There's a new CD of WHITE CHRISTMAS...is this the cast album of the stage show that's traveling around?
And the word of the day is: PUKKA!Casey would waltz
Yep! Karen Morrow is wonderful, and the whole thing's a lot of fun.
Ordered it at AMAZON.com along with the new FORBIDDEN PLANET...Let's hear it for the hog!!!
I can only assume that on the song list Number Six is not as listed.
6. Sow
I am hoping this is actually Snow.
Use SUPERSALE in the code box at DeepDiscountDVD and get 20% off.
Any Poliakoff fans out there?
RE: last night on ABC. What was up with no SIX DEGREES? They aired a repeat of this week's DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES instead. Is the show gone for good? Just this week?
Happy 5th, you Hainsie/Kimlets!
Time to make some vodka gimlets!
Thanks for giving virtual birth to HHW, BK! Although you didn't invent the internet, at least you invented this site, and what a fun one it is, too!
Hello all!
Gee, HHW's anniversary is the same day as my Mom's birthday--two reasons to celebrate! ;D
Poor Mom didn't get a very good Birthday present. She fell last Friday and broke a rib. We spent hours at the hospital and I've been frantic with worry about her.
We go back to the doctor today. A new doctor, I might add. I duked it out with Humana and had her changed to a new center.
I hope that everyone here is doing well. I've missed you.
Happy 5th, you Hainsie/Kimlets!
Time to make some vodka gimlets!
Yesterday, I visited my doctor for a flu shot and he ordered some routine fasting blood testing, which I planned to do this morning and then meet a friend for breakfast. The rest of the day yesterday I spent winding down after a very hectic several weeks and by 9:30pm could hardly stay awake, so I went to bed. The phone woke me about 10:45 - my mother-in-law's neighbor telling me MiL was sick and what should she do? Well, Richard is still in Wisconsin and I'm quite hesitant to assume responsibility for his mother, so I called his older brother and his daughter and they met the ambulance at the hospital.
Grandma was admitted about 5am; I was there by 7:30, stayed until the doctor came and left, then I went downstairs to have my test, and am now home tanking up on coffee. Our doctor seems to think MiL's problem is not life-threatening, which is good, but she'll be in the hospital for a few days.
Hello all!
Gee, HHW's anniversary is the same day as my Mom's birthday--two reasons to celebrate! ;D
Poor Mom didn't get a very good Birthday present. She fell last Friday and broke a rib. We spent hours at the hospital and I've been frantic with worry about her.
We go back to the doctor today. A new doctor, I might add. I duked it out with Humana and had her changed to a new center.
I hope that everyone here is doing well. I've missed you.
Thank you ever so much for the lovely photo CD's DR TomovOz! I have to ask what kind of camera did you use? The pictures are wonderful!
I am going to use some of them as screen savers.
Can someone please enlighten me - where in tarnation is dear reader Jose? Did he go off in a huff - did I miss that? Or is this just another of his many sabbaticals. And where is Jed and Ann? Most unseemly.
In my CD player: Act two of I Sing with some talented people, including the familiarly named Leslie Kritzer. :) After that will be the Kritzerland release, "Simply Sondheim - A 75th Birthday Salute."
In my VCR/DVR: tapes/DVR harddrive to record tonight's shows. I also have last week's Thursday's show to watch.
In my DVD player: Netflix movies that I haven't taken the time to watch. ::)
I was going to post a link to the annual Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival's schedule, but it's a pdf file and jammed up our computer, so I think posting a link would be rude.
But the festival is going on this weekend.
So much for living in a podunk backwater. :o
An estimated 16,000 people attended the Rehoboth Beach Film Society's annual festival last year, a number which is expected to be matched or exceeded this year.
More than 100 films from 29 countries will be presented, which is more than twice as many as were screened at the inaugural festival. A number of directors and producers will be on hand to answer questions from audiences following screenings.
In addition to the opening and closing galas, a number of activities will occur in conjunction with the festival, including wine and beer tastings, massage services, raffles and a student film focus series.
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Four of the movies are Sundance Film Festival award winners: "A Silent Love," about a study of relationships facing language barriers; "Last Life in the Universe," in which a depressed man learns to embrace life; "Love in Thoughts," about teenage love; and "Touch of Pink," which envisions the ghost of Cary Grant helping a gay man "straighten up" for his mother.
Among the documentaries being presented are "American Beer" and "Beauty Academy of Kabul." "American Beer" follows the exploits of five beer-loving New Yorkers who crossed the country in 2002 to visit microbreweries including coastal Sussex County's own Dogfish Head. "Beauty Academy of Kabul" chronicles the story of three Afghani women who fled to America to avoid the Taliban, but returned in 2002 to open Kabul's first beauty school. The film is being dedicated to former Rehoboth Beach Film Society board member Lori Phillips, who died in April.
An Almodóvarian musical with the flair and attitude of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and the catchy music of Queen, Madonna and Dusty Springfield; this Spanish confection is one of the most inventive and entertaining movies of the year.
Enter the world of Marieta/Adolfo (Mónica Cervera)—a narcoleptic, pre-op transsexual prostitute who longs to get rid of eight inches of equipment that separates her from being the glamorous person she longs to be.
When she accidentally falls asleep, usually during the most inopportune moments, Marieta’s dreams become lavish and colorful musical numbers, where—as a “real woman”—she can sing in Spanish and English.
Surrounded by her “family,” which includes Ice Box (Rossy de Palma of Almodóvar fame) and Tomás, an aspiring cellist who happens to be a dwarf, Marieta finds support among her chaotic and often comical street life. But when she meets a man known only as “the fruit stocker,” (the hunky Spanish pop singer Pablo Puyol) whose buttocks are compared to a “ripe peach,” it is love at first sight and spunky Marieta is caught between a rock and a hard place: true love or her true self. Shot in eye-popping Cinemascope and taking inspiration from Bob Fosse, Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers and even pop diva Madonna, director Ramón Salazar has crafted a film that will leave you humming as you exit the theater and contemplating your next costume for Halloween.
Dir. Ramón Salazar, 2005, Spain, 35mm,113 minutes.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
"The German-Mongolian co-production’s spare storytelling…
delivers an affectionate but clear-eyed portrait
of the powerful connection between humans and animals living close to the earth. This is a film that is uplifting and spiritual without resorting to sappiness or dogma.”
—Hollywood Reporter
A Mongolian nomad family find themselves in disagreement when the oldest daughter, Nansal, finds a small dog and brings it home. Believing that it is responsible for attacking his sheep, her father refuses to allow her to keep it. When the family moves on, Nansal is left with the dilemma of whether to defy her father or take Zochor (or ‘Spot’ in English) with them. Oscar- nominated director Byambasuren’s follow up to the hugely successful The Story of the Weeping Camel is a thought provoking mix of documentary and drama.
Featuring a real life family and following much of their daily existence, this is combined with a narrative structure that acts as a framework for the film. The naturalistic pace reflects the quiet, often uneventful world that the family inhabits but this underlines a still beauty that is realized throughout. In the spirit of early Robert Flaherty films, The Cave of the Yellow Dog could be considered a documentary that is posing as fiction, or fiction in the guise of documentary.
Either way, the film is an absolute gem that is sure to
delight audiences.
Dir. Byambasuren Davaa, 2006, Germany & Mongolia,
35mm, 93 minutes. In Mongolian with English subtitles.
“Lassie has come home again to teach another generation about loyalty, determination and love.” —Reuters
When Yorkshire coalminer Sam Carraclough loses his
job during the 1930s depression, he and his supportive
wife are left with no option but to start selling their
possessions. The last straw for their young son is the
heart wrenching sale of the family’s beloved rough collie
to a wealthy Scottish Duke (Peter O’Toole, no less), who
lives a few miles away. After several attempts to escape
from under the nose of the Duke’s cruel kennelman, Lassie is finally taken up to Scotland, where she stays cooped up until the opportunity arises for her to bolt once again.
This time, however, the journey home is a lot more
adventurous…
Shot amid the lush countryside of Scotland, Ireland and
the Isle of Man, Charles Sturridge’s adaptation addresses many of Knight’s original concerns, especially that of Britain’s class structure (hence the opening juxtaposition of wealthy red-coated huntsmen seen tracking a fox through the lead characters’ poor, working-class village).
With top notch performances, excellent cinematography
and, despite the swooning strings, it’s not too sentimental.
However, you might still wish to take a hanky with you—
just in case.
Dir, Charles Sturridge, 2006, US/Ireland, 100 mins.
An irreverent send-up of every sci-fi blockbuster from Star Wars to Star Trek, Dreamship Surprise: Period 1 became the highest-grossing German film of all time and second only to Lord of The Rings: Return Of The King. Acquiring comedy awards across Europe, this film is light, hilarious, and offers good-natured fun. Space in the year 2304, in a UFO that crash-landed in the Nevada desert 300 years ago,
mankind found the scientific guidelines which were used
to colonize Mars half a century later. Now the descendants of the first colonists are on their way back to Earth. Led by their unbelievably wicked Regulator Rogul and his unbelievably even more unbelievably wicked disciple Jens Maul, they are up to no good. In fact, the Martians are planning to subjugate the blue planet to the red one.
With a huge array of spaceships, a conquest of Earth
seems imminent. And only the crazy (and very few) crew
of Dreamship Surprise can ‘help’ Captain Kork, engineer
Shrotty and first officer Mr. Spuck. But instead of fighting
intergalactic crime, they’re busy with their choreography
for the upcoming ‘Miss Waikiki Pageant’. With the help of
the space cowboy and taxi pilot Rock (hunky Til Schweiger) they set out to save the earth from invasion and quite possibly from themselves.
Dir. Michael Bully Herbig, 2005, Germany, 35mm, 87 mins.
In German with English subtitles.
DVD: HUSTLE (love it, love it, love it)David Poliakoff?
and ALMOST STRANGERS
Any Poliakoff fans out there?
CD: GUY HAINES, of course
DR MattH that is interesting news about MEN IN TREES. I'm assuming it is still on tonight though, right?
I think that if SIX DEGREES could not survive after UGLY BETTY, and especially after GREY'S ANATOMY then it could probably not survive anywhere.
LRB.
David Poliakoff?
Relative Strangers
Shooting The Past
The Lost Prince
The best writer for TV since Dennis Potter IMHO
Stephen Poliakoff, actually. Yes, SHOOTING THE PAST, FRIENDS & CROCODILES, GIDEON'S DAUGHTER, THE LOST PRINCE. I'm currently watching ALMOST STRANGERS and find it quite interesting. Few in the US seem to know his work.Whoops! Stephen.
Hello, hello, hello!Really? I had no clue. Good thing my paycheck finally came today!
Happy Veteran's Day!
I guess most of you know the U.S. mail was delivered today, even though it's a federal holiday. Turns out the postal workers voted to take tomorrow off, giving themselves two consecutive days off. At least, that's the case here in California.
After that (I can leave after intermission is over...which I will ;)), the director of Cannibal: The Musical is having a party at her house. I wasn't able to go to the first one shortly after we started rehearsal, because it was the night that I went to Tacoma to meet TCB, Jed, Ann, Tomovoz and Colin (and I'd choose that again)!And appreciated too DR George. Not everyone would turn down an opportunity to bond with cannibals.
And I'm getting more tired by the second! :)
Vibes to DR Danise's mother and to DR Ginny's MIL.
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Ginny, sleep well.
I really do hate to say it but it's time to sign off for now. I will post again tomorrow--Promise.
Have a good evening all!
DR DANISE - I would hesitate to touch anything marked MF.
Well, that is some camera! I am still learning how to use my new Casio. Silly me, there was a setting marked MF. I thought it meant something about how the flash was set. It turned out it was the focus!
And appreciated too DR George. Not everyone would turn down an opportunity to bond with cannibals.
I am officially unemployed as of today. I have hated this job I have been miserable for the past several months and Vixdad fianlly said chuck it and look for something else... you can't look while you're working so just chuck and we'll manage....[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]
So LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE VIBES will be greatly appreciated!
LOS ANGELES (Nov. 10) - Jack Palance, the craggy-faced menace in "Shane," "Sudden Fear" and other films who turned to comedy at 70 with his Oscar-winning self-parody in "City Slickers," died Friday.
Palance died of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., surrounded by family, said spokesman Dick Guttman. He was 85, according to Associated Press records, but his family gave his age as 87
Just spent several hundred on the DDD sale, including the new Brando box set. Is MOTB the roadshow version, with the "prequel" (20 years after) and sequel, or the usual edited version?
singingnyph, what part of California do currently live in? Is this where you grew up?Yup, Cali girl, born & bred. Lived in the Fresburg (Fresno) area most of my life, except for a 3 year stint in the SFV when I went to CSUN.
"Reap the Wild Wind" did get some airplay here. MBarnum, we may have discussed this before, but YOU are the only person I know who knows of China Crisis.
SOCKO AND VAN'S EDDIE - that's the title of soemthing to do with Van Johnson and a hit show
Or maybe not