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Well, you've read the notes, the notes sung today, and now it is time for you to post until the singing cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: ACARPOUS!
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Topic of the Day:
In my DVD player: "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" from Netflix and the opera, "Doctor Atomic" from my local library.
In my CD player: a whole bunch of things at work that I can't think of.
On my DVR: last Tuesday's episode of "Reaper" and the series premiere of the new version of "Cupid."
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Great news from DR vixmom re: your hearing! :D ***CONTINUED VIBES*** for your dear father!!
CONGRATULATIONS to DR AJ and to DR Samantha!!!! :D
***CONTINUED TRAVEL VIBES*** to DR Druxy, family, and the menagerie!
Good to see DR DakotaCelt posting, and glad she's OK. ***VIBES*** for the continued safety of all in the Fargo area. Oh, and that was a very interesting blog link that you posted last night! :)
bk, loved the notes. What a bizarre story.
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It is too early to be up.
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And the word of the day is: ACARPOUS!
And The Song Of The Day Is: STRANGE FRUIT
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DR GEORGE I like the DVD version of DOCTOR ATOMIC that is out, but I liked the MET version on PBS much better.
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Congratulations to DR AJ and SAM
Continued travel and new home vibes for DR DRUXY.
Vibes for the father of DR VIXMOM.
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What a shocking and sad story in the notes today.....oh dear. And I enjoy that CD very much!
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TOD:
DVD - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - the movie, still fun.
CD - Jonny McGovern
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No listening plans today. Too much work.
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TOD:
* Steven Pasquale: Somethin' Like Love
He has a sweet voice, and the jazz stylings and crooning are certainly fine. It's just that I
was hoping for more of the belting we heard on "Streets of Dublin" in A Man of No
Importance. This is not that.
* Dear Edwina, world premiere recording
* Jason Danieley & the Frontier Heroes [surprisingly enjoyable!]
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It is too early to be up.
Heron guards can never rest.
Vigilance, ever vigilance.
(http://away.com/gifs/refrep/bluheron.jpg)
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Miss Channing Regrets (She's Unable to Sing Today)
(http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:55hO11nPdCKFoM:http://westendwhingers.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/channing.jpg)
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I need to check things when the sun comes up. We covered the pond with netting yesterday. I hope that works. I have to be out today.
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I have to be out today.
I was out once.
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DR Sandra always cracks me up! ;D
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Great Notes!!
I knew things were bad with CC, but never that bad.
It is really sad that someone had to act that way.
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Good morning. Another great set of notes, BK. I had heard similar stories, so I was glad to read your take on "The Legendary Miss Channing."
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I have to be out today.
I was out once.
F O R Y E A R S ! ! !
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Did someone say something? ;)
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One of our neighbors has a cat that got out and has been missing since Sunday. On our morning stroll at 5:00 AM, I think Zach discovered him, hiding under an SUV in a nearby driveway. But by the time I tethered Zach to a tree and went to try to retrieve the cat, he was gone. :( I left a note on the neighbor's door.
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DR DAW that is a scary picture to combine with the notes.
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DR DAW that is a scary picture to combine with the notes.
That was the intent. ;D
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Maybe I can be persuaded to re tell the Carol Channing tour story that I heard.
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Can ya feel the love?? I'm twisting your arm! :D
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LOL.
Well.....it seems that at one point in the title song, Ms Channing was raised over the heads of the Waiters, and Ms Channing being at a particular age - well, would lose some water from her radiator, so to speak - each time she was lifted.
Of course she could not wear a bulky undergarment and told the boys they would just have to deal with it. The boys were not happy. They petitioned Equity and were granted Hazard Pay for participating in that particular number.
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OMG!!! :o
All we all getting sued for defamation of character today? :)
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Good morning!
Looks to be a gorgeous couple of days, and hopefully tomorrow, when the ground dries out, I'll be able to get the mower out and start doing that awful chore for the next several months.
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That's such a hilarious story, DR JRand! Thanks for sharing it.
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I thought I had told it before - or maybe it was deemed too shocking for HHW.
I got the story from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
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I may not be back on here after this morning for a 24-hour period. This afternoon, I'm heading up to Winston-Salem to see best friend John's mother in a production of Agatha Christie's SPIDER'S WEB. I have seen his mother act before (she's really great) but I've never seen this particular Christie play which is the major reason I wanted to go.
We'll go up and see the play tonight, and I'll be spending the night with my friend Gregg who lives there. We're coming back late Saturday morning, so it'll likely be Saturday noon or so before I can get back on-line here.
Just wanted to explain my E&T behavior for anyone who will notice my absence.
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Friday Media Check:
CD - ANYA (OCR)
DVD - GIGI (Blu-ray)
HAWAII FIVE-O - Season 6, disc 2.
GOODBYE, MY FANCY (Warner Archive)
DVR - last night's SMALLVILLE
Wednesday night's DAMAGES
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That hazard pay still wasn't enough.
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On TV TOnight!™
NBC - HOWIE DO IT, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, DATELINE
CBS - FLASHPOINT
ABC - WIFE SWAP, 20/20
FOX - SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, DOLLHOUSE
CW - EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS, THE GAME
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Look out below Page Two Dance. :o
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Last night I was scrolling through the HD channels on my cable box and was thrilled and absolutely shocked to notice that both FX-HD and AMC-HD have been added to my cable system's line-up (without fanfare, I might add).
With these additions, all of the available HD channels that I needed to be able to see my favorite shows in high definition have now been added by my cable company. I couldn't be happier or more relieved. Now, I can stop my monthly barrage of e-mails to Time Warner about adding these channels to their line-up.
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Never heard of this play, DR MATTH - let me know what it's like....we are always looking for mysteries!
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If GIGI on Blu-ray comes today (as it should, but who knows with the USPS), I'll be madly attempting to get it all done this afternoon and the review posted before we head out of town around 6.
If it doesn't arrive, I'll continue working on HAWAII FIVE-O today. There are 24 episodes in the set, and I've only watched 6 of them thus far.
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Never heard of this play, DR MATTH - let me know what it's like....we are always looking for mysteries!
Will do! Ever since I read about it years ago, I've always wondered why it didn't get much play around here when THE MOUSETRAP and TEN LITTLE INDIANS seem to get done every other year. From the little bit I've read, I think it's more suspense than one of her standard whodunits, but I could be wrong about that.
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Good morning, all! I awoke with headache and stayed in bed for a while waiting for it to go away. After my bath, I spoke to Mr Raines about the GUIDING LIGHT situation and his plans. He's off to Houston for a concert and we both had an email last night from the conductor praising the orchestra's rehearsal and my orchestrations for Ron. Then I had my oatmeal and checked my bank balance. I need to call the pharmacy for meds and walk down to pick them up. While I'm down there I will stop at the NYPL and check out the women designers exhibit, then an afternoon working on Mr Loesser's second act of The Most Happy Fella.
Tonight, I have a performance of THE BEGGAR'S OPERA to attend at Manhattan School of Music. Tomorrow, I have my first meeting with Mr McGlinn's executor and I guess we'll plan the approach to emptying the apartment.
TOD:
DVD: Jerome Robbins, a lot of Charle Dickens adaptations
CD: Handel's glorious ACIS AND GALATEA, Mendelssohn's version of Handel's ACIS & GALATEA, Mozart's version of Handel's ACIS AND GALATEA, KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY, Guy Haines, Liz Callaway
VCR: Shocking!
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In the DVD: I am continuing to watch AN AGE OF KINGS, the BBC's chronological series of Shakespeare's history plays. It is excellent. Sean Connery makes a very good Hotspur. My exercise DVD is currently GLADITOR OF ROME with Gordon Scott from a boxed set of fifty Italian Sword & Sandal movies entitled collectively The Warriors.
CD: Listening to Bernard Herrmann scores.
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VCR: Shocking!
Miss Carol Channing is on your VCR?? :)
Re: John M's apartment: perhaps now you will have a chance to get some of your missing loaned scores back, after all!
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My exercise DVD is currently GLADIATOR OF ROME with Gordon Scott
Look out, Jane Fonda!! You've got competition! :)
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Gay marriage now legal in Iowa (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123876672206286609.html)??
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Guess I'll head down now and get cleaned up a bit earlier than usual for my usual Friday outing. Then it's back (hopefully to review GIGI if it arrives) and then off on my out of town adventure.
WBBL.
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Perfect Box Set for exercising DR CP.
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Gay marriage now legal in Iowa (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123876672206286609.html)??
Yup. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090403/NEWS/90403010/-1/NLETTER04?source=nletter-breakingnews
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pretty much in keeping with our motto "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain"
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Here's a link to the actual opinion. It overturns the Iowa statute banning gay marriage based on the Iowa Constitution
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/assets/pdf/D213209243.PDF
I've just started reading it, but it looks like it's a very well written opinion
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up.... And the rain has stopped here in Charleston. The sun has come out. And the temps are in the 70s! HOO and RAY!
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Oh, there's nothing halfway
About the Iowa way to treat you...
:)
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*Although, did it really have to be a "69-page ruling"? ::)
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re: GUIDING LIGHT being cancelled.
It is very sad. Although to me the writing has been very inconsistent. But there are some fabulous actors. I wonder if any of them will show up on other soaps?
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I wonder if any of them will show up on other soaps?
(http://www.otherlandtoys.co.uk/images/lagoon_pope800.jpg)
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Gay marriage now legal in Iowa (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123876672206286609.html)??
Iowa's tourism trade will be booming now, due to the mass infulux of... Mormons going door to door to spread horror stories.
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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b4kPTg3towE/SdYNNJC97JI/AAAAAAAAHAE/YVEcIIc9PXo/s400/Madrid_2016_Olympic_Bid_logo.jpg)
Unintended hidden subtext: "Flip off, World!"
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I'm up, I'm up - just a little too late to jog, unless I go right now, which I don't think I'm prepared to do.
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Gay marriage now legal in Iowa (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123876672206286609.html)??
Iowa's tourism trade will be booming now, due to the mass infulux of... Mormons going door to door to spread horror stories.
And to both of them, I say "screw you!"
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BK , you have, of course, told bits of your Fabulous Carol Channing Adventure© here and/or elsewhere over the years. Enough so that Joe and I often quote, relevant to anyone who scorns someone else's expert competence, "What do they know, Jerry? They're only electricians." Doing our best Carol impersonations, of course.
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Gay marriage now legal in Iowa (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123876672206286609.html)??
Iowa's tourism trade will be booming now, due to the mass infulux of... Mormons going door to door to spread horror stories.
And to both of them, I say "screw you!"
...Be careful what you wish for...
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Gay marriage now legal in Iowa (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123876672206286609.html)??
Iowa's tourism trade will be booming now, due to the mass infulux of... Mormons going door to door to spread horror stories.
And to both of them, I say "screw you!"
...Be careful what you wish for...
Trust me, it's my experience that very little I wish for has ever occurred.
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Page 3 -- Sarah Siddons Award Dance
(http://www.sarahsiddonssociety.org/java/images/Awardees/Lauren_Bacall_&_Carol_Channning_1_(SRP).jpg)
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"What do they know, Betty? They're only hainesy-kimlets."
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Happy Friday!
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Frappy Hi-day!
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I heard from one of the Dolly ensemble that Ms. Channing was actually "sequestered" in Saran Wrap due to her little problem.
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I heard from one of the Dolly ensemble that Ms. Channing was actually "sequestered" in Saran Wrap due to her little problem.
Now THERE'S a missed marketing opportunity.
I can just see the ad campaign now! :)
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TOD:
CD: the divoon Rosemary Clooney singing' and swingin' with her paramour Nelson Riddle. I know I'm slow on the uptake sometimes, but I never realized that the television theme for Peyton Place was the film theme for Return to Peyton Place, which Rosie sings on this CD.
DVD: the hilarious, four-star-plus LOST IN AUSTEN (hmmm---are they BK fans?), an extremely clever send up of Pride and Prejudice. It's almost 3 hours (we're about 2 hours into it), but it is one of the swiftest moving and most enjoyable things I've seen recently. If you're an Austen fan, or especially if you love the 1995 BBC version of P&P, you MUST, MUST, MUST get this.
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Miss Heron Regrets (She's Unable to Dine on Sushi Today)
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TOD:
As the Alphabetical Musicals Project has been interrupted by Kritzerland, this morning I listened to Mila Ilieva Taking a Chance on Love on the way into work. I must say, I never expected to hear a cabaret performance of "When Does the Ravishing Begin", which is one of my favorite rape songs.
Back in the days when I lived in Pasadena, there was a thing called FM radio, which was distinctly different from AM radio. Mainly bacause the FCC was very persnickity about the licenses it granted and there were no rock stations on FM. Classical, jazz, news, talk radio (which was not, of course, the mud-wrestling event it has become today).
One station had a daily cast album show, and as the host was British, I managed to record a number of English musicals on my trusty old Wollensack, shows which most Americans had never heard of: Belle, Virtue in Danger, Fing Ain't What They Used to Be, Lock Up Your Daughters. The latter, based upon Henry Fielding's story "Rape Upon Rape", has a delightful naughty score by Lionel Bart, including the above-mentioned ravishing number.
By now, most of them have been issued on CD--including Blitz!, which I hadn't heard until the CD was issued. I think I am missing Virtue in Danger.
(http://www.jenklairkids.com/Eshop/products/lock-up-your-daughters.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AEW691B7L._SL500_AA240_.jpg) (http://www.castalbumdb.com/jpg/J74.jpg)
Anyway, kudos to Mila for singing it, and kudos to BK for recording it. This evening, on my way home, Evening Primrose is up. How delicious. btb, after all these years of that broadcast being the Golden Fleece of collectors, it is surprising how many numbers from the original telecast are up on youtube. I guess it is only a matter of time before various large video corporations launch their Copyright S*W*A*T* teams in a massive sweep of the site.
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CD: the divoon Rosemary Clooney singing' and swingin' with her paramour Nelson Riddle. I know I'm slow on the uptake sometimes, but I never realized that the television theme for Peyton Place was the film theme for Return to Peyton Place, which Rosie sings on this CD.
Even more distinguished than that, the TV theme for "Peyton Place" and the song, "Seasons of Love" in "Return to Peyton Place", are all based upon the main theme to Franz Waxman's magnificent score for "Petyon Place".
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I heard from one of the Dolly ensemble that Ms. Channing was actually "sequestered" in Saran Wrap due to her little problem.
Now THERE'S a missed marketing opportunity.
I can just see the ad campaign now! :)
well, by then, it was way too late to wrap her in one of those "green bags". The freshness was too long gone!
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OMG!!! :o
All we all getting sued for defamation of character today? :)
Since when is TRUTH "defamation of character"? ;)
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And DR Ron Pulliam knows all about freshness. :D
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I got a call from the neighbor. Their orange kitty has returned. Don't know if the cat that Zach "found" for me this morning was theirs or not, but the story has a happy ending, at least. :)
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*Although, did it really have to be a "69-page ruling"? ::)
LOL, I thought the same thing.
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Down with love the flowers and rice and shoes
Down with love the root of all midnight blues
Down with things that give you that well-known pain
Take that moon wrap it in cellophane
Down with love let's liquidate all its friends
Moon and June and roses and rainbow's ends
Down with songs that moan about night and day
Down with love yes take it away, away
Away
Far away
Give it back to the birds and bees and the Viennese
Down with eyes romantic and stupid
Down with sighs and down with cupid
Brother let's stuff that dove
Down with love
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MARRIED I CAN ALWAYS GET
I wanna dance
Until the darkest heavens turn gray
Until the dawn strolls in with the day
Then I'll say
Don't let the band get away
But matrimony
I'm not ready yet
Married I can always get
It's not for me
With all its smug conuvial joy
That ever constant smashing a toys
Wrecks your poise
While hubby is out with the boys
No wedding gown
For this silhouette
Married I can always get
I'll live the life that I'm used to
I'll get a ring when I choose to
Because by now I have found
That the nicest rings are on a merry-go-'round
I'll be blasse
With any man who's motives are base
I'll keep each wiley wolf in his place
'Til the chase finally ends in embrace
But as for wedlock unlock me, my pet
Married I can always get
I'll go the way that the wind blows
Along the path that is primrose
I have my plan all rehearsed
I will kiss anybody will kiss me first
I'll take a cruise
Into a more adventurous clime
And if the captain's still in his prime
He will find
You don't have to sail all the time
I wanna stick to romantic roulette
Married I can always get
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I got a call from the neighbor. Their orange kitty has returned. Don't know if the cat that Zach "found" for me this morning was theirs or not, but the story has a happy ending, at least. :)
Happy Days for lost orange kitty and for Zach!
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Michael Stewart loved Carol Channing in "Dolly" (as does Jerry Herman), and they always knew they'd make money if she did another tour, so they were (and are) loath to say anything against her, but you could tell they had to put up with a lot.
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in re Hello Dolly: Oh, I forgot to mention that BK's recording is indeed wonderful, one of the bestest OCR's, one that gets a lot of play around here. That and the Murphy/Phillips The King and I are my favorite OCRs, I think, as far as the quality of the production itself.
How's that for an accolade from an acolyte?
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How's that for an accolade from an acolyte?
He's popular
With the populous!
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Did the long jog, went to the bank, and am now doing a work session. So there!
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TOD:
A boxed set of Nat King Cole CD's-- The Capitol Years.
Video: "Margie" -- a movie that always makes me smile
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End of lunch break greetings from the Ohio Prospect Research Network conference! I've learned a lot in the past 24 hours and received some encouragement for pursuing a new career field. Afternoon sessions are about to start, then I'll be on the road back to Middletown.
Vibes to all...bye for now!
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Speaking of Miss Channing, a friend recently returned from a cruise that featured Carol Channing, Cloris Leachman and ... Marty Allen(!) teeling stories, showing movies, etc. Had it been on television, it would have been a two-part "VERY SPECIAL" Love Boat with perhaps a terminally ill Moosie Drier showing a bitter Art Carney how to live life to the fullest.
As it was, it was merely a star-studded extravaganza on the 7 seas.
Carol Channing showed "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and told anecdotes. She is now saying that she did all of her own stunts in the movie and that she really was shot out of a cannon.
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Off to the gym. Then to a fitting.
I wonder if I need a new chapeau....... ::)
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Good Afternoon!
I just finished vacuuming the front offices at Charleston Stage... Just because... ::)
*The stage manager had never realized that that vacuum cleaner actually worked. ;)
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And will you be dusting the front offices and then ironing the costumes next?
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I believe a couple of DRs will appreciate The Amateur Gourmet (http://www.amateurgourmet.com/)'s new website banner. :)
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from http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/7/messages/146.html
Standing there,
Gazing at you,
Full of the bloom of youth.
Standing there,
Gazing at you,
With the sheep's eye and the licorice tooth.
Roget has both terms as synonyms for desire:
Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 865 (Desire)
http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/roget/entries/865.html
Desire. -- N. desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need,
exigency.
mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant,
predilection; propensity &c. 820; willingness &c. 602; liking, love, fondness, relish.
thirstiness; drouth,
mouthwatering; itch, itching; prurience, cacoethes[Lat], cupidity, lust,
concupiscence.
edge of appetite, edge of hunger; torment of Tantalus; sweet tooth,
lickerish tooth[obs]; itching palm; longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye.
Merriam Webster on sheeps eye:
Main Entry: sheep's eye
Function: noun
Date: circa 1529
: a shy longing usually amorous glance -- usually used in plural
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
Websters Unabridged on Sheep's Eye:
Sheep's-eye
Sheep's"-eye` (?), n. A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural.
"I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye."--
Wycherley
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I wonder if I need a new chapeau.......
I think you do!
(http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2009-02/44832103.jpg)
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And further from http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/7/messages/192.html
In Reply to: Re: Sheep's eye and licorice tooth posted by Sauerkraut on January 02, 2001
: : In the original Frank Loesser score, the expression is "sheep's eye and the LICKERISH tooth." Loesser eplained how he arrived at it in a letter that's printed in his daughter's fine biography of him, A MOST REMARKABLE FELLA (page 109). The short of it is that he wanted a companion word that meant "covetous", fearing "sheep's eye" did not completely convey the exact thoughts of the guy who would be gazing at her. He went to Roget's and found that "lecherous" was a sort of synonym for covetous, but didn't quite like the way it sounded, so he consulted the Oxford English Dictionary and found that two archaic spellings of "lecherous" were "licorice" and "lickerish." He chose the latter. Voila!
Many thanks, Scott - I've been trying to tease out the meaning for many years. My ear always heard that application, but I couldn't come up with the "lickerish" thing. Thanks again - I can sleep easier.
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Very interesting research, DR William F. Orr... Thank you! :)
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TOD:
CD: the divoon Rosemary Clooney singing' and swingin' with her paramour Nelson Riddle. I know I'm slow on the uptake sometimes, but I never realized that the television theme for Peyton Place was the film theme for Return to Peyton Place, which Rosie sings on this CD.
DVD: the hilarious, four-star-plus LOST IN AUSTEN (hmmm---are they BK fans?), an extremely clever send up of Pride and Prejudice. It's almost 3 hours (we're about 2 hours into it), but it is one of the swiftest moving and most enjoyable things I've seen recently. If you're an Austen fan, or especially if you love the 1995 BBC version of P&P, you MUST, MUST, MUST get this.
I have it but I haven't watched it yet.
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LOL! Too funny! Have I told you that I love you, DR Enabler?
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I know, who the hell is Miss Karen?
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OMG!!! :o
All we all getting sued for defamation of character today? :)
Since when is TRUTH "defamation of character"? ;)
There's a French saying that goes:
"La vérité n'est pas toujours bonne à dire!"
("Truth does not necessarily need to be told"!)
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Now, why did that choreographer need to have an elderly Channing "manipulated" like that? (Over the heads of the dancers!)
To me that was looking for trouble and getting it!
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I know, who the hell is Miss Karen?
And what is she, that all her swines swains commend her?
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looking for trouble and getting it!
Something which our dear DR François would know absolutely nothing about!! ;)
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Michael Stewart loved Carol Channing in "Dolly" (as does Jerry Herman), and they always knew they'd make money if she did another tour, so they were (and are) loath to say anything against her, but you could tell they had to put up with a lot.
Oh, I would "put up with a lot" if the money was rolling in! I WOULD! ;)
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looking for trouble and getting it!
Something which our dear DR François would know absolutely nothing about!! ;)
Sweety, my middle name IS trouble, and my real mother is Carol Channing! ;)
(I used to pee on her when a baby! Tables are turned!! 8))
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Tables are turned!!
In "The Waiter's Gallop"?? Absolutely! :)
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I wonder if I need a new chapeau.......
I think you do!
(http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2009-02/44832103.jpg)
"It's NOT a hat!!"...... The Little Prince! (I need hair!) ;)
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Tables are turned!!
In "The Waiter's Gallop"?? Absolutely! :)
You mean "The Wetters' Gallop" from "Hello, Pampers!"? :)
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OMG!!! :o
All we all getting sued for defamation of character today? :)
Since when is TRUTH "defamation of character"? ;)
There's a French saying that goes:
"La vérité n'est pas toujours bonne à dire!"
("Truth does not necessarily need to be told"!)
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Now, why did that choreographer need to have an elderly Channing "manipulated" like that? (Over the heads of the dancers!)
To me that was looking for trouble and getting it!
And I was thinking -- "good thing for her that bk was her 'electrician' and not one of her dancers or she might have been dropped on her poofy, white head..."
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OMG!!! :o
All we all getting sued for defamation of character today? :)
Since when is TRUTH "defamation of character"? ;)
There's a French saying that goes:
"La vérité n'est pas toujours bonne à dire!"
("Truth does not necessarily need to be told"!)
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Now, why did that choreographer need to have an elderly Channing "manipulated" like that? (Over the heads of the dancers!)
To me that was looking for trouble and getting it!
And I was thinking -- "good thing for her that bk was her 'electrician' and not one of her dancers or she might have been dropped on her poofy, white head..."
But remember, pee pee and electricity don't MIX! ;)
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I know, who the hell is Miss Karen?
And what is she, that all her swines swains commend her?
Why, I never! (as she stomps off in a huff) ...
Unless of course that's some sort of quote from Shakespeare, then I'll take it as a compliment (as she bats her eyelashes and smiles sweetly all the while thinking "DR SlumDawMillionaire shouldn't be wearing puce, it's not in his color palate")...
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But remember, pee pee and electricity don't MIX!
That explains so much! ;)
or she might have been dropped on her poofy, white head...
So does that!
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then I'll take it as a compliment
And so you should, my dear! :)
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Work session is done.
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OMG!!! :o
All we all getting sued for defamation of character today? :)
Since when is TRUTH "defamation of character"? ;)
There's a French saying that goes:
"La vérité n'est pas toujours bonne à dire!"
("Truth does not necessarily need to be told"!)
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Now, why did that choreographer need to have an elderly Channing "manipulated" like that? (Over the heads of the dancers!)
To me that was looking for trouble and getting it!
And I was thinking -- "good thing for her that bk was her 'electrician' and not one of her dancers or she might have been dropped on her poofy, white head..."
But remember, pee pee and electricity don't MIX! ;)
Ahh, what an insightful metaphor, DR Francois !
(and may I say it's a delight to see you back in the HHW saddle -- although I shouldn't be speaking as an E and T'er I've been as of late...)
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Work session is done.
Did you knock some heads together?
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then I'll take it as a compliment
And so you should, my dear! :)
I did, my darling (she says with a friendly wink -- she doesn't know how to use icons in her replies to quotes ...)
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Oh, my -- DR Francois, you are even more clever with that metaphor than I first interpreted
Miss Channing + BK "The Electrician" = Don't mix (as in sound mixing issues)
You clever minx -- bk's notes reduced to a metaphor
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You clever minx
THIS minx wasn't quite so clever: :(
(http://www.gumtree.com/posting_images/09/34847909__1234814917__1__1-f373f0495e20256ee1ff95a0cceab3e9.__big__.jpg)
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bk's notes reduced to a metaphor
Just think how much time that could save us all each day! ;)
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(and may I say it's a delight to see you back in the HHW saddle -- although I shouldn't be speaking as an E and T'er I've been as of late...)
Thank you!
As Dolly would say "It's so nice to be back".....
[I just can see Pearl Bailey being carried above the dancers' heads!!] :D
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Pearl Bailey:
"Carry me away, daaarlings! My feet are killing me, you know!"
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bk's notes reduced to a metaphor
Just think how much time that could save us all each day! ;)
Someone is not going to be getting his HHW toaster ...
(whenever they become available ... I know that I'm still waiting for mine ...)
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I know that I'm still waiting for mine ...
Oh you'll get yours, all right... ;)
(http://www.tomwet.de/shop/catalog/images/Totenkof-Toaster-Skull.jpg)
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Good Afternoon!
My afternoon rehearsal is done, and now I'm contemplating, what else, my dining options for the evening. :)
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What a crazy - and at times sad - news days... Everything from the great news out of Iowa... To the shootings and hostage situation in Binghamton, NY... An earthquake in Argentina... And I just read something about a couple of houses being washed away in Whidbey Island in Washington state..
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Howdy, DR Miss Karen!!!!
Good to see that some things never change! -Or is more a case of "refuse to change"? ;)
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DR François - Comment ça va?
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WOW!!
Just got word from my landlord that the rent will be staying the same for the next year. Hmm....
:) ??? :) ???
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Continued TOD: Soundtrack to "An Ideal Husband"
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OK - I have a few hours before rehearsal begins, and since it's currently 77 degrees and sunny here in Charleston-
Laters...
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Howdy, DR Miss Karen!!!!
Back at 'cha, Temptress of Sin! Kiss, kiss! Hug, hug!
A Levain should would be good about now .... or a visit to that candy store you took me in ... oooh, or some monkey cake ...
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DR François - Comment ça va?
Ca va very bien, merci!
I almost got something for you 2 days ago: a 1946 book (Very good condition) on Sainte-Beuve!
It only had a few poems though and the rest was all serious text!
The price was "ridiculously low" ... like Eliza! ;)
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Oh my, look at the time -- how it does fly here at HHW (see, that's why I'm often E and T, there are days I just can't allow myself to get pulled into the HHW Posting Vortex...)
Gotta scram! Adieu!
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more a case of "refuse
Rubbish! DR Miss Karen is NOT refuse!! ;)
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If any DRs are coming into NYC before May 2, I recommend enthusiastically that you get to the Lincoln Center NYPL and check out the women designers' exhibit; it is phenominal: a great display of costumes from the past 75 years, beautiful designs by Caroline Siedle (2 original 1903 costume plates from BABES IN TOYLAND!) to the present, including some great Zipprodt designs for PIPPIN, a lot of models for sets, and on video curtain calls and scenes from many plays and musicals including the 1973 CANDIDE, the Cherry Jones productions of DOUBT and THE HEIRESS, DREAM GIRLS, and others) and video interviews with Tharon Musser, Patricia Zipprodt, Florence Klotz, Julie Taymor, and many others. It is truly an amazing exhibit.
The costume plate that stopped me short was a set of costumes for a revue from either the early 1920s or before, but my first reaction was "penises?" and after consideration, I think they're supposed to be hot dogs. I THINK! Or dancing dildos.
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See how I look out for ya, DR Miss Karen?? :)
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but my first reaction was "penises?"
I cannot imagine you having such a reaction.
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In Carol Channing's defense, I have to say that amongst all the dishy theatrical gossip I heard during the period I worked at Drama Book Shop through 1998, I never heard about any leaks from Ms Channing. Cathleen Nesbett, yep, but not Channing, so I wonder how true the story may be.
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But thanks for the tip on the exhibit, DR elmore3003!!! :)
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but my first reaction was "penises?"
I cannot imagine you having such a reaction.
I'm surprised you're still typing and not driving into the City to check it out.
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I never heard about any leaks from Ms Channing.
I know that I, personally, never received any leeks from Ms Channing.
(https://www.abceeds.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/leeks.jpg)
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but my first reaction was "penises?"
I cannot imagine you having such a reaction.
I'm surprised you're still typing and not driving into the City to check it out.
I can post and drive at the same time. ;)
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I never heard about any leaks from Ms Channing.
I know that I, personally, never received any leeks from Ms Channing.
(https://www.abceeds.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/leeks.jpg)
Only peas for you!
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Let there be peas on earth, and let it begin with Carol Channing.
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Well, the best laid plans, etc., etc., etc....
I had my entire day planned so I could get everything I needed to acoomplish in the morning including going about an hour early to the bank and grocery store, all so I'd have the complete afternoon free to review the Blu-ray of GIGI when it arrived.
Only, the USPS just isn't playing ball. It did not make it here today.
:(
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Isn't there a Vonnegut book wherein "Taking a leak" mean looking in a mirror?
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So, while I ate lunch, I watched BETTER OFF TED. This week was the third episode, but it's the first one I've seen all the way through, and I found it a droll, rather witty comedy similar in tone to the early years of SCRUBS.
I've always thought Jay Harrington was just a doll, and Portia di Rossi is a stitch. Other roles are also well cast and amusingly played. If this runs (ratings have just been fair), I may add it to my viewing queue, especially since LIFE ON MARS is now gone and I have no desire to start with THE UNUSUALS which is replacing it.
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I had to go out for a few hours. I don't think there are as many fish now as when I left. Looks like the netting didn't help.
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For the remainder of the afternoon, I watched more HAWAII FIVE-O. I have now watched 10 of the set's 24 episodes. I may be able to squeeze in one more before we leave for Winston-Salem later this afternoon.
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Some good guest stars in some of these shows including a very young A. Martinez in the last one I watched. In another Murray Matheson was the chief bad guy in a really clever story about fleecing people out of their inheritances. Lawrence Pressman was also in that one.
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I didn't get GIGI, but I did get Season 6 of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, but it's a ways down the stack since it doesn't come out until April 28.
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Page Six Dance!!!
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Well, I'm heading down now to pick back up with another HAWAII FIVE-O episode. Then, I'll head out for the next 20 hours or so.
Good bye until tomorrow afternoon!
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***SAFE TRAVEL VIBES***
to DR Matt H.!!!!!
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DR Matt H, SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES! :)
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Let there be peas on earth, and let it begin with Carol Channing.
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Those "Channing leak" stories DEPEND on who are telling them!! ;)
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Waiters' favourite song: Hello, Doily!
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Bye, Matt H. Travel safely!
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The costume plate that stopped me short was a set of costumes for a revue from either the early 1920s or before, but my first reaction was "penises?" and after consideration, I think they're supposed to be hot dogs. I THINK! Or dancing dildos.
Might have been from the "Penises From Heaven" ;) movie, a dvd of it you have, I think!!
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Bye, Matt H. Travel safely!
Matt H. Travel!
My favourite travel agency! :D
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We've got continence
If you ain't got continence
You can never every carry
It off.
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Illya may not arrive before four, in which case it's going to be really hard to get them packaged and to the postal office. If that's what happens, I'll take them over in the morning - I've repeatedly asked that they deliver before three but I think it's only actually happened twice.
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That Sunday shine
Is just Carol's slime
That you see
Wherever you look!
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Is that beyond the bounds of decorum?
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Has that ever stopped me?
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Where the HELL is Illya.
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Gay marriage now legal in Iowa (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123876672206286609.html)??
Yup. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090403/NEWS/90403010/-1/NLETTER04?source=nletter-breakingnews
Hoo and Ray!! And I love that it was a unanimous ruling. :)
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*Although, did it really have to be a "69-page ruling"? ::)
ROTFLMAO!! ;D
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Of course, I reiterate that I was a very big fan of Miss Channing and had it not been for her wretched behavior I'd probably still be a fan. I can't even look at the woman now without getting nauseous.
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Beneath your parasole
At least it's safe
And dry!
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Listening, as I have been all week, to Two For The Seesaw. Those who did not order are really missing something fantastic, but I'm done being a cheerleader for our releases.
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Where the HELL is Illya.
And, for that matter:
Where the hell is the stage manager? :)
[an A Little Night Music reference]
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Listening, as I have been all week, to Two For The Seesaw.
You'll have to find a new Holy Grail! :D
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Of course if you want more dirt on Miss Channing there is always James Kirkwood's book
Diary of a Mad Playwright: Perilous Adventures on the Road with Mary Martin and Carol Channing*
(http://img.theatermania.com/news/images/9555b.jpg)
*original title
Diary of a Mad Playwright: Perilous Adventures on the Road with Mary Martin and Carol Channing And How I Lived To Tell About It.
He did, but died before the book was published
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I can't remember - doesn't Carol come off a whole lot better than Mary in that book?
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Listening, as I have been all week, to Two For The Seesaw. Those who did not order are really missing something fantastic, but I'm done being a cheerleader for our releases.
Does Jackie Cain sing the title song on the soundtrack? (I don't think I've seen your answer)
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Marry, Merry, Mary. ;D
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Didn't Miss Channing divorce her husband of 40 + years when she discovered he was gay? It took her 40 + years to figure it out???
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I can't remember - doesn't Carol come off a whole lot better than Mary in that book?
I think Mary comes out more sympathetic. Mary had a hard time remembering her lines, but Channing was a horror to her. Really two faced. It could be she is a manic depressive because she had such mood swings.
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I think I get to take the evening off from tax returns. May start the daunting task of catching up.
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Travel vibes to MattH
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I can't remember - doesn't Carol come off a whole lot better than Mary in that book?
I think Mary comes out more sympathetic. Mary had a hard time remembering her lines, but Channing was a horror to her. Really two faced. It could be she is a manic depressive because she had such mood swings.
Manic or not, that's no excuse for bad lipstick! :P
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When I was in Burbank last, I remember that BK sent me over to Carol Channing's table to ask her a question. I have forgotten what the question was, however, but I got her autograph at the same time.
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I went shopping and had lunch at Star India. I had delicious Lamb Saag and Cabbage Masala. I am stuffed and ready for a nap, or a movie, or both.
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Shayne, I answered the first time you asked - yes, Jackie Cain does the vocal on the album. Did you get the e-mail I sent you?
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Good Evening!
There are a lot of people in town right now for tomorrow's Cooper River Bridge Run (http://www.bridgerun.com/). A lot. I was going to dine downtown, but after it took me 15 minutes to go 4 blocks, I decided to head back across the Ravenel Bridge into Mount Pleasant...
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...Where I decided to try Oriental Garden out for a sushi dinner. Talk about an unassuming place. The sushi was very good, surprisingly good (imho). OH! And they even have a drive-thru! Just check out this PIC (http://twitpic.com/2s4iv).
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I decided to head back across the Ravenel Bridge
Did you meet anyone at the footbridge?
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OK... Time to get ready for rehearsal...
Laters...
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I thought I had told it before - or maybe it was deemed too shocking for HHW.
I got the story from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
I am afraid to ask what that means!
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I may not be back on here after this morning for a 24-hour period. This afternoon, I'm heading up to Winston-Salem to see best friend John's mother in a production of Agatha Christie's SPIDER'S WEB. I have seen his mother act before (she's really great) but I've never seen this particular Christie play which is the major reason I wanted to go.
We'll go up and see the play tonight, and I'll be spending the night with my friend Gregg who lives there. We're coming back late Saturday morning, so it'll likely be Saturday noon or so before I can get back on-line here.
Just wanted to explain my E&T behavior for anyone who will notice my absence.
Thank you for explaining, Matt. Of course you will be missed.
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DR JoseSPiano - when you show finally goes up, how many musicians will you be conducting in the pit?
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DR JoseSPiano - when you show finally goes up, how many musicians will you be conducting in the pit?
Is that a "coded" question? Where's the ... coda?! :)
(Depend: It only takes a moment!) ;)
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Put On Your Sunday Clothes
When You Fell Wet And Wild!
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Gay marriage now legal in Iowa (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123876672206286609.html)??
Yup. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090403/NEWS/90403010/-1/NLETTER04?source=nletter-breakingnews
Hoo and Ray!! And I love that it was a unanimous ruling. :)
Good Lord, I hope it is not retroactive; or I may still be married to that whack job from Des Moines.
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I can't remember - doesn't Carol come off a whole lot better than Mary in that book?
They both come off pretty damn weird.
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...Where I decided to try Oriental Garden out for a sushi dinner. Talk about an unassuming place. The sushi was very good, surprisingly good (imho). OH! And they even have a drive-thru! Just check out this PIC (http://twitpic.com/2s4iv).
Jose, I am surprised you even tried that place.
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Friday night.
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Friday night.
Just washed your hair, and can't do a thing with it?
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Friday night and here we all are. Remember when we used to go out?
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Remember when we used to go out?
In a word: No. :)
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OK, Twitterers, help me out, please.
I got a request from someone I do not know who wants to "follow" my Tweets. Since I don't Tweet anyway, it doesn't really matter. But if I deny the request, do they get a message that I denied their request, or just it just disappear into the InterEther like a denied friend request does on Facebook?
Thanks kindly in advance for your advice! :)
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Friday night and here we all are. Remember when we used to go out?
Now we just sit at home, guarding our ornamental What Is It, Fish? ;)
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Time to walk Zach. Perhaps we'll rescue another kitty in the process. :)
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He has a pretty good sniffer, that Zach.
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May start the daunting task of catching up.
Please tell us, when you get all done, if you think it was worth it. :)
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Time to walk Zach. Perhaps we'll rescue another kitty in the process. :)
Your good deed for the day.
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Friday night and here we all are. Remember when we used to go out?
Now we just sit at home, guarding our ornamental What Is It, Fish? ;)
They aren't even ornamental; they are just brown. Just plain brown.
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I am fresh from a nap and now trying to decide whether to watch an Indian movie or a Japanese movie.
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Hello, from El Paso.
Visited Tombstone today.
The O.K. Corral seemed a bit commercial, but interesting.
Boot Hill, on the other hand, was much more "real".
Tomorrow, we're off to Fort Stockton for the night.
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DR Druxy I think it is great you are finding time to enjoy your trip. When we have moved with children & pets in tow there wan't any fun involved.
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Friday night and here we all are. Remember when we used to go out?
A about 5 years back Keith went through a stage where he enjoyed going out to dinner on Friday nights. Aside from then, no. ;D
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Friday night and here we all are. Remember when we used to go out?
The only time that I go out on a Friday night is when I'm in a show or if I'm ushering for a show. Otherwise, I'm very much a homebody...especially with my hi-def big-screen TV. :D
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The only time that I go out on a Friday night is when I'm in a show or if I'm ushering for a show.
Or if your sister calls. With a project. ;)
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The only time that I go out on a Friday night is when I'm in a show or if I'm ushering for a show.
Or if your sister calls. With a project. ;)
Oh...I forgot about that. ::)
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;D
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Got home 3 hours ago, ate pizza with Richard, watched Jeopardy, fell asleep for 20 minutes, called my mom...
The past 2 days were very informative - much to think about.
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And the word of the day is: ACARPOUS!
A CAR POUS is one of those bobble-head toys shaped like an animal, only instead of the usual dog it's a tabby cat.
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Heron guards can never rest.
Vigilance, ever vigilance.
(http://away.com/gifs/refrep/bluheron.jpg)
Clearly, the rule that "You should never eat anything that is larger than your head" has exceptions.
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I've done so many returns and enjoyed so many of them, but my favorite return this tax season is most definitely The return of Francois.
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I've done so many returns and enjoyed so many of them, but my favorite return this tax season is most definitely The return of Francois.
Unfortunately, I am not tax deductable!! :D
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You're better than a deduction, you're a credit!
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Gay marriage now legal in Iowa (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123876672206286609.html)??
Yup. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090403/NEWS/90403010/-1/NLETTER04?source=nletter-breakingnews
Hoo and Ray!! And I love that it was a unanimous ruling. :)
Here's my understanding of where it stands. It will go into effect as soon as the time for a rehearing request is done, which is 3 weeks. The news has reported that there will not be a request for a rehearing.
The ruling is based on an Iowa statute and decided based on the Iowa constitution not the US constitution, so there is no appeal to the feds. The anti's only option is an amendment to the Iowa constitution. Because of the process involved the earliest the vote on that amendment could be (assuming that it gets that far) is 2012. So, at least until then, gay marriage will be legal here.
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Friday night and here we all are. Remember when we used to go out?
Now we just sit at home, guarding our ornamental What Is It, Fish? ;)
They aren't even ornamental; they are just brown. Just plain brown.
I hope the game warden won't be back to count them...
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I am fresh from a nap and now trying to decide whether to watch an Indian movie or a Japanese movie.
Is there anything wrong with French movies?
... directed by a guy from India who speaks Japanese?
... international productions then!!
My favourite Miss C. movie!! ;) (Never saw it!)
http://www.lightborne.co.uk/images/skidoo.jpg
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Friday night and here we all are. Remember when we used to go out?
Now we just sit at home, guarding our ornamental What Is It, Fish? ;)
They aren't even ornamental; they are just brown. Just plain brown.
I hope the game warden won't be back to count them...
Well, I kinda expect he will. Some day. There are LOTS of fry, though.
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You're better than a deduction, you're a credit!
My Mom would LOVE to read that!!
Thank you!
A Credit Union? (Marriage anyone?!)
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You're better than a deduction, you're a credit!
Thanks for your interest!! ;)
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Friday night and here we all are. Remember when we used to go out?
Now we just sit at home, guarding our ornamental What Is It, Fish? ;)
They aren't even ornamental; they are just brown. Just plain brown.
I hope the game warden won't be back to count them...
Well, I kinda expect he will. Some day. There are LOTS of fry, though.
Fry Me A River!
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Well, I was definitely out tonight doing my weekend chores. We have a blizzard WARNING starting tomorrow at 4:00 PM and going into Sunday. We could get 9-14 inches of snow and 25-40 mph winds!!
I dropped clothes off at Goodwill, went to the sale at Shopko, went to the grocery store, went to Petco, stopped at the office (I was out of town all afternoon) went back to the store to try to find milk (they were sold out of skim) and get bird and squirrel food and then back home. I think I am in for the rest of the weekend
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It is VERY windy here. Again.
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Gay marriage now legal in Iowa (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123876672206286609.html)??
Gives new meaning to "There's nothing half-way about the Iowa way to treat you!"
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Speaking of "river" ...
I just was watching the bonus material of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers .... the 2004 DVD edition ... and there's a MGM 30th Jubilee short with Johnny Green conducting the MGM orchestra with a medley for the Jubilee...
Well -- I'll make it short!! -- at one moment the song played is "Broadway Rythm" AND the subtitle reads ...... "Broadway River"!!!!!!! :D :D
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Shayne, I answered the first time you asked - yes, Jackie Cain does the vocal on the album. Did you get the e-mail I sent you?
yes I got your email. Responded and will take care of the situation
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It is VERY windy here. Again.
And it's not even Chicago! :)
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Here's a little more from the DM Register
The Iowa Supreme Court this morning upheld a Polk County judge’s 2007 ruling that marriage should not be limited to one man and one woman.
The ruling, viewed nationally and at home as a victory for the gay rights movement and a setback for social conservatives, means Iowa’s 5,800 gay couples can legally marry in Iowa beginning April 24.
There are no residency rules for marriage in Iowa, so the rule would apply to any couple who wanted to travel to Iowa.
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Sorry, everybody left earler so I went off-line and was playing games. I have become addicted to those "Hidden Object" games.
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Shayne, I answered the first time you asked - yes, Jackie Cain does the vocal on the album. Did you get the e-mail I sent you?
Thanks re: Jackie Caine. I must have missed your first answer,. Much apprecitated.
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Shayne, I answered the first time you asked - yes, Jackie Cain does the vocal on the album. Did you get the e-mail I sent you?
Thanks re: Jackie Caine. I must of missed your first answer,. Much apprecitated.
Your typos crack me up!! :D
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Shayne, I answered the first time you asked - yes, Jackie Cain does the vocal on the album. Did you get the e-mail I sent you?
Thanks re: Jackie Caine. I must have missed your first answer,. Much apprecitated.
The first time you asked that question, Michael, I thought you asked if Jackie Chan sang the theme song.
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It is VERY windy here. Again.
Here, too. It was so windy on I-71 that I got off and took the back roads at the end of my drive from Columbus.
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Buy.com just sent me a coupon to use on their site to thank me for being a good customer. The coupon was for 5% off.
Do you think that they don't want me back?
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Buy.com just sent me a coupon to use on their site to thank me for being a good customer. The coupon was for 5% off.
Do you think that they don't want me back?
They know a Big Spender when they see one! ;)
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Buy.com just sent me a coupon to use on their site to thank me for being a good customer. The coupon was for 5% off.
Do you think that they don't want me back?
I have a 30% off coupon for Borders. Jealous?
;)
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(a new drinking-too-much-lost-love song)
Fry me a liver
Fry me a liver
I fried my liver over you
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So, I'm now off to Borders!
I wonder if they'll have anything that I even want...that's always the problem when the coupon is for in-stock items only. :-\
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We've got continence
If you ain't got continence
You can never every carry
It off.
Before the pee-rade passes by!
(Contributed by der B)
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We've got continence
If you ain't got continence
You can never every carry
It off.
Before the pee-rade passes by!
(Contributed by der B)
What about yellow ribbons down my back?
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TOD:
In the cheapies DVD bin at work, I spotted Bye Bye Birdie for just $9.99. It has now replaced the laserdisk.
The film has not held up well.
But it would be worth another visit for Terrible Casting, if just for the bit parts.
(I nominate Angela Lansbury for the Mayor's Wife... she could milk those legs like crazy!)
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TOD:
In the cheapies DVD bin at work, I spotted Bye Bye Birdie for just $9.99. It has now replaced the laserdisk.
The film has not held up well.
But it would be worth another visit for Terrible Casting, if just for the bit parts.
(I nominate Angela Lansbury for the Mayor's Wife... she could milk those legs like crazy!)
I just watched this movie a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was delightful.
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Part of my problem with the original film of BBB comes from how much the script deviated from the stage version. Speeding turtles? Not that the original story was all that great, but castrating the score the way it did (which I didn't discover until the Tommy Tune stage tour)...
The television film remake kept to the original story (for the most part), but the casting was horrendous.
I've heard that there are plans for a film remake, due in 2011. I shudder to think what will happen. :P
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I reminded my boss that the Joan Rivers comedy show here in Rehoboth is tomorrow night.
Big oops. He'd forgotten, and already scheduled himself to be working tomorrow night.
Right now, it looks like his second-in-command will be going... assuming Bob's wife agrees to go.
(No, der B isn't feeling too well right now, or we'd have figured out some way of getting our suits wearable.)
I love how this has all turned out to be so last minute. ::)
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Part of my problem with the original film of BBB comes from how much the script deviated from the stage version. Speeding turtles? Not that the original story was all that great, but castrating the score the way it did (which I didn't discover until the Tommy Tune stage tour)...
The television film remake kept to the original story (for the most part), but the casting was horrendous.
I've heard that there are plans for a film remake, due in 2011. I shudder to think what will happen. :P
Well, considering that they just announced a Broadway revival the other day with John Stamos as Albert.................
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STAMOS as Albert?
I don't think so. Albert is an essentially weak man who learns how to grow a spine. That means the audience has to buy him as spineless through most of the show, but he still has to be charming. Dick Van Dyke was that kind of actor. Stamos as spineless? Nuh-uh, not working for me.
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I'm back from seeing Benjamin Britten's version of THE BEGGAR'S OPERA at Manhattan School of Music. It was a good student production, but I do think I directed it better in 1979. The role I had to play in 1979, when the actor I cast dropped out, was sung much better by the senior Jesse Cromer tonight. The orchestra was wonderful and most of the cast was very good. The scene between Macheath and the whores at the tavern, I swear, is foolproof: just let them talk and the laughs happen.
DOLLY TRULL: Pray, Madam, were you ever in keeping?
SUKY TAWDRY: I hope, Madam, I han't been so long upon the Town, but I have met with some good-fortune as well as my Neighbors.
DOLLY TRULL: Pardon me, Madam, I meant no harm by the Question; 'Twas only in the way of Conversation.
SUKY TAWDRY: Indeed, Madam, if I had not been a Fool, I might have liv'd very handsomely with my last Friend. But upon his missing five Guineas, he turn'd me off. Now I never suspected he had counted them.
MRS SLAMMEKIN: Who do you look upon, Madam, as your best sort of Keepers?
DOLLY TRULL: That, Madam, is thereafter as they be.
MRS SLAMMEKIN: I, Madam, was once kept by a Jew; and bating their Religion, to Women they are a good sort of People.
SUKY TAWDRY: Now for my Part, I own I like an old Fellow: For we always make them pay for what they can't do.
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It's Friday night. happy happy joy joy
I'm glad I'm old enough to stay home on Friday night and not worry about it.
Always feeling like I had to be out on Friday and Saturday night in my 20's and 30's, derailed what I should have been doing. Like homework and a career.
Now 4 years from retirement, I'm happy to be home and safe.
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hello everyone, really great day of posts.
you guys are funny.
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STAMOS as Albert?
I don't think so. Albert is an essentially weak man who learns how to grow a spine. That means the audience has to buy him as spineless through most of the show, but he still has to be charming. Dick Van Dyke was that kind of actor. Stamos as spineless? Nuh-uh, not working for me.
I didn't cast the show - I just report the news!
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Good evening, Sam!
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Past my bedtime....
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listened to : A Broadway Love Story, Tony Bennett's artist's choice, Johnny Cash's artist's choice, and maybe now Scent of Mystery.
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G'night!
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goodevening, TCB
goodnight
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till later, must finish cleaning up the cd stacks on the living room floor, while listening to Scent of Mystery.
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What an afternoon - something like six hundred CDs went out of here, maybe more and we got them ALL shipped including all the dealers.
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I am exhausted and will now write VERY short notes.
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Good Evening!
Good rehearsal. Getting there.
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Good cast party after rehearsal. Ate way too much junk food, but had a great time hanging out with everyone.
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Even though we don't have rehearsal tomorrow, I will still be working. The Theatre Charleston will be holding their Unified Auditions (http://theatrecharleston.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=51), and since they knew I would be in town, they asked me if would like to play for the auditions. I said, "Yes." -The director from Charleston Stage also has to attend, so that's part of the rehearsal is not being held tomorrow - in addition to the Cooper River Bridge Run messing up the traffic. In any case... I will be playing tomorrow afternoon. I think there are only 75 people signed up, so it should be a short session. And then I believe I will be using a part of my fee to pay for a nice dinner downtown. :)
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DR JoseSPiano - when you show finally goes up, how many musicians will you be conducting in the pit?
DR DAW - Well... Let's see... Umm... I believe my upcoming production of The Producers will have the same number of musicians as DR Ben's ever-lovin' Ant's production of H2$.
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I have been enjoying the first three Bond flicks on Blu-Ray.
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I have also been sickly since 7:30 this morning.
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...Where I decided to try Oriental Garden out for a sushi dinner. Talk about an unassuming place. The sushi was very good, surprisingly good (imho). OH! And they even have a drive-thru! Just check out this PIC (http://twitpic.com/2s4iv).
Jose, I am surprised you even tried that place.
Well... Any time I asked any of the locals if there was good sushi in town, the first place that they all named was "Oriental Garden". I also checked the "Best Of" guide in the Charleston City Paper, as well some of the reviews on Yelp! There may be some slicker, more modern places in town, but Oriental Garden seemed to be everyone's stand-by for sushi. Even after just one meal there, I'd have to agree.
*I had tried to go there one night last week around 8:00, but the place was packed, and there was an hour wait for a table. A busy sushi place means fresher fish.
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I don't think MrIvoryKeys has seen my "Sainte-Beuve" post... but that's ok!
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Heard about this organization on French radio today!
Jotted down the internet address and it looks quite interesting!
http://fermemobile.fr/index.html
I love donkeys!
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I also came across Sugar Bakeshop (http://www.sugarbake.com) earlier this afternoon. I chatted briefly with the owners, Bill and David, and it turns out they used to live in New York City. It's a very homey place, tucked almost discreetly along a neighborhood street. Cakes, cupcakes, cookies, brownies, mini-tarts - all made by Bill and David. I sampled a few of their treats, and will definitely be back to try some of their other offerings.
*They do make Banana Pudding, but it's made to order... In a party size. I just might have to bring some to rehearsal one day.
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Ain't I cute?!
http://www.leseigneurdesagneaux.com/asinerie/images/img_anes11.gif
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I also came across Sugar Bakeshop (http://www.sugarbake.com) earlier this afternoon. I chatted briefly with the owners, Bill and David, and it turns out they used to live in New York City. It's a very homey place, tucked almost discreetly along a neighborhood street. Cakes, cupcakes, cookies, brownies, mini-tarts - all made by Bill and David. I sampled a few of their treats, and will definitely be back to try some of their other offerings.
*They do make Banana Pudding, but it's made to order... In a party size. I just might have to bring some to rehearsal one day.
Do they play Sugar Baby Love in the store?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyIMi3uTpBQ
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I don't think MrIvoryKeys has seen my "Sainte-Beuve" post... but that's ok!
I saw it, DR François. Just haven't gotten around to responding to it, to you. Yet.
Merci beaucoup!
*I found a copy of Saint-Beuve's poésies at Librairie de France in Rockefeller Center. Alas, it was an "antique". When the bookseller pulled it off the shelf and it opened it for me, we both were afraid it was going to fall apart in his hands - the spine literally cracked. The same thing happened to an edition of Victor Hugo's Année Terrible I was looking at. I don't want to buy a book that's going to disintegrate as I read it. :-\
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And before I go to bed...
There are a couple of teachers in the cast, and tonight at the party, they started comparing some of the "interesting" names that some of their students have. Well...
Apparently, this young girl's parents could not decide on a name for their newborn daughter. Well, the hospital had to put something on the birth certificate, so...
The girls name is pronounced: Fuh-MAL-lay.
It is spelled: Femalé.
The hospital simply filled in the newborn's name as "Female", and the parents just decided to leave it that once the left the hospital.
True story.
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OK... I have to be functional in 11 hours.
Goodnight.
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Goodnight, Jose.
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I don't think MrIvoryKeys has seen my "Sainte-Beuve" post... but that's ok!
I saw it, DR François. Just haven't gotten around to responding to it, to you. Yet.
Merci beaucoup!
*I found a copy of Saint-Beuve's poésies at Librairie de France in Rockefeller Center. Alas, it was an "antique". When the bookseller pulled it off the shelf and it opened it for me, we both were afraid it was going to fall apart in his hands - the spine literally cracked. The same thing happened to an edition of Victor Hugo's Année Terrible I was looking at. I don't want to buy a book that's going to disintegrate as I read it. :-\
LOL!
That would be like "Poetry Impossible"!
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Goodnight, Jose.
Is that a song?!
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And before I go to bed...
There are a couple of teachers in the cast, and tonight at the party, they started comparing some of the "interesting" names that some of their students have. Well...
Apparently, this young girl's parents could not decide on a name for their newborn daughter. Well, the hospital had to put something on the birth certificate, so...
The girls name is pronounced: Fuh-MAL-lay.
It is spelled: Femalé.
The hospital simply filled in the newborn's name as "Female", and the parents just decided to leave it that once the left the hospital.
True story.
Hey, it could have been BUSYSUSHI! :D
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Just wanted to say goodnight.
For everyone, have a good Saturday.
Dear Francois, I really like your links, I'm trying to watch them all.
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Twenty minutes to new notes and SLEEP.