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Title: PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 12:06:36 AM
Well, you've read the notes, you know why we're so profound and you know the topics, so let's have loads of lovely posts, shall we?

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Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Tomovoz on January 14, 2004, 12:19:08 AM
Is Ruben Blades a Mexican dish? He is the one I have fancied, ever since watching the wonderful "Milagro Beanfield War".
Did you like the movie BK and do enjoy the David Grusin score?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 12:22:22 AM
I've only seen bits of the movie - but I do like the Grusin score.  In fact, I love mostly everything by Dave Grusin, especially Tootsie and Heart is the Lonely Hunter.
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Post by: Laura II on January 14, 2004, 12:25:05 AM
I like tacos and fajitas. Yay.

Two things:
First, Sarah, your post about Jason potentially being an Irish housewife had me in hysterics!!!

Second, Dr. Markley (the principal) is awesome!! He used to make fun of me for being ditzy! Haha I remember when he interviewed me for a senior award ceremony last year, and I somehow started talking about musical theatre and role models, including Sutton. When he was reading his notes back to us (we were interviewed in a group setting), he said, "And she looks up to Sutton Foster...whoever that is." I cracked up. :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 12:25:41 AM
As to Mexican dishes - hoping we have some recipes because I do love Mexican food and I must be stopped from making these gross refried bean burritos that I do.  I love a good taco and I also love the bad tacos from Taco Bell.  I love cheese enchiladas with guacamole and sour cream on top - LOVE THEM.  I used to eat enchiladas rancheros a lot, but haven't in a while.  Occasionally I will eat a humungous chicken or beef tostada, and I'm quite fond of the Cheesecake Factory's Chicken Tacquito appetizer.  I know what I'll be eating tomorrow.  Casa Vega may just be calling me.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Tomovoz on January 14, 2004, 12:31:30 AM
We do have some Mexican food  here in OZ but it is I suspect not too authentic. The Asian influence is much bigger. Thai and Vietnamese dishes are very popular. Can't really add any Mexican recipes as I have eaten so little of it.
DR Jed: My memory tells me that you liked Sonia Braga. My memory has of course often gone on holiday and come home quite confused.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: DearReaderLaura on January 14, 2004, 12:36:41 AM
Re refried beans: Not only are they not fried twice, they are not even fried once. They are boiled and then baked. Isn't that a lovely bit of useless information?
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Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 01:13:44 AM
Here's what I did this (now previous) evening:  I went to the Seattle Center Tower Records to return a CD that I originally bought with the intention of giving it to my niece for her birthday.  It's called "Greasemania."  It has the songs from "Grease" as recorded by British pop singers...and there's one that my niece really likes.  It's an import and cost $25.  When I got home after buying it (dopey me), I looked on eBay and saw it for a lot less.  I bid and won a copy for only $10.38 (including shipping)!  So, I returned the Tower Records copy which, fortunately, I had not opened (since it was for my niece's birthday) AND I still had the receipt (yea!).  I got a cash refund but while I was there, I decided to look around.  I almost bought the "Broadway's Lost Treasures" DVD, but ended up buying the "Elaine Stritch At Liberty" DVD.  I've had the CD since it came out and now I can WATCH the show.  I will eventually get "Broadway's Lost Treasures"...just not yet.

I also got (for only $6.99 + tax) a 2001 recording of "the original score" to West Side Story as recorded by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Schermerhorn (it's not an instrumental version of the score--it has singers and soloists who are not too bad).  According to the CD, "This recording of his theatrical masterpiece presents Bernstein's score as he originally conceived it, prior to its film and Broadway renditions."  I haven't listened to much of it, but the song "America" has Bernardo and the Sharks as well as Anita and the Girls.

My question for BK and anyone else:  Did Lenny (and Steve) really originally write "America" with the guys and then cut them for the stage production and then reinsert them into the song for the movie?  I always just assumed that they added the Sharks for the movie.  There is nothing in the liner notes explaining how they got the "original" version.  There are no cut songs (such as "Like Everybody Else") and nothing major seems to be missing.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: DERBRUCER on January 14, 2004, 02:13:36 AM
Woody and Bruce help a political career!

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Woody on a, pardon the expression, cruise on an Amsterdam canal.
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der Brucer (who {per}found some old pix
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 02:39:09 AM
Well, it's 2:15 a.m. and I've been awakend by a *** FAX coming in declaring a "Gaming Stock Alert"! Isn't it enough to get Spam on AOL? Does Fax Spam have to come physically into my home and awaken me in the middle of the night?? Aaarghh!
Now that I'm here, DVD news: Yesterday I exchanged ONE, TWO, THREE for THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. The former was cracked. Miss Val ( I believe that's her name, but it's the middle of the night and I can't remember) at the wonderful Heavy Rotation said that I must've cracked it taking it out of the case. I told her that if that was the case (not the DVD case)  I wouldn't exchange it as it was MY fault and why should she have to pay for it --  but she inisted that I get another DVD because I had come in with bk at the time of the original purchase and he was, she said, "A good friend." (That sentence just ran the Boston Marathon!) I'll say he's their good friend. I bet he keeps them in business. Anyway, when I thanked her she said to thank bk. ...Thank you, bk. Haven't seen NIGHT OF in years and years, so it will be a huge treat. I still want to see ONE, TWO, THREE again, of course - but that will have to wait.
Wasn't that profound? Now I'll try going back to bed even though I'm W I D E awake.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 02:50:58 AM
DRMBARNUM send that tape!  I need it for the weekend!

I will think of some lovely questions on the drive to work.

Ethel & Mary and Mary and Loretta....what funny stories.  And so here is another one, not original - told about others - but recounted by Roger Corman in his autobiography:

He wanted to make a Western - "GUNSLINGER" - because Westerns NEVER lost money.  But his 6 day shoot was plagued with rain, rain, and more rain.  It was the only picture on which he went over-budget.  After slogging through the mud, shooting a rugged fight scene with Beverly Garland, and falling from a horse and breaking her arm, Miss Allison Hayes said to Corman:  "Who do I have to f**k to get off this picture?"
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Michael on January 14, 2004, 04:05:18 AM
Why don't I have a question for ask BK today?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Michael on January 14, 2004, 04:05:59 AM
Well I guess that was a question but does it have an answer?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Michael on January 14, 2004, 04:06:29 AM
I guess that is another question.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 04:26:10 AM
NEWS FLASH:  You heard it here first.  Mr Donny Osmond will be on FRIENDS in February!  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 04:29:09 AM
I will start ASK BK day with a simple one:  What is your favorite episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies"?  Or do/did you consider it a major contribution to the cultural wasteland?

DRMATTH - I love "The Dick Van Dyke Show."  My favorite episode is 'Coast to Coast Big Mouth' with my second favorite being (I think the title is) 'That's Not My Secretary, That's My Wife' when Laura goes to work in the office.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Michael on January 14, 2004, 04:29:13 AM
NEWS FLASH:  You heard it here first.  Mr Donny Osmond will be on FRIENDS in February!  

Are you warning us or telling us?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Michael on January 14, 2004, 04:41:36 AM
I hear there is going to be a movie about gay cowboys directed by Ange Lee. I think it is going to be called something like Bareback Mountain. A double edged title if I ever heard one.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 05:04:26 AM
Are you warning us or telling us?

LOL - Take it as you will!   ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ben on January 14, 2004, 05:40:06 AM
Today I shall post a picture of our proper English breakfast. We did not photograph the toast and we did not have Blood Pudding (thank you very much). Some folks across the pond feel that the breakfast is not complete without the blood pudding but our lovely hosts decided, rightly I think, that in spite of our quest for adventure, the aforementioned treat might be off putting so early in the morning. Remember, Ant likes to play with the photo editing program so that's why everything is labeled. It actually is quite a filling and delicious breakfast. It keeps you going for the whole day until you get to a place like "The Hurt Arms" a pub where you can have another filling meal like Cottage Pie or Shepherd's pie.

Here's the picture.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 05:52:04 AM
Now I'm hungry.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Noel on January 14, 2004, 05:58:10 AM
Ask BK:
My sister's Christmas gift to me was The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser (my favorite songwriter).

Nowhere in the book does it say The Bee was written for Where's Charley? although it was written about the same time.

So my question is: On what basis did you include The Bee on one of your Lost In Boston albums?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 05:58:44 AM
Hey are there such things as "car starting" good vibes?

It was very cold last night (weather channel said low of -47C with windchill). Car won't start. CAA's line has been busy for the last 1 hour and a 1/2. I'm guessing many cars aren't starting here today :(

I will be back later and try to post my chicken enchilada recipe. I love chicken enchiladas.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ben on January 14, 2004, 05:59:20 AM
I don't have any questions for BK or any dear reader yet. Perhaps I will post another smaller picture of our time in the Nottingham area. We stayed with friends for 3 days and toured the area. We saw a gorgeous Cathedral (from 1245) in Lincoln and we also went to Chatsworth House which is the home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. The family was away for holiday but the staff kindly let us in to tour the grounds

While in Nottingham, we visited what is left of King John's castle (basically, nothing except one of the walls) and visited the oldest continuing running Pub in England, A Trip to Old Jerusalem. It's been running, I think, since the 1100s. Don't have the exact date in front of me. Much of it is built into a cave outside of the wall of the old castle. We had a pint and thought about Robin Hood and Maid Marian (Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn) so here is a picture to commemorate that event
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Post by: Ben on January 14, 2004, 06:00:25 AM
Finally! It took so long to re-size that picture to keep us from Cinerama but also to be able to see it. Hope you enjoy it. I know, I know, I have a crazy boyfriend.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Noel on January 14, 2004, 06:01:22 AM
Ant likes to play with the photo editing program so that's why everything is labeled.

I can't afford a photo editing program, which is why I have to use Alpha Bits.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ben on January 14, 2004, 06:05:00 AM
 :) :D ;D 8) :-*

Maybe these smilies will act as good car starting vibes.

I know that feeling when it so cold out your nose hairs freeze when you take a breath in. And you forgot to plug in the tank heater on the car the night before so you know when you put the key in the ignition, you will barely get a sound, let alone the rev of an engine. Ouch! Good thoughts to Jennifer

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Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 06:11:08 AM
Cold weather and cars!  :P

Power vibes to Jennifer:

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Great picture - where was the little john?  ;D
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on January 14, 2004, 06:19:03 AM
Good Vibes to Jennifer and her car.

And a vibe request here. We took Archie the spaniel to the vet's this morning. I'll spare the details, but yesterday we woke up to a major cleanup job (completely out of character). Things seemed to improve through the day, but I had to take him out a few times last night (the combination of eager dog and long elevator ride is not the best). And this morning was another major cleanup. He's full of pep, initiated a game of catch, and was pissed off at going to the doctor's. All good signs. But the vibes would be appreciated.

Thanks.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 06:38:01 AM
Good vibes to DinTo & Archie.  ;D

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Post by: William E. Lurie on January 14, 2004, 06:46:07 AM
(I tried posting a couple of minutes ago and it wouldn't work.  I hope it is okay now and that was just a momentary fluke.)

My favorite Mexican dish is Lupe Velez.

Question for Ask BK Day:
Who is Gladys Glover?

Question for Ask DRs (and BK):
I have seen this question in many celebrity interviews.  If you could play one role of the opposite gender what would it be?  I would like to play Queen Agravain in ONCE UPON A MATTRESS but that may be because I'm loaded with sensitivity.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: DERBRUCER on January 14, 2004, 06:50:44 AM
I love cheese enchiladas with guacamole and sour cream on top - LOVE THEM.

Have you been anoid by the menu's that offer you  guacamole OR sour cream!
I mean, they're like Kandar and Ebb - they belong togther.

der Brucer (pondering the difference between "profundity" and "profoundness")
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 07:00:15 AM
QUESTIONS, I'VE GOT QUESTIONS! (and everyone here has the answers)!

1.  Favorite HITCHCOCK HEROINE?  Why?
2.  Hammer HORROR or Universal HORROR?  Why?
3.  LUGOSI OR KARLOFF - who is the KING OF HORROR?
4.  CUSHING OR LEE? Who is the PRINCE OF HORROR?


Chimichangas in any way shape or form!
I like a good Tex-Mex Dip (any recipes?)
Mexican Pizza!

That's all for now. . .
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ben on January 14, 2004, 07:28:25 AM
Very interesting discussion over at BBC Radio 3 Stage and Screen (link below) about the differences and similarities between opera and musical theatre. It's a panel discussion which came about because Sweeney Todd is playing in London right now at an opera house. Listen to our own Donald and then go over to the Beeb.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/stagescreen.shtml?focuswin
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ben on January 14, 2004, 07:30:32 AM
Love Mexican food but don't make it much. We go out for that. Blue Moon is a good place in Chelsea in NYC. There is also a great place on the Upper West Side (93rd and Columbus) but I can't remember the name which has much more than the Chimichangas and refried bean and tacos.
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Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 07:32:08 AM
First off...sending good vibes to DIT and Jennifer, and anyone else who would like them...

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QUESTIONS, I'VE GOT QUESTIONS! (and everyone here has the answers)!

1.  Favorite HITCHCOCK HEROINE?  Why?
2.  Hammer HORROR or Universal HORROR?  Why?
3.  LUGOSI OR KARLOFF - who is the KING OF HORROR?
4.  CUSHING OR LEE? Who is the PRINCE OF HORROR?



1. Tippi Hedren in THE BIRDS
2. Universal mostly, but like some Hammer such as their version of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
3. Lugosi or Karloff...hard to decide...depends on the movie.
4. Cushing of Lee...hard choice there also, but probably Cushing.


Favorite Mexican food..Menudo, Tacos, and anything with sour cream and guacamole on it!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 07:32:15 AM
Noted Photographer is Dead:
Scavullo, Fashion Photog, Dead
NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2004


Fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo, who shot covers for Cosmopolitan magazine for more than 30 years, died Tuesday morning of heart failure, his companion said. He was 82.

Scavullo was preparing for an assignment when he complained of feeling weak, and then collapsed, Sean Byrnes said.

Known for works ranging from enamel-on-canvas photo silkscreens to portraits of celebrities such as Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor, Scavullo was also recognized for his photographs of children. One of the most famous was his 1975 portrait of a young Brooke Shields.

Byrnes said his partner's work was guided by his love of beauty and children - themes Scavullo himself cited in a 1985 interview with The Associated Press.

"I have a passion for taking pictures of beautiful women," he said in the interview. "I was fascinated when my mother got done up. My mother made the transformation from Cinderella every day of her life."

Born Jan. 16, 1921, on Staten Island, Scavullo was one of five children whose father owned the old Central Park Casino. As a youth he got a job assisting the fashion photographer, Horst, and learned much of his craft from him.

He later worked for Vogue and Seventeen magazines before launching a lucrative and lengthy career that included photographing covers for Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. At the peak of his career he commanded as much as $10,000 a sitting.

But Scavullo was most known for the photos he did for Cosmopolitan. He said the pictures eclipsed the rest of his work.

"It became an icon, and I became very famous because of the cover," Scavullo said in a biography on his Web site. "Everybody knew the Cosmo girl, and everybody wanted to be the Cosmo girl."

Album cover photographs Scavullo took include those for Diana Ross' "Diana," showing her with wet hair, a wet T-shirt and no makeup, and Edgar Winter's "They Only Come Out at Night," the first rock 'n' roll cover with full drag makeup, according to his Web site.

Etheleen Staley, director of the Staley-Wise Gallery in Manhattan, which handled Scavullo's work, remembered the photographer as a hard worker connected with the New York social elite.

"He really did high-quality work, and he got to be famous as a personality because he was tied in with the Studio 54 crowd, like Halston and Liza Minelli," she said.

Scavullo had been preparing for an exhibit in Miami at the end of the month and was working on a limited-edition series of portfolios.

My personal favorite of Scavullo's Portraits:
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Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 07:32:55 AM
JRand53, I will try to pop your care package in the mail tomorrow!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 07:34:00 AM
I have lots of DICK VAN DYKE SHOW favorites. On this first disc is one of my favorites "The Thing About Eavesdropping" which has the most hilarious round of charades ever played on TV. I love "The Ghost of A. Chanz," "It Looks Like a Walnut," "The Ugliest Dog in the World," "Alan Brady is an Obnoxious Egomaniac, Etc." and so many others, but "Coast to Coast Big Mouth" is probably one of the greatest sitcom episodes ever.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: PennyO on January 14, 2004, 07:37:15 AM
Hiya, Gang!

So I spent 3 days shoveling snow, to get into my cabin. Got power, bot phone (and hence, internet!!) - even got TV!!! What ain't we got? We ain't got water. Well, that's not entirely true: there is running water... just not in the house. Got a lovely stream right outside. An' ol' man ribbah, he jes' keeps rollin' along. Now if I can figger out how to git him rollin' along these year pipes...

I'm up and outa here early today, gotta wend my way down this year 4 miles o' bad road to Hwy 2, and into Seattle (the whole reason I'm even here right now, instead of in LA, with our Bruce) to "arbitrate" a botched construction job on my house... wish me luck.

And!! I got some good news yesterday: I'm going to do the three Gilbert and Sullivan chapters of my novel as a solo show at the Buxton (England) annual G & S Fest this summer!!! Only times I ever get to sing my "real stuff" - all the tacky operetta nobody but G & S fans will sit still for. So I'll throw in Vilia and the Czardas from Fledermaus, and Meine Lippen, sie kussen so heiss. And a few tawdry ditties from Offenbach. Plus, of course, short excerpts from Pinafore. Oh, happy me!!!!

So, lads and lasses, amigos and amigas, have a swell day. Hope I kick the ass out of Royal American Sunrooms and Conservatories. Shitheads... (but I digress). Addio. love, p
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 07:39:08 AM
QUESTIONS, I'VE GOT QUESTIONS! (and everyone here has the answers)!

1.  Favorite HITCHCOCK HEROINE?  Why?
2.  Hammer HORROR or Universal HORROR?  Why?
3.  LUGOSI OR KARLOFF - who is the KING OF HORROR?
4.  CUSHING OR LEE? Who is the PRINCE OF HORROR?



1. Ingrid Bergman in NOTORIOUS. She's beautiful, cynical, and courageous
2. Universal. I like black and white horror movies better than color ones. Weird, I know, but there you are.
3. Karloff is creepier to me.
4. I think Cushing is a more subdued and thus more effective actor, but Lee is very, very good.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 07:43:12 AM
Sorry, but no Mexican recipes or recommendations for me. I can barely tolerate the real thing, and I grudgingly go to Taco Bell with friends for lunch and get the Chalupas.

FOr Ask BK Day - What are some of your favorite episodes of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 07:52:03 AM
Hmmmmm:

Heroine:  Eva Marie Saint in "North by Northwest"
Universal.....but barely
Karloff
Lee

But none of the above choices made without LOTS of thinking.

Chicken soft tacos!!

Hmmmmmmmm....DRWEL....hmmmmmmm....you would be not only sensitive but quiet!  I think I would like to play Rose Hovick....just to sing those songs.  Otherwise, if no singing would be involved - Catherine Sloper, just so I could end the play by saying: "Bolt the door, Mariah!"

Or Lucy Ricardo in "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" or "The Operetta" or "Bon Voyage."

Frank Nelson!!!!  ;D ;D ;D

Conductor:  Madam - did you stop this train by pulling that cord?

Lucy:  Well I didn't do it by dragging my foot!   :D


Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 07:53:10 AM
I can hardly wait DRMBARNUM....I need by WB Fix!

"Does Alan Brady wear his toupee at home?"
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ben on January 14, 2004, 07:57:11 AM
Hmm, interesting question. I just listened to the roundtable on opera and musical theatre and one role of the opposite sex I would love to play is Mrs. Lovett. If it were a play and not a musical, I think, perhaps Amanda Wingfield in Glass Menagerie or Blanche in Streetcar (I know, that's more than one, but I'm having a hard time choosing).
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 08:02:47 AM
Role of the opposite sex? I suppose Mame Dennis in MAME would be my pick. She gets to sing a lot, wear lots of different killer outfits, and the whole show revolves around her. It's the ham in me, I guess.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 08:04:26 AM
Hmmmmm:

Heroine:  Eva Marie Saint in "North by Northwest"
Universal.....but barely
Karloff
Lee

But none of the above choices made without LOTS of thinking.


That's what we're here for, Jrand: To Make You Think.

Did you happen to catch up on last night's postings?
Interesting tidbit about Lanford Wilson and SYMPATHETIC MAGIC.  ;)

Roles of the opposite sex I would like to play:
TV: Morticia Addams
Musical: Eliza Dolittle
Play:  Doris - THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT
Screen:  Lina Lamont
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on January 14, 2004, 08:10:16 AM
Hitchcock heroines:

Joan Fontaine: Rebecca and Suspicion. Complex, sympathetic, believable, stunning

And I have to add Dame May Witty - very much a heroine - for her feisty performance in The Lady Vanishes
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jason on January 14, 2004, 08:12:11 AM
Does anyone have Jose's cell phone number? If so, please PM it to me. Thanks!!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 08:20:06 AM
I'm not a preparer of Mexican cuisine, but I can be severely tempted by pork, beef or chicken quesadillas with salsa verde.

I ate a lot of Southwestern cuisine on a trip to Santa Fe and I loved every morsel of it, but the things I remember are the blue corn chips and salsa that were complimentary in one restaurant and the buffalo burger I had for lunch there.  Oh, there was one meal during which I had a plate full of tasty tidbits -- seven or eight different things that I know my hosts named.  I just ate them without memorizing what they were.

My least favorite Mexican dish:  Erik Estrada.

The worst Mexican food I ever had was from:  Del Taco

DR MattH:  In that "...Eavesdropping.." episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" -- is that the one in which Laura acts out all sorts of horrible things and Rob guesses "On the Street Where You Live"?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 08:22:08 AM
DR SwishySarah:  You wrote, "I know Maya", but do you really?

All those shows that revisit actual crimes and the people who commit them ALWAYS have friends of the criminals expressing complete surprise - "I've known her all my life and I still can't believe she'd be capable of doing that."  

Who knows what's lurking inside any of us?????

Bwah-hah-HAH!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 08:23:21 AM
DR Ron asked: "DR MattH:  In that "...Eavesdropping.." episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" -- is that the one in which Laura acts out all sorts of horrible things and Rob guesses "On the Street Where You Live"?"


Yes, Rob and Laura had overheard Millie and Jerry saying some gossipy things about them via an intercom set up between the two homes by their kids. This was their way of saying how they felt without saying it to their faces.

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 08:25:42 AM
Good vibes to Archie, Dan-in-To! Could it be Giardia (I don't know how to spell it)? Don't know if that's prevalent in TO. Almost every dog in Colorado has it to some degree. Picked up from drinking bad water, eating grass, etc.. It seems to have no other symptoms than the diarrhea -- dog is cheerful, energetic, has a good appetite. etc.. Easy to remedy and there is now a shot available which, although not preventing it totally, makes the next bout much less severe.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 08:25:53 AM
My Question for Ask BK Day:

Who put the "bomp" in the "bomp-di-bomp-bomp"?

Who put the "bang" in the "walla-walla bing bang"?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on January 14, 2004, 08:26:42 AM
Joan Rivers: "My cooking is so bad, it gives Mexicans the runs."
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 08:28:20 AM
Good vibes to Archie, Dan-in-To! Could it be Giardia (I don't know how to spell it)? Don't know if that's prevalent in TO. Almost every dog in Colorado has it to some degree. Picked up from drinking bad water, eating grass, etc.. It seems to have no other symptoms than the diarrhea -- dog is cheerful, energetic, has a good appetite. etc.. Easy to remedy and there is now a shot available which, although not preventing it totally, makes the next bout much less severe.


Hmmmmm.....Can people get this?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 08:30:16 AM
DR Ron asked: "DR MattH:  In that "...Eavesdropping.." episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" -- is that the one in which Laura acts out all sorts of horrible things and Rob guesses "On the Street Where You Live"?"


Yes, Rob and Laura had overheard Millie and Jerry saying some gossipy things about them via an intercom set up between the two homes by their kids. This was their way of saying how they felt without saying it to their faces.



I remember watching that episode on TV.  It had to be around the time "My Fair Lady" (the movie) was out, because I thought it timely they used one of the song titles from the show (and I was totally not familiar with the show until I head the movie soundtrack).
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 08:31:18 AM
Oh, yes....DRTD!!!

And I am trying to talk to Bryan about coming to see your production as well.....what night is LW going to be there?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: S. Woody White on January 14, 2004, 08:31:26 AM
Woody and Bruce help a political career!
(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/2995020/42804856.jpg)
I do not know the two people in the middle.
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Woody on a, pardon the expression, cruise on an Amsterdam canal.
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Y'know, I think I'm better looking now than I was then!  And, dear Neice and others of her age, I was sharing those bottles of wine!  Do not let this set a bad example for you, because no bad example was being set!  (Well, except for the smoking, because I still smoked way back then.  But I'm clean now!)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 08:32:35 AM
Good vibes for doggie.

CAA got the car started with much trouble. But at least it works.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 08:32:45 AM
Hmmmmm.....Can people get this?

Actually, I think so.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: S. Woody White on January 14, 2004, 08:33:21 AM
Doggie Vibes!!!

Hitchcock heroine: Barbara Harris, as the "psychic" Blanche Tyler in Family Plot.

As for Mexican recipes, I really don't have 'em.  Back in Long Beach, we had a really good Mexican restaurant called Avilla's El Ranchito, where we could always get our Mexican fix.  (I was more prone to needing one than der Brucer.)  But here in Rehoboth, I'm going to be hard-pressed to get a good Mexican meal.  There's one place that's been recommended, but everyone is telling me to avoid every place else.

Guess it's time to hit the Bayless cookbooks and start studying!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 08:33:38 AM
I thought the symptoms seemed "familiar"...... :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 08:36:26 AM
Same thing happens to me when I see a Carroll Baker movie.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 08:38:17 AM
(Question for Ask DRs (and BK):
I have seen this question in many celebrity interviews.  If you could play one role of the opposite gender what would it be?  I would like to play Queen Agravain in ONCE UPON A MATTRESS but that may be because I'm loaded with sensitivity.

I think it would have to be Molly Brown in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 08:39:19 AM
No, DR Ron, that DVD episode originally ran a couple of years before the film of MY FAIR LADY, but remember that the original Broadway show didn't close until September 1962, and the cast album of the show had sold more LPs at that time than any other album (6 million). That would have been a song known by a great many of the public who watched THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW back then.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 08:42:37 AM
Oh, yes....DRTD!!!

And I am trying to talk to Bryan about coming to see your production as well.....what night is LW going to be there?

At last night's roundtable discussion before rehearsal, Melanie said that LW will probably make opening night; he's teaching Edward Albee's class in Houston right now, but, if all goes well in Texas (just tell them to watch Carroll Baker in GIANT), he should be with us on Thursday, March 5th.
He has a lot of time that he could come in on, though, we run through March 20th!
You've read the script, you'll understand why we have such a long rehearsal period.
Also nice to remember: two free performances!  March 4th (open preview) and March 8th (Gypsy Night).
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 08:42:54 AM
OMG....did DVD start in the 61-62 Season?  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Kerry on January 14, 2004, 08:43:48 AM
I have been errant and truant and truant and errant.  I apologize.  I'll be back tonight to catch up.

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 08:43:51 AM
QUESTIONS, I'VE GOT QUESTIONS! (and everyone here has the answers)!

1.  Favorite HITCHCOCK HEROINE?  Why?
2.  Hammer HORROR or Universal HORROR?  Why?
3.  LUGOSI OR KARLOFF - who is the KING OF HORROR?
4.  CUSHING OR LEE? Who is the PRINCE OF HORROR?


1.  I have two -- Janet Leigh in "Psycho" because she's so natural and realistic.  And Tippi Hedren in "The Birds" because I still care about her even though she's so plastic and unbelievable.

2. Universal horror -- the ambience, the chiaroscuro, and the fact that it all still holds up beautifully!

3. Karloff.  Lugosi was a great Dracula, but Karloff was great in everything he did.

4.  Peter Cushing...because he was so great being evil, even in "Star Wars" as Moff Tarkin!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 08:46:58 AM
Thanks for the info, TD.  I will pass it along (oh a Candide reference!)

KERRY and MG!!!   ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 08:48:09 AM
No, DR Ron, that DVD episode originally ran a couple of years before the film of MY FAIR LADY, but remember that the original Broadway show didn't close until September 1962, and the cast album of the show had sold more LPs at that time than any other album (6 million). That would have been a song known by a great many of the public who watched THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW back then.

Of course you're right!  I keep forgetting that I was exposed to Broadway music courtesy of most variety shows of that day, including "Ed Sullivan."

The "Dick Van Dyke Show" started in 1961.  And according to an interent episode guide, this show was episode 63.

That would have been third season at the very least, wouldn't it???  Or did they have 30-plus-show seasons then?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 08:48:10 AM
JRand asked: "OMG....did DVD start in the 61-62 Season?  "

Yes.

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: S. Woody White on January 14, 2004, 08:50:41 AM
I would not play a role written for the "opposite sex."  For one thing, that would mean shaving off my beard, which would cause me much distress.  For another, I'm six foot two and would silly in heels!  (I've never figured out how Kristen Johnston pulls it off.  And her voice is almost as deep as mine!)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 08:50:53 AM
Hmmmmmmmmmmm 39 shows per....show this one would have been broadcast in the spring of '63....my my ciphering.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 08:51:04 AM
DR Ron asked: "That would have been third season at the very least, wouldn't it???  Or did they have 30-plus-show seasons then?"

It's actually the last episode of the second season. Yes, they did more than 30 episodes of shows per season back then. So it would have been 1963 when that episode aired.

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 08:51:51 AM
DRSWW - you wouldn't have to shave, Barbara Stanwyck never did.  It's all in the lighting!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 08:58:49 AM
And you know DRTD - your character doesn't really STEAL the discovery - THEY never sent the telegram.  What else could he do?  LOL...can you tell which part I would probably play as well?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 08:58:52 AM
What was the odd MGM film made in the 30s or 40s about the "freaks" in the side show.

"Freaks"?  Was that the title?  Was this a Tod Browning film?

SWW could play the bearded lady!!!!

It can be a musical remake....her song can be something like "I don't Nair!"

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 09:05:57 AM
Yes, FREAKS featuring the world's WORST actress appearing in major studio product: Olga Baclanova.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 09:06:52 AM
DR RON a song with theme was sung by the bearded lady, the midget, and the thin man in Herman Cohen's BERSERK....  remember?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 09:10:49 AM
Oh...and DRPANNI - if you can crack a DVD getting it out the case....either you have paws like King Kong - or their packaging is WAY TOO SECURE!!!  ;D

I love Lanford Wilson.  I was in BALM IN GILEAD and Ad/SM for BURN THIS.  After every performance of BURN THIS someone would ask me why my character wasn't in the program...there was some really nice music between scenes  and a great lighting effect...and some people in the audience always thought I was playing the ghost of the dead brother who would come in and move stuff around in the apartment when everyone was out!  LOL....
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 09:18:13 AM
Some DVD packaging requires the use of both hands and multiple fingers to get the DVD out of its locked position. These DVDs always make me furious because with my clumsiness, I can readily imagine breaking the thing before I can get it out of the container and into the player.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 09:21:14 AM
Question for Ask DRs (and BK):
I have seen this question in many celebrity interviews.  If you could play one role of the opposite gender what would it be?  I would like to play Queen Agravain in ONCE UPON A MATTRESS but that may be because I'm loaded with sensitivity.

For a long time, I have wanted to play the Barbara Harris/Barbra Streisand part of Daisy (Davey?) in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.  If the the John Cullum/Yves Montand doctor truly falls in love with Melinda, then why can't Melinda have been reincarnated into a man?  The rest of the show might have to be changed...I don't know about the fiancé part.  Would it be as effective if Davey is gay and has a boyfriend or is straight and has a girlfriend?  Actually, what I've wanted to do is cut all the songs and the rest of the cast and make it just a two person play for the doctor and Daisy/Davey.  Not that I don't like any of the songs...I do...but I think that it would focus on the specific relationships between the doctor and Daisy and the doctor and Melinda.  And be much more of a challange for both actors to carry it off.

I don't know from Horror stuff, so I'll leave that alone.  As for Mexican food, I Love Taco Bell and Taco Del Mar.  I'm not too picky in that respect, except no shredded beef...ick.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 09:26:16 AM
Panni: Miss Vivian, not Val.

Re West Side Story - I don't know (nor does anyone else) that the claim of the recording means, since, aside from what you mention, there is no difference that anyone can hear.  I had the recording and got rid of it as fast as I could.

The Bee: I do recall that the lead sheet we were given for The Bee had "Where's Charley" written on it.  So, either the book is wrong or the sheet music is wrong.

I think we should instigate a class action lawsuit about the misnomer of refried beans.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 09:29:25 AM
Refried beans have NO  class.

I would like a bot phone like DRPennyO has.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 09:34:32 AM
Dear Dogs Roller and Blackjack and I send good vibes to Dear Dog Archie and Dear Reader Dan-in-Toronto!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 09:37:44 AM
Dick Van Dyke and The Beverly Hillbillies: While I watched quite a few Van Dyke shows (and even attended the filming of one) I can't recall specific episodes.  In fact, the only shows I can really recall specific episodes from are anthology shows like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, and things like I Love Lucy.  As to TBH, I've never seen one episode.  Oops.

Who is Gladys Glover?  Too easy, especially if you've read today's notes: That is Judy Holliday's character in It Should Happen to You.

What female role would I like to play? Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress.

Fav Hitch heroine - too many great ones, but I fell in love with Grace Kelly as Lisa Fremont and Francie Stevens in Rear Window and To Catch a Thief, I fell in love with Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall ("If you hadn't made yourself so damnably attractive" says Roger O. Thornhill, and boy is he right), and I do like Tippi in Marnie.  

Hammer vs. Universal - Different strokes - I like both but probably prefer the Universal classics from the 50s.  Of course, Hammer stayed in that genre lots longer so maybe they get the prize.

Karloff and Cushing - don't know why.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on January 14, 2004, 09:41:27 AM
Thanks, all, for sending Archie all those good vibes. Just chatted with the vet - what a nice man. They've done x-rays and blood work, and we may know more by late this afternoon.

As for my cross-dressing role? Tessie O'Shea's in The Girl Who Came To Supper. (We went to England some years ago. I had only 24 hours to myself in London. What to see? I tried giving myself Tessie's "London is a little bit of all right" tour.)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 09:41:34 AM
And you know DRTD - your character doesn't really STEAL the discovery - THEY never sent the telegram.  What else could he do?  LOL...can you tell which part I would probably play as well?

Yep, that's the way I see it, too.  I was left with no alternative.

Jrand, do you mean that you would be playing Pauly? ? ? ;)

Oh, for the musical theater person deep within all of us, two of the roles were originated by Jeff McCarthy (SIDE SHOW, with its own connection to FREAKS) and David Pittu (who has been touring and touring and touring with JRB's PARADE).

Is this WEST SIDE STORY we're talking about on Naxos?  If so, I listened maybe once or twice, but, didn't give it away - - it was dirt cheap to begin with ($5.99 at Barnes & Noble) so it sits gathering (star)dust on the shelf.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 09:41:39 AM
.....you just do...

LOL...DRTD....call me Carl!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 09:42:49 AM
Panni: Miss Vivian, not Val.
Thank you, sir. When she told me her name, I thought  "Vivian Blaine" because I'm terrible with names and have to give myself little prompts like that. Well, I did remember the "V" and the "L"...
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 09:43:39 AM
.....you just do...

. . .what comes "natcherly"?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 09:45:53 AM
Oh...and DRPANNI - if you can crack a DVD getting it out the case....either you have paws like King Kong - or their packaging is WAY TOO SECURE!!!

I have very dainty little paws, DR JRand 53, so it must've been the packaging.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 09:47:22 AM
.....you just do...

LOL...DRTD....call me Carl!

I'll call you Carl the moment that you can explain all the advanced astronomy that the script has to offer ! ! !

btw, i think you and i need to talk in private soon about this.

So many interesting facets came out at last night's table discussion.

I knew that BK would mention Hedren's MARNIE; she's one of my faves, too.  Though I still think that at the top of my list would be "The New Mrs. DeWinter," or as some have called her, "I/Me."  Poor child, not to have a name. . .
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: William E. Lurie on January 14, 2004, 10:02:42 AM
BK - It was your notes today that triggered the Gladys Glover question.  Every time we are in the Columbus Circle area we look for the billboard.

You and I could do Winnifred and Agravain together.

By the way, the real Daisy and Violet appear in "Freaks".  To put it kindly, Alice and Emily are prettier.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 10:04:53 AM
Do you all know what happens in just about forty posts from now?  I do.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 10:06:09 AM

By the way, the real Daisy and Violet appear in "Freaks".  To put it kindly, Alice and Emily are prettier.

They also appear in CHAINED FOR LIFE.  To put it kindly, Alice and Emily sing better, too. :o
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 10:07:01 AM
Do you all know what happens in just about forty posts from now?  I do.

We get a new pantheon?  For all of the gods and goddesses?  You'll be serving nectar and ambrosia?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 10:13:53 AM
I love Mexican food, although I rarely go out to eat it.  And since we have no Taco bell here, I can't even really do the fast food (although there is a mexican place at the mall).

What do cheese enchiladas taste like? And what else besides cheese are in them?  I make a vegetarian enchilada with refried beans, salsa, sour cream, cheese, and sometimes onions.

Oh and what exactly makes a chicken quesadillas? I like that name!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 10:18:25 AM
Do you all know what happens in just about forty posts from now?  I do.

I become queen for the day? :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jason on January 14, 2004, 10:33:53 AM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Safe journey vibes to Jose and his travelling companion~~~~~~~~~~~~

I just spoke with him a moment ago and he said they're about an hour outside of the City. I don't know if we'll be able to get together while he's here, but I hope they have a wonderful time seeing shows and doing touristy things. I don't envy doing the touristy stuff, but OH! how I'd love to see the shows they're seeing again--WICKED, URINETOWN, WONDERFUL TOWN (I think), and CAROLINE, OR CHANGE, which I still haven't seen.

Have a good time, boys!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 10:39:11 AM
My question for BK and other Los Angeles-area Dear Readers today is prompted by my visit to a museum on Hollywood Boulevard (for an exhibit of Hollywood star "glamour" photographic portraits from the '20s, '30s and '40s), attendance at two events at the Egyptian Theatre and a meal at Musso & Frank's, all over the course of the last five days:  

If they can clean up Times Square, surely they can clean up Hollywood Boulevard.  What would it take?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 10:43:03 AM
Oh yes.  If Dear Reader Music Guy ever gets his butt cheeks back to this here site (almost the most popular site in all of internetdom), he's gonna ask, so I may as well respond in advance:  seared liver with onions, mashed potatoes on the side and a glass of Merlot.  Sat at the counter and was served by Manny, as great an institution in Hollywood as M&F's itself.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 10:43:13 AM
A role of the opposite sex...hmmm...I would like to play Sally Reynolds in ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE...I always digged that big dress she wears! LOL! However, I would have ditched John Agar for the hunkier Scott Peters!

I also would take on any female role that played opposite Jeff Richards....so you can see what my criteria for excepting a role would be! LOL!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jason on January 14, 2004, 10:45:06 AM
If they can clean up Times Square, surely they can clean up Hollywood Boulevard.  What would it take?

Michael Eisner.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Charles Pogue on January 14, 2004, 10:48:04 AM
A bit late but I thought of another Cy Coleman song I love, THE BUDDY SYSTEM from CITY OF ANGELS....every screenwriter idenitifies with it.

Blood Pudding had it once...I loved it!  I can do without the tomatoes and mushrooms on the traditional British Breakie.

I love any Mexican food that is pretty much meat, dough, and cheese...with ladles of a nice sauce.  Just had some beef burritos from Taco Bell last night.  My favourite Mexican restuarant out here is Lucy's El Adobe down by Paramount.  I usually have the beef or chicken enchildas with the refried beans and rice.  My favourite Mexican dis probably a good Margarita, although Salma Hayek will do in a pinch.

I'm not much for all the cross-gender casting.  I've never much seen the point. Most of those men who play Lady Bracknell or whatever...look like drag acts. There was an all-female Shakespearean troupe out here in LA for a while.  I had to go to one show because a friend was in it.  It was ho-hum.  I don't get it.  A few years ago I saw Vanessa Redgrave play a phlegmatic Prospero in a rather awful production of The Tempest at the Globe on the Southbank, only the clowns shone in the play.  But the experience of being a groundling was rather fascinating.

All that said, if I had to play a female role, it would probably one of the great classical roles...Lady MacBeth, Hecuba, Electra, The Ducchess of Malfi.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 10:48:15 AM
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has been yammering for years about it.  I've said the exact same thing - do a 42nd Street on the boulevard.  Fill it with great shops and restaurants and clean up and open every single movie theater that sits dark.  You know that whoever does eventually do it will make scads of money and people will say, "Gee, they should have done this years ago."  The point is, that everything west of Highland was just as dead as what is still dead east of Highland.  If they can get their act together and do what they've done west of Highland they can certainly do it for the rest of the boulevard to Vine.  Can you imagine how wonderful it would be to be able to walk that entire stretch safely, without feeling dirty, with lots of fun and interesting shops?  It would be incredible and people would flock there.  You'd have to do something about parking and if I were the city I'd build two huge parking superstructures at each end, just north of the boulevard.  It would, in fact, in modern parlance, be like an outdoor mall.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Emily on January 14, 2004, 10:48:41 AM
Good afternoon everyone!

Mexican food... to quote Homer Simpson (and the much missed Joy):

arglaarlagahalarlagalagalagagaghal

I love Mexican food when I can get it (which isn't often).  Fish tacos rule - although they are IMPOSSIBLE to get here!  I have been to just about every Mexican restaurant in the city (all three or four of them :( ) but still have yet to find them on any menu.

The only problem I have with Mexican food is that I really don't like sour cream or beansm - which seriously limits the number of dishes I can get.  

I am fairly certain that if asked, DR Andrea will say her favorite Mexican meal is honey mustard chicken.  But, I already mock her eating habits enough... ;)

It was just about impossible to get out of bed this morning.  As Jennifer mentioned, it is UNBELIEVABLY cold (-46C with the windchill) and to make matters worse, we lost electricity last night at around 9:30 and it only started up again around 5am.  Our furnace is electric.  Brrrrrr...  Luckily the house was pretty warm so we didn't feel it all that much.

I got my pictures from NYC developed.  Unfortunately several of them of underexposed - so boo.  There is a nice one of me in front of the Gershwin Theatre (with the Wicked Marquis in full view) taken by DR Andrea which I might post if I can get around to the library scanner at some point.
 
I'm off to socio-linguistics.  Today the prof plans to have us listen to Baltimore accents.  The excitement is killing me :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 10:48:41 AM
Ah yes, drTD - email me the notes so I can print them out and peruse them at length!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 10:54:10 AM

If they can clean up Times Square, surely they can clean up Hollywood Boulevard.  What would it take?

A rich corporation like Disney that saw a financial boon in making it happen.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 10:54:54 AM
Good Vibes to Jennifer and her car.

And a vibe request here. We took Archie the spaniel to the vet's this morning. I'll spare the details, but yesterday we woke up to a major cleanup job (completely out of character). Things seemed to improve through the day, but I had to take him out a few times last night (the combination of eager dog and long elevator ride is not the best). And this morning was another major cleanup. He's full of pep, initiated a game of catch, and was pissed off at going to the doctor's. All good signs. But the vibes would be appreciated.

Good vibes to Archie's continued improvement.   Did you try rice and rice water?


Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 10:58:26 AM
Another song title for SWW's bearded lady in a musical remake of "Freaks":  "No Pain, Rogaine"
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: S. Woody White on January 14, 2004, 11:00:04 AM
What do cheese enchiladas taste like? And what else besides cheese are in them?  I make a vegetarian enchilada with refried beans, salsa, sour cream, cheese, and sometimes onions.

Oh and what exactly makes a chicken quesadillas? I like that name!
Cheese enchiladas taste like...well, they taste like melted cheese, surrounded by a corn tortilla that has been dipped in red salsa (a chile sauce), then baked while smothered with more sauce and cheese.  It sounds like overkill, but it isn't somehow.  Everything comes out smooth and lucious.

As for quesadillas, that's essentially a tortilla that's folded over and grilled, or better yet skilleted.  Filled with cheese and shredded chicken (usually breast meat here in the states, but true Mexicans are more economical), with salsas and quac on the side.  

By the way, the reason we use sour cream is because it's the closest equivalent to "crema," which is a tangier varient from south of the border.  Think of it as a latino creme fraiche.

Now I'm getting homesick, or at least my mouth is.  Damn you, BK, for bringing this up!  Damn, damn, damn, damn.  (a Higgins ref.)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 11:01:07 AM
Michael Eisner.

I was going to say Samantha or Endora!  ;D

DR CHARLES POGUE hahahahaha.....you choices made me remember a production of CANDIDE that I saw when the leading character was out trying to make his fortune.  Pangloss said:

"For a time Candide tried acting...."  And a cabinet with a shower curtain was rolled out onstage....  Pangloss continued:  "But his Hecuba was booed by even the most non-discriminating of audiences."  The curtain on the cabinet slid open and there stood Candide looking like Hysterium in his virgin outfit....and all the musicians stood up in the pit and pelted him with fruit and vegetables....LOL.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

DRMBARNUM a guest stint on "77 Sunset Strip" might not be too bad either.  ;)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:01:23 AM
Yes, I'm getting mighty hungry for Mexican food.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: William E. Lurie on January 14, 2004, 11:04:44 AM
The trouble with the way that Times Square was cleaned up is that they went too far.  Getting rid of porno shops and hookers is one thing.  However what Times Square did not need was a McDonald's, a Red Lobster, a Toys-R-Us, a 7-11, etc.  It's lost a lot of its NYC flavor and is like a suburban shopping plaza.  Let's hope if they clean up Hollywood Boulevard they just clean it up and not bring in every franchise restaurant and store they can fit in.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 11:09:09 AM

Jennifer what a relief you got your car started.  I remember many a winter’s morning wondering if the car would start.  Once we had a car that needed the engine covered with a blanket every night.  Fortunately we always remembered to remove the blanket before starting the car.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:11:12 AM
If they do it right, it won't be the BIG chains - it will be interesting smaller chains (it will have to be chains - there basically are no more mom and pop stores).  But it would be great to have a Pickwick books back on the boulevard (even if it's a Borders or Barnes and Noble - a huge wonderful bookshop), you could have all sorts of interesting food joints, both regular restaurants and food stands, like days of old.  If the Chinese and the El Capitan can work as stand-alone theaters, then so can the Vogue, the Fox (or whatever it was finally called), the Hollywood Pacific (the old Warners Cinerama) and even the smaller theaters that show bargain movies could be refurbished.  Then, they could get the Doolittle away from whoever has it and start booking shows in there again.  It's a criminal waste of a great legit house.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 11:11:28 AM
DRJane - my friend Flo started her car one winter morning and it made a VERY funny noise....she continued to drive into town and when she stopped at the service station, she asked the man to look under the hood.

He did and came back to her window and said:  "Hey, lady, did you used to have a cat?"
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 11:14:32 AM

My favorite Mexican dishes are:
Guacamole with fresh homemade chips
Toquitos
Enchiladas, especially spinach enchiladas.
All of the above are best when made with blue corn tortillas.  I also prefer a green sauce.  Foolishly when I was young I didn’t know to ask for the recipe for the best green sauce ever.  That was at Rabozo’s on Pico Blvd. in L.A.  Andy, the owner, also made the best tacos and enchiladas.

I have recipes for guacamole dip (which must be made with California avocados, not Florida ones), cheese enchiladas and bean enchiladas.  Ask and I will post the recipe.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: S. Woody White on January 14, 2004, 11:15:07 AM
Loads of frustration.  Der Brucer called from Long Beach, mostly to vent.  All the work that he put into organizing moving everything, including getting his son-in-law out to the west coast to help out, went right up in smoke the moment son-in-law arrived because son-in-law doesn't take orders from anyone.  Needless to say, son-in-law didn't have the faintest idea how to get anything done right.

I'll be amazed if anything arrives intact when the moving truck gets here.  Things got stolen, things got misplaced, packed incorrectly.  Der Brucer is going to have to duct tape my mouth shut, or I'll have plenty to say when I next see his kin.  (And I can curse up a storm, when I want to!  Get me in NYC and about every fifth word is unprintable!  Get me near der Brucer's kin, and I want to cut that down to every third word!   :o)

The good news is, I guess, that this means der Brucer and I are still in love.  He called because he needed to vent.  And he knew I'd be there for him.  I listened because he needed me.  And it felt right, and better, I think on both ends of that phone line.

Add that to the definition of marriage.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 11:16:20 AM

I should be getting ready to leave for Bethesda tomorrow.  However, my trip has been postponed until the end of the month.  Instead I shall get ready to go see Return of the King this afternoon.  :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:16:55 AM
Jane, of course, will be happy to know that I've immortalized Rebozo's in Kritzer Time.  For those Los Angelezians, Rebozo's was located directly next to the Century City Playhouse on Pico.  It is now, I believe, a flower shop.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:18:38 AM
What else would you all like to see on Hollywood Blvd?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 11:19:41 AM
Oh those moves from hell.   ::)  I have been there.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 11:21:06 AM
Jane, of course, will be happy to know that I've immortalized Rebozo's in Kritzer Time.  For those Los Angelezians, Rebozo's was located directly next to the Century City Playhouse on Pico.  It is now, I believe, a flower shop.

Was it spelled with an e?  I should know I practically lived there.  Andy was wonderful to me.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 11:22:10 AM
Here's the latest photo from Mars!!!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 11:22:27 AM
DRJane - my friend Flo started her car one winter morning and it made a VERY funny noise....she continued to drive into town and when she stopped at the service station, she asked the man to look under the hood.

He did and came back to her window and said:  "Hey, lady, did you used to have a cat?"

I knew what you were going to say.  Sadly it happens too often.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:22:29 AM
Definitely with an "e".  I fee a milestone coming on - perhaps even by noon.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 11:23:18 AM
I have very dainty little paws, DR JRand 53, so it must've been the packaging.

I was certain that was the case.  ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Charles Pogue on January 14, 2004, 11:26:57 AM
Whatever you do to Hollywood Boulevard, don't Disneyfy it.  I agree with William Lurie.  Keep it eclectic and off-beat.  Maybe something like Pasadena's Old Town Section...where you have nice shops and still have antique places and some independent bookstores.

Have you been down around Vine and Sunset lately?  It's getting somewhat interesting.  You have Borders, Bed Bath and Beyond, the Arclight, and Ameoba, and the Cahuenga newstand all in a clump...Still needs more.  And, God knows, it could stretch all the way down to my favourite pub, The Cat and the Fiddle...but then maybe not, it might get discovered and become too trendy.  

I agree with BK, the Dolittle or The Huntington Hartford of whatever they're calling it these days is too good a house to be sitting dark.  Somebody should bring back the Brown Derby too.  And what happened to all the used bookstores that used to flourish on the Boulevard.  Less T-shirt shops and electronics stores, more bookstores, please!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 11:27:03 AM
I was certain that was the case.  ;D

Yeah...they don't call her hammerhands for nothin'!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 11:28:24 AM
LOL DRMichael Shayne.

On Hollywood Boulevard....riddly riddly eye double dee on Hollywood Boulevard I would like to see:

ALLISON HAYES FIFTY FEET TALL!!!!!!!

Good vibes to derBrucer and SWW!

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Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:29:17 AM
I used to go to The Cat and the Fiddle quite often.  Haven't been in about five years.

Yes, interesting bookstores, music stores, movie palaces - it could absolutely work.  Let's do it!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 11:32:16 AM
I like your ideas, Dear BK.  Certainly, Hollywood Boulevard has no business being turned into a bright and shiny shopping adventure.  Retain the good parts of its edginess, and eliminate the scary parts.  There are plenty of Bohemian enclaves around the world that might be used as a model.

I'm envisioning lots of pedestrians, lots of unique shops.  Lots of restaurants and cafes (with sidewalk seating), many of them offering live music in the evenings.  Entertainment, in the form of film, live theater and museums, should create the overall draw.

Some landscaping along the Boulevard would go a long a way.  Right now it is all hardscape and not very appealing.  

Since tax breaks for developers will no doubt be a necessity in this development plan, I'm thinking that there should be incentives for smaller businesses and entrepreneurs, too.  Bring back the Mom's and Pops and let there be interesting retail stores that can't be found elsewhere.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 11:32:43 AM
Whatever you do to Hollywood Boulevard, don't Disneyfy it.  I agree with William Lurie.  Keep it eclectic and off-beat.  Maybe something like Pasadena's Old Town Section...where you have nice shops and still antigue places and some independent bookstores.


The problems with eclectic and offbeat is that they can't usually afford the rent.

It's one thing if you own the building, but few are owners and that's why the original stores disappeared...that and the growing seediness driving away customers.

In San Francisco, North Beach is slowly losing its charms because the quaint Italian shops are being ousted by landlords seeking higher rents.  They don't care about neighborhood charm or whether North Beach loses its identity.  In some areas, buildings simply sit vacant because no one is willing to pay the rent being asked.  And the landlords gladly write it off at tax time.

I sure hope they can find a way to make things work down there because I'd love to visit and see the city celebrating hits heritage in style.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:34:00 AM
And we simply must convince the Shumacher's to bring back C. C. Brown's.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:34:46 AM
Gee, I'm thinkin' we might just have a milestone before noon, like in the next few minutes.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:37:03 AM
What, do I have to make this milestone happen all by myself?  Fine and dandy then.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Maya on January 14, 2004, 11:37:34 AM
Damn it, I want Taco Bell now.

My favorite Mexican dish is cheese enchiladas and tacos with refried beans.  I always order this at El Charro, my family's favorite TexMex place.  My dad always orders in Spanish, while the rest of the family sits there sheepishly, unable to say much beyond, "Gracias, Senor."

Ron--I am who I am.  I COULD be a fat Polish immigrant named Laszlo, but you will just have to believe me that I am a 21 year old Virginia gal who lives about an hour away from Swishy and Laura.  And we have YET to meet, which NEEDS to be remedied!

I want to play Cervantes/Don Quixote in a musical.  Or Guido.  In a classical play, give me Hamlet.

Not to get pedantic, but it was quite the fad for women in the 19th century to play the Melancholy Dane.  Bernhardt did among others.

Okay, my question for BK and DRs

What CHILD role in a play, movie or musical would you want to play?  Baby June for me.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:38:27 AM
The boy in 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

I feel a milestone comin' on.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:39:15 AM
Well, if no one beats me to it, I'll be HAPPY to take it.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:41:43 AM
Hold your hats and hallelujah, we have just achieved 20,000 count them 20,000 posts which is, I should think, an accomplishment.  I feel a party is in order, don't you?  Yes, Virginia, I feel a party is in order, so let's all put on our colored tights and pantaloons, let's break out the cheese slices and ham chunks, let's dance the hora and the frug, because soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet.  Or, as my close personal friend, Miss Kristin Chenoweth would sing, "Pop-You-Lahr".
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 11:47:48 AM
Annette Funicello used to get 20,000 fan letters every month.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:49:49 AM
It's funny, ain't it.  We reach our milestone, have a party, and half of the perusers beat it.  That, as they say, is a corker.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 11:52:43 AM
Let the joyous news be spread
Twenty thousand posts -
We're way ahead!

They obviously had to go tell the King that the sky is falling....
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 11:53:00 AM
I'm here, but I'm off to lunch to celebrate.  I think Taco Del Mar is in order...or that's where I'll place my order for a Super Veggie Burrito.  Congrats all on hitting 20,000+!  We most assuredly are the most Pop-You-Lahr site that ever was!!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 11:58:04 AM
QUESTIONS, I'VE GOT QUESTIONS! (and everyone here has the answers)!

1.  Favorite HITCHCOCK HEROINE?  Why?
2.  Hammer HORROR or Universal HORROR?  Why?
3.  LUGOSI OR KARLOFF - who is the KING OF HORROR?
4.  CUSHING OR LEE? Who is the PRINCE OF HORROR?

1)  Kim Novak in Vertigo
2)  Hmmm, could I choose Castle HORROR instead?
3)  Karloff
4)  Lee, by a nose

Good vibes to Archie and Dan!

Congratulations to Laura II!
Welcome to any newcomers I have missed!
Have a great trip, Jose!


Finally, let me say thank you to all of you that sent me kind thoughts and wishes, yesterday, regarding my mother.  Time does not heal all wounds, but it certainly does soften the pain.  We all know, from an early age, in our heart of hearts that the time will come when we must say good bye to our parents.  I think we all, or most of us, try to picture their passing as a peaceful event surrounded by family and friends.  When the reality turns out to be something else entirely, it can become a mind-numbing event in your life.  Strangely enough, this Friday looms as the most painful anniversary, for me, since the first year.  Your good wishes were greatly appreciated,
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Charles Pogue on January 14, 2004, 12:06:18 PM
Yes!  Bring Back C.C. Brown's!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 12:09:25 PM
Nice post, TCB!!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Tomovoz on January 14, 2004, 12:10:48 PM
First things first: Good OZ vibes are on their way for Archie and Dan.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 12:11:10 PM
Same thing happens to me when I see a Carroll Baker movie.

Jrand -- Did you notice in that picture the resemblance to Nicole Kidman?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Tomovoz on January 14, 2004, 12:14:53 PM
I hear there is going to be a movie about gay cowboys directed by Ange Lee. I think it is going to be called something like Bareback Mountain. A double edged title if I ever heard one.
I don't think anyone else has commented on this:
"Breakback Mountain" from the short story by Anne (Shipping News) Proulx. Well written tragic love story. Could be a great movie.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 12:16:09 PM
Jrand -- Did you notice in that picture the resemblance to Nicole Kidman?

If you say so.  They both have two eyes one nose and a mouth.

Hold the bot phone....did MR BK say he had NEVER seen an episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies?"  :o

I loved the individual musical signatures all the characters had.  Granny was a few down-home measures....Elly Mae had a sweet light string signature....and Miss Jane at the bank had a great be-bop bass guitar riff....  ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 12:20:46 PM
20,000?  My dear, you don't look a day over 19,980.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 12:22:53 PM
I have a funny Rebozo story to tell.  Maybe you had to be there but here goes.  When we were nineteen, before we were married, Keith was at work and I was home in my apartment.  Our best friend Ricky, a guy, and I decided to go to Rebozo for dinner.  After dinner Ricky went home and Keith stopped at my place wanting to go to Rebozo’s for a late dinner.  So off we go.  Of course Keith knew I had just been there.  We sat down and I mentioned I was in the exact seat, at the exact table I had been sitting at an hour before.  Up walks the exact same waitress, looks at us and obviously isn’t sure how to react.  When Keith and I busted up laughing and explained it was okay this wonderful look of relief washed across her face.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 12:24:29 PM
What else would you all like to see on Hollywood Blvd?

I always go to Larry Edmund's Book and Movie poster store when I go to Hollywood Blvd, so it would be nice to have even more stores of that sort...nice places to eat would be good, and the movie houses as you mentioned would be a must...most of the shops there are very tacky. I really didn't feel unsafe there, but there were some unsavory characters about...however, the tourists outnumbered them!

And just so JRand53 knows, I looked and looked for any sign of Frances Farmer's footprints or star...but no luck! I did take some photos of others which I may post this weekend if I remember...also shots of my buddy Ron and I at Muscle Beach and at Bette Davis' tomb.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 12:26:50 PM
There was (and perhaps still is) a terrific cinema revival house in New York on the west side of Broadway in the upper 70's.  (I'm pretty sure it was the upper 70's.)  I went there a thousand times, but for the life of me I cannot remember the name.  (I guess that's what happens when you turn 20,000.)  They showed all--and I mean ALL--the great classics on an AB, BC, CD... schedule.  And the place was always packed.  (Of course, this was before home video.)

Plop that programming into one of the dark movie palaces on Hollywood Boulevard or on Broadway in downtown L.A. and I'm there!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 12:28:53 PM
Loved your story, Dear Reader Jane.

 :D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 12:31:15 PM
BK, if you have never seen an episode the the Bev. Hillbillies you have missed a lot of Joi Lansing! I love the episodes that she guest stars on!

JRand53...or some episodes of Surfside 6 opposite Van Williams! Woohoo!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 12:31:44 PM
Hey, I feel a strange tingling sensation! What could it be!

I think I am floating...up, up, up, up!  ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 12:32:37 PM

Jennifer what a relief you got your car started.  I remember many a winter’s morning wondering if the car would start.  Once we had a car that needed the engine covered with a blanket every night.  Fortunately we always remembered to remove the blanket before starting the car.


DR Jane, you are so sweet and always seem so genuinely concerned about everyone.

Actually I couldn't get the car started. The CAA guy (canadian automobile assoc) had to come.  It was a very busy day for them!

Btw, I would love the cheese enchilada recipe. I think I would like to try this.

Oh and DR Emily: I have never heard of fish tacos. Are they good? I will check next time I'm at the fast food mexican or at Mexicali Rosas.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 12:35:42 PM
Jay: Are you talking about the Thalia?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 12:36:49 PM
Ah big congrats to new god MBarnum!

And DR Jane: I bet the waitress was wondering, "does she bring all her dates here?"

Ah and congrats to BK on 20,000!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 12:44:41 PM
Off to lunch and then to storage to try to unearth a few CDs which are probably in the bottom box all the way in the back - in other words, hours of work moving boxes.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 12:46:11 PM
Welcome to Valhalla,

MBARNUM!



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Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 12:48:55 PM
Ah, I think we can guess that a lot of Hainsies and Kimlets will be craving mexican food tonight. I feel like I need chicken enchiladas now :(
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: William E. Lurie on January 14, 2004, 12:49:20 PM
Jay---
I think you may be referring to the old Thalia.  It's now part of "Symphony Space" and called the Leonard Nimoy.  I think they still show revivals and esoteric films, but DVDs and cable have pretty much killed off the old style revival house.  Film Forum still devotes one of its three screens to revivals, but that's about it.

BK---
There is a difference between a classy chain store like Borders and a Red Lobster with a giant lobster hanging from it or a McDonald's with enough neon for the Vegas strip.  That's part of Times Square 2004!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 12:50:05 PM
And it is lovely to be here with such nice Gods and Goddesses!
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Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 12:50:22 PM

I’m glad you enjoyed the story Jay.

Jennifer the CAA guy started your car for you-yes?  We are leaving for the movies now so I shall have to post the recipe later.  Oh, I personally don’t care for fish tacos.  As for the waitress, her expression really was priceless.  This best friend and I were often mistaken for a “couple” and there is never any doubt when I’m with Keith that we are together.

Congrats to the new God.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 12:51:06 PM
MBarnum Rules!  Welcome to Paradise, HHW-Style!

20,000 PLUS posts, and we're still goin' strong!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 12:52:11 PM
JRand53, are you investigating those All Region DVD players? I am so afraid of getting the wrong kind! I have been investigating different brands and comparing features!  BK, you have some questions to be answered on the DVD Place forum!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 12:52:55 PM
It looks like Jane could soon be our next Goddess!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 12:53:59 PM
RedFin Blues, here in the 'burgh, makes the best fish tacos I have ever had! ! !
I'm trying to hook RedFin up with Open Stage Theater, promotionally speaking, since they are only about three to five minutes apart!  Something along the lines of show your theater ticket, get a free drink sorta of thing. . .


Any suggestions for how to get a top-notch restaurant and a first-class theater company together, promotion-wise?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jed on January 14, 2004, 12:59:32 PM
Mexican food - Mmmm, just so yummy.  I love most all of it, except enchiladas.  Not that I dislike enchiladas, they'd just never be my Mexican cuisine of choice.  The sauce just isn't to my taste.
Hard to beat some good steak fajitas... or a good chimichanga... or anything with guacamole (homemade being simply divoon, of course).  I have a feeling I'll be making some chicken soft tacos for dinner tonight (won't require a trip to the grocery store for those).

Welcome to new HHW God MBarnum!

Love the Rebozo's story, Jane.

PennyO - You mentioned once being a bit east of Monroe.  So are you around Sultan?  Gold Bar?  Or not that far from Monroe?  I'm also on Hwy 2, but about 100 miles east (Wenatchee).  You are now our fifth Washingtonian HHW member!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 01:07:01 PM
Hard to beat some good steak fajitas... or a good chimichanga... or anything with guacamole (homemade being simply divoon, of course).  I have a feeling I'll be making some chicken soft tacos for dinner tonight (won't require a trip to the grocery store for those).


What other heterosexual, other than a theater type or a Haines / Kimlet would use the word divoon?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 01:07:16 PM

Looks like there are some interesting mexican recipes here:

http://mexican.allrecipes.com/directory/
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Tomovoz on January 14, 2004, 01:10:30 PM
I still find it difficult to believe that all DVD players in the States are not Multizone as VCRs and DVDs have been here. Still I guess that is why you are so rapidly developing into a third world country.
As A God Michael you should be able to have any zone you wish. Congratulations and welcome.
Any casting suggestions for "Breakback Mountain"?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 01:11:53 PM
I wholeheartedly agree about keeping out the tacky chains like Red Lobster, and limiting the access to the more exclusive and upscale restaurants... like, Applebee's!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 01:23:54 PM
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Welcome MBARNUM - HHW GOD!
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doubt!
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Post those pictures.  Of course the only thing of Frances' you might have found would be a beer bottle alongside Santa Monica Boulevard!   :-[
 
Great story dRJane!  :-*

TOMOVOZ - I just got hold of an extra copy of 'Dream Lovers' email me if you would like to read it!   ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 01:23:59 PM
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MICHAEL BARNUM!
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YOU ARE INDEED A GOD!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Robin on January 14, 2004, 01:27:35 PM
QUESTIONS, I'VE GOT QUESTIONS!

1.  Favorite HITCHCOCK HEROINE?  Why?
2.  Hammer HORROR or Universal HORROR?  Why?
3.  LUGOSI OR KARLOFF - who is the KING OF HORROR?
4.  CUSHING OR LEE? Who is the PRINCE OF HORROR?

1.  Kim Novak (and Kim Novak) in Vertigo.  Not only is she drop-dead gorgeous, she was also a terrific actress.  And it doesn't hurt that Vertigo is in fact my favorite film.  Ever.

2.  Universal.  For two reasons: Karloff and Lugosi.  Two more reasons: James Whale and Karl Freund.  My favorite Universal Horror flick: The Mummy.  Scared the beejeezus outta me when I was a wee lad.  

3.  Boris Karloff.  Don't get me wrong, I love Bela, too.  But Karloff (at least in my humble opinion) was by far a better actor and had incredible screen presence.  Lugosi was a better actor than many folks give him credit for, but his persona was mostly based on presence.  

4.  Peter Cushing.  Again, not to slight Lee by any stretch of the imagination.  You couldn't loose with both of them together on-screen, though.  (In all honesty, though, I like Vincent Price better than either of them.)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 01:29:18 PM
And just so JRand53 knows, I looked and looked for any sign of Frances Farmer's footprints or star...but no luck! I did take some photos of others which I may post this weekend if I remember...also shots of my buddy Ron and I at Muscle Beach and at Bette Davis' tomb.

I see that BK has come up with some surefire incentives for getting several of us back to this site for the entire weekend!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Robin on January 14, 2004, 01:39:27 PM
I have seen this question in many celebrity interviews.  If you could play one role of the opposite gender what would it be?

Any desire I may have had to portray a member of the opposite gender was crushed when I actually did it.  I was cast as Solange LeMercier in Genet's The Maids.  In fact, all of the roles in the play were ladies, portrayed by gentlemen.  When dress rehearsals approached, I became painfully aware of the sadistic nature of the young ladies in the costume/design shop.

The get-ups they decked us out in weren't just uncomfortable, they were torturous.  And we dealt with the pain and discomfort for hour upon hour...but I gotta admit, when the curtain finally rose, the three of us looked FABULOUS!

I swear, I cannot fathom how women (and crossdressers, too, I guess) put up with those goddamn high heels.  And the corset?  Forget it!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Michael on January 14, 2004, 01:43:17 PM
And you know DRTD - your character doesn't really STEAL the discovery - THEY never sent the telegram.  What else could he do?  LOL...can you tell which part I would probably play as well?

You are correct. She was Robert Taylor's beard for years. (and vice versa)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 01:43:19 PM
Jay: Are you talking about the Thalia?

No.  The Thalia was just off Broadway in the 90's.  The theatre I mentioned was definitely on Broadway.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 01:46:02 PM
I thought Thalia was the girl that Dobie Gillis was in love with.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Michael on January 14, 2004, 01:46:06 PM
For a long time, I have wanted to play the Barbara Harris/Barbra Streisand part of Daisy (Davey?) in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.  If the the John Cullum/Yves Montand doctor truly falls in love with Melinda, then why can't Melinda have been reincarnated into a man?  The rest of the show might have to be changed...I don't know about the fiancé part.  Would it be as effective if Davey is gay and has a boyfriend or is straight and has a girlfriend?  Actually, what I've wanted to do is cut all the songs and the rest of the cast and make it just a two person play for the doctor and Daisy/Davey.  Not that I don't like any of the songs...I do...but I think that it would focus on the specific relationships between the doctor and Daisy and the doctor and Melinda.  And be much more of a challange for both actors to carry it off.

I don't know from Horror stuff, so I'll leave that alone.  As for Mexican food, I Love Taco Bell and Taco Del Mar.  I'm not too picky in that respect, except no shredded beef...ick.

Funny you should write this. But I read last fall that some company is doing a revivasl where the Daisy is a man!!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 01:47:49 PM
Ah, I think we can guess that a lot of Hainsies and Kimlets will be craving mexican food tonight. I feel like I need chicken enchiladas now :(

I didn't get a chance to go to Taco Del Mar for lunch.  I'm going to go for dinner.  And Jennifer, Taco Del Mar's specialty is Fish Tacos.  I've never had one, but they look good...sorta.  I just don't know about eating fish sticks on a taco, though.  Sounds kinda fishy. ;)  REMEMBER:  no groaning here at HHW! ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Tomovoz on January 14, 2004, 01:48:17 PM
For the other "questions" of the day.
Kim Novak Kim Novak and Kim Novak. No-one needs a reason for Kim Novak.
Hammer: I guess because they were more likely to be seen in OZ.
I did not know anything about Whale until I saw the wonderful "Gods and Monsters".

I think despite the Hammer preference, Boris - the voice.
Robin: Wearing a corset and high heels sounds like a horror movie to me. People do it seems suffer for their art.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 01:54:28 PM
I've always thought that "The Wiz" would play best of all with an all-male cast!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 01:58:32 PM
I'm glad they're going ahead with BAREBACK MOUNTAIN, but I suspect it'll be very tame in the lovemaking department. Not that I would expect porn, of course, but I don't expect there will be anything more suggestive than what was shown in MAKING LOVE over twenty years ago.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Tomovoz on January 14, 2004, 01:59:50 PM
The warmth, thoughtfulness and generosity of the HHW gang would teach our world leaders all they need to know about humanity.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 02:00:15 PM
Here's what I'd like to see on Hollywood Boulevard:

A casting office.  A place where anyone and everyone can go in and, for a processing fee, have a couple of head shots taken and hand in a resume.

And it wouldn't matter where you are from...they shoot commercials and TV shows all over the place.  So if they needed a look or a type or an extra, somebody could contact this office that they'd like to see some faces from Pocatello, Idaho, or thereabouts, and that office would send out a call.  Or they could alert folks who register with them of casting opportunities in their regions and let them know the offices to call to sign up.

It would be a lot of fun if you could do something like this while visiting in Hollywood. You probably would never get a call, but the possibility could exist.

 Heck, I was an extra in "F.I.S.T."   A local casting office placed a call to the military seeking as many men as would be interested in being in a scene.  We stood around outside the Senate office building all day on a Saturday.  The shot took about 30 minutes.  Stallone runs down the steps of the office building and jumps onto the top of a taxi cab.  It's a freeze-frame in the movie....and I can be seen just over his right shoulder.  I still have the colorful flannel shirt I wore in the scene.  It was fun.  Paid $35 in 1977.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 02:00:36 PM
I hear there is going to be a movie about gay cowboys directed by Ange Lee. I think it is going to be called something like Bareback Mountain. A double edged title if I ever heard one.

I don't think anyone else has commented on this:
"Breakback Mountain" from the short story by Anne (Shipping News) Proulx. Well written tragic love story. Could be a great movie.

According to imdb.com, the movie is called  Brokeback Mountain (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/) and there's a note (B-flat) in the IMDb listing:  Since this project is categorized as being in production, the data is subject to change or could be removed completely.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 02:00:42 PM
Oh the humanity!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Michael on January 14, 2004, 02:01:47 PM
I still find it difficult to believe that all DVD players in the States are not Multizone as VCRs and DVDs have been here. Still I guess that is why you are so rapidly developing into a third world country.
As A God Michael you should be able to have any zone you wish. Congratulations and welcome.
Any casting suggestions for "Breakback Mountain"?

Brokeback Mountain casting news

Aussie heartthrob Heath Ledger ("A Knight's Tale", "The Order) and "Donnie Darko" himself Jake Gyllenhaal have scored the leading roles of a rodeo cowboy and a ranch hand respectively, who meet in the 60's and forge a lifelong connection despite intolerance from others and themselves, until it all ends tragically.

If the project sounds familiar it should, Director Gus Van Sant and producer Scott Rudin were developing it a few years back with the hope of Matt Damon & Ben Affleck starring, but then put the project in turnaround where it was picked up by Focus who have gone with Lee, Ledger and Gyllenhaal
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 02:04:29 PM
I played Greta in BENT in 1995, and I had to wear high heels for the first time in my life. Thank goodness I was a dancer because the costumer put me in spiked heels, and I didn't get them until the final dress rehearsal. I had like twenty minutes to get used to them, but surprisingly, I did fine with them. Of course, Greta only has that song followed by a single scene, so it's not like I had to wear them for hours either.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Michael on January 14, 2004, 02:07:17 PM
I played Greta in BENT in 1995, and I had to wear high heels for the first time in my life. Thank goodness I was a dancer because the costumer put me in spiked heels, and I didn't get them until the final dress rehearsal. I had like twenty minutes to get used to them, but surprisingly, I did fine with them. Of course, Greta only has that song followed by a single scene, so it's not like I had to wear them for hours either.

Did you get to keep the costume after the play ended?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 02:13:57 PM
Funny you should write this. But I read last fall that some company is doing a revivasl where the Daisy is a man!!

I go back to my post of yesterday, Seasaw with all three males leads being gay.  Well, the Tommy Tune role is already gay, you just need to change Gittel's sex to male.  Jerry would be bisexual with a wife, but dating Gittel / Gil.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 02:25:00 PM
Did you get to keep the costume after the play ended?


No, and why would I want to? (I've never gotten to keep a costume of any show I've ever done unless I provided it myself.)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 02:26:53 PM
With Heath Ledger playing the lead, we will be lucky if his people allow a handshake, let alone a kiss.  Hmm, I think Bareback Mountain, as a name, might be a better draw.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 02:27:49 PM
DR Jane: Sorry, yes, the car guy was able to start the car. Although not easily.

And we have another goddess before Jane. DR Emily could climb up any time now.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 02:33:18 PM
This is pretty much my chicken enchilada recipe:
 
chicken breast cut into small pieces
1 onion, chopped (optional)
sour cream
shredded cheese
salsa
refried beans
flour tortillas
       
         
1  Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2  In a medium, non-stick skillet over medium heat, cook chicken until no longer pink and juices run clear. Drain excess fat. Cube the chicken and return it to the skillet. Add the onion, sour cream, Cheddar cheese,  salsa and refried beans.  Heat until cheese melts.

Roll even amounts of the mixture in the tortillas. Arrange in a 9x13 inch baking dish. Cover with salsa sauce and cheese. Bake uncovered in the preheated oven 30 minutes.  But you this could vary (it will be fine if you leave it in longer).

So good.
 
 
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 02:37:37 PM
DR George: Is Taco Del Mar a popular US chain? Or just where you live?

I am totally surprised that we have no Taco Bells in Montreal. I wonder if they have them in Toronto?

Canadians like Mexican food. Please bring us  Taco bell.

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 02:38:37 PM
Yes, I had read BAREBACK MOUNTAIN on some website earlier today. So, the name is BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. You may be right, DR TCB.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 02:42:40 PM
I played Greta in BENT in 1995, and I had to wear high heels for the first time in my life. Thank goodness I was a dancer because the costumer put me in spiked heels, and I didn't get them until the final dress rehearsal. I had like twenty minutes to get used to them, but surprisingly, I did fine with them. Of course, Greta only has that song followed by a single scene, so it's not like I had to wear them for hours either.

I am SURE there's a photo of THIS SCENE in DR MattH's collection and it would so THOUGHTFUL of him to post it for all of us to see!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 02:51:04 PM
I have some photos somewhere around here. I do not make a pretty woman. However, I tried to do pretty makeup, and looking back on it, if I were doing it now, I would have gone for very garish, overdone makeup to match Greta's very brittle and acerbic character. As I said, it was my first (and only) time in drag, and neither the director nor anyone else offered any suggestions about how they wanted me done up.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 02:56:43 PM
TD - I have the VCR running for a very special treat.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 02:58:00 PM
Let me formally welcome new deity MBarnum to our castles in the clouds. Suddenly, Valhalla is burning even brighter now.  ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 02:58:52 PM
George, you must try one of Taco del Mar's fish tacos.  They are wonderful.  I know they sound disgusting, but you will be pleasantly surprised.  Taco del Mar is a Northwest only chain.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 03:08:55 PM
I don't think anyone else has commented on this:
"Breakback Mountain" from the short story by Anne (Shipping News) Proulx. Well written tragic love story. Could be a great movie.

I remember reading that story when the collection first came out and thinking for days about it. Drat! Why didn't it occur to me to think of it as a screenplay? I even know E. Annie Proulx  ever so slightly through my ex-husband, who knows her fairly well. Double drat.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 03:15:33 PM
Let me formally welcome new deity MBarnum to our castles in the clouds. Suddenly, Valhalla is burning even brighter now.  ;D

Now, on other sites there would be envy and spite at my becoming the next God, but not here...and that is why this will soon be the most popular place on the internet! I just feel the love everywhere!  :D

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 03:17:51 PM
Congrats on the 20,000!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 03:17:52 PM
Oh, add Chilli Rellonos (I am sure I spelled that wrong) to my list of favorite Mexican food.

PS: that photo of the British breakfast made me quite hungry!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Tomovoz on January 14, 2004, 03:21:39 PM
Envy and spitefullness are not godlike qualities and they have been banished. We are having a problem with lust.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Tomovoz on January 14, 2004, 03:24:58 PM
DR Anna (Panni): Are you aware of screen plays having ben written for "Accordian Crimes" and "Ace In the Whole". Rumours have been around about possible movies from the Proulx novels but I have not seen references that are reliable. I love her writing.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 03:31:00 PM
TD - I have the VCR running for a very special treat.

Videotaping yourself again, Jack????
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 03:32:56 PM
Congrats on the 20,000!

Was a total ever tallied from the other board?

Are there annual totals for comparison?

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 03:34:45 PM
DR Jane's "That woman again!" story reminded me of the following.... My first (and so far only) husband was not Jewish. He wanted, however, for us to be married in a synagogue by a rabbi, I could have cared less and his Methodist parents were not exactly thrilled by the idea, but he wanted to make it happen. Now as the Jewish DR's know, for the most part only reform rabbis will perform mixed marriages. It's still controversial in some quarters. Back then in Toronto, very few were doing it. We finally found a rabbi who had married two mynah birds on the Tonight Show, and he was fine with it.
So we got married by this rebbe in his little synagogue. There was a photographer who took lovely pictures which I probably still have somewhere.
Flash forward three years and I'm 8 1/2 months pregnant. My husband has now officially converted (his idea), so part of that deal is that we get married again by a "legit" rabbi. I was HUGE, but my mother insisted on making me a cute little veil topped by daisies. So we go to the rabbi's office at the back of the temple and the legit ceremony is performed. As we come out, the same photographer who had done our non-legit wedding is taking pre-ceremony pictures of a bride and groom in the lobby. I walk by him - my stomach out to there - a veil on my head - a small bridal party following - he looks at me, then looks again, and does the funniest double-take I've ever seen. End of story. (You probably had to be there to fully appreciate the humor of the situation.)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Charles Pogue on January 14, 2004, 03:35:22 PM
EEEE! I AM VEXED! (A Stanley Holloway reference...a "no" prize to anyone who can guess from what).  Will someone please tell when technology starts to improve my life?  I believe I mentioned here several days past that my scanner went out.  So I went to get a new one.  None of the new ones seem to be compatible with my computer system.  Seems I need all sorts of extras or updates and what-not.  The old scanner was barely three years old (2001 is its date).  I went back to Best Buy where I bought it.  They no longer carry the model, of course.  My entire computer system I've only had since 1997 and its now considered an antique.  If you are going to make something for the general consumer (that costs thousands of dollars, I may add, when I got it all it was state-of-the-art), that consumer ought to be able to get at least ten years use out of it.  I hate this crap!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 03:37:12 PM
DR Anna (Panni): Are you aware of screen plays having ben written for "Accordian Crimes" and "Ace In the Whole". Rumours have been around about possible movies from the Proulx novels but I have not seen references that are reliable. I love her writing.
She's a fine writer, DR Tomovoz. No, I'm not aware of these films, but all that means is that i'm not aware. I'll ask around. They could be in Development Hell.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 03:42:12 PM
My entire computer system I've only had since 1997 and its now considered an antique.  If you are going to make something for the general consumer (that costs thousands of dollars, I may add, when I got it all it was state-of-the-art), that consumer ought to be able to get at least ten years use out of it.  I hate this crap!
I'll drink to that! I tried to get the track ball I use replaced and they no longer make it - and it was still under warranty! (The good news is that they had to send me a new one.) Nothing is supposed to last longer than a few years these days. My cell phone, which was state-of-the-art two years ago, is now obsolete and labels me in certain quarters as a not with it hick.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Tomovoz on January 14, 2004, 03:44:19 PM
Thanks Panni/Anna. Development Hell must a hell of a large place.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 03:47:38 PM
Panni: JUST your cell phone?

Pogue: Welcome to the wonderful world of computers - my Dell laptop, bought just over a year ago, while perfectly servicable, has been superceded by three models which have more features and cost less money.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Noel on January 14, 2004, 03:49:13 PM
A rich corporation like Disney that saw a financial boon in making it happen.

Forgive what may seem like a lengthy tirade, but I see red whenever the transformation of Times Square is attributed to Disney.

It's certainly true that Disney renovated one theatre that had not been used for many years and put The Lion King in it.  They also opened a Disney Store at 42nd and 7th, which is no longer there.  And that's it.

Politicians, for years, had been trying to clean up the square and to put new buildings there.  Under Mayor David Dinkins, New York's crime rate finally started going down.

Around then, The Gap opened a store at 42nd and Broadway.  Other retailers laughed, at first, but they sure took note when the store did a whole lot of business.  Soon, other emporiums opened in the area, including, across the street, a Warner Brothers Studio Store (now gone).

Then came the builders: Conde Nast put up an office building and Reuters soon followed.  Hilton built a hotel, and, since nobody wants a room on the lower floors on 42nd street, they joined forces with a cineplex: Rather remarkably, the cinema pushed an old theatre down the street and renovated it, using a lot of the hotel space, for the movies.  See a movie there, and then you exit into a food court that's under the hotel.  There's also a new Westin Hotel and a new W hotel - I think those are different things.

What they're not is Disney.  As far as I know, Disney has nothing to do with these other companies.  Nor do they have to do with all the national chains: Appleby's, Chili's Chevy's, Cold Stone Creamery - all making their first appearance in Manhattan.

If I took the time to tell the whole story, I'd go into the Business Improvement District, which runs the neighborhood using rent-a-cops.  But let's not go there.

Sure, the porn is gone.  That was Giuliani's main contribution.  But gone, too, is the sense of Times Square as a special place, with restaurants you can't find in your home town.  It may be more crowded, more lit and taller, but this is the one New York City neighborhood that's very much like everywhere else in America.

I share, with many here, the dream that Hollywood Boulevard could become a pedestrian-friendly tourist attraction.  One thing BK hopes for that I don't see happening is the reopening of cinemas with just one auditorium.  On Times Square, we've only one of those left, Loew's Astor Place, and I doubt it's doing very well.

There, that wasn't so bad, was it?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 03:49:43 PM
Welcome ten GUESTS and one HIDDEN.  Not THAT hidden, but hidden nonetheless.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 03:54:00 PM
DR George: Is Taco Del Mar a popular US chain? Or just where you live?

I am totally surprised that we have no Taco Bells in Montreal. I wonder if they have them in Toronto?

Canadians like Mexican food. Please bring us  Taco bell.

It's pretty much a West Coast chain.  Their website (http://www.tacodelmar.com) has a link for their locations but they do have three locations in British Columbia..so maybe it's just a matter of time.  Thehistory (http://www.tacodelmar.com/company/company_history.html) of the company is pretty interesting...they started in Seattle!  What's interesting is that they have no restaurants in California at all!  Go figure. ::)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 03:56:12 PM
Man, daddy-o, as soon as I welcome GUESTS certain GUESTS leave immediately.  Are they worried about something?  Are they concerned that certain higher-ups on this site can see them?  I just wonder.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:05:17 PM
Say, I know what we haven't done in a 'coon's age.  Clothing call: Jeans, gray pullover shirt, nice socks.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:06:06 PM
Oops, I must have OFFENDED someone for they have taken of a karma point.  Really, dear, must we be so childish here?  Just a question.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:09:24 PM
Re one theater (from Noel's post) - my point, I guess, is that the Chinese (one screen) and the El Capitan (one screen) do sellout business - as long as it's a movie everyone wants to see they do business.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on January 14, 2004, 04:10:41 PM
Thanks so much, everyone, for the ongoing good vibes for Archie. I spoke to the vet earlier. Archie's comfortable in the "little house" they provide. The vet wants to monitor him overnight. They're still awaiting results of the blood work. DR Jane, thanks for the suggestion about rice and rice water. Archie refused to eat the rice I made, but I think I could have conned him into rice water had I thought of it. Next time. Thanks again, everybody.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 04:11:34 PM
Panni: JUST your cell phone?
Okay, everything I own. But I refuse to deal with it. I just had more memory put into my PowerBook - instead of buying a new one. That was my act of rebellion against the modern world. Plus I'm used to this one. and I just want to think about writing when I'm writing, not how the new machine works (or doesn't).
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 04:12:45 PM
LOL DR Ron....no.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:13:48 PM
By the way (BTW, in Internet lingo) if anyone wants to know the easy way to figure out who taketh a karma point (some higher-ups here know without the easy way), here it is: If you happen to be online and looking at the board and you've noticed that a karma point has just been taken away - simply look at who's using the board.  For example, when my seventy-one karma points went down to seventy while I was reading posts, all I had to do was look at who was on the board - from there is was quite simple to figure things out (I didn't need to do that, but it was fun).
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Noel on January 14, 2004, 04:14:02 PM
Cross-gender dream role: Edwin Drood.

Taco Bell does not serve food remotely like any that can be found in Mexico.

But I like Mexican food.  You can find the various regions of Mexico represented in New York restaurants, while California appears to have nothing but the Northwest Mexican cuisine.

The gas is off in our building, so, tonight, Joy's "a menu planned which is sandwiches and beer."  (Y'all know what that's from?)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 04:16:46 PM
Disney certainly was behind the rebirth of the El Capitan Theatre, and I believe they provided a good deal of the funding for the Pantages Theatre's refurbishment before The Lion King settled in there for a long run.

As I've thought about this through the day, it occurs to me that, like it or not, gentrification will ultimately be what turns Hollywood Boulevard around.  There's a pattern in L.A. of edgy neighborhoods becoming gentrified, leaving new would-be gentrifiers to seek new terrain.  Silverlake became the new Los Feliz.  Then Eagle Rock became the new Silverlake.  Then (and this is currently in progress), Echo Park became the new Eagle Rock.  With the outrageous price of real estate here (it was just announced that the median price of a home in Los Angeles County rose 23.7% from December 2002 to December 2003 to a whopping $345,000 [sic]), distressed real estate in need of fix-up becomes more and more attractive to people who cannot afford turnkey residential property.  And there's plenty of property in Hollywood ripe for the fixing.  As more gentrification occurs in Hollywood, the more successful "nice" businesses and restaurants and theatres will be.  And the ickiness that can still be found in Hollywood will become less and less tolerated.  It's a symbiotic relationship, which over time attracts more money into real estate and greater demand for amenities in the neighborhood.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 04:17:06 PM
Jeans, dark blue high-heeled sandals, white shirt. My luncheon clothes. But I'm changing in a minute into at home grubby.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:19:36 PM
The karma-taker has left the room.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 04:23:30 PM
For example, when my seventy-one karma points went down to seventy while I was reading posts, all I had to do was look at who was on the board - from there is was quite simple to figure things out (I didn't need to do that, but it was fun).
Having seen Hitchcock's THE WRONG MAN several times, I must ask... Couldn't you in this way - if I'm understanding you correctly, all you have is circumstantial evidence and a hunch - accuse the wrong person of stealing karma? And once this is set into motion, his/her significant other could have a nervous breakdown and all hell could break loose.... Just asking.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 04:26:15 PM
True, it's but six nights a year, but the L.A. Conservancy has to turn away numerous would-be ticket buyers for their "Last Remaining Seats" series each spring.  Year after year, they sell out these events, which feature classic motion picture entertainments screened at several of the gorgeous--and large--and single screen--movie palaces on Broadway in downtown L.A.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 04:30:14 PM
Light blue 100% cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt, 100% lambswool navy sleeveless v-neck sweater vest, 100% cotton denim bluejeans (blue, obviously), 100% cotton white t-shirt, boxers and socks and black lace-up shoes.

And a grin, because, ya know, you're never fully dressed without a smile.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:32:13 PM
Panni, no, I don't think I could have been mistaken - I simply looked at the names and knowing each and every name on there quite well it was quite simple to boil it down to the one person who would have done it, and to even figure out the reason for it.  As I said, I didn't have to deduce in that way, but it was fun to do it and I don't believe there is any way for me to be incorrect, especially since the minute I pointed it out the room was emptier by one person.  I guess I COULD be wrong, it could be The Wrong "Man" syndrome, but I doubt it.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:33:06 PM
If I haven't said so, these are most excellent postings today - such people we have here (I even like the karma-taker, so there).
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 04:33:40 PM
Clothing check:  my 2001 Thurston County (WA) Relay-For-Life t-shirt, shorts with 5 pockets (no back left pocket but two patch pockets on top of the two regular pockets in the front), my asics shoes with footie/ankle socks and Haines (oops) Hanes unders.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 04:33:55 PM
TD - I have the VCR running for a very special treat.

Are we being obtuse, Jack? ? ?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 04:35:36 PM
Videotaping yourself again, Jack????

He said he was videotaping a TREAT, not a TRICK!  
 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;)  ;)  ;)  ;D  ;D  ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 04:38:48 PM
He said he was videotaping a TREAT, not a TRICK!  
 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;)  ;)  ;)  ;D  ;D  ;D

No, no....YOU are the intended trick....and HE is the treat!

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 04:40:06 PM
Say, I know what we haven't done in a 'coon's age.  Clothing call: Jeans, gray pullover shirt, nice socks.

I just got out of the shower. I am wearing a towel.
(Why, oh why, did i have to log on now?)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 04:41:17 PM
Man, daddy-o, as soon as I welcome GUESTS certain GUESTS leave immediately.  Are they worried about something?  Are they concerned that certain higher-ups on this site can see them?  I just wonder.

I've noted as many as 11 "guests" at one time and only 6 or 7 registered users.

What, do you think, must they make of all of us?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 04:41:18 PM
No, no....YOU are the intended trick....and HE is the treat!

 ;D ;D ;D

Being "the trick," though, means that I would have to pay. . .well, we could always take it out in trade.

Isn't that where the "tricks of the trade" expression comes from?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ben on January 14, 2004, 04:42:28 PM
Hoo and Ray! I finally got a copy of Wicked on CD and I didn't pay $18.95 which was the going price everywhere here in the city (I saw them cheaper at Amazon and some other sites but I decided to wait and lo and behold, when I went to Academy CD which sells used and bulk purchase CDsI got a new, sealed copy for $8.95. It's not that I begrudge the creators their financial due, it's just that the price of CDs seem to be heading ever skyward and one recourse is to wait and buy the product later when I can find it at discount.

I'm also happy because my brother-in-law's package came and in it were two state quarters I need (yes, I'm collecting the state quarters, I admit my geekdom). I have yet to see Arkansas anywhere and I saw Maine once when it first came out. Lo and Behold (there's that phrase again) these were the two my BIL sent to me. Now Michigan is out but I haven't yet seen that quarter. I must persevere.

Flannel shirt over a thermal long-sleeved undershirt, carpenter pant jeans, white socks and running shoes (trainers they call them in England).

MBarnum, welcome to the Clouds. Emily, hurry it's lovely up here (a Lane/Lerner reference).

Now, I must go eat something. Anthony has gone to Long Island ahead of me for the long weekend (ah, those with flexible schedules). I will go out Friday after work and we will return to the city on Monday.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 04:43:23 PM
At the moment of this post, there have been more than 1100 "views" of this thread.

Does that mean that 1100 guests or users have been "online" here just today?  If so, doesn't it make you wonder what this place would be like if everyone who clicked onto a thread actually posted?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 04:43:29 PM
I'm now wearing grey sweat pants, a grey cotton top, a blue windbreaker, white socks, old sneakers and big hoop earrings (left over from lunch - not to eat, to wear). And now I'm taking my dog for a walk. He's wearing a brown, whhite, tan and black fur, red collar with white bones on it and a red leash. He always chooses a stick to carry to complement the ensemble. Later!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 04:44:30 PM
Being "the trick," though, means that I would have to pay. . .well, we could always take it out in trade.

Isn't that where the "tricks of the trade" expression comes from?

Pay?  Pay?

Where I come from, that's not what a "trick" is!  I know hookers call their johns tricks, but that's a whole different thang....know what I mean?

Heck...back when CBS was doing exposes of the "bath" scenes in San Francisco, one guy was interviewed who said he had as many as 100 tricks in one night at a bath house.

Now you KNOW he didn't PAY!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jed on January 14, 2004, 04:45:54 PM
Canadians like Mexican food. Please bring us  Taco bell.

If you really like Mexican food, it's not Taco Bell you want. :)  Now, I do enjoy some Taco Bell from time to time, but certainly not when my taste buds want to enjoy some good Mexican cuisine.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:46:09 PM
I think most of our GUESTS are proper lurkers - people who enjoy the site.  I think a couple of our GUESTS are Uncouth Interlopers (well, I don't think this, I know it) and sometimes our guests ARE registered users who just haven't signed in yet.  That's fairly simple to tell, too - if there are ten guests, then suddenly there are five guests and just as suddenly five registered users appear on the board, that's what's happened.

The karma-taking is about to backfire, however.  Apologies, of course, will be accepted (I'm not just speaking about MY karma - I could give a flying Wallenda - I just find it totally subverts what this site is about and frankly or even normly, I'm bored and tired of it) and the whole matter forgotten.  That is, if the karma-taker has what it takes to do such a thing.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 04:46:49 PM
There's a major difference in the meaning of the word TRICK between gay parlance and prostitution parlance... the difference is, one pays the other doesn't.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 04:49:19 PM
i'm sure that Panni's dog won't be turning any tricks while out for a walk.
Neither will mine.  Of course, Minx is getting to old for the oldest profession anyway.

And another thing.  I think that acting is the world's oldest profession, simply because between Adam and Eve - one of them was "faking it."
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:49:38 PM
Welcome twelve GUESTS!  Come on in, the water is especially fine today.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 04:50:05 PM
There's a major difference in the meaning of the word TRICK between gay parlance and prostitution parlance... the difference is, one pays the other doesn't.

And now Dear Reader td will explain how he has become such an expert in such matters.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:50:20 PM
My favorite gay-parlance word is "twink".
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 04:53:02 PM
And now Dear Reader td will explain how he has become such an expert in such matters.

Only if I am PAYED for the information.
A good journalist NEVER reveals his source, he may revel in his sources, though.

OH, and speaking of karma. . .

BK just went up a point.

I noticed because he posted numbers.

Now that the new number is the old number, can the same logic be applied as to WHO GAVE BK BACK HIS KARMA, or as they say in the hip-hop world, HOW BK GOT HIS GROOVE BACK?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 04:54:13 PM
My favorite gay-parlance word is "twink".

Well, it could be worse.
You could be saying that you're into twinks, which is not the same as being a big fan of pre-packaged dessert goodies.  (or is it?)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 04:55:10 PM
There's a major difference in the meaning of the word TRICK between gay parlance and prostitution parlance... the difference is, one pays the other doesn't.

Well, LOL, td.

THAT was my point.

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 04:55:15 PM
Okay now this karma thing is starting to get to me.
In a good way.

BUT, since I posted, BK points went UP AGAIN!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 04:56:41 PM
Well, LOL, td.

THAT was my point.



There are no points on HHW, we are the internet of the absurd.  Our supreme playwright is Eugene Inoesco.  We are all rhinoceri, or FIGS.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 04:57:08 PM
At the moment of this post, there have been more than 1100 "views" of this thread.

Does that mean that 1100 guests or users have been "online" here just today?  If so, doesn't it make you wonder what this place would be like if everyone who clicked onto a thread actually posted?

No.  Even just refreshing your browser (to see the new posts) adds another to the "view" count.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 04:57:14 PM
Well I haven't noticed -- have I lost any karma points lately?

I see what I have now....but.....

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:58:18 PM
I can only tell you that despite the karma-taker probably wanting to do it again, they can't for another three days.  Again, owning up to it, apologizing for the unnecessary silliness would be more than appreciated.  Otherwise, I'm afraid it's all going to backfire, as I said earlier.  There is just no real reason for people doing this - if one doesn't like something someone posts just move on - withhold karma, as it were.  If one likes something especially well, dole out the karma.  To remove karma is just mean-spirited, childish and, most importantly, pointless, especially on a site such as this - one of good vibes and xylophones.  So, consider this fair warning, a nice fair warning, but a fair warning nonetheless.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Robin on January 14, 2004, 04:58:49 PM
My favorite gay-parlance word is "plook".  

Oh, wait a minute.  That isn't a gay-parlance word.  I just like the way it sounds.

Try it.  You'll like it.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 04:59:51 PM
Oh, and if someone takes exception to my post, instead of taking the karma why don't you do something more worthwhile, like KISS MY ASS.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 05:00:13 PM
There's an alternative, BK!

Just do away with it.

If you give folks a choice, what is the justice in chastising them for exercising that choice?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 05:00:39 PM
All I said was I am video taping something.  You are all evil, evil, evil people....  8)

I feel right at home.  ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 05:02:11 PM
I don't give people a choice - it's part of the design of this board.  Again, Ron, why?  What's the point?  It bothers a couple of people here when it happens (they write me - I know this) and I'm simply not going to have people bothered because of such a stupid thing.  So, use your best judgment is my best advice, oh, yes, it's my best advice.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 05:04:21 PM
I don't give people a choice - it's part of the design of this board.  Again, Ron, why?  What's the point?  It bothers a couple of people here when it happens (they write me - I know this) and I'm simply not going to have people bothered because of such a stupid thing.  So, use your best judgment is my best advice, oh, yes, it's my best advice.

Mark Bakalor designed it in.  Mark Bakalor can design it out.  It's turn offable.

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 05:05:01 PM
Oh, and if someone takes exception to my post, instead of taking the karma why don't you do something more worthwhile, like KISS MY ASS.

Oh, goodness! I hope that person wasn't a twink.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 05:06:28 PM
Actually...   ;D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: SwishySarah on January 14, 2004, 05:07:05 PM
As DR's Noel and Jed (and possibly others; I was reading fast) said, Taco Bell is NOT by any means real Mexican Food. When I lived in Middle-of-Nowhere, Oklahoma (Actually, that's not true. I lived 10 minutes away from where Jason went to college, probably when he was there!), there wasn't a Taco Bell anywhere. I can't even eat their food, it's so...fake. Like Spaghettios. Gross.

As for playing the opposite sex, I think I'd want to play Henry Higgins. What a fun role that would be!

Question: Has anyone here read the "Left Behind" series? If you have, would you care to share your thoughts? It's a touchy subject with some, and I don't want to push anything, I'm just curious to hear different opinions on the books, since I'm still sort of confused as to how *I* feel about them.

Question #2: What are your dreams, your ambitions, the things that you strive to achieve, whether they be right beside you, or just past the stars. I know this is broad, but you all are creative, you'll think up good answers.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 05:07:35 PM
I don't think that's the case, Ron, but I've an e-mail into Mark asking him about it.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 05:08:10 PM
Actually...   ;D

 ::)

as I say at work, "I'm an angel."
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 05:09:28 PM

As for playing the opposite sex, I think I'd want to play Henry Higgins. What a fun role that would be!

Well, now we have the first HHW cast of MY FAIR LADY!
(go waaaaay back in today's posts for the HHW Eliza).
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jed on January 14, 2004, 05:15:05 PM
Sarah, you're quite right, playing Henry Higgins is very fun.  Got to do it my senior year in HS, and hope I'll get to do it again some day.  Would also like to play Colonel Pickering at some point.

As for female roles I'd like to play... Of course Mama Rose would be grand.  Would also enjoy the plethora of roles for one woman in Stop the World - I Want to Get Off or the Baker's Wife in Into the Woods.  Oh well, I'll have to make do with Edna Turnblad and Mary Sunshine. :D
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 05:18:51 PM
Question: Has anyone here read the "Left Behind" series? If you have, would you care to share your thoughts? It's a touchy subject with some, and I don't want to push anything, I'm just curious to hear different opinions on the books, since I'm still sort of confused as to how *I* feel about them.


Sarah:  I've read all of the books up to "The Remnant."  I have that one, but I have not read it.  My mother buys them when they come out in paperback (after having read the hardback library copy), sends them to me to read, and then I take them back to her at Christmas.

I think the series owes its popularity to an excellent concept, thought-provoking scenarios, interesting characters and a nice dose of scripture interpreted through a rabbi.

It's never subtle, though.  Sometimes I definitely feel I'm being conked on the head by the writers.  

The whole series relies upon belief in, or a willingness to accept the possibility of, "The Rapture" and the signs in the Book of Revelations about the end of the world prior to the return of Jesus Christ.  It's a wonderful "it's never too late" narrative.  I've told my mother that if so many things  were manifested in such a short time and people still refuse to acknowledge God then they're too stupid for heaven anyway.

She smiles when I say it,  but she looks a little sad, too.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jrand73 on January 14, 2004, 05:23:54 PM
I tank I go home now.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 05:27:31 PM
Drive time for me, too.

Although, Jack, it's late for you, isn't it?????
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: SwishySarah on January 14, 2004, 05:27:34 PM
Nice analysis, Ron. I know exactly how you feel by being "conked on the head" by the writers. Only for me it's more being punched in the stomach. By the way, you need to change your message under your avatar. I sincerely doubt that you looked like that Senior year :).

TD, we shall DANCE the night away, and you shall fall in loooooove with me.

Jed, I'd have liked to see you as Higgins!

I am NEVER going to be a HHW God/dess.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: SwishySarah on January 14, 2004, 05:28:07 PM
...if I don't start posting more!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Tomovoz on January 14, 2004, 05:31:31 PM
I shall be off too. At last The Return Of The King. (I hope!).
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 05:33:00 PM
Off?  Off?  We don't need no stinking off.  Isn't anyone else wearing CLOTHES?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 05:35:15 PM
I think I can officially say that we've been havin' a posting frenzy - a full-fledged frenzy.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 05:35:46 PM
I shall be off too. At last The Return Of The King. (I hope!).

The place is crawling with Gods, yet he's off to visit with a King.  Go figure.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: SwishySarah on January 14, 2004, 05:40:04 PM
Ah yes, I forgot. I'm wearing jeans, gray sneakers, and my new Spartan Singers teeshirt that we got to design. On the back, it has two stick figures, one girl, one boy, holding hands, singing, surrounded by our names. The outside border says "You can't sing the song unless you got heart, and you ain't got heart unless you're a Spartan!"

I luuuuuurve it.

If we do't have a delay/cancellation because of snow tomorrow, I may just be getting out at 11:30! Let's hear it for 3 hour school days! Which means I'll get to go out to lunch avec mes copains.

My new favorite song in the world is "As Long As You're Mine". I adore Norbert Leo Butz's voice. Can you say sexy a million times over? If only he'd change his rather unfortunate name...
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Charles Pogue on January 14, 2004, 05:45:46 PM
Oh, Sherlock Kimmel, how sure-fire is your karma deduction?  I mean sometimes I come to the site and just leave it there and go away for hours.  Since I left the computer on the site, I'm sure it's registering me  there...even though I may be down at the grocery or taking a walk or something...

I have a terrible headache, I'm sure it's because I have had to deal with this never-ending, always-changing technology.  Panni, you think you're behind the curve.  I still type my scripts in a macro-screenplay-format on Wordperfect in DOS, that's why I don't upgrade my computer past windows 98. I've been told if I go any further, I won't be able to use my DOS.wordperfect anymore.  I have installed final draft but I haven't really used it yet and what about all my old file and scripts in DOS?  I should really blow about 10, 000 dollars replace this computer, both mine and my wife's laptops, get on broadband, get scanners, and new printers, digital cameras and photo printers, and also get a communal Desktop PC for the two of us as well.  That still wouldn't solve what to do with all my old files in my DOS system.  Besides I always looked so good with a quill pen in my hand.  

Anybody who can recommend an inexpensive, local computer genius/advisor send him my way.  All the ones I've had have gone on to bigger and better things.  They don't stick around in the trouble-shooting game.  My first guy who set up my screenwriting program in wordperfect and DOS (long before windows), started his own company, came up with an internet movie database business, sold it for a ton of money, and is now my neighbour living in a house twice as big as mine with an exquisite  view of downtown LA.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 05:48:54 PM
Envy and spitefullness are not godlike qualities and they have been banished. We are having a problem with lust.

It's strange, I don't remember the word "lust" being bantered about when I became a god.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ben on January 14, 2004, 05:50:42 PM
Since I'm here and I've just eaten my dinner (I decided since Anthony isn't here that I would go to the diner and I had a bowl of Cream of Turkey soup - very good and a tuna salad sandwich on whole wheat toast - OK, not great) and I'm at the computer I will post a dinner picture from England, if you all don't mind. I usually post one or two pictures in the morning, but I have some time right now so I will take the day (or night, as it were). I mentioned we stayed a few days with friends in Gedling, outside of Nottingham. They are wonderful people and treated us very well. After a long day of sightseeing and visiting Chatsworth House we returned home and instead of cooking Catherine and Anthony drove to the take-away fish and chips shop (Anthony wanted to eat what the locals eat so he asked for fish and chips) and brought home slabs of fried cod and chips and mushy peas. Quite tasty, actually. The picture is below.

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: SwishySarah on January 14, 2004, 05:58:24 PM
There WAS a picture up, but it sent us into super widescreen. Hmm...let's try in a few minutes.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Robin on January 14, 2004, 06:01:34 PM
Okay, since you're so curious, I'm wearing a pair of ripped-up blue jeans and a black tank top, with a pair of deck shoes.  No socks.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 06:08:19 PM
So we go to the rabbi's office at the back of the temple and the legit ceremony is performed.


Our reform Rabbi would not marry my brother to his Catholic wife, yet he considered my mother Jewish who didn't convert in the traditional manner.  I have been told by a Conservative Rabbi I and my children are not really Jewish, something I find very insulting.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Danise on January 14, 2004, 06:08:31 PM
Good eveing all!

Gee the place is one  big  DOG fest.  Errr, stop, reverse that.  Make that GOD fest.  A Willy Wonda reference!

Congrats to the newest Deity and for the 20,000 posts!

Breaking news!

I have tickets for Millie!  Yay!  In the nose bleed section but that was all I could get at the 2:00 PM showing on Saturday, 1/24/04, upper east center, row JJ, Seat 39 & 40.  You'll never guess so I'll have to tell you that my Mom wanted to go see it as well, hense, the 2 tickets.  

Wasn't there a movie called "The Hidden"??  

I'm not really into hot/spicy food but I do like mild Mexican.  I make my own taco salad.  I don't really have a recipe for it, I just kinda throw it together.  

The other BIG news of the day is that I heard that Michael Ball may be coming to the States for some concerts.  I am soooo excited.  I  wanted to go to NYC but if I have to pick between them, I'm going to see Mr. Ball!  

I'm hoping he will either have a concert close by home so I won't have to make a long trip to see him and still be able to go on my NYC jaunt or that he'll have one in NYC and I can see both at once.  Either way works for me!  :) :) :)


 
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 06:08:36 PM
By the way, you need to change your message under your avatar. I sincerely doubt that you looked like that Senior year :).

What!  I don't look like I was a child prodigy?????

Well, at least I know I was progeny!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 06:10:41 PM
At the moment of this post, there have been more than 1100 "views" of this thread.

Does that mean that 1100 guests or users have been "online" here just today?  If so, doesn't it make you wonder what this place would be like if everyone who clicked onto a thread actually posted?

Since we are on the subject, and we are having a conversation (so I am not asking a tech question here), everytime one of us refreshes their computer to see the latest posts, it adds another visit to the count.  Isn't that correct (somebody non-tech)??
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 06:11:09 PM
Thanks so much, everyone, for the ongoing good vibes for Archie. I spoke to the vet earlier. Archie's comfortable in the "little house" they provide. The vet wants to monitor him overnight. They're still awaiting results of the blood work..

Do let us know tomorrow how he is.  Hopefully all will be well or it will be an easy fix.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 06:13:34 PM
Anybody who can recommend an inexpensive, local computer genius/advisor send him my way.  All the ones I've had have gone on to bigger and better things.  They don't stick around in the trouble-shooting game.  My first guy who set up my screenwriting program in wordperfect and DOS (long before windows), started his own company, came up with an internet movie database business, sold it for a ton of money, and is now my neighbour living in a house twice as big as mine with an exquisite  view of downtown LA.

I heard of a dude named Steve...used to work for Dell til they decided he was more popular than they were and they fired him and started running totally lame-o ads.

But a more serious recommendation:  Try looking up the very make/model of your defunct scanner on Ebay and see if anyone has a relatively decent one for sale.

I've also heard tell of a dude named Mark Bakalor...but I hear he's really, really busy...and sometimes grumpy.  BUT, if you have any good Sondheim stories, I believe he's a HUGE Sondheim fan!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 06:16:25 PM
Since we are on the subject, and we are having a conversation (so I am not asking a tech question here), everytime one of us refreshes their computer to see the latest posts, it adds another visit to the count.  Isn't that correct (somebody non-tech)??

ROTF -- ROARING!

I can just see all of us perfunctorily hitting our "refresh" buttons every five minutes lest the screen image go stale!

:)

Doesn't it refresh after you hit the "Post" button?  I think it does.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 06:19:25 PM
As DR's Noel and Jed (and possibly others; I was reading fast) said, Taco Bell is NOT by any means real Mexican Food. When I lived in Middle-of-Nowhere, Oklahoma (Actually, that's not true. I lived 10 minutes away from where Jason went to college, probably when he was there!), there wasn't a Taco Bell anywhere. I can't even eat their food, it's so...fake. Like Spaghettios. Gross.

As for playing the opposite sex, I think I'd want to play Henry Higgins. What a fun role that would be!

Question: Has anyone here read the "Left Behind" series? If you have, would you care to share your thoughts? It's a touchy subject with some, and I don't want to push anything, I'm just curious to hear different opinions on the books, since I'm still sort of confused as to how *I* feel about them.

Question #2: What are your dreams, your ambitions, the things that you strive to achieve, whether they be right beside you, or just past the stars. I know this is broad, but you all are creative, you'll think up good answers.

If I answer these questions, after an hour, are you going to send me a bill?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 06:20:45 PM
It's strange, I don't remember the word "lust" being bantered about when I became a god.

That's one of the words we're not supposed to say around you.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 06:22:59 PM
Sarah, you're quite right, playing Henry Higgins is very fun.  Got to do it my senior year in HS, and hope I'll get to do it again some day.  Would also like to play Colonel Pickering at some point.

Great idea, Jed.  You play Higgins and I'll play Pickering!  We can be the first father/son team to do the show.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 06:23:07 PM
Okay, since you're so curious, I'm wearing a pair of ripped-up blue jeans and a black tank top, with a pair of deck shoes.  No socks.  



Oooooh...no socks!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Danise on January 14, 2004, 06:31:04 PM


Question: Has anyone here read the "Left Behind" series? If you have, would you care to share your thoughts? It's a touchy subject with some, and I don't want to push anything, I'm just curious to hear different opinions on the books, since I'm still sort of confused as to how *I* feel about them.

Question #2: What are your dreams, your ambitions, the things that you strive to achieve, whether they be right beside you, or just past the stars. I know this is broad, but you all are creative, you'll think up good answers.

Answer To Question 1.  I have the first book because I was curious about the series.  Haven't read it yet but it's in my "to read" pile.  I will let you know when I get to it.  I  think I won't get past the first chapter if it get's to preachy.  

Answer to Question 2.  I think you will find that some of them change with age.  There was a time I wanted to be a singer.  That's gone. Used to dream of the knight in shining armor but that’s out.   I think the thing I strive for now is to be as happy as possible.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 06:31:35 PM
That's one of the words we're not supposed to say around you.

Too late!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 06:32:10 PM
I have been told by a Conservative Rabbi I and my children are not really Jewish.

Shiksa Goddess!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 06:33:14 PM
Okay, since you're so curious, I'm wearing a pair of ripped-up blue jeans and a black tank top, with a pair of deck shoes.  No socks.  

So when do we get to see a picture of you, Dear Reader Robin?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 06:33:22 PM
Ooh!

I've just been "refreshed"!

(Are you reading, TCB)?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 06:35:12 PM

Answer to Question 2.  I think you will find that some of them change with age.  There was a time I wanted to be a singer.  That's gone. Used to dream of the knight in shining armor but that’s out.   I think the thing I strive for now is to be as happy as possible.

Let's see, Danise, you wanted to sing and you were looking for a white knight?  I hate to tell you this, but you are actually Marion the Librarian.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 06:38:51 PM
Ooh!

I've just been "refreshed"!

(Are you reading, TCB)?

Now, you have also been karmalized.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 06:39:33 PM
Our reform Rabbi would not marry my brother to his Catholic wife, yet he considered my mother Jewish who didn't convert in the traditional manner.  I have been told by a Conservative Rabbi I and my children are not really Jewish, something I find very insulting.
And that, DR Jane, is why organized religion drives me NUTS. Sorry if i insult any DR's - but ALL organized religion drives me nuts.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 06:45:47 PM
Now, you have also been karmalized.

Yipes!  I thought things were getting a bit sticky!

:)   ;D   :D   :)   ;D   :D

Oops...there goes that "refresh" button again.

Look out, TCB!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 06:47:10 PM
I must go now and read. Usually when people ask to send me scripts for my opinion, I say a polite no. But a dear friend and colleague in Canada has written a romantic comedy set in a mortuary - yes, a mortuary -  and he wants my input. I couldn't decline. The script arrived today - so off I go. Back later.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 06:48:02 PM
Yipes!  I thought things were getting a bit sticky!

:)   ;D   :D   :)   ;D   :D

I thought that was a result of "refreshing" yourself.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 06:50:45 PM
There's give and there's receive.

Pass the towel.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 06:51:23 PM
I must go now and read. Usually when people ask to send me scripts for my opinion, I say a polite no. But a dear friend and colleague in Canada has written a romantic comedy set in a mortuary - yes, a mortuary -  and he wants my input. I couldn't decline. The script arrived today - so off I go. Back later.  

Well, I hope one of the characters isn't named Mr. Joyboy!

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 06:51:46 PM
I must go now and read. Usually when people ask to send me scripts for my opinion, I say a polite no. But a dear friend and colleague in Canada has written a romantic comedy set in a mortuary - yes, a mortuary -  and he wants my input. I couldn't decline. The script arrived today - so off I go. Back later.  

His last name isn't Ball is it?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 06:53:19 PM
Swishy and Danise:  There are "Left Behind" movies, too!  I have the first one on VHS.  It''s well done, but it presumes too much on the part of the viewer and it lacks an emotional punch it desperately needs.

Still, it stars Kirk Cameron (he's a coproducer) and Brad Johnson!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 06:56:12 PM
My kitty is getting restless...it's past feeding time.

She has a tendency to leave me little tokens of her displeasure when she's this restless.

Later....
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Robin on January 14, 2004, 07:08:15 PM
So when do we get to see a picture of you, Dear Reader Robin?

Dis be me.  Onna toppa the Umpire States Buildin', no lessun.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 07:10:27 PM
Danise, don't you HAVE a book or two to read???
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Robin on January 14, 2004, 07:10:53 PM
Sorry about that last post.  I've been reading Krazy Kat comics for the last few hours, and it's affecting my noodle.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 07:12:19 PM
Only the other day, we talked about some of the sublime transfers which Columbia has blessed us with on dvd; well, I just want to chime in with admiration for their transfer of Zeffirelli's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.  I plugged this in a while ago, and, wow!  It is a very lovely transfer, and Liz and Dick are delightful.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Andrea on January 14, 2004, 07:14:15 PM
Almost every dog in Colorado has it to some degree. Picked up from drinking bad water, eating grass, etc..

I always thought it was good for dogs to eat grass? (Grass not that grass!).

That's my question of the day.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 07:15:43 PM
I always thought it was good for dogs to eat grass? (Grass not that grass!).

That's my question of the day.

Yes.  You did.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 07:17:22 PM
I always thought it was good for dogs to eat grass? (Grass not that grass!).

That's my question of the day.

I will translate Minx's response:

"Grrr.  Wooohooohoo.  Grrrfff.   Grrrf.  Wooo."

Translation:

Whenever I'm feeling poorly, I make td take me outside on the leash.  There I find lots of green, green grass.  I eat the grass; I feel better."
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Emily on January 14, 2004, 07:24:01 PM
LOL TCB! :)

Clothing Call: My Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical t-shirt and bilingual winter kitten pajama bottoms.  The latter has these cartoony kittens dressed up in scarves and tuques printed all over with those on the right leg saying "l'hiver venu même les chatons s'emmitouflent" and those on the left saying "winter chills and spills and thrills - always bundle up in hats and mittens, especially kittens".  I admit to the fact that the anglo kittens make little sense. :)    
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Emily on January 14, 2004, 07:25:21 PM
with this post I am only 10 away from god-dom (and sommorah - thanks for that LC) :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 07:26:10 PM
Miss Vickie likes nice fresh grass, too.

It apparently helps with her digestion.  And I find green blades of grass mixed in with hairballs and other matter she no longer wants to carry around with her.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 07:28:18 PM
Miss Vickie likes nice fresh grass, too.

It apparently helps with her digestion.  And I find green blades of grass mixed in with hairballs and other matter she no longer wants to carry around with her.

Gee, Ron.  Thanks for sharing.

 :-\
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 07:31:48 PM
Keith just traced my family tree back to my 20th great grandfather who was born around 1135.   :o
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Emily on January 14, 2004, 07:32:41 PM
Miss Vickie likes nice fresh grass, too.

It apparently helps with her digestion.  And I find green blades of grass mixed in with hairballs and other matter she no longer wants to carry around with her.

I always thought people who blew their nose and then opened up the tissue to examine the... er... contents were gross.  Ron has officially brought voyeur grossness to a new level :P
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Emily on January 14, 2004, 07:34:45 PM
Keith just traced my family tree back to my 20th great grandfather who was born around 1135.   :o

Some people listen to music when they get home from work.  Others watch tv.  Some might read.

And then there are those who embark on tracing the Medieval ancestral roots of their spouses.

The question remains - who is having the most fun? ;)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Charles Pogue on January 14, 2004, 07:35:03 PM
Can some Californian H/K give me a definitive answer on the following question.  After having renewed my license by mail the last two times, I must now make an appearance in person at the DMV.  The renewal notice says:  During your visit at theDMV, you are required to: 1) pay a renewal fee of $24 dollars 2) take a vision test 3) have your thumb print and photo taken.

It says nothing about taking any abbreviated written test.  Seems the last time I was down there, it was merely a vision test and photo, but I can't remember.  

So...the question is:  Should I be boning up on the California Drivers Handbook in anticipation of having to answer some multiple choice or should I just take this notice at face value and expect no surprises?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 07:35:11 PM
Pogue: It wasn't a question of who was actually here or not - it was simply a question of narrowing down to who was listed (here or not) and who would be the likely person to have done it.  Likely person was the ONLY likely suspect.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 07:36:30 PM
Pogue II: I would make an anonymous call, and tell them the kind of notice you get and ask point blank if you'll have to take the test.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 07:38:09 PM
(yes, I'm collecting the state quarters, I admit my geekdom). I have yet to see Arkansas anywhere and I saw Maine once when it first came out. Lo and Behold (there's that phrase again) these were the two my BIL sent to me. Now Michigan is out but I haven't yet seen that quarter. I must persevere.


I must admit to collecting quarters.  I haven't seen the Michigan one yet, but then I really haven't been getting out much lately.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 07:38:17 PM
Gee, Ron.  Thanks for sharing.

 :-\

y'wekkum

 :D

(Ooh!  I just hit the "refresh" button again!"

This one's for you, Jay!

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 07:39:14 PM
I always thought people who blew their nose and then opened up the tissue to examine the... er... contents were gross.  

And you DON'T????????????    ;D

How ever will you know what you've been exposed to if you don't look?  There's all kinds of crap in the air.

Bugs get trapped up in there...give their lives....drown in your nose!!!
 

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Laura II on January 14, 2004, 07:40:41 PM
DR TCB, thank you!!! :D

DR Charles, hope your head feels better!

DR Ben (and non-reader Anthony :)), I love the pictures!

Good vibes to Dan and Archie! ~~~~~~~~~~

Glad your car started, Jenn!

Uncle Woody, I didn't even notice the wine bottles! No worries! I think you're a very cute uncle! :) Also, good vibes to you and der Brucer!
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[/move]
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 07:43:10 PM
There's an alternative, BK!

Just do away with it.

If you give folks a choice, what is the justice in chastising them for exercising that choice?

YES, TAKE IT AWAY!  The boo option anyway.  I think the karma's are fun to give.

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Andrea on January 14, 2004, 07:44:09 PM
Our reform Rabbi would not marry my brother to his Catholic wife, yet he considered my mother Jewish who didn't convert in the traditional manner.  I have been told by a Conservative Rabbi I and my children are not really Jewish, something I find very insulting.

While we're on this topic... anyone want to translate "bubala"? My google searches aren't coming up with anything.

CYGOPP (the bf) likes to pretend I'm jewish for the sake of his mother. I'm sure the rabbis would love that  ;)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 07:45:15 PM
I shall be off too. At last The Return Of The King. (I hope!).

Did you like it?  We FINALLY saw it today.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 07:46:02 PM

The karma-taking is about to backfire, however.  Apologies, of course, will be accepted (I'm not just speaking about MY karma - I could give a flying Wallenda - I just find it totally subverts what this site is about and frankly or even normly, I'm bored and tired of it) and the whole matter forgotten.  That is, if the karma-taker has what it takes to do such a thing.

Bruce,  I had also figured out how to tell who is taking the karma by looking at who is online.  The only problem is you have to notice exactly when it happens.

Personally I am actually quite hurt that I seem to lose 2 to 3 points every three days.  I'm pretty sure it's the same couple of people doing it over and over. And I agree, I find that childish.  Plus it's pretty hard to ever gain points when you lose 2-3 every few days :(

I am glad that you are making it game of it. Sounds like fun :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 07:46:59 PM
T-shrit, shorts, 45 year old rayon bathrobe, slippers.

Now I must fix my dinner and watch, ta dum, FINDING NEMO which someone at work loaned me (she was amazed that I had not seen it yet).
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 07:47:59 PM
Oh, Sherlock Kimmel, how sure-fire is your karma deduction?  I mean sometimes I come to the site and  

Anybody who can recommend an inexpensive, local computer genius/advisor send him my way.  

If only you lived in Portland I would send my son to build you a new computer.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Charles Pogue on January 14, 2004, 07:48:21 PM
Well, BK, that was hardly the definitive answer I was looking for....And have you ever tried to get a human voice at the DMV (or pretty much anywhere these days on the phone)?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Andrea on January 14, 2004, 07:50:07 PM
Clothing Check of today:

Bright green leggings under jeans with striped toe socks. Pink camisole. Black 3/4 length top. Beige Sweater. Blue hoody. Black sweater. Yellow down vest. Blue gap jacket. Red gloves. Black scarf. Green scarf. Blue hat. Black hat.

Please send good vibes to my brother... he's having trouble adjusting to living alone for law school.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 07:54:31 PM
Shiksa Goddess!

LOL, but Jewish all the way.  I just look like a Shiksa-comes from my mother's English side.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 08:03:34 PM
And that, DR Jane, is why organized religion drives me NUTS. Sorry if i insult any DR's - but ALL organized religion drives me nuts.

I'm not insulted.  I'm laughing.  That is what Keith told my rabbi when we had our pre-wedding meeting.  I had known the rabbi since I was very young and wanted to hide, but he asked Keith his views and Keith answered honestly.  I think the person I strive to be is based on the beliefs of the reform temple, or at least what I have taken from it.  But then I probably would have come to the same conclusions without organized religion.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 08:07:15 PM
Um DR Andrea I don't think you spelled it correctly.  I think my grandmother used to say that. To me it means "nice sweet girl".

Oh and you guys will never believe what I"m wearing. It is so cold.  I have like 3 layers on. But I have this soft long sleeved Seussical thingie that I love. That's what I'm wearing :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jennifer on January 14, 2004, 08:14:19 PM
Hey where did everybody go?

Where is Laura II to talk about The Bachelorette with?

Btw, I was jumping up and down cause the guy from Montreal (I won't give his name in case anyone is still watching) made it to the next round. Yeah!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 08:15:15 PM
Jeans and a blue sweater but I’m about to change into my p.j.’s and watch T.V. with Keith, Echo and Bogie.

I will post the enchilada recipe tomorrow.


Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 08:25:10 PM
Keith just traced my family tree back to my 20th great grandfather who was born around 1135.   :o

But was he Jewish?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 08:29:19 PM
Can some Californian H/K give me a definitive answer on the following question.  After having renewed my license by mail the last two times, I must now make an appearance in person at the DMV.  The renewal notice says:  During your visit at theDMV, you are required to: 1) pay a renewal fee of $24 dollars 2) take a vision test 3) have your thumb print and photo taken.

It says nothing about taking any abbreviated written test.  Seems the last time I was down there, it was merely a vision test and photo, but I can't remember.  

So...the question is:  Should I be boning up on the California Drivers Handbook in anticipation of having to answer some multiple choice or should I just take this notice at face value and expect no surprises?

The DMV is pretty specific about what is expected of its clients (oh, if they only thought of us as clients), so I dare say that you should expect only the items enumerated in your epistle from the agency.  Judging by the lines that I see emanating from the DMV office near my home, however, may I suggest you bring ample reading material with you on the day of your appointment.  And water.  And provisions.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 08:31:29 PM
Some people listen to music when they get home from work.  Others watch tv.  Some might read.

And then there are those who embark on tracing the Medieval ancestral roots of their spouses.

The question remains - who is having the most fun? ;)

I wouldn't mind tracing my spouse's ancestral root, if I had a spouse.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 08:34:32 PM
I wouldn't mind tracing my spouse's ancestral root, if I had a spouse.

no spouse, but TCB has had more than his fair share of proposals. :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 08:35:26 PM
While we're on this topic... anyone want to translate "bubala"? My google searches aren't coming up with anything.

CYGOPP (the bf) likes to pretend I'm jewish for the sake of his mother. I'm sure the rabbis would love that  ;)

Bubala, bubaleh, sometimes bubbie (diminuitive)=Sweetheart, darling; an endearment often used for children and also adults

With children, a frequently used synonym is totte shaineh, which literally means "pretty face."
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 08:38:11 PM
Re the big grass debate - I wasn't referring to grass in general. Eating plants or dirt in certain polluted areas (in Colorado, anyway) can make pets sick.
DR Pogue - I agree with DR Jay - if you needed to take a test, they would let you know. I just went through the DMV experience a few weeks ago to get my CA License. Because I had an appointment the wait wasn't too terribly bad. It was crowded, yes, that it was.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 08:39:15 PM
Well, I've never lived in California, but I've never heard of anyone being asked to take the written test again after once passing it.

In NC, we have to take a vision test and a sign test every time we renew, but not the written test. I think I have to renew this year, come to think of it.  :(
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 08:41:40 PM
Mystery solved.  Not being able to remember the name of that revival movie house in New York with the AB, BC, CD... programming was driving me crazy, so I polled my New York friends and one of them came through:

It was the Regency, but not as far north as you remember, it was at 68th just two blocks north of Lincoln Center. They replaced it with an apartment building in the late 80s with a noodle restaurant at street level. The guys in charge of the programming tried to continue it at a couple of other locations, W. 57th, E. 23rd, and never succeeded.

Video killed them all -- the Carnegie (now the new Zankel Hall, I haven't been there yet), the Bleecker, the Theatre 80 St. Marks (now the Pearl Repertory Theater, haven't been there either). I get to the Film Forum every once in a while, but it's tiny.

Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 08:43:16 PM
Hey where did everybody go?

Where is Laura II to talk about The Bachelorette with?

Btw, I was jumping up and down cause the guy from Montreal (I won't give his name in case anyone is still watching) made it to the next round. Yeah!

And not giving his name we will never guess because... why?  All 25 guys are from Montreal?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 08:46:59 PM
Well, I've never lived in California, but I've never heard of anyone being asked to take the written test again after once passing it.
After a certain age you do (in CA, anyway). The mother of a friend of mine just failed her written test - after 40 years of driving with not even a ticket. She's now totally traumatized about taking it again. If you fail twice (I think it's twice, maybe it's 3 times) you then have to take the driving portion as well.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 08:47:00 PM
no spouse, but TCB has had more than his fair share of proposals. :)

Not in this century.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 08:47:02 PM
I am watching/listening to young violinist Joshua Bell and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on "Live From Lincoln Center," only it's on tape delay here on the west coast.  The program is primarily short pieces by the likes of Kreisler, Dvorak, Bach, Gershwin etc.  The concert is being held in what they call "The Penthouse" at Lincoln Center, the mood is fairly casual, and Mr. Bell addresses the live and TV audience between pieces.

Mr. Bell comes across as a very unassuming, charming boy next door type.  Must be all that solid Indiana upbringing.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 08:47:07 PM
I have spent another day cleaning roof and gutters. Yesterday, I just did the gutters in front of the house. Today, I climbed on the roof and took most of the afternoon getting it cleared. There is still some more to do! I think I've gotten to the age where I just don't want to do this any more. I think my body tomorrow morning will be telling me a similar story. I felt some soreness creeping into the deltoids and gluts tonight as I was watching IT'S ALL RELATIVE (one of the btter episodes of the series tonight, BTW).

I was also delighted that our local UPN affiliate has finally converted to high definition, so I was able to watch ENTERPRISE for the first time tonight in high definition. (Well, the first 30 minutes. I'll see the remainder tomorrow.) We now have all network affiliates in Charlotte converted to high definition network broadcasts. I'll be interested to see when they start doing local news and local shows in the process.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: SwishySarah on January 14, 2004, 08:47:09 PM
td, have I ever mentioned that you have a strange resemblance to Flanders on The Simpsons? I hadn't ever noticed until tonight...

I sort of wish the entire karma shpiel would be taken away. If we have it, then people who lose karma will be upset. If we only have the "applaud" button, those who don't have as much karma will be upset. We'd be better without it.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: SwishySarah on January 14, 2004, 08:49:47 PM
And Jennifer, you DO know that throughout the entire show, the place the men come from is showed along with their name? So unless there's more than one man from Montreal, it's kind of obvious who you're talking about...
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 08:56:34 PM
td, have I ever mentioned that you have a strange resemblance to Flanders on The Simpsons? I hadn't ever noticed until tonight...

I sort of wish the entire karma shpiel would be taken away. If we have it, then people who lose karma will be upset. If we only have the "applaud" button, those who don't have as much karma will be upset. We'd be better without it.

Uhm, Swish, you do realize that td's picture is of an animal?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jason on January 14, 2004, 08:57:26 PM
Joshua Bell is not only from Indiana, he is also the boyfriend of Ms. Kristi "Glinda" Chenoweth. They make a cute couple...

The Penthouse at Lincoln Center, assuming it's the Kaplan Penthouse, is actually down the street from Julliard. That is where the MERRILY reunion cast party was held. It was a swellegant evening, and a very nice space for a party...
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Michael on January 14, 2004, 08:57:27 PM
Keith just traced my family tree back to my 20th great grandfather who was born around 1135.   :o

I was born around 230. My mother had a Jewish birth. The one where they knock you out and wake you when the hairdresser arrives.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 08:58:34 PM
I meant to mention that the Mars picture shown either today or yesterday with Marty the Martian peeking into the camera was hysterical.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: SwishySarah on January 14, 2004, 08:59:03 PM
Har dee har har, you are too clever, TCB.

:)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: DearReaderLaura on January 14, 2004, 08:59:07 PM
Hello, fellow dear readers. That's about all I have to say. Today I wore jeans and a t-shirt. The temp was in the 70s.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 08:59:23 PM
While I was having lunch today I parked in the underground parking structure of the small upscale complex where the restaurant was located. When I went to get my car after lunch I noticed a group of loud, rather obnoxious 19 to 20 year old kids waiting for the valet service. Their cars arrived. Each one got into a HUGE SUV. Three kids, three SUV's. Why??? Why does a kid need a gas guzzling, environment polluting SUV? Why does anybody - unless they have a huge family or a business that requires a large vehicle. And why do mommy and daddy buy these cars for the kids? Because they sure didn't pay for those little puppies themselves. End of rant.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: TCB on January 14, 2004, 09:00:30 PM
Why, thank you, my dear!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 09:02:15 PM
Uhm, Swish, you do realize that td's picture is of an animal?

Poor Swish!  

I'm sitting here roaring with laughter; and then TCB makes me laugh even harder!

BTW, TCB - - I am an animal.  
Consider that your first proposal (decent or in-) of this century.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 09:05:39 PM
While I was having lunch today I parked in the underground parking structure of the small upscale complex where the restaurant was located. When I went to get my car after lunch I noticed a group of loud, rather obnoxious 19 to 20 year old kids waiting for the valet service. Their cars arrived. Each one got into a HUGE SUV. Three kids, three SUV's. Why??? Why does a kid need a gas guzzling, environment polluting SUV? Why does anybody - unless they have a huge family or a business that requires a large vehicle. And why do mommy and daddy buy these cars for the kids? Because they sure didn't pay for those little puppies themselves. End of rant.

Because going to war in the Middle East to protect appropriate oil interests there is more popular and easier than instituting conservation measures in the U.S.  I am also convinced that SUVs (other than for the legitimate users you've enumerated) serve as a proxy for a certain male appendage, as in "my SUV's bigger than your SUV."
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 09:07:26 PM
My apologies.  I should have led off the preceding with "Don't get me started," which, of course, means "Here I go."
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jane on January 14, 2004, 09:08:38 PM
Goodnight all.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 09:14:02 PM
I do believe we're havin' a posting frenzy.  I'm dealing with the karma issue - again, the REAL point is why anyone HERE would WANT to take karma from anyone.  But in the scheme of things, who cares?  If it's removable I may go that route, if not, well, I'd just think before booing anyone.  Use your best judgment however.  

Pogue: Let me be more definitive - you probably won't have to take the written test, unless, that is, you do.

I've been watching Curb Your Enthusiasm season one.  How many seasons have there been so far?
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 09:18:08 PM
I think it's just started its fourth season, bk.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jay on January 14, 2004, 09:18:23 PM
Joshua Bell is not only from Indiana, he is also the boyfriend of Ms. Kristi "Glinda" Chenoweth. They make a cute couple...

The Penthouse at Lincoln Center, assuming it's the Kaplan Penthouse, is actually down the street from Julliard. That is where the MERRILY reunion cast party was held. It was a swellegant evening, and a very nice space for a party...

What attractive and artistically talented children those two could produce!

And yes, it is the Kaplan Penthouse.  Paid for, I assume, by millions of high schoolers sweating over their SATs.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 09:21:28 PM
I've been watching Curb Your Enthusiasm season one.  How many seasons have there been so far?
I'm fairly certain this is Season 4. My daughter bought herself Season 1 as a birthday present, so when I visit her for her birthday celebration on Saturday, we'll probably watch it.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: JoseSPiano on January 14, 2004, 09:27:24 PM
Good morning! Good afternoon!  Good evening!

-Just wanted to cover all my usual bases. ;)

Greetings from snowy - and quite beautiful in the snow - New York City!

The trip up was nice and uneventful.  Steve and I left Richmond around 8:15, and made it to the Lincoln Tunnel at around 2:15 - and that was with three stops along the way for "necessaries" and some snacks.  Steve drove the first part of the drive, then I took over after Baltimore.  It was nice driving his car, a Saturn Vue - great pick up, high off the ground and a very quiet ride compared to mine.  Well... Since I wasn't used to driving his car...  As I stated, we made it to the Lincoln Tunnel at 2:15... And that's when I looked at the gas guage... and the lighted "gas pump" symbol... Oops...  Thankfully, we were right at the Kennedy Blvd. exit, so we pulled off, and pulled into a Hess station.  WHEW!  From the amount of gas that got pumped in, we only had about a gallon left.  WHEW!!  So, we headed back into the tunnel, and we were at the hotel about five minutes later - there was hardly any traffic coming out the tunnel!

We spent about an hour "decompressing" in our nice hotel room, then headed over to Amy's Breads for a pre-dinner snack.  Then it was over to Times Square to check out the Hershey's store, Colony, etc. - the usual suspects.  While Steve was browsing in Colony, I made the rounds to pick up the tickets for the shows this week!  GREAT SEATS!  -I will have quite a few Thank You notes to write once I get back for the house seats.

For dinner, I "treated" Steve to his first Joe Allen experience.  Very good meal - we both had the sirloin - I was thinking of you DR Jason. ;)  And at a table just one away from us, Mssrs. Charles Durning and Dan Laria were dining.  -Sorry, BK, still no Remy Zakin(sp?).  Then after finally flagging down the waiter for our check, and waiting in the line(!) for our coats, we raced over to the Henry Miller in the snow to catch URINETOWN.

What a wonderful show!  We both enjoyed it immensely.  And, as, I believe, DR WEL, noted a few weeks ago, the show is in very good shape.  Great energy, great timing.  -And the one person whom I thought I would know it, was no longer in the show.. Ah, well..

Then we walked through Times Square trying to keep our digital cameras from getting too "flaked".  Times Square in the snow is/was so bright with all the lights and neon reflecting off the snowflakes.  After a stop at the Roxy for some pastries(!), we headed back to the hotel...  And here we are now.

So...

I just wanted to post.  Unfortunately, due to the incredibly slow dial-up internet connection via the hotel switchboard, I haven't read today's notes, nor any of the posts... I will undoubtedly have plenty of catching up to do once I get back Sunday night.  But in the meantime...

All is well in NYC!  Hope all is well wherever you are too!  -And I'll try my best to check in as the week progresses...
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Matt H. on January 14, 2004, 09:28:37 PM
Well, the hour is quite late East COast time, so I'll call it a night, and see you folks tomorrow.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 09:30:16 PM
We shall await the late-night denizens.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 09:37:33 PM
Thanks (think about it, you'll figure out why I said it).
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 09:38:40 PM
I've just chewed almost an entire pack of bubble gum. I'm in a bubble gum frenzy. Somebody stop me! I need to call a buddy at Bubbleaholics Anonymous.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 09:40:54 PM
We shall await the late-night denizens.

well, this late night denizen is brushing up on his shakespeare: following TAMING OF THE SHREW,  i threw in Paramount's ROMEO & JULIET.  Another fine transfer.   Olivia Hussey's eyes are so beautiful, not as beautiful as Liz' eyes, nor as beautiful as Leonard Whiting (in definite *twink* mode) in all of his glory.
These Zeffirelli productions are certainly not short on production values. . .
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: td on January 14, 2004, 09:41:57 PM
Thanks (think about it, you'll figure out why I said it).

'twasn't moi!  I hit somebody with my karmaliscious lightning bolt yesterday. . .
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 09:43:17 PM
No more karma! Good move. Thank you, Mr. Mark B.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 09:44:10 PM
Thanks (think about it, you'll figure out why I said it).

It's the end of an era...which is not always a bad thing. ;)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 09:46:40 PM
Well, I wasn't thanking because someone GAVE me karma.  Well, listen, if that sort of thing makes someone feel better, boo away.  Nothing about people surprises me anymore, and if I were to tell you the names of the two people involved in today's pranks I think you would sit and scratch your head - well, actually, one of them would be no surprise to anyone, but the other one would.  
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 09:48:39 PM
Okay, I'm going to try to stop chewing and read for a bit.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Panni on January 14, 2004, 09:50:38 PM
...An unfortunate posting right after bk's remarks. Weren't me, boss.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 09:53:42 PM
Good - Mr. Mark Bakalor acted faster than I thought he would.  I spoke to him earlier about it, but he was waiting to see if we could figure something out - but, when this last little baby BS happened, I simply asked him to do away with it right now.

I guess the two kiddies involved just don't like me very much.  Unfortunately, this would be a rather silly site to come to if you don't like me, because I'm not going anywhere soon.  You two are, of course, free to take your butt cheeks elsewhere.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 09:56:26 PM
Welcome thirteen GUESTS, two of whom I'm quite certain are the two people referenced above.  I'm actually quite nauseated by all this - I shall sign off for awhile.  Be back later.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: DearReaderLaura on January 14, 2004, 10:01:38 PM
I frequently read posts as a guest before I log in. But I've never taken karma from anyone.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 10:09:51 PM
George, you must try one of Taco del Mar's fish tacos.  They are wonderful.  I know they sound disgusting, but you will be pleasantly surprised.  Taco del Mar is a Northwest only chain.

I went to Taco Del Mar for dinner and, at TCB's emphatic suggestion, I tried (for the first time ever) the fish taco.  In a word:  Ick. :P  Okay, I'll admit that I did get it to go...and by the time I got home, it was not as warm as when I first bought it (in other words, not at all)...and they steamed the corn tortilla so it was somewhat slimy by the time I ate it.  Anyway, sensing the possibility that I might not like the fish taco, I also got my usual super veggie burrito...which was pretty good, so all was not lost.

But in spite of all that, I will more than likely try it again...if only to make absolutely sure that I really don't like it (because I do like tacos and I do like fishsticks).  However, I'll only try it when I know I'll be able to eat it there (when it's fresh) and it doesn't have a chance to get slimy (being steamed and all).  I also may try it with the flour tortilla because those are really good when steamed. :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 10:20:50 PM
Joshua Bell is not only from Indiana, he is also the boyfriend of Ms. Kristi "Glinda" Chenoweth. They make a cute couple...

That's interesting, Jason.  I saw a concert in Central Park on PBS sometime last year (I think it was last year) with Bell and Chenoweth and it was a Bernstein concert.

She sang Cunegonde's "Glitter and Be Gay" with Bell playing violin beside her!  It was a fabulous concert!  Don't know when it originally played, but it was well-attended.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: MBarnum on January 14, 2004, 10:22:36 PM
I am sorry to see the karma go away, BK. I enjoy giving them when someone posts something that makes me chuckle, and I even liked it when I have noticed that someone has given me another karma point...it gives me a nice feeling, as I am sure it does others...and besides it was sort of fun! And fun and nice is why I check in at HHW every day!

I don't know why anyone would remove a karma from someone... and, although it didn't hurt my feelings on the couple of occasions that I noticed mine had been removed, it did always make me wonder what I did to cause it  ??? I have always refrained from taking away anyones karma points...it just ain't neighborly to do such things. JMHO (Just my humble opinion in internet talk)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Laura II on January 14, 2004, 10:29:47 PM
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]REALITY SHOWS[/move]

"The Bachelorette"--I liked it as usual, Jenn. Laura likes Ian. :) I wasn't surprised with her choices, I guess, but I can't judge because we hardly "met" the guys. I feel bad because if ABC doesn't continually put up their names on the first episode, I don't remember the lackluster guys.

"The Apprentice"--I finally watched last week's episode tonight, haven't seen tonight's yet. It's fast-paced, quite enjoyable so far. David rubbed me the wrong way, so I'm glad he's out. Sam and Tammy must go (but especially Sam).

Karma: I'm indifferent/neutral. (Indifferent, with its prefix, just looks negative to me!) Just noticed that it was missing. :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Laura II on January 14, 2004, 10:39:11 PM
DR Jose, hope you are having a lovely time in NYC (even with the snow)! Your post reminded me of how much I miss the city! Gosh, I love Colony and Joe Allen!! I saw Matt Dillon there once. I also saw Matthew Broderick and Brad Oscar.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Ron Pulliam on January 14, 2004, 10:57:53 PM
Now, see...what I can't recall is whether Tom from Oz is supposed to be asleep now...or whether he is just out for an afternoon at the movies.

I cannot wait to hear his account/impressions of "The Return of the King" (he loves this saga as much as, if not more than, I).

I'm not going to miss the karma feature at all.  

I am especially glad not to have to read complaints about it any longer.  

:)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jed on January 14, 2004, 11:01:18 PM
It's highly doubtful that our dear Tomovoz is sleeping... it's about 6pm Oz time at the moment.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:01:44 PM
I'll bet.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 11:14:46 PM
I'll see your bet and raise!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 11:15:20 PM
And congratulations our very own BK for being the first with 1800 posts!!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:16:36 PM
My "I'll bet" was in response to the post of Mr. Pulliam - I didn't hit post fast enough.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: George on January 14, 2004, 11:16:53 PM
I'm now going to go to sleep.  Goodnight all!
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:29:03 PM
Sleep?  We don't need no stinking sleep.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Laura II on January 14, 2004, 11:43:45 PM
Happiness is...morning and evening, daytime and nighttime, too! For happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you!

Haaaaaaaappinessssssss! :D

I am trying to spread cheer, but those are the only lyrics I can recall in the correct order! :)
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: bk on January 14, 2004, 11:48:37 PM
If you spread cheer can you also spread tide and surf?  

Soon new notes will be posted for your mental delectation.  What a day of lovely lovely postings.
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Laura II on January 14, 2004, 11:50:43 PM
Well, actually, I don't really know how to do laundry, so I probably can't even spread cheer. :( Oh my. ::hangs head in shame::
Title: Re:PROFOUND PROFUNDITY
Post by: Jed on January 14, 2004, 11:51:29 PM
The only "Happiness" lyrics I know are the ones from Passion, and I don't think they're as good a fit at the moment, Laura. :D