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Why were you so frustrated yesterday?
Posted by Kerry @ 03/14/2003 08:55 AM PST
First post. That hasn't happened to me in a long time.
Posted by Kerry @ 03/14/2003 08:56 AM PST
Second post. That hasn't happened to me in a long time.
Posted by Kerry @ 03/14/2003 08:57 AM PST
This isn't playing, it's a book, so it's sort of out of the usual Friday list, but what the heck. I'm currently reading "Wife of the Chef," by Courtney Febbroriello. She tells of what it's like to be married to a chef (well duh), and co-owning a restaurant. He runs the kitchen, she runs the front of the house. He gets the credit, she writes the book. It's interesting with its insights into the restaurant biz, but also in what it takes for a couple to work together, and work together well.
Posted by S. Woody White @ 03/14/2003 08:57 AM PST
DVD - I finally got around to watching SPIDERMAN. It's one of those movies that is enjoyable despite its many faults although I don't see why it was the biggest grossing film of 2002. Much of the original Spiderman story is missing (no Gwen Stacey) and the acting is a bit cheesey, but I think that's the point. And it's good to see Cliff Robertson back in a Columbia film after the whole Begelman affair. Now to get through the 3 discs of extras... later (oh - a Sondheim reference).
VHS - I recorded the Michael Feinstein hosted filmusical clip special on PBS which sounds like it is a mini-That's Entertainment. I will not watch anything as it is aired on PBS during their quarterly begathons. I read that this special will be 3 hours instead of ninety minutes when it's released on DVD in a couple of months, but I'll watch this version first.
CD-David Staller sings Rodgers & Hart - probably the best non-BK produced showtune vocal CD of the last several years. Staller should be much better known than he is. He has the looks, voice and acting ability to be a big star, but they don't do his kind of shows anymore. He made the Mufti CYRANO (the version from the early 70s) seem much better than it is and he was wonderful in a reading of a new show called MEMORABLE, a delightful show that is probably a little too old fashioned for the audiences of today.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/14/2003 08:57 AM PST
In the CD player: Just downloaded one of Ann Hampton Callaway's CDs and am loving that.
In the DVD player: Finally finishing up the AbFab box set. Whew! I need a drink!
Posted by Philip Crosby @ 03/14/2003 09:13 AM PST
Watched the DVD set of "Tales of the City" over the past two nights. Discs 2 and 3 have graininess galore in some night scenes. Looks like it's snowing it's so grainy. And this was an expensive set, too. John Keane's score (I think I'm remembering the composer's name correctly) is better than ever -- quite apropos, amusing and psychologically fitting.
In my CD player, same old things plus the second CD of the "The Color Purple" soundtrack. I found this at Amoeba in San Francisco for $5. Just the second disc and the back insert. Quite interesting to find it separated from the first CD. But the second one is the one I'd choose given a choice. Since I wasn't, I still got the one I'd want, which I do want.
I have a pile of CDs -- oh, yes! a pile of CDs -- to wade through, including the new, remastered "Goldfinger," "You Only Live Twice," "Thunderball" (all by Mr. John Barry), "The Swarm" (by Mr. Jerry Goldsmith) and "La Revolution Francaise" (by the late, great Mssr. Georges Delerue). (The 2-CD reissue which apparently is scarcer than hen's teeth).
Yes, the internet sites are a-hum, a-twitter and a-buzz over the Nick Redman interview. A noted troublemaker excerpted a nondescript factual statement by Nick about why he loathes the internet and, in particular, recounts one of his less-than-pleasant experiences, including his resolution of it with the offending party.
Mole hills have been likened to mountains. Even the person to whom Nick was referring chimed in to corroborate Nick's account and to aver that their differences were, in fact, settled.
Nick Redman is an extraordinary individual. The troublemaker wants to be considered one without earning it.
Thus endeth the motivation behind all this silliness.
I think Brockhurst Pertwee "might" agree with me.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/14/2003 09:50 AM PST
I am also reading, amazingly enough. "Gilligan's Wake" is hysterically funny and quite fascinating, combining elements of "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Gravity's Rainbow," and, of course, "Finnegan's Wake" and "Gilligan's Island." Highly recommended.
Posted by JMK @ 03/14/2003 10:10 AM PST
How appropriate that you're listen to Quincy Jones today, BK! I just heard on NPR that it's his 70th birthday.
I'm not watching or listening to anything. Purim is Monday, and I am in a frenzy of hamantaschen baking.
Posted by Pam @ 03/14/2003 10:10 AM PST
Oh my, oh my! I did just Google search on Nick's name under "Groups" and had a more fun than a WWF Bashdown reading the snivvly posts and mauve-to-purple prose that accompanies it.
I say, right on, Brockhurst! Dog snot and all! And Nick: my, my, my does your keyboard wax poetical when your dander is up.
I don't read these newsgroups regularly, but it reminds me of the days when I used to go to the library, pull out the New York Magazines, and read a year worth of John Simon in a pop, just to raise my blood pressure and see how vitriol is properly spewed.
Anyway, I loved the NR interview and learned quite a lot.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 03/14/2003 10:23 AM PST
That "Thomas Meuthing" is a piece of work.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/14/2003 11:07 AM PST
Well I'm glad I checked out yesterday's posts. I have some comments.
Jrand says:
Jennifer - I was hoping you would see Kerry's post about Trading Spaces. To be fair, Kerry, now and then the rooms turn out well.
Jen - I think Hildy is GONE. ON some show she said something about making her last room a good one...or something like that. Check the Trading Spaces board at www.tlc.com and see what's up.
OMG, Hildy can't be gone. I will have to check out the message boards. I did read something about her maybe leaving a while ago. But I hope it's not true. She got so crazy lately. Why would she want to leave???
Lulu wrote:
Jennifer:
Are you really able to just change it? I've heard that sometimes they do some pretty funky, pretty permanent stuff on Trading Spaces and that occasionally, the people cry. :( Didn't somebody wind up with 45s stapled to all of their walls? Pass the spackle and the spatula. :)
I think most times you can redo what they've done. Although most people wouldn't want to. Yah, Hildy did a few crazy undoable rooms this year. She staple gunned thousands of flowers to someone's bathroom wall. And she also stapled hundreds of records on someone else's living room wall. But that is totally the exception.
I guess I can't see why anyone would be afraid to do Trading Spaces. I would love it! Heck I would fly anywhere in the country to be someone's partner on that show! :)
Jennifer
Posted by Lulu
Posted by Jennifer @ 03/14/2003 11:21 AM PST
In the car CD player - The Crooked Mile - a British musical (OK, OK, that's enough) from the 50s by Peter Greenwell and Peter Wildeblood, who was apparently referred to by one critic as 'The British Bernstein'. Well, I wouldn't go that far, but it is very enjoyable. The only song I knew from it was 'If I Ever Fall In Love Again' which was on Sarah Brightman's 'Songs That Got Away' CD. Recommended.
Sian Phillips new solo CD 'And So It Goes' - nice selection of material and good arrangements, but she doesn't have the greatest voice in the world - a bit thin and reedy (I seem to remember Jose saying this was typical of British singers - I guess in this case he's right!)
And the very wonderful Melissa Errico CD 'Blue Like That' - I have the feeling that this will be in my list of fave raves of the year (can someone remind me in December).
And Jane Monheit's 'In The Sun' which includes a great version of 'Tea For Two'. Does anyone else agree with me that the verse of this song is superb, but the rest of it is a bit, well, you know?
Posted by Allan @ 03/14/2003 11:43 AM PST
Grrrrrrrrr.....I ordered my Anna Russell CD with my BEGINNING OF THE END DVD, which means it won't be here until after March 25. Sometimes my planning goes haywire!
So - this Mercury Records company...is there a book about it? Seems to be a strange almost independent place, but I don't know too much about it except Quincy Jones and Lesley Gore.
In the DVD player NOTORIOUS, the Criterion collection. Good movie, good extras, Grant, Bergman, Hitchcock, you can't go wrong.
In the CD player "Lost Girl Singers" - good grief that Rita Pavone can holler. I think I saw her sing this 'Remember Me' song on Ed Sullivan. She can't speak English, but she tried. And I think she was mentioned in a really funny Italian film NINE QUEENS. I think.
In the VHS THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES, purchased for $5 as part of the Kurt Russell Walt Disney Collection, up THE BAREFOOT EXECUTIVE.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 11:52 AM PST
Insert "next" after up in the last paragraph.
x-/
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 11:54 AM PST
Three posts already...this will make someone see red. 8-D
JMK who is the mystery bidder on your jiggy "last known photo of Frances Farmer" over on EBAY?
I don't recognize the name.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 12:06 PM PST
Mercury records was a fairly big label in the 50s. I think it was Chicago based. Many 50s pop acts (most forgotten today) were on the label: The Crew Cuts ("Sh Boom"), Patti Page ("Tennesee Waltz", "Doggie in the Window), The Gaylords ("The Little Shoemaker"), Rusty Draper (don't remember his hit), The Diamonds ("Little Darling"), et. al. They did a few show albums ("Fly Blackbird", "I Had a Ball") and I think they did Jazz and R&B as well. Since Decca Broadway is reissuing "I Had A Ball" in a few weeks, I assume they now have the rights to the Mercury catalogue but I may be mistaken on this.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/14/2003 12:19 PM PST
Phill,
Re your yesterday's-- last--
post :
The official BK site is the
creation of dear Kimlet reader
Michael Shayne!!!
Let's give credit where it's due!
;- )
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 12:30 PM PST
Francois - oops! Many thanks for the correction. My apologies to Mssr. Shayne. I will duly submit myself to bitch-slapping!
Posted by Phil @ 03/14/2003 12:40 PM PST
Jennifer: I guess I'm just not as adventurous as you...or more of a control freak. If I came home and found that someone had staplegunned fake flowers and/or records to my walls, I would faint dead away. Then when I came to, I would strangle the decorator. But I'm funny that way.
Jrand: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is wonderful; a classic ("Lebanon! Lebanon, Kansas!"). Now You See Him, Now You Don't is likewise excellent. I'm afraid you may be a tiny bit disappointed by The Barefoot Executive after having had the superbness of Computer wash over you. And as for The Strongest Man in the world...! One word: feh.
Posted by Lulu @ 03/14/2003 12:41 PM PST
The most well-known of the Mercury groups was the "The Platters".
Mercury started in 1946. Mitch Miller was head of pop A & R from 1948 to 1950.
Brook Benton, Dinah Washington and Johnny "Running Bear" Preston all had hits with the company.
In 1962 Mercury was sold to Philips (Dutch Multi media organisation) and became part of Polygram.
Mercury was indeed chicago based and srated off with Vic Damone, Frankie Laine and Patti Page who alled ended up at Columbia with Mitch Miller.
DVD player. "Sweeney Todd"- mostly wonderful but LuPone is still "not there" for me.
CDs: (1) Dusty Springfield "Something Special"
(2) The Full Monty OBC
(3) Destry Rides Again - London cast.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 03/14/2003 12:57 PM PST
Lulu,
What do you mean by "feh"?
Remember i'm French!!!!
In my cd player:
that wonderful cd of rarities "As
Time Goes By" by the
Carpenters -- 2000 release,
with a priceless duo medley by
Ella Fitzgerald and Karen....
and the OBC and London cast
albums of Company.....
and some British Light Music
i'm very fond of......
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 01:02 PM PST
Oh! Forgot...
DVD player: Fireball XL5 (The Hubby is addicted to Gerry and Sylvia Anderson spectaculars...and I like 'em too)
VCR: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dynasty, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, and Hotel...all taped today while I'm at work.
CD player: Fred Astaire compilation CD...one of those film hits thingies.
Posted by Lulu @ 03/14/2003 01:03 PM PST
Francois: Well, I'm a shiksa, so I hope I can come up with a suitable translation. ;)
Feh = "this is a matter unworthy of my time and attention."
Posted by Lulu @ 03/14/2003 01:05 PM PST
Tom---
Who is in the London cast of DESTRY? I have the Broadway recording with Andy Griffith and Donald's favorite Delores Gray.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/14/2003 01:10 PM PST
Francois: OK, I finally found a translation of "feh" without having to give anybody my credit card number. :) It appears below:
Feh is the shortest, most efficient way in the Yiddish language to say something smells. Feh is the most undiplomatic way and the clearest and fastest way to say, “Boy, does that stink!” You could say it about everything from a leftover herring to an opera.
Ordinarily, a diplomatic person would say, “I don't think it's so great.” A more honest person would say, “'I'm sorry, I don't like it that much.” But an honest Jew says the same thing when something is not so hot. “Feh!”
Feh is something you say to a friend about another guy. If someone is walking around with a shirt that you can't stand, and he asks your opinion of it, you're not going to tell him it looks like it belongs in the garbage. You just tell him, “It's nice" or "It's very you”. But when you and your friend are discussing the shirt, the conversation goes, “You see that guy's shirt?” “Yeah?” “Feh!”
** note from Lulu: I assume you may use "feh!" to indicate that something actually "smells bad," but I think it is usually used to indicate that something *metaphorically* "stinks," i.e.: "that stinks," = "that is very bad."
Posted by Lulu @ 03/14/2003 01:12 PM PST
William,
Alfred Molina -- remember
Chocolate? -- and Jill
Gascoine head the London
1982 cast of Destry....
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 01:44 PM PST
thanks Lulu; your explanations
were far from feh!
IMHO, the best film Kurt
Russell did at Disney was his
first:
"Follow Me, Boys!"
Very underrated....
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 01:47 PM PST
All these Kurt Russell posts. Kewl! I liked FOLLOW ME BOYS a great deal as well. I really liked THE ONE AND ONLY ORIGINAL FAMILY BAND, too! Lulu, I don't have high hopes for THE BAREFOOT EXECUTIVE, but time will tell. Is FIREBALL XL5 in color?
But yes THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES is probably my favorite.
Tom of Oz...thanks for the Mercury Records info. Wowow...I didn't know Mitch Miller had been part of it. Fascinating
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 02:21 PM PST
Nothing in the CD player at the moment, but I was listening to a Decca Broadway compilation the other night as I got my tax stuff ready for the accountant.
laserdisc: Just finished SILK STOCKINGS this afternoon and put '1941' in to watch the next time I fire it up.
DVD: VALMONT. I've never seen it all the way through so I'm looking forward to finishing it. I have about a half hour to go. Quick comment: If DANGEROUS LIAISONS had used Colin Firth in the John Malkovich role, DL would have been the perfect movie.
Posted by Matt H. @ 03/14/2003 02:25 PM PST
I don't know from Newsgroups, but I do feel that out of respect for Native Americans, Nick Redman should change his name to Nick Redstorm.
Posted by p @ 03/14/2003 02:43 PM PST
In the car CD player: "Brigadoon." I put it back in so that Dear Reader Megan could hear Judy Kaye as we drove to the doctor's office this morning.
In the VCR: "Strangers on a Train"
Posted by Laura @ 03/14/2003 03:17 PM PST
Oh, if Nick Redman were to have to change his name, I think he'd probably give some consideration to Nick Redrum!
R
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/14/2003 03:19 PM PST
Lulu said:
Jennifer: I guess I'm just not as adventurous as you...or more of a control freak. If I came home and found that someone had staplegunned fake flowers and/or records to my walls, I would faint dead away. Then when I came to, I would strangle the decorator. But I'm funny that way.
Lulu, actually I agree. IF Hildy had done the flower or record on thing on my walls I'd have been furious. But actually the people who had the fake flowers staplegunned to their bathroom LOVED IT.
I just meant, that usually the rooms turn out nice. And except for a handful of exceptions the rooms can usually be fixed (they never use wallpaper, and mostly just use paint).
Jennifer
Posted by Jennifer @ 03/14/2003 03:21 PM PST
I have received my first two blurbs for the dust jacket of Kritzerland, and they are mighty swellegant. More about them come Monday.
Posted by bk @ 03/14/2003 03:43 PM PST
Jennifer: That's cool. Maybe I'll check out Trading Spaces sometime. :)
Jrand: Fireball XL5 is in black and white.
Yeah, I love those old Disney Kurt Russell movies. They always remind me of Sunday night, watching Wonderful World of Disney instead of doing my homework (due the next day), hair wet and hanging down my back after my bath. :) Fond memories, indeed.
Posted by Lulu @ 03/14/2003 03:55 PM PST
The most interesting thing about the London cast of Destry is that the insturments--banjos, guitars, washboard, and whatnot--are played by the cast.
A pretty interesting concept, no?
Posted by William F. Orrw @ 03/14/2003 04:01 PM PST
In my car CD player on my 3 1/2 hour trip from NJ to Baltimore and my 3 1/2 hour trip back to and from my uncle's funeral we listened to:
Chicago (OC)
Follies (OC)
Barbra's On the Record - the 4 CD compilation
Posted by steveg @ 03/14/2003 04:02 PM PST
Two blurbs already! Kewl!
But can they beat this review:
I laughed....I cried...I peed my pants!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 04:14 PM PST
When it comes to "Trading Spaces," Vern Yip is "Da MAN"!
Laurie does nice work. Frank is always interesting, but I am not into folksy anything. I'm not overly fond of Genevieve, although she has done some great rooms, especially kitchens. Doug is a mixed back, and I can take or leave Hilda Santo-Tomas. Doug got a bum rap from the man and wife who didn't want their fireplace (butt ugly corner thing that it was; floor to ceiling bricks, at that. To counter that, Doug had Ty cover the fireplace with wood...and it was terrific. And all they did was gripe and grumble and sniffle and cry...carried on like a couple of spoiled infants. They needed bitch-slapping in the worst way.
Then Doug did an enclosed garage into a movie theater when the family wanted a family room -- Doug just went with his theme and did what he wanted; family be damned. I thought it sucked, although the family was amused.
There once was a lady named Des whose specialty was lamps. Just before the reveal when it was just her and Alex (Paige's predecessor), she'd don a funky hat, too. But she was sick a lot of the time -- and her rooms weren't always liked.
No...Vern is the designer I would prefer to have do my room, regardless of which room it was.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/14/2003 04:15 PM PST
In my CD player at work: "Jerome Kern: Life Upon the Wicked S.T.A.G.E." The song that's playing right this actual second is "In Love In Vain" by the fabulous Melissa Errico! It's a beautiful ballad. I'm absolutely delighted with the songs that I've never heard. I think it's great when tributes, concerts, etc., don't go for the just the "hits" of the composer or lyricist. It's really nice to learn some new (to me, at least) songs from older (meaning no longer writing / living) songwriters.
Next up is "The 3 Musketeers" (One Musical for All) by George Stiles, Paul Leigh and Peter Raby with Sutton Foster and Jim Stanek (before Millie). A very big THANKS to Phil for that!
In my DVD player at home: the original Russian "Solaris." Even though I'm coming down with a cold (very quickly), I will have to be out and about all day tomorrow. However, on Sunday I am free to stay home and drown my sickness in Dimetapp (my cold remedy drug of choice).
Posted by George @ 03/14/2003 05:32 PM PST
Well, while I'm taking a breather from my own battle on the newsgroup (RATM) and a certain pompous, hypocritical geezer, I shall do my Friday duty and let everyone know what the contents of my various players are:
Cassette Deck: a compilation of Michael Colby songs sent to me by the Dear Reader Ludlow29 himself.
VCR: A 5th Avenue Theater Production of FOLLIES starring the formidable Judy Kaye as well as Karen Morrow, who is also featured on the opening number in my
CD PLAYER: TAP YOUR TROUBLES AWAY: The Actor's Fund salute to Jerry Herman. Jason Graae is too funny for me, my sides are aching!
THE LITTLE PRINCE with bonus tracks of COCO, and pop takes with Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet. This came to me courtesy of one of our Dear Readers, of course!
MICHAL BUBLE is still holding court in the player, as is
MAMBO SINUENDO.
Original London Cast of METROPOLIS - Damn! That Judy Kuhn is awesome!
DVD PLAYER:
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH - which was a childhood favorite, and is still an adult fave; and what a glorious presentation!
KING OF KINGS - just put it in a couple of minutes ago and watched the Premieres, the age-worn documentary and the trailer.
THE RING - I'm ready to be scared, or chilled, or whatever. ..
THE COMPLETE GOOFY
. . .and now, back to the newsgroup wars.
Can you believe it? THAT man tried to post my HOME PHONE NUMBER?!?!? I of course wrote him a nice, kindly worded email message making the correction on the final digit of the number. Tee-Hee-Hee. and, in honor of Dear Reader Lulu, a massive "FEH!"
Posted by td @ 03/14/2003 05:33 PM PST
Trivia question to Jrand52,
Lulu....and everyone else!!!!!
Who, at the very end of
FOLLOW ME, BOYS, plays, for
a few bref minutes, the Kurt
Russell's character as an
adult?????
Right answers will get lifetime
posting on HHW..... as
everyone else, matter of fact!
PLEASE DO POST ANSWER
ON SITE ;- ) ;- ) ;- ) LOL......
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 05:34 PM PST
td,
You sure have great company
at home: Judy Kaye & Karen
Morrow in Follies? WOW
Julie and Robert; that must be
from an ABC Special of the
seventies ,where they sang a
long medley of Gershwin
songs; right? DOUBLE WOW!
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 05:42 PM PST
I've seen "Follow Me, Boys" only once....years and years ago. Was it...John Davidson?
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/14/2003 05:51 PM PST
Nope!
"Please, try again!"
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 05:56 PM PST
Cd's:
---"110 in the Shade" (OC)
---"Marlene Ver Planck Sings Johnny Mercer"
---Two Broadway Cares CD's: "Broadway Romances Manhattan" and "Broadway in Love." I particularly like Marc Kuisch and Gavin Creel's version of "Lullaby of Broadway"
--- Jane Monheit "Dream"
---"Lucky Stiff"
Posted by Kerry @ 03/14/2003 06:05 PM PST
Francois....very good. Hmmmmm...it has been a LONG time, but let me think. Has anyone gotten the answer yet?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 06:20 PM PST
No, only Ron has submitted
an answer so far...
I'll give clues if needed....
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 06:23 PM PST
Think of someone who'd look
very good with Luana Patten
on his arm....
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 06:25 PM PST
Wait a second....did he also star on tv in THE EDGE OF NIGHT?
Are his initials DM?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 06:26 PM PST
It was Donald May... even though I always picture Luanna Patton with Bobby Driscoll
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/14/2003 06:30 PM PST
Nope! Nope! Nope!
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 06:39 PM PST
I remember thinking - I don't believe Kurt Russell will ever look like that! LOL.
Luana Patton and Bobby Driscoll...so sweet.
And of course Bobby Driscoll played Frances Farmer's son in PARTY CRASHERS, and Luana was John Saxon's main squeeze in ROCK PRETTY BABY. Talk about ginchy!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 06:41 PM PST
Not Donald? Hmmmm...Francois I don't have your email....but I guess we need a clue.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 06:42 PM PST
OK!
This young man appeared
only in one other Disney film
in which his "mother" was his
brief FOLLOW ME, BOYS
co-star, the darling Vera
Miles....
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 06:49 PM PST
Oh...wait...did he star in a Disney serial recently discussed here on HHW?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 06:50 PM PST
The mind eventually comes around to it....was he a Member of the Wedding in Blue Denim?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 06:53 PM PST
No, you're "cold"....;
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 06:53 PM PST
In my book, this actor was the
River Phoenix of his days....
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 06:57 PM PST
Well;
in that other Disney film his
"father" was Brian Keith....
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 06:59 PM PST
Oops, sorry Jrand52.... yes
about Blue Denim.... I believe
you HAVE the answer!
Congrats!!
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 07:03 PM PST
And I remember the shot now...Mr. Brandon de Wilde of course.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 07:04 PM PST
I must admit I'm in awe at your
movie knowledge Jrand52.....
So much for NO
divertissement tonight, BK !...
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 07:07 PM PST
Could not have done it without your clue.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/14/2003 07:15 PM PST
Season 2 of Queer as Folk.
Posted by Michael @ 03/14/2003 07:23 PM PST
François --- IMDB does not have "Follow Me Boys" in Brandon's credits nor does the cast list on IMDB or the more complete cast list in Leonard Maltin's "The Disney Films" have Brandon. Both cast lists have Donald May. And I don't think Brandon would have played it as an unbilled cameo. What is your source?
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/14/2003 07:40 PM PST
Too late Michael!
Jrand52 has found the
answer!
;- )
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 07:42 PM PST
My source is the original
Pressbook of the movie which
also has a picture.
Don't have the book here in
Paris and I can't scan it.....
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 07:45 PM PST
Actually I ment to say I was watching Queer as Folk Season 2 on DVD :-)
Posted by Michael @ 03/14/2003 08:14 PM PST
Francois, I see storm clouds ahead.
I'm thinking that Donald May might have looked a lot like Brandon deWilde, but if Donald May was credited and deWilde was never named, what does that leave us with?
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/14/2003 08:16 PM PST
Storm clouds?
What for?
Let's leave that question
open.... and frankly, nothing to
get worried about, hey!
It's trivia... and strictly entre
nous, my imagination is not
that wild so that i would
intentionally make that up....
Whoever has the film can
check. it's at the very end for
jsut a minute or two and the
actor is in a military uniform...
Now, if i'm wrong i'll shut up,
do my mea culpas and be
"bitchslapped from here to
eternity" since it seems to be a
favotrite activity here..............
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 08:32 PM PST
Oh... Michael i know you knew
but.... I was joking.... and so
were you!
Should have typed that my
imagination is not that....wilde.
;- )
i keep smiling since I'm on
Candid Camera ;- )
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 08:34 PM PST
Divertissement sounds to me like something you eat between the floop and the cocktail weenies.
I didn't exaclty ace my SAT's, though . . .
Posted by Sigerson Holmes @ 03/14/2003 09:09 PM PST
I meant "exactly." Didn't ace typing class either.
Oh, wait -- isn't divertissement that cold potato soup?
Screw it. I'm looking it up.
Posted by Sigerson Holmes @ 03/14/2003 09:11 PM PST
On Page 58 of Screen World Volume 18 -1967 (covering films of 1966)there is a picture from "Follow Me Boys". It is in front of a train and features Fred MacMurray, Luana Patten (in a military uniform), Donald May in a military uniform and Vera Miles. Would May be playing a different character?
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/14/2003 09:12 PM PST
To change subject and stay
positive;
I've just read great news about
Christopher Reeve.
People section of the
International Herald Tribune
that has just been delivered:
Saturday-Sunday March 15-16
2003 page 20 above the
Crossword section.......
Now, that makes me happy!
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 09:13 PM PST
like I said, if i'm wrong, i'm
wrong and i ask eveyone i may
have upset with that silly
ranting trivia question to
forgive me.
i did not want to attract
attention to me that way and
you may have noticed that i've
been putting on a low profile
lately up to a point where i
even rudely ignored Lulu's
questions about me...
I should have stayed in my
corner... all alone... where I
can be whatever i want to be...
Oh a ... never mind!
sorry Jrand52; i made a foul of
you undirectly...
You know, i've never heard so
much about Donald May in my
life before....
I hope, if he's still around, he's
grateful to me for getting so
much exposure here tonight....
Anyway, Luana sure was a
gorgeous lady.........
Now, does anyone wears a
hat?..... what am i talking
about...
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 09:20 PM PST
It's May it's May
the lusty month of..... oh
nevermind.....
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 09:23 PM PST
It is NOT A HAT! It's a drawing of a boa constrictor eating a sheep!
Posted by td @ 03/14/2003 09:30 PM PST
No,
...."eating an elephant"...
P.89 1955 French edition of a
story that was entirely written
in NYC......
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 09:45 PM PST
No one is upset with anyone, so do NOT stay in your corner like little Jacques Horner. I am quite jiggy, in fact, with all these postings.
Posted by bk @ 03/14/2003 09:54 PM PST
Quite right, BK; I'm just
embarrassed......
Posted by François @ 03/14/2003 10:08 PM PST
ah, but Francois, can you draw me a picture of a sheep?
I left my only friend, the rose, on the smallest planet in the universe.
Why is the desert so lovely at night?
Posted by td @ 03/14/2003 10:09 PM PST
Because it's air-conditioned, silly. And they give you a tea break at 4:00.
The nighttime desert scenes were all filmed indoors at Shepperton. Lerner wrote about all this in the lyrics, of course, but Stanley Donen was embarrassed and cut the verse.
Boy, were Alan & Fritz pissed!
Posted by Sigeson Holmes @ 03/15/2003 01:42 AM PST
How interesting. Well the OOP video is going for $40.00 on Ebay, so we will just have to wait until someone rich can solve the mystery.
TD, I enjoyed KING OF KINGS very much. And of course it was great seeing Carroll Baker at the premiere with her hubby Jack Garfein.
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is a different and BETTER movie in widescreen! But boy does Hermann's score to it and MYSTERIOUS ISLAND sound alike!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/15/2003 02:42 AM PST
