Hey, Kevin, sounds like you had a good time. But then you were in Ireland and England. How could you NOT have a good time?!
Opening night break-a-leg vibes to DR JRand and the cast & crew of BLITHE SPIRIT!!!
Thanks, DRGinny-I hope you have a nice weekend away.
And the word of the day is: CONGERIES!
TOD - I'm sure there are many mistakes that I wish I could do over. While it's not great to dwell on them, I'll share one: Giving up working on a production of Ragtime in order to MD a production of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Turned out to be the most frustrating show I've worked on in a long time. The director (and his partner who was the so-called Choreographer) were just too young and too clueless for the material. We had 4 fabulous actors that thank goodness had brains in their heads and basically pulled off the show in their own right. Oh, and the sound designer and I almost came to blows on several occasions over his inability to DO HIS JOB!! The production of Ragtime was beautiful and made me cry several times - and not because the material was moving!!
Welcome back home, DR KevinH!
BK, glad you liked "Dragon Tattoo." I felt like you did, that the pacing was wonderful even though the movie was long. Perhaps some of the reaction to the violence was that it was a woman exacting revenge on a man. There is a double standard, even if most people don't want to recognize it -- and that was one of the points of the book and the movie.
re: the movie THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON? TATTOO and BK's review.
It is extremely violent. Not the kind of violence in most movies. But still the kind that would make many people uncomfortable to watch.
I loved the books. And really liked the movies. And the story has a lot of violence. So obviously they had to include it. But I don't think that you should say that people who found it too violent don't know what they are saying. Maybe I have a problem with people who dismiss it simply because of the violence.. But to me the movie is still undeniably violent. And not for anyone under 18.
There is nothing NOTHING that could make me be interested in reading a book OR seeing a movie called THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO......just as I have avoided THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS and THE SECRETS OF THE YA YA SISTERHOOD....
NOTHING!!!
And just to be clear - I HATE and LOATHE movies with explicit violent action.
And just to be clear - I HATE and LOATHE movies with explicit violent action.
There is no explicit violence like those things you listed above. GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is a different kind of violence. Btw, i'm curious if you and DR Jand watched it dubbed or with English subtitles. I'm curious if the dubbing is any good.
I'm also curious about people's enjoyment if they've read the book vs not having read the book. I knew what was going to happen. So it was different.
There is nothing NOTHING that could make me be interested in reading a book OR seeing a movie called THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO......just as I have avoided THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS and THE SECRETS OF THE YA YA SISTERHOOD....
NOTHING!!!
I wouldn't not read a book because of the title. But I actually love the title "the girl with the dragon tattoo". It's one of my favorite titles.
TOD:
I would have continued dating that doctor.
Thanks, DRGinny-I hope you have a nice weekend away.
Thank you, DR KevinH - we're going to see DR Elmore in Canton, OH.
the original Full Score and Vocal Score for the first version of MADAME BUTTERFLY, which is a harsher version than the one normally performed.
the original Full Score and Vocal Score for the first version of MADAME BUTTERFLY, which is a harsher version than the one normally performed.
"Harsher" in dramatic content or "Harsher" in musical execution?
der Brucer
Dramatic context; Pinkerton's a complete sexist bigot with no final aria. There are a lot of minor changes as well.
..those that dare....
Thanks, DRGinny-I hope you have a nice weekend away.
Thank you, DR KevinH - we're going to see DR Elmore in Canton, OH.
Bring extra money. I may need a loan to get back to Manhattan!
Thanks, DRGinny-I hope you have a nice weekend away.
Thank you, DR KevinH - we're going to see DR Elmore in Canton, OH.
Bring extra money. I may need a loan to get back to Manhattan!
LOL, DR Elmore! Will it help if we feed you while we're there?
Dramatic context; Pinkerton's a complete sexist bigot with no final aria. There are a lot of minor changes as well.
Well, Pinkerton expressing the giref he will have to bear does show "consequences".
Is the "harsher" version the Two Act Opera he later revised to three?
Last night I commented that I wouldn't want to watch an amazon download if i had to watch it on my computer.
DR TCB asked why.
Cause my tv is MUCH bigger than my computer screen!
There is nothing NOTHING that could make me be interested in reading a book OR seeing a movie called THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO......just as I have avoided THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS and THE SECRETS OF THE YA YA SISTERHOOD....
NOTHING!!!
Opening night break-a-leg vibes to DR JRand and the cast & crew of BLITHE SPIRIT!!!
BK et Al
The Second Movie in The Series Opens Tomorrow
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
And just to be clear - I HATE and LOATHE movies with explicit violent action.
There is no explicit violence like those things you listed above. GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is a different kind of violence. Btw, i'm curious if you and DR Jand watched it dubbed or with English subtitles. I'm curious if the dubbing is any good.
I'm also curious about people's enjoyment if they've read the book vs not having read the book. I knew what was going to happen. So it was different.
We can still talk on the phone, eat dinner, put on make up, read the paper, watch tv....do anything but text
There is nothing NOTHING that could make me be interested in reading a book OR seeing a movie called THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO......just as I have avoided THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS and THE SECRETS OF THE YA YA SISTERHOOD....
NOTHING!!!
BK et Al
The Second Movie in The Series Opens Tomorrow
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
And just to be clear - I HATE and LOATHE movies with explicit violent action.
There is no explicit violence like those things you listed above. GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is a different kind of violence. Btw, i'm curious if you and DR Jand watched it dubbed or with English subtitles. I'm curious if the dubbing is any good.
I'm also curious about people's enjoyment if they've read the book vs not having read the book. I knew what was going to happen. So it was different.
Ah, the dubbing - I forgot to mention it in the notes, so thanks for bringing it up. I watched the film in Swedish with subtitles - easy to read and follow and that's the only way I'll watch a foreign film anyway. After, I switched over to the dubbed track to see what it was like - HORRENDOUSLY BAD. Especially whoever voiced the lead guy is terrible. The girl isn't much better, and it's just a typical 1960s-like terrible foreign film dub - it should be avoided like the plague.
BK et Al
The Second Movie in The Series Opens Tomorrow
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
Same cast?
And just to be clear - I HATE and LOATHE movies with explicit violent action.
There is no explicit violence like those things you listed above. GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is a different kind of violence. Btw, i'm curious if you and DR Jand watched it dubbed or with English subtitles. I'm curious if the dubbing is any good.
I'm also curious about people's enjoyment if they've read the book vs not having read the book. I knew what was going to happen. So it was different.
If you watch it again I suggest you watch it with English subtitles and experience the actors voices. Cilla is correct that these subtitles are easier than most.
Keith, like Bruce, had not read the book. He gave the movie five stars.
I had been nervous about the casting and how I would feel about the two leads. Now it is difficult to imagine anyone else in the roles.
DR Jane does Keith want to read the book now?
So Paul said they found a partially finished 4th novel in Sieg Larsson's computer when he died. Is that a rumor or is it true?
Jennifer it is possible the French dubbing is better than the English.
The Girl Who Played With Fire may be a bit more violent....but the trailer for the first one looked like it would be more violent
This is for the second movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9G4GiUxJek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9G4GiUxJek)
The Girl Who Played With Fire may be a bit more violent....but the trailer for the first one looked like it would be more violent
This is for the second movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9G4GiUxJek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9G4GiUxJek)
So Paul said they found a partially finished 4th novel in Sieg Larsson's computer when he died. Is that a rumor or is it true?
True. Don't expect to ever read it.
The Girl Who Played With Fire may be a bit more violent....but the trailer for the first one looked like it would be more violent
This is for the second movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9G4GiUxJek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9G4GiUxJek)
So Paul said they found a partially finished 4th novel in Sieg Larsson's computer when he died. Is that a rumor or is it true?
Legally Gabrielsson has no claim, but she has asserted a kind of moral entitlement. She also has a crucial piece of the Larsson legacy: a laptop computer containing roughly three-quarters of a fourth novel.
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As for the novel on the laptop, she said she hoped that it would never be published. “They have made enough money, which is their main objective,” she said, referring to the Larssons. But the manuscript is her only bargaining chip, and she may be in the best position to know what needs to be done to make the text publishable. John-Henri Holmberg has guessed that because of the way Larsson wrote, often working on more than one book at a time, there may be a fair amount of outline and even actual text for a fifth book and possibly a sixth. The computer files are an enormously valuable property, because of readers’ appetites for more Larsson and because, as Scott Rudin suggested to me, of the movie potential. At the moment, film producers have rights to only the three published novels. A new contract could conceivably liberate Blomkvist and Salander from books altogether and allow them, like James Bond, to go on having movie adventures indefinitely.
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DR MBarnum, how is DD Bosco?
DR MBarnum, how is DD Bosco?
He is holding on. I got him to eat yesterday and Tuesday, but he wouldn't eat this morning. Thanks for asking.
I have not seen very many Swedish films, so I am sort of intrigued by the discussion of the dragon tattooed girl. However, I may just wait for the Bollywood version. I prefer musical numbers in my violent revenge dramas.
Pasadena Playhouse emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy
July 8, 2010 | 9:16 am
The Pasadena Playhouse said it emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday after a court in Los Angeles approved the theater company's plans for reorganization. The company also said that it has received a matching pledge of $1 million by anonymous donors as part of its fundraising efforts.
Since shutting down its main stage in February, the Pasadena Playhouse has been searching for ways to pay down its debt, which recently stood at $2.3 million, most of it owed to subscribers, bankers and vendors.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Stephen Eich, the playhouse's executive director, said that the company has created a plan "to resurrect the Playhouse from years of unbearable debts. Although we will be moving slowly in the future to ensure financial responsibility and stability, we will in fact be back."
The law firm of Munger, Tolles, and Olson LLC is serving as the company's pro-bono legal team, while Alvarez & Marsal is providing pro-bono financial advising. The playhouse had filed a petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in early May.
The $1-million matching pledge comes from a group of anonymous donors, said the playhouse. The company hopes that the announcement will encourage other donors to step forward to match or exceed the $1-million gift.
The company said that plans for a fall 2010 production will be announced at a later date.
But i don't get why she would want to deny people the chance to read the books.
Opening night break-a-leg vibes to DR JRand and the cast & crew of BLITHE SPIRIT!!!
DITTO!!!
However, I may just wait for the Bollywood version. I prefer musical numbers in my violent revenge dramas.
As predicted by you-know who:
LA TIMES (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/07/pasadena-playhouse-emerges-from-chapter-11-bankruptcy.html)
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f225b548970b-500wi)Quote
Pasadena Playhouse emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy
July 8, 2010 | 9:16 am
The Pasadena Playhouse said it emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday after a court in Los Angeles approved the theater company's plans for reorganization. The company also said that it has received a matching pledge of $1 million by anonymous donors as part of its fundraising efforts.
Since shutting down its main stage in February, the Pasadena Playhouse has been searching for ways to pay down its debt, which recently stood at $2.3 million, most of it owed to subscribers, bankers and vendors.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Stephen Eich, the playhouse's executive director, said that the company has created a plan "to resurrect the Playhouse from years of unbearable debts. Although we will be moving slowly in the future to ensure financial responsibility and stability, we will in fact be back."
The law firm of Munger, Tolles, and Olson LLC is serving as the company's pro-bono legal team, while Alvarez & Marsal is providing pro-bono financial advising. The playhouse had filed a petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in early May.
The $1-million matching pledge comes from a group of anonymous donors, said the playhouse. The company hopes that the announcement will encourage other donors to step forward to match or exceed the $1-million gift.
The company said that plans for a fall 2010 production will be announced at a later date.
der Brucer
I'm not really an expert on dubbing.
Because Swedish sounds so complex to my ears.
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f226e4db970b-500wi)
'Sister Act' musical finally heading to Broadway
Following productions in Pasadena, Atlanta and London, the stage musical adaptation of "Sister Act" is finally making its way to Broadway.
The show's producers -- including Whoopi Goldberg, who starred in the 1992 Touchstone Pictures film -- said Thursday that the musical will open in New York in the spring of 2011, but they did not specify an opening date or a theater.
...
Producers said they are planning a Hamburg, Germany, production of "Sister Act" that is set to open in December.
DR MBarnum, how is DD Bosco?
He is holding on. I got him to eat yesterday and Tuesday, but he wouldn't eat this morning. Thanks for asking.
Just hold onto the strength to let him go when it's time.
der Brucer
So Paul said they found a partially finished 4th novel in Sieg Larsson's computer when he died. Is that a rumor or is it true?
You be the judge:
NY TIMES MAGAZINE (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/magazine/23Larsson-t.html?_r=1&ref=general&src=me&pagewanted=all)
Eva Gabrielsson, Larsson's partner, in Stockholm. Excluded in the division of his estate, she still has a coveted possession: an unfinished fourth novel.Quote
Legally Gabrielsson has no claim, but she has asserted a kind of moral entitlement. She also has a crucial piece of the Larsson legacy: a laptop computer containing roughly three-quarters of a fourth novel.
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der Brucer
The link is to a very long detailed article on the author and his life/estate
I don't blame her for holding out. They should have offered her a three way split. This is a perfect example of why people should have wills even if they don't want to think about it. Considering the death threats he received I'm really surprised he didn't have a will.
I don't blame her for holding out. They should have offered her a three way split. This is a perfect example of why people should have wills even if they don't want to think about it. Considering the death threats he received I'm really surprised he didn't have a will.
It's pretty crazy. I was with her until she said that she does not ever want to see the books published.
I could see if she didn't want his dad to get any more money.
The silly thing is the article says that the father and brother don't even care about money.
Out of country try-outs?
LA TIMES (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/07/sister-act-musical-finally-gets-a-broadway-date.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CultureMonster+%28Culture+Monster%29)Quote(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f226e4db970b-500wi)
'Sister Act' musical finally heading to Broadway
Following productions in Pasadena, Atlanta and London, the stage musical adaptation of "Sister Act" is finally making its way to Broadway.
The show's producers -- including Whoopi Goldberg, who starred in the 1992 Touchstone Pictures film -- said Thursday that the musical will open in New York in the spring of 2011, but they did not specify an opening date or a theater.
...
Producers said they are planning a Hamburg, Germany, production of "Sister Act" that is set to open in December.
der Brucer
Last night I commented that I wouldn't want to watch an amazon download if i had to watch it on my computer.
DR TCB asked why.
Cause my tv is MUCH bigger than my computer screen!
Last night I commented that I wouldn't want to watch an amazon download if i had to watch it on my computer.
DR TCB asked why.
Cause my tv is MUCH bigger than my computer screen!
I meant why would you watch it on your computer screen when Nextflix allows you to watch it on your TV screen.
TOD:
I would have gone to college.
I would have interviewed actor William Boyett before he died.
I would have continued dating that doctor.
The only dragon movies I like are those which also feature Hercules, Maciste, or Atlas.
I'm worried about the subsequent two Dragon films since they're directed by different people.
The only dragon movies I like are those which also feature Hercules, Maciste, or Atlas.
........... and Pete!
But i don't get why she would want to deny people the chance to read the books.
I suspect this is the cry of a women being scorned - enough money will probably ease the pain. (...and a deal that would include her in the creative process!)
der Brucer
Ms Becca Luker was as lovely as ever. We had a great Victor Herbert rehearsal, and she seems happy with all her song assignments. Then she and I walked up Broadwat from 73rd Street to the 86th Street subway, catching up and gossiping. I do love her.
And the good news is that the McGlinn estate sent me a check today for last month's work. Thank you, Jesus!
And the good news is that the McGlinn estate sent me a check today for last month's work. Thank you, Jesus!
YEAH!!!
Time to go water the garden. It's only going to be in the upper 50s tonight. We really haven't had a hot summer and i hope it stays this way!!
We are trading ten healthy spies for 4 damaged ones. I think we should receive a credit to use at at a future date.
JMK - that's pretty funny - can he come to the event in Portland?
JMK - that's pretty funny - can he come to the event in Portland?
November - don't you read this here site? :)
There's a great quote to go under your posts.
...And the good news is that the McGlinn estate sent me a check today for last month's work. Thank you, Jesus!
The postal code starts with H1Y (there are tons of streets with this). And it says that part of the name contains a nationality.
Yeah. It's hardly been over 110 here.
Time served for being a Russian spy? They must not have any evidence