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The movie that got me hooked: Mary Poppins. I was about seven when it was released and we saw it five or six times during its reserved-seat engagement.
The play that got me hooked was, curiously, a tour of Brian Friel's Lovers. I was too young to understand much of it, but there was a big TV star (Art Carney) live on stage in front of me and people around me laughing and a minimalist staging that could only be done effectively in a theatre. I was hooked.
Posted by Philip Crosby @ 10/14/2002 07:18 AM PST
The first movie I remember seeing was The Greatest Show on Earth back in 1952 when I was 5, although I might have seen Disney's Snow White (in re-release in the early 50's) before since my memory is a little hazy as to what came first way back then.
My first musical was the original Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream back in 1956. That got me hooked on musicals.
My first play (on Broadway) might have been Sunrise at Campabello with Ralph Bellamy back in 1959 or 1960 since I can't think of one that I saw live before that other than maybe a school production.
Posted by steveg @ 10/14/2002 07:23 AM PST
As for movies, the ones that made it stick for me were E.T. and On Golden Pond which came out when I was in high school. Before then, however, my parents used to take me and my brothers to whatever was showing at the base movie theatre - whether it was age appropriate or not. I vaguely remember seeing Flipper, High Anxiety, Star Wars (I still remember having to get up and go to the bathroom during the middle of it, and it turned out that I missed a couple of major plot points in the process as I found out during later viewings), Orca, Sinbad, and most of the Disney films of the time - I loved the Love Bug and the Nutty Professor movies!
Hmmm... Well, know that I think of it, I think the one "thing" that got me hooked on movies were our almost weekly outings to the drive-in when we lived in Seattle - I think it was Seattle. We must have bought every single contraption to "enhance" our viewing pleasure including the plastic canopy you could attach to the car with suction cups when it rained. Wow - haven't thought of that in ages. -Thank you, haineshisway.com!
Well, I'm off to seize my day - or at least dig through some boxes of music to get some material for a recording session I have this afternoon. Until later...
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 10/14/2002 08:12 AM PST
Oh, I almost forgot... As for plays, I remember a local professional production of The King & I in Connecticut when I was about nine year old. The fireworks effect was spectacular - at least to a nine year old - and I still like the sight gag involving the hoop skirts.
My first major play was a production of Ibsen's Ghosts with Liv Ullmann at the Kennedy Center. I went with my aunt who was visiting with us. I distinctly remember having a choice between A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room up in the Terrace or Ibsen in the Eisenhower. I wanted to see something "serious" so we went to see the Ibsen - and I was only 13! Well, even though a lot of the play went over my head at the time, I was still remember being totally involved in the production - Ms. Ullmann even got entrance applause. John Neville was Pastor Manders, and a then unknown Kevin Spacey was Oswald. "The sun... the sun..."
-And I still remember being very annoyed at the people who giggled and snickered at those final lines of the play. Ah, memories...
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 10/14/2002 08:24 AM PST
I guess I just never got hooked on movies. I rarely even remember going to the movies. There were no movie theaters close enough to go to by myself, and my mom rarely took me. I saw a few of the Disney movies.
I saw Phantom of the Opera in LA with Dear Reader Sandra when she was six years old. That was the one that hooked me.
Posted by Laura @ 10/14/2002 08:26 AM PST
Let's see....first movie I remember was "Pinocchio", seen in the early 60's when theaters seated 500+ . Just before or after that, I saw "State Fair" (I think) at a drive-in in Westbury with my folks (fell asleep in the back of a Rambler station wagon). Back then you mounted the speaker on your door to hear the movie - no FM simulcasts in those days!
As for shows.....my first experience was first performing in, then seeing "Oliver". I was in the third grade, having just moved to a new town and a new school. The music teacher was known for his summer school musicals, and I auditioned for his show. Casting day, he read down the list of roles and announced who got them. All, except for Oliver. When asked "who got the lead, Mr. Howard?" he finally replied "Oh yes, the lead.....didn't I say that Phil Essex got Oliver????"
Pretty heady stuff for an 8 year old.
Later that fall, my grandmother took me to NYC to see the real thing. Still the original cast, which included Davy Jones as the Artful Dodger. I remember her taking me to the stage door right after the performance ended, where I got a chance to meet Davy and tell him (rather proudly) that I had just been in a production of "his" show.
After an intro like that, how could you NOT get hooked onto the theatre???
Posted by Phil @ 10/14/2002 08:44 AM PST
The first film I really remember is 'Whistle Down The Wind' with Hayley Mills (a million times better than the appalling ALW musical). I was so young at the time that I thought the man really was Jesus and had to be gently disabused of the notion.
I got hooked onto musical films by 'The Sound of Music' (natch)and onto musical plays by a local Amateur Operatic Society's production of 'Kiss Me Kate'.
One of the first plays I remember going to see when I was at school was 'The House of Bernarda Alba' by Garcia Lorca (in translation). There was a scene where a mother discovered that her daughter had been doing 'it' with her boyfriend. One of my school friends was obsessed by the line 'Put hot coals in the place where she sinned' and went round quoting it for days afterwards. Weird.
Posted by Allan @ 10/14/2002 09:58 AM PST
Oh, forgot to remind everyone - the new radio show is up and running - special guest Lisa Richard chooses her twelve favorite show tune tracks - with the occasional comment from yours truly. It's a lot of fun, so tune in right this very minute.
Posted by bk @ 10/14/2002 10:07 AM PST
First thanks to those of you who gave me the info on WICKED. I just got back from Barnes and Noble and they actually had three copies in stock so it is probably a very big seller. I'll report on it when I've read it but first I am wading my way through a book about the makine of "Sunset Boulevard" (the movie, not the ALW fiasco). It would be a good 200 page booki but it is double that length.
I saw the original THIS IS CINERAMA twice in it's 3 panel glory at the Palace in Chicago (now the Cadilac Palace whene THE PRODUCERS tried out). I loved it. In the 70s I went to see it again at the Ziegfeld in New York not realizing that it was not even being shown in Cinerama. On one screen it's an average travelogue. On three it's magic (unless my memory was playing tricks with me). I wish it would come back in its original 3 screen format to a theatre in NYC. That's something the tourists won't be able to see at home (unless home is LA).
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 10/14/2002 11:17 AM PST
Oooh, Phil -- Davy Jones! My big sister still thinks he's dreamy!
Posted by Laura @ 10/14/2002 11:31 AM PST
Laura - so does my wife :)
Posted by Phil @ 10/14/2002 12:26 PM PST
Although my mother has told me at various times during my life that she took me with her to such films as "An American in Paris," "From Here to Eternity," "Shane," "Singin' in the Rain," "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and "Three Coins in the Fountain, " I have ZERO memory of those events. She's also told everyone else I was always a good baby and never cried when she took me places.
That said, though, I wasn't a baby during all those movies, although I was young. My FIRST memories of movies -- movies that REALLY impressed me -- were in 1956 when my folks and I saw "The Ten Commandments," "Anastasia" and "War and Peace." I remember each film vividly, although it was "War and Peace's" intermission I remember most...I didn't want the movie to end. I don't recall an intermission for "The Ten Commandments" but it most assuredly had one.
From then on, I was hooked.
My first stage experience was, rightfully, in grade school doing class presentaitons! That intrigued me. But it was many years later (about eight) that I actually got to see a live play in a theater -- a community theater, at that. My mother and I saw "The Odd Couple." After that, I would see other wonderfully produced plays, some with professional actors, doing "Stop the World! I Want to Get Off", "Brigadoon" and "That Championship Season." By then, though, I had already decided that would be my field of study and I embarked upon acquiring (and acquired) and B.A. in Theater Arts. The military intervened, during which time I was involved in community theater in Italy and Greece, acting and directing and producing, and having a ball. But as my career progressed, my free time turned to other pursuits and I left the dream and moved on.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 10/14/2002 01:00 PM PST
What is it with Davy Jones? My wife, who is otherwise a relatively rational human being, goes ga-ga over him, too. When she was anchoring at XRT in Chicago several years ago, the Monkees were there during their "comeback" tour and Betsy got a nice photo of her sitting between Davy and Mickey. We were sorting through old photos years ago and I made the mistake of putting that one in the "potential throw away" pile. If looks could kill is all I can say...
Posted by JMK @ 10/14/2002 01:13 PM PST
The first five movie I ever saw as a child were
Mary Poppins
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 10/14/2002 02:02 PM PST
JMK, you are lucky to be alive today.
Posted by Laura @ 10/14/2002 02:03 PM PST
Sad to report that 84 year old Ray Coniff has passed away.
And, um, the films; well, the first "adult" film I was allowed to see was DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (the theme from which became Coniff's biggest seller). If you do the math, you'll find that a nine year old boy was swept up into the romance of the tale, while the politics went completely over his head.
I remember drive-ins from my youth very, very well but the memory that is most vivid is of the trailer for WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? "Sister, sister, art so fair, why is there blood all through your hair?"
The first stage musical I saw was a Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera production of OKLAHOMA! that featured Pittsburgh home gal Judy Knaiz as Ado Annie, she would later create quite an impression on movie-goers as Gussie Granger in Pittsburgh boy Gene Kelly's film of HELLO, DOLLY!.
I have to admit to seeing the 1960s Cinerama films on their second runs, BUT on correct screens: HOW THE WEST WAS WON and THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM.
But as far as becoming aware of Broadway musicals, it was a gift I recieved from my cousin on my 5th birthday that did the trick: the OBC of THE MUSIC MAN.
Posted by td @ 10/14/2002 02:05 PM PST
The Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis movies of the fifties started it all for me. It was a holiday treat to go to the big city with our mum and see them. It was a replacement for the pantomimes such as "Jack & Jill". "Dick Whitington" etc of earlier years. It was the pantomimes (do they have them in the US - they still do in England) that probably had me hooked on theatre in the first place. My dad took us all to see Kismet and that was the beginning of my real love affair with Musical theatre. I did not really see many (if any) plays until 1973 when I spent a year in London and went to see everything possible - just to see Glenda Jackson, Kenneth Moore, Ingrid Berman and Deborah Kerr in one year was amazing. I loved the comedies such as "The Norman Conquests" and that year I also so the wonderful Dame Maggie Smith in "Private Lives" which started my interest (along with the London production of Cowardy Custard) in the works of Noel Coward.
Ah! Nostalgia.
Confession: I don't know anything about the "Pilgrim" songs mentioned yesterday.
Davey Jones managed a solo career in the pop charts here with "Theme For A New Love". "Dream Girl" etc. (At the same time as his songs with The Monkees. I think Mike Nesmith was the one with the talent. His "Rio" is a great song.
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 10/14/2002 02:46 PM PST
Strange, what I remember from my childhood isn't so much the films or plays (although I do have memories there), but rather the attitude my parents had towards them. To my parents, going to a movie or more particularly a play was attending a special event, something that wasn't done very often. A lot of this was because my father had to be out of town for weeks at a time, and his being able to spend time with his family meant spending it at home, not going out. But they also were always uncomfortable spending money on "frivolous" things. Thus, the only play I remember seeing while growing up was "My Fair Lady," starring Jane Powell and Edward Mulhare, presented in the round. (The theater where we saw this was located in the west San Fernando Valley, in what is now a church, from what I've heard.) The only reason we saw the show was because a charity group my mother belonged to went as a fundraiser, but I remember having a wonderful time.
Movies were, usually, relegated to going to a drive-in. They were cheaper. One time my sister wanted to go with some of her friends to see one of the Beach movies with Annette and Frankie. My father, of course, missed the point entirely (the girls going to a movie together) and herded the family into the station wagon to see...I forget what we saw, but we saw it in the station wagon. Another time, I wanted to go with a friend to see 2001. Where did we see it? He took us to a drive-in, where the screen was washed out from the lighting for a used-car lot located behind the drive-in lot. He never quite made the connection to why my friend and I were disappointed.
On one occasion, however, my father did things right. He knew he was going to be away for a particularly long time, so he arranged for tickets for not one but two movies, in thier road show presentations. The films: The Sound of Music, and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Now that was a special treat.
Still, it struck my parents as strange that, when I went away to college, I would find going to movies an enjoyable and not frivolous form of entertainment. The movies were along the lines of Cabaret, The Posideon Adventure, and Carnal Knowledge, my first R rated film. That shocked them, particularly when, on a visit home, I insisted on discussing the film intelligently. My choosing to discuss the film at the dinner table might not have added to the experience.
As for plays, I was fortunate to attend Fresno State University (you probably didn't know Fresno was a state, did you!), which had a good theater program. They produced six major productions a year, four on the proscenium stage and two in the black box, which is where I saw "Happy Birthday, Wanda June." I'd been particularly depressed, and happened to go to the play just as something to do, to get away from whatever. How was I to know I'd get so involved in the Act Three arguement that I'd want to get up and join in? (No, I didn't embarras myself that night, but I wanted to.) Theater became part of my routine after that.
Looking back now, maybe part of what got me involved in movies and plays was the chance to decide for myself what I liked or not. Books, on the other hand, are an entirely different story, and worth another day's question.
Posted by S. Woody White @ 10/14/2002 03:04 PM PST
Isn't it fun, fun, fun (that is three funs) to reminisce? I do it quite reguarly as I'm writing the sequel to Benjamin Kritzer. Speaking of the sequel, Harvey Schmidt has begun work on the painting which will grace its cover. Isn't that exciting? Isn't that just too too? Also, I was informed that I'd neglected to mention an anniversary that happened today. So, I'll discuss it tomorrow. Now, let's get some more posts here, posthaste. Yes, Virginia you must post in haste and that is all there is to that. And now, I must slave away until seven.
Posted by bk @ 10/14/2002 04:09 PM PST
We never went to many movies and we didn't usually have a working VCR, so I'm afraid I don't know from movies. The only ones I'm really familiar with are Big Top Pee Wee and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Posted by Sandra @ 10/14/2002 05:28 PM PST
Davy Jones.... Yeah, he was okay, but I recall Bobby Sherman. Ah, still makes my heart a flutter....
Hmm, first movies as a child... As someone from the old country, my father took us to see the Godfather, Valatchi Papers & Papillion. After those three movies, thank the heavens for Disney!
Posted by Angela D. @ 10/14/2002 05:46 PM PST
What are you, all on the Atkins post diet, where you lose weight by posting less? We must have MORE posts, MORE thoughts, otherwise we shall lose our place as the most popular site on all the internet and environs. So, let's have some evening traffic, shall we? Do it for the gipper. I, myself, about to leave work and go home, and wouldn't it be wonderful if, when I logged on, there were a plethora of posts? It would, it would.
Posted by bk @ 10/14/2002 06:45 PM PST
OK. Another post. I am sure that you all would like to know that I have just been playing Burl Ives singing "Little White Duck". Surely that must be worth discussing. Get a life Tom. (Actually I was recording it for someone else).Also on the same requests list was "Tell Me a Story" with Jimmy Boyd & Frankie Laine. Most of you guys probably have no idea about these songs. Such was my childhood!
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 10/14/2002 06:56 PM PST
More posts, you want? Well, I really have nothing more to say about movies. But I'll throw in this: It's still weeks before the election and the mudslinging in Arizona is well underway. I am so sick of the tv ads -- and I hardly ever watch tv!
Posted by Laura @ 10/14/2002 07:15 PM PST
Davy Jones? No way, give me Michael Nesmith. Same with Bobby Sherman, way outclassed by Robert Brown. (Which may be too obscure for some out there. Too bad.)
Laura, sorry to hear about the Arizona mudslinging. A friend of mine, State Assemblyman Steve May, lost out in the primaries due to three incumbants facing each other because of redistricting. So I suppose I should be glad he's out of slinging range. Der Brucer, that ever-loving partner of mine, is a political consultant, and every time we've had to deal with mudslinging, we've discovered that more mud clings to the slinger than the intended target. When are these guys going to learn?
Posted by S. Woody White @ 10/14/2002 07:49 PM PST
Ah, drive-ins. Early memories of movies seen at the drive-ins with my folks include "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "God's Little Acre."
Michael Landon's character stuck in my mind because I had no idea what an albino was until seeing that film.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 10/14/2002 07:52 PM PST
The earliest movies that I can remember going to were when we lived in Germany (my dad was in the army) and I was four or five, maybe six years old. I remember seeing one of the "Planet of the Apes" sequels (I know it wasn't the original) and Disney's "Song of the South"! I don't remember much about it except that we all had a great time.
Also when we lived in Germany, my dad was part of a community theater group and they put on (among others) YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN. My dad worked backstage for that. (It came full circle this past March when I played Charlie Brown in a local production of the revised version of the show.) He was a pretty good actor but couldn't sing worth a hill of beans. (How singing could be worth a hill of beans is beyond me, or even behind me.) He's so tone deaf that when he was cast in the chorus of GUYS AND DOLLS, both the director and the music director told him to mouth the words during the songs!
Posted by George @ 10/14/2002 08:03 PM PST
I have a question for Professor William F. Orr.
I need help with my trigonometry homework. I need to find the sine, cosine, and tangent of alpha/2, and the cosine of alpha is 12/13, and the angle is in Quadrant 1. Can you help me to get started?
Posted by Sandra @ 10/14/2002 08:09 PM PST
Sandra, did you know that sine, cosine, and tangent of alpha/2
is a Meltz and Ernest song? I thought it sounded familiar and there it was in an old song book of theirs. Amazing, isn't it. Perhaps I'll print a bit of it tomorrow.
Posted by bk @ 10/14/2002 08:15 PM PST
The movies that got me hooked -
Sound Of Music, My Fair Lady, and Annie. Is any wonder that I was surprised to learn, at age 6, that some movies actually didn't have songs in them?
Plays...that's tougher. My father used to be in many productions when I was a child, and I can't remember which was the first. But as for the ones that made the most vivid impression, probably Shadowland or Importance Of Being Earnest
Posted by Ann @ 10/14/2002 08:30 PM PST
BK, I can't wait! We haven't had a Meltz and Ernest song in a long time.
Posted by Sandra @ 10/14/2002 08:47 PM PST
Sandra, here's a hint:
To solve the problems at hand, use the formulas for half-angle identities.
For additional help, check your email.
Good luck!
Posted by Trigonometry Happy @ 10/14/2002 09:00 PM PST
S. Woody White:
Arizona voters are total idiots when it comes to electing governors. We elected a used car salesman years ago who regularly said stupid things and offended everyone except white Mormon men and was tried for misuse of funds (Kerry, correct me if I'm wrong -- all I remember is that Willard did it). Then we elected a real estate developer who gave everything (worth millions) to his wife and then declared bankruptcy when his business dealings went bad. We've had a couple of women governors since who have had no scandals attached to their names. The mudslinging issue now is polygamy in northern Arizona/southern Utah that has been going on for about 80 years and has never been brought up before. Here in AZ, whoever slings the most mud wins. And the other issue is Indian casinos.
On the positive side, I will most likely be out of town on election day and will not even be able to vote.
Posted by Laura @ 10/14/2002 09:29 PM PST
And one of the guys running for governor is named Matt Salmon. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Posted by Sandra @ 10/14/2002 09:33 PM PST
Two movies that meant a lot to me as a child were "The Boy and the Pirates" and "Stop! Look! and Laugh." The first starred a little girl named Susan Gordon (wonder what ever happened to her?) and the second starred Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff and featured excerpts from classic Three Stooges shorts. I acquired a Jerry Mahoney dummy shortly thereafter and learned ventriloquism and puppetry. A short time later, I saw the national company of "Carnival" and fell in love with the musical theatre. To this day, I prefer live theater to all but the very best movies.
Posted by Robert Armin @ 10/14/2002 09:35 PM PST
Sandra, these are the special equations for half-angle identities. It is a bit difficult to type in the formula, but I will try.
1) sin of alpha/2 = +/- the square root of 1 - cos alpha divided by 2
2) cos of alpha/2 = +/- the square root of 1 + cos alpha divided by 2
3) tan of alpha/2 = 1 - cos alpha divided by sin alpha = sin alpha divided by 1 + cos alpha
Does that help you to get started?
Since you know the value of cosine of alpha to be 12/13, you can plug that into each of the above equations and find an answer to each question. As to whether the answer is + or -, that depends on the quadrant the angle is in, and it is part of the given that it is in quadrant 1.
If you need more help, just holler.
Posted by Trigonometry Happy @ 10/14/2002 09:38 PM PST
Thanks, Trig Happy. That's a big help. But now I need to do my proof. It's in the pudding, you know.
Posted by Sandra @ 10/14/2002 09:40 PM PST
Robert, I've been wondering the same thing about Susan.
Posted by Charlie Herbert @ 10/14/2002 09:45 PM PST
I prefer flan to pudding, actually. Love that caramel sauce!
Posted by Trig Happy @ 10/14/2002 09:47 PM PST
Sorry I was errant and truant and truant and errant, but I had to work and take care of some other things. I read the posts but was too tired to come up with anything more scintillating than "I'm too tired to post." So I didn't. Post, that is. I did that a lot this weekend. Not post.
Some of my family was movie crazy, so we got to go to a lot. Mostly drive-ins, but we got to the nice theatres too. I loved all movies, but the ones that really got me were "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" and "Flower Drum Song." I had already played the OC of "Flower Drum" and loved all the songs. The movie that truly transported me completely was "Fantasia." I was never the same after that.
Later came "Unsinkable Molly Brown," "My Fair Lady," "Mary Poppins, "Sound of Music" and one of my all-time favorites, "Music Man."
I liked theatre but wasn't around it enough. The first good production I saw was a very decent (at least in my memory) high school production of "Oliver!" I wasn't in high scholl yet, so the actors didn't seem like kids to me. Musical movies had already warped me, so musical theatre just pushed me over the edge. I'm still over that same edge.
Posted by Kerry @ 10/14/2002 10:38 PM PST
Laura,
There is such a thing as voting early by mail. With the crackpots Arizona has running for election, you really should vote. We need as many sensible voters as we can get! If you vote, I'll buy you Oreo cake!
Posted by Kerry @ 10/14/2002 10:40 PM PST
I agree. Kerry is over the edge. :-)
Posted by Sandra @ 10/14/2002 10:43 PM PST
Ooooooooh! If Oreo cake is involved, I just might do it.
Posted by Laura @ 10/14/2002 10:45 PM PST
All this Trig. (Was that Roy Rogers' horse?). And I thought I was strange listening to Burl Ives!
There is a delightful photo of Susan Gordon on the back of the "Five Pennies" album. I'm sure she hasn't changed that much since then. I did hear she was seen recently in New York with a very suspect bunch of characters.
Sandra. Stick with the pudding (or even cake).
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 10/14/2002 10:46 PM PST
But the proof is 2cos^4x-cos^2x-2sin^2xcos^2x+sin^2x=cos^22x, which, of course, is in the pudding.
Posted by Sandra @ 10/14/2002 10:53 PM PST
No, no, no (that's three no's) . . . the proof of the pudding is in the tasting. And, if you ask me - which nobody has, of course - the pudding can't taste very good if it has all them numbers and symbols in it.
Posted by Georgie Porgie @ 10/14/2002 11:13 PM PST
Georgie Porgie, you should stick to the pie and leave the puddin' to us professionals.
Posted by Puddin'head Wilson @ 10/14/2002 11:33 PM PST
Speaking of pie....
Remember the child's game of peep-eye? That's when you shield your face, peep out at the child and say, "Peep-eye" and the child just laughs and laughs.
As a child, I laughed and laughed, too. Now I laugh because I always thought they were saying "pee pie", which if you think about it is reason enough to laugh.
"Want me to laugh! Sure! I'll Laugh! Just don't bring me any of that there pee pie!"
(I gotta get some sleep...I'm punch drunk silly and laughing..and you guys probably think I'm just crude as all getout).
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 10/15/2002 12:19 AM PST
Dear Ready Sandra:
I am so sorry that I was away from the computer until this morning and unable to help you with your trig. I am glad Trig Happy stepped in to help.
Problem all solved? What's strange about that problem, is that all the functions of α come out rational, although those of α/2 do not. Because
5² + 12² = 13²
I am all jiggy in antici
pation about the new Meltzer and Ernest song. I think trigonometry is a terribly romantic subject for a song. I do. Don't you? Course ya do.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 10/15/2002 05:56 AM PST
