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Well, you've read the notes, you know all about the metaphysical things I spoke of, and you are therefore ready to post metaphysically and also re our topic o' the day. To it, I say.
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Ever since BK first mentioned his impression of it, I've been thoroughly intrigued by the concept of Don Knotts as Tevye. :D
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Oh no. :( Not Fiddler. I was scarred for life, I tell you, scarred when I saw a production of it a few years ago in Philly at a high school. Hodel was in her 40s. She and Tevye could have been lovers. That is probably the most horrific you can get.
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I always thought Hodel should have been named Hotel. After all, you've got Motel, you should have Hotel.
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All right, everyone, I must retire to dreamland. I'm going to bed while the sweet strains of Billy Joel's "Lullabye" run through my head. Goodnight!
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Hehehe...I remember when Jed understudied Tevye for a summer prodution. Apparently his understudy cast of daughters was causing some rather incestuous thoughts for Tevye :)
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Hehehe...I remember when Jed understudied Tevye for a summer prodution. Apparently his understudy cast of daughters was causing some rather incestuous thoughts for Tevye :)
My 3 daughters were hot! And, funnily, two of them were older than me! :D
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Okay, let's have Don Knotts as Tevye, Mary Tyler Moore as Golde, Ruta Lee as Hodel, Brent Barrett as the Rabbi, Ann Reinking as Fruma Sara, and Cady Huffman as Yenta.
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For Tevye and Golde, I suggest Harvey Fierstein and Rosie O'Donnel. When they get bored, they can trade roles.
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Rabbi: Pope John Paul II
Golde: Michael Jackson (His voice is high enough and he already has the makeup)
Tevye: Brenda Vaccaroo (Her voice is deep enough)
Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Chritine Agulara and the Olsen Twins as Tevye's Daughters
Michael Musto as Yenta
Fruma Sara: Joan Crawford with her voice dubbed by Carol Richards (Fruma Sara is dead and so is Joan. So why not?)
Motel: Tom Bodett (Karma point to the fist person who knows why)
Perchick: Jeff Stryker (If anyone heard him sing country & Western knows why)
Fydeka: Ashton Kutcher (Or he can have an affair with Golde)
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No more Karma. :'( Oh well....
Thursday....Fiddler on the Roof...I was wearing my Fiddler on the Roof T-shirt yesterday! That is ...like... Karma!
Okay. I like the ideas we have so far...but I guess this is the Dinner Theater production cast:
Tevye - Gavin MacCleod
Golde - Gale Storm
Yente - Shirley Boone
Tzeitel - Maureen McCormick
Hodel - Eve Plumb
Chava - Susan Olsen
Motel - Barry Williams
Perchik - Christopher Knight
Fyedka - Mike Lookinland
Lazar Wolf - Ed Asner
Fruma Sarah - Betty White
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Tevye:
Jackie Mason
Golde:
Elaine Stritch, Reba McEntire, or Cathy Rigby
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I liked Cathy Rigby as Peter Pan - but when she talked she sounded just like Tracy Ullman's character "Kay."
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Time for your early morning picture of Ben and Anthony's travels to London.
This morning I will show you the hand prints at Leicester Square. They run the gamut from Dame Judi Dench to Arnold Schwarzenegger (sp?).
Here are just a few
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The picture looks OK from my computer. If it's too big, let me know and I'll take it off or re-size it.
Back later with casting tips.
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Motel: Tom Bodett (Karma point to the fist person who knows why)
Because he shills for a motel chain, I think Motel 6.
So, how do I receive this "karma"?
Actually, I'm glad it's gone. The fewer things we have to measure, the better. I'm for banning SUVs.
BK wrote, yesterday:
can you also spread tide and surf?
I thought that's what surfing is... spreading the tide.
I attended the free concert in Central Park with Bell and Chenoweth. I remember being disappointed that her Glitter and Be Gay wasn't funnier. As if she was well known for comedy and wanted to show off her soprano. Couldn't have picked a more wrong song for keeping her humor under wraps, though.
DW Joy is off at an audition. I hope the snow will deter some of the bridge and tunnel crowd today, but she doesn't believe it will.
As Sammy Davis Jr. was Jewish, I think he'd have made a fine Tevye. Alannis Morisette for Golde. Julia Stiles as Yente. The daughters: the Surpremes. Their suitors: The Pips. Lazar Wolf: Wolfgang Puck. And, as the rabbi, Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello)
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Great picture Ben! And look! John Wayne's block is loose!
Tom Bodett DRMichael Shayne.....LOL...Motel 6!
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Ben,
I look forward to each day's pictures. Thanks.
For some reason, today's (with just the necessary labels) made me think about a photo that my friend Patty's aunt displayed prominently atop her TV set. The aunt had taken a vacation to the Catskills when Marjorie Morningstar was being filmed there. The framed photo was of three people, each one captioned for the benefit of those having trouble identifying the subjects:
"Natalie Wood" "Gene Kelly" "Helen"
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DR Swishy wrote last night re: the Bachelorette:
And Jennifer, you DO know that throughout the entire show, the place the men come from is showed along with their name? So unless there's more than one man from Montreal, it's kind of obvious who you're talking about...
Well I doubt anyone on here would care that much to look. I just didn't want to spoil the show by giving his name. Although I actually don't think they put where he was from. It just said Harold Hersh, pro hockey player Illinois (which is where he plays).
He was the first guy Meredith chose to be the final 15.
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DR Jason, didn't Joshua Bell and Kristin Chenoweth break up a long time ago?
Oh and I almost started to cry when some DRs were mentioning Jewish terms of endearment like "shaineh". My grandmother, who I miss very much used to call me "shaineh madoleh" all the time.
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DR Laura II, last night's episode of The Appretice was a repeat of last week. Tonight (thurs) is the new episode from 8:32pm to 9:32pm right after Friends.
Oh, I love Sam.I thought his idea to get one donor to give a lot of money (it was men vs women at a lemonade stand) was brilliant. He was the only one who realized what needed to be done.
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Tevye - Alfred Molina
Golde - Randy Graff
Yenta - Barbara Barrie
What? Oh, never mind.
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DRNOEL - I think DRJOY is correct....neither rain nor sleet nor snow nor gloom of night will keep someone who is basically wrong for the part from traveling miles and miles to waste everyone's time auditioning.
AND I SHOULD KNOW!!!
Hey! DR Robin_Anderson nice pic yesterday!
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Here are my casting choices:
Tevye - Matthew Broderick
Golde - Kristin Chenoweth
Yente - Jim Nabors
Tzeitel - Bea Arthur
Hodel - Betty White
Chava - Rue McClanaghan
Motel - Heath Ledger
Perchik - Patrick Wilson
Fyedka - Mickey Rooney
Lazar Wolf - Tom Cruise
Fruma Sarah - Nicole Kidman
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Archie update. I just heard from the vet. Archie is stable and showing smalls signs of improvement. The vet suspects an infection. I mentioned that we had recently switched kibble brands. That's not likely the cause of the problem, but I was cautioned to make any future transitions in an extremely gradual manner.
Thanks all for the good wishes and good vibes.
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Love the Fiddler choices.
How about Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller in the leads? (Thanks for the inspiration, DRMattH). The show may have to be retitled, Sugar Bubbies.
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Well, it took about 2 minutes to answer my question about the Roger Rees NICKLEBY production. The 8 hour show is available on VHS and DVD, but the DVD reviews at Amazon all trash the transfer as being grainy, washed out ports from the VHS masters.
Does anyone actually have this set on DVD and can corroborate that the transfer is so bad you wouldn't want to get it? I don't see A&E spending any money to revisit this set and make it better, do you?
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I have never seen FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, so I don't know the characters well enough to cast anyone :-\
JRand53, watch for the mail tomorrow...Ed Kookie Byrnes is about to lend you his comb! LOL!
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I you know how much good that will do ME!
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I just read that acclaimed stage actress Uta Hagen has died. I never got to see her on stage, but everything I've ever read about her makes her sound riveting.
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Watched FINDING NEMO last night for the first time. After hearing everyone here rave about it I felt I was missing something! Very cute movie. Ellen DeGeneres was absolutely fantastic! She was constantly cracking me up! And the animation and color were so lovely to look at...I wish that I had seen the film on the big screen!
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I you know how much good that will do ME!
Well God Mike is here to help you, my friend!
There are also a few surprises in the package...hints: Diana Darrin, The Twist, Helen...that is all I can say.
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Wasn't she the original Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"?
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With FINDING NEMO, I had heard such raves about it that I sort of "dared" it to entertain me once I finally got it on DVD. I have to say it worked its spell on me and by the halfway point, I was laughing and just in awe over the brilliant color and sound. It certainly is a reference quality disc if someone wanted to show off a home theater.
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Yes, DR JRand, Uta Hagen won one of her two Tony Awards as Martha in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF.
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Oh my DRMBARNUM now I am even more excited.....clues clues clues...hmmmmmmmm :P
FINDING NEMO was so funny - and so well done - and the voices so well matched and directed. :D
Every movie should entertain us as much.
I thought so DRMATTH. My friend Marika studied with her for awhile in NYC and loved her acting technique AND her teaching technique! I think I saw her once on "The Dick Cavett Show".....gosh....I just remembered didn't she also play Georgie in "The Country Girl"?
"There's nothing quite so mysterious as an empty theatre....like a night without a star...." :'(
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Jennifer: I don't think they broke up...she still thanks him in her bio. Maybe they did...I'm not sure.
Re. karma: For the record, I don't think I ever knowingly 'booed' anyone, and if I did, it was by mistake. But honestly, the option was there, and everyone understood from the beginning that there was the chance that one might be booed, and since it really didn't amount to a hill of beans in the long run, I personally don't see what the big deal was--and this is coming from a person who is notorious for being "sensitive." Anyway, my opinion doesn't really matter in the long run and the Karma function is now defunct, so now I suppose all is right with the world and we can go on with our daily lives without fear or frustration over being booed. Thank you, Mark, for getting rid of it.
Jose: You had the sirloin! You hateful, hateful thing! You know how I love that steak! I'm glad you guys are having fun in the snowy city...and I'm especially glad to hear you enjoyed URINETOWN. How was Carolee Carmello? I love her work so much. Too bad I can't catch her in this show before it closes. :\ What show are you seeing tonight?
Tonight I'll be at the Met...WERTHER. Bleh! We should be busy, though, what with the snow and all. It's awfully slow-going trying to walk the streets and sidewalks, seeing how many of them haven't been cleared yet and the snow is really, really slushy. I'm sure we'll be checking lots of galoshes and boots tonight. Rapture.
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Gord says that Uta Hagen will be immortalized through her contribution not just to the theatre, but to the crossword.
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Yes, DR JRand, THE COUNTRY GIRL is what she won her first Tony for!
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I have never seen FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, so I don't know the characters well enough to cast anyone :-\
Oh, that's it, make Uncle Woody come up with reasons for you to watch Fiddler.
I got to watch the taping of a Carol Burnett special, where her two guests were Lucille Ball and Zero Mostel. It must have been shortly after his run as Tevye. The specialty number he performed was "If I Were a Rich Man." Sadly, I was too young at the time to catch the irony of his singing the song while wearing a tux.
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True DinTO - Tv Guide, newspaper, and magazine have all used "actress Hagen."
Thanks MATTH - I like the movie and I really LOVE the play. Odets.... "Opening night....the director is the world's most useless man."
SWW how was Lucy on the special? Was she bossy between the takes? LOL....
Jason have fun checking tonight - I hope everyone has idiot mittens! It will be much easier for you!
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Idiot mittens? What in the world are those?
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Jason, how is the mail stealing investigation going? Have any packages been recovered yet?
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MBarnum: Nothing has been recovered yet, and I haven't heard anything from the Postal Inspector since she called me before New Year's. I highly doubt they'll recover anything, but hopefully they'll catch a break and find the thief. I will say, however, that I have received all my NetFlix movies since I started having them sent to the office....
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My mother has a box of Playbills from plays and shows she saw on Broadway in her younger days. One of them is for Shakespeare's Othello, starring Paul Robeson, Jose Ferrer and Uta Hagen. What a magnificent performance that must have been!
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SWW how was Lucy on the special? Was she bossy between the takes? LOL....
During the taping, there was little chance for the studio audience to see what was happening backstage. If there were any problems, they were kept out of earshot.
Instead, we were treated to some audio clips that Carol had recorded with Julie Andrews during their Carnegie Hall taping. I don't remember most of those, but for some reason the one that has stuck was a discussion about how Carol had just bought a "living bra," and was going on and on about how she loved her "living bra" and what her "living bra" did for her figure. "There's just one problem," Carol finally admitted. "What's that?" asked Julie. "What am I supposed to feed it?"
Also, the show was taped twice, both times with a live audience. The final product was an intercut between the two, with little stopping unless something went seriously wrong. (This, of course, had the advantage of keeping the material fresh for the audience. The one scene that went wrong was a sketch between Carol and Zero, and the response at the end wasn't nearly as strong as it had been during the first take.)
Lucy? I really don't remember all that much of her performance, other than her duing a "Charwoman" duet with Carol.
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DRJASON - Idiot mitten are tied together with a string that goes up through your coat sleeves so they are always attached and you can't lose them! :P
OMG - I just checked out the guest list for the Courts show that MR BK and DRCHARLESPOGUE will be attending this weekend! They are as famous as many of the guests however - there are highlights!
Kathleen Hughes - the pretty blonde from IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE...hubba hubba!
Tommy Bond - Butch from the Little Rascals!
Luciana Paluzzi - I posted her pic with Mary Astor last week from RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE!
Jan Sterling (Sunday only!) - HIGH AND THE MIGHTY and FEMALE ON THE BEACH!
Julie Adams - CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and FRANCIS JOINS THE WACS with Allison! ;D
Kim Darby - TRUE GRIT and THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT! :D
Charlotte Rae - Broadway's Mammy Yokum! 8)
And a Saturday Q/A with people from television's THE FUGITIVE including director Walter Graumann who did a lot of "Peyton Place" television episodes AND a "77 Sunset Strip" with Allison...and THE DISEMBODIED starring Allison!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Hi, Gang.
Well, the arbitration went well yesterday. I was loveable and articulate, and the goons were loutish, brutish, and said stuff like, "She don't git it." an' stuff like that, and stuff. And the arbitrator was named Feld - which made me feel very A-list in the room. I think I'll prevail. But, I accept my Fate! whatever...
Hey, Jed - Jane told me you asked where on Hwy 2 I liv up here: Mt. Index Riversites, 4 miles o' bad road offa Hwy 2, just West of Index. A cabin on a stream in a lovely forest. But sometimes I am without water (bummer) for long periods of time, after a storm knocks my pump out. I learn to love the part of civilization where you turn the tap, and water just spills into a sink, and you can fiddle with a handle, and make it come out hot. That just knocks me out!!
As it is, I've been melting snow in 5 gallon buckets, and heating it up in a 2 gallon soup pot on the woodstove, to wash in. Oh, ain't she jes' the cutest little thang. Chop wood, carry water. As long as there's internet and TV, what care I?? Oh, happy day!. bye, p
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Hollywood's attempts to deglamorize stars like Olivia DeHavilland (THE HEIRESS) and Grace Kelly (THE COUNTRY GIRL) usually just doesn't work (unless they put them in Halloween makeup like Elizabeth Taylor in THE BLUE BIRD) because their beauty just comes through. Grace was fine in THE COUNTRY GIRL, but I didn't think her work was powerful enough for the piece. I suspect she won that Oscar due to the fact that she had three hit films that year - REAR WINDOW and DIAL 'M' FOR MURDER being the others - and three studios rooting (and voting) for her: Paramount, Warners, and her home lot MGM.
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...and little Kim Richards from Nanny and the Professor! This is a very good line-up! Was Brett Halsey on that list? I can't recall!
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Thanks DRSWW - I remember watching that "special"! And isn't it ironic that what they used to call "Special" on television, really lived up to the name?
Must see TV? Nope. Two hours of a 'Friends' finale? Sorry. Debra Messing is the NEW Lucille Ball...I don't think so!
But then I am pretentious and boring and Karmaless, so what do I know? Where are my mittens?
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The Los Angeles Opera has announced its 2004-2005 season, and Sondheim fans will be most interested. As part of its regular repertory subscription season, they will be doing Sweeney Todd, with Bryn Terfel in the title role. During July of 2004, they will mount A Little Night Music, starring Jeremy Irons and Juliet Stevenson, who starred together in the work in a run at the New York City Opera last year.
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NO Brett that I saw DRMBARNUM.
DR MATTH I think you may be right about Grace's win, although I like her in the movie THE COUNTRY GIRL. I don't like what they did to the script...but that's another story. And I have always wondered if there is much of Frances Farmer in Georgie Elgin.....Odets didn't know many other "country girls".....
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Sad about Uta Hagen. I saw her in a "reading" of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINAI WOOLF" a few years ago in LA. It was absolutely phenomenal. I've seen the play many times in full production and this so called reading blew them all away. I was about to consult my old playbills to see who else was in the cast - because I remember it was a great cast, but can't recall - and I realize I've - sigh - thrown away all my thousands of programs. I'm sure one of the DR's will know. The reading was also held in NY. (Just remembered - Roger Rees was George.)
I'm going to San Francisco for the night on Saturday and my wonderful landlord and landlady are going to Abiesit my dog (Abie). So my landlord came with me this morning on Abie's walk so I could show him where I take him. He gave me a little tour of the neighborhood as we walked. On the corner of my street is the Gidget house from the TV series. The same house was the home of Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio when they married. Two houses from us is Smiley Burnett's old home - now rebuilt. A bit of Hollywood history.
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Karma! Gone, but undoubtedly not forgotten. I can’t say that I followed the whole karma thing very closely. For instance, I haven’t the slightest idea how much karma I had at the point it was removed, nor could I tell you if my total had gone up or down within the last few days. I did enjoy, from time to time, awarding someone karma, just because of the joy that they seemed to receive from getting it. I never knowingly took karma away from anyone, because to me it always seemed to say more about the person removing it, than it did about the person that had it taken away. Finally, even without having a clue who the two culprits might be, I am still shocked by it. Why would anyone go to a party and then slam the host behind his back? Everyone who has ever been to a show business party, or even dreamed of attending one, knows that you never slam your host – until the next day.
But seriously, and what could be more serious than one of our crazy castings games?
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF – THE ROCK OPERA
Tveye: Bob Dylan
Golde: Bette Midler
Yenta: Elton John
Tzeitel: Bonnie Raitt
Hodel: Olivia Newton-John
Chava: Brandy (ok, adopted)
Motel: Eric Clapton
Perchik: Bruce Springsteen
Fyedka: Paul McCartney
Fruma Sarah: Little Ritchard
Lazar Wolf: Kris Kristopherson
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But then I am pretentious and boring and Karmaless, so what do I know? Where are my mittens?
You are anything but boring DR JRand53!! And I can always give you virtual karma! LOL!
Hey, Annette Funicello is singing Monkey's Uncle on internet radio station Luxuriamusic.com! She loves the monkey's uncle..ya, ya!
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While I never saw Miss Hagen as Martha, I did have the wonderful and magnificent Columbia LP of the complete play, and I'm here to tell you that even aurally she was wonderful and magnificent, as was Mr. Arthur Hill, Miss Melinda Dillon and Mr. George Grizzard. I labored mightily to put it out on CD but alas the royalties were so huge that there was no way possible to do it.
Excellent casts for Fiddler - I would pay to see any of them more than the current revival - especially The Supremes as Tevye's daughters.
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Dan-in-To - Good news about Archie, Hope he's home soon.
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And since I can't add anything to today's topic due to lack of knowledge, how about this for a topic...what Disney movie do you wish would come out on DVD...I vote for BAMBI and THE UGLY DACHSHUND, two of my favorites....which reminds me that I really need to open and watch my DVD of THE PARENT TRAP one of these days!
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What TCB said.
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She wishes she were the monkey's aunt!!!! LOL....the only artist to share a singing label credit with The Beach Boys!
Hey TCB - you are now on NBC in living color! Just like the Cartwright boys!
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I agree about the FIDDLER revival. I can't think of a show that cries out less for a revival right now than FIDDLER. I do not think it will have a successful run.
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MattH...Don't have the Nickolas Nickleby on DVD, but on video and it looks just fine to me. But then I'm a guy who grew up watching movies on TV sometimes with so much static and snow on the screen, it was like watching it through a blizzard.
I've just never been one of these techno junkies that can detect subtleties. It has to be really crappy before I notice. When the guy with thousands of dollars worth of stereo equipment would crank it up and ask me to hear the difference between it and my little stereo with its two small speakers, all I could hear was that it was louder.
I buy stuff for the content. These gradations in transfers and colour and sound I can rarely detect. As long as the story's good and the acting great and the picture is visible, what do I care...
Can't remember who mentioned Alfred Molina as Tevye, but he might surprise you. He has considerably range. I first encountered Molina in '82 when he came into audition for the small role of a cabbie in my film of HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. A role he did not get, by the way. But what I found amazing, however, was that at the time he was starring in the musical DESTRY in the West End. I couldn't see why a West End star would come in for such a tiny part? Unfortunately, I was unfamiliar with Destry, both as a musical and a film. I knew of the film, just had never seen it...one of my failings and gaps in my movie education. So I didn't go to see the musical. Having now become familiar with both film and musical and Mr. Molina's work...and loving them all...I now wish I had. It probably would have been better than Windy City, which was the only musical I saw on that sojourn to London.
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Oh that is so sad about Uta Hagen. I saw her in Montreal a few years ago. I am drawing a blank on the name of the show. It's a play where Uta played an older teacher. And there is a younger woman, her student.
Btw, DR Jason: I dunno, I could have sworn they had broken up. And have you lost any more mail since making the complaint? (of have you been shipping your mail to other places?)
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Unfortunately, I was unfamiliar with Destry, both as a musical and a film. I knew of the film, just had never seen it...one of my failings and gaps in my movie education. So I didn't go to see the musical. Having now become familiar with both film and musical and Mr. Molina's work...and loving them all...I now wish I had. It probably would have been better than Windy City, which was the only musical I saw on that sojourn to London.
DR Charles,
I, on the other hand, regret having seen Destry Rides Again. On a Saturday matinee outing way back, my dad gave us a choice between Destry (Andy Griffith) and Gypsy (Ethel Merman). Guess which one I lobbied for?
And, as I type, someone else is probably telling you that Alfred Molina will, indeed, be playing Tevye at the Minskoff Theatre.
DRMattH, I don't know why the time isn't right for a revival. Fiddler is timeless.
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Oh that is so sad about Uta Hagen. I saw her in Montreal a few years ago. I am drawing a blank on the name of the show. It's a play where Uta played an older teacher. And there is a younger woman, her student.
Master Class?
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MattH - you must never take these transfer complaints seriously, because the people making the complaints have no point of reference - they have no idea what these shows looked like originally. They think it should look like it was shot today. If you like the show get the DVD, I'm sure you'll be pleased.
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF - THE HUNGARIAN CAST
Tevye - TONY CURTIS
Golde - ZSAZSA GABOR
Tzeitel/Hodel/Chava - My daughter, Rachel (she can be any of the daughters)
Yente - MITZI GAYNOR (Why not?)
The Fiddler - EUGENE FODOR
Lazar Woolf - PETER LOREE
Motel - BELA LUGOSI (but we only see his back)
MORE LATER, MAYBE...
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And, as I type, someone else is probably telling you that Alfred Molina will, indeed, be playing Tevye at the Minskoff Theatre.
DRMattH, I don't know why the time isn't right for a revival. Fiddler is timeless.
Fiddler was kind of like the male Hello, Dolly! Just about every Jewish actor worth his salt (and a few who weren't) took over that role. There were also a whole stack of Fiddler cast albums that came out in addition to the OBC (I think we had every one of them at the radio station where I used to work).
Maybe Ben Stiller can take over for Mollina when he leaves the show.
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Can't remember who mentioned Alfred Molina as Tevye, but he might surprise you. He has considerably range.
I agree. I saw him on Braodway in ART and he was astonishing. He had a monologue which was one of those rare theatrical moments when, as you're watching, you forget to breathe.
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Given the history of the Minskoff, FIDDLER will most likely be a short run. Probably not as short as VAMPIRES, of course, or it's predicessor, THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, but I'm thinking it might run one season...perhaps two. The Minskoff is such a huge space that unless it's a terribly good production, I don't know how they'd expect to fill it every night. There again, WICKED is managing it at the Gershwin, which is equally as large...
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Isn't it funny that we now consider a full season, or even a two-year run, to be a short one?? Just to clarify, I wish this production of FIDDLER all the luck in the world...I know the guy who's playing Fyedko or whatever his name is... But the Minskoff is known to be cursed....
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The Curse of Minskoff - wasn't that a Hammer film?
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As I was reading the paper this morning I said out loud "Oh - Uta Hagen died". My three co-workers, almost in unison, said "who's she?". All three have lived in NYC all their lives.
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Wagers? Even with the Minskoff liability, I'm putting my moola on Fiddler.
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Hey, Annette Funicello is singing Monkey's Uncle on internet radio station Luxuriamusic.com! She loves the monkey's uncle..ya, ya!
I remember that film. "And I'm gonna be the Monkey's Aunt!"
Yipes, did I really need that memory brought back? :-\
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I attended the free concert in Central Park with Bell and Chenoweth. I remember being disappointed that her Glitter and Be Gay wasn't funnier. As if she was well known for comedy and wanted to show off her soprano. Couldn't have picked a more wrong song for keeping her humor under wraps, though.
I have several different recordings of Candide, and over the last couple of weeks have listened to most of them. What I noticed is that the newer the recording, the more "serious" the show became. The original Barbara Cook recording and the 1974 Broadway cast seemed to have the most humor and really played it up. The opera house version and the "final revised" version conducted by Lenny himself, seemed to have no humor in them whatsoever. They were very good, but the performers seemed to be more interested in their "pretty voices" and not actually acting the humor of the piece (of which there is much). I haven't listened to the new Broadway cast in quite a while and I don't remember how that was.
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BK -- I also used to love the Uta Hagen / Arthur Hill recording of Virginia Woolf. I can still remember sitting in an office in the Drama Department at Central Washington State University (just down the hall from Jed's grandfather's office) and listening to the entire recording. When it was finished, I just sat there stunned. I walked out of the building that day knowing, without a doubt, all of the reasons I wanted to be an actor. I, also, made a promise to myself that someday I would play the role of George. It still hasn't happened, yet, but I have faith that it will. The show is just not done that often around here. So, BK, if you ever decide to do a new recording of the show for a CD hint, hint, I hope you will, at least, let me read for the role of George for you.
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TCB: That recording and my reaction to it is a major section in Kritzer Time - I think you'll get a real kick out of it.
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I can't wait to read it.
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But the Minskoff is known to be cursed....
Imagine the odds if Irra Petina were in something at the Minskoff.
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But Irrina is easily Ass - imilated, right?
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Panni, I also saw Molina do ART...out here at the Dolittle/Huntington Hartford that Bruce and I were lamenting...it may have been one of the last legitimate shows done there (Alan Alda was also in it, I believe, and I can't remember the third actor and I'm too lazy to dig the programme out) and, yes, that speech he has was a tour de force. Of course, Molina's range has been astonishing in film for years. I remember him in PRICK UP YOUR EARS as Joe Orton's lover (the wonderful and weird Gary Oldman played Orton).
Of course, that speech in ART is almost a can't miss for any actor of substance. Mark Williams (known to most as the stuttering actor in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE and Ron Wheezley's father in Harry Potter) also killed doing it when I first saw the show in London.
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Does nobody want any as yet un-released Disney movies on DVD? ??? I can't believe it! And yet I must because it seems to be true (oh, a sort of BK reference!)
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Has anyone at HHW read Peter Biskind's book about Redford, Sundance, and Miramax?
Anyone...anyone....Buehler? ;D
Include me in as a fan of the "Virginia Woolf" recording with Hagen. The emotion was palpable on an LP and I cannot imagine it in a theatre. :-\
And I think it was in Mercedes McCambridge's autobiography that she wrote that when she was playing Martha, she had to wear an "adult diaper" because the force of the lines and effort to do the part played havoc with her bladder.....no drinks before the show for her!! :P
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For DR MBARNUM: "The Monkey's Uncle", "The Shaggy Dog", and "Bon Voyage."
DRSWW - just click your heels together three times and say "Tommy Kirk is Merlin Jones...."
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Quote from: Jennifer on Today at 09:39:48am
Oh that is so sad about Uta Hagen. I saw her in Montreal a few years ago. I am drawing a blank on the name of the show. It's a play where Uta played an older teacher. And there is a younger woman, her student.
Master Class?
Actually I thought about it, and I'm pretty sure it was Collected Stories. She was totally brilliant and I'm so glad I got to see her live.
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I have several different recordings of Candide,
I saw a wonderful production of CANDIDE two seasons ago at the Central City Opera, a beautifully restored Victorian theater in a mining town in the hills west of Denver. Here are a couple of stories about that opera house you might enjoy, DRs.
WALTER HUSTON
In 1934, Robert Edmund Jones – the first director of the Central City Festival and a very important personage on Broadway – proposed to invite his brother-in-law Walter Huston and Huston’s wife, Nan Sunderland to perform Shakespeare’s OTHELLO in Central City that summer. At the time, Huston and Sunderland were grossing $30,000 a week on Broadway. Jones sent a telegram to Huston: "Dear Walter," it said, "I would like to invite you and Nan to come out to Central City, a little mining town in the mountains west of Denver, to do a production of Shakespeare’s OTHELLO for several weeks. I can offer you $1,000 for the season."
Walter Huston’s reply was, "Dear Bobby, your terms are entirely unsatisfactory. I accept."
MAE WEST
For the 1949 play season, the Central City Opera House Association had chosen DIAMOND LIL starring Mae West. Miss West was an aging sex goddess whose charm and hourglass figure belonged more to the Gay Nineties that the mid-twentieth century. Nevertheless, she still exuded the magnetism that had attracted men . . .
During her stay in Central City, Miss West boasted to the press, "I brought sex out of the back room. I gave it a shove with personality. I can order a cup of coffee on the stage, and the censors will be on my neck!"
Miss West made sure her arrival in Central City was noticed. She demanded that two white Cadillac limousines be placed at her disposal courtesy of the Association. She gave a birthday party for herself and invited only men, including Colorado’s governor. (He attended.) [Reportedly,] Mae put mirrors on the ceiling of Penrose #3 where she was staying during the festival.
from "Opera in the Rockies: A History of the Central City Opera House Association" by Charles A. Johnson
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MBarnum---
If you are refering to movies that Walt actually had something to do with I'd say release them all. However if you are referring to movies made after Walt passed away that capitalized on his name, who needs them.
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P (Alan Alda was also in it, I believe, and I can't remember the third actor and I'm too lazy to dig the programme out)
Sounds like the same production I saw in NY. The third actor was Victor Garber.
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Great stories DRPANNI!
Actor: Those lips, those eyes, those hands...."
Mae West: "What're ya doin'? Makin' love or takin' inventory?"
And I THINK it was Mr David Merrick who said: "There's a horse's ass for every light on Broadway."
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I'm sorry, DR MBarnum. Had you asked earlier which Disney's we'd want? I know one I wish was out that two of my dearest friends are both desperate for: DR. SYN aka THE SCARECROW OF ROMNEY MARSH.
Of course, we all want the best possible copy of SONG OF THE SOUTH, and once the new set of Disney Treasures comes out this spring with VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER, I will have most of my wish list. (Got the complete THE RELUCTANT DRAGON in the last batch.)
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I'm not a betting man, DR Dan, but I'll say that the new FIDDLER revival will last through next December-early January and no longer, if that.
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Hey don't forget we can still give people good vibes. ~~~~~~~~~~~
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My mother has a box of Playbills from plays and shows she saw on Broadway in her younger days. One of them is for Shakespeare's Othello, starring Paul Robeson, Jose Ferrer and Uta Hagen. What a magnificent performance that must have been!
My mother loved Paul Robeson. I believe she saw him perform when she lived in South Africa. I’m very hazy about the location. I do know, years ago, she smuggled in a recording of his. I looked for the album when I was cleaning out at my Dad’s but couldn’t find it. :(
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Oh DR Jane - we are so lucky. It is easy for us to forget that once upon a time in certain places....and even in other places today....that a production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF wouldn't even be permitted!
DRMATTH - there was a two-part (or maybe three) adventure on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color about Dick Turpin the Highwayman... I just remember that I thought the actor who played the leading role was great - and there was a wonderful theme song as well, but I never saw it again! I want THAT show, MBARNUM - call Eisner and tell him! I keep watching the schedule on the Disney channels, but haven't seen it broadcast. Does anyone remember it...and who played Dick?
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TCB with your handsome new photo, have expressed the karma situation very well. I was a bit disappointed this morning to find this fun giving option gone, but shall not miss the complaints related to that nasty boo option.
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I'M COULDN'T BE HAPPIER HE IS IMPROVING.
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Hey DR Jane: Don't forget the cheese enchilada recipe when you have time. I really want to try this one!
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DRJENNIFER: Here is MY cheese enchillada recipe. Get in the car, start the engine, drive to Taco Bell, tell the box you want "The Cheese Enchillada", drive to the second window, pay money, go home...eat.
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Hey DR Jane: Don't forget the cheese enchilada recipe when you have time. I really want to try this one!
I didn't forget. I just wanted to catch up on the posts first. It has been scanned into a file and hopefully I can post it, without Keith's assistance.
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Wel I've been home since 11:30, and I STILL haven't posted. Until now. Huzzah!
Grades are starting to come in: I have a 91 on my French exam, 93 on my French exam, 85 on my Drivers Ed Exam, And Algebra is up in the air, because the machine that scans the Scantron sheets broke. I took Biology today, with a guaranteed D. It was TORTURE, we NEVER went over half of it.
MBarnum, I completely agree on THE UGLY DACHSHUND. I would watch that movie a hundred times over when I was little. I'd also like BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSICKS on DVD, but for all I know, it could already be out.
Fiddler Casting:
Tevye: Elijah Wood
Golde: Britney Spears
Daughters: Paris and Nicky Hilton, Nicole Richie, Tara Reid, and Christina Aguilera.
I can't think of who I'd hate to see in the other roles at the moment. I'll post when I do.
Music of the Moment- Michael Jackson, The Way You Make Me Feel.
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DRJENNIFER: Here is MY cheese enchillada recipe. Get in the car, start the engine, drive to Taco Bell, tell the box you want "The Cheese Enchillada", drive to the second window, pay money, go home...eat.
Ah you weren't paying attention yesterday. We have no taco bells in montreal, remember? :)
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TCB with your handsome new photo, have expressed the karma situation very well. I was a bit disappointed this morning to find this fun giving option gone, but shall not miss the complaints related to that nasty boo option.
Thank you, Jane. I am glad you like the photo. I must give credit where credit is due. I sent the jpg to DR MattH who very graciously agreed to size the photo for me. When I tried to do the sizing myself, the picture came out so blurry, that it looked like one of the Thirteen Ghosts without the 3-D glasses. Come to think of it, they didn't look much better with the 3-D glasses.
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Oh, hey! Are we still having our Pajama Party on Sunday night? ;D
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I didn't forget. I just wanted to catch up on the posts first. It has been scanned into a file and hopefully I can post it, without Keith's assistance.
Re: cheese enchilada recipe
No problem, you can do it anytime.
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What did you say DRJENNIFER? I wasn't paying attention.
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Wind chill warning for
Montréal métropolitain-Laval continued
The wind chill factor is reaching between minus 38 and minus 50 and will continue that way over most part of Québec until this evening,
tonight or Friday morning, depending on the areas.
-50? -50? -50!!!!
That's it... I am not leaving the house until May. :(
The pipes in our kitchen (the coldest part of the house) froze last night. Twenty minutes with a hairdryer and we have flowing water - still, it makes you wonder about just how cold it is down there!
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DRSWW - just click your heels together three times and say "Tommy Kirk is Merlin Jones...."
I'll click my heals together three times and say "Tommy Kirk is a friend of Dorothy," how's that!
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What did you say DRJENNIFER? I wasn't paying attention.
That is so not funny! :)
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With this post I am SIX away from my lofty perch in HHW Olympia.
HHW mortals everywhere are trembling at the thought, I am sure :)
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Ah you weren't paying attention yesterday. We have no taco bells in montreal, remember? :)
Personally I think that is a good thing. :D
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Wow DR Emily: I haven't checked the exact weather temps in 2 days. But I did notice that it is pretty cold :)
Is the end in sight?
Btw, HI!
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The pipes in our kitchen (the coldest part of the house) froze last night. Twenty minutes with a hairdryer and we have flowing water - still, it makes you wonder about just how cold it is down there!
Gosh I don't miss those days. At least the pipes didn't burst. I've been there too.
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Re: taco bell
Well I would at least like to have the option. I LOVE mexican. And sometimes it would just be nice to drive through and get something. We do have a fast food Mexican place at the mall. But it's not cheap.
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Tommy Kirk = A friend of Dorothy's???
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Em when you become a goddess will you adjust your photo to reflect your new status? I'm thinking some sort of crown would be appropriate.
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I love Taco Bell's chicken bowls and steak bowls, unless the kid making your order is either high or hung over. They are nice and fresh, and they are very satisfying. Not gourmet Mexican, but healthier than a Big Mac.
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Jennifer, Keith transferred the recipe to a jpeg file so I can post it. He thought he was simplifying things for me when in fact he complicated the situation. I am embarrassed :-[ to say I’m not sure I can post the file but shall give it a try. It also looks a bit blurry to me. If this doesn’t work I shall just have him fix it when he returns.
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DREMILY that is tooooooooooooooo cold for humans...dogs...and other animals!
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Even though it's not Friday, I'll tell you what's in my CD player at work. I'm listening to Little Me (Original w/Sid Caesar). I forgot how much I like this score. Be A Performer still makes me laugh.
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Cheese Enchilada's
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My mother loved Paul Robeson. I believe she saw him perform when she lived in South Africa. I’m very hazy about the location. I do know, years ago, she smuggled in a recording of his. I looked for the album when I was cleaning out at my Dad’s but couldn’t find it. :(
I would loved to have seen Paul Robeson live. He is one of my favorite singers and I have several of his CDs. If you ever want a copy Jane, just holler (and send your address) and it will be yours!
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DRJENNIFER: Here is MY cheese enchillada recipe. Get in the car, start the engine, drive to Taco Bell, tell the box you want "The Cheese Enchillada", drive to the second window, pay money, go home...eat.
LOL! That just gave me my giant guffaw of the day!
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Wow, Jane, I think that recipe put us into TohoScope! LOL! And just imagine the bloating if you were to eat one of those!
I am now very hungry, however!
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Ah you weren't paying attention yesterday. We have no taco bells in montreal, remember? :)
There are taco bells in Canada. Unfortuantely (or fortunately) Taco Bell didn't pass Quebec Health standards (low as they are) and aren't allowed into the province, so the rumour goes. Anyone still feel like mexican ;)
Thanks to all who translated my bubala question.
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Panni, Victor Garber, that's indeed who it was!
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There is a story that goes with the recipe. Years ago when we still lived in Southern California, and had no need to cook Mexican food, I worked with a gentleman with the last name of Rodriquez. He said his mother made great enchiladas, very similar to the ones at our favorite restaurant in the Valley. He stated his mother didn’t have a recipe as she cooked by sight and touch. One day, determined to get the recipe, his wife watched the making of the enchilada’s and wrote everything down. The original recipe called for unusual amounts, such as a particular brand of chili powder poured out to the red line or something like that. I tucked the recipe away until we moved to New Jersey. At that time there weren’t any Mexican restaurants at all.
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There are taco bells in Canada. Unfortuantely (or fortunately) Taco Bell didn't pass Quebec Health standards (low as they are) and aren't allowed into the province, so the rumour goes. Anyone still feel like mexican ;)
LOL! That is comforting! LOL!
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I would loved to have seen Paul Robeson live. He is one of my favorite singers and I have several of his CDs. If you ever want a copy Jane, just holler (and send your address) and it will be yours!
Thank you. Which ones do you have? I just remembered, I think my mother had a little 45 record of Ol Man River and I can't remember what else.
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I can email a better copy of the recipe. I know my eyes don’t enjoy looking at the one I posted. :-\
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Wow, Jane, I think that recipe put us into TohoScope! LOL! And just imagine the bloating if you were to eat one of those!
I missed this posting the first time. I'm sure glad I scrolled back up the page. I am now ROTFLOL! :)
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For some reason I cannot copy or print Jane's recipe. Can anyone help me?
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For some reason I cannot copy or print Jane's recipe. Can anyone help me?
Maybe your printer isn't big enough?
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DR Andrea: How can Taco Bell be above Quebec Health standards? :)
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Have you put your cursor on the recipe and right clicked your mouse? You can't highlight the words to copy it because it's a jpeg or image, not text, but you should be able to right click on the image and get a menu with the option to "Save Picture As..." It should be recognized as a jpeg so you don't have to do anything but decide where you want to save the picture and then click "Save". It should then save a copy of the image/recipe in the place where you put it.
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For some reason I cannot copy or print Jane's recipe. Can anyone help me?
Jennifer when Keith comes home I will have him fix that and send you a better copy.
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Now, let's get to that post I
threatened promised DR MBarnum: Uncle Woody's Reasons for Watching Fiddler On the Roof! (The movie.)
The Director, Norman Jewison - was in the middle of the best decade of his career. Consider, before Fiddler he'd helmed The Cincinnati Kid (1965), The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming ('66), In the Heat of the Night ('67), and Gaily, Gaily ('69). All right, that last flick wasn't so hot, but he followed Fiddler with Jesus Christ, Superstar ('73) and Rollerball ('75). What a run of films! What a range of genres, and styles! The man was in fantastic form, and Fiddler shows every bit of his skill.
The Story - For something that is specifically rooted to a time, place, and culture, this story ends up having a universal appeal. It's backdrop may be that of the Jews living in Czarist Russia, but it's really about the effects of change as Tevye deals with his daughters as each breaks from tradition in choosing a husband. Betcha' didn't know the stage production was a hit in Japan! Really!
The Storytelling - Ever notice how a really good joke in a film is one that keeps getting retold, and each time it gets better? That's what's going on here, but in reverse, because each time the same thing happens, the film becomes more serious, until the third time around there is genuine heartbreak. Not only that, but as a viewer I felt a great concern for everyone involved. So often, storytelling lags in the second act, but not here!
Topol as Tevye - Thoroughly convincing in the role. And he was only 36 when the film was released! Personally, I think he deserved the Oscar, and he was nominated, but it was Hackman's year with The French Connection.
The cinematography and editing - Oswald Morris won the Oscar for the cinematography, and the stories that it was shot through a ladie's stocking are apparently true. Just as good, to my eyes, was the work by Antony Gibbs and Robert Lawrence in the editing, but they didn't even get nominated.
The Music - To start with, it's one of the classic Broadway scores, by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Of course you're already humming along; these songs are part of our lives by now. But did you know that the Oscar here went to John Williams? Yep, the same guy that wrote the theme to Lost in Space, and has written a few interesting ditties since. (The Oscar was for Best Music Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score, a catagory that has since disappeared. But it was John's first win! He'd previously been nominated for The Reivers, Goodbye Mr. Chips and (drumroll please) Valley of the Dolls!)
And now, to be completely fair, there's a really good reason for not wanting to see Fiddler: the thing is too freakin' long! It runs three hours! It's like LOTR:TROTK, but with more roles for women and singing and dancing and a whole lot fewer swordfights. Yeah, sure, it was released back when some films were relased with intermissions, but there are times when the thing just plain drags. Sure, getting Issac Stern to play a solo on the cat guts was something of a coup, but he just goes on and on and on. Take advantage of the moment, fix yourself a nice bowl of chicken soup while it plays in the background, you won't miss a thing and you'll feel so much better for it.
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Jane, I can't recall the CD titles off hadn, but most of the songs are from the 1930s and 1940s, including OLD MAN RIVER, which always gives me the goose pimples when I hear hims sing it.
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Thanks DR Ben. I didn't think of right clicking it. That would let me save it to disk. But I really want a printed copy. I will just wait till Keith comes home.
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Well, SSW, you have convinced me to add Fiddler on the Roof to my list of classic movies that I have yet to see, and will make a point of watching...as you know I love Bollywood films so I have gotten very used to loooooong movies! LOL!
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DR Andrea: How can Taco Bell be above Quebec Health standards? :)
huh? They aren't, they are below it...
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Tommy Kirk = A friend of Dorothy's???
Uh, yeah. You do get the slang, right?
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And from Fiddler on the Roof, probably the song most often performed at Jewish weddings, Sunrise, Sunset. Unbeknownst to me, my father requested the song to be played just before I walked down the isle.
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Hmmm, being thrown into Cinemascope by an enchilada recipe. Now THAT redefines cheesy! ;D ::) 8)
Only one tablespoon of chili powder? We'll see about that! (Other than that, it sounds a lot like what my mother used to make. Yum!)
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It is easy for us to forget that once upon a time in certain places....and even in other places today....that a production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF wouldn't even be permitted!
How true. I have errands to run, but I have to quickly tell you about the production of Fiddler I saw while visiting Hungary some years ago, when it was still under Communist rule. The pogrom scene, with the Russian soldiers brutally breaking up the wedding celebration, was understandably problematic at the time. The solution was to have the soldiers come in, throw a few things around in a kind of playful "boys will be boys" fashion and then join in the dancing in their friendly Russian way. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Hungary was and is a very anti-Semitic country. The actor playing Tevye, a well-known Hungarian stage star who was not Jewish, received daily hate mail and death threats for playing the role.
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Yes, Tommy Kirk is a friend of Dorothy and made no secret about it back in the 1970s when it wasn't all that wise to do so.
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Dorothy who?
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I don't mind that FIDDLER is as long as it is. It's beautifully and faithfully done, yet has the scope and grandeur of a film, altogether a near-perfect film version of the show. Sounds wonderful in surround and looks just great on enhanced for widescreen TVs.
We ARE in SuperPanavision.
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DR JRand, do you have any idea what else the Dick Turpin/Highwayman episodes might have been called. I've got a book here called THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY ON TELEVISION which has all the show episodes listed, but there is no listing by either of those two names.
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Does nobody want any as yet un-released Disney movies on DVD? ???
Song of the South. That has to be issued on deeveedee someday....somehow....!
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Hmmm, being thrown into Cinemascope by an enchilada recipe. Now THAT redefines cheesy! ;D ::) 8)
Only one tablespoon of chili powder? We'll see about that! (Other than that, it sounds a lot like what my mother used to make. Yum!)
I reduced the amount of chili powder for sensitive palates. ;)
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How's this:
Tevye--William Shatner
Golde--Zelda Rubenstein
Yenta--Joan Rivers
Hey, I'd pay good money to see that...!
Maybe notta lotta money, but good money!
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LOL DR ROBIN ANDERSON...
Hmmmmmmmm DRMATTH.... I wonder if it was something about Highwayman or something. Let me think about that....and now I am wondering if Robin Askwith played Dick....hmmmmmmmmmm
No Robin was in HANS BRINKER!
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By the way...I miss the Karma. But I guess it got run over by a dogma. Or something like that.
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Panni I could cry and laugh at the same time just reading the story. Has any progress been made since then?
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BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS has been available on DVD for quite some time, and it looks wonderful.
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SONG OF THE SOUTH is available on on a Disney DVD. You just have to know where to look.
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DR JRand, do you have any idea what else the Dick Turpin/Highwayman episodes might have been called. I've got a book here called THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY ON TELEVISION which has all the show episodes listed, but there is no listing by either of those two names.
Was Dick Turpin The Swamp Fox, or was that a different Disney story?
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Different story TCB, but I found it! MATTH it was THE LEGEND OF YOUNG DICK TURPIN during the 12th season of Disneyland - first broadcast February 13/20, 1966! Leonard Whiting played Jimmy the Dip!
That's the one I want. Certainly I don't want the BORING Swamp Fox or BristleFace OR Elfaca Braga..... bleh!
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Dorothy who?
Dorothy Gale! You've got to be kidding me, right?
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AHA! David Weston played Dick....but I have a feeling it was Leonard Whiting that caught my eye. :o
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My grandmother was born in Russia, about 1885, and came to the U.S. in about 1910. (I have the exact dates somewhere, thanks to the Ellis Island site.) When, at the age of about 80 she came to visit us in New York (from Florida), we took her to see Fiddler on the Roof. It had a profound effect on her. She kept shaking her head and saying, "A pogrom, a regular pogrom."
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SONG OF THE SOUTH is available on on a Disney DVD. You just have to know where to look.
Where should I look?
Note: I asked, "Where should I look?", not "Where should I go?". People have been telling me where to go for years, but I'm still here.
Just stubborn, I guess.
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My grandmother was born in Russia, about 1885, and came to the U.S. in about 1910. (I have the exact dates somewhere, thanks to the Ellis Island site.) When, at the age of about 80 she came to visit us in New York (from Florida), we took her to see Fiddler on the Roof. It had a profound effect on her. She kept shaking her head and saying, "A pogrom, a regular pogrom."
I didn't know my grandparents. I wish I could have their stories.
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That is sad about Uta Hagen! :(
Fiddler on the Roof Nightmare Casting--
Tevye--Gilbert Gottfried
Golde--Whoopi Goldberg
Tzeitel--Courtney Love
Hodel--Michelle Branch
Chava--Avril Lavigne
Other daughters--Olsen Twins
Perchik--Vin Diesel
Motel--Tom Green
Lazar Wolf--Seann William Scott
Fruma Sarah--Kathy Griffin
Yente--Betty White
I know a lot of people hate Mandy Patinkin's mannerisms, but I would love to see him replace Molina.
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Different story TCB, but I found it! MATTH it was THE LEGEND OF YOUNG DICK TURPIN during the 12th season of Disneyland - first broadcast February 13/20, 1966! Leonard Whiting played Jimmy the Dip!
That's the one I want. Certainly I don't want the BORING Swamp Fox or BristleFace OR Elfaca Braga..... bleh!
I was two pages away from finding it myself, DR JRand. I started back at the A's and was looking straight through the listings. David Weston played Dick Turpin.
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Laura II you had better learn the fine arts of laundry before you head off to college! :-*
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One of the Disney Company's greatest achievements was their series of True Life Advenutures, a series of nature documentaries which won a bunch of Oscars. Disney released the feature length ones on videotape, and I bought all of those. The shorts, like "Water Birds" and "Nature's Half Acre," turn up occasionally as a bonus feature on one of the cartoons like THE RESCUERS. I'd like to get a boxed set of all of these.
When I taught middle school, I used these documentaries for indoor recess material when it was too rainy to go outside. The kids really seemed to like them, and I loved them.
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Completely off-topic comment (our specialty here at HHW)...
How long can NBC continue to start every freakin' ad for Friends with, "As the final countdown begins on Friends..."??? This fershluganah "final countdown" has been beginning for at least a month, and I'm afraid it's going to keep beginning for a few more months to come! It's making me want to hurl a brick at my television.
We'll now return to our regular programming...
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Jennifer, the spouse is in the house so as soon as he's capable (he wacked mistletoe from the oaks after a "massive" ??? workout on the cross-trainer at the gym), he'll email the cheese enchilada recipe.
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If one of the Hardy Boys had to come out, why couldn't it have been Tim???
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The sun is shining and Echo awaits her walk.
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Completely off-topic comment (our specialty here at HHW)...
How long can NBC continue to start every freakin' ad for Friends with, "As the final countdown begins on Friends..."??? This fershluganah "final countdown" has been beginning for at least a month, and I'm afraid it's going to keep beginning for a few more months to come! It's making me want to hurl a brick at my television.
We'll now return to our regular programming...
Hey son, no comment about our doing My Fair Lady together?
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Jennifer, please "private message" me your email address so I can send the recipe. Thanks. AND I'M A GODDESS!!!!
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SONG OF THE SOUTH is available on on a Disney DVD. You just have to know where to look.
Hmmm....I don't believe that's a "Disney" DVD...more like an Asian issue from an edited version of the film.
That is, if you're talking about the all-region version that for some inexplicable reason is missing the "Sooner or Later" number sung by Hattie McDaniel.
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We could do Fiddler instead?
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Dorothy Gale! You've got to be kidding me, right?
Better check the feeling in that leg, SWW...it was definitely pulled.
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Hey son, no comment about our doing My Fair Lady together?
I'm all for it, Dad!
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Thanks MATTH - if only I could see it again! ;D
Jed - this is just the beginning...wait until SWEEPS week! I don't really think a still on the network should be classified as a classic....and I tire quickly of a "classic" Will & Grace.... MOST if not ALL the network comedies right now are just one step above Suddenly Susan!
Thank the HHW Gods for DVD and Cable and Satellite!
What's the skinny on Sunday's PJ Party?
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GODDESS JANE!
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Will there be a PJ party on Sunday??? Darn, I won't be around. Oh, well. You will all have to wonder what I look like in skimpy PJs. You've seen me in a blue duffel coat and jeans and a flannel shirt. Now you can imagine what I look like in PJs (or no PJs but we won't go there)
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Will there be a PJ party on Sunday??? Darn, I won't be around. Oh, well. You will all have to wonder what I look like in skimpy PJs. You've seen me in a blue duffel coat and jeans and a flannel shirt. Now you can imagine what I look like in PJs (or no PJs but we won't go there)
Ben -- Next time you get around to posting pictures for our viewing pleasure, could you post an enlarged version of your profile picture? It looks like such a cute picture, but my elderly eyeballs can't make out many details.
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Woohoo, Jane has arrived.. ;D :D ;) :)
We have been awaiting your crowning...of course several of the Gods up here have been trying on that tiara in the interim...I won't name names.
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And since I can't add anything to today's topic due to lack of knowledge, how about this for a topic...what Disney movie do you wish would come out on DVD...I vote for BAMBI and THE UGLY DACHSHUND, two of my favorites....which reminds me that I really need to open and watch my DVD of THE PARENT TRAP one of these days!
On an actual legitimately-released-by-Disney DVD: "Song of the South"
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I will be at the Pajama Party, that is for sure...I will even have my Pajama Party DVD on in the background for atmosphere!
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And I can play my Pajama Party LP....it will be a DVD-LP-PJ Par-Tee!
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...And Terri Garr will always be dancing in the background!
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I *WASN'T* trying on the tiara. Can I help it if after I polished it, it just happened to slip from my fingers and land on my head? Not all gods are nimble-fingered.
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Oh I just love finding new places to wear diamonds!
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I'm assuming the pajama party is Sunday night because of the Martin Luther King Day observance on Monday?
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How long can NBC continue to start every freakin' ad for Friends with, "As the final countdown begins on Friends..."???
Actually, the first episode of the show was plugged with that line.
Oh, wait a minute...that was Coupling.
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I'm assuming the pajama party is Sunday night because of the Martin Luther King Day observance on Monday?
Pajamas?
Exactly what are these strange "pajamas" things folks keep referring to here? And how does one party with them?
Are "pajamas" some kind of device one uses to imbibe Mary Jane? And isn't that illegal in most states?
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Quote from TCB "Next time you get around to posting pictures for our viewing pleasure, could you post an enlarged version of your profile picture? It looks like such a cute picture, but my elderly eyeballs can't make out many details."
Why TCB, thank you. I'm looking on the computer for that picture and all I can find at the moment is the small version. I'll have to look at real pictures to find the original.
In the meantime, since DR Ron has done it, here is a picture of me around 1965. I'll keep looking for Anthony and me at the pool table.
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Congrats, Jane. I'm about 3/5ths of the way there!
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Congrats DR Jane. I thought DR Emily would become a goddess first. But alas, maybe tomorrow. We need more goddesses to balance out all the gods :)
Btw, re: Friends, I am loving it now. And I don't think they are over-promoting it. I was practically in tears last week with the whole adoption scenario.
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TCB, while I look for the bigger version of pool, here's a close-up shot of Anthony and me in London at a restaurant in Covent Garden.
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Oh, yes. Congrats to Jane on her Goddess-ness. You look lovely, my dear. Welcome to the clouds.
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Uta Hagen was my employer for more than ten years, but I've no anecdotes about her. I caught her on Broadway in a two-character play in which she had all the lines and Charles Nelson Reilly had none (!)
But my favorite Uta appearance is in Thomas Meehan's monologue, The Yma Dream, in which she gets introduced to Oona O'Neill, Ulu Grossbard and Yma Sumac in quick secession. ("Uta, Oona; Oona, Uta. Uta, Ulu; Ulu, Uta. Uta, Yma; Yma, Uta.")
On paper, Fiddler on the Roof may be the greatest musical ever. Glad BK liked my Supreme suggestion.
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Btw, re: Friends, I am loving it now. And I don't think they are over-promoting it. I was practically in tears last week with the whole adoption scenario.
Oh, I have nothing against the show, and I don't even mind if they show ad after ad for it. I'm just flummoxed as to how the last 3 or 4 episodes have all been the one to "begin the final countdown." How many times can the fershluganah thing be begun? :)
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Good afternoon all.
My printer has decided to go tits up, so I'm over at the school library printing some stuff out. A pox on all printers, says I.
I also took advantage of the speedy connection to read today's notes. My poor dialup sometimes has heart failure when I try to load page after page.
Fiddler casts...I doubt I could top some of the ones already posted, but perhaps I shall try later on.
Congrats to DR Jane.
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Oh, I have nothing against the show, and I don't even mind if they show ad after ad for it. I'm just flummoxed as to how the last 3 or 4 episodes have all been the one to "begin the final countdown." How many times can the fershluganah thing be begun? :)
Sometimes even shows I love will get me annoyed with the way they are promoted. If I hear the Without A Trace "Every...second...counts" bit one more time, I shall scream.
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"I Shall Scream" Isn't that a song? Is has to be, because I'm singing in my head...but what is it from? I can't remember! Someone help me out!
Off I go to home...I shall check in upon my arrival
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Finally back, thank goodness. What a day - from the Hills of Woodland, to Glendale, to Encino, and back. Endless. But a nice meeting with the Bullshit people and we'll be meeting again on Monday to solidify exactly what we're doing. Caught up on all your excellent postings, too, and now must eat something as I haven't eaten one thing all day.
Pajama party can either be Saturday or Sunday night - whichever works best for the most amount of people.
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It's from Oliver, Ann. Corney/Bumble Act I duet.
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But my favorite Uta appearance is in Thomas Meehan's monologue, The Yma Dream, in which she gets introduced to Oona O'Neill, Ulu Grossbard and Yma Sumac in quick secession. ("Uta, Oona; Oona, Uta. Uta, Ulu; Ulu, Uta. Uta, Yma; Yma, Uta.")
Uma...Oprah ;)
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A HHW FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Tveye: BK
Golde: Panni
Yenta: Tomovoz
Tzeitel: SwishySarah
Hodel: Maya
Chava: Ann
Motel: Jason
Perchik: Mr. Mark Bakalor
Fyedka: Jed
Fruma Sarah: Newest Goddess (Congrats!) Jane
Lazar Wolf: TCB
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And in what play will we find the ever lovely rodeo gal -Tits Tillson?
Thanks DR George...I'm in the ensemble again! :D
One vote for Sunday. 8)
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Ben you look just the same!
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LOL, George, hilarious casting list!
But my favorite Uta appearance is in Thomas Meehan's monologue, The Yma Dream, in which she gets introduced to Oona O'Neill, Ulu Grossbard and Yma Sumac in quick secession. ("Uta, Oona; Oona, Uta. Uta, Ulu; Ulu, Uta. Uta, Yma; Yma, Uta.")
Is it true that Yma Sumac was really an ex-housewife named Amy Camus?
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Pajama party can either be Saturday or Sunday night - whichever works best for the most amount of people.
I vote for Sunday. I'm ushering on Saturday for Kate Clinton. She's doing a one-night-only (a Dreamgirls reference) show here in Olympia and I get to see it for free!
And JRand...nothing personal, I swear! ::)
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LOL DR George. ;D
To quote DRCHARLESPOGUE: Be afraid, be very afraid.
Inspired by DRBEN....here is my graduation photo.
Mooresville High School Class of 1968!
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Tommy Kirk = A friend of Dorothy's???
Yes. He was good friends with Dorothy MaGuire who he did Old Yeller with.
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Jrand: Nice DO.
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Evening all!
I'm sorry I didn't say goodnight last night--I had a phone call and just didn't make it back. It seems I pass for what is considered a computer guru in these parts. Ok. You can stop laughing now.
Bought the very last and I do mean last (or so the ticket lady told me) seat for Jesus Christ: Superstar at the Sunday matinee. I really want to see if this turns out to be a quick draw Jesus like the first time I saw the show.
As for Disney films, I would very much like The Scarecrow of Romany (sp?) Marsh. I LOVE that movie--I still remember part of the song:
On the Southern Coast of England,
There's a Legend people tell,
'bout the days of old when the Great Scarecrow
Would ride from the gates of Hell.
And laugh with a fiendish yell.
With his clothes all torn and tattered,
Through the black of night he's ride
from the marsh to coast like a demon ghost
(Ack Memory failure at this point)
And laugh till he split his side.
Scarecrow, scarecrow, the soldiers of the king feared his name
Scarecrow, scarecrow, the countryfolk all loved him just the same.
So the king told all his soldiers,
"Hang him hig or hang him low.
But never return till the day I learn
He's trapped in flames below"
Oh they’ll hang, the Great Scarecrow.
That's about all I remember. Not bad considering I think I was a teen the last time I saw it.
Karma. Ahh well. I never could keep straight who I had given it to but I never knowingly took it from anyone either.
One last flight of the Karma fairy for old times sake?
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Let's see, Danise, you wanted to sing and you were looking for a white knight? I hate to tell you this, but you are actually Marion the Librarian.
More than you know! ;)
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Swishy and Danise: There are "Left Behind" movies, too! I have the first one on VHS. It''s well done, but it presumes too much on the part of the viewer and it lacks an emotional punch it desperately needs.
Huummm. Is this a read the movie, see the book kinda thing? Sometimes I think they should leave a book alone. I'll have to check the movie out.
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Danise, don't you HAVE a book or two to read???
Yes, sir. I do.
However, I had to give up on the PDA. They've been sending us sideways/couch buses (which make me ill--I need to face forward) but with the bus moving back and forth and the text moving back and forth and my eyes moving forth and back, my stomach wanted to join the party and go up and down if you know what I mean. Somethings in that mix had to remain still. I chose the book and my stomach.
I just printed both books out and read the first 60 pages on the ride home tonight.
You have a very easy reading style but I have to tell you, I would know it was you even if you had used a pen name.
Well, that's my news.
I heard we have another female Goddess. Yay! But is it getting crowded at the top?
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I am full o' pasta. Danise - glad you are merrily reading away. I would hope you would know it was me writing - it's nice to think one has some sort of style.
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I vote for Sunday. I'm ushering on Saturday for Kate Clinton. She's doing a one-night-only (a Dreamgirls reference) show here in Olympia and I get to see it for free!
I'm feeling sorry for you; she's one of my less favorite people. :P
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I started to watch Images with a selected scene commentary. However when you do this you only see the 25 minutes or so of the movie that Robert Altman commented on. I rather have no commentary that just selected scenes.
And did anyone ever read 'In Search of Unicorns' by Susannah York which plays a part in the film Images?
Now I would love to see 3 Women which he made a few years later.
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Mr. Altman's charms have, unfortunately, always escaped me.
I am full o' pasta. I mean FULL. Full up - no more room at the Inn. Done, finito, can't eat another bite AND YET - now I have a sweet tooth, baby.
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Shayne: What IS that photo?
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It's a three day weekend for me. Not to rub it in--so Saturday or Sunday works for me. I'll be able to tell you about JC:SS if it's on Sunday.
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Thanks.....I have always sworn that my personal tragedy will not interfere with my ability to do good hair.
Thanks for flying the Karma Fairy by for one last pass DRDANISE. Who would have thought after only 20,000 posts we would be talking about the good old days on the New HHW! ;D
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Is it true that Yma Sumac was really an ex-housewife named Amy Camus?
That's one story. It was started by some musicians, and Walter Winchell wrote it up in one of his gossip columns. But I seriously doubt it. For one thing, her four and a half octave range would have made such a ruse unnecessary. Why bother with a made-up history when the talent alone would have made her a big sell? Second, I don't think she was known for singing anything other than Peruvian stuff. Wouldn't an ex-housewife be singing other things? Like "Old Man River" and "Glitter And Be Gay," in a medley?
By the way, she's apparently still around, living in Los Angeles somewhere.
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I'm with SWoody in believing that the Amy Camus myth has been pretty much debunked over the years.
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Thanks for flying the Karma Fairy by for one last pass DRDANISE. Who would have thought after only 20,000 posts we would be talking about the good old days on the New HHW! ;D
Yeah, it seems like only yesterday.......
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Shayne: What IS that photo?
That is me and Christopher Reeves in a scene from the film Street Smart. But alas Michael Shayne as the Ice Cream Store Patron gets no credit.
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I tell you DRSWW - there are some Yma Sumac cd's out there that are unbelievable!!!!
Yma Sumac - the Voice of Xtabay!
Read about her here:
http://www.divalegacy.com/ (http://www.divalegacy.com/)
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I've either just got back from LOTR ROTK or just read yesterday's posts. They both took about the same time. Break time for me before I face today.
DR Jane & Ron: I was certainly not disappointed and I was certainly not aware that Sam and Froddo were crying too much! I was amazed at the inventiveness of the Battle scenes - they did not see like LOTR TT revisited. I was also pleased to see the endings as I remember them. It would have been too easy for go for just one. The very first scene was a total surprise - a great way to start. (I thought I was about to see "A River Runs thought It").
Dan and Archie: Great news.
For what it's worth - I didn't even notice the Karma stuff was missing until I read in a post!
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I tell you DRSWW - there are some Yma Sumac cd's out there that are unbelievable!!!!
Yma Sumac - the Voice of Xtabay!
Read about her here:
http://www.divalegacy.com/ (http://www.divalegacy.com/)
I somewhat remember the music, from their original pressings on vinyl. My mother had a couple of them, but I don't remember her playing them very often.
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"I Shall Scream" Isn't that a song? Is has to be, because I'm singing in my head...but what is it from? I can't remember! Someone help me out!
Off I go to home...I shall check in upon my arrival
Hmmm, let's see, Ann. Perhaps, Oliver?
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DRTOMOVOZ your book is on the way....9-14 days, so don't wait by the mailbox yet!
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A HHW FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Tveye: BK
Golde: Panni
Yenta: Tomovoz
Tzeitel: SwishySarah
Hodel: Maya
Chava: Ann
Motel: Jason
Perchik: Mr. Mark Bakalor
Fyedka: Jed
Fruma Sarah: Newest Goddess (Congrats!) Jane
Lazar Wolf: TCB
Very clever, George!
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My Fiddler on the Roof cast:
Tevye: the 349-pound psycho-therapist.
Golde: the teacher who can no longer teach because of the domestic violence charge.
Fyedka: the guy who missed the first few classes because he got arrested.
Lazar Wolf: the middle-aged hippie who's been out of work for twenty years.
Fruma Sarah: my Australian history teacher who says hee-uh. "What's this about you marrying my husband, hee-uh?"
Chava: the girl who sighs a lot from my Communications class. She can sigh all the way to Siberia.
Tzeitel: because I can't think of anyone else, Eartha Kitt.
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I've either just got back from LOTR ROTK or just read yesterday's posts. They both took about the same time. Break time for me before I face today.
DR Jane & Ron: I was certainly not disappointed and I was certainly not aware that Sam and Froddo were crying too much! I was amazed at the inventiveness of the Battle scenes - they did not see like LOTR TT revisited. I was also pleased to see the endings as I remember them. It would have been too easy for go for just one. The very first scene was a total surprise - a great way to start. (I thought I was about to see "A River Runs thought It").
Dan and Archie: Great news.
For what it's worth - I didn't even notice the Karma stuff was missing until I read in a post!
Return of the King isn't that an Elvis bio pic with Kurt Russell?
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Easy for you to say - YOU got a part!
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They could be twins
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Jrand: Nice DO.
Thanks.....I have always sworn that my personal tragedy will not interfere with my ability to do good hair.
So...what did interfere with your ability to do good hair?? ;)
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The SONG OF THE SOUTH DVD I have was released by Disney in the Phillipines. It is uncut, in English and plays on USA DVDs. There are some text extras, but not all the extras that are on most other Disney DVDs. I can't find the address, but look in the classified ads in publications like "Comic Buyers Guide" and other magazines devoted to comics and animation.
It's a shame that Eisner refuses to release it in the USA, but until he does this is a damn good substitute.
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Hahahaha....too bad they cancelled the Ed Sullivan Show, you woulda been a riot, George....I'm tellin' ya... a riot!
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Hmmm, let's see, Ann. Perhaps, Oliver?
You have a familiarity with British musicals TCB? How quaint.
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Time for bed!
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DR JRand: So I gather the package is somewhere beyond the sea bound for a summer place.
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DR George - Finally! The female lead in a musical! Thank you!
DG (Dear Goddess) Jane - Yes, things have changed in Hungary. The Russians no longer run the show - including Fiddler. It's still (perhaps even more so) an anti-Semitic country.
I must eat now. Came home to a call from my agent. He sounded cheerful, which is always a good sign. There may be some good things coming up. (Nothing is certain - which means absolutely nothing may happen. But it's nice to have new and interesting possibilities.) Please send lots of good vibes my way.
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You have a familiarity with British musicals TCB? How quaint.
It's British?
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I’ve told the stories a few times on the other board so I won’t repeat them all again but I’ll always have fond memories of doing Fiddler because POTO was playing next door in the same theater I’m going to see JC:SS on Sunday. The one stage I can say I've seen from both sides of orchestra pit.
9:30. Time for bed.
Have a good evening all!
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Return of the King isn't that an Elvis bio pic with Kurt Russell?
Bubba Ho-Tep featured the return of the real King.
Ah...the fifties...when Elvis was King, and Little Richard was Queen....!
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Does anybody else think it sounds funny to say "i had meetings with the bullshit people." :)
Oh and what is "the pajama party"?
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I'll agree to George's HHW Fiddler list...
as long as I get to play the Rebbe :D
(how's THAT for scary casting!?!)
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Ok.
Is Yma Sumac really Amy Camus from Brooklyn????
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Panni vibes:
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Almost Blitzed by another TCB response.
Thanks George for your casting coup. At least I won't need to act.
DR Jane. So much happened when I was at the Elvis movie. Congratulations and welcome.
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OMG I am cold. Every room I enter I either need to turn on a heater or hide under blankets. Brrrrrr ...
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Ok.
Is Yma Sumac really Amy Camus from Brooklyn????
Michael, those short naps are very beneficial.
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DR Jay: How did you get the vibes to go both ways?
Actually they are making me dizzzy. But it's very cool.
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I'll agree to George's HHW Fiddler list...
as long as I get to play the Rebbe
Do you not recall the rebbe-eating-matzah-ball-soup scene?
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Do you not recall the rebbe-eating-matzah-ball-soup scene?
dang it... I had forgotten that part ;)
(not to mention the "overcooked brisket" monologue)
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Speaking of Song of the South, tvguide.com has a feature called FlickChick (http://www.tvguide.com/movies/flickchick/) and this week (it's new every Thursday) she answered this question:
Question: Could you please tell me what happened to Bobby Driscoll and how and when he died? I know this occurred at a young age, but I don't know the details. Also, I used to go to school with a young actress named Luana Patten, who worked for Walt Disney and worked with Driscoll in Song of the South and So Dear to My Heart. Could you tell me what happened to her and where she's living today? — Lynn
Flickchick: Born on March 3, 1937, Bobby Driscoll was barely 31 when he died in New York City on March 30, 1968. Children found his body in an abandoned tenement building on East 10th Street between Avenues B & C; because no one identified the body, Driscoll was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave on Hart Island. A fingerprint check in 1969 finally put a name to the corpse. The cause of death was heart attack, but his long history of alcohol and drug abuse was a contributing factor. Driscoll, who supplied the voice of Peter Pan in Disney's 1953 animated version of the classic children's story, was a hugely popular child star who received a special Oscar in 1949 for his role in the noir thriller The Window (1949). He was 12 when he went home with the miniature statuette that proclaimed him "the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949." A cute child who was widely praised for his professionalism and pleasant personality, Driscoll matured into an awkward adolescent and had difficulty finding work. His 1956 marriage produced three children, but ended in divorce. The embittered Driscoll was widely quoted as saying that he was "carried [into Hollywood] on a velvet pillow and dumped into a garbage can."
Sadly, actress Luana Patten is also deceased; she succumbed to respiratory failure in 1996 at the age of 57. Patten was living in Long Beach, Calif., where she was born and raised. Patten made her movie debut in Song of the South (1946), had a brief but successful career as a child actress, then took a break from movies and returned as a teenager. She married actor John Smith, whose credits included a string of Western movies and the TV series Cimarron City and Laramie, in 1960 and cut back on acting, retiring from the business not long after their union ended in 1964.
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I am THREE posts away from God-dom!
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Or is it two?
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could it really be only ONE? (I am shocked!)
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For those who are interested, here are the Screen Actors Guild Nominations:
FILM
Actor
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (BV)
Peter Dinklage, The Station Agent (Miramax)
Ben Kingsley, House of Sand and Fog (Dreamworks)
Bill Murray, Lost in Translation (Focus)
Sean Penn, Mystic River (WB)
Actress
Patricia Clarkson, The Station Agent (Miramax)
Diane Keaton, Something's Gotta Give (Columbia)
Charlize Theron, Monster (Newmarket)
Naomi Watts, 21 Grams (Focus)
Evan Rachel Wood, Thirteen (Fox Searchlight)
Supporting Actor
Alec Baldwin, The Cooler (Lions Gate)
Chris Cooper, Seabiscuit (Universal)
Benicio Del Toro, 21 Grams (Focus)
Tim Robbins, Mystic River (WB)
Ken Watanabe, The Last Samurai (WB)
Supporting Actress
Maria Bello, The Cooler (Lions Gate)
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Whale Rider (Newmarket)
Patricia Clarkson, Pieces of April (United)
Holly Hunter, Thirteen (Fox Searchlight)
Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain (Miramax)
Cast
In America(Fox Searchlight)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (New Line)
Mystic River (WB)
Seabiscuit (U)
The Station Agent (Miramax)
TELEVISION
Actor, Television Movie or Miniseries
Justin Kirk, Angels in America (HBO)
Paul Newman, Our Town (Showtime)
Al Pacino, Angels in America (HBO)
Forest Whitaker, Deacons for Defense (Showtime)
Jeffrey Wright, Angels in America (HBO)
Actress, Television Movie or Miniseries
Anne Bancroft, Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Showtime)
Helen Mirren, Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Showtime)
Mary-Louise Parker, Angels in America (HBO)
Meryl Streep, Angels in America (HBO)
Emma Thompson, Angels in America (HBO)
Actor, Drama
Peter Krause, Six Feet Under (HBO)
Anthony LaPaglia, WIthout a Trace (CBS)
Martin Sheen, The West Wing (NBC)
Kiefer Sutherland, 24 (FOX)
Treat Williams, Everwood (The WB)
Actress, Drama
Stockard Channing, The West Wing (NBC)
Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under (HBO)
Tyne Daly, Judging Amy (CBS)
Jennifer Garner, Alias (ABC)
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
Allison Janney, The West Wing (NBC)
Actor, Comedy
Peter Boyle, Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS)
Brad Garrett, Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS)
Sean Hayes, Will & Grace (NBC)
Ray Romano, Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS)
Tony Shalhoub, Monk (USA)
Actress, Comedy
Patricia Heaton, Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS)
Lisa Kudrow, Friends (NBC)
Debra Messing, Will & Grace (NBC)
Megan Mullally, Will & Grace (NBC)
Doris Roberts, Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS)
Cast, Drama
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, (CBS)
Law & Order, (NBC)
Six Feet Under,(HBO)
The West Wing (NBC)
Without A Trace (CBS)
Cast, Comedy
Everybody Loves Raymond
Frasier
Friends
Sex and the City
Will & Grace
Date in print: Fri., Jan. 16, 2004
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DR Jay: How did you get the vibes to go both ways?
Actually they are making me dizzzy. But it's very cool.
I understand Jay has had a great deal of experience getting things to go both ways.
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DR Jay: How did you get the vibes to go both ways?
Actually they are making me dizzzy. But it's very cool.
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]First you select your text.[/move]
[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Then you click on the moving marquee button (<-M.)[/move]
[move=up,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Then you change where it says "left" to "right." You can also do "up" and "down."[/move]
[move=down,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Too cool for words, eh?[/move]
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I am so FULL. I have been having a very Kafkaesque time trying to renew our chat room.
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Ahem... ahem...
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YEA! I feel so... so... powerful!
Okay - where's all those bolts of lightening I was promised? I have some smiteing to take care of :D
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I find the SAG awards one big ol' joke.
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what? I needed to do 501?!?
now how is THAT for an anticlimax?
I should now be OFFICIALLY in the divine inner circle :D
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I find the SAG awards one big ol' joke.
Bigger than the Golden Globes? At least SAG recognized The Station Agent for the fine film it is.
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To keep my post from getting too long, thank you to all who congratulated me. One of these days I will get more creative with my posts. Some of those were great.
Ben, nice photo
JRand, behind the glasses and under the hair you were very handsome.
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OMG I think I'm going to kill you. That made me so dizzy :)
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For those who are interested, here are the Screen Actors Guild Nominations:
Actress
Patricia Clarkson, The Station Agent (Miramax)
Diane Keaton, Something's Gotta Give (Columbia)
Charlize Theron, Monster (Newmarket)
Naomi Watts, 21 Grams (Focus)
Evan Rachel Wood, Thirteen (Fox Searchlight)
I can't tell you how disappointed I am that Tomovoz's illegitimate niece, Nicole Kidman, didn't receive a single nomination for anything!
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OMG I think I'm going to kill you. That made me so dizzy :)
My sentiments exactly! :)
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Michael, those short naps are very beneficial.
I'm a little slow on the uptake tonight, but HUH?????
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Yeah goddess Emily. And then there were three.
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Emily how wonderful you were able to join me so quickly! :)
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I'm a little slow on the uptake tonight, but HUH?????
We discussed Amy Camus a page or two before your question. I thought you were trying to be funny. Sorry!
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I can't tell you how disappointed I am that Tomovoz's illegitimate niece, Nicole Kidman, didn't receive a single nomination for anything!
And neither was Tomovoz's illegitimate niece, Nicole Kidman, exhusband Tom Cruise.
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I have never read a Michael Shayne novel. Which one shall I begin with?
Danise thank you for posting the karma fairy. She is sooo cute!
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Where are the up/down and left/right buttons?[/move]
No buttons. When you select your text for movement and click on the marquee button, the gibberish that comes up surrounding your text begins "move=left." You can change "left" to "right," "up" or "down."
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Perhaps someone has realised just how difficult it is to compete with the acting talents of Cruise and Kidman so they are now ineligible.
Seriously: Cate Blanchette, Naomi Watts, Miranda Otto, Rachel Griffiths, Toni Collette: Actresses supreme.
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OMG I think I'm going to kill you. That made me so dizzy :)
We'll call it Murder at HHW.
Shall we do it as a musical? I've always wanted to be in a show, even if I get knocked off in the first act.
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Congratulations Emily. Welcome to your particular cloud with its own special views of your choosing.
BTW: Who is the man masquerading as TCB?
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I have never read Michael Shayne novel. Which one shall I begin with?
Danise thank you for posting the karma fairy. She is sooo cute!
Any of the early ones that were actually written by "Brett Halliday"
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GOOD VIBES[/size]
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We discussed Amy Camus a page or two before your question. I thought you were trying to be funny. Sorry!
No problem I must have missed it. I will go back and take a look>
And what about your twin????
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I was certainly not disappointed and I was certainly not aware that Sam and Froddo were crying too much! I was amazed at the inventiveness of the Battle scenes - they did not see like LOTR TT revisited. I was also pleased to see the endings as I remember them. It would have been too easy for go for just one. The very first scene was a total surprise - a great way to start. (I thought I was about to see "A River Runs thought It").
I agree with you and was in awe of the Battle scenes. I thought the movie was great and definitely worth the wait. It has been over thirty years since Keith and I read the trilogy and we did not remember the same ending. For us the book ended a bit sooner. Now I want to reread the books, or at least the ending, and cannot find our copies. I think our son has them. :-\
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I am so FULL.
You don't know from FULL. I just opened a package my cousin sent from Switzerland. It was full of marzipan - my favorite - FAVORITE, you hear? Oy (I'm rehearsing for Golde) did I fress! It was so good! That's it, no more, self-control. The rest I take to my dear daughter for her birthday.
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OMG I think I'm going to kill you. That made me so dizzy :)
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]JAY! You stop that this instant![/move]
[move=down,scroll,6,transparent,100%]JAY! You stop that this instant![/move]
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I agree with you and was in awe of the Battle scenes. I thought the movie was great and definitely worth the wait. It has been over thirty years since Keith and I read the trilogy and we did not remember the same ending. For us the book ended a bit sooner. Now I want to reread the books, or at least the ending, and cannot find our copies. I think our son has them. :-\
Actually, Jane, except for the ships sailing to the Grey Havens, we missed a big chunk of the last part of the book. There was a chapter called "The Scourging of the Shire" in which the Hobbits return to Hobbiton and find it overrun with all sorts of disreputable characters and they have to clean everything up. I'm hoping against hope that Jackson filmed some of that for the expanded release.
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I find the SAG awards one big ol' joke.
All awards shows are a big ol' joke - some more so than others. But they're fun.
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I just opened a package my cousin sent from Switzerland. It was full of marzipan - my favorite -
I am so jealous!!!
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DR Jane: My memory may just be of how I wanted the books to end! It is over 30 years ago for me too. We were such advance readers in our kindergartens. I shall probably have a quick look at a copy when I am next in a book shop.
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Congratulations Emily. Welcome to your particular cloud with its own special views of your choosing.
BTW: Who is the man masquerading as TCB?
I don't know. He has Sir Ian McKellen's eyes, and I'm guessing Sir Ian would like to have them back.
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Actually, Jane, except for the ships sailing to the Grey Havens, we missed a big chunk of the last part of the book. There was a chapter called "The Scourging of the Shire" in which the Hobbits return to Hobbiton and find it overrun with all sorts of disreputable characters and they have to clean everything up. I'm hoping against hope that Jackson filmed some of that for the expanded release.
I must reread this book!
Jennifer I emailed you the recipe.
My eyes can’t take anymore of these games. ::) I’m going to watch something with Keith.
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I'm hoping against hope that Jackson filmed some of that for the expanded release.
Don't get me wrong. I thought TLOTR: TROTK was a good picture. But it is beyond me that a movie that lasts three hours and twenty minutes should warrant an "expanded" release.
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Thank you for the good vibes, all! I can feel them heading my way and doing great things.
TCB - Didn't realize that was YOU in the new picture for quite a few postings! I didn't look at the name and thought it was a distinguished looking new member.
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I have the feeling that Mr Jackson won't disappoint you DR Ron. I"m hoping that at a Kiwi (if they still accept such things) he is granted a Knighthood for what he has given to cinema.
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CONGRATULATIONS,
GODDESS EMILY!
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No problem I must have missed it. I will go back and take a look>
And what about your twin????
I must confess that I don't know who the man is in the other picture.
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Don't get me wrong. I thought TLOTR: TROTK was a good picture. But it is beyond me that a movie that lasts three hours and twenty minutes should warrant an "expanded" release.
It's simply wanting the books filmed as completely as possible, Jay.
TROTK is a very long movie. It's an even longer book. I think Charles Pogue's argument about the battles being one too many has merit when you consider how long one sits and watches in a theater full of people who don't know the book...but I'll not naysay Jackson's determination to present as much of Tolkien's story with as much faithfulness as possible. The expanded versions of the first two films are far superior to the theatrical versions, and Jackson had the expanded versions prepared the same way he prepared for theatrical release.
I was emotionally drained for days after TROTK. It still moves me when I think of certain scenes.
Sean Astin is a-m-a-z-i-n-g and he'll probably never be properly credited for what he brought to the third film -- certainly not by his peers, of which there are few who have ever turned in a performance like Astin's.
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Just read that the DVD release of New Faces of 1952 is going to be released later this month. Anyone know anything about the release? I fear that it might be a public domain cheapie.
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I don't know. He has Sir Ian McKellen's eyes, and I'm guessing Sir Ian would like to have them back.
Can I have Sir Ian's boy toy?
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TCB - Didn't realize that was YOU in the new picture for quite a few postings! I didn't look at the name and thought it was a distinguished looking new member.
Thank you, DR Panni. I am disappointed that I couldn't get your "Good Vibes" to move on my home computer. It works when I do it at work (which is why they call it work) But, you can be sure, the thought was just as sincere.
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Is this a lull???
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So who is my twin? And yes, this is a lull.
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[move=up,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Happy Ascension, Emily![/move]
(Never could resist a good visual pun. ;D)
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Panni....marzipan....YUMMMM!
JRand...I hope you still have those glasses...they are back in style!
Emily is one of us...goobo gabbo...one of us...one of us... (or however they say it in that movie!)
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I agree completely about the award shows. They're wonderful for publicity purposes, and much fun for the audience as long as you don't take them too seriously and begin to believe that they actually stand for SOMETHING.
That said, I still find them fascinating.
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DR TCB, your twin is movie director Robert Altman.
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The only thing I hate about those NBC ads is the oh-so-serious voice of the announcer talking in reverent, hushed tones as if he's saying something profound. It's so phony!
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Well, that's okay. I haven't won a Best Director Oscar either.
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TCB...you can direct if you want...just pick good craft services.....<G>
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Congrats to all the new gods/goddeses.....since last logged on.....lightening bolts....are very kewl...aim north of Mar Vista please....<G>
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Greetings from New York City again!
It's cold here.
Nice day of checking out a few shops on Fifth Avenue - and one store actually let me return something that I had bought back in August, but had exchanged for the same item in September since it didn't work properly, then when I got it home I found out the new one didn't work properly either... So, after some discussions with two very friendly salespeople, they allowed me to return the item and get store credit! -For something I bought back in August!! Now that's service!!! -Thank You, Takashimaya! domo arigato gozaimasu
Well, then came the first walk back to the hotel in the cold. The sun had started to set, and once we crossed 9th Avenue, it was like we had entered a whole new world - a whole new COLDER world. The wind picked up, the temp dropped, and snow was blowing off all the rooftops and awnings. But we made it back safe and sound.
It's cold here in NYC right now.
After an hour of defrosting - and eating some more yummy treats from Amy's Breads (as well as some very good hot chocolate (made with whole milk, thank you very much)), we headed over Ollie's Noodles for some dinner. Good dinner. And the walk over wasn't too bad.
It is cold here in New York right now.
After dinner, we had some time to kill, so we headed over to Toys 'R' Us for some pre-show browsing - and to stay warm. And, I ended up running into a few friends who were also just trying to stay someplace warm. ;) Then it was over to theatre.
The walk over wasn't too bad, but I could definitely tell that the temp had dropped a few more points.
-Did I mention that it's cold here in NYC?
Well... All I will say about AVENUE Q is... ;D What a wonderful show. Very tuneful, great cast, great technical elements, and the puppets and puppeteers are wonderful. Oh, and the show is VERY funny too, and touching at times too. It's very real. Steve and I - and the rest of the audience - were laughing out loud many a time throughout the evening. *And I have to give the writers and actors some credit for making sure not too many jokes got lost due to people still laughing at a previous joke. Oh, and I didn't realize that an actress who I worked with in DC last year during CARMEN JONES was in this production, Natalie Belcon. She plays Gary Coleman. ;) -And Barret Foa was on for John Tartaglia tonight - wonderful job, and no "sense" of him being the understudy - a true performance. -And I believe he had family and friends in the audience tonight as well. -Oh, and he's very cute too.
-And the celebrity sighting for the day took place at the Golden Theatre - Elijah Wood was also enjoying the show tonight. I thought I had seen him, but had some doubts when no one else was noticing/ paying attention to him. But on the way out afterwards, people started "oohing" and "aahing" - it was him. And as we were waiting at the stage door, my "suspicions" were confirmed.
Oh, it's cold here in NYC. In fact, it may even be "Montreal Cold". -That was for you DCRs - Dear Canadian Readers. ;)
Now... The walk back to the hotel this time was actually a little painful. The temp had dropped even more, the wind picked up here and there... Steve and I had to stop once since our eyes and foreheads were getting "chilled" due to out metal eyeglass frames! We also slowed our pace down in order to reduce our own wind chill. Thankfully, the hotel room is nice and warm - and I made sure to buy some extra treats earlier for a post-show snack.
But, seriously, it is cold out there right now - and they may even set a new record low tonight here in NYC. My thoughts are with everyone who may have to brave the cold tonight - and I hope that DR Jason does not have to wait too long for his subway trains tonight after he gets done at the Met.
Well, I'm gonna do some skimming of today's notes...
But before I go:
Fiddler - Drew Carey
Golde - The actress who played his scary secretary on the Drew Carey Show - Kathy Kinney - ???
Yente - Harvey Fierstein
-That's all my still defrosting mind can come up with right now...
Oh, I forgot to mention, it's cold here in NYC.
BUT - We are having a grand time. A truly grand time. -And the temps will be warming up as the weekend progresses! We're going to be breaking the 20 degree mark! :)
Goodnight.
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Think BK likes lightening bolts in the night....but I might be wrong.....
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Well, I have liked some of Robert Altman's films and others I liked parts of more than the whole. I will also readily admit that there are quite a few I've never seen. When I see them coming up on one of the premium channels, I try to remind myself to watch it, but I usually forget. I guess I assume I'll catch up with them eventually, and that's just not true. I would most like to see SHORT CUTS which got lots of very positive reactions from folks I know. I've never managed to catch it. One day . . . .
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Is it COLD in NYC Jose?....I did't get that part.....<wink>
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MattH...Three Women was a watershed in my movie experience....it was boring....long confusing....but so damned enthralling....made me love movies
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How about QUINTET? I've heard watching that is like watching paint dry. Yet, I'd like to give it a try. The Fox Movie Channels runs it occasionally, but I don't have FMC any more, sad to say.
Another of his I WOULD like to see is THIEVES LIKE US.
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Well, that's it for me today. Off to slumberland, and will back tomorrow morning to read the next 352 posts that will no doubt be posted once I leave. Good night.
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Think I like Quintet....but let me check my movies.....geez.....<G>
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Sorry....can't remember Quintet....maybe in the black hole that was some years ago....but I LOVED Gosford Park.....for what it was
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I would most like to see SHORT CUTS which got lots of very positive reactions from folks I know. I've never managed to catch it. One day . . . .
SHORT CUTS- excellent film - although it left me depressed for days. Do try and see it.
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sorry a lot of the country is FREEZING......tomorrow is gonna be like 72...and cold in Los Angeles.....and maybe 76 on Saturday...
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love short cuts....panni
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puppers walked....and everything came out okay?
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every one here has that film that they love most...would love to get everyone into the remodled AERO Theater.....in Santa Monica....and watch pristine prints.....(with snacks....drinks....and bullshit....)....and see 'em all
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I HATE MARZIPAN. I am back after a brief sojourn with the final episodes of season one Curb Your Enthusiasm.
And what a lovely number of lovely posts. And one other thing: I HATE MARZIPAN.
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you hate proust?.....
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Hate marzipan???? Oh, no, Bruce! so sorry. It is one of the great loves of my carb-deprived life.
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Wax lips are NOT marzipan.....<G>
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They're NOT? oy.
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I HATE MARZIPAN. I love PennyO
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In fact, I don't think there's anyone named Penny that I haven't loved. That's very interesting, now that I think of it.
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I can't tell you how disappointed I am that Tomovoz's illegitimate niece, Nicole Kidman, didn't receive a single nomination for anything!
Well, I was working my way through these long, long notes following a fun rehearsal which was preceded by a NOT FUN DRIVE THROUGH SNOW AND ICE, and DR TCB's (He of the gorgeous new photo) response seemed to beg for a response:
It just show to go ya that those voters at SAG are people with exquisite taste!
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wonder how Bruce feels about "one cent"....isn't that rapper or wanna be?
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I HATE MARZIPAN.
Good. Leaves more for me. On that note, night all.
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Soon I believe our late-night denizens will arrive and then we shall have more fun than you can shake a stick at.
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Oh, and I'm still FULL and I still HATE MARZIPAN.
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Actually, Jane, except for the ships sailing to the Grey Havens, we missed a big chunk of the last part of the book. There was a chapter called "The Scourging of the Shire" in which the Hobbits return to Hobbiton and find it overrun with all sorts of disreputable characters and they have to clean everything up. I'm hoping against hope that Jackson filmed some of that for the expanded release.
He didn't.
What you see in FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING is the only footage Jackson shot of "The Scourging of the Shire."
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jbelles you are too obtuse even for the obtuse me.
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making a marzipan tribute to Guy Haines.....His Way......(nibbling off the way....so it just says WA........go figure)
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Obtuse?.....you mean there are RULES here?.....should be INtuse?.....Extuse.....TresTuse........I'm me BK....and sometimes lucid.......<G>
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Well, I have liked some of Robert Altman's films and others I liked parts of more than the whole. I will also readily admit that there are quite a few I've never seen. When I see them coming up on one of the premium channels, I try to remind myself to watch it, but I usually forget. I guess I assume I'll catch up with them eventually, and that's just not true. I would most like to see SHORT CUTS which got lots of very positive reactions from folks I know. I've never managed to catch it. One day . . . .
For the most part, I have loved Altman's films. Then you get stuff like H.E.A.L.T.H, POPEYE (yes, i recently watched it on dvd. .. and it still stinks), READY TO WEAR. . .and a few others which have thankfully been forgotten at this moment, BUT:
GOSFORD PARK
THREE WOMEN
IMAGES
CALIFORNIA SPLIT
NASHVILLE
M*A*S*H
A WEDDING
NASHVILLE
THE LONG GOODBYE
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER
Yoowzah! ! ! !
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I liked Popeye....just cause of shelly duval as Olive Oyl.....
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Inspired casting, insipid script and direction, though.
POPEYE is usually listed as Robin Williams' film debut, but, didn't he do a couple of indies before hand?
Speaking of Indies. . .
I remember Alfred Molina from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
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BK: do you still hate Marzipan?
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I remember Quintet. I wish I didn't.
Whoever thinks Paul Newman can't turn in a bad performance should see this film. Of course, everyone else involved should be embarassed by it, as well.
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Garp was Robin's first film....wasn't it?.....and Glenn Closes best performance.....
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Well, I was working my way through these long, long notes following a fun rehearsal which was preceded by a NOT FUN DRIVE THROUGH SNOW AND ICE, and DR TCB's (He of the gorgeous new photo) response seemed to beg for a response:
It just show to go ya that those voters at SAG are people with exquisite taste!
just like us td.
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Inspired casting, insipid script and direction, though.
POPEYE is usually listed as Robin Williams' film debut, but, didn't he do a couple of indies before hand?
No, I believe Williams had only done television prior to Popeye. Played second banana to that Pam Dawber chick in The Adventures of Mindy. ;)
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Popeye was in '80, Garp in '82.
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Inspired casting, insipid script and direction, though.
POPEYE is usually listed as Robin Williams' film debut, but, didn't he do a couple of indies before hand?
I was working with him at the time, and am pretty sure he did no movies before Popeye. His second film - and it's a good one - was The World According To Garp.
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Late-night denizens! I HATE MARZIPAN. I do like See's Dark Chocolate Nuts and Chews though.
jbelles, you just be you, no one is asking you to be anyone but you. the fact that you are more obtuse than even the obtuse I or me is not a criticism. It is a statement. Here is another statement: I HATE MARZIPAN. Be happy your statement isn't in caps.
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I remember Quintet. I wish I didn't.
Whoever thinks Paul Newman can't turn in a bad performance should see this film. Of course, everyone else involved should be embarassed by it, as well.
Then of course, Newman did right with Altman in BUFFALO BILL'S HISTORY LESSON. . OR something about Bill and Sitting Bull. . .
Oh, yes, DR Tomovoz, you AND i have exquisite taste, too! Kennedy is a major player in this house. . .
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Obtuse is a good thing on HHW!
I can be quite obtuse, too.
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You like it you really like it? I love it. Kennedy.
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bowing to Popeye as williams first movie....but GARP as first FILM.......eating Marzipan....just to PISS BK off....YUM
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uhhh....I don't really LIKE Marzipan....but it' so much fun....when I have to ...(but that's just me)
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You like it you really like it? I love it. Kennedy.
Yes, I like it, I really really like it!
Oh, and drs one and all, for the record:
Robin Williams film debut is in the 1979 *comedy,* CAN I DO IT 'TILL I NEED GLASSES?
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An add on after the film's release to cash in on his Mork fame! (Maltin)
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I haven't seen a Robert Altman movie since I saw M*A*S*H when I was a kid. I don't know why, I just haven't...although I have nothing against them.
Every time that I've had marzipan was like eating gritty, cherry-flavored paste. I didn't enjoy it. I suppose that I'll try it again, sometime, but I only if someone else has it and offers me some. I won't buy any myself...unlike another try at Taco Del Mar's fish taco. I will try that again.
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I'm back. Can't read, too hyper from the marzipan.
bk - you may never have had really good fresh marzipan covered in really good dark chocolate. Bad, too sweet, dry marzipan is HORRIBLE.
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Don't believe I've ever had marzipan.
As for painful film debuts, forget Williams and Popeye. Take a look at Tom Hanks' first movie, He Knows You're Alone. Now there's some laughable cinema! :D
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Every time that I've had marzipan was like eating gritty, cherry-flavored paste. I didn't enjoy it.
Consult my note to bk. End of my comments on marzipan.
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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, released in '76, was based on Arthur Kopit's play Indians. Fascinating play. Stinko film.
Quintet followed in '79.
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OK, before I retire (I know, it's kind of late. I had serious homework to do), I have two questions that may be stupid, but I want the answers anyway.
1) Can someone explain "house seats" to me? How are they different from any other seats?!
2) What the HELL is Marzipan? The only reason I've ever even heard that word is because of homestarrunner.com. Homestar's friend is named Marzipan.
Conan O'Brien always makes me laugh. I love reliable TV.
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My, aren't I being the history guy tonight! :D
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I believe marzipan is basically almond paste with sugar!
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I didn't like Altman's new film, THE COMPANY. I expected to like it - I love backstage films, love ballet (wanted to be a ballerina) - so it seemed a perfect fit. But it just didn't work for me.
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I just pulled this from the Food Network site:
Marzipan
Definition: [MAHR-zih-pan] A sweet, pliable mixture of almond paste, sugar and sometimes unbeaten egg whites. It's often tinted with food coloring and molded into a variety of forms including fruits, animals and holiday shapes. Some fancy commercial marzipan fruit is colored so convincingly that it can almost be mistaken for the real thing. Marzipan is also rolled into thin sheets and used either to cover cakes or to cut into strips to form ribbons, bows and a variety of other shapes. Marzipan is available in most supermarkets, packaged in cans or plastic-wrapped logs.
Tomovoz scores virtual karma for getting there first.
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2) What the HELL is Marzipan?
From Google:
The best marzipan recipes use a two to one ratio of almonds and sugar. The old masters don't consider a mix that contains more than half sugar as true marzipan. A trick used to make really great marzipan is to use 1 bitter almond to every 100 good almonds in the almond mix. If you've ever tasted a bitter almond, you understand how only one can have a serious effect. The smallest taste is an extremely gross experience you won't soon forget. A bitter almond uniquely alters the recipe and is always used in the best almond paste used in marzipan. One note about bitter almonds: do not be eat them in large amounts because they contain to trace amounts of cyanide.
....According to the last sentence I should be dead now.
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What! No-one wants to explain "house seats". In Oz they are very good seats not on sale to the general public unless not taken up by friends of producers, cast members etc at a good price (or free). Usually about four row back and centre as a rule.
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Good way to die Panni. One should always serve almond biscuits when lacing tea with cyanide. (a Jodie Foster reference).
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Didn't bother with house seats, Tomovoz, because I thought everyone would jump in.
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I like Halvah. House seats for Broadway shows are held by actors, the director, the choreographer, the producers, the conductor and I'm sure others. They must reserve the use of them forty-eight hours or the box-office lets them go, which is frequently why you can walk up to the box-office on the day of a show (around five pm) and get great seats. If all the house seats are gone, they do keep an emergency pair until just hours before curtain for the producer. For example, I sat in Mr. Macintosh's seats for Miss Saigon when I saw it, thanks to Mr. Maltby.
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When I chew Halvah it makes me shiver.
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We may be the only ones awake Panni. I assume my "house seats" comment was accurate enough. We sometimes have "cultural differences". (Despite the fact that Oz in in the SW corner of Washington state).
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...So I don't.
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...So I don't.
That was about chewing halvah.
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Thanks for the clarification BK.
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Eating time in the land of OZ. See you on tomorrow's notes. Good night all.
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I just filed my income tax return by TeleFile! Last year it only took (I think) 10 days to get my refund! I hope it doesn't take any longer this year...I mean I really hope it doesn't take more than that...and less would be much better. This is one instance where less really is more! ;D
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This time I really am saying Good-night.
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The last of my (latest) eBay purchases have arrived (and I hope they're worth it): CDs of Anything Goes "Featuring Members Of The Original London & Broadway Casts" with Jeanne Aubert on the first eight tracks and The Merm on the rest (in the "Bonus Tracks" section) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Carol Channing and Yvonne Adair. Both CDs are part of "The Broadway Musicals Series" on Prism Leisure from England (although I got them from someone in Oregon). The various Anything Goes tracks were recorded between 1934 and 1939. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was recorded in 1949.
I've listened to the first few tracks of Blondes and so far so good. I don't know what to expect. I'm sure my standards are low enough that I will be satisfied with them. So far I am. The transaction went well and they arrived quickly...good enough for me.
I also received a region 2 DVD of a live Martine McCutcheon concert. She was Eliza in the latest London revival of My Fair Lady. So those are the things that I'll have in my CD player and DVD player tomorrow. :D
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And with that, I'll say goodnight. So, Goodnight!
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I'm up, I'm up. What am I doing, a monologue?
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What happened to our late-night denizens? Geez.
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We'll have to change your names from Kimlets to Wusslets.