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Years ago, I read a book on the matter by Robert Bly entitled THE SIBLING SOCIETY. While Bly's book was a bit long-winded and repetitive, he pretty much did zero-in on the problem--we now have a generation being raised by people who never grew up and properly matured themselves. So in effect, we have children raising children.
And the word of the day is: PERPEND!
Yesterday's Remembrance Ceremony was very nice.....and their were tears....and lots of music.....and Vickie and i received many compliments on our reading..... It was difficult - but we "delivered the news"! :'(
Article on the ceremony with the photo album....
http://www.bannergraphic.com/story/1761664.html
And a photo of Miss Vickie and myself.
I also got in trouble with a parent with no sense of humor duting my employment at Barnes & Noble. One Saturday, during the all-out madness just before Christmas a parent let his young daughter pull an "I want" screaming fit in the middle of the main floor. the obnoxious kid screamed and carried on for over fifteen minutes while the parent ignored her. I said more loudly than intended to my co-workers, "I'll give $10 to anyone who'll push that kid under a bus." A passing parent - completely unrelated to the screaming kid - was not amused.
Another time, I got in trouble with a mother because she was letting the child she was holding continually slap hard the top of the computer I was using to look up information for her at Customer Service. After about five slaps, with no reaction from the mother, I snapped "Stop it!" and the baby started crying. The mother reported me for abusing her little child.
I must say, though, that my manager Patty was great about telling parents to remove their obnoxious children from the store.
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I watched some DVD's sent to me for my birthday by DR MBARNUM....including RING OF FIRE....most exciting.....and featuring Joyce Taylor and Frank Gorshin....two 30 year olds as teen-aged juvenile deliquents....
SNOWFIRE a fine horse opera with a cute little girl....and a beautiful horse.....
And of course UNGUARDED MOMENT with Esther Williams, George Nader....and introducing John Saxon.....as a very bad boy who is straightened out by joining the Army....we are told in the last minute wrap up.
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either.... I was quoting YOU. ;D
I heard that DR ELMORE.....sad....
I liked Fields as Micawber and EdnaMae Oliver as Aunt Betsy, but I prefer the BBC version with Daniel Radcliffe as young David and Maggie Smith as Aunt Betsy. I believe Bob Hoskins is Micawber. It's a wonderful version.
I knew I had turned into and old lady the day I came home from the zoo because there were too many children.
In my defense, however, there were dozens of school buses in the parking lot.
I do not have children....so I cannot comment on how to raise children.
BUT - some of the children I have to be around - would be in BIG trouble....if they were MY children.
Yesterday's Remembrance Ceremony was very nice.....and their were tears....and lots of music.....and Vickie and i received many compliments on our reading..... It was difficult - but we "delivered the news"! :'(
Article on the ceremony with the photo album....
http://www.bannergraphic.com/story/1761664.html
And a photo of Miss Vickie and myself.
Elmore, parents are often encouraged to ignore tantrums. Sadly, the advice often leaves out the part about taking the child home.
Mae-Ling still throws tantrums because they still work with Mr. Goldstein. She threw one with me. One.
Andy Whitfield, who played Spartacus, has reportedly died yesterday of non-Hodgkins lymphoma in Sydney, Australia. He was 39. DR MBarnum will never have a chance to pursue him at an old age.
Last night, at the Vixter's behest, we watched the David Tennant version of Hamlet - it is an interesting version but not my favorite - I think I prefer the Kenneth Bragnagh version myself
Very sad about actor Andy Whitefield. So young.
Another celebrity death that was just reported in the LA times obits, although she died on August 20th...Ms. Patricia Hardy star of DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK and GIRLS IN THE NIGHT.
She was also Mrs. Richard Egan from 1958 till his death 30 years later. From all accounts they had a wonderful marriage and I can recall one of my interviewees commenting that Richard took his marriage vows very seriously, despite the fact that women threw themselves at him all of the time.
Another Man Another Chance was in my mailbox today!
Yesterday's Remembrance Ceremony was very nice.....and their were tears....and lots of music.....and Vickie and i received many compliments on our reading..... It was difficult - but we "delivered the news"! :'(
Article on the ceremony with the photo album....
http://www.bannergraphic.com/story/1761664.html
And a photo of Miss Vickie and myself.
Today's Topic of the Day reminds me of THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkSdM6p2G98) commercial that's on YouTube. :D
DR George - It sounds like your modem card may have just come loose. If you can open up your case and re-seat the card, that may do the trick.
Conference call in seven minutes, then have to decide what movie it will be. I may go to Gelson's first and see if they have any good apples - they don't seem to have this brand - Envy - that I was totally smitten with - just disappeared. Is apple season over?
Finished with the conference call. It looks like I'll be co-writing and directing this one-person thing for Cindy Williams. We'd actually talked about it four or five years ago, but she wasn't quite ready to work on it. Now she and her friend are ready to do it, so I'm now on board.
Finished with the conference call. It looks like I'll be co-writing and directing this one-person thing for Cindy Williams. We'd actually talked about it four or five years ago, but she wasn't quite ready to work on it. Now she and her friend are ready to do it, so I'm now on board.
That's pretty cool, BK!
"They" are saying we have possibility of more rain tonight. So there's still hope! (We haven't had any rain at my house since August 3.)No hope here of rain.
I have returned with short ha, thanks to my barber Joe, and one ticket for the second row mezzanine center for tonight, thanks to Mr Ron Raines. The orchestra should sound fabulous from there. I fear Ms Peters may not, since she's sounded like garbage in the past shows I've seen her in. The only show where she's sounded remotely in good voice was SUNDAY IN THE PARK, and she was amazing. Full report at 11.Looking forward to the report.
I also stopped at Harry's Shoes on 83rd and Broadway and got myself a new pair of walking shoes
There are so many clips from this Follies on YouTube that I feel as if I have seen half the show. I saw Maxwell in Washington do "Lucy and Jesse" and she was so unsure of her dance moves that it was like that joke in "The Act" about the chorus dancing all around her.
Has her dancing gotten any better, Elmore?
I was ready to say you could find her flapping her arms like a trained seal on YouTube, but the posting seems to have been removed.There are so many clips from this Follies on YouTube that I feel as if I have seen half the show. I saw Maxwell in Washington do "Lucy and Jesse" and she was so unsure of her dance moves that it was like that joke in "The Act" about the chorus dancing all around her.
Has her dancing gotten any better, Elmore?
It is better, but the "Lucy and Jesse" number has been totally restaged, I hear.
Elmore, parents are often encouraged to ignore tantrums. Sadly, the advice often leaves out the part about taking the child home.
And taking them home can also mean giving them the attention they want. "No" is often what triggers the tantrum. Ignoring it and then not letting them have anything in the store, or a reward once you leave, is often the best way to teach them not to throw temper tantrums.
What I really hate is when the parent gives the kid what they want. I don't have patience in a movie or restaurant while I try to have it in a store or market, and especially in a toy store. I dealt with a major on in ToysRUs which was never repeated since Bryan left, once we were done shopping, without anything for him.
There are good moments in what is, essentially, a good summer stock production of FOLLIES. I blame the idiot director for all of the misfires, beginning with the too-literal and too-solid set that makes no allowances for the transition to Loveland without dropping a curtain and then opening it suddenly to reveal the fantasy sequence. Boris Aronson, come back! The whole marvel of the four principals and their younger selves being suddenly caught up in a scenic transformation outside their control is completely missing. Because the set is so solid, with this too solid staircase dominating the first act, there's no sense the original had of the action taking place all over the theatre, in various nooks and crannies where people go to talk privately. ""Waiting for the Girls Upstairs" would be wonderful if there weren't a lot of lounging party guests standing at the back of the stage doing nothing.
Also missing is the sense of haunting and mystery at the beginning: the showgirls ghosts move too fast, the business of the caterers setting up a party and moving among the ghosts is gone as well. When Bernadette Peters arrives as the first guest, there are no waiters, no signs of a bartender, it's ridiculous. This is a revival of a mood piece without a mood.
The Montage is performed well, but it's too brightly lit; I don't think the audience is supposed to know if Solange, Hattie, and the Whitmans are performing or if it'sgoing on inside their heads. If they are performing, and since the songs represent different periods of popular song, they're not performing the songs as a counterpoint trio; they're each caught up in their own moment at various moments in the evening. The finish and the too-bright lighting, make it loo as tough they're competing for who can sing their number the broadest at the end.
I owe Bernadette Peters a big apology; she was so much better than I ever anticipated. The voice is ragged but she's sure caught the vulnerability and mental problems of an unhappy woman. The character of Sally is the closest portrait of my mother in drama that I can think of, and her "Losing My Mind" moved me to tears. The original production was about Ben; this production is about Sally and I think that was my impression with Dorothy Collins as well.
My two friends Danny and Ron are wonderful: "Buddy's Blues" may be the best number in the show and it's quite marvelous. For me the weak link is Jan Maxwell, whose "Leave You?" is so over acted and overly hostile that it's clearly appealing to those fans of the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink school of acting; they think her over-the-top bitch is Tony worthy. From Dame Ben Brantley's review in the TIMES, he's in this camp as well, but he's an twit. If she's this hostile, I can't believe that at the finish she still loves Ben. I didn't think she was bad at all until that number and then I decided once again -as I did many times during the production - that the director is a total fraud. and inept, to boot.
I guess JMK is gone forever. No responses to e-mails, no-show here. Go know.
has anybody heard from TCB?
You know, when I was a kid and got sick, I don't recall my mother ever making this soup to help me get better.
has anybody heard from TCB?
I heard from TCB a little earlier today via email. I believe he's just conserving his energy.
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I've got Nudie t-shirts arriving in three weeks, so we'll be all ready to ship out those and blu-rays about three or four weeks ahead of the street date.