Saturday 9: As Time Goes By

Saturday 9: As Time Goes By (1958)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) This song begins with, "You must remember this." Do you often write things down to help you remember?

A. I am one of those people who make lists so I can remember things, and then I lose the lists. I'm trying to do better with this.

 

2) The lyrics tell us that moonlight and love songs are never out of date. Tell us about something else that seems timeless.

A. Stories. People have told stories forever and will continue to tell stories until we've had our last war and destroyed the human race.

3) Originally written in 1931, "As Time Goes By" is best known as the love theme from the 1942 film, Casablanca. According to the American Film Institute, there's only one song from a movie soundtrack that's more expressly identified with the film: "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz. What song reminds you of your favorite movie?

A. Into the West, by Annie Lennox, sung at the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's a beautiful song. I want it played at my funeral.

 

4) This version is from The George Sanders Touch, an LP recorded by an Oscar-winning character actor. There is scant evidence that it sold well. Tell us about something you thought was a good idea at the time, but looking back, would have done differently.

A. Freelancing for the newspaper instead of going on as a salaried reporter.

 

5) This album was really something of a consolation prize for George. He worked with a vocal coach, hoping to win the romantic lead in the film version of South Pacific, but alas, the role went to a younger man. He had fun making this record instead. Have you recently taken lemons and made lemonade? 

A. I made a chicken casserole. This may not sound like an answer to the question, but it is, because we were tired of plain ol' chicken and the casserole was good. So I took plain ol' chicken and made . . . chickenade.

6) He usually played suave but unsympathetic characters. That's why he gave his autobiography the self-aware title, Memoirs of a Professional Cad. What would you call your life story?

A. The Autobiography of Nobody

 

7) The night he won his Oscar, George Sanders accepted the statuette, bowed deeply and then, safely behind the curtain and away from cameras, surprised onlookers by crying. Have you ever cried tears of joy?

A. Not in a long, long time.

 

8) George Sanders wed perennial talk show guest and occasional actress Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1949. Sixteen years after their divorce, he married Zsa Zsa's less famous but also glamorous sister, Magda. After a month, George and Magda thought better of it and had the union annulled. Sam thinks this is one of the oddest romantic tales she's ever stumbled upon while researching Saturday 9. Have you ever known anyone who divorced one sibling and then married another? (Hallmark movies don't count.)

A. I can't think of anyone.

9) Random question: You're in a line of 25 people at the post office. How many of those other 24 are more patient at waiting than you are?

A. Two. I don't mind waiting, generally speaking. But in today's world, I would never go in the post office if there were that many people in there. Too many germs.

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