Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 09/22/2002 10:01 AM PST

OK, here is the Sunday thing I would like to do: introduce ourselves.

Yes, I know that many of you know each other already, but I have yet to get a very clear idea of just who is who, and what each person is like -- their interests, lives, and whatnot. And I would very much like to know.

So...I am Lulu. If you would like to have an idea of what I look like (or to find out just a bit more about the Weird World of Lulu), here's a link: http://sockmonkey.dyndns.org/~lulu/

I'm 31, and have lived in South Florida for a bit over 10 years. I was born, and spent the first 20 years of my life, in Indiana. I came to Florida to be with the man who is now my husband. We've been together for ten and a half years. No kids.

I've worked as a pizza spinner, optician, and dental assistant. I am currently a grad student being paid a strikingly small sum of money to edit the university's literary magazine (but I also have most of my tuition waived, so what the hey).

I've been bitten by the Gene bug and spend ridiculous amounts of money on glamorous '40s and '50s-style outfits for the 15 1/2" fashion doll Gene Marshall and her arch rival (and fellow clotheshorse), Madra Lord. When I was little, I remember prancing around the house on my tippy-toes pretending to be wearing spiked heels, a pink acrylic blanket flung over my shoulders as my "mink stole" (if I hadn't been born a girl, I'm sure I would have wound up becoming a drag queen). Now I live out my fantasies of glamorous Old Hollywood with my dolls, as I fancy my keister is a bit too largeish to try to wear such getups myself. Besides, showing up at the grocery store in satin and pearls tends to give a person a reputation for eccentricity.

My theatrical experience is limited to participation in school plays (though I did win an award for my portrayal -- with braces on my teeth, mind you -- of Miss Emily Caroline Brent in Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians" my junior year of high school) and of course, the Big Big Shows I used to put on in my bedroom for an invisible audience (I did this from the ages of 4-12). But I love going to the theater, watching movies, and listening to music -- show tunes and other good stuff.

Your turn!

-Lulu

Posted by Lulu @ 09/22/2002 10:10 AM PST

Don't forget that there will be a new Broadway Radio Show loaded on the site this afternoon -- this week -- some new CD releases for you to sample and purchase

Posted by Donald Feltham @ 09/22/2002 10:58 AM PST

[yawn] "Hmmmpf..! Wha...???"

"Wha' time izzit?"

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/22/2002 02:06 PM PST

It's Howdy Doody time you lazy loafers. Let's get some posts. We've done show and tell before, but let's do it again for those who haven't shared. For those who have shared, let's hear some Totally Hidden Secrets. Let's dish, let's have some dirt, let's get down in the mud and wrassle. Let's face the music and dance. Let's do it, let's. What the HELL am I talking about?

Posted by bk @ 09/22/2002 02:22 PM PST

Oh, Jose, I LOVE your topic!

My favorite desserts that are currently available are the creme brulee at the Atwood Cafe (it leaves an aftertaste like you've just had a perfectly toasted marshmallow) and the galactobouriko at Artopolis...both restaurants in Chicago.

But my all-time favorite dessert (which all who were there are STILL talking about almost 20 years later) was at a no-longer-there restaurant in Atlanta called Sidney's. It consisted of 3 perfect almond tuiles, on each of which was a pool of not-too-sweet raspberry butter cream (made with REAL raspberries and butter) surrounded by a necklace of alternating fresh raspberries and raspberry-sized dots of whipped cream. It was the kind of dessert you hated to see end. I wanted to take off my shoes and socks and dance on the empty plate in joy.

And Jose, I'm still waiting for that recipe.....

Posted by Pam @ 09/22/2002 02:55 PM PST

Icecream Icecream Icecream. Boring to some but I am addicted.
50+ years of addiction. Almost any flavour (not coffee) is fine. I love the sharp tastes of Rhubarb and Raspberries etc in icecream.

Lulu: Some kind reader will know the date. Only recently we did a run down on our backgrounds and whereabouts. If we do it again we may have to come with alternative realities or perhaps some of our lies are true.

Isn't this sleuthing story intriguing and exciting. I wondered where Craig was lately.
Do we have a spy in our midsts still? How uncomfortable.Get the to a nunnery or something. Out damn spot (or is that 101 dalmations?). Have a restful and stress- free Sunday everyone.

Posted by Tom Guest (from OZ) @ 09/22/2002 03:30 PM PST

Is everyone having a lazy lazy lazy afternoon? Where are your priorities? Where in fact did you put them last? (They hate being put last).

Posted by Tom Guest (from OZ) @ 09/22/2002 03:33 PM PST

BK:

Since the Emmys are on tonight I have a question:

Are you currently an Emmy voter or were you ever on?
Can you give an insight on how the voting procedure works?

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 09/22/2002 03:52 PM PST

I for one would to have loved about the Sherlock Holmes we have here. I can't wait. Tomorrow please!!

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 09/22/2002 03:54 PM PST

Pam: I posted the link to the recipe late Friday night, so it should be in the archives. *I know someone ended up making a late night trip to the grocery store because of it... How was it Michael?

Secret Fact about me: Whenever I'm playing in a pit, and the show has some "down time" in it, I will bring my origami papers and books and make folds during the show. If there happens to be a really inquisitive youngster - or oldster - looking over the pit at intermission, I will give them one of my creations.

-Sorry, this was not a scandalous fact... Maybe later tonight... After the Emmys..

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 09/22/2002 04:14 PM PST

Oh, I forgot...

Pam, I have had the galaktobouriko at Artopolis. Very good!

Of course, when I'm in Chicago, I usually end up starting my day with those cinnamon buns from Ann Sather's. Truly not gourmet, but very homey and delicious.

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 09/22/2002 04:17 PM PST

Thank you again for all the lovely birthday wishes. No cake for me. Not even any dessert. In fact, I hardly ever have dessert.

Being the very simple person that I am, I have never had a fancy meal or fancy dessert or been to a fancy restaurant. I would be too out-of-place to enjoy it.

I guess my favorite dessert would probably be apple pie or really good ice cream.

Good bit of detective work, BK. I hope some day you can tell us about it.

Posted by Laura @ 09/22/2002 04:52 PM PST

I have had many many good desserts, but I must say that the best has to be my mother's cheesecake. Pure Heaven. Sometimes with fruits, sometimes with chocolate chips, or pumpkins, sometimes plain, but always divine. Creamy, sweet, and a succulent crust.
I am also most fascinated to hear of the sleuthing work, and hope that you will be able to share details soon, and that the outcome will be favorable.
I participated in the Greater Cleveland A.I.D.S. walk today. I realized when I got back home at 2PM that that time was when I usually was still in my pajamas reading the Sunday Times. What an odd thought.
I can't think of any particularly dark secrets that I really want to share...wait, yes I can. I don't own Haines His Way. (I was referred by Mark Bakalor at Sondheim.com, having been a fan of "The Real A".) What is the best way to get it?
Ah well, back to homework.

Posted by Hapgood @ 09/22/2002 05:07 PM PST

I have never been an Emmy or Oscar voter. Grammy yes. As to the sleuthing, let's just say (for now, anyway) that I was able to unearth some connections between the person who started that bad stuff at ratm, and those connections were very interesting. Also, I was able to see that that person's profile on aol was totally bogus. What does that tell us, I wonder?

Posted by bk @ 09/22/2002 05:09 PM PST

Hapgood, what is the best way to get what?

Let's have some Emmy reports, as the evening goes along, always being careful of spoilers for whatever coast might warrant. Or maybe it's happening on both coasts at the same time, in which case spoil away. Let's have the dirt on the fashions, the obnoxious behavior, etc.

Posted by bk @ 09/22/2002 05:11 PM PST

I did not have too lazy a Sunday. However, I didn't break a sweat. I, with my niece, broke down a half-garage full of cardboard and loaded it all into the back of my niece's pickup truck (with a flat canope so that none of it flies away whilst driving down the freeway to the recycling center) and then we picked plums, apples and walnuts that are growing on the empty lot next door (that my sister owns).

My favorite dessert is one for which I've never known a name. Starting on the bottom, it has a walnut or pecan cookie-like crust, then a layer of cream cheese mixed with an appropriate amount of sugar. Next, a layer of chocolate pudding, then a layer of Cool Whip (although I do prefer real whipped cream) and finally, the whole thing is sprinkled with pecans. It's real simple, but I just love it more than any dessert, even cheesecake!

Posted by George @ 09/22/2002 05:15 PM PST

My favorite dessert would have to be the peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory. Yummm!!!! And Ben and Jerry's Phish Food. Oh, and Reese's peanut butter cups. And Twix peanut butter ice cream mixed with mint chocolate chip ice cream. (My mom always cringes when I eat that last one.)

Posted by Sandra @ 09/22/2002 05:23 PM PST

As for all the delicious sounding things up there I on a diet. so none of that stuff it will be hard as I have a sweet tooth and love chocolate.

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 09/22/2002 05:27 PM PST

Born: September 2, 1948, Rock Hill, SC.

Shortly after my 1st birthday, my parents moved to Johnston SC (a very small town that claims to be the peach capital of the world). When I was 8, we moved to Greenville SC where I spent the rest of my childhood/teenaged years.

I went to college in Mars Hill, NC. The school: Mars Hill College. My major: BA, Theater ARts, Minor: Speech, English.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy two days after college graduation in 1970 to avoid being drafted into the Army.

I spent 23 1/2 years in the Navy, all by 2 years of it as a journalist and broadcaster. During my career, I lived in Italy for 9 years -- 7 of them in Naples, Italy, five of those from 1987-1992. The first two were from 1974-77. My other two years in Italy were in Vicenza (Veneto region) from 1973-75.

Since retiring on Dec. 31, 1993, I have lived in Oakland CA. I work for the County of Alameda's General Services Agency in its real estate division as a secretary, bringing order and sanity into the files of leased and owned properties negotiated for by six real estate professionals.

It's a living...for now.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/22/2002 05:53 PM PST

Sorry for all the typos. I spent 21 1/2 years as a journalist/broadcaster. My first two years were as a radioman (morse code, air-to-ground communications, etc.).

My first two years in Naples were 1975-77 (vice 1974).

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/22/2002 05:56 PM PST

I posted this on the rec.arts.theare.musical board.

Thought that the delayed release (again) of Brent Barrett's Alan Jay Lerner CD was news worthy

I was/am looking forward to this release (One of Bruce Kimmel's last at Fynsworth Alley.) I was interesting in purchasing it as it had been delayed from the beginning of Spetember. But guess what! Delayed again. What is happening here????

From their website"

BRENT BARRETT
The Alan Jay Lerner Album
DELAYED!
We are sending out partial orders 9/19 & 9/20...so if you've placed an order for Brent Barrett and other CDs, we are sending your order minus Brent now. And then you will receive the Brent later when it is finally available! We are so sorry for the delay...and hope to have Brent's CD out shortly. We'll post a FIRM date when we have it. We are hoping for 10/8/02! But will confirm that date when we know.

As far as I can remember when Mr. Kimmel was there, there was never a delayed released.

Still looking forward to it, but will not pre-order anything till I see that it is available.

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 09/22/2002 06:26 PM PST

I wanted to see if I could track down the elusive Jon Brian Blake. The only hit I could find was his revue of the Matt Zaeley website which he gave 4 stars.

I still say what is Matt Zarley and how did get a solo album? His bio said "veteran of show business since a child, he's worked in virtually every capacity of the business. His television appearances include several commercials, music videos, the recent Disney renditions of CINDERELLA (with Whitney Houston), ANNIE (with Kathy Bates), GEPPETTO (with Drew Carey).

His appearance in Annie was a mere chorus boy in the Warbucks mansion. You try and identify him when those scene come up.

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 09/22/2002 06:32 PM PST

Matt Zarley may be a hunk, but, his album bites. It's all fluffy boy-band type stuff. Matt was named a People Magazine Eligible Bachelor and posed in a very beefcake shot for them. Is that what rates 4 stars these days?????
I've come across TWO-COUNT-'EM-TWO far superior singers with solo cds in the past month:
John DePalma, who may look a lot like a country & western version of Vin Diesel (I kid you not) sings like a dream! Should BK get a new label up and running, he should track down Mr. DePalma (and not the one responsible for BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES)!
Also, Parker Scott. Who may not have the looks of a Vin Diesel or a Matt Zarley, but who chose his album's material quite carefully, and included a song from Tesori's VIOLET as well as an a capella "Amazing Grace."
If Zarley rates Four Stars, these guys rate Eleven Stars.

Posted by td @ 09/22/2002 07:25 PM PST

Silly me, posting on a topic that was just covered. Oh, well, and now it looks like I was just wanting to talk about myself a really really lot. That's what I get for being away from the site for such a long time. Bad Lulu! Bad girl!

Emmy dish -- did anybody else see Oprah "A Little Bit More Human Than The Rest Of Us" Winfrey out in the audience, right before she was called onstage, biting the insides of her cheeks so that the pain would make her cry? Then when she came up onstage, what was that about "thank you, everybody who voted for me"??? Isn't it a Humanitarian Award? Is this like when Michael Jackson awarded himself the Artist of the Millenium Award on the VMAs? Also, did anybody else get the creepy feeling that they expected Bob Hope to have passed on by the time they gave the First Annual Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, and they tried to cover for it with that "Bob, I know you're watching right now" stuff?

I hope Oprah's filibuster is the longest of the evening.

-Lulu

Posted by Lulu @ 09/22/2002 07:30 PM PST

TD:

I have John DePlama album and it is on LML label. I highly recommend it.

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 09/22/2002 07:33 PM PST

Sorry for the confusion...I was asking about the best way to get the album Haines His Way.
My dad got a Verve compilation of songs sung by Anita O'Day. I just listened to it. She's really something special! Can anyone recommend a good album of her's to buy?
I'll look at the Emmy winners tomorrow. I hope that theatre people win some awards.

Posted by Hapgood @ 09/22/2002 07:41 PM PST

Michael:

I picked up John DePalma's "The Song is Mine" on Friday night - an impulse buy because "I'm Checkin' Out" was on there, not to mention the Randy Newman material; and I trust the LML label as much as I trust any cd that carries the Produced by Bruce Kimmel credit.
DePalma's cd is excellent for all those Kimlets who don't have it yet, what are you waiting for?
Michael and I give it two thumbs up.

Posted by td @ 09/22/2002 07:50 PM PST

Well, it's now post-Emmy time here on the East Coast. I actually took the one hour Sopranos break, but from what I could tell, the order of the award presentations was adjusted accordingly. I didn't see Oprah.

The comments by Giuliani were touching, and it was a nice touch to have him to present the Emmy for Best Drama Series - I think.

Unfortunately, I think the Milton Berle tribute was fine until the last moment when Larry King said, "makeup", and out came an actor with a giant powderpuff... At least it was a lot of powder/flour/whatever-they-used. Larry King was literally spitting it out.

Oh, and, the big upset of the evening - besides "Six Feet Under" only winning for writing - was Michael Chiklis. Everyone seemed very surprised, especially Mr. Chiklis.

Oh, here goes:

Born: August 26, 1968; Boston, MA

I am first generation American to my Filipino parents. My dad was in the Coast Guard (retired a few years ago), and my mom is a registered dietitian. My three brothers and I - YES, four boys! - were Coast Guard brats until our high school years. I am the oldest. We usually stayed in a city for two to three years before moving on.

I still remember going to four different schools for the first part of fourth grade. We would get temporary housing in a new place, then move into our permanent housing, and I would have a different school each time. I was even in one school for just a week! AND they gave me going away party! -Those were always fun. In fact, I was so familiar with school offices, that I even registered myself one time. I've lived in Arlington, VA (DC); Seattle/Port Angeles, WA; and Ledyard/New London, CT. *I was only in Boston for the first few months of my life, and my dad was stationed in DC twice. -I went to the same school for first grade and sixth grade, AND some of the kids even remembered me!

All four boys in the family play piano and another instrument(s) -clarinet, trumpet, french horn, percussion, alto sax(me). I am the only who stuck with it, and makes a living at it. -And I think my parents having finally realized that I am not going into computers eventually - but it's great that they care.

I also played mandolin for a while when we were in Seattle, and would have traveled with the Bayanihan troupe had my father not gotten transferred.

Basically, my family settled in Arlington, VA when I was 11. And it was actually hard adjusting to the fact that we were NOT going to move again, BUT it truly was nice staying in one place for a while and being able to make friends.

The theatre bug bit me in high school. I had been taking piano lessons since I was nine, but started getting into singing and acting too. The piano eventually won out, and I was working professionally starting in my junior year. When I started at Virginia Commonwealth University, I continued to commute every once and while between Richmond and DC for gigs. I graduated with a Bachelor's of Music in Piano Performance. Thankfully, I've been more or less making a living in the business since graduating. There has been the occassonal "day job", but I always had the "night job".

I like almost all types of music, and give all types of music a chance. I'm particularly fond of classical vocal music, classic jazz and showtunes (of course). I also like to cook, clean (strange as that may sound), collect teddy bears, read books (or at least buy them), and watch TV when I'm able to - I realized while watching the Emmys that I only saw maybe two or three weeks of primetime TV last year due to my work schedule.

I moved back to Richmond about four and half years ago, and, as luck would have it, I've only been actually living here for about a year and a half due to my time on the road and back up in DC. I like Richmond a lot. Right now, I only see it on Mondays for the most part, but it's such a nice place to come to and to call home. The city is very centering for me - and it's only two hours from DC (when there's no major accidents on 95).

My current project is EVITA for American University, then I go onto CARMEN JONES at the Kennedy Center and SOUTH PACIFIC at Arena Stage. I still try my best to keep my fingers "honest" by keeping my classical chops up, and as long as I'm playing, I'm happy.

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 09/22/2002 09:14 PM PST

Hapgood, I'm sure you can get Haines His Way at amazon or barnes and noble.

Posted by bk @ 09/22/2002 09:32 PM PST

Pam: What a wonderful description!
"It was the kind of dessert you hated to see end. I wanted to take off my shoes and socks and dance on the empty plate in joy."

We should ALL have such a dessert today!

Posted by kerry @ 09/22/2002 10:08 PM PST

Three things that made me very happy with the Emmys:

Stockard Channing winning the supporting actress, drama, award.

Stockard Channing winning the best actress, TV movie award.

Jennifer Anniston winning the best actress, comedy series award.

My least favorite Emmy win: Ray Romano. My choice: Matt LeBlanc, the funniest, most talented and versatile comedian on TV!

So sue me. It was only an opinion.

Go, LISA!!!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/22/2002 11:08 PM PST

One more....

Yes, I am guilty of premature expostulation!

I had no idea it would happen, but it did.

"Friends" won the Emmy for best TV comedy series!

Yes! It has been that for some time (since "Frasier" stopped being truly great a few years back).

Again, it's only my opinion and should not be considered an affront to anyone's personal tastes.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/22/2002 11:20 PM PST