Topic: CHICKEN IS THE THEME (Read 15970 times)

MBarnum · « **Reply #90 on:** October 08, 2004, 04:25:46 PM »

Vibes for DR Jed! May he get the job AND return to HHW!!

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MBarnum · « **Reply #91 on:** October 08, 2004, 04:26:58 PM »

I have added a couple of movies to my weekend viewing (it is raining lots...so not much else to do)...The 1960s Italian sci-fi THE WILD, WILD PLANET starring Tony Russel (who I interviewed last weekend) and.....

MBarnum · « **Reply #92 on:** October 08, 2004, 04:31:35 PM »

...for my 2nd Bollywood movie this week I decided to watch JISM. Yes, JISM. The word means the same in Hindi as it does in English. LOL! It stars Bollywood hunk John Abraham in his first movie role and the films is evidently a remake of DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Somehow I can't imagine Barbara Stanwyck ever making a film called JISM! LOL!

François de Paris · « **Reply #93 on:** October 08, 2004, 04:32:54 PM »

RLP,

I don't think Jrand 54 was referring to what you posted re:Chevalier.
I may be wrong but Jrand doesn't seem to care for the artist; Period.

I have the book from which that excerpt is; Chevalier was almost sentenced to death and executed.
I believe Cocteau saved his skin by hiding him for a few weeks in the south of France!

There have been TONS of rumours like that after the war regarding loads of French artists and European ones; Jean Pierre Aumont, Renoir, Louis Jourdan, Danielle Darrieux....

Some of them did perform and filmed for the Nazis BUT did work with the Resistance at night!

Years after, it's easy to trash people; we, ourselves, what would we have done if we had been in their shoes??

Oh, boy! This is way too heavy, and I didn't want to head that way in the first place!

If Chevalier had been a bastard, we would have known it a long time ago!

François de Paris · « **Reply #94 on:** October 08, 2004, 04:33:59 PM »

What is happening with the site tonight???

That cinemascope thing drives me crazy... or crazier!! LOL!

bk · « **Reply #95 on:** October 08, 2004, 04:40:41 PM »

What Cinemascope thing? Looks fine from where I sit.

Back from seeing video footage, which looks better than I could have imagined. It's being cut together by some editor guy (who works on The Simpsons) and I'll see what he's done next week.

MBarnum · « **Reply #96 on:** October 08, 2004, 04:43:17 PM »

Ladies and gentlemen Mr. John Abraham.

This productions still is just to show you that I am really only interested in Mr. Abraham's (strange name for a Hindu!) acting abilities!

Danise · « **Reply #97 on:** October 08, 2004, 04:50:09 PM »

Evening all.

Best of luck job vibes to DR Jeb!
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Not much else to say tonight.

I received a scam e-mail from my bank stating that I had bought a two hundred thousand dollar necklace in Spain. They were expecting payment ASAP unless I clicked on the link they provided and gave proof that it was not me that made the purchase.

I went to my banks real web site and found their scam report page. I forwarded it to the address they gave.

I have to admit, it was a bit of a chuckle. Like I would even have a credit/debit card that would have that kind of limit on it. In my dreams......

I can't help but wonder what a two hundred thousand dollar necklace would look like.

Stuart · « **Reply #98 on:** October 08, 2004, 04:50:20 PM »

Good job vibes to DR Jed.

François de Paris · « **Reply #99 on:** October 08, 2004, 04:50:45 PM »

Quote from: bk on October 08, 2004, 04:40:41 PM

What Cinemascope thing? Looks fine from where I sit.

Back from seeing video footage, which looks better than I could have imagined. It's being cut together by some editor guy (who works on The Simpsons) and I'll see what he's done next week.

Well, from where I seat, in front of that iMac I'm using, every page is w a y too l a r g e!

But I might be the only one with the problem, so I have to bear with it, or mouse with it, or elephant with it!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #100 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:04:59 PM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on October 08, 2004, 10:34:03 AM

You are in for a treat! I don't even want to say what there is in it that you will like, because each scene brings a surprise. I am awaiting the DVD from Amazon.

Likewise, I think I'll have to go out and pick up Promanade since everyone is talking that one up, too.

Yes, LOVE ME TONIGHT is one of my faves, and Myrna Loy is so wonderful in it.

DRDan(TM), so much of PROMENADE is a hoot, but I'm particularly fond of "the Cigarette Song," "Capricious and Fickle," and "The Moment Has Passed," not to mention today's "Chicken is He!"

elmore3003 · « **Reply #101 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:08:26 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on October 08, 2004, 10:44:00 AM

CDs...I'm listening to Live At the Longview which is Ian Tyson doing cowboy songs and my Prince of Foxes soundtrack by Alfred Newman.

DRCharlesPogue, didn't we discuss Ian Tyson several months ago? "Four Strong Winds" is one of my all-time favorite songs.

bk · « **Reply #102 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:09:54 PM »

Just ate some yummilicious Chinese food (not in bed, alas).

François de Paris · « **Reply #103 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:15:23 PM »

Marlene Dietrich and poet Louis Aragon helped Chevalier, who had a juish wife, save his skin!

(Sorry, could not find this in English!)

Début 1942, il retourne chez lui à la Bocca, près de Cannes. Mais en septembre, il est de retour au Casino de Paris pour son nouveau spectacle, "Pour toi Paris". En 1944, il fournit une nouvelle cachette et de faux papiers aux parents de sa compagne. Cependant, après le débarquement américain du 6 juin 1944, les ennuis commencent pour Maurice Chevalier. Il est une des cibles du comité d'épuration qui recense, entre autres, les artistes ayant fait preuve de sympathie voire de complicité envers l'occupant allemand. Les rumeurs concernant le chanteur vont l'obliger à se cacher pendant plusieurs mois pour échapper à une épuration souvent expéditive. Puis, défendu par de nombreux autres artistes et intellectuels dont Marlène Dietrich et le poète Louis Aragon, Maurice Chevalier revient à Paris et participe même à un défilé organisé par le parti communiste le 10 octobre 44. Cette fois, le malentendu semble disparaître même si l'image de Chevalier en sort écornée. En 45, il fait quelques concerts dans un Paris juste libéré, mais la presse anglo-saxonne reste très sévère à son égard. Londres lui refusera un visa pendant encore quelques années.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #104 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:20:17 PM »

DR Elmore,

Even more of a hoot? The PROMENADE CD notes. I guess they were printing the notes for DARLING OF THE DAY at the same time, so the fourth cut is listed as being sung by Patricia Routledge and Teddy Green.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #105 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:23:19 PM »

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]! ! ! ! ! GOOD JOB VIBES FOR DR JED ! ! ! ! ![/move]

elmore3003 · « **Reply #106 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:23:26 PM »

Wally Harper was a lovely gentleman, and this is truly depressing. DRPennyO saw him when she was in New York in early June, and she told me he was not looking well. He was a major talent, and he will be missed by many.

DRJennifer, many years ago, right out of college, I applied for a job with a bank in my hometown (I had no career goals then). The horrendous woman who ran personnel for the First National Bank told me I was overeducated, and if I were to find a job in Middletown, Ohio, I should go to the Public Library and apply for a job! I went to see Arthur Wolman, the director of the library then, and he was very patient in telling he he had no openings and how sorry he was I was being passed from pillar to post.

Still unemployed several weeks later, I went back to the bank to tell the old bag I was still looking for work. She snapped at me, "What are you doing here? I sent you to the Library."

My reply: "I'm still looking for work and I hoped one of your tellers had dropped dead." Then I left. I scrounged off my parents for another six months before I went to work in the 1972 box office of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Don't let that jewelry clerk give you grief; throw it right back at her and get her ass fired.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #107 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:24:07 PM »

I've been humming "Chicken Is He" on and off through the day.

DR Elmore, DR WEL: Any recent information about Al Carmines? I tried Googling, and the only recent items are about hymns - very nice hymns about diversity and inclusiveness - that he has written.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #108 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:26:37 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on October 08, 2004, 04:43:17 PM

Ladies and gentlemen Mr. John Abraham.

This productions still is just to show you that I am really only interested in Mr. Abraham's (strange name for a Hindu!) acting abilities!

From the sound of that title, DRMichael Barnum, I think you were hoping for more skin than that!

DRJed, good vibes on employment!!!!!!

I, too, like Chevalier: what would LOVE ME TONIGHT, THE MERRY WIDOW, GIGI and THE CASTAWAYS be like without him?

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #109 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:27:01 PM »

I didn't know from Chevalier aside his appearance in Gigi. But I can certainly understand his appeal after watching him in Love Me Tonight.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #110 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:28:52 PM »

Quote from: Danise on October 08, 2004, 04:50:09 PM

I can't help but wonder what a two hundred thousand dollar necklace would look like.

Probably cheap and gaudy like one of Diana Ross' earrings.

MBarnum · « **Reply #111 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:37:53 PM »

I am watching LOVE ME TONIGHT right now. I thought DAMES was first on my vhs tape, but I was wrong. Cute movie so far. Who knew Charlie Ruggles had such a good physique??

elmore3003 · « **Reply #112 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:43:14 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on October 08, 2004, 05:37:53 PM

I am watching LOVE ME TONIGHT right now. I thought DAMES was first on my vhs tape, but I was wrong. Cute movie so far. Who knew Charlie Ruggles had such a good physique??

DRMichaelBarnum, isn't that Charles Butterworth? Is Ruggles in it as well?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #113 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:44:29 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on October 08, 2004, 05:37:53 PM

I am watching LOVE ME TONIGHT right now. I thought DAMES was first on my vhs tape, but I was wrong. Cute movie so far. Who knew Charlie Ruggles had such a good physique??

Well, knock me down! You're right! I'd forgotten he was in it.

PennyO · « **Reply #114 on:** October 08, 2004, 05:46:03 PM »

wow - I'm so sad about Wally... the news comes on the tail of such a lovely day i spent with Jane. She's off to the theater now, to see Movin' Out with her nieces and then to JFK tomorrow at the crack of dawn to go home to her husband and little menagerie. What fun we all had at Barrymore's the other night, and with Elmore yesterday. Oh, my heart is breaking about Wally. he was a good friend, and the funniest, most lovable guy in the world. he loved his life so much. He had grace. Oh, Wally.

Sandra · « **Reply #115 on:** October 08, 2004, 06:00:23 PM »

Job vibes for Dear Reader Jed! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I hope the public library has Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. If not, then I am going to have to improvise.

François de Paris · « **Reply #116 on:** October 08, 2004, 06:28:06 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on October 08, 2004, 05:44:29 PM

Well, knock me down! You're right! I'd forgotten he was in it.

If one were to watch the French version, the cast is all French apart from the two main parts!

Yes, at least for the Merry Widow, as far as I remember, Jeannette also does the French version... in French!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #117 on:** October 08, 2004, 06:34:06 PM »

I'm watching the debate....and this is the debate in which George Bush was said to possibly hold the edge based on his affability with face-to-face....

...but what I'm seeing and hearing is...

...John Kerry is kicking Bush's butt across the stage and back, time and again.

Bush looks like he's going to cry.....

elmore3003 · « **Reply #118 on:** October 08, 2004, 06:41:47 PM »

Quote from: RLP on October 08, 2004, 06:34:06 PM

I'm watching the debate....and this is the debate in which George Bush was said to possibly hold the edge based on his affability with face-to-face....

...but what I'm seeing and hearing is...

...John Kerry is kicking Bush's butt across the stage and back, time and again.

Bush looks like he's going to cry.....

Dubya certainly sounds more rattled, doesn't he? Kerry's so calm.

I loved Dubya's transformation line during the question about restarting the draft: he's transforming poor boys, who most likely enlisted for the money or because of some court order, into pine boxes! I hate this war!!

Matt H. · « **Reply #119 on:** October 08, 2004, 07:48:59 PM »

Reading about Wally Harper's death here was my first news of this tragedy. Oh, what a marvelous team they were!

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