Haines His Way

Good for you, Slingclaw!  Give 'em heck!

TOD:

Home CD:  Xanadu, Maltby & Shire's Take Flight
Car CD:  Young Frankenstein, Wicked German Cast, and A New Brain German Cast [taking after DR George!   ]

Wasn't that an exciting story?

"And then he jumped up on the table and barked at me."
(A DR Sandra reference)

I had no idea that greater Phoenix could get cold enough to burst pipes.

Well I'll be!

Weird site - can anyone see any way of contacting the site?  

HERE

Anyone who wants to contribute a scanned image (you keep the original) of non-copyrighted pictures, menus, postcards or match books, please send them to me as a jpeg email attachment to  latimema@latimemachines.com (or just feel free to recount your memories of these places!).

der Brucer

For those people on other websites who are still trying to say that the box-office of Sweeney is somehow stellar and that the marketing department has never tried to hide the fact that it's a musical, check out the latest ads - there's a full-page in the LA Weekly - the banner across the top of the ad is one of the worst adlines I've ever seen - THE PASSION OF SWEENEY TODD.  Then there's Depp, standing there with that holster thing that makes the film seem like a western.  No mention of Mr. Sondheim, singing or anything else.  No quotes.  And a border around the entire ad that looks like something out of Tim Burtonland.  If a film is performing up to and over expectations they do NOT change the ad campaign.  If it isn't, they do - it's also dropped from two Arclight Theaters to one.

I'll see it tomorrow at six and can't wait.

And don't call me surely!    

Well, you sure can dress the part

der Brucer

Nothing to say, but it would be unseemly to leave without posting something.

You flew transcontinental in one day and your luggage arrived with you!

This, dear Ron, is NOT a travel day from hell!

But we're glad to have you back safe and sound.

  Far from a travel day from hell, unpleasant waiting yes.  From what I could tell you weren't stuck on the plane those extra two hours, something else to be grateful for.

I had no idea that greater Phoenix could get cold enough to burst pipes.

We get a few nights every year when it freezes -- usually around Christmas.

Matt H, ZODIAC arrived from NetFlix & is waiting to be watched.  I don’t think it has any special clips on it, I’ll have to check.

Jose, I’m so happy you liked the WATER HORSE.  I’ve enjoyed the reviews and am looking forward to the film.

LOWER EAST SIDE MATZO FACTORY FOR SALE


{xxx} = my comments

Friday, December 28, 2007

By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer


NEW YORK —  Long after most of its customers left the neighborhood to pursue the American Dream, the last matzo factory on the Lower East Side is moving out, saying goodbye to a part of town that was once home to hundreds of thousands of immigrant Jews.

Streit's, a family-owned matzo-making giant that churns out 16,000 pounds of unleavened bread a day and has been on the Lower East side for nearly three-quarters of a century, is putting the property up for sale.

It hopes to get $25 million for the antiquated six-story building in a part of New York where tenements and sweatshops have given way to fine hotels and condos, expensive restaurants and trendy nightclubs.

"We're doing this with a heavy heart," said Aaron Gross, the great-great-grandson of founder Aron Streit, an Austrian immigrant. "We're America's last family-owned matzo factory."

The red-brick factory will keep producing matzo until the family builds a new one in about a year, probably in New Jersey.

The 32-year-old matzo heir said it is just too difficult to keep manufacturing in the city. The streets are too congested for the company's tractor-trailers, and he gets regular complaints about the loud machines that mix, roll and cut the dough before it is baked in two 72-foot-long steel ovens.

{the factory was thre when the neighbors moved in - get used to it!}
…
While many blocks of the Lower East Side are seedy, gentrification has swept the neighborhood since the 1980s. The elegant Beaux Arts structure built in 1912 for the Yiddish-language newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward _ which boasted a circulation of 275,000 in the 1920s _ has been converted into million-dollar condos. (The Forward says circulation for its Yiddish edition, now a weekly, is down to just 5,000, the English-language edition to 35,000.)

{So much for the "immigrants never assimilate" theory!}
…
The factory doesn't appear to have changed all that much since a photograph from a half century ago that shows a group of rabbis in white coats supervising production to make sure it's kosher. Many of the 60 employees have been working there for decades.

{60 bread winners move to bread lines because neighbors don't like the noise of honest work!}

der Brucer

I hope somebody buys it and turns it into a Heavy Metal all-night Disco!

Matt H, ZODIAC arrived from NetFlix & is waiting to be watched.  

ZODIAC - Rated R for some strong killings, language, drug material and brief sexual images.

Looks like a thinly disguised attempt by Jane to get some extra hugging from Keith!

der Brucer