Quote from: JMK on February 03, 2009, 03:56:19 PMQuote from: td on February 03, 2009, 03:18:41 PMSo, no one has mentioned that the long-awaited dvd of YENTL has arrived. . . . .It just ended up in my review queue this morning, so I'll probably get it by week's end. I must say, I don't hate the film as much as some here seem to, and I actually quite like the score.I like the movie YENTL, but then I like Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, and several other performers that seem to be fair-game for snide comments.
Quote from: td on February 03, 2009, 03:18:41 PMSo, no one has mentioned that the long-awaited dvd of YENTL has arrived. . . . .It just ended up in my review queue this morning, so I'll probably get it by week's end. I must say, I don't hate the film as much as some here seem to, and I actually quite like the score.
So, no one has mentioned that the long-awaited dvd of YENTL has arrived. . . . .
DAW:Quote from: Tomovoz on Today at 06:20:51 PMWell maybe that's because it has been available for about 4 years here. Yes, but not THE DIRECTOR'S CUT with commentary, rehearsal footage, etc., etc.
Quote from: TCB on February 03, 2009, 04:15:47 PMQuote from: JMK on February 03, 2009, 03:56:19 PMQuote from: td on February 03, 2009, 03:18:41 PMSo, no one has mentioned that the long-awaited dvd of YENTL has arrived. . . . .It just ended up in my review queue this morning, so I'll probably get it by week's end. I must say, I don't hate the film as much as some here seem to, and I actually quite like the score.I like the movie YENTL, but then I like Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, and several other performers that seem to be fair-game for snide comments.Ugh, LENTL! And she was so sure that turkey would get her a best directing Oscar. I still remember the brouhaha when she wasn't nominated. It might have been a good movie in someone else's hands. I love what I've read by Isaac Bashevis Singer. His wonderful play TEIBELE AND HER DEMON was one of the most beautiful flops I've ever seen: great cast, direction, design, music, and the critics killed it.
Quote from: elmore3003 on February 03, 2009, 04:27:47 PMQuote from: TCB on February 03, 2009, 04:15:47 PMQuote from: JMK on February 03, 2009, 03:56:19 PMQuote from: td on February 03, 2009, 03:18:41 PMSo, no one has mentioned that the long-awaited dvd of YENTL has arrived. . . . .It just ended up in my review queue this morning, so I'll probably get it by week's end. I must say, I don't hate the film as much as some here seem to, and I actually quite like the score.I like the movie YENTL, but then I like Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, and several other performers that seem to be fair-game for snide comments.Ugh, LENTL! And she was so sure that turkey would get her a best directing Oscar. I still remember the brouhaha when she wasn't nominated. It might have been a good movie in someone else's hands. I love what I've read by Isaac Bashevis Singer. His wonderful play TEIBELE AND HER DEMON was one of the most beautiful flops I've ever seen: great cast, direction, design, music, and the critics killed it.To be fair, she did win the Golden Globe for Best Director.
TCB:Quote from: JMK on Today at 06:56:19 PMQuote from: td on Today at 06:18:41 PMSo, no one has mentioned that the long-awaited dvd of YENTL has arrived. . . . .It just ended up in my review queue this morning, so I'll probably get it by week's end. I must say, I don't hate the film as much as some here seem to, and I actually quite like the score.I like the movie YENTL, but then I like Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, and several other performers that seem to be fair-game for snide comments.
DR JMK - a long ago reference, but we had eight Rainbow Lorikeets feeding here today. That is not usual for them to be on the seed bowls. We also had 13 King parrots earlier - new families!As it happens I don't have my camera here. I take a few things to my sister's house for the worst weeks of the bushfire season. We've already had fires in the area - and some still burning.
Quote from: S. Woody White on February 03, 2009, 09:14:39 AMQuote from: Charles Pogue on February 03, 2009, 08:47:33 AMQuote from: S. Woody White on February 03, 2009, 07:46:59 AMQuote from: Charles Pogue on February 03, 2009, 07:36:48 AMQuote from: S. Woody White on February 03, 2009, 06:51:50 AMQuote from: elmore3003 on February 03, 2009, 06:23:55 AMhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18324.htmlIsn't his 15 minutes long over? I can't believe the GOP is still showcasing this idiot!It isn't the GOP that is showcasing the guy. Some organization called the Conservative Working Group is doing the showcasing. Only an idiot would confuse the CWG with the GOP.The article says the CWG is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who gather to plot GOP strategy...close enough for me. If the GOP is taking advice from Joe the Plumber, one can plainly see how irrelevant they've become and how they continue to not get it. The future of the party does not lie with cretins like Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin. To embrace them will only continue to marginalize the party.The CWG is a faction within the GOP. They do not represent the party as a whole. Indeed, the only way the CWG is able to get any attention is by hawking a celebrity - if they didn't have JtP coming to their meeting (and you can bet they're paying him to come), no one outside their membership would even take note that a meeting was going on.Further, that whole "plot GOP strategy" doesn't mean they're running the party. It means they're plotting how they're going to try to run the party. Not the same thing at all.No one said they were running the party. But the problem is the Party spends far too much time pandering to the fringe elements of their party rather than the moderate, mainstream voices that actually still know what the core principles of the Party are. As long as they keep listening to the Palins, Plumbers, Limbaughs, one-issue, rigid religious whack-os, and anti-intellectual, uneducated rubes, they're going to get nowhere. You do realize that the new Chairman of the GOP is Michael Steele, right? Joe the Plumber is a publicity stunt. Steele is a highly educated moderate. Steele trumps the lead pipe any day.When Mr. Steele compares stem cell research to Nazi experiments, you wonder how moderate he is. Also when he states the main problem with the Republicans is their marketing rather than their ideas, you wonder just how effective he'll be moving intransigent far right conservatives in the party toward the middle. ...
Quote from: Charles Pogue on February 03, 2009, 08:47:33 AMQuote from: S. Woody White on February 03, 2009, 07:46:59 AMQuote from: Charles Pogue on February 03, 2009, 07:36:48 AMQuote from: S. Woody White on February 03, 2009, 06:51:50 AMQuote from: elmore3003 on February 03, 2009, 06:23:55 AMhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18324.htmlIsn't his 15 minutes long over? I can't believe the GOP is still showcasing this idiot!It isn't the GOP that is showcasing the guy. Some organization called the Conservative Working Group is doing the showcasing. Only an idiot would confuse the CWG with the GOP.The article says the CWG is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who gather to plot GOP strategy...close enough for me. If the GOP is taking advice from Joe the Plumber, one can plainly see how irrelevant they've become and how they continue to not get it. The future of the party does not lie with cretins like Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin. To embrace them will only continue to marginalize the party.The CWG is a faction within the GOP. They do not represent the party as a whole. Indeed, the only way the CWG is able to get any attention is by hawking a celebrity - if they didn't have JtP coming to their meeting (and you can bet they're paying him to come), no one outside their membership would even take note that a meeting was going on.Further, that whole "plot GOP strategy" doesn't mean they're running the party. It means they're plotting how they're going to try to run the party. Not the same thing at all.No one said they were running the party. But the problem is the Party spends far too much time pandering to the fringe elements of their party rather than the moderate, mainstream voices that actually still know what the core principles of the Party are. As long as they keep listening to the Palins, Plumbers, Limbaughs, one-issue, rigid religious whack-os, and anti-intellectual, uneducated rubes, they're going to get nowhere. You do realize that the new Chairman of the GOP is Michael Steele, right? Joe the Plumber is a publicity stunt. Steele is a highly educated moderate. Steele trumps the lead pipe any day.
Quote from: S. Woody White on February 03, 2009, 07:46:59 AMQuote from: Charles Pogue on February 03, 2009, 07:36:48 AMQuote from: S. Woody White on February 03, 2009, 06:51:50 AMQuote from: elmore3003 on February 03, 2009, 06:23:55 AMhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18324.htmlIsn't his 15 minutes long over? I can't believe the GOP is still showcasing this idiot!It isn't the GOP that is showcasing the guy. Some organization called the Conservative Working Group is doing the showcasing. Only an idiot would confuse the CWG with the GOP.The article says the CWG is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who gather to plot GOP strategy...close enough for me. If the GOP is taking advice from Joe the Plumber, one can plainly see how irrelevant they've become and how they continue to not get it. The future of the party does not lie with cretins like Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin. To embrace them will only continue to marginalize the party.The CWG is a faction within the GOP. They do not represent the party as a whole. Indeed, the only way the CWG is able to get any attention is by hawking a celebrity - if they didn't have JtP coming to their meeting (and you can bet they're paying him to come), no one outside their membership would even take note that a meeting was going on.Further, that whole "plot GOP strategy" doesn't mean they're running the party. It means they're plotting how they're going to try to run the party. Not the same thing at all.No one said they were running the party. But the problem is the Party spends far too much time pandering to the fringe elements of their party rather than the moderate, mainstream voices that actually still know what the core principles of the Party are. As long as they keep listening to the Palins, Plumbers, Limbaughs, one-issue, rigid religious whack-os, and anti-intellectual, uneducated rubes, they're going to get nowhere.
Quote from: Charles Pogue on February 03, 2009, 07:36:48 AMQuote from: S. Woody White on February 03, 2009, 06:51:50 AMQuote from: elmore3003 on February 03, 2009, 06:23:55 AMhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18324.htmlIsn't his 15 minutes long over? I can't believe the GOP is still showcasing this idiot!It isn't the GOP that is showcasing the guy. Some organization called the Conservative Working Group is doing the showcasing. Only an idiot would confuse the CWG with the GOP.The article says the CWG is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who gather to plot GOP strategy...close enough for me. If the GOP is taking advice from Joe the Plumber, one can plainly see how irrelevant they've become and how they continue to not get it. The future of the party does not lie with cretins like Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin. To embrace them will only continue to marginalize the party.The CWG is a faction within the GOP. They do not represent the party as a whole. Indeed, the only way the CWG is able to get any attention is by hawking a celebrity - if they didn't have JtP coming to their meeting (and you can bet they're paying him to come), no one outside their membership would even take note that a meeting was going on.Further, that whole "plot GOP strategy" doesn't mean they're running the party. It means they're plotting how they're going to try to run the party. Not the same thing at all.
Quote from: S. Woody White on February 03, 2009, 06:51:50 AMQuote from: elmore3003 on February 03, 2009, 06:23:55 AMhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18324.htmlIsn't his 15 minutes long over? I can't believe the GOP is still showcasing this idiot!It isn't the GOP that is showcasing the guy. Some organization called the Conservative Working Group is doing the showcasing. Only an idiot would confuse the CWG with the GOP.The article says the CWG is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who gather to plot GOP strategy...close enough for me. If the GOP is taking advice from Joe the Plumber, one can plainly see how irrelevant they've become and how they continue to not get it. The future of the party does not lie with cretins like Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin. To embrace them will only continue to marginalize the party.
Quote from: elmore3003 on February 03, 2009, 06:23:55 AMhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18324.htmlIsn't his 15 minutes long over? I can't believe the GOP is still showcasing this idiot!It isn't the GOP that is showcasing the guy. Some organization called the Conservative Working Group is doing the showcasing. Only an idiot would confuse the CWG with the GOP.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18324.htmlIsn't his 15 minutes long over? I can't believe the GOP is still showcasing this idiot!
Quote from: Jane on February 03, 2009, 02:28:52 PMQuote from: DERBRUCER on February 03, 2009, 02:04:32 PMQuote from: Matt H. on February 03, 2009, 01:26:59 PMI watched last night's THE CLOSER while I ate lunch.First off, I wasn't fooled for one second concerning the first big reveal. I knew the moment the door was opened what was going on. Some of us have a more "practiced" eye in detecting such subterfuges. For the regular viewer the last thing to cross their mind might be the first to cross ours.der BrucerIt was the first thing Keith said. I'm having this vision....DR Jane is online at HHW.com and reads posts aloud to DH Keith. DH Keith, on occasion, remarks to what has been said. DR Jane, on occasion, passes along said remark.
Quote from: DERBRUCER on February 03, 2009, 02:04:32 PMQuote from: Matt H. on February 03, 2009, 01:26:59 PMI watched last night's THE CLOSER while I ate lunch.First off, I wasn't fooled for one second concerning the first big reveal. I knew the moment the door was opened what was going on. Some of us have a more "practiced" eye in detecting such subterfuges. For the regular viewer the last thing to cross their mind might be the first to cross ours.der BrucerIt was the first thing Keith said.
Quote from: Matt H. on February 03, 2009, 01:26:59 PMI watched last night's THE CLOSER while I ate lunch.First off, I wasn't fooled for one second concerning the first big reveal. I knew the moment the door was opened what was going on. Some of us have a more "practiced" eye in detecting such subterfuges. For the regular viewer the last thing to cross their mind might be the first to cross ours.der Brucer
I watched last night's THE CLOSER while I ate lunch.First off, I wasn't fooled for one second concerning the first big reveal. I knew the moment the door was opened what was going on.
Thank you DR Jane.We are less stressed this year with no dogs. I've also reached the stage where I know "things" can be replaced. Would I really wish to to replace all these CDs and DVDs? I did pack Larry's favourite conductor's "Showboat" and a few collections by Sondheim etc.
It's been a bad week for DVD viewing here:Quantum of SolaceZoolanderYou Don't Mess With ZohanWe at least managed to get to the end of the first one - just to see if there was any story line amid the effects.All in all - three movies that were pointless. I must remember to avoid and Stiller or Sandler movies - no matter who recommends them or provides them. SO BAD and NOT funny in any way.I'm looking forward to "Milk" and "The Diving Bell & The Butterfly" which await viewing.
Quoteall sorts of previous postsYes...."this" kind of dogmatic quackery coming from a representative of the party that gave us the Third Reichian "Homeland Security Agency".
all sorts of previous posts
Has Judy Kaye ever played Rose? Was she good? Or would she be good?
Callie had a blood check this morning. All her levels were normal. My cat sitter said "Isn't it remarkable how quickly she recovered once you switched vets?" anyway, we're going to try to wean her off the prednisolone now. Hope that works out.
Quote from: Laura on February 03, 2009, 04:58:12 PMHas Judy Kaye ever played Rose? Was she good? Or would she be good?I think Judy Kaye can do anything.
T.O.D.CALIGULA - Actually I rather enjoy the film.And speaking of sleaze; that book HOLLYWOOD BABYLON, It's Back (not to be confused with Kenneth Anger's original) is probably one of the sleaziest books I have ever read. I end up taking a shower after every chapter, just to wash the filth off.
Lest DRs think I am viewing pirated el cheapo movies - I have access to a few "for your consideration" discs from a BAFTA source. Hence, "Milk", "Quantum" etc.
Quote from: Tomovoz on February 03, 2009, 05:25:57 PMLest DRs think I am viewing pirated el cheapo movies - I have access to a few "for your consideration" discs from a BAFTA source. Hence, "Milk", "Quantum" etc.BAFTA is sending out consideration discs for You Don't Mess With Zohan?Who knew?
Quote from: Cillaliz on February 03, 2009, 03:51:27 PMCallie had a blood check this morning. All her levels were normal. My cat sitter said "Isn't it remarkable how quickly she recovered once you switched vets?" anyway, we're going to try to wean her off the prednisolone now. Hope that works out. BEST OF VIBES CALLIE CAN GET OFF OF THE PREDNISOLONE!!!CONGRATS ON THE TEST RESULTS!
