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Happy Birthday Ann!!!
In your honour, I will have a slice of an imaginary confection made up of white chociolate, rasperries and cream - all non-fattening, of course.
Posted by Allan @ 03/31/2003 09:05 AM PST
This is the first time I've had a first post and it would have to have a spelling mistake in it, wouldn't it? Or maybe I could get away with saying 'chociolate' is the Romanian spelling for chocolate??
Posted by Allan @ 03/31/2003 09:06 AM PST
My homemade cheesecake!!! Not only is it easy to make, I prefer it to almost any deli or restaurant cheesecake I've ever had. It's sort of like Sarah Lee creamcheese cake used to be when it first hit the stores and was just refrigerated but never frozen. Freezing it ruins the whole texture.
That said, a very happy birthday to the future Mrs. BK. I didn't realize how young your future wife is, BK. You are almost robbing the cradle!
By the way, to me Max Allen Collins' major credit was being the last good writer on the Dick Tracy comic strip before it turned into the unreadable mess it is today.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/31/2003 09:07 AM PST
Just to let you all know that the new Broadway Radio Show (spotlighting the songs of Maury Yeston) is now up and running -- enjoy!
Posted by Donald @ 03/31/2003 09:20 AM PST
Happy Birthday, Ann!
I would prefer to celebrate with an almond bundt cake. If you have a pan and the mix - you've got the cake!
Yes, as was briefly discussed yesterday, Sir Cliff Richard appeared as Heathcliff in a musical version of Jane Eyre titled appropriately Heathcliff - somehow I would think shifting the emphasis of the story, but it doesn't matter...no one liked it.
He also appeared in the audience opening night for the stage adaptation of Summer Holiday - featuring many young men in their Y-fronts. It too closed early....or earlier than planned.
Sir Cliff declares in an interview on his 60th birthday, that he is not gay, that he has been drunk exactly three times in his life, and that is one more time than he has had sex. He was in love with Olivia Newton-John, but she had recently broken up with a member of his band The Shadows, and he didn't feel like he should chase after her.....the other guy being a friend and all. And before you know it, she was engaged and married to someone else.
Oh well....Wonderful Life, indeed! And that's the on the spot Cliff Richard report for today. 8-D
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/31/2003 09:23 AM PST
Donald - When is the Arbor Day show? For that matter, when is Arbor Day?
Now I know URBAN COWBOY is a real bomb. Liz Smith raved about it.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/31/2003 09:24 AM PST
Isn't "Summer Holiday" an MGMusical version of AH WILDERNESS (years before TAKE ME ALONG) starring Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, Gloria DeHaven and Marilyn Maxwell with a Harry Warren score?
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/31/2003 09:26 AM PST
Yes, its true - Bill....two movies with the same title.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/31/2003 09:32 AM PST
Key Lime Cheesecake!
Happy Birthday, Ann.
I watched two DVDs yesterday. The first was just not as wonderufl as it ought to have been. No, "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" should have been totally wonderful (with Maggie Smith as a dead ringer for what Susan Sarandon ought to be like in 20 years...if she doesn't bloat herself into oblivion, that is). Instead it was alternately depressing and amusing.
Apparently, the writer/filmmakers felt that a woman's shame at having a breakdown and her unwillingness to discuss it with her oldest, emotionally haunted, daughter was fodder for a deeply moving film. It wasn't. Again, sadly.
The other film on DVD is a much more joyous examination of life and it's ups and downs.
Michael Ritchie's much-abused, gorgeously filmed, scored and sung "The Fantasticks" shines and shines and shines. Jonathan Tunick took this piano/harp/percussion-based score and enhanced it for glorious orchestra and it's overhwhelmingly beautiful.
Today, I'm sick. Not an allergy attack. No. It's a cold. The onset of a cold. The held-at-bay-but-stubbornly unyielding sore-throat-variety cold. My sinuses want to flow, but I've "Zicam'ed" em into senselessness. In place of the flowing, there is a thrumming loggerjam...a combination of sinuses wanting to flow and a dam of sorts...yet I can breathe.
Drat!
Chills and fever alternate, too.
Dang!
What am I doing at work!
Dollop!
What a whizzbang!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/31/2003 09:41 AM PST
Happy Birthday, Dear Ann!
Dessert, hmm? It's something I rarely have. I surely did enjoy Kerry's Oreo cake last summer. I also enjoy the rare piece of pie or any other sweet that I indulge in infrequently.
Simple gal that I am, I'm easily satisfied with a single-serving bag of M&Ms. You know the one I mean -- the one-pound bag.
Posted by Laura @ 03/31/2003 09:43 AM PST
Many happy returns, Ann. :)
Jrand: I posted this earlier, but it's now in the archives; who made her final screen appearance in Tickle Me? The film is absolutely dreadful. And I like some Elvis films: Blue Hawaii, Viva Las Vegas, Girls, Girls, Girls! amongst others. But Tickle Me is dire.
Cake or dessert: I do NOT need to be thinking about this. I suppose I would go to Jaxson's in Davie, Florida. The best ice-cream parlor in the world. It's a funky little operation, in business since the early '50s (the Stone Age in South Florida), still privately owned by the same guy who started it. My favorite item there is the Old-Fashioned Banana Split. Three huge scoops of any flavor of ice-cream (they have around 40 different flavors available...all homemade) -- I typically like the combination of Rum Raisin, Cappuccino and Chocolate Mint -- , pineapple and strawberry topping, whipped cream and a maraschino cherry on top. Mmmmmmmmm...how many more hours 'til I'm out of work? ;)
Posted by Lulu @ 03/31/2003 09:44 AM PST
Uh, thanks for that graphic image, Ron Pulliam.
Posted by Laura @ 03/31/2003 09:45 AM PST
Happy Birthday Ann!!
I'm having a very typical
Monday today. The cafeteria
was out of Cherry Coke, my
egg salad sandwich had
eggshells in it, that loser from
my history class was following
me around telling me about
his hangover, and all the
computers in the library were
taken, so I'm stuck in the
Writing Center using the
Amazing Crashing Macintosh.
As always, if I could have any
dessert, it would have to be a
Krispy Kreme chocolate iced
creme filled doughnut. Or
maybe some of that Jello
No-Bake peanut butter
dessert.
Posted by Sandra @ 03/31/2003 09:45 AM PST
If you're not familiar with Lady's Maid from Titanic, don't read this parody. (But, I'm happy to say, you can listen to the tune in German on the current Broadway Radio Hour.)
I want to use the ladies room
Ladies room in America
In America, the seats are made of gold
I want to use the ladies room
Ladies room in America
In America are toilets I am told
I want to use the liquid soap
Liquid soap in America!
In America bacteria's controlled.
There's a place called Chicago
I want to take a crap
There's a john in Maryland
Where I can take a crap
There's a place in America called Flushing Meadows
And it sounds as though they may have toilets there
Oh, I'm hoping that they do
There's a bowl to hold my poo
Where my peeing and my heaving and my bleeding and my natural effluvium and crap will finally find a home
And
I want to be a janitor/Oh, I'll wash my hands!
And clean the seats
In America the seats are made of gold
I want to work with Tidy-Bowl/Oh, I'll use my hands
With Tidy-Bowl
In America they've sailboats in their bowls
Oh there's the place where toilet seats are clean and free of mold
If we're lucky there'll be heat
Warming up the toilet seat
And the toilet paper supple and absorbent, soft enough to make my butt feel good and never cause me hemorrhoids and
I want to use the ladies room, Gentlemen's, Unisex! in America
Better place for me and you
Better space to drop my poo
Better land for the pee... wee... wee...
That I hold
Posted by Noel @ 03/31/2003 09:46 AM PST
Dear Reader Laura:
'Wekkum!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/31/2003 10:01 AM PST
Arbor day is April 25. I hope Donald does the show the week after Arbor Day instead of before - I'll be out of town on the week of Arbor Day and don't want to miss the show!
Posted by dlevy @ 03/31/2003 10:06 AM PST
not sure when the Arbor Day show will air, but I suspect it will be loaded on Sunday the 20th (don't worry David, I can always send you a CD copy)
here's a funny story from this morning....I got an email from a reporter at Newsday who is doing a story on the success of Jet Blue....apparently, he did a search for the phrase "I love Jet Blue" and found a post of mine right here at HainesHisWay!.....so, he called me and interviewed me for the article since I'm a devoted fan of Jet Blue and use them for all my New York flights....I did mention the website as well as my musical "Flyer," but I don't know how much will end up in the final article, which will be in next Monday's edition (and online as well)
Posted by Donald @ 03/31/2003 10:14 AM PST
Lulu - I don't like Tickle Me either - but Miss Allison Hayes is there... I do like the music in Paradise Hawaiian Style...but most Elvis movies....nope.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/31/2003 10:21 AM PST
Happy Happy Birtday Ann!!!
Hmmm, what kind of dessert would I have? Such difficult choices. A good carrot cake is always wonderful. Something with chocolate in it, a chocolate mousse, perhaps. I also love the idea of an old-fashioned Banana Split. I think I would have chocolate ice cream, butter pecan and I don't know what for the third, depends on what the Parlor is offering. I gotta stop this. I'm getting hungry and I already had lunch.
Posted by Ben @ 03/31/2003 10:26 AM PST
Why, Ann, you sly one...you didn't say a word last night.
Happy Birthday!
Posted by Dave @ 03/31/2003 10:38 AM PST
Dave---
Ann (the future Mrs. BK) did mention her birthday in chat at least once and I think twice. Things were going so fast for a while that it was easy enough to miss. That's why the occasional lull is good. It gives you time to catch up.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/31/2003 10:49 AM PST
Just thought I'd share this -- I had a Louis Jourdan Film Festival Friday night. Well, a double feature, anyway. First we watched a Columbo that featured Louis as a gourmet chef (and for my next dish...MURDER!), then The Hubby left the TV to me while I watched "Julie," which I had taped that morning.
Jrand, you're right...those voiceovers absolutely make the film! My favorites were: "I had the chilling sensation of being watched by Lyle. It was ominous. It was strangely disturbing" and "All at once I had the chilling urge to get out of the house...and get out of it FAST!!" (yes, she used the word "chilling" and the phrase "strangely disturbing" twice in separate voiceovers. "A" for originality to whoever wrote it!). The weird thing is that "Julie" is really like two movies, in that there is the first part from Doris's POV, with the voiceovers...then the abrupt shift to a less claustrophobic viewpoint, with no voiceover for the last 30-40 minutes of the film. Oh, I also loved Doris singing the sunny theme song over the opening credits as her character is running away from her murderously, pathologically jealous husband. Cognitive dissonance aplenty!
Posted by Lulu @ 03/31/2003 10:53 AM PST
When are Ann and BK tying the knot? Are you sure you're not confusing BK with Guy...isn't he engaged to a woman named Ann?
Posted by Lulu @ 03/31/2003 10:56 AM PST
Okay it is not right to talk about food AGAIN. You guys made me go to bed so hungry last night. I think I must have dreamed about poutine and cheese sticks.
If I could have one dessert right now ... do I have to pick only one? I'm in the mood for grasshopper pie.
Jennifer
Posted by Jennifer @ 03/31/2003 11:08 AM PST
Grasshopper pie? Sounds icky. Is your favorite kind of chocolate sweet Anthrax Ripple? :)
Posted by Lulu @ 03/31/2003 11:18 AM PST
My favorite dessert is profiteroles. Lighter than air puff pastry filled with natural vanilla ice cream, warm chocolate sauce drizzled all over. Yummers!
Posted by Jay @ 03/31/2003 11:26 AM PST
I am still partial to Carvel Ice Cream Cakes with the chocolate crunchies in the middle!
Posted by Craig @ 03/31/2003 11:27 AM PST
Ice cream?
In profiteroles?
Heaven forfend!
They should be filled with the same filling used in eclairs...a custard-like filling, and then iced with chocolate.
The alternate recipe of profiterole pastry and ingredients for a hot fudge sundae does sound nice, though!
: )
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/31/2003 11:38 AM PST
No, Lulu. BK is marrying Ann. Since Guy never joins chat it is definitely BK who calls her my future wife and constantly asks for reassurance that she loves him (she does).
Join us sometime in chat and you'll see.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/31/2003 11:47 AM PST
Hey, grasshopper pie does not have grasshoppers in it :)
It is delicious. It is a mint flavored dessert with a chocolate cookie (like oreo) type crust). I've had it made with chocolate mint chip ice cream, or with a mint flavored creamy filling.
It is so good!
Posted by Jennifer @ 03/31/2003 12:00 PM PST
OMG I forgot about grasshopper pie...which should be served in honor of THE BEGINNING OF THE END!! Lulu, it is indeed a great tasting treat....
What a great bunch of desserts we have on the table.
I hope someone brings the Chi-nets!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/31/2003 12:13 PM PST
WEL: Oh, my goodness. I certainly am glad that I have only participated in one chat thus far. That scenario sounds ooey-gooey, and my dentist has cautioned me to avoid excess sugar.
Congrats and felicitations to Ann and BK, though. That silly li'l 30-year age gap will shrink to *nothing* when you're 60 and 90. You'll see.
Posted by Lulu @ 03/31/2003 12:17 PM PST
Jrand: Hey, not Chinet...we have to bring Coronet. Remember Rosemary Clooney singing "Extra value is what you get, when you buy Coronet!"??
Posted by Lulu @ 03/31/2003 12:19 PM PST
Lulu---
That's the only ooey-gooey part of chat. The rest is more mature and more interesting. Last night we prepared dinner and talked about various DVDs.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/31/2003 12:42 PM PST
When asked "when" the knot would be tied, BK responde "on the 12th of never."
That's the scoop.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/31/2003 12:44 PM PST
...and that's a long, long time.
Posted by Dave @ 03/31/2003 12:45 PM PST
Bon Fete, Ann!
Hot fudge sundae made with coffee and moka ice cream. The Hot fudge must be on the top and bottom of the ice cream. Real whipped cream with chocolate sprikles and crushed nuts. (no cherry. hate them)
Posted by michael shayne @ 03/31/2003 12:53 PM PST
Oh, good! That means I can still fix BK up with my sister's middle girl -- such a figure! Bright, too, went to one of those fancy-shmancy schools back east, I can't remember which one right now, a real snappy dresser and her blintzes are to die for...
Posted by Lulu @ 03/31/2003 12:55 PM PST
Happy Birthday Ann.
A sachertorte from Vienna should be fine - perhaps with a croquembouche and coffee to follow.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 03/31/2003 01:01 PM PST
Tom from Oz: Croquembouche - isn't that those tiny round pastry-like things piled up into a little mountain, with sticky syrup kind of twirled onto it?
Posted by Lulu @ 03/31/2003 01:05 PM PST
Anyone for a Caffe Mocha at Starbucks? I'm on my way there right now.
Posted by Glen R. @ 03/31/2003 01:05 PM PST
Noel, that is one of the best parodies I've encountered in a while!
Posted by S. Woody White @ 03/31/2003 01:16 PM PST
the saga continues...
now, Newsday wants to send a photographer out to take my picture to go along with the JetBlue article (don't worry, I won't let them use one of my serial killer headshots!)....I'll keep you all posted, but I guess the article will be in next Monday's Newsday
Posted by Donald @ 03/31/2003 01:42 PM PST
Donald are you ready for your closeup?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/31/2003 01:53 PM PST
Dessert? Did someone say dessert?
For me, and I've mentioned this one before... The Flourless Chocolate Waffle (with a scoop of chocalate ganache folded inside of it) served with Macadamia Nut Brittle Ice Cream from the Carlyle Grand Cafe (and the other restaurants in their "group"). Alas, they serve it now with Vanilla Ice Cream (ah, a Bock & Harnick reference), but I long for those days of the macadamia nut brittle ice cream.
Donald: Do I smell free trips? Upgrades? Free companion tickets? ;-)
Oh, I did treat myself to my weekly big scoop of ice cream yesterday from the little mom & pop shop near me. Yesterday's flavor: Malted Coffee Stout. Quite delicious! Reminded me of the Jeremy's Micro-Batch flavor with beer in it too.
-And I just got in from my run - boy was it chilly and windy out there!
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 03/31/2003 01:57 PM PST
If you like to find out what songs are being considered for the new cd that Bruce is producing just click on my name.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 03/31/2003 02:01 PM PST
Happy Birthday, Ann!
Since I have a SERIOUS sugar addiction, there isn't any dessert that I wouldn't absolutely love. However, if I'm going to make it, I have to make a peanut butter cake with chocolate icing. It's like eating a Reece's peanut butter cup in cake form. I get more requests for that cake than anything else I bake.
Got my Judy Garland Show Volume 7 in the mail today, and watched/listened (including producer Gary Smith's running commentary.) Is it just my DVD player, or did the image go all soft after a song or two in the concert show (#23)? The Darin-Newhart Show (#14) was sharp as a razor.
Posted by Matt H. @ 03/31/2003 02:15 PM PST
Forget free tickets...Donald, do we smell residuals.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 03/31/2003 02:22 PM PST
Thanks for the info Michael...great article. I only have one thing to say...... eeeeeeee-0000000!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/31/2003 02:23 PM PST
Indeed yes Lulu. Sometimes used as wedding cake in France. Maybe appropriate if Ann has to wait for the 12th of Never. At least she can have her cake and eat it too.
Is is true that Elton John is writing the music for "Billy Elliot"? Who is writing the lyrics?
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 03/31/2003 02:29 PM PST
Happy Birthday Ann!
I am curious as to how you are celebrating the big two-two. Or would that be the big "tu-tu", in which case you'd be celebrating with Lara Flynn Boyle?
I would have to second Bill's choice. His homemade cheesecake is absolutely fabulous! But then, there are also his homemade chocolate chip cookies, homemade waffle cookies, pineapple upside down cake (is it any wonder I love this man?).
Posted by Ray @ 03/31/2003 03:39 PM PST
Happy Birthday Ann! According to famousbirthdays.com, today is also the day of birth for René Descartes (b. 1596), Shirley Jones, Christopher Walken, Gabe Kaplan, Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell. It's always fascinating to find out what famous / infamous / notable people share your birthday. I not only share a birthday with Karl Marx, but also Tina Yothers, Tammy Wynette, Ann B. Davis, Alice Faye and Tyrone Power (May 5th, a.k.a. Cinco de Mayo).
Posted by George @ 03/31/2003 04:08 PM PST
George: it is fascinating. I just recently learned that I share a birthday with Glenn Close and Bruce Willis.
Posted by Jay @ 03/31/2003 04:09 PM PST
Dessert: Oh, yeah! I am so torn between Italian Rum Cake (with real whipped cream), pear torte, Grand Marnier Souffle, and Bananas Foster...I'll follow you anywhere, for those temptations.
Posted by KT @ 03/31/2003 04:14 PM PST
I share a birthday with Martin Scorsese.
Posted by KT @ 03/31/2003 04:15 PM PST
And I share a birthday with Tommy Smothers and the one and only Miss Elaine Stritch (groundhougs one and all)
Posted by Ben @ 03/31/2003 04:22 PM PST
What faboo desserts - my mouth is indeed watering (no mean feat). Here is a story: I ran into my cousin in the post office. I, as always, asked how my Aunt Bella is (cousin is married to Aunt Bella's son) and I was informed she'd passed away in late January. What's wrong with this picture? Apparently, she deemed it necessary to inform everyone but me. When I asked her why, she told me that I really hadn't visited her since she moved into a nursing home nearby (four months ago). I reminded her that I'd had several conversations with both she and her husband about Aunt Bella, and I was told she didn't really want company. I was positively shaking with anger and I had to walk away. I mean, in what kind of universe do these people live when they don't tell me that my father's sister, whom I adored, had died? Well, a pox on them, I say. Even my ex-wife had the courtesy to let me know that her father had passed on, even though I hadn't seen him for twenty years. Feh, I say, and feh I say again.
Posted by bk @ 03/31/2003 04:32 PM PST
Thank you one and all and
also all and one for the lovely
birthday tidings. I share a
birthday with Decartes? How
wonderful! You see, I am a
philosophy major and he is
one of my favorites. Tonight I
shall be going out to dinner at
a wonderful salmon place in
Seattle with my very own
mother and younger sister. As
far as celebrating that's all I
think I shall be doing. For
some reason turning 22 isn't
nearly as exciting as turning
21 was... :-)
Posted by Ann @ 03/31/2003 04:33 PM PST
Lucky me...I share my birthday with Macauley Culkin, Bob Cowsill, and John Wilkes Booth.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/31/2003 05:23 PM PST
Ah, BK, I send you my sympathy. It sounds as if that person was waiting for just the moment you provided. What would grown up Benjamin Kritzer do?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 03/31/2003 05:28 PM PST
Condolences on the death of your aunt, BK. Too bad they treated you like so much fish. I'm sure she would have been quite upset if she knew they didn't even tell you.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 03/31/2003 05:47 PM PST
BK, I am very sorry to hear about your aunt, but even sorrier for the way your family treated you. However, I do believe in karma, so rest assured they'll get theirs!
Click on my name for a more extensive listing of who else shares everyone's birthdays!
Posted by Ray @ 03/31/2003 06:22 PM PST
Oops! Now it should work!
Posted by Ray @ 03/31/2003 06:23 PM PST
So sorry to hear about your loss! What awful people not to let you know!!
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 03/31/2003 07:21 PM PST
I have quite a collection of people who are born on my day of Jan. 31
Still with us........
Carol Channing
Phil Collins
Minnie Driver
John Dye
Phillip Glass
KC of the Sunshine Band
Anthony LaPaglia
Kelly Lynch
Norman Mailer
Stuart Margolin
Suzanne Pleshette
Queen Beatrix
Nolan Ryan
Jean Simmons
Justin Timberlake
Glynn Turman
Jessica Walters
and those not with us anymore
John Agar
Charles Aidman
Tallulah Bankhead
Eddie Cantor
Joanne Dru
James Fransicus
Zane Grey
Percy Helton
Paul Jabra
Derke Jarman
Mario Lanza
Garry Moore
Jackie Robinson
Franz Schubert
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 03/31/2003 07:33 PM PST
Why did I not forsee that Nostradamis and I shared a birthday? Thanks Ray.
Wrong day for this information but I am currently listening to Carly Simon's "Anthology" 2Cd set. Wonderful. My favourite Carly album is "Torch" and the set includes "Not a Day Goes By" from that album.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 03/31/2003 07:42 PM PST
I think we need a few more desserts, don't you? I'm so in the mood to be a bad boy and go partake in a dessert or three.
Thank you for your kind words. I sent the cousin a rather pointed e-mail which I know she read, but of course, there has been no response, nor will there be, I'm sure. They'd better hope they don't see me around the neighborhood, that's all I have to say (they live three blocks from me).
Posted by bk @ 03/31/2003 08:03 PM PST
Just read that Tony and Emmy winning actor Michael Jeter died in LA over the weekend at the age of 50. Not sure what the cause was but he was HIV positive.
Click on my name for the article from E On Line
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 03/31/2003 08:20 PM PST
Happy Birthday to Ann. The Oreo cake that Dear reader laura mentioned is a favorite dessert. Despite my passion for cake, you know what dessert I'm lusting after right now? Of all thngs, a root beer float. It would have to be made with Haagen-Dasz vanilla ice cream and A & W root beer. In days of yore it had to be baskin Robbins' French Vanilla ice cream and their own brand of root beer. Baskin Robbins later changed their root beer to Fanta, and it was never the same.
Posted by Kerry @ 03/31/2003 08:33 PM PST
That's really smeggy about your aunt, BK. So sorry.
I share my birthday with that tall guy from the Drew Carey Show.
Posted by Sandra @ 03/31/2003 08:59 PM PST
Oh, sorry to hear about your aunt, bk, and sorry to read this about Michael Jeter. He was SO wonderful in GRAND HOTEL. Seeing that show soon after he won his Tony was also the first time I saw the fabulous Brent Barrett, so I have many fond memories of that experience. Even with his awards, Michael was an underrated actor, I think.
Posted by Matt H. @ 03/31/2003 09:11 PM PST
Sorry to hear about your loss, BK. Family, eh?
More desserts? Hmm, Sandra makes really good chocolate chocolate chip brownies. And my mom makes good Chocolate chip cookies. Ice cream, of course. I'm very simple and easily pleased. I don't need fancy things.
Posted by Laura @ 03/31/2003 10:04 PM PST
I'm so sorry I forgot: Happy Birthday, Ann! My own daughter is also 22, great age to be!
Dear Michael: Amazing list for January 31st birthdays...and that's a fun thread of conversation.
Dear BK: My condolences on the passing of your Aunt; that JFGT (Jewish Family Guilt Trip) can be quite nasty.
Posted by KT @ 03/31/2003 10:12 PM PST
Oh, WOW!!! Jrand - When I read your post about who you share your birthday with, I thought the list looked familiar... Well, as it turns out, I'm an August 26-er too! Woo-hoo!
-Don't you remember when August 26th used to be Women's Liberation Day? It was always kind of a joke in my family. I'm the oldest of four boys, and each of my brothers was born on a famous day or holiday. Don was born almost to the hour and minute that the first man landed on the moon. Michael is a Halloween baby, and Jay is a New Year's Baby. And then there's me...
So, first we both work on productions of South Pacific, then we share the same birthday.
Oooh! What a day that will be here on HHW!
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 03/31/2003 10:58 PM PST
A friend of mine (Jeff), my sister (Diane) and her ex-mother-in-law (also Diane) all have their birthdays on September 27th. Jeff has always said that being born around the end of September makes you a New Year's Eve Baby! ;-)
Posted by George @ 04/01/2003 01:37 AM PST
Very good, Jose! Yes, on the calendar on our birthday it used to always say...Women's Suffrage. the amendment giving women the right to vote was passed on our birthday in (I think) 1920.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/01/2003 02:13 AM PST
Very sad to hear about Michael Jeter and about BK's aunt.
Decca will be releasing Fade Out Fade In, the Carol Burnett musical on May 20th, according to Playbill On-Line
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/78733.html
Posted by Ben @ 04/01/2003 04:12 AM PST
Bruce,
Sorry about your aunt. Sorrier about the way you were treated. Family--Oy!
Posted by Kerry @ 04/01/2003 05:08 AM PST
So sorry to hear about your aunt, BK. I can only imagine what a shock it must have been for you to receive the long-delayed news in that fashion.
I share a birthday with Frank Lloyd Wright and Joan Rivers. What a combo! ;)
Posted by Lulu @ 04/01/2003 05:10 AM PST
Oh, my ears and whiskers! I just checked out the link Ray provided, and found that I also share my birthday with Robert Preston. :) Thanks, Ray!
Posted by Lulu @ 04/01/2003 05:18 AM PST
Just checked out my birthday, April 16 (thanks, Ray, for that site!) - I have a whole host of people as well: Charlie Chaplin, Kingsley Amis, Henry Mancini, Gerry Rafferty, Peter Ustinov, Dusty Springfield, Spike Milligan, Bobby Vinton,
and ... er ... Little Jimmie Osmond.
Posted by Allan @ 04/01/2003 05:22 AM PST
Once again HHW scoops the New York Times. They had no Michael Jeeter obit. The Times always used to be the source for this info, but more and more people of note are either ignored (Virginia O'Brien, Claibe Richardson) or reported weeks later (Susan Johnson). I thought with both a Tony and an Emmy they would have had something about Michael Jeeter but the only Jeeter in today's paper was a baseball player who got hurt.
By the way, has anyone heard if they have determined cause of death for Lynne Thigpen yet?
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 04/01/2003 06:09 AM PST
It is quite a shock to sit in a movie theater and see Lynn Thigpen on the screen in the trailer for ANGER MANAGEMENT. It's happened to me a couple of times and it always makes me jump.
Posted by Jand52 @ 04/01/2003 06:17 AM PST
According to some posts on a board connected to Lynne Thigpen's filmography at imdb.com, she died of a heart attack.
Posted by Lulu @ 04/01/2003 06:54 AM PST
OK, more details. This was posted to Lynne's imdb.com entry by someone who claims to be a friend of the family:
The cause of Lynne's death was a heart attack. Her boyfriend stated that she complained of neck pains earlier in the evening. She passed away Thursday morning at about 4:00am (CST).
Very sad. :(
Posted by Lulu @ 04/01/2003 06:58 AM PST
Thanks Lulu. Every obit said cause unknown.
I knew Lynne years ago before she became famous and she was every bit as nice a person as you would imagine. There is a short but very well written tribute to her in the TV Guide that came out yesterday.
It's just a shame that her last movie ("Anger Management") looks so awful. I do hope they add a title card dedicating it to her.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 04/01/2003 07:53 AM PST
A compuserve news article states "Sesame Street Actor Dies" and refers to Michael Jeter as "The Other Mr. Noodle."
Posted by Laura @ 04/01/2003 08:00 AM PST
