The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100296   Message #2009290
Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
28-Mar-07 - 06:56 AM
Thread Name: 'You're so vain' (Carly Simon)
Subject: RE: 'You're so vain' (Carly Simon)
Gosh, I had forgotten just how good those words are - reading them as text without the accompanying music brought them into strong focus again. What a brilliant songwriter she is -

Warren Beatty was always the name I heard bandied about as the most-likely candidate. You get the impression that this character has flown to the Nova Scotia eclipse more to be seen than to see. Every activity is tinged with that flash jet-set-ness that suggests a movie star, and the inward insecurity that goes with keeping your place as a celebrity.