Haines His Way

yep, just you, Laura Bush, Lynn Cheney....

While President Butch is out milking the horse.

Not great at trivial pursuit outside of show biz.  Oh, certain categories I do fine in, but others, like geography, I'm inept in.  I hate Texas Hold 'Em and I hate those poker shows.  Let's just do a poker game with draw, stud, and games we know.  I remember playing some game during our Totally Hidden Video days with a fellow named Scott, who was a writer on the show.  I'm going to try and find out the name of it, because it was the wildest and funniest game I have ever played.  I just remember it had something to do with completing other people's sentences or something - it was a real game, though.  I can't ever remember laughing harder.  I shall endeavor to find out this weekend what it was called.

But, I've still got three or four other places where I can add a couple more pages, which I'll try to do over the weekend.  Everything I've added thus far to flesh it out has really helped and worked well.

And now - Dino at the piano.

I shall now be on my way to see if I have any packages to pick up.

Anybody know how to play Three Days in Tijuana?

I am so glad to fing that BK has found a lady who is being Straight Eye for the Straight Guy.  Now if only she would show you how to use that Back to the Future car.

No sparkling prize - but can anyone guess what this is from?
I had no idea it even existed.  

 

I'm late, but isn't that Lee Remick from the televised DAMN YANKEES?

Anybody know how to play Three Days in Tijuana?

well its important that the critics don't pan you on the first night

dang

are you seeing a matinee or an evening performance on the 6th?

Both - PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE in the afternoon and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS at night.

I know that Lee Remick and Stephen Sondheim were dear friends and, of course, she did his ANYONE CAN WHISTLE and the FOLLIES concert.

Does anyone know if she ever played Desiree in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC? She would have been wonderful in that, I suspect.

Of course, DRMATTH....the Twizzle, invented in a bowling alley.

Lee Remick was set to play Desiree here in Los Angeles at the Huntington Hartford (or whatever they were calling it by then), in Gordon Davidson's rather pedestrian production.  She died before rehearsals began, and was replaced by Lois Nettleton, who wasn't very good.  Glynis Johns played the Hermoine Gingold role, and , if I remember correctly, our very own Michelle Nicastro played Anne.

I went back to Armani Wells just now, for I needed a black belt for tonight's fashion plate outfit.  I ended up with three more lovely shirts.  She also sells tuxedos, and since I spend ninety bucks a pop whenever I rent them, I'm buying one on Monday (already chosen, looks great) for 185.  Incredible.  I also want to get a few more pairs of pants on Monday.  Then I'll be set for awhile, but I can see how her store may become addicting.

Being addicted to clothing purchases isn't as bad as being addicted to drugs.  With the latter you have a monkey on your back - with the former, you have a shirt on your back, which is a good thing.

Jackie Wayne (Salvatore) who was in the Broadway Cast of DAMN YANKEES as a replacement for the original kid says:

My parents took me to the circus when I was about 6 or 7, and I was really excited about the acrobats. I started tumbling around our tiny Brooklyn apartment, and my parents figured (before I fell down a flight of stairs) that I should take some lessons. I did...and the same school also taught tap, which I became interested in.
 
I advanced quickly, and started taking song-and-dance lessons from an old vaudevillian, in New York City. A casting call went out for a replacement for one of the boys in the original cast of "Damn Yankees", who had outgrown the part. I auditioned and got it, and stayed with the show for 2 years until closing, singing "You Gotta Have Heart" every night.
 
Some memories are vivid today. My best friends in the cast were Ray Walston, Jean Stapleton, and the stagehands.  At intermission on matinee days, the stagehands would take me out in the alley behind the theater, and we'd play baseball...or just toss an old "spawl-deen" around. Most of the other shows on Broadway went to intermission around the same time...so one of the stagehands---Bill Brannigan was his name, sweet old guy---would take me with him through the back entrances to theaters, and we'd stop in and see the farm animals at "Li'l Abner"...or the strippers at "Gypsy"...or the gunslinging cowboys at "Destry Rides Again". It was pretty cool for a young kid.
 
As for Ray Walston...he was a big kid, himself. Also a bit of a hypochondriac. I remember he always carried a small rubber ball with him offstage...and he was constantly squeezing it, to relieve stress. It was an obsession. One performance, I was sitting in his dressing room as he went on for a scene. I mischievously decided to swipe the little ball and hide it. Well, when he got off between scenes, he was so frantic at not being able to find his "security blanket" that I thought he was gonna burst. I gave it back to him pretty quickly, because it looked like he was about to miss his next entrance. He was not amused. But he got over it quickly, and good-naturedly vowed to take revenge. (I don't think he ever did...)