{"id":9220,"date":"2009-04-01T16:39:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:02:10","slug":"bobby-darin-michael-row-that-boat-ashore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9220","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Darin: &#8220;Michael Row That Boat Ashore&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I can&#8217;t be sure, I&#8217;ll have to check my copious notes on the subject, but this clip below might be one of the hottest things I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>It is also one of my favorite clips in the history of the Judy Garland show.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s just <em>intense<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>An acting teacher of mine once said, &#8220;Every scene is either &#8216;Fuck&#8217; or &#8216;Fight&#8217;. Make a choice.&#8221;  He&#8217;s talking about objective there, not necessarily plot, or anything literal.  The calmest quietest scene in the world could be a &#8220;fight&#8221; scene, and a scene with zero nudity, no kissing, could be a &#8220;fuck&#8221; scene.  I loved that.  &#8220;Fight or Fuck.  Choose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I look at Darin performing there, and sometimes I feel the fight in him, sometimes the fuck &#8211; I fluctuate in what I perceive when I view the damn thing.  Regardless, it&#8217;s just hot to watch.<\/p>\n<p>The fist by his side.  How he claps.  His clenched jaw. How he engages the huge chorus &#8211; but there&#8217;s coiled anger there, too.  He is sitting on a world of impulse.  It&#8217;s seriously an intense performance.<\/p>\n<p>And wait until the last moment!  Boy ain&#8217;t done til he&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M58eoKaI2g0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M58eoKaI2g0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I can&#8217;t be sure, I&#8217;ll have to check my copious notes on the subject, but this clip below might be one of the hottest things I&#8217;ve ever seen. It is also one of my favorite clips in the history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9220\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24604,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions\/24604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}