Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 22 => Topic started by: bk on January 30, 2012, 12:12:23 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were square, and now it is time for you to post until the square cows come home - they're currently listening to some film MOOsic.
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And the word of the day is: BIRR!
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Here are the first two Kritzerland releases of 2012. I really feel there's no need to announce early here anymore, since all of three to four people are the only ones buying this stuff - so, it's easier to just order directly from the site.
Kritzerland presents its first two new limited edition soundtracks for 2012:
THE MOLLY MAGUIRES
Music Composed and Conducted by Henry Mancini
and
INVASION USA/TORMENTED
Music Composed and Conducted by Albert Glasser
The Molly Maguires was a big-budget drama from Paramount Pictures, with powerhouse stars, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, and Samantha Eggar, a terrific director, Martin Ritt (Hud, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and many others), and the screenwriter of Fail Safe and John Frankenheimer’s The Train, the great Walter Bernstein. The film takes place in the Pennsylvania coal country in 1876 and is loosely based on the true story of a small band of Irish coal miners/terrorists called The Molly Maguires.
For the film, composer Henry Mancini composed one of his finest scores, filled with lush melodies and expert evocative themes. Whether depicting an early morning at the mines (the astonishing opening cue), or the terrorist activities, or the blossoming love between Eggar and Harris, Mancini’s score is right up there with his greatest, including such masterpieces as Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Charade, Days of Wine and Roses, Hatari!, Two For The Road, and many others.
The Molly Maguires was originally issued on LP, and made its CD debut on Bay Cities in the early 1990s. For this new release, we had access to the original multi-track tapes stored in the Paramount vault. We are thrilled to present the entire score as recorded by Mancini, newly mixed in superb sound, and which features several cues that were left off the original album.
When the tapes were pulled for The Molly Maguires, we were delighted to find that the tapes for Charles Strouse’s original score were there – after a disastrous preview, it was decided his score would be replaced. Strouse, most well known for his Broadway musicals, had dabbled in film scoring with Bonnie and Clyde and The Night They Raided Minsky’s. Strouse’s complete score is included on the CD. The music is very interesting, and it’s fascinating to hear Strouse’s completely opposite approach to the one Mancini would ultimately take. There is some truly lovely music here.
The Molly Maguires is limited to 1500 copies only. The price is $19.98, plus shipping.
INVASION USA/TORMENTED
We’re pleased to present a deliriously wonderful double bill of Albert Glasser scores. Invasion USA was made in 1952, when the Commie scare was in full bloom, the film is a nightmare (literally) vision of WHAT COULD HAPPEN HERE. The film is indescribable in its weirdness and exists in a whole other movie universe. It is a completely unique and classic B-movie, featuring a great B-movie cast, including Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, and Dan O’Herlihy. The film also has the distinction of having both TV Lois Lanes in the same movie – Phyllis Coates and Noel Neill. Even William Schallert makes a brief, uncredited appearance.
Eight years later would come another wild, weird and wacky movie called Tormented, made by the wonderful Bert I. Gordon. It was a story of death and jazz and love and a nasty female ghost come back to haunt and torment. The cast included Richard Carlson, Juli Reding, Lugene Sanders, and the adorable Susan Gordon (Bert’s daughter). Also making an appearance is Joe Turkel, who did several films for Gordon and who would ultimately give his most memorable performance as bartender Lloyd in the Stanley Kubrick film, The Shining.
Naturally, the perfect person to score these films was Albert Glasser, and he delivered exactly what was expected of him and which no other composer could have delivered in quite the same way. For Invasion USA he created a blaring, driving, crazy-quilt of a score, with screaming, dissonant brass. One simply cannot imagine a more perfect score for the movie. For Tormented, since the film’s leading man is a jazz pianist, Glasser naturally wrote a jazzy score – but this is not your normal jazz, this is TORMENTED jazz – jagged and crazy and somehow perfectly capturing the visuals of the film.
The two scores were mastered from Mr. Glasser’s personal tapes. While there are occasional sound issues, our wonderful mastering engineer, James Nelson, has done Herculean work to make both scores sound as good as they’re ever going to.
Invasion USA/Tormented is limited to 1000 copies only. The price is $19.98, plus shipping.
Both CDs will ship the second week of March – however, never fear, preorders placed directly through Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks earlier (we’ve been averaging four weeks early). To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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good morn to all
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Good morning, all.
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BK, if you include all of the albums with your name on it, including the reissues -- even if you did no strenuous work on them, such as you did with "Promises" or "Sugar -- you won't have anyone say, "Why did you leave off 'Henry, Sweet Henry' or 'Prettybelle' when your name's on my copy?"
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It's a Monday. Most definitely.
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CD's ordered.
Hmmmmm.......a very nice TOD.
Of course PICNIC - even though the participants are a bit old to be doing the roles....so in addition to that:
Holden:
Sunset Boulevard
Network
Towering Inferno
Stalag 13
Novak
Boys Night Out
Strangers When We Meet
Russell
The Women
Gypsy
Mourning Becomes Electra
The Velvet Touch
His Girl Friday & just about everything else!
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And the word of the day is: BIRR!
And The Song Of The Day Is: SPINNING WHEEL
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Good morning, all! I slept quite well, perhaps it's due to the fact that the temperature has dropped low enough that the heavy blankets on my bed are no longer oppressive but quite warm and soothing.
So, we learned this morning first thing that the battle between the record producer and me was in my favor: the conductor never received the sound files, as she had contnually claimed yesterday. Hopefully, that brouhaha is now over and I can return to the liner notes.
That will be my day. At least until 5pm, the time of the next conference call.
TOD:
Holden: Sunset Boulevard
Novak: Bell, Bok and Candle
Russell: Auntie Mame
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Good morning.
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BK, if you include all of the albums with your name on it, including the reissues -- even if you did no strenuous work on them, such as you did with "Promises" or "Sugar -- you won't have anyone say, "Why did you leave off 'Henry, Sweet Henry' or 'Prettybelle' when your name's on my copy?"
JohnG, I'm still catching up - what day's discussion is this comment to BK an answer for?
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BK, if you include all of the albums with your name on it, including the reissues -- even if you did no strenuous work on them, such as you did with "Promises" or "Sugar -- you won't have anyone say, "Why did you leave off 'Henry, Sweet Henry' or 'Prettybelle' when your name's on my copy?"
JohnG, I'm still catching up - what day's discussion is this comment to BK an answer for?
His notes today.
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TOD:
Novak:
Liebestraum
The Notorious Landlady
Vertigo
Picnic (for all three)
Holden:
Network
The Wild Bunch
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sabrina
Born Yesterday
Russell:
The Women
His Girl Friday
My Sister Eileen
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Hmmm. . .the flood of emails to my inbox has changed from
YOU can be a nurse
to
YOU can be a social worker
I am conflicted.
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I am one of the chaperones taking all the Chinese kids to the coast today.
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Announcement has been made.
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BK, if you include all of the albums with your name on it, including the reissues -- even if you did no strenuous work on them, such as you did with "Promises" or "Sugar -- you won't have anyone say, "Why did you leave off 'Henry, Sweet Henry' or 'Prettybelle' when your name's on my copy?"
Well, one of the points of the book is that I take the producer credit very seriously - but I'll think on it, but it would add, oh, say about another 200 plus titles to the list.
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TOD:
Fairly obvious choices I suppose:
William Holden:
Sunset Boulevard
Stalag 17
Bridge on the River Kwai
Network
Kim Novak
Vertigo
Bell Book and Candle
Kiss me Stupid
Rosalind Russell
His Girl Friday
Auntie Mame
Gypsy
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One of the last, if not the last, Paramount films Frances was announced for was a co-starring role with Rosalind Russell in "Take a Letter, Darling." It's still possible to find stills from the film with the cast list including Frances in the caption.
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Speaking of Frances, there is a carbon page from her Max Factor contract on eBay for a rather hefty $850. I believe I have the original which I got years ago for maybe $100.
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BK, if you include all of the albums with your name on it, including the reissues -- even if you did no strenuous work on them, such as you did with "Promises" or "Sugar -- you won't have anyone say, "Why did you leave off 'Henry, Sweet Henry' or 'Prettybelle' when your name's on my copy?"
JohnG, I'm still catching up - what day's discussion is this comment to BK an answer for?
His notes today.
Yikes! I'd read yesterday's notes rather than today's. Guess being sporadically Errant and Truant wreaks havoc on the mind.
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And, yes, it's Monday.
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Someone on All That Chat referred to Fort lauderdale as "Fort La-dee-da" which is clever, but is it accurate as a description or just clever wordplay, I wonder aloud.
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I've been printing postage, packing and mailing my weekend's eBay sales. If I didn't sell some of my DVDs and CDs on eBay and Amazon I would be knee deep in them!
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Something that I worked on a little bit yesterday, about the post office slowing down service but still having enough personnel to come up with ideas like Edith Piaf stamps. (I know, I know, when people buy collector stamps and keep them rather than using them, it's almost all profit for the Postal Service but just for fun...)
EDITH PIAF "FOREVER STAMP" DANCE - a parody from Fred Landau and Jan Horvath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Z6iz4jPsw
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Here are the first two Kritzerland releases of 2012. I really feel there's no need to announce early here anymore, since all of three to four people are the only ones buying this stuff - so, it's easier to just order directly from the site.
Kritzerland presents its first two new limited edition soundtracks for 2012:
THE MOLLY MAGUIRES
Music Composed and Conducted by Henry Mancini
and
INVASION USA/TORMENTED
Music Composed and Conducted by Albert Glasser
The Molly Maguires was a big-budget drama from Paramount Pictures, with powerhouse stars, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, and Samantha Eggar, a terrific director, Martin Ritt (Hud, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and many others), and the screenwriter of Fail Safe and John Frankenheimer’s The Train, the great Walter Bernstein. The film takes place in the Pennsylvania coal country in 1876 and is loosely based on the true story of a small band of Irish coal miners/terrorists called The Molly Maguires.
For the film, composer Henry Mancini composed one of his finest scores, filled with lush melodies and expert evocative themes. Whether depicting an early morning at the mines (the astonishing opening cue), or the terrorist activities, or the blossoming love between Eggar and Harris, Mancini’s score is right up there with his greatest, including such masterpieces as Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Charade, Days of Wine and Roses, Hatari!, Two For The Road, and many others.
The Molly Maguires was originally issued on LP, and made its CD debut on Bay Cities in the early 1990s. For this new release, we had access to the original multi-track tapes stored in the Paramount vault. We are thrilled to present the entire score as recorded by Mancini, newly mixed in superb sound, and which features several cues that were left off the original album.
When the tapes were pulled for The Molly Maguires, we were delighted to find that the tapes for Charles Strouse’s original score were there – after a disastrous preview, it was decided his score would be replaced. Strouse, most well known for his Broadway musicals, had dabbled in film scoring with Bonnie and Clyde and The Night They Raided Minsky’s. Strouse’s complete score is included on the CD. The music is very interesting, and it’s fascinating to hear Strouse’s completely opposite approach to the one Mancini would ultimately take. There is some truly lovely music here.
The Molly Maguires is limited to 1500 copies only. The price is $19.98, plus shipping.
INVASION USA/TORMENTED
We’re pleased to present a deliriously wonderful double bill of Albert Glasser scores. Invasion USA was made in 1952, when the Commie scare was in full bloom, the film is a nightmare (literally) vision of WHAT COULD HAPPEN HERE. The film is indescribable in its weirdness and exists in a whole other movie universe. It is a completely unique and classic B-movie, featuring a great B-movie cast, including Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, and Dan O’Herlihy. The film also has the distinction of having both TV Lois Lanes in the same movie – Phyllis Coates and Noel Neill. Even William Schallert makes a brief, uncredited appearance.
Eight years later would come another wild, weird and wacky movie called Tormented, made by the wonderful Bert I. Gordon. It was a story of death and jazz and love and a nasty female ghost come back to haunt and torment. The cast included Richard Carlson, Juli Reding, Lugene Sanders, and the adorable Susan Gordon (Bert’s daughter). Also making an appearance is Joe Turkel, who did several films for Gordon and who would ultimately give his most memorable performance as bartender Lloyd in the Stanley Kubrick film, The Shining.
Naturally, the perfect person to score these films was Albert Glasser, and he delivered exactly what was expected of him and which no other composer could have delivered in quite the same way. For Invasion USA he created a blaring, driving, crazy-quilt of a score, with screaming, dissonant brass. One simply cannot imagine a more perfect score for the movie. For Tormented, since the film’s leading man is a jazz pianist, Glasser naturally wrote a jazzy score – but this is not your normal jazz, this is TORMENTED jazz – jagged and crazy and somehow perfectly capturing the visuals of the film.
The two scores were mastered from Mr. Glasser’s personal tapes. While there are occasional sound issues, our wonderful mastering engineer, James Nelson, has done Herculean work to make both scores sound as good as they’re ever going to.
Invasion USA/Tormented is limited to 1000 copies only. The price is $19.98, plus shipping.
Both CDs will ship the second week of March – however, never fear, preorders placed directly through Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks earlier (we’ve been averaging four weeks early). To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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Interesting:
1. My publicity client, Art Lund, had a major role in THE MOLLY MAGUIRES. I visited him on the set several times.
2. My friend and client, Dan O'Herlihy, was one of the stars of INVASION U.S.A.
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TOD:
William Holden
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
SUNSET BLVD.
THE WILD BUNCH
BORN YESTERDAY
SABRINA
NETWORK
Kim Novak
VERTIGO
Rosalind Russell
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
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I got another nice plug; this one in Henry's Western Round-Up blog:
http://henryswesternroundup.blogspot.com/
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Interesting:
1. My publicity client, Art Lund, had a major role in THE MOLLY MAGUIRES. I visited him on the set several times.
2. My friend and client, Dan O'Herlihy, was one of the stars of INVASION U.S.A.
And BK played the Dan O'Herlihy role of Grig in the 2006 NYMF reading of Skip's and my musical THE LAST STARFIGHTER! (BK also played Otis as well as Grig.)
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DR DRUXY is ALL OVER THE INNER WEB.
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I got another nice plug; this one in Henry's Western Round-Up blog:
http://henryswesternroundup.blogspot.com/
Thanks. I read the review and interview link about Cheyenne Warrier as well which was interesting. (I hope your being a screenwriter isn't another hoax like yesterday when DR Jrand61 fooled me into thinking he was a '30s western star and about 100 years old).
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Monday morning greetings! I slept much better last night and have eased into the morning. Richard is downstairs bonding with our new laundry appliances and soon I'll take a much needed trip to the grocery store.
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Something that I worked on a little bit yesterday, about the post office slowing down service but still having enough personnel to come up with ideas like Edith Piaf stamps. (I know, I know, when people buy collector stamps and keep them rather than using them, it's almost all profit for the Postal Service but just for fun...)
EDITH PIAF "FOREVER STAMP" DANCE - a parody from Fred Landau and Jan Horvath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Z6iz4jPsw
DR FJL - as someone who loves both Edith Piaf and special edition stamps (to use, not to save), I quite enjoyed this parody!
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I got another nice plug; this one in Henry's Western Round-Up blog:
http://henryswesternroundup.blogspot.com/
Thanks. I read the review and interview link about Cheyenne Warrier as well which was interesting. (I hope your being a screenwriter isn't another hoax like yesterday when DR Jrand61 fooled me into thinking he was a '30s western star and about 100 years old).
I am really a screenwriter...and JRand is really a '30s western star about 100 years old.
;D
Sorry, guys, I couldn't resist.
::)
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Interesting:
1. My publicity client, Art Lund, had a major role in THE MOLLY MAGUIRES. I visited him on the set several times.
2. My friend and client, Dan O'Herlihy, was one of the stars of INVASION U.S.A.
And BK played the Dan O'Herlihy role of Grig in the 2006 NYMF reading of Skip's and my musical THE LAST STARFIGHTER! (BK also played Otis as well as Grig.)
Did BK wear the lizard head?
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One thing that amazes me about this business:
Dan O'Herlihy played major roles in some classic films: ODD MAN OUT, Orson Welles' MACBETH, FAIL SAFE, etc.
But the one that people seem to remember him most for is THE LAST STARFIGHTER, in which he wore a lizard head.
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Something that I worked on a little bit yesterday, about the post office slowing down service but still having enough personnel to come up with ideas like Edith Piaf stamps. (I know, I know, when people buy collector stamps and keep them rather than using them, it's almost all profit for the Postal Service but just for fun...)
EDITH PIAF "FOREVER STAMP" DANCE - a parody from Fred Landau and Jan Horvath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Z6iz4jPsw
DR FJL - as someone who loves both Edith Piaf and special edition stamps (to use, not to save), I quite enjoyed this parody!
Thanks so much, Ginny!!!
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Interesting:
1. My publicity client, Art Lund, had a major role in THE MOLLY MAGUIRES. I visited him on the set several times.
2. My friend and client, Dan O'Herlihy, was one of the stars of INVASION U.S.A.
And BK played the Dan O'Herlihy role of Grig in the 2006 NYMF reading of Skip's and my musical THE LAST STARFIGHTER! (BK also played Otis as well as Grig.)
Did BK wear the lizard head?
BK did the roles of Grig and Otis in a series of readings at NYMF.
But in the productions, there were costumes.
http://www.kritzerland.com/starfighter_pix.htm
The costumes when they were supposed to look lizard-like just covered the head and not the face, though (example is at 3rd from the bottom at the above link, which BK has been nice enough to let us have on the Kritzerland site for the cast album)
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From JohnG:
It can come from the effects of having to take insulin.
As mine is probably from thyroid meds. Thank you for the info.
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LOL DR DRUXY.
I love those pictures DR FJL.
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I am one of the chaperones taking all the Chinese kids to the coast today.
Have fun.
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I got another nice plug; this one in Henry's Western Round-Up blog:
http://henryswesternroundup.blogspot.com/
This is more than nice :)
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DR Druxy I have had CHEYENNE WARRIOR on my NetFlix queue for ages. Will it ever be released?
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LOL DR DRUXY.
I love those pictures DR FJL.
Thanks, Jrand. Those costumes were by Shura Pollatsek and sets by Todd Ivins, designers who had a terrific sense of the material, as did the lighting designer Mike Abrams. (Can't find photos of the designs at St. Clements, which were likewise witty and fun.)
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Someone on All That Chat referred to Fort lauderdale as "Fort La-dee-da" which is clever, but is it accurate as a description or just clever wordplay, I wonder aloud.
I associate "La-de-dah" with the character of Annie Hall. And as far as I know, Presbyterians don't do Florida.
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"Did BK wear the lizard head?" sounds like the beginning of an Emily Dickinson poem.
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DR Druxy I have had CHEYENNE WARRIOR on my NetFlix queue for ages. Will it ever be released?
It's been out for years.
I have copies for sale if you want one.
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I've been e & t of late chiefly because there's an innernet usage crackdown at my Place of work. But I realized today that I can get around it by using my iPhone.
Bwah-ha-ha-ha!
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TOD:
W. Holden:
NETWORK
STALAG 17
SUNSET BLVD
BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
K. Novak:
VERTIGO
BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE
R. Russell:
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS
THE WOMEN
CRAIG'S WIFE
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DR Druxy I have had CHEYENNE WARRIOR on my NetFlix queue for ages. Will it ever be released?
It's been out for years.
I have copies for sale if you want one.
Why doesn't NetFlix have it then?
Thanks for the offer. I'll see if I can get it locally first.
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Disc 3 notes finished, and now I need to look over what my executive producer has done to the Disc 1 & 2 notes. I know he's cut me from 18 pages to 14. I hope I like what he's done.
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We've arrived at the coast after one of the foggiest/rainiest/sunniest drives in memory. (It's Oregon). Kids are at the Aquarium with chaperones, I'm "working." Yes, working. :)
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DR Druxy I have had CHEYENNE WARRIOR on my NetFlix queue for ages. Will it ever be released?
It's been out for years.
I have copies for sale if you want one.
Why doesn't NetFlix have it then?
Thanks for the offer. I'll see if I can get it locally first.
The John Ford movie? Netflix has it. Try under John Ford's name.
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Spoo! That's CHEYENNE AUTUMN.
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I went back to bed, then got up at nine-thirty, and have just finished printing the orders that have come in so far - a good day that I hope will continue.
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DR ELMORE congrats on your victory of the sound files.
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Tonight at midnight EST on TCM is Miss Joan Fontaine in BORN TO BE BAD. This is one of the best "bad woman" movies ever......Joan is so B A D she gives BAD a new dimension.....
If you have never seen it, I highly recommend it. Made in 1950, the year I was born - with some of the other Class of 1968 HHW'ers!
Featuring Joan (Bland) Leslie, Zachary Scott, and Robert Ryan......
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Here are the first two Kritzerland releases of 2012. I really feel there's no need to announce early here anymore, since all of three to four people are the only ones buying this stuff - so, it's easier to just order directly from the site.
Kritzerland presents its first two new limited edition soundtracks for 2012:
THE MOLLY MAGUIRES
Music Composed and Conducted by Henry Mancini
and
INVASION USA/TORMENTED
Music Composed and Conducted by Albert Glasser
(http://i42.tinypic.com/28lxk0j.jpg)
(http://i40.tinypic.com/24fwle0.jpg)
CDs have been ordered!
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BK, if you include all of the albums with your name on it, including the reissues -- even if you did no strenuous work on them, such as you did with "Promises" or "Sugar -- you won't have anyone say, "Why did you leave off 'Henry, Sweet Henry' or 'Prettybelle' when your name's on my copy?"
JohnG, I'm still catching up - what day's discussion is this comment to BK an answer for?
His notes today.
Yikes! I'd read yesterday's notes rather than today's. Guess being sporadically Errant and Truant wreaks havoc on the mind.
At least you have a mind on which havoc can be wrought. I'm having a very Monday Monday, with two doctor's visits and too much work. So, of course, I'm here.
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Page three!
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Speaking of Frances, there is a carbon page from her Max Factor contract on eBay for a rather hefty $850. I believe I have the original which I got years ago for maybe $100.
That's inflation for you.
;)
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I got another nice plug; this one in Henry's Western Round-Up blog:
http://henryswesternroundup.blogspot.com/
Congrats, Druxy!
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BK, if you include all of the albums with your name on it, including the reissues -- even if you did no strenuous work on them, such as you did with "Promises" or "Sugar -- you won't have anyone say, "Why did you leave off 'Henry, Sweet Henry' or 'Prettybelle' when your name's on my copy?"
Well, one of the points of the book is that I take the producer credit very seriously - but I'll think on it, but it would add, oh, say about another 200 plus titles to the list.
My final words on this. I understand your perspective, but I just want to share two views, one from my perspective as a completist on way too many things and the other as a grad student. I've got a class on "Company" this semester, and I may turn to your book for some mention on the various Sondheim recordings you've done through the years. It could be "Evening Primrose" on disc or it could be "Unsung Sondheim." A complete list might then take me to "Sondheim at the Movies" or something else I may never have heard of.
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DR JMK is in charge of the Chinese. I am glad he has taken that nurse's training.
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This is not an April Fool's Joke: Shirley MacLaine to join "Downton Abbey":
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city/news/01-2012/shirley-maclaine-to-join-televisions-downton-abbey_49187.html
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BK, if you include all of the albums with your name on it, including the reissues -- even if you did no strenuous work on them, such as you did with "Promises" or "Sugar -- you won't have anyone say, "Why did you leave off 'Henry, Sweet Henry' or 'Prettybelle' when your name's on my copy?"
Well, one of the points of the book is that I take the producer credit very seriously - but I'll think on it, but it would add, oh, say about another 200 plus titles to the list.
My final words on this. I understand your perspective, but I just want to share two views, one from my perspective as a completist on way too many things and the other as a grad student. I've got a class on "Company" this semester, and I may turn to your book for some mention on the various Sondheim recordings you've done through the years. It could be "Evening Primrose" on disc or it could be "Unsung Sondheim." A complete list might then take me to "Sondheim at the Movies" or something else I may never have heard of.
You (BK) could qualify your producer credits...you could have the main list be the recordings where you were the most involved, where you came up with the idea and was in control of everything. Then maybe have another list of recordings that were re-releases that you fixed up, and another list where you just released recordings that were essentially produced by other people...or however you want to differenciate the ways you've produced/released recordings. It certainly would be most helpful. :)
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Today's trip to Kroger was quite nerve-wracking because they're remodeling the store - started last night, according to my cashier. Some shelves are empty and products are not where they used to be. They do have lots of staff wandering the aisles wearing sashes that say INFORMATION and they directed me a couple of times.
The biggest frustration for me was the packer who dropped one of my reusable bags after he'd put a jar of spaghetti sauce in it. Broke the jar and ruined the bag - one of my favorites from a library conference that said, "Speak Softly and Carry a Big Bag - of Books." They offered to give me a Kroger bag as a replacement, but I declined. One of the other baggers went and got another jar of sauce for me, but when I got home I discovered that I'd only come away with one of the 2 jars I'd paid for.
Think I'll shop elsewhere until the makeover is finished...
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This is not an April Fool's Joke: Shirley MacLaine to join "Downton Abbey":
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city/news/01-2012/shirley-maclaine-to-join-televisions-downton-abbey_49187.html
Well...there goes the neighborhood.
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Good idea DR GINNY. Try Aldi's.
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I am off to get ready for Zumba.
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Today's trip to Kroger was quite nerve-wracking because they're remodeling the store - started last night, according to my cashier. Some shelves are empty and products are not where they used to be. They do have lots of staff wandering the aisles wearing sashes that say INFORMATION and they directed me a couple of times.
The biggest frustration for me was the packer who dropped one of my reusable bags after he'd put a jar of spaghetti sauce in it. Broke the jar and ruined the bag - one of my favorites from a library conference that said, "Speak Softly and Carry a Big Bag - of Books." They offered to give me a Kroger bag as a replacement, but I declined. One of the other baggers went and got another jar of sauce for me, but when I got home I discovered that I'd only come away with one of the 2 jars I'd paid for.
Think I'll shop elsewhere until the makeover is finished...
They just moved everything in our Kroger store, Ginny. Very upsetting to not be able to find anything.
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So, I got a phone call from The Game Warden. Not the news I wanted to hear. But not awful news.
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Ginny, sorry to hear about your trip. These stores pick the weirdest times for remodeling. And the store is almost always the worse for it. They'll drop some products only to make more room for an increasing amount of salsas or potato chips, etc.
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We're still on page three?
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This will never do!
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No!
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No! No!
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No!
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Phone conference over, I'm having some delish chicken soup I made. And cranberry sauce.
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Then, I'll watch a bit of tv; I put in my eight hours today.
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Tomorrow morning, I have to see Joshie at Encores!
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T.O.D.
William Holden: THE TOWERING INFERNO
Kim Novak: VERTIGO
Rosalind Russell: AUNTIE MAME
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Perhaps I will stop at the Juilliard Book Store on my way home and spend some money.
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Then, agan, maybe I won't. I know I'm not shopping at Kroger.
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T.O.D.
William Holden: THE TOWERING INFERNO
Kim Novak: VERTIGO
Rosalind Russell: AUNTIE MAME
DR TCB, how do you feel today?
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What the fat hell is the number beginning page 4?
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Mutter mutter mutter mutter yes Jerome mutter mutter mutter
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Is there no limit to this madness?
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Probably not.
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Number 90 is page 4!
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Oy!
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Spoo! That's CHEYENNE AUTUMN.
I was just about to tell you that. :)
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DR Ginny it is a shame you couldn't wash the bag. I hope you are saving the receipt to get your second jar once the remodel is done.
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I am one of the chaperones taking all the Chinese kids to the coast today.
Which coast?
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William Holden:
Rachel and the Stranger
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sabrina
Born Yesterday
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BK, if you include all of the albums with your name on it, including the reissues -- even if you did no strenuous work on them, such as you did with "Promises" or "Sugar -- you won't have anyone say, "Why did you leave off 'Henry, Sweet Henry' or 'Prettybelle' when your name's on my copy?"
JohnG, I'm still catching up - what day's discussion is this comment to BK an answer for?
His notes today.
Yikes! I'd read yesterday's notes rather than today's. Guess being sporadically Errant and Truant wreaks havoc on the mind.
When I read the notes, I didn't pay attention to the title, so when I got to the discussion page, I thought I had read the wrong notes.
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Kim Novak:
Vertigo
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I've been printing postage, packing and mailing my weekend's eBay sales. If I didn't sell some of my DVDs and CDs on eBay and Amazon I would be knee deep in them!
Yes, but this way you will be knee deep in money.
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Rosalind Russell:
His Girl Friday
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I got another nice plug; this one in Henry's Western Round-Up blog:
http://henryswesternroundup.blogspot.com/
Nice plug, Druxy.
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I got another nice plug; this one in Henry's Western Round-Up blog:
http://henryswesternroundup.blogspot.com/
Thanks. I read the review and interview link about Cheyenne Warrier as well which was interesting. (I hope your being a screenwriter isn't another hoax like yesterday when DR Jrand61 fooled me into thinking he was a '30s western star and about 100 years old).
Well, Jrand could be 100 years old, he just said he didn't make any cowboy movies
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Something that I worked on a little bit yesterday, about the post office slowing down service but still having enough personnel to come up with ideas like Edith Piaf stamps. (I know, I know, when people buy collector stamps and keep them rather than using them, it's almost all profit for the Postal Service but just for fun...)
EDITH PIAF "FOREVER STAMP" DANCE - a parody from Fred Landau and Jan Horvath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Z6iz4jPsw
Very cute.
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Nice parody, DR FJL!
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Theater Artists Olympia has a promo for our production of "A Bucket of Blood"...click HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfShkYCRq4g) to see it (and no, I'm not in it).
:D
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I've been e & t of late chiefly because there's an innernet usage crackdown at my Place of work. But I realized today that I can get around it by using my iPhone.
Bwah-ha-ha-ha!
There was a supposed crackdown on all state employees going to non-work sites. From what I understand, I was about the only person who followed the rule.
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Today's trip to Kroger was quite nerve-wracking because they're remodeling the store - started last night, according to my cashier. Some shelves are empty and products are not where they used to be. They do have lots of staff wandering the aisles wearing sashes that say INFORMATION and they directed me a couple of times.
The biggest frustration for me was the packer who dropped one of my reusable bags after he'd put a jar of spaghetti sauce in it. Broke the jar and ruined the bag - one of my favorites from a library conference that said, "Speak Softly and Carry a Big Bag - of Books." They offered to give me a Kroger bag as a replacement, but I declined. One of the other baggers went and got another jar of sauce for me, but when I got home I discovered that I'd only come away with one of the 2 jars I'd paid for.
How else do you expect them to pay for the remodel?
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T.O.D.
William Holden: THE TOWERING INFERNO
Kim Novak: VERTIGO
Rosalind Russell: AUNTIE MAME
DR TCB, how do you feel today?
I guess I am feeling okay. I have felt better, but I imagine I have also felt worse. Thank you for asking.
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Theater Artists Olympia has a promo for our production of "A Bucket of Blood"...click HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfShkYCRq4g) to see it (and no, I'm not in it).
:D
is this one, also, a musical?
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Theater Artists Olympia has a promo for our production of "A Bucket of Blood"...click HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfShkYCRq4g) to see it (and no, I'm not in it).
:D
is this one, also, a musical?
No...there's eventually going to be music in it, but it's not a musical.
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Have proofed about eighty pages today - will do some more this evening. I had a couple of packages and ate a salad for lunch, along with a bagel and, since I was still hungry, toast.
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Great writeup, Druxy!
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T.O.D.
William Holden: THE TOWERING INFERNO
Kim Novak: VERTIGO
Rosalind Russell: AUNTIE MAME
DR TCB, how do you feel today?
I guess I am feeling okay. I have felt better, but I imagine I have also felt worse. Thank you for asking.
That is something I guess. When is your appointment set for the doctor again?
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TOD:
William Holden: Sunset Boulevard, Network
Rosalind Russell: Auntie Mame, His Girl Friday
Kim Novak: Bell, Book and Candle, Vertigo
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More "Dexter" tonight. This is fun.
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I forgot Auntie Mame.
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The rest of the brussels sprouts for dinner tonight. Sauteed in butter with triple sec and orange bitters. I don't need anything else for dinner. Guess I'm going to have to go back to the farmers market this weekend to see if there are any more.
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Hey, Vixmom, hope you got everything knotting your life straightened out.
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One more.
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Page five!
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Looks like I may have gotten straight A's last semester. Yippee!
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Looks like I may have gotten straight A's last semester. Yippee!
Congrats, John!!
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Well, it's time for me to leave work and go home.
Be back later.
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Looks like I may have gotten straight A's last semester. Yippee!
:D :D
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'night
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Whooo, what a long day. We toured Seaside, went to Ft. Clatsop and the Astoria Column, and I just got back from a faboo dinner (the chef whipped up a scrumptuous Fettucini Alfredo for the 3 vegetarians in the group, while everyone else had chicken strips--the veggies won that battle, hands down, LOL). Got a kick when I walked into the little Inn where we're all saying to see a big autographed pic of my IV-ee (and BK's close personal friend) Candy Clark hanging in the lobby. She was evidently up here for a car show last year.
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Personally, I think Shirley MacLaine on DOWNTON ABBEY could be a hoot, especially pairing her off with Dame Maggie.
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Just watched the latest "Downton Abbey." Nice break from "Dexter," though this episode had its share of blood in it, too.
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Night, all.
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Topic of the Day, Part 1:
William Holden:
Born Yesterday
Golden Boy
Network
S.O.B.
Sunset Blvd.
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Topic of the Day, Part 2:
Kim Novak:
Bell Book and Candle
Phffft
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Topic of the Day, Part 3:
Rosalind Russell:
Auntie Mame
Gypsy
My Sister Eileen
The Trouble with Angels
The Women
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I haven't seen "Picnic," but I just added it to my Netflix queue...and moved it to the top.
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Great news about the Straight A's, John G
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Thanks to TCB and Kevin H
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I suppose that I should watch the Netflix movies that I have now. I've had one for a couple of months. ::)
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Good Evening!
Well...
I guess I had a good day.
Nothing bad happened.
Just lots of slightly strange and weird things.
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Congrats to DR Penny O on The Polly Warfield Award that "her" theatre company, Rogue Machine, from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/159156-Bring-It-On-Tom-Kitt-Phylicia-Rashad-Re-Animator-Jerry-Springer-Among-LA-Crix-Award-Nominees).
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Looks like I may have gotten straight A's last semester. Yippee!
Congrats on the 4.0, DR John G!
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DR Ginny - Sorry to hear about your bag. -Could you have asked for a free bottle of detergent? ;)
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Mutter mutter mutter mutter yes Jerome mutter mutter mutter
DR elmore - Are you by chance going to the final dress rehearsal? If so, do you have an extra pass/ticket? ;)
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Don't know if I've missed anything today. Too tired to catch up. Vibes if you need them~
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What the fat hell is the number beginning page 4?
90. (Then 120, 150, 180, etc.)
But I guess you found that out already.
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Is there no limit to this madness?
Is that a rhetorical question?
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Probably not.
Oh... Question asked and answered.
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And...
Yes...
I need some sleep.
Goodnight.
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Congrats to DR Penny O on The Polly Warfield Award that "her" theatre company, Rogue Machine, from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/159156-Bring-It-On-Tom-Kitt-Phylicia-Rashad-Re-Animator-Jerry-Springer-Among-LA-Crix-Award-Nominees).
Congrats to Penny's theater company!
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And...
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...since we're so close...
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PAGE SIX WHITE COLLAR DANCE!!
(http://cdn.smallscreenscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/white-collar-pictures.jpg)
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...because tonight, I watched "Royal Pains," and while watching it, I saw a commercial for the next episode of "White Collar." My DVR used to record every new episode of "White Collar," but it didn't record the last two episodes (the first two episodes of the second half of the third season)! I checked an the series is no longer in my list of series to record. I fixed that. Fortunately, these two episodes are available on OnDemand.
Just had to share. :)