Topic: HAPPINESS IS JUST A THING CALLED JOE (Read 25852 times)

Jrand73 · « **Reply #90 on:** August 21, 2005, 09:44:30 AM »

Quote from: td on August 21, 2005, 09:13:22 AM

DR Jrand - how did PIPPIN go last night? Out with a whimper or with a bang?

Thank you for asking, DRTD. It was a sold out house and fine performances by all. I had a good time last night, and strike was fairly easy.

Goodbye, Pippin! Your magic will live on for a long time....there is GLITTER from the costumes embedded into the stage!

bk · « **Reply #91 on:** August 21, 2005, 09:55:41 AM »

I'm up, I'm up.

Jose: I'll have to choose an appropriate smiley to respond with.

S. Woody: I thought about driving to Van Nuys' In and Out, but the burgers would have been cold by the time I got them home.

It's About Assonance - that's the title of my new novel.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #92 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:05:12 AM »

Assonance Is Just a Thing Called Joe.

FJL · « **Reply #93 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:07:29 AM »

I send good vibes towards Annette Funicello as well. The Avalon-Funicello-Connie Stevens reunion film, BACK TO THE BEACH, is one of my favorite guilty pleasures.

FJL · « **Reply #94 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:11:34 AM »

Since no one did a page four dance, let me urge people to rent BACK TO THE BEACH and enjoy Annette doing the "Jamaica Ska." A lot of fun not just for its camp value, but in the way the filmmakers intended.

Jed · « **Reply #95 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:22:18 AM »

Surely JMK and I aren't the only ones to have braved the trivia contest up to now. Just how much competition do we have out there for the sparkling prize, folks?

FJL · « **Reply #96 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:30:39 AM »

I submitted a trivia entry yesterday morning. I had allowed several hours due to the promise of a convoluted, treacherous contest, but I lucked out and knew one of the plays right off the bat.

Jed · « **Reply #97 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:32:58 AM »

I lucked out and stumbled across the right path immediately, too. Gotta love when that happens, no matter how infrequent.

Jed · « **Reply #98 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:35:44 AM »

My goodness, there have been a number of sirens in NW Tacoma this Sunday morning. What did you do this time, TCB?

S. Woody White · « **Reply #99 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:40:41 AM »

TCB is answering a siren call?

Or is he the siren?

Michael · « **Reply #100 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:49:22 AM »

Quote from: JRand54 on August 21, 2005, 09:41:39 AM

Okay, technophiles.

I am getting no sound from the two front speakers of my 5.1 home theater system. The connections are sound, I checked the receiver & the speakers.

When I play a CD in my DVD player - I get nothing when I play it on the MUSIC setting, but I get sound from my CENTER and my two rear Surround Speakers.

Could it be because I am using connectors that are red & white and have a third yellow connection that is not connected to anything? If I get a "Y" connector that connects to just the red and white inputs on the receiver will I get sound from my two front speakers?

Check to see if you have your speakers on. Usually you have choices of A or B or AB. Somehow you may have switched to B or AB when it should just be A. There should be a manual speaker button on the front of your receiver. Try that.

and also make sure the mute is not on.

Jennifer · « **Reply #101 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:56:30 AM »

DR S woody white, re: all the ads and previews at the movies.

It drives me nuts. I actually usually leave the theatre once these are about to start and come back in in the middle of the previews (closer to when the movie starts). I get a sore neck from sitting too long. So I just leave. Although you need to have others with you who can save your seat!

td · « **Reply #102 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:59:45 AM »

Quote

It's About Assonance - that's the title of my new novel.

. . .and the dedication will be to whom? Willy Russell?

TCB · « **Reply #103 on:** August 21, 2005, 11:04:11 AM »

Quote from: JRand54 on August 21, 2005, 09:44:30 AM

Thank you for asking, DRTD. It was a sold out house and fine performances by all. I had a good time last night, and strike was fairly easy.

Goodbye, Pippin! Your magic will live on for a long time....there is GLITTER from the costumes embedded into the stage!

Dear Jrand54 (very soon to be 55),

If you ever run into him again, please tell the actor that played Pippin, that I would really like to merry him (at least long enough for a honeymoon).

Jrand73 · « **Reply #104 on:** August 21, 2005, 11:08:54 AM »

LOL DR TRB....he is playing Paul in MY THREE ANGELS. I will let him know.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #105 on:** August 21, 2005, 11:09:19 AM »

Hmmmm....thanks DR MS.

td · « **Reply #106 on:** August 21, 2005, 11:14:03 AM »

Quote from: S. Woody White on August 21, 2005, 10:40:41 AM

TCB is answering a siren call?

Or is he the siren?

see for yourself:

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #107 on:** August 21, 2005, 11:16:53 AM »

Special favorite among Arlen songs:

I Never Has Seen Snow

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #108 on:** August 21, 2005, 11:19:06 AM »

Watched "Swing Time" and "Shall We Dance" yesterday afternoon.

Wunnerful, wunnerful!

I'm thinking about "My Man Godfrey" for this afternoon.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #109 on:** August 21, 2005, 11:20:02 AM »

Currently, the temp in Oakland is F 54 degrees.

It might almost very nearly reach F 65 degrees later this afternoon...maybe.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #110 on:** August 21, 2005, 11:21:08 AM »

Spoke with my mom in Johnston SC this morning. She said the heat/humidity is so hot/thick you could almost cut it with a knife!

I DO recall what that feels like and I am excruciatingly glad to be where I am...for the nonce.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #111 on:** August 21, 2005, 11:23:16 AM »

"I have crossed the ru-bi-cund..."

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #112 on:** August 21, 2005, 11:24:08 AM »

Time to water the plants on my balcony and outside my front door.

Have a terrific Sunday afternoon, y'all....

elmore3003 · « **Reply #113 on:** August 21, 2005, 11:54:55 AM »

I've been listening to Michael Valenti's LOVESONG, the CD of which has additional tracks and different singers including Jason Graae and Christine Andreas replacing some of the earlier tracks. I love Christine, and she does a fine job with it, but I prefer the original band track for "April Child," one of my favorite Valenti songs. Next up, CYRANO; this score is so beautiful, I cannot believe it was a flop.

Jane · « **Reply #114 on:** August 21, 2005, 12:07:51 PM »

I wish Keith would stop reformatting the computer.

I’m done lurking & thought I should say something. Gotta run-bye.

Ginny · « **Reply #115 on:** August 21, 2005, 01:02:42 PM »

Sunday greetings, all! I'm back from a quick road trip to Indianapolis with my mother. My sister was there attending a genealogy conference and we (along with niece Laura) went to celebrate her (my sister's) birthday. We took her to lunch at the recreated L. S. Ayres Tea Room, which is in the Indiana State Museum. It was very nostalgic, because we used to go to the real tea room when our grandmother worked as a jewelry marker for L. S. Ayres. For a present, I gave my sister the DVD Broadway: The Golden Age (bought myself a copy, too!).

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #116 on:** August 21, 2005, 01:08:19 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on August 21, 2005, 12:45:01 AM

I have also just gotten bored silly, listening to her whine about how she got screwed out of playing Julie in the M-G-M version of SHOW BOAT (the part that went to Ava Gardner). Sorry, Lena, but you didn't get screwed out of the role. The part is not that of a black woman, but of a black woman who PASSES for white! So stop belly-aching about losing a role for which you were never right in the first place. There was no veiled racism, there was no studio politics, you were just wrong for the role. Simple as that!

I think you're missing a big part of this story. MGM sure thought she was right fo the part of Juile when they highlighted her in their 1946 film "'Till the Clouds Roll By".

Lena's MGM contract was up in June 1950 and at the same time she was blacklisted as a communist sympathizer; she also revelaed that she was in a mixed-race marriage - illegal in CA.

Since, as you said, Julie was a part for a black women who passes as white, it would seem Lena was perfect for the part.
Since MGM had a pratice of editing out black numbers from films released in the south, they could use Lena in speciality numbers, but probably hadn't the courage to use her in a lead. This isn't latent racism. it's blatant racism!

I saw Lena in LA in Pal Joey (1978) and she had the body of a sexy siren (and she was a grandmother of 61)!

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #117 on:** August 21, 2005, 01:14:48 PM »

Quote from: Ann on August 21, 2005, 06:00:41 AM

So we splurged and went to Old Spaghetti Factory. Jed had spinach torteliini with alfredo sauce, while i had baked Greek chicken and pasta with Mizithra...so very yummy!

You had what I consider the "best value" meal on the West Coast! Is "your" Old Spaghetti Factory in a convereted railroad station or some opther funky locale?

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #118 on:** August 21, 2005, 01:18:55 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 21, 2005, 06:41:28 AM

I don't believe it's the computer that's causing grammatical and spelling errors, of which I can be occasionally guilty, but the general dumbing down of America: I was a tv series the other night...

Is "I was a tv series" an example?

der Brucer

td · « **Reply #119 on:** August 21, 2005, 01:20:48 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on August 21, 2005, 01:18:55 PM

Is "I was a tv series" an example?

der Brucer

That's the sequel to "I Am My Own Wife."

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