And the word of the day is: CANOODLE!
George, how is the new abode?
Are you watching the first or second season of Doctor Who?
Have you seen the eppie with Sarah jane?
Tomorrow's happy snaps will be "Toronto".
I will be E&T all day and again tomorrow
Francois and I are big fans of this eclectic and very enjoyable show.
And the word of the day is: CANOODLE!Casey would CANOODLE
I saw it and I think that it was on last week. I never saw her original episodes, but this was a very good episode. I like it when shows bring back former actors or characters. The remake "Battlestar Galactica" series brought back the original Apollo, Richard Hatch, but here he's playing a different character. And he's a recurring chacter, not just a one-time guest spot. That's pretty cool. :)The naked guy from Survivor is on BG??? I thought he was in jail!!!
Calypso.
John Gabriel recorded for MR BK? Which CD? I am behind the times, as usual.
Good morning, all!
edi, E&T is an abbreviation for "Errant and Truant."
I have to run to Toyland for a bit to use the fax, then stop at the NYPL Theatre collection. After that, more brain surgery.
TOD:
CD: Guy Haines, The Brain from Planet X, Susan Egan's Holiday album
DVD: Three Netflix items on hold for the Brain
VCR: Nothin' stops me there!
By the by, having Elisabeth Slaydon return to play Sarah Jane Smith was an excellent choice, since she and Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) have much in common. Not only have they both faced a number of varied enemies with the Doctor, they also have witnessed the Doctor regenerating, an unnerving experience for the few who have done so.
Sarah Jane was with the Doctor for three and a half seasons, beginning with the serial "The Time Warrior" in season eleven, and ending with "The Hand of Fear" in season fourteen. At the end of that story, she was indeed unceremoniously dumped back on Earth by the Doctor, who indeed did not come back to get her after his trip back home. No wonder she was so hurt in "School Reunion," with no explanations, no goodbyes. How, exactly, she came in posession of K-9 has always bewildered me, since K-9 didn't become part of the show until season fifteen. All the same, a spin-off series, K-9 and Company, joining Sarah Jane with the robotic doggie, was attempted but only lasted for one story.
If anyone is interested in watching the Doctor and Sarah Jane together on DVD, I suggest trying Pyramids of Mars (http://digitaleyes.resultspage.com/search?p=Q&ts=custom&w=Pyramids+of+Mars). Good story, and her interplay with the Doctor is also at it's best here.
The episode where the Doctor reconnects with Sarah Jane was two weeks ago. Last week, he encountered Madame Pompadore. This week is the start of a two-parter, which should be mucho nifty.
DR George: Christopher Gorham was also a key character on the very wonderful, satirical TV series "Popular".
I never watched that show. I don't even remember being aware of it. ::)
Well...it's time for work, then to Ikea!
It debuted on the WB in 1999. Its creator/director is an openly gay man who wanted to portray all that he found good and bad about high school. So...he created the most outrageous characters, all based on stereotype, and invested them with pure evil, wit and major abilities to exact revenge on one another.
You'd have loved it!
BK -Richard Rodney Bennett was the composer. Among his most wonderful scores, in addition to "....Orient Express." were "Far From the Madding Crowd", "Nicholas and Alexandra" and "Enchanted April."
I L-O-O-O-VE the score to Murder on the Orient Express! That is, the film version with Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, and a host of others. What a story!
Michael Shayne: Somewhere in the windmills of my mind (and perhaps even on a cassette) there is music for the Opening Out Of Town songs. That's the only story in the book that started life in another form - as a spec script for Amazing Stories - the amazing part being we couldn't even get it read (and boy could that series have used a good script). I remember two of the tunes pretty okay, but I didn't want to record them without referencing what I originally wrote.
My favorite Richard Rodney Bennett score (and one I'm completely addicted to) is Yanks. I worked with Sir Richard on a Mary Cleere Haran CD.
Can't find a still of Gabriel from THE HUNTERS, but just imagine him 30 years younger in a flight suit.
Did you do any work on Susan Egan's Holliday album?
And yet....didn't they do a rather smarmy episode about a guy who finds original music in the piano stool of a dead Broadway composer's estate...or in some way "channels" a dead Broadway composer through some old belonging....and then has success/failure as a result? It had potential...but went way south of exploring said potential.
Or....maybe that was something else entirely???
Plot Summary for
"Amazing Stories"
Frantic to deliver a hit musical, conniving Broadway composer Jo-Jo Gillespie contacts the spirit of George Gershwin through psychic Sister Teresa, and makes marvelous music from beyond the grave.
Cowboy Troy - but he will not be in there much longer. Whew! Worth almost the 99 cents I paid for it.
After that is "Friday Night is Music Night". Francois and I are big fans of this eclectic and very enjoyable show.
Francois and I are big fans of this eclectic and very enjoyable show.
TOD
No movies or TV watching this weekend as I will be out of town in Orlando, but I will have music for the drive up there. So I will be choosing 6 cds, probably instrumentals. A combo of Terry Trotter, Grant Geisman and other cds that BK produced.
"Ugly Betty" was just plain FUN last night.
And her nephew may have said he was Gene Kelly, but he definitely came off more like Bobby (from Bobby and Cissy on "The Lawrence Welk Show").
My favorite Richard Rodney Bennett score (and one I'm completely addicted to) is Yanks. I worked with Sir Richard on a Mary Cleere Haran CD.
Ancient Roman Brothel Reopens in Pompeii
Friday , October 27, 2006
POMPEII, Italy — It was the jewel of Pompeii's libertines: a brothel decorated with frescoes of erotic figures believed to be the most popular in the ancient Roman city.
The Lupanare — which derives its name from the Latin word "lupa," or "prostitute" — was presented to the public again Thursday following a yearlong, $253,000 restoration to clean up its frescoes and fix the structure.
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Next I put in GYPSY (the Rosalind Russell version). Due to several phone calls and other interruptions, I only got to the end of "Everything's Coming Up Roses." I'll finish it when I go back down.
Is this it?
Gershwin's Trunk (1987) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511095/)der Brucer
Or Bobby from the MM Club!
A HOME AWAY FROM HOMEAssociated Press (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,225884,00.html)der Brucer
(http://www.foxnews.com/images/235613/1_61_pompeii_brothel_1.jpg)
François,
Hooray for you, you French radical. Downloading software. I'm proud of you ;)
Do you listen to anything besides Friday Night is Music Night? I listened to Beverley last week also.
Her show on Radio Wales has moved to Saturday night (Welsh time). It's now on at 10pm (5pm New York time). It's harder to listen live but I've been able to do it so far. It used to be on at 2pm Wednesday afternoon (NY time) so I could listen at work. I haven't been on with a review since August 10th. Oh, well. It gives me time to get some new reviews over the pond, although she still has a few unaired reviews that could be played like Jersey Boys and The Color Purple and Tarzan. They won't play Sweeney or Threepenny or Light in the Piazza since those shows have closed. I'll be sending reviews of The Fantasticks, Mary Poppins and Grey Gardens soon so she'll have a batch to choose from.
If anyone goes to Pompeii, take the opportunity to use a certified guide.
The guides have keys to secret rooms where statuary and other paintings not generally meant for public exhibition are kept.
It's eye-opening, mind-boggling and obscene as all get-out.
Guess I'll get started on mopping the kitchen floor. I dread it. Then back to GYPSY and perhaps some network TV (e.g. VANISHED and/or 1 VS. 100).
WBBL.
Off to Ikea!
Until later! :)
And when I visited, they had a "trinket" store where you could buy roach clips shapped like the giant phallus statue!
der Brucer
Ah, Orlando! I've spent 6 years of my life there! (Kissimmee, precisely!) Those were the days!
When I stop of at the French pavillion I will give them a big BONJOUR from you.
And now, blimey, a word about Bert!
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=539388
When BBC Radio 3 broadcast my restoration of JUBILEE in Dec. 1999, Gavin played the Prince. I found him, unlike most of the cast, not particularly friendly. When JUBILEE was premiered 20 years ago at Town Hall, Rebecca Luker played the Princess.
Some of you might enjoy reading this!
"Sister Act" musical signals the start of a major Menken resurgence
http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2006/10/24/6405.aspx
Small world, isn't it?!No, MouseGuy, It's a Small World, After All!
No, MouseGuy, It's a Small World, After All!
der Brucer
Daylight savings starts here tonight. Another adjustment to time zones!
I forgot to mention that one of the child stars in ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU with Kathryn Beaumont who later went on to voice Alice in ALICE IN WONDERLAND and Wendy in PETER PAN. When she appeared on the Disney TV show to publicize these features, I always thought she was a little plain (lovely voice), but in this MGM feature, she's very sweet and pert. I wonder if she had a lengthy career as a child star in England or is better known over there for things other than her two Disney features.
Hummm.... I posted quite a few links about articles and pics of Kathryn Beaumont and Bobby Driscoll last week, I recall!
She also appeared in One Hour In Wonderland, the first TV show (Christmas one) Walt Disney ever did!
I assume it's on the special edition DVD set (though I've only watched the movie from that set and none of the other content).
Yes, true, but I was more in a Merman mood than in a Mermaid one!
What is involved in becoming Elvira?
That is the part of being Elvira that I don't enjoy because it's a lot of makeup and an incredibly uncomfortable outfit. A lot of hair and hair spray issues because trying to get that hair up there is not easiest thing in the world. It's high and it needs a lot of hair spray and that takes a lot of work to get that going. That part of it is really the most difficult part. If I would have started out wearing a muumuu and flip-flops, I would be so much happier today.
Elvira Interview (http://television.aol.com/tv-celebrity-interviews/elvira)der Brucer
(http://cdn.digitalcity.com/ch_tv/elvira-180b101106)
I just got back from spending an evening with my little French boy and an old cellist friend I ran into last week at the symphony concert with Randy Newman. He hadn't seen the little French boy in about 20 years so we had a lot of catching up to do! Boy, I'm tired!
Of course, no telling what the waiter might have dipped your beef dip sandwich in to get back at you!