Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/22/2002 07:26 AM PST

Something happened to my tongue.

8-P

There.

Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/22/2002 07:28 AM PST

Is this what the world has come to...that Ron Jeremy who allowed himself to bloat many years ago...is now a sexual icon?

Ah, the ignominy!

Maybe he deserves it, though. I've never heard any bad things said about him. And it's not like he's imposed himself "seriously" into legitimate endeavors like the limited Traci Lords. Yes, that's right. I don't find her endowments a substitute for dramatic presence. Sue me.

: )

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/22/2002 08:39 AM PST

And speaking of prominent acting endowments on ladies, Ron, I will diverge into Star Trek, just to say that I for one was initially unimpressed when Jerri Ryan was cast (and costumed!) for Voyager, as I was also initially unimpressed when Jolene Blalock was cast (and costumed!) on Enterprise--as both castings and costumings were such blatant attempts to lure the hormonal 15-year-old male audience by manipulating their libidos with anatomical objects of extreme size.

But subsequently I was extremely impressed by Ms. Ryan's acting, expecially since she was given the task of conveying strong emotions with hardly a change in facial expression and only the slightest waver in her voice. I was pleased that she had been saved from a life of Baywatch rip-offs that her endowments might otherwise have led her to.

And the same for Ms. Blalock. You see, I am no different from others in my subconscious prejudice and assumption that physical beauty precludes intelligence. There's my observation, for what it's worth.

In my CD Player: Dance a Little Closer

In my VCR: Last night's David Letterman, all ready for my viewing of "Good Morning, Baltimore!" when I return home from work.

Posted by William F. Orr @ 11/22/2002 09:09 AM PST

In the CD player: Hairspray which is an absolute delight, and First Impressions which, despite the allure of Misses Polly Bergen and Hermione Gingold, is not.

In the DVD player: I am finishing up all the extras on Monsters Inc. (which I thought was a surprisingly good film, but I suppose that is to be expected from the PIXAR folks) and next up is that all-time classic Can't Stop the Music.

I always found it amazing that Ron Jeremy had such a career as a porn star. His outsized johnson is attached to a body that can only be compared to that of a hedgehog.

Posted by Philip Crosby @ 11/22/2002 09:14 AM PST

Lithen Kimmel

I uppreshe-ate you not steal muh mutewial. Otay?

enub said!

Posted by Buckwheat @ 11/22/2002 09:20 AM PST

Nothing in my work CD right now but on tape (I have a small cassette deck here for things I don't have on CD) I'm listing to the OSR of The Bandwagon with Fred, Cyd, Oscar, Nanette and Jack. I do love this movie.

At home last night I broke out some holiday tunes and listened to one of the Sinatra Christmas albums (the one from Reprise where he does duets with Frank, Jr. and Nancy and Mr. Crosby pops in, also). In the VCR is an episode of Monk, taped for Anthony, since he's at rehearsal every night.

I don't know from Ron Jeremy.

Posted by Ben @ 11/22/2002 09:25 AM PST

In DVD: The Complete M*A*S*H 2nd Season. Although BK was only in the first season (and only Episode 23 at that) it was a great show, especially in the early seasons. Like many series it went on several seasons too long, but the first five or six seasons is television at its best.

In VHS: Last night's E.R. with Sally "They Really Like Me and My Goat" Fields.

IN CD: Time for the annual chapter a night of "The Cinnamon Bear", a Holiday tradition. For those of you younger Hainsies and Kimlets, this was a daily 15 minute radio show (actually about 12 minutes of program) that was broadcast nightly for a month before Christmas. It features many familiar radio voices (Verna Felton, Gale Gordon, Joseph Kearns) and is a delightful fantasy for children of all ages. It was broadcast every year from the late 30s to the late 40s and was usually sponsored in every city by a local department store. Does anyone else remember this show from their youth?

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/22/2002 10:06 AM PST

Well well well (that is 3 wells) - I have confirmed our mystery guest celebrity. I shall not tell you who it is, because that would be unseemly - since this person is a MYSTERY GUEST. So you all must come and partake in our most excellent chat on Monday evening to find out who it is....

Posted by Craig @ 11/22/2002 10:19 AM PST

In the CD player in the car: one of the Forbidden Broadway CDs, and my faves are the two miscast Kiss Me Kate tracks and Ethel Merman teaching the Sunset BULL-evard guy to sing.

In the VCR: one of Dear Reader Sandra's Red Dwarf blooper tapes.

Today we drove through downtown Scottsdale. They are putting up new Christmas decorations. My city planners have such good taste. The decorations are large plastic lizards affixed to the light poles.

Posted by Laura @ 11/22/2002 11:06 AM PST

Oh, and Dear Reader Jason -- how did the audition go yesterday?

Posted by Laura @ 11/22/2002 11:16 AM PST

In the CD player:
Neurotic Goldfish: Chamber Works by Alec Wilder
alternating with
Slim Gaillard: The Absolute Voutest! '46
In the DVD: The Manchurian Candidate. Great commentary by Frankenheimer.
Just heard there's going to be a remake. What, they're going to make it better?

In the late 70's, when I was working on one of my less successful sitcoms, I received a letter from a girl I knew in college, telling me that her brother, Ronny Hyatt, was a fledgling actor,and would I meet with him. I turned out to be no help at all, and shortly thereafter, he grew up(literally) to be Ron Jeremy.
So maybe it's my fault.

Posted by mark rothman @ 11/22/2002 11:22 AM PST

Mark

With the money he has made and his notoriety.. I doubt he would curse your name LOL

Posted by Craig @ 11/22/2002 11:24 AM PST

In my CD Player: The Phantom of the Opera...Dance of the Vampires Demo CD...On the Twentieth Century.

In my VCR: The 2000 Tony Awards

Dear Reader Laura (and anyone else who might be interested): The audition didn't go at all. When I got to the Equity office there was a note posted saying that they would not be seeing any non-union people. I left my picture and resume with the monitor but I doubt that anyone will ever see them. :-( Oh well...them's the breaks unfortunately.

Posted by Jason @ 11/22/2002 11:25 AM PST

Ok. Since I'm not in the biz, I'm interested in what it takes to become an Equity actor. Why? How? Why not? Etc.

Posted by Laura @ 11/22/2002 11:36 AM PST

Manchurian Candidate... New? Better? I don't know what they are thinking.
The speech has been worked on here and in Russia for the past 8 years. It is the most rousing speech I have ever heard. It will sweep us up into the White House with powers that will make martial law look like anarchy....and then I will crush them...for what they have done to you, and for what they have done in so contemptuously underestimating me.
It can only be redeemed by having Patty Duke play the Angela Lansbury role - and winning an Academy Award. 8-D

Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/22/2002 11:38 AM PST

Jrand55: Do you think they could arrange to shoot the scene while she's wearing a string of pearls suggestively wrapped around certain unmentionable areas (this is after all a family web site) covered by a sweater while she sings "It's Impossible"?

FYI everyone, there is a site that has MP3s of Ms. Duke singing greatest hits from Valley of the Dolls (TOTALLY OFF TOPIC). Oh, My G*D

http://www.topqualityrockandroll.com/av_page_VODrecord.html

Posted by Ben @ 11/22/2002 11:58 AM PST

I don't know, Ben - but I have that United Artists album and my favorite cut is Patty singing 'I'll Plant My Own Tree' and racing the orchestra to the finish. Orchestra wins by 6 measures although it's really no contest. I still don't know how she got her necklace to do that trick in the movie. (0)(0)

Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/22/2002 12:10 PM PST

I ended up buying the film Reefer Madness, this week and watched it as well. I'm now curious to know how much the musical follows from the movie like character and storywise. I saw a trailer for the musical and the only scene it basically focused on was the meeting for the parents with the principal which was in the movie. Has anybody seen both the movie and the musical, and if yes how close is the musical to the movie?

Posted by Brandon @ 11/22/2002 12:18 PM PST

Brandon, as I mentioned in an earlier post, there is NOT just ONE "Reefer Madness" musical. There are at least 7 adaptations that I know of (as of my personal copyright search in 1999). Completely different versions have been written and performed in Toronto, Seattle, L.A. and Portland, to name but a few. My adaptation (with Russ Cowan) follows the film quite closely (which is definitely not the case with the L.A./off Broadway version), with the exception of the hit and run scene (though we may be including that in our next run, which is currently slated for February 2003). All of the versions have had marked differences in tone and approach to the subject--the L.A./Off Broadway was in the vein of Little Shop or even Rocky Horror. The Seattle version was more bop-inflected. Our version is a mini morality play, where each of the characters has their own vice but is intent on focusing only on marijuana addiction (for better or worse).

Posted by JMK @ 11/22/2002 12:23 PM PST

I checked out Ben's recommended URL.

Oh, dear....

I like her as an actress, though!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/22/2002 12:34 PM PST

I, too, have that Patty Duke album on vinyl! Of course, I am a VotD freak.

In my dvd player:
Reign of Fire. It's like Howard Hawks meets Quartermass and the Pit meets John Wayne meets Dragon Heart. From an X Files director, no less! awesome sound, nice characterizations and splendiferous fire-breathing dragons.
Lord of the Rings Extended Edition - this one ain't goin' nowhere for a while.
In the car cd: Lord of the Rings Soundtrack.
At home cd player: Rhino's double disc special edition soundtrack for SINGIN' IN THE RAIN.
On Windows Media Player Playlist - the soundtrack to HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE.

Posted by td @ 11/22/2002 12:39 PM PST

Thanks for the info JMK.

Posted by Brandon @ 11/22/2002 12:44 PM PST

CD player - Jack Lemmon (Twist of Lemmon/Some Like It Hot) and soon the new Spike Jones collection from Collectors Choice (3 CDs!).

DVD - John Wayne in The Conquerer. Recently - The 50th Anniversary Singin' in the Rain and Disney's Silly Symphonies.

And I LOVE Patty Duke's VOTD album! Can't wait to hear her version of "The Farmer and the Cowman."

Posted by Robert Armin @ 11/22/2002 12:48 PM PST

Maybe they would have put you in a mask anyway Jason. Let's hope there is someone out there who recognises and wants to use real talent. That book on "Holding Out For A Hero" needs work. Does Anthony need an understudy for his "Pirate".
Strange. I don't recognise the names (or anything else) of any porn stars. Have I been renting the wrong videos all these years?
CD player: The Best Of Linda Ronstadt. A great compilation covering her career (pop) from "Different Drum" to Secret Garden's "Winter Light". It has those beautiful songs with James Ingram & Aaran Neville too.
Philip Quast "Live At The Donmar" and Judy Kay's "Love" cast recording.Where would I be without Francois and Allan? Still playing BK produced CDs I guess. AND WE NEED MORE of them.Can I wait for three weeks or so and hope LOTR arrives for my birthday. I will probably have to go out and buy it myself.Ron and td have convinced me. I also need to buy Potter - which at LAST is to be released here in widescreen format. If it's only three weeks until my birthday it must be less time to wait for Mr Kimmel's diet coke celebrations.
Jason: Is DOTV in your Cd player by choice or mistake?

Posted by Tom Guest (from OZ) @ 11/22/2002 12:57 PM PST

Well, since it's dotay, I think that all of us Patty Dukesters should be playing the new game I just happened upon on the web:

http://www.lemurlove.com/dolls/

"You've got to climb Mount Everest to reach The Valley of the Dolls..."

Posted by Helen Lawson @ 11/22/2002 12:58 PM PST

Mark - Are you the Rothman who wrote the story at
http://www.members.aol.com/anthel/mrothman.htm ?

That's one of my favorite episodes. Great story, by the way.

Posted by Robert Armin @ 11/22/2002 01:11 PM PST

Helen Lawson, you barracuda. Okay....two former Oscar winners and 3 FUTURE winners in VOTD.....let's separate the fans from the fanatics.
8-D
Do you think she'll wear her fascinator?

Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/22/2002 01:22 PM PST

For those of you Patty Duke posters above who haven't heard the news yet, the former $64,000 Challenge contestant is returning to Broadway next month for the first time since she played Helen Keller. This time she not only sees and hears but she also talks and sings (a few lines) as Aunt Eller in the Cameron Macintosh OKLAHOMA! revisal. I never thought I would see the day when Patty Duke played a role that was also played by Charlotte Greenwood! But there is no truth to the rumor that Aunt Eller will have an identical cousin Aunt Keller.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/22/2002 01:28 PM PST

In other news pertaining to today's postings, supposedly Denzel Washington will be playing the Frank Sinatra role in the Manchurian re-make. No comment of mine could possibly add to that.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/22/2002 01:29 PM PST

JMK:

Thanks for the clarification on Reefer Madness. I have your version only. And I must say that I was relieved that it wasn't unrelenting rock, but rather music correct for the period.

I really hate, hate, hate it any more when music for a show or movie is aggressively anachronistic, on the assumption that an audience can't abide anything except recent musical styles. (Vampires anyone? Someone could make a really wonderful musical of the Polanski movie, you know.)

Posted by William F. Orr @ 11/22/2002 01:34 PM PST

Only one hit come outta Helen Lawson show, and that's Helen Lawson; and that's me, baby!
Now if I were in Dance of the Vampires, I'd plant my feet firmly downstage center, and sing (unmiked, of course) to the rafters:
"Once upon a time there was light in my life..
Now there's only love in the dark;
Nothing I can do,
A total eclipse of the heart."
Before bursting into a warranted chorus of "I'll Plant My Own Tree." (You gotta chop down those trees to get those stakes to kill those ever-lovin' vampires, baby!)

Posted by Helen Lawson @ 11/22/2002 01:50 PM PST

Future Oscar winners in VotD:
Ricahrd Dreyfuss and Lee Grant
Former Oscar winners in Votd:
Patty Duke and Susan Hayward AND Andre Previn should count as a third; he and then-wife, Dory, provide most of the musical entertainment.
Was Mark Robson ever considered for an Oscar? PEYTON PLACE, perhaps?

Posted by td @ 11/22/2002 01:54 PM PST

Don't think Robson ever won the award, td, but it is not Previn....it is someone who appeared in the film. And it wasn't an 'honorary' Oscar.
Dreyfuss and Grant are correct.

Posted by JRand55 @ 11/22/2002 02:03 PM PST

How about Marvin Hamlisch, who appeared as the piano player?

Posted by Robert Armin @ 11/22/2002 02:07 PM PST

Mr Armin is correct. Marvin plays the piano in Neely's first scene! Look fast only one shot!

Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/22/2002 02:13 PM PST

Boy, I'm having a blast with
those recordings by Patty
Duke !!!!!

Well, I think I should throw
away my versions of those
songs by Judy Garland........

What is a riot are the liner
notes by the one and only
Gene Kelly; what is a "voice full
of action" ?????
Well, she sure had some
"energy" that needed to be
tamed !

That reminds me of Jason
Graae/Gene Keely singing "My
Singing Is A Pain" in the BK
produced recording of
"Forbidden Hollywood".....

I now have "Little Me" --
Short/Prince -- in my cd player,
as well as the TV soundtrack
to "Yankee Doodle Dandy", the
wonderful release by
Rhino.......

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 02:38 PM PST

Mistake, mistake !

erase: TV... soundtrack...

I was thinking of "The Grinch"
with Karlof and Thurl
Ravenscroft which i also got
recently...

That'll teach me for making fun
of Patty Duke's singing!!

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 02:47 PM PST

I should slow down my reading. My first reading of the Francois post was that he was playing "The Little Prince". I was quite excited for a moment. Such a beautiful score. Not an allusion to Michael Jackson anywhere intended.
I am so envious of all this Patty Duke music(?) you have all unearthed. Should it indeed have been dug up?
Loved the Aunt Keller comment William.
I just had an email saying that Brent Barrett's album was available. Oh Yeah! I'm likely to believe that. NOT.

Posted by Tom from OZ @ 11/22/2002 03:02 PM PST

CD: Lost in Boston IV,
Assassins, TFNM
VCR: Last night's CSI and
Without A Trace
DVD: currently empty, but
introducing another friend to
TFNM later tonight!

Very much enjoying Mr. Mark
Bakalor's top 12 while I type!

Posted by Jed @ 11/22/2002 03:25 PM PST

CD Player in bedroom - Carpenters "Ticket to Ride" (yeah, it never leaves)
Cd player in car - Rufus Wainright
DVD Player - Central Park production of "The Pirates of Penzance"
VCR - my recent production of "Side By Side By Sondheim" waiting for a viewing on Sunday

Have a great day... Matt

Posted by Matthew @ 11/22/2002 03:46 PM PST

To Robert Armin:

Yes, that's my story on the Sergeant Bilko website.
I believe that Bruce has a story on that same website right before mine.
Thanks for providing the link to it. If any of you have enjoyed my previous tales from the show business, check this one out. It's absolutely true, and as strange as it gets.

Posted by mark rothman @ 11/22/2002 03:46 PM PST

Dear Reader Kerry,

Did you break a leg yesterday? Or squish any other body parts?

Posted by Sandra @ 11/22/2002 03:48 PM PST

What a great Bilko/Odd Couple story!

Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/22/2002 04:19 PM PST

Tom from Oz:

FWA has its holliday dates
completely mixed up !!

This is NOT April Fools, is it ?

Yeah, sure, The Little Prince
with Faith Prince as the Rose,
and Martin Short as the
Short...eur Little Prince, I just
can hear that !!

"Why Is the Desert So Lovely
To See ?".... boy, I haven't
listened to the LP in ages !!!

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 04:54 PM PST

It's the wrong time
And the wrong place
Though your face is charming
It's the wrong face
It's not his face
But such a charming face
That It's Dotay with me!

Posted by Cole Porter @ 11/22/2002 06:01 PM PST

Francois et Tomas:

Only this week, I shipped off my lp of THE LITTLE PRINCE to be burned professionally to cd, so that I will be listening to it at a more regular rate!

Posted by td @ 11/22/2002 06:02 PM PST

Actually, although Andre Previn and Dory Previn wrote the songs in VOTD, it was future multiple Oscar winner and film music master composer JOHN WILLIAMS who arranged everything, orchestrated the songs and provided the underscore for the film. To boot, VOTD was his FIRST Oscar nomination...for adaptation!

BK: Okay, who was this mystery poster? Was it the first poster who referred to a Nov. 14 post about jigsaw puzzles, followed by a "Russ"-signed post asking why no one addressed that fascinating post????

Is there more????

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/22/2002 06:21 PM PST

I got an e-mail from Russ, assuring me he was a longtime dear reader (even from The Real A days). It was his first post on this site, and you know how I am about first posts especially when they're enigmatic. I've encouraged him to come back and join our merry troupe.

Posted by bk @ 11/22/2002 06:38 PM PST

A little Prince day it seems. I must check out my own vinyl and see if it is worthwhile transferring. As someone posted a while back, L & L wrote a beautiful score that was somewhat "cut" for the movie. I would love to hear it as written.
I thought dotay was a Gershwin musical.

Posted by Tom from OZ @ 11/22/2002 06:52 PM PST

Russ, post again !

Russ, post again, and
welcome !!

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 07:00 PM PST

Gene wilder was SO right in
the movie of Little Prince....

td, you're a doll !!

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 07:03 PM PST

Tom from Oz,

Your place must be like BK's,

Michael Shayne's..... and mine:

a true record store !!

I remember YEARS ago
reading Ben Bagley's was
even sleeping ON his Lps
collection since it was so
huge.

Allan !!

I'm listening to Friday Night Is
Music Night on the BBC Radio
2 site.....

That show is well over 30
years old I believe....
Wonderful memories!!
Film music, Broadway songs,
great singers and the BBC
Concert Orchestra.... all in
stereo on the internet !!!

Who could ask for anything
more ??? Oh, a Gerswhin
reference !

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 07:10 PM PST

DVD Player: Extended LOTR. Hasn't budged for days, except to change discs.

HOWEVER, for anyone out there interested in Easter Eggs who hasn't heard: First disc, in the scene selections, go to the last page and highlight Chapter 27, the Council of Elrond. But don't hit Enter yet! Instead, hit the "Down" key, and a Ring should appear at the bottom of the screen. NOW hit Enter. What follows is the parody of the Council scene, as presented on the MTV Movie Awards. Very funny!

Posted by SWoodyWhite @ 11/22/2002 07:14 PM PST

One more tidbit about Little
Prince:

before we -- French -- moved
to euros, our 5 franc bill was
dedicated to St Exupéry and on
one side one could see the
"hat", and, through filigrane,
you could see the elephant
inside the boa !!

"It"s a Hat ! It's A hat !"

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 07:19 PM PST

I just listened to The Broadway Radio Show with Mark Bakalor. Mark has the nerve to call all of us crazy?

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/22/2002 07:51 PM PST

Francois, when you call me "a doll," are you being complimentary and calling me a doll? OR, are you being cleverly insulting by calling me "a doll," when what you mean is "a pill!?"
I think that you are a doll in the former sense :-)

Posted by td @ 11/22/2002 07:59 PM PST

I was NOT referring to the
Valley thing, td, -- I don't know
you !! -- it was "appreciative"
like in "cupie doll"....

I'm French but I can be nice
too !
: )

As for the Radio Show, while I
use Real Player often, I have
NEVER been able to lissten to
the show, and I use a Mac !!!!
Frustrating !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 08:13 PM PST

Lissten or listen....

I have never been able to do
either or.....

A Doll That I Can Carry
The Girl That I'll Marry
Must Be..........

td, it takes one to know one !!

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 08:17 PM PST

Does everybody have their bowl of jelly beans ready?

francois - tu es tres joli!

Posted by td @ 11/22/2002 08:31 PM PST

Hey! I have Ron Jeremy in a movie in my collection, but he's clothed througout! No johnson shot of Ron, but since the movie (THE MATINEE IDOL) stars Ken Ryker, I'm not complaining (Oh, a Maltby and Shire reference).

Posted by td @ 11/22/2002 08:34 PM PST

Well, after yet one more call to the free 24-hour customer assitance line, the cable modem is finally back in working condition. YEAH! -And then after everything got fixed, my brother then realized that it was his fault the connection got messed up since he was trying to hook a new piece of equipment into the in-home network, and then didn't realize he had not re-connected everything back properly.

So, what have I learned from all of this:

-That a dial-up connection in Fairfax County, Virginia, is so slow due to all the standard phone line traffic in the area.

-That I depend way too much on the internet, but that's the way it goes nowadays, I guess.

As for what's in my CD/VCR/DVD players... same answer as last week... Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Notta-thing! Ah, the joys of rehearsals! Although I did watch some Jay Jay The Jet Plane videos this past weekend with my totally adorable four year-old nephew.

-I really am having a great time in rehearsals, however, and we had a nice outing tonight with some of the cast and the director and choreographer to my aunt's Filipino restaurant. Can you say, "rice"?

As for Ron Jeremy... Has anyone seen that infomercial he hosts for that "male enhancement" pill? Quite scary. And since they can't say the actual name of the body part in question, it's quite amusing to see how they work around that obstacle.

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 11/22/2002 08:54 PM PST

td: Ken Ryker, Matinee Idol... Fun, self-referential "flick"...

Sorry for all the young eyes reading the posts today.

Dotay?

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 11/22/2002 08:55 PM PST

I actually appeared in a movie featuring Harry Reems (though not in the same scenes).

Posted by Robert Armin @ 11/22/2002 09:09 PM PST

Have been catching up on some cataloguing of my CDs (yoiks!).

Too much conspicuous consumption. CDs, LPs, DVDs, VHS tapes. How could I afford all this stuff????????????

I have visited others' homes and see neat, spartan orderliness...with a small container of 13-15 CDs and get an embarrassed, "I know you must think I'm terribly extravagant having SO many CDs"...and I wonder, "How can they listen to those few things over and over and over again?" And, I wonder how on earth they amuse themselves with one or two DVDs on a shelf and about 10 VHS tapes, half of which are non-commercial.

I feel so ODD compared to those folks!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/22/2002 09:28 PM PST

Thank you for being sorry for
my......young eyes !

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 09:35 PM PST

Ron,

You are ODD but that's why we
like you !!
You fit in !.....

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 09:37 PM PST

CD player in the car: Revival of "Babes In Arms" with our very own Jason Graae

In the VCR: The video of my (assisted) solo skydive yesterday. And yes, Sandra, I did not break a leg, and all body parts are the same shape as they were before... and they're all in the same place.

DVD player: "The World of Henry Orient" which I ma waiting to see.

Posted by Kerry @ 11/22/2002 09:38 PM PST

Robert A.

Ha, ha ! I ALWAYS knew there
was something "dark" about
you !

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 09:40 PM PST

Kerry,

That "Babes In Arms" is great !

It also has some Kimmel
Players: Judy Blazer and Judy
Kaye...

... and jason Graae jokes
about it in his performance at
the Cinegrill.......

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 09:46 PM PST

I just listened to Patty Duke singing songs form VOTD. Do you think anyone (a producer, an engineer, an agent, anyone) listened to the album before releasing it? THose were the takes they chose?!?!!!!?!?

I like Patty Duke; I even have one of her albums (more for camp value than anything), but this one? Someone actually had to approve those takes, right?

Posted by Kerry @ 11/22/2002 09:49 PM PST

Ken Ryker ???

You mean the Buster Keaton
of porn ????

Was he in "Babes In Arms" too
?

Got a feeling not everyone's
telling the thruth about what's
in there dvd/cassette player !!!!

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 09:50 PM PST

make that "their dvd-players"...

Well, Patty then got the seal of
approval from Gene Kelly
himself...and I guess Patty
liked the way she sounded
too!

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 10:00 PM PST

I speak the truth as to what is in my players.
Robert, I got to meet Harry once, on a university tour.
Also got to meet Mr. Damiano, and, a young woman whose name escapes me, but she was the featured actress (!) in Memories Inside Miss Aggie...
Was Ken Ryker in Babes in Arms? Hmmm, I know that he has had some babes in his arms, otherwise, I couldn't say...at least not dotay.

Posted by td @ 11/22/2002 10:16 PM PST

Ken had the ARMS to be in the
show, but he is not BABE
enough !

Posted by François @ 11/22/2002 10:23 PM PST

Laura: I will explain what it takes to get in the actor's union (AEA) later. We had to work through AIDA tonight and it absolutely wiped me out. I'm going to bed. Have a good day everyone!!

Posted by Jason @ 11/22/2002 10:50 PM PST

CD playing in the car -- Michelle Nicastro, On My Own.

Legally Blonde is in the DVD player.

Let's see if I can make Monday's chat as I was still coughing furballs during the last chat. I know, I know, (that's two I knows) too much information!

Posted by Angela D. @ 11/23/2002 12:44 AM PST

In my CD player at work: HAIRSPRAY (original Broadway cast recording)

In my DVD player: TINTYPES (original Broadway cast). I won it on eBay and it came all the way from Brazil. You can choose English, Spanish or Portuguese menus and subtitles. It also came with a Brazilian magazine (program?) telling about the show. It also has an ad on the back cover for the other DVDs in the series: PUTTING IT TOGETHER, JEKYLL & HYDE, SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE and SOPHISTICATED LADIES (the only one that I don't have). The whole magazine is only in Portuguese. I've always liked the TINTYPES CD but it's always great seeing everything performed within the context of the show.

Posted by George @ 11/23/2002 01:41 AM PST

In the car CD player - the BBC version of A Chorus Line - spurred on by Michael Shayne's mention of it the other day. Michael Shayne, who hasn't emailed me - whassamadda? You don't want my seconds??
Also the BBC recording of 'Ragtime' from the live show in Cardiff. Or should I say Ragtime's Greatest Hits, because the BBC, in its wisdom(?) decided to cut almost the whole of the second act and replace it with interviews with the cast saying things like '..and so we see Mother develop as a real strong woman during the second act'. Yeah, we know that, just give us the show.
François, Le Passe-Muraille, c'est ou?? I wait in vain every day for the postman, and I'm sure Tom and William E are getting molto agitato as well!

Posted by Allan @ 11/23/2002 03:32 AM PST

What a great day. And remember - re:someone approved the takes:

it took Annette 6 takes to get TALL PAUL right!

Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/23/2002 04:59 AM PST