D-I-T-, yes I saw Jeopardy last night. Very funny. I was surprised Ken Jennings didn't answer that Musical Roles question because he answered all the others until that one.
That would be my worst nightmare, appearing on Jeopardy and getting some kind of Broadway or musical comedy or theatre category and then giving the wrong answer, thus humiliating myself in front of the entire viewing public.
DR Elmore3003...what do you mean why is THAT my favorite movie! I would expect it to be your favorite too now that you have seen it!! Maybe you need to watch it again! And isn't June Kenney just a doll!!
Please remind us -- what film is MBarnum's favorite?
There was a restaurant in the Village on Christopher Street for many years called David's Pot Belly.
But probably my favorite egg dish is matzah brei. For those unfamiliar with this Passover delight, it consists of crumbled pieces of matzah (I use two boards) that have been soaked in a basic custard mix of eggs (2 or 3) and milk (I always eyeball it). After soaking (between 5 and 10 minutes, depending on how flimsy you like your matzah brei), you toss the mixture into a skillet that has been melting your butter (with the milk and butter, this is a definite dairy - or milchig - dish). Some people like their matzah brei like an omelet, some like it scrambled. I like it scrambled. Some like to accompany it with jelly, but I prefer to sprinkle liberal amounts of sugar and cinammon over mine.
Matzah Brei is good even for gentiles.
...apart from using lard in the pastry.
I have been known to call them hematomahs...
I LOVE Hamentaschen.
I also love a good kugel.
DR Stuart, the one I live with - well, his grandmother was Jewish, but he grew up in a non-Jewish home - loves matzah brei.
How non-Jewish? Gord's mother's mother was Jewish, so according to Jewish law so is his mother. But she knows little about Judaism, and celebrates Christian holidays. Once, though, in my honor she borrowed a Jewish cookbook and baked Hamentaschen (a large three-pointed filled cookie made on Purim). It was by far the best I had ever tasted, and I asked her the name of the cookbook. It was published by Hadassah, and she had followed the recipe precisely - apart from using lard in the pastry.
Attack of the Puppet People is a fun movie....DRELMORE, the ending is a bit truncated and unsatisfying in a way because producer Gordon planned a sequel that AIP nixed after the smaller than expected box office of the original.
I thought you said God's mother's mother was Jewish, and I was thinking, "Yeah... and so???"
Glad to see you back home, Danise, safe and sound.
Attack of the Puppet People is a fun movie....DRELMORE, the ending is a bit truncated and unsatisfying in a way because producer Gordon planned a sequel that AIP nixed after the smaller than expected box office of the original.
Prune
Noodle
While I can understand the sour cream I prefer my latkes w/apple sauce.
.. Call me Sam I Am.
I'm repulsed by their entrance into this world through the backside of a chicken.
(Far as I'm concerned, if you're a musical theatre fan, you're Jewish.):
About a year or two ago, the NY Times featured an entire section on the sweet vs. savory matzah brei debate. This debate is quite similar to the "sour cream vs. apple sauce on the latkes" fight which routinely breaks out between the missus and myself during Chanuka.
Dare I bring up the duelling gefilte fishes (pepper vs. sweet)?
I'm sure that part of the "backside" imagery most people carry is due to the fact that when you shop farmer's markets for fresh eggs, you often encounter eggs with chicken "doo" on them...lending the idea that "chickens s**t what we eat"!
However, since Purim fell during the middle of the rehearsal period... Hamentaschen! YUM!!!! I had never had them before, and I just kept helping myself, and they just kept bringing them in for me. Prune, cherry, and poppy seed.
Nice. My favorite version of HANSEL & GRETEL starred Shelley Winters!WHO SLEW AUNTIE ROO? It's one of my faves as well!
Sturgeon eggs are fine with me. It's the eggs from poultry I can't stand. This whole TOD is grossing me out.
I think (Wagner)'s too long and too boring, but amid all the dross there are fantastic moments.
... I'll hear about this one!
Did you know that it is big business and not Communists that the Angela character (Meryl in this version) is working for? It's the Gulf War, not Korea. And from the tv ads instead of being brainwashed the title character is given an operation.
And surely the Anvil Chorus is a worthy show-stopper!
I wonder, what would Verdi say?
Die Meistersinger's Overture's triple counterpoint just sends chills! And let's not forget that Wagner gives full employment to many a French horn player. And surely the Anvil Chorus is a worthy show-stopper!
Jerry Goldsmith was a lovely man...and a terrific composer. I was privileged to meet him twice. Once outside the Universal commisserary where Raffaella DeLaurentiis introduced me to him. I had already mentioned him more than once for the composer of Dragonheart. He had read the script and was very enthusiastic about it. You knew he wasn't faking either because he could describe passages of the script in detail. He wanted to do it. I lobbied hard for him to do it.
Of course, the writer is rarely mentioned in items of this kind, but we at HHW know who it is. Congrats, FS Pogue!
Jay, so I'm not hallucinating? (Well, I could be, but that's another matter.) When I saw mention of the Anvil Chorus and Wagner, by our usually correct DB, part of me said - "Nem!" - That's "no" in Hungarian. (Because I first saw Il Trovatore when I was a child in Hungary.) But the other part of me said "Shut up!" The other part of me is rude. So I did. Until seeing your post. "So there!" other part of me.
Elmore, I read Hercules, My Shipmate as part of my extensive research (two months worth before I ever even started an outline and ongoing all the way through the writing) and Graves' researches into the myths and the myths behind the myths was pretty much my bible.
My wonderful NBC exec and Hallmark exec have been very protective of the script and, though a thousand things can still go wrong until it airs, I'm more optimistic than I've been in years. This being TV and they wanting to bring in the kiddies, we do not...of course...explore Herc's well-recorded bisexual tendencies.
"Thesps?" Does that make you "writs," Dear Readers Panni and Charles Pogue?
Elmore you might want to take something to protect your stomach from too much Ibuprofen.
(That, BTW, is why I love the Humanitas Awards. The writer gets $25,000. While the director, producers and various network execs get nice plaques. There IS justice!)
You may be hallucinating, Dear Reader Panni, but not on this matter. While it is true that there are a bunch of anvils in Das Rheingold, and an anvil plays an important role in Act I of Siegfried, what is commonly known as "The Anvil Chorus" is the noisy--and much poked fun at--number from Verdi's Il Trovatore.
.. Sean AstinSean Astin, Leelee Sobieski, and offers out to Marisa TomeiMarisa Tomei ...
Panni - make typos - "nem!"
I can't stand eggs.It isn't just cookies that require eggs, Noel.
Don't like the taste of them, the look of them, the color of 'em.
I love ham, but with eggs? Call me Sam I Am.
I'm repulsed by their entrance into this world through the backside of a chicken.
If, however, you mix eggs with enough flour, sugar, and maybe some baking powder and bake ... you then have a cookie. And I like a cookie.
I've been invited to a screening of the new MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE at Paramount. Should I go? I so hate the idea of remaking a perfect film. On the other hand, I'm curious. And there will be free food. What to do! :PGo for the food.
SWW & DerBrucer, how were the cookies?They contain eggs.
...It's like the Wagner opera debate several months ago; friends I respect like Wagner, but I think he's a self-indulgent Nazi who needed to learn the meanings of style and economy in his composition...Wagner died in 1883, long before the Nazi movement came into being. This would make him a Proto-Nazi, or maybe an Ur-Nazi, but not a Nazi.
We've really been living it up here in Wichita. We went to a glass-blowing place, and now my uncle is looking for a drug store,....So sorry to hear that he got a pane.
This I found atAh, the old "guilt by association" trip.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/musReich.htm
Richard Wagner (1818-1883) was Hitler's favorite composer. During World War I, it is reported, he carried Wagner's music from Tristanin his knapsack. Often Hitler had Wagner's music performed at party rallies and functions. Wagner's music was uncompromisingly serious, and intensely Teutonic. It was not only Wagner's music that 'struck a chord' with Hitler, but also his political views. Wagner wrote a violently antisemitic booklet in the 1850s called Das Judebthum in die Musik (Judaism in Music) insisting the Jews poisoned public taste in the arts. He founded the Bayreuth festival, which in the 1930s and 1940s was used by the Nazi party as a propaganda tool against the Jews.
So sorry to hear that he got a pane.
Someone had to say it.
::)
Congratulations, TCB! One of my favorites, that show is. I definitely plan to see it!
I am SO out of it tonight. Perhaps my brains are fried from my writing blitz. I was crossing the street at Laurel and Ventura - a rather major intersection - and suddenly noticed that all these turning cars were heading at me -- because I was thinking about something and just stepped off the curb and crossed without looking at the light. :P