Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 19 => Topic started by: bk on August 09, 2010, 11:44:55 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, the title of the notes couldn't even fit in this topic header, hence the unseemly abbreviation, and now it is time for you to post until the unseemly cows come home - they're convinced that the pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle.
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And the word of the day is: GERENT!
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Topic of the Day (courtesy of IMDb): What's Up, Doc? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069495/):
Eunice: I'm not looking for romance, Howard.
Howard: Oh?
Eunice: No, I'm looking for something more important than that, something stronger. As the years go by, romance fades and something else takes its place. Do you know what that is?
Howard: Senility?
Eunice: Trust!
Howard: That's what I meant.
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Judy: Aw come-on, Steve, you don't want to marry Eunice.
Howard: I'm not Steve. I'm Howard.
Judy: Well neither of you wants to marry Eunice.
Howard: Why do you say that?
Judy: Because you don't want to marry someone who's gonna get all wrinkled, lined, and flabby.
Howard: Everybody gets wrinkled, lined, and flabby!
Judy: By next week?
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Judy: Has anyone ever told you that you are very, very sexy?
Hugh: Well, actually no.
Judy: They never will.
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Howard: What am I gonna tell Eunice?
Judy: That's the easy part. You go up to her room. She answers the door; now she will have been crying so her eyes will be all bloodshot and her nose will be all red and runny, but you look past all that. You stare purposefully into those red-rimmed, swollen eyes, and you say, "Eunice, my dear, there's been a terrible mistake. I've behaved like a cad, a bounder! But now I see everything clearly and I've decided that Judy and I are gonna put you into a home."
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Frederick Larrabee: Don't you dare strike that brave, unbalanced woman!
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Judge Maxwell: You see this yellow pill?
Bailiff: Yes sir.
Judge Maxwell: You know what it's for?
Bailiff: What, Judge?
Judge Maxwell: To remind me to take this BLUE pill!
Bailiff: What's the blue one for, Judge?
Judge Maxwell: I don't know. They're afraid to tell me.
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eorge that is a agreat movie - no matter how many times I see it I still laugh out loud
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why can't modern filmakers make funny movies like that naymore? Nowadays they are nothing but toliet humor and cursing and sex
what's wrong with a nice clean slapstick filled with clever lines?
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too tired to think of any movie lins right now
but comedy movies that I can watch over and over again include teh aforementioned
Whats Up Doc
The Russians Are Coming. The Russians Are Coming
The Inlaws (the original version with Alan Arkin & Peter Falk - not the remake)
Blast From the Past
Seems Like Old Times
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now I have to go to work
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HEALING VIBES for Dear Ginny
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HAVE A NICE DAY VIBES FOR EVERYONE
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Tuesday morning greetings! I woke up a couple of hours ago and decided that the worst thing to do is lie there in the dark and THINK. I've been reading and eating grapes and thought it was about time to pop in and say HI.
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HEALING VIBES for Dear Ginny
Thank you, DR Vixmom - have a great day!
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I think I forgot last night to thank DR RonPulliam for his good wishes - thanks, Ron!
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eorge that is a agreat movie - no matter how many times I see it I still laugh out loud
I agree with you. I also agree with George. I don't know who "eorge" but I agree with him too. Peter Bogdonovich directed three three great films in the 70's and then after that perhaps ego took over.
1970-Last Picture Show, 1971-What's Up Doc? 1972-Paper Moon. The one exception was Mask.
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Here are some great quotes
1. "...Bond. James Bond."
(Sean Connery, Dr. No (1962)
2. "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
(Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca (1942)
3. "Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men."
(Mae West, I'm No Angel (1933)
4. "I'll be back."
(Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Terminator (1984)
5."Won't you excuse me for a moment while I ... slip into something a little bit more ... comfortable?" (With a lisp)
(Madeline Kahn, Blazing Saddles (1974)
6. "My Mama always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.'"
(Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump (1994)
7. "I could dance with you till the cows come home...On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows when you came home."
(Groucho Marx, Duck Soup (1933))
8. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"
(Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind (1939))
9. "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Well, who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who the f--k do you think you're talkin' to?"
(Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver (1976))
10. "Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby."
(Greta Garbo, Anna Christie (1930)
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And some of my mine
Gentlemen you can't fight here, this is the War Room....Dr. Strangelove
You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together - and blow...Lauren Bacall
But you are Blanche! You are!...Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Fasten your seat belts - it's going to be a bumpy night...All About Eve
I would love to have kissed ya, but I justed washed my hair
She's my daughter!.(SLAP)..She's my sister! (SLAP)..She's my daughter! (SLAP)..My sister, (SLAP)..my daughter..(SLAP).. She's my sister and my daughter." Faye Dunaway...Chinatown
Well, nobody's perfect!,,,Some Like It Hot and perhaps the best final line of a movie ever
Some Marx Bros
You can't fool me! There ain't no sanity clause!
One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas, I don't know.
I'd horsewhip you, if I had a horse
If I held you any closer, I'd be behind you
I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it
It's the old, old story. Boy meets girl - Romeo and Juliet - Minneapolis and St. Paul!
and I could go on and on and on
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Good morning, peoples!
Good vibes to all for a lovely day!
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"C'mon, Norman--they're opening up the bar!"
"Certainly you must have heard of "Hamlet!"
"Well, I meet so many people."
"Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it."
"Could you go for a doctor?"
"I don't know--what does he look like?"
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WHAT'S UP DOC is out on Blu-Ray today.
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! ! ! ! ! HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO DR DER BRUCER ! ! ! ! !
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TOD:
I know that bk's not fond of it, but it sometimes seems that half of my conversations quote The Princess Bride. Some of the ones that come up most frequently:
* "Thank you for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?"
* "I'm on the brute squad." "You are the brute squad!"
From The Muppett Movie:
* "Have you tried Hari Krishna?"
* "It's a myth! Myth!" "Yes?" "Good grief, it's a running gag!"
From Duck Soup:
* "What are you doing?" "Defending your honor, which is more than you ever did!"
One of my all-time favorites, though, comes not from film but from radio, and the great Jimmy Durante, who had the most magnificent ability to creatively mangle the English language (second perhaps only to Yip Harburg). On one of his shows, Lucille Ball guest-starred, and when she came in, Jimmy delivered the following:
"I'm overwhelmin', Lucille. The exuberance of this unctious occasion, and the mere quintessence of your celestial radiance, permeates my bountiful soul with palpitations of grandiouseness and jocundity."
She: "James, if you think that over, I'm sure you'll take it back."
He: "Take it back, nuthin'! I had a hard enough time gettin' rid of it!"
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Good morning.
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Ginny -- I left out an ingredient in the oatmeal recipe.
I also put in two tablespoons of ground flax seed (or flax meal). It's a good fat, and it tastes better than adding fish oil.
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Good morning, all! I slept late, got out of bed around 9 am, answered a few emails, printed out a computerized score, and downloaded the OLC PROMISES PROMISES. I'm ready for a nap.
I have some writing here on the Herbert shows, a trip to the copyist with my Indianapolis charts around noon, a trip to Staples to enlarge the printout of this score, and that's my day.
TOD:
Ricard Lester: A HARD DAYS NIGHT, HELP!, FINDERS KEEPERS
John Schlkesinger: COLD COMFORT FARM
Tony Richardson: TOM JONES
Robert Altman: M*A*S*H
The Marx Brothers: DUCK SOUP, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Abbott & Costello: A&C MEET FRANKENSTEIN
Alec Guiness: KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, THE LADYKILLERS
Bob Hope: THE CAT AND THE CANARY, GHOSTBREAKERS, PALEFACE
Hope & Crosby: THE ROAD TO UTOPIA
Chaplin: MONSIEUR VERDOUX
A CHRISTMAS STORY
RUTHLESS PEOPLE
CLUELESS
BEDAZZLED
MOONSTRUCK
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I'm listening to the London Cast of PROMISES PROMISES. That unpleasant lady playing the lead, whom I once sold an important recording to, will never be a singer whose voice (or attitude) I like or admire: her belt is only good for peeling paint off walls.
Given that problem, the recording sounds spectacular!
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"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Ricco?"
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"Certainly you must have heard of "Hamlet!"
"Well, I meet so many people."
Love that line. I've met people like that.
What film is it from?
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"I know there's no such person as Dracula. You know there's no such person as Dracula. But, does Dracula know?"
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"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
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"You're going to need a bigger boat."
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"It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast."
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I could do this all day, but I'm going to do some work now.
::)
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too tired to think of any movie lins right now
but comedy movies that I can watch over and over again include teh aforementioned
Whats Up Doc
The Russians Are Coming. The Russians Are Coming
The Inlaws (the original version with Alan Arkin & Peter Falk - not the remake)
Blast From the Past
Seems Like Old Times
The In-Laws! Holy Moly, that takes me back... my father was (and is) a huge "Columbo" fan, and we watched that movie together once: for the next month, we couldn't stop saying "serpentine, serpentine!" whenever an opportunity arose (and it's surprising how often it did...)
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I was moved to do something on the re-naming of a Broadway theater for Foxwoods, so here goes (it's very short, like 55 seconds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHi9fTQYTt4
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I'm listening to the London Cast of PROMISES PROMISES. That unpleasant lady playing the lead, whom I once sold an important recording to, will never be a singer whose voice (or attitude) I like or admire: her belt is only good for peeling pain off walls.
"Peeling pain off walls"....that was my diagnosis from the last seven doctors I saw this year!
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Well, you've read the notes, the title of the notes couldn't even fit in this topic header, hence the unseemly abbreviation, and now it is time for you to post until the unseemly cows come home - they're convinced that the pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle.
GET IT. GOT IT. GOOD!
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"Certainly you must have heard of "Hamlet!"
"Well, I meet so many people."
Love that line. I've met people like that.
What film is it from?
DR Druxy, that was Margaret Early to Eve Arden in STAGE DOOR (a movie that is chock-full of great lines!)
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"Well, there's the trapdoor, the humidor and the cupsidor--how many doors would you like?"
"Oh, Linda--Mr Powell's car is here! Mr. Powell isn't here, just his car!"
...and the infamous:
"The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower, suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day and now I place them here in memory of something that has died"
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And the word of the day is: GERENT!
And The Song Of The Day Is: I WONDER WHAT THE KING IS DOING TONIGHT
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TA DA!
Received two telephonic phone calls that require MUCH action today - and unexpected ones at that! Whew. I feel like MR BK.
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So much for my plans of working on my Act Two Lines today.
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I haven't even listened to the London PP CD that arrived! So I don't know from no hidden track. Dammit.
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TOD:
So many including those already referenced, of course.
"This is Rufus T. Firefly coming to you through the courtesy of the enemy. We're in a mess folks, we're in a mess. Rush to Freedonia! Three men and one woman are trapped in a building! Send help at once! If you can't send help, send two more women!"
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TOD:
So many including those already referenced, of course.
"This is Rufus T. Firefly coming to you through the courtesy of the enemy. We're in a mess folks, we're in a mess. Rush to Freedonia! Three men and one woman are trapped in a building! Send help at once! If you can't send help, send two more women!"
Any movie with Groucho and Margaret Dumont gets high marks in my book!
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Hmm...nodded off for a nap again...
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"Hannah and Her Sisters":
Gail: Listen, kid, I think you snapped your cap. Maybe you need a few weeks in Bermuda or something. Or go to a whorehouse!
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Mickey: And Nietzsche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're gonna live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.
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Mickey's Father: How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can opener works!
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Mickey: A week ago I bought a rifle, I went to the store - I bought a rifle! I was gonna, you know, if they told me I had a tumor, I was gonna kill myself. The only thing that might-ve stopped me - MIGHT'VE - is that my parents would be devastated. I would have to shoot them also, first. And then I have an aunt and uncle - you know - it would've been a blood bath.
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[after learning Mickey is infertile]
Hannah: Could you have ruined yourself somehow?
Mickey: How could I ruin myself?
Hannah: I don't know. Excessive masturbation?
Mickey: You gonna start knockin' my hobbies?
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Mickey: I had a great evening; it was like the Nuremberg Trials.
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Norma: It's a good thing that we had a talented daughter!
Evan: I can only hope that she was mine! With you as her mother, her father could be anybody in Actor's Equity!
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"Love and Death"
Sonja (Diane Keaton): "That is incredibly jejune".
Boris (Woody Allen): That's jejune? You have the temerity to say that I'm talking to you out of jejunosity? I am one of the most june people in all of the Russias!"
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From Cilla:
I really enjoyed The River of Doubt. I guess I should say I found it fascinating, I wasn't familiar with that part of his life.
Perhaps you should rotate in something uplifting or happy Wink
So true but I ended up reading my own book, Every Man Dies Alone. ;D
I didn't know River of Doubt was a happy book. I like that.
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I'm listening to the London Cast of PROMISES PROMISES. That unpleasant lady playing the lead, whom I once sold an important recording to, will never be a singer whose voice (or attitude) I like or admire: her belt is only good for peeling pain off walls.
Given that problem, the recording sounds spectacular!
I'm listening to it now. The slower tempos take some getting used to. Tony Roberts occaisionally has trouble sustaining those notes. And BB seems to be doing a Jill O'Hara impersonation. But still, lots of fun listening to this recording...
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"Well, the universe is everything, and if it's expanding, someday it will break apart and that would be the end of everything!"
"What is that your business? You're here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not expanding!"
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"No, you must be Don Francisco's sister."
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"Hawk! I hear the cannon's rawh! It is the king approaching?"
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From Cilla:
I really enjoyed The River of Doubt. I guess I should say I found it fascinating, I wasn't familiar with that part of his life.
Perhaps you should rotate in something uplifting or happy Wink
So true but I ended up reading my own book, Every Man Dies Alone. ;D
I didn't know River of Doubt was a happy book. I like that.
I didn't mean River of Doubt is a happy book. I was fascinated, but it wasn't happy. I was just saying with all the doom, a happy book would be nice.
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I'm up and awaiting the arrival of Shelly Markham.
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Phew! I get so much email everyday, I decided I better check with Verizon to see what it would cost me to get email on my blackberry in Canada. I'm glad I did. Between the 69 cents extra per minute for phone and the price of data..(I literally get hundreds of emails every day related to work) It was much cheaper for me to get the plan including Canada and then change back when I come home than it would have been for me to pay all the roaming fees. I wouldn't have bothered it I wasn't getting ready for trial and the office is closed so I have to check messages a couple times a day for emergencies etc.
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Ok, a few more things to wrap up at the office then I"m off to lunch
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Take the cannoli
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Last night DR Laura stated:
I am now the proud owner of a Home Composting Unit and am ready for the FUN to begin!!!
I recently bought my sister one as an early birthday gift. It's called the Ecomposter. It comes in a box unassembled. There are over 500 parts.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/ecomposter.jpg)
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Take the cannoli
Any place in particular?
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I'm up and awaiting the arrival of Shelly Markham.
I've been up and awaiting the arrival of Shelly Fabares...for the past 40 years, actually.
You'd think she'd call and tell me she wasn't coming.
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Phew! I get so much email everyday, I decided I better check with Verizon to see what it would cost me to get email on my blackberry in Canada. I'm glad I did. Between the 69 cents extra per minute for phone and the price of data..(I literally get hundreds of emails every day related to work) It was much cheaper for me to get the plan including Canada and then change back when I come home than it would have been for me to pay all the roaming fees. I wouldn't have bothered it I wasn't getting ready for trial and the office is closed so I have to check messages a couple times a day for emergencies etc.
DR Cillaliz - my sister-in-law did this very thing when she went to Mexico earlier this year. She seemed pretty satisfied.
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500 parts! I think mine has seven, plus some screws.
I suppose I should take it out of the car.
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Back from all errands! I have to add a few aditional instruments to "Meadowlark" and a 2nd Violin to "My Heart Is So Full Of You," as well as profread the new computerized scores.
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TOD
"Before you know it,The Renaissance will be here and everybody will be painting"
"Doc,My Brother's Crazy,he thinks he's a chicken.
The Doctor says,"Well,Why Don't You Turn Him In?"
And The Guy Says.
"I Would,But We Need The Eggs"
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Back from breakfast - we're all ready to go, MD-wise - he has all the music, a CD of the songs (so he can see what we did for the arrangements) and all is well. I've packaged up a few things and will ship them in a little while.
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From My Big Fat Greek Wedding (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259446/):
Aunt Voula: What do you mean he don't eat no meat?
[the entire room stops, in shock]
Aunt Voula: Oh, that's okay. I make lamb.
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I'm up and awaiting the arrival of Shelly Markham.
I've been up and awaiting the arrival of Shelly Fabares...for the past 40 years, actually.
You'd think she'd call and tell me she wasn't coming.
I'm still waiting for Godot.
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But, I'll settle for Lefty or Guffman.
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I figured I'd just throw those two in before anybody else did.
;D
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Get me off this damn page.
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I am really liking these librarians at the indianapolis Symphony. They have been most friendly and helpful, and the copyist on 96th Street is really on top of things. so I'm quite content at the moment.
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Glad to hear this, DR Elmore!
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500 parts! I think mine has seven, plus some screws.
I suppose I should take it out of the car.
Composting in the car, that's the latest thing
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Phew! I get so much email everyday, I decided I better check with Verizon to see what it would cost me to get email on my blackberry in Canada. I'm glad I did. Between the 69 cents extra per minute for phone and the price of data..(I literally get hundreds of emails every day related to work) It was much cheaper for me to get the plan including Canada and then change back when I come home than it would have been for me to pay all the roaming fees. I wouldn't have bothered it I wasn't getting ready for trial and the office is closed so I have to check messages a couple times a day for emergencies etc.
DR Cillaliz - my sister-in-law did this very thing when she went to Mexico earlier this year. She seemed pretty satisfied.
Glad to hear it worked out for her. I only have one concern about the trip tomorrow. When I booked it I had an hour between flights at O'hare. The airline changed things and now I have 30 minutes. I don't know if that's going to be enough time, but I saved the original notice so I can show them I planned well, but they messed me up. So I'm planning on the possibility that I may be stuck in Chicago for a few hours if I don't make my flight. It would be fine, actually, I'm in no hurry to get there.
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DR Elmore- glad to hear things are going well.
Me, on the other hand, not so much. The "revenge" has reared it's ugly head for the third time in 6 weeks. Hopefully, with the specimen's I turned in today, we should figure out what the heck is going on.
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Well, since I'm no longer working, and waiting for my right hip revision surgery on September 13, I just finished the Benjamin Kritzer series. I think that I enjoyed the books more by being able to read them one after another. Because of "Kritzer Time," I purchased the following CDs that I did not have in my collection:
- Points on Jazz - Dave Brubeck - Played by Anthony & Joseph Paratore
- Conversations With Myself - Bill Evans
- Manhattan Tower - Gordon Jenkins
I'm anxious to find out how much in the Kritzer books is close to autobiographical for BK. Does any one have a recommendation as to whether or not I read the remainder of BKs books by publication date or immediately jump to "There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You: My Life in the Slow Lane"?
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Well, since I'm no longer working, and waiting for my right hip revision surgery on September 13, I just finished the Benjamin Kritzer series. I think that I enjoyed the books more by being able to read them one after another. Because of "Kritzer Time," I purchased the following CDs that I did not have in my collection:
- Points on Jazz - Dave Brubeck - Played by Anthony & Joseph Paratore
- Conversations With Myself - Bill Evans
- Manhattan Tower - Gordon Jenkins
I'm anxious to find out how much in the Kritzer books is close to autobiographical for BK. Does any one have a recommendation as to whether or not I read the remainder of BKs books by publication date or immediately jump to "There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You: My Life in the Slow Lane"?
DR Thom, I would suggest going to "There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You" followed by "Rewind".
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I agree with Matthew. And I would say that 95% of what is in the Kritzer books is basically autobiographical.
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500 parts! I think mine has seven, plus some screws.
I suppose I should take it out of the car.
Composting in the car, that's the latest thing
With our heat, it helps it compost even faster in the car.
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Ewww, I didn't think about the heat and the compost...yikes!
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Prayers and vibes to the family and friends of Former Senator Ted Stevens and the others on the plane that crashed.
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Well, since I'm no longer working, and waiting for my right hip revision surgery on September 13, I just finished the Benjamin Kritzer series. I think that I enjoyed the books more by being able to read them one after another. Because of "Kritzer Time," I purchased the following CDs that I did not have in my collection:
- Points on Jazz - Dave Brubeck - Played by Anthony & Joseph Paratore
- Conversations With Myself - Bill Evans
- Manhattan Tower - Gordon Jenkins
I'm anxious to find out how much in the Kritzer books is close to autobiographical for BK. Does any one have a recommendation as to whether or not I read the remainder of BKs books by publication date or immediately jump to "There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You: My Life in the Slow Lane"?
I recommend the latest Kimmel tome. It's really the next Kritzer book, and there's a scene between BK and his mother that will tear out your heart. It's a moving wrap up to Minnie's story in Benjamin's life
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Prayers and vibes to the family and friends of Former Senator Ted Stevens and the others on the plane that crashed.
Amen!
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Ewww, I didn't think about the heat and the compost...yikes!
That's the story of my life during hot weather!
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I've been looking online and it looks like there are all sorts of fun entertainment festivals going on in Toronto this week. Not sure I'll have time to get to anything in particular, so I'll wait until I get there to make plans. I'm finally getting excited about the trip. I haven't packed yet, but I think i've got everything I need. Since I only have 30 min in chicago, I"m going to bite the bullet and check a bag. It will be an easier run to the next gate if I only have a back pack.
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http://www.bing.com/travel/content/search?q=Titanic+Tourism%3a+Branson%2c+Mo.%2c+and+Pigeon+Forge%2c+Tenn.&cid=msn1157059&form=TRVCON>1=41000 (http://www.bing.com/travel/content/search?q=Titanic+Tourism%3a+Branson%2c+Mo.%2c+and+Pigeon+Forge%2c+Tenn.&cid=msn1157059&form=TRVCON>1=41000)
FOR TCB...Titanic Tourism
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Let me just say the following: I am going for a jog. When I get back I think we'd best be off not only page three but page four or it will not be pretty, oh, no, it will not be pretty.
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eorge that is a agreat movie - no matter how many times I see it I still laugh out loud
I agree with you. I also agree with George. I don't know who "eorge" but I agree with him too. Peter Bogdonovich directed three three great films in the 70's and then after that perhaps ego took over.
1970-Last Picture Show, 1971-What's Up Doc? 1972-Paper Moon. The one exception was Mask.
I agree with you there. Though I did like much of "Texasville," too. Yet when he was off his mark ("Daisy Miller" comes immediately to mind), it was scary.
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I'm listening to the London Cast of PROMISES PROMISES. That unpleasant lady playing the lead, whom I once sold an important recording to, will never be a singer whose voice (or attitude) I like or admire: her belt is only good for peeling pain off walls.
Given that problem, the recording sounds spectacular!
I'm listening to it now. The slower tempos take some getting used to. Tony Roberts occaisionally has trouble sustaining those notes. And BB seems to be doing a Jill O'Hara impersonation. But still, lots of fun listening to this recording...
I liked Tony Roberts' interpretation of the role when I listened to it this morning. It was a stressful morning at work, so I didn't listen to it closely. Didn't care for BB, because she just didn't sound like herself and she wasn't Jill O'Hara either. But I think I enjoyed the recording overall, especially the Italian bonus at the end.
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A few favorites from "The Ref" with Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary., The rest of the best lines are bit laden with profanity. Yet I suggest you watch the movie if you like a good laugh. I watch it every Christmas:
John Chasseur: Mom, the TV's broken. What are we gonna do all night?
Connie Chasseur: Celebrate the birth of Christ!
Connie Chasseur: Who would catch a criminal, and then let him go free?
Mary Chasseur: Republicans.
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Ginny -- I left out an ingredient in the oatmeal recipe.
I also put in two tablespoons of ground flax seed (or flax meal). It's a good fat, and it tastes better than adding fish oil.
Fish oil on my oatmeal! At last I know what has been missing from my life.
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A few favorites from "The Ref" with Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary., The rest of the best lines are bit laden with profanity. Yet I suggest you watch the movie if you like a good laugh. I watch it every Christmas:
John Chasseur: Mom, the TV's broken. What are we gonna do all night?
Connie Chasseur: Celebrate the birth of Christ!
Connie Chasseur: Who would catch a criminal, and then let him go free?
Mary Chasseur: Republicans.
"Oh, just shoot her."
I love this movie!
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In the what are the odds...Paul was telling me he has to take a friend to the airport in Omaha tomorrow. We thought she was going a lot earlier than I was so we sort of dropped it. He called. Not only is she going close to the same time, but she's going to Toronto. Actually Buffalo and then to Toronto - anyway, I now have a passenger for the ride to Omaha in the morning. I'm totally cool with that. Her name happens to be Ginny. I think it's a good omen for the trip
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All right time to post
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I need to call the cat/house sitter for the final confirmation
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And pack, oh yeah, there is that
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The weather forecast is 80s in Toronto.. Better than the 90s forecast here
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Back from a three-mile jog and am none too happy that we're still on page four, but it's better than page three. Perhaps we'll have a new all-time low today.
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DR Cillaliz - tell the new Ginny HI from the old Ginny!
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Gmail is being completely retarded today - slow as molasses - five full minutes to load. Ridic.
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DR Cillaliz - tell the new Ginny HI from the old Ginny!
I will definitely tell her hello. Actually the new Ginny may be older than the old Ginny! I've known her for quite awhile, just not very well. I'm looking forward to the drive. Since Paul's car doesnt' have air conditioning and he was telling me today that it smells really bad, I'm thinking she's glad she's riding with me, too!
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Just booked my ground transportation in Toronto. Yikes, they say I need to be at the airport 3 hours early. My flight leaves there at 8:00 and I'm 1/2 hour from the airport. Guess I'll be leaving early! the shuttle starts at 4:45 am, so I guess I'll be up and on that shuttle, just to be safe.
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Ok, off to the ATM to get some cash, then clean out the car and back to start getting ready....oh and I need to call the house/cat sitter for the final confirmation
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Travel vibes to DR Cillaliz!
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From Cilla:
I really enjoyed The River of Doubt. I guess I should say I found it fascinating, I wasn't familiar with that part of his life.
Perhaps you should rotate in something uplifting or happy Wink
So true but I ended up reading my own book, Every Man Dies Alone. ;D
I didn't know River of Doubt was a happy book. I like that.
I didn't mean River of Doubt is a happy book. I was fascinated, but it wasn't happy. I was just saying with all the doom, a happy book would be nice.
Got it. :)
SAVE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES!! HAVE A GREAT TIME IN TORONTO!!
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Prayers and vibes to the family and friends of Former Senator Ted Stevens and the others on the plane that crashed.
DITTO!
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Thanks Ginny and Jane
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My "favorite" book was discussed today. The hostess began with "Before you kill me I hated this book:. ;D Only a few of us actually finished. We all felt about the same. It was an interesting & lively discussion. The hostess did an excellent job of researching the book, author, & the meaning of the book according to the author.
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I am shutting down early and going to bed soon. That probably means that I'll wake up early again tomorrow, but we'll see. G'night!
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Good night, Ginny!
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TOD:
From The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T-
Dr. T: Is it....atomic?
Bart: Yes sir! VERY atomic!
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From MEN DON'T LEAVE
Arliss Howard tries to cheer up a very depressed Jessica Lange:
"Would you like to go to a land where there is no sadness? Where everyone's fatter than you? And you can feel smug?
Then he takes her to a polka party.
I love this movie.
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THE PRODUCERS:
Leo: You can't kill the actors, they're people!
Max: Have you ever eaten with one?
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PLAY IT AGAIN SAM:
You have the most....eyes I've ever seen on any person.
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" Ill have what she's having"
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When Harry Met Sally is one of those movies I can watch over and over
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Sam Baldwin: What is "tiramisu"?
Jay: You'll find out.
Sam Baldwin: Well, what is it?
Jay: You'll see!
Sam Baldwin: Some woman is gonna want me to do it to her and I'm not gonna know what it is!
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Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of "the Dirty Dozen."
Greg: Who didn't?
Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin
[Begins to cry]
Sam Baldwin: were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...
Greg: [Crying too] Stop, stop!
Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez...
Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez!
Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...
Greg: Stop.
Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...
Greg: [Crying harder] Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie.
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TOD:
Bill Murray in Tootise: "That is one nutty hospital"
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"Eve the psychic pimp"
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[Reading unrehearsed lines off the TelePrompTer]
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] Dr. Randall, what a surprise! Are you having lunch here?
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] I will if it's that sample. Huh... I wish it was that simple.
Edmund Edwards: [offstage] This guy never heard of contact lenses?
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] The test results have come back.
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] And?
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] And I'm afraid the results are very disturbing. It seems that Angelique has a rare case of brake fluid...
[pause]
Jeffrey Anderson: Bran... fluid. Bran flavor.
Burton White: What the hell?
David Barnes: [offstage] Brain fever!
Edmund Edwards: [offstage, loudly] Say it!
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] Brain fever!
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] Yes. Brain fever. Or what we call in Austria...
[they both goggle at the word]
Jeffrey Anderson: Kopfgeschlagen. At the current rate of inflation, her brain will laterally explore the...
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] Literally explode?
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] Exactly, within the next three houses.
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] Hours?
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] Yes, will literally explode within next three hours. I would suggest leaving the restraint.
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] Restaurant?
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] Restaurant, yes.
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] Her brain will actually explode?
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] Yes, yes, I've, um, seen it happen. It's a dreadful, dreadful thug. Thing.
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TRAVEL VIBES to Cilla
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HEALING VIBES to Ginny
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SLEEPING VIBES to Elmore
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Composting Vibes to Laura
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Ditto X 4 to what Vixmom just posted!!
;D
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Hi eorge how are you?
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From "My Favorite Year (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084370/)":
Alan Swann: Damn you! I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!
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Topic of the Day (courtesy of IMDb): What's Up, Doc? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069495/):
Eunice: I'm not looking for romance, Howard.
Howard: Oh?
Eunice: No, I'm looking for something more important than that, something stronger. As the years go by, romance fades and something else takes its place. Do you know what that is?
Howard: Senility?
Eunice: Trust!
Howard: That's what I meant.
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Judy: Aw come-on, Steve, you don't want to marry Eunice.
Howard: I'm not Steve. I'm Howard.
Judy: Well neither of you wants to marry Eunice.
Howard: Why do you say that?
Judy: Because you don't want to marry someone who's gonna get all wrinkled, lined, and flabby.
Howard: Everybody gets wrinkled, lined, and flabby!
Judy: By next week?
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Judy: Has anyone ever told you that you are very, very sexy?
Hugh: Well, actually no.
Judy: They never will.
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Howard: What am I gonna tell Eunice?
Judy: That's the easy part. You go up to her room. She answers the door; now she will have been crying so her eyes will be all bloodshot and her nose will be all red and runny, but you look past all that. You stare purposefully into those red-rimmed, swollen eyes, and you say, "Eunice, my dear, there's been a terrible mistake. I've behaved like a cad, a bounder! But now I see everything clearly and I've decided that Judy and I are gonna put you into a home."
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Frederick Larrabee: Don't you dare strike that brave, unbalanced woman!
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Judge Maxwell: You see this yellow pill?
Bailiff: Yes sir.
Judge Maxwell: You know what it's for?
Bailiff: What, Judge?
Judge Maxwell: To remind me to take this BLUE pill!
Bailiff: What's the blue one for, Judge?
Judge Maxwell: I don't know. They're afraid to tell me.
;D
I just reviewed the Blu-ray (streeting today).
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And, hi, y'all. We're in semi-lovely Redding, California. Last night we stayed in the oh, so quaint Rail Road Park that DR Jane recommended. Tomorrow we're in semi-lovely Fresno.
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I will most likely have to ketchup later.
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Thanks to a dear reader, I am watching one of the single most horrifying things I have ever seen, worse than any horror movie - the revival of Promises, Promises. The director of this show should not be allowed near a show ever again, and yet here he is in LA helming a new musical. Not only that, the gentleman in question, who attended last week's recording session, was beyond rude, not saying hello to one person in the booth who didn't have something major to do with the show, and that includes having the courtesy to say hello to me and my engineer - and certainly unless this "person" has been living under a rock, which is entirely possible, he would know who I am. And I don't mind that kind of arrogance IF the person has genius or even a boatload of talent. This man, based on everything I've seen, has nothing - and this revival is putrid and makes me want to vomit on the ground for reasons I will go into in the notes. And frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn WHO knows. How DARE him do this to this show, which, believe me, did not need his help, not in any way, shape, or form. Sean Hayes, while perfectly okay perfectly likable, is so lightweight that there's no there there. Jerry Orbach you cared about. Jerry Orbach didn't need to do TV sitcom shtick to get his laughs - no, Jerry Orbach spoke Mr. Simon's lines well and got his laughs. That's called having both timing and understanding and trusting the material. His leading lady is twenty years too old for the part and therefore the part makes no sense on any level. The added songs? Awful. Disgusting. Nauseating. One of the greatest overtures ever written has been ruined AND because the director doesn't trust that an audience can just revel in a great overture, he stages it, with poor Mr. Hayes forced to sit there while people do meaningless steps around him. Terrible. Grapes of Roth's arrangement has also been changed and ruined - in the original, that number brought down the house and it wasn't even a number - it wasn't so much choreographed as brilliantly imagined by Michael Bennett, who, by the way, WAS a genius and understood the POINT of a number. Adding dancers to She Likes Basketball, one of the most glorious solos ever? Talk about a fool who doesn't trust the material and just wants to show off. It is C.C. Baxter's number, period. Add dancers and it becomes stupid. And prior to it, add Say A Little Prayer, which sits there like a lox because - wait for it - it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SHOW, and you stop the show cold and not in a good way.
And Turkey Lurkey Time? Worse than you can imaging, perhaps one of the all-time botches of a sure-fire showstopper. With Michael Bennett, who knew how to build a number until the audience was in a frenzy, this number tore the roof off the theater - it door the damn roof off New World Stages when we did the Bacharach benefit. But no, this director/choreographer has to put his own inept stamp on it, and so we get one meaningless unexciting step after another - he actually has the temerity to ADD music to the end while they do MORE meaningless steps. The tepid applause (no matter how hard the teens in the audience try to have it be otherwise) says all there is to day. And then follow it with an added six minutes for A House is Not A Home, and they completely subvert and ruin one of the great act one closers - going directly from a showstopper to a heartbreaker moment. That's what this show is, and that's what this director does not understand.
And I haven't even seen act two yet. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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I amthinking of getting a GPS any onw have a ny thoughts or recomendations?
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A few favorites from "The Ref" with Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary., The rest of the best lines are bit laden with profanity. Yet I suggest you watch the movie if you like a good laugh. I watch it every Christmas:
John Chasseur: Mom, the TV's broken. What are we gonna do all night?
Connie Chasseur: Celebrate the birth of Christ!
Connie Chasseur: Who would catch a criminal, and then let him go free?
Mary Chasseur: Republicans.
"Oh, just shoot her."
I love this movie!
Betsy and I also love this flick: "Oh, my God, I've kidnapped my parents."
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A few favorites from "The Ref" with Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary., The rest of the best lines are bit laden with profanity. Yet I suggest you watch the movie if you like a good laugh. I watch it every Christmas:
John Chasseur: Mom, the TV's broken. What are we gonna do all night?
Connie Chasseur: Celebrate the birth of Christ!
Connie Chasseur: Who would catch a criminal, and then let him go free?
Mary Chasseur: Republicans.
"Oh, just shoot her."
I love this movie!
Betsy and I also love this flick: "Oh, my God, I've kidnapped my parents."
Well, that's a polite paraphrase. I also love the moment where Kevin Spacey tells his mother (a deliciously ugly Glynis Johns) that he's going to get her a wooden cross for Christmas so that every time she's feeling neglect, she can crawl up and nail herself to it.
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BK: The new "Turkey Lurkey Time" is a horror. Sorry you're suffering through the whole shebang. Only Katie Finneran in the second act was worth anything.
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Thanks to a dear reader, I am watching one of the single most horrifying things I have ever seen, worse than any horror movie - the revival of Promises, Promises. The director of this show should not be allowed near a show ever again, and yet here he is in LA helming a new musical. Not only that, the gentleman in question, who attended last week's recording session, was beyond rude, not saying hello to one person in the booth who didn't have something major to do with the show, and that includes having the courtesy to say hello to me and my engineer - and certainly unless this "person" has been living under a rock, which is entirely possible, he would know who I am. And I don't mind that kind of arrogance IF the person has genius or even a boatload of talent. This man, based on everything I've seen, has nothing - and this revival is putrid and makes me want to vomit on the ground for reasons I will go into in the notes. And frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn WHO knows. How DARE him do this to this show, which, believe me, did not need his help, not in any way, shape, or form. Sean Hayes, while perfectly okay perfectly likable, is so lightweight that there's no there there. Jerry Orbach you cared about. Jerry Orbach didn't need to do TV sitcom shtick to get his laughs - no, Jerry Orbach spoke Mr. Simon's lines well and got his laughs. That's called having both timing and understanding and trusting the material. His leading lady is twenty years too old for the part and therefore the part makes no sense on any level. The added songs? Awful. Disgusting. Nauseating. One of the greatest overtures ever written has been ruined AND because the director doesn't trust that an audience can just revel in a great overture, he stages it, with poor Mr. Hayes forced to sit there while people do meaningless steps around him. Terrible. Grapes of Roth's arrangement has also been changed and ruined - in the original, that number brought down the house and it wasn't even a number - it wasn't so much choreographed as brilliantly imagined by Michael Bennett, who, by the way, WAS a genius and understood the POINT of a number. Adding dancers to She Likes Basketball, one of the most glorious solos ever? Talk about a fool who doesn't trust the material and just wants to show off. It is C.C. Baxter's number, period. Add dancers and it becomes stupid. And prior to it, add Say A Little Prayer, which sits there like a lox because - wait for it - it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SHOW, and you stop the show cold and not in a good way.
And Turkey Lurkey Time? Worse than you can imaging, perhaps one of the all-time botches of a sure-fire showstopper. With Michael Bennett, who knew how to build a number until the audience was in a frenzy, this number tore the roof off the theater - it door the damn roof off New World Stages when we did the Bacharach benefit. But no, this director/choreographer has to put his own inept stamp on it, and so we get one meaningless unexciting step after another - he actually has the temerity to ADD music to the end while they do MORE meaningless steps. The tepid applause (no matter how hard the teens in the audience try to have it be otherwise) says all there is to day. And then follow it with an added six minutes for A House is Not A Home, and they completely subvert and ruin one of the great act one closers - going directly from a showstopper to a heartbreaker moment. That's what this show is, and that's what this director does not understand.
And I haven't even seen act two yet. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Don't hold back, BK. Go ahead...tell us how you REALLY feel.
;)
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Time to head home.
Be back later.
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Anyone want to bet that this production of Promises Promises will be touring next year?
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It probably will - too bad.
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I'm almost through with it and the finale cannot come soon enough.
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What is the deal today? Where was everyone and you know exactly who I'm talking about.
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I'm having some rice.
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I have finished act two which was just as bad as act one.
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I forgot to post...I got a hair cut today!
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Actually, I got them all cut.
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I'm watching "White Collar," right now.
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I don't remember when the last time I got my hair cut, but I certainly needed it.
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Tomorrow, I'm having lunch with my friend Margo and Jan, a former co-worker who retired about four or five years ago.
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And since we're (finally) so close...
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!