5 January 1969 - Gal Costa & Tom Zé accompanied by Os Brazões at Teatro de Arena while their friends Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil were arrested illegally by the Military Dictatorship in the dead of the night of 28 December 1968 and kept incommunicado in a Rio de Janeiro army-barracks until such time as they were given the 'choice' of 'self-exile' in Europe or continued imprisonment. They chose exile and left Brazil for London, England.
13 July 1969 - The Beatles' animated movie 'Yellow submarine' (Submarino amarelo) opens at Cine Olido and Cine Iguatemi.
Andre
6 August 1969 - Andrezej Wajda's 1958 'Ashes and diamonds' (Cinzas & diamantes) is back at Cine Bretagne former Cine Normandie.
14 September 1969 - Stanley Donen's 'Charade', with suave Cary Grant and sophisticated Audrey Hepburn, first shown at Cines Ipiranga & Astor in October 1964 is also back. Music by wonderful Henry Mancini.
2nd November 1969 - Two Brazilian productions: 'Cangaceiro sem Deus' with Maurício do Valle, José Mojica Marins, Sergio Hingst, Annik Malvil, Isabel Cristina aka Guy Loupe and Zózimo Bulbul at Cine Marabá; at Cine Paulistano, 'Adultério à brasileira' with Jacqueline Myrna, Sergio Hingst, Mario Benvenuti, Newton Prado and Luigi Picchi.
2nd November 1969 - Italian movies were still very popular in 1969. So called 'spaghetti-Western' 'A pistola é minha bíblia' with Giuliano Gemma at Cine Augustus (former Cine Atlas) and 'Dio, come ti amo' with Gigliola Cinquetti & Mark Damon in its 28th week at Cine America (former Cine Europa) at Praça da República
12 January 1969 - while some of Brazilian singer-song-writers were persecuted by the bloody military establishment others were welcome in their blandness. 'Jovens p'ra frente' (Advanced youth) with Rosemary - being here outrageously compared with Julie Andrews by daily 'Correio da Manhã' - Jair Rodrigues, Oscarito, marvelous Heloisa Helena, Clara Nunes, Jose Ricardo etc.
12 January 1969 - Carlos Vergueiro writes about the latest single releases: Italian sensation Mina sings 2 Brazilian songs in Italian: 'Zum zum zum' b/w 'Sacumdi sacumdá' - Carlos Imperial pilantragem ditty originally called 'Nem vem que não tem'; the 'other' Italian diva Milva attempts against her own life according to an ANSA dispatch from Rome.
16 March 1969 - baladeer Wanderley Cardoso in his second featured film with 'Pobre principe encantado' (Poor charming prince) directed by Daniel Filho. This time instead of having the company of Renato Aragão & Dede Santana as in 1967's 'Na onda o ié ié ié' he's got old timer Chacrinha. I wonder whether it was any better!
16 March 1969 - balladeer Agnaldo Rayol hosted a very popular Friday night TV show called 'Corte-Royal Show' that he shared with comedian Renato Corte-Real. Agnaldo was a middle-of-the-rock powerful tenor who sometimes recorded a ballad that could eventually 'pass' as a rock-ballad. As of 1967 Agnaldo's TV show on TV Record was actually the most popular among them all beating Roberto Carlos's 'Jovem Guarda' and Elis Regina's 'O fino da bossa'. I have never watched 'Perigo à vista' (Danger on sight) so I could not give my opinion whether it's any good.
16 March 1969 - If Agnaldo Rayol has passed the litmus test and entered rock'n'roll glory, deceased torch-songstress Dolores Duran (she died in her sleep on 24 October 1959) could not be denied such a glittering prize. After all, Miss Duran recorded a few rock numbers in her days such as 'Love me forever'. The movie 'A noite do meu bem' took its title from Dolores Duran's best known song, actually the last she recorded before she died. Is this a rock-movie? Probably not, but Agnaldo's is not either...
16 March 1969 - stand-up comedian Jose Vasconcelos built up a large following doing impersonations and all kinds of stuff as a one-man-show in the early 1960s. Vasconcelos made a lot of money packing up large theatres like Cine-Theatro Paramount in Sao Paulo every night for years. He sold a lot of records released by Odeon-EMI. His album 'Eu sou o espetáculo' (I am the spectacle) sold hundreds of thousands of copies and was followed by others in the same vein. By 1967 Vasconcelos was persuaded by some land-developer that he could do as Walt Disney and build himself something like Disneyland in a large lot (1 million square metres) next to Rodovia Dutra km 21 near Guarulhos-SP. Nobody knows whatever happened to Vasconcelandia. It never lifted off the ground and those who bought shares in the company never saw the colour of their money again. Jose Vasconcelos never recouped his good-standing with the public anymore. In the 1990s he would appear as a supporting comedian in low-profile TV shows like Chico Anisio's 'Escolinha do Professor Raimundo' (Mr. Raimundo's school).
20 March 1969 - Thursday - daily O Estado de S.Paulo's columnist Carlos M.Motta extols Mike Nichols 'The Graduate' as a major experience. Released in the USA during the 1967 Christmas holidays it took 15 months to reach theses shores with the funny title of 'A primeira noite de um homem' (A man's first night)...
Andre
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