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10/12/2003:
"I DO! I DO!"

Photo of Bruce Kimmel

bk's notes II

Well, dear readers, hold your hats and hallelujah because we’ve got something unique to celebrate today. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, we’ve got something unique to celebrate today and damn it all we’re going to celebrate it in high fashion (tuxedo pants and frilly blouse). Today we are celebrating not a birthday but a wedding, our first here at haineshisway.com. Yes, Virginia, dear readers Noel and Joy are tying the knot, are getting hitched, are doing the matrimonial stomp. So, let us put on our wedding attire: pointy party hats and colored tights and pantaloons. Let us break out the wedding food: cheese slices and ham chunks. Let us dance the hora and also the meringue. For Noel and Joy and also Joy and Noel will be saying I Do! I Do! – oh, a Schmidt and Jones reference. Let us all send them our best haineshisway.com wedding wishes on this most festive wedding day. On the count of three or the duke of four: One, two, three – OUR BEST HAINESHISWAY.COM WISHES ON THIS MOST FESTIVE DAY!

I feel in honor of Noel and Joy’s wedding that those Hainsies/Kimlets who are still single should all get married today. I, for example, would marry as long as my partner lived in a different state. That would be bliss, in fact it would be the state of bliss.

Last night I watched a motion picture entertainment entitled Seabiscuit. I got a DVD screener of it and took a gander at it. I thought it was fine, but then I’m a sucker for horses and horse racing. I am not a fan of its writer/director, however, and I feel the film is not nearly as good as it should be. It’s rather ponderous and filled with Screenwriting and Directing 101 cliches. I found the whole folksy Studs Terkel-like narration during the first forty minutes really annoying. A few period photos would have done the trick and in much less annoying a fashion (stiletto heels and black leather mini-skirt). Especially, as he abandons the folksy Studs Terkel-like narration for the duration of the film (and it’s a long duration). Then there’s the whole neat little business of the jockey and the horse being the same – both abandoned, both treated poorly, and both becoming a success despite the odds. That would be fine if it were done subtly, but the writer/director lays it on with a trowel and beats us over the head with it mercilessly. My favorite laugh-out-loud moment was when the jockey has an accident and shatters his leg, and then Seabiscuit has an accident and hurt his leg. And, if we didn’t “get” it, we have a slow tilt down to a closeup in one shot of the jockey and horse’s bandaged legs. I don’t need to be fed the meaning on a spoon every two minutes. The music does the same. No one loves Randy Newman more than I, but I’m tired of his Americana thing – all his Americana scores are the same. I don’t know that I blame him, however, since I was told he had to rewrite his score several times at the whim of the writer/director and the producers. That’s what it comes to these days – when they feel something is not working they blame the composer. Mr. Newman eventually left the film and the score was fashioned by others from his material. Today, more than ever, scores must sound exactly the same because these auteurs temp-track their films with other film music (I’d bet this film was temp-tracked with Field of Dreams and Mr. Newman’s own The Natural) and then they can’t hear beyond that. Why hire a composer at all? It’s shameful, really, and film composers today, with rare exceptions, are not allowed the creative freedom they once knew.

What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Don’t we have a wedding to celebrate? Why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below so said celebration can continue until the cows come home.

I also watched a tidy little thriller entitled Black Sunday, from the novel by Thomas Harris, and directed by John Frankenheimer. It’s done very well and is really suspenseful, and unfortunately, was a very prescient film. Terrific screenplay, great great score by John Williams, tense direction by Frankenheimer and excellent performances by Bruce Dern (as a deranged Vietnam vet), Marthe Keller (as a terrorist) and especially Robert Shaw (as an Israeli). Its plot seemed fantastic back then – sadly, today, it seems all too real. The transfer is interesting – I think it’s probably very good but it took me a while to realize it. I think Mr. Frankenheimer purposely went for a very dirty grainy and gritty look for the first hour of the film, so it takes a bit of getting used to. Once we go outdoors for the climax of the film, it looks incredible, so I’m assuming this is exactly what it looked like in theaters.

Don’t forget, tonight is our Unseemly Live Chat at six o’clock Pacific Mean Daylight Savings Time. There will be much to talk about tonight so you won’t want to miss it. Remember, there are always things discussed in chat which are never discussed on the site. I’ll say no more, oh, yes, I will say no more.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must relax, do some grocery shopping, eat some foodstuffs, and get ready to do the next batch of fixes for the book. After those, there will only be one batch left. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which the topic is yours for the choosing. So, choose away, let’s have loads of lovely posts and build back up to where we were prior to the crash. And let’s toast the wedding of Noel and Joy and send them on their way with lots of good cheer.

- Bruce Kimmel



Replies: 65 Unseemly Comments


DR Ron: I agree with you that Ms. Idina deserves to win something for her work in WICKED--she was wonderful and she was a great deal of the heart of the show, but there was something about Kristi's presence that slightly overshadowed Idina's. Perhaps it is a bit early to be predicting award nominations, seeing how it's only October, but I predicted that Harvey and Marissa would win their Tonys last August. Hugh Jackman's performance in BOY FROM OZ is so incredibly strong that I honestly can't imagine him not winning Best Actor and the two girls in WICKED gave equally strong performances. I think Kristi will be probably be nominated for Supporting Actress and Idina will be nominated for Leading Actress. Don't ask me why...I just think that's how the cards will fall. The awards aren't really important...it's just fun to speculate. And I'm a bit partial to Kristi--she and I share an alma mater and I sang for her in a masterclass, so I guess I'm playing a bit of the favorites game. I still think she'll win, though. ;-)

NOEL AND JOY: CONGRATS! I hope you two have a wonderful life together.

And now I must ready myself to see WICKED again. Until tonight....

Posted by Jason @ 10/12/2003 09:11 AM PST


[Cue music.]

Bless this day...

(Oh, a Sondheim reference.)

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 09:15 AM PST


Joy and Noel, I shall be thinking happy thoughts of you all day. I hope we get to see wedding pictures.

Posted by Jane @ 10/12/2003 09:22 AM PST


DR's Noel and Joy: I hope your day is absolutely magical, and that nobody misses their cue ;)

BK: Do *I* have to get married? Can't I wait until I'm 18 at least?

I meant to ask: My email has been acting exceptionally funny for the last week or so. Would someone email me, as a tester? If you do, post about it, because I'll never know if I don't recieve it. :) Thanks!

Posted by Sarah @ 10/12/2003 09:26 AM PST


Oh, happy day to Noel and Joy! Many happy years ahead for you two!

What to discuss...hmmm..maybe it is too early I think, to think!

Eating my morning oatmeal and raisins...afterwords I will travel down to King Donut and by a chocolate glazed cake donut and a big cup of coffee...make that two donuts...haven't been to the gym all week anyway so what the heck!

Blue jeans, black "25th Bi-Mart Credit Union Anniversary" sweatshirt, slippers.

Posted by MBarnum @ 10/12/2003 09:32 AM PST


Best wishes and congratulations to Noel & Joy!!!

I will miss the chat this evening because I am accompanying my sister to a live television broadcast in which she will participate.

I will sit in the audience and look all around and perhaps I will be included in a pan or a scan!

Posted by JRand53 @ 10/12/2003 09:36 AM PST


Sarah, I just sent you an email.

Posted by Jane @ 10/12/2003 09:55 AM PST


Congrats to Noel and Joy...I sincerely wish you both the longest and happiest and most musical of marriages!

I apologize for yesterday's E&Tness! I worked, then went to rehearsal and then on a very, very long date with Macbeth, hehe. We just really clicked...we watched Amélie, one of my favorite movies which he had never seen, and then spent a good 3 hours just talking! I'm going to try and make tonight's chat but he asked me to see Kill Bill Volume I with him later so hopefully I'll be home on time. I do want to see Kill Bill...despite it having more blood and gore, I've heard, than probably Saving Private Ryan and Nightmare on Elm Street combined.

Sarah--good luck on your SAT's...I'm sure you'll do fine!

Jason--thanks for the Wicked report! I SOOO want to see it, but the next best thing is reading about it. And hopefully there will be cast album for me to pick up soon.

*Floats off singing My Romance*

Posted by Maya @ 10/12/2003 09:56 AM PST


DR SS (Swishy Sarah)-- E-mail sent.

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 09:57 AM PST


Aww, shoot, I just realized...Andrea, Emily...is it too late for the cute musical-loving French bagpipe-player, hehe?

Posted by Maya @ 10/12/2003 10:04 AM PST


I suppose KILL BILL Vol. 1 is an appropriate second date movie for an incipient Lady Macbeth, eh?

Next thing you know DR Maya will be shopping for spot removers.

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 10:22 AM PST


Maya and Macbeth sitting in a tree... jk :)

I demand details about Mr. MacBeth at chat if you able to tear yourself away from His Scottishness...

I refuse to marry... I want to spend my life living in delicious sin (ooh, a CABARET reference!)

But congrats to Noel and Joy who will have simply the best Christmas cards ever! "Merry X-Mass from Joy and Noel!"

I'm spending the day writing a paper proposal for DEVELOPING AREAS: ARAB WORLD. My topic: The Sudanese Mahdi - a Study in Early Islamic Nationalism.

This may take a while and several cups of coffee... :)

Posted by Emily @ 10/12/2003 10:30 AM PST


I haz recieved said emails, thank you to Jane and Jay. Jay, please tell me you copied and pasted that a million times, and didn't write out "Swish on, girl! Girl, you swish!" that many times. If you did write it out, I commend you on your effort. If you copied and pasted, I commend you on your sanity :)

It seems that my email is insisting on being a giant pain in the butt. I HATE MSN! I have to sign out and sign back in if I ever want to be notified of having new emails. It SHOULD just pop up saying "So-and-so Sent You An Email", and I can just click, and voila. But, of course, it insists on being difficult. -Insert very unladylike phrase here about how much I hate MSN.-

Maya my Papaya, I want pictures of him, as well as details. Sounds like a keeeeeeeper, ;)

Black jeans and a blue teeshirt with the Rice Crispies cartoon boys on the front.

Posted by Sarah @ 10/12/2003 10:47 AM PST


Now, we do not let budding romanaces, boyfriends, girlfriends or anything else keep us from chat, do we? That would be most unseemly and would require a bitch-slapping from here to eternity by daddywads BK.

Now, let's get some good topics going, shall we?

Posted by bk @ 10/12/2003 10:54 AM PST


Joy and Noel - The one wedding wish above all: May you be each other's best friend for the rest of your lives.

Swishy Sarah - Did you get my book suggestion yesterday?

Posted by Panni @ 10/12/2003 11:06 AM PST


Joy and Noel: Have a lovely, lovely day and I wish you much happiness.

Maya: I don't know the Macbeth story, but I'll trade you the scotsman for the hungarian non french musical loving bagpiper.

Chat? When? What? Emily tells me nothing!

Posted by Andrea @ 10/12/2003 11:27 AM PST


Hold on a second...

I just realized something. If Maya ends up with Mr. MacBeth does this mean that she is going to give up her role as my virtual lesbian lover?

dang... :)

Posted by Emily @ 10/12/2003 11:33 AM PST


Emily--hahahah...I will NEVER give up that role! :-P Mr. Macbeth (whose name also happens to be Jay) will just have to resign himself to it.

Andrea--it's a deal!

LOL, Jay! I'm actually playing Lady MacDUFF, but she dies and her son dies...and wait a second...just about everyone in the whole darned Scottish Play dies too! That's entertainment!

Kill Bill would be a great date movie, right?? All the severed heads...sooo romantic.

Sarah--too bad the guy at the movies the other day was so annoying! If he was nice as well as flirtatious, then I would be able to tease you! ;)

And lastly, I will tell Jay to "get me to the chat on time." I don't want to disappoint Daddywads BK!

Posted by Maya @ 10/12/2003 11:45 AM PST


DR Sarah: I don't currently use MSN, but I did "experiment" a few years ago... Back then (and maybe this only applies to back then), if you wanted to check for new e-mails, you just had to re-click your Inbox tab - or even just hit "Refresh" (F5). It's worth a shot. I don't think they would make you sign in and out during a session to check for new e-mail. Even hotmail updates itself - and that's the same thing - I think. Ah, well...

What a perfect Sunday this is turning out to be... Massage at 10:00AM.. TWO HOURS!! YES!!! Followed by a bagel and liptauer with some good coffee back at home. James Taylor on the CD player, Times-Dispatch and Washington Post in my lap. -Quite a nice article on the Kapell piano competition in the Magazine today - well, piano competitions in general. It brought back a lot of memories from my time in the salt mines (a.k.a. practice rooms), both good and sad... and frustrating! And it also made the point (which has been made before) about people in the arts - at least solo performers... How is it that someone can pour so much time and energy, so much sweat and stress into something so intangible... something that you love... that cannot love you back? Wow!?!?! -Just made me feel so much more luckier to be able to be doing what I do for a living, AND being able to get so much from it on many levels. So, after James Taylor came the reissue of Nine - how I do love this score! -And how touching it is in many spots. -And it kind of goes along with the article I read. Well, it does... not "kind of" at all.

My foray last night into the nightlife that is Richmond was... well, let's just say I left here at 10:30. I was back at 12:15 - and I had gone to two places (a.k.a. bars). I did have some fun, and ran into some friends, but it was just a so-so night all around. At least I ventured out on my own - which I never do! -Until last night that is. -Ah, life's little victories.. even if it was kind of indifferent...

Well, time to continue my lazy afternoon. I decided to have some people over for dinner, and I'll be prepping chickens to be roasted and assorted vegetables in a little while... Until then...

-I'll try my best to check in at tonight's chat, but I'm not sure I can stay long...

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 10/12/2003 12:13 PM PST


And to Joy and Noel-

The Most Joyous of Wedding Days!
The Happiest of Marriages!
The Dearest of Friendships!

Cheers!

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 10/12/2003 12:14 PM PST


THE TAILS OF BONNIE AND CLYDE, Chapter XIV

Back in the car, I told der Brucer what I had found, first about the kibble. “See, that Tippi wasn’t trying to sell us a bill of goods, after all!” he beamed.

“You got lucky,” I responded, and waited a moment before continuing. “I also found out how much their veterinary service charges to get dogs fixed.” At least it wasn’t a hostile silence that met this piece of news. “It’s a hundred thirty-five for male dogs, a hundred fifty-five for females. Add another twenty for any dogs over six months old. And another thirty-five for a general physical check-up, which has to be done first.” I watched as he started doing the math in his head, an ability I’ve envied often enough. “Of course, I’ve rounded these numbers off.”

“Thank-you,” he said appreciatively. “That’s four hundred dollars, or thereabouts, what with your rounding off.” He drove for about a minute before really responding. “I think we’d better give a call to our own vet’s office. It’s time we checked on something we should have checked long ago.”

Back home, he made a quick call to make sure of the vet’s office hours, then told me to round up the blondes. Marty and Mikey were quite jealous of the younger pair getting to wear leashes yet again. It had been tricky at times, making sure the older dogs didn’t feel left out or displaced by the pups, but aside from Marty snapping at Buster on occasion they had all been getting along. Getting Bonnie and Clyde into the car, on the other hand, still required picking up one or the other dog and putting him or her on the back seat, at which point the other would decide it was all right and jump in.

What der Brucer had in mind was making sure the pups didn’t have electronic identification chips implanted in them. “Now, wait a second here,” I protested. “There’s been no response from any of the posters we put up, the dogs weren’t wearing collars when they arrived on our doorstep … what makes you think whoever had Bonnie and Clyde before us would have bothered with identification chips? They didn’t bother with anything else!”

“I want to be absolutely sure,” was his reply.

The veterinarian’s assistant was the one who checked Bonnie and Clyde for the chips. She scanned them carefully with a sensing device that had a sensing pad about four inches square at one end and an LED readout at the other, with the handle in between. First she checked over Bonnie’s shoulders, then over her back, and finally over her hips, repeating the procedure with Clyde. “Nope, there’s no chips in these dogs,” she affirmed, giving Clyde an extra scritch between the ears.

“I had a feeling they wouldn’t, but I thought it would be better to check,” der Brucer nodded. “Uh, by the way, what would it cost to get these two fixed?”

“We charge a hundred thirty per dog,” she replied with a smile. “That includes a physical check-up, of course. We take in dogs for the operation in the morning, Monday through Thursday, usually between eight and eight-thirty, and they stay with us overnight. And we ask that the dogs have no food or water after Midnight the night before.” We thanked her, and took the pups back to the car.

“Well, I guess we’re going to Delaware with five dogs after all,” der Brucer said as we drove home.

“What?!?” I yelped. “What happened to how you told me couldn’t take five dogs, how impossible it would be?”

“We’re just going to have to manage. Most motels that accept dogs don’t like having more than two, so we’d have been fudging the rules a little anyway.” His expression got more serious with my response of stunned silence. “C’mon, just how hard have you been trying to link up with those rescue operations? WE are the rescue operation for these two. We both know it. I’ve just known it longer than you have.”

“What are you talking about?” I asked.

“I’m talking about how you haven’t had a dog of your own ever since Jocko died.”

Next: The Conclusion.

Posted by S. Woody White @ 10/12/2003 12:27 PM PST


Noel & Joy,

All good wishes today (or should
I say Jouyeux Noel)? Based on
the sample I heard at Donnell
Library, your wedding is
certainly as great a show as any
other around. May it run forever
(and certainly longers than
CATS). Lots of love, MC

Posted by Michael Colby @ 10/12/2003 12:27 PM PST


Whoops! Typo. I of course
meant:
"Joy-eaux Noel."

Posted by Ludlow29 @ 10/12/2003 12:29 PM PST


Let the Joyous News Be Spread
That Noel and Joy At Last Are Wed!
(almost a "Wizard of Oz" reference!)

Congratulations! My parents (in June) celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary! May yours last at least as long!

I plan to be at chat tonight but I have to clean my apartment before tomorrow. All of the apartments in my complex are being inspected (I don't know what for) and I am a notorious procrastinator. I know it doesn't have to be "parents coming over for dinner" clean, but it should at least be neater than it is. I've never been good or diligent at house cleaning/keeping. Wish me luck!

Posted by George @ 10/12/2003 12:34 PM PST


Best wishes to Noel and Joy on their marriages. Hope you have the happiest lives and most wonderful days.

I think I will be in chat tonight at least for a while. Wow, I've been to chat three times in a row, that's a record for me.

Posted by Ben @ 10/12/2003 12:53 PM PST


Noel and Joy

May you be as kind to one another as you are today.
May you be as forgiving with one another as you are now.
May love be your light and friendship be your guide.
And may you both know peace in each other arms today and always.

Best wishes,

D

Posted by Danise @ 10/12/2003 01:00 PM PST


First of all, many congratulations to Joy and Noel. May you discover something wonderful and new about each other every day of your lives.

Next: It's Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. Let's bring on the turkey and ham and stuffing... and then staple it all to my thighs, because folks, this food is too good to stop eating.

There will abe approximately 50 people in my house today. Here's hoping that I don't shoot any of them or get too frustrated with the ones who don't speak english. (We're a French family, but not so much from me).

The first of the family has actually just walked into the house, so I believer that I must go and check out that situation. Wish me luck, everybody.

Posted by Geoff @ 10/12/2003 01:20 PM PST


I won't complain Geoff as long as that gun you'll use to shoot your relatives is registered!

Paper writing is booooorrrrrinnnggg... can 9pm (when I allow myself to go chat instead of forcing myself to theorize any more) come any faster? :)

Posted by Emily @ 10/12/2003 01:49 PM PST


Congratulations and best wishes to Noel & Joy!! I would like to write more but I am at an internet cafe, so I must be going.

Posted by LC @ 10/12/2003 02:40 PM PST


I need some advice from those who have the BRIGADOON DVD. I only have it on laserdisc (the remastered version from THE GENE KELLY COLLECTION). I know the DVD is not anamorphic, but should I get the DVD or wait for Warners possibly to remaster it and issue an anamorphic edition. The SEVEN BRIDES DVD was sharper than the laserdisc even though it wasn't anamorphic, but I didn't see that much different in the nonanamorphic GIGI DVD and laser. Comments? Opinions? Recommendations?

(BTW, the anamorphic editions of SILK STOCKINGS, LES GIRLS, and MOLLY BROWN are far and away superior to the laserdisc versions.)

Posted by Matt H. @ 10/12/2003 02:44 PM PST


Dear Reader Swishy Sarah: I copied and pasted. So call me sane.

Dear Reader Jose: What in tarnation is "liptauer?"

And I do believe we have a couple of new Dear Readers to greet: Hello Michael Colby and Ludlow29!

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 04:15 PM PST


Thank you Jay for your welcome.
But unlike Mary Martin I'm not a
stranger here myself. I've
visited before--even been
interviewed and mingled in the
chat room. But I'm always happy
to be mentioned--especially this
particular month.

Michael Colby (Ludlow29)

Posted by Michael Colby @ 10/12/2003 05:03 PM PST


I have just returned from dinner out at Johnson's Steakhouse. Johnsons is very old and very smoky, as are its everyday patrons. I swear walking through the front of that restaurant is like walking through a morgue. The smoke only adds to it. Ew. If the food weren't so good (and if the owners son weren't so cute), I'd stop going there forever. :)

Panni: I did indeed get your book suggestion, and I fully intend on going to the library sometime and getting it. I just need to register at the new one, since they terminate your account if you don't check a book out for more than a year. Woops! Suppose I should start reading a little more, huh?

Happy Thanksgiving, Jennifer, Geoff, Emily, and Dan...I know I missed some of you, where are the Canadians up in herre? (I am so white, that sounds so dumb coming out of my mouth.)

Here's a little bit of a rant: I am SO sick of the word "gay" being used as an overall dislike term, i.e. "That movie was sooo gay." While waiting outside the restaurant, there were some kids who looked to be about 13, and they must have used it twice in at least every sentence. How uncreative can you be?! There are a MILLION adjectives you could use, but they HAVE to pick "gay". It just makes kids sound really stupid. End rant now.

Welcome to Michael Colby...I'm assuming you're Ludlow29, as you corrected your own typo with a different name. So yes, welcome to the cookie jar, what flavor are YOU?

Posted by Sarah @ 10/12/2003 05:07 PM PST


Please pardon if I'm repeating
myself (Thought I'd posted but it
didn't appear immediately).

Thank you Jay for your warm
welcome. Truth is, unlike Mary
Martin, I'm no stranger here
myself. I've posted before,
participated in the chats, and
even been a featured guest on the
radio hour. Still, I appreciate
being noticed, especially this
month.

Sincerely,
Michael Colby (Ludlow

Posted by Michael Colby @ 10/12/2003 05:09 PM PST


DR Michael/Ludlow29--

Forgive me for not recognizing you at first. Welcome back then.

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 05:19 PM PST


Actually, I'd like to see "gay" come back into our vocabulary to mean what it once did: light-hearted and cheerful, happy and full of fun.

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 05:24 PM PST


I'm not sure about the picture quality on the more recent Warners "Brigadoon" DVD (there was also an earlier DVD release by MGM/UA), but I was disappointed that there wasn't a single extra feature included, not even a trailer. I hope there's another release somewhere down the road for this title. It's not the best of all possible "Brigadoons," perhaps, but still a very popular and beloved attempt.

Meanwhile, I still enjoy that "Gene Kelly Collection" laserdisc, particularly the deleted scenes, and the original scoring sessions of the movie in stereo on the analog tracks.

Posted by Sigerson Holmes @ 10/12/2003 05:59 PM PST


Chatroom is closed. Whassup with that?

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 06:03 PM PST


It's 9:03 EDT --- Chat Room is closed. Wasn't chat supposed to be tonight?

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 10/12/2003 06:04 PM PST


John, are you running late?

Michael Colby: I have z memory the size of a toothpick, when it comes to new DR's, apparently. Sorry to have missed you!

Posted by Sarah @ 10/12/2003 06:04 PM PST


Why oh why is chat not opened yet at 9:05 EST?

Posted by Emily @ 10/12/2003 06:05 PM PST


A question I've meaning to ask on Ask BK/Ask Dear Reader Day for some time: Is parachat anything like paraquat?

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 06:06 PM PST


The room is still closed. Oh, well, back to paying bills and listening to CDs.

Posted by Ben @ 10/12/2003 06:07 PM PST


Figures. The ONE time I actually show up on time.

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 06:08 PM PST


Sorry, I got hung up, but chat is open now so come on in. I'll explain what happened.

Posted by bk @ 10/12/2003 06:12 PM PST


Chat is open.

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 06:12 PM PST


I had every intention of participating in chat tonight [chat room not open (for the moment) notwithstanding] but I just got a call from my niece inviting me to my parents house for dinner ... which means free food. Spaghetti! Can't pass that up. Have a good chat, everyone.

Posted by George @ 10/12/2003 06:12 PM PST


I had to put this down before I forgot anything. So this is more of a stream on conciousness than a thought review.

Just got home after spending a wonderful afternoon watching Jason Graae and Liz Callaway performing in concert. I then got to spend some one on one time with them. Two of the most genuine talent and nice people. Jason had the concert hall of over 600 people rolling on the floor. He basically performed his Cinegrill CD performance with some deletions and additions. Liz performed selctions from her three albums she recorded for Bruce and material record elsewhere. She received THREE standing ovations for Meadowlark, Memory and The Story Goes On. For the finally they got together and performed some duets together.

Bruce: They need a duet album. There is a wonderful rapport and affection shown between the two of them. Liz had flown in earlier this morning from another gig and the only had a short time to reherse their duets.

The wonderful Alex Rybeck was the pianist.

Took some pictures of them backstage and had some taken with me. Also I had them sign all their solo album cd jackets.

If you though Jason Graae was funny on the CD you have to see him perform his show live he is so much funnier. His body language and facial expressions are a key element to his performances.

I am so glad I finally got to see Liz Callaway in concert she is an extraordinary performer. She has been a favorite of mine for the longest time.

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 10/12/2003 06:20 PM PST


Alex Rybeck is a busy boy. He accompanied Faith Prince on Wednesday and Thursday nights last week in Long Beach, California.

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 06:38 PM PST


Just left another sparkling chat. See you tomorrow on the board.

Posted by Ben @ 10/12/2003 06:46 PM PST


Hello all!

The new Broadway Radio Show is loaded, but that part of the server still seems to be not working. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon and available for your listening pleasure.

Donald

Posted by Donald Feltham @ 10/12/2003 07:05 PM PST


Where are you people?

Quite obviously NOT in chat, as myself, Emily,a dn Andrea are the only three, and it has only been open for an hour!

Come ON!

Posted by Sarah @ 10/12/2003 07:08 PM PST


A friend of mine in New Mexico who is not really a film person, but is teaching an adult film course (go figure!) has written asking for suggestions for a film to show that would be light, funny, life-affirming and might bring up some relevant thoughts. As I'm brain-dead at the moment, I'd appreciate any suggestions I could pass on to him.(Any film available on DVD/video will do.)

Posted by Panni @ 10/12/2003 08:21 PM PST


You do mean a film course for adult students, right? And not a course devoted to adult (blue, XXX, porno, call them what you will) films, right? Right?

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 09:08 PM PST


ANTWONE FISHER is one of the most life-affirming films of recent vintage that I can think of. For something more classic, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE would be a good choice, though I learned last week that not all Dear Readers here are as fond of that movie as am I.

Posted by Jay @ 10/12/2003 09:14 PM PST


Something tells me that South Park - Bigger, Longer & Uncut isn't the sort of film your friend is looking for.

The films in my own collection that are most life-affirming include Meet Joe Black and Four Weddings and a Funeral. It's too bad the recent production with Newman of Our Town isn't available...yet. Good production of the play, and well filmed.

By coincidence, these three titles all have something in common: they are life-affirming by dealing, at least in part, with death. So maybe, just maybe, the South Park movie fits the category after all! Sweet!

Posted by S. Woody White @ 10/12/2003 10:30 PM PST


Der Brucer just added another title to the list: Harold and Maude!

Posted by S. Woody White @ 10/12/2003 10:34 PM PST


Sorry I missed the chat tonight... Sorry for not even checking in as promised. I was busy supping and participating in some sparkling - and sometimes scandalous (gossip) - conversation. We just kept talking and laughing and talking and laughing... Next thing we knew, it was 11:00! What a great day this has been!

DR Jay: Liptauer - or liptauer cheese - is more of a spread/dip, rather than a cheese. But it is made up of cheese. There are a couple of variations, but it's main ingredients are cream cheese, butter(!), paprika, capers and caraway. Some recipes use cottage cheese. It's Hungarian, and has a nice "bite" to it - soooo good on pumpernickel and bagel... or a pumpernickel bagel! My piano teacher would serve it her receptions and parties, and the deli by my apartment makes a nice version. To my taste buds, it kind of tastes like blue cheese, if blue cheese was creamy.

Well... I'm off to bed... Sweet dreams everyone.

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 10/12/2003 11:49 PM PST


>>Actually, I'd like to see "gay" come back into our vocabulary to mean what it once did: light-hearted and cheerful, happy and full of fun.>>

Whenever anyone voices that desire I offer to keep "gay" but give back "faggot" so they'll have something traditional to call their bundle of sticks.

Richard Valley
www.scarletstreet.com

Posted by Richard Valley @ 10/13/2003 12:17 AM PST


DR's SWW and Jay - Thank you for your suggestions! (Yes, Jay, it's a course FOR adults, although the other one sounds interesting.) I think FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL fits the bill perfectly.
DR Jose C.S. - I love liptauer! Another variation is "körözöt" which is also yummy.

Posted by Panni @ 10/13/2003 06:03 AM PST


Sorry, I missed the chat, but i got home late from work and then really needed to eat.

Yesterday my CD of choice at the store was of course, "Jeepers Creepers." This way, a number of people got to enjoy it. (Although most people don't even pay attention to such things. Only a few people noticed when I played Christmas music in August. I, on the other hand, love it when I'm in a store or restaurant and hear something unusual or obscure.)

More thoughts on "Jeepers Creepers" later. Suffice it to say that I love it.

Posted by Kerry @ 10/13/2003 06:36 AM PST


Is there something wrong with the new radio show? I clicked on the title as usual and got a blank screen. I opened read player manually (it usually opens automatically) and still got nothing. Thanks.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 10/13/2003 07:53 AM PST


Liptauer sounds yummy. I'll have to look for it at the store.

Posted by Jay @ 10/13/2003 08:38 AM PST


"Hello all!

The new Broadway Radio Show is loaded, but that part of the server still seems to be not working. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon and available for your listening pleasure.

Donald"

Posted by TO WEL @ 10/13/2003 08:38 AM PST


What?

Posted by Jrand53 @ 10/13/2003 08:58 AM PST





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