I die a little. After my retirement from the business management of PAROL I now take leave also of this blog. For me it was a lot of delight and joy to pay homage to these wonderful people, the divas and heros in the olympus of PAROL. I wish Jeanette Niebelschütz and PAROL good luck!
Othmar “Parol”
Die Parol Schals werden auch auf dieser schönen Plattform: Erdbeerlounge (”Denn Dein Style rockt”) präsentiert.
Und: mit ein bisschen Fantasie, Stylr und einem Quäntchen Glück gewinnst Du eine Reise nach Ibiza mit dem Partner/der Partnerin Deiner Wahl oder Deines Herzens.
on Saturday, 14 August, at Times Square. And PAROL´s Mae West scarves were the top prize in the raffle. And we got a very nice compliment: PAROL, those German neckwear geniuses … Come up and see: MaeWest.blogspot is the most passionate Mae West fansite all over the world.
Mae West is the real Snowwhite
Thank to the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming.
PAROL has dedicated this extraordinary beautiful scarf to the wonderful Katharine Hepburn who has met her Maker today seven years ago in the biblical age of 94 years. Into the scarf is knitted her word of wisdom
“Success is when you get what you want/
Happiness is when you want what you get”
Katharine Hepburn was also a master of pointed and elegant phrases. Here you´ll find an anthology you´ll enjoy.
Katharine Hepburn´s love story with Spencer Tracy was surely one of Hollywood´s greatest love stories ever. Admirable and amazing was the discretion of the twosome and the confidentiality of all friends who have known their relationship. Not until Spencer Tracy´s death 1967 this love story which has took long 26 years came before the public. Katharine Hepburn who has cared for Spencer Tracy until his death has called his woman and his family. With respect to the family she didn´t attend his funeral. As homage to this great love we like to present the final monologue of Spencer Tracy in their last concerted movie Guess Who´s Coming to dinner. Both knew that theses would be his last words in a movie. What a Good bye. 17 days later Spencer Tracy died
We don´t want to fail to give you the information that at 17th of July ther will be a very magic midsummernight gala at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
The great actress and chanteuse Zarah Leander has met her Maker today twenty nine years ago. The most beautiful words about her long goodbye Zarah Leander has sung in the song “Yes, Sir!”
“Und muß ich mein irdisches Gastspiel beenden, yes, Sir! Sollt ihr euch nicht gleichgültig von mir wenden, no, Sir ! Ich habe geliebt, und ich habe geküßt, weil die Liebe doch dazu erfunden ist, wie alle`s auch hier tun seit tausenden Jahren, nur darf man um Gottes will`n nichts erfahren.
Yes, Sir ! Yes, Sir ! So bin ich am ganzen Leibe ich , so bin ich und so bleibe ich. Yes, Sir!”
And this line PAROL has knitted into a very nice scarf made by finely combed cotton
Hallelujah, Zarah! Here you´ll find the Zarah Leander Scarf in the PAROL Shop. And here our post in the occassion of her birthday at 15th of March.
Changing of the guard. John Wayne to whom we´ve payed homage at 26th of May didn´t get a role in Hollywood he was eager to play. For Warner Brothers he was to old, 63 years that time. The part of the San Francisco Police Departement Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan has got the man of the day we heartly congratulate on his birthday. Clint Eastwood is now 80 years old, a living Hollywood legend. Monumental like John Wayne. Clint Eastwood is an old master – and he is not at all tired, he the “guy who is making movies”.
John Wayne´s quote “Speak slow, speak low and don´t say to much” would perfectly fit to Clint Eastwood, especially to his role of the man without name we´ve seen in the sixties of the last century in the Spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars more, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Clint Eastwood only needed to squint his eyes and to move the cigarillo between his lips; I don´t remember an actor who got such a high profil with so minimal. means. He is really laconic. Here you can see The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Finale with the music of Ennio Morricone, “Go ahead …” Clint Eastwood says to Eli Wallach.
PAROL pays homage to Clint Eastwood with a scarf the legendary catchphrase is knitted into it
Everybody knows the movies of Clint Eastwood and has some favorite ones. But Clint Eastwood was also a very good pianist, he is a Jazz-Afficionado – I like very much his Charlie Parker movie “Bird” – , he has written an composed also a lot of soundtracks. Obviously he enjoyed to sing, please listen “Beers to you” he has sung with Ray Charles. It must been a very, very good time and a very wet joke – and I need to be a bit tipsy because it´s not easy to honour two guys if this size in only one week. Okay?
Today 103 years ago was the birthday of Marion Robert Morrison, the later Duke of Hollywood. John Wayne isn´t absolutely an icon of gender mainstreaming. I´ve read a wonderfull homage to John Wayne by Claudius Seidl in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Learning from John Wayne: ugly, strong and dignified” (John Wayne requested his tombstone read “Feo, Fuert y Formal”). The homage is ending: “John Wayne, not a friend of abstract concepts, would have said: men and women don´t understand each other very well. But they cannot live without each other. That´s a challenge, man“. John Wayne was the toughest cookie ever riding in the wild west. John Wayne had a figure and physiognomy like the Monument Valley. My favorite movies were The Searchers, directed by John Ford, and Red River, directed by Howard Hawks. In these movies I´ve liked to ride with the Duke. Did you know that John Wayne could sing? Please, listen his duet with Dean Martin “Everybody loves somebody somtime ...”
PAROL pays homage to the Greatest Cowboy of all times with these scarves
Isn´t it, Ladies and Gentlemen?
And here you´ll find the beautiful and very informative official John Wayne Site. There are Old Guys Rules, for example “Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.”
Bei Richard Wagner wird niemand an die leichte Muse denken, PAROL hat ihm indessen mit einem Schal gehuldigt, in den eine Zeile aus dem Gesang der Rheintöchter eingestrickt ist, die doch, nicht wahr, etwas gaga oder dada ist, beschwipst, als ob die Rheintöchter nicht im Rheinwasser, sondern in Champagner baden würden.
Hier sind die Rheintöchter in der Inszenierung des Rings auf dem Grünen Hügel 2007
und hier die Kuschelvariante mit Schals von PAROL…
und hier kommt der abgefeimte Alberich „Nur wer der Minne Macht entsagt, nur wer der Liebe Lust verjagt, nur der erzielt sich den Zauber, zum Reif zu zwingen das Gold“ – und das wird natürlich zum Fluch.
Die eingefleischten Wagnerianer kennen natürlich die Verästelungen des Rings. Für uns Laien und Liebhaber mag diese einstündige Reise ins Innere des Rings eine erste Initiation in den Kosmos des Rings, seine Leitmotive und aus ihnen die Entfaltung des Musikdramas sein. Wir empfehlen natürlich die DVD, nicht nur weil die Tonqualität des ins Netz gestellten Videos wirklich nicht überzeugend ist.
In dem Eintrag v. 13. Februar haben wir von der kleinen, eben erst geborenen Elsa Isolde berichten können. Inzwischen freuen wir uns an Elsa Isoldes herzhaftem Lachen.
Jean Gabin – c´est un homme, he is a man, he is a human being. If trust is the fundament of our world, then you can hear the basic chord listening the voice of Jean Gabin Maintenant Je Sais
Jean Gabin is the rapper with an grandseigneur with the optimal tempo and human speed, slow motion, not a nervous chicken. Merci beaucoup, Monsieur Gabin. Today we will celebrate his birthday viewing the great movies The Sicilian Clan (Le Clan des Siciliens), direchted by Henri Verneuil, and Le Cercle Rouge, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.
We will not drink wine today but instead of milk we will drink pastis. Une soirée trés français. PAROL payed homage to Jean Gabin with these scarves
À votre santé!
Please have a look at our post of November, 11
Ist Louis van Gaal nicht süss? “Erstens, ich habe gesehen, viele Frauen sind hier. So auch viele Mutti. Ein dicker Kuss von dem Trainer von dem Meister…”
Herzlichen Dank, Bayern, für das Double!
Großer Frank, wir loben Dich,
Lahm , wir preisen Deine Stärke.
Vor Robben neigt die Liga sich
und bewundert Schweinis Werke!
Wie Butt war vor aller Zeit,
So bleibt Butt in Ewigkeit!
