Topic: HOPING FOR THE HOPEFUL MANY THINGS (Read 5645 times)

bk · « **Reply #180 on:** March 23, 2023, 08:42:11 PM »

And I went batty over the carbonara - really a lot of cream this time, more than usual, but boy was it amazing, the best in all LA.

bk · « **Reply #181 on:** March 23, 2023, 08:42:25 PM »

We both had to be dollied out of there.

bk · « **Reply #182 on:** March 23, 2023, 08:42:45 PM »

I'm still full as full can be and I do hope the creamy cream settles before bedtime.

bk · « **Reply #183 on:** March 23, 2023, 08:43:01 PM »

Bedtime will be at a reasonable hour tonight.

bk · « **Reply #184 on:** March 23, 2023, 08:43:52 PM »

Of course, I already slept close to two hours this evening.

bk · « **Reply #185 on:** March 23, 2023, 08:56:39 PM »

The Prince and the Showgirl opened in a wide release on July 3, 1957 and was favorably reviewed in the LA Times. I know I saw it back then, probably at the Stadium at some point, although it did play the Village in Westwood and I did go there occasionally, but probably not for something like this. I do know that that week I did see the double bill playing at the Lido - The Incredible Shrinking Man and The Deadly Mantis.

John G. · « **Reply #186 on:** March 23, 2023, 08:57:17 PM »

Quote from: bk on March 23, 2023, 08:35:50 PM

I wrote JohnG because I have never gotten past the paywall at WaPo. But this time I did.

I emailed it to you.

John G. · « **Reply #187 on:** March 23, 2023, 08:58:44 PM »

I liked Marilyn in Prince and the Showgirl. I did not like Olivier. And I didn’t find it all that funny.

John G. · « **Reply #188 on:** March 23, 2023, 08:59:04 PM »

But it’s been maybe 35 years.

John G. · « **Reply #189 on:** March 23, 2023, 09:00:18 PM »

Strange Brew was a hoot. They stole from Hamlet and Gulliver’s Travels. If you gotta steal, steal from the classics.

bk · « **Reply #190 on:** March 23, 2023, 09:02:22 PM »

I would turn ten that year. Had my parents known who I actually was, they would have and should have been taking me to the theater, but that actually never happened until they got good seats for Follies at the new Shubert Theater here. Yep, first and ONLY time they took me to the theater - no, I'm wrong, one other time - to see A Family Affair, the flop B'way musical at a tiny theater on Santa Monica Blvd. Had they been taking me to the theater, then during that week of July 3 or any of the few weeks prior or after, they could have taken me to the Huntington Hartford Theater to see Ruth Gordon and Loring Smith in The Matchmaker - can you even imagine? Or they could have taken me to the Philharmonic Opera for the Civic Light Opera's new production of South Pacific, starring, you know, Mary Martin and Giorgio Tozzi. Can you even imagine? Or maybe to the Greek Theater to see someone named Judy Garland.

bk · « **Reply #191 on:** March 23, 2023, 09:05:49 PM »

Meanwhile, The Ten Commandment was in its eighth month at the Stanley Warner Beverly Hills. The Pride and the Passion was at the Wilshire, although I'd see it at the Stadium a few weeks later. Sweet Smell of Success was playing wide around town, including the Picwood in West LA. Love in the Afternoon was at the Egyptian. Gunfight at the OK Corral was playing around town, including the Wiltern, where I'm pretty sure I saw it.

bk · « **Reply #192 on:** March 23, 2023, 09:08:29 PM »

Over at the Broadway in Hollywood, you could get crinkle-crepe pajamas on sale for 2.99

bk · « **Reply #193 on:** March 23, 2023, 09:09:40 PM »

And as I said, I'd see The Prince and the Showgirl at the Stadium on Saturday August 3, with Johnny Tremaine.

bk · « **Reply #194 on:** March 23, 2023, 09:11:22 PM »

On July 29th, the Broadway had a sale on TVs and you could get a giant 21-inch General Electric Ultra Vision set for $188.

bk · « **Reply #195 on:** March 23, 2023, 09:12:26 PM »

JohnG, I got the email but had already seen the article by clicking here. First time past the paywall.

Jane · « **Reply #196 on:** March 23, 2023, 09:40:20 PM »

'night

George · « **Reply #197 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:51:16 PM »

Quote from: John G. on March 23, 2023, 07:58:49 PM

But the critic loved Carolee Carmello.

Who wouldn't?

bk · « **Reply #198 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:53:35 PM »

Still on page SEVEN? No posts for two HOURS?

bk · « **Reply #199 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:53:48 PM »

Let's get with the program, baby.

bk · « **Reply #200 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:54:08 PM »

George made one post. Let's have some more or is he already down some rabbit hole?

bk · « **Reply #201 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:54:19 PM »

Do I have to do this by myself again?

bk · « **Reply #202 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:54:35 PM »

I guess so.

bk · « **Reply #203 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:54:42 PM »

I guess it's on me.

bk · « **Reply #204 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:54:52 PM »

I guess I have to do the heavy lifting.

bk · « **Reply #205 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:55:11 PM »

I guess I have to take us to the finish line.

bk · « **Reply #206 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:55:19 PM »

Nobody to help

George · « **Reply #207 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:55:27 PM »

Quote from: bk on March 23, 2023, 08:41:34 PM

He went batty over his scampi.

Was he campy for the scampi?

bk · « **Reply #208 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:55:43 PM »

George is just sitting there like a dead herring in the moonlight.

bk · « **Reply #209 on:** March 23, 2023, 11:55:54 PM »

There he is, finally.

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