Haines His Way

"House" was interesting for the first two episodes. Then you figured out the formula and it became very methodical. Someone gets sick. What could it be? House pops a Vicodin. Let's try this medicine on the patient. Oh, he almost died! House pops a pill. Let's try this medicine. He almost died again! House pops another pill and says something wry. Someone mentions something in passing that catches House's ear. He pops a pill and thinks. With only 8 minutes to go, he figures out the problem and saves the day (and the patient). He pops a pill. End credits.

Perhaps if you paid less attention to the Docs and more attention to the patients and their stories you would have enjoyed the show more.

der Brucer

Lines went okay last night.  Hopefully even better tonight, even though TWO performers are fishing in CANADA!!!

DR MATTH - did you do your production of MY THREE ANGELS as a two-act or three-act play.  One intermission or two?  Where was the intermission?

Der BRUCER thanks for the info and link to Noah's Wish!

Well, I just stepped outside to check out exactly what they were jackhammering earlier this morning, and I just couldn't seem to find any sign of any sort of work.  What's up with that?!?!?!? Who knows?  Maybe they did a quick and really good patch job.   Hmm...

Maybe the guy in the Sailor Suit had a tooth filled?



der Brucer

You got that right.  And then there's the predictable conflicts with the CEO and the wealthy man who donates tons of money and believes he should run the hospital.

And House has his young, eccentric crew who idolize and castigate him several times throughout each episode.

And then there's the totally unbelievable, for me, "romance" between House and his one female assistant.

Talk about fatal attractions...one obsessed with himself and the other obsessed with him.

LOL-true (except the romantic feelings are one sided)  but we love the show and Hugh Lurie is just terrific.  Such a fine actor.  

TOD

Thou Sell, Thou Witty - Dorothy Hart

Bewitched, Bothered and Bedeviled -
Samuel Marx and Jan Clayton

der Brucer

And I would still like them to do "SURVIVOR: Big Jewish Wedding"  

Preferably where at least one set of parents is divorced, one of the affianced is not Jewish, and a sibling of the bride is gay.

 

SURVIVOR:The Co-Op Closing

Sellers must be in the middle of a nasty divorce and husband and wife are each accompaned by a divorce attorney who has neer done a real estate or co-op deal in their lives, the purchasers have forgotten to bring certified checks and their I.D., the purchasers' attorney is comparing the five photocopies of each of the 45 documents to see if they all match .  The co-op attorney has imposed a 90 minute limit on the closing and will bill an additional $100 per 20 minutes for any time over this.  The Divorce attorneys are requiring certified checks from the lender  however they have not advised the bank attorney of this fact until they are sitting at the closing table  an hour's drive away from  the bank attorney's bank branch which is by now closed anyway as the closing began after  3 PM. The real estate agents are trying to make contacts for future deals and interuppting and joking and leaning across the table and bringing in coffee  and drippingon the closing documents.  The mortgage broker is attempting to add secret hidden charges at the table.  The Bank is insisting on having copies of all the documents faxed over so they can approve them, before they will wire the money which won't show up until the next morning and noone at the bank is answering their phones, just voice mail on every extension and their fax machine is not picking up.  The copy machine gets a paper jam after every other page and the fax machine must be fed page by page.



NOW that's a reality show!!!




Oh wait.. no that's my life.......

Now that we have an HDTV and HD Cable feed, I have fallen into the same trap! Law and Order has some breathtaking viwes of NYC at night!

Yes, the LAW & ORDERs resemble movies more than TV shows once they're opened up into high definition aspect ratios and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound.

CSI: MIAMI still gets my vote as the most spectacular looking network program in high definition. Believe it or not, I think SMALLVILLE ranks right up there, too.

DR MATTH - did you do your production of MY THREE ANGELS as a two-act or three-act play.  One intermission or two?  Where was the intermission?

We did it as a three act play. I think the director toyed with the idea of making it two acts, but finally settled on doing it as written. I do remember that the break between Acts II and III was like five minutes or less, not a traditional long intermission.

What?

No one recalls:

"Tartlets?

"Tartlets"?

If I give a clue and say it was Jon Lovitz, can you name the show and what his role was?

And they were "onion tartlets," too.

Enjoyed the first hour of A TOUCH OF CLASS today. I was scared when it started because the opening few minutes of the transfer were so dirty that I thought the movie was going to be unwatchable, but after a few minutes, the dust particles cleared away, and it looked simply lovely.

And just like with THE FANTASTICKS, I had NO recollection that the movie was filmed in Panavision. Totally thunderstruck when that wide frame came up on the screen.

I also managed to finish WILL & GRACE - Season 4 today, let's-make-a-baby scenario and all. From now on, the seasons are much more hit and miss with the comedy.

Bobby Canavalle doesn't come along for Will as his boy friend until Season 6, so Season 5 may not be an instant purchase for me.

Off to study my script one last time and then to rehearsal.

We are doing it as a two-act play, with the intermission following the exit of  two of the convicts to the garden to chaperone the couple, and me looking at Uncle Henri through the keyhole.

Not ideal.....but makes for a nice pair of two-scene ACTS.

But Glenda Jackson's Best Actress Oscar for this movie has to rank right alongside Loretta Young's Oscar for THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER as one of the biggest upsets in Oscar history.

I definitely agree!    I can't remember off my head who she was up against, but it was a shock.  

I do remember at the time, that Jean Ratcliffe was touting her own production of WILL THERE BE A MORNING? with Jackson as Frances Farmer and directed by Ida Lupino....and project that died quickly.