the wainwrights and the aviator

[liverpoolken]

I saw Martin Scorsese's The Aviator today and I feel ashamed to report that I failed to recognise that it was Martha Wainwright singing I'll Be Seeing You in one of the night club scenes.

I recognised Rufus's beautiful voice before I realised it was him. Loudon's performance of After You've Gone is the most bizarre thing that I'm sure he's ever done it a long career of the bizarre.

Great film. The scenes between Alan Alda as Senator Brewster and Leonardo DiCaprio are well worth the ticket price alone.

If Leonardo picks up an Oscar for his performance I for one wouldn't argue.

NB. It was the great late Liverpool poet Adrian Henri that in one his poems managed to ryhme 'Martin Scorsese' with 'onion gravy'.
Surely enough to have have him buried with Chaucer and Tennyson in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Ta ken

[reddust]

Rufus sung an amazing version of Hallelujah in the Sydney visitation of "Came so far for Beauty" the Hal Wilner compilation of 31 Leonard songs featuring 14 artists including his sister Martha and mother and aunt (the MGarrigles). He also covered Chelsea Hotel and You Know Who I am. He has an astonishing voice - as good as his old man. Its interesting that the conflict Loudon III had with II seems reproduced with Rufus.
Cheers