Haines His Way

I'm back from my break. I feel quite refreshed and ready to get back to the difficult task of sitting around.

Cherry Coke??

Wait a minute,.....

We have the media at our fingertips....

François has deleted his profile.

If a profile disappears, does that mean all the past posts go with it?

BK CIRCA 1975

awwwww..... He looks so sweet and innocent!

So, now I have a few hours to surf the web, catch up on some e-mails, watch some TV, etc., until Steve comes by to pick me up.

Hmm... Maybe a nice end of the year walk is in order.  Hmm...

Really??

I don't recall if DR George posted his reaction.

I'm only about half way through the German cast recording of Wicked, but so far, with a few caveats, I think this is a better sung, better sounding recording than the original OBC!  The music director is the same as for the OBC, so tempi-wise, it's almost a carbon copy of the original.     But to be clear:  the score IS sung in German!

I have really enjoyed listening to this, also.  I left it at home, but I may go there at lunch time to get it.  I went to a friend's house last night and we talked about the German cast recording of Menken & Schwartz's Der Glöckner von Notre Dame.  I had to get it out of the garage, and I'm listening to this right now.  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE (that's three BIG LOVEs) this stage score.  Why isn't there be an English language production?? (aside from the obvious...Disney's direct-to-video sequel )

If a profile disappears, does that mean all the past posts go with it?

No.

Why does that make me think of an episode of Brady Bunch

Because you watch too many re-runs?

This is what it looks like:

And since we're so close...

...break out the "Right Guard"!


 

I'm fixin' to go to the drug store for some Prilosec.  It's been coming on gradually....but I think the holiday "feasting" has caught up to me.

...break out the "Right Guard"!

AND the listerine!

Following the discussion over at ATC with some interest.

Is it possible to render a stage musical successfully on film [admitedly, a completely different - and more realistic - medium] without using some sort of "gimmick" to explain away the singing?

I wonder...

Well, they've been doing it for years - it's just NOW because no one has the guts to just DO it.  Sweeney did it, Hairspray did it - Sweeney is not going to be a hit, Hairspray made its money back.  But, as I've said many times, sit a young person down and show them The Music Man - nobody will question the singing, more than they'd question Spiderman or Daniel Craig as James Bond doing any of the stupidly impossible things they do.  But so many young people today have their heads up their rectal cavities - they WILL accept these preposterous films that make now sense, defy every sort of logic, and which require king-size suspension of reality, but they can't accept a person singing in a film.  It is to laugh.  

I'm fixin' to go to the drug store for some Prilosec.  It's been coming on gradually....but I think the holiday "feasting" has caught up to me.

Speed reading kicks in again... I thought you wrote "Prozac."