As I said, I didn't feel like going out again and it's all I had in the house, save for some popcorn (which I ate whilst watching Moulin Rouge). No more wire sandwiches ever.
-Must resist... MUST resist... Bookworm very bad... Must resist...Bad Bookworm...
I watched "Moulin Rouge" a few months back. Enjoyed it much more than new version. The colours and sound were wonderful - main problem was the "stilted" dialogue from Mr Ferrer who sounded as though he was making speeches.TomofOZ you have hit the nail on the head...I was moved by the dilemma of the Orthodox Jews as it is the same with the fundamentalist Christian churches, particularly the so called Spirit Filled churches that hounded more beautiful people out of the church than inviting them in. The final comment in the program made the most sense.
DRs Panni, Beekay Jay & Jane. (hope I got that right!), we watched "Trembling Before God" last night. Certainly food for thought (not necessarily kosher either). I felt so much for those people. I find it incomprehensible that any Religion would "speak for God" and put themselves "above God" in casting judgement on others. Thank God I'm not a member of any religious organisation. I think it is often the case that organised religion corrupts the purity in love of God.
Praising Fantasia is one thing, but the judges' crowning her the idol made me rather ill (and I'm from Fantasia's home state and have liked her generally.) However, they all but did the same with Ruben last year, too, so I have to say I'll only be tuning in to the last ten minutes of the show tonight. Or maybe not at all. I can read about it on the internet.
This leads me to my Ask Dear Readers question (for Dear Readers over a certain age). The one new song in ASSASSINS (added initially in London) is "Something Just Broke" with the Ensemble remembering where they were when they heard of the Kennedy Assassination. Where were you when you heard the news.I was still in elementary school at the time, fifth grade. My parents were away in San Francisco, attending a convention, with my father's parents taking care of us that week. The school principal went from class to class, giving us the news. And from that point on, for several days, everything was very quiet. Recess was subdued. The other parents in the neighborhood didn't want their kids playing in the street. The weather was the same as always, but the sounds of people were muted.
-Well, since the "Goldberg Variations" were written for an insomniac.... Hmmm... -Although the last time I tried "them", I ended being so enthralled by the piano playing... When I heard the Aria being repeated (after the quodlibet)... Ah, well...
Here's a question for BK and any other DR who might like to answer: Have you ever witnessed a crime? [I witnessed a crime once--it was called BIG: THE MUSICAL. Remember, there's no groaning allowed here at HHW.com.] Have you ever perpetrated a crime? The third part to my three-part question about crime: If you could commit any crime with no fear of repercussions, what crime would you commit?
DR Jennifer, I would have been even harsher with Fantasia over that lousy first song. Letting the backup singers do all the singing while she did some improvised riffs just didn't do it for me AT ALL. After the first round, I was sure Diana had it, not because of the judges' negative reaction to Fantasia's singing so much but just because Diana seemed to put everything she had into that first rendition, and Fantasia didn't.
This leads me to my Ask Dear Readers question (for Dear Readers over a certain age). The one new song in ASSASSINS (added initially in London) is "Something Just Broke" with the Ensemble remembering where they were when they heard of the Kennedy Assassination. Where were you when you heard the news.
Elmore, was it you who wanted a DVD copy of SUNRISE? If so (or whoever it was), here's where you can buy a used copy:
http://www.secondspin.com/buy/search.cfm?SID=120463328779
My question for ask BK day - do you have a webcam? Do you ever use it?
And I've been scrambling to get ready to leave for New York on Saturday morning. Finally got a hotel, West 73rd. Friends have already been picking evenings for dinners, and i finally decided yesterday which "best-8-bars" I'll sing for my audition. This best 8 will either shatter their eardrums, and therefore any chance I have to be called back at any future time, or so intrigue and delight them that they'll ask for 16 bars of 'something else.' Plus ca change...DR Penny O, have we set a time? date? place? I believe DR Ben wants to join us, and I would be very happy with that. West 73rd just a skip from my neck of the Upper West side!
Here's a question for BK and any other DR who might like to answer: Have you ever witnessed a crime? [I witnessed a crime once--it was called BIG: THE MUSICAL. Remember, there's no groaning allowed here at HHW.com.] Have you ever perpetrated a crime? The third part to my three-part question about crime: If you could commit any crime with no fear of repercussions, what crime would you commit?
Elmore: It may have been a travesty, but I envy you for having the opportunity to see CARRIE.
Crimes...hmm...I don't know if I can answer my own question!
The only thing I can think of that I've done that is kind of a crime--I went egging with a friend of mine in middle school. I guess that'd be considered vandalism... Oh--and I forged my mother's name on a test that I failed in fourth grade (the teachers required parent's signatures when you failed a test so they knew you showed it to your mom and/or dad.) I was suspended from hosting the school's live television news broadcast for a couple of months as punishment, but I worked my way up to head anchor by the end of the year and I never forged anything ever again.
Huzzah, that the hotel room studio has a kitchen and microwave and toaster and laundry and a gym, and last-minute booking gets me a break on the price. And it's a 20 minute walk to the Equity office, and 5 minutes from Lincoln Center, and just across the street from the 72nd St. subway. That has made me feel so sunshiney on this rainy day.
FYI, DR Elmore, on my lunch hour today I stopped into Footlight and there was Fine and Dandy with your name on the back (among others). Haven't picked it up yet but they actually had it for a decent price (I like Footlight but sometimes the prices they charge make me wish I wasn't so intent on owning musical theatre CDs).
Elmore, was it you who wanted a DVD copy of SUNRISE? If so (or whoever it was), here's where you can buy a used copy:
http://www.secondspin.com/buy/search.cfm?SID=120463328779
DR Elmore, either day is fine for me. I'm finished work at 4pm so I can just hop on a train. In spite of my previous statement about my theatre company being ther, I know that 72nd Street has changed in the past years. I don't know it well enough to make recommendations either. Joe Allen's is good for me and if we go sometime after 5 we could avoid the theatre crowds that come in a bit later in the evening before their shows.
Surprisingly, after 9/11 happened, I not only wanted to come to New York...I felt that I NEEDED to come to New York. I don't know why...
Wicked Nominees Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth will perform the show’s act-one finale, “Defying Gravity”
On a more pleasant note, Columbia Tri-Star is realeasing a DVD set GIDGET: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION on DVD August 30.
GIDGET, GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN, and GIDGET GOES TO ROME.
Gidget, yes! That is the ginchiest news of the day. I am THERE, baby.
Well, Dear Friend, I'm much more excited about the john Huston MOULIN ROUGE release. I've always loved the "Big Song," but when I finally saw the film, the song was in a different form with a different lyric! I love both versions but find it peculiar. The version in the film is probably closer in form to a popular chanson of the 1890s than the popular song version that became the hit of 1954(?).
I'm starting to sound like Gertrude Stein!
Actually, elmore, I think Gertrude had a hat like that, too.
They moved the flying equipment to the Ed Sullivan Theatre when they did the number on their David Letterman spot, so I'm pretty positive it will appear at the Tonys. What I'm wondering is if they'll schedule their performance first so Idina will have time to take her makeup off before her category near the end of the show...
I had a feeling they would do "Defying Gravity" but I thought they'd also combine it with "Popular". Chenowith has little to do in "DG".
As for 9/11 - It was a Tuesday morning. I just got up "early" for no particular reason and started watching the Today show. -I had just gotten in the night before from a theatre convention, so I had planned to sleep in, but... As soon as they went back to show the footage of the first plane... I wasn't able to reach my parents in DC... However, I did get in touch with each of my brothers, and my aunt - who told me my father and mother were OK... Most of all, I remember Steve being able to calm me down, and taking my mind off the gravity of the whole situation for a little bit - he got me away from the TV.
Laters...
Some very interesting posts today regarding moments in history from a personal perspective. I am still looking forward to reading Tomovoz's recollections regarding the parting of the Red Sea.
Well, Dear Friend, I'm much more excited about the john Huston MOULIN ROUGE release. I've always loved the "Big Song," but when I finally saw the film, the song was in a different form with a different lyric! I love both versions but find it peculiar. The version in the film is probably closer in form to a popular chanson of the 1890s than the popular song version that became the hit of 1954(?).The song lyrics came as a shock to me too - I had only remembered the Felicia Sanders version.
Some very interesting posts today regarding moments in history from a personal perspective. I am still looking forward to reading Tomovoz's recollections regarding the parting of the Red Sea.I was 10 years old at the time when my adoptive parents took me to see Cecil B part the sea. I was yet another child found in the bullrushes and thus was brought up to believe I had been chosen child rather than one of the chosen people..
DRs Panni, Beekay Jay & Jane. (hope I got that right!), we watched "Trembling Before God" last night. Certainly food for thought (not necessarily kosher either). I felt so much for those people. I find it incomprehensible that any Religion would "speak for God" and put themselves "above God" in casting judgement on others. Thank God I'm not a member of any religious organisation. I think it is often the case that organised religion corrupts the purity in love of God.
Harold Prince talking on CSPAN right now.
REALITY CHECK, PEOPLE! Remembering where you were when Kennedy was shot IS NOT quite the same thing as when Kennedy Jr. died. The one was a genuine tragedy and national calamity (whether you liked him or not) and the other was...I'm sorry...an unfortunate incident.
Jed, but I didn't even find JFK,Jr.'s death that momentus that it would even stick in my head. It's what I hate about 24 hour news stations. Now to pad out the time when there just isn't anything earth-shattering, they blow up small events into big news.
I remember a few years back some golfer died in a plane crash or something and they covered his funeral and everything...you would have thought JFK had been shot all over again. Same with that race car driver's death. Suddenly all things have the same weight because the news channels have time to fill. And lightweight, small stories are sensationalized long past their legitimate newsworthiness.
Walter Cronkite used to be able to give me all the important news in a half hour. I liked it that way. I could fill in any details with a newspaper.
Five dear readers just sitting there like so much fish for fifteen minutes. How unseemly.
I was in junior high, Louis Pasteur, ninth grade pin and camera day.
My question for the day: Do you keep reading literature in your bathroom? Some titles, please...Nada. None. Big zero. Zilch. But that's more because we don't have a storage space for reading material in our bathroom.
I'm not sure who it was that ever came up with the bright idea of dinner theatre, but I don't think they liked actors. I mean, they're asking people who's average age is death, to come, sit down, eat a big, warm meal and then sit in the same seat and watch a show in the dark for two hours, which means they're bound to nod off. Then at the end of show, just when you think you've gotten a standing o, you realize they're just getting up to put their coats on because they're afraid the bus is going to leave without them.
The tragedy in the space program for me was when the three Apollo 1 astronauts died in their space capsule during a practice launch. That was worse to me because, first of all it was the first-time we had actually lost a crew, and secondly because two of the astronauts were already well-known to all of us: Gus Grissom, the second American in space; and Ed White, the first American to walk in space. Of course, I may have been more familiar with the space program than most kids, because my Mom made sure that I got up and watched the launch of each and every mission starting with Alan Shepard until sometime during the Apollo program when I was in high school.By the time of Apollo I, I was already well familiar with not just the astronauts, but the test pilots who had preceeded them (and flew concurrantly). My father worked with the test pilots, knew them quite well. Several of them were invited to our home for dinner.
Hey, I was a Republican. I didn't think I liked Kennedy. But... this had never happened. This was... See, that's what it was, an ellipsis. Something just... broke. And I can't think of a better way to express the feeling.I still am a Republican. Worst day of my life was August 17th, 1990, my birthday as it happens. Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson decided to hijack the party that night at the Republican Convention, declaring a "culture war."
Masada, the reading of which I attended, has cancelled its Chicago tryout....Geez, I read that first world and thought you were going to tell us of memories of the original... :o
I still am a Republican. Worst day of my life was August 17th, 1990, my birthday as it happens.
Does this mean you're only thirteen?That would make der Brucer twenty-eight...and we know what HIS crime would be if that were the case!
Jed, but I didn't even find JFK,Jr.'s death that momentus that it would even stick in my head. It's what I hate about 24 hour news stations. Now to pad out the time when there just isn't anything earth-shattering, they blow up small events into big news.
I remember a few years back some golfer died in a plane crash or something and they covered his funeral and everything...you would have thought JFK had been shot all over again. Same with that race car driver's death. Suddenly all things have the same weight because the news channels have time to fill. And lightweight, small stories are sensationalized long past their legitimate newsworthiness.
Walter Cronkite used to be able to give me all the important news in a half hour. I liked it that way. I could fill in any details with a newspaper.
As for reading "while sitting down"... Well, one of my uncles is a gastroenterologist, and he - as well as other medical experts - advise against reading in the bathroom. For some people, spending that much time in the bathroom can cause problems. -I'll leave it at that.
REALITY CHECK, PEOPLE! Remembering where you were when Kennedy was shot IS NOT quite the same thing as when Kennedy Jr. died. The one was a genuine tragedy and national calamity (whether you liked him or not) and the other was...I'm sorry...an unfortunate incident. But Dad WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHO WAS ASSASSINATED. Jr. was a nice enough rich guy who wrecked his plane. What were his accomplishments that his death should have the same weight and memory factor as his father's? He started a magazine that nobody I know reads and he apparently had a dubious marriage. Not quite the same thing as Dad on the scale of things. I have no idea where I was when I heard the news he died. The world did not stop for me that day. It ain't up there with JFK's assassination or 9/11.
Let's hear something cheerful! Like the first time you ate marzipan. Yummy.
I give up! Is there ANYTHING that isn't bad for you! :P
Hate to bring the mood down even more, but I've never had marzipan!
I think opinions for and against marzipan have been discussed...ad nausium (if you'll pardon the pun), since some people here at HHW do not like it.
I must be off to beddie-by-land. At 8:00 a.m., I have a meeting to go to and I usually don't even wake up until 8:00 a.m.! It's to see a demonstration for a potential new computer system for our library. I hate it when we have to TOTALLY change the computer system. It takes much, much, much (that's three muches) time to learn it and get back up to the speed of the old system. Good night all!
I still am a Republican. Worst day of my life was August 17th, 1990, my birthday as it happens. Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson decided to hijack the party that night at the Republican Convention, declaring a "culture war."
Some people ain't me! (a Gypsy reference)
And some people are so WRONG. Because marzipan is better than anything (except may Wiener Schnitzel).