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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were a little bit of heaven or something entirely other, and now it is time for you to post until the heavenly cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: NOVATION!
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Speaking of heaven, I want you to check out these two videos - the first is the American Dance Machine doing the original Joe Layton choreography for a number called Popularity from George M. The lead dancer is Wayne Cilento, but it was originally danced by my pal Gene Castle, and I am here to tell you that Gene's performance of this number was one of the single greatest things I've ever seen on the stage. Wayne is fine, but Gene was genius. And I ask you, is there any choreographer working today that can stage a dance number like this? I'll save you the trouble of answering: No.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7gIAiYTr-k
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And this number from Henry Sweet Henry done by Alice Playton (the girl in blue in the chorus is Pia Zadora) - choreographed by Michael Bennett. Same question and same answer apply.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9BJWpqvjg
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First post. Huzzah!
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What great clips! Of course the answer is NO - not today, at least not right now - although somewhere in this great country someone may be doing it!
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And now I am off to work. Oh well.
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TOD:
Near the end of their lives, Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby recorded an album together.
It might have been fun to be in the the studio when they did that.
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Wonderful clips, bk!!!! :)
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Good morning, all! I had a hard time reading last night's posts this morning: too much cinemascope and too little patience. I read what I could.
BK, sounds like you had a god day, from meeting new fans to getting called out at a performance. I hope today goes equally well. I especally wish Alet and Barry a big success with GUYS & DOLLS tonight.
Today, I have to clean house and vacuum. Around noon, I will head to the East Side to pick up Matthew after his colonoscopy. Depending on how he's feeling, we may see PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. After that, I will come back here, collect today's mail and get ready to head out again. I want to stop by the theatre nd hear how the new Act Two Finale, which is actually the original show finale with a new beginning, played last night and today's matinee. Then, at 9 pm, I have tickets for THE TOYMAKER, one of the NYMF shows, playing at the Theatre at St Clements. I like te writer, and my adopted son Josh did the orchestrations, and I'm going primarily to hear them. Josh's brother Jeremy is playing oboe in the band, so it will be nice to see him afterwards. I have no idea what THE TOYMAKER is about, but I'm sure it has less to do with BABES IN TOYLAND and more to do with something grim. Last spring, Josh recorded numbers from the score with Christianne Noll and some other wonderful singers and I liked what I heard very much.
After the NYMF show, I will take my friend Chris out for his birthday, come home and fall over. Tomorrow is a naughty operetta day.
TOD: too many choices, but I'd choose Julie Andrews recording her album of Music Hall Songs, "Don't Go In The Lion's Cage," and if you don't know this fantastically funny album, you should. Robert Mersey's wonderful arrangements are brassy, funny, and just right, and the album is one of my all-time favorites.
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LOL! Elmore, you beat me to the punch. I was going to mention this album by Julie Andrews and also BROADWAY'S FAIR JULIE recorded after her success with MY FAIR LADY.
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Good morning!
It was raining this morning, so I couldn't go out for my walk; I'll be treadmilling it today instead. Cool and gray today, typically fall.
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Today, work project A (which I likely won't get to until tonight) will be HOME ALONE 2: ALIVE IN NEW YORK. I haven't seen the film in a long, long time, but as I recall it was a mere rehash of the first one with the same villains and the same painful physical slapstick.
The disc appears to be a rush job: no extras of any kind on it listed on the back cover.
And I'll continue watching BONES episode as work project B. I won't get to BONES exclusively until Tuesday, it appears. I have the remake of MIRACLE ON 34th STREET tomorrow and TINKER BELL AND THE LOST TREASURE on Monday.
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Today I hope to be able to finish PROJECT RUNWAY that I only got about 10 minutes into yesterday, and then I'll watch Thursday night's SUPERNATURAL while I eat lunch today.
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LOL! Elmore, you beat me to the punch. I was going to mention this album by Julie Andrews and also BROADWAY'S FAIR JULIE recorded after her success with MY FAIR LADY.
Go ahead and add your thoughts, DR Matt H! Everyone should own a copy of this great album.
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LOL! Elmore, you beat me to the punch. I was going to mention this album by Julie Andrews and also BROADWAY'S FAIR JULIE recorded after her success with MY FAIR LADY.
Go ahead and add your thoughts, DR Matt H! Everyone should own a copy of this great album.
And I have a copy of it, thanks to YOUR great generosity! I never tire of listening to it.
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Now I must tidy up some computer desktop items and then head downstairs to watch some stuff for work and play!
WBBL.
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DRs elmore3003 and Matt H., what is the name of this Julie Andrews album?
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DRs elmore3003 and Matt H., what is the name of this Julie Andrews album?
"Don't Go In The Lion's Cage." I mentioned it in my post.
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Saturday morning greetings! It's cold and sunny here in SW Ohioy - a beautiful autumn day!
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"Don't Go In The Lion's Cage." I mentioned it in my post.
Gotcha! Thanks-
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Spoo! I see the CD release, which was her two Columbia Records albums on one disc is now OP and quite expensive. It might be available from Amazon Japan or elsewhere.
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"Don't Go In The Lion's Cage." I mentioned it in my post.
Gotcha! Thanks-
I was typing fast, DR DAW, so I didn't mean to be as snarky as my post turned out to be.
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To glom onto the Roundabout being so much in the news this weekend, I rushed out a basically-audio-only (and lyrics onscreen) "preview" of the parody of "King of Wishful Thinking" about the Roundabout's Carrie Fisher show WISHFUL DRINKING.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S4STdq9KtU
Since the real song is from the real film PRETTY WOMAN and sung by GO WEST, the parody song is naturally from the hypothetical parody film WITTY WOMAN (it's Carrie Fisher, after all) and sung by GO JEST.
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Sorry for using the exact same language for the above that I'm using on ATC, but I didn't get much sleep last night. i found the Carrie Fisher show, which I saw last night, not only very funny but profoundly moving and disturbing.
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TOD:
The Doris Day/Andre Previn LP.
or The Ethel Merman Disco Album
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And it was nice sleeping in my bed last night instead of trying to sleep on a bus.
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From that particular Julie Andrews LP - I also enjoy:
Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
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R.I.P. Michael Buckley (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/133925-Michael_Buckley_Theatre_Journalist_and_Playbill.com_Columnist_Dies_at_66)
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Good morning. I finally got to sleep in today. I got almost 12 hours of sleep all in a row. Boy did I need it
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Julie Andrews vs. the Osmonds
I mean...er....Julie Andrews AND the Osmonds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnmbst2nuyg
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Dance - see above!
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My sister emailed. They told her she'd get a second round with the H1N1 and that she wasn't over it yet. She said it is AWFUL. She's really sick this time and told everyone to get their shots, this is hell
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So...
Speaking of the Roundabout...
They announced a new block of tickets on sale for Bye Bye Birdie... Through the end of April. ???
*However, I have noticed that they're saying "Tickets now on sale through April 25, 2010"... Not "Extended through April 25, 2010". Hmm... ???
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We've officially had the coldest first two weeks of October on record.. Oh joy
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Where's global warming when you need it
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DR Cillaliz - A second round of H1N1?!?!? So "they" are pretty sure she'd get a second round? Or is her "first round" just hanging on a long time?
~~~~~GET WELL VIBES TO THE SISTER OF DR CILLALIZ~~~~~
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I think today's TOD is full of B.S. because I would want to be at the recording sessions of:
FUNNY GIRL - original Broadway cast.
THE BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM
THE WILD, THE INNOCENT AND THE E STREET SHUFFLE - Bruce Springsteen
BORN TO RUN - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
TOONFUL - Michelle Nicastro
DRAT! THE CAT - Studio Recording with Jason Graae
THE LERNER & LOEWE ALBUM - TWMHM
Recordings that I was there for:
RAW AT TOWN HALL - Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner
IT'S BETTER WITH A BAND - Barbara Cook
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DR Cillaliz - A second round of H1N1?!?!? So "they" are pretty sure she'd get a second round? Or is her "first round" just hanging on a long time?
~~~~~GET WELL VIBES TO THE SISTER OF DR CILLALIZ~~~~~
Here are her exact words
I have the flu, it was better for a few days and now I think I'm going to crumble, DON'T GET SICK! This is terrible, fever and aches and tired...round 2 of same H1N1. I was warned I'd get this again but it was supposed to be LIGHT. I couldn't get out of bed yesterday and am done at the computer now.
Avoid this at all costs, I thought it was so easy first time through, you're fooled as it's not like the stomach flu, but you will feel like you've just climbed a mountain. GET THE SHOT. Back to bed, MDiane
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Get well vibes for DR Cillaliz's sister!
Would she like to call my doctor, who told me that I'm "not eligible" for the H1N1 vaccine?
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Her doctor sent in a culture or whatever they send in and she got a call confirming it is H1N1. The CDC wants to monitor her health for the next I can't remember how long, I want to say 15 years. She doesn't have to go in, they just wanted permission for her doctor to notify them if she gets sick in the future. She agreed to do that.
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Good morning all.
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I've been very busy seeing the various NYMF shows, and working on the Broadway Cabaret Festival shows at Town Hall this weekend. I'm looking forward to catching up and getting some sleep next week.
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Get well vibes for DR Cillaliz's sister!
Would she like to call my doctor, who told me that I'm "not eligible" for the H1N1 vaccine?
I'm going to see if I can get one. I usually am eligible because I have to go to the jails to see clients and if the flu gets in there, well, they aren't going to let people go home. I called the place I got my regular flu shot and they said there isn't enough available right now and that doctors are screening people. So, I'll probably not be eligible either. I hate to say this, but I'm glad she's in Missouri
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Sorry to read of your sister's H!N! illness, DR Cilla.
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Good morning Miss Julie!
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Good morning, td!!
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Thanks. She is a bit dramatic. my guess is this is the same bout but it's one of those things where you are sick, feel better but aren't really and then get sick again. Whatever it is, she's been sick for about a week now
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I'll be heading out shortly to see the Understudy, and then off to Town Hall for tonight's show.
Tomorrow is Broadway Originals. In addition to a bunch of other performer's, they are also reuniting the original cast from Falsettos, and will be performing a bunch of William Finn's songs.
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Well, I have some errands to run and want to go to the farmers market. Then I think I'll hang out, do the laundry and see if my Hawkeyes can remain undefeated in the cold against the cheese heads....I mean Wisconsin
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Although we didn't meet there, I seem to recall that DRs Julie and FJL were also at Town Hall for Alice & Ems. . .
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In other news...
I have a couple of errands to run before I board the 5:00pm bus this afternoon, which may or may not include a haircut. I'm almost three weeks past my usual "cut", but I'm sort of not minding the long(er that usual) hair. We shall see.
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I am heading out for the East Side to pick up Matthew. After that, perhaps the movie. I will check in when I return.
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Although we didn't meet there, I seem to recall that DRs Julie and FJL were also at Town Hall for Alice & Ems. . .
That is correct, DR td. I've been working on the productions for a good number of years. That was a great night!
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Running out now. Have a good Saturday, everyone!
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After that, perhaps the movie.
I'd be much too scared. :P
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If you want to see Paranormal Activity, just come to the World of Wisdom any day of the week...except Wednesday.
Vibes for the sister of DR CILLA LIZ....whew!
That is a most optimistic release from the Roundabout DR JOSE.
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The pictures from the Curtain Call and the BBB party look like everyone was having a lot of fun. And Gina Gershon is certainly beautiful!
I hope Conrad had on his stage makeup at the party - because there was a lot of it on his face!
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Well, I guess I didn't get up at nine. So I'll jog after the work session if it's not already crazy hot.
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It took me a while to fall asleep last night because there was one cricket that was so loud, so vociferous in its vocalizing, it was like a Bert I. Gordon cricket.
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And one for mylar
( a balloon boy reference)
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Speaking of heaven, I want you to check out these two videos - the first is the American Dance Machine doing the original Joe Layton choreography for a number called Popularity from George M. The lead dancer is Wayne Cilento, but it was originally danced by my pal Gene Castle, and I am here to tell you that Gene's performance of this number was one of the single greatest things I've ever seen on the stage. Wayne is fine, but Gene was genius. And I ask you, is there any choreographer working today that can stage a dance number like this? I'll save you the trouble of answering: No.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7gIAiYTr-k
Gene Castle? Wasn't he married to Irene?
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(http://www.foxnews.com/images/service_skynews_36.gif) (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568067,00.html?test=latestnews)
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2009/10/101509-howhitead.jpg)
X-RATED 'HO WHITE' AND 7 DWARVES BEER AD REPORTEDLY RILES DISNEY
A beer advertisement featuring Snow White blowing smoke rings while lying in bed with seven semi-naked dwarves has reportedly left Disney fuming.
The raunchy Jamieson's Raspberry Ale ad renamed the fairytale cartoon heroine "Ho White."
Loveable Disney dwarves, like Sleepy, Happy and Doc, were replaced with Filthy, Smarmy and Randy to portray different types of drinkers.
Has Fred been contacted to provide suitable lyrics?
der Brucer
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To glom onto the Roundabout being so much in the news this weekend, I rushed out a basically-audio-only (and lyrics onscreen) "preview" of the parody of "King of Wishful Thinking" about the Roundabout's Carrie Fisher show WISHFUL DRINKING.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S4STdq9KtU
Since the real song is from the real film PRETTY WOMAN and sung by GO WEST, the parody song is naturally from the hypothetical parody film WITTY WOMAN (it's Carrie Fisher, after all) and sung by GO JEST.
Very funny.
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My sister emailed. They told her she'd get a second round with the H1N1 and that she wasn't over it yet. She said it is AWFUL. She's really sick this time and told everyone to get their shots, this is hell
Vibes to your sister, Cilla!
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ASSOCIATED PRESS (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568040,00.html)
NEIGHBORS THOUGHT DEAD MAN WAS HALLOWEEN DISPLAY
LOS ANGELES — Residents of a Southern California apartment complex say they saw a lifeless body slumped on a neighbor's patio, but didn't call police because they thought it was part of a Halloween display.
Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday.
Cameraman Austin Raishbrook, owner of RMG News, told the Los Angeles Times he was at the scene in Marina del Rey Thursday when authorities arrived. The 75-year-old Zayed was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony of his apartment with a single gunshot wound to the eye.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department investigator says the case is an "apparent suicide."
Sounds like a BONES episode to me.
der Brucer
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It seems now that the UFO HUNTERS episode that may or may not feature my sister will be broadcast at 11 p.m. on October 29.....subject to change by the History Channel of course.
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The title is DARK PRESENCE so who knows what time it will be on in the various time zones.....
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Thanks, TCB!
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Good Afternoon!
Errands done. Almost. Alas, no haircut. I stopped by my usual barbershop, and as I peered into the door and saw all the "waiting chairs" filled, my regular barber turned to me and said, "One hour". Nod. So, then I headed down the block to my "sometimes" barber. All the waiting chairs were filled there too. And then I checked out the barber two doors down from them... Same story. I guess if you can't be out and about on a gray, gloomy, chilly day, you might as well spiff yourself up.
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Must be the full moon tonight making everyone want to de-hairify.
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I might also like to have been in the studio when they were trying to lay down some Patty Duke tracks.
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In other news...
I just took another batch of CDs down to Academy Records to see what they would give me for them. Most of the batch consisted of older Columbia/Sony titles that have been re-issued and/or re-mastered over the past couple of years. When I placed the pile on the table, I told the guy that I wasn't expecting to get much for some of them since they've been re-issued, but, lo and behold... $95 later... :)
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It is a warm and rainy Saturday in Tacoma. Very wet, but temperatures in the sixties.
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bk - Which Philadelphia/Ormandy titles have you been looking for? I think you had mentioned Holst and/or Smetana. The Classical buyer at Academy mentioned that he was in the middle of processing some new import sets, and he says there were a couple of Ormandy re-issues in the batch. So... Titles, please.
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Must be the full moon tonight making everyone want to de-hairify.
Some of us floss in anticipation.
der Brucer
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The pictures from the Curtain Call and the BBB party look like everyone was having a lot of fun. And Gina Gershon is certainly beautiful!
I hope Conrad had on his stage makeup at the party - because there was a lot of it on his face!
Two friends of mine to the opening night party of BBB. Funnily enough, both of them - independent of each other - had the same comment about the party:
"I felt like I was at a Bar Mitzvah."
;)
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Oh... Speaking of BBB...
DR Matthew - Nolan Gerard Funk - a.k.a. Conrad Birdie - is actually 23-years old.
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OOHH!!!!.... One more BBB observation...
I just realized that one of the cast members of the revival of BBB came into the restaurant that I was dining at the other night. I guess she (and her family) came in after the party/Bar Mitzvah. ;)
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DR JRand - I guess "optimistic" is one way to put it.
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As for the Topic of the Day...
Anything by Florence Foster Jenkins or Mrs. Miller.
Otherwise.... Hmmm...
Elly Ameling doing the "duet" parts for the Complete Fauré Songs.
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I feel very sorry for everyone involved with the revival of BY BYE BIRDIE, from the producers, the cast, the crew, the musicians, and everyone else. No one goes into a production, especially a revival, expecting to be in a flop. I feel especially sorry for the young people in their first or second Broadway show.
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TOD
For the fun of it: The recording session where Jason Graae was in his undies.
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Recordings that I was there for:
IT'S BETTER WITH A BAND - Barbara Cook
I was there also! I had moved to New York 2 weeks prior and was staying with my friend, Stephen down on 14th Street and 9th Avenue. He worked for Arthur Cantor (the producer of the concert) so I was walked into Carnegie Hall. What a night. We went to the party afterwards. It was on Central Park South. To a gay boy from the Midwest being in NY for 2 weeks it was heaven. Stephen and I took a cab downtown after the party and we were both on Cloud 9. It was the best introduction to life in New York that I ever could have had. 29 years later I'm still here (as someone wrote in a song IIRC).
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I feel very sorry for everyone involved with the revival of BY BYE BIRDIE, from the producers, the cast, the crew, the musicians, and everyone else. No one goes into a production, especially a revival, expecting to be in a flop. I feel especially sorry for the young people in their first or second Broadway show.
Alas, been there, done that. :-\
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RE: BYE BYE BIRDIE
Caught up on the reviews. WOW!!
I think I know understand why Gina Gershon wanted the Shriner's Ballet out; she couldn't dance it or any of the other musical numbers.
The post mortem will look whose to blame.
I saw the Tommy Tune revival when it was touring around and I thought it was a wonderful production. A very young Susan Egan was Kim.
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Well... Once again, time for me to get ready to make the trip down South. Thankfully, it looks like the weather this afternoon will not be as bad as originally forecast.
Laters...
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Recordings that I was there for:
IT'S BETTER WITH A BAND - Barbara Cook
I was there also! I had moved to New York 2 weeks prior and was staying with my friend, Stephen down on 14th Street and 9th Avenue. He worked for Arthur Cantor (the producer of the concert) so I was walked into Carnegie Hall. What a night. We went to the party afterwards. It was on Central Park South. To a gay boy from the Midwest being in NY for 2 weeks it was heaven. Stephen and I took a cab downtown after the party and we were both on Cloud 9. It was the best introduction to life in New York that I ever could have had. 29 years later I'm still here (as someone wrote in a song IIRC).
You're gay??!!! ;D
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In other news...
I just took another batch of CDs down to Academy Records to see what they would give me for them. Most of the batch consisted of older Columbia/Sony titles that have been re-issued and/or re-mastered over the past couple of years. When I placed the pile on the table, I told the guy that I wasn't expecting to get much for some of them since they've been re-issued, but, lo and behold... $95 later... :)
We just missed each other. Anthony went to Dance Class and I walked up to Chelsea Studios with him. On my way home I stopped at Academy to browse. Nothing purchased but then we are running out of room anyway and Anthony has a stack of CDs to sell himself.
I then went to the grocery store and bought some milk. I came home and prepared the tuna casserole for tonight's dinner. I will put it in the oven while I listen to Beverley Humphreys and we will have a nice, comfort food dinner afterwards.
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In other news...
I just took another batch of CDs down to Academy Records to see what they would give me for them. Most of the batch consisted of older Columbia/Sony titles that have been re-issued and/or re-mastered over the past couple of years. When I placed the pile on the table, I told the guy that I wasn't expecting to get much for some of them since they've been re-issued, but, lo and behold... $95 later... :)
We just missed each other. Anthony went to Dance Class and I walked up to Chelsea Studios with him. On my way home I stopped at Academy to browse. Nothing purchased but then we are running out of room anyway and Anthony has a stack of CDs to sell himself.
I then went to the grocery store and bought some milk. I came home and prepared the tuna casserole for tonight's dinner. I will put it in the oven while I listen to Beverley Humphreys and we will have a nice, comfort food dinner afterwards.
Oh yum, tuna casserole sounds like a wonderful idea for this rainy weekend.
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Recordings that I was there for:
IT'S BETTER WITH A BAND - Barbara Cook
I was there also! I had moved to New York 2 weeks prior and was staying with my friend, Stephen down on 14th Street and 9th Avenue. He worked for Arthur Cantor (the producer of the concert) so I was walked into Carnegie Hall. What a night. We went to the party afterwards. It was on Central Park South. To a gay boy from the Midwest being in NY for 2 weeks it was heaven. Stephen and I took a cab downtown after the party and we were both on Cloud 9. It was the best introduction to life in New York that I ever could have had. 29 years later I'm still here (as someone wrote in a song IIRC).
You're gay??!!! ;D
Yes, and happy too!
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And now I am off to work. Oh well.
I know how you feel BUT it sure is better than being unemployed with no income!
I do enjoy those clips from yesteryears; so much talent and so much inspiration.
Share BK's frustrations about lousy (Even here!) postal services and treatment!
I told an employee once:
"With Postal Services, the only thing I'm sure of is the amount of money I pay... For the rest ..."
I sometimes get letters faster from the US of A (East coast) than from some place in France! True!
Years ago (When I was young ...) we used to have two mail deliverings per day!
We now have only one around noon ...
We live in wonderful times, socially, don't we? ;)
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A Kimmelesque retrospective:
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Mae Brunken's Beachwood Canyon home
(Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
By Debra Prinzing
Mae Brunken wanted a home with a past. The interior designer and set decorator ultimately found her period piece high in the hills of Hollywood: a 1927 Spanish Colonial Revival that starred as the home of Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) in Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity."
Then:
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Paramount Pictures)
In the film, the romantically linked Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck) and Walter Neff (MacMurray), left, plot to kill Dietrichson’s husband (Tom Powers), right. Photographed 55 years ago, the foyer looks much the same then as
Now:
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Mae Brunken's Beachwood Canyon home
(Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
A black-and-white still photograph from the 1944 film was hanging in the house when Brunken first visited it in 2000. Stanwyck and co-star Fred MacMurray stand in the foyer near the curved staircase with iron scrollwork, terra cotta steps and Monterey tile risers. Little had changed inside the room since Paramount Pictures took the photo, and though the film connection wasn’t the only reason Brunken purchased the 3,200-square-foot house, “I asked for the photo to be part of the sale, she says.
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Mae Brunken's Beachwood Canyon home
(Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
At the time, most films were shot on the studio back lots. I could not believe until I went inside - and then went back to the film - that they actually copied the interior of the home exactly,- says Brunken's friend, Thomas Boghossian, a retired California Institute of the Arts film historian.
der Brucer
Isn't Boghossian one of BK's pals?
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The pictures from the Curtain Call and the BBB party look like everyone was having a lot of fun. And Gina Gershon is certainly beautiful!
I hope Conrad had on his stage makeup at the party - because there was a lot of it on his face!
Two friends of mine to the opening night party of BBB. Funnily enough, both of them - independent of each other - had the same comment about the party:
"I felt like I was at a Bar Mitzvah."
;)
That is so weird, because everyone at the Bar Mitzvah today was saying, "I feel like we're at the after party for a flop musical." ;)
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~~~SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES~~~
FOR JOSESPIANO!!!!!!!!
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This was my first Lubavitcher Bar Mitzvah and I must say, aside from not being able to sit with Betsy, it was a really interesting experience. The Rebbe, with whom we ate last night, is a supercool, very funny guy. Our nephew chanted the entire Torah portion (we are all assuming he will grow up to be a Rabbi, he is very into this stuff), which was huge because last week was Simchas Torah, and tomorrow is Rosh Chodesh, so there was a LOT of shtuff to get through. His Dvar Torah was almost like an after thought and amounted to little more than thanking everyone for coming. Totally different from Gabe's Bar Mitzvah where the emphasis was equally on the Dvar.
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~~~QUICK RECOVERY VIBES~~~
FOR THE DS OF DR CILLALIZ!!!!!!!!
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We have Sleep Number bed in this room. Guess what the kids have been playing with.
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The notes about Grant's computer problems were funny because I keep hearing his song "Did I Save?" on XM.
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Totally different from Gabe's Bar Mitzvah where the emphasis was equally on the Dvar.
Because Gabe had a better agent!
der Brucer
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Guess what the kids have been playing with.
The hand grenades you have ready for the next teen pool party?
der Brucer
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This was my first Lubavitcher Bar Mitzvah and I must say, aside from not being able to sit with Betsy, it was a really interesting experience. The Rebbe, with whom we ate last night, is a supercool, very funny guy. Our nephew chanted the entire Torah portion (we are all assuming he will grow up to be a Rabbi, he is very into this stuff), which was huge because last week was Simchas Torah, and tomorrow is Rosh Chodesh, so there was a LOT of shtuff to get through. His Dvar Torah was almost like an after thought and amounted to little more than thanking everyone for coming. Totally different from Gabe's Bar Mitzvah where the emphasis was equally on the Dvar.
Can someone translate this for me?
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Matthew is on the A Train to Brooklyn and I am back from my trek. Because his doctor drugged him and then set him aside to consult with another patient (the staff kept asking each other why the hell), the colonoscopy was delayed by over half an hour. The taxi ride from East 58th Street and Lexington to 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue took too long because of traffic, and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY was sold out by the time we reached the theatre at 2:35 for a 2:40 movie. we had lunch instead and here I am. Around 6:45, I'll head down to FINIAN'S, then meet my friend Chris at St Clements at 8:30.
While waiting for Matthew to be dismissed, I read the first ghost story by Edith Wharton that I actually liked, "Mister Jnes." I've found her others to be neither frightening nor ghostly.
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TOD:
Near the end of their lives, Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby recorded an album together.
It might have been fun to be in the the studio when they did that.
Yes, and they did the recordings (One together, and individual ones) in England, where they were treated like royalty, of course.
Those Lps are now available on cds and the pride of my collection.
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This was my first Lubavitcher Bar Mitzvah and I must say, aside from not being able to sit with Betsy, it was a really interesting experience. The Rebbe, with whom we ate last night, is a supercool, very funny guy. Our nephew chanted the entire Torah portion (we are all assuming he will grow up to be a Rabbi, he is very into this stuff), which was huge because last week was Simchas Torah, and tomorrow is Rosh Chodesh, so there was a LOT of shtuff to get through. His Dvar Torah was almost like an after thought and amounted to little more than thanking everyone for coming. Totally different from Gabe's Bar Mitzvah where the emphasis was equally on the Dvar.
And that's what comes from men and women dancing!
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TOD: too many choices, but I'd choose Julie Andrews recording her album of Music Hall Songs, "Don't Go In The Lion's Cage," and if you don't know this fantastically funny album, you should. Robert Mersey's wonderful arrangements are brassy, funny, and just right, and the album is one of my all-time favorites.
You bet I do know this album. It's faboo, to quote BK!
Funny how the members of the backup barbershop quarter have never beeen identified, to my knowledge.
I would have loved to attend the sessions of the recording by the original cast of My Fair Lady, N.Y. or London.
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Conrad has to be at least 23 to have had the job he had a couple of years ago.
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JMK - I got bar-mitzvahed at a very religious synagogue (my uncle was a rabbi, and part of a very Orthodox congregation, and we had the bar-mitzvah at their congregation, where my uncle and aunt could easily get to it without traveling on the Sabbath) and I did not do the Dvar Torah at all. (Whereas others in less religious synagogues did do the Dvar Torah at their Bar Mitzvahs.)
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HOw lucky can one guy be! I've been to concerts with varies and sundry Dear Readers! Destiny says we were destined to meet!
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LOL! Elmore, you beat me to the punch. I was going to mention this album by Julie Andrews and also BROADWAY'S FAIR JULIE recorded after her success with MY FAIR LADY.
Go ahead and add your thoughts, DR Matt H! Everyone should own a copy of this great album.
And I have a copy of it, thanks to YOUR great generosity! I never tire of listening to it.
Hmmm, I don't want to be rude and "intrude" but, I have it on great authority, that a certain gentleman from downunder made a copy for you of the twofer I sent him that had this album on it! Just saying! ;)
Well, elmore might have made a copy too, you lucky you! :D
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Why does the proverbial everybody in the press seem to continually act astonished every time a photo of America Ferrera shows how pretty she really is? She may play "Ugly Betty" on TV, but she was never unattractive to begin with.
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It is still gray and colder than it ought to be in mid October. Rain has stopped for now, but it's still dreary outside.
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LOL! Elmore, you beat me to the punch. I was going to mention this album by Julie Andrews and also BROADWAY'S FAIR JULIE recorded after her success with MY FAIR LADY.
Go ahead and add your thoughts, DR Matt H! Everyone should own a copy of this great album.
And I have a copy of it, thanks to YOUR great generosity! I never tire of listening to it.
Hmmm, I don't want to be rude and "intrude" but, I have it on great authority, that a certain gentleman from downunder made a copy for you of the twofer I sent him that had this album on it! Just saying! ;)
Well, elmore might have made a copy too, you lucky you! :D
If he did, I don't think I ever got it. I could be VERY wrong and utterly humiliated about this, but I honestly don't remember this at all.
The first time I ever heard it completely was when DR Elmore sent me a copy of the twofer.
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Speaking of heaven, I want you to check out these two videos - the first is the American Dance Machine doing the original Joe Layton choreography for a number called Popularity from George M. The lead dancer is Wayne Cilento, but it was originally danced by my pal Gene Castle, and I am here to tell you that Gene's performance of this number was one of the single greatest things I've ever seen on the stage. Wayne is fine, but Gene was genius. And I ask you, is there any choreographer working today that can stage a dance number like this? I'll save you the trouble of answering: No.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7gIAiYTr-k
Gene Castle? Wasn't he married to Irene?
NO! That was Ginger! ;)
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I began my viewing for today by finishing PROJECT RUNWAY. The right person definitely went home (or the person with immunity might have been a better choice but was safe and therefore couldn't be sent home). The person who was next to the bottom has definitely lost some "mojo" but I hope to see a higher quality of design next week. The winner won deservedly, but to be honest, I wasn't blown away by anyone's designs this week.
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I watched two more BONES episodes. The first was the heart-rending return of Zach episode which, sad to say, was a one-time deal. I wish they could find a way to work Eric Millegin back at least part time on the show. I miss his quirky, dry character.
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When I sat down to eat lunch, I was ready to watch SUPERNATURAL. Horror of horrors, it didn't record on the DVR Thursday night. I was SO upset!
So, I watched FLASHFORWARD from this week. Good episode with more baby steps leading us in certain directions about the occurrence. It's certainly done a good job holding my attention.
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Had a nice work session and then did the long jog - another ninety-five degree day here. Anyone who doubts global warming should get their head out of their rectal cavity right about now.
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Bruce Pomahac of Rodgers & Hammerstein just phoned me on his way out of the matinee for FINIAN'S RAINBOW, which he loved. He thought the new finale, which went in last night. worked fine and said that everyone around him was sobbing at the end. Excellent
My feeling is that I did a fine job giving the show a big ending and if the original quiet ending, which has been around since 1947, still works, it's fine with me. I'm down to 84 bars now out of 3000 and all I ask is that my work sound as if it was always a part of the show. I hate the way the orchestrations of the new dance music for the Hugh Jackman revival of OKLAHOMA! sound nothing like the rest of the score.
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I'm heading back down now to get started on my work project A for today. HOME ALONE 2, here I come!
WBBL.
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Thanks for the vibes for my sister.
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The pictures from the Curtain Call and the BBB party look like everyone was having a lot of fun. And Gina Gershon is certainly beautiful!
I hope Conrad had on his stage makeup at the party - because there was a lot of it on his face!
Two friends of mine to the opening night party of BBB. Funnily enough, both of them - independent of each other - had the same comment about the party:
"I felt like I was at a Bar Mitzvah."
;)
That is so weird, because everyone at the Bar Mitzvah today was saying, "I feel like we're at the after party for a flop musical." ;)
A FLOP musical? Normal; there's a swimming pool!
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This was my first Lubavitcher Bar Mitzvah and I must say, aside from not being able to sit with Betsy, it was a really interesting experience. The Rebbe, with whom we ate last night, is a supercool, very funny guy. Our nephew chanted the entire Torah portion (we are all assuming he will grow up to be a Rabbi, he is very into this stuff), which was huge because last week was Simchas Torah, and tomorrow is Rosh Chodesh, so there was a LOT of shtuff to get through. His Dvar Torah was almost like an after thought and amounted to little more than thanking everyone for coming. Totally different from Gabe's Bar Mitzvah where the emphasis was equally on the Dvar.
Can someone translate this for me?
People in Oregon tend to speak funny! ;)
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I just typed in www.broadway.com and up came a photo with banner. The photo said "Finnian's Rainbow" and the banner said "HOT NEW SHOW" it made me smile
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LOL! Elmore, you beat me to the punch. I was going to mention this album by Julie Andrews and also BROADWAY'S FAIR JULIE recorded after her success with MY FAIR LADY.
Go ahead and add your thoughts, DR Matt H! Everyone should own a copy of this great album.
And I have a copy of it, thanks to YOUR great generosity! I never tire of listening to it.
Hmmm, I don't want to be rude and "intrude" but, I have it on great authority, that a certain gentleman from downunder made a copy for you of the twofer I sent him that had this album on it! Just saying! ;)
Well, elmore might have made a copy too, you lucky you! :D
If he did, I don't think I ever got it. I could be VERY wrong and utterly humiliated about this, but I honestly don't remember this at all.
The first time I ever heard it completely was when DR Elmore sent me a copy of the twofer.
No big deal, DR MattH; I know, when you mentioned here you did not have the recording, that he proposed his services ... Now, I don't know what really happened next!
I was just assuming ...
T'was just for the fun of chatting and talking about this recording!
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Had a nice work session and then did the long jog - another ninety-five degree day here. Anyone who doubts global warming should get their head out of their rectal cavity right about now.
Well, it's freezing here and I think they had some light snow in N.Y.C. no?
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Anyone who doubts global warming should get their head out of their rectal cavity right about now.
Explain that to Cilla and all the other Iowans enduring a record cold spell!
der Brucer
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I just typed in www.broadway.com and up came a photo with banner. The photo said "Finnian's Rainbow" and the banner said "HOT NEW SHOW" it made me smile
Talk about "global warming"! :D
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Anyone who doubts global warming should get their head out of their rectal cavity right about now.
Explain that to Cilla and all the other Iowans enduring a record cold spell!
der Brucer
AND I don't think Cilla had "her head in her rectal cavity"; she'd be working for Cirque du Soleil (Ah, sun; warm!!) then! :D
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Had a nice work session and then did the long jog - another ninety-five degree day here. Anyone who doubts global warming should get their head out of their rectal cavity right about now.
Well, it was 103°in LA in 1958 - sounds like global cooling to me!
der Brucer
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Had a nice work session and then did the long jog - another ninety-five degree day here. Anyone who doubts global warming should get their head out of their rectal cavity right about now.
Well, it's freezing here and I think they had some light snow in N.Y.C. no?
We had a bit of rain but no snow so far. Upstate New York is another story though. We may get snow later in the week or month but none so far.
I'm listening to Radio Wales and tuna is baking. We will eat in about 15 minutes. I'm hungry!
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This was my first Lubavitcher Bar Mitzvah and I must say, aside from not being able to sit with Betsy, it was a really interesting experience. The Rebbe, with whom we ate last night, is a supercool, very funny guy. Our nephew chanted the entire Torah portion (we are all assuming he will grow up to be a Rabbi, he is very into this stuff), which was huge because last week was Simchas Torah, and tomorrow is Rosh Chodesh, so there was a LOT of shtuff to get through. His Dvar Torah was almost like an after thought and amounted to little more than thanking everyone for coming. Totally different from Gabe's Bar Mitzvah where the emphasis was equally on the Dvar.
Can someone translate this for me?
Lubavitcher - The Lubavitchers are ultra conservative Jews
Torah – The Books of Moses –in scroll form; the Pentateuch:Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
Simchas Torah is a Jewish Holiday marking the end of one annual Public reading of the Torah and the start of the next cycle.
Rosh Chodesh – first day of the Hebrew month
Dvar Torah – a sermon on the torah texts read at a service
Gabe's original Dvar Torah took much more creative talent than his cousin's brief howdy-do
der Brucer
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Here's a little writeup about a gentleman I admire that I want to share with you. He did many recordings of arrangements by Angela Morley, the great arranger/orchestrator who left us this past january.
John Wilson's plea for 'light music'
Conductor John Wilson is on a crusade to bring 'light music' back to the concert hall.
By Ivan Hewett
Published: 5:34PM BST 24 Jun 2009
'Light music” - the very words evoke a bygone age of Lyons Corner Houses, thés dansants and Workers’ Playtime. But for one young conductor, light music will always be cutting-edge.
“I would stick my neck out and say it’s just as good on its own terms as Brahms and Beethoven,” says John Wilson. “Look at something like Eric Coates’s London Suite; the way he creates mood and colour is so brilliant. The emotional range might be smaller, but the level of craftsmanship is just as high.”
Wilson has been fighting his crusade to bring light music and the great film composers back to the concert hall for 15 years. In the early Nineties, fresh out of the Royal College of Music, he founded the John Wilson Orchestra, which this summer gets two high-profile outings: once at the Cheltenham Festival, in a programme of classic film scores, and then at the Proms, for a celebration of MGM musicals.
He has revived long-forgotten film scores, recorded the soundtrack for Kevin Spacey’s Beyond the Sea (a biopic of Bobby Darin), he has arranged film scores for sell-out American tours, and is a chum of André Previn and John Williams. These days he is permanently on the road, conducting top-rank British orchestras.
It’s quite an achievement for someone still in his thirties, and I’m expecting to meet someone with an LA-style permatan, a Rolex watch and a personal assistant in tow.
Instead I’m faced with a slender, slightly myopic, pale young man, still with a broad Gateshead accent. He could pass for a university librarian or a computer programmer. But when I ask how he got started, it soon becomes clear that under the modesty is an amazing native gift, coupled with extraordinary self-confidence.
“I was always interested in what people call light music, and I started to learn the piano. I think I got it from my mother, who was very musical, and loved to watch old films. I started playing for rehearsals in amateur dramatics, and one day the pianist fell sick and someone asked me to take over for the performance for £30. I was really worried because I hadn’t got £30, but then someone explained that it was for me.”
One thing led to another, and soon the precocious pianist was conducting productions. “That’s also when I started arranging, because I decided that if I only had 15 players and the score demanded 30 I would just rearrange it to make it sound right. So by the time I was 16 I had been conducting and arranging for a couple of years.”
At 16 he founded the Newcastle Symphony Orchestra; at 18 he went to the Royal College, where, as he puts it, “I could form a different orchestra every week.” By the age of 22 he was out in the world arranging music for Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night, and scouring libraries and archives for music for his newly formed John Wilson Orchestra.
“I was determined to get that wonderful Fifties sound you hear on those great MGM musicals, so I booked the best players. It’s the same now. You wouldn’t believe how many section principals and orchestral leaders I’ve got in the string section!” he says proudly. “And we did top-quality repertoire – Gershwin, Cole Porter, all in fabulous arrangements.”
By 2002, the orchestra had its first Queen Elizabeth Hall concert, and in 2004 Wilson conducted his first MGM Live concert. Talking about this brings a crusading gleam to his eye.
“I realised that an awful lot of this music had disappeared. It turned out that MGM threw out all the scores for their great musicals like Singin’ in the Rain and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. They were used as landfill for a car park. So I had to track down the short scores and parts. It’s been a 10-year project.”
Getting the style right involved studying a man who, for Wilson, is a neglected master of 20th-century music.
“Conrad Salinger was a house orchestrator for MGM, and he was really in the Ravel class. André Previn reckons he’s the greatest who ever lived. I’ve learned lots of tricks from him.”
Would he describe himself as a perfectionist? “Oh, it’s got to be right. I once spent a whole Sunday morning on just four bars from The Wizard of Oz.”
We’ve been talking about American film composers, but it’s only when I ask Wilson about future plans that the truth finally comes out.
“People think I’m a film music nerd, but my real passion is English music. What I’d really like to do is conduct all the Vaughan Williams symphonies.”
What makes English music special for him? “Oh, I can’t explain it. It’s that wistfulness and longing and melancholy. Elgar’s symphonies I think are in the Beethoven class. I have fights with people in the pub about that.”
The idea of Wilson getting in a fight is wonderfully improbable; but then so is his charmed life-story, which is the stuff of a good musical itself.
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Had a nice work session and then did the long jog - another ninety-five degree day here. Anyone who doubts global warming should get their head out of their rectal cavity right about now.
Well, it's freezing here and I think they had some light snow in N.Y.C. no?
We had a bit of rain but no snow so far. Upstate New York is another story though. We may get snow later in the week or month but none so far.
I'm listening to Radio Wales and tuna is baking. We will eat in about 15 minutes. I'm hungry!
I thought Radio Wales were extinct? ;)
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she'd be working for Cirque du Soleil (Ah, sun; warm!!) then! :D
Their latest "Kooza" from Santa Monica:
(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-10/cirque-du-soleil-kooza_49893361.jpg)
(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-10/cirque-du-soleil-kooza_49893365.jpg)
Playing with a giant IUD
(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-10/cirque-du-soleil-kooza_49893358.jpg)
der Brucer
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I thought Radio Wales were extinct? ;)
Nope - there is much Waling around Halloween time.
der Brucer
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I guess Tilly has recovered!
I found a large box turtle all closed up by our sofa. I picked the critter up, got turle pea on my hands, and put her on the front stoop. I checked every 15 minutes or so, but no movement.
I just checked - and she is gone - with nary a farewell!
der Brucer
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she is gone - with nary a farewell!
Perhaps she was offended. Is her name actually "Tillie"?
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Botched evidence handling – a gift-that-keeps-on-giving to Defense Lawyers.
ASSOCIATED PRESS (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568180,00.html)
NEW MISHAP FOUND IN CHANDRA LEVY CASE
WASHINGTON — Attorneys handling the Chandra Levy murder case say an FBI forensic analyst mistakenly contaminated evidence from the site where the federal intern's body was found.
At a hearing Friday, attorneys revealed the FBI analyst mistakenly contaminated the evidence with some of her own DNA. She has since been fired.
der Brucer
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she is gone - with nary a farewell!
Perhaps she was offended. Is her name actually "Tillie"?
Well, she didn't correct me as I rescued her from the potential of Fletcher's crushing jaws.
Of course if "Tillie" was actually a "Tommy" there may have reason for offense.
der Brucer
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Hello All!
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Getting ready to head out to Thousand Oaks to sup and then see Guys and Dolls - I will, of course, have a full report.
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Why does the proverbial everybody in the press seem to continually act astonished every time a photo of America Ferrera shows how pretty she really is? She may play "Ugly Betty" on TV, but she was never unattractive to begin with.
Well she sure "did up pretty" for the end of last night's premiere.
der Brucer
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Hello All!
Do you always talk to your detergent?
der Brucer
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Anyone who doubts global warming should get their head out of their rectal cavity right about now.
Explain that to Cilla and all the other Iowans enduring a record cold spell!
der Brucer
I was kidding, but we have had many record cold spells this year
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Anyone who doubts global warming should get their head out of their rectal cavity right about now.
Explain that to Cilla and all the other Iowans enduring a record cold spell!
der Brucer
AND I don't think Cilla had "her head in her rectal cavity"; she'd be working for Cirque du Soleil (Ah, sun; warm!!) then! :D
lol!
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I admit that I am not an expert on credit cards, but how can the "NEW" Chase ink card already be accepted in twice as many places as American Express? That doesn't seem possible for a new card.
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Cilla, where does your sister live? Have there been several cases of Swine Flu in her area?
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Well! All alone.
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One more...................
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PAGE SIX (6)!
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Mikey!
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Continued health vibes to Michael Shayne's father.
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Cilla, where does your sister live? Have there been several cases of Swine Flu in her area?
Joplin Mo. I don't know about the number of cases but most of the country is classified as widespread by the CDC
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History Channel HD is showing a couple of documentaries about JFK. It includes video tape of his speech in Fort Worth that Friday morning - I hadn't seen that. Lots of local and local Texas television coverage.
Most distressing - it's like being there all over again.
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All the broadcast reporters are on the air smoking cigarettes between sentences.
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Thanks JRand. I'm going to watch. It repeats after part II airs, so I can get the first hour later
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Yes it does, DR CILLA LIZ - but it is a roller coaster to be sure.
MLB pre empted COPS in my time zone.
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Whew! The moment at about 1:20 a.m. on Saturday morning when Lee Harvey Oswald is taken before the reporters and television cameras pleading for someone to come forward to give him legal representation and saying that he had been charged with killing a policeman. A reporter asks him about the murder charge concerning the president and Oswald says no one said anything about that to him, and the reporter tells him "You have been charged with that." Oswald's reaction is telling....and not what might be expected.
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Continued health vibes to Michael Shayne's father.
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Thank you. My mother thanks you. My sister thanks you and my father thanks you.
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MR BK will be watching GUYS & DOLLS - I hope it's good....there are couple of characters in that show that set my tith on etch - as Ricky Ricardo would say.
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I am finding this quite fascinating. I've never just seen all the news coverage from that time before. Well, maybe it was on at the time, but I was two years old so i don't remember it. This is more interesting to me than someone's theory of what happened
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I like the news anchor reporting while holding two telephone hand sets
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Whew! The moment at about 1:20 a.m. on Saturday morning when Lee Harvey Oswald is taken before the reporters and television cameras pleading for someone to come forward to give him legal representation and saying that he had been charged with killing a policeman. A reporter asks him about the murder charge concerning the president and Oswald says no one said anything about that to him, and the reporter tells him "You have been charged with that." Oswald's reaction is telling....and not what might be expected.
And that reaction was....................
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Ok, there is some scoring. I didn't notice it too much until the Jaws like music right before Oswald was shot
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The man in the black hat....
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The man in the black hat....
... is a cat?! :)
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They are filing charges against the balloon boy's dad
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/17/colorado.balloon.boy/index.html
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Hey, where's DR Laura and her great pics?
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TOD:
Near the end of their lives, Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby recorded an album together.
It might have been fun to be in the the studio when they did that.
I'm friends with the producer of the album and have heard great stories about those guys. He also produced the last recording that a certain southern lyricist ever did and was our original writer for the documentary before being completely alienated by the director...one of the first in a long line of collateral damage. He's coming over from England next month do I'm going down to Savannah to spend a few days with him and his wife. Any questions I should ask?
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Where's global warming when you need it
It is in Arizona -- a record-breaking 102 for this date.
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And one for mylar
( a balloon boy reference)
Hahaha!
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RE: BYE BYE BIRDIE
I saw the Tommy Tune revival when it was touring around and I thought it was a wonderful production. A very young Susan Egan was Kim.
I saw this also. It was great fun!
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Vibes to DR Michael S's dad and to Cillaliz's sister. I am terribly afraid of this swine flu.
I am glad Jeanne survived her Attack of the Vampires.
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Hey, where's DR Laura and her great pics?
As a matter of fact, I have been out of town -- taking pictures.
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I watched HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK on Blu-ray this evening. Yep, a rehash of the original but stretched out so that it's almost 30 minutes longer than the original. BAD MISTAKE. Kevin doesn't even come into face-to-face contact with the bad guys until almost an hour into the movie. Then, it's another 30 minutes before he begins the assault on them. That's a LOT of time to fill and not much of it is funny.
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The disc did have three trailers as bonus features: one for each of the HOME ALONE movies.
That was all it had in the way of bonuses.
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Yesterday and today I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2694/4021116750_12da5a07fc.jpg)
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Then, I watched two more episodes of BONES. (I could have watched another, but I needed to come upstairs and write the review.)
The first was the one about the preacher who was transgendered. A inevitably touching episode.
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Yesterday and today I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2694/4021116750_12da5a07fc.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2677/4021119148_790baa9aaa.jpg)
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What's that first animal?
Good pics as always.
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The second BONES episode was the one with the artist's skeleton found inside a compressed car art piece. This was the episode that introduced the character of Roxie to the show (who begins a relationship with Angela for a few episodes).
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Page Seven Dance!!!
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And a photo especially for DRMegan:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/4021153836_932d2cb40f.jpg)
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she'd be working for Cirque du Soleil (Ah, sun; warm!!) then! :D
Their latest "Kooza" from Santa Monica:
(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-10/cirque-du-soleil-kooza_49893361.jpg)
(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-10/cirque-du-soleil-kooza_49893365.jpg)
Playing with a giant IUD
(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-10/cirque-du-soleil-kooza_49893358.jpg)
der Brucer
I saw this show---it was one of my favorites. It had gotten pretty negative reviews so perhaps I wasn't expecting much, but I really loved it, especially the art direction---the colors, fabrics, etc. And the "giant I.U.D." was a highlight of the show!
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It is a coatimundi. I'd never seen one before. There was a whole family of them, but that was the only good picture I got.
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TOD: I would have loved to have been in the studio for Sgt. Peppers, and for any of Harry Nilsson's albums that feature Van Dyke Parks on piano, the NILSSON SINGS NEWMAN album and the first Randy Newman album, which was produced by Van Dyke.
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I just came back from the hospital where my dad's still in residence. He really needs to get out of there. He's starting to get out of it and sleeping all the time and not interacting. He needs to get home to his familiar surroundings!
Thanks for the continued vibes, and vibes from me to Cilla-sis, Papa Shayne and Jeanne!
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John Stamos is ... 46?! No way!
He looks so juvenile!
I'd give him 10 years less!
We have a TV personality here, Ariel Wizman, who looks slightly like him!
http://img.ozap.com/012C00C800755470-c1-photo-oYToxOntzOjU6ImNvbG9yIjtzOjU6IndoaXRlIjt9-ariel-wizman.jpg
http://www.biosstars.com/a/ariel_wizman/2005/d.JPG
As I like to say (Tousser?! ;)) "You had to know!" :)
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It is a coatimundi. I'd never seen one before. There was a whole family of them, but that was the only good picture I got.
That was one of my favorite animal names when I was a child. Actually, I guess it still is!
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she'd be working for Cirque du Soleil (Ah, sun; warm!!) then! :D
Their latest "Kooza" from Santa Monica:
(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-10/cirque-du-soleil-kooza_49893361.jpg)
(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-10/cirque-du-soleil-kooza_49893365.jpg)
Playing with a giant IUD
(http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-10/cirque-du-soleil-kooza_49893358.jpg)
der Brucer
I saw this show---it was one of my favorites. It had gotten pretty negative reviews so perhaps I wasn't expecting much, but I really loved it, especially the art direction---the colors, fabrics, etc. And the "giant I.U.D." was a highlight of the show!
I do that every morning, just to stay in shape! :D
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Whew! The moment at about 1:20 a.m. on Saturday morning when Lee Harvey Oswald is taken before the reporters and television cameras pleading for someone to come forward to give him legal representation and saying that he had been charged with killing a policeman. A reporter asks him about the murder charge concerning the president and Oswald says no one said anything about that to him, and the reporter tells him "You have been charged with that." Oswald's reaction is telling....and not what might be expected.
And that reaction was....................
Disbelief!
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Such lovely photos from DR LAURA.
Thanks for the link DR CILLA LIZ - I hope he is prosecuted to the FULL EXTENT of the LAW!
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And a photo especially for DRMegan:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/4021153836_932d2cb40f.jpg)
Oh, that's Tommy Tune in Bye Bye Birdie! Or maybe not! :D
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I say we give Heene tickets to all remaining performances of BYE BYE BIRDIE and make him attend.
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So, we were driving while the balloon drama was going on and first heard about it when we turned on the tv at the motel. We were TIRED of hearing about it within an hour.
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I say we give Heene tickets to all remaining performances of BYE BYE BIRDIE and make him attend.
Heene Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, as they say in U.K.! ;)
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Although we did enjoy the History Channel's story about Abraham Lincoln.
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And the first time I saw that video, I thought there was no way that balloon could have lifted up that high with a person, however young, on it. And I couldn't figure where he would have been inside it.
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And a photo especially for DRMegan:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/4021153836_932d2cb40f.jpg)
YAY my favorite! ;D
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The concert by Os Mutantes was one of the best concerts I've ever been to. The band loved playing for the audience (they even worked up a cover of "Georgie on my Mind") and the audience loved them! You could almost feel the music permeating your body and psyche; exactly what I needed after a tough week. Their new album is also great---I guess they've had 30-some years to gather material. The leader of the band was an amazing guitarist; like a Brazilian Eric Clapton! I wished JMK could have been there!
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:) I was hoping you'd see it, Megan.
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A Row is a Row is a Row!
http://losangeles.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_BYE_BYE_BIRDIEs_Back_on_Broadway_Opening_Night_Curtain_Call_20091016
Too bad Dee Hoty seems to be wasted! Such a nice singer.
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I just came back from the hospital where my dad's still in residence. He really needs to get out of there. He's starting to get out of it and sleeping all the time and not interacting. He needs to get home to his familiar surroundings!
Thanks for the continued vibes, and vibes from me to Cilla-sis, Papa Shayne and Jeanne!
MORE VIBES TO YOUR DAD, EDI~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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DR Laura, Lovely photos.....where were you?
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Oh -- and Vibes and Prayers also for Edisaurus's dad. I skimmed the notes quickly.
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We went to southeastern Arizona, then up the border along New Mexico, then across through the woods to Payson, and south.
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Heading downstairs now to go to bed.
Good night!
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And a photo especially for DRMegan:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/4021153836_932d2cb40f.jpg)
Edisaurus approves!
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The Chiricahua Mountains:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2475/4020545043_feb1335eb8.jpg)
I saw a face in one of the mountains:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2472/4021313862_8a7a36aeaa.jpg)
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And I saw some lovely autumn leaves.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2650/4020558451_8821109169.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2425/4021319346_fc1a8f72ee.jpg)
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Happy Dinosaur!!!
And the leaves in our neighborhood are beginning to change colors.....it's fall!
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Tonight it s great full moon......mediate and make wishes....and expect prescient dreams!
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Page 8 full moon dance.
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Great Photos DR Laura and sounds like a wonderful trip
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Love the moon cat
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Very Bast-like cat for sure!
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DR Laura, what wonderful photos, once again! Especially the deer. Will never understand how someone (my brothers, for instance) can enjoy killing such a beautiful creature.
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We also drove along the copper mine near Morenci; however, I did not take any photos, because what they are doing to the mountains is truly ugly and a great scar to the beauty of Arizona.
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I agree, MBarnum.
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I discovered that Comcast has TCM HD! Who knew I could have recorded LIFE BEGINS AT 17 in high definition this week!
And MGM HD is showing some swell monster movies like BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN and 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH.
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For anyone who might be interested, I have started a blog (don't faint Elmore). It likely will appeal to only a few here at HHW since the main topic of the blog will be Bollywood films. However Hollywood films, vintage television and general 20th century pop culture will be discussed from time to time. Please to join in if you like!
http://pedrotheapebomb.wordpress.com/ (http://pedrotheapebomb.wordpress.com/)
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One is perhaps reticent to appear foolish when asking: Whence "Pedro the Ape Bomb"? :)
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Edi, you might want to check out Grupo Manifesto. :)
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DR JRand, I'm watching the first hour of the JFK show on History. You are right, this is definitely the hardest part to watch. Much more so than the rest of the show
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JMK, Pedro (the Ape Bomb) or (Human Chimpanzee, depending on his film credit) is a monkey actor who appeared in several Bollywood stunt films of the 50s and 60s (all of which is explained in my blog). Here is one of his most famous films:
(http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo146/mbarnum/Blog%20photos/ZimboComesHomePoster.jpg?t=1255841210)
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Good Evening!
Greetings from Richmond, VA!
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And since I'm very sleepy, well...
Goodnight.
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Congrats on the blog MBarnum. I think that's cool
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(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2694/4021116750_12da5a07fc.jpg)
They were selling teenagers like this at our local exotic pet store.
der Brucer
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For anyone who might be interested, I have started a blog (don't faint Elmore). It likely will appeal to only a few here at HHW since the main topic of the blog will be Bollywood films. However Hollywood films, vintage television and general 20th century pop culture will be discussed from time to time. Please to join in if you like!
http://pedrotheapebomb.wordpress.com/ (http://pedrotheapebomb.wordpress.com/)
DR MBarnum has started a blog? Mikey, you cannot write in crayon on a computer screen.
I'm back from a nice evening out. I stopped first at the St James and saw the cast and orchestra of FINIAN'S R into its first act, and then I walked over to the Theatre at St Clements to see the NYMF production of THE TOYMAKER by Bryan Putnam, which is centered around the Nazi destruction of the mining village Lidice in Czechoslovakia. I felt the storytelling had some problems and too much music. some of the score was glorious, with a good band and wonderful choral singing. On the negative side I thought a lot of the music sounded the same and that there was no difference between what the villagers sang in 1942 and what the Americans, Germans, and Czechs sang in 2009. Onr thing about Richard Rodgers: you don't hear Ado Annie's music in OKLAHOMA! sounding anything like what Laurie sings.
After that I took my dear friend Chris out for a birthday dinner, and I'm home.
And now to bed.
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(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/4021153836_932d2cb40f.jpg)
Is he related to our Buddy:
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One thing about Richard Rodgers: you don't hear Ado Annie's music in OKLAHOMA! sounding anything like what Laurie sings.
True, but I do hear navy ships crossing the South Pacific during Me and Juliet :)
der Brucer
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Back from Guys and Dolls, which was verrrrrry long - ninety minute first act and a seventy minute second act. All in the pacing. I'm not going to say much about the actual production in the notes for obvious reasons, but I thought the show was not well directed (this director routinely wins awards for this sort of lazy staging all the time), had no pace or sense of itself, but Barry and Alet were very good.
I now have to write notes, don't I?