After that, I returned home and finished the Eileen Heckart bio. What a beautiful book! Any faults I could find would center on the book's assemblage, such as several printing errors that a proofing should have caught. The final chapters dealing with his father's death from geart attack and Miss Heckart's from cancer were intensely moving for me. I recommend this memoir highly.
And maybe DR Elmoore should have a proof reader for his postings
A geart attack??? :) ;) :D ;D :o ::) :P :-\
DR elmore - DF James found you and DR Ben quite charming too.
:)
Elmore! howz yer fine seff today, boy?
What does bother me, however, is the no matter how much I try it looks like I can no longer sqeeze myself into a pair of size 32 slacks...so I was forced to go to JC Penney's (where they are having a HUGE...no pun intended...1/2 price sale on men's clothes). So I bought a few pairs of work Docker's slacks that fit just nicely...but I was really hoping I could get myself to be able to wear the pants I already owned (by hitting the gym more often). :(
While preparing lunch, I watched "Circus," the first installment of Gene Kelly's INVITATION TO THE DANCE film. I had forgotten how simply thrilling Ivan Youskevitch's dancing is in this segment. Kelly is eh in comparison.
...Held at a bookstore/coffee house - in rummaging through the stacks, I found a nice book, a copy of which I had bought for a friend when her father died years ago. I always meant to read it, myself - so last night I bought a used copy. It's Robert Fulgham's From Beginning to End - the Rituals of our Lives.
During a lull in the festivities, I started reading it, and just had to have it. Now I have a fine read for a rainy day!
No offense, but I think you may mean Igor Youskevitch, great star of the Ballet Rousse de Monte Carlo and American Ballet Theatre. When I was a kid, the RCA BOOK OF THE BALLET had a zilion photos of him in various roles.
Just heard from Mr. Kevin Spirtas, who was in town doing a Days of Our Lives event, at which he was selling his CDs.
A freind and I went to Vagina Monologues last night.. It was interesting... One woman left in disgust.
Wasn't it called VAG;NA MONOLOGUES? ;D
Thanks DR DAKOTA CELT....but don't encourage me.
Attention....breaking news:
THE SOUND OF MUSIC at PCPH is still sold out. King Kong is headed for the Empire State Building. That is all.
A freind and I went to Vagina Monologues last night.. It was interesting... One woman left in disgust.
Maybe she was mad because hers doesn't talk.
I am proud to say I have lost a bit more than 10 pounds... It has been a hard slog... I want lose another 5 to 10 lbs.
Maybe she was mad because hers doesn't talk.
I thought they all did! 8)
Congratulations, DakotaCelt! As of this morning, I've lost nine pounds...of course, you'll reach your goal weight much, much, much (that's three muches) sooner than I will. ::) I've still got a LONG way to go.
TCB - WIT is a Pulitzer Prize winning play that ran off-Broadway for a long time and was adapted into a TV film. I found the following summary online:
"Wit" takes place in a University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center. The main character, Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., is a John Donne scholar who has stage IV ovarian cancer. Much of the action takes place in the last few days/hours of her life, although flashback scenes to weeks, months, even years before are interspersed effectively throughout the performance.
Jane - if you're on later, maybe I'll drive down for dinner some time next week... Bill is in Grants Pass. No good restaurants there - but Ashland is replete with swell places to eat. Wanna?
I hope I'm not spreading idle gossip, but word about town is that Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman have broken up as a couple, and yet are still working together quite wonderfully and professionally. I know Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor worked together after their own split-up, as did Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon after their own split-up, but are there any others in show-biz that have done this?
I hope I'm not spreading idle gossip, but word about town is that Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman have broken up as a couple, and yet are still working together quite wonderfully and professionally. I know Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor worked together after their own split-up, as did Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon after their own split-up, but are there any others in show-biz that have done this?
Still raining here - rats! The stream is just boiling over the rocks. It unsettles me - that much power roiling around like that. And still the downpour continues. DON'T LIKE IT!!!Where are you with such bad weather?? Here in Olympia, it's been overcast most of the day, but no rain whatsoever.
George! If you're on later - congratulations on the weight loss and the acquisition of a swell new shirt for such a bargain!Thanks and thanks!
I hope I'm not spreading idle gossip, but word about town is that Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman have broken up as a couple, and yet are still working together quite wonderfully and professionally. I know Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor worked together after their own split-up, as did Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon after their own split-up, but are there any others in show-biz that have done this?