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Doris Day.
I am watching YOUNG AT HEART. Is there anything she can't do?
I only wish she hadn't kept that short haircut for so many movies.
Who was your favorite DD co-star?
And Gig Young - so handsome and talented. I wish he had played the third wheel role in all the sixties comedies she did. With Tony Randall, there really wasn't a question...but with Gig, there's a chance Doris might have changed her mind.
Name three Doris Day-Gig Young movies.
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/07/2003 09:13 AM PST
First post huzzah!
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/07/2003 09:13 AM PST
I absolutely adore Doris Day!
Except for a few moments in MIDNIGHT LACE or JULIE (well, JOSIE, I guess, too) Dodo can do nothing wrong in my little book.
Had she a hankering, I think that Dodo would have been the ULTIMATE Sally Durant Plummer in FOLLIES; either onstage or on film.
I also love her album with Andre Previn.
Posted by td @ 09/07/2003 09:20 AM PST
In a late post last night, George mentioned the Playbill article on Jeepers Creepers - it mentions a label name as my new label - but they got it wrong. Red Circle LLC is Richard Valley's emblem, not mine. What the press release actually says is that it's a joint venture between Red Circle LLC and my new label and entertainment company. I will reveal the name of that company when the time is right and I promise you shall be the first to know.
Posted by bk @ 09/07/2003 09:23 AM PST
Thanks for the info, Mr BK!
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/07/2003 09:29 AM PST
Well it is indeed Sunday, which is always and never a good day. Always good because it is still the weekend, always bad because theres less than 24 hours until school begins again...
I have to read the entirety of "The Prince" by 2 tomorrow afternoon. I've read the first 2 chapters, and I have to say, it is the most boring thing I've ever had to read. More boring than "Farenheit 451", and I didn't even read that, I went on pinkmonkey.com and got the summary. THAT boring. Have any of you read it?
I have "Tom Dooley" stuck in my head. It isn't a pleasant change from "Chinese Food...", and I'm wishing it would go away. I was a bit of a Kingston Trio fan as a little kid.
And yesterday, I had to let go of something very close and dear to me. My desk chair in my room. I've had it since I was 6, and it didn't match a thing anymore, and it was falling apart left and right, so it had to go. You wouldn't think it would be a big deal, but for some weird reason it was! It has now been replaced by a swively office chair which is tres comfortable, but it's going to take some getting used to.
Doris Day...makes me think of The Pajama Game.
Posted by Sarah @ 09/07/2003 09:33 AM PST
So nice to see Zina Bethune drop by yesterday, dispensing bad advice. But she was one of The Nurses for a different generation, and maybe butter on burns was considered sage advice back then. My father produced that show, which then changed its title to The Doctors and the Nurses.
Posted by Noel @ 09/07/2003 09:44 AM PST
Hello all on this dismal Sunday.
If students appreciate Fridays the most, then surely they also hate Sundays with unequaled passion.
I know I sure do :)
I'm spending the day doing Poli. Sci. reading which - as Sarah can surely attest to from her Machievelli - can sometimes be awfully awful.
My classes for this term:
Women and the Christian Tradition
Arab Israeli Conflict, Crisis & Peace
Conflict, Crisis and War
Provincial Politics
Developing Areas: Arab World
Some are excellent (Developing Areas..., Arab Israeli Conflict...) while others are being taught by profs. with NO public speaking skills.
For the Conflict, Crisis and War couse (one which could be very interesting) the prof reads aloud his doctoral thesis in front of 300 bored students.
I am going to write a particularly boring term paper for that one, if only to give the prof. a taste of his own medecine. :)
Posted by Emily @ 09/07/2003 09:45 AM PST
Was there anything Doris Day couldn't do? Well, I can't for the life of me remember her tap dancing, but that doesn't mean she couldn't have. She probably didn't because it wouldn't have been ladylike.
Last night was interesting, in comparative ways. The ever-watchful der Brucer really wasn't interested in watching The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp with me, wanting something lighter instead, so we ended up watching Abbott and Costello in Jack & the Beanstalk. (Talk about a couple of light-years difference in subject matter!)
While watching the A&C film, the first comparison occurred to me. It's going to sound blasphemous, so consider yourself warned. Here goes: the current Lou Costello in the entertainment industry is...Emeril Lagasse!
No, really! Consider all of Emeril's affectations, the twitches and movements he makes, the strange noises, the sudden shouts. They even sound somewhat alike. The only problem is that Emeril is a Costello without an Abbott, which is a shame. (I'd suggest Anthony Bourdain for the role, but I don't think that's likely to happen any time soon.)
Comparison number two came later. A&CiJ&tB is one of those films that starts in black and white, switches to color for the fantasy story, and returns to black and white for the concluding bookend shots. The color is not Technicolor by any means. It is really wretched, stained with yellows that would embarrass any smoker from smiling.
Which brings us to the crux of the second comparison, which is with the Technicolor used in Col. Blimp, of which I've watched the first hour so far. The color in the second film is amazing, magical without looking exaggerated in any way. The blacks are crisp, the blues are true, the greens are verdant, the reds are magnificent, and the yellows don't need Pepsodent. There is something about four-strip Technicolor that is simply satisfying, in ways current color processes can't match...
And I think I know why! It has to do with the grain that is inherent in any kind of film other than digital, which really isn't film at all. In four-strip Technicolor, there is grain on four separate pieces of film, as opposed to the single piece of film used in most pictures we see today. The catch is, the grain on the four pieces of film does not, and indeed CAN NOT MATCH! The grain on the piece of film used to capture the reds in a scene don't match the grain on the piece of film that captures the blues, and the same goes for the yellows and the blacks.
It gets even more complex. The grain on the red strip changes from frame to frame. The same is true for the blue strip, the yellow strip, and the black strip. But on each strip of film the grain changes differently! The end result is as if Seurat had painted each frame, with the dots in his painting shifting just enough to make the shimmering for which his paintings are famous happen faster than the eye can see. With the four-strip Technicolor process, what we are watching is a pointilistic shimmer evolve right before our very eyes!
The result is that the films made in this process have colors that leap out and yet look more natural than in any other film process I know of. These films are true Chromolumes!
I'm looking forward to watching the rest of Col. Blimp. My eyes are going to be, to use Emeril's words, "happy-happy!"
Posted by S. Woody White @ 09/07/2003 10:14 AM PST
Ah yes, the doctors and the nurses....I think I watched it once. Zina did do a guest shot on THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW doing a dance of some sort.
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/07/2003 10:37 AM PST
TD--ohmigod, you are SO right about Doris Day playing Sally in Follies! She would have been perfect in that role!
Here's an interesting topic of discussion--If you could go back to 1971 or 72 and Follies was still running, who would you want to see in it?
Sarah and Emily--I FEEL your pain! I've read The Prince and that was pretty boring. Listening to a professor dryly read his doctoral thesis would be pretty darned boring. But nothing can approach the pain and monotony of having to read 50-odd pages of mind-numbing Jonathan Edwards for my American Lit class!
BTW, Emily did you still want a copy of the tape? Send me your address and I will be glad to zap one over to you!
Posted by Maya @ 09/07/2003 10:49 AM PST
Good Sunday, everyone. And what a beautiful day it is here on the East Coast! A perfect day for a hike in the mountains. Unfortunately, I will not be hiking or even walking in the mountains, for I must attend the wedding of my friend's son. Said wedding may also make me late for, or even absent from tonite's unseemly chat. My humblest apologies.
Posted by Susan @ 09/07/2003 10:51 AM PST
My favorite Doris Day co-star is Mr. Gordon MacRae who sang and danced with Doris in TEA FOR TWO, ON MOONLIGHT BAY, and BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON.
And yes, everything that Doris touched turned to gold in my opinion. Grew up watching her musicals on TV as a kid but found her performance in the drama STORM WARNING to be one of her best!!
Posted by MBarnum @ 09/07/2003 11:03 AM PST
This is a test post. Please delete.
Posted by Emily @ 09/07/2003 11:20 AM PST
I thought that it was rather suspicious that Playbill would announce the name of Bruce's new label BEFORE Bruce himself would. Who knew that one "and" (or lack thereof) could make all the difference in the world...or at least in that sentence.
Posted by George @ 09/07/2003 11:45 AM PST
I tried to watch the broadway on broadway via the net and was disappointed that nothing could be really seen or heard. But I did get a few glimpses of our very own Brent Barrett rehearsing in a t-shirt. The weather must have been nice. And then there were flashes of And We Both Reach For the Gun sans costumes.
It is pouring rain here in south Florida. Thunder. Lightning.
Caught up with a film on TV called Clara's Heart. Pure Schmaltz.
Doing some rewrites on a play.
And that's about it.
Posted by Mike @ 09/07/2003 12:02 PM PST
DVDs or not, Subways are for
Sleeping Beauties....
Posted by François @ 09/07/2003 12:20 PM PST
I shall be errant and truant for tonight's chat, as it is my wedding anniversary and I will hopefully be taken out for a celebration dinner.
I knew the Playbill article must have been erroneous, as I know that BK would tell US here first before anyone else.
Posted by Old Laura @ 09/07/2003 12:33 PM PST
Well, BK, the lovely wife and I had a great evening watching FORGET-ME-NOT LANE. We enjoyed both the play and your performance in said play immensely. Very amusing, yet also moving play. And a great cast. Donald Moffatt (who was particularly "wow"), Joseph Maher, Tom Hulce, Geraldine Fitzgerald...and, of course, you! If we had one complaint, it was you did not have enough scenes.
So, okay, dish...Who'd you like, who didn't you like, what was the experience like. We want tales and gory details.
One particular question. In the entertaining the troops scene, you start drawing a carictaure, then they cut away, and come back to you finishing up Winnie Churchill. Did you actually draw it? I expect you must have, as I believe you performed this play on stage as well. Do you have natural artistic talent(in terms of drawing...we know you have artistic talent) or were you taught how to draw the caricature?
Posted by Charles Pogue @ 09/07/2003 12:34 PM PST
I believe Doris tapped up a storm in LULLABY OF BROADWAY, negotiating the tapping on a huge staircase if my memory serves.
My favorite of her co-stars is Howard Keel in CALAMITY JANE which is probably my favorite musical of hers. Wouldn't she have been wonderful in the film of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (her studio cast album of the musical with Robert Goulet is quite wonderful, I think)?
Drama, comedy, musicals: she really could do it all and with that wonderful screen presence that just makes the audience root for her.
Gig Young was with Doris in YOUNG AT HEART, THE TUNNEL OF LOVE, and THAT TOUCH OF MINK.
Posted by Matt H. @ 09/07/2003 12:41 PM PST
Well, this definitely is Doris'
Day....
... and i do print an apostrophe
-- Doris' -- and NOT a question
mark -- Doris? --
but, then, BK and I use iMac,
so............
Posted by François @ 09/07/2003 12:54 PM PST
Happy Anniversary Original Laura.
At 6.12 am it is still very much "The Pajama Game" time here. Back later.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/07/2003 01:15 PM PST
I liked everyone on Forget-Me-Not Lane, but most especially Joe Mahar and Geraldine, who I adored and who adored me. Betsy Slade, young Ursula, and I had had some difficulties in LA doing the play, but they were long past when we taped the show. Hulce and I had a good time, too (it was his first major job).
Re the Winston Churchill drawing. I have no ability to draw or paint whatsoever. The drawing was actually outlined for me (very lightly), but I had a very short amount of time on stage to do it (and, of course, they did NOT have Marks-a-lot in WWII) - it took me days of practicing and figuring out where to start and how to finish it in the most quick manner. Once I got it, I never missed. I didn't like that part of the TV version because you assume, because of the cutaway, that I really didn't do it.
I had one other quite long scene in Act One. It was actually the introduction to my character (preceding the bedroom scene, where in the TV version you don't really know who I am or what the relationship with Frank is). But, they had to cut it down and that's what went (they also cut a brief bit of nudity involving scene the roller skating girl). Interestingly, they really wanted to bring the Taper production to Broadway - in fact, we'd all gotten offers to go - but the B'way producers wanted Peter Nichols to cut the play down to two hours (it's two-and-a-half all told) and he wouldn't do it, and the production didn't go.
Now, where in tarnation IS everyone?
Posted by bk @ 09/07/2003 01:17 PM PST
I am back from Broadway on Broadway where I had delightful conversations with Danny Burstein, Rebecca Luker, Brent Barrett and so on...
A lot of fun - and AFTER (and only after you post here) you can check out my photos from today's event by going to:
http://www.broadwayworld.com
Posted by Craig @ 09/07/2003 01:25 PM PST
I just got back from a very impromptu ride in my brother's Jeep, and I am quite wiped out. You see, my brother has a bit of a speeding problem. It doesn't bother me usually, but this time, he had taken the top and doors off of the Jeep. Needless to say, I was holding onto my seatbelt for dear life.
I'm also quite muddy, as he decided that going off-roading would be fun. So my clothing call is about to change from jeans and a yellow shirt that had a message that wouldn't be accepted well at this here family-site, to new jeans and my American Idol tour tee-shirt.
Clothing Call to the rest of you fine people.
Posted by Sarah @ 09/07/2003 01:34 PM PST
I am wearing a green top with a darker green paisley pattern and jeans. I love paisley, lol...does that make me a fashion criminal??
Craig--LOVED the pics (especially the one of Brent, hehe)! I wish I could have been there SO much! I wonder if they will keep the webcast online for a while so I can check it out.
Posted by Maya @ 09/07/2003 01:54 PM PST
RE: Craig's Broadway on Broadway Photos.
When did Mark Hamill start looking older than Polly Bergen, or worse, me?
Posted by Harrison Ford @ 09/07/2003 02:01 PM PST
I'm leaving, hopefully chat will still be going on when I get home, and theres a slight chance I might be able to pop in for a bit while I'm there, but we'll see. Have fun!
Posted by Sarah @ 09/07/2003 02:37 PM PST
Harrison!
I love you too!
Posted by Mark H. @ 09/07/2003 03:26 PM PST
I LOVE YOU, Harrison!
Posted by Polly B. @ 09/07/2003 03:27 PM PST
That sounds like... star wars to
me!
Posted by François @ 09/07/2003 03:28 PM PST
Great pics, Craig. I wish I could have been there, but I'll just wait til they show it on TV. Actually, you'll have to tape it for me when they show it on TV since I don't have cable. Hehehe....
Clothing call: Well, I just got out of the shower, so I'm just in my blue jeans right now. I probably shouldn't have told you all that because its dinner time for most of you fine people and I'm afraid I may have just spoiled your appetites. :-\
Posted by Jason @ 09/07/2003 04:20 PM PST
Jason,
Will the last place where you
performed forward mail to
you?
I mailed stuff around August
25.....
Posted by François @ 09/07/2003 04:35 PM PST
We simply must have more posts, mustn't we? Chat in one hour and one half.
Posted by bk @ 09/07/2003 04:40 PM PST
Francois: I sure hope so! I have to talk to the producer sometime this week, so I'll give him a heads up about it. Thanks for sending me something!!
Posted by Jason @ 09/07/2003 04:44 PM PST
Right Matt H. And because I had forgotten about TUNNEL OF LOVE, there were four films they appeared in.
TEACHER'S PET with Clark Gable and Mamie VanDoren
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/07/2003 05:09 PM PST
Well, hold your hats and hallelujah, we've got a birthday to celebrate! I've said many times, you MUST send me the birthday dates because my head is so filled with stuff right now that I don't remember ANYTHING, especially a birthday we celebrated last year. I am, in a word, senile.
Well, it is dear reader William E. Lurie's very own birthday and damn it all we're going to celebrate it right here and right now. Get out those pointy party hats and those colored tights and pantaloons, get out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, dance the hora and the frug, and let's party until the cows come home, shall we? So, let's have a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer for dear reader WEL: On the count of three - one, two, three - BIG BIRTHDAY CHEER FOR DEAR READER WEL!!!!
And now, you errant and truant miscreants, get your butt cheeks into the chat room NOW and I do mean you and I do mean now.
Posted by bk @ 09/07/2003 05:53 PM PST
Yes, Virginia, you too - maybe I wasn't LOUD enough - the chat room is OPEN so get your butt cheeks in there or you can KISS MY ASS.
Posted by bk @ 09/07/2003 05:55 PM PST
Is that an open choice?
Posted by Virginia @ 09/07/2003 06:08 PM PST
Chat is rockin'!!! Get in there.
Happy Birthday, WEL!!
Posted by jrand53 @ 09/07/2003 06:29 PM PST
Happy birthday, WEL ... I think you were absolutely right about TMM
Posted by Noel @ 09/07/2003 06:31 PM PST
WEL - I wish you a very merry millie birthday from me to you!
Posted by Millie @ 09/07/2003 06:32 PM PST
WEL,
Thanks to BK, I know it's your bday. Happy happy!
Posted by Craig @ 09/07/2003 06:36 PM PST
And indeed a Happy Birthday Bill(unbirthday here) from OZ. Will you have "tapioca" for pudding tonight?
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/07/2003 06:39 PM PST
Why, Millie, i didn't know you
could be catty too! Thoroughly!
Happy birthday William Lurie! I
have been previlidged to
benefit from your generosity
and thoughtfulness during the
past few months and want to
publicly acknowledge this on
that special occasion...
Thank you and good wishes to
you!
You're a swell guy, and I know
a few others here on this site,
the most popular of the...
universe!
Posted by François @ 09/07/2003 06:54 PM PST
Happy Birthday Mr. Lurie.
I just left the Chat Room after dropping in around 9:30 NYC time. A good time was had by all.
Happy anniversary Laura from AZ. You will probably read this tomorrow. I hope your anniversary is/was a special day.
Off to bed. Early and busy day at the office tomorrow.
See ya on board.
Posted by Ben @ 09/07/2003 07:02 PM PST
I just out of the chat and it was sparkling and witty.
And today is WEL's Birthday. A Very Happy Day to you!
Posted by George @ 09/07/2003 07:03 PM PST
And a Very Happy Anniversary to DR Laura!
Posted by George @ 09/07/2003 07:04 PM PST
Ditto.
Posted by François @ 09/07/2003 07:13 PM PST
Chat was utterly sparkling, as usual.
Happy birthday, WEL!
And now to my homework...
Posted by Maya @ 09/07/2003 07:16 PM PST
Happy Birthday, W E L - a swellegant, elegant Welegant birthday.
Sorry to have missed the chat. I just popped in, but found I was talking to myself. Story of my life.
Posted by Dan-in-Toronto @ 09/07/2003 07:33 PM PST
I just dropped into the Chat Room and it said that SwishySarah was there...but she didn't respond to my hails, so I figure she was all wrapped up reading "The Prince" and forgot she was still logged into chat.
I was hoping "Broadway on Broadway" would air locally tonight...but alas, alack...no luck.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/07/2003 07:33 PM PST
I just got home, the damn people were an HOUR late (grr), but I wasn't able to post when I was there for some odd reason.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEL! Hope you had lots of cake and presents, as that's what makes birthdays so much fun! :)
DR Ron Pulliam: I think I was downstairs cleaning up the mess that the kids had made, I certainly wouldn't have ignored you if I had been there. Sorry!
And with that I drop into an exhausted sleep.
Posted by Sarah @ 09/07/2003 08:34 PM PST
OMG, is today WEL's Birthday???? How could I have missed that! A very Happy and a Healthy Birthday to DR WEL!
Posted by Susan @ 09/07/2003 08:57 PM PST
Chat was great fun tonight guys and gals!!
And a big ole happy B'Day to you DR WEL!
Posted by MBarnum @ 09/07/2003 09:17 PM PST
Happy, Birthday, WEL.
Posted by Old Laura @ 09/07/2003 09:23 PM PST
Happy Birthday, WEL!
I must try to get to sleep now. I have to call the temp agency in the morning to try to get a job!
OH! And before I forget...Happy Anniversary, DR Laura. I hope you had a good one.
BK: Kiss my ass!!! ;-)
Posted by Jason @ 09/07/2003 09:28 PM PST
Before I go to bed, I want to wish DR Laura a happy anniversary! So many things to celebrate today!
Good luck finding a job, Jason~~~~~
Posted by Maya @ 09/07/2003 09:34 PM PST
Thank you all for the anniversary wishes. We had a lovely evening together.
Posted by Old Laura @ 09/07/2003 09:35 PM PST
Dear esteemed, noble, and jiggy BK -- sorry for being E&T for chat, but we took DR Kerry's sister out to dinner to celebrate her purchase of her very first, very own house.
DR WEL -- Happy Birthday to you!!
DR Laura the first -- A belated happy anniversary to you....did the DH take you up in his plane?? wheeee!
DR Jason -- Know that we are sending you good and positive thoughts from here on your job hunt.....and just for extra luck, we send you a big kiss for YOUR ASS !
DR Jrand -- well, you totally infected my brain by today....I now have a trio of flutes chirping away in my head on replay, doing the M.L.M. theme. God it is catchy! Also, the General Hospital theme on that collection is but a mere poseur!! I'll send you the real, original theme that was played live to air every day.
Posted by MusicGuy @ 09/07/2003 09:54 PM PST
Did he sing,
This Is A Lovely Way To Spend
An Evening
O. Laura?
Posted by François @ 09/07/2003 09:56 PM PST
I know it's late, but I'm just now making dinner, spaghetti with home-made meatballs. I happen to like using fresh breadcrumbs in the meatballs, but the only bread we have in the house I'd even consider using for the breadcrumbs was a leftover hamburger bun. I hope the sesame seeds on the bun don't taste too odd; it still made more sense to use the bun than rye bread with caraway seeds, which can taste wonderful but didn't seem right as a meatballs ingredient.
Posted by S. Woody White @ 09/07/2003 10:07 PM PST
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WILLIAM! My, but we have a lot of birthdays in September. Why even I have one! In fact, our family has so many birthdays and anniversaries in September we call it September Madness!
ZINA BETHUNE - Zina is extremely talented. She started out as a ballet dancer. She has her own dance company. I met her at the "gravity guider" studio in Pasadena a long time ago. You use the gravity guider wearing a pair of "gravity boots" that hook onto a bar. It allows you to hang upside down and helps to align your spine and take pressure off the vertebrae. The day I met her, she told me she was there for therapy. She had just had surgery on her hips. My memory of her was that of a focused, disciplined person who knew what she was doing and where she was going. I was very impressed. Click on my name to go to her website. I'm sure you'll be impressed too.
Posted by Donna @ 09/07/2003 10:14 PM PST
DR MusicGuy: Thank you. No, we did not fly in his plane. However, you can have a turn whenever you want.
DR Francois: No, but the evening is still young!
DR S. Woody White: Meatballs are on the top of my list of favorite foods, I'd appreciate if you'd share your meatball recipe with me.
Posted by Old Laura @ 09/07/2003 10:15 PM PST
Thanks for the link, Donna.
Interesting!
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/08/2003 03:32 AM PST
Happy Anniversary to DR Laura and her DH.
Posted by Susan @ 09/08/2003 04:25 AM PST
Happy annivesary DR Laura!!
:)
And now off to school...
Posted by Sarah @ 09/08/2003 04:27 AM PST
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR READER WILLIAM E. LURIE!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, DEAR READER LAURA & HUBBIE!
Craig, thanks for one more picture of the faboo BB (aka SMA) to add to my growing collection.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/08/2003 04:30 AM PST
Dear Reader Laura - A Very Happy Anniversary!
Posted by Dan-in-Toronto @ 09/08/2003 05:29 AM PST
Why am I always post #69? Well...no word on work yet. In fact, my new temp agent isn't even in the office until 9:00. And I was up at 7:45 to call her. I would have been nice if they'd told me she wouldn't be in until 9:00. My other agent (the really, really good one who just left the company) was always there by 8:00. Then again, I haven't temped in over a year now, so... I'm rambling, so I'll stop. Keep those good vibes a-comin'!
Posted by Jason @ 09/08/2003 05:31 AM PST
Dan-in-Toronto beat me to it!! Foiled again!
Posted by Jason @ 09/08/2003 05:32 AM PST
Yes indeed! And it was a close one.
DR Jason, I would take this foiled-again thing as an utterly
... good vibration.
Posted by Dan-in-Toronto @ 09/08/2003 05:41 AM PST
I just spoke with Olga...the "7:30" person at the temp agency. She said she'd give me a call if anything came in. I've heard that before. Some promising news, though...I just checked the Met's website and they've updated their security info page. Before it said that the opera house would open half an hour before the performance, which meant no job for Jason et al. Today it says it will open forty-five minutes before the performance, which means PROBABLY a job for Jason et al. That wouldn't happen until Sept. 29, but just to know it will probably happen gives me some relief.
Posted by Jason @ 09/08/2003 05:49 AM PST
A SIMPLE RECIPE FOR MEATBALLS:
Wash your hands.
Start with a pound to a pound and a half of ground beef, in a bowl. Add fresh bread crumbs (from two slices of bread, preferably sourdough, crumbed in a food processor), a teaspoon each freshly ground black pepper, soy sauce, and Worcestershire sauce, two teaspoons dried herbs (any mix of oregano, thyme and marjoram, or "Italian Seasoning" works fine), and one fresh egg, minus the shell. Blend together with your nice clean hands, and set aside so the flavors can merge.
Wash your hands again.
Peel and chop an onion. Mince a couple of garlic cloves. Finely chop a carrot and a stalk of celery (again, the food processor works perfectly). In a large skillet, saute the above ingredients in some olive oil. When onions are soft, add one can tomato sauce (15 oz) and the liquid from one can whole peeled tomatoes. Cut canned tomatoes in quarters, add to skillet, along with a bay leaf, a teaspoon of dried oregano, a goodly pinch of salt (Kosher preferred), another pinch or two of red pepper flakes, and a glug or two of red wine. Cover and let simmer over low heat for about thirty minutes.
Divide the meat mixture into eighths or smaller (I happen to like large meatballs), roll into spheres, and add the meatballs to the tomato gravy. Again, cover the skillet, wash hands one more time, and let what is in the skillet simmer for another thirty minutes, turning the meatballs in the gravy a couple of times.
Serve on spaghetti, with a green salad and fresh bread on the side.
I find two meatballs per person an ample serving; the leftover gravy and meatballs reheat nicely for a second meal later in the week, since I'm usually making this for two. Of course, I'll have to double the recipe when I make it for the grandlads and their parents; Robby, the grandlads' dad, has a very healthy appetite and will probably want four (or more) meatballs for himself.
Posted by S. Woody White @ 09/08/2003 06:13 AM PST
Sounds like I'm going to MTI today. I haven't heard from my boss there, but a buddy of mine said that he assumed I was coming in. I dunno. I guess it'd be good just to get out of the apartment, even if they don't need me to work. We'll see. Keep those vibes comin'!
Posted by Jason @ 09/08/2003 06:45 AM PST
Thank you, S. Woody White. I'll give them a try. They should go well with Floop.
Posted by Old Laura @ 09/08/2003 06:59 AM PST
