Haines His Way

Where the frell is TCB?

I'm awake. Actually I didn't nap long. It was an early morning. Peter was very nice, Edisaraus.  I enjoyed meeting him and we had a great conversation.  Jhvw slept in and he had much more energy than I did today. We did have a good day, though and now must be off to see WICKED.

Ron.....size 11

Off to do that most dreaded of Friday chores - mopping the kitchen floor. Then on to TV/DVDs for the evening.

WBBL.

Time to get ready for work.

...because there is NO WAY I'm walking to work in this rain!

 

Well, Gene Kelly managed quite nicely!

In other network news, CBS has canceled its Tuesday night show SMITH.

I didn't even know they had a Tuesday night show called SMITH!

I hear that Jesus Camp is a must-see docu.

 

I am actually familiar with the camp. The Fargo Theatre recently premiered it. Interesting in the aspect that the camp was creating and nurturing Christian warriors. Don't get me wrong I have nothing against the faith but the fanaticism and fundamentalism is what concerns me.

I have been wary commenting on it for I do not want to offend anyone's religious sensibilities.  I went with DF Jon, who is a Communications professor and he specailizes in organized communication and rhetoric.  He wanted to see it.

It was great to be back in Canada -

I am glad to read that you had a splendid time in Canada. The receptions sound interesting.

I was reading in the Journal of Popular Culture last night about a tv show called Fay. I read it was quite controversial back in the 1970s.

Interesting avatar derBrucer...

Getting in touch with my "inner child".

der Brucer

I happened to pick up the new Little Mermaid DVD today.  Reading the rather idiotic and completely anal review on a certain DVD site, and the sheep following said "reviewer" in agreement, I will tell you that doing a direct comparison with the previous release, the new DVD is just fine - a nice, colorful, anamorphic transfer with none of the softness they're complaining about other than what was intended by the filmmakers.  And while it's regretful that Disney didn't include the original mix, the new one is also just fine (the older was a bit smoother to my ears).  If you read this guy's "review" and see how he goes on about the size of his screen and the screen lengths he sits away from it and all this crap, you just scratch your head and wonder how people like that have devolved into these pedantic armchair know-it-alls - amateurs who, prior to DVD, knew nothing about anything, and people who were probably four when The Little Mermaid originally came out.   Worse, of course, are the sheep who immediately say "Curse Disney, I'm not buying this!"

Well, don't buy it, nitwits.  

I was reading in the Journal of Popular Culture last night about a tv show called Fay. I read it was quite controversial back in the 1970s.

Particularly it's once black-listed, award nominated star - Lee Grant.

Wikipedia reports:

Grant made her film debut in the movie version of Detective Story and received her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, and won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify against her husband, the playwright Arnold Manoff, the father of her only child, her daughter, actress Dinah Manoff, Grant refused to testify and was ultimately blacklisted. She continued to work in theater and resumed her film career in the early 1960s, and also appeared in the television series Peyton Place, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama.

She received Academy Award nominations for The Landlord (1970), and Voyage of the Damned (1977). She won an Oscar for Shampoo (1975). She has also directed several documentary films, including Down and Out in America (1986) which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In recent years she has directed a series of Intimate Portrait episodes (for Lifetime Television) that celebrate a diverse range of accomplished women.

She appeared as a cunning lawyer/murderess on an episode of Columbo. She also had her own sitcom, a series entitled Fay (1975), but it was not successful. Grant was vocal in assigning blame for the failure of the series, which was about the travails of a mature, sexually active woman, which may have turned off some viewers.

Grant also guest starred on Empty Nest, a TV series in which her daughter Dinah Manoff was a regular.

Her other film roles include:

In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
The Landlord (1970)
Plaza Suite (1971)
Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
Airport '77 (1977)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979)
Teachers (1984)
Defending Your Life (1992)
Mulholland Drive (2001)

Gee - a documentarian link!

der Brucer

I didn't even know they had a Tuesday night show called SMITH!

You'd like Simon Baker without his shirt!

der Brucer

A lovely day here -- an early morning storm which was very LOUD and poured a lot of rain. "They" say this should break our 100F weather. Yippee!

Tomorrow a bunch of us are heading up to the mountains to see Arizona's autumn leaves (all aspen, so all yellow). Maybe I'll have a photo or two to share.

Maybe you say I may, but 'till some one hops on the bench beside me, I can not.

der Brucer

Well...there is that.

That is one thing I love about fall is the color of the leaves. WE had really nice color this year despite the drought.