Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 07/26/2003 09:13 AM PST

Boy that was a little ramble... I meant to complete my initial "thought" about thinking I ran two miles... I lost track of how many laps I had run... I could have run just one and three-quarters, or I could have run two and one-quarter miles...??? I'm hoping I sleep better tonight. OH - I also had a weird dream where I kept finding all these little bug bites and knicks and scracthes on me. I didn't get scared, just kept wondering where they came from. -Any interpreters out there?

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 07/26/2003 09:16 AM PST

I tend to not care too much for Westerns, but I certainly like HIGH NOON.

I saw SEABISCUIT last night and concur with the late posters from yesterday who filed reviews. I got very caught up in the race scenes and found many of the dramatic scenes quite touching. Not having read the book, I don't know what was omitted and what was fictionalized. The picture does come off as a well made (slightly slick) Hollywood movie. I give it a two thumbs up.

Posted by Jay @ 07/26/2003 09:19 AM PST

Ah, the oaters! How I love well done westerns. . .

STAGECOACH (1939), though the 1966 version does have Ann-Margret and is rarely screened.
THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON - love the combination of Flynn and DeHavilland.
LITTLE BIG MAN & THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAM - star vehicles, to be sure, but what great acting is done by Hoffman and Newman. The latter has a brilliant supporting cast, too, including Ava Gardner.
CAT BALLOU - great fun.
HOW THE WEST WAS WON - one which I've actually seen numerous times on a Cine-a-rama screen.
THE SEARCHERS - surpisingly great performance from Wayne.
TRUE GRIT - Kim Darby. WEHT?
HIGH NOON - great script, great direction, great editing, great performances, great title tune.
BLAZING SADDLES - it still makes me laugh.
DANCES WITH WOLVES - honestly, I really like it.
THE PALEFACE - Hope and Russell are quite a team.
CALAMITY JANE - what a western musical should be.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST - oooh, Henry Fonda scares me.
MONTE WALSH - does anyone else know this movie?
THE STALKING MOON - (see above).
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY - it's hard to tell which is really which.

Posted by td @ 07/26/2003 09:26 AM PST

Hi from the beautiful Oregon coast!! The library has internet access.

Haven't searched the archives yet--has anyone mentioned the Liza/David split. I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED!!

Re: Alfred E. Green. I've mentioned this before, but Mr. Green was the director who most worked with Frances Farmer. And, indeed, if you want to see one of the strangest "westerns" ever made by Mr. Green or anyone else for that matter, check out the 1938 Paramount feature "Ride a Crooked Mile" (AKA "Escape from Yesterday") starring Akim Tamiroff, Frances and her then-husband Leif Erikson (the "c" in his last name didn't come until later, a la Dionne WarwickE). This totally bizarre film is about immigrant Cossack cattle rustlers. Frances plays a former Cossack rodeo star turned saloon singer (is it any wonder she went crazy?). She does sing a really beautiful duet in Russian with Leif, who was a big band singer before he broke into movies.

The sight of Frances, doing a quite credible Russian accent, in a long cape and heels, chasing after Akim who is brandishing a whip, is a film image forever burnt into my mind.

Posted by JMK @ 07/26/2003 10:10 AM PST

In response to WEL's late post on yesterday's notes re. the wall effects in AMOUR. I agree, at Broadway prices one would expect the effects to be more spectacular. I'm not sure, however, how one could create any other kind of "walking through walls" effect. Even in movies they wouldn't attempt to actually have a person do that. They would CGI it to death, and then people would complain about how much movies cost these days just to see computer graphics and not the real thing. I guess what I'm saying is, I'm not aware of any other way of creating that stage effect--Broadway or not--and I thought they pulled it off very well. Yes, you could see where he was going to insert himself in various areas of the walls, but I didn't start noticing them until I started looking for them. I think they did the best that they could with it. Give 'em a break. :-)

Posted by Jason @ 07/26/2003 10:42 AM PST

Dear Reader Jose,
Regarding your dream...
I went to http://www.dreamstop.com and typed the word "bite" in their Dream-O-Meter and came up with:

If you've been bitten, this is an important dream that may be warning you to watch out for someone who been trying to harm you for some time. It also is a subconsious wish to undo something that you may have done that is past. If you dream of being bitten by a vampire or some other unearthly creature, this shows there is someone in your life that is draining you, or your resources, and you need to eliminate this person from your life. If you dreamt that you bit someone else, this could be a warning that you are overdoing the pressure you are applying to certain people and causing them pain. Think about who this could be. Well, traditionally, all spiders except tarantulas are omens of good luck. However, according Freud and other modern theorists, spiders may actually be a symbol of your mother and your subconcious feelings of fear surrounding her. Try to think about what your mother means to you and what fears you may have concerning her.

Based on the above, here's my totally unprofessional anaylsis:
Someone may be trying to harm you but, because (the bites) don't bother you, it may indicate that you anticipate no danger to yourself and figure it will eventually pass.

Posted by Donna @ 07/26/2003 10:50 AM PST

Love Westerns. Can watch almost any western. Though I've always had problems with Gene Autry...balding, paunchy, high-pitched voice...but I love his Western Museum in Griffith Park.

Favourite Westerns:

SEARCHERS; SHANE; RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY; all those Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott collaborations...THE TALL T, COMMANCHE STATION, RIDE LONESOME, etc.; then there's the noir westerns RAMROD (with the great and under-appreciated Joel McCrea); BLOOD ON THE MOON; PURSUED; John Ford's calvary trilogy...SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON; FORT APACHE; RIO GRANDE...; THE 1939 STAGECOACH; THE BIG COUNTRY.

TOMBSTONE & UNFORGIVEN are a couple of recent ones that are terrific (I also like THE UNFORGIVEN made back in the Fifties with Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn...although it has the strangest disembodied music score to it...lovely, but it doesn't sound connected to the film...it's the sound quality).

Oddly enough, Gary Cooper is one of my favourite actors but his westerns, while many enjoyable, do not fall among my favs of his.

John Wayne and Howard Hawks made RIO BRAVO as an answer to HIGH NOON, a movie they both hated...They felt a professional shouldn't go around asking amateurs for help. I like RIO BRAVO much better than HIGH NOON.

Great comedy westerns: DESTRY & SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF.

The Goodtimes Cable Network runs the old Warners TV westerns on Thursday night: Maverick, Cheyenne, Bronco, then another episode of Maverick.

Also saw SEABISCUIT last night. Loved it! Wonderful film. Everyone in it is terrific! Speaking of unsung, film after film, Jeff Bridges just keeps giving wonderful, solid, staunch performances...has he ever been nominated or honoured by the Academy or any of the other countless awards shows?

Posted by Charles Pogue @ 07/26/2003 10:50 AM PST

I enjoy a western every now and then. My favorite is COUNT 3 AND PRAY starring Miss Allison Hayes and Mr. Raymond Burr in suuporting roles...speaking of Joel McCrea, I have always enjoyed his film THE OKLAHOMAN co-starring Barbara Hale and Gloria Talbott. Have gotten so that I enjoy those 1930s B-westerns quite a bit and my particular favorite is HEROES OF THE HILLS which has Flash Gordon's own Princess Aura (Priscilla Lawson) in one of her only starring roles...and she is very good in the film.

Has anyone happened upon the old, old early 1930s John Wayne B-westerns? They look like a lot of fun but they all seem to have had a bran new synthisizer background music added..what in the heck is up with that. I just couldn't stomache it and so I have not yet gotten through any of them.

Posted by MBarnum @ 07/26/2003 11:19 AM PST

BK---
If your cleaning lady always gives you the evil eye, why not get another cleaning lady? Don't tell me this is the only oner in the whole Valley.

Posted by William E. Kurie @ 07/26/2003 11:20 AM PST

Hmmmmm...Mr Jeff Bridges was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT...in support of Mr. Clint Eastwood.

I was going to mention the FF/A.E. Green connection as well, JMK. And he did direct FLOWING GOLD with the infamous face down in the mud 14 times scene!

Most of my favorite westerns have been mentioned. THE SEARCHERS, TRUE GRIT, and RIO BRAVO oh, and RED RIVER.

THE BIG COUNTRY, COUNT THREE AND PRAY, PALEFACE, THE SHAKIEST GUN IN THE WEST, and CAT BALLOU.

More ... too many to mention. My favorite western that I saw AT THE MOVIES....THE ALAMO!

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/26/2003 11:39 AM PST

2000 Best Supporting Actor
The Contender (2000)
Nominated
1984 Best Actor Starman
(1984) Nominated
1974 Best Supporting Actor
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
(1974) Nominated
1971 Best Supporting Actor
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Nominated

Golden Globe

2000 Best Supporting Actor
The Contender (2000)
Nominated
1992 Best Actor (Musical or
Comedy) The Fisher King
(1991) Nominated

Screen Actors

2000 Best Supporting Actor
The Contender (2000)
Nominated
 

Posted by Jeff Bridges @ 07/26/2003 11:42 AM PST

Never been a big fan of westerns, although I went to see them at the movies when I was growing up, because ... well, real boys liked westerns.

Of those I saw, The Magnificent Seven counts as my personal favorite. I enjoyed The Alamo, but probably as much for Greenfields as for the film. Blazing Saddles was fantastic because it took to the extreme everything I had always disliked about westerns. I also enjoyed The Paleface. And for those who might be wondering, my dislike of westerns extends to the modern equivalent – Star Wars.

Posted by TCB @ 07/26/2003 12:04 PM PST

I'm wondering if John Wayne hated High Noon because he hated Carl Foreman, its creator? Foreman told an amusing story of thinking the Duke was about to pummel him.

Posted by Noel @ 07/26/2003 12:05 PM PST

Whoops! I should have read all the previous posts. I forgot Calamity Jane -- now that is a great western.

Posted by TCB @ 07/26/2003 12:06 PM PST

Gosh, Jeff, how could I forget STARMAN? One of the first videos I ever bought....

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/26/2003 12:10 PM PST

Well, I'm glad to see that Mr. Bridges has been given his due in the recognition arena...much deserved.

And how could I forget MAGNIFICENT SEVEN? Good stuff!

Posted by Charles Pogue @ 07/26/2003 12:35 PM PST

I am watching a day of TRIO. Oh my, MY MOTHER, THE CAR...I remember one episode about some brakes not working or something even though the motto of the company was "Stops on a dime, stops every time..."

PINK LADY AND JEFF just really cannot be described. I watched the credits and haven't heard of most of the people, the music is not bad, but it sure is strange. Choreography...costumes...ditto. But if you never saw it....go to TRIO today.

And why did TRIO choose Joel Stein? Mr BK should have had that gig.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/26/2003 01:16 PM PST

I wish my cable had TRIO. I would really like to see what Joel Stein looks like. It is nice to see that letter-writng campaigns really work, since Mr. Stein is now a former columnist with Entertainment Weekly.

Posted by TCB @ 07/26/2003 01:22 PM PST

Although I've never been a fan of westerns, I do like "Little Big Man," "The Cisco Kid" (does a Jewish western count?) and "Blazing Saddles." I also like that sci-fi western, "Star Wars" (now known as "Star Wars, Episode 4: A New Hope"). I hate it when movies are renamed just so that they can be "branded." Okay, the only other one that I know of is "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark," but still those titles are just so darned unwieldy.

Posted by George @ 07/26/2003 01:25 PM PST

WEK (aka WEL) - the cleaning lady came with the house, and she does a good job so I endure the Evil Eye and actually kind of enjoy it at times.

Posted by bk @ 07/26/2003 01:52 PM PST

Not sure if this qualifies as a western, but Duck You Sucker aka A Fistful of Dynamite. Blazing Saddles is up there. Thought that the Searchers was quite good. Also Support Your Local Sherrif and Support Your Local Ginfighter.

Also one of the great kinky westerns of all time Johnnu Guitar.

Also I think it is called Ride the Whirlwind and The Shooting. Montel Helman Directed both. I think Jack Nicholson wrote and stars in both as well.

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 07/26/2003 01:54 PM PST

Blazing Saddles
Broken Lance
The Big Country
How the West Was Won
Red River
Return of Frank James
Jesse James
Drums Along the Mohawk
Sons of Katie Elder
Giant (!)
Silverado

JMK! Does the sanctity of the marriage bed mean NOTHING anymore? You'd think Judy would stop marrying "those boys" and find herself a real...uhh..I mean Liza, Yes LIZA, you'd think LIZA would stop marrying "those boys" find herself a real husband (or whatever it is she really needs). So MUCH talent and all of it needlessly wallowing in a crapper!

Whew! Worked up a sweat there. I must go lie down.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/26/2003 02:02 PM PST

Que esta "Ginfighter"?

Posted by Desi Arnaz @ 07/26/2003 02:16 PM PST

Western Movies (The olympics):
I don't go much past "Shane". Did enjoy "Butch Cassidy" and "Cat Ballou". That's about it! Maybe "The Sheepman" counts.(Counts the Sheep that is!)

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 02:22 PM PST

Favorite overall Western: RED RIVER

Favorite Western comedy: DESTRY RIDES AGAIN

Favorite Western musical: CALAMITY JANE

Favorite Western Epic: HOW THE WEST WAS WON. (I was lucky enough - and am old enough - to have seen it in Cinerama, too, and boy was it IMPRESSIVE back then to a kid of 14.)

Posted by Matt H. @ 07/26/2003 02:35 PM PST

My favorite western has not
been released yet...

It's called THE EVIL EYE LADY
and stars Bruce Kimmel.

Can't wait the dvd and all the
bonuses!

Posted by François @ 07/26/2003 02:54 PM PST

Can't wait FOR, dummy!

Posted by Evi Eye lady @ 07/26/2003 02:55 PM PST

The only Western movie I've ever seen was Hombre, but that was for school so I don't want to talk about it.

Posted by Sandra @ 07/26/2003 03:42 PM PST

A lull it seems. I am back from breakfast. I don't think I have ever managed to sit through a John Wayne movie. The only good thing to come from (inspired by)a John Wayne movie was "That'll Be The Day" (The Crickets).

Matt H: Remember those Cinerama movies so well. I went to them all until "The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm" and then the world moved on. It was a good time for us (of The Kritzer years) to have been children.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 03:44 PM PST

Thanks DR Sandra for unlullifying HHW.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 03:46 PM PST

HOMBRE

(1967) Paul Newman, David
Canary, Cameron Mitchell,
Barbara Rush,Frederic March,
Diane Cilento, Richard Boone,
Martin Balsam, Peter Lazer,
Margaret Blye, Skip Ward,
Larry Ward, Frank Silvera, Val
Avery.

Posted by Evil Eye Lady @ 07/26/2003 03:46 PM PST

TCB: Great score for "The Alamo". I bought the soundtrack when it came out but did not ever bother with the movie. Love the "inspired by" Marty Robbins "Ballad Of The Alamo". Did you kow there is a song called "Coward Of The Alamo" as well? Yes! That is in my collection alongside the "Exodus Of Pepe". I may even transfer some of those delights to Cd today. You still have a chance!!

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 03:49 PM PST

Thanks Evil Eyed Lady. I watched a Cameron Mitchell movie during the week. "Carousel" - and yes I still cry. A Totally conditioned response after all these years - "Carousel" must be an "Eastern" I guess.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 03:52 PM PST

Jeff Bridges SHOULD have been nominated and won for "Fearless."

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/26/2003 04:19 PM PST

I'm fearless too and I always
get nominated by Mr Bruce
Kimmel.

Posted by Evil Eye Lady @ 07/26/2003 04:28 PM PST

ONE-EYED JACKS. A great movie, and a wonderful score.

Posted by mark rothman @ 07/26/2003 04:43 PM PST

Cameron Mitchell, Jr - acts in plays around LA and is a member of the theatre group Write Act and did a part in A PATRIOT FOR ME last spring.

Click on my name to see just how much he looks like his father.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/26/2003 05:04 PM PST

Thanks. I clicked and he does.

Forgot about "One-Eyed Jacks" I actually bought the video. I love the cinematography. I also like the "inspired by" song by Johnny Burnette. "beware of the one-eyed Jacks, they're deadly when the smile. Never trust a one-eyed Jack...." and of course the Ferrante & Teicher version of the theme.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 05:22 PM PST

Yesterday's topic but I am playing a collection of movie themes today - "Exodus", "The Apartment", "El Cid", "Ben Hur", "The Magnificent Seven", "The Misfits", "A Summer Place", "The Unforgiven" and of course, "Pepe" and "The Alamo".
It maybe time to transfer them to CD.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 05:26 PM PST

Tomorrow's topic, but, I'm using "The Green Leaves of Summer" (Theme from THE ALAMO) in my next cabaret. I've previously used "The Ballad of CAT BALLOU."

Posted by td @ 07/26/2003 06:12 PM PST

They can have the ranch...I don't want it now that he's gone.

But Woof City hasn't seen the last of me, and by the time I through I'm gonna make Sherman's march to the sea look like a birdwalk.

They'll NEVER make me cry!

Posted by Catherine Ballou @ 07/26/2003 06:17 PM PST

Look for the bare necessities!

Posted by Bear Baloo @ 07/26/2003 06:30 PM PST

Okay, Dear Readers, wish me luck. I actually have a date tonight. Oh, Styne/Cahn reference.

Posted by Jay @ 07/26/2003 06:52 PM PST

Blue Bayou

Posted by Linda Ronstandt @ 07/26/2003 06:52 PM PST

Of course, I meant to say it's been a long, long time.

Posted by Jay @ 07/26/2003 06:52 PM PST

Yesterday, DR M Barnum was talking about a show on the new TNN aka SPIKE called Extreme Elimination Challenge.

Just watched it tonight...if you liked WHAT'S UP TIGER LILY? you would like this show. What a kick. Cleverly written English dialog accompanies a Japanese game show of challenges. Made me laugh.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/26/2003 06:54 PM PST

I'm not into westerns really, unless you count musical and comedy westerns because I love Annie Get Your Gun, Calamity Jane and Blazing Saddles.

Tom from Oz--I have seen that "Eastern" Carousel at least 5 or 6 times and it is not possible for me to not cry at least 3 times throughout that movie! IMHO, saddest musical ever!

BK--my mom finished Kritzerland and wants me to tell you that you owe her another kiss :) She loved it (and giggled reading it) as much as the first one.

Posted by Maya @ 07/26/2003 06:56 PM PST

We don't need to know everything but do give us a report Jay. Is it "Tonight At Eight"?
Kiss me once and kiss me twice ..it's been a long long time. "Will He Like Me?" "He's just got to".

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 06:56 PM PST

Good luck on your date, Jay! Don't be too seductive on the first one though...that could get you into trouble!

Jrand52--have you heard of this new Japanese game show spoof called Banzai? It's supposed to be pretty funny...

Posted by Maya @ 07/26/2003 06:59 PM PST

Jay: Guess this is not the time to "break a leg". Have a great night.
DR Maya. I can make it through "Carousel" until the scene where you know Julie has seen or sensed Billy's presence after his appearance to Louise. It may be something to do with the music cues but I am gone for all money.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 07:04 PM PST

Maya: I LOVE your mother. And you should give westerns a chance, there are some wonderful ones out there, that will surprise and delight you.

I'm off to dinner shortly, and shall return later. Let's keep postin' - we're doing very well indeed for a Saturday.

Posted by bk @ 07/26/2003 07:07 PM PST

Other favourite musical
westerns;

Once LuPone Spent Time In
The West

and

Jack Cassidy And The Tap
Dance Kid

Posted by François @ 07/26/2003 07:29 PM PST

Jay - Don't forget to carry protection!

Tom from Oz - Actually I would love to have a copy of "The Exodus of Pepe, etc., etc., etc.". In fact that sounds like a damn fine CD you are compiling, dear reader.

I loved the good old days when movie themes (like Exodus and The Apartment)were so memorable. I remember when "Summer Place" was the Number 1 song on the radio for weeks and weeks. And I was so hooked on the song "Look for a Star" that I forced my mother to take me to the drive-in to see CIRCUS OF HORRORS. Little did I realize that a lovely little song like that would be attached to one of the only two horror films that terrified me as a kid (the other being THE INNOCENTS with Deborah Kerr). Thanks to BK, I will soon be able to listen to that song again without having to endure the movie.

Posted by TCB @ 07/26/2003 07:45 PM PST

Jay - pitted or plain?

Maya - don't know BANZAI!

I broke down and ordered a Chinese DVD copy of TALE OF TWO CITIES with Mr Bogarde. Both of the VHS copies I own have tracking problems.

THE WOMEN and then GOODBYE MR CHIPS on TCM tonight. I think I will watch them and have a bag of dates.

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/26/2003 07:46 PM PST

P.S., Tom: I agree with you about that scene in Carousel. That is the spot that starts me on my endless tear-stained journey to the end of that film. The same thing happens near the end of the movie Camelot, when Guenevere says to Arthur that she has always been able to find forgiveness in his eyes..... That's it, I'm a mess from that moment on.

Posted by TCB @ 07/26/2003 07:51 PM PST

Maya - Skip Banzai. I think I would prefer the original Japanese version. The FOX half hour is dreadful.

Posted by TCB @ 07/26/2003 07:54 PM PST

I need a snail mail address TCB!

I always find that "Camelot" is so long but I love the ending.After all, the kid's name is "Tom"!

Love "Look For A Star". I have the four pop versions from 1960.

"The Innocents" was the first movie to really scare me. Possibly the only one! I think that is one the reasons I didn't like "The Others".

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 08:02 PM PST

CAMELOT and GOODBYE MR CHIPS are two musicals that always make me cry.

Norma Shearer certainly is terrific in THE WOMEN...strong and vulnerable...intelligent...and beautiful.

CIRCUS OF HORRORS is available on DVD now, and you skip to the song, TCB! What was your mother's reaction to the film?

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/26/2003 08:21 PM PST

Tonight's posts have been
brought to you by KLEENEX.

Posted by Evil Eye Lady @ 07/26/2003 08:24 PM PST

Actually, I think she fell asleep, which is usually what she did when I dragged her to the drive-in. I don't think I ever picked classics to go see at the drive-in, I saved those for the neighborhood theater. Instead, for the drive-in I usually found some epic, like Hercules or Gay Puree. Hmmm, is there a theme there?

Posted by TCB @ 07/26/2003 08:31 PM PST

Well dear all,... I'm back from yet another business trip. I am using up all my hall passes, and I shall have to beg the esteemed and studly BK for total indulgence, and a kosher novena!

Westerns aren't real high on my list, but I do love the all-time send up, "Blazing Saddles," and "Calamity Jane" is forever burned into my brain because DR Kerry does a vicious imitation of Doris Day at her butchest, and he knows it makes me crazy. There are some wonderful big, sweeping music themes from some of the westerns though.

DR Jay..... I'm not so tippy-toe and delicate as some of the more cultured dear readers on here. I want a report of your date....details, do you hear? Details.

Only 2 more days until DR Kerry and I go to the ever loving comfy arms of the Waldorf-Astoria in NYC. HUZZAH ! We are so excited!

Posted by MusicGuy @ 07/26/2003 08:37 PM PST

BK--I should give westerns more of a chance, shouldn't I? Maybe it's a generational thing...westerns don't seem to be made anymore, and I didn't grow up watching them. But hey, maybe someday I'll watch a John Ford movie and be blown away and take out all the westerns at Blockbuster. Then you can call me Ado Maya...only that doesn't sound very good, does it?

TCB--Banzai isn't very good? One less buzzed-about TV show I have to watch!

I did see Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on Thursday after Will and Grace. I didn't realize NBC had bought Bravo. Anyway, I can understand how some may have found the show offensive, but I enjoyed parts of it. It would just be sad if the only depictions of gays on television conformed to one stereotypical image.

Just wanted to share my thoughts on it, even if they aren't very original!

Posted by Maya @ 07/26/2003 08:47 PM PST

Dear Evil Eye Lady. No kleenex. I am a handkerchief kind of guy - tree friendly!

At present listening (for the first time)to "Brownstone" which is quite a delight. Thanks Allan.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 08:58 PM PST

Just want to say hi to everyone. Personally, I am not a big fan of westerns, but I am here and reading all your posts:)

Posted by JB aka JK @ 07/26/2003 09:09 PM PST

MAya: NBC edited the one-hour "Queer Eye" down to one-half hour.

It plays much better as a full hour and can be viewed on Bravo. Bravo aired two episodes this evening from 6-8 p.m.

New episodes air on Tuesday evenings.

The show is HUGE! Enjoy before it gets old.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/26/2003 09:24 PM PST

Mama Vampire to her son;

"Enjoy your soup before it gets
cold"

Posted by François @ 07/26/2003 09:55 PM PST

I'm not one for westerns, unless they're also commedies. CAT BALLOU and BLAZING SADDLES are my favorites. They always make me laugh.

Posted by Susan @ 07/26/2003 10:03 PM PST

There was blood on the
saddle,
There was blood all around,
And a great big puddle of
blood on the ground....

Posted by Big Al from Country Bear Jamboree @ 07/26/2003 10:09 PM PST

In answer to yesterday's question, I'm playing Christmas music in the car and all weekend at work. Ella Fitzgerald's "Have A Swinging Christmas" and the three Christmas CD's produced by our esteemed BK are favorites. Christmas music was playing all day (everything from the Beach Boys to Big Bands to to Vince Guraldi to Doris Day to Louis Prima to the BK stable of stars) and only one person noticed that Christmas music was playing! Well, I enjoyed it, and I almost felt cooler.

Tomorrow it'll probably be the Yuletide as interpreted by the Andrews Sisters, Big Crosby, Jimmy Buffett and Rosemary Clooney with a little Dr. Demento thrown in.

Posted by Kerry @ 07/26/2003 10:17 PM PST

Glad I am not alone in playing Seasonal songs at any time.Raiding my Cd collection again Kerry? I didn't know there was a Buffett Christmas recording.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/26/2003 10:20 PM PST

Big Crosby?

I never found him that big!

LOL and ;- ) and vice versa....

Posted by François @ 07/26/2003 10:39 PM PST

Good evening - Two shows today, and I'm back in Richmond now...

DR Donna - Thank you for the dream analysis. Interesting...

And where did the term "oaters" come from?

-As for me, I've never been much into westerns either. However, I did watch the various John Wayne mini-festivals on TV when I was younger... Other than that... -I've MDed Always, Patsy Cline ;-)

-Oh, and an interesting turn of events when I was coming back tonight... I'll share tomorrow/today...

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 07/26/2003 11:18 PM PST

DR MusicGuy -- where were you this time???

Posted by Laura @ 07/26/2003 11:19 PM PST

Oh -- and re the topic of the day: I saw a western once! My sister took me to see "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" when I was a kid.

Posted by Laura @ 07/26/2003 11:23 PM PST

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID! How could I ever forget that one, especially as it starred two of my favorites: Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

Posted by Susan @ 07/26/2003 11:36 PM PST

I don't get the newspaper and I don't have a tv -- but what's this about Liza and David?????

Posted by Laura @ 07/27/2003 12:43 AM PST

Yes. Liza and David have s-e-p-a-r-a-t-e-d.

You don't suppose Liza "found out" do you?

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! There may be one person with literate capabilities who doesn't know!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/27/2003 02:44 AM PST

Click on my name to read the story about the s-e-p-a-r-a-t-i-o-n,

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/27/2003 02:49 AM PST

Dang! It didn't work!

Sorry.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/27/2003 02:50 AM PST

How very sad.

Posted by Laura @ 07/27/2003 06:59 AM PST

Yes, I remember all the Cinerama films well, too including BROTHERS GRIMM. ("The Singing Bone" fairy tale in that movie used to make me SO sad.)

We used to dress in Sunday clothes (Jerry Herman reference) when going to see those Cinerama films because they were special occasions with reserved seats, etc. Younger DRs probably don't remember roadshow engagements of long movies, but lots of big musicals and big spectacle films used that for their first runs in big cities where you dressed up just as if you were going to the theater. How different the world is today!

Posted by Matt H. @ 07/27/2003 07:08 AM PST

Actlly Liza was shocked when she found David in bed with another WOMAN!

Posted by I.N. Quiring M'inds @ 07/27/2003 07:22 AM PST

Darn! I thought I was going to break the Liza/David story.

I am shocked. SHOCKED. I thought those two wonderful kids really had what it takes to make a marriage work. Now it's doubly tragic that VH-1 pulled the plug on their reality show. To think of what might have been...

PS: According to Cindy Adams, David promised that he'd use his friends at the tabs to make sure that things "get ugly." What a charmer.

Posted by Lulu @ 07/27/2003 08:12 AM PST