Posted by Arnold M. Brockman @ 07/08/2003 08:25 AM PST

You named your work computer "Schwartz?" I've named my new PC "Callaway."

Posted by Kit Lo @ 07/08/2003 08:39 AM PST

Well, Mr. Arnold M. Brockman, I
believe you should speak to
your very own offspring, Mr.
Craig Brockman - it only took
two months to get the session
photos up, and now, hopefully,
he will get up the Joe Allen
and Ray Courts photos in
short order.

Posted by bk @ 07/08/2003 09:33 AM PST

DR Kurt is an IMac owner and aficionado - so I am sure he knows lots of short cuts and fun if you need instruction.

EXPERIMENT IN TERROR is one of my favorite Mancini scores...whew! I used to always get this movie mixed up with CAPE FEAR with a fine Bernard Herman score.

Hmmmmmmmm....yes I have. Most of the "new" plays have some undraped scenes. LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! and PARTY are the two I have - uh - participated in. During PARTY I just happened to be the stage manager and ran the lights/sound, but promised the cast that any night we sold out the house I would take off my clothes for the curtain call (booth was visible to the audience) and sure enough, two or three times.... It was fun though! LVC was another story.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/08/2003 09:37 AM PST

Nude? Me?

Au naturel? Moi?

No! Non!

Although, I still remember when I was 13-14, doing the mooning thing with my buddies. Butt that was about it for body exposure.

-Now I'm really curious as to what BK will be sharing with us tomorrow.

And Congrats on the new job, BK! My cable system will be adding Fine Living (and DYI) on August 1, so I'll get to see the fruits of your labors eventually!

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 07/08/2003 09:40 AM PST

As for the topic.... not on stage, a
beach, yes, on stage, no. I pride
myself in being bi-platform and use
a PC at home and an iBook at my
office at church. It took a while to get
used to the iBook, but for a PC user,
it was easier to go from a PC to a
Mac, and I can see how it could be
difficult for a Mac user to go to a PC.

I had an idea on my walk this
morning. Seeing that we are
reading Julianna's journal and I'm
sure we will see her on the TMM tour
when it comes to our town, we
should all purchase HHW hats or t-
shirts or whatever so she could pick
us out at the stage door! That's just
a thought. Have a day!

Posted by Matthew @ 07/08/2003 09:53 AM PST

Oh - and my iBook's name is Gobo.

Posted by Matthew @ 07/08/2003 09:57 AM PST

As innocent and virginal as I am, I WAS asked to appear nude (and more) by someone in the "film business" who tried to pick me up once. He showed me proof of some of his other work and assured me that the photographer was a professional from a prominent magazine. I graciously declined his offer. I graciously declined the other offers he made that evening as well.

Who knows, maybe that was my one chance at stardom? HA!

Posted by Kerry @ 07/08/2003 09:59 AM PST

Be sure to read my upcoming autobiography, Kerry.

Stars are not born, they are MADE!

Posted by Tab Hunter @ 07/08/2003 10:06 AM PST

Great idea, Matthew - I vote for hats!

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/08/2003 10:07 AM PST

The only way I would appear nude in a play is if it were in a scene where it would be natural to appear nude. For instance my "wife" would be in the bedroom talking to me and I would step out of the bathroom totally nude --- razor or toothbrush in hand --- and say "You know I can't hear you when the water's running!".

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 07/08/2003 10:09 AM PST

Not quite...

My first year at Hofstra, one of my female colleagues, who was a grandmother f'r gosh sakes, was working with a friend on a screenplay. She approached me at a party and said she thought I would be perfect for the lead. Her husband interjected, "She just wants to see if you have red pubic hair."

The film was never made, alas, alack!

Posted by William F. Orr @ 07/08/2003 10:20 AM PST

BK - If you are NOT waching WHAT'S UP DOC?, how can you give us a full report on it?

The recording session photos are wonderful, but I thought Guy Haines was there, also. Didn't anyone happen to catch a picture of him?

Nude on stage? Me? Never! Once, in print for the pages of a certain magazine that is supposed to be a woman's magazine, but has more gay readers than women, but never live, in the flesh (so to speak).

Posted by TCB @ 07/08/2003 10:41 AM PST

Have I ever appeared nude in public? At nude beaches, sure. I've been to several of the clothing optional resorts in Palm Springs, too. Am most curious to find out tomorrow why you are asking.

Posted by Jay @ 07/08/2003 10:46 AM PST

Once you MAC, you can't go
back....:-). They really are
awesome.....mine's name is
"Sally"..nope, not after the
Charlie's sis..but after my
grandma's car (Nannie)...who
drove the same color blue
car...named Sally...with no
seatbelts....this is years
back..I was like two...and we
all...like 7 of us...would slide
back and forth in the back seat
when she made wide turns in
Sally. My nannie was puny..and
barely could see over the
wheel....LOL....It was truely
freightening!..She always said
there was nothign to worry about
and that she was never in a
accident( in a perfect Irish
accent).....If only she looked
behind her......!

Enjoy the nice weather
everyone..and best wishes on your
new

Posted by Jen M. @ 07/08/2003 11:01 AM PST

Yes, to appearing nude on stage.
Yes, I did it.
What's funny is, when the same theater company did EQUUS, and I appeared as Nugget, our Alan Strang stripped down to only tight white jockey shorts; yet, while I was appearing in McNally's ...AND THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT, my naked butt was projected onto two screen flanking the audience for all the world to see!
So, actually, not only did BUMP allow me to appear naked on stage. in order to do so I had to pose for an artist's camera.
I have also appeared quite close to nude in NO SEX, PLEASE WE'RE BRITISH!, THE MISANTHROPE and a children's theater production of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!!!!
As Nugget (in EQUUS)however, I felt more naked than had I actually been naked.
Also, when I was writing my script, THE END OF THE WORLD ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, I included a nude scene for the second male lead (thinking that it would never make it to the stage) and lo and behold, when it was produced, the actor playing the role INSISTED that the nude scene remain.
Would I do a nude scene again? I suppose I would.

For the record, my PC's name (registered with Microsoft, no less) is: NANCY LAMOTT.

Posted by td @ 07/08/2003 11:47 AM PST

. . .and that just might be my longest post EVER!

Posted by td @ 07/08/2003 11:48 AM PST

I'm still using my old one.

8-D

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/08/2003 11:49 AM PST

BK--that's great about your new job. I sympathize with you in your Mac woes. We've only had a PC for about half a year now--before it was a slow old Mac my sister dubbed Helga that was compatible with just about nothing and had like a RAM or whatever of about 5.

I have never appeared nude before an artist, in public or in a play. Although last year I was in a student play of short sketches where I played a hillbilly and wore a quite revealing get-up of like a halter top my friend lent me and Daisy Dukes. Somehow I think that is the closest I'll get to onstage nudity unless I get cast in like Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, and even then I don't think I'd do it. Not modest little me.

Posted by Maya @ 07/08/2003 11:55 AM PST

As I read these posts I again
realize that we are the most
fun and civilized site on all the
Internet, with the brightest and
the best posters on any board.
Everyone give themselves a
big kiss (no mean feat) and
have a candy bar in
celebration. Now, where in
tarnation IS everyone?

Posted by bk @ 07/08/2003 12:11 PM PST

Not a candy bar, BK... som gummies!

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 07/08/2003 12:14 PM PST

I don't think you'll ever see me nude on stage. That's mainly because I don't think you'll ever see me on stage. Or on film. And I can't think of a single reason why anyone would want to see me on stage. Or on film.

A question just came to mind: why DO they call them BUCKSKINS? The word sounds wonderfully suggestive, but it means a pair of leather breeches, so everything ends up covered (at least for men). This word is very confusing, not to mention disappointing. What the heck is going on?

Posted by S. Woody White @ 07/08/2003 12:45 PM PST

Maybe because they look like the skin of a young buck.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 07/08/2003 12:47 PM PST

If not the brightest and best, then, as I have observed in my few but extremely enjoyable visits here, possessed of enquiring minds. I had to look up tarnation, and its derivation is interesting: "tarn(al) (Chiefly U.S., damned; alteration of eternal) and damn(nation)." So I guess that it means damned-damn. On the subject of an enquiring mind, I find I need to know something from JB, apropos of yesterday's story about his worst job ever - the one in which he told his Baskin-Robbins customer to take the wrong-flavored hand-packed quart of ice cream and shove it where the sun don't shine. What flavor was it?

Posted by TorontoDan @ 07/08/2003 12:59 PM PST

I use to admire the work of an artist who had his own gallery in Beverly Hills. One day, while on my lunch break, I met the artist. He did ask me to pose nude for him while forcing me to share his lunch with him. It was all very odd. I declined and got out of there as quickly as possible. When I returned to work I began to share my experience with a co-worker. Seems he tried to get her to pose as well. After that I had visions of him corning every decent looking woman who walked into his gallery.

Posted by Jane @ 07/08/2003 01:07 PM PST

Corning? Should be cornering. So much for spell check, I need a brain check button as well.

Posted by Jane @ 07/08/2003 01:09 PM PST

Jane--your story reminded me of one my mom told me.

When she was young and vacationing in Italy, she stayed at a villa with a couple of friends who happened to be rich. Donald Ogden Stewart, the screenwriter of the Philadelphia Story, was also there as he was a friend of my mom's friends. Well, he lived out the old cliche and asked her if she wanted to come upstairs and see some paintings. I thank God I have a smart mother...she turned down the old satyr.

Posted by Maya @ 07/08/2003 01:13 PM PST

Well, I'd better stop using the
paintings line lest I be thought
of as an old satyr. Satyr is fine,
though.

TorontoDan, I guess since
she's my very own actual
daughter it's safe for me to say
that JBakaJK is a female.

Posted by bk @ 07/08/2003 01:19 PM PST

Thanks for the correction about JBakaJK - and apologies for my assumption.

Posted by TorontoDan @ 07/08/2003 01:24 PM PST

No...and no!

*blushing*

Posted by Lulu @ 07/08/2003 01:30 PM PST

JB aka JK's sentiments - "I can't even get up in front of a room full of people with my clothes" - are pretty close to my own; and maybe that's why I identified with her. As for today's question. Decades ago when I majored in art, one of our figure-drawing models was an elderly woman, who we assumed needed the cash. She was extremely shy, and even when she disrobed she wouldn't let go of her purse. That summer my friend Richard took a job as a tour-bus guide. Among the passengers was "the lady with a purse." She told Richard that he looked so familiar, but fortunately was never able to place him.

Posted by TorontoDan @ 07/08/2003 01:32 PM PST

I thought it was supposed to be etchings?

Posted by TCB @ 07/08/2003 01:33 PM PST

lol, BK!

TCB--it technically is, but I imagine Donald thought that "etchings" was too cliched for a famous screenwriter so "paintings" would be slightly less hackneyed and obnoxious.

Posted by Maya @ 07/08/2003 01:38 PM PST

No, no I haven't. I wouldn't
have any problem with doing it
if the role called for it, but I
don't think the public really
needs to be subjected to that.

Posted by Jed @ 07/08/2003 02:03 PM PST

I've never been asked to do anything nude, but I have been partially naked in public. Let's just say a bad experience trying on bathing suits in a mall...oh, the horror.

I have a friend, however, who was bet $300 that he wouldn't come to school naked, and sure enough, one Monday morning, he walked into Geometry with nothing but a smile and his books...needless to say, the administration didn't find it nearly as funny as I did.

Posted by Sarah @ 07/08/2003 02:04 PM PST

TCB - In Print? Really? Did you use your real name? Initials? Time to check the back issues!!

NOT!!!

:-)

Well.. maybe... But I have no back issues to check...

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 07/08/2003 02:30 PM PST

Jose - I am afraid I can't help you out, because I don't have any back issues either. And no, I didn't use my real name.

Posted by TCB @ 07/08/2003 02:36 PM PST

Nope, never done nudity on stage, but I wouldn't mind if it was necessary to the role. If a director wants to cast me in PARTY or L!V!C! I'll be glad to show it all.

I think Henry Mancini used some of his cues from EXPERIMENT IN TERROR when he did the score for WAIT UNTIL DARK. I love that second film even more than EIT, but they're both fun to watch.

Posted by Matt H. @ 07/08/2003 02:49 PM PST

No nudity for me, at least not in front of an audience. Doubt I'd have much a problem with it, but can't imagine when it might be called for. The last time I was on stage was as a nun in Sound Of Music, and sadly the nuns don't get a lot of nude scenes.

Posted by Ann @ 07/08/2003 02:49 PM PST

btw, I've been a mac person for a long time, although I'm fluent in both platorms, and boy do I ever take a lot of s**t for my preference...

Posted by Ann @ 07/08/2003 02:51 PM PST

Well, TorontoDan, the flavor he originally asked for was Fudge Brownie, but then, after the whole quart was packed, he said he wanted Jamoca Almond Fudge. The nerve!:)

I thought I would let everyone know that we had a huge storm here and the power was knocked out for 3 hours! Work is really boring with no power! We got 2 inches of rain in 30 minutes, with very gusty winds. Pretty crazy stuff! That's my weather report for the day - I am going home now.

Y'all have a great evening!

Posted by JB aka JK @ 07/08/2003 03:01 PM PST

First person to make a joke involving the phrase "Fudge Brownie Packer" gets it.

Oh! I guess that would be me.

*smack*

Posted by Lulu @ 07/08/2003 03:09 PM PST

Not being a theatre person, requests for my nudity have not been forthcoming. I don't have a problem with the idea but the public no doubt would. I tend to find clothed bodies more attractive anyway! It is the mystery of the form beneath. Nudity on stage has never been that interesting to me. "Oh Calcutta", "Hair", "The Elephant Man" etc. - I could never see the nudity as being particularly essential to anything except ticket sales.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/08/2003 03:11 PM PST

Hello all, I've finally figured out how to record my voice onto my computer, and after all that work, I'm having a bit of a mind blank as to which songs I should record for my "fans" listening pleasure. Any ideas, suggestions? And if they turn out well, I might post them here...

BTW, when I say fans, I mean the people who check their mail on my list...I haven't got any fans...yet :)

Posted by Sarah @ 07/08/2003 03:44 PM PST

I've never appeared nude... although I was the assistant director on a production of "Equus" once (the rubber and lycra version... it was special). Would I do nudity onstage? I don't know, I've never been asked. Depending on what the role was, maybe. I certainly wouldn't do gratuitous nudity (and the world breathes a collective sigh of relief...).

I haven't named my laptop. I haven't named my two PCs at home either. I sometimes *call* the older one a lot of names, but that's usually when it's frozen on me and I'm engaged in the high-tech repair technique known as "percussive maintenance".

Posted by Stephen Farrow @ 07/08/2003 04:01 PM PST

Where IS everyone?!? It's been an hour since the last post, and that was me as well...geesh...

Posted by Sarah @ 07/08/2003 04:51 PM PST

Dear Dear Sweet Bruce..

How could it take me two two two months to put up the photos if the recording sessions took place at the beginning of June. Surely you mean ONE month. Quite CLEARLY that is what you meant. :)

More later, after I wipe away the tears of sorrow caused by this outrage...

Posted by Craig @ 07/08/2003 04:51 PM PST

Yeah OK so my computer is dumb and it doesn't show new posts...how stupid...of me :)

Posted by Sarah @ 07/08/2003 04:52 PM PST

Aaaahhhh, the nude beach.
Finally, a topic that causes me to share my feelings with the rest of you, after much too long an absence..
I love the nude beach. I find it to be an aid to creativity.
I've written a play and two screenplays at the nude beach.
I've learned that if you can keep your eyes on the page, with all that's going on around you, you must really have something.
One afternoon at the nude beach,
I was sitting with my stuff, when this young, very attractive couple sits down in front of me.
They completely disrobe. The girl is breathtakingly beautiful.
They sit down, and the girl takes a large black bonnet out of her bag, puts it on her head, and ties it with black scarf-like handles under her chin.
That's the picture. Naked, with black bonnet on her head.
About thirty seconds later, I've got the line. All I need is the right opportunity to spring it.
About forty-five minutes later, the opportunity presents itself.
She begins to untie and remove the bonnet. As she does, I speak up. With many people within earshot, I say "Don't take off the hat. It makes the whole outfit!"

Posted by mark rothman @ 07/08/2003 05:12 PM PST

I guess it just SEEMED like
two months. It doesn't SEEM
like I was in NY four short
weeks ago. However, none of
that is either here nor there nor
there nor here nor here there
nor. Mr. Arnold M. Brockman,
your father, wishes you to get
them Joe Allen photos up
NOW. Don't you sass your
father, you upstart. Yes, you
heard it here, you, Mr. Craig
Brockman are an upstart or, at
the very least, a downstart.
AND we wish to see the Ray
Courts photos. Do not try and
win the Mark Bakalor
Procrastination Award for
Procrastination.

Posted by bk @ 07/08/2003 05:49 PM PST

Hmmmm. Should I break into this conversation on nudity to report on my Communications class?

Posted by Sandra @ 07/08/2003 06:00 PM PST

Of course, as long as you are
nude whilst giving us the
report

Posted by bk @ 07/08/2003 06:06 PM PST

Uh, I'll just save it until tomorrow then.

Posted by Sandra @ 07/08/2003 06:17 PM PST

I guess it's time to start that "So, what ARE you wearing now?" discussion.

NIce, light linen pastel-plaid, short-sleeved dress shirt (lovely blues and greens) with khaki cargo shorts. . .and that's about it.

Posted by td @ 07/08/2003 07:01 PM PST

I am wearing....*drumroll*...

A bright red tanktop, jean capris with "I <3 NY" patches on them, and red socks...I love socks...if I could have a new pair of socks every day for the rest of my life, I would be very very very happy.

Posted by Sarah @ 07/08/2003 07:23 PM PST

Lulu! You are a scream! Fudge Borwnie Packer! I think it might be time for me to whip our the dvd of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's QUERELLE. . .

Posted by td @ 07/08/2003 07:26 PM PST

Re today's topic: No.

Have you ever noticed that the folks that like to go semi-nude are the ones who shouldn't? There are some things we just really don't want to see.

Posted by Laura @ 07/08/2003 09:39 PM PST

Let's get the nudity thing out of the way. Yes, Iwas in a play called "T Shirts" by Robert Patrick about 1980. There were 3 guys in the cast and at one point in the show, we undressed completely and sat in front of a TV set. I was nude about 3 minutes and I then put my clothes on and made my exit. One actor had to stay on stage and admire himself in the TV screen.

For the three of us it wasn't that difficult to perform for 150 people completely naked. The hard part was taking our clothes off for the first time in front of each other. We had a real problem with that at first. Our kindly stage manager offered to remove her blouse and bra if that would help. We thanked her but assured her it wasn't necessary. We made it through the undress rehearsal.

I did the same play about 3 years later and one night, one of the lighting crew got confused and put a spotlight on us. We really picked up the pace and our clothes.

Would I do it now? No!!! My body is not what it once was. If the part was great enough I might have to eat my words and take off my shorts.

I'm curious as to where this thread is going.

Bruce commented the other day on the DVD of "The Tenant". I'm proabably the only person who loves this film. I saw it several times when it was first released and was fascinated by it. I was completely taken again last night when I watched it. It's humorous but there is a harrowing story behind it. As the film unwinds it gets darker and really creepy. Not something to watch late at night.

Posted by Dennis Clancy @ 07/08/2003 11:10 PM PST

I am with you on "The Tenant" Dennis. A fascinating experience which has stayed in my memory bank. A thought provoking and dark movie. I remember seeing it on a double bill with "Madam Rosa".

I watched a Fench movie last night "Lisa", with the amazing Jeanne Moreau. Great movie.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/08/2003 11:58 PM PST

I have never been nude in a play or even in public. Not even in a gym (school or public) setting. I just joined the local YMCA and I'm taking a step aerobics class at noon. I can't take a shower in the communal showers. If I feel that I need to take a shower, I can go to my sister's house, which is only a couple of miles away. If I were asked to do a play or something like that, I might consider it, because then there would be a reason for me to be nude and I could let go any apprehension. I do get nekkid in private quite often.

Posted by George @ 07/09/2003 03:39 AM PST

And sometimes it doesn't even do that, Tom.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/09/2003 05:26 AM PST