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Well, you've read the notes, you are in the know, notes-wise, and now it is time to post until the cows come home or, even better, until the 'coons come home.
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I was nuts about collecting (and writing down from radio) top 40 charts when I was a kid. I didn't let go of the habit until I was 45! My friends thought I was nuts. I started to collect a copy of every track that charted here in my home down between 1955 and 1970 when I was in my forties.
Last laugh! I have now made quite few $$$$$ from my childhood hobby, have had a part time job in a record store, written for pop magazines, had a book published and now compile Cd compilations of hard to get tracks for a major radio station here that specialises in "oldies". I've also made some good friends through my hobby.
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Everything I did as a kid was thought to be nutty. (And probably was.)
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I used to put stickers all over the 20th Century train that ran from Chicago to NYC. They said "Repent"
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I just did a quick check: Film Historian Rudy Behlmer can be heard on the commentary tracks for The Adventures of Robin Hood, Casablanca, and Singin' in the Rain. He's probably done many many others, and many others (that brings us up to three), but these are the films in the collection I share with der Brucer that I could spot in a minute.
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When I was a kid, I could sing the entire chorus of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" without taking a breath!
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There's something about the box-office numbers mania that reminds me of the game played by baseball fans, where they make up teams of existing players and determine how well the different teams would play against each other by how well the players do in real games. Of course, the sports game is just for fun. The compulsion with numbers that our esteemed BK is talking about is...a compulsion. It's as if these people need something to be in control of in their lives, and they've latched onto something that has nothing to do with their real lives.
I'd suggest this as the basis for a Monk episode, to be called "Monk Goes to the Movies," but I don't think he could handle the theater floors.
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Der Brucer has left me... for the day.
He's off to the Eastern Shore to ladsit the grandlads. Their day-care worker has just had a child (her seventh), and will be taking a break for a few days. Grampa has been called into action.
I get to walk to work today. For the most part, I don't mind, but I really dislike having to cross the highway on foot. There are no crosswalks; pedestrians have to run like crazy to get across safely, if that can be called safe. Fortunately, der B will be back in time to pick me up after work.
I think I deserve a nap, if I'm going to have enough energy to cross that highway later today.
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I used to put stickers all over the 20th Century train that ran from Chicago to NYC. They said "Repent"
That made me LOL (laugh out loud, in internet lingo). Very funny.
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I stopped reading Variety when it stopped being primarily about show business and became obsessed with show business. A few simple box office figures are one thing, but I don't care how much a film/play makes, I care about how it is made.
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Well I wouldn't say that I am obsessed with movie figures. But I do always check them out with interest. I have no idea how they are able to accurately predict these numbers (especially since the numbers for the weekend seem to come out very early on Sunday). But it is interesting to see which movies people go to.
As for what I collected that people thought I was crazy for doing ... well this wasn't as a child per se. But when I was in my early 20s, I was pretty crazy into collecting postcards.
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And now I've just realized that I'm starving. Off to eat!
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Here is a link to BBC Radio 2. I didn't listen to the interview until today and now realize it's only up until Sunday afternoon but if you're interested, give it a listen. Russell Davies speaks to Ted Chapin about his book Everything's Possible about the creation of Follies. It's a good interview and you get to hear lots of the OBC recording. Ignore the "This week Russell speaks to Lorna Luft", that won't happen until Sunday, June 20th at 3pm. Right now it's Ted Chapin and Follies.
For those of you who care to listen and haven't done this before, click on the link, it will take you to the Russell Davies page, then click on "Listen again to this show". You have to have Real (AKA Real One or Real Player) on your computer to hear it. When you click on Listen Again, a box will open up and a connection will be made with the show. It should start playing after a pause for loading and that's it. Sit back and enjoy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/davies/
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I never paid any attention to box office and didn't realize it had become an obsession in some corners. The movie business has always been a "business" since the early days, I would think. That isn't to say that there weren't people trying to make it an art, but there was always money involved and for many that was the number one priority, making money and I doubt that is ever going to change.
Panni, your daughter Rachael is absolutely gorgeous! And you can tell her I said so!
When I was a kid I became obsessed with movie credits. Whenever a favorite movie would come on I would make whoever was around the house help me quickly write down the cast names as the credits were rolling! And boy you should have seen the face of my sister-in-law when we were trying to write down the names of the cast from something like GODZILLA VS THE THING! No wonder she thinks I am weird! Of course this was all pre-video recorder and pre-IMDB. But back then I just wanted to know who played in all the movies that I loved!
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I have always been interested in the business of show business. I've subscribed to weekly VARIETY since the mid-60s, and bought individual copies before that. They have always reported box-office figures in the major cities and nationally, given TV ratings on a weekly basis, and reported weekly Broadway grosses and at the end of the year, which shows had paid off, which hadn't, and which shows currently running were still in the red or the black. I have always found all of this fascinating. Also looked forward each year to see which stars were ranked in the Top Ten at the box-office and kept these lists though the late 1980s.
On the other hand, none of it clouded my interest in the movies as art and entertainment. I wrote film reviews for 25 years and never once referred to something as a money maker or money loser, I judged the films stricitly on their merit, not their potential commerce. I don't see why people can't be interested in both sides, and I definitely am.
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On the other TOD, I can clearly remember teenage friends fascinated with the Beatles, the Supremes, the Rolling Stones, and I was listening to and learning not those songs but the songs in MAME, SWEET CHARITY, and HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS plus all the old classics from earlier eras. Musically, I never did fit in with my peers.
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Good Morning!
-Why does 10:00 have to seem soooo early to me right now?!?!? It shouldn't, but it does. However, I'm also a bit sniffly and sneezy, and it better not be a summer cold! I'm hoping(?) it's just all the dust I stirred up yesterday while cleaning and reorganizing clearing out of my system.
DR DearReaderLaura - Thank you for my Star!! It brought a great big smile to my face this morning! *Can you send me the original pic?
As for the Topics of the Day:
Box Office figures: I've always wondered how the figures could be posted so early too. All the 6:00 newscasts on Sunday night are already talking about the "weekend box champion" when the weekend isn't even over yet! And sometimes you hear about the big winner first thing Sunday morning?!?!? I sometimes look at the figures in the Washington Post, but since I don't get the Post regularly here in Richmond, it's been a while. I don't get it at all. So...
Things I did as a kid - Hmm... I would sometimes run around my high school halls after classes were done just running around for no reason. Very erratic, almost kind of "moody". It was kind of fun. Guess it was some sort of release after a day of being in classes and being in a routine - oh, and a uniform too. Not too many people were around, but those who saw me did raise an eyebrow or two, but since I was a "drama geek" (well, "geek" was the more kind term), no one really paid that much attention to me. However, there were times when I even started to question my behavior - and sanity, I guess.
Well, I need to continue waking up... Or is it nap time already? Hmmm... ;)
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the loud chewing and lip smacking is going on big time in the next cube. I better have some more coffee. I am now listening to the soundtrack to the Bollywood film Murder. Is there a connection? You decide! LOL
(don't worry, I won't really commit a crime...I like my co-worker too much.)
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I'm not crazy about all the hoopla over box office rankings, either, but they are hard to ignore because of the way they are shoved down our throats. Along with the weekly Monday reports on eXtra, Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight, The Philadelphia Inquirer publishes the Top Ten Movies each week in an eye-catching, grayed-out sidebar (along with the Nielsen Top Twenty TV Shows.) The local channel news that I watch reports weekend box-office receipts on its Sunday night 11:30 PM broadcast. And even our "All news, all the time" radio station does the same type of reporting on Mondays. Anymore, I doubt that even marginally media-aware people don't have at least an inkling as to what movie was number one on any given week.
As for myself, I tend to use it as a sort of guide. For instance, I know that it's not absolutely necessary to rush out and see Shrek 2 yet, since it's evident that it will be around for a while, whereas I had better hurry up and get my butt in gear if I want to catch Garfield before it disappears. ::)
I was a weird little kid in so many ways. I was totally obsessed with the Peanuts comic strip and collected anything and everything I could lay my hands on that had the characters' images on it, including discarded cellophane wrappers from Zingers cakes. I was also very much into monster movies. I was an avid reader of Forest J. Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and I loved the Aurora monster models. But I guess the thing that really made my parents worry about me was the way I played with my G.I.Joes. I thought that the army or navy life was too mundane for them, so I soon made them into half naked superheroes who had to deal with elaborate and deadly traps that I set up in our basement. There was many a time that my mom would find one of my G.I. Joes in the washing machine, tightly bound with our dog's chain leash and with fishing weights tied to the ankles, awaiting to be drowned in a murderous trap set by Dr. Evil/Doom/Cel-Ray or whoever was the villain that day. At least I wasn't as bad as my cousins, who often set fire to their G.I. Joes, Barbies and Kens.
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DR Dan, you're one post away from entering Valhalla!
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Here's to a new world of gods and monsters!
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Congrats to Dan the Man!
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Congratulations Dan! You will find a section up here just for us Aurora model fans!!
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I never paid any attention to box office and didn't realize it had become an obsession in some corners. The movie business has always been a "business" since the early days, I would think. That isn't to say that there weren't people trying to make it an art, but there was always money involved and for many that was the number one priority, making money and I doubt that is ever going to change.
I want to be perfectly clear: Of course it's always been a business, and of course studios, producers, actors, etc. have always been concerned with the business aspect of films and theater - it's their livelihood. I'm not talking about them - I'm talking about teenagers who only care about numbers - how did this film open, can the star open a picture, blah, blah, blah - it's ALL they care about and it's all they talk about. I'm telling you, go on to any Usenet newsgroup concerning new films and you'll see I'm right. They not only post the numbers, they dissect them, they postulate, they do everything but talk about the movies as movies. And my point was/is, they're starting to do it now for Broadway. I'm not talking about a handful of people who might take an interest in such things, I'm talking about a phenomenon, really. It began with Entertainment Tonight, and, as someone points out in a post, now every entertainment show and the news reports these figures as if it was "big" news, right up there with beheadings and the rest.
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I have always been interested in the business of show business. I've subscribed to weekly VARIETY since the mid-60s, and bought individual copies before that. They have always reported box-office figures in the major cities and nationally, given TV ratings on a weekly basis, and reported weekly Broadway grosses and at the end of the year, which shows had paid off, which hadn't, and which shows currently running were still in the red or the black. I have always found all of this fascinating. Also looked forward each year to see which stars were ranked in the Top Ten at the box-office and kept these lists though the late 1980s.
On the other hand, none of it clouded my interest in the movies as art and entertainment. I wrote film reviews for 25 years and never once referred to something as a money maker or money loser, I judged the films stricitly on their merit, not their potential commerce. I don't see why people can't be interested in both sides, and I definitely am.
I understand, but you must know you were in the minority then, whereas now you are part of the majority. The first time I ever looked at a box office figures chart was when Nudie Musical came out. I took a small interest in it after that, but not like now.
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Now, where in tarnation IS everyone on this Thursday morning?
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Thank you for the lovely compliment, MBarnum! I'll pass it on to Rachel.
(I modified the way I spelled your name. Funny, but rude.)
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Dan the Man - is now Dan the GOD.
CONGRATULATIONS! WELCOME!
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I wanna know how you spelled his name!
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Welcome to Paradise,
DR Dan the Man!
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Countdown to 50,000 posts. Only 140 or so left to go. Could happen today. Will it coincide with my 5000th post? Only time will tell and frankly time isn't talking right now.
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I understand, but you must know you were in the minority then, whereas now you are part of the majority. The first time I ever looked at a box office figures chart was when Nudie Musical came out. I took a small interest in it after that, but not like now.
As you see from my post about pop music of the period, I was in the minority then and still am. I have been most of my life about most things IN my life. Never has bothered me at all.
But I don't actually think I'm part of the majority yet as I observe the numbers with interest, but that's as far as it goes. I don't obsess about it, doesn't matter to me whether a film falls 30% or 70% from one week to the next, and really look at it only as part of the big picture of the business: what types of films sell here and around the world and what doesn't work, which stars are popular here and overseas, how the films do in ancillary markets after their theatrical run is concluded. The play is STILL the thing to me. The offshoots are interesting but no a compulsion.
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I wanna know how you spelled his name!
Just because you're Canadian and Canada took us in when we were homeless immigrants... "MBarbum"
It was a typo! But it made me laugh when I saw it. No reflection on a lovely man.
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140 isn't that many. It should definitely happen today.
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I'll be E&T a few hours as I'm headed to a friend's pool for some swimming and sunbathing. Back later this afternoon.
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Off I go to the Post Office. (Not necessary information to post, but I'm helping move toward the 140)...
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Are Bar Bum! Well, I never! Well, maybe a few times but that was in my younger years! LOL!
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I see BK, well maybe those people just "think" they are supposed to be fascinated by the position or money that a movie or play accumulates. I don't know the reason why. As for me all I care about is if the movie (or play) entertained me or not...although I do guess that I hope for it to have a good box office so that whoever was responsible for it has more opportunities to entertain me. Did that make sense?
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DR Panni: That was pretty funny. I like it! :)
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It shall be 91 degress in Salem Oregon today.
My buddy Mark wants me to go to a nakey beach with him Saturday. Not sure I am wanting to do such a thing ( We will most certainly be keeping our clothes on!).
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Posting about going to the post office seems perfectly fine.
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Speaking of being naked. They showed a preview for an upcoming Simple Life 2 show. Paris and Nicole have to work as maids at a nudist place. Fox puts big yellow smiley faces to cover their privates! :)
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Can someone explain to me how some emails get lost in cyberspace? There is an email that I know was sent 45 minutes ago and it still hasn't arrived.
Why do emails I really want not arrive, but ones I don't want seem to fill my inbox!
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DR Panni has computer access at the post office?
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"What was the one thing you liked to do as a kid that everyone looked at you like you were nuts for doing?"
There are several, some of which I still do. (I'll list them post by post.)
- Listen to Fiorello and conduct its overture
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(This one = anonymously)
Make crank calls
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Eat chocolate cake and watermelon for breakfast
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Hang out with Patty, the kid who didn't fit any mold (and she's still my closest friend)
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Play the Jew's harp
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Congrats, DR DTM.
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WTG DTM
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The problem with the obssession with box-office figures is that it immediately brands films as winners and losers and such pre-emptory dismissal of the box-office losers doesn't allow certain films that might thrive to build and find their audience.
What's worse it immediately precludes any discussion of the film as art. Good films are ones that make money; bad ones don't...which we all know is nonsense.
It's sort of like when they had the big stink about the Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art. They got into a big debate over whether it was pornography or not (it wasn't)...which immediately precluded any discussion as to whether it was good art or not...(I suspect it is, but not my taste)
25-50-100 years from now when everyone's forgotten the box-office, maybe we'll actually re-assess films' according to their actual merits as art...not how much money they made.
I'm in the business and the only time I ever read Variety or Hollywood Reporter are when I'm sitting in some producer or studio office. Half of it is hype about projects that often don't even get done. The other half is just boring. I had a year's subscription to Weekly Variety a few years ago because they gave me a ridiculously low rate on it, but all I read was the Stage section...and I never renewed it. It has nothing to do with the creative necessity of my job.
As I rarely go to movies when they first come out any more and see the vast majority of them when they are on DVD or at screenings late in the year for award considerations, their box-office has never been a barometer for me to go see anything. In fact, if anything it's more often a barometer to stay away. I have no desire to see the Chronicles of Riddick or Day After Tomorrow. I guess I'll go see the third Harry Potter at some point, because the Lovely Wife likes them...I've found the first two terribly disappointing. I'd like to see TROY, but I'm not building up its box-office numbers by having to be there opening weekend. Nothing is that urgent to me.
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IMHO (in my humble opinion, in internet lingo), everyone's fascination with BO numbers and the like is just a corollary to people's fascination with many things that are none of their business.
Weird things I did as child? Probably the same weird things I do as an adult.
Save one, now that I think about it. I used to sleep in a somewhat awkward position (it was comfy at the time). My elbows would meet my knees somewhere mid-chest. Face down. This would push my tush up in the air.
This is a sleeping position for which I am no longer noted.
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Play the Jew's harp
Given your religion, DR DIT, is this a euphemism?
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Thanks, y'all, for welcoming me to Vahalla (do they have Halvah in Vahalla?) However, my God-like powers have not manifested yet. I've been trying to transform this dweeb of a database manager in my office into one of those styrofoam cubes like in that episode of the original Star Trek, but he's still walking around blathering about how I need to keep out of the database while he's indexing his indexes. Ah, well...
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...whereas I had better hurry up and get my butt in gear if I want to catch Garfield before it disappears. ::)
You do realize that Garfield would not approve! ;)
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Welcome to DTM.
I (like a certain fictional/slightly real character with the initials BK) loved to talk in Pig Latin (ig-pay atin-lay) but where most would stop after a few words, I would continue on until I was threatened with bodily harm. Another thing that caused me to be threatened from my many sisters (four of them and there were four of them for a long time with me being the only boy, now there are seven of us, two girls, me, two girls and two boys) was to copy/repeat everything they said. I was/am still very good at repeating things as they come out of someone's mouth. They would do the usual thing of saying stop it but they never seemed to get that all they had to do was shut up and I couldn't say anything. Running to a parent or screaming just made it all the more funny to me. I did it to Anthony once when we went back to Minnesota to visit family and my sisters were hysterical with laughter (he asked if I did anything to them to annoy them and I had to show him what I did, didn't I ;-)
I was a bad person on my lunch hour not intending to purchase anything but I walked out with the London cast recording of Jerry Herman's Mack and Mabel, the soundtrack to Love Me or Leave Me with the beautiful Miss Doris Day, another Herman show, The Grand Tour, the soundtrack for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the soundtrack to On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Paul Sorvino and Patti LuPone in The Baker's Wife and Bounce (a Red Bounce and it only cost $10 and it's still shrinkwrapped). I must control myself. At least I'll have plenty to listen to this afternoon and tomorrow.
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And we are here!
As they said on the Mary Tyler Moore episode of Chuckles Bites the Dust (or whatever it was called)
A Little Song
A Little Dance
A Little Seltzer
Down Your Pants
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Given your religion, DR DIT, is this a euphemism?
Very funny. All I'm saying is that it was the twangy sound that drove 'em crazy.
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Welcome eleven GUESTS. We're talkin' about unhealthy obsession with B.O.
Less than 115 posts to go in our countdown to 50,000 posts.
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Congrats to Dan the Man! And high time, too!
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(At this rate, we'll soon have enough Gods and Goddesses to create our own state!)
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Welcome eleven GUESTS. We're talkin' about unhealthy obsession with B.O.
That's Box Office, not Body Odor. One of the nice things about the Internet is that we don't have to smell each other if we don't want to.
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(A Teenager on the Internet starts singing:)
Popular!
I saw a movie that's Pop-u-u-lar!
It was filled with that CGI,
I watched people die,
And the theater was full, you see,
But the one that made it Popular was me!
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I'll be E&T a few hours as I'm headed to a friend's pool for some swimming and sunbathing. Back later this afternoon.
Sunbathing! There's a silly word! Why on earth does the Sun need to be given a bath? Wouldn't that just cause a lot of steam?
In Space, No-One Can Year You Splash!
(One more to our goal!)
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Welcome to DTM as the newest HHW GOD!
Lovely pictures DRLAURA....I am sure just a bit further down the block you would have found the stars of the rest of us.
Congratulations to Mr BK on accepting the directing gig. Looking forward to discovering the title and details. I think it takes awhile because someone has to find out if the title has been licensed by someone else within a certain mile radius.....and it can't be produced if it has. And of course, once you have the license, no one else can produce it within a specified time period and geographical location. Although, I have been tempted to send a map of Indiana to both Samuel French and MTI!
Yes, as has been written here at HHW - I think the obsession with box office numbers for movies and the stage allows anyone to join in on a conversation on a fascinating subject. And the writer doesn't have to know anything about films, directors, or stars. A lot of people would like to be part of the world of show business and never will, but this way they can add their opinion and feel part of a bigger, more important, and glamorous community than they do in real life. And if a little joy is brung into their humdrum lives, then all that hard work ain't been in vain for nuthin'!
And actually I think it all adds $$$ to the producing companies, because I think (I think) they get a bigger percentage of the gross during the first weeks of the run...and a bigger percentage goes to the theatre owner as the run continues.
As I child, I liked to read MAD magazine....and no one else ever got it! What me worry?
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Unfortunately, this box office fixation has taken on a life of its own. Look at the ads: "The Number One Comedy in the Nation!" (Meaning that two comedies came out this week and this one beat out the other one.) - People actually look at this idiocy and believe it. -- And make movie-going decisions according to it. ...Which leads to a whole other fixation in this country (and Canada) - Ranking things. There are now a slew of programs and lists that rank everything from Sexiest Movie Couple to 100 Best Movies. Who makes these decisions anyway? And why should we care? But people actually do listen. Even people with knowledge and love of movies and books. Blechh!
End of rant. Back to work so I can be one of the Top Ten
Screenwriters in Studio City.
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There's something about the box-office numbers mania that reminds me of the game played by baseball fans, where they make up teams of existing players and determine how well the different teams would play against each other by how well the players do in real games. Of course, the sports game is just for fun.
Even in far off Romania my son plays this game, as he has for years, with his friends. Isn't the internet wonderful?
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Before I get back to work... On the other topic... One of the weird things I did as a child was to play with this one tiny doll (maybe 4 inches) I had which was made entirely of some kind of rubbery material - including her pigtails. I would slather Nivea Cream all over her, then wipe it off. That was it. I found this endlessly fascinating. The doll now sits on my desk. (I no longer slather her in anything.)
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Bruce was the play the news I thought I would miss? I hope the rights come through without a problem and the play is a success.
Rachel looks lovely as usual.
DearReaderLaura, and Sandra-fun pictures. Where do you stay when in L.A.?
Jay, thank you for all your good wishes.
Oh, Joey we are just happy when you join us, you don’t need to apologize when you are absent-just be sure not to stay away too long.
Bruce, I think I will miss the celebration. Have fun without me.
Congratulations Dan-the-Man. Funny GI Joe story!
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Two hours and still no email.
Isn't hotmail divine!
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DR Panni: That is the most bizarre thing I've ever heard of! Why on earth were you slathering her with Nivea Cream? :)
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Good day all. It's a hot, sticky, gross day in New York and it's nearly as warm in the office as it is outside. Yuck.
Regarding the licensing process: I don't know from what company you're obtaining the rights for your play, BK, but this is how it works at MTI.
Step 1: Apply for the rights to the production. At MTI it takes anywhere from 7-10 days to process applications, though it rarely takes that long. At other licensing houses such as Tams-Witmark and Samuel French, it could take two to three weeks. Don't ask me why. Why does it take 7-10 days, you ask? Well, MTI deals with nearly 50,000 customers in the United States alone, and we handle nearly 5,000 phone calls, emails and loose applications in the mail daily with a staff of only 10 licensing representatives. They're fast, but they're also swamped with work.
Once the application has been processed, you will either be granted a production contract or your application will be refused. Application refusals are based on several factors, some of which include moritoriums on certain shows (i.e. LES MIZ, THE PRODUCERS or MILLIE, which still have first-class [Broadway productions or national tours] running), the proximity of other productions of the same show in your area (MTI uses a 150-mile radius), past relationships with MTI and/or moritoriums placed by the authors. If you're accepted, you'll receive a production contract in the mail. The time the contract is in the mail is also figured into the 7-10 day processing time.
Step 2: Fill out the production contract with all necessary information including where and when the production will take place, how many performances and how much tickets will cost. Read and sign any riders that may be included in the contract package and return one copy of the contract and/or rider(s) to MTI and include your $400 security deposit for the materials, as well as the royalty payment and rental fee for any additional materials. Two months before your opening night, your materials will arrive to the specified address and you can begin rehearsals.
Now, in your situation, there might be a problem. Technically the producer(s) of the show should have applied for rights quite a while ago to allow for processing and shipping, whether it be a play or a musical that you're working on. It sounds to me like you've already started rehearsing the show, which will likely raise a red flag for the licensing house--they'll be curious how you've started rehearsals without having "official" materials. I don't know how that will affect your rights request application, if at all. I also don't know if and/or how the time crunch will affect their decision, either. I know that several companies have been denied the rights to a production because of time constraints and/or because they'd already started production rehearsals without having secured the rights to the show. There again, for larger-scaled productions, we certainly have been known to do rush work.
And then there are the illegal productions. We've issued 'Cease and Desists' for illegal productions, as well, threatening fines of anywhere from $10,000 to $35,000 per copyright infringement (meaning per performance without a license). It's always fun for us to get calls from people reporting illegal or horribly altered productions of our shows. An all-white production of AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' or the movie version of ANNIE as opposed to what we actually license are big no-no's. Switching the order of songs or scenes or gender-bending roles isn't permitted, either. Well, that's not exactly true...you can have a girl playing a boy as long as the character in the show is still a boy. Sally can play Bobby in COMPANY as long as she plays Bobby as a man. You can't make Bobby into "Bobbi," the lesbian who sleeps around and finds out that what she's been missing all her life is true love. Ya can't do that. Anyway, you get the point...
And that, my friends, is a short lesson in theatrical licensing.
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DR Jane, I just wanted to say bye, and have a wonderful trip. What is the date of your return? (so we know when to look for you).
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No, Jane, not the news. The news will come soon.
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Countdown to 50,000 posts - only about ninety-seven to go.
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Thank you DR Jason, that was EXTREMELY interesting.
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Watched an interesting motion picture on DVD last night. I had gone down to Best Buy to pick up the new release of High School Confidential. Well, they didn't have it but they did have a newly released double feature DVD of Return of the Giant Monsters (a Gamera movie) and The Magic Serpent (I wonder what the box office on those two were?).
Anyhow, The Magic Serpent is the film that I watched last night and it is a Japanese giant moster pic from 1966 that I have never seen before. It was a lot of fun! It was a samurai film, with flying samurai (in sort of a Crouching Tiger kind of way) with giant monsters sprinkled here and there. A giant dragon (with Godzilla's roar), a giant horned frog, a giant bird, and briefly, a giant spider. Made by Toei who I sort of think of as a Toho wanna be when it came to monster movies. I had heard of this movie but had never seen it. Now I have.
Oh, and the lead samurai was quite a hottie I might add!
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Ninety-seven is nothing. There are 12 users currently on the board. We only each need 8 posts.
Hmmm, I could do that in a matter of minutes. :)
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BK, which post exactly is the one? (i'm assuming it must be somewhere around #174 today).
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Anybody have any good Father's Day gift ideas?
Usually I just go with Arnold Palmer shirts (since they have pockets which apparently are a must).
My dad would never think to buy new clothes for himself. Go figure.
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DRJENNIFER almost any man - whether he admits it or not - could use a new wallet!
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Before I get back to work... On the other topic... One of the weird things I did as a child was to play with this one tiny doll (maybe 4 inches) I had which was made entirely of some kind of rubbery material - including her pigtails. I would slather Nivea Cream all over her, then wipe it off. That was it. I found this endlessly fascinating. The doll now sits on my desk. (I no longer slather her in anything.)
But I'm certain she stays perpetually young, because you took care of her so well.
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Jennifer I hope your email arrives soon and isn’t lost.
I think slathering the doll with Cream could make perfect sense. Children emulate. I suspect Panni you watched your mother or someone else use the cream. Or the action itself may have just felt good, like finger painting. To me it sounds funny, but not weird.
I’m trying to think of strange things I did. I do recall in high school I convinced a guy I was a witch and had “powers”. ;D
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Jennifer - note the difference: ;D
Duct tape special:
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New and improved gift from loving daughter: ;D
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No, Jane, not the news. The news will come soon.
Then email me so I have the news when I return home.
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I think slathering the doll with Cream could make perfect sense. To me it sounds funny, but not weird.
To me it sounds weird.
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Oh my brother and I used to capture ants in a mustard jar, then set them loose on a plastic model of the SS United States and set them sailing in the horse trough. Of course the model had a hole in its hull. Ant behavior on a sinking ship is fascinating.
But I am sure we are not the only boys to conduct such an experiment!!
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Thank you Jennifer. We should return the evening of July 1st but I might need a couple of days to recover from jet lag.
The fortune in my cookie reads, ”part of the joy of a vacation is getting there”. Yea, right-I think not. The second part of the fortune is good- “have fun”
Funny JRand but I would never buy a man a wallet. My guys all like to choose their own.
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Page Four Dance! ;D
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Be adventurous.....buy the wallet!
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DRJANE - your trip is going to be wonderful.....
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I think slathering the doll with Cream could make perfect sense. Children emulate. I suspect Panni you watched your mother or someone else use the cream. Or the action itself may have just felt good, like finger painting. To me it sounds funny, but not weird.
(Putting on my TCB hat here:)
"Finger painting"? Is that what you call it?
DR Jane--you and the hubby have a wonderful time! And stay indoors during the nights with a full moon!
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Thank you-I'm expecting it to be.
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Dan The Man toasting his ascension no doubt! Great photo!
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Dan (the Man) is that you in the photo? Did it just appear or haven't I been paying attention. BTW-LOL
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My page shows we are at 50,236 posts....where are you reading, MRBK?
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Dan The Man toasting his ascension no doubt! Great photo!
Dan (the Man) is that you in the photo? Did it just appear or haven't I been paying attention. BTW-LOL
Yeah, I figured that a god needs an avatar. The picture is looking wider than it actually is--not so much myself, but it looks like I'm holding a 2-litre bottle of Coke.
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Be adventurous.....buy the wallet!
Or make one! Out of Duct Tape! (There are books out there with the instructions!)
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Yes, DR Jane, have a wonderful, fantastic trip! I am envious and look forward to pictures and stories of your adventures!
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DRJENNIFER almost any man - whether he admits it or not - could use a new wallet!
Yah he probably could use one. But he'd probably want it to be a certain way. And I'm going to buy the gift without him.
When asked what he wanted, the only thing he could come up with was a dvd of JOAN OF ARCADIA.
Or course it doesn't matter that that doesn't exist. :)
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Funny JRand but I would never buy a man a wallet. My guys all like to choose their own.
Ha. I wrote my response before reading this.
I like to choose my own things as well and everybody that buys for me knows that.
The only exception is stuff given from a guy. Although it is very interesting to see their taste!
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DR JRand, the number you're seeing (50,236) is the total number of posts for the entire board, including the Kritzer Area, the Millie Area, the Tech Board, etc (I had a similar question when we hit 40,000 and DR Michael Shayne pointed out this information). The daily discussion board is around 49,931 something. We need a little less than 70 posts right now to get to 50,000. You see the total number of Daily Discussion posts at the very first screen of the Community Forum. It lists Forum Name, Topics, Posts, Last Post. Once you click on Daily Discussions to enter that screen goes away.
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Jennifer I hope your email arrives soon and isn’t lost.
I'm sure it will arrive eventually. Hotmail seems to do that sometimes. But I'm not sure why.
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My buddy Mark wants me to go to a nakey beach with him Saturday. Not sure I am wanting to do such a thing ( We will most certainly be keeping our clothes on!).
Well, DR MBarnum, in either case, be sure to take lots of pictures!! -And you can just send them to me privately if you'd rather not take up bandwidth here on HHW. ;)
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My post #106 was 49,933.
So post 50,000 should be #173. Is that right?
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Jane,
Your horoscope says it's an excellent time to enjoy escapes. (Also: you've been a caring mentor, and the resolts are starting to show. And: Your mildly sarcastic comments may backfire around the 20th.)
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I will most likely be out when the big moment happens here. It's a friend's birthday and we are going out for a snack and then we will see Broadway: The Golden Age. I will take part in the festivities tomorrow morning.
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I think we can almost safely say we will achieve our new landmark by this evening. Countdown continues.
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When asked what he wanted, the only thing he could come up with was a dvd of JOAN OF ARCADIA.
Or course it doesn't matter that that doesn't exist. :)
But it does - in my box of Emmy DVDs. I can certainly send it to you, but not in time for Father's Day. Could he take a rain-check?
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Dan (the Man), our newest God, it’s nice to have your picture there. I had taken a second look at that rather large bottle of coke.
Jennifer good luck finding a gift! Wish I had saved my JOAN OF ACADIA show for you.
Thank you MBarnum. I hope we can get a nice family picture on the trip.
Dan-in-Toronto thank you for the horoscope reading-LOL. Now if only I knew which mildly sarcastic comments were going to return to haunt me. ;D
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Thanks DRBEN - that explains THAT!!
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Jennifer-correction. I just read Panni’s post. Maybe you do have a gift. :D
I really read the post awhile ago but was locked out of the site-had to close down and come back.
I-between we cleaned Echo's wounds. They are looking very good today and she is recovering nicely. :D :D :D
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I-between we cleaned Echo's wounds. They are looking very good today and she is recovering nicely. :D :D :D
Hurray!
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Is there an Echo in here?
A mere fifty-six posts or so ought to do it.
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and a mere 15 for Mr. BK
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Boo hoo....I will probably be at rehearsal when it happens.
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...I'm ironing my pantaloons.
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Don't worry, Jrand, if you're at rehearsal I can assure you the partay will be going strong upon your return.
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Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I am close to 4000 posts!
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Thanks DR Panni: I will email you.
He has seen all the episodes. But for some reason he loves them. A dvd is really what he asked for Father's Day.
Although he knew it didn't exist. So why did he ask? :)
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Back from the pool. A lovely afternoon with sun bright and then ducking behind clouds so it never got hellish hot. A couple of rum and Cokes were just fine.
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I think a wallet is a wonderful idea. Take a gander and see what kind of billfold your father prefers (single fold, double fold, money clip). My wallet is fairly new right now, but I'd still love it as a gift since they do wear out eventually and you'd already have your new one there waiting.
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A dvd is really what he asked for Father's Day.
Although he knew it didn't exist. So why did he ask? :)
Because it DOES exist. Father knows best!
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I have a question for all you experts.
I am looking for a gift for a 10 year anniversary. I read that the gift for 10 years is aluminum/tin. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Oh, and DR Jane, how great that doggie is doing better. I'm sure it will make your travelling much easier.
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I don't think I'll be around for the party! :(
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All those good Echo vibes must be working. :D Traveling will definitely be easier. Now, if only it would cool off for her. Usually when I leave in the morning for a trip I let the sitter walk her. By 10:00 tomorrow it will be too hot so I will have to take her at 7:00. I’m having my hair done this afternoon. The purpose of doing so the afternoon before I leave is that is stays better and longer when the hairdresser does it. Hiking and getting my hair all dusty before I leave was not in my original game plan. Oh well, anything for our sweet little girl.
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Well, gosh!
All this talk about numbers re: movies and Broadway.
And we have our OWN numbers game going on....will we hit 50,000 this afternoon, or tonight?
BK is, as of this writing, only 14 posts away from 5,000.
Am I obsessing? :D
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Jennifer, I don't have any ideas but I did a Google search and a number of sites came up. I'm sorry I don't have time to research it for you.
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Back from the pool. A lovely afternoon with sun bright and then ducking behind clouds so it never got hellish hot. A couple of rum and Cokes were just fine.
Hmmmm...rum and cokes...yummmm...
Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola,
Go down Point Cumana,
Both mother and daughtah
Workin' for the Yankee dolla'
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I'm eating cookies baked by our very own Sandra, and they are quite yummilicious. They are chocolate chip cookies made with Cadbury chocolate bars. I'll save some for our partay.
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I'm eating cookies baked by our very own Sandra, and they are quite yummilicious. They are chocolate chip cookies made with Cadbury chocolate bars. I'll save some for our partay.
Are ham chunks kosher?
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DR JENNIFER - I am taking my life in my hands suggesting yet ANOTHER gift idea....BUT....do a search for Noguchi - you can probably get a nice knock-off of one of his aluminum sculptures or buy some colored aluminum foil and make a nice mobile.
No one can have too many mobiles in there home....wow, I wonder if people in mobile homes have mobiles?
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Leaving work now and going out to get a haircut (in fact, I just might get all of them cut) and to go shopping for a few birthday gifts. I most probably will not be present when the numbers on the board turn, but I will be back to partay into the night. I'll wear my dancing sneakers.
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DR Jane, ever so glad Echo is doing better! I do hope you all never run into that evil mongrel Tyson again! And I am sure that your doggie sitter will be a fine companion for the pups while you are away...I would say that the sitter might spoil them but I have a feeling that the dogs would not notice any difference! LOL!
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Wow, JRand53, almost 4000 posts! You have beat me at HHW posts and Ebay scores! Dang you, dang you to Harold Heckubah!
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Well, DR MBarnum, in either case, be sure to take lots of pictures!! -And you can just send them to me privately if you'd rather not take up bandwidth here on HHW. ;)
I would, of course, be more than happy to have a set of said pictures, as well! ;) ;D
(I wanted to get in at least one post before the big 50,000!)
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Okay, here's another before the big 50,000!:
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]CONGRATULATIONS TO DAN (THE MAN) AND YOUR ENTRY INTO THE HHW HEAVENS!![/move]
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LOL....DRMBARNUM you can now catch up to me on EBAY...since my unemployment has reduced my purchases greatly!
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I've just read about one of the strangest plans! (Stranger even than 9 from outer space.) In order to avoid the pirating of movies and yet allow Academy members to see Oscar contenders, the Academy is thinking of sending out Dolby DVD players which would play specially encrypted DVD screeners to EACH of the 6000 Academy members.
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I'm adding my own post in the quest to reach the goal. For the question of the day: When I was little I used to love to make tents with sheets. But these aren't the typical little kid tents. My tents would take up entire rooms and often spilled out into others. My parents thought I was nuts and I usually didn't stop until I ran out of sheets. I would leave them up for at least a week. Even my top bunk of my bunk beds was contained in the tent. I didn't have people come over much when I was younger so no one besides my family really saw them, but I was really creative. I always wonder with how small I was at the time, how I got all the sheets hung up as high as I did.
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That sounds cost effective DRPANNI!
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BK, have you gone to sort through your boxes yet? Don't forget...lift with your legs not your back!!
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"DR Joey, I am very glad you have joined our little site, soon to be the most popular site on the internet. I really like having young folk post."
This is from DR Laura, yesterday and I have to say thank you very much! It is very nice to be appreciated. :)
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Actually, a friend is going to help with the boxes, so it's tomorrow.
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DR Jane: What did you type in for your search.
I typed something like "ten year anniversary", but I actually didn't find anything too helpful. :(
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I believe we're in the home stretch - twenty-five more posts to go. Get your party accoutrements ready.
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And I've ten posts to go until 5,000. Can it all coincide?
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I also want to share this random bit of fun with you. We decided we are going to have a themed rehearsal tonight. It is going to be crazy hat day. I was looking around and thought I was going to have to go with a cowboy hat, and then I found this. I know it's very random, but I am tickled pink about it nonetheless. :) It's a pig hat! :o ;D
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Nineteen count them nineteen posts. Nine count them nine posts. Pointy party hats at the ready.
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Colored tights and pantaloons at the ready.
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To celebrate my 4000th post! Here is the lovely Miss Allison Hayes preparing to hit the Hollywood hay! 8)
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Oh I guess I counted wrong.
Nevermind....my 3,400th post!
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Hora at the ready. Mashed Potato at the ready. Ham chunks and cheese slices at the ready.
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Countdown......
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3400 posts is nothing to sneeze at. Oops (spoo, spelled backwards), I just sneezed. Coincidence or fate, you tell me.
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This is getting exciting.
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A mere eleven more posts and it's partay time.
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DR JRand: I appreciate all the suggestions.
I did do the search. But I don't think a sculpture is really this person's cup of tea.
I was just wondering what regular items are made from aluminum. Well not a pot or anything. But things that could be given as gifts.
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We will raise a ruckus, we will raise the roof, we will raise Cain...
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We will say, "What is it, fish?"
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Here we go...
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The suspense is killing me! :) I was worried I would have to head to rehearsal before we reached the goal.
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Well I have to go. But if we can reach the milestone now, I will stay for 5 more minutes.
Happy 50,000!!!
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So close! I am getting my celebration post prepared!
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Waiting for the word from MR BK!!!
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Five, four, three, two, one.
Party, party, party!!!!!!!
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Well, 50,000 posts and 5,000 posts! What do you think of THAT I'd like to know?
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How many more?????
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I just got a deevine package from DR WEL which contains "candy sticks" - the PC name for candy cigarettes. Here is a photo of me enjoying one of said "candy sticks" while writing. Notice that I drew black ashes on the tip with a laundry marker. (The package also contained Gummi Frogs! I'm in heaven!) Thank you, WEL!
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Actually, a friend is going to help with the boxes, so it's tomorrow.
Drat! A Jerry Herman reference MISSED!
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[move=left,scroll,6,blue,100%] :D :o Happy 50, 000 Posts!!!!!!!! :o :D [/move]
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Yes, 50,000 posts, our new landmark. Let the partay begin! First of all, what is your partay attire I'd like to know?
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Hahahahah.
We are the most popular site on the Internet!!! ;D
We have the smartest and nicest posters on the Internet!!! ;D
Even the Hal 9000 Computer agrees! Click to hear his testimonial!
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DR JRand: I appreciate all the suggestions.
I did do the search. But I don't think a sculpture is really this person's cup of tea.
I was just wondering what regular items are made from aluminum. Well not a pot or anything. But things that could be given as gifts.
Buy them a six-pack of Cherry Coke -- in cans.
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Are we there??
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Okay how did that happen? I thought BK's post was gonna be # 50,000. Did someone erase a post? :(
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Red cargo shorts, white socks, "Joseph/Dreamcoat" t-shirt! And this is by coincidence my rehearsal costume!
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Welcome eleven GUESTS! We are havin' a partay. Just think how much faster we'd have gotten to 50,000 if all the GUESTS had come out of the woodwork (no mean feat) and joined us.
Panni, do try keeping up and reading ALL of the posts.
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DRPANNI where is a picture of Nivea Nell?
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Coincidence??? I don't think so.
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My post was actually 49,999 because I assumed someone would get one in before I posted.
Well - 50,000 posts. Soon I feel we will be the most popular site on all the Internet. And why? Because we are cool, man, cool, we are the ginchiest, we are a happening thing, we weather the storm, we, we are family, we are gear and fab and we are mods and rockers.
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Panni, do try keeping up and reading ALL of the posts.
Hey, I WAS keeping up all day today, Mr. bk. I just happened to miss the moment. It happens to the best of us.
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It only takes a moment to miss the moment. One must never miss the moment. Welcome fourteen GUESTS! We are eating ham chunks and cheese slices, we are wearing our point party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, we are dancing the Hora and the Swim - are you? Can you say the same? If not, get on those pointy party hats and colored tights and pantaloons before we bitch-slap you from here to eternity and hell and back.
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My partay outfit is pictured in the photo on the previous page. (Which I was taking care of when I missed the fershluganah moment.) I am adding pantaloons and a party hat.
Congratulations, bk! Congratulations everyone!
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Dark blue flat front khakis, yellow linen button up shirt, black schechers.
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DRPANNI where is a picture of Nivea Nell?
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I hope that's a candy cigarette Panni's holding in that picture!!!
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I hope that's a candy cigarette Panni's holding in that picture!!!
Read the post, RLP!
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LOL I think MRBK is giving Nivea Nell the eye!
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Sounds very distinguished MB. What are you wearing to the Nudey Beach on Saturday?
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My post was actually 49,999 because I assumed someone would get one in before I posted.
Well - 50,000 posts. Soon I feel we will be the most popular site on all the Internet. And why? Because we are cool, man, cool, we are the ginchiest, we are a happening thing, we weather the storm, we, we are family, we are gear and fab and we are mods and rockers.
You are quite correct (as always), BK -- We are family!
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Sounds very distinguished MB. What are you wearing to the Nudey Beach on Saturday?
Nothing but a smile? LOL!
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JRand53, I have been reading that Kiss of King Kong book...I am not finding it boring or anything, but it does seem like the author is putting in way too many of his own strange fetishes into the book and some of it is disturbing me.
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50,000!
PARTAY Time for Panni and Abie!
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I didn't know that we were expecting a par-tay! I would have dressed for the occasion! :-\ I am wearing blue pajama pants with Uncle Sam on them (What he's doing on my pants is beyond me) and a pink tank top, and I am not feeling particularly festive for this par-tay. Where did BK go with the ham chunks and cheese slices?
TOD2: Among the many strange things I did that the other kids didn't understand / picked on me for, I used to read the New York Times during recess. I also decorated my cubby (elementary school version of a locker) with playbills from various shows. I also wrote the lyrics to "La Vie Boheme" of all songs on my arm during fourth grade gym class (I got in big trouble for that one. I didn't know what any of those words meant!). I also directed an elementary school production of "A Chorus Line" when I was nine.
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BTW - I'm kneeling on the floor in the picture. Abie isn't 4 feet tall!
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You and Abie are positively adorable!
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Off to rehearsal will rejoin the party...in about 5 1/2 hours!
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Jenny, nice to see you at the partay! Hope the pj's so early in the evening don't mean you're sick.
All of the childhood things you describe sound normal to me. That's how ALL children should behave.
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Another great PanniPic!
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Now I am off!
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You and Abie are positively adorable!
I thank you and Abie thanks you.
Funny Abie story. I took him to the park early this morning. There was only one other person there - a man who usually shows up in pj bottoms with his dog Rooster. (The man wears the pj's, not the dog.) We've never really talked - so while the dogs romped we chatted. Turns out he's a well-known blues guitarist (played with Bonnie Raitt, TajMahal - won a Grammy with him). Anyway, while we talked Abie suddenly began humping Rooster (also a male). He's never done that before! The musician dude looked at them and grunted, "Ah yes, Hollywood love."
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I am so busy partaying that I don't even want to work!
I just ate a banana in celebration!
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Just "tuned in" and assume I should be celebrating something. No power here for a few hours at least so I am late. Now to check back and see what I am missing - I shall be having some vegemite soon so I guess it will be an OJ and Vegemite celebration here at Breakfast time.
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50,000 posts... yowza!
Didn't think it would happen so early in the day! Dang it, I should have checked in earlier. Oh well, I'm here now, and ready to PARTAY!!!
Congrats to one and all, all and one, and special thanks to BK for hosting this merry troupe!
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Nothing but a smile? LOL!
What was the address of that beach, Michael???
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DansssseSssssalome! The ssssswim!
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Just "tuned in" and assume I should be celebrating something. No power here for a few hours at least so I am late. Now to check back and see what I am missing - I shall be having some vegemite soon so I guess it will be an OJ and Vegemite celebration here at Breakfast time.
You have invited Mr. Simpson to your home for breakfast?
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The threat of Vegemite should allow me to really get the true story. I was going to try it with Mr Bush but there is not Truth to be had there at all!
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What a partay. I, of course, am out of ham chunks AND cheese slices, so I must to market shortly because I do not wish to be out of the loop, ham chunks and cheese slices-wise.
I think we should all wear pajama bottoms and tank tops.
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Congratulations DantheMan. Welcome. Strange when there are is are more Gods than underlings these days.
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I found a pointy hat for the occasion. I don't eat ham chunks (a Mack and Mabel reference?), but there are cheese slices galore. Great occasion, BK. Congratulations! Thank you! Truly the very best site on the Internet!
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Congratulations to all and sundried on the achievement of the amazing number of posts.
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DAN THE MAN! You're a god! (then again, I always knew that you were) ;)
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What a boring day at MTI! My God, I'm so glad to be home--and sitting in front of the air conditioner. And what a downpour we just had in the City that never sleeps. Yowzah!
Congrats on 50,000 posts. How exciting. How too too. I'm having a Sunkist orange soda in celebration.
In an earlier post, Jenny wrote: "I also wrote the lyrics to "La Vie Boheme" of all songs on my arm during fourth grade gym class..."
To that I say, FOURTH GRADE!?!?! Oh, sweet grandma Moses! I was in my third year of college when the RENT-olution occurred. Geez-o-man, I feel old! Of course, I don't LOOK old...I just feel it. :-D
Have I mentioned it's humid in NYC? Well, it is.
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Read the post, RLP!
There was a post with that pic???
Why...yes...there IS a post with the pic.
!spoO !tihS
Never mind.....
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Good Afternoon!
PARTY! PARTEE! PAR-TAY!!
No matter how you say it - No matter how you spell it - We are having a good ole time!!!
-Aren't we?!?!?!
Of course, I was napping during the big occurence, but I'm here now, and that's what counts!
-Doesn't it?
As for my party attire: an Old Navy tank top (and I hardly ever wear tank tops - I need to work on my arms), drawstring shorts, and flip-flops. Oh, and they're all blue - although the shorts are a blue plaid, but still blue nonetheless. Not exactly pjs, but.. wait, they are - minus the flip-flops, of course.
For my party food, I just had a bowl of Lucky Charms, well, my grocery store's generic equivalent, with some vanilla soy milk. Very good. And the marshmallow bits to oat cereal quotient seems to be very much in favor of the marshmallows! Perfect! Yummy!
I shall head out later for something a little more substantial.
In the meantime... I haven't left my apartment today. I was supposed to leave my apartment today, but my plans got changed. Well, my friend's plans changed. He was supposed to come down from DC for a meeting this morning, and then we were going to spend the rest of the day together. He's a friend from college, and we haven't seen each other in years - probably since college. I did play an audition for him a few years ago, but that was only about a 90-second reunion so that doesn't really count. We tried to get together in DC while I was up playing Children of Eden, but our schedules never coincided. However, he will be coming in on Monday now, so that's good. But since I was geared to heading out and about today, I was not geared up for more cleaning and sorting. So... It's been a nice relaxing day - again. ;)
But if he was here today, I'm sure he'd be par-tay-ing too along with the rest of us here on HHW!!!
DR Jason et al et brad et henry - It's apparently very hot and humid here in Richmond too today, but since I have yet to leave my apartment today... We had a heat index very close to 100 apparently. And, apparently, according to my roommate who did step outside for a while, it is definitely very hot and humid and muggy outside. I do plan to take my constitutional (I've always loved that word - first heard it on "The Jeffersons" of all places) later, and, hopefully, things will have cooled off a bit by then. As of the 6:00 news, it was still in the upper 80s outside. We shall see...
*Oh, but it is actually - as opposed to apparently - very cool in the apartment right now. I'm in the ground floor of a duplex, and we're between two other buidings so that helps a bit. However, the young woman who lives upstairs keeps her A/C running pretty much all the time, so we get a lot of her "residual coolness". Of course, the one drawback to this - well, for her - is that her summer electric bills run about $300/month, while ours only runs about $50-60/month. However, it was the dripping from the condensation coil in her A/C unit that caused the leak in our kitchen ceiling - which has yet to be repaired, so... In any case...
PARTY! PARTEE!! PAR-TAY!!!
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I need to do some errands soon - but it seems to me that the party frenzy has died down. And that's most unseemly. Most unseemly. That's two unseemly-s. And one for Mahler. Which makes three.
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Congrats! WoW!
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That made me LOL (laugh out loud, in internet lingo). Very funny.
Thank you.
Are you the only one on the board who got it?
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Well, I missed the actual moments (50,000 for HHW and 5,000 for BK), but I was logged in...that's gotta count for something! ;D
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF US FOR MAKING HHW THE MOST EXCITING SITE IN ALL OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB!!
I had to go to a staff meeting and one of the things that we talked about is if we want to have a summer pot-luck. :D We all, of course, said yes! So, it was decided that in the middle of August we'll be partying and bar-b-queing here at work!
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I'm adding my own post in the quest to reach the goal. For the question of the day: When I was little I used to love to make tents with sheets. But these aren't the typical little kid tents. My tents would take up entire rooms and often spilled out into others. My parents thought I was nuts and I usually didn't stop until I ran out of sheets. I would leave them up for at least a week. Even my top bunk of my bunk beds was contained in the tent. I didn't have people come over much when I was younger so no one besides my family really saw them, but I was really creative. I always wonder with how small I was at the time, how I got all the sheets hung up as high as I did.
Joel, have you ever watched "Trading Spaces?" I don't remember who did it, but one of the designers remade a room into a circus theme, complete with a tent for wall coverings. It was quite interesting (a School House Rock! reference) and I think the people who got the room really liked it!
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Just wanted to drop by to say "Congrats" on the milestone in postings.
Sorry to be E & T. I fear I might be E & T quite often for awhile. Please bear with me.
Jane, I finely answered your e-mail. Sorry to have been so late. I wsa typing a reply when I received your message. I hope you and Keith have a WOMDERFUL time and make many, many memories. I'll look forward to reading all about.
I've been out of the loop so I hope everyone is doing fine. Good vibes to those who need them.
Hate to post and run but it's been a very, very long day.
Party ON!
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For the first Topic of the Day: I don't pay any attention to "the numbers" or how well a movie or show did at the box office...I only pay attention to the movie itself if it's something that I might find interesting (whether it's good or not).
For the second Topic of the Day, "What was the one thing you liked to do as a kid that everyone looked at you like you were nuts for doing?" Even though I’m 38 now, my lawyers still advise me not to discuss it. ;)
Yes, that is a joke! Anyway, what I used to do as a kid, and I WAS nuts for doing it, was to "sew" my room. I would get a spool of thread and tie the end to something in my bedroom. Then I would go around and hook it over things, string it through things and basically make a big giant spider web out of my room...with the goal of NOT breaking anything or knocking anything over and still being able to get in and out of the room. I'd only done it a couple of times and my parents didn't just look at me like I was nuts, they were convinced that I was nuts. But, they didn't get angry at me and I always undid it carefully so that most of the thread was re-usable.
I just realized that I haven't thought about that in...well, a very long time!
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The partay is hardly over, you dear, dear people out there in the dark. We haven't even started shaking our collective booties yet. Until there has been the shaking of booty the party goes on and on and on and on, just like the story.
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HEY! We're havin' a partay not a siesta.
Just read a review of the Charlie Chan DVDs by one of the twenty-year olds who review discs elsewhere. It is apparent from the first sentence that just about every word in the "review" is cadged from somewhere else (a lot from the imdb), without credit, thereby giving the impression that he's an expert on Chan. He talks as if he's seen the Fox films - I would bet any amount of money he's never seen one of them. He keeps saying things like, "It's immediately apparent that the budget of the Monograms was nowhere near the Fox films" or some such, when, as I said, it's fairly obvious he has no idea of what he's going on about other than what he's read at the imdb. Then everyone comes on and says, "Great review." The usual malarky about "there's a layer of film grain throughout". Note to "reviewer": Film has grain. You do understand this simple construct, yes?
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A busy household here in OZ. Magnus & Fosca have a house guest for the next few days whilst his person is on a short holiday. Maxwell is a delightful dog but is so full of energy.
He is a Parson Jack Russell. (A Jack Russell how they looked before they were shortened!)
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The usual malarky about "there's a layer of film grain throughout". Note to "reviewer": Film has grain. You do understand this simple construct, yes?
Unfortunately, I do no think that this concept of film and grain ever enters their heads. They don't write about film grain over at the imdb!
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Maxwell has soulful eyes!
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That explain why Maxwell and I are very close friends. The eyes have it. He loves visiting here because he gets to chase rabbits - not that he would know what to do if he caught one! Magnus and Fosca just ignore the rabbits. Fosca and Maxwell swapped bowls this morning during their morning snack - sign of Friendship I guess.
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Must be time for Newbie Gunther to break the lurking habit. 8 months is enough time to develop the courage. It's a party after all. You are very welcome Gunther.
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Bruce-lucky you having Sandra’s special cookies. I’m jealous.
MBarnum- :D
Panni you had me there for a minute (with the black ash). I would love to see the box the cigarettes came in.
Gosh that doll is cute.
CONGRATULATIONS! I’m so excited I’m still in town for the celebration.
Tomovoz, Maxwell is a cutie. I hope he isn’t a hyper Jack Russell as they often are here.
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DR Jane: Maxwell is very well behaved - loves to run outside but is calm inside the house. He is not a "barky" dog either. He is very loving.
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Where is François de Paree with all this hoopla and partying going on?
Has anyone known a Frenchman to pass on a party?
Honestly!
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When I was a kid, I could sing the entire chorus of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" without taking a breath!
Yeah, well I once recited the Preamble to the Constitution from memory in six seconds.
I'm sorry I missed the 50,000th post, but I was sleeping on my futon.
Now I'm hungry. I should have held on to some of those cookies.
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....Never hurts to send out some good vibes.
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Where are all the party posts?
I'm going out to dinner with DD and her boyfriend. Then they head out for San Diego until Tuesday and I clean up the place and work.
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...A couple of rum and Cokes were just fine....
And the ones that came later were even better!!!
8) 8) 8)
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I am losing my mind!
This is not the first time I've wanted to write something only to forget it by the time I get to the end of the posts.
Guess what?
I am actually wearing pajama bottoms and a tank top! Woohoo! HHW party attire.
I am wearing my light blue "truly, madly, deeply" pj bottoms. A little blue mini sports top, a black tank top, and a dark blue longsleeve zippered down comfy jacket.
I'm ready for bed!
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Btw, I just looked at the calendar. I think it's DR Laura II's birthday in a few minutes.
Happy birthday!
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Just received a postcard from Elmore3003 and he says to tell everyone at HHW that he is alive and well in Connecticut!
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Just back from a brisk two mile jog. Very sweaty, but am at this moment shaking my booty in honor of our partay.
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MBarnum, I can't remember. When is elmore returning? I was just thinking about him.
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Der Brucer has brought me word from his daughter.
She wants me to cook for the elder grandlad's partay.
After the reception my cooking got the last time, she still wants to me to cook this time.
And she still hasn't asked me, personally. She asked the first time by asking der Brucer.
She complained the first time by complaining to der Brucer.
She's asking this time by asking der Brucer.
There's a pattern developing here.
I'd rather cook for the partay here any day! This group doesn't even need to ask politely. This is a grand group of partayers.
Bring on the ham chunks, cheese slices, and chocolate chip cookies!
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Pardon me while I go cook dinner and slip into more comfortable pajama bottoms and a tank top.
Or a pajama top and a tank bottom.
::)
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Cheese slices and chocolate chip cookies, I'm ready.
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Cheese slices and chocolate chip cookies, I'm ready.
Is that what you have packed for Prague?
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Pardon me while I go cook dinner and slip into more comfortable pajama bottoms and a tank top.
Or a pajama top and a tank bottom.
::)
Just don't slip on your pajamas and fall in the tank! :o
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Der Brucer has brought me word from his daughter.
She wants me to cook for the elder grandlad's partay.
After the reception my cooking got the last time, she still wants to me to cook this time.
And she still hasn't asked me, personally. She asked the first time by asking der Brucer.
She complained the first time by complaining to der Brucer.
She's asking this time by asking der Brucer.
There's a pattern developing here.
SWW -- I hope you said "no."
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Btw, I just looked at the calendar. I think it's DR Laura II's birthday in a few minutes.
Happy birthday!
Hmmm, ............Jennifer said at 6:46 p.m. PDT, that Laura II's birthday was in a few minutes. Now, considering that my calendar lists Laura II's birthday as being on Friday, that would mean that, if it was a few minutes away, Jennifer must have been posting from............................. Greenland![/color]
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I bet he says yes. If so, please find out exactly what they want and make them talk to you directly.
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Has anyone noticed that we're on our way to 60,000 posts?
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I bet he says yes. If so, please find out exactly what they want and make them talk to you directly.
If they want potato salad, I would send over a bowl of boiled potatoes, lightly tossed in Miracle Whip. Period! No seasonings, no additives.
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I think I have done all I can for tonight. Except for a few last minute items we are all packed. Tomovoz, no cookies but I do have sesame sticks.
In case I can’t get on tomorrow, bye and thanks for all the good wishes and good vibes. I hope you all have a good two weeks while I’m gone.
A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LAURA II! (sorry the pink came out too light to use)
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TCB that sounds so yummy. :P ;D
Goodnight.
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Well, the reviewer probably has not seen any Fox CHAN films. Even though Fox made them, they didn't break the bank with their budgets there either.
Congratulations on reaching another milestone!
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[move=RIGHT,scroll,6,transparent,100%]60,000, HERE WE COME!!![/move]
Well, Part-Tay on, peeps!
My attire is a tad casual--just got on a pair of cut-offs here. But I'll write "SOY BOMB" on my bare chest to add an enigmatical touch to my outfit.
And I've also pretended to invite my pretend girlfriend, Amy Sedaris, over for the festivities and I pretended that she brought along her best friend SJP and husband Matthew. Matthew is now doing his Marlon Brando! Oh, Michael--stop! Stop! You're killing me!
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I hate to do this, but I'm going to sign-off for the night. And I'm not being a Wussburger. I have loads of laundry to do because tomorrow starts the American Cancer Society's (Thurston County, WA) Relay-For-Life 24-hour walking marathon! I'm on a team at work (The Bookers...appropriate for library workers), and I have to be there at 4:00 p.m. I also have to work in the morning, so I won't be able to get as much sleep tonight as I had wanted.
Anyway, most of our team will stay at the track for the full 24 hours so I won't have any Internet access. Saturday, when it's all done at 6:00 p.m. (and before I can get any sleep), I'm meeting my family at a restaurant to celebrate my mom's birthday (which was Wednesday)...THEN I'll be able to crash for the night. Sunday is, of course, Father's Day, then Monday I and my family are going to have dinner at the Space Needle in Seattle to celebrate my parents' 40th wedding anniversary (which is on Tuesday, but my mom has to work that night and couldn't get the time off...she's retiring at the end of the month). And I'll finally be able to give them the $98.99 ($107.31 with tax) bottle of 1995 Cuvee Dom Perignon champagne that I bought back in February.
Whew! That's one busy weekend! :o But I'll be around tomorrow morning, when I'm at work. Anyone else that busy?? :D
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And one for Mahler!
And Congratulations again to BK for 5,000+ posts & to all of us HHWers for 50,000+ posts!!
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I think this is some sort of new record for me...here it is, 11:30 in the p.m. and I'm already back from the gym! And this was my second night in a row going there! I had a loverly 36 minute jaunt on the elliptical machine, burning a good 520 calories and running a very scenic 4 miles. I say scenic because I have found a second, more motivating reason to go to the gym...at 10:30 in the p.m. I don't know the person's name, but I have new inspiration. That is all I'm going to say. I don't see any future in this endeavour, but it's fun to gawk.
I learned something very frightening tonight. I learned that the three plain hamburgers and the snack sized fruit-and-yogurt parfait I had from McDonalds for dinner tonight contained nearly 1,000 calories. And let me tell you...that ain't a lotta food for a boy my size. Especially considering I only had a turkey sandwich for lunch. Oh, well... At least I didn't have fries or chips...or even a soda with my dinner, so I don't feel so terrible.
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Oh! I have been so rude and I'm so sorry for it...
Dear Readers Laura and Sandra: Thank you so much for the fun picture! Who knew those little gold letters would stay on my star for a whole year! LOL You're both very sweet to think of me while you were on your mini-vacation.
DR LAURA II: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
DRs Jane and Keith: I hope you have a wonderful, carefree and refreshing trip to see your son. Please be safe and know that we'll all be waiting eagerly for you to return.
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Yes yes yes.....we having a partay.
Things are hopping...corks are popping....and we are shopping!!!
MBARNUM got a card from elmore? Where is my card, I wonder? I didn't know elmore was going to be sending out cards.
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DR JASON you must go on the MTI computers and see what it says about the lovely Putnam County Playhouse in Greencastle, Indiana. We always pay our bills and we always return our books....I would hope we have a glowing reputation with MTI. Of course we didn't do any MTI shows this year....R/H and Samuel French - I think SF has Nunsense.
Anyway....maybe next year.
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I didn't eat yet. It's time for dindin.
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I am still shaking my booty. My booty is shaken, not stirred. My booty lies over the ocean, my booty lies over the sea. These booties were made for walkin'. They died with their booty on.
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Jrand: I do recall some talk about PCP and I am pretty certain it was all good. The place I worked for three years ago--DISCOVERYLAND, USA! IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA (this is in caps so it will be engrained in your mind so you'll never work there)--has been doing SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS for the last four years. For the last THREE years, they've been doing it without obtaining licenses. They never returned the scripts from the first year they rented the show, so they just keep doing it and we keep sending collection agencies. I think at last count they owed nearly $15,000.
There may be some interesting developments at Bucks County Playhouse pretty soon, as well. Let's just say they're one of the top ten copyright violators we deal with and we're on to them...
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And yes, Samuel French has NUNSENSE, though you'd never know it by going to their totally useless website.
And I would suggest not even bothering with Tams-Bitchmark. They're hideodious people.
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MR BK did you contact Mr Will Viharo as yet?
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Tams is a nightmare....I have told the Board of Directors, I will not even consider directing a show from their catalog...and that they should just throw it away!!!
I can't believe the Tulsa group.....LOL...what are THEY thinking?
You know the American Cabaret Theatre here in Indy keeps doing revues that its artistic director writes, and I am almost certain they NEVER pay royalties on the songs they sing....it's outrageous! But they don't do book shows, so I don't know who to report them to.
We always get licenses, etc...and all the other theatres in Indy do....a couple of exceptions....but.... Makes it hard on those who follow the rules!
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Hey, maybe when you catch up with Bucks County, you can repossess the Model T that all the stars used to sign. I will give you ten dollars for the door that has Frances Farmer's name on it!
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This one! ;D 8)
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Hey BK left the chat room open everyone come in here!
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Revues are a tricky animal. I believe (don't quote me on this) you are permitted to do up to three songs by a specific composer without having to obtain the rights to perform them. Of course, obtaining the orchestrations is impossible because the licensing houses have those. That does not mean, however, that you may perform three songs from each show that that composer has written. Therefore, you may not "write" your own Sondheim revue by performing three songs from each of his shows. That's illegal. There are SO many Sondheim revues available that there's no reason for anyone to write their own. And there are revues available for nearly every major composer of musical theatre--Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber," Sondheim's "Side by Side by Sondheim," Herman's "ShowTune" (which MTI now licenses), Rodger's "A Grand Night for Singing," Loesser's "Perfectly Frank," Coward's "Oh, Coward!," Porter's "Red, Hot & Cole," etc. They're all over the place. If you wrote a revue with three songs by each of those composers, that'd be OK, but you'd have to pay to get the full orchestrations. It's a tricky thing, licensing. And then you get into the professional theatres and their box office percentages and guarantees and merchandising percentages...it's nuts.
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Hey BK left the chat room open everyone come in here!
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no one wants to chat :(
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oh well time for bed
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I went to the chat room and you weren't there, JRAND...
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And I would suggest not even bothering with Tams-Bitchmark. They're hideodious people.
When I was in junior high, I sent for purusal copies of musicals from them for no other purpose other than to read them. The last time I did this was about 1977. I am still on their mailing list. These people never give up.
Amy is telling me to tell y'all that I am looking so much better with my new buzzcut. It's also feels much cooler.
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ON TO 60,000!!!!!
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LOL
missed connections
story of my life
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DtM (and Amy): MTI won't send out perusals unless you have proof that you are an actual performing arts organization and proof that you have a performance space. That may sound mean, but you'd be surprised at how many copies of those little vocal/libretto books we lose every year. But Tams is still bitchier than we are.
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I bet he says yes. If so, please find out exactly what they want and make them talk to you directly.
Don't bet on my saying yes, unless she talks to me directly. And even then, she's going to have to grovel.
We're going up tomorrow, to grandladsit. She'll get her opportunity then. If she flunks, she flunks.
(And she wants to stop taking her anti-depression meds. I'm not sure I want to know her at all, if she can't learn from what happened to me when I did that.)
This is too depressing. Let's party! Let's dance through life! Let's defy gravity!
Let's TANGO!
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Back from dinner at the Hungarian restaurant - DD's BF's choice. The waitress I think had some sort of bipolar disorder. She was Hungarian - and quite thin for a waitress - sort of pretty in a blowsy way - anyway, one minute she was snapping at me, ("Sit down!") the next she was practically kissing me on the lips. Plus she took our drink orders twice (water with lemon - not complicated) and brought the same complimentary cucumber salad twice. The meal was excellent though, DD and I had Wiener Schnitzel; BF had Chicken Paprikas. Walnut and apricot palacsinta (crepes) for dessert.
DD and her BF have left for San Diego, so suddenly my tiny house seems quite roomy.
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Almost on post 300. Excellent.
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DtM (and Amy): MTI won't send out perusals unless you have proof that you are an actual performing arts organization and proof that you have a performance space. That may sound mean, but you'd be surprised at how many copies of those little vocal/libretto books we lose every year. But Tams is still bitchier than we are.
Yep, I do recall that about MTI. I still have the very handsome 1973 catalog (with a Hirschfeld cover) which contains some great pictures. I very much wanted to read the Sondheim shows and wrote to request the perusal copies, but they wrote back asking for proof of my organization. Didn't happen.
Amy and SJP say hi! Matthew is sitting on the sofa leafing through next week's TV Guide.
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Amy is telling me to tell y'all that I am looking so much better with my new buzzcut. It's also feels much cooler.
Buzzcuts are so much easier to take care of, too. There's very little risk of bedhair in the morning.
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Jason I understand the motivation of which you speak! LOL!
Jane, I don't know when Elmore3003 returns. It seemed to me that he would be gone for 6 weeks time...so I would guess he has about 1 month before his return. He of course is missing the grand partay.
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Buzzcuts are so much easier to take care of, too. There's very little risk of bedhair in the morning.
I agree!
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We must be up too early on the 'morrow. Bleh bleh bleh.
Or helb helb helb.
Though I would rather not, I must wusburger, or regrubsuw.
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And one for Mahler!
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Remember, partay until the daylight delights, if you can!
[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]TANGO![/move]
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Revues are a tricky animal. I believe (don't quote me on this) you are permitted to do up to three songs by a specific composer without having to obtain the rights to perform them. Of course, obtaining the orchestrations is impossible because the licensing houses have those. That does not mean, however, that you may perform three songs from each show that that composer has written. Therefore, you may not "write" your own Sondheim revue by performing three songs from each of his shows. That's illegal. There are SO many Sondheim revues available that there's no reason for anyone to write their own. And there are revues available for nearly every major composer of musical theatre--Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber," Sondheim's "Side by Side by Sondheim," Herman's "ShowTune" (which MTI now licenses), Rodger's "A Grand Night for Singing," Loesser's "Perfectly Frank," Coward's "Oh, Coward!," Porter's "Red, Hot & Cole," etc. They're all over the place. If you wrote a revue with three songs by each of those composers, that'd be OK, but you'd have to pay to get the full orchestrations. It's a tricky thing, licensing. And then you get into the professional theatres and their box office percentages and guarantees and merchandising percentages...it's nuts.
We at Tacoma Little Theatre (oldest community west of the Mississippi River) prefer to do reviews where we don't have to worry about the royalties. I believe next season we are presenting SIDE BY SIDE BY EURIPIDES.
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We at Tacoma Little Theatre (oldest community west of the Mississippi River) prefer to do reviews where we don't have to worry about the royalties. I believe next season we are presenting SIDE BY SIDE BY EURIPIDES.
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Yep, I do recall that about MTI. I still have the very handsome 1973 catalog (with a Hirschfeld cover) which contains some great pictures. I very much wanted to read the Sondheim shows and wrote to request the perusal copies, but they wrote back asking for proof of my organization. Didn't happen.
Amy and SJP say hi! Matthew is sitting on the sofa leafing through next week's TV Guide.
Please, Dan, don't let Matthew do his Robert Preston impression. It isn't very good!
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Buzzcuts are so much easier to take care of, too. There's very little risk of bedhair in the morning.
When I was a young'n, my dad used to tell Tony the Barber to always give me a buzzcut, no matter what I asked for. So I would go in by myself and sit in the chair and ask for a shag cut and--BZZZZZZZZ--peach fuzz city! I would get so mad, I would turn red with a scowl on my face. I paid for the haircut in silence and not say "thank you" and stomp out of the place while Tony and the other customers laughed.
So I had an extreme bias against buzzcuts throughout my teens and most of my adult years. Then about six years ago, a guy I was seeing (uh, I'll pretend to explain that later, Amy...) convinced me to go for broke and get a #3 buzz and I've been doing it every summer since (though I now usually go for #4.)
But enough of my hair--let's get back to the partay! 300 posts on top of everything else today! Alright!
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Wow--a lull! Only TCB,
Panni, Charles Pogue, Tomovoz, myself and the various Tony Award winners, losers and no-noms at the top of the page.
Panni, I'm surprised that your rubber doll never deteriorated after all these years, especially after all the cold cream rub-downs. Is it the only childhood plaything you still posess?
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Childhood playthings. No! Don't go there.
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Thank you for the acknowledgment of my arrival DTM.
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How about Side by Side by the Hilton Sisters?
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And they said the partay was over. Never, I tell you.
Jason, do you know anyone at Dramatist's Play Service? Or does anyone?
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Panni, I'm surprised that your rubber doll never deteriorated after all these years, especially after all the cold cream rub-downs. Is it the only childhood plaything you still posess?
I still have my beloved monkey. Slept with him for years. My mother had to replace his thinning fur with the lining of a faux-fur coat.
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I've had a grand time at the partay. I'm totally exhausted, so must wuss out. Congratulations, bk and everyone, on the 50,000. The important thing on this site, though, is not the quantity, staggering as it is, but the quality. A nicer, kinder, funnier, brighter group would be hard to find. Goodnight and on to 100,000!
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Jrand: I do recall some talk about PCP and I am pretty certain it was all good. The place I worked for three years ago--DISCOVERYLAND, USA! IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA (this is in caps so it will be engrained in your mind so you'll never work there)--has been doing SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS for the last four years. For the last THREE years, they've been doing it without obtaining licenses. They never returned the scripts from the first year they rented the show, so they just keep doing it and we keep sending collection agencies. I think at last count they owed nearly $15,000.
There may be some interesting developments at Bucks County Playhouse pretty soon, as well. Let's just say they're one of the top ten copyright violators we deal with and we're on to them...
Oh my, I do hope my summer stomping grounds of six years (kind of odd to not be up there this summer), Leavenworth Summer Theater, is in good standing!