Posted by William E. Lurie @ 09/05/2003 07:54 AM PST

WEL, I wish I got Trio (at least I don't think I get that station) as some of the things they show sound like a lot of fun! I must check with my cable company to see if it is available.

Posted by MBarnum @ 09/05/2003 08:04 AM PST

Ah, yesterday's topic of bullies. Ah, bullies. Well, I've been beaten up, called "pansy," "queer," faggot" sissy," "homo," etc. etc. (Even before I knew what all of them meant). This is why it's taking me awhile to get used to this new acceptance and common usage of the word "queer." It meant something quite different to me as it was spat in my face while my my stomach was being kicked or when spraypainted all over my locker, But that was all a younger, sweeter, more innocent time. And let's not get into that whole argument again aabout things like "QAF' and "Queer Eye." I told you, I'm working on it. The NICE thing is that in the older dictionaries, it USED to say (quite acceptingly) the definition of the words as meaning slang for homosexuals. The newer dictionaries now specify that the term is ususally used disparagingly. Wonder how the next dictionaries will handle it.

I did get back at some of these bullies in my own way at different times and have seen what has beome a few of them, so I know the karmic rules of the univeers are in order.

I'm listening to "Elaine Stritch: At Liberty"
"Peter Cincotti"
"Michael Buble"
Soundtrackt to
"Some Like it Hot"
Guy Haines singing "Terminal" and "She Likes Basketball."
"Sondheim at the MOvies" ("Sand" is such a great song")
The scores of Georges Delarue

"A Bag of Popcorn and Dreams"

"The Best of Swing Out Sister"

Posted by kerry @ 09/05/2003 08:12 AM PST

I need Old Laura to helpme organize abd throw out things! Where is my desk?!?!?!!?!

Posted by Kerry @ 09/05/2003 08:14 AM PST

Well, DRs, I'm about to go off and teach, for the first time ever, a course in musical theatre at a large university. What the HELL am I talking about? I wish I knew.

Yesterday, I was going to ask for help finding some lyrics I need (mostly Maltby) but my post didn't go through. I probably forgot to press "post" or some other unfathomable mystery of the internet

In the VCR is some documentary I taped late last night about Kazan and Miller. I'm told everyone called the former "Gadge" but few called him "friend." Odd, isn't it, since "Gadge" seems like such a friendly term. Guess I'll find out more when I watch it.

The CD player has another of those disks that was specially made to accompany the cast party portion of our wedding. Also, the Judy Kuhn CD of Styne songs and my much-loved Mannix.

Progress has been made on the bride's big solo, a whole new direction, in fact. I'll either work on this or the Best Man's finale on the train to the campus. Seems to me Johnny Mercer must have done a lot of writing on trains:

A clickety-clack an echoing back

I looked at the track, the one going back to you

Was it dusty on the train?
P.S. I love you

Posted by Noel @ 09/05/2003 08:15 AM PST

In my CD player, some Durante CDs. Don't ask why. Just BECAUSE!

Oh, yes, and "Flora the Red Menace" and the OSTs to "Damn Yankees" and "The Pajama Game."

In my DVD player, there is nothing a çe moment. Several titles are on deck, unwatched as of yet, including the "Captain Scarlet" boxed set, "Some Like It Hot," "The Apartment" and "The White Sheik," plus "Grease" and the four "Lethal Weapons" and two of the three "Die Hards" and all of the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan epics. All in DTS, so far as I can tell.

Did everyone sleep well last night? I slept like a log. A virtual log, that is. I slept deeply and soundly, and I awakened only three times, primarily because my allergies left me unable to breathe through my nose, so I was mouth-breathing...and the mouth can breathe only so long before it gets dried out and irritated. Thus, I had to get up and drink water to return my mouth to its normal state. After two glasses of water, you can guess why I had to get up that third time.

It's a gorgeous morning-after here in downtown Oakland. We are promised a football-weather weekend! That means it will be "almost" crisp, with a slight "hint" of autumn in the air. If one looks at the streets, one can see fallen leaves. In the autumn, we get fallen leaves. Sadly, we don't get the autumnal colors. The leaves simply die and fall off, but are replaced with fresh leaves. Fall and winter are our "green seasons" here in Oakland.

There is a huge fog bank receding toward San Francisco...I love our fog...our "marine layer"...nature's air conditioning. It's what makes this area a wonderful place to live.

There is a full day of work and stuff ahead. I hope it goes quikcly...I hope, I hope, I hope.

Ciao for now.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 08:16 AM PST

Well, I'm sorry I missed the bulk of the flying fur yesterday -- or perhaps I'm not -- but I am in the depths of hell here on the 9th floor (Oh, a Cole Porter reference, almost!). I have been tortured for the last several days by stupid lawyers who won't listen to me when I tell them you can't do a table of authorities until all your citations are correctly cited! Is that so hard to understand??? Well, I would hope that if you had a law degree, it would not.

Which reminds me: What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? Tune in to my next post for the punch line.

CD Player currently is spinning the Dixie Chicks' newest record, "Home", which has some truly beautiful, thought-provoking songs with colorful, sometimes haunting imagery. I'm not a fan of bluegrass at all, or country, for that matter, but their music is fun and soothing but interesting and full of surprises. Go out and get the album, you won't be sorry.

DVD is gathering dust.

Posted by Joy @ 09/05/2003 08:22 AM PST

Joy.. I believe the answer is.. A HEALTHY START :)

Posted by Craig @ 09/05/2003 08:33 AM PST

Re: bullies

Is it mostly guys who get bullied? Cause I don't remember any kids being bullied when I was in school. I mean yeah there were cliques ... and maybe it has more to do with where I went to school (montreal). But I don't recall people getting picked on or beaten up. Maybe I was living under a rock.

For RonP: I thought you said you slept like a dog.

And for the BB4 gang: What do you think of Robert's nominations? I think the veto will totally decide Erika's fate!
Cause I think ally and Jun will backstab her and Robert.

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/05/2003 08:33 AM PST

Ron Pulliam - I slept like a baby last night, thanks to our new boxspring, which replaces the 20-year-old, dust-mite-infested, completely-crushed-on-one side toboggan of a box that we had before. If you tried to sleep on your side, you would fall out of the bed. Now it's firm and level and wonderful. And high.

Posted by Joy @ 09/05/2003 08:38 AM PST

Craig, you got it. Although I was going to say a good start, but healthy start sounds more colorful, doesn't it?

Posted by Joy @ 09/05/2003 08:39 AM PST

LOL at Joy's lawyer joke!

I slept soundly last night. At least by Maya standards, which means not going to bed past 3 and waking up before 10. If one snores, does one sleep soundly?

There are no groans here at HHW!

CD player--some Nancy LaMott CD's thanks to the kindness of DR TD! So far I've listened to Listen to my Heart and My Foolish Heart and have just started on What's Good About Goodbye? What a deep, deep tragedy to have lost this great talent. What a voice she had!

Later today, I plan to listen to TD's Jolson cabaret CD :)

DVD and VHS--I've been too busy lately to have watched many movies. Like WEL, I'm waiting for Sleeping Beauty to come out. That was my favorite Disney movie when I was a little girl. The colors, the romance, Maleficent...it was perfect.

Posted by Maya @ 09/05/2003 08:52 AM PST

Sleeping beauty, my ass. I was there -- that ho drooled all over her pillow and snored like a pen fulla hogs.

Posted by Maleficent @ 09/05/2003 08:58 AM PST

I don't remember ever being bullied. I think I must have passed for straight growing up, but now I don't...at least I try not to.

Anyway, in my CD player: my CD-R of the soundtrack (from the album) to At Long Last Love. I do realize that it's not very good, but I just like it. I like that they recorded it live and in the movie shot scenes without many cuts. (Also, my standards aren't too high.) I was able to watch my taped-off-of-the-Fox-Movie-Channel video on Wednesday. I had almost forgotten that I even had it...and why in the world didn't they put Madeline's "Down In the Depths" and Duilio Del Prete's first solo on the album?? (I may have to re-do my CD-R and add them from the video soundtrack.)

In my DVD player: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum, Guys and Dolls and The Producers. Fred Meyer had a buy-two-get-one-free coupon. Those were the ONLY three that I even remotely wanted. I wasn't sure if I had Forum or not on DVD (fortunately I didn't) and I hadn't specifically planned on getting Guys and Dolls at all, but I figure one is free and the others were cheap ($9.95). Good enough for me.

Posted by George @ 09/05/2003 09:00 AM PST

Joy: My answer would have been "pollution of the oceans".

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 09:31 AM PST

It it ironic that so many people should have mentioned Disney. Here at work today, our computers are running very slowly, so everyone has been sitting around here singing...

(wait for it)

Still waiting

Ready?

"Someday, my prints will come."

Posted by TCB @ 09/05/2003 09:52 AM PST

And suddenly, I'm somehow reminded of a theater full of Gremlins!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 09:53 AM PST

Ron---
Is the soundtrack of DAMN YANKEES on RCA or did they license it out to another label for the CD reissue? I know that PAJAMA GAME is part of a large group of Doris Day releases on the Collectibles label, but I've only seen the 2 Broadway DAMN YANKEES on CD.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 09/05/2003 10:14 AM PST

Yes, the Damn Yankees
soundtrack is on RCA - dunno
if it's still in print.

Posted by bk @ 09/05/2003 10:16 AM PST

Listening to AccuRadio Swingin' Pop Standards right now. Nothing at home. We're off to Long Island again this weekend for a party. Probably won't watch or listen to much, other than compilation tapes in the car on the way to the party. It's a slow week. I will most likely be errant and truant for the weekend. I'll check back on Sunday when I return from LI

Posted by Ben @ 09/05/2003 10:25 AM PST

DR WEL --

I have the same DAMN YANKEES soundtrack album ... issued well over 10 years ago, so who knows if it is still in print. And interestingly enough it was issued by RCA, not Warner Bros, who made the film.

In the CD player: I've just re-discovered a singer I loved in college named Marlena Shaw. She sounds a bit like the young Nancy Wilson.

Posted by Philip Crosby @ 09/05/2003 10:37 AM PST

What a lot to read.

Yes, sleeping is nice in this weather, no rain, but warm days and cool nights - sounds like a Lesley Gore song.

In my DVD player - WHERE EAGLES DARE with Mr Richard Burton and Mr Clint Eastwood.

I did not enjoy the commentary on the 1953 TITANIC for various reasons I will espouse, if anyone is interested. But I liked some of the comments by Miss Audrey Dalton.

In my CD player the PAKEEZAH soundtrack.

And in the VCR SMILIN' THRU with Miss Jeannette MacDonald, who is also playing on my new/old phonograph which arrived yesterday. Now I can once again play my LP's.

I have that DAMN YANKEES RCA soundtrack as well. Fun to listen to.

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/05/2003 10:44 AM PST

Why did you not care for the TITANIC commentary JRand53? And what did Audrey have to say? Too bad they didn't have her do a commentary for MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD!

Posted by MBarnum @ 09/05/2003 10:52 AM PST

Hey, why don't we have a little poll to get the posts flying?

What was your favorite Disney movie when you were little and who do you think is the coolest villain/villainess?

Posted by Maya @ 09/05/2003 10:53 AM PST

Helloooooo all on this bee-you-ti-ful Friday! :)

You have to be a student to truly LOVE Fridays! :)

Unless of course that means you are simply one step closer to all those awful assignment due dates on course outlines. :(

And now, just what all of you have been waiting for (drumroll please):

THE I'M GETTING A NEW COMPUTER DANCE

dance-dance-dance-dance

(It's much catchier than the evil Hamster Dance)

Just wait an see the dancing mania that will erupt if I do end up getting that box-office job!

Question to all DRs: If I chose a Dell as my new 'puter, will the "Dude you're getting a Dell"-guy show up at my door?

My audio-visual enjoyments of the week:

cd: My own personal back-to-school-need-to-keep-upbeat Broadway mix (lots of one certain young three named composer, some MONI, WILD PARTY, HAIRSPRAY, TMM, TITANIC, RAGTIME, GODSPELL, etc.)

MP3 play list: A one hour playlist devoted entirely to the great Maritime band GREAT BIG SEA. Tell me someone here as listened to them!!!
(Paulie, they are just as good song writers as Ben Folds, but with a Celtic sound). I honestly can not listen to "Boston and St. John's" without tearing up.

Posted by Emily @ 09/05/2003 10:54 AM PST

Thanks for the DAMN YANKEE info. At the time the film was made Warner Bros. hadn't started their own record label (that came a few years later) and that's why it is not on their label. I guess the CD went out of print (although a couple of compilation CDs use the Soundtrack version in a compilation of otherwise OBC recordings). I am surprised that the film was not released on DVD at the same time as PAJAMA GAME (and has still not been released). Those two were released as reissue double features regularly throughout the sixties and beyond and then the VHS of the two were released at the same time.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 09/05/2003 10:55 AM PST

I don't remember any serious bullying at any of the schools I went to.

Of course, I went to an all girls high school, and girls have a tendency to be far more subtle in their bullying tendencies.

*Craig, I have a funny story I need to tell you about my Catholic school girl past, and a certain conversation we had in chat once* (remind me at some point)

I was tied to a tree once when I was in Secondary 3 (Grade 9) with some of my friends' scarves just to see if we could do it. I wasn't exactly willing, so maybe it could constitute bullying. Then one of the teachers walked by and, realizing that the admin probably wouldn't enjoy the game, my friends ran away. I, of course, was left to explain to my teacher why I was alone in one of the furthest areas of the school grounds, tied to a tree.

Naturally, I couldn't speak because I was laughing too hard! :)

Posted by Emily @ 09/05/2003 10:59 AM PST

Favorite Disney Movie: Beauty and the Beast - even if it DID launch Celine Dion's career outside of Canada

Favorite Disney Villain: Gaston Le Boeuf(cause no one's mean like Gaston... da dee da da dee da)

Posted by Emily @ 09/05/2003 11:01 AM PST

Emily--cute story! I'm off today too. I've missed being able to just be lazy.

BTW, what 3-named composer is it? Michael John LaChiusa? Am I right? Am I right? ;)

Posted by Maya @ 09/05/2003 11:04 AM PST

BAMBI is far and away my favorite Disney cartoon movie. When I was a tiny tot I would listen to my LP of Bambi over and over again. I don't know when I first saw the movie at the theater but I know that I have seen it at least 2 or three times on the big screen over the years. Am hoping it will see a DVD release someday soon!

My favorite villian is the evil queen from SNOW WHITE.

My favorite DISNEY live action is a toss up between THE UGLY DACHSHUND or THE PARENT TRAP.

Posted by MBarnum @ 09/05/2003 11:04 AM PST

Hey Emily will you get your computer at Walmart? :)

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/05/2003 11:05 AM PST

Every true Canadian can sing at least a few Great Big Sea songs. :-)

Last year, when I put together a pick-up band with some guys here at work, we played "Consequence Free" and "Ordinary Day".

Nothing in the CD player today. Too busy at work.

TTFN!

Posted by Dave @ 09/05/2003 11:11 AM PST

Hey DR Emily: I'm curious. Which Wild Party are you listening to?

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/05/2003 11:14 AM PST

The "Damn Yankees" CD is very much still in print. Can be had almost anywhere, including Amazon.com.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 11:25 AM PST

For all those Trading Spaces fans: I am half way thru the new Paige by Paige book (it is a diary of a year in the life of TS's host Paige Davis). IT is very good!

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/05/2003 11:33 AM PST

Does anyone remember a Disney film entitled the North Avenue Irregulars? It starred Edward Herrmann, and Barbara Harris, with Karen Valentine. I loved that movie. I saw it originally by accident, but it was so delightful I watched it again.

Posted by TCB @ 09/05/2003 11:40 AM PST

Things seem much calmer
here at work, so maybe I'll be
back next week. You, of
course, will be the first to
know.

Tonight I shall be supping with
dear reader Mark Rothman
and his lovely wife. Isn't that
exciting? Isn't that just too
too?

I love Captain Hook/Hans
Conreid in Peter Pan.

Posted by bk @ 09/05/2003 11:42 AM PST

The Audrey Dalton-Robert Wagner commentary is made up of bits and pieces dropped into the film at different points. It is part of a commentary that includes a photographer and a Titanic historian who don't add too much. Lots of information (some of it wrong) but not much humor or NEW...and not much of it directly related to the movie or what we are seeing on the screen at any given moment.

Audrey talks about doing a scene and exiting into the bathroom only to find DP Joe Macdonald sitting on the non-working convenience reading the newspaper, and a photographer to capture her expression. Both Wagner and Dalton are generous in their comments and appreciation of Stanwyck and Webb. Harper Carter (who played Norman) was the son of an extra who used to hang around the Fox lot.

SLEEPING BEAUTY although after hearing Eleanor Audley (?) on sitcoms for all these years it is hard to listen to her as the voice of Evil! However, this is my favorite Disney film (cartoon) with THE LITTLE MERMAID being a close second.

Live action? SUMMER MAGIC or POLLYANNA with SHAGGY DOG and 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA right in there!

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/05/2003 11:45 AM PST

I don't know if it's my favorite - and it mixes live action and animation - but I've always enjoyed Bedknobs and Broomsticks. In fact, I prefer it - the movie and the score - to Mary Poppins.

I don't know North Avenue Irregulars but will seek it out because, imho, Barbara Harris can do no wrong. (With the exception of The Seduction of Joe Tynan.)

Posted by Dan-in-Toronto @ 09/05/2003 11:47 AM PST

I forgot to mention that I'll be
taping the Jeepers Creepers
radio show with Donald
tomorrow morning. And, I also
forgot to mention that our
Unseemly Live Chat is Sunday
at six o'clock Pacific Mean
Daylight Savings Time.

Posted by bk @ 09/05/2003 11:52 AM PST

Maya - let's just say the composer's first name starts with a "J" and ends with an "ason".

But I don't want another friday discussion to become a war zone over this one composer so I will kindly refrain from identifying him more... :)

Jennifer: I have only been able to download (naughty Emily) "Wild Wild Party" and "Life of the Party". I know you're a Lippa fanatic, so don't hate me cause I'm poor! :)

My computer will NOT be coming from Walmart. That's because Walmart does not sell computers. TD did not convince me. Surely, his computer does not really exist - it is a mere figment of his imagination. ;)

Posted by Emily @ 09/05/2003 12:16 PM PST

Maya: I know what you mean about forgetting what its like to be lazy. I made the decision on Wed. just to take the whole week off and recouperate from my summer stock experience. Its nice to sleep in...though I'm still on my "go to bed at 6 and wake up at 3" actor schedule. :-\ That will change next week when I start temping again.

In my CD player: Train's new album, "My Private Nation," which is quite good; DAS BARBECU; Matchbox 20, "Yourself or Someone Like You."

VCR (which finally works again!!): La LuPone and Geo. Hearn in SWEENEY TODD: The Concert.

DVD: Disc One of the first season of Will & Grace.

Emily: Wal-Mart does, indeed, sell computers. I promise.

Posted by Jason @ 09/05/2003 12:38 PM PST

Emily: Click on my name for a Link That Will Convince You.

Dan in Toronto: Barbara Harris is barely in The North Avenue Irregulars. Nice enough family movie, but if it's lotsa Babs you want, you'll be disappointed. Freaky Friday, on the other hand (the original 1976 version), showcases Barbara quite extensively as she does her "get me, I'm 13-years-old" bit. Also worth seeking out is a little-known treat called Nice Girls Don't Explode, starring Barbara as a mom who just can't untie those apron strings, so in order to keep her "little girl" with her forever, she convinces her daughter that everytime she feels sexual attraction for a man, things spontaneously combust. Seriously, see it...it's better than it sounds.

Posted by Lulu @ 09/05/2003 12:39 PM PST

DR George: Ms. Kahn's "Down in the Depths" does not appear on the soundtrack album because it was not in the film's original release. The number, along with "Tomorrow" and "I Loved Him" (!) were added for the first network showing of AT LONG LAST LOVE. The original film plays just like the soundtrack recording.

DR Emily - click on my name, dear.

Posted by td @ 09/05/2003 12:39 PM PST

Oh! I forgot about the Disney things...

Favorite animated: The Fox and the Hound. It makes me cry every time I watch it.

Favorite live-action: Hmmm...Mary Poppins for sure, but Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Freaky Friday are definitely up there on my favorites list.

Posted by Jason @ 09/05/2003 12:43 PM PST

My computer came from WalMart. yes, it did. Lulu and TD are correct-o-mundo. Compaq Presario for only $498!

And I had to return one to get one that really really works, but it does, it really really does.

And Cybill Shepherd released an LP called CYBILL DOES IT TO COLE PORTER that had a lot of the songs from ALLL on it....some of them not too bad...but most of them...well, it's not really singing then, is it?

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/05/2003 12:58 PM PST

CD at the office:

Shout Sister Shout - great disc!
Diane Schuur - Midnight

CD at home:
Dianne Reeves new CD

CD in Car: Michael Feinstein Sings Irving Berlin (have an audition next Tuesday for an IB revue - need to brush up!)

DVD - Kenny Rankin Live In Concert (if the mail comes through), or Chicago (if it doesn't)

Posted by Phil @ 09/05/2003 01:04 PM PST

Ron---
You're right. I just checked FOOTLIGHTS. It's interesting because I don't recall seeing it in any CD store, but since I was never specifically looking for it I guess I might not have noticed it.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 09/05/2003 01:09 PM PST

Favorite Disney as a child: I remember being swept away by "Sleeping Beauty."

As an adult: I'm very partial to "Pinocchio," although I love "Dumbo" and "Lady and the Tramp" and "Cinderella" and "Bambi" and others almost as well.

"The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" was an LD title that eluded me for years, so I snapped it up as soon as Criterion released it on DVD. Quite a wonderful film, actually! And Deborah Kerr was very effective in it, although I'm MORE fascinated by her in "Black Narcissus."

What's all this talk about CDs and DVDs going the way of the dinosaurs? Have you read the stories or watched the news reports...everything in the next six years is going to be available in streaming audio/streaming video???

I don't think I'm going to like that one bit.

I'm tired of format changes, too.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 01:12 PM PST

It's FRIIIDAY!! I LOVE Fridays, Emily is right, unless you're a student, you can't really love them. I just love them.

My favorite Disney movie is most definetly Cinderella. I would watch that over and over and over again when I was little, so much that even today, I still know all of the words. I named my cat after the fat mouse, Octavius (Gus for short).

The best villian would have to be Ursula, the Sea Witch, in the Little Mermaid. She always scared the living daylights out of me at the end.

DR Emily: If you buy a Dell, unfortunately, the Dell Guy doesn't come with it. He got arrested for possesion of marijuana, and is no longer employed by Dell :)

At the moment, I'm listening to "Chinese Food In Bed" being sung by Guy Haines, which was stuck in my head ALL DAY! Do you know how weird the looks I got were when I was absentmindedly singing "Chinese food in bed.....ribs for two.....chopsticks..."? I must have looked really weird :) I'm watching "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days", and I'm laughing my booty off. In my VHS player, the science exam video that my friends and I made. It's hilarious, and we got an A+ on it. We SO deserved it...

Have I mentioned that I am SO glad it's Friday?

Posted by Sarah @ 09/05/2003 01:19 PM PST

The greatest cat that was ever in my life was named Dickens.

I named him after the familiar in the short-lived TV show "Tucker's Witch".

Anybody remember that show????? It starred Tim Matheson and Catherine ????

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 01:25 PM PST

Best Villain: Malificent scared the crap out of me when she became a dragon. The witch from SWORD IN THE STONE (another one of my very favorites) is a great villain, too, because she's funny.

Posted by Jason @ 09/05/2003 01:27 PM PST

Blame it on Canada! My Cd player has "Michael Buble", "Impressions" (Andre Gagnin),"Summertime Dream" (Gordon Lightfoot).I have always liked "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" which probably only sold one copy on 45rpm in this country!
No viewing this week but I did buy the DVD of "Bridge Over The River Kwaii"
A special 10th anniversay edition of "Priscilla - Queen Of The Desert" DVD has just been issued here in OZ.

Dear Laura(The Origina), is that Anthony Warlow you are listening to?

TCB: I thought that you had been waiting a lot longer than that for your Prince. Try frog kissing as a sport.

Favourite Disney: "Lady And The Tramp", "Pinnochio". "Peter Pan", "Fantasia". Of the "New" ones: "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" and I love the humour in "Hercules".
Of the live actions I remember "Old Yella" as being wonderful and "Mary Poppins" is a fine film indeed.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/05/2003 01:44 PM PST

Yes, Anthony Warlow. That's his name.

Posted by Old Laura @ 09/05/2003 01:53 PM PST

Anthony Who?

Never heard that name! - i'm
joking, i'm joking!

Old Laura...old yella...

Everything old is new again:
oh, a Oz reference again...
Blame it on Sidney, or should
it be Disney?

Old Yeller was quite nice
indeed....
So Dear To My Heart has a
special place in mine....
-- with the great County Fair
song by Mel Tormé.

Love Mary P. -- she's super! --
Lady has load of charms, and
Snow White still is the prettiest
of them all...

I know you HAD to know that!

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 02:04 PM PST

Ooh, I want to hear Swishy
Sarah sing Chinese Food in
Bed.

I have a Dell laptop computer
and I have several old Dell
comic books. I like my Dell
laptop computer, although
there were a few bugs when I
first got it. It seems to work
splendidly splendid now.

Posted by bk @ 09/05/2003 02:07 PM PST

RP: I remember Tucker's Witch. My mom watched it every week. It was on past my bedtime, but I know I saw at least part of one episode. Barbara Barrie was Catherine Hicks's mom, right?

Fave Disney films:

Live action:

The Parent Trap (original)
The Love Bug
Escape to Witch Mountain
Swiss Family Robinson
The Shaggy Dog

Animated:

Pinocchio
Fantasia
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Posted by Lulu @ 09/05/2003 02:07 PM PST

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is on a CD I have from the TV series "Due South"!

Sorry, Sarah, but Emily is not right. NO ONE can appreciate Friday more than I can, and I haven't been a student for a long, long time.

When I was at sea, I was at sea 24 hours a day 7 days aweek for months on end. There was nothing else to do. Sure, you can read and write letters, and you work that kind of time into your day, but generally, you're working 16-hour days on deployment. When you get into port, you have a duty day every fourth or fifth day, so weekends don't really mean a lot.

No, after 23 1/2 years of military service, I have to tell you that getting a M-F, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., job is a luxurious thing, but even I can appreciaten -- and love even more now than I did when I was a young student -- Fridays.

I might even go so far as to say you never appreciate Fridays more than after you've turned 50!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 02:08 PM PST

LULU! Thanks. Catherine Hicks...currently of "Seventh Heaven." And yes, Barbara Barrie was her mother on the show. It had a catchy main title that I would love to have on a recording.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 02:09 PM PST

I still think that "North Avenue Irregulars" is a delightful little movie. Dan in Toronto, unless you refuse to see a film in which Barbara Harris does not have top billing, I think you will find it charming. I brought up this film, not because of Barbara Harris (although her scene in the grocery store is great), but because we were talking about Disney films. The entire cast from Mr. Herrmann down to Patsy Kelly, Cloris Leachman, and even Ruth Buzzi make it an enjoyable and entertaining way to spend an afternoon or evening.

Posted by TCB @ 09/05/2003 02:13 PM PST

Frog kissing, eh, Tom from Oz? Well sure, come on up, I'll give it a try.

Posted by TCB @ 09/05/2003 02:15 PM PST

Media check:

CD - TITANIC (OBC - ongoing)

VHS - THAT'S MORE ENTERTAINMENT, the extra cassette MGM threw in if you bought the boxed set of THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT films).

DVD - SOLARIS (the remake with George Clooney)

I've had that super boxed set of SLEEPING BEAUTY on laserdisc for quite a few years, but I read a review that said the DVD is going to have the contents of the laserdisc set plus some additional special features. Amazing. Can't wait. It was always my favorite Disney cartoon feature followed by PETER PAN. Of the more modern ones, I think HUNCHBACK is the best, but all of them since THE LITTLE MERMAID that were musicals have much to offer.

Favorite live action Disney: MARY POPPINS followed by TREASURE ISLAND.

Posted by Matt H. @ 09/05/2003 02:19 PM PST

I don't think they sell computers at the Walmarts here in Montreal (where Emily also lives).

Btw DR Emily: Do you know which Kim you saw in Miss Saigon last week?

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/05/2003 02:31 PM PST

G'Day. Mates!

I'm ba-ack... And what a wonderful trip it was! I'm currently uploading my pics from my digital camera to the web - about 300+ of them! - and once I get them organized I'll send out a link to anyone interested in seeing them. *There's a nice pic of me with DRs Tom and Colin. I also got all my clothes/laundry finished last night - whew! - and I'm just catching up on everything else I need to catch up on. *I'm leaving for Charlotte, NC tomorrow afternoon for the fall SETC auditions, then I'm back home in Richmond for two days, then we start back up in Orlando next week - WHEW!!!

-And as for the jet lag.... well, I went to bed at my normal time last night, and I got up at my normal time this morning, so... I am a little tired, but I think that's more road-plane-weariness than anything else. We'll see what the next few days bring...

Well, I just wanted to check in and say HI! Hopefully, I'll be able to catch up on all the posts I've missed.. Hmmm... We'll see...

And, once again, a very major and public Thank You to DRs Tom and Colin for the generosity and hospitality - and Colin's amazing dinner and desserts. *The orange cake was/is exquisite!

Oh, and even the Customs officer got a kick out of my declaring the chocolate I brought back with me. ;-)

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 09/05/2003 02:37 PM PST

There have been a few apparent princes I've kissed who turned out to be toads.

Posted by Jay @ 09/05/2003 02:41 PM PST

Toads can KISS MY ASS.
There, I've said it and I'm glad.

Posted by bk @ 09/05/2003 02:47 PM PST

Were the Princes that did eventuate worth the effort of "Trying the toads". Or are still waiting Jay?
The orange cake recipe is in the archives somewhere. Thanks Jose it was a delight to meet you.

RE Fridays: Retirement has not dulled their beauty. Teachers love Fridays too. Now they are special because I know that François is back on line. (Thursday for most of the Hainsies!).

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/05/2003 02:50 PM PST

TCB: I didn't mean that Dan in Toronto should not ever watch The North Avenue Irregulars. Just wanted him to know that if he expected lots and lots of Barbara Harris, he'd be disappointed. I noted in my post that it's a nice little movie regardless. :)

Posted by Lulu @ 09/05/2003 02:52 PM PST

I hate Fridays.

Posted by Andy Kaufman @ 09/05/2003 02:54 PM PST

I just read that "Little Shop" is to be recorded on Sept 15.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/05/2003 03:10 PM PST

Oh no, Lulu, no offense taken. I hope I didn't come across as being defensive. Just didn’t want Dan, or anyone else, to pass up a chance to see a sweet family film based solely on Ms. Harris’ lack of screen time.

Posted by TCB @ 09/05/2003 03:22 PM PST

I think the North Avenue
Irregulars is on DVD from
Anchor Bay. If not, they can
KISS MY ASS.

Now, where in tarnation IS
everyone? We must not have
the lull. The lull is what we
must not have. Let us say
goodbye to the lull or, to be
more succinct, lullabye.

Posted by bk @ 09/05/2003 03:40 PM PST

Welcome back Mr
Auditionman Jose!

Boy, you really travel places!

Tell me, everyone:
after ass kissing, is today frog
kissing?

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 03:49 PM PST

Tom from Oz:

-- i'm staying in the theme! --

does this musical says
something to you?

KISSING FROGS

OC Australien 2002 Ross
Nobel & Rod Davies .
Musicalcomedy aus
Australien. 21 Titel u. a. mit
Christine Anu, Rod Davies,
Geoff Paine  23.95 €

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 04:09 PM PST

The world can kiss my ass!

Today, one of my co-workers left for a two-week vacation in France.

Today, my boss informs me that she will leave in two weeks for a three-week vacation in Paris, with side trips during her time there. She will be staying in a pied a terre with a view of la tour Eiffel!

Today, I realized I am NOT going to Paris. I'm also not going to London, Rome or Athens. I'm not going any damn where!

Kiss my ass!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 04:18 PM PST

Not to upset you, Ron, but
we're all going to Paris, too.

And when we get there we
shall all say KISS MY ASS.

Francois, dear, what is KISS
MY ASS in French?

The day is almost done here
at work, and then it's off to
joing dear reader Mark
Rothman in PARIS.

Posted by bk @ 09/05/2003 04:21 PM PST

DR Ron: I think you should blackmail them into taking you. You HAVE to have something on them.

I'm in the midst of trying to get "Chinese Food In Bed" where I want it, and I'll most certainly send it to you bk.

I'm watching "Chicago". I love this movie. Richard Gere cracks me up. Come to think of it, lots of things crack me up.

Posted by Sarah @ 09/05/2003 04:30 PM PST

Sarah: Stop eating those brownies your brother's girl friend made. That's probably why everything cracks you up!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 04:35 PM PST

Ron: She's not smart enough to make brownies like that. She'd forget the whole brownie part.

Posted by Sarah @ 09/05/2003 04:39 PM PST

BK,

Are you REALLY sure you want
to know how to say KMA in
French?

OK!
I printed the soft version for
Sarah yesterday.
Her'es the hardcore one --
sorry, Mom! BK makes me do
it! --

BAISE-MOI LE CUL!
-- we're so CULtural here! --

Ron,

I wouldn't mind trading places;
last time I was in california
was in 1974, and i get to be in
Paris most of the time...

Ain't you "sorry" for me?

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 04:52 PM PST

What a swell idea, François...you'll trade me Paris for Oakland?

I'd do it in a flash if I didn't have conscience!

: )

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 04:57 PM PST

Ron,

I need more than a flash to do
it in!

:- )

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 05:00 PM PST

The Eiffel Tower?

It's a bore!

Baise-moi l' cul!

Posted by Gaston @ 09/05/2003 05:03 PM PST

The internet is a wonder!

I've just found this item, BUT
here ASS is our four-legged
friend!

Here goes:

Spanish: Bese mi asno
French: Embrassez mon âne
German: Küssen Sie meinen
Esel
Italian: Baci il mio asino
Portuguese: Beije meu burro
Norwegian: Kyss mitt esel
Dutch: Zoen mijn reet
Danish: Kys mig æsel
Finnish: Suudelma minun
aasi
Gaelic: Pog mo thoin
Icelandic: Koss minn rass
Croatian: Iscjelivati moj
Hungarian: Csókol az én -m
csacsi
Czech: Polibek má osel
Serbian: Poljubac moj zadnjca
Slovenian: Poljub svoj norec
Pig Latin: Isskay ymay assyay
Afrikaans: Soen my esel
Albanian: Puth im gomar
Bengali: Chumu gAdha
Estonian: Suudlema minu
eesel
Hawaiian: Honi ko'u 'elemu
Maori: üngutu taku käihe
Romanian: sarut magar
Swahili: busu. changu kitako
Swedish: kysst min åsna
Yiddish: KUSCHN MEIN EISL
Welsh: cusanu fy asen

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 05:09 PM PST

All those languages can KISS
MY ASS. I'm thinkin' we might
just get to 100 posts but we'll
have to puuuuush. Let's get a
rally going, shall we?

Posted by bk @ 09/05/2003 05:19 PM PST

In my combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) drive: Anywhere I Wander - Liz Callaway sings Frank Loesser.

In the "last played" list on my video-watch program: "Onegai Twins" episode 7. Two girls, one boy - they want to be lovers, but they could be family!

Posted by Kit Lo @ 09/05/2003 05:21 PM PST

Currently on DVD: Silk Stockings with all that wonderful dancing.

I, for one, am glad the Sleeping Beauty DVD will have the kit and kaboodle from the laserdisc package, because I really want to introduce the grandlads to Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite. I'm not as sure about that Tchaikovsky bio from the Disney series that's included; it is so amazingly lame and funny, but never veers into camp.

Favorite Walt-Era Disney Animated: Sleeping Beauty. I can remember seeing it when it was first released, oldster that I am. My sister hated it, mainly because she went to the little girls room in the theater and missed the finger-pricking scene, and because she couldn't accept the blame herself had to blame the film (and me) instead. It is only coincidence that she now resembles Malificent.

Favorite Post-Walt Disney Animated: Tarzan. Yes, really! I was never a fan of the Tarzan story until this version. The thematic business about the hands, the business about family being more than mere genetics, the whole business.

(By the way, coming soon is Brother Bear, again with Phil Collins supplying the music, including a song sung by Tina Turner!)

Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 are so very much in a league by themselves that I keep them on a separate shelf in our collection.

Favorite non-animated Disney film: Mary Poppins, but I'm not all that sure it counts as non-animated. Every other shot has some kind of special effect going on, including animation where it doesn't appear to be animation. Every father should watch the film on a regular basis, as a reminder of what it means to be a father. Tomlinson was superb as George Banks, and it's a shame he wasn't even nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars that year. (The award instead went to Peter Ustinov for Topkapi, for comparison.)

Posted by S. Woody White @ 09/05/2003 05:39 PM PST

lurk lurk lurk lurk lurk

Posted by the lurker @ 09/05/2003 05:40 PM PST

Welcome to "the lurker." We hope you'll come out and join us.

Posted by Old Laura @ 09/05/2003 05:45 PM PST

Well, I intended to take a short little cat nap and woke up about 4 hours later. I might as well have pricked my finger on a friggin' spindle.

Wow, François--that was an impressive list of kiss my asses. Though, didn't the French one and a few others mean KISS MY DONKEY?

Jason--Madam Mim was the name of the stout pimply little villainess in the Sword in the Stone! She is my second favorite next to Maleficent. I used to love the battle where she and Merlin take turns take turns transforming into beasts and beating and burning the crep out of each other! Good stuff.

SWW--LOL on your sister resembling Maleficent!

Welcome back to DR Jose!

Now, when do I get to go to Paris???

Posted by Maya @ 09/05/2003 05:45 PM PST

What the...let's all take turns taking turns? Oh boy...

Posted by Maya @ 09/05/2003 05:47 PM PST

I'm in need of entertainment. I have nothing in my VCR, nothing in my DVD player, and nothing in my cd player. I should soon have music to listen to as I'm burning a cd now. First I must transfer LP songs to my computer. Then I can burn the cd. It'll be a compilation of Barbra songs along with Sutton and Darcie--a Funny Girl theme with a Barbra influence.

Oh, and my favorite Disney movie is definitely Beauty and the Beast. I cajoled my friend Ryan into watching it with me when the DVD came out.

Posted by Laura II @ 09/05/2003 06:05 PM PST

My favorite Disney film MAY be "Song of the South."

François, in Naples, Italy, the local vernacular exchanges the word "asino" for "culo" -- baci il mio culo!

They throw out a "hook 'em horns" sign with their right hands, too...which doesn't have anything with the University of Texas or "hook 'em Horns" and is much, much worse than "the bird."

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 06:16 PM PST

Man! It's great to be home for the weekend. I've got a pork roast in my pressure cooker and it smells divoon. When it's done, I'm going to pull it apart and pour on some barbecue sauce...then I'll let it simmer for a while. Nothing like good old hand-pulled barbecued pork!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 06:17 PM PST

Where in heaven's name is everyone?

Posted by The Curious Onlooker @ 09/05/2003 06:18 PM PST

Je suis ici!

I'm dancin and singin in my room, and I'm trying to record "Chinese..." but it doesn't sound any good without the accompaniment. I hate being a perfectionist.

Clothing Call: I'm wearing black swishy-ish pants, a black spaghetti strap tank top, and a pink button up shirt over it, not buttoned, and I am QUITE comfortable.

I was just looking at two pictures of me. They're about 3 months apart. In one, I have my braces on still, and my hair is long. In the other, my braces are off, and my hair is in a Reese Witherspoon-type-cut. I looked SO weird in the "before shot". It's funny how people can improve so quickly.

Posted by Sarah @ 09/05/2003 06:33 PM PST

What's the Use of Wonderin'?

Posted by Julie Jordan @ 09/05/2003 06:33 PM PST

The humppe has been reached

Posted by Heirnomymous Merkin @ 09/05/2003 06:34 PM PST

You go, s'ghetti-strap Sarah!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/05/2003 06:35 PM PST

Well, I'll tell you were I was....

Around 3:00 am here -- a few
minutes ago -- that stupid
hotel alarm rang -- talk about
an adrenalin rush! -- and
phones from rooms started
ringing and people coming
down the stairs...

We have 40 rooms and 38 of
them are sold tonight...AND
I'm the only employee on duty
at night!

WELL, it was a false alarm,
but that loud buzzing can't be
stopped and lasts 3 minutes!

Everything's back to normal,
but I sure can do without that
kind of animation, which is 3D
but not virtual.
I've worked the alarm unit and
opened back all the fire doors
and my guests are back to
slumberland, so I hope...

Legrand's HOW DO YOU
KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING is
now playing on BBC Radio 2
and that melody is quite
soothing, mainly sung by my
pet Claire Moore...

And that is where I was and
what I was doing!

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 06:36 PM PST

Sarah,

Please stop eating those
brownies.

When posting that list, I did
mention that "ass" was the
animal not the body part!
;- )

Oh, they're now singing
Burlington Bertie from Bow on
BBC Radio 2.

Remember Dame Julie
singing that -- as Gertie
Lawrence -- in STAR! ?

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 06:42 PM PST

You're a queer one Julie Jordan.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/05/2003 06:51 PM PST

François--you know, I was reading like 50 posts and somehow managed to miss the ass disclaimer, lol. My bad (and I do have them)!

I love Star! Is that out on DVD yet?

Oh--and I am in my nighty. A pink satin slipdress thingie....nothing too sexy, but it's very comfy to sleep in.

Posted by Maya @ 09/05/2003 06:51 PM PST

Je suis ici, aussi. I was playing a video game...for three and a half hours! Its one of those strategy games. I had to build and maintain a zoo. It was quite fun, adopting animals, building their exhibits, keeping the customers happy. Tis a challenge, but one I gladly accepted, and I'm proud to say, I came out the victor.

Thank you, Maya, for reminding me of Madame Mim's name. That wizard's duel is my favorite scene in the whole doggone movie. Its too too.

S. Woody White...I think I'm going to take you up on your suggestion. I'm going to watch Mary Poppins right now!

Posted by Jason @ 09/05/2003 06:54 PM PST

Remember Jason - take everything with a spoon full of sugar.
That scene in "Sword" is indeed wonderful. The story is so close to the White version (the basis for the musical) too.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/05/2003 07:00 PM PST

I'm wearing my Grease tee and jeans. Sarah and I were in Grease together. :)

Posted by Laura II @ 09/05/2003 07:09 PM PST

Oh, oh!

I've got to be careful too... and
don't even eat brownies!

I took Maya for Sarah!
Je suis désolé.

I would even say that it's MAD
MADAM MIM; let's be purist!

See how you all are: i'm
sharing my stress with you at
the hotel and noone gives a
care!

Well, I say KISS MY... err,
maybe not!
:- )

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 07:14 PM PST

Grease!

So hard to remove from
garments!

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 07:22 PM PST

OK, it's time for a Friday evening parlor game, namely the composition of a fictional short story by committee.

I'll provide the opening and all of you dear readers fill in the rest.

It was a dark and stormy night. The vicar carefully inspected the table he had set for his guests that evening. His hands were gloved in lint-free handkerchief linen, so that the crystal and silver he had laid would not be spotted by his mortal flesh. As his eyes flamed in the candle-lit reflection off the service pieces he used for only his most special guests, he pondered how he would greet each of them as they arrived at the rectory.

Okay, dear readers, your turn.

Posted by Jay @ 09/05/2003 07:27 PM PST

With only a touch

I have the power

zim zaba rim bim

to wither a flower

I find delight in the gruesome
and grim

'Cause I'm the magnificent,
marvelous, mad Madam Mim

I can be huge fill a whole
house

I can be tiny, small as a
mouse

black sorcery is my dish of tea

it comes easy to me 'cause I'm
the magnificent, marvelous,
mad Madam Mim!

I can be beautiful, lovely and
fair

Silvery voice, long purple hair

la la la la la, la la la la la

la la la la la

but it's only skin deep

for zim zaberim zim

I'm an ugly old creep

Magnificent, marvelous, mad,
mad, mad, mad Madam Mim

Posted by Madam Mim Marceau @ 09/05/2003 07:29 PM PST

Rectory, kiss my arse!

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 07:32 PM PST

Wasn't it when SLEEPING BEAUTY played Radio City - that the entire front row had to be replaced because kids kept wetting their pants when the dragon appeared?

Welcome back, Jose!

Jason - did your mail arrive? If not today - tomorrow for sure, I would say.

To continue the Story:

He took special care with one place setting. Tonight would be the night.

Yes, the rector had decided. Tonight he would let the young lad know who is real father was. Yes, the son he had denied at his birth would soon be sitting at the table with his own sister.

The decision was made, the truth would have to be told. The wedding of the two young people could not take place!

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/05/2003 07:42 PM PST

Tallulah LeGree was the first to arrive. The footman took her voluminous fur wrap and escorted her to the library, where cocktails had been set. She nervously eyed the volumes around her. Chaucer, Voltaire, Collins. The authors' names lept at her, like cats stalking their prey. She pondered for a moment her upcoming nuptials. The secrets she harbored flared in her head. Would she succeed with her scheme, she wondered, as she examined the hors d'oeuvres on the table. Tallulah had never seen sardines served in such a fashion, curled in the shape of various letters of the alphabet, arranged to spell the vicar's name. In Latin. The echo of her mother's last words suddenly reverberated inside her neatly coiffed head.

Posted by Jay @ 09/05/2003 07:54 PM PST

I'm turning in, fellow DR's, as I have some soccer games to go and watch tomorrow morning, and I want to be slightly concious, or else I risk being hit by the ball, and that is NOT fun. 13 year olds can KICK.

I would add to the story, but I have to be the worst writer in the history of the world, and I'd ruin it. Very interesting, though.

Posted by Sarah @ 09/05/2003 08:00 PM PST

Yes, she clearly could
remember those fatal last
words that were still
reverberating, rating, rating in
her head;

"Darling, kiss my ...."

Oops, sorry mind has some
fixation tonight....

YOU go on without me
;- )

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 08:04 PM PST

Quick note before I turn in. Have to get up early to go to work tomorrow before I head out to LI for a birthday party for a friend.

François as you tool around that radio dial of yours I'm sure you'll give a listen to Showtime on Radio Wales. I'm on this week talking about Avenue Q. I'm almost exactly 25 minutes into the show in case you want to skip ahead. I'm just after Donald O'Connor's bit from Call Me Madam and just before Miss Marlene who was bewitched this week.

Posted by Ben @ 09/05/2003 08:18 PM PST

Erggh--I am writing this from the old antique of a Mac upstairs because the server on our PC is down. (Sarah, if you're still up, that would explain the abrupt AIM exit).

Hmmm...let me see if I can add something to the story...

Ezra Pengham, Tallulah's paternal third cousin twice removed, crept in after her, he too eyeing the alphabetical formations of the sardines. Ezra was a timid young man with a stooped figure, mousy brown hair and small fishy eyes. He wore a creased suit and a bowler hat a few sizes too big for his head.

Ezra noticed too a strange look on his cousin's face. He was convinced she had been hiding something from him. Lately, she had been somewhat sad, withdrawn. It was unlike her--as a young girl, Tallulah had delighted in stealing candy, playing with her hula hoops and dressing Ezra in feminine garments.

Posted by Maya @ 09/05/2003 08:19 PM PST

Continuing the story...
Theodore was next to arrive. Bursting in like the howling wind outside, Teddy's face was flush with excitement. Slipping out of his macintosh, you couldn't help but notice how young and innocent he seemed. "Still wet behind the ears," someone once observed. Eager to see his lady love, he rushed into the library almost knocking over the Tiffany lamp on the hall table. The vicar looked up.

Posted by Donna @ 09/05/2003 08:27 PM PST

Ben,

I sure will listen to the radio
show.

With the radio player one gets
with iMac one can't skip
ANYTHING!
If, for some technical reasons,
the show stops or stalls, one
has to start it all over!

Posted by François @ 09/05/2003 08:29 PM PST

And Ezra never forgave her that, her ability to swing six hula hoops simultaneously, one on each of her limbs, one on her waist and another on her neck, all the while singing the morose lullaby their common ancient nanny would sing to them as they lay in their cribs at the ancestral castle.

The room brightened considerably with the entrance of Irma LaTrois. Widowed at an early age, Irma was ubiquitous in town, and had over many years ingratiated herself with the leading families of the little hamlet. She was as familiar with each of the families as she might be a sister to them, though of her private life the townfolk knew little.

Posted by Jay @ 09/05/2003 08:33 PM PST

The conversation in the library was light, about the torrid weather that evening, about how dreary Como had been that season, about how the opera hasn't been the same since the passing of Farinelli. There was a lull, and suddenly, after long silence, the vicar spoke.

Posted by Jay @ 09/05/2003 08:41 PM PST

The vicar surveyed the table, then spoke. "I will admit to all those present that I frolicked today with a comely lass."

"How randy of you," said Ezra, playing with the salmon mousse.

"Randy is my middle name," replied the vicar. Jeremiah is my first name."

The vicar called for the soup to be served.

Posted by bk @ 09/05/2003 08:43 PM PST

Inga, the Swedish maid, entered the atrium then, her long flaxen braids swinging behind her.

"I have brote the sup," she squeaked, only to feel a pinch on her lower back. "Oh, Jeremiah Randy Vicar," she cried, almost splling the soup tureen brimfull with a fine puree of broccoli and oysters.

Ezra blushed, averting his fishy eyes from Inga. But then the maid saw that Irma was staring at her....

Posted by Maya @ 09/05/2003 08:49 PM PST

Indeed, there was a good deal of staring going 'round the table. Tallulah was staring at the widow LaTrois. Theodore was staring at Ezra. And the vicar was staring at each of them in succession, all the while as he masterfullyly navigated the ruffles of Inga's petticoats, out of the sight of his assembled dinner guests, while she skillfully served the soup.

Was the mere notion of the oysters in the potage what drove this unseemly staring?

Posted by Jay @ 09/05/2003 09:11 PM PST

DR Jrand -- A HUGE and heartfelt thank you to DR Jack, for sending me a wonderful recording of the theme from the TV show "My Little Margie." And also a whole lot of others, including "General Hospital".....I seem to know that one pretty well. :)

DR Jason -- I'm glad you've given yourself a little time this week to just putz around.

In my car CD.....well, anyone who knows my preferences will find this ironic, but I have just given myself a 2-day saturation of Sondheim items. I have to co-music direct a fundraiser coming up that is all Sondheim!! Talk about Karma getting me back.

DVD -- I just bought 2 new ones, ready to view; City Hall, and Donnie Brasco.

VHS -- Last night DR Kerry put on the oddest film called "The Day The Fish Came Out." My it was strange, and also kind of fascinating.

Posted by MusicGuy @ 09/05/2003 09:52 PM PST

While the assembled guests were all keeping their gazes fixed on each other, the vicar quietly reached under the edge of the table (with the hand not occupied with Inga) and pushed a hidden button. Suddenly, an eerie melody began to play from the old pipe organ in the entry hall......a strange but insistent melody in E minor....

Posted by MusicGuy @ 09/05/2003 09:56 PM PST

"Rose's Turn" had never before sounded quite so sinister.

Posted by Jay @ 09/05/2003 10:27 PM PST

You should talk, Tom from Oz!

Posted by Julie Jordan @ 09/05/2003 11:10 PM PST

Its 5:20 in the A.M. and I'm still awake...and I just sent an email to Anthony Warlow. Kill me now.

Posted by Jason @ 09/06/2003 02:20 AM PST

Yeah, you should.

Say something, Tom.

Posted by Sigerson Holmes @ 09/06/2003 02:22 AM PST

I meant that Tom should talk, not that anyone should kill Jason. What do you want at 5:20 A.M., wit?

Posted by Sigerson Holmes @ 09/06/2003 02:24 AM PST

Oh, I remember what I wanted to tell Tom from Oz. You mentioned that you'd just purchased the "Bridge over the River Kwai" DVD, and it reminded me of the reason that people often mis-remember the actual name of that film ("Bridge on the River Kwai").

I think it's because the Pierre Boulle novel it was based on was originally written in French, and the title can be translated both ways.

Title translations can turn out worse that this, of course. I believe the title of the Boulle novel on which "Planet of the Apes" was based has also been translated "Monkey Planet." Would you pay to see a movie called "Monkey Planet"?

Don't all answer at once.

Posted by Sigerson Holmes @ 09/06/2003 02:33 AM PST

Hello I'm here. Usually I blame my inaccuracies on my poor proof reading skills! I shall go and listen to the Mitch Miller version of the "March.." as my penance. Next I shall be typing "Lawrence On Arabia" or "Prof Zhivago". The worries of age. Old people tend to waffle on somewhat.
Will Mr Warlow respond? His new Cd is yet to surface. Did you ask him about it Jason?

English! Do American say "looking out the window" or "out from the window"? My English english teacher insisted on the latter. I guess she thought it would be the latter to success.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/06/2003 03:25 AM PST

I have thus spoken Julie. I could have said "Julie don't go" but who out there is old enough to remember the Ides Of March?
There are so few people at HHW that use bold type!
Has anyone heard from Michael Shayne? Did he go to New Orleans? Are you OK Mike?

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/06/2003 03:29 AM PST

I woke up much too late for the first soccer game, so I can hang out here until the second one starts. The story is very good so far, but as I said before, I'd ruin it if I added to it, so I'll just let you lot continue.

"Just remember theres and East side, and a West side, an uptown and dowtown, thats why I feel so happy in good old New York town!

Good song!

Posted by Sarah @ 09/06/2003 05:36 AM PST

Was that Tallulah about to sing her version of the famous 11 o'clock number?

Ezra and Theodore stole furtive glances at each other.

Inga alone gasped - as all in the room realized - the figure in the purple dress was the vicar in drag!

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/06/2003 08:13 AM PST

It was clear this was to be....no PICNIC!

Posted by The Narrator @ 09/06/2003 08:14 AM PST

"Momm-mmm-ma?" stuttered Tallulah. It wasn't clear whether she was simply singing the song to the organ's accompaniment or addressing the purple-clad dinner guest in shocked tones.

Posted by Jay @ 09/06/2003 08:31 AM PST