Liebestraum...again!
"But I just played it!"
My favorite movie pianist is Bette Davis in
DECEPTION
a 1946 womens picture w/Claude Rains and Paul Henried. Bette is a concert pianist who can't decided between the two men IIRC (If I Recall Correctly in internet lingo)
"But I just played it!"
Liebestraum!
Miss Channing's guests would like to know when they might be able to view the body.....
all, particularly DREmily who asked about the election, might be interested in seeing today's NY TIMES op-ed page
www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/04dowd.html?th
I see that some foolhardy producers are bringing a new production of ZANNA DON'T to Broadway this spring (retitled ZANNA).
Why on earth do these people think that a show that couldn't manage a decent off-Broadway run will be able to fill a Broadway house at Broadway musical prices? Glad my money is still sitting in the bank. Someone must need a tax write-off very badly.
Meanwhile, Attorney General John Ashcroft is expected to turn in his resignation, sources told FOX News. Ashcroft has, for months, signaled his desire to leave the Justice Department, sources said, and he could leave as early as January.
This should bring some cheer to many!der Brucer
"No. But I figure as long as we're there, we ought to finish the job. And I don't like the way Kerry looks. He keeps changing his mind."
Poor Bill Clinton, everytime he passed gas, Kenneth Starr was all over him. So he lied about his penchant for extramarital sex? George Bush lies about weapons of mass destruction and no one does a thing!
Anna Patty Duke Falk Tell Astin Pearce is recovering from open heart surgery at a hospital in Idaho.
It is NOT a nuthouse!
Good Afternoon!
... there are some true gems among some of his opuses - opi?.
Right before that passage, he would quickly and almost stealthily bring his fingers up to his mouth and he would lightly lick(!) his pinky and thumb! He was literally lubricating his fingers for the octave glissandos!
::crosses fingers::
I am lothe to critize or act the pedant...
:: uncrosses fingers::
"opus" is third declension neuter, the plural is "opera".
other examples: caput, capita; iter, iters; mare, maria; cor, corda.
There - feel enlightened 8)
der Brutus-er
That explains the tubs of Lube in the pit!
der nasty Brucer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, was diagnosed with breast cancer the day her husband and Sen. John Kerry conceded the presidential race.
Spokesman David Ginsberg said Mrs. Edwards, 55, discovered a lump in her right breast while on a campaign trip last week.
Her family doctor told her Friday that it appeared to be cancerous and advised her to see a specialist when she could.
She put off the appointment until Wednesday so as to not miss campaign time.
Mrs. Edwards had a needle biopsy performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where Dr. Barbara Smith confirmed the cancer, Ginsberg said.
He said the cancer was diagnosed as invasive ductal cancer.
That is the most common type of breast cancer, and can spread from the milk ducts to other parts of the breast or beyond.
More tests were being done to determine how far the cancer has advanced and how to treat it, he said.
Ginsberg said spirits are high at the Edwards household.
"Everybody feels good about it, that this is beatable," he said.
Edwards, who leaves his North Carolina Senate seat in January, said in a statement, "Elizabeth is as strong a person as I've ever known. Together, our family will beat this."
Danke...
Btw, isn't it "loathe" not "lothe"? ;)
Forgot to mention:
Favorite Film Involving a Piano:
Thanks! I already turned down the part you're playing!
Emily, that is so sad, but I am sure she will beat it and she and her husband will have a long career together in the future.
p.s. Has there ever been a cuter VP candidate? Well, my mother thought Spiro Agnew (anagram of "Grow a penis") was "a very handsome man".
elmore, I was going to mention HANGOVER SQUARE earlier and forgot! It's wonderful!
No. But imagine this ticket in '08:
John Edwards, amazing attorney and erstwhile VP candidate,
and.......
John Edwards, supernaturalist and erstwhile seer.
Now THAT's a hot ticket!
No. But imagine this ticket in '08:
John Edwards, amazing attorney and erstwhile VP candidate,
and.......
John Edwards, supernaturalist and erstwhile seer.
I can't find a copy of the play - is the music Hedda plays notated or is it just marked as playing "furioso?" Grrrrrrrrrrr....I forget!
:P Has any DR seen HG onstage? How was it?
The new London Daily Mirror. If this throws us into Cinemascope, I'll delete it.
After I saw the Broadway version of RAGTIME (which I thought was close to a masterpiece), I went back to the book and found it quite wonderful. I still think the moviemakers did the right thing condensing that hefty narrative and all those plots, but the stage show was a terrific compromise between the more simplistic film and the much weightier tome.
I am planning something for my 5000th post which will take place soon!
Page Four Dance!! ;D
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I don't think this is working.
LOL DRELMORE
Meant to talk about RAGTIME this morning and forgot. I adore the film and at the time found it a brilliant distillation of the (for me) almost unreadable book.
I am planning something for my 5000th post which will take place soon!
-Of course, the more I "plan" next week, the more I wish I was there for more than just three days this time round.
What happened to your relocation plans?
For post number 5000 - here is Miss Judy Garland! ;D
Thanks to HHW and all the wonderful people here!
Get Happy!!!
For the first time in a week, we're having a nighttime rehearsal; the kids are being added to the show tonight, so who knows how late I'll be logging back in tonight?
The script called for four children; the director cast eight. [gulp]
Quite a few years ago, I saw a locally produced high school production of Into the Woods and they had four, yes FOUR, princes! They split the lines between them! AND they had several "phantoms" who moved sets around (not a bad idea) but then they also took some of the Mysterious Man's lines (a very bad idea)!!
The really amusing thing about the front page of the Mirror is that, I believe the Mirror is one of the lower-class tabloids in Britain. So if their readers think we're stupid for re-electing Bush, how scary is that?
WOW! The TOD compelled me to look at my LP's. I found Van Cliburn playing Rachmaninoff's Greatest Hits. Joe Bushkin Plays 50 Irving Berlin Hits, and Leonard Pennario plays the Spanish Piano.
Has any DR heard of Pennario or Bushkin?
Now, if only Mr. Mark Bakalor will get the Writer's Block website up, we can begin taking orders.
p.s. Has there ever been a cuter VP candidate? Well, my mother thought Spiro Agnew (anagram of "Grow a penis") was "a very handsome man".
Favourite "piano" movie "Song Without End" (For Dirk of course).. Least favourites: "The Piano" and "The Pianist". The first to me was just silly, the second too detached.
And then there was the student of mine who asked in class, "I'm not registered yet. Does anyone know if it's too late to register? I really haven't paid much attention to the election. I thought everyone was talking about Jim Carey."How did she get in your class? Are you doing pro bono remedial work these days?
::crosses fingers::So, when various Congressmen (and women) fail to get re-elected, that they are caput is a capita idea?
I am lothe to critize or act the pedant...
:: uncrosses fingers::
"opus" is third declension neuter, the plural is "opera".
other examples: caput, capita; iter, iters; mare, maria; cor, corda.
There - feel enlightened 8)
der Brutus-er
As if John Edwards' yesterday could get WORSE:SHE WHAT!!!???
"Elizabeth Edwards diagnosed with breast cancer"http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/04/elizabeth.edwards.ap/index.html
Off to finish dinner. The mac and cheese looks very good; how it tastes will be discovered soon.
And there's enough to feed an army!
For post number 5000 - here is Miss Judy Garland! ;D
Thanks to HHW and all the wonderful people here!
Get Happy!!!
Tonight, courtesy of Actor's Equity, I will be seeing Brooklyn.
Does anyone else remember the HOOKED ON CLASSICS LP's?
I think I will play some LP's tonight. DR's - which artist or group do you have the MOST recordings by?
Tonight, courtesy of Actor's Equity, I will be seeing Brooklyn. I knew I could get a discounted ticket but free is even better. Especially after reading the reviews. It will be interesting to say the least. I hear there is good talent in a not so good show.
Report later.
DRJOSE didn't you say that you and friend Steve might be getting closer...as the saying goes?
Has any DR heard of Pennario or Bushkin?
I think I will play some LP's tonight. DR's - which artist or group do you have the MOST recordings by?
I just found 5 Glen Campbell LP's in my collection!
Right next to "Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music " and the "Switched On" series, particularly Switched on Bach by Wendy Carlos.And he's hidden them very well.
der Brucer (who will NOT admit to owning 101 Strings albums)
(cue the tinkling piano music...)I'd have suggested chase music, but whatever works! ;)
No one has yet mentioned Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition as a solo piano work. I'm far more intrigued by this, on repeated hearings, than I've ever been by Ravel's orchestral transmogrification.
Yes, you're permitted to look the word up.
And there's enough to feed an army! (I went for making the full batch this time. But Alton Brown has a recipe for frying the cooled leftovers!)
Actually enough to feed most of the hungry of the east coast, plus the starving Armenians, should any still be left from my childhood.So, here's what I put on his plate:
der Brucer (but it was quite good!)
Back from a very filling Mexican dinner with my friend Debbie. Her little daughter, whom I've known since she was born, is not thirteen. I hadn't seen her since she was eleven - what a difference two years makes. She's now quite the little adult, and very funny.Hmmm...she's NOT thirteen, and you hadn't seen her since she was eleven, but there's a two year difference between how old she was then and how old she is now?
Does anyone else remember the HOOKED ON CLASSICS LP's?
SWW: I have NO idea what you're talking about.I love it when a man acts sweet and innocent.