Replies: 128 Unseemly Comments
Since BK is writing today's notes yesterday, I will respond today to a post from yesterday. (Oh my god, is it tomorrow already?)
Just for the record, there have been many times when I have posted my agreement with BK, and I have concurred with others on this board many times as well.
In fact, I will do so again right now. I think that a revival of LI'L ABNER would be a great deal of fun.
But, as with many of the DRs, I will voice my opinion, even if it is not the popular opinion at this board.
Now, let's be clear. There is nothing in my earlier post that suggests I agree or disagree with BK. I suggested that it is amusing how fashion trends come full circle, and how people who grew up in an era with some controversial fashions are now shocked by the clothes the younger generation wears. This is not a new observation. Another poster quoted "Kids" from BYE BYE BIRDIE as an earlier illustration of how this phenomenon.
BK then says...
"I think Mr. Dave enjoys not agreeing with people..."
I think it is closer to the truth to say that I enjoy looking at all sides of an issue. I am willing to examine different points of view, and offer them to the group for discussion. Sometimes I will even play Devil's advocate, just for the sake of looking at the issue in another light. That seems to not always be popular around here. ;-)
I'd also like to point out that in many instances, people have inferred a meaning from my posts that was not intended. For example, if you read my original post today, you will see that I wrote:
"With regard to the ATC thread, I think that some people have missed an important point"
Note that I referred to a thread, not the original post. And I said that *some* people (i.e. not all people, and not necessarily Bruce) may have missed *a* point (not the point of the girl who started the thread). I was suggesting that there was a point we had not yet looked at. (Namely, that one's experience of a particular show need not be predicated upon a frame of reference that includes having seen multiple productions of the same show. If that were the case, how would one judge the original production, or the performances in it? A revival *is* an original production, if you haven't seen it before.) This was obviously misconstrued by some people. Maybe that's because I didn't clarify it enough for some people. I'll take responsibility for that.
Now, if you'd like me to voice my agreement with BK once again, I will. I feel sorry for the kids who are defacing their bodies with tattoos, as I'm sure they will regret it in years to come. Piercings can be removed, and most will eventually heal over. Hair can usually grow back, and you can always change your clothes. But tattoos are more permanent, and much harder to get rid of, should one outgrow them.
Posted by Dave @ 07/18/2003 07:44 AM PST
First post of the day, and I bet it's the longest, too! ;-)
Posted by Dave @ 07/18/2003 07:44 AM PST
CD player: Just listened to St. Louis Woman (City Center Encores.) Nothing on the DVD, but last night we watched Antwone Fisher. I found it slow but moving (that's not quite an oxymoron). I thought the best performance was that of the wonderful Novella Nelson, who was once Pearl Bailey's standby in Hello Dolly. What an honor to be the first to post, and I'm sorry for being so brief. But I work at home and feel the need for a change of scene. On my way to Starbucks.
Posted by TorontoDan @ 07/18/2003 07:51 AM PST
Whew! Was not the first (or the fastest) to post after all.
Posted by TorontoDan @ 07/18/2003 07:51 AM PST
In my car CD: NINE (revival cast recording)
At home CD: FLOWER DRUM SONG (revival cast recording)
DVD: "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" (rented this nearly a week ago, and hope to watch it tonight) I also rented "Comedian" - the documentary with Jerry Seinfeld, which I watched a few days ago.
Posted by Dave @ 07/18/2003 08:00 AM PST
I wish I knew what day it was. I am hoping it really is Friday so that this is the last office work day of the week.
Yes lots of great posts yesterday so much to read, so many thoughts expressed. Yes, HHW is indeed the Expression Express!
In my CD player - I am still listening to my three Joanie Sommers CD's! How wonderful they are...and the live performance from 1962 is a fresh as a daisy! I am also enjoying my membership in the Joanie Sommers Yahoo Group - where Ms. Sommers is also a member!
In my VCR - THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE.
In my DVD player (now that I have finally removed ATTACK OF THE FIFTY FOOT WOMAN sent to me by DR Susan) - LADY OF BURLESQUE with Miss Barbara Stanwyck, and THE DEVIL'S PARTNER with Richard (Rocky Jones)Crane and Ed Nelson.
Off to read Juliana's Journal!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/18/2003 08:31 AM PST
It is INDEED Friday. But the last entry on JJ for me is still July 4!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/18/2003 08:34 AM PST
Just wanted to say thanks to everybody who wished me well re: my last day at work yesterday. You know who you are. :) It was really lovely and heartwarming and I appreciate it.
Posted by Lulu @ 07/18/2003 08:41 AM PST
Remember: Today will be yesterday tomorrow.
CD: 3 volumes of Harold Arlen songs taken from various radio broadcasts of the 1930s and early 1940s. The first is all "Wizard of Oz" related; the second is singers doing Arlen; the third is Big Bands doing Arlen songs. All were cutouts for $4.95 each so the 3 volumes cost about the same as one new CD.
DVD - The Hepburn GLASS MENAGERIE telecast
VHS - Nothing now, but I will be recording "Pink Lady and Jeff" all next week. Whether I will be able to watch more than one episode is another story, but this show is a legend in its own mind and one I have read about and never seen.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 07/18/2003 08:57 AM PST
Bill - interesting GLASS MENAGERIE...or rather excerpts from GLASS MENAGERIE.
I like it more than I did when it was first broadcast. I like Michael Moriarity best of all as Jim, the Gentleman Caller...but Joanna Miles is also touching.
I need to watch it again soon...as soon as we close our production. Katharine is not as wrong for Amanda as I used to think she was, and since her performance obviously hasn't changed, I must have.
Has anyone else watched a movie YEARS later and changed his/her mind entirely about it?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/18/2003 09:03 AM PST
In the CD player as I write this TOM WOPAT: THE STILL OF THE NIGHT on DVD nothing this week but a couple more episodes of STINGRAY, other then that I have been very E & t with regards to watching anything but BIG BROTHER, QUEER EYE, and AMAZING RACE, oh and my new favorite show now playing weekends on The National Network (soon to be Spike TV) MOST EXTREME ELIMINATION CHALLENGE which is a reality show from Japan that is redubbed and is very, very funny!
Posted by MBarnum @ 07/18/2003 09:09 AM PST
François got it right: We will make sure Ozmopolitan Tom gets a crack at the soundtrack recording (in blazing stereo) of the movie musical known as "Kismet."
In my CD player: Tons of stuff -- getting most recent listens: "Brownstone", "Purlie" and "Fade Out, Fade In."
In my VCR: Tape I made of a KQED-produced public affairs show featuring a segment on "Wicked."
On my DVD: "What's Up, Doc?"
Happy Friday, everyone.
Happy Belated Birthday, Anna!!!
It's gonna be HOT-HOT-HOT in the Bay Area today!!!!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/18/2003 09:11 AM PST
Yes, JRand52 I have watched the 1933 version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND recently...I loved it as a kid and as a teen but this time around I have had a difficult time getting through it...I started watching it almost 1 year ago and I have not finished it yet! LOL!
Posted by MBarnum @ 07/18/2003 09:12 AM PST
Yes, Jrand52, unfortunately far too often. Often this happens with older movies. Recently I watched Dial M for Murder and was a bit bored. I noticed flaws in the movie this time around.
DVD: Fiddler on the Roof, special addition
Posted by Jane @ 07/18/2003 09:27 AM PST
BROWNSTONE is one of my upcoming CD purchases, along with AMOUR. Ron, would you care to post your thoughts on the BROWNSTONE CD?
Lulu, best wishes in your new career endeavours. The world is your oyster!
Posted by Dave @ 07/18/2003 09:46 AM PST
And I will commence to yodeling for ya, Lulu.
Posted by Pearl Bodine @ 07/18/2003 09:48 AM PST
My car CD player is still missing, so I have been listening to *gasp* the radio.
Posted by Laura @ 07/18/2003 09:56 AM PST
Yesterday td spoke of the Most Happy Fella production with Leigh Berry. She was a splendid Roxana in Cyrano, which I saw in Toronto 30 years ago. (Oy.) Does anyone know how Leigh Berry's career turned out? And what about the composer, Michael J. Lewis? His catchy Cyrano overture is the song that introduces Applause with Michael Englebert, a delightful hour-long Sunday-night radio program. I never understood why Roxana's "You Have Made Me Love," with its haunting melody and elegant Anthony Burgess lyrics, never became a classic. I'm looking over the two-record album, and note Tovah Feldshuh's name in tiny type.
Posted by TorontoDan @ 07/18/2003 10:01 AM PST
In the DVD is HOME, starring Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, one from the Broadway Archive Series. In the CD are "Magic Abroad In The Air", Hutch (Leslie Hutchinson), sort of the Bobby Short of his day. And Brook Benton, "Forty Greatest Hits"...some aren't all that great, but most of his big hits are on it..."Shadrach", "Kiddio", "FoolsRush In, "Walk On The Wild Side", "A House Is Not Home"... including his two terrific numbers with Dinah Washington, "Baby, You've Got What It Takes" and "A Rockin' Good Way To Mess Around And Fall In Love".
Posted by Charles Pogue @ 07/18/2003 10:10 AM PST
I've only been gone a couple of days and am amazed at all I've missed! Must make mental note not to be errant or truant.
In my VCR:
BREAK OF HEARTS (RKO 1935) - This is the second film I've never seen before in my Katherine Hepburn Mini Film Festival (the first was "Little Women"). It was produced by Pandro S. Berman who produced the early Astaire/Rogers films. Katherine's acting is very natural (soft even) and without some of her later mannerisms. IMO, however, there is one major flaw in the script (the reason Katherine leaves Charles Boyer). Other than that, it is very well done for its genre ("a woman's picture").
REAR WINDOW (Universal 1954) - What a film! I've lost count as to how many times I've seen it but, each time I do, I marvel at the skill and artistry of it. This last go around, I paid attention to the excellent performances of its supporting players - Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey and (Perry Mason himself) Raymond Burr. IMO, a film is so much better when the supporting roles are well written and well played. It gives the film "gravitas" and much to contemplate afterward. I'll be watching the film again this weekend--paying attention to the sound and cinematography.
NOTE TO JRAND: No disappointments here. For me, this film gets better with age.
Posted by Donna - Cabaret West @ 07/18/2003 10:24 AM PST
REAR WINDOW is so good. No change of mind here either, unless it is to like it even more each time I watch.
Donna - the actress who played "The Body" is Georgine Darcy who later played the sister half of the dance act in DON'T KNOCK THE TWIST. She did the Scheherazade Twist (aka The Twist of the Seven Veils)!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/18/2003 10:30 AM PST
Miss Torso, that is.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/18/2003 10:31 AM PST
Doh....DR Charles Pogue is Mr Brook Benton's recording of a song titled "Think Twice" included in that collection?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/18/2003 10:32 AM PST
TorontoDan: I never saw the Broadway production of Cyrano but I have the album and I did see the original production which started at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. It was a great production. From there they took it on the road and from what I hear (and remember) by the time it reached Broadway it was a different show. Here is a sketchy time line of when it was all happening. (warning - semi-long post approaching):
1970 - Anthony Burgess first commissioned to translate and adapt Cyrano de Bergerac by Michael Langham, Artistic Director of the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis.
1971 - Anthony Burgess` translation and adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac premiered. Paul Hecht (marvelous actor who now does a great deal of voice-over work) played Cyrano in a very successful non-muscial version.
1972 - The non-musical version was so successful that the Guthrie decided to adapt Burgess' script and make it a musical bound for Broadway starring Christopher Plummer.
1973 - The show, directed by Michael Langham, opened at the Guthrie on January 23, 1973. There were 18 songs, some of which are listed here. "From Now Till Forever," "A Man Without Words," "You Have Made Me Love," "Love is Not Love," and "I Never Loved You." The critics were not as kind as I am. The show got very mixed reviews but it still sold out. Michael Langham, the director was replaced and by the time it hit NY there was a new director, about 15 new cast members and many other changes.
1973 - The musical "Cyrano" by Michael J Lewis and Anthony Burgess premiered, (13th May), at the Palace Theatre, New York City.
1974 - Christopher Plummer won a Tony for the Cyrano. Leigh Berry (from Minneapolis, she was one of the few to stay with the show from the beginning) was also nominated for her role as Roxane, in the "supporting actress in a musical" catagory.
I remember it in Minneapolis being a glorious piece, full of great music and marvelous performances. Yes, Miss Tovah Feldshuh was in the cast. She (and her brother David, a doctor and actor/director) both worked at the Guthrie at that time (David may still be working there).
Oh, well. Memories, memories. I'm listening to jazz this afternoon. The wonderful Manhattan Transfer. In the VCR is a tape of a high school production of How to Succeed. My nephew did the show and my sister sent us a videotape so we could see highlights of the show. Nothing in the DVD. CD at home is empty too. I'm done burning for a while and must move on to other chores.
Posted by Ben @ 07/18/2003 10:51 AM PST
A few pertinent sayings to thimk about:
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, and now you know why.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery, today is a gift from G-d, the Present.
Posted by Susan @ 07/18/2003 10:52 AM PST
Yes, I did mean to say "thimk".
:-)
Posted by Susan @ 07/18/2003 10:52 AM PST
2001 - CYRANO played the York as part of the Musicals in Mufti series. David Staller was excellent in the title role and the whole cast was good. Nothing that was done in that production indicated why the initial production was such a flop. I guess audiences in the mid-70s just weren't interested in an operetta.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 07/18/2003 10:55 AM PST
Last CD--Audra MacDonald's Way Back to Paradise. With the second listen, I actually like LaChiusa more than I used to. Not sure if I could get through all of Marie Christine though.
Haven't watched a DVD lately but I've been watching the 101 Most Shocking Entertainment Moments on E! for the last few nights with my mom. Yes, I know. Shame on me.
WEL--I've never heard the Cyrano OCR...really want to. I saw Christopher Plummer in Barrymore and think he would be great in the role. Would Cyrano have qualified as a floperetta?
Posted by Maya @ 07/18/2003 11:15 AM PST
Ben and WEL - Thanks so much for the background on Cyrano. Michael J. Lewis also wrote the music for Bryan Forbes' Madwoman of Chaillot - which despite a cast that included Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, Yul Brynner, Edith Evans, Danny Kaye, Giuletta Massina and John Gavin (Mr. Constance Towers) - was the best thing about the movie.
Posted by TorontoDan @ 07/18/2003 11:17 AM PST
Maya,
I enjoy Audra McDonald's "Way Back to Paradise" CD, including the LaChiusa material. With that said, if you find yourself struggling with his songs on this CD, MARIE CHRISTINE will be a *long* listen for you. His WILD PARTY is somewhat more traditional. None of his shows have received frequent listenings on my CD player.
Posted by Dave @ 07/18/2003 11:23 AM PST
Ah - "Floperetta". Maya has been reading Ethan Mordeen! CYRANO might qualify in that category except that it was missing two of Mordeen's qualifications: It did not originate at Edwin Lester's LA/Frisco CLO and Irina Petrina was not in the cast.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 07/18/2003 11:38 AM PST
Hello and Good Morning and Huzzah to all...
VCR -- the first part of "First Wives Club" watched with DR Kerry .
CD -- original, unreleased material of my own from a recent live concert (as opposed to a dead one!). I have to evaluate and pick some things for a fund-raising CD we will produce.
DVD -- Empty, but I'm going to look today for a good DVD of Li'l Abner....it's been way too long since Ah haz seed that movie!! Such songs!
And finally, not to drop the tradition altogether... today I am wearing very studly levis, tightey-whiteys, Rockport top-siders, and a light tan and midnight blue "african-jungle" sort of print short-sleeved shirt. I feel kind of like Aquanetta Baru in an old Jon Hall movie.
Posted by MusicGuy @ 07/18/2003 11:50 AM PST
CD Bedroom - Carpenter's Ticket to
Ride
CD Car - Greatest hits of 1969 -
(giving my "Nine" marathon a rest)
DVD - Sex and the City - Season
One
Has Amour been released to the
"streets" yet? No one here in the
Bay Area has it yet. Seems like
they'be been weeks behind here on
the west coast.
Posted by Matthew @ 07/18/2003 11:58 AM PST
I'n thimking, I'n thimking.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/18/2003 12:10 PM PST
Going to grab a bite. Have you
ever grabbed a bite? Was the
bite happy about it? keep
them posts coming because
I'm enjoying each and every
one of them.
Posted by bk @ 07/18/2003 12:13 PM PST
I am wearing the omnipresent blue jeans, a button down, short sleeve shirt w/a green and yellow checkerboard pattern, white athletic socks, grey Haines low-rise briefs and a black web belt around my waist (and my omnipresent glasses)
Posted by Ben @ 07/18/2003 12:19 PM PST
Surprise, I'm not wearing jeans. I'm still in my loose, comfortable p.j.'s. I did something weird to my back Wednesday and think if I don't get dressed, then I won't walk Echo or do errands. Then maybe I will feel better tomorrow instead of worse, like today.
Posted by Jane @ 07/18/2003 12:38 PM PST
Black Dockers walking shorts, green/black houndstooth short sleeve pocket open collar shirt with green/brown/white breast stripe, green boxer briefs, white ankle socks, low rise MacGregor running shoes.
LI'L ABNER - hope you find that DVD. I only know one person who doesn't like the movie, and she will one day, I know.
Loved seeing the pic of BK and Miss Billie Hayes on the Courts Show link! She looks, as BK said in his notes, as though she could reprise the role today!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/18/2003 12:49 PM PST
DVD: Mallrats
VCR: empty
CDs: Myths & Hymns
Merrily We Roll Along (York)
a compilation CD that contains
everything from Devo to Jim
Stafford to Clarence Carter to
prank phone calls made using
Schwarzenegger sound clips
Fashion report: nice and comfy
grey sweatpants, end of story
(it's VERY warm today and I
live alone)
Posted by Jed @ 07/18/2003 12:51 PM PST
I am the owner of a gently used 19" DELL monitor at my house.
And it is like surfing the web in PANAVISION. I will be spending the weekend becoming acquainted with my favorite websites in supersize!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/18/2003 01:11 PM PST
Well, time to don our Mickey
Mouse party hats and our
Goofy pantaloons!
Disneyland turned 48
yesterday!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DISNEYLAND !
.... and they told Walt it would
NOT last !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 01:18 PM PST
Music in cd player:
THE SECRET GARDEN :
highlights of the Australian
production starring Anthony
Warlow and Phillip Quast --
thanks to DR Tom
Oztraordinary Guest -- can't go
wrong with such a quast...
err... cast!
AND the original LONDON
cast of same show, which, as
BK would put it, is divoon.... It
also offers Mr Quast but in
another part!
AMOUR -- which is double
divoon -- (thanks to DR
William L.)
PAJAMA GAME with faboo Judy
Kaye -- have I told you that I'm
crazy about her????? ;- ) --
and Ron Raines.....
and the 1985 British
production of WONDERFUL
TOWN, which sounds
marvelous on cd.... as great as
the studio recording with Brent
B., Audra and Kim......
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 01:32 PM PST
My dear, dear Bruce Kimmel San:
Thank you so very, very, very (that's three verys for the price of one) much for mentioning my name in your colum. We legendary megastars of the silver screen need all the publicity we can get.
Your very own Sushi.
(A little vegetable joke there--although the tomoto is actually a fruit, not unlike a fig. [a little gay joke, tehee!])
Posted by Sushi Pototo from Kyoto @ 07/18/2003 01:35 PM PST
ABNER has not yet been released on DVD - only VHS. This is not to say there may not be an unofficial copy around, but you are better off looking for it in VHS. For some reason Paramount is very slow in releasing their classics from the 50s on DVD. DR Susan's THE FIVE PENNIES has not yet been DVDed yet either. (DVDed - Did I create a new word?)
The "street date" for AMOUR was 7/8 and it is in NYC record stores. Since it is on a small independent label that is based in NYC it may be taking a little time making it to stores across the country.
And speaking of Disneyland (the place not the song) I was there on the 25th Anniversary when they kept the park open all night and it was the best time I've ever had there. I hope to be there in 2 years for the 50th. (I was not at the opening but do have the abridged version of the live opening day television special with Ronald Regan, Bob Cummings and Art Linkletter. The Mouseketeers appearance is missing from the DVD because someone at the Eisner company discovered they would have to pay them all residuals.)
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 07/18/2003 01:50 PM PST
Welcome back, Sushi, baby.
While it is still ninety degrees
out, it was also drizzling.
Posted by bk @ 07/18/2003 01:55 PM PST
Thanks for the suggestion of my sharing my thoughts on "Brownstone", Dave, but now is not the time.
I've not heard it all through yet.
I am listening a song at a time, it seems, cramming it in between TV shows or videotapes.
It's interesting! It's a bit like listening to Sondheim, but with strong melodic lines. One of the male voices bugs me...probably because his song has many extended notes and I don't care for the timbre.
It will be some time before I will get an overall feel for the score.
Did any of you with "Li'l Abner" get the VHS in widescreen?
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/18/2003 02:06 PM PST
Absolutely right. LI'L ABNER has not been released by Paramount on DVD yet. And no announcements about a future release have been forthcoming either. Next big musical releases on DVD are HELLO, DOLLY and ALL THAT JAZZ, right? Could Fox possibly digitize Michael Crawford out of the Dolly movie? I can't stand him in it.
In my media players:
LP - ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (Doris Day, Robert Goulet)
CD - CAMELOT (OBC)
VCR - NICE GIRL? (just finished DREAM GIRL with Betty Hutton which I hadn't seen in at least 20 years. A friend sent me a duped copy.)
DVD - FRIENDS, Season 4 (disc 3)
Posted by Matt H. @ 07/18/2003 02:12 PM PST
Nah, Ron, my VCH is pan and scanned. I didn't know it had ever been offered in any other format.
Posted by Matt H. @ 07/18/2003 02:13 PM PST
Sadly, Li'l Abner has never had
a decent video release - and
it's never been available in its
proper VistaVision aspect
ratio.
Posted by bk @ 07/18/2003 02:23 PM PST
My thoughts on why CYRANO, the musical, with Christopher Plummer, failed...
CYRANO, the play, is so lyrical and musical in and of itself, it seems somewhat superfluous to add songs. I remember hearing the album when it first came out. While I didn't hate it, I don't remember being wowed by it either.
CYRANO, the play, is almost indestructible. I've yet to see a production where I'm not sobbing by the end.
Christopher Plummer is a great, great actor. Make a wonderful Cyrano. And he was an exquisite BARRYMORE, as someone mentioned.
His Barrymore was so far superior in everyway to the dreadful one-man Barrymore show that Nicol Williamson fobbed off on us a few years back at the Geffen Playhouse. One of the most self-indulgent, ill-prepared (he looked like he was struggling to remember his lines half the time),undisciplined, masturbatory performances I have ever seen. Not only did he not look or sound like Barrymore, the show itself was sloppy, badly-researched, and captured little or nothing of what Barrymore was about. Williamson ruthlessly cheated his audience, rubbed their noses in his lackadaisical arrogance and contempt for them, and, unfortunately, fooled the vast majority of them. Rubes that they were, they gave him a standing ovation...which has become just about one of the cheapest, most indiscriminate accolades in the theatre these days. People will stand up and applaud for almost anything now. They are quite unable to tell the difference between merely the competent and the good from the exceptional and extraordinary. Personally, I think the art of "booing" should be revived for the execrable. I certainly felt like booing Williamson the night he violated Barrymore.
Posted by Charles Pogue @ 07/18/2003 02:32 PM PST
But Dear Reader Charles: Tell us how you really feel.
Posted by Jay @ 07/18/2003 03:06 PM PST
DVD player (from the other night) David LEan's delightful "Hobson's Choice".
CDs: The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt
"People" - Barbra Streisand
"The Student Prince"/"The Desert Song" - Mario Lanza
Record Player" John McGlinn's "Songs Of New York"
Waiting in The Wings (a Noel Coward reference): "Little Me" - Short & Prince."Brownstone". (thanks Allan), "The Music Man" (Rebecca Luker version, "Seven Brides..." (London Cast) -thanks François.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/18/2003 03:13 PM PST
In my car CD player: SUNSET BOULEVARD (original Los Angeles cast), a Renee Fleming recital disk, a Capitol Records songs of the movies compilation, THE CRADLE WILL ROCK (The Acting Company cast recording, with Miss Patti LuPone), Mario Lanza's greatest hits.
And I just changed out of corporate drag (I had an important networking meeting, in the context of what is feeling more and more like an endless job search) into black cotton jersey shorts (sort of like sweatpants, only shorts), white cotton tee shirt and black flip-flops from Old Navy. It's still hot and humid here in L.A., though not as bad as yesterday. Yesterday it felt like Florida in the summer here. Feh!
Posted by Jay @ 07/18/2003 03:14 PM PST
Normally, in the amazon.com
sales rank, Benjamin Kritzer
and Kritzerland are usually
number 1,463,000 or
something. But something
weird has happened - the
paperback edition of the book
has just cracked the 100,000
mark - we're currently at
number 96,000 or something.
That's quite a jump, and I think
it's very much due to the book
being quite popular with the
folks who frequent
classmates.com. I posted
about it there, and ever since
people from my era have been
buying it like crazy, then telling
their friends about it. And that
is how word of mouth works,
and I couldn't be more
pleased.
Posted by bk @ 07/18/2003 03:24 PM PST
Good dusk!
I just finished supping on some rotisserie chicken - quite yummy - and some steamed broccoli - also yummy, but I've always liked broccoli. For an appetizer, I had some garlic cloves! Well, they were marinated - and I suspect they were also parboiled before being marinated since the flavor was not so pungent, not so garlicky. But still dee-lish nonetheless. I found this "garlic salad" on the olive bar at the local Martin's supermarket here. I finally went into it the other day, and I had no idea it was so nice inside. -I'm familiar with the one in Evansville, Indiana (since I've worked at New Harmony), and this one is, apparently, one of their "updated" locations. And the choice and pricing of the various olives is quite reasonable. Oooh, and I also got some marinated cippolini onions with balsamic vinegar! Mmm, mmm good!
As for today's topic... Hmm.. Nothing. Maybe next week - or at least tomorrow in my car's CD player as I drive back to Richmond tomorrow night after the show. Ah, the possibilities!
-Did someone say food?
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 07/18/2003 03:34 PM PST
In my VCR: Red Dwarf V: Back to Reality.
I am wearing my Elvis-O-Rama Las Vegas T-shirt.
I am eating a Cherry Coke float with the only ice cream we have, Ben & Jerry's Mint Chocolate Cookie. This is really good.
Posted by Sandra @ 07/18/2003 03:44 PM PST
As Dame Edna would say - "Spooky". Both Jay and myself have Mario Lanza discs in our CD players. Surely a strange coincidence. I thought it was DR Kerry who kept raiding my CD memories.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/18/2003 03:45 PM PST
Dear Reader Tom from Oz:
I noticed that coincidence, too. Maybe there are other Lanza fans lurking on this site as well. The two of us have now established a trend. A third would mark a groundswell. Who knows, maybe a whole Lanza revival could be generated off of HHW.com. You know, of course, that HHW.com IS the most popular site in all of internetdom.
Posted by Jay @ 07/18/2003 03:57 PM PST
As Dame Edna would also say: "Bottoms up, Possums!"
My VHS of "Li'l Abner" is in storage, darnit, but I could swear it's in letterboxed format! Maybe I'm mis-remembering.
I know it's in stereo...and when I bought it, I'd never heard the score in stereo (since rectified, thanks to A-1 Record Finders).
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/18/2003 04:01 PM PST
OMG, you people went crazy yesterday. I just caught up on most of the posts. WOW!
Hey BK, re: the name of that new show you are working on. If you don't want write the title, can you spell the words backwards?
(Haines His Way would be Seniah Sih Yaw). ;)
Hey RonP: re: the reality shows. Yep I am addicted to Big Brother. But I'm even more addicted to the canoe website that does the updates (email me at jkalman@ pubnix.net (no space) if you want the link - i posted it the other day).
RE: Fame. This is my least favorite of all the reality shows right now. I FF thru it and really don't like it. But I want Harlemm to win.
My favorite reality show is The Amazing Race (go Chip and Reichen). And suprisingly i am enjoying Paradise Hotel very much.
jennifer
Posted by Jennifer @ 07/18/2003 04:04 PM PST
The Bay Area weather "prognosticators" were telling us last night we could expect record heat -- hot-hot-hot conditions -- plus that rarest of all rarities in the Bay area -- HUMIDITY (for François, that would be l'eau or humidite w/accent on the e).
Instead, it's warm, but with a cool breeze, and we have high clouds, but nothing in sight that looks like fog.
Just so's ya know!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/18/2003 04:05 PM PST
My girlfriend keeps telling me I'm not black enough. "You're SO white," she points out: The way I dress, the way I dance, my embarrassingly soulless singing. Luckily, a new show on Bravo has five African-Americans who promise to "black me over" in front of the TV cameras. My main fear is that the name of the show seems to portend a violent conclusion: "Black Eye for the White Guy"
Posted by Noel @ 07/18/2003 04:23 PM PST
You're onto something there, Dear Reader Noel. Think of all the further spinoff possibilities. Here's my contribution: Jewish Eye for the Goyish Guy.
Posted by Jay @ 07/18/2003 04:27 PM PST
LOL, Noel!
Dear Readers, I just found out some sad news today. None of us can send Francois e-mail anymore. From now on we can only send him courriels, or he'll be in trouble with the French government. ;)
Posted by Lulu @ 07/18/2003 04:37 PM PST
BK tops 100K. Yippee!
Posted by Lulu @ 07/18/2003 04:40 PM PST
What's a "courriel" and since when did François begin workin with the Freedom government????
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/18/2003 05:10 PM PST
Hey Jennifer:
How much are you looking forward to THE RESTAURANT - Mark Burnett's latest reality tv show which premieres this sunday? I think it's going to definitely crack my top three reality show list (AI, SURVIVOR, AMAZING RACE).
And I soooo agree that Chip and Reichen should win on AR.
Chuck and Millie used to be my second favorite team until yesterday when Chuck showed his true "Christian Spirit" by not congratulating Reichen and Chip for their one year anniversary. Blech.
Plus FAME really hasn't caught my imagination yet. It seems OVERLY forced for reality. Plus the contestants are not nearly as talented as those you would find on AI or CdnIdol.
Posted by A Reality Obssessed Emily @ 07/18/2003 05:11 PM PST
Lulu,
Courriel is in Canada.....
Here, being Freedomland still
-- NO Big Brother, except on TV
-- you can email me or female
me..... whatever!
As good old Cole Porter used
to sing; ANYTHING GOES!
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 05:14 PM PST
Sandra, glad you enjoyed your cherry coke, mint chocolate chip float but it sure sounds gross to me. LOL
Posted by Jane @ 07/18/2003 05:19 PM PST
Am I the only one who thinks
that there's nothing more
FAKE than REAL TV?????
Was I mentioning our
decadent world yesterday?
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 05:20 PM PST
"Courriel" is the French term
that should be used for "email"
in some circles of my
country....
Like "pin" should be
"épinglette" -- as it is in
Canada, which i find cute.
Now, do you know what it is in
France? PIN'S! Don't ask me
why!
As I said; anything goes.....
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 05:25 PM PST
I'm with you Jane; i would
touch such kind of an ice
cream...
I don't like floats anyway; only
in parades!
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 05:28 PM PST
I would NOT touch.... meant to
say!
I stayed at Paradise Hotel
once, Jennifer; it was hell!
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 05:30 PM PST
Well, I have risen! Hmmm, it doesn’t sound quite as dramatic as the first time someone said it, but it will have to do. After three days in bed with my very own sore back, it feels good to be up and about, even if only briefly.
There is nothing in my CD player at home.
In my DVD player (or actually on top of it) is Big Trouble in Little China with Kurt Russell. For some reason, I never saw the film when it came out, so I borrowed this copy from a friend.
VCR player – Even more dust than last week.
I am sorry I missed yesterday’s topic. I would have added my vote for Carnival, which I love; but also for the long talked about revival of Promises, Promises. I know I know, Bacharach is not in vogue at the moment, but I do love that show and the concert version was very successful.
Did anyone else get the Pimpernel photos from Jason and have trouble opening them? I have no trouble looking at the thumbnails, but when I try to bring up one of the photos, my computer says it isn’t a valid image. I have never had this problem before (not being able to bring it up).
Posted by TCB @ 07/18/2003 05:38 PM PST
Not being able to bring it up,
TCB???????
Posted by François and his nasty mind @ 07/18/2003 05:50 PM PST
When my brother went to France, he, at one point, was buying a ticket to something (I never found our what) and he politely asked the ticket booth operator in his fairly good Québecois French for a "billet".
The ticket booth operator looked at him like he was slightly odd, but gave him the ticket anyway.
Curious as to what the problem was, he asked his French-from-France friend what was up.
The answer: "billet" is supposedly "old fashioned French" that survived in Quebec but was replaced with a badly accented "ticket" in France. It was if, the friend went one to say, he asked a person on the street in North America where he could find the nearest "dispensary" instead of "pharmacy".
Quite frankly, I don't actually like the way that English encroaches its way on other languages and how English-speakers then ridicule pretty much the ONLY language in the world that is trying to remain unique. I REALIZE that English is a bastardized language made up of words from a gazillion different languages (including French), but if the French want to make up their own Frenchified words for English words like e-mail, all the more power to them. It's not as if there's going to be public whippings for people who use "e-mail" instead of "courriel électronique". Give people an alternative option for preserving their culture in a McWorld, I say.
Posted by Emily @ 07/18/2003 06:07 PM PST
Francois, it appears that "courriel" is not just for Quebec anymore:
French Move to Ban 'E-mail'
Posted July 18, 2003
(From the Paris bureau of the Associated Press) - Goodbye "e-mail," the French government says, and hello "courriel" - the term that linguistically sensitive France is now using to refer to electronic mail in official documents.
The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents, publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the French lexicon.
But don't worry, we love French Vanilla ice cream in our house and would not dream of replacing it with Freedom Vanilla! ;)
Posted by Lulu @ 07/18/2003 06:08 PM PST
Am I the only one who thought it was despicable the way the White House jingoistically and homophobically tried to smear the reputation of the ABC reporter who reported on dropping morale among US troops in Iraq? I was unbelieveably shocked and appalled.
Click on my name for a link to the article.
Posted by Emily @ 07/18/2003 06:13 PM PST
Emily, I couldn't disagree with you more (in a nice way, of course). :) The world consists of many different cultures and to insist on keeping each culture "pure" and rigidly separated is not only unreasonable but impossible.
Sometimes I think 90% of the reason for the friction between the US and France is because both countries can be so fiercely ethnocentric. In my opinion, the more we share and learn from each other, the better.
Incidentally, when I was in Paris and rode the Metro, I asked for "un billet," and didn't notice anything odd...but then, maybe I get weird looks wherever I go and am therefore used to it. :)
Posted by Lulu @ 07/18/2003 06:17 PM PST
Ooops, bad timing. Emily, I VERY much agree with you as regards the ABC reporter brouhaha. Imagine...not only is the reporter gay...he's CANADIAN. Naturally, then, he has zero credibility.
God, we need GWB out of the White House. NOW.
Posted by Lulu @ 07/18/2003 06:19 PM PST
Mmmmm-mmmmmm. Lookie dem eyebrows. (One of my favorite features on a man, believe it or not.) If Mr.Kofman is upset about this terrible imbroglio, he can cry on my shoulder any time. I'd be most happy to offer him sympathy and succor.
Posted by Jay @ 07/18/2003 06:22 PM PST
We are still waiting for another Mario Lanza fan!
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/18/2003 06:22 PM PST
Tom, I know who Mario is. Does that count?
Don't know if I count myself a fan. Didn't he beat up on his wife? Ick.
Apologies to the memory of Mr. Lanza if I'm mistaken.
Posted by Lulu @ 07/18/2003 06:26 PM PST
Emily,
What that journalist did is
taboo!
A journalist should never
report or tell the truth, I guess...
One can't fight City Hall; one
can't fight the White House....
Decadent world, I tell you!
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 06:28 PM PST
Mario who?
Posted by Jerry Hadley @ 07/18/2003 06:29 PM PST
Lulu, I'm not saying that France should necessarily BAN the word e-mail (which it hasn't... its just standardized one word in its language). I just think it's completely evil that of all the news from around the world, this is what makes the news in the US.
This just in: "the french hate the English language"...
good lord...
tell me that the Hainsie/Kimlet vote went to someone other than Dubya.
Posted by Emily @ 07/18/2003 06:30 PM PST
Francois, what's that? The journalist has a tattoo?
Well, that's it. His credibility is now totally blown. Obviously he made the whole story up. Our soldiers are actually pleased as punch to be in Iraq. They are only too happy to say, as our Commander in Chief did, "Bring 'em on!" If they're lucky, maybe they'll get blown to bits so they can be heroes. No sacrifice is too great, as long as it lines some pock-um, er...protects our freedom!
Posted by Lulu @ 07/18/2003 06:31 PM PST
Oh, Emily, I'll agree that the news in the US is woefully deficient of news around the world. I mean, you CAN find news about the rest of the world if you try (there's always cbc or bbc online, amongst other options). But yeah, unless you're actively looking, you'd think it's All About Us.
But yeah...I do think the courriel thing is funny. And I can fully enjoy the humor I find in it, since there's no accompanying mortification as there was with the ludicrous freedom fries, freedom toast, etc. thing awhile back. As goofy and reprehensible as that was, at least it was never made into an official policy! :)
Posted by Lulu @ 07/18/2003 06:37 PM PST
I know that the MAJORITY VOTE in the U.S. went against Dubya!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/18/2003 06:40 PM PST
Sorry, Jay. Those aren't my real eyebrows. My real eyebrows are pretty sparse, so I wear eyebrow toupees. Also, I'm sort of involved with someone.
Thanks for the compliment, though!
Posted by Jeffrey Kofman @ 07/18/2003 06:41 PM PST
We do use both words, believe
me, billet and ticket; un billet
would be larger, of course,
(like for a show), larger than a
ticket for the metro, for
example...
Billet is also used for the word
"bill" , which, incidently comes
from the French billet...
Same with "chair" which
comes from "chaise"...
I find your brother's French
friend's explanations very...
fishy!
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 06:42 PM PST
Tom,
I love Mario Lanza, even
though he never was gay or
wore a toupe;
I don't know about his wife, but
he sure could beat the caca
out of a song....
Posted by Jeffrey Kofman @ 07/18/2003 06:49 PM PST
I heard that "email" in Spanish
is cara-mail!
Sweet but sticky!
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 06:53 PM PST
If I was waiting for a courriel instead of an email would my wait be shorter? Jerry Hadley still rules. (a Tom & Jerry reference). Jerry's "Caliph" is indeed beautiful.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/18/2003 06:59 PM PST
TCB, glad you are up and moving about. Hope you have a speedy recovery now. I didn't have a problem opening Jason's photos.
Posted by Jason @ 07/18/2003 07:00 PM PST
Jason and Jason! Argonauts where are you? Next we will have a Tom Tom. Oh we do! Hope you continue to improve TCB. Maybe you just didn't have the strength to deal with the Pimpernel.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/18/2003 07:08 PM PST
For all you Lupone fans, click
on my name for a link to BBC
Radio 3 show which offers an
hour long interview of la Diva!
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 07:15 PM PST
In my CD player:
"Mothers and Daughters"-- Rosemary Clooney (a lovely collection of songs)
"Moth Confessions"--Neon Philharmonic (a concept album released in 1969 and which ONLY could have been done in the 60's)
Cam Clark -- can't remember thename of the CD
VCR- "A House in Umbria" is waiting to be viewed
DVD- "First Wive's Club"
Sorry to disappoint you but I'm not playing any Mario Lanza right now.
Posted by Kerry @ 07/18/2003 07:23 PM PST
Oh, and I'm wearing khaki cargo shorts (well, hiking shorts actually according to the label), Hanes tighty whities, a plum colored T-shirt, white tennis shoes and white socks (those anklet/footie/tennis sock things whatever they're called).
Posted by Kerry @ 07/18/2003 07:25 PM PST
Shall we make it 100 posts?!!?!?
Posted by Kerry @ 07/18/2003 07:25 PM PST
This one's for me!
Posted by a dalmatian @ 07/18/2003 07:29 PM PST
I hope everyone is enjoying the encore presentation of the Billy Barnes interview on the Broadway Radio Show. This Sunday, I will be loaded another interview encore show for your enjoyment.
In other news, I have now officially resigned from ever posting or visiting Talkin Broadway again. I made the humiliating mistake of actually trying to answer someone's question and correct some confusion as to some facts. My answer was, in substance, correct, but I made the fatal mistake of making an error in something, which was taken as if I was stating a fact, when in actuality, I made clear was merely my vague recollection. The nastiness and anger with which my post was greeted was the absolute last straw for me (I will admit that there were some people who defended me) and I will no longer subject myself to the nonsense on that board.....good riddance!
Posted by Donald Feltham @ 07/18/2003 07:32 PM PST
Donald,
The best civilized Internet site
is this one, remember!
Just a decadent world outside!
;- )
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 07:35 PM PST
François: I listened to the Stage and Screen interview earlier this week (Tuesday, I think), after I listened to our own Mr. Feltham. Very good piece. I have a whole list of Beeb shows that make up listening time at work. It's oh, so civilized.
My Anthony is a big Mario Lanza fan. Does that count? He's here in spirit, if not in post.
Posted by Ben @ 07/18/2003 07:51 PM PST
Since Quebec was mentioned today I will be visiting Montreal next weekend to help celebrate mon pere 75ieme annivesaire.
Posted by Michael @ 07/18/2003 07:54 PM PST
Hoorah for Anthony's spirit. I think it's summertime in Heidelberg. It's very much winter here in Melbourne OZ.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/18/2003 08:00 PM PST
TCB: I got the Jason pics and opened them without problem. They are a hoot!
Posted by Ben @ 07/18/2003 08:04 PM PST
Ben:
Was Jason naked?
Posted by Just Wondering @ 07/18/2003 08:14 PM PST
Well, THIS Anthony is a Mario Lanza fan!!!! Love THE STUDENT PRINCE in widescreen on laserdisc! Love THE GREAT CARUSO, THAT MIDNIGHT KISS, THE SEVEN HILLS OF ROME and THE TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS, too! It wasn't until 1974, when M-G-M released THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT that I really became a fan, though there were many, many Mario Lanza lps in my parents' record collection. Well, they listened to Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, too - - but, I've never warmed up to Eddy.
Great stuff about CYRANO, guys! Now, can we find out more about Leigh? for that matter, can we find out more about Elly Stone?
A/V CHECKLIST:
DVDS DU JOUR:
IRMA LA DOUCE (big surprise after last nights postings, eh?)
ONE, TWO, THREE - which is still a laugh riot. Even Arlene Francis delivers the goods.
AVANTI! - I'll get around to watching it soon.
IRON GIANT - bought today for $10, and it does have VIN DIESEL'S voice!
KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE - love it, love it, love it!
CD PLAYER:
NINE - Australian Cast Recording
BLOOD BROTHERS - Australian Cast Recording
IRMA LA DOUCE - OBC
WITH ONE LOOK - Betty Buckley! still in there from looking for arrangements of "The Water is Wide" last week; hers has a cello accompaning her. . .
THE EGO HAS LANDED - Robbie Williams; older cd, but, still, it has "Angels" and "Millenium" the latter which was also covered by Michael Ball, and features a sampling from one of the James Bond themes. . .
WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER:
Cliff Richard:
"Millenium Prayer" - I strongly recommend this tribal-beat based contemporary reworking/rewording of "The Lord's Prayer."
"Bachelor Boy" - I'm seriously considering this for my next cabaret.
"The Next Time"
"When the Girl in Your Arms"
"All I Ask of You" with Sarah Chipmunk, I mean - Brightman.
"Summer Holiday"
VCR:
Something for DR Jose, now, if he'd email a mailing address, it might just reach him sometime this year!
Posted by td @ 07/18/2003 08:18 PM PST
I don't remember reading anything about Mario Lanza physically abusing his wife, but I know he was one of the most temperamental MGM stars, had quite a reputation for copulation with the females on the lot and a great tendancy to overeat to such an extent that his costumes for films were constantly in need of alteration to accommodate his expanding waistline. Supposedly after his first few successes in films and especially after the smash hit THE GREAT CARUSO, his ego was out of control, and it was almost impossible to deal with him.
I don't think the definitive biography has been written about his life and career. I'd love to read it.
Posted by Matt H. @ 07/18/2003 08:25 PM PST
Hello DR td.Is anyone familiar with the David Reeves musical "Cyrano" from about 1992?Australian musical with Normie Rowe (Jean Valjean in OZ) and Simon Gallaher (Pirates in OZ). I have the highlights album if anyone is interested. I have the 2 disc set of the Chris Plummer Cyrano but have never played it!I also have a spare copy of Millenium Prayer by Cliff to be sent to the first needy DR.
I think I still associate "The Water is Wide" with P P & M (or Maybe Pat Conroy)
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/18/2003 08:33 PM PST
Just Wondering: Not in the pictures I got.
Posted by Ben @ 07/18/2003 08:53 PM PST
Dear Reader Tom:
I just won a copy of "The Millenium Prayer" (a cd single) on Ebay! Yes, this happened between visits to HHW; I also am now the very proud owner of "The Cliff Richard 40th Anniversary 5 cd Bosed set! Added to my previous win of the expanded soundtrack to SUMMER HOLIDAY, I shall be having a few Sir Cliff days and nights ahead of me!
Posted by td @ 07/18/2003 09:02 PM PST
Ben:
You want some?
Posted by Just Wondering @ 07/18/2003 09:16 PM PST
It is indeed interesting the ways in which the French and English languages borrow from one another. English is supposed to be a Germanic language yet there are just as many words of French or Latin origin as there are of German or Anglo-Saxon, and French is no longer the "pure" language that the Acadamie Francais wanted it to be. Why can't it be that France and America can both be proud of our linguistic heritages without feeling bad when the two languages rendezvous every now and again? Still, I can understand why some Francophones would want to change "e-mail" to "courriel."
Here's a funny if off-color story a friend of mine told me about language confusion.
She was a foreign exchange student in France and still working on her French skills. At the dinner table one night, she wanted someone to pass her the jelly but she didn't know how to say it. So she said something like "S'il vous plait, passez-moi les preservatifs." You would think preversatifs were preservatives, right? Wrong. Let's just say every one at the table turned beat red and started to snicker. That word means something entirely different from "jelly" but I am just too ladylike to say what. :)
Posted by Maya @ 07/18/2003 09:55 PM PST
I don't have to be ladylike so I
can say that your friend was
asking for condoms....
It must have been many years
ago, because noone would
blush at the mention of such
items nowadays....
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 10:28 PM PST
It couldn't have been more than 5 years ago actually. From what my friend told me, she had been staying with a somewhat conservative family in Dijon.
Posted by Maya @ 07/18/2003 10:32 PM PST
Oh, Dijon!
She should have asked for the
mustard instead!!!
Well, i know, she wanted
some confiture!!!
Sticky subject! ;- )
Posted by François @ 07/18/2003 10:37 PM PST
What a plethora of posts to catch up on! *I actually still have to catch up on yesterday's posts still - I was just not in a reading mood when I got back from the show last night.
-I didn't get any pics from Jason? :-( -Or I could have, but my laptop could have "swallowed" them... Still having the problem with the laptop just shutting down randomly... So, pay to get it diagnosed and fixed? Or just get a new one? *I don't need any fancy-schmancy features, so something very basic and relatively cheap (well, $800 is not really cheap, but...) would do for me. I have to have a laptop in Australia so I can continue to get my daily dose of HHW!
-And, DR td - I shall e-mail you my snail mail address. :-g
-And since I'll be home for a few days... Maybe I'll do some baking... And maybe I'll ship some of them too... Hmm... Not making any promises, but if not this "weekend", sometime in the near future - and probably when the weather is cooler too.
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 07/18/2003 11:46 PM PST
A "sticky wicket" is what the British would say.
Don't know about the Ozmonauts!
How say you, Tom?!!!
It's absatively going to be hot here tomorrow...we had a brief respite from heat because of something stationary or something, but the mugginess is moving in to make us feel hotter than how hot we will be.
I get a haircut first thing in the morning. That's always a good way to start off a weekend!
I have SO many CDs to listen to and DVDs to watch...but I really need a major cleaning day around these here part! I can listen to CDs while I do that, so I think tomorrow, post-haircut, will be cleaning day,
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/18/2003 11:47 PM PST
As a cricketing nation we have "Sticky wicket" as part of our vocabulary too DR Ron.
Could to know someone is about to clean up their act. I should to the same. Love getting my haircut - relaxing - and still prefer to go to an old-fashioned barber rather than a hairdresser.
Australia is playing test cricket against Bangla Desh at present - first time and first time for a "test match" in Darwin.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/19/2003 12:24 AM PST
I have a very dear friend, who spent five years in Australia as the wife of an ALCOA v.p. - it was from her that I actually heard the term "sticky wicket" in casual conversation. Now, here on the Notes, it's all over the place, and Jack Lemmon's "Lord X" uses that phraseology throughout IRMA LA DOUCE!
What a timely discussion!
Posted by td @ 07/19/2003 06:20 AM PST
Donald-- You go girl!
Posted by Kerry @ 07/19/2003 06:38 AM PST
Donald-- You go girl!
Posted by Kerry @ 07/19/2003 06:38 AM PST
DR "Just Wondering" -- Now that is definitely not fair, to suggest that there are nude pictures of Jason floating around here, (unless you brought enough copies for everyone!). However, it does require some clarification as to whom it is you refer? Our own little baby BroadwayBratt Jason (touring in the wilds of Pennsylvania) or the more west-coasterly Mr. Graae? And you better be careful baiting the wonderfully multi-talented DR Ben about these things... you are liable to find the all-powerful and studly DangerMouse standing at your door to get to the bottom of all this.
Why am I telling you this.....I'm convinced that, unfortunately, very few people ever read these "end of the previous day" posts anyway.
Posted by MusicGuy @ 07/19/2003 07:40 AM PST
DR Jose -- I want to encourage you, and give you a warm e-hug; I think this would be a splendid weekend for you to bake away to your little hearts content. Of course it would be unseemly to just let all of those baked goods pile up around your place, and if they did then Chet & Eileen would probably come in there, tie you down, and inflict any number of heinous punishments upon you !! Can you imagine being disciplined with a balloon whip and a melon baller??!?!!
Soooooooo.....the only logical thing to do is for you to ask which DRs would like to receive examples of your culinary orgy, and are more than happy to pay you for the shipping of said delights. Isn't that a splendid idea??
In fact, because it is such a splendid idea, I think I will re-post it at the head of tomorrow's (really today's) posts, as soon Morpheus releases our dear Bruce from his/her arms.
Posted by MusicGuy @ 07/19/2003 07:54 AM PST
DR Jose -- I forgot one very important point.......
Please -- NO RAISINS ! Ugh, pthuhh, yuck, . It is a little known fact that raisins were actually invented by Torquemada as a torture worse than the rack or molten lead!
Posted by MusicGuy @ 07/19/2003 08:00 AM PST
Wrong Music Guy! You are not alone in reading the last of the day's posts every morning while waiting for BK to arise. This new work schedule has completely thrown off my reading during the week, because he actually posted a couple of times before I had bothered to check. But I am glad to see that, at least, on the weekends he has returned to the status quo.
I finally managed to get Jason's Pimpernel photos open. They are delightful, Jason!
Posted by TCB @ 07/19/2003 08:15 AM PST
