Posted by William E. Lurie @ 04/11/2003 08:43 AM PST

Up so early! I am impressed and delighted. New notes and hardly in leftovers from yesterday to catch up on for the Left-coasters.

DVD Player - FAR FROM HEAVEN, a nice movie with a terrific Elmer Bernstein score. Elmer should be holding the Academy Award right now...but. Film and score have been discussed here before.

CD Player - National Theatre cast album of South Pacific getting ready for the auditions on Sunday.

VCR - the most important film since 'Gone With the Wind' according to the Republic Pictures publicity department in 1954. It was a film and it did come out AFTER 'Gone With the Wind' but that's about as close as it came to anything else. Joan Leslie, John Russell, Forrest Tucker, Pat O'Brien, and above all Mrs Herbert J Yates, Vera Ralston are all involved. The greatest thing to see is the first dance number. Music by Victor Young and choreographed by Jack Baker. Ms. Ralston as Julliette LaTour sings in French and dances to beat the band. Surprisingly graceless - but game nonetheless - it is a moment of Zen in motion picture history. I recommend it!

Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/11/2003 08:45 AM PST

The title is 'Jubilee Trail.'

Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/11/2003 08:46 AM PST

Newest CDs in my player:

"Hawaii'" -- Elmer Bernstein
"Beloved Infidel" -- Franz Waxman
"Magic" -- Jerry Goldsmith
"Return of a Man Called Horse" -- Laurence Rosenthal

DVDs: Am expecting delivery today of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," and DTS versions of "Vertical Limit" and "Seven Years in Tibet."

After a relatively summery week here in the Bay Area, clouds are rolling in and it's quite cool. Weekend is supposed to be wet and cold and unruly.

It would be a perfect weekend for roaring fire and a few giggles watching Fox News...if only Fox News were not so depressingly awful and slanted.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 04/11/2003 09:07 AM PST

Good Day!

Opening went well last night. A Sold Out house - they were lining up early for seats since it's general admission. And no major technical glitches... well, maybe one... but I'm hoping that will be fixed for tonight. -Let's just say I played a couple of numbers "deaf"... Quite the experience.

Still gray and cloudy and rainy and drizzly today, but there is the promise of sun for the weekend. And I was able to schedule a massage for Sunday night! (We only have a matinee that day.) Ah, a silver lining.

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 04/11/2003 09:09 AM PST

Oh, I almost forgot...

VCR: Tapes of this week's Six Feet Under and Queer As Folk.

DVD: Nothing - Lots of stuff on tap.

CD: Nine Original Broadway Cast. I'm hoping to get to see the current revival in a few weeks. -It has been a while since I listened to the score, and I had forgotten just how much I loved it - what a great mix of styles. And the harpsichord in the orchestration always tickles me. And the reissue of Dinah Washington's "What a Difference a Day Makes".

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 04/11/2003 09:14 AM PST

Lulu,

Was your irrational rambling of yesterday directed at Dave or someone else?

Posted by Steve @ 04/11/2003 09:14 AM PST

Don't feed the animals.

Posted by Zookeeper @ 04/11/2003 09:17 AM PST

RP: Aye, but there's the rub: if FAUX News weren't so slanted and awful, it wouldn't give you the giggles.

VCR: North by Northwest (taped off TCM early this a.m.)

DVD: Elite Drive-In Disc #1 (in Distorto! replicating the tinny sound of real drive-in theater speakers, as well as aural atmosphere like car tires crunching on gravel and crickets chirping) with trailers, intermission ads, a Betty Boop cartoon, and then our main features: The Giant Leeches and The Screaming Skull.

CD: Lenny conducts Holst's The Planets.

Posted by Lulu @ 04/11/2003 09:36 AM PST

In the house: nothing, as I have a habit of not leaving CDs, DVDs, LDs, and VHS tapes in machines.

In the car: The Music of Bruce Kimmel.

Posted by Vincent Jan @ 04/11/2003 09:48 AM PST

Baltimore readers, dear reader Susan Gordon is at Fanex this weekend! Along with Edward de Souza from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA movie that also starred Herbert Lom and Heather Sears.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/11/2003 10:08 AM PST

"I like FOX news on the account that it doesn't clutter up my mind with more than one point of view"

Posted by Will Rogers @ 04/11/2003 10:08 AM PST

Snap it up, Will, the plane is ready.

Posted by Wiley Post @ 04/11/2003 10:12 AM PST

Ron Pulliam:

Does the cd of Hawaii have the vocal of The Wishing Doll? The original cd does not have it and the film (at least in the version I saw only has about 30 seconds of it. If that's all there is to it how did it ver get nominated for an academy award?

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 04/11/2003 10:37 AM PST

CD -- The Alan Parsons
Project - The Definitive
Collection

DVD - (inserted but as yet,
unwatched) The Matrix

VHS -- Allegro Non Troppo

Posted by Kurt @ 04/11/2003 10:48 AM PST

My work is jazzing along quickly because I'm listening to Manhattan Transfer! It's a cool and rainy New York afternoon and I need a boost of fun. My faves the Manhattan Transfer.

At home in the VCR is a tape of a movie and I can't remember the title. My Anthony's mother taped it for us because she thought we would enjoy it. It's got something to do with a high profile Hollywood murder from many years ago.

Posted by Ben @ 04/11/2003 11:02 AM PST

Don't you dare get on that plane will... or I'll never speak to you again!

Posted by Betty Rogers @ 04/11/2003 11:21 AM PST

Aw, let him go, Betty. There'll be a lotta moolah in it for you when we publish your "Life with Will" series of remembrances...

Posted by Colliers Magazine @ 04/11/2003 11:24 AM PST

Maybe we could have a new Meltz musical about Will Rogers' hair and call it:

The Will Rogers Follicles!

There is no groaning at HHW.

Posted by Idea Man @ 04/11/2003 11:37 AM PST

The vocal to "My Wishing Doll" is not on the new Deluxe Edition release.

I cannot, for the life of me, remember who sang it in the film. I'm thinking it might have been a partial vocal by Julie Andrews...possibly down as a choral piece later on.

It would have to have been performed (i.e. sung) within the context of the film for the song to have been nominated for an Oscar.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 04/11/2003 11:45 AM PST

Ben: My bet is that the high-profile Hollywood murder on the tape in your VHS is either the William Desmond Taylor murder case (which ruined the career of one Mis Mary Miles Minter) or the Black Dahlia murder case, both of which have had some superb docudramas produced on them.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 04/11/2003 11:48 AM PST

Confidentially, darling, this is more than a hangover.

Posted by Judith Traherne @ 04/11/2003 11:49 AM PST

Speaking of the Black Dahlia case, a book is out today by a former LAPD detective saying that he has cracked the case, after 61 years.

But wait, there's more...

The author says the murderer was his father, a doctor who lived in the fast lane.

Posted by Jay @ 04/11/2003 11:51 AM PST

Tell him there's been an accident and Mr. Hammond's dead.

Posted by Leslie Crosbie @ 04/11/2003 11:51 AM PST

If I don't get out of here, I'll just die! Living here is like waiting for the funeral to begin. No, it's like waiting in the coffin for them to take you out!

Posted by Rosa Moline @ 04/11/2003 11:57 AM PST

Sounds like a case of prognosis negative!

Posted by Dr Frederick Steele @ 04/11/2003 12:00 PM PST

Bette Davis to Jack Warner:
March, 1957
Jack: Man here today says you want me to play Helen Morgan's mother in biopic. Can I see the script?

Jack Warner to Bette Davis:
March, 1957
No Bette. We never even thought of you.

Posted by Western Union Office @ 04/11/2003 12:02 PM PST

I hope you die. I hope you die very soon. I'll be waitin' for you to die.

Posted by Regina Giddens @ 04/11/2003 12:05 PM PST

I could kill you!

Posted by Charlotte Hollis @ 04/11/2003 12:06 PM PST

There's only one person that does anyone any favors in this town, and that's the undertaker.

Posted by Rosa Moline @ 04/11/2003 12:08 PM PST

I fall to pieces
Each time I see you again...

Posted by Elizabeth Short @ 04/11/2003 12:13 PM PST

How nice for you. How nice for Eve. How nice for EVERYBODY!

Posted by Margo Channing @ 04/11/2003 12:22 PM PST

All my bags are packed, I'm
ready to go....
Leavin' on a Jet Plane...bound
for sunny (hopefully) Los
Angeles. This promises to be
a very fun weekend!

Posted by Ann @ 04/11/2003 12:23 PM PST

DVD: Black Adder Goes Forth

CD: The Kingston Trio, "Sold Out"

Why don't you ever ask what we're reading?

Posted by Drumm @ 04/11/2003 12:35 PM PST

Mr BK - your "jackrabbit in the valley of the dolls" was a very funny metaphor.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/11/2003 12:40 PM PST

"Steve" - Lulu's rant was hardly "irrational" - certainly not as irrational as the name "Steve" eh? I believe her post was fairly easy to read and decipher, unless one is feeling a little paranoid themselves.

Posted by bk @ 04/11/2003 01:15 PM PST

Malajusted? ! ? ! ?

Posted by Bill Sampson @ 04/11/2003 01:17 PM PST

Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men.

Posted by Margo Channing @ 04/11/2003 01:37 PM PST

You know what I really love about this line?

Gary Merrill doesn't look *remotely* 32.

Posted by Troublemaker @ 04/11/2003 01:37 PM PST

I would just like to point out that not only am I not "Steve", but I have no idea who "Steve" is.

Nor do I think that Lulu's post was irrational. I think it was very clear, and I hope I responded to it appropriately.

I realized later that I had included the words "extends hand in friendship" after the word "Shake?", but those words were not shown because I had enclosed them in arrow brackets, which I suppose were interpreted as HTML tags, and thus the text was ignored.

So, I'm still standing here with my hand outstretched (and boy is my arm getting sore...)

Posted by Dave @ 04/11/2003 01:43 PM PST

I have HAWAII on laserdisc, and I don't believe Julie Andrews sings "My Wishing Doll" (or anything else) in the film. I have forgotten exactly how the song works its way into the movie. I guess that's a film I need to take off the shelf and watch again.

In the players right now:

CD: Doris Day's DAY BY DAY/DAY BY NIGHT. I found a three CD set of six of her old Columbia albums, and this is the one I'm listening to now. Such a creamy vocalist. Don't know any other way to describe her sound.

laserdisc: THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS. It's MONO sound on the laserdisc. Is the recently released DVD in multichannel sound?

DVD: Yep, got it today and will watch it tonight: HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS.

Posted by Matt H. @ 04/11/2003 01:47 PM PST

Oddly enough, Gary Merrill was 35 when he made that film.

Something to remember, though, about how men looked who had been in WWII....they aged dramatically, some of them.

Don't know if that's true of Merrill.

Or did you mean he looked too young????

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 04/11/2003 01:47 PM PST

I came the minute I read that
piece of filth. . .

Posted by Bill Sampson @ 04/11/2003 01:57 PM PST

Why - I asked myself - not?

Posted by Karen Richards @ 04/11/2003 02:00 PM PST

Matt H - it is so true, and critics have struggled for decades to properly describe Doris' voice.

And you know of course that Doris, Rosemary Clooney, and the McGuire sisters all studied with Grace Raines an Ohio Valley vocal coach when they were young.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/11/2003 02:02 PM PST

Julie does indeed sing a mere snippet of "My Wishing Doll" early in the movie when Abner has come to meet her and she is playing with her younger sister in the parlor (Hawaii is one of my favorite movies, as you may be able to tell). I didn't know a Deluxe Edition had been released, I'll have to find it. I've had the European import CD for some time.

And, BK, shouldn't a Japanese Lesbian film properly be title Womanji?

Posted by JMK @ 04/11/2003 02:05 PM PST

Dave: I hope I didn't give the impression that you were "Steve". I know who "Steve" is, "Steve" knows that I know who he is and the world goes 'round - oh, a Kander and Ebb reference.

Posted by bk @ 04/11/2003 02:12 PM PST

My ever-lovin' der Brucer bought Mr. Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World on DVD yesterday. He'd been looking for a properly letterboxed DVD for quite some time, since Cinerama films should not ever be panned and scanned. Well, panned on occasion, but not panned and scanned both.

There is a reason why Mr. Stanley Kramer was not known for his comedies, and this film is the reason. I simply do not find it funny. When Mr. Jimmy Durante jerks his foot out and dies at the beginning of the film, for example, his foot hits a tin pail, making a great deal of racket. This is wrong. If Mr. Jimmy Durante is supposed to be kicking the bucket, it should be made of wood. Buckets are made of wood, tin is used for pails. Kicking the pail pales in comparison with kicking the bucket.

I respectfully took the DVD out of our DVD player, returned it to it's DVD keep case, and watched Mr. Samuel Jackson and Mr. Bruce Willis in Mr. M. Night Shyamalan's film Unbreakable. It wasn't funny, but if you like puns it was appropriately comic.

Posted by S. Woody White @ 04/11/2003 02:19 PM PST

BK: If you keep saying (or typing) "Steve," you may conjure him. Please don't.

Posted by Drumm @ 04/11/2003 02:27 PM PST

What a story. Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end.

All of a sudden she's Hamlet's mother.

And as for being third rate...I closed the first half for eleven years, and you know it.

Posted by Bertie Coonan @ 04/11/2003 02:31 PM PST

Cds: Martin Denny "Exotica - the Best Of:
Arthur Lyman "The Exotic Sounds of.."
The Don Black Songbook

DVD "Putting It Together"
"Chicago" - the special edition CD.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 04/11/2003 02:59 PM PST

I know who Bruce is but he has no idea who I am.

Posted by Steve @ 04/11/2003 03:05 PM PST

JMK,

NO !

Womanji is the Japanese Gay
Male version of Manji !!!!!

LOL : you must have been
"reading" my mind, because I
wanted to post your very same
remark....

Kimlets/Hainsies are great
people, I believe ;- )

Posted by François @ 04/11/2003 03:14 PM PST

"T'as d'beaux yeux, tu sais."

Posted by Jean Gabin to Michèle Morgan in QUAI DES BRUMES @ 04/11/2003 03:15 PM PST

"Your eyes are like sapphires!"

Posted by Thomas O'Malley ( to Duchess, in THE ARISTOCATS ) @ 04/11/2003 03:18 PM PST

Okay, I give up!

Who are you?

Or, who is it you think you are?

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 04/11/2003 03:18 PM PST

Somebody, please , call Lost
& Found ! Someone's lost
one's identity ! PLEASE !

Posted by François @ 04/11/2003 03:21 PM PST

Who am I anyway ?
Am I my résumé ?

Posted by confused and lost....; @ 04/11/2003 03:23 PM PST

Who are you now ?

Posted by Barbra S. @ 04/11/2003 03:24 PM PST

Atmosphére! Atmosphère!
Est-ce que j'ai une gueule
d'atmosphère ??

Posted by Arletty ( dans HOTEL DU NORD ° @ 04/11/2003 03:28 PM PST

Kurt: Are you familar with the Eric Woolfson musicals? "Freudiana", "The Gambler" and "Gaudi".
"The Gambler" uses songs from a few of the Parsons Albums - mostly of course from "Turn Of A Friendly Card" (I think that was the title). There is a live recording of the musical. I know there is a Cd of each of the others too but don't know is they are still available.I have the concept recording for "Freudiana"

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 04/11/2003 03:30 PM PST

- Oui, vous regardez votre
couteau et vous dîtes
bizarre,bizarre. Alors je croyais
que ...
- Moi, j'ai dit bizarre, bizarre,
comme c'est étrange !
Pourquoi aurais je dit bizarre,
bizarre ?
- Je vous assure mon cher
cousin, que vous avez dit
bizarre, bizarre.
- Moi, j'ai dit bizarre,  comme
c'est bizarre !"

Posted by Jacques Prévert ( for DROLE DE DRAME) @ 04/11/2003 03:31 PM PST

WARNING : LOOONNNGGG
POST:

The CHANDLER'S COVE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY is
presenting
THE 20,000 LEAGUES
EXPOSITION/ IMAGINEERING
THE SECRETS OF THE
NAUTILUS
July 12th & 13th, 2003 in
Anaheim, California
 
An amazing weekend of
adventure and wonder!
Guest of Honor - Richard
Fleischer, Director of Walt
Disney's Classic Adventure
film - 20,000 LEAGUES
UNDER THE SEA
Also appearing:
Tony Baxter - Walt Disney
Imagineering
Peter Renaday - Actor & Voice
Talent - was the voice of
Captain Nemo for Walt Disney
World's 20,000 LEAGUES
ADVENTURE, appeared in the
pilot film for the legendary (but
never built) DISCOVERY BAY
project
Rich Allsmiller - Master
Modeler & Historian of the
NAUTILUS
 
Exhibits and Displays include:
Models of the NAUTILUS
Artwork from the film
Conceptual Artwork of
Imagineer Tom Scherman
(DISCOVERY BAY PROJECT,
MYSTERIES OF THE
NAUTILUS - DISNEYLAND
PARIS, MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
- as conceived originally for the
Long Beach, California version
of DisneySea...)
CONCEPTUAL DISPLAY
FROM WALT DISNEY
MARKETING ON
MERCHANDISE BEING
CREATED FOR THE 50th
ANNIVERSARY OF 20,000
LEAGUES in 2004
A Private Reception for 85 -
100 Guests with Richard
Fleischer
A Panel honoring the memory
of legendary Disney
Imagineer, Tom Scherman
(DISCOVERY BAY PROJECT,
MYSTERIES OF THE
NAUTILUS - Disneyland Paris,
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND - as
conceived originally for hte
Long Beach, California version
of DisneySea, much, much
more...)
Amazing Silent Auctions &
Raffles with proceeds to
benefit Cancer Research in
the name of Tom Scherman
A slide presentation from Walt
Disney Imagineering on the
NAUTILUS in Disney Theme
Parks & related projects
 
Panels will include:
20,000 LEAGUES - THE FILM
THE HISTORY OF WALT
DISNEY'S 'NAUTILUS'
THE MANY BERTHS OF THE
'NAUTILUS' IN DISNEY
THEME PARKS
HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN
SCALE MODEL OF THE
'NAUTILUS'
THE LEGENDARY TOM
SCHERMAN - "MR.
NAUTILUS"
MEMORIES OF FILMING
20,000 LEAGUES

Posted by François @ 04/11/2003 03:56 PM PST

"Steve" knows who I am yet I don't know who "he" is. Think again, "Steve." And do stay away, it's healthier, don't you think?

Posted by bk @ 04/11/2003 04:03 PM PST

I second the Zookeeper ;

BK, please.............don't "feed"
the animals !

Posted by François @ 04/11/2003 04:06 PM PST

(Everyone now must "hear" the "Dragnet" them...dum de dum dum!)

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 04/11/2003 04:09 PM PST

Tom;

The Sound Of Music store in
Germany has different
versions of GAUDI for sale !

http://www.soundofmagic.de

Posted by François @ 04/11/2003 04:09 PM PST

Ooops !....

Sound of magic -- without de
but com ) is a GREAT site too,
but i meant to link:

http://www.soundofmusic.de

excusez-moi !

Posted by François @ 04/11/2003 04:12 PM PST

Dave, fine, I don't want to fight. I'll just have to try harder to not reply to posts that get under my skin. It's pointless, and can only result in more negativity.

Posted by Lulu @ 04/11/2003 04:22 PM PST

Yes, Francois, you are right - let's not feed the animals, and I do mean animals. Let's simply ignore, as hard as that is sometimes.

Posted by bk @ 04/11/2003 04:26 PM PST

Lulu - I know you were trying to IM me and I accidentally clicked "ignore" rather than "accept" so please try again.

Posted by bk @ 04/11/2003 04:30 PM PST

I'm glad you posted this, since I wondered if you were p.o.'d or something when you logged off without replying to me in any way. I know better now. :)

Posted by Lulu @ 04/11/2003 04:33 PM PST

Lulu - you will find that Mr BK is nothing if not a thoughtful host.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/11/2003 04:38 PM PST

As ol' Mose Harper would say, "Thank you kindly."

Lulu, I'm waiting for you.

Posted by bk @ 04/11/2003 04:43 PM PST

Hmmmmm...still getting no response from BK.

Oh, man, IS HE JUST MESSIN' WITH MY MIND???

Posted by Lulu @ 04/11/2003 04:48 PM PST

Thanks François. I shall check it out.(or them out!).

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 04/11/2003 05:16 PM PST

If we could talk to the animals, just imagine it
Chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee
Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting to a cheetah
What a neat achievement that would be.

If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages
Maybe take an animal degree.
We'd study elephant and eagle, buffalo and beagle,
Alligator, guinea pig, and flea.

We would converse in polar bear and python,
And we could curse in fluent kangaroo.
If people asked us, can you speak in rhinoceros,
We'd say, "Of courserous, can't you?"

If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages
Think of all the things we could discuss
If we could walk with the animals, talk with the animals,
Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals,
And they could squeak and squawk and speak and talk to us.

Posted by Dr. Dolittle @ 04/11/2003 05:18 PM PST

Hmmmm...

BK urges "Steve" to "stay away".

Since BK has only ever encouraged one dear reader to stay away before, is this a clue?

Posted by Dave @ 04/11/2003 05:45 PM PST

Dave.. I would venture the guess that it's coincidence

Posted by Craig @ 04/11/2003 05:47 PM PST

Ignorance is Bliss

Posted by Lucille @ 04/11/2003 06:08 PM PST

Do you know who's singing for
ME right now ???? -- i know
Tom is going to gringe !! --

Michael Feinstein: the MGM
album !

Spring, Spring, Spring : ain't
that timely ???

-- Merci, dear reader Allan !! --

Posted by France @ 04/11/2003 06:11 PM PST

Well you don't spring a couple of Polynesian kids on a girl just like that.

Posted by Lt Cable @ 04/11/2003 07:11 PM PST

François mon ami - how could you?
Dear Reader Allan is somewhere in France today I think.
Re Earlier Hawaii references - sad news indeed I so wanted to hear that strange and missing oscar nominated song. Mr David's lyrics seem to have disappeared for ever. I wonder if Dame Julie ever got to sing the whole song.
Guess I'll need a wishing doll to help me find a vocal version.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 04/11/2003 07:24 PM PST

S. Woody, I was EXTREMELY disappointed in the DVD of MAD WORLD because it was filmed in Ultra Panavision (single camera Cinerama) which should make its aspect ratio 2.76:1, but the framing on my screen is closer to 2.35:1. VERY disappointing. I just KNOW there is stuff happening on the extreme edges of the screen that I'm not seeing.

I really enjoyed HARRY POTTER. Kenneth Branagh was simply wonderful as the egotistical bumbling wizard. He made the movie for me.

Posted by Matt H. @ 04/11/2003 08:16 PM PST

I've been listening to quite a diverse selection of pop on my CD walkman on the subway ride to and from work this week. At the beginning of the week it was Marc Bolan & T.Rex, middle of the week was Bob Dylan (much needed listening during these troubling times, esp. "Blowin' In The Wind" and "The Times They Are A Changin'") finishing out the week with Yes' "The Ladder", "Magnification" and "Keys To Ascension".

Posted by Ray @ 04/11/2003 08:40 PM PST

Re: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling better get a little quicker with writing and releasing the remaining books in the series, otherwise the films are going to catch up to her! For all things Hogwarts, click on my name.

Posted by Ray @ 04/11/2003 08:43 PM PST

Ray.. right.. or they will have to have Harry Morgan play it as SHERMAN Potter instead (oh.. a M*A*S*H reference!)

Posted by Craig @ 04/11/2003 09:23 PM PST

In the cd player:
THE KANDER AND EBB ALBUM
THE SONG IS MINE - John dePalma
18 YELLOW ROSES - Bobby Darin

In the dvd player:
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
JURASSIC PARK
HARRY POTTTER/CHAMBER OF SECRETS
(both discs)
8 1/2 supplemental disc

In the laser disc player:
MARY POPPINS (White Disney S.E.)
(Ebay win!)

In the vcr:
HELLO, DOLLY! - widescreen
(Another Ebay win)

Posted by td @ 04/11/2003 09:47 PM PST

Boy, dear readers, judging
from the tiny bids I heard, the
Kimmel Singers and Sherman
songs are going to be quite a
TREAT !!
Ms Ebersole is a joy, -- I just
love her voice! -- Mr Barrett is
delightful as usual, and Luker
is so moving I could cry.....
A treat indeed....

Thank you, Bruce !

Posted by François @ 04/11/2003 10:17 PM PST

so moved I can't spell;

" tiny bits"

tiny bids are for Ebay, right ?

Posted by François @ 04/11/2003 10:39 PM PST

In my CD player at work yesterday (in order):

1-Janis Siegel's "Experiment In White"
2-Janis Siegel's "At Home"
3-Janis Siegel & Fred Hersch's "Short Stories"

In my CD player at work today (yup, it continues):
1-Janis Siegel & Fred Hersch's "Slow Hot Wind"
2-Janis Siegel's "Tender Trap" and
3-Janis Siegel's "I Wish You Love"

This is all in preparation for when I get Janis' brand new CD called "Friday Night Special." Hopefully soon. If anyone doesn't know, Janis Siegel is one of the founding members of The Manhattan Transfer and she has a brand new CD coming out in a couple of weeks (although copies have been available on eBay already).

In my VCR: a tape that taped tonight's "Antiques Roadshow," to be watched tomorrow.

In my DVD player: "Full Frontal" I rented it on a whim. I don't know why. I have so many DVDs that I bought that I still haven't watched yet.

Posted by George @ 04/11/2003 11:09 PM PST

td, isn't Mysterious Island fun? And of course since the DVD's came out the same week - you realize how much the scores by B Hermann are similar....Journey to the Center of the Earth that is.

I like everything about MI...including of course Michael Callan. Everything that is, except Joan Greenwood who has been a thorn in my side since I saw her in STAGESTRUCK. I can hardly believe this is the same lovely young comic actress from THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/12/2003 03:53 AM PST

Oops... thought I'd posted, but
apparently not. But at least I
caught it before new notes. I
feel like you morning East
Coast Hainsie/Kimlets,
posting at the tail end of the
day's notes. But I'm out west,
just still awake at this most
unseemly hour. For whatever
reason, I just haven't felt the
need to sleep tonight. Who
am I, Jose all of a sudden?

Anyway, on the the topic...

DVD: First Nudie Musical
(re-watched both commentary
tracks for the main film during
this sleepless night)

VCR: Bells Are Ringing

CDs: Urinetown, Lost in
Boston I, Janis Seigel "Tender
Trap" (unlike George, this is
the only solo CD of hers I
own... so far...)

Posted by Jed @ 04/12/2003 05:16 AM PST

A little late, but...

DVD - "Far From Heaven"
Watched it last night, and enjoyed it immensely.

CD - My CD player will be featuring a rotating list of CDs over the next few days, as I try to narrow down my choice of shows to direct for next year. I had submitted CHICAGO, and was approved, only to find out that the rights are restricted. I intend to escalate the request, since the production is a year away, but I still need to have a backup plan, just in case. If anyone knows how to contact Kander & Ebb to get special dispensation to produce the show, I would love to find out how! ;-)

Car CD - A cantata called "Once Upon a Cross", which I will be singing in this Friday. Got to learn those words... Argh.

Posted by Dave @ 04/12/2003 06:43 AM PST

On the way to AIDA - pray for Rosemary's Baby.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/12/2003 08:00 AM PST

Tiny bids on Ebay! What about tiny birds on Ebay, Francois?

Joan Greenwood doesn't bother me that much in MI, but her character certainly does! If I may say, MI is the first of the Harryhausen flicks that I remember seeing as a kid, and though it starts slowly, it moves well once it gets to the giant crab sequence. Soon we'll also have James Mason's Capt. Nemo on dvd. . . can't wait.

Since I'm still on the 8 1/2 kick, I have to point out that the song which Saraghina dances to on the beach is also featured on Manuel Sanguedo and Ry Cooder's album MAMBO SINUENDO. How's that for synchronicitous events?!?!?!

Posted by td @ 04/12/2003 08:03 AM PST

I saw where someone posted about Arthur Lyman on here not long ago. Was wondering if that person knew Arthur. If so, would he (or anyone else) might know whatever happened to a girl named Betty Murray that Arthur went with back in the early 70's. She was a blonde from L.A. and much younger than Arthur, but they were a pretty serious thing there for a while. I answered the phones at our offices in L.A., and he called her every single day for months. I met him once when he was in Southern California & he was at her place in the Marina. I know she broke it off with him for some reason and she was really upset over it all. I used to work with her but lost contact when she changed jobs. Anyway, just wondered.

Posted by Shirley W. @ 08/01/2003 02:47 PM PST

I saw where someone posted about Arthur Lyman on here not long ago. Was wondering if that person knew Arthur. If so, would he (or anyone else) might know whatever happened to a girl named Betty Murray that Arthur went with back in the early 70's. She was a blonde from L.A. and much younger than Arthur, but they were a pretty serious thing there for a while. I answered the phones at our offices in L.A., and he called her every single day for months. I met him once when he was in Southern California & he was at her place in the Marina. I know she broke it off with him for some reason and she was really upset over it all. I used to work with her but lost contact when she changed jobs. Anyway, just wondered.

Posted by Shirley W. @ 08/01/2003 02:48 PM PST

To Shirley who just posted-- boy I hope you check back & see this!

How ironic can this be... while googling for info on Arthur Lyman's death, I run across this. And then, boom, there's Betty Murray mentioned in the message too. I was in the group that introduced Arthur and Betty to each other in Hilo, Hawaii, back in early 1971. And you're right, from the first minute they met there was something major going on. My wife always said it was "electric" when they met! I have more info, but rather than post here, if you see this, leave me some kind of address where I might get in touch. I don't know where Betty is now, but I do know she married a guy from L.A. several years later. And I have a couple of names you might try to contact to see if they know where she is. She was a cool gal... probably the only 20-something blonde that my wife ever liked! We sure hated it when we found out they weren't together anymore-- we thought they were meant for each other. Regards, Ted in WA

Posted by Ted in WA @ 08/06/2003 01:11 PM PST

To Shirley,
I'm sure now that I remember you from the company in L.A. I know we talked on the phone back then, but just so you don't think I'm some kind of oddball, if you still stay in touch with Tom, he can vouch for me. He can also tell you how to get in touch with me. My wife & I have talked about Arthur & Betty a lot since I first saw your note. It was so sad that it didn't work out between them because they were perfect together. She said all you had to do was watch them when they looked in each others eyes. I contacted one of my old city friends who I thought might know who she married or where she is now, but he didn't. But he's trying to track down a friend that was with the Dallas Cowboys years ago since that was the crowd she ran with before your company moved her out to L.A., and he knows the two of them knew each other back then. But we're all so up into years now that we find out so many of these people aren't even alive anymore-- or don't remember things as well as they used to. But if you want to talk or share information, call Tom & he'll tell you how to reach me. If you're not comfortable talking to me, I'll let you talk to my wife! I'm just an old codger with too much time on my hands anymore. Regards, Ted

Posted by Ted in WA @ 08/21/2003 03:27 PM PST

TO SHIRLEY
RE ARTHUR LYMAN & BETTY MURRAY
Shirley:
We got your voice mail, And even though you asked us to call you back, you didn't leave a number. I'm hoping you'll see this. My buddy found out that after Betty & Arthur broke up, she later ended up marrying a guy you may actually have known from work. Don't know where she is yet, but at least we've got a place to start. Call us back and we'll talk. This has all been a real trip down memory lane for me & my wife. She just keeps saying how sad it was that Arthur & Betty didn't end up together forever because she said you could tell just looking at the two of them together that they were SUPPOSED to be with each other. When we discovered that Arthur remarried a couple of times later on, my wife said "That's because he was marrying the wrong person-- it should have been Betty." Either she's a frustrated matchmaker or a psychic. But she's more often right about these kinds of things, so I wouldn't want to disagree with her. Call us back! And tell Tom hello for us! Ted

Posted by Ted in WA @ 09/29/2003 04:05 PM PST