La Nuit Blanche

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La Confitería Ideal

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Tina and Sally and I made an afternoon excursion to this milonga, once, in BsAs (it already seems so far away!).  Lots of “funny” things happened that afternoon, in all senses of the word.  A highlight was going onto the balcony with Sally, and talking with a l-o-n-g line of people waiting to get tickets to a concert, two floors down on the street.

“Que estan esperando, ustedes??” screamed Sally.

“Madonna!!!” screamed the line of people.

“No way??” screamed Nuit.

“De donde sos?” yelled the line of people.

“London!” yelled Sally.

“Nueva York!” yelled Nuit.

“Long live Madonna!!!”

We were gleefully having an Eva Peron moment. I almost wanted to give them a Miss America wave.

Only in Buenos Aires….

Am I the only dork who has never seen or heard about this?

“LA CONFITERIA IDEAL: THE TANGO SALON”
that went on air at BBC Four channel on 8 April 2005

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Written by La Nuit Blanche

24 September 2008 at 11:04 am

Posted in Buenos Aires, tango argentino

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    24 September 2008 at 3:28 pm

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  2. It’s another one of those well hidden BBC documentaries. I only recently heard about it and I have BBC four.

    Limerick Tango

    24 September 2008 at 6:37 pm

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    28 September 2008 at 12:38 pm

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  4. Is it possible to find the whole documentary on line or for sale on DVD anywhere?

    Or are these 4 cuts from the film the entirety of it anyway?

    El Stevito de Gainesville

    2 June 2009 at 12:54 am

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  5. Yes, well done! I tried to search BBC and couldn’t find anything else yet either.

    El Stevito de Gainesville

    2 June 2009 at 8:50 am

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