘s pied à terre
in Bavaria, standing in for the one
supposed to be in Austria – and sets
out to transform it into his own
domain
there’s yodelling, and dirndls, and
lederhosen aplenty, not to mention
a great deal of skullduggery, but it’s
a fairy tale, and, as such, leads to a
happy, of sorts, ending
R ! chard
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