Welcome sixteen GUESTS. Want any shares?
Sondheim says that Opening Doors is the most autobiographical of the songs that he wrote.
I never heard about the Rodgers/Hammerstein connection
ERCOLE.
With only ENTOURAGE coming on tonight to watch, ...What? You don't watch Next Food Network Star?
What? You don't watch Next Food Network Star?
::)
(It's my guilty pleasure this summer. Alton Brown had the best line last week, when he asked about the contestants, "Can't we send them all home and just start over?")
And the word of the day is: HARMATIA!The closest that Maria, the butcher's wife, came to having a HARMATIA was her habit of showing up at her husband's shoppe wearing a HAM TIARA. None of the customers dared laugh, however - who would, when the husband is carrying a cleaver - and none could muster the courage to tell her "Pork should not be used as a HAT, MARIA."
Alton is on ANOTHER show? How does he do it?This was merely a guest shot, acting as a mentor and judge, winnowing the contestants down from five to four.
I'm so glad that a famed pianist on the upper west side isn't to be seen dipping his tongue into someone else's bowl.....especially this early in the day! :)
The Vixter & I are looking forward to having dinner tomorrow with the 2 J's of Broadway!!!!
Happy Sunday, all your HHWers!
I had the sweetest dream last night ... DRs MusicGuy and Jose were frollicking atop a giant Baked Alaska as they enacted a nude opera in loin cloths with the giant paws stratigically placed so the businessman with suit case lurking in the background wasn't too aghast while DR Jason, who was looking most aghast, waved his calculator at them and hollered at them to get down from there because their giant Baked Alaska was way over the point total for the day ....
What does it mean DR JRand? ...
Hi Mikey.... how about a current picture of Bosco, lounging somewhere in your home Environs.....
(Oh my God,... I just made a baseball reference..... I'm feeling especially macho and butch today ....
I had the sweetest dream last night ... DRs MusicGuy and Jose were frollicking atop a giant Baked Alaska as they enacted a nude opera in loin cloths with the giant paws stratigically placed so the businessman with suit case lurking in the background wasn't too aghast while DR Jason, who was looking most aghast, waved his calculator at them and hollered at them to get down from there because their giant Baked Alaska was way over the point total for the day ....
What does it mean DR JRand? ...
(Oh my God,... I just made a baseball reference..... I'm feeling especially macho and butch today, so maybe dear Esteemed BK will give me a new hickey!)
Watch out...3 strikes and you're outed!
Here, here. I want to see Bosco! .. and Sherlock ... and Boo .. and all the other HHW pet family members. I must learn how to scan and post so everyone can see Deuce....
It's more likely based on the greatest collaborative team after Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick. After 13 years of writing the most brilliant musicals together (The Apple Tree, Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me, and my recent headache, Tenderloin), they had an ugly fight and didn't talk to each other for decades. Friends of Sondheim's, too.
I wouldn't be too quick to pin all the blame on Furth. When one collaborator says to another, what we've done is good enough to produce, they're both responsible for each component.
Spoo, can't post a picture of #4. Are we at capacity?
TCB ~ Are you just lookin' (I mean lurking) or are you gonna post already?!
And might I just say the following: PAGE THREE? At this hour? In what universe? You'd think it was a Sunday at the end of what must have been the longest fourth of July weekend in history.
Thanks, DR JRand56!
Just in the airport, waiting for my [first] flight.
You go get 'em, DR Miss Karen! :)
Here's the scene at my house---3 out of 4: Ociee, Bailey and Elmo
Yes, DR KAREN
The DREAM-O-MATIC 6000 says that from the description of your dream:
You read each and every post at HHW - but you read them so quickly they become in your subconscious ONE LONG POST....
That's the title of my next novella, Airport Lounges I Have Known...
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Well, methinks that DR MusicGuy actually likes the locker room... and/or at least hitting the showers.
How can we still be on Page Four. I have been up since 8 this morning, and I don't even have a lot of posts to read. Hmm, I think I am bored.
I finished THE PRODIGAL today....lovely color....and exactly what I like in a movie: NOTHING SUBTLE OR INTERNAL!!!
Has any other movie ended with its heroine (or her stunt double) taking a header into a giant incense burner?
I have never seen MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG performed on any stage, and it's one of my objectives before I die to see it (hopefully in a professional production). I adore the score.
After that, it's back to the Spirtas charts, which are an ordeal since the band is so small. There's not much color with only a sax and trumpet and everything...
Here, here. I want to see Bosco! .. and Sherlock ... and Boo .. and all the other HHW pet family members. I must learn how to scan and post so everyone can see Deuce....
Will we ever see PAGE SIX?
Would the job improve with a second keyboard?
der Brucer
Here's the scene at my house---3 out of 4: Ociee, Bailey and Elmo
Certainly don't need reality TV to flesh out my viewing schedule.
Maybe this will do the trick:
On the HHWer top 50 posters list, Mr P is currently in 6th place, but DRs Tomovoz and Jane are gaining on him, so he'd better get back here and get back into the game (DR MusicGuy macho baseball player reference) ...
Here you can see Dixie Bell:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/minx_the_dog/Dixie%20Bell/kissingdixie.jpg
Did I say I can't wait? I can't!
... and if any are decent enough, I'll be back in a while to post one or two of them.
Two funny anachronisms in last night's production of Merrily - in the early 70s section, a press photographer holds a digital Sure Shot camera. I mean, really. And in the early 60s It's A Hit, they use a cassette recorder. While cassette tape was invented in 1963 in Europe and 1964 in the US, players, recorders and tapes were not really in evidence till the late 60s.
I probably would have written about Nancy Drew's box-office performance at the end of the opening weekend, which was about three weeks ago, I think. But if you search the board you'll probably find some posts about ND and it will be in the right time frame.
...Now, I have no problem with a Nancy Drew movie, but these cretins made her younger, and, instead of having her in her hometown, moved her to Hollywood so they could take her down every movie-cliché road and have her attending Hollywood High. So, why was this annoying? You’ve probably surmised by now that my new novel’s protagonist is a fifteen-year-old girl. That’s annoying thing one. Annoying thing two – the title of my new book is – wait for it – Murder At Hollywood High: An Adriana Hofstetter Mystery (yes, I borrowed dear reader Adriana Patti’s first name, much as I borrowed actress Leslie Kritzer’s last name). Every time I write a mystery, people say that I should write one that has a character who can come back, so I can do a series. That was one of the most attractive things about doing the book. Now, my heroine is nothing like the new or old Nancy Drew (although these movie cretins do have her dress retro, which is something I also have my heroine do – but in a much more fun way), and from what I’ve read about the film, the mystery part is really lame (I’ve seen the trailer and it’s truly awful). Plus, the movie was strictly and solely designed to be marketed to this new be-all and end-all of audience demographic – the tweener. My book, while it might appeal to young people, I hope will appeal to adults as well. And I actually use the school a lot, whereas the film uses it only occasionally and for the usual trite and old jokes. So, what I thought was going to be something really unique has suddenly been made a little less so – I do know it’s a completely different thing, but still, I can see some fool saying I ripped the movie off, even though, from what I can tell, they’re about as far apart as can be. In any case, I’m very proud of the book and it will be out in late September or early October. And, if people like it, I think I’ve got another Adriana Hofstetter mystery in me – maybe a few.
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Here you can see Dixie Bell:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/minx_the_dog/Dixie%20Bell/kissingdixie.jpg
Hey, a little sympathy here!
....................... and my tomato plants are wilting >:(
der Brucer
Here you can see Dixie Bell:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/minx_the_dog/Dixie%20Bell/kissingdixie.jpg
Hey, a little sympathy here!
The temperature is hitting 90° and the humidity is almost at 40% - the central air is working overtime and my tomato plants are wilting >:(
der Brucer
It is a bit on the warm side also and like JRand56 I am staying indoors...but sadly with no A/C, just fans...lots of them!
Had some lunch (my meal o' the day).
Love the discourse re Merrily.
... And the book is just not good - a few lines of Furthian dialogue are funny, but it's melodramatic, arch, and finds no way to make us care about anything that happens.
Personally, I find that non-linear structure is often just a flashy trick to disguise bad storytelling, or worse, a boring plot. It demands that the audience pay closer attention in order to figure out what’s going on, but rarely rewards the effort.
Woody and I both saw :
Tom Stoppard's "Artist Descending a Staircase
which, like Merrily, uses non-liner story-telling. Stoppard may not get you caring deeply about the characters, but he does have you enthralled with finding out how they came to their present condition; you await with eager anticipation each page turned backward. Gimmicky, sure - but good theatre!
Screenwriter John August (http://johnaugust.com/archives/2007/linear-writing-for-non-linear-films) (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Go, and Charlie’s Angels) observed:As you pointed out, when we couldn't care less about the characters we meet in Scene 1, why wait for Scene 2?
The fault is not the conceit, but the execution, and here I agree with you, the majority of the failure should be assigned to Furth!
der Brucer
Aww, poor DerBrucer. I hope it cools down for you soon!
Is that THE WOMAN IN WHITE?
Is that THE WOMAN IN WHITE?
Would it be unseemly for a newbie to be giving diet advice?
Are you really only eating only one meal a day, and that, lunch?
As someone who works with people trying to lose weight, and maintain that weight loss once they've reached their optimum weight... eating one meal a day is a big mistake. Sends your body the wrong kinds of signals, and will delay your weight loss.
That is cheating, derBrucer.
I finished THE PRODIGAL today....lovely color....and exactly what I like in a movie: NOTHING SUBTLE OR INTERNAL!!!
Has any other movie ended with its heroine (or her stunt double) taking a header into a giant incense burner?
Der Brucer, I know that your hot and humid is much worse than my hotter and dry.
Next, I watched CAGED. I'm sorry, but there isn't anything campy about this movie. It's a serious drama with fine production values and excellent performances. Is it considered campy because Emerson calls the women "tramps," or there is dialog like, "She's a cute trick" or "Who's the fish?" Sounds very realistic to me, especially for a necessarily toned down Production Code feature of 1950.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR YOUTH!
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Veteran alligator wrestler James Peacock, right, watches as his student, Scott Cohen, works with an alligator at the Native Village Wildlife Park in Hollywood, Fla.
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Scott Cohen, who started as a volunteer at the Native Village and is now in training to become an alligator wrestler, pulls a gator from the holding pond at the park in Hollywood, Fla.
der Brucer
Perhaps DR Sandra would like to get her brother a job?
I have finished The Giant Behemoth. It was tasty, but I'm REALLY full now.
So, 3DDiffusion, you work with folks who want to lose weight? Do you teach the point thing, or are you a dietitian?
Of course you'd need to be over 55 to remember who he was!
I'm watching Von Ryan's Express, but may take a little drive, just to get some air.
I suspect I am the only one around that is listening to Ronnie Ronalde today! I had no idea that he was more successful in the USA than in the UK. Of course you'd need to be over 55 to remember who he was!
STILL no Page Eight!?!?!?!?
No, or Page Nine.
Miss Dixie Bell is currently resting on my left foot.
This one's for DR Ginny! (You looked faboo in the pix from NYC)!
Thank you, DR td, you are too, too kind!
Thanks to Jose for having alerted us to DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE being in D.C. We jumped oin tickets as soon as the extension was announced and we credit Jose.
DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE (Saturday night's show in D.C.) is the type of play that had me saying "that's fun, but huh?" at intermission, but then it all comes together stunningly in ACT II. One of those plays that would have been better off left without an intermission (playing time is under 90 minutes when you take out the intermission), which is what the printed program suggests was the original intent but an insert to the program informs us of the added intermission. Heady, intellectual stuff in Act II, about what happens after we die both among our loved ones and a knockout theory about what happens after our time on this Earth, but the kicker is that it's very accessibly rendered without talking down to the audience.
vixmom - Got your message. Please add me to your group for dinner on Monday if it's still on.
vixmom - Got your message. Please add me to your group for dinner on Monday if it's still on.
As for tomorrow night's dinner...
DR Jason - What time do you have to be at the Q tomorrow?
-And shall we just say John's Pizza? or Westway Diner? or Galaxy Diner? Or maybe we could all do Piece of Chicken, and find a free stoop to sit on and dine. ;)
Matt H-Did you get your hair wet at the pool? Nice photos, thanks for sharing.
Can you post links to the indecent ones?
der Brucer
Will we never get to page eight?
Thirty-eight shares left :)
Edisaurus, can you shed any light on why TNT insists on running those
!&*%! ads that take up any where from a 1/4 to 1/3 of the screen right over the top of the movie you are trying to watch?
It's dang annoying!!
Matt H, you are looking very fit and trim on your floating island.....
In the interest of public safety I will NOT be posting any pictures of myself in bathing attire
Hi dear DR Laura....... Do you think you might be up for an airport run on this coming Tuesday, leaving my house about 9:30 AM ?? It would sure be a big help.
Where will you be off to this time, DR MusicGuy?
Hi Jo jo, .... I just have a short 2 day trip to Indianapolis for a little "Hopeful Heart" business. Not a very exciting city....
no lockers or showers..... :o
If anyone who saw it would like to write something favorable, even just one or two lines, it would be greatly appreciated. Right now, we only have this one negative comment!
Here's kitty #4, who was neglected earlier:
Der B, I mentioned to the HEARTLAND promo producer that you/Fletcher were disapoonted to miss the repeat of the episode that was lost when they changed times. She said to remind you that you can watch it online at tnt.tv and if not, she could probably get you a copy.
Their other rationale is that "all the other networks are doing it", like USA, etc.
I'm being held hostage in my own room. One of my roommates is sleeping in the living room because he doesn't have an air conditioner in his room, so I can't go out there to watch TV.
Well, I put it on order, paid the extra $3 to get it shipped promptly, and will view it with an open mind immediately on receipt.
I will only post a review that is, on balance, favorable.
(Having a fully credentialed fascist, favorably disposed to your work, might yield an interesting set of comments.)
Thanx so much; however, I have since discovered that COMCAST On-Demand offers the HEARTLAND episodes (but not in HD - They offer The Closer both regular and HD), so I am caught up. I do enjoy the show, except for the operating room scenes when the music is so damned loud!.
On line is not a practical option for use po-folk on dial-up.
Can't we even get to three hundred postings?