Topic: BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME (Read 54743 times)

Edisaurus · « **Reply #360 on:** June 15, 2007, 01:41:52 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on June 15, 2007, 01:10:42 PM

Oh, sure....you get one or two quick ones and then it's off with the HHW guys to brag and boast!

Ya better keep yer big yap SHUT!

Baby! I'm not from Havana!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #361 on:** June 15, 2007, 01:43:46 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on June 15, 2007, 01:19:45 PM

Was he the "prince" of the Putnam County Playhouse auditioners or is there a concept I'm missing?

DR ELMORE you are missing nothing....

Jrand73 · « **Reply #362 on:** June 15, 2007, 01:44:05 PM »

Off to the ceremony.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #363 on:** June 15, 2007, 01:45:01 PM »

Quote from: JRand56 on June 15, 2007, 01:44:05 PM

Off to the ceremony.

I'm kind of afraid to ask what a handfasting ceremony consists of...

Edisaurus · « **Reply #364 on:** June 15, 2007, 01:45:12 PM »

The hand is quicker than the eye?

bk · « **Reply #365 on:** June 15, 2007, 01:46:02 PM »

I think if you search my comments on Hollywood or Bust you'll find that I am a bit harsher on the transfer, which I thought basically a disaster. The only GREAT transfer in the set is Artists and Models, and while the color is eye-popping, even it isn't sharp enough. The other transfers are all fine, if unexceptional.

bk · « **Reply #366 on:** June 15, 2007, 01:46:50 PM »

Will we never get to page fourteen?

Seriously, can believe thirteen pages before two o'clock my time?

I've been in the garage preparing packages for shipment tomorrow morning.

bk · « **Reply #367 on:** June 15, 2007, 01:47:09 PM »

I guess I'll go see if I have any mail - am expecting a package or three.

Matthew · « **Reply #368 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:12:18 PM »

TOD -

iPod - A Sondheim playlist (go figure)

that's all.

Does anyone know what happened with Ken Mandelbaum? He hasn't posted on Broadway.com in over a year. Did he retire?

I don't know if anyone read this yesterday

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108816.html

Besides the stupidity of the work that was "destroyed" or whatever, I think it's cool that his cat's name is Otto, the same as my miniature schnauzer, maybe it's a sign

elmore3003 · « **Reply #369 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:13:32 PM »

It's about time to head off to an MRI. The clinic is at 59th and Seventh Avenue, so I'll finally get to stop into the Borders at Columbus Circle.

Matt H. · « **Reply #370 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:13:42 PM »

Quote from: bk on June 15, 2007, 01:46:50 PM

Will we never get to page fourteen?

Seriously, can believe thirteen pages before two o'clock my time?

I've been in the garage preparing packages for shipment tomorrow morning.

Of course.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #371 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:18:58 PM »

Quote from: Matthew on June 15, 2007, 02:12:18 PM

TOD -

iPod - A Sondheim playlist (go figure)

that's all.

Does anyone know what happened with Ken Mandelbaum? He hasn't posted on Broadway.com in over a year. Did he retire?

I don't know if anyone read this yesterday

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108816.html

Besides the stupidity of the work that was "destroyed" or whatever, I think it's cool that his cat's name is Otto, the same as my miniature schnauzer, maybe it's a sign

Maybe it's Lloyd Webber's attempt to abandon a project that sounded ridiculous from the get-go?

I've heard nothing about WEHT Mr Mandelbaum. We once were friends but after crowning himself high priest of the musical, he attached himself to Mr Ethan Mordden, and they've been a coven ever since. He seems to have stepped down from the pontiff's chair. I heard a rumor that the notorious illegal videotaper who was caught too many times and banned from theatres was he, but I only repeat a rumor I'd heard. If true, that would explain part of it but who's to know?

Matt H. · « **Reply #372 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:19:20 PM »

Quote from: bk on June 15, 2007, 01:46:02 PM

I think if you search my comments on Hollywood or Bust you'll find that I am a bit harsher on the transfer, which I thought basically a disaster. The only GREAT transfer in the set is Artists and Models, and while the color is eye-popping, even it isn't sharp enough. The other transfers are all fine, if unexceptional.

I read your comments, but it didn't think you watched every one of those movies all the way through. If you did, you did it in record time. I did watch HOLLYWOOD OR BUST all the way through, hence my comments.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #373 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:20:14 PM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on June 15, 2007, 06:23:14 AM

Yes, that's true--it was the "Mambo #5" of it's time.

Despite the heavy rotation and the fact is was #1 here ,I didn't catch up with Mambo #5 for ages. Eventually - Ah! It was the old Perez Prado tune from the 50's and hadn't changed much at all.

Everything old is new again. (a PA reference)

Matt H. · « **Reply #374 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:21:21 PM »

Mandelbaum did seem to disappear off the face of the earth. I know some people here had problems with him, but I always enjoyed his writing even when I didn't agree with everything he wrote.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #375 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:22:23 PM »

Good luck with those Bedroom and Hall DR TCB. I gave my copy away VERY QUICKLY. (But then some people liked Jeffrey and Big Eden. (Being "Gay" movies does not make them good!).

"Bear Cub" is a good movie!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #376 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:22:40 PM »

Quote from: François on June 15, 2007, 01:19:56 PM

Sorry, but my yap is NOT big!

Doesn't matter...I was riffing on a Madeline Kahn line from "Young Frankenstein."

bk · « **Reply #377 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:22:52 PM »

I have watched all the Martin and Lewis films in the volume two set. And that includes all of Hollywood or Bust, which I believe I wrote about separately.

bk · « **Reply #378 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:24:40 PM »

I posted on another board that whenever ALW needs to keep his name alive in the papers, he pulls out the Phantom sequel - he's been doing it for years. My guess is someone has read my ongoing commentary on this (I have posted about it every time he has - and have written several columnists about it), and contacted him and laid down the guantlet - let's hear some of this sequel. Hence, the cat destroyed it - as if ALW wouldn't have it backed up somewhere. Puhleeze.

Matt H. · « **Reply #379 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:32:03 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on June 15, 2007, 02:22:23 PM

Good luck with those Bedroom and Hall DR TCB. I gave my copy away VERY QUICKLY. (But then some people liked Jeffrey and Big Eden. (Being "Gay" movies does not make them good!).

"Bear Cub" is a good movie!

No, being gay-themed does not make them good automatically, but I genuinely liked JEFFREY and BIG EDEN (the latter especially) very much.

BEDROOMS & HALLWAYS is now more interesting for its cast than for the story, but even it has its moments.

Matt H. · « **Reply #380 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:35:38 PM »

I have that %#**%$(^ kitchen floor to mop, so I'd better head down now and get to it.

Then, I want to do a little reading before settling in with tonight's viewing.

WBBL.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #381 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:38:17 PM »

Michael Ball - from Kismet's romantic lead to drag. I guess that's the fickle finger of fate.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #382 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:38:17 PM »

Quote from: bk on June 15, 2007, 02:24:40 PM

the cat destroyed it - as if ALW wouldn't have it backed up somewhere. Puhleeze.

Ah, the old "My dog ate my homework" defense! Well, it worked in Jr. High...

Tomovoz · « **Reply #383 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:49:51 PM »

Didn't Dame Kiri sing the Phantom 2's big song on ALW's Birthday tribute?
The song was then recycled for "The Beautiful Game". Much as "I Don't Talk To Strangers" ended up in Phantom 1. (All I Ask Of You).

François · « **Reply #384 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:50:53 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on June 15, 2007, 02:38:17 PM

Michael Ball - from Kismet's romantic lead to drag. I guess that's the fickle finger of fate.

Aaahhhh!

"Fickle Finger of Fate":

Title of my next book on Proctology, with a foreword by Dr Ball, with a full... index!

François · « **Reply #385 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:52:54 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on June 15, 2007, 02:49:51 PM

Didn't Dame Kiri sing the Phantom 2's big song on ALW's Birthday tribute?
The song was then recycled for "The Beautiful Game". Much as "I Don't Talk To Strangers" ended up in Phantom 1. (All I Ask Of You).

We should ask DR elmore! She's a good friend of his!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #386 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:54:18 PM »

Nice mail call today:

"Planet Earth" -- HD DVD
"Hidalgo" -- CD soundtrack
"Firefly" -- standard DVD of complete series.

I got me some TV watching to do.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #387 on:** June 15, 2007, 02:54:59 PM »

Can someone who "knows" answer this question:

Who is the current "queen bitch" of Broadway?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #388 on:** June 15, 2007, 03:10:59 PM »

A lull.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #389 on:** June 15, 2007, 03:11:14 PM »

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