DR Charles Pogue, I am as jealous of you...still have yet to even be in the same room with HE. You must regale us with tales of the bread-breaking.Even though I would tower over him, I'd probably find Elison to be intimidating to the point of being speechless. Not so der Brucer, who would engage the writer in a very lively conversation, I'm sure. The question would become, how can anyone other than these two get a word in edgewise?
DR Charles Pogue, I am as jealous of you as I know how to be! I've met Neil Gaiman a couple of times, now, but still have yet to even be in the same room with HE. You must regale us with tales of the bread-breaking. If nothing very interesting happened, invent something!
Re: The Secret of Dr. Kildare. Well I know I personally was shocked....SHOCKED to discover that Richard Chamberlain was.....
fabula and syuzhet.
If it's not a medical flare-up at that time of day (depending on when meal times are), then your lovely dog knows that you're a sucker for such things and knows he can get away with it with you.
Dogs and kids both know that they can get away with things with me that they couldn't get away with DRMusicGuy.
That is my uneducated but very much experienced guess. You and I need to learn to be firmer and butcher in such cases
The prose was denser than a Kevlar flak jacket, full of such words as "diegetic," "heterogeneity," "narratology," "narrativity," "symptomology," "scopophilia," "signifier," "syntagmatic," "synecdoche," "temporality." I picked out two of the--"fabula" and "syuzhet"--and asked Alexis if she knew what they meant. "They're the Russian Formalist terms for 'story' and 'plot,' " she replied.
"Well then, why don't they use 'story' and 'plot?' "
"We're not allowed to. If we do, they take points off our paper. We have to use 'fabula' and 'syuzhet." "
So what would it mean DRRLP if we have non-diegetic music in our lives?
Re: The Secret of Dr. Kildare. Well I know I personally was shocked....SHOCKED to discover that Richard Chamberlain was........Hiding all this time that his first name is really George.
(finish as you will)
It seems the FIDDLER reviews (which I read after my prior posting) were all comparing this version to the Robbins version. I'd like to read a review from someone seeing the show for the first time. I get the impression that this is a FIDDLER for people who never saw it in its original staging.
DIEGESIS: A narrative's time-space continuum, to borrow a term from Star Trek.What
DR S. Woody, sorry you don't like the score to OLIVER! I think it's magnificent.
Now who can define "synectoche"? Any scholars of Aristotle's Poetics out there?A scholar of Aristotle I ain't. (Wasn't he married to Jackie Kennedy?) And I haven't read his Poetics since theater school. I still have a marked up copy of it somewhere around here. But, I do believe that synecdoche means a kind of metaphor in which you represent the whole thing by citing one part or vice versa. For example, head of cattle for many cows, or conversely "the law" for one lonely cop.
...But, I do believe that synecdoche means a kind of metaphor in which you represent the whole thing by citing one part or vice versa. For example, head of cattle for many cows, or conversely "the law" for one lonely cop.OH! A symbolic fractal!
The term "diegetic" has been taken up by some in the musical theatre. A diegetic song in a show is something like say "Cabaret" or "Let Me Entertain You", where the characters are actually singing in their real lives, as opposed to "book songs" (there is surely a fancy Greek word for that too?). You could say all the songs in The Dead and the film of Cabaret are diegetic.Another example would be the musical version of Goodbye Mr. Chips
OH! A symbolic fractal!
before Archie's condition, this wasn't only dinner and play time, but dessert time. Now, following the vet's strict orders, there's to be no dessert (i.e., dog treats) - only the specified dog food. Maybe that's why he's so agitated.
I would agree with you 100% DR TCB if I had not once seen Hamlet dressed in black leather hotpants spinning on a wheel yelling "To be or not to be...."
I'll have to do my media check later, mainly because I don't have anything to report.
Anyway, speaking of Fiddler On the Roof, I don't know if this has been mentioned yet (I'm only up to page 2), but Playbill.com reported that Sister of Jerome Robbins Dies at Fiddler's Opening Night (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/84638.html). Shades of 42nd Street.
Factoid of the day and then I must work. Did you know that when you crack bones (knuckles, toes, etc) what you are hearing is not the sound of actual bones cracking -- that would be terribly painful. You are hearing the release of gas trapped between the joints.
Okay - let's see who's first with the fart jokes.
Oh, just to get Jane going:
Butter melted into the toast, then melt the peanut butter a little bit on top of each slice in the toaster oven. Cover with honey, add sliced onions, slap the bread together. Heaven!
GROSS! GROSS! GROSS! ;D ;D ;D
That is, except for two hours between about four and six in the afternoon - every afternoon - when he barks continuously. I've tried an extra walk, extra food, extra playtime - but he just gets himself more and more agitated. Then, suddenly, he calms down. What's giving me a complex is that he responds to Gord's (deeper) "Archie, NO!" but becomes still barkier when I say it. The vet thinks it might be a hearing problem, but couldn't come up with any other explanation. Ideas about what I can do to calm Archie down?
Dan (the Man) I have read of that favorite Eskimo treat, made with whale fat or something comparable.
I did a quick google search and couldn’t find anything, but didn’t the Galloping Gourmet have to change his style of cooking due to heart problems
The next person I hear say that Sondheim is easy is going to get bitch-slapped.After doing 3 recitals of the guy's music (about 50 songs in all), I wouldn't dare say such a thing, TCB!
I don't know what I did, but I pulled the damned thing lying in bed!Now now, BK. Keep that up and you'll go blind! :o
Dan (the Man) I have read of that favorite Eskimo treat, made with whale fat or something comparable.
I did a quick google search and couldn’t find anything, but didn’t the Galloping Gourmet have to change his style of cooking due to heart problems
Yes, Graham Kerr, quit drinking, found God, moved to Tacoma, and started cooking healthy meals. What is wrong with this picture?
It's boring!
I sometimes long for the days when I dreamed of being a failed playwright living in Paris who smoked and drank and whored his days away, while his unused typewriter sat on his desk waiting to be sold to supply a nasty cocaine habit.
Those were the days, my friend.
We thought they'd never end,
We'd sing and dance forever and a day...
I believe Panni is a March baby.
Why should this new version of Fiddler on the Roof have to be the same as Jerome Robbins' Fiddler? After 400+ years, the critics seem to cheer if a Shakespeare production successfully reinvents itself, but if it is a show from our lifetime, the original is apparently sacred. I agree with you, WEL, I want to know what those who have never seen the show thought of this production.
Now I did not say that I cheered at each reinvention of Shakespeare (having personally endured Christopher Walken's gold lame Hamlet), but rather the critics seem to cheer. Some of these attempts work better than others. As George would agree, the rock 'n roll Twelfth Night is a wonderful show. Some others I have been involved with, The Tempest set in the Louisiana bayou, just don't seem to work at all. At the same time, nobody is going to complain that the choreography in a new production of Romeo and Juliet is wrong, because it isn't Bill Shakespeare's original design. So why should every new Fiddler have to pay hommage to Mr. Robbins?
Is that why so many pianists stink?
Yes, Graham Kerr, quit drinking, found God, moved to Tacoma, and started cooking healthy meals. What is wrong with this picture?
Now for a trivia question. Name the show that features the flattering lyric:
"You're packed as solid as a knish."
Dan (the Man) I have read of that favorite Eskimo treat, made with whale fat or something comparable.
Ah okay it's NEXT thursday.
And I actually did look at the March calendar before posting. But I guess Echo's week long birthday listings confused me :)
btw, when is Echo's actual birthday? :)
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Bought my Le Miz tickets today. I'll get to see that the weekend after I come home from Utah.
Remember to potty first! The first Act is a bladder buster!
Now I did not say that I cheered at each reinvention of Shakespeare (having personally endured Christopher Walken's gold lame Hamlet), but rather the critics seem to cheer. Some of these attempts work better than others. As George would agree, the rock 'n roll Twelfth Night is a wonderful show. Some others I have been involved with, The Tempest set in the Louisiana bayou, just don't seem to work at all. At the same time, nobody is going to complain that the choreography in a new production of Romeo and Juliet is wrong, because it isn't Bill Shakespeare's original design. So why should every new Fiddler have to pay hommage to Mr. Robbins?
I don't think that they pay homage to Robbins, but for other Jerome Robbins shows (WSS & Gypsy), you either HAVE to do his choreography or it's at least notated and available (for unimaginitive directors) to do. Just about any other show (IMLE..."In My Limited Experience" in Internet lingo) allows directors, producers and choreographers to do whatever the hell they want with the staging and/or choreography. It engenders the (limiting) mindset that certain shows can only be done certain ways.
And yes, R&R 12th Night is wonderful! ;D
Re: Peter Kastner!! Does anyone remember his short-lived sitcom The Ugliest Girl in the World? He cross-dressed and became a famous fashion model.
HHW has once again made my eating decisions for me. After the talk of them today, I just had a lovely peanut butter and onion sandwich! :D And, yes, butter too... most always butter on my pb sandwiches.
Not quite brave enough to try MBarnum's PB & mayo yet... :-\
LOOK WHAT I FOUND//////////////
The Lost Bruce Kimmel show
If I Had a Million
Comedy, 52min
Ruth McDevitt, John Schuck, Joseph Wiseman Bruce Kimmel Peter Kastner
a trivia question. Name the show that features the flattering lyric:
"You're packed as solid as a knish."
Right...cause 'mayo' is a big YUCK when you think of peanut butter with onion....!
I played Kennedy's son.Good casting. You look exactly like him.
Here's Michael's next challenge - the name of the pilot I did with George Kennedy and Anne Schedeen for CBS. I can never remember the name of it. It was created by Elliot Schoenman who would later create Cosby, directed by Charles Dubin. I played Kennedy's son.
Who starred in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie (I think it was his first) and what was the movie's title? There is a clue in one of the recent posts.
Dementia 13. I think he had a hand in two earlier films though. There was a mention of Finian's Rainbow on today's posts too. I am of course quite comfortabe with dementia.
Who starred in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie (I think it was his first) and what was the movie's title? There is a clue in one of the recent posts.
What do you think of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS in a Vegas like setting?
...I sometimes long for the days when I dreamed of being a failed playwright living in Paris who smoked and drank and whored his days away, while his unused typewriter sat on his desk waiting to be sold to supply a nasty cocaine habit.So instead you're living in Philly?
W Julie Amato Show and which I made my TV debut in. She sang it to meAre you a Canadian?
Re: Peter Kastner!! Does anyone remember his short-lived sitcom The Ugliest Girl in the World? He cross-dressed and became a famous fashion model.For some reason, instead of Peter Kastner I first thought of Kurt Kasznar. Which would have been interesting casting for that series, indeed!
Are you a Canadian?
I'm watching Camp. I'm afraid I'm going to have a minority opinion on it, so if you love this film, skip that paragraph in tomorrow's notes. That is, IF I don't shut it off before it's over.
So instead you're living in Philly?
I'm watching Camp. I'm afraid I'm going to have a minority opinion on it, so if you love this film, skip that paragraph in tomorrow's notes. That is, IF I don't shut it off before it's over.
Panni, yea pretty cool!
TCB our festival has begun. What do you think of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS in a Vegas like setting?