Jennifer has joined our merry throng (can 3 be a throng?). Is it still too cold for Spring in Canada? The temperature has dropped in NYC again and today we will be lucky to get into the low 50s. Spring, where are you???
Well, you've read the notes - true? You're ready to post with true grit and/or grits, you're ready to ask and be asked and to love and be loved, so post away, my pretties, whilst I gird my loins against the smell of the Dead Rodent.
Where does one put the apostrophe in frogs legs? (Sentence: Frogs legs have long been on the menu.)
my ASK BK DAY QUESTION:
Best Possible Cast for THE MOST HAPPY FELLA?
Using the talent pool available right now.
Later we can see dead rodents, I mean use people who have already passed on.
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JOE!!![/move]
Question for BK: Was the stint on the Dinah Shore variety show your only experience in the genre? Aside from that particular experience, do you like working in that kind of format? What were your fav variety shows of all time? (I'd like to hear other DR favs, too.)
Speaking of frogs legs, tickets go on sale in early June for the Lincoln Center production of THE FROGS. I assume they will not be using a swimming pool.
Everytime I think television has hit a new low something comes along that is even lower. I just read about the Baba Wawa baby special that is on this weekend. She found an unwed 16-year-old pregnant girl who will give up her baby to the winning couple (out of five) who will compete for the right to adopt him or her on this show. It will probably be the top rated show of the week, but the whole idea of it makes me ill. It's bad enough that ABC/Eisner would televise this, but the fact that people will watch it is even worse. I hope I am wrong and it is not a ratings winner, but that still won't make up for the whole disgusting idea of this. I know several DRs are big fans of reality shows and I would like them to post if they will watch this and what they think of the idea of it.
Of all the variety shows, I think I most consistently watched The Hollywood Palace.
2nd question: Does anyone have a spare copy of the "Haines His Way" CD that they'd be willing to sell? My wife has decided that she likes BK's voice very much (from the Kritzer CDs. We got those when we purchased the books at Bookfellows a few weeks ago) and I find that the person I lent my Haines CD to has lost it in a move.
The next day I asked my mom to pick up the cast album of A Little Night Music at Korvette's.
I believe they are just following the story of a 16 yr old girl who has to choose which of 5 couples she will give her baby to. It's not a competition, they are just documenting the process.
Grits are very good slathered in butter and liberally dosed with pepper.
Dear Readers I ask you: Will there ever be another variety show to match Pink Lady and Jeff???
Since when does the mother get to pick? That's what adoption agencies are for. And if she has to choose between five potential couples, that sure sounds like a competition to me.
elmoore: I wouldn't be surprised if you were right.
George which SS album do you mean? Which songs are on it?
Ah, Korvette's! The BEST place to buy records. They were always so much cheaper there..... Where did you grow up? Which Korvette's did you frequent?
From some of your comments, DR D-T-M, sometimes I think that you are DR Jay's and my long lost brother!
I always had a suspicion that I was adopted. Tell me: do you and DR Jay come from money? :)
During the 70s, I was in and out of the house so I saw television infrequently, but the Carol Burnett show was always worth watching. Still is.
I don't think Pogue was saying there was racism - I think he was saying that OTHERS said there was racism. At least I think that's what he was saying.
Ask BK Day[/u][/b]
I have a question for BK, or anyone else that has watched the new DVD of SWEENEY TODD. A lot of people online have been complaining that the new DVD version has almost completely faded out the audience reactions (applause, laughter) on the DVD. Did you notice the difference, and if so, do you think it effects the quality of the DVD? Do you think it is something that they might correct any time soon?
Am I the only one here who loved The Muppet Show?
All this talk of grits and I'm surprised no one has yet come out with:-* KISS MAH GRITS! :-*
My favorite recurring segment on The Muppets Show series:
I hiked in ticksville today and it was also filled with poison oak. I just pulled a tick out of my neck as it was about to attach itself to me. YUCK!. I sure hope I don’t get poison oak of top of the ticks. I’m currently washing all my clothes I wore today and Echo’s car blanket in this great product called Tecnu. But first I washed Echo with it which is probably how I acquired the tick.
Sounds like a BIG movie MBARNUM!
Mine was either the Swedish Chef, or Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, and his able assistant, Beaker.
Not to mention how I laughed at pretty much anything Waldorf and Statler had to say!
Ugh, Jane! I understand the feeling. I was attacked by a tick when I was 5 years old. We lived over on Griffin Creek Road (where we had a ditch up above our house on the side of the mountain/hill) and us kids played in the wooded areas and by the creek all the time. Well, one Sunday morning I woke up and a tick had bored it's horrid little way into my throat. I can still remember how sick I felt over it. It was in to far to just pull out and I actually had to go to a doctor and have it cut out. Bleh!
My most vivid memory of the adventure was trying to eat Sunday morning breakfast of pancakes and bacon and thinking that the tick that was imbedded in my throat was going to eat the pancakes as I swallowed them! LOL!
Beaker always kind of scared me.
Let's hope no heads explode.
Ask BK Day[/u][/b]
I have a question for BK, or anyone else that has watched the new DVD of SWEENEY TODD. A lot of people online have been complaining that the new DVD version has almost completely faded out the audience reactions (applause, laughter) on the DVD. Did you notice the difference, and if so, do you think it effects the quality of the DVD? Do you think it is something that they might correct any time soon?
And the Aunt Sarah's Pancake House chain in Richmond - and elsewhere - actually deep fries(!) their scrapple after coating it lightly in flour. Wonderfully crispy - if untraditional.
LOL Maya! I was picturing a tiny toddler Maya with you eyes becoming huge as you scurry to hide behind a big chair until the segement with Beaker is over
Keith came home and checked me for ticks and couldn’t find anymore.
I ate lunch at Todai - I've noticed on my last few visits that it's getting really bad. Today was my last time for quite a while.
For those of us not particularly interested in girls slathered in butter, I offer an alternative.
Wouldn't a picture of Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris been more apropos?
Does anyone at HHW have the CD soundtrack of the Noel Coward/Mary Martin TV special TOGETHER WITH MUSIC?
I have the 2-LP set, but I never bought it on CD because I think I read somewhere (SHOW MUSIC?) that some numbers had been eliminated to make it fit on one CD? Is this right, or did I hallucinate it?
And you couldn't say "Today was my last time at Todai"...?
Meanwhile, WEHT dear reader Jenny?
DRMATTH you are right, Janie Russell was "big-boned." :o
My other question of the day: Tipping.How much should I give the following people:
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Same. But you might add a bit extra if he takes you up to the room, shows you how to work the AC, etc.
The cabbies. How much of a tip should I give them? I think I’ll only be using one cab to/from the BWW concert at Joes Pub.
Depends. Someone from NY should get this one. I tend to overtip in cabs.
Anyone know how far that is from the Milford and how much I should expect to pay in fare and tip?
I'm generous with taxi drivers because I hate figuring out the change.
I'm generous with taxi drivers because I hate figuring out the change.
Hope you don't mind but I did a copy/paste to a word doc then I'm going to download it to my PDA so I'll have it with me in case I forget.
Jane, I forgot to put about the ticks. Our horses and dogs used to get them (can't say I ever remember having any on me) but we used to light a wooden match, blow it out then touch the tick with it. It would detatch itself very quickly no matter how deep it was buried. You might want to try that.
Ticks carry lime disease so I hope Echo has had her shots for that! B & B get theirs every year even though I haven't seen a tick on them.
I'm watching Applause - the TV version with Miss Lauren Bacall. I never heard of the girl who's doing Bonnie Franklin's part - not then, not now. WEHT?
Thank you, elmoore. Now that you've finished the three, do your amazon and barnesandnoble reviews as well as posting your thoughts here on the KT board.
MBARNUM - it was said in 3-D Jane could put BOTH your eyes out!
RE: The Muppet Show - I LOVED The Muppet Show! -And it's one of those shows that I actually may end up buying on VHS - are they available on DVD yet? I still remember Linda Ronstandt singing "Blue Bayou" with all those frogs. :)We recently bought four DVDs of the Best of the Muppet Show. Each has three episodes, introduced by Jim Henson's son Brian (the new voice of Kermit), with some cut scenes and other stuff. But let's face it, the real deal is the shows themselves.
I’m paranoid now and keep feeling things, that aren’t there, crawling all over my body.Just imagine that they are Keith's hands. You'll feel better.
And you couldn't say "Today was my last time at Todai"...?Todai, Todai
Those bones could put an eye out!
Mr. Barnum, sometimes I question your sexual preference!That's not sexual preference, that's a worker's comp claim in the making!
We recently bought four DVDs of the Best of the Muppet Show. Each has three episodes, introduced by Jim Henson's son Brian (the new voice of Kermit), with some cut scenes and other stuff. But let's face it, the real deal is the shows themselves.
Since the discs have no "volume" numbers on them, I'll have to identify them by their spine colors:
Lime Green: Peter Sellers, John Cleese, and Dudley Moore.
Tangerine: Harry Belafonte, Linda Ronstadt, and John Denver.
Deep Turquoise: Elton John, Julie Andrews, and Gene Kelly.
Goldenrod: Mark Hamill, Paul Simon, and Raquel Welch.
They were real cheap at WalMart when we bought them, but I'm not sure if the sale is on now.