BK, I just posted a message on yesterday's day. I wasn't locked out. Something's wrong...that's definitely a plot twist of a different ballgame!
Ask BK: What's your history with homes with swimming pools? You seem to be enjoying this new one. Been in houses with pools before?
My question for AskBK day - this was sort of answered yesterday. I just watched a movie called GAS-S-S which featured Miss Cindy Williams and was kind of a mess. But it seemed to me that everyone in it was someone you might have known...including Mr Bud Cort. I was going to ask you how you escaped being in this disaster....but you were in New York when it was filmed....would be my guess. Have you seen this film....what do you think of it?
Well, I'm not sure how to address myself this morning, Rock-Ben or Troy-Ben or Ben-Troy or Ben-Rock. How about RockBenTroy. OK. That's what I'll be for now.
Here is a link to the Reuters review of 10 Cs. The name of the reviewer is Jay Reiner and he seemed to really like it.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=801&ncid=771&e=1&u=/nm/20040929/stage_nm/review_stage_commandments_dc (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=801&ncid=771&e=1&u=/nm/20040929/stage_nm/review_stage_commandments_dc)
Well, Mr. Reiner will have to live with that review, won't he? There isn't a person I've talked to who has seen this show who hasn't thought it was total dreck. Perhaps Mr. Azria has told the Hollywood Reporter that he'll be doing a lot of advertising with them, or perhaps Mr. Reiner just loved it, or perhaps Mr. Reiner is someone without critical standards, or perhaps Mr. Reiner is just plain silly. I'd like to know some shows that Mr. Reiner DIDN'T like and some other shows he DID like.
Ask BK:
This is a follow up to my question to you last week.
You mentioned you were happy to have a web site with polite and civilized conversation. I agree strongly with you on this. I have visited many other sites on the web, both theatrical and non-theatrical. The level of conversation is just not as high as at HHW. More to the point, I can't believe how people argue with each other on the internet. Disagreement is fine and natural, but the level it is taken to is something to see. Personal insults and obscenities are the norm. I am sure you and other posters have seen and know what I am talking about.
This doesn't seem to happen at HHW. So...
What has occurred to allow HHW be a haven for intelligent conversation and a place where people can disagree with respect?
BK - Will there be a CD of some sort with the new book for those of us who buy it direct from this here site?
Question for BK and all--what are you favorite currently running comic strips? What are your favorites from the past. And which ones do you just stare at and go "Huh?"
Question for BK and all--what are you favorite currently running comic strips? What are your favorites from the past. And which ones do you just stare at and go "Huh?"
Good Not-So-Good Morning again...
UGH!
****POSSIBLE SKEEVE OUT, GROSS OUT ALERT WARNING****
I get out the vacuum cleaner, and start cleaning... I open my closet and vacuum in there too... I move the small bookcase and vacuum... I was just cleaning up anything that possibly might be there... Unfortunately, I started looking behind other things in my room, and I think I saw "evidence" in a few other places...
ALIAS spoiler ALERT
It was an obvious cliffhanger to keep people guessing and wondering what she read. I'm sure it will be good for a few episodes (the explanation) and then they'll just drop it and go on with what they were doing, which I hope doesn't get as silly as a few of these episodes were. The reason I predicted the Sloane/dad plot twist was because of a look that Irina gave him. And I think that may have been their original intention, but I think it would have probably painted them into a corner so they created the sister. My feeling is the sister was a late addition - that originally they were thinking it was Sydney who was being the conduit.
Skippy Jay was fascinated by last week's discussion of how "more Inge" rhymes with the supposedly unrhymable "orange."
At Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's recitial on Sunday, she sang a song by Hector Berlioz called "L'Ile inconnue," or "The Unknown island," which contains these lyrics:
Skippy Jay was fascinated by last week's discussion of how "more Inge" rhymes with the supposedly unrhymable "orange."
DR Jay, I worked on Kiri's Gershwin album. Did she forget any melodies or words?
Good news today: my first day since the first week of August without a pair of crutches.
So, his mind reeling with rhyming conundrums (conundra? conundri?), Skippy Jay's question for Ask BK Day is this:
When writing lyrics in this day and age, does the word "again" rhyme with "a pen" or "a pain?"
And when singing a song that rhymes "again" with "a pain," does one sing it as "a gain" (long A) to complete the rhyme, or as "a gen" (short E) to make it recognizable as it is spoken in common parlance?
That's wonderful, Dear Reader elmore3003!
And, if I might add, quite reminiscent of the last scene in Interrupted Melody. Did you sing the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde as you took your first steps?
I'm going to be Stone today, since Clay's been taken, I believe.
That's wonderful, Dear Reader elmore3003!
And, if I might add, quite reminiscent of the last scene in Interrupted Melody. Did you sing the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde as you took your first steps?
I find it interesting that the L.A. Times, which lacks a dedicated theatre critic, would send its classical music critic to review The Ten Commandments instead of one its theatre stringers.
If the 10 C's aren't classical, what is? They been around longer even than that Russian dude, Titichkowsky. (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/musik/music-smiley-019.gif)
Hi elmore. :)
Titichkowsky
Question for BK for the "Ask BK Day"... I recently finished listening to the new JAY recording of "Lucky Stiff" and while I found the reasoning for this recording necessary (recording the show as it was concieved... with just a piano) I found the performances rather bland and the whole thing lacked spunk. So my question is what kind of stories do you have from your recording of the show? Was it a positive experience, negative experince, how were the composers to work with... etc, blah blah blah. Thanks!!!
There was a recent NK question that went unanswered about whether my father's happy back east. I'd have to say that the answer is yes. It seemed, for about thirty years, that he had show business in his blood. Leaving that all behind seemed an unlikely move at the time, but, the more I think about it, the more I think the change did him some good. Only those who remember the game Careers will understand when I say he traded in $ and fame (stars) for happiness (hearts).
RockBenTroy here with another vacation picture. We're almost done with them.It's so nice to see a man who's good with his hands.
We went to the Science Museum of Minnesota. A very good museum, IMHO. There is/was an exhibit on the body, and Anthony, always looking for interesting photo ops, came up with this one.
Question for BK and all--what are you favorite currently running comic strips? What are your favorites from the past. And which ones do you just stare at and go "Huh?"Since we don't get a daily newspaper these days, I use a couple of internet sites to keep up with my faves.
Elmore---
All the classic LITTLE LULU comics are going to be reprinted with the first scheduled for early this November. Check your local comic store.
DONDI (Anyone remember this dreary strip? Extra points if you remember the bad movie with David Jansen.)
They're also remaking ALL THE KING'S MEN...
If the 10 C's aren't classical, what is? They been around longer even than that Russian dude, Titichkowsky. (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/musik/music-smiley-019.gif)You refer, of course, to the sinfully handsome Tyrone Titichkowsky.
Hello, Jane. :)
I'm Stone today, and with the ache in my leg, I wish I was stoned!
Bottom line: You don't have any Ruth Gordons, Sidney Blackmers, John Cassavetes, Patsy Kellys, Maurice Evans anymore. And television certainly has no Roman Polanskis, William Frakers, or Richard Sylberts.
I'm finally on page four-very funny. ;D
Since Calvin and Hobbes left, I rarely visit the comics page for very long anymore.
Randall Duk Kim! There's a name I haven't heard in forever.
Last week one was messy and the other was a clean freak. The messy one loved animals and they clean one didn't.
...And apparently it got great reviews.
Just read that ROSEMARY'S BABY is going to be remade as a 4 hour ABC miniseries (incorporating the sequel, SON OF ROSEMARY).
I (or Tab-Tuesday-Panni) can hardly wait for RockTroyBruce's comments.
For those who watch the Apprentice, it's on tonight instead of Thursday.
DR elmore3003 -- How wonderful to see you back at HHW. You have been in my thoughts and prayers!
With Meryl Streep! You'd think MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE would be enough for her. I guess it's like eating peanuts... Once you've done one pointless remake of a perfect film, it's hard to stop.
Randall Duk Kim! There's a name I haven't heard in forever. Though I never saw him before, I know he ran a Shakespeare Festival somewhere like Michigan or Wisconsin...with himself playng most of the leading parts. I had a friend who worked with him. I gathered he found the fellow rather eccentric. What were your impressions, BK?
DD and her bf are going to be doing some serious traveling around Europe in the next while. She just sent me an article about an undiscovered "hidden Riviera" section of Italy they're going to visit. Sounds DEE-vine. Here it is:
http://www.ricksteves.com/news/0101/vernazza.htm
BK:
Recently watch an episode of Donny and Marie you did with Cindy Williams and Paul Lynde. (The Babes in Arms one) My question is were you dubbed when it came to the singing? It sure as heck did not sound like you and except for a tiny solo that Cindy had most of the singing did not sound like her either. Care to discuss?
Also on tonight is a show I thought I would hate, Wife Swap. But it's actually quite interesting. They take two wives and have them switch familes. But the interesting part is that these women are opposites.
The internet is turning people into idiots...or idiots are over-running the internet. I just got off the IDMB reading some of the comments about my films. One on PSYCHO III has this whole idiot debate,pondering who the real killer is...The killer's identity was never in doubt, never a question, not meant in any way to be oblique or obscure or a mystery. Yet here are these idiots actually discussing it...and one referring to some movie trivia site where he picked up this relevatory insight on who the killer (It isn't who he says it is! It's obvious, you cretin! No mystery). Tell me that all these maroons are 12-17 year old boys. They can't really be adults, can they? The trouble with the internet is that uninformed opinions can spew all over it, spreading disinformation and idiocy and lowering the general IQ's of its users.
The internet is turning people into idiots...or idiots are over-running the internet. I just got off the IDMB reading some of the comments about my films.
I know there are exceptions and that some youngsters (especially the ones who visit here) are very bright, but the majority of today's youth doesn't read, doesn't know how to write and only knows from things that happened in the last five years.
Dan Zack would love to be proved wrong here. Can anyone give Dan Zack any signs of hope?
DIT - Yes, I (and Tab-Tuesday) read about the nude beach. I've always been a rather free spirit of a mother. And actually it seems to have worked as DD is a very good person in every way. I've only been strict about the important things in life. And when you really think about it, there aren't that many. My motto in child rearing is choose your battles carefully. I doubt if DD would go on the nude beach, but if she did - why not?
I saw that review, too, elmore. It was probably Robert Sher or one of his cronies. Usually is.
Dan Zack bemoans the state of this Generation Z. Dan Zack hates to generalize, but Dan Zack finds most college-aged (and under) kids to be willfully anti-intellect, materialistic and socially exclusive (not to mention a horrendeous taste in music.) Dan Zack doesn't have much hope that these kids are going to come out of the woodwork by the thousands and swing the election towards Kerry. This generation values lay more on the side of the fabulous bling, the pimped up ride and the topdawg crib (MTV lingo!)
And yes, where in tarnation IS dear reader Jed? Not to mention dear reader Ann, both of whom have probably run off together and are living in torrid sin.
Tab-Tuesday-Panni's DD. That's one, anyway.
I saw that review, too, elmore. It was probably Robert Sher or one of his cronies. Usually is.
Was just watching the extras on Murder on the Orient Express, and there was our very own Tony Walton.
Dan Zack bemoans the state of this Generation Z. Dan Zack hates to generalize, but Dan Zack finds most college-aged (and under) kids to be willfully anti-intellect, materialistic and socially exclusive (not to mention a horrendeous taste in music.) Dan Zack doesn't have much hope that these kids are going to come out of the woodwork by the thousands and swing the election towards Kerry. This generation values lay more on the side of the fabulous bling, the pimped up ride and the topdawg crib (MTV lingo!)Salt would like to know why Dan Zack thinks the new generation should be any different from the generations that came before them. Even the Flower Power generation didn't bother to vote, in spite of all their protestations. In one era, out the other.
Dan Zack would love to be proved wrong here. Can anyone give Dan Zack any signs of hope?
What does Robert Sher have against you?
Skippy Jay played hooky this afternoon and went to see John Waters' new opus, A Dirty Shame. It is.
I'm on my way to Mr. Grant Geissman's to do one little bit of reformatting so the book file can get fed-exed tomorrow. Then we work on the cover - the front is done, but we have to do the flap copy and the back of the jacket. I'm trying to figure out if I should have any blurbs or not - I don't know if anyone can read it that quickly to get me one. We shall see.
Yay, Ann is back. Maybe more people will be back this evening.
Does that mean, no thumbs up, Skippy???
Tab-Tuesday-Panni's DD. That's one, anyway.
DR Dan Zack, I know we're in trouble when the idiots who run PBS think think that art is reruns of the Lawrence Welk Show and fill their fund drive weekends with Peter, Paul & Mary, Stars of the 7os, the Three Irish Tenors, the Three Tenors, and other reunions of that ilk. While I enjoy some of these programs, they'd be more likely to get my money if I believed they knew that classical music has been performed by better singers than Sarah Brightman and they programmed more than fluff for their endless drives.
Maybe more people will be back this evening.
Question for BK or Jose:
What is the exact title of the Disco Song that Ryan sang and which song did it replace?
Also what is the exact title of the Annie song that Tammy sang?
Dan Zack has decided to end the evening by throwing caution to the wind and turning his back on the souless world of runway modeling and becoming the latest PBS eurotrash discovery. Dan Zack will now be known as Danzaque, Master of the Zamfir. Audiences will swoon as Danzaque allays his pouty lips against the Zamfir and plays the music of the ages. Be sure to check local listings for Danzaque's first PBS special, Danzaque, Master of the Zamfir, filmed live at the Theatre am Kirchplatz in Liechtenstein. Listen to Danzaque's interpretations of such timeless classsics as Strausses' "Tales from the Vienna Woods", Franck's "Panis Angelicus", Titichkowsky's "Waltz of the Flowers", Mendelssohn's "Ave Maria" and ABBA's "Fernando". CDs and DVDs are available for a small pledge.
Danzaque, Master of the Zamfir!
(Don't worry, this should all go away tomorrow...)