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« Reply #120 on: November 20, 2004, 08:06:17 PM »
Forgot to say Happy Birthday to Cherry Jones - loved her in Cradle Will Rock!

I'm about to call it a night.  Today was my Saturday to work and the library was very busy.  Kids doing school reports on California, North Carolina, and (my favorite) the preteen who had to have a 200-page biography of "anybody."  When we couldn't locate the bio of Lucy Lawless she wanted, she changed her topic to Charles Schulz.  Also, a woman called for books on fixing your own water heater, but she didn't know if it's gas or electric.  Hate to think how that might turn out!
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« Reply #121 on: November 20, 2004, 08:07:00 PM »
Quote from: elmore3003 on November 20, 2004, 07:46:57 PM
Well, DRJRand54, you're quite welcome!  I'm sorry it took so long.

When a certain star was doing THE RINK, after shows she'd hang out at the West Bank, a restaurant at Manhattan Plaza (43rd and 9th), so stoned that she'd stay way past closing, as she was friendly with the owner, keeping the staff on call until she left.  They said she never left a tip and they all loathed her.

Well, this is definitely not charitable to make those nasty comments about.... Jason Alexander! Really! :D
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« Reply #122 on: November 20, 2004, 08:11:38 PM »
Ok, I must be tired.  I can't spell worth a hoot, even I cab't make heads or tails of the post I made about tipping and I posted something and it's not here.

Time to say good night.

Have a good evening all!  
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« Reply #123 on: November 20, 2004, 08:13:09 PM »
I did manage to squeeze in a dvd today.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I rank Robert Wise very high on my favorite directors list.
Mind you, I still haven't seen ROOFTOPS, but, tonight I have witnessed AUDREY ROSE.
Everyone is entitled to a flop every once in a while, but whatever drew Wise to this story?  This is the same man who directed the moving and spine-tingling THE HAUNTING.  With AUDREY ROSE, he tackles reincarnation and it takes a lifetime for anything thing truly interesting to happen.
Can't fault the actors, Marsha Mason, as always, is a fine actress.
Anthony Hopkins foreshadows his SILENCE OF THE LAMBS characterization.
Still the film sits there like so much fish!
And, Wise, who worked so well with children in THE SOUND OF MUSIC couldn't get a believable vocal performance of the young actress in this.  There are a few moments when she physically makes the right choices, but, it's little wonder Susan Swift rarely worked after this.
Maybe some other DR has seen this and has another opinion. . .


Oh, TOD-wise, there are beautiful paintings on the ceilings of the apartment in the film.
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« Reply #124 on: November 20, 2004, 08:14:10 PM »
Quote from: elmore3003 on November 20, 2004, 07:56:45 PM
I've just returned from Almodovar's new film BAD EDUCATION,  which I enjoyed immensely.  It reminded me in many ways of WRITER'S BLOCK, twists, turns, a little Hitchcock and a score that reminded me at times of Bernard Herrmann.  Quite a wonderful film.

Ain't Gael Bernal a terrific actor and so nice on the eye?????

He's also faboo in Motorcycle Diaries which I recommend to all!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0305558/
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« Reply #125 on: November 20, 2004, 08:14:38 PM »
[quote author=Jane

It has been awhile and I’m not an expert on Monet so there may be errors in this story.  While in Paris, I believe at the Louvre, we went into a very large room in the basement to see the exhibit of Monet’s ponds.  I could have spent hours in there, four walls containing scenes which, if connected would have made one large painting.  The paintings came to life before my eyes.  As with most people in there I kept moving around the room, alternating between standing and sitting.  We were very lucky it wasn’t crowded that day.


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Monet's pond - October 2004
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« Reply #126 on: November 20, 2004, 08:21:53 PM »
Thank you Tomovoz.  You were at the ponds, not just the paintings-beautiful.  My next trip to France.
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« Reply #127 on: November 20, 2004, 08:25:59 PM »
Who has gone out with friends or family where they paid and left the tip, and then you had to sneak back and leave an additional tip?  I have done that too many times.  Usually because I didn’t feel the tip was enough, but on several occasions out of embarrassment for the small tip in relationships to the obnoxious demand for service above and beyond the call of duty.  Obnoxious is the key word here.
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« Reply #128 on: November 20, 2004, 08:27:48 PM »
Jeu des Pommes in Paris. You fee like you've died and gone to Impressionist heaven.
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« Reply #129 on: November 20, 2004, 08:29:16 PM »
Thanks for renting GIFT OF LOVE, Jane and Larry. It's no masterpiece, but it has some sweet moments.
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« Reply #130 on: November 20, 2004, 08:29:50 PM »
I am SO sleepy!!!!
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« Reply #131 on: November 20, 2004, 08:34:40 PM »
Quote from: Panni on November 20, 2004, 08:27:48 PM
Jeu des Pommes in Paris. You fee like you've died and gone to Impressionist heaven.

Panni, I believe you mean Jeu de Paume, since it has nothing to do with apples nor jus de pommes!

http://www.museums-of-paris.com/musee_fr.php?code=396
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« Reply #132 on: November 20, 2004, 08:37:12 PM »
Quote from: Jane on November 20, 2004, 08:25:59 PM
Who has gone out with friends or family where they paid and left the tip, and then you had to sneak back and leave an additional tip?  I have done that too many times.  Usually because I didn’t feel the tip was enough, but on several occasions out of embarrassment for the small tip in relationships to the obnoxious demand for service above and beyond the call of duty.  Obnoxious is the key word here.

I do it all the time, Jane!
Lately, with all the rigamarole involved in getting Mum, her straightened leg, walker and wheelchair into a van to go out, it's become easier for me to just take the bill,  calculate a fine tip and hand it over to the server myself whilst everyone else is making their way back to the van.
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« Reply #133 on: November 20, 2004, 08:38:11 PM »
Jeu de Paume.... Continued.

We're SO cultural here! LOL!

http://www.metropoleparis.com/2000/542/542paume.html
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« Reply #134 on: November 20, 2004, 08:42:07 PM »
Quote from: td on November 20, 2004, 08:13:09 PM
Mind you, I still haven't seen ROOFTOPS, but, tonight I have witnessed AUDREY ROSE.

AUDREY ROSE makes ROOFTOPS look like WEST SIDE STORY!
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« Reply #135 on: November 20, 2004, 08:43:04 PM »
I just discovered something truly wonderful!
I took a bunch of cds to the trading post this afternoon, where I picked up an Ella & Louis cd, Paul Simon's remastered THERE GOES RHYMIN' SIMON, The Wolfman Legacy Collection, John Badham's DRACULA and the aforementioned AUDREY ROSE.  
Well, one of the other things I found was an Australia pressing of a Janis Ian compilation entitled UP TIL NOW (in the used bin, for $5.00).
I just now opened it up to read the liner notes, and lo, and behold -  page two contains the following, in black marking pen:

To Michael (via Bill) Janis Ian

WOW!
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« Reply #136 on: November 20, 2004, 08:43:14 PM »
Quote from: Jason on November 20, 2004, 12:56:25 PM
...but then he started telling me about how he doesn't tip waiters in restaurants, or anyone else for that matter, regardless of the service he receives. He likened it to throwing away money....He said that if waiters needed the money that the restaurants should pay them a regular salary instead of ripping his hard-earned money out of his pocket....
It's a sad fact of life, that a lot of jerkholes out there think that service people are in those jobs because they're dumber than the people using the services.  Been there, been sha! upon, lots of times.  These people never seem to understand that, if the restaurateurs were to pay their staff that "regular salary," they, the customers, would never be able to afford their dinners, at least not at the prices they are used to.

Since you're also a clerk in the non-tipping areas, you're obviously aware of how this attitude applies in those businesses.

I got this kind of attitude a lot, before I retired.  After twenty-three years, I was going through a final burn-out.  And there's nothing that can be done about these jerkholes, because they will never learn that they couldn't survive without us.

Skammen is right.
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« Reply #137 on: November 20, 2004, 08:43:16 PM »
Quote from: Panni on November 20, 2004, 08:29:16 PM
Thanks for renting GIFT OF LOVE, Jane and Larry. It's no masterpiece, but it has some sweet moments.

DRPanni, I'm no masterpiece either, just a classic ruin.
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« Reply #138 on: November 20, 2004, 08:44:21 PM »
Quote from: François de Paris on November 20, 2004, 08:38:11 PM
Jeu de Paume.... Continued.

We're SO cultural here! LOL!

http://www.metropoleparis.com/2000/542/542paume.html

In my younger days I thought it was JUs de Pomme
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« Reply #139 on: November 20, 2004, 08:44:45 PM »
Quote from: elmore3003 on November 20, 2004, 08:42:07 PM
AUDREY ROSE makes ROOFTOPS look like WEST SIDE STORY!

Really? ? ?   Now I simply have to see ROOFTOPS!   ;)
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« Reply #140 on: November 20, 2004, 08:44:54 PM »


By the way, DRPanni, I saw no photos of the guest room?

How did I do that?
« Last Edit: November 20, 2004, 08:47:22 PM by elmore3003 »
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« Reply #141 on: November 20, 2004, 08:44:59 PM »
Quote from: François de Paris on November 20, 2004, 08:34:40 PM
Panni, I believe you mean Jeu de Paume, since it has nothing to do with apples nor jus de pommes!

Merci, Francois! Je pense that my mind is in one of the moving boxes that hasn't been unpacked.
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« Reply #142 on: November 20, 2004, 08:47:10 PM »
Quote from: elmore3003 on November 20, 2004, 08:44:54 PM
By the way, DRPanni, I saw no photos of the guest room?

How COULD I forget?! Coming up.
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« Reply #143 on: November 20, 2004, 08:50:43 PM »
Quote from: Michael Shayne on November 20, 2004, 08:44:21 PM
In my younger days I thought it was JUs de Pomme

But it IS jus de pomme and here Game of Palm (paume) of the hand! :D

That's so confusing right!
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« Reply #144 on: November 20, 2004, 08:51:55 PM »
Rooftops in musicals: America in West Side Story and There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This in Sweet Charity
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« Reply #145 on: November 20, 2004, 08:55:59 PM »
Quote from: François de Paris on November 20, 2004, 08:50:43 PM
But it IS jus de pomme and here Game of Palm (paume) of the hand! :D

That's so confusing right!

But Jus de Pomme is "Apple Juice". Why is a museum called that?
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« Reply #146 on: November 20, 2004, 08:58:42 PM »
Quote from: Michael Shayne on November 20, 2004, 08:51:55 PM
Rooftops in musicals: America in West Side Story and There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This in Sweet Charity

What about STEP IN TIME in Mary Poppins?
Over 8 minutes of the most exhilarating dancing on rooftops!
Never surpassed! :D
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« Reply #147 on: November 20, 2004, 09:01:45 PM »
Quote from: Michael Shayne on November 20, 2004, 08:55:59 PM
But Jus de Pomme is "Apple Juice". Why is a museum called that?

Michael, do check the link! :)

You'll get the answer!

It is JEU -- not JUS! -- de PAUME -- not pomme!
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« Reply #148 on: November 20, 2004, 09:03:10 PM »
For DR Elmore - the guestroom (Abie's the guest at the moment)...
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« Reply #149 on: November 20, 2004, 09:09:32 PM »
Quote from: François de Paris on November 20, 2004, 09:01:45 PM
Michael, do check the link! :)

You'll get the answer!

It is JEU -- not JUS! -- de PAUME -- not pomme!
 :D

Okay I misunderstood. I just wanted to say when I was younger I thought that was the name of the musee. And could not understand why a building would be called Apple Juice. Of course later I found out it was Jeu de Paume!
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