September 25, 2002
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Birthday of Michael Douglas
and Catherine Zeta-Jones
To honor Michael’s adventures in “Romancing the Stone” (filmed near Veracruz, Mexico) and Catherine’s impressive performance as the daughter of Zorro, this site’s background music is now the Mexican birthday song, ”Las Mañanitas,” as performed at
Classical Guitar Midi Archives.
For the lyrics, courtesy of Dale Hoyt Palfrey,
De las estrellas del cielo
quisiera bajarte dos:
una para saludarte
y otra para decirte adiós.
From the stars of the heavens
I would like to bring down two:
One to say hello to you
And the other to say goodbye.
Update of September 28:
In honor of Degas, of the petite danseuse Leslie Caron, and of the opening this Sunday of the permanent sculpture exhibition at the National Gallery, this site’s background music has been changed, at least for the weekend, to Gershwin.
