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« Reply #180 on: January 06, 2006, 07:49:11 PM »
1988 Grammy Nominees that year for cast album
were:

Into the Woods (winner)*
Anything Goes (lincoln center revival)
Chess (Broadway)
If Thee I Sing/Let 'Em Eat Cake*
Show Boat*

These three albums I thought were very worthy and my choice would have Show Boat.

Anything Goes and Chess were also very good. Chess especially for Judy Kuhn and the late David Carroll.

I still wish I knew what the criteria was when the vote the grammy in this category. Only Into the Woods and Chess writers received nominations the others receive some kind of honorable mention.

So do they vote on:
Quality of the recording? (Technical etc)
The singing?
The score?
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« Reply #181 on: January 06, 2006, 07:54:10 PM »
Quote from: Michael S on January 06, 2006, 07:49:11 PM
1988 Grammy Nominees that year for cast album
were:

Into the Woods (winner)*
Anything Goes (lincoln center revival)
Chess (Broadway)
If Thee I Sing/Let 'Em Eat Cake*
Show Boat*

These three albums I thought were very worthy and my choice would have Show Boat.

Anything Goes and Chess were also very good. Chess especially for Judy Kuhn and the late David Carroll.

I still wish I knew what the criteria was when the vote the grammy in this category. Only Into the Woods and Chess writers received nominations the others receive some kind of honorable mention.

So do they vote on:
Quality of the recording? (Technical etc)
The singing?
The score?

It's all about who sleeps with who!! :o

Did I wrote that?! ;)

Then........ Larry must know!! ;D
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« Reply #182 on: January 06, 2006, 07:54:11 PM »
The Last Starfighter's official release date was Nov. 15/05 which makes it eligable for the Grammy Awards next year
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« Reply #183 on: January 06, 2006, 07:55:14 PM »
Quote from: Michael S on January 06, 2006, 07:54:11 PM
The Last Starfighter's official release date was Nov. 15/05 which makes it eligable for the Grammy Awards next year

You mean THIS year, no?
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« Reply #184 on: January 06, 2006, 07:59:59 PM »
Quote from: François on January 06, 2006, 07:55:14 PM
You mean THIS year, no?

The Grammy year runs from sometime in October 1st to September 30th of the following year so therefore it is eligable next year.

After the Ball was release during the summer so it could have been nominated but it wasn't

 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
      Billy Straus & David Yazbek, producers; David Yazbek, composer/lyricist
      (Original Broadway Cast Including John Lithgow & Norbert Leo Butz)
      [Ghostlight Records/Razor & Tie]

• Hair
      Kurt Deutsch & Joel Moss, producers (Galt MacDermot, composer; James Rado &
      Gerome Ragni, lyricists) (The Actors' Fund Of America Benefit Recording)
      [Ghostlight Records]

• The Light In The Piazza
      Steven Epstein, producer; Adam Guettel, composer/lyricist (Original Broadway
      Cast Including Victoria Clark & Kelli O'Hara)
      [Nonesuch]

• Monty Python's Spamalot
      John Du Prez & Eric Idle, producers; John Du Prez, composer; Eric Idle,
      composer/lyricist (Original Broadway Cast Including David Hyde Pierce, Tim
      Curry, Hank Azaria & Sara Ramirez)
      [Decca Broadway]

• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
      Kurt Deutsch & Joel Moss, producers; William Finn, composer/lyricist (Original
      Broadway Cast)
      [Razor & Tie/Ghostlight Records]

Ghostlight had three nominateions. who did they f**k?
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« Reply #185 on: January 06, 2006, 08:05:21 PM »
For those on the West Coast, IN JUSTICE was new.

For those who watched the DANCING WITH THE STARS results show what did you think?

I won't give away who was voted off.  But I think the top ones pretty much have to be safe. I mean if Drew Lachey was #1, even if it was in last place with the fans, he couldn't really lose.

There were a few I was nervous for.  I was hoping the disastrous Master P would get the boot.  I was also hoping that Lisa Rinna (who did well) would not get voted out (she was in the bottom 5 i think).  I was also hoping the sportscaster guy would get another chance (he was very manic, but he tried!).

I wish we could find out the placings! We only find out bottom 2.
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« Reply #186 on: January 06, 2006, 08:06:44 PM »
Hello, Ben?

How are things in Glocca New Yorka?

(I'm trying to be funny! Just trying I know! LOL!)
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« Reply #187 on: January 06, 2006, 08:06:53 PM »
Quote from: Jennifer on January 06, 2006, 08:05:21 PM

I wish we could find out the placings! We only find out bottom 2.

Only bottoms?
No tops?
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« Reply #188 on: January 06, 2006, 08:08:00 PM »
DR JMK, that's interesting about Betsy's involvement with the reportage of the Nancy/Tonya business. Fascinating how stupid people can be.
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« Reply #189 on: January 06, 2006, 08:08:34 PM »
DR Jennifer, I recorded IN JUSTICE just in case it wasn't the same premiere episode repeated.I'll watch it tomorrow.
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« Reply #190 on: January 06, 2006, 08:09:24 PM »
Quote from: Michael S on January 06, 2006, 08:06:53 PM
Only bottoms?
No tops?

I vote for Timothy B.! ??? :D
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« Reply #191 on: January 06, 2006, 08:09:24 PM »
DR Jane, this week's IN JUSTICE was a real tear jerker.  More than last Sunday's show.  Be warned! :)
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« Reply #192 on: January 06, 2006, 08:10:50 PM »
Very confusing re: IN JUSTICE.  My tv guide had it as new. But the abc website and my tv showed it as the pilot repeating.  However during DANCING WITH THE STARS they were promoting it as being new and they showed scenes from the episode.
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« Reply #193 on: January 06, 2006, 08:11:08 PM »
Quote from: Matt H. on January 06, 2006, 08:08:34 PM
IN JUSTICE just in case ...


Nice ring to that!
Me, I like! :)
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« Reply #194 on: January 06, 2006, 08:15:15 PM »
I watched two CSI: NY episodes waiting for THE BOOK OF DANIEL. Both were very entertaining. In one, I guessed the murderer right off. The other was a complete surprise.
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« Reply #195 on: January 06, 2006, 08:19:29 PM »
I found THE BOOK OF DANIEL very enjoyable. The first quarter hour was very noisy and manic, and I wasn't enjoying it, but afterward, things settled down and I got interested in the characters and all the pltolines. At the end of two hours, the show I felt it was most similar to was DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES.

BTW, the scenes with Jesus were my very favorite things about the show.

And people are just plain stupid if they found one second of the show sacrilegious.
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« Reply #196 on: January 06, 2006, 08:22:39 PM »
But I'll bet NBC lost a ton of money on airing this show. I noticed there were not many national commercials on it. Most of the commercial time was spent doing NBC promos (over and over and over). Since most dramas cost a minimum of $2 million an episode to shoot, you had $4 million worth of show with very little commercial time being sold to support it.

NBC has only filmed 6 episodes. We'll see how things pan out with it.
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« Reply #197 on: January 06, 2006, 08:23:29 PM »
Michael -  There's some unwritten rule that Skip has to sleep with me and I have to sleep with Skip, so i think it's up to Bruce to sleep with whomever must be slept with to get Starfighter a Grammy nomination.  :)  

It's interesting that a small label can get nominations if the title is right.  But I think so much depends on having a strong title.

Bruce has been nominated for the Grammy, though, in earlier years, IIRC.
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« Reply #198 on: January 06, 2006, 08:29:48 PM »
Quote from: FJL on January 06, 2006, 08:23:29 PM
Michael -  There's some unwritten rule that Skip has to sleep with me and I have to sleep with Skip, so i think it's up to Bruce to sleep with whomever must be slept with to get Starfighter a Grammy nomination.  :)  

It's interesting that a small label can get nominations if the title is right.  But I think so much depends on having a strong title.

Bruce has been nominated for the Grammy, though, in earlier years, IIRC.

Fred, I'm sorry I started this thing about "sleeping with the enemy"! ;)
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« Reply #199 on: January 06, 2006, 08:31:34 PM »

If one sleeps with an old person.... does one may get a Granny nomination that way?!
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« Reply #200 on: January 06, 2006, 08:33:01 PM »


Well, Ben is gone!
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« Reply #201 on: January 06, 2006, 08:37:01 PM »
Headed downstairs to bed now.

Good night, all!
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« Reply #202 on: January 06, 2006, 08:39:09 PM »
Bruce once wrote an absolutely hilarious riff, which I wish I had printed out, as a parody of someone's all-too-obvious self-promotion of their album.  Bruce's parody had a few lines along the lines of :  "We're talking Grammy here.  Absolutely.  Yes, my Grammy loves my new album and will rave about it to everyone she meets."

We'll be back with more of "The Best of Bruce Kimmel" after this message.  :)
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« Reply #203 on: January 06, 2006, 08:39:11 PM »
Yesterday I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
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« Reply #204 on: January 06, 2006, 08:47:00 PM »
Quote from: Iris* on January 06, 2006, 06:32:56 PM
So, was everyone already aware that the singing group THE COWSILLS inspired the TV series "THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY"?
In Barry's obit in today's L.A.Times, it claims that they turned down the chance to do the show themselves because the producers wanted to cast Shirley Jones instead of Barry Cowsills' mother.

As I rememberr, it was Momma Coswsill turning down the gig for the whole family, because they didn't want to use her.
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« Reply #205 on: January 06, 2006, 08:50:38 PM »
Hello.  I watched the Book of Daniel tonight.  

Possible spoilers ahead !!

Although I will attempt to be vague enough not to give anything away for you west coasters and tivoers out there.











































I agree with Matt  I didn't see anything sacreligious in it... I think they went a little over the top with this pilot however... not the Jesus bits... they were the most calm, sane pieces in the show

I understand needing to grab the audience's interest but it seemed as if they dumped enough different plotlines in the first two hours to last five seasons.....

And can we ever see a minister on TV that doesn't live in a mansion?

I suspect the Catholics are going to be a tad upset with the helpful friends of the Catholic priest

I lost interest in Seventh Heaven because the minister there never seemed to consider turning to God or Jesus as an option for the problems the family encountered. I like the fact that the minister has a personal relationship with Jesus, isn't that what Christianity is supposed to be about?

 

 
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« Reply #206 on: January 06, 2006, 08:55:25 PM »
Quote from: TCB on January 06, 2006, 08:47:00 PM
As I rememberr, it was Momma Coswsill turning down the gig for the whole family, because they didn't want to use her.

That's how I remember it as well.   I wanted to be Susie Cowsill.

Unfortunately, if you combine the musical talents of my two brothers and myself  you may just have a lethal weapon
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« Reply #207 on: January 06, 2006, 08:57:16 PM »
Best traveling and vacation vibes to you Tomovoz.... you will be missed while you are away and I look forward to hearing of your adventures
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« Reply #208 on: January 06, 2006, 08:59:59 PM »
Quote from: JMK on January 06, 2006, 04:12:49 PM
Matt, it was Betsy's station here in Portland that broke the story.  It was one of the reasons she ultimately got out of broadcasting--it was a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week thing here in Portland for months.  I was in the studio one day right after the bodyguard (the fat one, can't remember his name, Shane, maybe?) had gotten back to Portland, and Harding's coach had been stupid enough to use a cell phone to call Harding's attorney (this was back in the early days of cell phones) and a reporter had picked up the whole conversation with a scanner.  And he had it on tape!!  We sat around the studio and listened.  The finagling they were going through was incredible.  Of course you probably know Tonya has continued to get herself into one scrape after the other, despite her shiny new nose, LOL.



Poor Tonya!  She went to a casting call for SKATING WITH THE STARS, but they decided she couldn't skate well enough, and she definately was not a celebrity.
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« Reply #209 on: January 06, 2006, 09:04:15 PM »
How does someone get nominated for a Grammy...or an Emmy, a Tony or an Oscar anything else for that matter?

I don't mean the politics, the backstabbing, the campaigning ...

I mean the technical process of nomination.  Is there a nominating commitee or can any memberof the appropriate union/association nominate something?  And if there is a committee how does one get on it? Can people nominate projects they themsleves are somehow connected with?  
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