Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 1 => Topic started by: bk on January 07, 2004, 12:02:29 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, good folks that you are, and now you're ready to post until the cows come home, or at least until the cows are on their way. So, post away, and I'll join you from edit bay number four.
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I'm happy to inform everyone that yesterday was our third highest posting day on this new board. Bravo to all.
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BK, I don't have any questions for you yet. Perhaps later. Goodnight to all!
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But I have answers. Oh, do I have answers. For example, one answer I have is only when there are beans in the burrito. I leave it to you to figure out the question. Question me an answer, baby.
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I, for one, would like to know more about those pictures from Mars.
Every time I see what I think are pictures from Oz on TV, it turns out to be animation from NASA about what they "think" things looked like when their equipment approached, and then landed on, Mars.
I want the real deal.
Are we getting the real deal, BK?
Huh? Huh? Is the real deal out there?
If it is, where do I have to look to see the real deal?
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DR Tom of Oz: Why are you lurking? Are you catching up on the plethora of posts?
Are you wondering what in the frell most of us were talking about when we pushed the posts into the plethorasphere?
If you don't answer, who're you gonna talk to when we go to bed here on the Westernmost Coastline of the Newnited States?
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I saw pictures of Mars. I saw England, I saw France, I saw someone's underpants. They were cotton, of course.
Mars is the Angry Red Planet, that is all I know. No, that is not true - I also know that Mars Needs Women, and all the single women on Mars hang out at bars. Yes, Virginia, there are Mars Bars.
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Have you noticed that tomovoz is just being contrary and not posting. Perhaps he is looking at pictures of Mars.
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Maybe Tom of Oz is munching on a Mars bar!
If I had a Mars bar, I'd be munching on it right now!
I've been peckish all day!
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I wonder if they sell Mars bars in bars on Mars!
Ooh! THAT's a deep thought, too!
Do Martians even have bars????
Makes you THIMK!
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All right, everyone, here's a question I put off earlier because it wasn't a very holiday-y thing to ask:
What is your favorite personal disaster story?
Anything from an earthquake...to a hurricane...to a bad hair day...to going into a recording studio with Carol Channing...or is that the same thing?
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I wonder, also: Do Martians spell their name as M-a-r-t-i-a-n-s?
Or do they prefer "M-a-r-s-i-a-n-s"?
That would make them "mar'zeeuns", wouldn't it!
But maybe we have it all wrong.
Maybe it's not "Mars" at all, but maybe it's "Maris."
In that case, they would be "Marisians."
"I don't understand the Marisians!
"Making war everytime they get the chance!"
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All right.
It's bedtime.
I thought we were going to roll here, but things got quiet.
Tom of Oz disappeared.
S. Woody asked a question that's beyond my tired brain's capacity to tackle at this moment.
And I'm guessing BK got diverted! Oh, yes! He can be diverted!
Ooh! Look! Shiny object! Shiny object! Ain't it purty!
That, or he's listening to one of his multi-thousands of CDs or concurrently watching one of his multi-thousands of DVDs or he's talking on the phone or worse yet, he's found a chat room somewhere and he's having cyberconversation.
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So I'll be on my way now.
I'm not gone yet because Miss Vickie is yakking her Fancy Feast on my carpet in the living room and I'm nauseous.
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If anyone out there thinks that the only trouble cats can be is cleaning litter boxes, THINK AGAIN!
But we are devoted to them!
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Yes, now it's over.
Ah, joy! Rapture!
Now...do I wait for it to cool off or do I clean it up all steamy?
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That last question -- that was for Ask BK!
Your call, Bruce.
What would you do? Get it when you won't feel the 100-degree heat coming off it, or wait until later in the morning and clean it up cold?
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Alone again!
That's right. Just me, myself and I on this here board right this minute.
Everyone else has deserted.
So...why aren't I in bed?
Because I'm nauseous, yes. My cat yakked her guts onto my living room carpet and now wants to cuddle on my bed.
Sure. That's gonna happen. NOT!
Gross out!
Good night, though.
I mean it this time.
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Hmmm... Ron.... Hmmm...
Well, I went ahead and reviewed the nice full arrangement I worked on, and then decided to give the demo recording another listen. Oopps!! For some reason I had a different beginning - note-wise - to the main hook of the melody. AAGGHH!! So, I went back and changed - corrected it wherever it needed to be corrected. All is better now. I hope. I almost got another chart finished, but then I couldn't remember what the melody sounded like anymore.. So... then I came on here... And read about Dr Ron's cat woes... And now I'm going to bed... I think...
*Oh, I did take my brother's dog out about an hour ago so he could take a pee (can I say "pee" here?). Beautiful night outside. Cold(!), but a clear sky and a beautiful full moon! Or at least a very nearly full moon.
Hmm.... A Full Moon... And a very high number of posts... See!!! There's the actual scientific proof that the Full Moon does cause people to act "strangely"... Well, maybe not... at least not on here.. It seems most H/Ks - myself included - are already strange. Ah, well...
I need sleep! Goodnight!
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Hmm.... Now I'm all alone...
Oh, just wanted to say that my brother Mike's dog - (my brother being Mike, and his dog being Iki) - is quite "homesick" right now. My brother, Mike, and his wife, Veronica, and their two kids, John Michael and Alyssa, went to Puerto Rico last Saturday for a few weeks to visit Vero's family. So, Iki is a little depressed right now. There's nothing more pitiful than a pitiful chihuahua. :(
Wasn't I going to bed?????
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Whew! I will have to do a salchow before I post again!
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Here is a very partial list of Mars movies.
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This is one of my favorites! :o
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Don't you people sleep!!! I'm going to have to start coming in early againg just to catch up on the posts. I left the office at 4pm yesterday, didn't have a chance to log on last night and I arrive this morning to find 400 posts. Wow (or Wowza as a certain Virginian/DCer might say)!
No questions yet but I'm sure I'll be back. I must now go wash my bowl. I had oatmeal and raisins for breakfast with a cup of black coffee. I ate it whilst (I love those English turns of phrase) perusing the plethora of posts on this here board.
Back later.
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I'm back already. I washed my bowl and I'm ready to post, er, work. Darn this job. It keeps interrupting my posting schedule.
The cold weather afflicting many other parts of the U.S. has arrived in NY although it's not THAT cold. It is winter after all and having grown up in Minnesota, temps in the 20s don't phase me. Just dress appropriately and wear a hat or a hood.
I have to check the size of my picture of Ant and me at Tower Bridge in London. It shows me in a stylish blue English duffle coat with hood, purchased 20 years during my first trip to London. I'll post it if I can get it down to a reasonable size.
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These are really important questions, and they're for DR Ben:
Do steel-cut oats make for superior oatmeal? And at what point do you add the raisins?
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I like the steel-cut oats because they are higher in fiber and they don't turn as mushy when you cook them. When I cook the oatmeal in the microwave (cooking in the microwave is a loose use of the term cook), I add the raisins after I've put in the water and then I let it sit for a minute to let the raisins plump up. If I'm cooking in a pot on the stove I let the oatmeal cook for a while and then around the last two minutes I drop in the raisins.
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I keep experimenting and I think I've found a good size. I've deleted the message/picture twice so far cause it sends us into Cinerama. Attempt number 3.
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OK. I'll live with it. It's a little fuzzy but the others were just too big. If it causes problems let me know and I'll delete it or try to resize it again.
Bye for now.
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You can just make out the stylish blue wool hood on the coat. Helps to keep the cold off of my ears. For some reason, if my ears get cold, I get cold all over and then I get cranky, and you don't want to see me when I'm cranky.
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Besides doing the work for which I am paid (which I'm not doing right now) I need to finish writing my 90 second review of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for BBC Radio Wales. Writing 90 second reviews is HARD. I don't know when the review will air but I'm taping it tomorrow morning along with some other reviews of shows I've seen recently.
Enough of this posting frenzy (my posting frenzy anyway). I need to get back to work.
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Great picture, Ben! Cheerio! With raisins.
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One more thing before I get back to work.
According to Playbill On-Line, here is the cast list for the Reprise Kismet in Los Angeles. The link is below. Our funny and favorite Jason Graae will be in the show along with Len Cariou and others.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/83638.html
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OMG I must have been cast, because I am always referred to in the newspaper as "and others." ::)
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Good morning DRs! When do the figure skating nationals start? I suppose I could look it up myself, but it is ask DR day..
I don't follow the sport as closely as I used to.. sort of like DR Ron, I stopped caring so much after a lot of my favorite skaters turned pro/retired/etc., but since a lot of you are going to tune in I might watch just to be able to follow the conversation. Does anyone here watch tennis?
DR Ron - your comment about triple loops was really insightful! That is the jump Kristi Yamaguchi fell on during the Olympics, marring an otherwise flawless program. And it wasn't even supposed to be her weak jump - that was the salchow.
OK, now that I sound like a huge dork, I am going to skate off to do some work.
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About those pictures from Barsoom...oh, alright...you can keep calling it "Mars" if it lets you sleep at night. But those of us in the know know better...
I can only assume these probes haven't landed in any of the inhabited regions of Barsoom, which are simply swarming with four-armed Green Men astride their eight-legged mounts. I fully expect the probe to be attacked by Ras Thavas' Synthetic Men any moment now. Let those NASA goons explain that away...!
Mars, uninhabited??? I think not!
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Yes, JRand, I think you're right. I saw Len Cariou at Barrymore's in NYC just before we left for England and he was talking about Kismet and he mentioned a new actor from Indiana who might be joining the cast. They would be sending the contract in the mail. You should be getting them any day now. ;)
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I will wait by the mailbox!
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Cute picture! Hope you don't meet any spiders while you're waiting, though.
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http://www.atlanta2004.org/
It's going on right now DRLC - with some coverage on ESPN2 today and ABC coverage on Saturday afternoon and evening!
Spiders are the least of my worries. 8)
I don't know - I watch it, but is it ART?
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Oh, you cool dude! Arachnaphobia is not a worry. I guess it's too cold for the spiders to come out. Their webs may freeze.
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State offices closed until 10:00 I am told by my supervisor...so now I can go back to bed for awhile! On the news they are reporting that state offices are opening at noon...who to believe.
It is so icy outside...the snow is covered with a beautiful and strange layering of ice and large icicles hanging off the house and car and fence. It looks neat, but I guess is not a lot of fun to drive on.
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Believe the news MBARNUM - it's more time to watch movies.
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An early morning post - then probably not much for the rest of the day.
On Friday will be the two month anniversary of my return to LA. I believe they're planning a parade in Studio City with bk as Grand Marshal. He will be riding in a spiffy red convertible with my dog, Abie (dressed as Carmen Miranda) sitting beside him. I shall take photos.
Will be out and about and BUSY for much of the day. Am trying to get tickets for an American Cinematheque screening of 21 GRAMS tonight at the Egyptian. My daughter has been wanting to see the movie and this will be a special screening with a Q&A following with two of the film's stars, Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro (whom daughter adores). This would be a real treat for her, so being the fantastic-kind-sweet generous mother that I am, I'm trying to make it happen. Other than that, must go to the post office and do various and sundried errands and must busily WAIT for my script notes which still have not materialized. Then I must make arrangements for a visit tomorrow to Rancho Cucomonga. How could a place have such a ridiculous name, I ask you? Do the Marx Brothers live there? I certainly hope so. That would make the visit much fun.
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Yes, Kristi did fall on a triple loop, and right afterward, she doubled her salchow so she wouldn't have two potential falls in a row - very wise move on her part.
In the worlds a month after the Olympics, she made the triple loop and attempted the triple salchow and fell on it. At the 1992 US Nationals, she made her only triple salchow in competition.
Dick Button was in la-la land when he said Kristi could do triple loops in her sleep. They're very hard because you take off on a back outside edge and land on a back outside edge on the same foot, thus having to propel yourself into the air with just the strength in that one leg you're jumping and landing on. Other jumps give you some momentum from a combination of both legs' strength but the loop doesn't. Karen Cadavy did the most beautiful triple loops I've ever seen.
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Will be out and about and BUSY for much of the day. Am trying to get tickets for an American Cinematheque screening of 21 GRAMS tonight at the Egyptian. My daughter has been wanting to see the movie and this will be a special screening with a Q&A following with two of the film's stars, Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro (whom daughter adores). This would be a real treat for her, so being the fantastic-kind-sweet generous mother that I am, I'm trying to make it happen.
Panni, will you adopt me? At least long enough for me to see Mr. Del Toro in the flesh (so to speak)?
Whoops! This is suppose to be Ask BK Day. Okay, BK, will you adopt me? If so, then to Hell with Mr. Del Toro, can you introduce your son to Mr. Brent Barrett (WSMA in Internet lingo)?
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Since we got a preview of Kritzer Time yesterday, my question for ASKBK day is this:
In Kritzer Time, does our protaganist appear in any stage productions?
And my second question: Why will only SOME DR's be intrigued by your internet announcement and your new book project?
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DR MATTH - I think Dick Button has resided in la la land for many skating seasons!
I don't like the personalities of many of the women skaters - and a lot of the men just don't seem to have any fun skating. My favorite has always been Kurt Browning!
Michael Weiss and Timothy Goebel.....I guess I like Timothy best and his artistry is improving. Michael is NOT consistent, but I will give him this, when he made the US Olympic team - the others talked about "me" "I" and "mine" and Weiss is the only one who referred to the group as "us" and a "team."
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Thanks Jrand! I will record the coverage with my handy-dandy DVR.
DR MattH - Kristi's mother made a bet with her that during the 1992 Nationals Kristi wouldn't land the salchow, and when she did land it, her mom had to shell out $100. :) I guess, though, it didn't work for future competitions..
Did you ever skate yourself? Most people that I know don't have such technical knowledge of the sport.
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No, I've never skated myself, but I always wanted to, and I've watched and studied the sport for many decades. I've had lots of favorites through the years.
Michael Weiss is definitely the most artistic and expressive of our current men's group, but his technical prowess has been ebbing for years. He won the national championship last year by default simply because NO ONE skated well in the finals. I hate years like that, when the entire championship is an embarrassment to the sport. Hopefully, we'll see some new stars emerge this year. That's always exciting, when an Aren Nielsen or Scott Davis or Mark Mitchell comes out of nowhere and does a wonderful program. I'll never forget being so impressed with Tonya Harding in an early performance. Little did I know how dreadful her later skating (and behind the scenes graft) would become.
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QUESTION FOR BK:
In an interview about his Kennedy Center Honor, Mike Nichols reflected on the creative process ...
I am extremely interested in what happens when we are not thinking about something. Time is one of the most important tools we have. Not only time spent slogging at the task, but time spent not doing so. In making movies, time is so short--because it is so expensive--that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator. I try to let the participants have downtime before shooting and after rehearsal, so our secret collaborator can do its work. I have learned to trust and encourage that more.
I suspect that is similar to how you work also. Care to elaborate on your creative modus operandi?
P.S. Hi Everybody!
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DR MATTH - I think Matt Savoie shows some promise. And are you sure you didn't skate as Sonja Henie's parnter in an earlier life?
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Wow, congrats everyone on so many posts yesterday! Sorry to have been E&T...I've been spending a lot of time with my friends who are back from college, and who will be going back on Sunday. And then on Monday, I start classes again too...*sigh*...(where has the time all gone to? Haven't done half the things I want to...)
I love watching figure skating, although I can't tell a lutz from an axel. I'm also shallow and like the pretty costumes.
Hmmm....a question for BK, let me see....are there any musical theatre songs that make you cry?
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Dick Button is always in la la land. He is enough to make me only watch Nationals on ABC and skip all other skating events televised on that network.
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For Ask BK Day (and I'd like other DRs to also chime in):
Yesterday Ken Mandelbaum reviewed the new biography of Joan McCracken and he said that for years he always wanted to read a good biography of Ms. McCracken and also of Betty Hutton. What show business personality would you like to read a good biography of? ...not an "as told to" puff piece nor a so-called exposé, but a well researched life story of the subject both professionally and personally.
(As BK would say) I'll start. I'd love a good bio of Gwen Verdon. I'd like to be able to understand how this talented woman allowed herself to be abused by Jack Cole; why she spent much of her career as Bob Fosse's assistant/gofer instead of performing herself; why she never divorced Fosse even though they didn't live together through most of their marriage; and why she not only tolerated Fosse's numerous infidelities but also became friendly with many of his girlfriends. Perhaps a good bio could help explain this beloved performers low self-esteem.
Now who would you like to read about and why?
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By the way, getting back to skating, Michael Weiss is known as the biggest homophobe is skating today, although from his choice of costumes perhaps what he condems most in others is what he fears most in himself.
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I need to go to FirstBooks and read the teaser from KritzerTime. In my post haste or post frenzy this morning I forgot to do that.
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Ah, Miss Henie. A dream on blades. I always laugh when the Car Guys on NPR use her as an exclamation of sorts.
"Well, Sonja Henie's Tutu!"
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Off to work, from where I will answer any and all questions.
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For those of you who missed it yesterday (like me), here is the link to a preview of Kritzertime.
www.1stbooks.com
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]LOL, DR WEL! (I just spit out orange juice)[/move]
I did not know that about Michael Weiss. You wonder how one can survive in such a sport being outspokenly homophobic.
No, I've never skated myself, but I always wanted to, and I've watched and studied the sport for many decades. I've had lots of favorites through the years.
I'll never forget being so impressed with Tonya Harding in an early performance. Little did I know how dreadful her later skating (and behind the scenes graft) would become.
That's very impressive. I can tell the jumps apart and the names of the moves, and I know when I think something looks well-executed or it doesn't, but I'm not an expert by any means. However, I do consider myself qualified to shout at the TV when the judges or commentators don't agree with me. :P
I too used to think Tonya Harding was a formidable skater. It's hard to remember, given her later behaviour. I really enjoyed her triple axel rivalry with Midori Ito. Generally, I think I am stuck in the early 1990s, pre-Boitano rule, because all my favorite skaters were from then.
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I think that's more gossip than true about Michael Weiss, WEL. Yes, he makes no bones about being straight and parades his two children at every competition like some kind of badge of honor.
On the other hand, he stayed with choreographer Brian Wright, openly gay and afflicted with AIDS, long after other skaters dropped him, until he in fact was too ill to work further. He deserves some props for that kind of loyalty.
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Oh, DR JRand, I'm OLD, but I'm NOT old enough to have partnered with Miss Henie in any of her Hollywood films.
I wouldn't have MINDED partnering with Tyrone Power when HE appeared in some of her films, however. :)
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Yes, Kristi did fall on a triple loop, and right afterward, she doubled her salchow so she wouldn't have two potential falls in a row - very wise move on her part.
In the worlds a month after the Olympics, she made the triple loop and attempted the triple salchow and fell on it. At the 1992 US Nationals, she made her only triple salchow in competition.
Dick Button was in la-la land when he said Kristi could do triple loops in her sleep. They're very hard because you take off on a back outside edge and land on a back outside edge on the same foot, thus having to propel yourself into the air with just the strength in that one leg you're jumping and landing on. Other jumps give you some momentum from a combination of both legs' strength but the loop doesn't. Karen Cadavy did the most beautiful triple loops I've ever seen.
Who is this "Kristi" person you're talking about????????
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Since we're on the subject of sports right now, LC, you may have answered this before, but you look like you're standing in some kind of stadium. What is it and were you displaying some athletic prowess while there?
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Kristi Yamaguchi!!!
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DR MATTH - I think Matt Savoie shows some promise. And are you sure you didn't skate as Sonja Henie's parnter in an earlier life?
While DR MattH has addressed this issue, I'm wondering whether it was Joan Crawford or Vera Hruba Ralston that TCB skated with in the movies!
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DR Ben - how observant! I am standing in the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona from the 1992 Olympics. (The picture was taken on my trip to Spain last fall.) It was a very impressive sight, and it is still used for sporting events and concerts.
Since you asked, yes, I went down to the track and ran the 15,000 meter relay I did not display any athletic prowess while there - I was actually sick for the whole trip - unless you count buying a postcard and posing for the picture. I am just about the least athletic person on the planet. ;)
BTW, I forgot to mention, great pic of London!
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I think it would be fair to say that Michael Weiss' father is probably the homophobe, but he's out there supporting his son no matter what.
Weiss used to be defiantly stiff on the ice -- fists clenched, overly exaggerated "masculine" mannerisms. But something changed. It may be because he married. It may be because he "bred" a child. But he softened on ice...he relaxed. Suddenly, he wasn't afraid to incorporate grace into his program.
I used to despise him, and then I saw him skate the most amazing and graceful program and I totally turned around in my opinion about him. It felt like he finally relaxed and was serious about skating the best he could.
But his lack of consistency IS infuriating.
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I think it was Vera - who could forget their "Rumba on Ice"?
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DR Ben - how observant! I am standing in the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona from the 1992 Olympics. (The picture was taken on my trip to Spain last fall.) It was a very impressive sight, and it is still used for sporting events and concerts. Since you asked, yes, I went down to the track and ran the 15,000 meter relay I did not display any athletic prowess while there - I was actually sick for the whole trip - unless you count buying a postcard and posing for the picture. I am just about the least athletic person on the planet. ;)
Oh, LC! How pathetic are we? I did exactly the same thing when I visited Athens in 1975. I ran a lap around the Olympic Stadium (don't recall the year it was built for).
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For Ask BK Day:
The first season of GREEN ACRES is coming out on DVD next week. Did you like this increasingly surrealistic comedy or was it just too silly for you?
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Kristi Yamaguchi!!!
D'OH!
I totally blanked on the name!
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DR Ron, I know you HAD to have been joking about which Kristi I was talking about. There has only been one national ladies champion named Kristi.
I agree with you about Michael's father. He seems to be the one very conscious of image. As a former Olympic gymnast, he probably got propositioned a lot in his younger days, too.
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Kurt Browning is stuck in Portland with the rest of humanity due to the ice and PDX (the airport) cancelling all flights. They interviewed him last night on the news.
Tonya Harding has had a nose job--has anyone else noticed? Compare current pics to her from several years ago. The first time we noticed this was when she was on The Weakest Link. My wife was a news anchor for the station in Portland that broke the Harding story. I was in the newsroom with her one day when a reporter came in and divulged he had been able to intercept calls her coach had made to her attorney on a cellphone revealing much interesting information. Can you believe these sneaky reporter types? The Harding story is one of the reasons my wife left the news business--it had become All Tonya, All the Time 24/7 and it got to be rather a drag.
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Ron I think that stadium was built for the 1896 Olympics, although Jayne Mansfield thought it was built as a set for her movie IT HAPPENED IN ATHENS!
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Poor Kurt Browning had the same two disappointing Olympic experiences that Michelle Kwan had, though Michelle medaled in both of her Olympics, nothing to be ashamed of.
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Oh, LC! How pathetic are we? I did exactly the same thing when I visited Athens in 1975. I ran a lap around the Olympic Stadium (don't recall the year it was built for).
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Hehe.. I was going to ask why you called me Ann. I am the other Hawaiian. ;) Now it won't make sense, so never mind.
I figure it is the job of the athletes to run around the stadium, and mine to be a spectator. Isn't the Olympic Stadium in Athens from 1896? I think they have built another one for this year, so you will have to go and run around that one.
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Dear me, how did everything become all about Olympic figure skaters today?
The only one I ever had anything to do with was Dorothy Hamill, whose cute pixie cut I adopted at the age of 7 (after my older cousin convinced me that Noxema in the hair wouldn't wash out...it had to be CUT out). I wouldn't know a triple axle from a figure 8.
BK, I'd like to know which is your favorite Jean Harlow movie (if you have one...if not, what is your favorite movie featuring another sex symbol).
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Good Morning!
This will have to be a quick post since I want to get at least one and a half charts done this afternoon... Then I will call it a day - for now - on this project. I'll probably do some more work on it this weekend, but from home in Richmond. There's still one piece that needs to be transcribed in a way, but due to some script and staging concerns it's still in a very amorphous state - as opposed to an amorous state (kind of like when I look at MBarnum's pic ;-) )
RE: Michael Weiss - He trains right up the road from my parents' house in Fairfax, and if I remember correctly, his family runs a gym. Workout anyone? -I've also seen him and his family out shopping at the Mall a few times. Great smile - and he's actually doing radio spots for a "soft touch" dentist in the area right now.
RE: Kurt Browning - That exhibition routine he does to "Brick House"... and in those leather (faux or otherwise) pants... (I'll stop there... for now...)
RE: Skating jumps - I usually watch figure skating whenever it's on, but I still can't tell one jump from another. I remember during the Salt Lake City Olypics they did a nice breakdown of all the jumps, complete with slow-motion computer and live action demonstrations. But once things got back up to speed, it was all Greek to me - or maybe Norwegian. ???
For Ask BK Day:
When you compose and/or arrange a song, how "filled out" is your initial sketch - or even second of third draft? Or do you, like myself, tend to keep a lot of things in your head, and then put them into the final product?
OK - It's Noon here on the East Coast... Time to work... Back later.
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You won't believe it, dear readers - I can barely believe it myself and yet it is true so I must. I, BK, have just performed a triple lutz. I received a large applause from those who witnessed said lutz.
Jrand: Yes, Benjamin does appear in plays.
MattH: Amazingly, I don't think I've ever seen an episode of Green Acres. It was one of Vinnie's favorites, though.
Re Mike Nichols dreams and the creative process: I don't know that I've gotten great creativity from actual dreams themselves (although I've used actual dreams in all three Kritzer books) but I do get some amazing ideas and thoughts as I'm lying in bed awaiting sleep - I've taken to keeping a pad next to my bed and I actually wrote some of the best stuff for all three books just before nodding off. Sentences, words, plot points - it's really my favorite time. I finally narrowed down what I'm about to write whilst lying in bed at bedtime, and I've been figuring out all the details then, too.
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Michael Weiss' father is S C A R Y looking, but yes he was a Olympic Gymnast years ago.
Kurt stuck in Portland, oh my. And in fact DR JMK, Tonya-Nancy happened exactly 10 years ago yesterday!
I haven't noticed Tonya's nose bob because I try to avoid her when possible.
Does Chris Bowman still do commentary?
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DR Lulu: The current topic is what it is...spurred by DR MattH's excitement expressed last night about the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships that are being held this week.
That drew a lot of us "ice fans" out into the open, that's all.
The conversation can go wherever the wind blows it...that's what makes this forum fun. Last night, it went from the various ice skating jumps to a fantasia on Mars, and now it's back again.
Where is your older cousin now? Serving 20-30 for convincing an accountant to doctor the books?????
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Oh my god! DID Chris Bowman ever do commentary?
I know he coaches now...and he's twice the man he was...if not three times the man.
And he's not wearing those huge fur coats the Russian coaches wear!
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I saw Kurt Browning in a TV special recently (it may have been the retrospective of Stars on Ice), but Kurt Browning was on the ice with several other skaters including Ilia Kulik.
Kurt Browning is small. I mean, he's diminutive. He has such a long, lean, lanky look on ice but pitted against other skaters, you see the reality. He probably has -0.002 body fat!
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I have nothing to say, but lest I be accused of lurking I'll say it. "Nothing."
Oh... I just thought of a DR's question re figure skating....Anybody remember Toller Cranston? I do believe he was the one who really broke through the barrier of male skaters being more balletic, emotional, artistic, free - you choose the word.
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I'm off to the Post Office. Will check in later to see if Toller C. is discussed.
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Christopher Bowman - someone I'd rather not think about. I always found him obnoxious on the ice and another one whose talent was squandered due to a lack of discipline and drive. (He had plenty of drive - for all the wrong things instead of training.)
His current size is no surprise to me. Over the course of two or three years even when he was skating, he gained an enormous amount of weigt, one reason why he got to the point he could no longer even attempt triple axels. He was just too tall and thick to be able to revolve in the air 3 1/2 times and land cleanly.
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TCB: Yes, I will adopt you.
Jrand: Because my Internet news will not appeal to 100% of our readers, but it will appeal to many - certainly it appeals to me.
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DR Panni, I am jealous of the 21 Grams Q&A! I love both actors and would love to try to meet them. Your daughter is very lucky. :)
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Yes, I remember Toller Cranston well. He and John Curry, the great English champion (who is my all-time favorite male skater - world and Olympic champion), dueled throughout the mid-70s. Toller's jumps were inconsistent, but his artistry was astounding. John wasn't quite as artistic as Toller but his jumps were more solid and he did more triples.
The year Toller coached Christopher Bowman was the only two sets of programs I could ever STAND seeing Christopher do. And that was the one year he landed triple axels.
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Oh my god! DID Chris Bowman ever do commentary?
I know he coaches now...and he's twice the man he was...if not three times the man.
And he's not wearing those huge fur coats the Russian coaches wear!
True DR RON - he is NOT sylph-like. I saw him two seasons ago and I thought he was on ABC, but I may be wrong (AGAIN).
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DR Ron, finally we have a picture of you back on the forum. Thanks. I'll be using my software that ages faces and add about 5 years to see how you look now. :)
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My source on Michael Weiss was a book I read about five years ago. I'm at work so I can't look up the name and author, but it was a woman who has written several books on skating. She interviewed dozens of skaters for the book which was an overview of skating at the time. Apparently Weiss has never gone on record as being anti-gay, but has made many remarks in private about being staight in a gay sport. Since this was a few years ago he may very well have either changed his attitude by now or at least shut up about it within earshot of reporters or gay skaters.
I'm still waiting for some replies to my question regarding who DRs (and BK) would like to read a good biography of.
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Did I get all the questions thus far?
People are still reeling over my triple lutz.
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Dick Button would NEVER allow Chris Bowman to share the broadcast booth with him.
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I have that book, WEL, I think. It's called INSIDE EDGE.
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I agree with MattH about Christopher Bowman, though I haven't seen pictures of him in forever. I wonder if his commentary was as colorful as his performances.
I always thought Kurt Browning was adorable, and felt bad that he was never able to medal at the Olympics.
I think I have that book too!
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I ran a lap around the Olympic Stadium (don't recall the year it was built for).
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Wouldn't it have been easier to run a lap around the track IN the Olympic Stadium?
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Ah yes....Toller Cranston wrote a book called ZERO TOLLERANCE about his ice skating experiences - it's pretty good.
He is also an artist. Click the link to check out his paintings.
http://www.tollercranston.com/ (http://www.tollercranston.com/)
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Lulu: I don't know all that much Harlow, other than the two movies made about her. Six symbol-wise, I like most Marilyn films, especially Some Like it Hot and The Seven Year Itch.
When I do arrangements of songs, I either sit at the piano and figure them out (like intros and rideouts and the layout of the song) or I sit with the musical director and hum what I hear and he notates it. My favorite story (which I've told here before) is figuring out the "flying ballet" section of I'm Flying/You Can Fly on my Peter Pan album - it came to me full blown while walking down Broadway and I called Todd Ellison from a pay phone and hummed the whole thing onto his answering machine, complete with all the "quotes" from other flying songs (ET, Can You Read My Mind, etc.). It was hilarious.
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I would like to read Toller's book, DR JRand. Thanks for the tip on it.
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DR WEL - Betty Hutton is a good choice. For ME, I think I would add George Sanders and (obvious choice) Allison Hayes.
Years ago, I read an interview or short "bio" of Gwen Verdon and she talked about having problems with her legs or feet when she was a child and being required to wear special shoes or braces and that really deep-sixed her self-esteem, so much so that she carried that with her for her entire life.... Sad.
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Wow, congrats everyone on so many posts yesterday! Sorry to have been E&T...I've been spending a lot of time with my friends who are back from college, and who will be going back on Sunday. And then on Monday, I start classes again too...*sigh*...(where has the time all gone to? Haven't done half the things I want to...)
I love watching figure skating, although I can't tell a lutz from an axel. I'm also shallow and like the pretty costumes.
Hmmm....a question for BK, let me see....are there any musical theatre songs that make you cry?
Dear Reader, Mystical Maya, you may be called many things (Goth, for instance), but I doubt anyone, that knows you, would ever call you shallow!
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I would like to read Toller's book, DR JRand. Thanks for the tip on it.
It's a good read and a good inside look (not an expose') of the sport, although he names some names.
Harlow....she was so funny in a movie called BOMBSHELL as Lola Burns, a movie star who is supporting a whole family of leeches. She wants to adopt a baby and the visit from the Agency Representative is hilarious.
She gets up early to get to the studio, but her father has the limo, her brother has the roadster, and her mother has the station wagon so she has to call the studio to send a car for her! LOL ;D
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I would like to have a full biography on some of the fabled MGM behind-the-scenes folks: Roger Edens, Charles Walters, and also a book on the chorus boys who appeared in all their big musicals. Watching them now in film after film, it must have been a very chummy-club-like atmosphere among those talented dancers. I know they must have a zillion stories to tell of working with all the great star talent at MGM at the time.
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Dick Button would NEVER allow Chris Bowman to share the broadcast booth with him.
Afraid of being sat upon, perhaps?
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Oh, and the celeb bio I've been waiting for is out and I have to get it - Mr. Gavin Lambert's biography of Natalie Wood.
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He had so little respect for him as a person and skater (though he admitted his talent). His too snooty to share the booth with anyone who couldn't come up to HIS expectations of greatness. He grudgingly allowed Brian Boitano to do commentary with him a few years, but no longer. Now, he does the men's alone and allows Peggy Fleming to commentate with him on the ladies' events.
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Somebody brought in something called Baby Donuts. I was so happy to see them that I did a triple lutz. I took two Baby Donuts so that I could have the equivalent of one adult donut.
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While DR MattH has addressed this issue, I'm wondering whether it was Joan Crawford or Vera Hruba Ralston that TCB skated with in the movies!
Unfortunately, I was never able to skate with either lady (limp ankles, a matching set). I limited myself to dancing with the great Vera-Ellen. Sadly, last time I saw (or rather didn't see) Vera-Ellen she had turned into Norma Desmond.
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Whar'd everybody disappear to? I'm doing triple lutzes here, people.
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I don't know all that much Harlow, other than the two movies made about her.
May I recommend, Dear BK, that you take a look at Dinner at Eight. Besides being a wonderful film, the final beat between Jean Harlow and Marie Dressler is absolutely priceless.
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I'll check it out next time it's on TCM, which I'm sure it is often. PEOPLE, I am doing triple lutzes here. I may go for a quadruple lutz in a moment.
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DR Ron, you look unhappy in your new/old picture/avatar. Did you not want to be photographed that day?
I'll think about the biography question. No one pops into my head (or out of like Zeus) at the moment.
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I decided to bypass the quadruple lutz. I suppose that is called a quadruple bypass.
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I just got back from a delicious lunch of pastina with sun dried tomatoes and a glass of iced tea. After the pastina I ate an apple. I have to readjust my eating habits, having thrown all good sense to the wind during the England trip. I ate everything put in front of me, including Toad in a Hole, Bubble and Squeak, Bangers and Mash and my favorite Spotted Dick (a la mode even). When the pictures are ready I'll post one or two of them.
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Well, the freezing rain has not stopped in 24 hours! My tree in the back yard is crumbling under the ice, and electricity was out here for about 3 hours...got a bit nippy here!
I have only seen scenes from DINNER AT 8 and I am looking forward to it's release on DVD which I believe is sometime this year! It does show up frequently on TCM.
I don't know from skaters, other then Vera Ralston and the lovely Carol Christiansen. However, I do enjoy watching gymnastics...in fact last time I saw gymnastics on television I was amazed (and not just a little pleased) that all the men were doing their routines shirtless! ;D No more wondering, there they were all-out topless!
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Biographies I would like to see: Allison Hayes, of course!
I am hoping that Jacques Bergerac's autobiography will be translated to English and released in the U.S. (which it should be since he had quite a career in U.S. films!)
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TCB - Gee, I would've been willing to adopt you, too. And then you go and change your mind without even giving me a chance and off you go with bk. Children are so fickle. No Benicio for you tonight.
Jrand53 - Yes, I've seen Toller's art. Used to see it (and him, actually) all over the place in Toronto.
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TCB--you don't know me very well, do you? I spend entirely too much time in front of mirrors!
That said, I love you and so does the karma fairy!
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Bingo, DR Ben! Oddly enough, I remember the photo session as being one I was not happy to participate in. I don't recall why, but I do recall NOT wanting to smile for the a-hole taking the picture.
Now, because everyone else was running pix of their "babies" earlier, I'm going to attempt to put up a pic of my "Dickens" when he was 7 weeks old. He is no longer with me, having died in October 1975 at the age of 8. But he WAS my precious.....
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I think it would be fair to say that Michael Weiss' father is probably the homophobe, but he's out there supporting his son no matter what.
Weiss used to be defiantly stiff on the ice -- fists clenched, overly exaggerated "masculine" mannerisms. But something changed. It may be because he married. It may be because he "bred" a child. But he softened on ice...he relaxed. Suddenly, he wasn't afraid to incorporate grace into his program.
I used to despise him, and then I saw him skate the most amazing and graceful program and I totally turned around in my opinion about him. It felt like he finally relaxed and was serious about skating the best he could.
But his lack of consistency IS infuriating.
I think that Michael Weiss' attitude was certainly understandable, considering that male figure skaters, along with male ballet dancers, have always been presumed gay, unless proven otherwise. I don't know if the percentage of gay male figure skaters is actually higher than in other professions, but even I tend to make assumptions about male skaters without really knowing anything about them. It is probably not a sport that many homophobic fathers would ideally pick for their sons to pursue. I have never really known any figure skaters, but over the years I have known several straight-male ballet dancers. Many of them have questioned their own sexual preference, at one time or another, merely because of the perception of not only the public, but from others within their own art form.
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Wow, it's 1:40pm and 120 posts. Am I going to sign on tomorrow morning and find another 400 posts??? So far this week, I've actually kept up with the posts so I guess I am getting back on schedule.
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BK-
I think that you will be happy to know that the logo on my coffee mug from that Fynsworth outfit has faded into oblivion.Just a plain logoless coffee mug now.Mugs always seem to remain mugs somehow!
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And my second question: Why will only SOME DR's be intrigued by your internet announcement and your new book project?
I was singled out as I have a personal connection to that particular story.
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*Oh, I did take my brother's dog out about an hour ago so he could take a pee (can I say "pee" here?).
If BK can say "lutz", I guess you can say "pee"; however, the purists among us would say "micturate".
der ever-pure Brucer (noticing that some words never seem to make it to lyrics) Humms..Lutz me entertain you, lutz me show you how...
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Wow all this skating talk. I used to watch skating a lot. I loved the Elvis Stoiko (sp?), Kurt Browning years. I even remember the 1988 Calgary games when Elizabeth Manley won her silver. Now that was exciting skating!
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Dickens at 5 years:
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DR Ron, Dickens is adorable! He looks a lot like my cat with the stripes on his tail.
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Finally! It took me umpty-squat number of tries, but I finally got a decent size so the forum didn't widen into Technirama.
Dickens was a one-person cat! He was totally different with me than with anyone else. That's because I got him when he was four weeks old. The first picture I ran was his first outing after I'd had him for a couple of weeks. I was washing/waxing my car and I placed him on the wall by the drive to watch me. He was SO excited. I got my camera and took a few shots, and then he raised up on his hind legs to look at something and I snapped this shot. It's my favorite photo I've taken.
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Thank you DRRon. What a beautiful feline. The first photo is especially charming....big eyes!
Well I have a question for the DR's that was sparked by the notes today from MR BK.
Explain please QED the difference between:
Capri Pants
Matador Pants
Toreador Pants
Pedal Pushers
Thank you.
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Not named after CHARLES I would assume.
But that is one helluva good looking DICKENS of a cat!!
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Weiss used to be defiantly stiff on the ice -- fists clenched, overly exaggerated "masculine" mannerisms. But something changed. It may be because he married. It may be because he "bred" a child. But he softened on ice...he relaxed. Suddenly, he wasn't afraid to incorporate grace into his program.
I used to despise him, and then I saw him skate the most amazing and graceful program and I totally turned around in my opinion about him. It felt like he finally relaxed and was serious about skating the best he could.
But his lack of consistency IS infuriating.
I noticed that the last time I had a chance to watch him skate. I pre-record the skating events and speed-watch the programs & skaters I don't enjoy. He was often one of those I sped through. Give me Brian Boitano anyday. I miss Dean and Torvill. I thought they were cheated our of the Gold their last Olympics.
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This just in...
Neil Simon has asked Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick to co-star in a 2005 Broadway revival of THE ODD COUPLE, possibly each alternating as Oscar and Felix. They have neither accepted nor refused the offer yet.
By the way, Simon personally called the actors. He did not send his wife with a letter.
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Dickens came to me in September 1987. In the spring of 1988, I took in Vickie (who was four that year) to be a companion. Dickens never really took to her, but he accepted the fact that she was there. They had a love-hate relationship that saw Dickens tolerate several indignities, including Vickie lying on top of him whenever he settled into a favorite spot.
This photo was on the back porch of my parents' home in Virginia in 1993 (my folks moved back to South Carolina in November of that year). As you can see in the photo, Dickens was a big boy...and Vickie assumed whatever position he would tolerate! Amusingly enough, her out-of-sight hindquarters were pressed against a cold window....but she was happy.
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I just got back from a delicious lunch of pastina with sun dried tomatoes and a glass of iced tea. After the pastina I ate an apple. I have to readjust my eating habits, having thrown all good sense to the wind during the England trip. I ate everything put in front of me, including Toad in a Hole, Bubble and Squeak, Bangers and Mash and my favorite Spotted Dick (a la mode even). When the pictures are ready I'll post one or two of them.
Ben, I am very glad you are back home, but are you sure you should be posting pictures of you eating Spotted Dick?
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And while we are still on the subject of skating, does anyone else remember the Canadian pairs team of Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini? They were the perfect combination of artistry and athletics. She was beautiful, he was handsome and together it was like watching them make love on ice (even though both were happily married to others). I have never seen a pair of skaters like them.
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Dr Ron, my gosh, that first photo of Dicken's as a young un is worthy of entering into a photo contest! Seriously, it should be in one of those calendars! Very cute...and Dicken's grew into a fine looking adult feline!
Well, they finally decided to NOT open state offices at all...so now I am baking brownies with walnuts and will soon enjoy some motion picture enteratainment on DVD. I am also taping at this moment, Day of the Dolphins.
And to show that I am an animal lover from way back, here is a photo of me and my first cat Salty in 1969 when I lived on Griffin Creek Road in Medford. Sadly, Salty passed away soon after this shot was taken...expiring beneath the wheels of my teenage sisters Volkswagon bug (although at the time I a was told that Salty was kicked by a cow...the true story not told to me until just a few years ago...my sister still does not admit to any involvment in the tragedy).
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And while we are still on the subject of skating, does anyone else remember the Canadian pairs team of Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini? They were the perfect combination of artistry and athletics. She was beautiful, he was handsome and together it was like watching them make love on ice (even though both were happily married to others). I have never seen a pair of skaters like them.
Yes, it was awful to see them fail in their Olympic bid, but how great that they were able to win the world championships. All because Barbara changed skates, too, and was unhappy about the "Olympic skates." It took Brian Orser's "Why don't you just use the old skates?" to help them make the connection to what went wrong.
But I have to disagree about them being the most beautiful pairs -- that goes to Tai Babiloni and Randy Gardner, IMO!
: )
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I am a wee bit too young to have caught some of these skaters while they were performing, but speaking of making love on ice, does anyone remember the ice dancing couple of Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, who were married in real life? Talk about melting the ice with their 1992 Olympic free dance. Phew! *fans self* I think it was because of that performance that the rules for ice dancing were made stricter.
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Lovely white kitty DRMBarnum! Ah yes....kicked by a cow....similar no doubt to the box of kittens that fell off the back of the truck once when we moved.
What the ???!!!!!!!
I think MR BK just did a triple reverse Hymie! ;D
Thanks for the news DRWEL....the editorial was mean....but VERY FUNNY!!
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TCB--you don't know me very well, do you? I spend entirely too much time in front of mirrors!
That said, I love you and so does the karma fairy!
If I was as attractive as you, dear Maya, I would have a house full of mirrors, instead of just a bedroom full. As it is, I cover the bathroom mirror, for fear I might accidently see myself naked.
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Thanks to all for your kind comments about my boy Dickens. I named him, strangely enough, after a cat on a TV show called "Tucker's Witch" -- it starred Tim Matheson and Catherine Hicks. She had a cat named Dickens who was her "familiar." Loved that cat and loved the name.
Thus....
Sorry about Salty, Mike! Siblings are strange about what they remember and what they don't. My mother has a sister who remembers things differently, too....even when many of us who "were there at the time" insist on one version, she has convinced herself of other circumstances.
Probably, your sister hated that she killed Salty and her mind refuses to let her acknowledge it.
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If I was as attractive as you, dear Maya, I would have a house full of mirrors, instead of just a bedroom full. As it is, I cover the bathroom mirror, for fear I might accidently see myself naked.
So, then....this means you DON'T sleep in the nude?
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Ah yes....Toller Cranston wrote a book called ZERO TOLLERANCE about his ice skating experiences - it's pretty good.
He is also an artist. Click the link to check out his paintings.
http://www.tollercranston.com/ (http://www.tollercranston.com/)
Interesting art work. It has a Russian Folk Art feel to it, reminiscent of a children’s book.
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I'm here doing triple lutzes. The first time I did the triple lutz someone called me a putz. The second time someone said I was nuts. The third time someone said I had a lot of guts.
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The candy I mentioned yesterday is called Swoops, not Scoops.
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My favorite skating competition is ice dancing. It always has been. I actually love the Canadian ice dancers Bourne and Kratz.
Wow, so many posts to read. Will we beat yesterday's total?
Btw, it is so cold here. And I actually went out in for a prolonged period of time. Not the smartest move. Brrrrr.
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Dickens at 5 years:
Ron, Dickens was truly a beautiful cat.
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Well I have a question for the DR's that was sparked by the notes today from MR BK.
Explain please QED the difference between:
Capri Pants
Matador Pants
Toreador Pants
Pedal Pushers
The spelling.
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Wow all this skating talk. I used to watch skating a lot. I loved the Elvis Stoiko (sp?), Kurt Browning years. I even remember the 1988 Calgary games when Elizabeth Manley won her silver. Now that was exciting skating!
That was exciting!
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A Putzy Nutsy Gutsy Lutz!!
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BK, thank you for answering my question. I highly recommend Bombshell, Redheaded Woman, and most of all Red Dust. (Although I honestly have enjoyed all of the Harlow pics I've seen so far, those are probably my three favorites.)
Now please stop futzing around doing lutzes. If someone were doing them with you, both of you could fall on your butts and you'd wind up on the floor looking like a couple of sadsack mutts. I appreciate we all need a little excitement in our lives to keep us from falling into ruts, but when a person begins doing a lutz, we must all as a group say, "Tut, tut!"
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DR LULU you crack me up! ;D
Ah yes, DRJANE you were singled out as being especially interested!
Thanks TCB - but I meant the adjective not the noun. :P
When did you see Vera Ellen?
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Thank You TUTS--oops TOOTS
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WEL: What an excellent question you've posed to us all. I think I'd love to read a biography on one of those fabulous dames of the '30s, like Joan Blondell, Iris Adrian, Patsy Kelly, Ann Sothern or Una Merkel. You know, the type who was always the "blowsy" (a terrific word that has sadly fallen out of favor) best friend of the female lead.
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Ben: Wow, you've been to England, eh? I envy you. Did you stay around London, or travel elsewhere? I loved London, and hope to visit it (and the rest of England) again someday.
I'm pretty sure Spotted Dick is what kept my grand-uncle Horace out of the Army.
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Ron I LOVE the new photo. It makes me laugh. Sweet Dickens. Eight was too young. Now I’m crying. He was gorgeous at five. I’m laughing again with the picture of Dickens and Vickie.
All this skating talk has made me feel bad I deleted my recordings. I went back to TIVO figure skating wish list and told it to begin recording again. I just hope I have time to watch and catch up on the current crop of skaters I’m not too familiar with. So which book should I read ZERO TOLLERANCE or the INSIDE EDGE?
I would like to read a biography of Deana Durbin since I believe her story had a happy ending.
Eight inches of snow in Portland and school was canceled again.
MBarnum I’m sure your sister doesn’t want to remember. I couldn’t have been more than eight when neighbor’s cat had a litter of kittens. I begged my parents for one but the answer was always no. Fortunately the neighbors decided to keep my favorite kitten themselves which was almost as good as my taking it home. I can still remember watching as the kitten was run over by a car. I will not go into details. I assure you the entire neighborhood heard my response to what I was watching.
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I would like to read an honest, straight-forward biography of Robert Wagner.
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Lulu, your mention of Joan Blondell is good and it made me think of Celeste Holm as well. I would like to read a bio of her.
We just got back a week ago from London. I'll tell tales about our trip later, including our trip outside of London to Gedling and Nottingham. Suffice it to say, we had a supercalifragilisticexpialidocius (did I spell that correctly?) time. It was very hard to leave the foggy city.
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On January 17th the calendar lists Noel's birthday. It also says "Opening night of my new play" Silly question but I'll ask anyway. Are we to assume that the new play opening on January 17th is also Noel's. A birthday and opening night on the same day. Quite a series of events.
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I, for one, would like to know more about those pictures from Mars.
Every time I see what I think are pictures from Oz on TV, it turns out to be animation from NASA about what they "think" things looked like when their equipment approached, and then landed on, Mars.
I want the real deal.
Are we getting the real deal, BK?
Huh? Huh? Is the real deal out there?
If it is, where do I have to look to see the real deal?
For the official
"Real Deal" go to [urlhttp://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html]JPL[/url]
Here you'll find:
(http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rover-images/jan-07-2004/color-blowup-2-380-285.jpg)
Those of us in the "know" (or "now" as BK would say) suspect they are holding this one back:
(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/2995020/42189066.jpg)
der Brucer (great admirer of Dejah Thoris)
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I just finished a lovely chicken salad sandwich and shall now execute a triple lutz. What the triple lutz ever did to deserve being executed is another story.
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It was one of Vinnie's favorites, though.
Speaking of whom...what's the dear boy up these days; still waiting for his Pulitizer for best sustained performance in liner notes?
der Brucer (who misses his favorite diversion of inspecting BK's lutzy liner notes)
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Perhaps this is BK?
http://www.frogsonice.com/skateweb/chack/pics/chack6d.avi
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My son just called from Portland. The store he works for is closed today as they didn’t have much business at the mall yesterday. He was walking to Radio Shack since the Trolley isn’t running today. As we were talking huge chunks of ice were falling off a building and hit one of the few cars on the road. He had to move out of the way to avoid the falling ice.
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What if I did three lutzes in a row. Lutz, Lutz and Lutz - doesn't that sound like an accounting firm?
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Freedom! Freedom!
Ah, a Shenandoah reference... Or maybe an Aretha Franklin one if you prefer... Actually, I guess for Shenandoah it would be:
Free-dom, Free-ee-dom..
That's much better!
Well, I finished the last chart! And I'm about to head into downtown DC to deliver the goods. AND I had one of those "Eureka!" moments when it came to a certain part of one song... It's amazing what will come to you when you switch gears for a little bit and come back to it! :D
In any case, I'll check up on all the posts(!) once I'm back - and hopefully, the rush hour won't be too bad - it wasn't yesterday. And if it is, I can get my fix of the afternoon "shock jocks", Don & Mike... A nice, sometimes raucous, sometimes laughable, and sometimes questionable diversion.
Ciao for niao!
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I would like to read an honest, straight-forward biography of Robert Wagner.
Do you mean the truth behind the reason Natalie Wood divorced him the after their first marriage?
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Ah yes....Toller Cranston wrote a book called ZERO TOLLERANCE about his ice skating experiences - it's pretty good.
He is also an artist. Click the link to check out his paintings.
http://www.tollercranston.com/ (http://www.tollercranston.com/)
Also an artist? Debatable. I stopped eating at a favorite restaurant when they redecorated the place and hung his paintings on the walls.
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Also an artist? Debatable. I stopped eating at a favorite restaurant when they redecorated the place and hung his paintings on the walls.
LOL
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I think he means, did old Bobby push her off the boat!?
MBarnum: You were an adorable little boy!! And it's strange to look at the picture of you with your kitty and then look at your profile pic...YOU LOOK THE SAME, ONLY TALLER! :)
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DR Ron: I suspect the photos are really from OZ.
Not time to read all the posts today. I shall return in about 10 hours!
TCB re spelling. But are they pronounced the same?
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Didn't Lutz once partner Carr in an accounting firm?
Lulu --- Years and years ago, Joan Blondell wrote an autobiographical novel. I think if she didn't call it a novel she would have been sued by June Allyson for the things Ms. Blondell said about her. Since the names were changed and it was called "fiction" she couldn't sue. I think the book was called CENTER DOOR FANCY.
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Suffice it to say, we had a supercalifragilisticexpialidocius (did I spell that correctly?) time.
You were doing fine 'till you got to the antepenultimate - you need to add a "u" to get "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
der Brucer (with clearly too much time on his hands)
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DR Ben,
Belated thanks for the oatmeal input.
Years ago I edited a book by Toller Cranston's coach. She was a marvelous coach, but writing was not among her strengths (and, to be fair, English was not her first language). One of her best lines: "Personally, I am against falling."
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My son just called from Portland. The store he works for is closed today as they didn’t have much business at the mall yesterday. He was walking to Radio Shack since the Trolley isn’t running today. As we were talking huge chunks of ice were falling off a building and hit one of the few cars on the road. He had to move out of the way to avoid the falling ice.
You're right, Jane, driving around the Northwest is almost worse today than it was yesterday during the snow. The temperatures have gotten above freezing so there is some melting going on, but not enough to clear off the roads. One of my co-workers described it as trying to drive in a Slurpie. Standing water that is stuck between piles of snow is causing cars to stall out. It is a mess.
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DR Ron: I suspect the photos are really from OZ.
Not time to read all the posts today. I shall return in about 10 hours!
TCB re spelling. But are they pronounced the same?
What did I misspell?
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. One of my co-workers described it as trying to drive in a Slurpie.
Great description. That is how I felt walking in it a few days ago. The biggest problem in Portland is they simply aren't use to dealing with snow and don't have the capability to do so. My son was surprised to see the streets plowed as well as they were.
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I decided to have that grilled chicken sandwich today at Subway. I haven't been eating the past 2 days. And it was something I was craving. While there I saw an interesting sign. I mentioned that they have the new atkins wraps. Well there was a sign up that said you could take ANY sandwich and have it on a wrap (instead of bread). They also posted the carb stats.
Interesting.
I think I would like a grilled chicken wrap! Yeah, next time I may try that. Although I would like to try the atkins wraps as they were designed too.
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A pony rubs his nose on a cat in the Budakeszi game park near Budapest, Hungary on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004, after snow started to fall in the morning hours in some parts of Hungary. (AP Photo / MTI, Mate Nandorfi)
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Loved the pictures of Dickens, DR Ron. Thanks for sharing them.
Everyone's pet pictures are really wonderful.
I don't go out of my way to watch the pairs or ice dancing. Not that they aren't athletic or beautiful, but I guess I just like the solo work much more. For those who DO like the pairs and dance, their short programs are on tonight on ESPN2 at (I think) 10 p.m. I'll be watching LAW & ORDER.
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I don't suppose ABC will show the finals in high definition. I guess that's too much to hope for. :P
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WEL, thank you! I checked and my county library system has the Joan Blondell book! It's in storage, but I can just ask them to send it to my nearest branch and could have it in a few days.
What's June's name in the book? ;)
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Sob. DR Ben: you became a God and I didn't even notice :(
Btw, did you post any pics of london? If so I missed them. Double :(
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DR Ron: The picture of you is so cute! I also love the pictures of Dickens (and Vickie). Dickens was precious!
DR MBarnum: Loved the pic of you and Salty, too!
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The Internet announcement I've been talking about will be announced in tomorrow's notes, so don't miss 'em.
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A word of caution about DINNER AT EIGHT. While it does contain some classic lines and some really good comedy, there are quite a few dramatic (melodramatic is more like it) segments to it, and it's not all fun and games. It's all very well put together (grand, unfussy direction by George Cukor), but there are some sad, pitiful moments.
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Lulu---
It's been so long since I read it I don't remember the character names, but you should have no trouble figuring it out. Just remember what --- or should I say who --- Joan and June have in common.
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Regarding:
Quote from: Ben on Today at 12:13:32pm
Suffice it to say, we had a supercalifragilisticexpialidocius (did I spell that correctly?) time.
You were doing fine 'till you got to the antepenultimate - you need to add a "u" to get "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
der Brucer (with clearly too much time on his hands)
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Actually, Bruce...I think it's the "o" that needed adding.
;)
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A word of caution about DINNER AT EIGHT. While it does contain some classic lines and some really good comedy, there are quite a few dramatic (melodramatic is more like it) segments to it, and it's not all fun and games. It's all very well put together (grand, unfussy direction by George Cukor), but there are some sad, pitiful moments.
The last scene between Jean Harlow and Marie Dressler is worth EVERY discomfort one might find in the melodrama. It's one of THE MOST PRICELESS MOMENTS in the entire history of American cinema!
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Hey! Somebody likes WICKED out there! Look at the first paragraphs from this article at Playbill:
"The Wicked cast recording — now available on the Decca Broadway label — had the highest first-week sales of any Broadway cast recording since Jonathan Larson's Rent in 1996. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the 19-track disc sold 17,841 units during its first week on the shelves. Comparatively, during their first weeks, blockbusters Hairspray sold 8,769 units, while The Producers fans bought 8,052 CDs."
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The last scene between Jean Harlow and Marie Dressler is worth EVERY discomfort one might find in the melodrama. It's one of THE MOST PRICELESS MOMENTS in the entire history of American cinema!
Oh, I hope no one thought I was criticizing the film. I LOVE a mix of comedy and drama. I just wanted those who hadn't experienced it to be aware that despite the presences of Jean Harlow, Marie Dressler, and Billie Burke, it's not a slapstick or even sophisticated comedy romp.
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A pony rubs his nose on a cat in the Budakeszi game park near Budapest, Hungary on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004, after snow started to fall in the morning hours in some parts of Hungary. (AP Photo / MTI, Mate Nandorfi)
Jane, that photo is labeled a "Mule __ friend," but your description says a pony. I think pony is correct, that isn't a mule.
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I'm happy about WICKED selling well, but, of course, it's just a drop in the bucket to what pop artists and rappers sell nowadays. I remember when cast albums would routinely be in the Top 5 on the charts. Those days are gone for good, unfortunately.
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DRJANE - if you are a Toller fan....his book.... If you just want to know what's behind ice skating's facade.... INSIDE EDGE... Both have their plusses!
CENTER DOOR FANCY is kind of clumsily written and Joan REALLY hates June which is obvious....but didn't Joan leave Dick Powell to marry Mike Todd? June mentions it in her book and denies part of the story Joan tells so she certainly gives credence to the "fiction."
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A mule is an animal with long funny ears....
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Freedom! Freedom!
Ah, a Shenandoah reference...
I still get the shivers remembering sitting in the seventh row and having John Cullom erupt with Meditation (I then II). And the "Pass the Cross To Me" finale with Boy hobbling down the aisle has to be the biggest tearjerker ever - I dare you not to cry!
der sobbing Brucer
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Hey! Somebody likes WICKED out there! Look at the first paragraphs from this article at Playbill:
"The Wicked cast recording — now available on the Decca Broadway label — had the highest first-week sales of any Broadway cast recording since Jonathan Larson's Rent in 1996. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the 19-track disc sold 17,841 units during its first week on the shelves. Comparatively, during their first weeks, blockbusters Hairspray sold 8,769 units, while The Producers fans bought 8,052 CDs."
They were probably all purchased by people from this site.
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I just posted about the Wicked sales figures elsewhere. These articles are being put out by Decca's publicity department. While there is nothing wrong with 17,000 copies for a first week, in the scheme of things it's meaningless. I'm quite certain it was a very expensive album (my guess is over $400,000) and it will take quite a few units to break the album even. Most cast albums never break even. Given that Universal is doing the comparisons, I would take them with a grain of salt. The Producers has done very well and I'm sure Hairspray has as well. I'm certain Wicked, over the long haul, will do fine. The Universal publicity blitz is tiresome - the cast albums that end up being winners just go about their business and sell consistently. Decca doesn't need to pump this up - if people like the album it will sell - if the show continues to run and has a tour, it will sell. Simple as pie. I hate these kinds of press releases - it actually does more harm than good because it makes people think they're all just patting themselves on the back like total winners - people react in opposite ways to that.
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Jennifer, I posted the picture this morning of Ant and me near Tower Bridge (it's on the first page I think - me in a blue duffel coat and Ant in a hat with flaps to cover his ears) but I haven't posted any others. I'll let everyone know when I do that. Especially when I post the one with me and the spotted dick.
Quite alright about missing the acension. It just happened. Kinda like life, ya know :-)
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DR WEL,
I'd love to read a good biography of Judy Holliday. I'd like to know more about her childhood; her early relationship with Comden and Green; and her friendships in Hollywood and on Broadway. I know there were personal heartaches plus difficulties with the IRS, but I'd like to read remembrances from those who knew her. I'm grateful she left such a wonderful legacy, but sad, of course, that she died so young. It's interesting to think about what else she may have achieved.
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I still get the shivers remembering sitting in the seventh row and having John Cullom erupt with Meditation (I then II). And the "Pass the Cross To Me" finale with Boy hobbling down the aisle has to be the biggest tearjerker ever - I dare you not to cry!
der sobbing Brucer
Yes, second only to Grizabella flying off to heaven on a spare tire.
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Onomatopoeia -- sounds like something socially unacceptable, doesn't it!
If Onomato wants to poeia, he should go to the men's room forthwith!
And to answer DR Jose's earlier question -- which just sprang into my head: Yes! You can say "pee" here in this forum.
If I can say "poeia," you can say "pee."
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Welcome to Olympus, Ben[/move]
It's Nirvana now that you are here!
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I still get the shivers remembering sitting in the seventh row and having John Cullom erupt with Meditation (I then II). And the "Pass the Cross To Me" finale with Boy hobbling down the aisle has to be the biggest tearjerker ever - I dare you not to cry!
der sobbing Brucer
I did SHENANDOAH back in 1982, and there were audible sobs every night, not just with the boy coming home, but with the deaths of James and Anne and with Jacob's surprise shooting. (I played Jacob, and the director had me do a LOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG death crawl towards my father after I was shot. He used to laugh saying I dragged my death out longer than Camille. Afterwards, I would stand and cry and cry during "The Only Home I Know" (which I had to help sing from behind a scrim but could never get through it without sobbing) and "Meditation II."
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The last scene between Jean Harlow and Marie Dressler is worth EVERY discomfort one might find in the melodrama. It's one of THE MOST PRICELESS MOMENTS in the entire history of American cinema!
My other favorite moment in the film is Billie Burke's hysterical tantrum.
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I just did another triple lutz. My co-workers are amazed at my capacity for lutzing.
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I know that Universal and Decca are promoting the WICKED CD like mad, but I must admit, I was really shocked the day I got my recording (which was it's release date.) When I picked up my copy at Tower records, they had stacks and stacks of WICKED as well as BOY FROM OZ, and when I returned to the very same Tower the next day, they only had heaps and heaps of BOY FROM OZ and two copies left of WICKED. That ain't too shabby for one day, I'd say, and since then they've only kept a few copies of it on the shelves...I don't know if that's from genuine sales or if they're just trying to make it look like it's selling well. Granted, this is the Tower at Lincoln Center, which is right next door to Julliard, so that might account for some of the sales, but it's still exciting to see cast albums flying off the shelves...no pun intended.
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Are you sure in doing all of these lutzes over and over you're taking off on the proper edge, bk? Skaters who cheat take off on a back inside edge and when you do that, it's called a "flutz."
Nicole Bobek and Tara Lipinski were both infamous for flutzing and getting away with it.
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Ah okay i see the pic now. I think I was reading the posts on page one without being connected to the internet. It must not have picked up the picture.
And when I looked at your last 10 posts, it didn't show the pic :(
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DR WEL,
I'd love to read a good biography of Judy Holliday. I'd like to know more about her childhood; her early relationship with Comden and Green; and her friendships in Hollywood and on Broadway. I know there were personal heartaches plus difficulties with the IRS, but I'd like to read remembrances from those who knew her. I'm grateful she left such a wonderful legacy, but sad, of course, that she died so young. It's interesting to think about what else she may have achieved.
Dan -- I read a good Judy Holliday biography several years ago. I don't even remember the name off-hand, but I will look for it at home and see if I can find it. It wasn't exactly a tell-all, but I remember not being quite so in awe of her after I finished reading it.
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<Ah okay i see the pic now.>
Why do I know that whenever I see a line like that it will be from our dear Jennifer?
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Hey where is DR Emily: I know she likes to talk about Subway :)
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<Ah okay i see the pic now.>
Why do I know that whenever I see a line like that it will be from our dear Jennifer?
Hey be nice or I will punch you (and remember I like to punch men).
I saw people mentioning the pic, and I read all the posts and did not see it. I even went to ben's last 10 posts, but i saw no picture. So i asked!
I'm pretty good at this technical stuff (you are one to talk :) )
Bye all.
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I, for one, would like to know more about those pictures from Mars.
Every time I see what I think are pictures from Oz on TV, it turns out to be animation from NASA about what they "think" things looked like when their equipment approached, and then landed on, Mars.
I want the real deal.
Are we getting the real deal, BK?
Huh? Huh? Is the real deal out there?
If it is, where do I have to look to see the real deal?
You want the real deal? HERE (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040107.html) is a link to today's Astronomy Picture of the Day, which has a genuine color image of the surface of Mars! I love this website. I have the ARCHIVE (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html) bookmarked, but here is the MAIN PAGE (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html) for the site. I highly recommend it.
I have been at work since noon but this is the first time that I've had to read any of the posts. I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this site or not, but it's pretty cool. :)
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Dan -- I read a good Judy Holliday biography several years ago. I don't even remember the name off-hand, but I will look for it at home and see if I can find it. It wasn't exactly a tell-all, but I remember not being quite so in awe of her after I finished reading it.
TCB, Thanks for looking for it. Years ago I found a slender biography at a library. I browsed during lunch hour but, when I returned a couple of weeks later, the book had been sold or pulped because no one had borrowed it. I met JH when I was a teenager. She was really kind, and I had no idea at the time that she was terminally ill.
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Yes, there was a Judy Holliday biography, but I couldn't put my hands on it looking for it a little while ago.
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Found it - JUDY HOLLIDAY by Will Holtzman.
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I still get the shivers remembering sitting in the seventh row and having John Cullom erupt with Meditation (I then II). And the "Pass the Cross To Me" finale with Boy hobbling down the aisle has to be the biggest tearjerker ever - I dare you not to cry!
der sobbing Brucer
Unfortunately, it's one of those things where "Ya had t' be there." Even with der Brucer describing that finale to me, talking with his hands as usual, I still didn't get it. Still don't.
Oh, it's Cullum, not Cullom. U having trouble today, dear?
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Yes, there was a Judy Holliday biography, but I couldn't put my hands on it looking for it a little while ago.
I am fairly sure that I know where my copy is located. I don't have that big a place and the bookcases are all in one room. If I find it Dan, would you like it? I would be happy to send it to you (notice the generosity before he even knows if he can find it).
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Oooh! Oooh! New Good Eats (http://www.foodtv.com/food/show_ea/episode/0,1976,FOOD_9956_30299,00.html) episode tonight on Food Network!
Hey, some of you go for those remodel/decorating shows, I'm an Alton Brown fan! 8)
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Dorothy Hamill -- won a Gold Medal and remains a stunning figure in professional skating.
Peggy Fleming -- won a gold medal and remains a stunning figure in professional skating.
Annette Poetsch -- Won a gold medal and disappeared.
Katarina Witt -- Won two gold medals (on sex appeal alone) and skates professionally with a huge fan base (minus me).
Kristi Yamaguchi -- Won a gold medal and remains an inspiration to young skaters everywhere.
Oksana Baiul -- won a gold medal and went downhill. Has given "prima donnas" a bad name. Recent appearances have been full of promise that she has finally awakened to reality.
Tara Lipinski -- won a gold medal, hurt her hip, and can't skate competitively any more. All before she was 18.
Sarah Hughes -- won a gold medal, grew taller, added weight and has decided she has nothing more to prove, so she's out of skating, also at age 18. Her best skate ever was her Olympic skate. It's the ONLY time I've ever seen her skate that I didn't think her jumps were klunky.
Michelle Kwan -- takes a licking and keeps on ticking! As gorgeous on ice now, if not more so, than she ever has been. Has had a long, glorious amateur career and is idolized by millions despite winning only Silver and Bronze Olympic medals.
Sasha Cohen -- yawn.
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I have the Judy Holliday bio - it's pretty okay.
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I will never forget driving home from school on Friday afternoon the day Dorothy Hamill skated for that gold medal, and it was being broadcast live on the radio. I can't believe I made it home before I wrecked the car because with every jump, I was about to jump out of the car myself. That night, knowing she had won the gold medal, I watched her skate on TV with tears in my eyes. It was SUCH a beautiful performance, the last Olympic lady to win the gold medal without doing a triple jump, and she didn't need to.
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Oooh! Oooh! New Good Eats (http://www.foodtv.com/food/show_ea/episode/0,1976,FOOD_9956_30299,00.html) episode tonight on Food Network!
Hey, some of you go for those remodel/decorating shows, I'm an Alton Brown fan! 8)
Since I was on a snow day yesterday, I watched Oprah and she had her hottie home decorator on the show. Who would care if he knew anything about home decorating? He is lovely.
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Yes, he is, TCB. TV GUIDE had a short piece about Nate Birkus in their newest issue.
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Oh, TCB -- book, cover, skin deep, etc.
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Sure, talk about Dorothy Hamill - I don't see her doing triple lutzes down the hallway here at work.
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Oh, TCB -- book, cover, skin deep, etc.
Yes, Ron, but I think you are a hottie, too.
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Just for that remark, TCB:
(http://images.oprah.com/images/tows/200309/tows_20030917_oprahnate_284.jpg)
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Yes, he is, TCB. TV GUIDE had a short piece about Nate Birkus in their newest issue.
Hmmm, Birkus ..... he wouldn't even have to change his monogramed towels.
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And from the website, Nate Berkus Associates:
(http://www.nateberkus.com/img/firm/left_nate.jpg)
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I appreciated DR Ron's listing of female gold medalists and others, but he left off the magnificent 1972 Olympic Champion - Trixie Shuba. She looked like an ox, couldn't do the simplest double jumps without falling, and won only because she was an expert school figures skater who built such a commanding lead in the figures that no one could catch her in free skating.
She too disappeared after her Olympic and world championship wins, and no wonder. Who would want to pay to see a professional skater trace figures 8's in the ice? That's all she could do expertly.
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This is so lovely having this many posts before four o'clock Pacific Mean Time. I'm bursting with pride. Why, I think I'll do a triple lutz.
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I didn't mention Trixie Shuba 'cuz I don't know from Trixie Shuba.
I've heard Dick Button AND Scott Hamilton talk about her, especially regarding her beating out Janet Lynn when Lynn was clearly a superior skater.
It was the disparity in scoring school figures and Lynn's inability to do them well that led to changes in scoring in the early 70s. I've never seen Janet Lynn skate a complete program, but I'm informed that she was a very musical, graceful performer with a good deal of athleticism besides.
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I ate again. 2 meals in one day. Yeah. And it was so good. I marinated pork and grilled it. And I made tsatzki with cucumbers, lettuce and feta. Yummy.
Btw, is anyone gonna watch Celebrity Mole tonight?
Also new episodes of Ed and The West Wing.
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Granted, this is the Tower at Lincoln Center, which is right next door to Julliard, so that might account for some of the sales, but it's still exciting to see cast albums flying off the shelves...no pun intended.
DR Jason, it could be my roommate - I think she bought out half the stock from that Tower to give away as holiday gifts. ;)
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I sometimes wish Kristi Yamaguchi had hung around to compete in 1994, although I understand perfectly why she felt she didn't have to. I think she would have run circles around that year's competition. I enjoyed watching her evolve professionally, and her retirement is part of the reason I sort of lost interest in skating..
DR Matt, do you ever go to the touring skating shows when they come to your town?
DR TCB, you CRACK ME UP!
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Janet was a lyrical and expressive skater (though I never thought she was an especially high jumper which is why she stumbled in most of her major competitions even in free skating.) The short program basically was added to skating because of Janet Lynn and those like her who were better at the thing audiences wanted to see: free skating.
The skater who finished second all those years to Janet at Nationals and who consistently placed ahead of her at worlds was a favorite of mine - Julie Lynn Holmes.
Quick trivia question. The last world ladies champion who had to win the title doing both figures and free skating came from the US. Her name is ........(answer below)
Jill Trenery.
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Yes, DR LC, I have been to Stars on Ice quite often. I enjoy the shows, but the exhibitions don't have the pizzazz of a competition. I'd like to go to a National Championship one year. That would be a great gift to myself!
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Alas, no Benicio tonight. We drove to the Egyptian to get early tickets for 21 GRAMS and discovered that the tickets which I was assured were not sold out, were indeed sold out. Hearing this, my daughter uttered something I won't print on a family website. We spent the next two hours bickering like Oscar and Felix while sweaty, sleezy men with bad haircuts tried to sell us tours.
Now I'm home and I could really end the day right now - but there are at least 8 more hours to go.
The good news is that I don't have to drive to Rancho Cucamonga tomorrow, after all.
The Cucamongian friends are driving to Studio City to visit us. A generous thing for them to do. And a relief to me.
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Does anyone remember when 1994 Gold Medalist Alexei Urmanov won his first professional figure skating title?
He had a humongous red cape, an enormous hat and did a pathetic magic trick (he was supposed to be some magician or other -- interpreting a piece of classical music -- but he could only do one trick, and it failed). He just swooped and flounced around on the ice.
The judges always messed themselves over him, but it was one of the most appallingly bad things I've ever seen.
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Jane, what a horrible experience to see you kitten run over! Oh, geez!
Yep, Jason, still have the same haircut!!
All this talk of Olympic skaters and no one remembers little Carol Heiss!
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I remember Carol Heiss, but she was before my viewing experience. There was Tenley Albright and the Hayes brothers and Dick Button, too.
Here, I've found the VERY performance I was describing above:
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Who here has a soft spot in their hearts for the film musical "Snow White and the Three Stooges"?????
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We now have 8 (count 'em 8 ) HHW Gods, and six are in the running to join them.
We should be overflowing with gods before much longer!
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Jane, that photo is labeled a "Mule __ friend," but your description says a pony. I think pony is correct, that isn't a mule.
Oops ???
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Whew! I only go away for about three hours, and another six pages of posts to catch up on! Wow-- nah, that was yesterday's word... I think today's will be "flibbertygibbett" - which is a favorite word of Mr. Sondheim, it was how he decribed the character of Johanna in Sweeney Todd last summer during rehearsals. And a fine word it is.
OH - I meant to mention this earlier - and maybe I did, but I don't think so...
While I was working on the charts earlier, I heard some "commotion" downstairs. Some sort of delivery man was talking to my mom. I just figured it was one of my mom's food service vendors from the nursing home making a visit - which they do regularly. Well, she called me downstairs to move something... Our old dining room table(!) since she had a new table and set of chairs delivered this afternoon! It's quite the beautiful set! Very dark brown lacquer finish with japanese details. Of course, when I asked if my dad knew she was buying a new table, she said, "No." Well.. when I got back from dropping off the music, my dad was home, and he didn't seem perturbed at all. And the old table is now in the living room serving as a work table for my mom as she works on putting all the pics she took over the holidays into albums. -And the table will most likely find it's way to my new apartment in a couple of weeks. :)
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And the table will most likely find it's way to my new apartment in a couple of weeks. :)
How conveeeeeeeeenient!
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We now have 8 (count 'em 8 ) HHW Gods, and six are in the running to join them.
We should be overflowing with gods before much longer!
Here's a post to get me one step closer:
Questions for BK: do you have the music for all of the shows that you've written in sheet-music-like arrangements or are they just lead sheets with chords? In other words, how complete are they?
Also, do you have copies of EVERY recording that have ever been made of shows that you've written? And do you only have the vinyl albums to the recordings that were originally only on vinyl albums or have you had any (many?) put onto CD?
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Here's another post to get me one step closer to HHW God-dom (and my 450th post!):
Even though it's not Friday, In my CD player: a CD that I made of the original cast album of BK's very own show that he wrote and starred in: Together Again. It's quite delightful! I got the album on eBay last year sometime, but never made a CD until now. As most of us know, BK has quite the skill for writing a melody. After that will be the CD of the album of Ruggles of Red Gap that I mentioned last night.
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Good evening all,
I think the good vibes are working because this is the best I have felt since Friday. I will be speaking with my doctor when I go on MLK day. I’m sure there must be something she can prescribe for me when these attacks hit.
Thank you also for the condolences on my fish. I’ve been very surprised by the number of kind hearted people at work that have stop by my desk in the past day to say how sorry they are that he’s gone. Most want to know if/when I’m going to get another one. I’m not ready for that yet but I will consider it.
I do have to tell you my favorite memory about him He did not like men. A lady could sit in my chair with no problem but if the computer repair guy came or a man stood next to me, he would puff all up and fly up and down the glass like he would attack the guy if he could get at him. I don’t know if he was jealous or protecting me or if it was something else. I’ll never for him.
We had a survey passed around today at work asking what other languages you speak besides English. I offered to put “Foul” and some “Klingon” but was told that wasn’t what they were looking for. Ah well.
Ron, I really like the pictures of your kitty.
Well, I’m interested to see what Bruce’s surprise is. I love surprises if they are good ones. I don’t like bad surprises.
I enjoyed reading all the skating posts. I used to watch it all the time. I often wondered what happened to ‘Bowman the showman”. Now I know.
As far as bio’s go, I don’t know about one I would like to read. I’ve read most of the ones that interest me. I remember hunting for everything I could get my hands on about Errol Flynn. I remember I was shocked to learn that he didn’t have a headstone on his grave for years.
I was equally sorry to learn of the loss of his son. Pity that. I would have liked to see what he looked like.
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DR derBrucer - I MD'ed a production of Shenandoah a couple of years ago, and it always surprised me at how moving the show was. And how tricky it was to make the show "moving" without being treacly and overly-sentimental - which is a trap it can easily fall into. The whole second act is a sob-fest. And during the second Meditation, the director brought the house lights up very slowly so that the audience ended up being directly addressed in a way. Quite a powerful statement about war and death.
-And that score - at least the piano/vocal part - has some tricky parts in it. I actually had to practice! ;)
However, my favorite memory of that production was casting our Gabriel. We cast out of Chicago, and we were having problems finding an African-American boy who could act and sing. Well, the morning session went by with no real candidates - the agents just didn't know who or what to submit. Well, during the afternoon session, one young gentleman came in and knocked our socks off with his reading. Unfortunately, he said he didn't really sing. Well... We just sat at the piano for a good half hour, and, lo and behold, the boy could sing! And pretty loudly too! I kind of walked him through some exercises, and just told him to keep trying, and he did. His mother walked back in later, and she though someone else had gotten the part - she had heard the singing down the hall, but didn't realize it was her son who was doing the singing! I was exhausted after that! The only way I could get him to sing "high" was if I sang high(!). So, after belting out high C's and D's for about 30 minutes (that "Freedom" song is high(!!!)), we gave him the job... And then we (not the young gentleman and his mother) all headed over to Cafe Baba-Reeba for some tapas and a couple of pitchers of sangria! -And all on the producers tab too!!
*I actually used to keep in touch with him and his mother for a few years after that via e-mail. He ended up getting a bunch of day-players parts on "Chicago Hope", "ER", "Morning Edition", etc. Unfortunately, I can't even think of his name right now... Mmm... I may have to look up that program when I get back to Richmond tomorrow.
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DR SWW - Thanks for the "Good Eats" reminder. I like Alton Brown, and I love his show. So quirky, funny, and still manages to be very informative - and some of the less-traditional takes on traditional recipes are quite good. -His chocolate "lava" cake recipe is a favorite of mine.
I don't have any of the tapes or DVD of his programs - just seems weird to pay that much for something that I can see at 9:00pm and 1:00am every Wednesday - as well as various times during the week. However, I would like to see the Q&A sections. -And do they have bloopers? *If they were a little cheaper I'd buy them, but $19.95(?) does seem a bit much for a half-hour program. Or are they longer on the DVDs? -I think you said you owned a set...
I actually stood next to him in a very slow-moving line at La Guardia in September - as we were all waiting to fly out of NYC before hurricane Isabel shut the airport down. We got out. I'm not sure he did.
-He was actually less "sexy" in person than on TV, imho. Still very quirky/preppy/smart, but something just wasn't "right". I think it had to do with the fact that he was wearing a very nice suit, and had a few days of stubble on his face. I'll take the stubble, but the suit just seemed out of the ordinary - at least compared to his usual attire on his TV show.
Oh, and do you have his new book on kitchen equipment? I think I've mentioned it before sometime ago. In any case, I was very proud of myself when I went through it, and found that I had most of his recommended pieces of kitchen wares - as well as his recommended brands and models.
Of course, my favorite "chunk" - chef+hunk - is still Tyler Florence. I keep trying to think of a Food 911 emergency of my very own. I used to like Rocco diSpirito, but now he's just a slickie-boy to me.
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BTW--I was wrong about not being able to buy Bruces 1st two books off of the web site. I must have been confused with Kritzer Time which is not yet available.
I just bought both of them and am now going to figure out how to get them on my PDA so I can read them.
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Who here has a soft spot in their hearts for the film musical "Snow White and the Three Stooges"?????
Here, here, Ron! I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this film! Beautiful color, and it is the only reason I even know who Carol Heiss is! LOL! The skating is great, and I always thought Edson Stroll made a fine Prince Charming! He has his own website now, but he has completely ignored my numerous attempts to get him to consent to an interview!
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OK - I'm gonna take a computer break for a while.. all the work on the charts today as well as reading and posting here... I need to give my wrists and fingers some down time...
Oh, and do you think eating a whole bag of Brach's Bridge Mix would make one feel logey? ;)
Be back later...
Oh, DR WEL, as far as biographies go, I'd like to come across one of Emil Gilels, one of the late, great Russian pianists. I have many of his recordings, and my teacher used to speak of his amazing live concerts. I've just always been intrigued by the fact that his fingers used to bleed sometimes while playing the piano - at least that's what I've heard.
I'd also like to see some sort of official compendium of all the talented musicians and composers who would -and still do - ghost-write for the biggies. The whole process and "mystery" intrigues me. Of course, just from the nature of the inquiry, such a tome would probably never appear. I have some composer friends in Hollywood now who have done quite a bit of composing... unfortunately, when the royalty checks come in, they don't get any of them. But they were paid quite handsomely up front.
And has there been a book on Vera Allen?
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Danise, I am also a big Flynn fan. I do believe there is now something at least marking his grave. At least it was there the last time I visited his grave in Forest Lawn years ago. Seems to me it was just a flat stone with name and dates on it.
I've had a four-hour note session on the phone. I will be addressing notes that should be finished by Monday.
Ta, for now!
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Oh, and god knows, Ann Miller's wigs would have quite the stories to tell! It's just too bad the nicknames she gives them aren't really suitable for a family website.
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Danise, I hope you saw my answer to your question on the tech board - the order of the books is Benjamin Kritzer and then Kritzerland. To read them backwards would work about as well as Merrily We Roll Along.
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George: I'm really shameful when it comes to my own stuff - I have sort of lead sheets on everything, but it's all hidden away in storage. I should have all that properly done at some point. I have pretty much anything that's been recorded of mine, including some amateur productions of Stages (those are actually videos).
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I'm here... I'm here... I'm here!!!
Work this morning was pure unadulterated HEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL!!! (the link will explain why)
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040107.wgun0107a/BNStory/National/
Let's just say I spent the entire morning trying desperately to put together a press release in English while my boss worked on the French equivalent all while fielding phone call after phone call after phone call from reporters asking for interviews.
The big kahuna in Toronto (aka Madame E-mail) was on four different tv interview shows today. That's a lot!!! :)
On top of five hours of wrangling with real work (I managed to escape to go to school - unlike my fellow coworkers who phoned me at home as recently as twenty minutes ago asking for the whereabouts of some contact info) I then got to spend an afternoon listening to Baltimore accents of different classes (Sociolinguistics) and the story of Moses and the Exodus (Death and Dying).
I am now exhausted and am seriously considering just saying to heck with my pride and going to bed at 9pm.
In other news, I had the Western European Politics class with the supposed chile pepper worthy prof (according to ratemyprofessor.com at least!) He definitely was better looking than... oh I don't know... the 80 year old man who taught my course on the Arab Israeli Conflict... but overall was quite average. But something was bothering me him that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Then I realised it. The chile-pepper prof looks like a Christopher Fitzgerald clone. It's ridiculous really. Boq is teaching me Western European Politics. ;)
DR Ben: Congrats on your God-dom... you win this round :D
DR Jennifer: I was very bad today and had a hot dog at the hotdoggerie across the street from my office instead of my 6''-veggie-no cheese-honey and oat bread-all dressed except for olives-honey mustard sauce concoction from Subway. The wraps look a little gross to me (I'm not a huge bacon fan). Oh well... Subway had to go the way of the Atkins eventually I guess - everyone else has! ;)
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-And the table will most likely find it's way to my new apartment in a couple of weeks. :)
Old tables never die, they just move away...
Re: the Good Eats DVDs, they each contain three 30 minute episodes, with a Q&A for each. They're a little cheaper if you get them in "volumes," with three discs per disc (nine eps total). Also, he says (somewhere) that his normal attire is jeans and t-shirt; the bowling and Hawaiian shirts are show wear. (And, for the "volume three" discs, he's sporting a goatee! He's almost woofy!)
Gotta go, shows on!
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I'm home, after doing two triple lutzes as I exited the office.
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On January 17th the calendar lists Noel's birthday. It also says "Opening night of my new play" Silly question but I'll ask anyway. Are we to assume that the new play opening on January 17th is also Noel's. A birthday and opening night on the same day. Quite a series of events.
I've no idea what "opening night of my new play" refers to. Not me, sadly. I'll just be older.
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I just attempted a Triple Lutz.
My husband told me to stop acting like a yutz.
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Criswell predicts that this will become one of the most visited sights on the 'net.
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One last post before bed. I have to be in early to record my Radio Wales theatre reviews so I'm checking out for the night.
Play nice everybody.
G'night.
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Oh, my. Criswell. I remember him. I wonder if he has a biography :-)
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I'm back! Now, where was I?
Oh, and do you have his new book on kitchen equipment? I think I've mentioned it before sometime ago. In any case, I was very proud of myself when I went through it, and found that I had most of his recommended pieces of kitchen wares - as well as his recommended brands and models.
Of course, my favorite "chunk" - chef+hunk - is still Tyler Florence. I keep trying to think of a Food 911 emergency of my very own. I used to like Rocco diSpirito, but now he's just a slickie-boy to me.
The problem with Alton Brown's Gear for the Kitchen is that, if you've already stocked the most important room in the house (well, after the one with the shower and porcelin) and what you've stocked it with isn't what he would have stocked it with, well, you really just have to cash in some of your stock to buy what he would have stocked it with. This can get expensive! Just ask der Brucer! Also, the book would have been more fun if it had included a few pics of Vicki Eng (a.k.a. "W" on the show), but there were probably contract problems.
Oh, if you haven't already discovered it, try giving The Good Eats Fan Page (http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/) a look. Go ahead, I'll be patient.
Ah, you're back! Now, as for Tyler Florence, he's kinda easy on the eyes, but not my type. Come to think of it, most TV chefs aren't. But then, I'm not supposed to be watching for that reason. (Similarly, der Brucer keeps turning on Fox News, but since their big star is O'Reilly, I know der B is behaving himself!)
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Charles, Glad to learn that I am not the only Flynn Fan. When I was a little girl and didn't know he had died about the time I was born, I very much wanted to grow up and marry him. It broke my heart when I learned of his death.
His book, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" was an eye opener for me. I think I was eleven when I read it. My parents never really put any restrictions on my reading.
I'm so proud of myself! I got the books to download and then figured out how to up load them to my PDA and if that was not enough, I got Adobie Reader Pocket Editon to load to the PDA as well! I am a computer genius! Look out , Mark! Today I conquered the PDA, tomorrow the internet!
Whew! I am tired now after all that and will be hitting the sack when I post this. I will start reading Benjamin Kritzer on the way to work tomorrow!
Goodnight all!
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I would like to come to the defense of Toller Cranston. I have had the opportunity in the past to come to meet him on several occassions. My family has had an art gallery in Montreal for the past 30 years and we at one time represented him as one of artists. I always liked his work and we own a painting of his. His use of colors and imagery made his work stand out among the other artists that we represented.
They always said that Cranston as a skater never received the recognition he deserved and he was an skater a head of his time. He broke away from the more staid and traditional moves and allowed the current crop of artists to shine.
Cranston has an artist's personality. He is bigger than life and conducted his life that way. I am sure not everyone who met him liked him, but I did. I was also friendly with his friend the late skater Brian Pockar.
Toller even autographed the cast album of the Toller Cranston Ice Show for me.
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BTW I got an email asking who was in the picture. That is me in the background with Christopher Reeves in a scene from the movie Steet Smart. He is about to ask me for a pack of matches.
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JRand53 I’m not a fan of Toller, so guess I will check out INSIDE EDGE. Thanks.
Danise I’m glad you are feeling better.
In the DVD player SMALLVILLE and Keith is waiting for me to watch it with him.
I split a tooth tonight. It doesn’t hurt but I can’t eat until I see the dentist. I was lucky someone was still in the office and I have an appointment tomorrow morning.
Lulu you are funny.
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DR SWW - Thanks for the info on the "Good Eats" DVDs... hmm.. Three episodes per tape/DVD... I may have to investigate further.
-As for tonight's episode... An herb show? In January? I guess for those planning a spring - or even winter - herb garden. And his "herb dryer" rigging was "fun" for a lack of a better word. I just have to wonder how safe the air filters are - at least once they come in contact with foodstuffs. Well, at least I know now who to sue. ;)
DR Emily - I read the article - I guess you were busy today! And I also learned that you call them ABMs and not ATMs as they called south of your border.
Hmm.. A - B - M....
Oh, nevermind...
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Good evening everyone!
I shall soon be winging my way back to the land of sleet and snow, and here's hoping the freshluganah airport is open when I get there.
Today I went snorkeling..well, kinda, since I didn't have a mask, only goggles...in one of the coral reef bays. It was AMAZING!!! I'd never seen tropical fish up close before, and never so many at one time. They were SO beautiful, and seeing them in their natural habitat, being right in the water with them, made it ever cooler. Definitely one of the highlights of the trip. A side note, I think one of the fish developed a crush on me. He (or she) followed me around the reef for a good fifteen minutes. When I stopped, he circled me. When I swam, he was right by my feet. Strange, no? I swear this is the truth...Tiana will back me up, she saw! :)
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I don't remember anyone saying anything negative about Toller Cranston, so defending him seems unnecessary. Everything I've read, thus far, has been highly complimentary.
I'm watching ice dancing -- original dance. It's kinda sorta b-o-r-i-n-g! Everyone is doing rock 'n' roll, which makes me think they've been told what kind of music to be "original" with. As it is, they all seem copycat and there's just so much of it you can stand.
Belbin and Tcherneshev (sp???) had to withdraw, which means they won't have a shot at a 6th Consecutive U.S. ice dancing title!!!!! I HAD NO IDEA THEY HAD ONE TITLE! But I do seem to remember they couldn't compete at Olympics once because he hadn't been an U.S. citizen long enough...it may have been another multi-cultural U.S. couple, though.
Ah, well.
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Danise, there are pictures around of Sean Flynn before he was lost. He was very, very handsome.
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I liked Carol Heiss, but she went into coaching and didn't seem to do professional ice shows for decades like Peggy Fleming did. Other than her SNOW WHITE movie, I think she kind of faded from view for the masses. I guess she had a family and being a mom was her specialty for awhile and then went into coaching.
DR Michael Shayne, I was greatly pulling for Brian Pockar the year he won the bronze at Worlds. He had lost the Canadian Championship to Brian Orser but bested him at Worlds. I was so happy about that. Orser, of course, twice won the Worlds and won two silvers in the 84 and 88 Olympics.
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A book about Ann Miller, but not by Ann Miller would be quite interesting. Her autobiography Miller's High Life makes Belle Poitrine's Little Me seem serious and true by comparison. At least once a chapter Ms. Miller reminds readers that she looked older than her age as a child and so added years to make her actually seem older and now she is actually much younger than published reports because of this. This is an excellent book for people who like to read between the lines.
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Trying to test something on my computer...having trouble finding an image small enough...these may dissapear...
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It WOOOOORKED! Finally!
Laura II should love THAT picture...
And hello to everyone, thank you for your kind words about my mom. She's doing alright at the moment, but she needs my help a lot more than she did before.
I'll try to post from school later in the week, but I'm not sure how much time I'll have, with exam preps and all.
Nice to read posts though, such fun conversation!
Catch up later,
Sarah
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Before my TV shows came on tonight, I had the strangest desire to watch the movie MAME. Oh, does Lucy ever butcher those songs. She's barely on pitch while singing, but there's no character to her voice, no emotion - it's just struggling to hit the notes, and you hear it in every song. What a disaster she is. And there she sat front and center at the Golden Globes fully expecting to win that year, and when Raquel Welch's name was called (for THE THREE MUSKETEERS), you knew she wanted to drop to the floor.
Funny, too, that Audrey Christie, who plays Mrs. Upson in the film, played Vera when I first saw MAME with Janis Paige in NYC.
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When you folks are through discussing the ferschlugeneh ice capades and wanna talk about a real sport--women's roller derby--lemme know.
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Back to Raquel Welch again for me if we're going to talk roller derby. KANSAS CITY BOMBER is the extent of my knowledge about roller derby. Oh, it used to come on Saturday early evening in our area, but I only watched when the men were skating, and even then only half heartedly. They wore too many clothes. CHampionship Wrestling - now there you could see a lot more!
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I want to apologize if I've poured on the skating talk too much here today. I guess I DO get carried away when the subject comes up, and I get so little chance to talk about it ever. None of my friends in town are the LEAST bit interested in it, and it was exciting to find some like-minded fans here.
Now that I'm headed for bed, others can come out of hiding and have no fear that more skate talk is going to descend upon their heads, at least from me.
[DR Ron may be lurking some place, however.]
Good night.
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Oh, piffle, Jay!
Nobody is making folks talk about ice skating. We talk about it because we want to. You can talk about whatever you want to talk about, too. I do it all the time.
:D
That said, I was very disappointed in the judging in pairs. The first place pair ought to be third, the second place oaur ought to be fourth, the third place pair ought to be first and the fourth place pair ought to be second.
But maybe that's why I stopped watching pairs and ice dancing....all the judges don't judge on "performance" -- it's all about what the team "should" be capable of doing. So if the so-called "top pair" skates poorly, they're going to be placed first no matter what. If a pair that finished fifth last year skates its heart out and doesn't make mistakes like falling on triple throws or side-by-side triple jumps, they're still going to be fourth or fifth even though the "favored" pair falls and fails -- AGAIN -- to live up to "potential."
Judging is still terrible!
Now! Talk away everyone about whatever. I talk about what I want to. I don't wait for others to post something interesting that I can contribute to. If something doesn't interest me, I post what's on my mind.
Y'all all know that, though, dontcha!!!
;D
DR MattH: You'd better be talking about this competition tomorrow 'cause I'm gonna quiz you on it.
Mens and women's short programs air on ESPN2 tomorrow night -- 7 p.m. PST/10 p.m. EST!!!
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Say, where did everybody go. Our frenzy turned into a fre. Well, maybe the late-night denizens will show up soon.
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Is anybody there???
Does anybody care???
Does anybody see...what I see???
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I'm sorry, BK, but I'm not up to last night's post-a-thon.
I'm exhausted. It's all I can do to keep from falling into bed right this minute.
I'm trying to wait until 10, but not sure I'm gonna.............................make........... .............it.
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It WOOOOORKED! Finally!
Laura II should love THAT picture...
Heck, Sarah....quite a few of our posters are gonna love THAT picture.
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Ooo, I'm the only one online right now! (aka vanity post!)
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Laura II loves that picture! Drew is the guy with "is" on his stomach! Those are guys from my class before Homecoming 2002! Thanks Sarah!
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I know - we tuckered out everyone last night. Still, there's plenty of evening left for our late-night denizens so let's keep the home fries burning, shall we? And remember, big announcement in tomorrow's notes.
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I shall return in an hour when I have read 10 pages of posts. Perhaps they are all conspiracy theories about my absence today. I'm back and I am smiling.
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Ok, I will identify the guys in the picture from left to right:
"0"--Ryan, future president of the United States
"3"--Josh, Drew's best friend
"is"--Drew
"S"--Matt
"U"--Ryan B.
"P"--Bobby
"E"--Mike
"R"--Colin
Some of the best looking guys in school, minus Colin!
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I have been immersed in Season 8 of THE X FILES for review purposes tonight, and that's a lot of Robert Patrick to sit through.
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DR SwishySarah and LauraII: I thought you guys lived in different cities? Maybe not, I'll have to check the Member info. But if you do live in different cities, how does LauraII know who's in the picture that SwishySarah posted? Inquiring minds want to know.
-And I guess that whole boxers sticking out of the jeans isn't such a bad look after all.
-Hmmm.. There's something slightly illegal in that sentence... hmmm...???
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Just got back from spending a full 8 hours with college friends...it was fun, but I'm glad to be home. I love the girls, but they can really wear me out sometimes.
If I was as attractive as you, dear Maya, I would have a house full of mirrors, instead of just a bedroom full. As it is, I cover the bathroom mirror, for fear I might accidently see myself naked.
LOL...aw, TCB, you exaggerate on both counts!
Swish--love the pic!
Jason--love the new avatar! I can't wait to see Assassins!
It's wonderful the Wicked OCR is doing so well...I actually burned a copy for my best friend who is NOT into musical theatre much, and she loved it. I think it's just a very accessible score, which is not to diss it at all.
Emily--there are worse people for your prof to resemble than Christoper "Biq/Boq" Fitzgerald!
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Oh, nevermind.. I'm getting my Laura's mixed up... I forgot that you're both Virginians. -Like myself! :-)
*I went to O'Connell... Boy, did our sports teams suck!
And speaking of which, where is Laura (I)?
Ah, well...
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Jose: Sarah was a freshman at our high school last year when I was a senior. We met through choir, and I adopted her as a choir sister!
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I got a weird surge of energy a little while ago and started organizing my bookshelves. Must be from the pasta I had for dinner. Been living here two months (as of Friday) and I'm finally gettting around to organizing the bookshelves at 10:30 at night. Go figure.
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Yay, late-night denizens!
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I'm brringing in a new member!
(Watch your mind, TCB)!
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Is Evil Twin your member?
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Hello, Evil Twin, and welcome
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Yay, late-night denizens!
Let's hear it for the boys and girls of HHW!
Let's see what the boys in the back room will have!
Let's party til the cows come home!
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Is Evil Twin your member?
I never named MY member.
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Well, I just finished my preliminary packing for my trip back down to Richmond tomorrow. I'm soooo excited to be heading back home for a few days... And then to New York a week from today!
I was kind of surprised that there wasn't more to pack. I tend to keep bringing more stuff up from Richmond each time I go back and forth, but this time there seems to be less accumulation. The car will be nicely packed, but I should still be able to use my rear-view mirror with no "interference".
It's amazing what one finds when going through about three months of stuff: lots of back issues of magazines, old newspapers (into the recycling bin), a pound of fudge(!), some clothes I forgot I had bought (gotta love those Banana Republic clearance racks!), lots of shopping bags from lots of shopping trips... and it does look like my Imelda gene did kick in over the past few months: I have ten pairs of shoes here! And I think I bought about five or six of those pairs while I was up here! But one can never have too many black New Balance walking shoes - great for the pit!
All I have left to do is put away the stuff that's in the "open" - I also bought a bunch of candles over the past few weeks - ???. I also want to get my hair cut tomorrow morning at my favorite barber shop up here. So, hopefully, I should be heading back down to Richmond by 1:00, and be back home by 3:00! *Oh, and as luck would have it, my masseuse will be in town this weekend, and I have a nice two slot booked for Sunday!
A two hour massage followed by "Sex & The City" - sounds like a nice Sunday night to me!
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No, I'm not his MEMBER...I am his twin. I only see members on my Birthday!
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Who's gonna hit on the NEW MEMBER?!?!?!?!?!
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TD, I think you should introduce your member to everyone here. Knowing your member as I do I welcome your member, who I feel will be a good addition to all the other members.
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I'm here, and I don't mind telling you that I'm mighty pleased to have been mistaken for Young Laura.
I spent a most exciting day watching the drywall man repair the holes the plumber made in the walls.
My question for Ask BK Day:
Dear BK: Tonight I roasted a turkey for dinner. My DH then decided to go out and get a hot dog for dinner. What do you suggest I do with the turkey?
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I suggest you take the turkey and brain the DH with it. Or, simply insert his head where the stuffing would normally reside.
Late-night denizens and a new member. Member, speak!
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TD, I think you should introduce your member to everyone here. Knowing your member as I do I welcome your member, who I feel will be a good addition to all the other members.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, may I present to you, the one, the only:
EVIL TWIN
Make her welcome!
Treat her right!
. . .well, if you can't treat her right, remember the old song, "Treat Me Rough."
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Welcome to Evil Twin!
DearReaderLaura: Aww! I must say that once someone confused us (I believe it was Jose :)), and I was honored!
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DR Panni - I tend to get those late night organizing joneses every now and then... and sometimes they turn into a organizing and cleaning jones! -Most definitely not a Smith or a Harpers, but a Jones. Of course, when I go through my CDs, there's always one or two missing CDs, and I end up being kept up by all the, "I wonder where it is?" thoughts.
I think the "worst" case was when I started taking care of some tough spots on the kitchen floor.. About an hour later, I had done the whole floor... by hand... on my hands and knees... with just a heavy duty wash cloth and a bucket of sudsy water. But, Man was that floor C-L-E-A-N!
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Member, speak!
The member HAS spoken!
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SO, am I supposed to believe that everyone on this site knows my twin's member? Sorry, I am slow at relpying. I am not the smartest twin.
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We also have an amazing eleven count them eleven GUESTS, who are all looking at our member. How many members get looked at by so many GUESTS.
Welcome, GUESTS.
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Thank you Laura II
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Evil Twin is a delightful and talented friend of TDs. In fact, she's his member.
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The last time everyone was looking at my member, I was playing NUGGET in EQUUS.
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We have got us a posting frenzy, that's what we got us. And don't forget, new notes going up in a little over an hour with big news.
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Your member is a nugget? Hmmm.
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Is that a CHICKEN nugget??
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Thar's gold nuggets in them thar hills!
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OOohh... I can't resist...
Only 100 more posts until I reach Mt. Olympus!
Hmmm... I'm wondering if I can achieve that status before I head to NYC next week - since I will most likely be somewhat E&T and T&E - but I do promise to post at least once a day while I'm up there. At least once.
In any case, today is (now) Thursday, I leave for NYC on Wednesday morning... Hmmm... How many one word posts would it take per day? ;)
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Right now, I'm watching a show on The Discovery Channel called "Tokyo's Sky City." The description, according to tvguide.com, is: Examining plans for a building that would be a mile high and incorporate 24 steel, concrete and glass "plateaus," each 40 stories high and stacked on top of each other. They're inventing techniques to build the building. There's another building being built right now called Taiwan 101 (it'll have 101 floors). Taiwan 101 is kind of a test building for the techniques that will be used for Sky City. It's going to be on again tonight at 1:00 am (actually Thursday morning). I'm going to tape it to see the whole thing!
And with this post, I'm tied with MBarnum at 452 posts each (and he's off-line, too)! One more and I'll be 12th highest poster (he said with a maniacal laugh)!!
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Is that a CHICKEN nugget??
Honey, the last time I was considered "chicken," dinosaurs still roamed the earth!
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Now can I remember anything. I don't think we have ice in OZ except in drinks. (A contintent without a permanent snowline). We might be able to provice an Olympic figure skating champion if the other skaters all fall down! We've done in speed skating.
Congratulations and welcome BEN. (Have I missed anyone).
Welcome to Evil Twin. Identical twins too!
My favourite skating moment was by non skater Wayne Sleep. Wonderful routine a few years back.
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Ok...I am performing in a show this weekend in NYC where I am imitating 14 FAB. stars. Should I include Donna Murphy, cough, and then make an announcement that she has the flu and say that her understudy is going on? Is it too mean. I adore Donna Murphy and I don't know if it is funny or mean?
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And with this post, I'm tied with MBarnum at 452 posts each (and he's off-line, too)! One more and I'll be 12th highest poster (he said with a maniacal laugh)!!
And, me? I am still in the TOP TEN!
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And if you check the member directory, you'll notice that EVIL TWIN has a birthday this week. . . .
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. . . Shall we have pantaloons and party hats in sundry shapes and sizes?
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It's funny - do it! Late-night denizens, that's what we got here. All those people who went to bed early probably thought we wouldn't top 300 posts tonight. We showed them, we did, and the evening isn't over for another hour.
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TD, I think you should introduce your member to everyone here. Knowing your member as I do I welcome your member, who I feel will be a good addition to all the other members.
Those are indeed warm words of welcome! ;)
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[move=right,scroll,16,transparent,100%][size=15]Welcome, New Member (NM) and Dear Reader (DR) Evil Twin![/size][/move]
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Thank you Bruce. If I have YOUR ok I think I won't be scared to do it. Besides, 15 stars is better than 14!
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Thank you JoeSPiano. Nice to be here.
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Do I become a GOD at five hundred posts? ? ? ? Or, have I got a long, long way to go?
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Just remembered. Those early posts from Ron and BK. I think I had been talking to my sister (who has just returned from the road to Bali. I may also have been eating my evening meal. I had just left the computer on I guess. Nothing personal.
Thanks Ron for the photos of your four legged friends.
WEL: Still giving some thought to your biography question. Best autobiographical books that I have read are those by Dirk Bogarde. Has there been a good one on Bobby Darin yet? Which of course was a question begging for a Kevin Spacey connection.
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And welcome to new reader Uhlie. You'll become a Dear Reader as soon as you post.
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Poor TD...His will be a god soon, and will have to drag along his poor little new member who just joined
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Oh -- and welcome, DR Evil Twin.
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WEL: Still giving some thought to your biography question. Best autobiographical books that I have read are those by Dirk Bogarde. Has there been a good one on Bobby Darin yet? Which of course was a question begging for a Kevin Spacey connection.
Darin and Sandra Dee's son wrote a biography of BOBBY. . . .
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Fifteen is always better than fourteen. Welcome to new lurker Uhlie. If Uhlie is reading this, please check your e-mail. Uhlie is a very nice chap and I do hope he'll join in on our posting frenzy whenever he's comfortable doing so.
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I think it's 501 td. (So long ago I've forgotten - I let the angels take care of all that counting stuff).
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I'll tell you one thing - I'm doing my damndest to hit fifteen hundred posts tonight.
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Poor TD...His will be a god soon, and will have to drag along his poor little new member who just joined
Some people get a new brain (Oh! a William Finn reference!) I get a NEW MEMBER!
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But I won't do it unless there are posts to respond to. That would be artificial post insemenation.
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Thanks td. Is it a good an honest one? Darin had so much talent.
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And, me? I am still in the TOP TEN!
Yes, td, you are in no danger of falling out of the top ten...just yet! ;) I have 453 posts (with this one), Emily has 475 and YOU have 495 (so far). Ben has 510 and is off-line.
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I think it's 501 td. (So long ago I've forgotten - I let the angels take care of all that counting stuff).
Well, either way, I might just be a GOD before I go to bed.
If I do become a GOD, I want everyone to know that I will do my utmost to keep my member immaculate.
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Isn't "POST" a breakfast cereal?
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Isn't it the other way around, TD?
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Thanks td. Is it a good an honest one? Darin had so much talent.
I don't think that it's a Chrisina Crawford take on Bobby, though, the book has been out of print for a while. . .maybe Ebay has one or two. . .
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Thank you JoeSPiano. Nice to be here.
<cough>.. It's don't forget the other "s" in there...
ahem... <cough>...
And speaking of coughs...
Well, you could make a running bit of it... The first time you cough, you could say Donna Murphy's u/s is going on. Then the next time you cough, you could say Bernadette Peters' u/s is going on. Then the next time you cough, you could say that Emily Skinner's u/s is going on... Of course, you really don't have to cough to say that Emily Skinner's u/s is going on... -Now that's mean! -And I've played for Emily!
-Oh, and you could always delve into the opera world... Teresa Stratas, Aprille Millo (I still remember that one performance here in DC where she literally walked off the stage in the middle of the opera... She just felt she wasn't singing well that night. They had to call her cover in!)
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Isn't it the other way around, TD?
Either way, I can become a GOD while in bed. . .but this is a family site, and I just won't go there.
Besides, I don't have a laptop.
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Only three more posts to go. . . . .
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I guess that this is where we see vanity posts from td. . .
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oh....sorry about the the missing "S". I told you I am not the smart twin.
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Is it time for a celebration? (OH! A Schmidt & Jones reference!)
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THIS is a posting frenzy. Won't those who went to sleep thinking haineshisway.com had seen the best of what it was going to see be surprised. And we still have fifty count them fifty minutes and anything can happen in that time frame.
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How proud TD must be that his "Evil Twin" will be performing on the stage that "BOOBS, the musical is playing.
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Is it possible to become a born again virgin? I guess a God can arrange it. Must check the rule book.
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At Last! (Oh! an Etta James reference)! I am now officially a celestial body!
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Is TD singing 'Like A God" from "FLOWER DRUM SONG" now?
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We have got us eleven GUESTS. Welcome you GUESTS, we love you. I think this posting frenzy deserves another of my famous...
TRIPLE LUTZ!
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And that all happened whilst I was typing. Congratulations td. I think all the streamers were used for Ben earlier. Guess we will have to throw underwear so you can change more often. (Forget that - I don't have enough photos). Forget all that - I don't think that was about anything posted publically here at all.
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Is it possible to become a born again virgin? I guess a God can arrange it. Must check the rule book.
One GOD to another, if I told you you have a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? ? ?
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I don't know why, but I was playing a game of Free Cell and singing An English Teacher in my Katherine Hepburn voice. Everyone should try it - it works really well, especially the lines "I could have been Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Albert Peterson, Mrs. Phi Beta Kappa Peterson, the English teacher's wife."
Try it right now and tell me what you think.
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Congratulations TD!! Just make sure that you sleep with one eye open ;) I may be 50 or so posts behind you, but not for long!
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Is TD singing 'Like A God" from "FLOWER DRUM SONG" now?
Ummmm, no.. . .I'm downloading Etta James. . . .
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BK, I was playing Free Cell and singing like Katharine Hepburn too! Are we triplets?
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Is everybody singing those lines like Katherine Hepburn. You MUST try it and report back.
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And a most hearty welcome to Evil Twin and Uhlie! Make yourselves at home and feel free to post away!
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Well, this Nebie is tirrrred, and I've got a show to do!
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What a fun into this has been. Thanks to all you DR.
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I second that emotion. This being a HHW GOD can become quite tiring. . .
See you all tomorrow! Oh, wait! It IS TOMORROW!!!
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I have South Park Free Cell. I can't really sing like Katherine Hepburn, but I imagined that I could as I sort of sang like Cartman (from South Park). Does that count? ::)
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I have South Park Free Cell. I can't really sing like Katherine Hepburn, but I imagined that I could as I sort of sang like Cartman (from South Park). Does that count? ::)
Mayve there's a Free Cell in OZ. . .I'll have to ask Christopher Meloni. . .whom I'm sure does a divine Katharine Hepburn. . . . :o
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Tomorrow, tomorrow - what are we, Annie all of a sudden? I don't know if I'll make it to 1500 without a LITTLE help from my friends.
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It was the disparity in scoring school figures and Lynn's inability to do them well that led to changes in scoring in the early 70s. I've never seen Janet Lynn skate a complete program, but I'm informed that she was a very musical, graceful performer with a good deal of athleticism besides.
And, of course, she will always be remembered as the mother of Loretta Lynn.
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Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends. And can none of you do Katherine Hepburn for heaven's sake?
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Until Dr TCB enlightened me yeaterday "free cell in OZ" meant absolutely nothing to me.
td. Of course. Just you and me and The Bellamy Brothers.
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And if we don't lag, I do believe we have a real shot at breaking four hundred. Can you imagine those that went to bed when there were 285 posts? First of all, we've had 100 posts in two count them two hours. Pretty good, if you ask me.
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Yay for the Beatles, BK!
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Help! I now have a room with books all over the floor but am too tired to finish organizing. (And I'm saying this like Katherine Hepburn.)
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Love the Beatles. Love Gerry and the Pacemakers. Love this BOARD
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LOVE fourteen pages!
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Alas, no Benicio tonight. We drove to the Egyptian to get early tickets for 21 GRAMS and discovered that the tickets which I was assured were not sold out, were indeed sold out. Hearing this, my daughter uttered something I won't print on a family website.
.... and you wonder why I am letting BK adopt me?
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Tomorrow, tomorrow - what are we, Annie all of a sudden? I don't know if I'll make it to 1500 without a LITTLE help from my friends.
Okay, Bruce, here are a few last minute questions that have nothing to do with what's been talked about at all: What was the very first song that you wrote. What was it about? Was it part of a show or just a song on its own?
There. You can answer each question separately and (legitimately) add to your total!
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And how old were you when you wrote it?
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Who here has a soft spot in their hearts for the film musical "Snow White and the Three Stooges"?????
I love that film, but my all-time favorite stooge film is Have Rocket Will Travel. Why isn't that released on DVD?
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DR TCB - It's a non-stop funfest at my house!
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...And if I adopted you, you could help me clear up the books!
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DR Laura II: Your young brother's influence is showing.
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...And walk the dog...
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I went to Fred Meyer (I got a gift card for Christmas) and I bought the DVD of "9 To 5" with Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin. I love this movie and have never owned it! And it's in Widescreen!
I also got the DVD, "Muppets Magic from The Ed Sullivan Show." It "features the first Muppet performance on The Ed Sullivan Show from September 18, 1966." And it includes "Rare Bonus Futtage!" I love the Muppets!
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Hello all! I've been unexpectedly out of town since last evening. Got a call from my best friend from college telling me that she was in Ellensburg (my hometown and where our university is) for a couple days on her way back to Reno (grad school). So I bombed down there and had a lovely and sparkling time hanging out with her and other college friends.
I'm currently setting stuff up on my new computer, which I recieved this evening. No more fershluganah Mac!!! :D
And now I have a veritable plethora of posts from the last 30 hours to catch up on!
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DR Tomovoz, you're correct!
What is everyone's favorite Beatles song? I generally prefer their earlier recordings. One of my favorites is "In My Life." Hmm I know there are so many more I absolutely adore. Perhaps I will be reminded by something else someone posts.
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I just realized that Abie (dog) and I were Post #400. Hooray!
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"In My Life" would be right up there. "If I Fell", "And I Love Her" and "Here There and Everywhere" would be in my top 10 too.
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I think this is the first time on the new board that there have been consecutive days with 400+ posts. I know you needed to know that.
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Holy moley on rye, we haz passed four hundred posts! We're in the home stretch, baby.
George: I could answer your question but you'll have much more fun reading about the song in Kritzer Time.
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We did need to know that, that was very important.
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If my experience is anything to go by, DR Jed will not be posting until the new notes. There are so many posts - some you can skate over though!
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Holy moley on rye, we haz passed four hundred posts! We're in the home stretch, baby.
George: I could answer your question but you'll have much more fun reading about the song in Kritzer Time.
I will be more than happy to wait, Bruce! Thanks for the "foreshadowing." :D
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You cannot skate over posts - you can, however, do a triple lutz over posts. I shall do one over this one.
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Danise, there are pictures around of Sean Flynn before he was lost. He was very, very handsome.
Actually, Danise and Matt, Sean Flynn actually made, at least, one movie that I know of, for sure. It was like a remake of Thief of Baghdad. I was crushed when he died.
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"And I Love Her" and "Here, There, and Everywhere" are two others I love! Thanks for reminding me of them, Tomovoz!
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OK - I have to use it just one more time:
WOWZA!
-Much better now..
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Seven more minutes to post here. Let's end with a BANG, shall we?
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Of course, we can keep posting after that, but to the new topic. We can get a nice head start or, at the very least, a nice foot start.
And, I do believe I just achieved 1500 posts!
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And now, I shall do a TRIPLE LUTZ!
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I've never really been a Beatles fan. I do like a lot of their songs, though, but when I was in high school, we had to sing "Michele" (is that how it's spelled?) in Show Choir and I've hated that song ever since.
There was another Beatles song that I can't stand as well, but I've blocked out the title. I can't remember it but...unfortunately...will probably wake up in the middle of the night singing it. I hate it when that happens.
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Of course, we can keep posting after that, but to the new topic. We can get a nice head start or, at the very least, a nice foot start.
And, I do believe I just achieved 1500 posts!
"And we all kow-tow!"
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We shall laugh and laugh when those who went to bed early two hours ago when there were 285 posts arise to see over four hundred posts. What a frenzy. I'd say it was a frenzy and a half.
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FIFTEEN PAGES!
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Of course, with just five more posts we tie yesterday's amazing number of posts.
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I wonder if Jed has read up to page 5 yet?
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My shoulder hurts. I'm listening to Wicked. I was singing "Popular" at work. I think the children think I'm a shallow gal now!
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I shall now do a TRIPLE LUTZ and a DOUBLE AXEL.
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That's probably only three more by now (or less) BK.
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How many more posts till we tie yesterday's posts?
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I have been immersed in Season 8 of THE X FILES for review purposes tonight, and that's a lot of Robert Patrick to sit through.
I've heard that there is a lot of Robert Patrick!
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Pop-You-Lahr. That's us, soon to be the most Pop-You-Lahr website on all the Internet.
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By jove, I think I did it!
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FIRST 1500+ POSTER OF HHW. It's appropriate that it's you, Bruce.
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By jove I think we've done it!