Posted by Ann @ 09/19/2003 07:52 AM PST

A slipcover for the 3 books...Minnie Kritzer would approve, I am sure.

Well AN UNLOCKED WINDOW as I posted in the early notes today, is very good. The DVD is an 8 out of 10. Copied from broadcast but NOT time compressed or anything. No commercials and all the Hitchcock bumpers.

I will post the URL of the site where I found it a bit later if anyone is interested in purchasing this or one of many episodes! Or you can find it on my post from yesterday.

In my DVD - GUMNAAM recommended by BK and MBarnum. Agatha Christie meets Beach Blanket Bingo in Hindi! Strange and fascinating all at once. Also GUPT another Bollywood movie...this one from the 1990's!
AND of course AN UNLOCKED WINDOW with Dana Wynter and John Kerr.

CD player - AIDA

VHS - BERERK with Miss Joan Crawford, Mr Ty Hardin, and Miss Judy Geeson.

THE GOAT or WHO IS SYLVIA? opens tonight. DR Kurt and I will be in the audience. Baaaaaaaaaaa!

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/19/2003 07:57 AM PST

BERSERK that is!

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/19/2003 07:58 AM PST

Cassette Player: A recording of the concert choir I was a part of in undergraduate school. At the end of this tape is a recording of an opera workshop performance we did, and I'm singing "A Little Priest" with a horribly out of tune Mrs. Lovett. See yesterday's late notes for more details.

DVD: Titanic (James Cameron's)

VHS: Broadway's Lost Treasures and about 10 minutes of B'way on B'way (the tape ran out)

CD: Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzers
Rachmaninoff (sp?): Vespers
Jason Graae: You're Never Fully Dressed...

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 08:00 AM PST

Make that "late posts..." not "late notes." Oops!

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 08:01 AM PST

Still haven't found the time to watch the Kazan/Miller documentary, so it continues to sit in the VCR.

CD playing now: Sinatra's Only the Lonely. He's singing Rodgers and Hart's Spring Is Here right now... the whole thing couldn't be less appropriate.

Posted by Noel @ 09/19/2003 08:02 AM PST

Ron - just finished catching up on yesterday's late posts here at HHW, then went to "the other web site" to read what you had to say about Juliana's Journal (and had to scroll through most of Zola's drivel to find it, too!)

Well done, sir! Added my two cents as well. Someday I'll understand why some folk just have to rain on another's parade.

Posted by Phil @ 09/19/2003 08:09 AM PST

Jason - hope you got paid yesterday. If not one Giant sized Whopper is on me :)

Richard Valley - can't wait to hear JC en toto - the samples Donald played on the radio show are great. PLEASE rush them out to all your friends here at HHW!

CD's at the office - Irving Sings Berlin, Mel Torme Sings Fred Astaire

CD in the car - still Feinstein sings Berlin

CD at home - who has time to listen at home?

DVD - going over to some friends tonight to watch Chicago (they just installed an entire home entertainment room in their refinished basement - high end projection system and all).

Posted by pHIL @ 09/19/2003 08:16 AM PST

Unfortunately, Phil, the responses, even the nay ones, are what they crave, what they live for, what makes the world go round for them. That's what Mr. Bakalor drummed into my head, and that's why I stopped responding to them. However, since I'm certain at least one of them will be reading this, I just want to say that even negativity can have its positive effects - because every time they do this the traffic to the Journal doubles and our little website just gets more and more people and more and more popular with the populace. So, keep up the bad work, boys!

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 08:21 AM PST

I have woken up to the happy news that I cannot drink any water, do any laundry, run the dishwasher, or water my lawn, and if I choose to take a shower, it must be quickly because the water has been "compromised". The power apparently went out at about 4 this morning, and the deconamintaion place was shut down for about 30 minutes.

But there was no damage, just some rain and wind, so I should be happy.

CD: HAIRSPRAY OCR
DVD: Singin' In The Rain
VHS: Brigadoon

I have a Sweet Sixteen party to go to tonight, and won't be around after about 5:30.

Posted by Sarah @ 09/19/2003 08:24 AM PST

This blurb from John Znidarsic:

DON'T MISS
THE FIRST FREE CONCERT
OF THE 2003 - 04 SEASON!!!
S O N G B O O K

Discovered Treasures
- new classics of today and tomorrow -
Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 6PM

The Donnell Library Theater
20 West 53rd Street, NYC

Produced, Directed, and Hosted
by John Znidarsic

Presented by
Arts and Artists at St. Paul's
and
The City of New York
ADMISSION FREE
For Further Info: Call 212- 265-3495 - Ext. 218
* * *
Over this past summer, I was lucky enough to turn on PBS (Channel 13) and view a program called Broadway's Lost Treasures - a special that looked into the archives of the Tony Awards from 1967 through 1986. Classic performances that had been locked away in some studio vault were suddenly seen again. Memories of my youth came flooding back when I saw Carol Channing belting out "Before the Parade Passes By," Zero Mostel having us fall in love with him with "If I Were A Rich Man," and even Patti Lupone and company lip-synching "A New Argentina."

Sure, all these performances are treasures that we mustn't lose; however, I have never been one to settle for hearing the same music day in and day out. I love discovering new songs ñ just like I discovered the "classics" when I was child growing up in Cleveland, Ohio.

When I moved to New York, I found nothing more exciting than discovering new songs that made my heart laugh, cry, or even skip a beat. This concert is appropriately entitled "Discovered Treasures" - new THEATER and CABARET songs written by today's freshest writers that are worthy of being made classics in their own right. I loved all these songs when I first heard them. I know that you will enjoy them as well. Please join us for the show.

FEATURED SONGWRITERS
Tom Andersen
David Arthur
Charles Bloom
Mark Campbell/Stephen Hoffman
Douglas J. Cohen
Frank Evans/Christopher Berg
Zina Goldrich/Marcy Heisler
Ron Kaehler
Paul Katz/Michael Colby
Noel Katz
Brian Lasser
Jeffrey Lodin/William Squier
James Merillat/John Kenrick
Ben Moore
Rob Lindsey Nassif
Kim Oler/Allison Hubbard
Richard Pearson Thomas

FEATURED PERFORMERS

Mana Allen
Tom Andersen
David Arthur
Richard Danley
Christopher Denny
Rebecca Eichenberger
Jennifer Goode
Andrea Green
Maree Johnson
Aaron Lazar
Eddie Korbich
Cindy Marchionda
Karen Mason
Christine Pedi
Maureen Taylor
Michael Winther

FEATURED SONGS
"A Life of My Own" from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
"Castles In the Air" from Speakeasy
"For Laura" from The Enchanted Cottage
"Gertrude Irvington's Box" from Saratoga Trunk Songs
"Grateful" from Splendora
"Hello, Tom"
"I Can Sing" from The Tales of Tinseltown
"I Prefer To Dream" from Pablo!
"In A Moment I Go" from War Brides
"The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" from Rebels
"Taylor, The Latte Boy"
"Testimony"
"So Far, So Good" from No Way to Treat A Lady
"So I Chose" from The Company of Women
"Were I To Touch You"
"Yard Sale"

Posted by Noel @ 09/19/2003 08:25 AM PST

Noel, I watched the Miller/Kazan documentary when it aired on PBS, and I found it fascinating. I hope you enjoy it.

CD player: Nothing right now.

VHS: A friend asked me to make a copy of the Stratford production of PIRATES OF PENZANCE.

DVD: Nothing right now, but I probably will finally get around to watching the DVD of CHICAGO that I got for my birthday last week.

I'm going to a friend's this evening, to celebrate his successful defense of his Master's thesis.

Tomorrow night, the PLAIDs reunite to perform at a friend's party. I'm looking forward to it.

Posted by Dave @ 09/19/2003 08:27 AM PST

Poor Sarah! She'll be attending a Sweet 16 in a decon suit!

Or, at best, she'll be a bit ripe!

Try one of the sports stick deodorants, Sarah...they swish on, and you're good to go even when all the going is gone!

Phil: Thanks.

BK: I know it's "no-win", but someone MUST infiltrate from time to time and tell these idiots how "precious" they're being and how "onto them" the rest of us are.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/19/2003 08:30 AM PST

Ron, I *can* shower, it just has to be very quickly. I certainly plan on it, that would be gross.

But thanks for the suggestion :)

Posted by Sarah @ 09/19/2003 08:34 AM PST

DVD: The Alpha DVD of 4 episodes of the vintage TV series ONE STEP BEYOND. I had forgotten how creepy this show was, and I actually got goose-bumps from a couple of the episodes!

Also, ANDAAZ. Another Bollywood DVD. A romance movie from 2003 that I cried at 3 times! Good movoie!

CD: Ravi Kulkarni singing THE BEST OF BOLLYWOOD. The man has a beautiful voice, and the songs are equally beautiful.

BK: How does one get a copy of this YVONNE DECARLO CD???? I must have one!

Posted by MBarnum @ 09/19/2003 08:38 AM PST

I just finished reading some of the "posts" at the other board and it just confirms my reasons for rarely visiting, let alone posting at most other sites. My G*d, what emnity and evil feelings. What bile and silliness. I don't need to be a part of something like that.

Posted by Ben @ 09/19/2003 08:43 AM PST

Good Morning everyone!

Friday already? Woohoo!

I think I may have to go to work tomorrow to work on whatever new gun control crisis is in the making... so boohoo is probably more like it.

My audio-visual enjoyments of the week:

VHS: Broadway's Lost Treasures... which I finally got to see (it played at some ungodly hour on PBS)

MP3 List: A touch of EVITA that I (shhhh!) downloaded from Kazaa mixed in with my usual comprehensive JRB stuff

CD Player: Urinetown OBC. It never fails to make me laugh.

It was very funny and kinda weird, but I flipped on my television last night and can you imagine what was playing on The History Channel one day after our discussion of PARADE? Nothing but a historical overview of the Phagan murder and Frank trial/lynching. How cool was that? Alfred Uhry was featured in the show too...

Jason: think foodful thoughts... Hopefully you will get paid today :)

$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~

(them's are some good money vibes for you m'boy)

:)

Posted by Emily @ 09/19/2003 08:49 AM PST

I'm new to this site, as well as the other site(s), and don't want to become a participant in all the discussions and fighting. In fact, I haven't posted at all, just lurked.

But I'd like to know something. I think some of the posters on the other board(s) have some relevant points about some things. I also think that Ms. Hansen appears to be a little juvenile and "sweetness and light" in her posts, although I certainly don't wish her any harm. Does that make me a traitor, in your eyes?

Posted by Marcus Aurelius @ 09/19/2003 09:01 AM PST

Dear Marcus: You're not a traitor...just misinformed.

Ms. Hansen, aka Juliana of Juliana's Journal, is who she is. A young actress in the first stages of a career who was game enough to contribute to a diary about her experiences.

She's not Charles Dickens. She's not Robert Frost. She's not Patrick Dennis. And she's not Anne Frank.

She works hard. And she keeps this journal.

And whatever one might make of it, it's not a career-breaker, it's not a barnacle on the butt of Broadway, it's not some egg on the forehead of every cast member of "Thoroughly Modern Millie."

It's not the fershluganah Book of the Month, either.

Lighten up, for pity's sake.

Respectfully submitted,
Ron

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/19/2003 09:07 AM PST

Jason, I second Phil's comment that if you don't get paid today I'm buying you dinner. For real. I'll be out and aboot tonight, why not.

In my CD player is currently a lovely little diversion entitled Get Rich or Die Tryin', by a young man who calls himself "50 Cent". Mr. Cent, for those of you who aren't into the Rap scene, is quite the gansta and has fun, twisty, colorful lyrics with lots of silliness about guns and drugs and hos. Now that's the way to channel your pain. The evildoers on those other sites should take a lesson from Mr. Cent.

In the interest of getting to know all of you a little better, since I was E&T for so long, I'd like to propose a question for all the DRs here, even though it's not Ask DR day.

I often daydream about what I will say someday when I'm on Inside the Actors' Studio. So, if you were on Inside the Actors' Studio with Mr. James Lipton, how would you answer the questionnaire by Mr. Bernard Pivot? Here are the questions:

1. What is your favorite word?
2. What is your least favorite word?
3. What turns you on?
4. What turns you off?
5. What sound or noise do you love?
6. What sound or noise do you hate?
7. What is your favorite curse word?
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
9. What profession would you not like to participate in?
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

Posted by Joy @ 09/19/2003 09:13 AM PST

Now I remember why I STOPPED reading the posts at Broadway.com.

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/19/2003 09:13 AM PST

Well, I've been waiting for a
few people to show up and
start posting here. You're
welcome to post here Marcus -
you've stated your opinion and
that's fine. If you continue to
state it then we'll know the
deal. If you want to participate
and have fun, then we'll know
that deal. We know all the
deals, Marcus, because we
are in-the-know, deal-wise.

To other dear readers, you
won't want to miss the
weekend notes - there will be
some very interesting things
for you to read.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 09:14 AM PST

Oh, and Marcus, we don't use
pseudonyms here. That is for
other boards.

Ron, believe me I understand.
I have to bite my tongue and
walk away from the computer
sometimes.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 09:16 AM PST

Someone who posts without a
namo has come up with a new
name for you dear readers -
he called you Giblets instead
of Hainsies/Kimlets. Isn't that
funny? I laughed so hard.
Perhaps we should come up
with a name for the cabal -
perhaps peckerheads
anonymous.

Now, I don't know if I've ever
told you the derivation of
"Kimlet". That is Tony
Walton-speak. I first heard
him use it when talking about
Jane Krakowski - he called her
Kraklet. Then he called me
Kimlet. So, you may thank
him. Perhaps we should call
the cabal Buttcheeklets.
Bitchlets. I leave it to you.

I answered the Actor's Studio
questions on a long ago Ask
BK Day.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 09:27 AM PST

That's almost my favorite part of that show, Joy.

And some responses are very off the cuff and telling, and others are very rehearsed and uninteresting....

Not sure how I feel about the AS itself, but if it helps some people, fine. I am not sure that a person can be "taught" to act.

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/19/2003 09:30 AM PST

Marcus,

No, you are not a traitor, and you are not misinformed, either. You have an opinion, and you are welcome to it.

Of course, there will be people who will not care for Juliana's writing style, or the topics about which she chooses to write. Just as there are many who enjoy them immensely.

What raises the ire of so many people is the critical nature of some of the posts on other message boards, in which insults are flung without thought toward the feelings of others.

If those posters do not enjoy Juliana's writing, they can choose not to read it. It is puzzling that someone would claim to harbour such strong sentiments with regard to Juliana, yet continue to read and post about the journal. What possible good can that serve?

Posted by Dave @ 09/19/2003 09:32 AM PST

Marcus, you might want to review yesterday's most excellent discussion about that very topic.

Juliana is 20 years old and lucky as heck and she knows it. Juvenile? Of course she's juvenile, she's 20 years old! She can't even drink, for crying out loud! Give her a break.

You know, 50 years ago, nobody would have blinked twice at the way she writes. We've become so bitter and cynical and jaded, we just can't stand it when someone is so light and happy and, well, gay (you know what I mean)! We automatically assume that they must have some evil Mr. Hyde lurking underneath their Prozac-fed, sickeningly happy exterior. But we don't allow for the possiblity that maybe that's the way she really is, naturally, without drugs or evil alter egos! Maybe she is sweetness and light, and if that makes you sick, don't read her journal.

Marcus, it doesn't make you a traitor in my eyes, it just seems sad to me that you seem to think there's something wrong with a 20 year old girl being juvenile, or being sweetness and light. If only more of us could be sweetness and light.

Posted by Joy @ 09/19/2003 09:39 AM PST

This week the DVD rotation has included the Special Edition of Disney's Sleeping Beauty, and the first season of Alias. For the most part, the SB is exactly what I was expecting, since it's largely a repeat of the laserdisc of the film, except for the film itself having been digitally restored. I'm also sure that the audio commentary wasn't part of the older package, I could be wrong.

As for Alias, having the series on DVD certainly is a lot easier to understand than the explanations my memory-erratic der Brucer has been able to supply. For some reason, he got hooked on the series from the start, while I avoided it for about the first year and a half, only to get sucked in during the second half of last season. Poor der Brucer has been trying to explain the character interconnections and plot twists, but his attempts have been as unclear as an Agatha Christie novel with every other page ripped out. The series itself is a lot of fun, now that I'm getting to experience it from the beginning. I'm not impressed with the sparse bonus materials, however, and while I can clearly see by the LED display on the front of our DVD player that the individual episodes have been broken down into chapters, said chapters are not listed on the menus at the front of the discs, making it necessary to view each episode from start to finish rather than jumping to the "good bits."

In news elsewhere, it appears that our new house in Delaware has not been washed away by Isabel. We'd been worried that there would be problems. Frankly, I'm glad we hadn't already moved in; while I'm an OK swimmer, I'd rather not try swimming in the Atlantic during hurricane season, and if the house had washed away with us in it, then I'd be busy doing the dog-paddle instead of typing right now.

Posted by S. Woody White @ 09/19/2003 09:39 AM PST

I would also like to point out that every time anyone copies something mean from another site and posts it on this site, they bring the poison over here. I personally would prefer that we not poison this site with the evil from other sites, because it makes me feel bad. I purposely don't read those other sites because they make me feel bad, thereby following the "If you don't like it don't read it" rule. But this site makes me feel happy. So if I come here and read something mean from other sites, then what happens? I feel bad. And I like reading this site and would like to continue reading it, and not have to apply that rule to this site.

Posted by Joy @ 09/19/2003 09:45 AM PST

Here is the link to the site where I bought AN UNLOCKED WINDOW.

We have talked about it at HHW before and some DR's expressed interest in it.

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/19/2003 09:56 AM PST

Here's something from another site that I thought was interesting:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olnyiprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, butthe wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?

Posted by steveg @ 09/19/2003 10:06 AM PST

SSW - I got SLEEPING BEAUTY DVD this week as well!

Probably one of my favorite Disney animated features - maybe MY FAVORITE!! I don't quite understand Disney's fascination with an operatic voice for his female characters, sounds forced at times, but Mary Costa does a nice job. All of the interviews and the behind the scenes stuff are interesting.

My only problem with SB now is that I associate Eleanor Audley's voice with her "Green Acres" character and she seems a bit less daunting.

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/19/2003 10:06 AM PST

I have been saying the same thing for yares!

Posted by Evelyn Wood @ 09/19/2003 10:07 AM PST

It should be:
"olny iprmoetnt"

Posted by steveg @ 09/19/2003 10:08 AM PST

It seems like we have been devoting a great deal of posting space lately reacting to what those other individuals are saying about Juliana, BK, and those of us poor fools that enjoy and appreciate BK and this site. Aren't we letting them win everytime we bring them up? Obviously, they read every word that is written here, and no doubt take great delight in our reactions to their bile. Why don't we just ignore those nameless harpies, and spend more time enjoying the good things and people we have here at HHW?

Okay, sign me Polyanna.

Posted by TCB @ 09/19/2003 10:10 AM PST

Nothing will pollute this site -
we've had people try and fail,
and it will become even harder
for them in the weeks to come.
This is a safe haven.
However, if we occasionally
have to point out what these
"people" are doing, I hope we
do so with humor and with
intelligence, like yesterday.
Dave's put it well - if you don't
like something why read it and
feel the need to berate it at
every opportunity? Well, the
reasons for people doing that
were eloquently stated in
yesterday's posts. If I don't
like a film or a DVD or a play or
a musical, I feel fine stating my
opinion and then I move on.
Happy to have discourse, but I
do not continually go on to
boards where others enjoy the
film or DVD or play or musical
and belittle or restate my
opinion ad nauseum with an
emphasis on the latter.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 10:22 AM PST

Yes, TCB.

Mr BK - what was your favorite part of GUMNAAM - the movie!

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/19/2003 10:23 AM PST

In the CD player today:

"Capitol Sings Cole Porter"

OBCR of CABARET

OCR of FOREVER PLAID

A two-disk compilation of excerpts from different operas by Richard Wagner

A sampler highlighting the upcoming season at Opera Pacific (which, btw, will include a production of CANDIDE)

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 10:38 AM PST

Hey BK, I think you did forget the title today! You must have gone back and added it. Cause when I went to the archives to read yesterday's notes, today's notes have NO TITLE :(

Btw, Jason please let us know that you are able to eat. If I lived in NYC I would cook you something and bring it over.

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/19/2003 10:41 AM PST

Jason - Do you know if I can mail you a pot roast?

Posted by TCB @ 09/19/2003 10:51 AM PST

Yes, I originally posted the
notes sans title, but
immediately rectified the
situation. Do you hear me - I
rectified the situation.

My favorite part of Gumnaam is
the song and dance that was
used in Ghost World. It is one
of the wackiest and longest
musical numbers ever
commited to film. I watch it
quite often.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 10:54 AM PST

Phil and Jason please send
me your addresses so I can
make certain you get your CDs
as soon as they arrive.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 10:55 AM PST

Good afternoon, Dear Readers! I just woke up. Isn't that sad? I've completely gotten my sleeping routine out of whack again and was up til 4 AM last night.

DVD--Chicago

CD--Grand Hotel OCR (People come, people go...) God, I love the WSMA's voice.

VHS: My Favorite Broadway: the Leading Ladies.

BK, may I make a suggestion? Lately there has been so much talk here about that darned cabal, and as others have said, that is just what they want. The best revenge? These people thrive on attention, no matter how negative, to fill their bitter little souls, and nothing would drive them crazier than if we just stopped referring to them. At all. Stop reading their bile, however much they spew it, and stop talking about them as if they actually mean something. Does anyone else agree with me?

Posted by Maya @ 09/19/2003 10:58 AM PST

You know, I have to give credit to TCB...he had the same idea and brought it up first!

Don't sue me for plagiarism! *cowers in the corner*

Posted by Maya @ 09/19/2003 11:00 AM PST

I agree with you. Let the cabal
have their amusement. As I
said, I paid ONE visit to their
sorry little world and that was
enough for me. Amusingly,
someone has been there
defending the site and they
think it's ME. Not on your
tintype, young ladies.

Now, I, for example, am
wearing jeans, a Benjamin
Kritzer t-shirt and brand
spanking new tennis shoes.

I've been enjoying my stay with
the gal whose office I am now
sharing - she's funny and
smart and LOVES musicals.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 11:03 AM PST

BK wrote: Yes, I originally posted the notes sans title, but
immediately rectified the
situation.

Well if you click on the archive to read yesterday's notes, you will see today's notes still have no title. Is it just for me?

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/19/2003 11:04 AM PST

We are only suing you for
sleeping so late. Actually, we
don't do lawsuits here at
haineshisway.com. Those of
us who have been through
them would rather have knives
put up our noses than have
lawsuits.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 11:05 AM PST

I don't know from archives. I
only know that the notes now
have a title. The archives can,
in fact, KISS MY ASS.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 11:05 AM PST

Dear Readers, I would be ashamed to tell you what is in my CD player today.

Posted by Old Laura @ 09/19/2003 11:10 AM PST

I'm wearing a short sleeve cotton, blue work casual dress button down dress shirt, blue jeans and blue canvas deck shoes.

I'm not an employee of the BBC, even though I seem to promote it all the time but I'm listening to Stage and Screen right now on BBC 3. Edward Seckerson is doing an interview with Australian actor/singer Philip Quast. I recommend it. There are some wonderful moments. He does a riff on Finishing the Hat (from Sunday in the Park) which was in his Donmar Warehouse show and some other great things. It will only be up through Monday at 11am.

Posted by Ben @ 09/19/2003 11:11 AM PST

Click on the archives button at the top of the page.

The reason I'm telling you that there is no title for today's notes (when you go to the archives) is because there is nothing to click on. So tomorrow, when people want to read today's notes. If there is no title (like there isn't on my computer), then i assume they won't be able to read the notes.

Maybe it's just my computer and i need to refresh? (although the notes do have a title for me, just not in the archives).

Is this even making sense? :)

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/19/2003 11:12 AM PST

In the CD player: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Warner Years.

Nothing in the DVD player yet: But maybe I'll finally get around to Ministry of Fear.

Posted by Charles Pogue @ 09/19/2003 11:13 AM PST

Laura, Sr. (sounds better than Old Laura)...

I have no shame, so I can tell you that I was listening to Kelly Clarkson on my car CD player at lunchtime. Damn, that girl has pipes!

BTW, you can tell Sandra that there is now video from the current Lincolnshire production of FOREVER PLAID on their website. Check it out!

Also, if you want to see a funny backstage picture from our production, send me your email address, and I'll send it along. (more to come...)

Posted by Dave @ 09/19/2003 11:15 AM PST

LOL, BK--to sleeping late I plead guilty as charged, no contest!

I just read some interesting news (and I bet Emily already knows it ;)) JRB is writing a musical version of Betty Boop to premiere on Broadway in 2005! How cute!

Posted by Maya @ 09/19/2003 11:15 AM PST

DR Dave: I told DR Marcus he was "misinformed" because he (???) indicated he had read what others had to say about Juliana and agreed with some of their points.

Their points being bitchy, petulant crap, I was being kind when I said "misinformed," but so be it.

I appreciate everyone having a point of view, but please correct me directly if you feel it necessary to "correct me."

Thanks.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/19/2003 11:15 AM PST

Yes, Jen, it makes sense. Sometimes you have to do the whole 9 yards and empty the cache as well as refreshing the screen before you get the new title. It's odd I know but it's also Microsoft.

To go back to the BBC for just a moment, for those who are interested, Stage and Screen will have an interview w/Cy Coleman on Monday. It plays live at 11am EST (4pm London time) and is at the Web site for a week for your delectation and delight.

Posted by Ben @ 09/19/2003 11:15 AM PST

Maya - You would always be forgiven. Plagiarize at will.

Posted by TCB @ 09/19/2003 11:18 AM PST

TCB--you would always be forgiven. Plagiarize at will. ;)

Thanks, lol, you're a sweetie!

Posted by Maya @ 09/19/2003 11:24 AM PST

Thanks, Dave. I'll check it out.

Posted by Old Laura @ 09/19/2003 11:30 AM PST

And the wayward wind
Is a restless wind.
A restless wind
That yearns to wander.
And he was born
The next of kin.
The next of kin
To the wayward wind.

Posted by Isabel @ 09/19/2003 11:33 AM PST

Could the Microsoft word experts come out of their hiding places for a sec.

Remember the problem I had last time with the backwards P thingies all over my screen.

Well I hit that key again.

Could someone please tell me the long way how to remove them. And this time I'll save it I promise.

Thank you so much.

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/19/2003 11:43 AM PST

So, school is canceled, right?
That is wonderful for us,
because I miss the school
people when they are not here
during the day.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 11:47 AM PST

CD - The A MIGHTY WIND soundtrack since the actors from that film are giving a live concert (in character) tomorrow night at Town Hall. We have tickets, but it's general admission, not reserved seats, so we'll get there early.

DVD - SLEEPING BEAUTY and all its extras. THE GRAND CANYON short (which played in theatres on the same bill as BEAUTY) is the highlight of the whole package.

VHS - "Brewster McCloud" recorded the other night from TCM. This is one of those films that have a lot of very funny things in them that don't quite add up to a whole good film. A lot is quite enjoyable, but Altman has done better.

Last night a DR asked if it was worthwhile subscribing to "The Sondheim Review". It is if you consider two things:

1) The staff has no sense of humor. When BK sent them the Sondheim album he did with the track of Dame Edna doing "Losing My Mind" they returned it to him and wrote that it was a disgrace (that may not have been the word they used but it was the meaning).

2) They treat Sondheim like a god, never saying an unkind word, and they have discovered much more hidden meaning in his works than he could ever have possibly put in.

Otherwise some of the articles are very interesting. It is certainly more interesting than "Show People" which is more like "In Style" than a theater magazine.

Musicals in Mufti has just announced a most interesting Fall series:

OH BOY by Jerome Kern and P.G. Wodehouse

LUCKY STIFF by Ahrens and Flahrety (I may have spelled the names wrong) - this show was recorded by BK

THE MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF by John Clifton - this short lived off-Broadway show from around 1967 has a beautiful score and the cast album is one reason I still keep a phonograph since it was never issued on CD

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 09/19/2003 11:48 AM PST

Thank you for responding to my post, everyone. I'm glad for the feedback..and also glad to know that pseudonyms aren't used here...my name is Mark, formerly and no more Marcus Aurelius.

Ron (or anyone that knows), what is the "DR" designation? I'm sure it's an acronym, but for what? It'll take me a while to learn it all.

And Joy, I didn't say the journal "made me sick" -- I just said it wasn't really my cup of tea. I would never react that violently to someone's writings. :) Gosh, I'm not that mean!

But enough of all that. Thanks for talking with me.

Take care,

Mark

Posted by Mark @ 09/19/2003 11:49 AM PST

Wow, by some miracle i just focused and tried to remember what you guys had told me. It was tools/options/all. And it's gone.

But could someone tell me how it can be possible that I keep hitting this by accident? :(

Not funny.

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/19/2003 11:50 AM PST

Jennifer,

On your standard toolbar, do you see the backwards P (paragraph symbol)? If you do, then click it to remove.

If your toolbar is hidden, then click view/toolbars/standard - and proceed as above.

Good luck.

Posted by Dan-in-Toronto @ 09/19/2003 11:52 AM PST

Jason - this is starting to read like the 12 days of Xmas:

2 Big Size Whoppers,
an eat in meal from Jennifer,
...and a pot roast from TCB!

Anyone for White Castle????

Posted by Phil @ 09/19/2003 11:56 AM PST

Welcome DR Mark.

Posted by Old Laura @ 09/19/2003 11:56 AM PST

Mark,

Welcome. DR is Dear Reader. It's kind of a convention here. We don't always do it with every referral but generally we refer to each other as Dear Reader, or DR, which can be a bit confusing because sometimes I see a reference to DR Laura and instead of the sweet and kind Laura in Arizona, I think of another less than sweet and kind Doctor Laura, a woman who believes that many of the figs on this board are biological mistakes but that's another whole kettle of fish. Suffice it to say that DR is Dear Reader.

And welcome, again.

Posted by Ben @ 09/19/2003 12:01 PM PST

Mark,

Lest you think you have been an honourary doctor all of a sudden, allow me to explain that DR is short for "dear reader".

And yes, we spell it "honourary" here in the Great White North. Just like we spell it "theatre", the way the good Lord intended. ;-)

Posted by Dave @ 09/19/2003 12:01 PM PST

I feel stupid. DR=DEAR READER.

Posted by Mark @ 09/19/2003 12:05 PM PST

Welcome, Mark. DR = dear
reader.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 12:05 PM PST

Mark -

Took me a while too. A brief primer on common acronyms used by the Kimlets here at HHW:

BTW = by the way

DR = dear reader

IMO = in my opinion, or
IMHO = in my humble opinion

LMAO = laughed my a** off

LOL = laugh out loud

Know I've left some of the better ones off (Sarah, help me here!) but it's a start.

Posted by Phil @ 09/19/2003 12:08 PM PST

Al Kasha, he of Who Killed
Teddy Bear and The Morning
After just called to tell me he
LOVED the Jeepers Creepers
CD and LOVED his track and
LOVED Tammi Tappan's
vocal. He'll be doing an
Unseemly Interview very soon
for this here site.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 12:09 PM PST

Welcome Mark, I think you will find the company here quite pleasant. If you feel comfortable with it, perhaps you could share a little information about yourself with us.

Posted by TCB @ 09/19/2003 12:10 PM PST

BK, school has indeed been cancelled today in Northern Virginia! Of course, I don't have any classes on Friday, but I know Sarah didn't have school today either.

Welcome to new DR Mark!

WEL--it was I who inquired about the Sondheim Review last night and thanks for answering! My friend subscribes to it and likes it, and I wanted a few other opinions before I actually went ahead and subscribed. Are they really that humorless that they couldn't enjoy Dame Edna singing Losing My Mind? That's kinda sad. Sondheim isn't great ONLY because of his musical mastery...he's one funny guy.

Posted by Maya @ 09/19/2003 12:12 PM PST

I loved Joy's asking us all to take the Bernard Pivot Q&A, because, admit it, you've all thought about what you'd say, if asked. So here goes:

Favourite word: passion

Least Fav word: compromise

What turns me on: The smell of a backstage theatre or an old book store.

What turns me off: arrogant ignorance; people who are proud of what they don't know.

Sound or noise I love: Miklos Rozsa music

Sound or noise I hate: Car alarums; I think if someone has not disabled their alarum within five minutes, we should be allowed to bash their windshield in.

Favourite curse word: As Malvolio would say: "These be her very "C", "U", and "T"'s." Because this word, describing a part of the female anatomy, is actually the only curse word I know that still has the power to raise hackles and offend, which a good curse word should be able to do. Oddly, enough, it is not that effective in Britain where it is spewed around with utter casualness and used to described everyone, male and female.

Profession I would most like to try: I'd loved to be a lounge singer/pianist just playing the standards every night.

Profession I would most not like to do: Food Service; anything where you have to wear a hairnet.

What would I most like to hear God say when I enter the pearly gates: "We're shooting your movie, exactly the way you wrote it."

Ben: I'm a big BBC fan. I listen to it on the internet. I'm especially fond of BBC Four which allows you to listen many of their quiz shows and comedies
at any time you like without being a slave to the schedule. The lovely wife and I usually tune in once or twice a week and catch up on all our favs.

Posted by Charles Pogue @ 09/19/2003 12:14 PM PST

BK - Didn't Al Kasha also write the love theme from Towering Inferno?

Posted by TCB @ 09/19/2003 12:14 PM PST

BK -
I asked this before and got no reply.

When I buy from Amazon, Rhino or just about any internet, phone or mail order place my credit card is not charged until the order is shipped. This applies to pre-orders as well. Why was my card already charged for JEEPERS CREEPERS as soon as I ordered it in August when the product was not ready to ship at that time and is still apparently not quite ready? This is definitely not standard proceedure.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 09/19/2003 12:18 PM PST

DR Dave,

I do this for a living (and yes, it's boring); but actually it's honorary in the great white north (but honour; and honourable - go figure).

BTW, where in the GWN are you?

Posted by Dan-in-Toronto @ 09/19/2003 12:20 PM PST

Welcome, DR Mark. I hope I didn't come off too caustic. I'm glad Juliana did not make you want to vomit on the ground.

Well, for those of you who are following the soap opera known as "Our Wedding: The Musical", be advised that we may have, at last, found a space. It is not wheelchair accessible, but we can work with that; it has an electric piano, the quality of which remains to be seen, so we might have to rent a real one (if anyone has any suggestions, please come forth); but the manager seems to be very helpful and encouraging and it won't cost us more than we had budgeted for this thing. It's the SoHo Playhouse, which is just a hop, skip, and a jump (i.e., about 8 blocks) from the reception place. Please send us your best vibes that this all works out. It's three weeks from the wedding date and we desprately need a space.

Posted by Joy @ 09/19/2003 12:33 PM PST

desprately = desperately

I am currently typing on a keyboard that doesn't do e's and t's very well. I guess I better not be E&T, or I'll have some trouble spelling it!

Posted by Joy @ 09/19/2003 12:35 PM PST

WEL: amazon and most online
retailers use shopping carts
and have regular credit card
functions - Richard is using
paypal - just like we do here
for books and DVDs - and if
you preorder from someone
using paypal the credit card
deduction is done instantly.
It's one of the drawbacks but
that's the way they do it.

The Dame Edna brouhaha
was hilarious. Sondheim, of
course, thought the track was
funny (I didn't do it without first
letting him know, and when I
mentioned it to him he said,
"Great, the further out the
better." He wrote me after the
brouhaha and what he said
about the editor of TSR (and
his sense of humor) cannot be
printed here.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 12:37 PM PST

Thanks for asking, TCB -- nothing people like to do more than talk about themselves.

NAME: Mark (as you know)
AGE: 20
LOCALE: Dallas

Yes, I'm one of those dreaded "actor" types. Baritone/Tenor. Representative roles include: "Rolf", "Matt" in FANTASTICKS, "Hugo Peabody", "Jack" in ITW, "John Truitt" in ST. LOUIS..and alot more.

Planning on going to law school when finished with undergrad degree.

Like intelligent conversation

Anything else?

Posted by DR mark @ 09/19/2003 12:37 PM PST

"Vomit on the ground" Has
someone been reading their
Benjamin Kritzer? Yes, I do
believe Al wrote the Towering
Inferno song. He wants me to
do an Al Kasha movie song
album. We shall see.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 12:39 PM PST

"Vomit on the ground" Has
someone been reading their
Benjamin Kritzer? Yes, I do
believe Al wrote the Towering
Inferno song. He wants me to
do an Al Kasha movie song
album. We shall see.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 12:40 PM PST

Thanks Dan. No I don't have the backward P on my toolbar. I will write down what you said. What i ended up doing was what I think Dave suggested last time: tools/options/get rid of all check in formatting.

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/19/2003 12:41 PM PST

Dan, I stand corrected.
Who'd a thunk it?

I've been spelling honourarium wrong all these years, too.

I'm about as far South in the Great White North as you can get. ;-)

Posted by Dave @ 09/19/2003 12:44 PM PST

Welcome DR TexasMark

Kasha Album - ok - BUT the Ronald Stein JD CD is first! LOL....love those High School Hellcats!

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/19/2003 12:46 PM PST

OMG Joy please let us know when you find your space. I had no idea that the location of the wedding was not confirmed.

Posted by Jennifer @ 09/19/2003 12:46 PM PST

Thanks for the shoutout, JRand. I think I'm gonna have to bookmark this site...I seem to be coming back to it often.

Posted by MARK @ 09/19/2003 12:53 PM PST

Well Dear Readers - If Noel now tells us that his wedding is being held at the SoHo Playhouse, we will at last know the truth about "the two separate weddings" of Joy and Noel.

Posted by TCB @ 09/19/2003 01:10 PM PST

Good Morning everyone and hello to new DR Mark. I do hope you know your figs from your raisons or Liasons with DR Ben may be confusing. Too early for me to do much thinking.
Left overs in CD player:
Don Cherry: There Goes My Everything"
Rosemary Cloony & Perez Prado "A Touch Of Tabasco"
Margaret Whiting "Jerome Kern Songbook"
VCR & DVD: Too busy to watch anything this week.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 01:23 PM PST

My last post was intercepted! Very strange. It left here but has not arrived there.

Welcome Mark. Don't get too confused with all the figs and raisons mentioned here. Some of us have interesting liasons.
CD this week;
Margaret Whiting "Jerome Kern Song Book"
Rosemary Clooney & Perez Prado "A Touch Of Tabasco"
Don Cherry "There Goes My Everything:
Not much viewing this week at all to report.
Not yet 6.30am here so I am returning to bed for my Saturday morning sleep in until 7.30.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 01:28 PM PST

What is happening? My first post today did not arrive so I repeated it (sort of), I clicked on post and my first post appears instead of my second. that's what happens when you follwo TCB any where I guess. Will this be my second or third post?

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 01:31 PM PST

There seems to be a 5 minute delay on our posts this afternoon. They disappear for awhile, but eventually show up.

Posted by TCB @ 09/19/2003 01:41 PM PST

Thanks, Oz. (I assume you hail from Down Under). Interesting liaisons ARE the best, no doubt!

Some more insight into me -- what's in my 6 disk CD changer at the moment:

"Patti Lupone Live!"
"Liz/Anne Hampton Callaway - Sibling Revelry"
"Nancy LaMott" -- forget the disk name, but it starts with "Too Late Now" from ROYAL WEDDING
"Mozart Concertos"
"In Search of Angels"
"Norah Jones"

Wow, until I read that list, I didn't realize how GAY my music tastes are. Oh, well...what's a blonde haired guy to do? :)

Posted by Mark @ 09/19/2003 01:46 PM PST

I always hit my browser's "reload" or "refresh" button after I post. That way it shows up instantly. Once I hit the "post" button, I never use the "back" button. That might be what's causing the double posting. Just a theory.

Otherwise, on my cassette player at work, I am listening to "Fresh Air Laughs" with Terry Gross (from NPR and WHYY). Terry Gross interviews funny people (standup and actors) such as Tracy Ullman, Richard Pryor, Phyllis Diller, Jay Leno Carol Leifer and David Hyde Pierce.

Posted by George @ 09/19/2003 01:53 PM PST

ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH!!!!!!

My hair is turning gray and my fiancée is almost completely bald. You should have seen him two months ago, he had a full head of hair.

I know, TCB, isn't it an amazing coincidence that both DR Noel and I are getting married on the exact same day, in the exact same city, and that the title of both of our weddings is "Our Wedding - The Musical!"?

ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH

Yes, Virginia, someone has been reading Benjamin Kritzer, and it has the amazing ability to calm someone's nerves and transport someone to another time and place and forget about all of her angst. So thanks to BK for writing it and thanks to my darling fiancée, who gave books 1 and 2 to me for my birthday.

Posted by JOY @ 09/19/2003 01:56 PM PST

Actually, Tom from Oz, I think you're right, there IS something strange going on with posts. Usually mine pop right up, but it doesn't seem to be working the way it usually does today. Hm.

Posted by Joy @ 09/19/2003 01:58 PM PST

Welcome to our new DR Mark. Hope you hang around for a long time.

Media check:

LP - BAKER STREET (OBC)

CD - SHE LOVES ME (OBC and revival cast - auditions coming up soon)

VHS - last night's C.S.I. 90-minute episode.

DVD - ALIAS - Season 1, disc 1

Posted by Matt H. @ 09/19/2003 02:01 PM PST

Not to gloat or anything, but who, Dear Readers, was the first on this here site to connect the dots between DRs Joy and Noel???

And welcome, Dear Reader Mark.

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 02:17 PM PST

I love the OBC of BAKER STREET. I think I would have liked it...Inga Swenson sounds great, and I don't think the score is too bad. Even the Bil Baird Puppets were in the show. But...I don't think it ran very long, did it?

And thanks for the props, Matt. :)

Posted by mark @ 09/19/2003 02:20 PM PST

Me too! I just created a post, hit the little "Post" button, and off into some black hole did my message go.

The gist: I was gloating (which is rather unseemly and quite unlike me, I know) over the fact that I was the first person on this here site to connect the dots between Dear Readers Joy and Noel. (Well, that is, besides the afianced themselves, which they did NOT acknowledge here.) (And I'm hoping that how afianced is spelled. In the UK or Great White North, though, I suppose they'd add in a "u" for good measure.)

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 02:22 PM PST

Re Juliana's journal being all sweet and light: It has to be -- her coworkers, bosses, etc., also read it.

As for her being juvenile -- well, she's 20 years old and very excited to be on her first tour. Those of us who are elderly and untalented are very pleased to see her youthful enthusiasm.
We're glad to have you join us, DR Mark.

Posted by Old Laura @ 09/19/2003 02:22 PM PST

OK, while I was typing my second gloatational post, the first one must have appeared. Sorry.

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 02:23 PM PST

Did other DRs catch up with the fact that DR Sandra posted late yesterday? Now to find the missing DR Susan (aka Den Mother). Thanks to DR Laura - the orginal -for her encouragement and/or prodding of the missing DR Sanda.
Glad to know I am not alone (No-one Is) with the delayed posts.
TCB: So much better to follow you than animals or children.(or something to that effect)

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 02:40 PM PST

May I gloat: Over one hundred
posts already - I am ever so
jiggy with that. Jiggy, do you
hear.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 02:45 PM PST

A very sneaky way to increase the number of posts. To have your post appear you must it seems post again!

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 02:45 PM PST

To prove my theory!

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 02:46 PM PST

Welcome aboard Mark, and not to worry about the DR confusion...for the first week or so that I was here I thought everyone on this sight was a doctor!

Posted by MBarnum @ 09/19/2003 02:47 PM PST

...now I find that we are all Giblets (which are very tasty with gravy)

Posted by MBarnum @ 09/19/2003 02:47 PM PST

With names like Joy and Noel, I bet it's gonna be a pretty festive chez les newlyweds come Christmastime.

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 03:06 PM PST

Omigod! Think of the child-naming possibilities!

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 03:07 PM PST

Well, I can't say that I have been gloating, but I had been wondering for quite some time about the wedding. I thought maybe everyone else knew, but me.

Posted by TCB @ 09/19/2003 03:17 PM PST

Rudolph, perhaps?

Posted by TCB @ 09/19/2003 03:19 PM PST

Runour has it that there is an award winning actor from Washington posting on this site. Not only has the DR received an award a few weeks back for his portrayal of Horace in Dolly but he has now received a major award for Taking Care of Business in "Inherit The Wind".
Now all that is needed is for the DR to get a new home computer! News travels fast across the Pacific Ocean.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 03:19 PM PST

Holly might be appropriate -though it may suggest a prickly personality.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 03:22 PM PST

Ya gotta love Music Choice. They do play great stuff on the showtunes channel, but what they put on the screen can sometimes be a laugh. They just played a bit of the OBC recording of EVITA and credited the artists as Patti LuPone and Wendy Patinkin.

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 03:22 PM PST

MAYA I WAS NOT AWARE OF YOUR JRB NEWS!!!

The whole is INDEED coming to an end!

Betty Boop: The Musical? Let's just say, that sound about as far off from lynchings and divorce as you can get!

New DR Dance:

*dance dance dance dance dance dance*

Heelllllooo Mark! You have prompted my favourite dance of all! Soon we will be the most popular site on the internet, won't we BK? :)

Posted by Emily @ 09/19/2003 03:28 PM PST

What award-winning dear
reader from Washington? We
must celebrate this
immediately, Giblets.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 03:31 PM PST

MAYA I WAS NOT AWARE OF THE JRB NEWS!!!

The world is coming to an end (and not just because of the "storm of doom")!

Betty Boop, eh? Well that sounds about as far away thematically as you can get from lynchings and divorce.

[ABRUPT CHANGE OF SUBJECT ALERT]

And now, ladies and gentlemen, for your enjoyment...

The New DR Dance

*dance dance dance tappity tappity tap dance dance dance spirit fingers*

Hellloooo New DR Mark! Thanks for letting me perform my favourite dance of all! Soon, we will be the most popular site on the internet, won't we BK? :)

Posted by Emily @ 09/19/2003 03:32 PM PST

If we're giblets now, does that make me a pupik?

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 03:34 PM PST

Something weird is going on with this here website everyone.

I posted the above message but nothing showed up. So I wrote it all out again and that second message (which was slightly different) didn't get posted, but the first one did.

Something is rotten in the state of HHW (other than the uncouth interlopers and the cheese cubes, of course)

:)

Posted by Emily @ 09/19/2003 03:34 PM PST

test post... please delete

Posted by Emily @ 09/19/2003 03:35 PM PST

Not sure what the prob is, but
just wait for your first post to
show up - it will - I posted, it
didn't show, then I posted
again, and both showed. So,
the first WILL show up,
promise.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 03:40 PM PST

And then it did. It seems posts are being held in queue until someone else writes a post, which then bumps the queued post onto the board while the new post awaits another one to bump it into view.

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 03:51 PM PST

Good evening. First off...

WELCOME, NEW DR MARK! Nice to have you here. I hope you'll stick around. :-) What part of Dallas are you in? I never lived there, but spent quite a bit of time there while I was in grad school in OKC. Its a great city.

Secondly...Thank you all for your offers for dinner. I'm happy to say, however, I was paid this afternoon, and I got more than I thought I would, so I treated myself to some comfort food tonight. Two original recipe chicken breasts, a biscuit and mashed potatoes with gravy and nice big Mountain Dew. Healthy? No. Worth it? Absolutely!

Dave: I understand that the announcement from MTI was made in today's Wall Street Journal. I don't know that for sure, but that's my understanding.

Jrand: Please let Kurt know that I saw an archive video of him et al. in their most splendiforous production of MOBY DICK: The Musical! I thought it was perfect for what the show is, and he and the rest of the cast should be darn proud of their work on it. And that comes straight from the big whale's mouth.

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 03:55 PM PST

If you wanna bump it, bump it with a trumpet!

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 03:56 PM PST

Hmm...a lull. Or maybe not.

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 04:21 PM PST

And I thought "Taking Care of Business" was a good enough clue. How many Washington DRs are there who can relate to those initials! Wasn't there a rock opera with the same name of the DR or was that the same name as me?

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 04:25 PM PST

If you're gonna grind it, wait 'til you've refined it

Posted by Tessie Tessitura @ 09/19/2003 04:26 PM PST

Hey! I'm damned proud to be a niblet...er..gimlet...ohr whatever!

Turn! Turn! Turn! And s-l-i-d-e!

Side-shuffle, kick, snap, turn, turn, turn. And s-p-l-i-t.

Ahhhhhhhhhh.....oooohhhhhh.....eeeeeeeeeee!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/19/2003 04:27 PM PST

Can I buy a vowel?

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 04:29 PM PST

I am trying to stop the lull but the queue is still there.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 04:29 PM PST

Ooh, I just ordered my Percy
Faith Li'l Abner CD from
amazon. It should be here in a
few days.

Dear readers Jason and Ron,
please drop me an e-mail
asap.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 04:29 PM PST

Thanks Jason - I will let DR Kurt know.

He passed up The Goat for MOBY DICK so he is a bit depressed now....but it will all be fine.

Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/19/2003 04:30 PM PST

If ya wanna make it....ta - winkle while ya shake it.

Posted by Electra @ 09/19/2003 04:31 PM PST

Congratulations to Tom of Tacoma. (not to be confused with Oz or Finland).

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 04:31 PM PST

I wonder if Ellen Degeneres will ever be in Moby Dick. Her experience is unbeatable.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 04:35 PM PST

BK: Did you mean for Ron to send you an email or DR Phil?

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 04:46 PM PST

Delay. Echo...echo...echo...echo...view haloo!

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 04:48 PM PST

The way I read it, he wanted DR JASON and me to e-mail him.

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/19/2003 04:54 PM PST

Jason: both

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 05:14 PM PST

DR Ron: I already emailed him. :-)

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 05:22 PM PST

10-4, good buddy. Keep on truckin'.

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 05:28 PM PST

I've no idea where the wedding's going to be. I only know the location of the bachelor party.

Posted by Noel @ 09/19/2003 05:48 PM PST

Ron, I tried answering your
e-mail to the pacbell address
and it bounced back saying
you were over your quota. That
was a direct "quota"

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 05:54 PM PST

I am distressed. Oh, yes, Dear Readers, I am most distressed. Apparently, many AOL users have received one of six different unseemly emails from my account name. Now, I have never seen these emails before in my life, but someone IMed me asking who I was and why I sent them that email. When I checked my mailbox, sure enough, in the 'Sent Mail' section were the emails in question. Of course, AOL's live technical help chat is down tonight. What should I do? I've changed my password. What else can I do? I don't want to be known for sending out dirty emails! HELP!!

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 06:11 PM PST

DR Noel:

Right. Sure. ;-)

P.S. Talk to Joy. She seems to be full of details.

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 06:15 PM PST

I'm off to see PASSION. I've never seen it on stage and only heard bits and pieces of it before. (I don't have the CD--can you believe it?) I will file a report tomorrow.

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 06:18 PM PST

Bruce Kimmel writes (of me, not himself):

"Richard Valley tells me that we should have finished discs in the next week or so, so that is exciting. If you haven’t ordered your Jeepers Creepers, now is the time to do so and do so posthaste so that Richard can haste post it to you the minute they arrive."

And Bruce Kimmel is right. I've been on the phone with the production people (or whatever you call 'em) today and we're moving along right on schedule. If you haven't ordered JEEPERS CREEPERS online because you're wary of PayPal or haven't a credit card or whatever, you can email me at reditor@aol.com and I'll give you ordering instructions. All faithful hainsies and kimlets (did I get that right?) will want to have this fab CD--post haste.

Richard Valley
www.scarletstreet.com

Posted by richard valley @ 09/19/2003 06:19 PM PST

I hope I get some Jason (but only if they are clever and funny).Not really. I have never been a fan of AOL. I received my first junk mail (spam) yesterday after changing my address and provider quite a while back. I shall be changing again next month.
DR Kerry has installed a programme (program) to block such mail. I shall investigate further if I receive more.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 06:21 PM PST

Well damn it, Jason, if you are going to send dirty e-mails, you could at least send them to me!

Posted by TCB @ 09/19/2003 06:23 PM PST

DR Jay. Hope we can add you to the list of "Passion" fans. Jose, Colin & Myself and Mr Sondheim. Oh to have seen Judy Kuhn in the role of Fosca. (one of dogs is named Fosca but we thought Georgio sounded somewhat pretentious and too fashion conscious so our male dog is Magnus.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 06:25 PM PST

Just read that Sheb Wooley (Ben Colder) died. His recordings created many a smile for me. "Purple People Eater" is of course a classic but his Ben Colder recordings of "Harper Valley PTA" and "Son Don't Go Near the Eskimos" are great too. I am particularly fond of his "Ballad Of Mean Old Queen" which of course was his parody of the Johnny Cash song "Ballad Of A Teenage Queen" and only a few days have gone by since Johnny died. For those who remember "The Pub With No Beer" from the late 1950's, Slim Dusty the singer/songwriter died yesterday. He was probably the best known of all Australian C & W performers. (unless you include Olivia!)

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 06:32 PM PST

A post to clear the queue!

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 06:45 PM PST

Jason, it has nothing to do with your password. Someone (the porn people or whoever) has hacked your e-mail address and is using it. You just have to weather it, it's happened to me several times. These cretin hackers hack AOL, earthlink, whatever. Disgusting. The only thing you can do if you want to stop it totally is to change your username and discontinue the old one.

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 06:47 PM PST

I arrived home and logged on and holy samolians, I had a notice that I'd exceeded my inbox quota...and indeed...if more than 450 NEW messages make a quota.

I've been doing virus scans, etc., the past hour.

However, it is important that anyone receiving an e-mail from me know that I have NOT sent private e-mails from my home address (pulliamr@pacbell.net) in a couple of weeks. Primarily, it's because I either communicate online or I private post from my office PC (and we've been doing patches and patches for two weeks...every now patch gets installed, believe me.)

But, has the virus invaded my computer ANYWAY????? Oh, trust me, it HAS. I'm doing what I'm reading....scanning and deleting, etc., etc. (I had 30,000-plus TEMP Internet files...something I didn't discover until the virus scan continued to check such files for more than 30 minutes. Since I delete the cache weekly, there's NO WAY I could have had that many.

At any rate, if any of you are getting e-mails from my internet address, I regret to inform you that I am NOT sending them and you MUST NOT open them, until such time as you might read on this here message board that I've decontaminated my PC.

Heavy SIGHT!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/19/2003 07:14 PM PST

A new entry of Juliana's Journal is now up.. go feast your eyes on THAT! And there's a little surprise at the end!

Posted by Craig @ 09/19/2003 07:15 PM PST

Congrats to TCB:

the Kimlet/Hainsy family is
PROUD of you!

Hamchucks and cheese
everyone?

Posted by François @ 09/19/2003 07:24 PM PST

I have spoken directly to the people at AOL and I have changed my password and security question. That's all I can do now. If you have received any emails from me advertising LIVE SEX SHOWS or ones that say, "hi, its me," DO NOT OPEN THEM. I didn't send them. Also, if you get an email from ANYONE saying you owe money to 1-800-FLOWERS, ignore it. I think that's where I got this bug.

BK: How long did it take before your email was back to normal?

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 07:29 PM PST

The Cub With No Bear, Tom?

NEVER heard of that song! ;- )

Posted by François @ 09/19/2003 07:44 PM PST

Jason,

you must have gone to the

Ugly Bug Ball !

Posted by François @ 09/19/2003 07:46 PM PST

Hey, everyone!

Just got back from dinner and a movie with a few friends of mine. We ate at Carraba's, a wonderful (if slightly overpriced) Italian restaurant. Really, Italian restaurants should not give you unlimited bread...I got so full so fast. The movie wasn't so great. My friends dragged me to see this really over-the-top movie called Underworld, with a really out-there (and ultraviolent) vampires-versus-werewolves plot. I've seen worse movies I guess, but this one was is NOT going to win any Oscars. Has anyone seen the new Woody Allen film, Anything Else, yet? That one I want to see.

Good vibes to Joy and Noel on working out the Our Wedding details!

Posted by Maya @ 09/19/2003 08:17 PM PST

Hey, everyone!

Just got back from dinner and a movie with a few friends of mine. We ate at Carraba's, a wonderful (if slightly overpriced) Italian restaurant. Really, Italian restaurants should not give you unlimited bread...I got so full so fast. The movie wasn't so great. My friends dragged me to see this really over-the-top movie called Underworld, with a really out-there (and ultraviolent) vampires-versus-werewolves plot. I've seen worse movies I guess, but this one was is NOT going to win any Oscars. Has anyone seen the new Woody Allen film, Anything Else, yet? That one I want to see.

Good vibes to Joy and Noel on working out the Our Wedding details!

Posted by Maya @ 09/19/2003 08:18 PM PST

It would be more of a tragic song indeed François.Unlike most of my countrymen I could live with a pub with no beer but this cub certainly needs to know there are bears around.
Can we have bear hunks instead of ham chunks for a change?

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 08:19 PM PST

As I recall (but my memory could be spotty), I had the chance to see either BAKER STREET or the revival of KISMET with Alfred Drake at the NYST. I chose the latter thinking (stupidly) that BAKER STREET was a hit and would be playing the next time I'd get to NYC. Of course, it closed soon afterward. Still am glad I saw Drake do one of his most famous roles. He was wonderful, and that show was an eye-popping spectacular.

Posted by Matt H. @ 09/19/2003 08:45 PM PST

What about... bare hunks?!

Sorry BK!
I know... this is a family s....

Posted by François @ 09/19/2003 08:55 PM PST

BK:

Matt and I were chatting and I came up with a concept for a new album for you to produce. And simultaneously came up with the same title.

Songs from:
Copperfield
Great Expectations
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Mr. Quilp
Muppet Christmas Carol
Mystery Of Edwin Drood
Oliver!
Oliver and Company
Scrooge

and we both called it THE DICKENS YOU SAY!

Composers would include Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse, Paul Williams, Rupert Holmes, Al Kasha and Joel Hirshorn, Billy Joel and others.

What do you think?

Posted by Mike @ 09/19/2003 09:09 PM PST

BK:

I was chatting with Matt and I came up with an idea for a new concept album.

Songs from:

Copperfield
Great Expectations
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Mr. Quilp
Mystery of Edwin Drood
Oliver!
Oliver and Company
Scrooge

Composers include: Rupert Holmes, Billy Joel, Paul Williams, Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse, Joel Hirshorn and Al Kasha,Lionel Bart, Stephen Oliver and others

We both came up with the same title simultaneously "THE DICKENS YOU SAY!"

So what do you think BK?

Posted by Michael @ 09/19/2003 09:18 PM PST

Let's do it. Who's paying?

Posted by bk @ 09/19/2003 09:47 PM PST

What about "Mr Pickwick"
replacing "Oliver & Company",
which might be too modern?

Yeah, BK, what do you think?

Posted by François @ 09/19/2003 09:54 PM PST

Charles D. is willing to foot the
bill!.... or the Mike.... or the Matt.

;- )

Posted by François @ 09/19/2003 09:56 PM PST

Funny how one does not know
when one's post is going to
pop up!

Pop, Goes the Weasel!

Posted by François @ 09/19/2003 09:58 PM PST

Silly me...I forgot to answer DR Joy's questionnaire. Here goes:

Favorite Word: Superfluous. I don't know why, but I enjoy the way it feels in my mouth when I say it.

Least Favorite Word: Can't.

Biggest Turn On: Passion.

Biggest Turn Off: Superiority complexes.

Favorite Noise: The sound of typing on a computer keyboard and someone walking in hard-soled shoes on hardwood floors. Also, the sound of a cat purring. I miss that.

Least Favorite Noise: The sound of mice crawling in the walls. It freaks me out.

Favorite Curse Word: Sh!ta$$. I think I made it up.

Profession That I'd Like to Attempt: Forensic Psychology and/or Crime Scene Investigator.

Profession That I'd Hate to Attempt: Mortician.

What I'd Like to Hear God Say When I Get to the Pearly Gates: "Welcome home. Here's your Equity card."

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 10:25 PM PST

Pop!

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 10:26 PM PST

I am just returned from PASSION and you can add me to the list of its fans, DR Tom from Oz. I'll file a report with my impressions on the morrow.

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 11:00 PM PST

You know, if the insomniacs and people in distant time zones are chatty tonight, we might hit 200 posts, which would be the first time in a while, I think. Of course, if this delay thing continues, the last post will never make its way to the site. Sort of like musical chairs. So don't be last!

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 11:03 PM PST

Tom from Oz and Jay: Ms. Judy Kuhn as Fosca was too, too, too diveene. She was amazing, and certainly made me a fan of the show. Ms. Rebecca Luker was also quite fabulous in the role of Clara, and Mr. Michael Cerveris even impressed me as Giorgio. The only disappointment was that I only got to see it once.

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 11:05 PM PST

Greetings from the Windy City!

-Although, when we left La Guardia, New York City was also becoming quite windy. In fact, we later found out that our plane was one of the last three cleared to fly out of La Guardia before they closed the airport yesterday due to the high winds that Isabel was already causing in the area - and she was still all the way down in North Carolina. Our flight out was also originally scheduled to depart at 1:00, but was delayed until 3:10 - I've never seen a flight attendant crew being so efficient and expeditious! At least we made it...

However, I am having a small bout of the "guilts" - the weather in Chicago was glorious when we got in, and all my friends in Richmond and my family in Northern Virginia were getting rained-soaked and had lost their electrical power. When I checked in earlier this evening, they were still without power, but, hopefully, it will be restored sooner rather than later - there were "pockets of power" here and there popping up around them.

Today was our day off. And what a nice day off it turned out to be. I let myself sleep in - which was VERY easy to do since this hotel has some amazingly comfortable beds with nice, cozy comforters. After taking care of some paperwork, I finally left my hotel room around 1:30. I had originally planned to head over to the Art Institute of Chicago, but the call of the Magnificent Mile called... and I answered. And, boy, did I answer$$$ We should be done with our auditions tomorrow in the early afternoon, and I'll head over to AIC then.

The "team" got together earlier tonight for dinner at a wonderful seafood and steak house, Hugo's Frog Bar & Fish House. YUM! YUM!! YUM!!! Great service, Great food and a Great Time. And there was a lot of food - so much, that I didn't even have room for dessert! -Yes, Virginia, I was that full!

Well... on the walk back to the hotel I decided to make a detour through Marshall Field's... OK, that's all the shopping I will do in Chicago! I then headed up to The Gentry up in BoysTown for a some good piano bar. It was show tune night, and the pianist/singer was very good and had a great sense of humor. He even did a Hurricane Isabel Medley: Theme from Gilligan's Island, Theme from The Love Beat, some snippets from The Wiz, and Christopher Cross' "Sailing". Very well done.

And now I'm back at the hotel - and what a nice hotel. It's one of those new-fashioned "boutique hotels", and it actually has a sense of humor. We get a real, live goldfish in the room, plus in the mini-bar there are items such as a joy buzzer, wax lips and candy necklaces!

Well... that's enough of that... As for today's topic... Well, since I'm not travelling with my CD player this time... and I really haven't had any time to watch a DVD or WHS tape... Nothing.

*Good to see you posting, Maya - at least that means the power is on some places in NoVa.

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 09/19/2003 11:06 PM PST

Welcome to the club Jay. And I thought that no-one actually read the posts any more Jason. I loved Donna as Fosca but adore the voice of Judy Kuhn.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 11:09 PM PST

Jason, now you sound like Nathan Hale. BTW, you never responded to my question on Ask Dear Reader Day on Wednesday. What part of Brooklyn do you live in? I lived in Brooklyn for many years. If you don't want to blab it all over the internet, click on my name to send me an e-mail.

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 11:11 PM PST

Favorite word: Proverbial. I dunno why.

Least favorite word: Amenities. I just get sick of hearing that word.

Biggest turn on: Plaid.

Biggest turn off: Hungarian people talking about "taking a pee."

Favorite noise: When you're fencing and the blades meet, they make this clanking sound.

Least favorite noise: Forks scraping a plate. I hate that. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Favorite curse word: Smeg.

Profession that I'd like to attempt: Gibson Girl.

Profession that I'd hate to attempt: 349-pound psycho-therapist

What I'd like to hear God say when I get to the Pearly Gates: "Free Cherry Coke refills for eternity."

Posted by Sandra @ 09/19/2003 11:11 PM PST

Jay: I live in the Greenpoint/Williamsburg area, a.k.a. Little Poland.

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 11:16 PM PST

DR Sandra: I didn't think you stayed up this late! I think 'smeg' is a wonderful curse word. I've never heard it before, but, with your permission, I may start using it!

Posted by Jason @ 09/19/2003 11:19 PM PST

DR Sandra--It's good to have you back! We've missed you!

DR Jason--Well, for as long I lived in Brooklyn, that's a part I just do not know well. In fact, I believe my only sojourns to Williamsburg were to dine at Peter Luger's. (Trust me, someone else was paying.)

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 11:23 PM PST

Oh dear. Do you two know the origin of the word? Not exactly something we can discuss openly on this, a family site.

Posted by Jay @ 09/19/2003 11:25 PM PST

Jason you could well be known as a smeghead if you are not aware of the reference to an all time wonderful TV series!

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 11:30 PM PST

DR Jay: I suggest we leave at the TV reference only!

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 11:41 PM PST

This waiting for posts to show up is so annoying but it means that there will no doubt be 200 posts as a result!

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 09/19/2003 11:43 PM PST

Oh, my Gosh...

Posted by Jason @ 09/20/2003 12:05 AM PST

We are...

Posted by Jason @ 09/20/2003 12:05 AM PST

So close...

Posted by Jason @ 09/20/2003 12:06 AM PST

To 200 posts...

Posted by Jason @ 09/20/2003 12:06 AM PST

Who will be the one...

Posted by Jason @ 09/20/2003 12:08 AM PST

To push us over...?

Posted by Jason @ 09/20/2003 12:09 AM PST

I think it will be...

Posted by Jason @ 09/20/2003 12:09 AM PST

ME! Huzzah!! Hoorah!! ::does the Hora::

Posted by Jason @ 09/20/2003 12:10 AM PST

201!!

Posted by George @ 09/20/2003 12:25 AM PST

test

Posted by George @ 09/20/2003 12:28 AM PST

Ever in need of attention, I'd like to request being added to that C.D. CD: My musical The Christmas Bride is based on Dickins' The Battle of Life

Posted by Noel @ 09/20/2003 05:49 AM PST