Topic: A WORLD WITHOUT LAWRENCE WELK (Read 20220 times)

Laura · « **Reply #120 on:** March 11, 2010, 11:59:32 AM »

Exactly, TCB.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #121 on:** March 11, 2010, 12:02:15 PM »

Quote from: Jane on March 11, 2010, 11:48:55 AM

Quote from: JoseSPiano on March 11, 2010, 11:34:48 AM
Just read it...

Alice Sommer Herz survived the Holocaust with the help of the piano. She tells us how, at 106, she has kept faith in music and humanity

"I have never hated, and I will never hate."

Thank you very, very much Jose.

You're welcome, Jane.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #122 on:** March 11, 2010, 12:04:39 PM »

And now...

Laters...

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #123 on:** March 11, 2010, 12:25:18 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on March 11, 2010, 11:57:42 AM

And here the complete "review": Love Never Dies, Adelphi Theatre

Favorite line:

The Aerie’s design over-wrings the worst excesses of Art Nouveau to produce the bastard child of sexual congress between a peacock and an owl in a Notting Hill antiques shop.

der Brucer

"A bunch of moaning curmudgeons" - did I miss an HHW gathering?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #124 on:** March 11, 2010, 12:26:21 PM »

Quote from: TCB on March 11, 2010, 11:57:11 AM

Quote from: Matt H. on March 11, 2010, 07:00:59 AM
Most networks are programming new episodes tonight, but the CW is still in rerun mode so no new SUPERNATURAL this week. That will help me not have to watch GREY'S ANATOMY "live" and I can fast forward through the personal stuff that irritates the crap out of me.

Sorry to hear that ONE LIFE TO LIVE is getting rid of their gay couple. I hope I named the right soap opera. I don't know for sure, but they call the couple "Kish."

Yep! I guess ONE LIFE TO LIVE goes from being praised for its bravery to kicked for its cowardice. I guess it's back to conniving jealous women, tired triangles, and more stale plots.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #125 on:** March 11, 2010, 12:35:03 PM »

I have received an EMail inviting me to discover:

The Naked Truth About Nancy Pelosi

I am afraid to open it! (I might go blind!)

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #126 on:** March 11, 2010, 12:39:51 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on March 11, 2010, 12:26:21 PM

I guess it's back to conniving jealous women, tired triangles, and more stale plots.

But I thought you liked opera.

der Brucer

Ginny · « **Reply #127 on:** March 11, 2010, 12:40:10 PM »

Whew! Another bullet dodged and that means I'm free to go have a blood test tomorrow. Isn't my life exciting?

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #128 on:** March 11, 2010, 12:44:36 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on March 11, 2010, 12:40:10 PM

Whew! Another bullet dodged and that means I'm free to go have a blood test tomorrow. Isn't my life exciting?

Having bood drawn...jury duty...having blood drawn...jury duty...

Decisions, decisions!

der Brucer

Ginny · « **Reply #129 on:** March 11, 2010, 12:52:37 PM »

Yeah, DR der Brucer, I don't know if I can handle all this excitement and suspense!

Off to do errands and see a movie...bye for now!

Matt H. · « **Reply #130 on:** March 11, 2010, 01:19:18 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on March 11, 2010, 11:28:51 AM

MattH,

Last night you neglected to mention Mitchell's other pet - Zsa Zsa Gaboa.

I couldn't remember it, but I was reminded of it at lunch. We're all BIG fans of MODERN FAMILY and recount the show and the lines while we laugh all over again.

Matt H. · « **Reply #131 on:** March 11, 2010, 01:20:24 PM »

Quote from: TCB on March 11, 2010, 11:57:11 AM

Quote from: Matt H. on March 11, 2010, 07:00:59 AM
Most networks are programming new episodes tonight, but the CW is still in rerun mode so no new SUPERNATURAL this week. That will help me not have to watch GREY'S ANATOMY "live" and I can fast forward through the personal stuff that irritates the crap out of me.

Sorry to hear that ONE LIFE TO LIVE is getting rid of their gay couple. I hope I named the right soap opera. I don't know for sure, but they call the couple "Kish."

Yes, I had read about it in TV GUIDE. Truth be told, when they go, I go. Simple as that.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #132 on:** March 11, 2010, 01:21:45 PM »

THEATER MANIA

Quote

The Scottsboro Boys
A tale of Southern bigotry and miscarried justice unfurls with swift and startling alacrity in the immensely satisfying The Scottsboro Boys, the new musical with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb and a book by David Thompson, playing at the Vineyard Theatre.
...

I wonder if Monkey will be attending?

der Brucer

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Matt H. · « **Reply #133 on:** March 11, 2010, 01:23:43 PM »

Before I left for lunch, I had a chance to watch Tuesday night's SOUTHLAND. It was another brutal, dark episode, and, of course, I loved it. One of the plots (the whiny wife who didn't want to go to a box store and got embarrassed there) I could have done without, but I've hated this couple and their storyline since the start of the series.

Matt H. · « **Reply #134 on:** March 11, 2010, 01:25:57 PM »

When I got in from lunch, I watched PRESUMED INNOCENT on Blu-ray.

I wrote last night about my dissatisfaction with the DTS-HD MA 2.0 track when I watched FRANTIC last night. Today, I tried the disc in a different player and, guess what! That player allowed Dolby Prologic to decode the audio and it turned into a true surround track with dialogue in the center channel as it should have been. I'll remember that when I want to watch FRANTIC again. Be sure to put it in the Samsung player and not the Panasonic.

Matt H. · « **Reply #135 on:** March 11, 2010, 01:26:19 PM »

Then I skimmed through today's ONE LIFE TO LIVE. Nothing of interest.

Matt H. · « **Reply #136 on:** March 11, 2010, 01:28:05 PM »

Since my local CBS affiliate is showing the ACC basketball tournament this weekend, all CBS afternoon soaps were preempted. They are going to show them, but in early morning hours. Today's comes on Sunday morning in the early hours (3 a.m. or something like that), so I won't get to see Luke and Dr. Pill until then.

Laura · « **Reply #137 on:** March 11, 2010, 01:28:11 PM »

For Cillaliz:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2010/03/11/20100311joe-arpaio-corruption-investigations.html

George · « **Reply #138 on:** March 11, 2010, 01:38:03 PM »

Quote from: Jane on March 11, 2010, 09:49:06 AM

EYE & SLEEP VIBES FOR DR ELMORE!

VIBES FOR GREG’S FATHER!

SURGERY VIBES FOR THE GOOD FRIEND OF JOHN G.

~~~DITTO!!~~~

~~~DITTO!!~~~

~~~DITTO!!~~~

George · « **Reply #139 on:** March 11, 2010, 02:02:14 PM »

Quote from: Jane on March 11, 2010, 10:46:35 AM

My Dear MIL was a big Lawrence Welk fan. She watched the shows over & over again in her later years.

I think that I've told this before, but my dad's grandmother LOVED Lawrence Welk. She lived with my grandfather (her son) and every week they HAD to watch The Lawrence Welk Show on TV. One year for her birthday, they all got tickets to see the show live and she got do dance with Lawrence Welk! My dad said that she fell asleep and died quietly while watching the show. She was 92 years old.

George · « **Reply #140 on:** March 11, 2010, 02:16:47 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on March 11, 2010, 11:34:48 AM

Just read it...

Alice Sommer Herz survived the Holocaust with the help of the piano. She tells us how, at 106, she has kept faith in music and humanity

"I have never hated, and I will never hate."

I just put in a request for the library to purchase this DVD.

bk · « **Reply #141 on:** March 11, 2010, 02:20:38 PM »

Back from a late breakfast, various and sundried errands and a visit with my pals Malcolm and Christine from Mystery and Imagination Books. They had a really scary January but things have improved considerably since then.

bk · « **Reply #142 on:** March 11, 2010, 02:21:04 PM »

I'm having just the sort of relaxing day I wanted. Still hoping I can work with Grant later, but won't know until he calls.

TCB · « **Reply #143 on:** March 11, 2010, 02:28:41 PM »

I went and saw THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW in concert when I was about sixteen. Everyone was there, except Mr. Welk. Myron Floren conducted the orchestra.

JMK · « **Reply #144 on:** March 11, 2010, 02:36:33 PM »

Got the nicest emails today pretty much out of the blue from one of Matt's present and my former co-workers at HTF. There *are* nice people on the internets.

TCB · « **Reply #145 on:** March 11, 2010, 02:36:59 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on March 11, 2010, 11:38:54 AM

And now for something completely different...

The NY Times' review of Love Never Dies:

Same Phantom, Different Spirit

I was surprised that so many of the reviews I have read have been fairly positive.

JMK · « **Reply #146 on:** March 11, 2010, 02:38:00 PM »

Other WELK memories from my childhood: I *did* love that tall guy with the ultra-deep voice when I was a tyke, mostly because I couldn't believe anyone's voice was that low. And my Grandmother insisted virtually weekly how much Joe Feeney (sp?) looked like her husband, my Grandfather, who had passed when I was maybe two or three. My mother used to just shake her head and laugh.

TCB · « **Reply #147 on:** March 11, 2010, 02:43:06 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on March 11, 2010, 01:23:43 PM

Before I left for lunch, I had a chance to watch Tuesday night's SOUTHLAND. It was another brutal, dark episode, and, of course, I loved it. One of the plots (the whiny wife who didn't want to go to a box store and got embarrassed there) I could have done without, but I've hated this couple and their storyline since the start of the series.

What is a box store?

JMK · « **Reply #148 on:** March 11, 2010, 02:44:27 PM »

I do have one very fond kind of tangential WELK memory. It was a Saturday (of course) and my Grandmother was visiting from Pennsylvania. We watched WELK as we always did and then the local news came on (this was SLC, where *none* of the affiliates *ever* broadcast the shows according to the network schedules--a truly odd phenomenon that used to drive me slightly crazy). Anyhoo, my Dad had been making noise about us needing to watch the weather that night. My Grandmother had a semi-crush on the SLC weatherman, who just happened to be an officer under my father's command in the Army reserve. Well, Bob Welti's weathercast came on, and as he wrapped it up, he looked right at the camera and in his best Jimmy Durante voice said, "And good night, Mrs. Shallenberger, wherever you are." (I'll let you guess who Mrs. Shallenberger was). My Grandmother let out a whoop like you've never heard. I'll never forget it.

JMK · « **Reply #149 on:** March 11, 2010, 02:45:16 PM »

Quote from: TCB on March 11, 2010, 02:43:06 PM

Quote from: Matt H. on March 11, 2010, 01:23:43 PM
Before I left for lunch, I had a chance to watch Tuesday night's SOUTHLAND. It was another brutal, dark episode, and, of course, I loved it. One of the plots (the whiny wife who didn't want to go to a box store and got embarrassed there) I could have done without, but I've hated this couple and their storyline since the start of the series.

What is a box store?

Just a wild guess here: a store that sells boxes.

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