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How about something from LOST HORIZON?
I seem to remember something about a rat in my dream last night. It must have been due to having read an old newspaper article which said Vincent Price had complained, following a visit to a movie theater. He was watching the film whilst eating from a box of popcorn. Price looked down and saw a rat nibbling at the popcorn as well.
So excited about the Follies re-issue!!!!
bk, also excited about your up and coming Bacharach show. I hope you still have some of those FANTASTIC arrangements from your CD, those were stellar.
Off to camp. Will check in later.
So...later :)
Andy Griffith (http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/03/andy-griffith-dies-dead/)
has died at 86
I am watching - in parts - LOVE EXPRESS, a very nice Bollywood movie sent to me by someone on this site.
THE LOST WEEKEND. Been about five years since my last viewing, and that report has me ready to take it off the shelf. I’ve been wondering how those new Blu-rays are. Masters of Cinema just released that and DOUBLE INDEMNITY, both of them essential fixtures on the royal shelf. And this forces me to recount my favorite moment at a double feature in a theater. Stop me if you’ve heard this one:I love it when things like that come together.
In the late 1970s I went to a pairing of those two films – I want to say it was during a Warner Bros. festival at the Fine Arts on Wilshire (I always wish I’d saved the flyer from that one). Well, turns out you just HAVE to show them in this order -- probably for any number of reasons, but not only are they two of the greatest Wilder titles from the period, which play perfectly together -- there's a serendipitous moment near the beginning of DOUBLE that pays the bill.
As MacMurray is admitted into the house while Stanwyck is being fetched, the housekeeper tells him to wait in the living room, while warning (and I'm paraphrasing) that "they keep the liquor cabinet locked". Even though there had been a break between the two films, and WEEKEND ends on a bright enough note, etc., it was as though that line in the wisecracking second film relieved any lingering tension and mood from the first, and the audience erupted in the most spontaneous and appreciative explosion of laughter. Okay, not a huge deal, but it was a moment of pure movie-going bliss that will live forever in my movie-lovin' memory bank.
Travel vibes for DR MIKE and DR BEN, et al.
Que es un enail DR ELMORE?
Andy Griffith (http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/03/andy-griffith-dies-dead/)
has died at 86
I thought Liberty Valance were the curtains you were putting up for tomorrow.
Today is the first day of my vacation and I'm off to Montreal tomorrow for the rest of the week.
It looks like we here in the pacific wonderland (Oregon) have about two more days of pleasant weather before the heat wave hits us. I plan to enjoy every minute of the non-hot weather, while I can.
It looks like we here in the pacific wonderland (Oregon) have about two more days of pleasant weather before the heat wave hits us. I plan to enjoy every minute of the non-hot weather, while I can.
I don't know about Oregon, but we are only going to have temperatures in the mid-eighties starting around the end of this week. That is warm for us, but nothing like the rest of the country has suffered through.
It's post mash up day.Sorry, i can't eat mashed potatoes. Vivian Vance wouldn't like it.
Condolences to the family and friends of DR TCB's classmate.
Mr. Sondheim is coming to these here parts for a rescheduled show in Orange County that he had to cancel due to snowstorms and not being able to get here. He chats with some moderator and Brian Stokes Mitchell and some lady whose name is not coming to me, but well known, sing the songs. Someone had to get rid of some tickets so I took them - two first row seats. Not sure what I'll do with them yet - maybe go, maybe give them as a gift.
Mr. Sondheim is coming to these here parts for a rescheduled show in Orange County that he had to cancel due to snowstorms and not being able to get here. He chats with some moderator and Brian Stokes Mitchell and some lady whose name is not coming to me, but well known, sing the songs. Someone had to get rid of some tickets so I took them - two first row seats. Not sure what I'll do with them yet - maybe go, maybe give them as a gift.
Wow. That sounds like fun. I think Ebersole would make a good choice of Desiree. Very different from Catherine ZJ/Bernadette. I loved her in "Gray Gardens" and her days on Saturday Night Live. I also hear she was an amazing Lily Garland in "On the Twentieth Century."
Andy Griffith (http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/03/andy-griffith-dies-dead/)
has died at 86
I had no idea he was still alive
Wow. That sounds like fun. I think Ebersole would make a good choice of Desiree. Very different from Catherine ZJ/Bernadette. I loved her in "Gray Gardens" and her days on Saturday Night Live. I also hear she was an amazing Lily Garland in "On the Twentieth Century."
DR Elmore and I saw her as Ado Annie on Broadway - 32 (yikes!) years ago.
Happy Half a Friday for those who have tomorrow off of work.
Wow. That sounds like fun. I think Ebersole would make a good choice of Desiree. Very different from Catherine ZJ/Bernadette. I loved her in "Gray Gardens" and her days on Saturday Night Live. I also hear she was an amazing Lily Garland in "On the Twentieth Century."
DR Elmore and I saw her as Ado Annie on Broadway - 32 (yikes!) years ago.
You were allowed to date in the 8th grade?
Wow. That sounds like fun. I think Ebersole would make a good choice of Desiree. Very different from Catherine ZJ/Bernadette. I loved her in "Gray Gardens" and her days on Saturday Night Live. I also hear she was an amazing Lily Garland in "On the Twentieth Century."
DR Elmore and I saw her as Ado Annie on Broadway - 32 (yikes!) years ago.
You were allowed to date in the 8th grade?
LOL - you're too kind, DR TCB!
DR DOUG R - according to the Chinese - dreaming of rats is a harbinger of good luck.
Richard wasn't with me on that trip to NYC in 1980. I was there for the American Library Association convention and played hooky a couple of times to play with DR Elmore, who had recently moved there. This was in June/July and Richard and I became engaged September.
DR DOUG R - according to the Chinese - dreaming of rats is a harbinger of good luck.
That's a relief.
Wow. That sounds like fun. I think Ebersole would make a good choice of Desiree. Very different from Catherine ZJ/Bernadette. I loved her in "Gray Gardens" and her days on Saturday Night Live. I also hear she was an amazing Lily Garland in "On the Twentieth Century."
DR Elmore and I saw her as Ado Annie on Broadway - 32 (yikes!) years ago.
Back from a sandwich and onion rings, and picking up a couple of packages - a new Swedish crime show starring Rolf Lassgard (Wallander, Beck), so that will be fun, and a lovely gift elmore bought me - the new book about Henry Mancini by John Caps.
Well, Wednesday afternon before July 4 is as horrifying as the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, with everyone trying to get out of town. I got to the bus stop as the No 7 bus pulled out and had to wait 30 minutes for the next one. Traffic crept up Sixth Avenue and i had to contend with a ginormous black woman and her four children, the youngest of whom was around 3 and needs two things: some discipline and to be kept in a coma 24/7. It was aslow ride from hell.
Well then, I'll just stay in the audience and not get any closer.Wow. That sounds like fun. I think Ebersole would make a good choice of Desiree. Very different from Catherine ZJ/Bernadette. I loved her in "Gray Gardens" and her days on Saturday Night Live. I also hear she was an amazing Lily Garland in "On the Twentieth Century."
DR Elmore and I saw her as Ado Annie on Broadway - 32 (yikes!) years ago.
No, we did not see her, nor Laurence Guittard. She had already left the show ro play Guenevere in CAMELOT with Richard Burton. We saw Susan Bigelow as Ado Annie and Joel Higgins as Curly.
I worked with La Ebersole on a Chicago Humanities Festival concert several years ago. If it's not about her, she isn't fun to be around. It was about Harold Arlen and she sang a terrific "Man That Got Away," but she was like Godzilla looking for Tokyo, a real bundle of charm.
It's a long time since I had a burger so I had one this evening with bacon, cheese, egg and fries. Which was as good as it sounds.
Waiting to do a telephonic interview about the book with the woman who writes for Marilyn Beck's syndicated column.
Just read that Andy Griffith has died.
Opie will be around a very long time
I'm debating: do I wach RIZZOLI AND ISLES or go to bed?
In from dinner and don't feel like doing too much work tonight. Which means I'll be staring at the screen wondering why I'm getting no work done.
Good evening. I still have nothing to say.
Anyone ever watch the UK series, Cracker? Just read some reviews of Sebastain Bergman that liken it to that series, which sounds like that might be something to get?
Andy Griffith (http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/03/andy-griffith-dies-dead/)
has died at 86