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[Jrand73]

Three pieces....

piano, stool, and cover

[Jrand73]

Page Four Superman & Batman dance.

[bk]

Cousin Dee Dee just picked up her book.  And Nick is halfway through and tells me he's really enjoying it - obviously that's very nice to hear.

[bk]

I'm about to go out to Mystery and Imagination.  They open at noon - although the owners rarely arrive on time, so I'll get there at noon-thirty.

[Jrand73]

Wear your best striped shirt.

[Jrand73]

And your new red baseball cap.

[DERBRUCER]

TEN-PIECE ORCHESTRA!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Hey all you need is a CD Player and two bagpipers.

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

A man boarded a plane with six kids in tow.
 
After they got settled in their seats, a woman sitting across the aisle from him leaned over and asked, "are all these kids yours?"
 
"No," he replied.  "I work for a condom company.  These are customer complaints."

der Brucer (blame Woody, it was an Email to him)

[Jrand73]

Great Scott, that Miss Dorothy had quite an active social life.

http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/589/Dorothy+Provine/index.html

I don't think this is a membership site.....

[elmore3003]

Great Scott, that Miss Dorothy had quite an active social life.

http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/589/Dorothy+Provine/index.html

I don't think this is a membership site.....

You'd think she was a client of Henry Willson's!

[elmore3003]

On my way to the pharmacy, I ran into Paolo Szot, who was on his way to SOUTH PACIFIC. What a nice man!

[JMK]

Short and fast Robert Vaughn, LOL.

[Jrand73]

LOL I thought that was pretty funny, too, DR JMK.

[JMK]

Sometimes (actually oft-times) eBay drives me crazy.  I bid for and won an Incognito CD which had a shipping price of $3.  When the invoice arrived, the shipping was $6.  I emailed the seller saying as soon as he sent me an invoice with a $3 shipping charge, I'd pay.  Meanwhile, everytime I go to pay for something else, that item crops up on a combined PayPal invoice, so I need to remove it.  And there is NO way to contact eBay customer service (such as it is) without having paid for the item.  So I guess I have to wait until he files an unpaid item claim (if he dares, LOL) to get this removed.  Oy.

[Jrand73]

Yes PayPal/Ebay can be a circus with NO ONE in charge.

[George]

Early anniversary wishes for Druxy and Sandy

Ditto!!

[Matt H.]

DR Jennifer, I think the producers of GLEE are trying their damndest to mix things up to keep the show fresh and full of surprises. Having Kurt and Mercedes front and center last night instead of Rachel and Finn was a nice start. When they have a big guest star, that usually means an episode with more solos and duets and fewer group numbers. That' the nature of the beast. I'm grateful there's a show called GLEE and will take whatever they offer me.

You cannot and must not expect the same thing in every episode.

[Matt H.]

There was either a Streisand special with Bacharach or a Bacharach special with Streisand where they discussed how Burt first offered One Less Bell to Streisand before the 5th Dimension.  She didn't like the bridge, IIRC.

I don't remember that discussion, but I remember the special with Burt playing piano as Streisand sang.   I WANT THAT SPECIAL ON DVD AND I WANT IT NOW!

Isn't that BARBRA STREISAND AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS? Isn't that available on DVD?

[Matt H.]

What did they say about Frances?

I was at the UW from 1959-63, so she was really there before anybody's time.

But, I did have a high school drama teacher who often spoke very highly of her.

Actually, I was not that aware of Frances' work until many years later when I read a book about her (don't recall the title) and saw the movie with Jessica Lange, who should have won the Oscar that year.  Aside from COME AND GET IT, the only movies of her's that I've seen are FLOWING GOLD and SON OF FURY.

So few are available.

Against Meryl Streep in SOPHIE'S CHOICE? Not in my opinion.

[Matt H.]

What a strange night on AMERICAN IDOL last night. The two best singers Crystal and Lee gave the weakest performances of the night, and the weakest singer left in the competition Aaron gave one of the strongest performances. I still think either Aaron or Casey will go home, but both of them did fine last night. Michael gave the evening's best vocal in my opinion.

[Matt H.]

I rewatched the Richard Alpert-LOST episode with the wonderful squeegees, and I love how they show how many references to past episodes in the show are contained in these episodes. Also when these pop-ups make clear what the revelations are that are being presented, it helps organize the facts separately from the opinions in my own mind. Glad I recorded it.

[Ron Pulliam]

And speaking of McGlinn... Well, sort of...

I just saw this over on Playbill.com:

Len Cariou and Jason Danieley Join Broadway Concert of Brigadoon

Alas, then I read this:

"A ten-piece orchestra, Broadway stars and 40-member chorus are expected."

TEN-PIECE ORCHESTRA!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

And they are count the cymbals as two...

There must be a bagpipe or two in there, mustn't there? 

[Matt H.]

Then I watched today's work project, the first of the five Oshima films in the Criterion box set I'll be reviewing. This was called PLEASURES OF THE FLESH. It was a not altogether uninteresting story of greed and lust and wastefulness. And it concluded with a series of TWILIGHT ZONE-like surprise revelations for the main character bringing to story to a multi-ironic conclusion.

The Eclipse line of releases features films that have not been restored or remastered for disc, but this looked quite good if a bit brown in their color timing. The sound was a bit hissy and fluttery, however.

It's nice there are no special features with these, so I can just watch the film and I'm done with it.

[Matt H.]

More Criterion review copies came in the mail today: both the DVD and Blu-ray versions of STAGECOACH. It doesn't come out until the 25th, so I won't get to either of these until late next week, I'm guessing.

[Ron Pulliam]

What did they say about Frances?

I was at the UW from 1959-63, so she was really there before anybody's time.

But, I did have a high school drama teacher who often spoke very highly of her.

Actually, I was not that aware of Frances' work until many years later when I read a book about her (don't recall the title) and saw the movie with Jessica Lange, who should have won the Oscar that year.  Aside from COME AND GET IT, the only movies of her's that I've seen are FLOWING GOLD and SON OF FURY.

So few are available.

Against Meryl Streep in SOPHIE'S CHOICE? Not in my opinion.

And if Meryl had lost, not against Julie Andrews in "Victor, Victoria" (a film which should have won BOTH supporting actor Oscars that year)!

[Matt H.]

Since I knew I wanted to save my rewatching of last night's GLEE for tonight, I decided to rewatch one of the episodes from earlier in the season from the box set I reviewed back in December. I rewatched "Hairography," which was the episode that had the very beautiful version of "Imagine" with the deaf choir, and the group singing the magical "True Colors" (where we heard Tina's big voice for the first time). We also got our first glimpse of the Jane Adams girls with Eve as their faculty advisor.

[Matt H.]

What did they say about Frances?

I was at the UW from 1959-63, so she was really there before anybody's time.

But, I did have a high school drama teacher who often spoke very highly of her.

Actually, I was not that aware of Frances' work until many years later when I read a book about her (don't recall the title) and saw the movie with Jessica Lange, who should have won the Oscar that year.  Aside from COME AND GET IT, the only movies of her's that I've seen are FLOWING GOLD and SON OF FURY.

So few are available.

Against Meryl Streep in SOPHIE'S CHOICE? Not in my opinion.

And if Meryl had lost, not against Julie Andrews in "Victor, Victoria" (a film which should have won BOTH supporting actor Oscars that year)!

I certainly agree with you, especially since the aforementioned Ms. Lange won the supporting Oscar for TOOTSIE, a rather average performance.

[Matt H.]

What didn't come into today were my Blu-ray copies of OUT OF AFRICA and APOLLO 13. Decidedly disappointing. However, Robert Harris was very critical of the transfer for OUT OF AFRICA and others have said they didn't think it looked as good as the DVD. Of course, I'll make up my own mind when my copy finally gets here.

[Ron Pulliam]

There was either a Streisand special with Bacharach or a Bacharach special with Streisand where they discussed how Burt first offered One Less Bell to Streisand before the 5th Dimension.  She didn't like the bridge, IIRC.

I don't remember that discussion, but I remember the special with Burt playing piano as Streisand sang.   I WANT THAT SPECIAL ON DVD AND I WANT IT NOW!

Isn't that BARBRA STREISAND AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS? Isn't that available on DVD?

No, it was "Singer Presents Burt Bacharach", and Barbra was one of the guest stars (and stole the show).  It was just before "Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments" (which I believe is on DVD).

[Matt H.]

I had time to skim through today's AS THE WORLD TURNS. The boys were all on. Reid and Luke twice got interrupted before something serious could be started (how coincidental is THAT?) and Noah is now ready to be forgiving and loving now that Luke is showing interest in someone else. A little too convenient for me.

Naturally, they jsut start to build up the triangle, and then the trio is NOT on tomorrow in the previews. Stupid, idiot scheduling of burgeoning storylines!