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Well, you've read the notes, the notes have gone awry like the intentions, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they've gone awry, too.
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And the word of the day is: EFFERENT!
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Early Saturday greetings! It's a workday for me and I'll be teaching a workshop first thing this morning.
Didn't want to wait until early afternoon to say:
Happiest of birthdays to DR JRand - sorry Mockingbird is such a trial (pun intended!)
Happiest of birthdays to DR Jose - glad to hear that you'll be in NYC the first week of October!
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Very happy birthday to (in alphabetical order, by HHW name) Jose and JRand!
I guess if I used their real names, the alphabetical order might not be the same, though, but still...
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Not that Jose isn't Jose's real name, but you know what i mean. :)
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Actually I would be FIRST....since my name is Jack (a DR TOMovOZ reference)....and yes TOO...those songs will be played.
I am on my way to work for the next 10 hours or so, but hopefully I will be able to check in.
Thanks for the Birthday wishes from yesterday.
AND of course Happiest of the Same Birthday to DRJOSE.... Mamma Mia...he is much younger!
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Oh, Happy Day to Jose and Jack or Jack and Jose or JRand56 and Jose's Piano :-)
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Good morning, all!
Yep, MONK started its downhill slide for me earlier this season, and I believe the personnel involved are trying so hard to make his phobias humorous that they're taking an interesting character too far from the realities of the parameters established from the beginning for him. I hope last night's dreadful episode is a nail in theshow's coffin.
I finished last night THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY. The book is both an interesting social history of Chicago and the creation of the 1893 Chicago Exposition and the demented serial killer H H Holmes, whose number of criminal acts against human beings never will be fully documented. Holmes took advantage of the Exposition to build a block-long hotel from which many visitors to the Exposition may never have checked out.
Holmes' crimes influenced a serial killer in 1997, Dr Michael Swango, and I suspect this is the source for the frightening 19th Century serial killer in the past season of MEDIUM. The writers of the show may have read the book as well. I loved it, but Holmes is such an unsettling character that I went to bed afraid of the dark.
TOD:
Color: CINDERELLA (Disney), 1950
3-D: some Western whose title I've forgotten
Cinerama: SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD (1956)
Cinemascope: LADY AND THE TRAMP(?)
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And the word of the day is: EFFERENT!
FERN FEET? I'm supposed to get a half-decent sentence using both EFFERENT and FERN FEET?
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I can't really comment on the TOD. My parents didn't take us to see movies much, and when they did they tended to take us to drive-ins. Stereo sound coming from a drive-in speaker... sheesh!
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A-Lion Kinging we will go!
Yep, it's about time to get cleaned up, so we can get to Magic Mommy's house on time to gather the family together and head on to Philly.
Exactly how this adventure will take place, that is still uncertain. But there's a chance der Brucer will be joining me in my mutiny against the tyrrany of his daughter! Apparently, Alex has finished all the levels of his Pokemon game... but there are other, more advanced Pokemon games to be had. Der Grampa is seriously contemplating getting Alex one of said more advanced games, in spite of Magic Mommy's hatred of same. Heck, he remembers what it was like to be an obcessive nine-year-old boy. I remember what it was like. Magic Mommy is the one who doesn't remember.
Life is a bitch. It's time to bitch back.
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A very happy Beach Party Birthday for DR JRand56
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A very happy Finishing The Hat Birthday for DR Jose Piano.
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First Cinemascope and stereo - "The Robe"
First Colour - The Daughter of Rose O'Grady
First Vistavision - White Christmas.
Road show = not relevant in OZ
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Good Morning!
Well, I'm thinking I have a good eight hours of note entry and proofing work to get done, and then it's just a matter of marking the cuts in the music for the songs that weren't transposed... And then I have to put the books together... And then...
Hopefully, 80-90% of that work will be done by tomorrow night so that I won't have to look at any part on Monday - I can finish the rest of detail work Tuesday during the day before the first orchestra read that night. -However, I suspect that I will be working on some of the charts on Monday anyway - it will give me something to do. However, I've also decided to go ahead and head down to Richmond Monday for the day. I really would love to up to NYC for the day, but with an early rehearsal on Tuesday - and Tuesday will also be a LONG day - 10:00am-11:00pm... So... -I've also been called in to play some of the rehearsals the past couple of days, so I "lost" some of my own Finale time. Which is OK - it's been nice to be playing a keyboard rather than typing at one.
In any case... I'm hoping that this "way too busy dear reader" will not be so busy after Tuesday night.
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DRs Ginny, elmore, Ben, FJL, SWoodyWhite, Tomovoz, and JRand (my birthday twin!)... Vielen Dank!
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Good morning!
Another cool morning so I was able to throw open the doors and windows and cool the house down a few degrees. Everything shut up tight now, however, anticipating the 90 degrees we're going to get later today. Ugh!
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Well, since "my" partay already seems to have started here on HHW, I shall be sure to check back in throughout the day on my breaks. -Just remember everyone, we want to keep bk's living room as clean as it was when we found it. ;)
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Danke bitte, DR MattH.
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Today, I have LADY BE GOOD and SHE DONE HIM WRONG on the DVR to watch and transfer over to DVD-Rs,
Again, the respective studios don't seem interested in releasing these films, so I'll have to make discs for myself. Hope the prints are in decent shape. I haven't seen LADY BE GOOD in many, many years.
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Danke bitte, DR MattH.
Eat a piece of birthday cake for me! I haven't had any in so, so long!
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OH!
I did receive a wonderful early birthday present a few days ago... My brother Mike and his wife, Veronica, have asked me to be the Godfather for my "brand new" niece, Emily. Truly a wonderful honor and present. :)
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Well... I've "stalled" long enough... Time for me to close this browser and get to work...
Laters...
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Also on a somewhat disappointing note, I was greatly anticipating the forthcoming telecast of THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE on TCM (this Tuesday for anyone interested).
It's a Panavision movie, but the last time TCM showed it, the image shrank to full screen as soon as the credits were done. A frustrated e-mail quickly followed from me to TCM chiding them for showing the film pan and scanned instead of in its original widescreen aspect ratio (which they usually do and are quite proud to hawk that fact). The answer from them was that the distributor from whom they lease the film had only a full frame version available but that they would attempt to rectify the situation the next time the film was shown.
Knowing that a letterboxed laserdisc was issued with the entire Panavision image intact, I informed them that somewhere there did exist a widescreen print of this movie.
My cable guide for this week's telecast has no mention of it being letterboxed, so I'm afraid we're going to be stuck once again with a full frame presentation. Boo! :(
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Topic of the Day:
First CInemascope had to have been LADY AND THE TRAMP
First color film is also the first film I can ever remember sitting through though much of it didn't make much sense to me: JOHNNY GUITAR.
First Vistavision film was the Martin & Lewis film PARDNERS.
First roadshow was CINERAMA HOLIDAY.
First 3-D wasn't in that wave of 3-Ds in 1953-54. I was too young. So, the answer is COMIN' AT YA!
I got to see many of the famous 3-D films of the 1950s during that second renaissance of 3-D in the early 1980s. (Theaters would run them at double feature matinees.)
Sad to say, KISS ME KATE, the one 3-D I'd really love to see, I've never been able to see. But I did get to see HOUSE OF WAX and BWANA DEVIL and DIAL'M' FOR MURDER and GORILLA AT LARGE and CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY(S), JRAND & JOSE.
BK, why in heaven's name are you telling Blanche about color transfers in DVDs? Dogs are color-blind! ;)
Also, BK, how literal is your "handful of performances" statement in the Trivia Contest? You usually always mean exactly what you state in those contests, but I'll be danged if I can find anything that fits so far.
However, in my early morning research into the contest, I keep running across two names (this always seems to happen)--today the names are Ira Levin and Maurice Jarre. Isn't that peculiar? Perhaps Jarre (or even his son) can do the incidental music for Rosemary's Baby: A Mexican Ballet.
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Off to do some tidying up around the house and then on to lunch preparation.
WBBL.
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A late summer HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to JRand and Jose!!! Hope it is a wonderful day for you lads!
My yesterday was spent blueberry picking and then yard hacking. The salmon berry bushes must DIE! And two years' worth of dead monster ferns. OUT! I say! I'm a little sore today, but intend to get back out there again. The piano tuner is coming at 11 - so I can use that hour or two to rip the hapless offenders out. Burn pile is huge - and no rain in sight... may have to let it sit right where it is until next spring, before I can burn. So be it! meanwhile, a little WD-40 on the old slashers, and I'm good to go.
Laters, gators!
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TOD - No $#%^$%#^ clew...
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HAPPY B'DAY DR JOSE!!!!!
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Happy B'day JRAND
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Don't know about the TOD.....
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It's a lovely day here. Last night the cats insisted on fighting when I wanted to go to bed. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so loud about it. Anyway, I finally got them calmed down and got to sleep at about 2:00AM. Whe they started at it at about 6:45 AM, I shooed them out of the bedroom shut the door and slept until 10:00 AM!!! I can't remember the last time I've slept this late...it was great.
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Happy B'days to JRand and Jose!!!
First color picture I think I ever saw was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. I can't remember any of the others because I never noticed this stuff when I was a kid. I went for the stories, not the technical stuff. I think one of the Gone With The Wind revivals was the first time I ever saw a motion picture that had an intermission. I don't think I ever saw a 3-d movie in the theatre.
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A very, very happy birthday to my good buddy JRand56!!!
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And a wonderful birthday also to DR JosePiano! Enjoy your day!!
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DR Danis - Have you watched The Dog Whisperer on the National Geographic Channel
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I slept right up until the knocking on the door of she of the Evil Eye. Pretty day outside.
I who have a wonderful memory for ephemera cannot remember the first color film I saw. I do think the first Cinemascope film would have been The Tender Trap or The High and the Mighty, whichever came out first - and either way it would have been at the Village Theater. It seems like it would have been The Tender Trap - maybe someone can verify the dates. First roadshow - hmmm. Maybe Ben-Hur, maybe a reissue of Seven Wonders Of The World in Cinerama. First 3D would have been the first year of Disneyland - they showed something in their Main Street movie theater.
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Someone recently suggested that instead of just putting my computer to sleep at night, that I actually shut it down - that even when it's in "sleep" mode it's somehow still at work. So, since I've been doing that it does seem like I have less Internet problems, especially with AOL. It wasn't suggested I needed to shut it down every night, but every other night or so.
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Happy Birthday to DR and friend JOSE!!!! I wish you a small mountain of cupcakes.
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Happy Birthday to DR and friend JRand of Indiana. I wish you Hoosier happiness.
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I'm sure I saw color before black and white. My first ever movie? I recall seeing BAMBI at a drive-in when I had to be less than four years old. I fell asleep. I did see a re-release of HOUSE OF WAX in the mid 80s.
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Must leave now, but shall return in a couple of hours.
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Back from teaching Grantseeking Basics to a great group of 16. Now I have an hour for lunch and 3.5 hours of information waitressing, followed by a sparkling dinner gathering at China Cottage with my family. My sister and her husband (from Michigan) and their daughter (from Illinois) are visiting my mom this weekend.
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Today is here, and today is the day I see "A Chorus Line."
Funny story...not. I received an online reminder from Ticketmaster that my booked performance was coming up. And then it reminded me that I was seeing today's 8 p.m. show.
"What? This can't BE!" I exclaimed. "I booked the matinee", I protested.
I checked my ticket I've had for a month...and there it was! 8 p.m. performance.
I know I'm aging...but I've done my damnedest to do it gracefully...and with care. But the only thing i can imagine is that I must have failed, while seeking a good seat, to re-check that I was still booking "matinee". And of course...best intentions, etc.
I've been worrying myself sick all week about what to do. I don't worry at all about San Francisco, but the return trip, via BART (the subway here) late at night...with the several blocks walk in downtown Oakland (never a safe place since there's little commercial night life and FORGET ABOUT police presence) to get my car had me seriously considering being a no-show at the theater. I could park my car in the unpatrolled BART parking lot of the station in the city, but would it be there when I got back. And how long, I wondered, would it take me to get a BART train after 11 p.m. to return me to this particular station?
No....it just wasn't something I wanted to do.
So...I've booked myself a hotel one block from the theater. I'll check in after 2 p.m. and I have the room until noon tomorrow. The hotel is also two -- well-lighted, theater-district -- blocks from the theater where "A Chorus Line" is playing.
It's an adventure...a treat...and I'm thoroughly relieved to have made the decision. I want to see the show very much.
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Good morning.
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I may not have gotten to the things that most-needed doing yesterday...but I managed to thoroughly clean my kitchen and bathroom floors, and I did some major dusting/polishing of furniture, and I threw a bunch of stuff out and reorganized another bunch.
I'm not thoroughly disgusted with myself for having wasted the day, and I'm pleased to say I didn't watch a single movie on DVD....having been distracted by a few things airing on TV!
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DR Ron Pulliam - Glad you found a way to turn your ticket mishap into an adventure. I'll be looking forward to your report on A Chorus Line, because DH Richard and I have tickets for it in NYC, 2 nights before the Broadway opening.
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The talk about first color movie....I have no memory of what movie was the first I ever saw in a theater, hence whether it was b/w or color is a bit moot.
I do, however, have memories of the first three movies I remember seeing in a theater: "Anastasia" (1956), "The Ten Commandments" (1956) and "War and Peace" (1956). All were in color. And I was 7 years old. (the first film was my first memory of CinemaScope and the latter two were both VistaVision. My first roadshow for which I reserved a ticket/seat in advance was "The Sound of Music" in 1965).
My mother has told me she used to take me with her to the movies all the time when I was a baby...and I know I went to the movies in the small town where we lived prior to my reaching age 7, but I don't remember what the movies were.
We had a TV back in those olden days, and black-and-white was the norm. I don't believe I ever questioned it, although I used to wonder what some of the programs would be like in color...especially in those years of the early 1960s. It was 1966 when my father bought a color TV. I had seen color TV as early as 1964 when my grandfather bought one.
We would go to my grandfather's for Sunday dinner and then watch "Bonanza."
What I really wanted was to see was the NBC peacock and the opening to the Walt Disney TV show...it always looked as if it would be spectacular in color...and I remember seeing color images in magazines of what they looked like...and the real thing was as wonderful as I'd imagined.
I've never had a problem with b/w vs. color. I guess there was a time when I wondered why studios made decisions to film in b/w rather than color, but then I'd research and find some comment about WWII austerity, etc. It always made sense to me...at that time and for that time. Today, in retrospect, it seems insane that MGM didn't film "Ziegfeld Girl" in color...or that Fox didn't film "Prince of Foxes" in color. But..what's done is done.
I had a young friend in Naples, Italy, during my tour there 1987-92, who came to my house one Saturday wanting to watch some movies on VHS. He named one he wanted to see, and I had it. So, we watched. And then I took a turn and put on "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane."
He nearly freaked. "I don't watch black-and-white" movies, he stated. "They're not realistic."
I reminded him that they were MOVIES and that the movie he had chosen was no more realistic because it was in color than if it had been in b/w. I implored him to give this movie a chance.
He grudgingly -- and very silently -- watched the movie through to its conclusion.
Afterward, he said, "That was GREAT! I got so involved in the story that I forgot it wasn't in color!"
And THAT's what it's all about. Sometimes, the lack of color forces you to think and give it emotional color on your own!
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Actually I would be FIRST....since my name is Jack (a DR TOMovOZ reference)....and yes TOO...those songs will be played.
I am on my way to work for the next 10 hours or so, but hopefully I will be able to check in.
Thanks for the Birthday wishes from yesterday.
AND of course Happiest of the Same Birthday to DRJOSE.... Mamma Mia...he is much younger!
Do you live in the back?
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DR Ron Pulliam - Glad you found a way to turn your ticket mishap into an adventure. I'll be looking forward to your report on A Chorus Line, because DH Richard and I have tickets for it in NYC, 2 nights before the Broadway opening.
Well, that was another part of it, too! I remembered someone had said they had tix, and I just couldn't figure how I could come on here NOT having seen the show because of a few logistics issues I had.
Sometimes, you have to move MOUNTAINS for the sake of a Broadway(-bound) show!
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TOD -
Cinemascope: Windjammer
Road show: The Agony and the Ecstasy
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Well, that was another part of it, too! I remembered someone had said they had tix, and I just couldn't figure how I could come on here NOT having seen the show because of a few logistics issues I had.
Sometimes, you have to move MOUNTAINS for the sake of a Broadway(-bound) show!
I think DRs Cillaliz and jhvw are seeing it the night before opening night.
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I do not know what my first film at a theater was, but more then likely it was Disney and in color. I have never had the pleasure of a roadshow.
First 3-D would have been either the re-release of HOUSE OF WAX in the 1980s or the showing on CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON on tv when they had that special 3-D showing....had to get your glasses from 7-11 or something like that.
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Good morning, fellow Dear Readers. Today I went to the river. Shortly we'll leave to see the tour of Wicked. I have too much to do to do either.
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DR Cillaliz - remember that trash and tire dump under the Central Avenue Bridge south of downtown? Not any more - it is a restored wetlands now, and simply wonderful!
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I have no idea what the first movie was that I saw in color. It seems like the rule-of-thumb when I was growing up was black & white on television; color at the theater. I do remember in elementary school, all of us who were patrol boys at the crosswalks (sorry that is what they called them, not me) got to go down to the Roxy Theater downtown on a Saturday to see a free showing of a movie, plus drawings for przes, etc. I remember clearly that the movie was THE SOLID-GOLD CADILAC with Judy Holiday and Paul Douglas. I was horrified! The movie was in b&w, and somehow, to me; it seemed that getting to see the movie for free was less of a prize, because it was b&w.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY(S) DR JRand AND DR JOSE!!!
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I tried to post birthday flowers, but no success. Got an error message. Well, birthday guys, it's the thought that counts. If it's fixed later, you'll get your cyber-flowers.
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Happiest of Happy Birthdays to our Birthday Boys: Jose and Jrand!!!!
Double Cake Day!!!!
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Happy Birthday Jose!!!!!!!
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Happy Birthday JRand!!!!!!
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I slept in until 1PM today- crazy! But I have been sick and I think I needed the rest. Also, I am working tonight at the House of Latex Ball from 10PM until 4AM so it is probably good that I got so much sleep.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JRAND56!!!
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INTENTIONS GONE AWRY
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There's a showing at 5 of THE ILLUSIONIST and I'm thinking about going; the theatre's literally one block from my apartment and I had meant to go last weekend.
So far, it's been a good day: a brief sojourn at Toyland and then the wonderful New York Public Library Theatre Collection: I looked at Robinson Locke scrapbooks for Bessie Wynn, one of the stars of BABES IN TOYLAND, and for Helen Falconer, who replaced Elsie Janis as Cinderella in THE LADY OF THE SLIPPER. Robinson Locke was the editor of one of the Toledo newspapers who was a huge theatre fanatic; he left the library a great number of scrapbooks from the end of the 19th Century through the early part of the 20th Century.
Then my favorite theatre librarian Jeremy Megraw asked me to look at a photo and verify it was from 1903 BABES IN TOYLAND and not the 1902 WIZARD OF OZ, which was what was written on its back. It was indeed from BABES, the 12 widows in Act Three who performed "The Moon Will Help You Out" with Bo-Peep. I have to go in on Tuesday, pull ouyt one of the scrapbooks on BABES and identify the actresses for him.
So, maybe it's time for a snack before the movie?
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Back from travels. I actually went to Panera, which is basically a place where people sit and play with their computers. I got a Diet Coke and sat and proofed the formatted book - got about thirty more pages done, so that the rest won't take all day today and I can watch a few DVDs and relax.
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Well, that was another part of it, too! I remembered someone had said they had tix, and I just couldn't figure how I could come on here NOT having seen the show because of a few logistics issues I had.
Sometimes, you have to move MOUNTAINS for the sake of a Broadway(-bound) show!
jhvw and I have tickets, too, the night after DR Ginny and DH Richard. I think it's great you booked a room. Much less stress than worrying about getting home
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DR Cillaliz - remember that trash and tire dump under the Central Avenue Bridge south of downtown? Not any more - it is a restored wetlands now, and simply wonderful!
Wow! I do remember when it was the pits! I worked at 132 S Central when I first started at the PDs office and drove that way fairly frequently. The transformation is amazing
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Back from travels. I actually went to Panera, which is basically a place where people sit and play with their computers. I got a Diet Coke and sat and proofed the formatted book - got about thirty more pages done, so that the rest won't take all day today and I can watch a few DVDs and relax.
Funny, I had lunch at Panera - 1/2 Bistro Steak Salad and 1/2 a Turkey Artichoke Paninni Sandwich. It was most yummy
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I talked to jhvw, he's fine he's just been really busy at work this week and said he'd stop by sometime soon. Sounds like he got a good deal worked on rent and won't have to move home after all. YEAH!!!! Let's hear it for independence
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Well, I have been looking for something all day and I know it's here somewhere. My dad got my mom a ring for christmas, but I bought (with his $$) it and had it insured. I know I forgot to send them the insurance papers because I found them about a month ago. Well, of course now she's lost the ring and I've lost the papers. Think I'll call the store and see if they keep a copy of that stuff.
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I just made myself a sandwich I call the "Alice" after the first floor neighbor who introduced it to me: scrambled eggs on 3-grain bread, with a bit of ranch dressing and lots of fresh watercress and alfalfa sprouts. Yum!
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Other than that, My brother and sister in law are coming here tomorrow to go to a Bonnie Raitt/ Keb Mo concert with me. So I'm doing a little more than my usual weekend cleaning.
My chocolate craving has not gone away....since there ARE two birthdays to celebrate I think I will give in....
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I just made myself a sandwich I call the "Alice" after the first floor neighbor who introduced it to me: scrambled eggs on 3-grain bread, with a bit of ranch dressing and lots of fresh watercress and alfalfa sprouts. Yum!
That does sound good
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Bonnie Raitt did an interview for her upcoming performance here and said in it that she had a chance to be in Broadway as Annie in Annie Get Your Gun. She said she didn't want to learn to act in that big a role. I had never heard that before.
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Back to searching and cleaning....there are one or two more places I can look...in the meantime I am getting a lot sorted looking for it.
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TOD - No $#%^$%#^ clew...
Ditto. ;D
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Hi All and One and One and All!
I awakened (awoke?) from a dream this morning.
I was in a receiving line at a farewell party for Leonard Bernstein. He was retiring from composing and conducting. When I got up to him, I cupped my hands around his face and said, "Thank you for all your inspiration." (oy, the English). The next thing I knew I was sitting at the feet of Mr. Bernstein who had retreated to a monastery! We seemed to be communicating telepathically. Then he opened his arms and said, "I'm just not any good!" That's when I woke up (awakened?)!
I wonder what it all means....
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I slept right up until the knocking on the door of she of the Evil Eye. Pretty day outside.
First 3D would have been the first year of Disneyland - they showed something in their Main Street movie theater.
Almost correct!! :o
The program(me) was called 3D JAMBOREE, Working For Peanuts was part of it (Chip & Dale and Donald) and was shown at the original Fantasyland Theater. 8) ;)
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Good Afternoon!
Well... About 15 minutes ago I "hit the wall" in regard to my Finale work today, so...
Break Time!
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DRs JMK, PennyO, Cillaliz, Charles Pogue, MBarnum, Rodzinksi, Ron Pulliam, Maria, DearReaderLaura, TPunk, TCB, George, etc., etc. - Thank You! Thank All of You!
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*And at least the phone call from my mom earlier today let me know that my pare lents did not forget my birthday this year.
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And as for cake... Well, when I got to rehearsal after the lunch break, there was cheesecake... and cookies... and fudge bars... and cupcakes... It wasn't all for me - someone else in the company had a birthday today too - but some of it was. And they all sang, "Happy Birthday" to me too.
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...Thus, it's been a very carbo-licious birthday so far. Just like all birthdays should be.
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Hi All and One and One and All!
I awakened (awoke?) from a dream this morning.
I was in a receiving line at a farewell party for Leonard Bernstein. He was retiring from composing and conducting. When I got up to him, I cupped my hands around his face and said, "Thank you for all your inspiration." (oy, the English). The next thing I knew I was sitting at the feet of Mr. Bernstein who had retreated to a monastery! We seemed to be communicating telepathically. Then he opened his arms and said, "I'm just not any good!" That's when I woke up (awakened?)!
I wonder what it all means....
Donna, I believe that Mr. Bernstein is currently decomposing.
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Back from a jog. Now must try and do some research online - there are two references in a couple of the short stories than I suddenly have become uncertain about vis a vis whether these places existed in the years the stories are set - I think I'm right, but just want to doublecheck.
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Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes....I have read them ALL!!!
Of course today we are very busy at the World of Wisdom....but that's OKAY!!
Big storms predicted for tonight.
FIRST 3D movie was HOUSE OF WAX sometime in the 1970's in rerelease mode.
First color.....probably KIM which we saw on a school field trip....although maybe a cartoon before that.
First Road Show - THIS IS CINERAMA!, lots of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, ICE STATION ZEBRA, GRAND PRIX
CAMELOT I think was roadshow....and one of the GONE WITH THE WIND releases in the 1960's....
I remember when they used to advertise a movie "now at popular prices!"
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thank goodness for google. I was right on one of the things and completely wrong on the other - I've fixed the latter with something generic.
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Birthday wishes to DR JRand and JosePiano!
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With telephone calls and other time consuming activities (reading the Tab Hunter autobiography STILL!), I only managed to get one thing watched this afternoon: LADY BE GOOD.
I had never seen this movie from beginning to end. I thought I had, but large segments of it, including Eleanor Powell's incredible dance with the dog Buttons were completely new to me. Definitely burning a DVD-R of that!
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Yes, I remember that "Now at Popular Prices!" too. Trouble was, sometimes, the movies were cut so they could fit more showings of the film at those popular prices. Great films like LAWRENCE OF ARABIA got cut for the sake of more showings.
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Tonight's plans are to watch last night's MONK, SHE DONE HIM WRONG with Mae West, and the Chenoweth-LuPone CANDIDE.
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One more story to go, out of the five that are formatted. We've got several hours of entering corrections - mostly all of which have to do with widows, orphans, and bad breaks, and a few formatting oddities that happened when the Word doc was imported into Quark and the font changed.
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Whatever shall I eat today? I'm getting really hungry.
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Are there any producer types lurking here who are based in the Portland, Oregon/Vancouver, Washington area or any producers elsewhere who are looking for an economical show where the whole cast has gotten phenomenal reviews?
The one-man show HERRINGBONE, which Skip wrote with Tom Cone and Ellen Fitzhugh, continues to get great attention in the city of Vancoiuver, WA - but it ends Sept. 1 and this is the last chance to see it - at this point, anyway.
This just came out from the Portland Mercury. I assume this is a newspaper rather than just a website. Anyone know?
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=53981&category=22143
HERRINGBONE
Review by Alison Hallett
I'd never heard of actor Taylor Askman before the Vancouver Arts Equity's production of Herringbone, but as I took my seat in the funky Main Street Theatre in downtown Vancouver, a drunken woman sitting in front of me assured me that the 22-year-old is "extremely talented." My first thought? He'd better be. Herringbone is a one-man show, which means that if that one man can't swing it, the audience is in for a long, painful night. Fortunately, Askman can swing it. Damn, can he swing it.
The shockingly talented Askman plays Herringbone's titular character, a tall, self-possessed vaudevillian with curly orange hair and a ratty (what else) herringbone suit. Herringbone is the host of this show, as well as the sole performer. His first number is the song "One of Those Years," as in, "Have you ever had 'one of those years?'" Herringbone has, and this play is about that year.
Before he was called Herringbone, he was called George. During the year in question, George is a precocious eight-year-old living in the Depression-era South. His family is dirt poor, and when George wins a speech competition, his parents use the money to enroll him in dance classes: They've heard that "child stars" can make good money in Los Angeles, and they're hoping that George might be their ticket out of poverty.
George takes dances lessons from a man called Chicken, formerly of the famed vaudeville act Chicken and Turtle. Lou, Chicken's former partner, is dead; while studying with Chicken, George becomes possessed by Lou's ghost, who seizes control of George's body and forces him to strangle Chicken. George's parents hit the road, fleeing the crime scene with the Lou-possessed George in tow.
The family makes their way to Hollywood, paying their way with money Lou makes performing in bars (in George's body, of course). Through it all, Lou and George share George's body in an awkward tug of war. While in Hollywood, Lou forces George to run away from his parents—an abrupt introduction to manhood.
George and Lou vie for possession of George's body, a struggle that comes to a disturbing head when Lou invites a woman back to their room and tries to seduce her. George is horrified (and the scene is horrifying), forcing the conflict between Lou and George to a climactic end.
This elaborate story is reenacted entirely by Herringbone: Herringbone is George, all grown up and in full mastery of his inner demons. As Herringbone tells his story, he moves seamlessly from one character to the next: from George's wide eyes and high-pitched stutter, to George's mother's lazy Southern drawl, to Lou's hoarse, raspy bark.
Whether you take this show at face value, as a tale of ghostly possession, or read it as a coming-of-age parable with Oedipal implications, there's no doubt that in the wrong hands Herringbone could be an unmitigated disaster: The script, simply, is a bitch. It's demanding, hectic, and thematically abstruse. There's no room for error; if even one character is anything less than distinct, narrative coherence would quickly vanish.
And as if multiple characters weren't enough to contend with, there's the song-and-dance angle as well. Lyricist Ellen Fitzhugh has penned a few gems, like "What's a Body to Do (with a Body)?" after Chicken is murdered, and pianist K.J. McElrath keeps admirable pace with the demands of Skip Kennon's score. Some of the songs involve two or three characters, requiring Askman to rifle through his repertoire of characters with dizzying speed.
Askman, though, endows each char-acter with enough specific mannerisms that they are each easy to identify and distinguish from one another, but he never veers into caricature: Each character remains human, even the fiendish Lou. It's almost unsettling, how good he is; at times Askman, like George, seems possessed. He keeps it up even during the musical numbers: As with everything else he attempts during this production, Askman makes singing duets with himself seem easy.
Therein lines the real marvel of this show: Askman's ability to keep so many plates spinning at once. His curly red hair and smooth, clammy make-up invite comparisons to a clown, and like any good clown, he is a mimic, a cipher. His identity shifts and dissolves behind his enigmatic grease-painted face; Askman looks like Gene Wilder and sounds like Tim Curry, but the sum of his talents is, without a doubt, one of the most impressive performances I've seen.
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Since Saturday is usually my day free of cleaning (and this week, it did work out that way), I'll be heading downstairs now to pick back up with my viewing.
WBBL.
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Was WEST SIDE STORY a road show engagement? I think it was first released that way. I saw it complete with overture and epilogue. After that probably BEN-HUR (still one of my favorite films)
I remember the first time I saw BEN-HUR. When it got to the part where Messala was forced to free Judah's mother and sister, and they opened the dungeon door; I thought they said, "Leopards!" I couldn't quite figure out how the leopards got into the cell to eat his mother and sister!
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My first Cinerama experience was THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM. For some reason, my childhood brain always combines the BROTHERS GRIMM with Russ Tamblyn's TOM THUMB. Actually, I think it makes a better movie with the two combined.
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With telephone calls and other time consuming activities (reading the Tab Hunter autobiography STILL!), I only managed to get one thing watched this afternoon: LADY BE GOOD.
Is that really the name of his autobiography?
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Sorry to have been E&T. Happy Birthday to both DRs Jose and JRand!
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Yes, West Side Story was a roadshow engagement - written about extensively in Kritzer Time. It played at least a year at the Grauman's Chinese.
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Will anybody here be watching the Emmys tomorrow? I will watch and probably tape Big Brother.
Don't get the good pre-shows. So i'll probably have to watch whatever is on NBC.
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I'm quite hungry, but I cannot decide what I want to eat. I may wander over to Art's Deli in an hour or two - I can eat their excellent tri-salad (two scoops of chicken salad and one scoop egg salad) and do corrections on the final story. I'm not one for sitting alone in restaurants, but I really enjoyed my solo sojourn to Du-Par's last night.
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Yes, West Side Story was a roadshow engagement - written about extensively in Kritzer Time. It played at least a year at the Grauman's Chinese.
Sorry! Neither my memory, nor my brain, functions on weekends.
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Fred, what a great review for HERRINGBONE!
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I can't beleive this.............
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We seem stuck on Page 4!
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Come on, everybody push!!!
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Whew!
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Boy, I'm really close to post #3,000
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And now I'm one post closer
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Perhaps it's a good night for a pointless, meandering frenzy
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Unless I should try to make the approach to 3,000 mean something
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Hmmm...People seem to be leaving. Maybe I'll frenzy later. Besides, dinner's ready!
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I know my priorities, after all.
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I know my priorities, after all.
FOOD, glorious food! ;)
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I usually "mix" West Side Story and tom thumb because of Russ Tamblyn!
Well, not really!
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But then, who cares?! LOL!
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A musical show celebrating Mr Tamblyn?
A ChoRUSS Line!
(I know it's pathetic! I AM pathetic!)
Show Me The Way To Go Home
I Am Tired And I Wanna Go To Bed!
Well, not really!
-- "A drunken woman?!?" (Review posted by FJL!)
People go to the theater drunk?!
A woman under some influence... to enjoy the show better?!
What do I know?!
Well, I'll have another one!
A votre santé, et "Bon Anniversaire" Jack and Jose!
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Hey, Ann!
Have you gotten the wedding gown yet?
Vive la mariée!
I'll drink to zhat!
No one wears a zhat!
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Gosh, I'm so full of nerve tonight that I'm feeling quite... efferent!
Don't you too?!
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Oh, you're saying that just to contradict me!!
Not fair! Not effairant, err, effairand, err, FRJrand... never mind!
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Oh, Ann's gone!
Au revoir!
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That's what I keep telling them but they won't listen to me!
What can I say!
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I know! i know! Those were the exact words I used!
Don't blame me!
I warned them but....
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La chaise! Le bureau!
Le papier!
Le crayon!
Hello, June!
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The best things in life are three!
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I went to the store and bought a warm delight....doesn't that sound decadent?? Well it's a microwave brownie mix. A hot fudgy brownie in less than a minute. All you add is water. They are actually good, and the portion size is small, so I can have a wonderful taste of warm chocolate with vanilla ice cream melting on the top without having to eat a whole batch of brownies.....mmmmm, I bought an extra mix just in case there is another birthday tomorrow..
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Hello Francois!
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A veritable mini Fred & François frenzy.
I hope the birthday lads are enjoying the day.
Today (Sunday) is the birthday of Diana Trask. (If anyone remembers or cares to sing along).
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Donna, I believe that Mr. Bernstein is currently decomposing.
TCB - :D Ha-ha! :D That was a good one!
--Donna
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Hello Francios!
No! Me I'm François!
Francios is the other one! ;)
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I read that Maynard Ferguson died. When I was in high school I got his autoraph....he was wearing his pajamas at the time
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Now, I'm puzzled by the use of "decaden" on this board!
To me, as in French, "decadent" has always ment:
A noun
1 decadent
a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
B adjective
decadent, effete
marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
When has the meaning changed AND what does it really mean nowadays in the US of A!
I'm intrigued!
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No! Me I'm François!
Francios is the other one! ;)
So sorry, I fixed it.
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So sorry, I fixed it.
Oh, that's all right! When I worked in the States people would read my nametag and say: FRANKOIS?! (I "swear"!)
I guess you get more "io" in English than "oi"; in French we have lots of "oi" spellings!
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I read that Maynard Ferguson died. When I was in high school I got his autoraph....he was wearing his pajamas at the time
Pajamas, hey?!
(We won't tell!) ;)
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Now, I'm puzzled by the use of "decaden" on this board!
To me, as in French, "decadent" has always ment:
A noun
1 decadent
a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
B adjective
decadent, effete
marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
When has the meaning changed AND what does it really mean nowadays in the US of A!
I'm intrigued!
That's how I meant it. I wasn't relating decadence to a brownie, but some people might. I was simply saying picking up a warm delight, sounds like it's something other than a brownie.....
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A veritable mini Fred & François frenzy.
I hope the birthday lads are enjoying the day.
Today (Sunday) is the birthday of Diana Trask. (If anyone remembers or cares to sing along).
Ooohhh, I remember the trasks she recorded! ;)
Diana who?!
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Oh, that's all right! When I worked in the States people would read my nametag and say: FRANKOIS?! (I "swear"!)
I guess you get more "io" in English than "oi"; in French we have lots of "oi" spellings!
People rarely spell Priscilla right.
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Pajamas, hey?!
(We won't tell!) ;)
It's really not that exciting....our jazz band was staying at the same motel that he and his band were staying. In the morning he stepped out of his room into the parking lot where we were talking to the guys in the band. He had on his pajamas. He asked them about when they were going to leave, I asked for his autograph. He was very nice about it. Just saying he was in his pajamas sounds a lot racier, though. ;D
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JRAND56!![/size]
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Language changes - decadence has gone the way of sophistication and Ironic.
The one that still I find "difficult" to accept is when "lend" is so often used as its opposite -"borrow".
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That's how I meant it. I wasn't relating decadence to a brownie, but some people might. I was simply saying picking up a warm delight, sounds like it's something other than a brownie.....
Ah, ok!
Then have another brownie on me! But watch the crumbs please! i hate to get "dirty" (decadent?!)....
Never mind! (Dirty mind?!)
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Language changes - decadence has gone the way of sophistication and Ironic.
The one that still I find "difficult" to accept is when "lend" is so often used as its opposite -"borrow".
It's like with the French equivalent; there's lend TO and lend FROM!
I don't know! I might be talking nonsense!
But, HEY, I'm posting! :)
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Language changes - decadence has gone the way of sophistication and Ironic.
The one that still I find "difficult" to accept is when "lend" is so often used as its opposite -"borrow".
I cringe when I hear someone say "will you borrow me a..."
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Of course it would have been in pyjamas if he had been touring here. I'm not sure that racing pyjamas ever caught on as a sport.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSESPIANO!![/size]
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Just saying he was in his pajamas sounds a lot racier, though. ;D
Even.... "decadent"! ;)
Now, did he own the pajamas or had he borrowed them?
We'll never know!
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I've taken a load of boxes to storage...about a dozen of them (boxes, not loads ;)). My sister is priming all the trim down the hall and her boyfriend is in the shed out back cleaning it out and fixing it up. Things are happening. :D Now I have to get gas for the truck. Just popped in to catch up and say:
Hi!
I'll check in again later.
Gotta keep posting those posts. :)
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Is it decadent to wear a Panama and pajamas (pyjamas)?
You tell me!
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Good Evening!
Well... I'm now at my parents house so that I could finally see my mother. In the three weeks that I've been in town, we just haven't crossed paths. I've seen everyone else - my father, my brothers, my nieces and nephew. When she called me this morning to wish me Happy Birthday, she asked if I was coming over to the house tonight... And since I really hadn't planned anything... So... Of course, guess who's not here right now?
;)
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Ah.... Guess who just called... My parents decided to head over to one of my aunt's house on the way back from church, so...
Guess I'll head on over to see my niece - and soon-to-be god-daughter.
:)
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I've just come back from seeing THE ILLUSIONIST. No pun intended, I found the film about a magician, or illusionist, both magical and beautiful. The evocation of late 19th Century Vienna is lovely, the screenplay is intelligent with some good twists, and the cast is wonderful. Paul Giamatti is such a delight, and I've believed Edward Norton could do almost anything since his first film. I even liked the score by Phillip Glass and I usually loathe his music. I thought it fit the film's time frame and mood, and it wasn't a constant wash of music. Like a romance? Like a mystery? Like magic? See the film.
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Looks like this guy is wearing both!
http://champrozcrew.skyblog.com/pics/74565627_small.jpg
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And the well wishes just keep pouring in... Thank You, DRs Donna, Jennifer and Jane!
:)
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Ah...
Laters...
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Just wanted to pop in and say happy birthday to Jose and Jrand! Hope you all had a good day!
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Panama Hat he. Thank you François.
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Hey JH good to see you
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I left for dinner and this place seemed in need of a frenzy. But now it's not.
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How will i ever get to 3000 before midnight?
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I mean, that's nine friggin' posts.
Or is it fridgin' posts.
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Does anyone else remember the moment in the BYE BYE BIRDIE film when Albert asks Rosie if she's disappointed, she asks why, and he says something like "Well, you've never seen me in my pajamas before."
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Or something like that.
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You're getting close FJL....
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Didn't Norman Panama have something to do with the BYE BYE BIRDIE film?
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Oh, gees, I just realized the cats haven't had dinner yet. They are both sleeping....hate to wake them, think I'll just wait.
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Cool beans! Page 7....FJL, what dance shall we do?
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Just got a phone call. Delays, delays.
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Let's do the tap, tap, tapioca. I love that one.
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Priorities FJL. Not the cat's pajamas.
I Got Stripes. No that was Johnny Cash.
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I realize I'm confusing Norman Panama with Edward Padula. I bet that happens to them all the time.
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I went to Hawaii once - not for delays.
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Edward and Norman are names often confused.
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Well, the phone call was (in part) about how to promote BK's appearance in the Starfighter readings.
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I saw the "Edward Conquests" on stage way back in 1973. Funny plays.
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Congratulations DR FJL.
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So I guess it was sort of related to HHW.
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Whoops! Too early.
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Wow, I feel like I came by that 3000th post honestly, though. No straining for feeble filler.
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Again Congratulations. Personal congratulations to be delivered in four weeks times.
I'm still smiling at last week's Thoroughly Modern Alice. A gem.
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Edward and Norman are names often confused.
Hello, I am Mrs. Edward Maine!
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Tomovoz - Is there a specific night for a mass get-together that week?
If not a mass, maybe a Rosh Hashanah service?
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It works for me.
Drowning not waving.
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Should I be employing a social secretary in New York?
I have no expectations. Call me Fosca.
DP Colin and I plan to go to the theatre on the Thursday and Friday nights (possibly) but have left the weekend of the 23/24 September FREE. We are hoping for a return to New York by Birthday boy Mr Piano.
Why are we actually visiting New York? It will be our third visit. We are there to meet Kimlets and/or Hainsies. Ben? Buddy?
We are staying at the Mouldy Plaza.
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Back from a fun Chinese dinner with my DH, my DS, my mother, my sister & her husband, and their daughter. We had a big round table with a lazy Susan in the middle. Everybody ordered something different and we put the serving dishes on the LS and shared. My favorites: crab rangoons, cashew chicken, and the combo thing my niece ordered that had scallops & shrimp.
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Didn't CALL ME FOSCA feature the great Ethel Moleman?
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And Bustle Nype?
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Their big song was "You're not sick, you're just...oh, maybe you are sick."
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Sickness from too much Passion. No wonder I choose to read.
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There is an addition to post 198 DR FJL.
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Then thank Mr. Lapine for the book.
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A vodka kimlet, garkin.
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When do you leave town? I wonder if you'll overlap with the start of our Starfighter reading rehearsals.
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But speaking of Passion (let's see if I can time this right)...
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Would that be La Pines of Rome.
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One for Murphy
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Or should it have been "And one for Mazzie"
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Unfortunately we leave just before! DP Colin and I have already noticed that. We leave for Canada on the Monday.
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Were they Jere's girls?
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TCB-I'm sorry I missed your birthday. I hope you had a very special day.
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Tomovoz - To Shea!
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Elmore-Thanks for the movie review. We’ll be sure to see THE ILLUSIONIST.
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Good point FJL. I'm touched. (Don't go there).
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Jane - Is the Portland Mercury an actual newspaper?
If so, does it carry any wieght for theater matters?
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FJL-I have no idea, never heard of the paper. ;D
We live at the very southern tip of Oregon, just before the California border. When we visit our son in Portland we mostly shop & eat. :)
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Tomovoz, please wish Colin good vibes he will soon be free of any melanoma.
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Thank you Jane.
I think Eydle Gorme has a hit song about blaming the "Mela Noma"
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The Portland Mercury
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Portland Mercury is an "alternative weekly" newspaper published in Portland, Oregon. It chronicles the ever-changing details of Portland's music scene, including interviews, commentaries, reviews, and concert dates, and also features the popular "I, anonymous" section, in which local readers can write in with their rants and raves about the people and things that piss them off the most. The articles have been notorious for being biased and opinionated, which has led to critics labelling the staff of The Mercury as elitists. It is similar in style to its sibling publication, Seattle, Washington's The Stranger.
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Jane, thanks for finding that description.
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Ben - Got your lovely card.
Is that a picture of Ant on the mocked-up sheet music?
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Well, I'll be hornswoggled if we haven't had us an uncharacteristic Saturday frenzy.
I just had a bit to eat and will now try to watch at least two count them two DVDs.
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Yes, Fred, it's Anthony. He replaced Ramon Navarro with that picture. He's very proud of the work on that piece. He has the original sheet music (he's a big RN fan) and thought it would be good exercise to try and replace the picture.
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Tom, it's also called the Mildew Plaza. Friends from Minnesota who stayed there in the 80s would call it by that nickname.
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Just missed Tom. Oh, well, he will see it on his return.
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Had a long day at the office but things progress. I am halfway through another file and will most likely finish it on Monday. If only others on our staff would pull their own weight as it relates to productivity. But, that's a rant and I won't go there. I will just think of the month away from the office after it is all over. And my lovely evening with Ginny and DH Richard (and any of the other Hainsies who might join us) on the evening of October 7th.
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And I've just had my own mini-frenzy, not to be confused with a mini-fridge.
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The page on the NYMF website for the LAST STARFIGHTER readings is still very much a work in prgress, but here's what it is so far.
http://www.nymf.org/index.php?module=ShowManager&func=display&sid=540
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Anthony, in spite of his mild cold, will be seeing a dance presentation tomorrow. A friend of his has choreographed a piece and wants Anthony to see it. I shall stay at home and relax. If it's a decent afternoon I may go out for a brisk walk but otherwise I have no plans.
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Then on Wednesday Anthony will head out to Long Island for the Labor Day weekend (it's early I know). I will join him on Friday afternoon. We have a half-day at the office so I will arrive in Centereach around 1:30pm.
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Speaking of Long Island, I hope all is well with Deb (VixMom). We haven't seen or heard from her since Sunday's delightful party at Fred and Skip's. Actually it's Toby and Dylan's (the Corgi dogs) place, they just let Fred and Skip live there :D
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Thanks Ben!
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Fosca and Magnus have already organised new tenants for a "short rental opportunity" in Sept/October. We know who owns and runs this household.
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Jane, thanks for finding that description.
You are welcome. Have I missed a review, or something of special interest I might want to read?
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Wow, I feel like I came by that 3000th post honestly, though. No straining for feeble filler.
Congrats on the 3000+ Posts, FJL!! ;D
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And since we're almost there...
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Welcome to Page Nine!!
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Jane - At post #106 on page 4, I posted a review from the Portland Mercury of a show for which Skip wrote the music.
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This shore is a punny place.
Thanks so much to everyone for the lovely felicitations on my natal day. They were the loveliest I received....well they were the ONLY ones I received, but it doesn't make them any LESS lovely.
Molly did call from Seattle...so that was very nice.
Watching STRAY DOG and as MR BK said a few weeks ago, Mr Mifune is indeed I N T E N S E in this movie....but he wears TOO MANY CLOTHES.
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And just in case there really are any producer types lurking here :) I'm re-posting the review from the Oregonian for the same show.
Theater review One-man cast carries dark, funny 'Bone'
Monday, July 24, 2006
HOLLY JOHNSON
The Oregonian
Do vaudeville and the dark arts seem likely bedfellows?
They get along just fine in "Herringbone," a terrifying yet mesmerizing play by Tom Cone from the 1970s (later revised into a two-act musical).
It starts with an unsuspecting 8-year-old named George bound for Hollywood during the Depression, who takes stage lessons, finds he's pretty good at tap-dancing, and is suddenly inhabited by the spirit of a louche 35-year-old vaudevillian dwarf. He's so creepy, it's easy to see why his former show-biz partner knocked him off.
Horrific, mesmerizing and funny, the play once featured Joel Grey in an East Coast performance, and artistic director Llewellyn J. Rhoe of Arts Equity Inc. in Vancouver offers a riveting production, with new songs by composer Skip Kennon and lyricist Ellen Fitzbugh.
Taylor Askman, 22, who plays all the roles in this intimate yet hugely complex show, displays an amazing quicksilver talent as he serves up a cadre of characters. He possesses a face actors long for: a combination of cartoon character and classical statue. But it's his ability to sketch characters with depth and mercurial speed that stands out.
One minute he's Louise, George's arch, ambitious Southern mom; the next he's young George, with a tinyvoice and bemused stare. The contrast is stark next to the gnarled, gravelly voiced dwarf Lou, who materializes unannounced. And then there's George's imperious, looming dad, Dot the giggly seductress, and adult George, the grave narrator. The characters seem to materialize from a sideshow in Askman's brain. He's a big talent, and Rhoe has obviously found a vehicle that gives him a big tent in which to move around.
The play is a brutal coming-of-age story with a nod to Kafka or Stephen King, and the musical numbers mesh perfectly. Musical accompaniment by musical director Kevin McElrath on piano is a pleasure to hear. The gaping set, a textured affair in black and red surfaces designed by Rhoe, echoes the maw of hell itself.
Continues at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays through Sept. 1 at Main Street Theatre, 606 Main St.
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The page on the NYMF website for the LAST STARFIGHTER readings is still very much a work in prgress, but here's what it is so far.
http://www.nymf.org/index.php?module=ShowManager&func=display&sid=540 (http://www.nymf.org/index.php?module=ShowManager&func=display&sid=540)
Wonderful reviews!! You should be proud! :D
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Ramon Navarro is a favorite of mine, too....in his silent films - some of his talkies were pretty B A D.
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I love the part about the set echoing the maw of hell itself.
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Great HERRINGBONE reviews....."the gaping maw of Hell itself....."
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JRand - I've had a lovely day contemplating your natal with one delicious dessert after another.
A SHANA NATAL - that's the title of my new documentary about Shana Alexander's birthday
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Gotta go back to cleaning. :P
Later.
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THE GAPING MAW OF HELL ITSELF will be followed by the sequel THE GAPING PAW OF HELL ITSELF
featuring Maw and Paw Kettle
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Speaking of Long Island, I hope all is well with Deb (VixMom). We haven't seen or heard from her since Sunday's delightful party at Fred and Skip's. Actually it's Toby and Dylan's (the Corgi dogs) place, they just let Fred and Skip live there :D
My plan was to post a cute photo of Toby & Dylan, however it seems the upload file is full.
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FJL-Thanks for repeating the review info. :) I will have to read them tomorrow.
'night.
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... (reading the Tab Hunter autobiography STILL!)...
I thought the title was Tab Hunter Confidential. STILL sounds like a moonshining how-to book.
::)
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In honor of Tab Hunter, the mellow sounds of Lionel Ritchie (and I guess, Shirley Bassey)
STILL
(Lionel Ritchie)
Lionel Ritchie
Also recorded by:
Shirley Bassey; Curtis Brengle; Ricardo Caliente; Freddy Cole;
The Commodores; Laura Fygi; Engelbert Humperdinck; Millie Jackson;
Kenny Lattimore; The Mantovani Orch.; Symphonic Rock Project;
Zim Zemarel & His Orch.
Lady, morning's just a moment away
And I'm without you once again
You laughed at me
You said you never needed me
I wonder if you need me now
[Chorus:]
So many dreams that flew away
So many words we didn't say
Two people lost in a storm
Where did we go?
Where'd we go?
We lost what we both had found
You know we let each other down
But then most of all
I do love you
Still!
[Chorus]
We played the games that people play
We made our mistakes along the way
Somehow I know deep in my heart
You needed me
'cause I needed you so desperatly!
We were too blind to see
But then most of all
I do love you
Still!
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Still) though you broke my heart
(Still) though we're far apart
I love you still
(Still) after all this time
(Still) you're still on my mind
I love you still
I've lost count of the hours
and I've lost track of the days
In fact, I've lost just about everything
Since you went away
Everything, that is, except the memories you left me
And that's one thing that no one can mar
I don't know who you're with
I don't even know where you've gone
My only hope is that some day you might hear this song
And you'll know that I wrote it especially for you
And I love you, wherever you are
(Still) after all this time
(Still) you're still on my mind
I love you still
This flame in my heart is like an eternal fire
For every day it burns hotter
And every day it burns higher
And I haven't been able to put out one little flicker
Not even with all of these tears
My friends think I'm crazy and maybe I am
But I'll carry this torch just as long as I can
for some day, you might just decide to come home
and I want you to know
I'm still here
(Still) though you broke my heart
(Still) though we're far apart
I love you still
Bill Anderson
(for the C & W fans out there)
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Der Brucer and I would love to see Matthew Bourne's production of Norman Scissorhands. That's the ballet about the guy who has scissors for hands, and becomes famous for creating hairstyles, along with a bris or two on the side.
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I'll post more tomorrow.
Consider yourselves warned.
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Ooohh...just finished watching a scary monster movie on DVD...THEM! ....giant ants creeping around the New Mexico desert...I haven't seen this film since I was just a tiny tike...although the giant ants are not terribly convincing the movie still managed to give me the creeps, caused lots of goose pimples, and kept me very entertained! Better then your average 1950s sci-fi I guess.
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Now it is time to get something to eat and watch a movie where a lot of the actors have only one name and speak in Hindi.
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Ooohh...just finished watching a scary monster movie on DVD...THEM! ....giant ants creeping around the New Mexico desert...I haven't seen this film since I was just a tiny tike...although the giant ants are not terribly convincing the movie still managed to give me the creeps, caused lots of goose pimples, and kept me very entertained! Better then your average 1950s sci-fi I guess.
If you need someone to stay with you tonight................
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY(S), JRAND & JOSE.
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Ooohh...just finished watching a scary monster movie on DVD...THEM! ....giant ants creeping around the New Mexico desert...I haven't seen this film since I was just a tiny tike...although the giant ants are not terribly convincing the movie still managed to give me the creeps, caused lots of goose pimples, and kept me very entertained! Better then your average 1950s sci-fi I guess.
You were a tiny dyke?
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First color film and in stereo was Marry Poppins
First Roadshow, and 70 mm TODAO The Sound of Music
I believe Cinemascope, VistaVison were passe by that time, unless when the rereleased The Ten Commandments to the theaters in the 60's it was shown in VistaVision
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I believe only one or two films were ever actually projected in true 8perf horizontal VistaVision - Strategic Air Command and maybe White Christmas. All others were printed down to 35mm.
Just finished one DVD and shall now start another.
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27 days and countings
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I believe only one or two films were ever actually projected in true 8perf horizontal VistaVision - Strategic Air Command and maybe White Christmas. All others were printed down to 35mm.
Just finished one DVD and shall now start another.
So I guess VistaVision was like Cinemascope 55. It was used once or twice and then printed down to 35mm
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Enjoyed the trivia question this week. It was fun discovering the answers.
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I'm done with packing/cleaning/storaging for the day. :-| Everyone's coming over again tomorrow, to continue with more of the same. :P
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I had to dig up some roots and rocks from the garden out in front of my house, but I was wearing Birkenstocks. My feet are quite dirty. I'm now going to wash my feets.
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Yup, to paraphrase Thomas "Fats" Waller, my feets too dirty. ;)
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Amazing...I started Page Nine AND Page Ten!
(Does anybody care?)
;D
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No, the Tab Hunter autobiography is not called STILL. I meant that I was STILL reading it.
Its title is indeed CONFIDENTIAL.
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I'm on much later than usual. Best friend John came over and we went on a walk down memory lane going back through some old show tapes and awards night productions where we were part of the entertainment. Lots of laughs and fond, fond memories.
The last tape was of a 1996 awards night production, and I was shocked at how young I looked. How I've aged in ten years! Yikes!
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Before he came over, I did manage to watch several things I had recorded on the DVR. I watched all three episodes of THE OFFICE recorded on Thursday night. By far my favorite comedy on TV, and I'm hoping it wins the Emmy for Best Comedy tomorrow night (actually tonight since it's past midnight here.)
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Next was Mae West's SHE DONE HIM WRONG. The telecast was fine though the 1932 film has definite scratches, dirt, and debris on the print shown on TCM. Still, it has decent focus and contrast, and I enjoyed seeing it again.
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I finshed up with NIGHT AND THE CITY, not the brilliant original but Irving Winkler's mediocre remake. I hadn't seen it since reviewing it when it first came out, and I wanted to see if time improved the film or at least my estimation of it. It didn't. Winkler lets De Niro "put on a show," but the result is overbaked ham. He doesn't seem to be in the same movie as the other actors, and the pacing is lethargic.
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Still have Friday night's MONK to get to tomorrow, and then I'm going to watch the 1935 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY.
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Guess it's time I get to bed.
Good night, all!
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George - If you're going to start a page with a Fats Waller reference, why not just say:
"And one for Waller."
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My Bollywood movie of the weekend seems to be a rather serious drama taking place after the 1947 partition titled MITTER PYARE NU HAAL MUREEDAN DA KEHNA....in the Punjab section of India, when Muslims began killing innocen Hindu and Sikh villagers and then Sikhs would turn around and try to get revenge by killing innocent Muslim villagers...with friends killing friends...this movie is about a Muslim man who saves a Sikh family from slaughter while in another village a Sikh rallies the other Sikhs and Hindus to protect the Muslim's in their village from being hurt.
And of course this being Bollywood it has music and dancing amongst the slaughter.
...but it is a really good movie!
(http://66.223.111.68/dvdImages/b7813.jpg)
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Good Evening!
Just how much cake can one have on one's birthday?....
I ended up spending the evening at my brother Don's new house. Well, it was new to me - he moved in two years ago(!) and this was my first time heading over there. -How the heck did that happen?!?! In any case... My brother Mike was over there with his family which meant I had all my nieces and nephew in attendance. They ended up throwing me a "surprise" birthday party. Of course, before the "surprise", John Michael made sure to warn me not to pay attention to what they were doing, and not to come upstairs until I was told. And I did as I was told.
When I was finally led upstairs, John Michael, Alyssa and Alexandra all jumped out and "Surprised!" me. They made me some cards, a "Happy Bithday[sic] U. Jojo" banner in crayon, and they also had some ballons too - drawn in Crayola on some newsprint and taped to the bunkbeds. It really was a great surprise. They even had a goody bag for me which consisted of a recycled McDonald's Happy Meal box filled with various things from Alexandra's room. "...This is for you, Uncle Jojo, but you can't keep them." ;) :)
Then we had cake and ice cream. Chocolate cake with chocolate icing and vanilla ice cream. Oh - and the appetizers consisted of Slurpees and Taquitos from 7-11.
I really had a wonderful time. Best of all, I got to spend some more time with my newest niece, Emily. She really is such a good baby. And she's been very "easy" for my brother and his wife to take care of since she tends to go to bed around 11:00, and sleeps through the night until 8:00.
-OH! And my brother, Don, slipped me $40 as I was leaving as my birthday gift. ;D
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Alas, I did not see my mother tonight (again). I even headed back to their house after leaving my brother's place, but my parents were still out. However, I did go ahead and load up some boxes from the basement into my car, and I've brought them over to my temp apartment. -I plan to have an ongoing project once the show begins since I'll have plenty of free time on my hands - Operation De-Clutter!
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And now... Well, I actually think I'm going to go ahead and finish the last two guitar charts I have to get done before heading to bed. -This way, all I have left is finessing the accordion part. -Almost there.
Laters...
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DRs jhvw and MichaelShayne - Merci beaucoup!
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Irwin Winkler, along with partner Robert Chartoff, produced some fine motion pictures. As a director, he is one of the all-time worst - every film he's made is excruciatingly awful.
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Finished DVD 2, and shall now start but probably not finishe DVD 3.
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I'm here all by my lonesome and I'm zonked. Good night...anyone. :)
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Goodnight DR George. No-one is alone.