RE: Miss Meryl Streep's movie in which she plays Margaret Thatcher......I agree.
Mr Darryl F. Zanuck produced WILSON - an BIG expensive movie about Woodrow Wilson. They premiered it in Zanuck's hometown of Wahoo, Nebraska, with lots of stars in attendance. The theatre was packed.
The next day - NOTHING. Zanuck asked why.....local man said: "These people wouldn't pay a nickel to see Wilson alive, why would they pay twenty five cents to see a movie about him?"
And that's the way I feel about Margaret Thatcher......and sort of why I couldn't get into Frost/Nixon - I had seen it happen, why would I want to see two people pretending to be them?
And the word of the day is: THOLE!
I nearly had a fire in the kitchen. My grill pan caught fire as I was grilling a burger. I don't have an extinguisher in the house - maybe I should get one.
RE: Miss Meryl Streep's movie in which she plays Margaret Thatcher......
Mr Darryl F. Zanuck produced WILSON - an BIG expensive movie about Woodrow Wilson. They premiered it in Zanuck's hometown of Wahoo, Nebraska, with lots of stars in attendance. The theatre was packed.
The next day - NOTHING. Zanuck asked why.....local man said: "These people wouldn't pay a nickel to see Wilson alive, why would they pay twenty five cents to see a movie about him?"
And that's the way I feel about Margaret Thatcher......and sort of why I couldn't get into Frost/Nixon - I had seen it happen, why would I want to see two people pretending to be them?
DR Jenn, you do wait in a queue for books (I was number 80-something when I first put NIGHT CIRCUS on hold.) But I agree with DR JMK that just because I'm preventing the book from being deleted that I am holding up the queue. Once my borrowing period expired, someone else move up and was able to download the book.
I do but after my shoulder popped even holding the Nook was difficult. Last night I put the Nook down & began my library book.
I have another large book on hold for me at the library. I would read it on the Nook if it were available on eBooks.
RE: Miss Meryl Streep's movie in which she plays Margaret Thatcher......
Mr Darryl F. Zanuck produced WILSON - an BIG expensive movie about Woodrow Wilson. They premiered it in Zanuck's hometown of Wahoo, Nebraska, with lots of stars in attendance. The theatre was packed.
The next day - NOTHING. Zanuck asked why.....local man said: "These people wouldn't pay a nickel to see Wilson alive, why would they pay twenty five cents to see a movie about him?"
And that's the way I feel about Margaret Thatcher......and sort of why I couldn't get into Frost/Nixon - I had seen it happen, why would I want to see two people pretending to be them?
Speaking of cruises, Keith & I both think an Alaska cruise with your children would be a better than the Disney cruise.
I was surprised I had to wait to get an eBook thinking it would be immediate. I expect, just like regular books, the library only has so many that they purchase.
Have you ever tried the netipot? They make one now that is just a squeezer. A lot of people i know who have sinus problems use this (i do, my sis does, her best friend does, her husband does). It really clears out your nasal passages!
Does it work better than the ones in the plastic bottles from the drug store?
No, Jeff is correct...well, at least that's not how our library works. It will be checked in in the library's system. The library doesn't get the check in information from your device, so you can keep the book (and be able to read it) for practically forever...as long as you don't turn on whatever wi-fi-type connection you have and relink with Amazon's system.
BTW, DR JRand, thanks for the dream analyses yesterday. Please put it on my running tab...
Still reeling from the commentary on the new MGM/Fox BD of SPELLBOUND, where two "experts' decry Rozsa's score for being "too big". Oy and vey.
Still reeling from the commentary on the new MGM/Fox BD of SPELLBOUND, where two "experts' decry Rozsa's score for being "too big". Oy and vey.
What I think will be interesting is to see if Streep once again snatches the Oscar from the grasping hands of Glenn Close, who is in overdrive to win this year for ALBERT NOBBS.
What I think will be interesting is to see if Streep once again snatches the Oscar from the grasping hands of Glenn Close, who is in overdrive to win this year for ALBERT NOBBS.
Once again? Streep has never won an Oscar in a year when Close was nominated. If they are both nominated and Streep wins, it will be the first time.
What I truly can't believe is that there seems to be a Best Picture groundswell for BRIDESMAIDS (at least if you read Variety). It was fun, but Best Picture? Hardly.
I wanna see Betty White and Cloris Leachman in a tagteam wrestling match with Roseanne and Brett Butler.
No, Jeff is correct...well, at least that's not how our library works. It will be checked in in the library's system. The library doesn't get the check in information from your device, so you can keep the book (and be able to read it) for practically forever...as long as you don't turn on whatever wi-fi-type connection you have and relink with Amazon's system.
Why see "The Iron Lady"?
Simple!
MERYL STREEP!
And it's bound to be just as interesting, if not moreso, than "The Queen". Why see "The Queen"? Simple. HELEN MIRREN.
I nearly had a fire in the kitchen. My grill pan caught fire as I was grilling a burger. I don't have an extinguisher in the house - maybe I should get one.
RE: Miss Meryl Streep's movie in which she plays Margaret Thatcher......
Mr Darryl F. Zanuck produced WILSON - an BIG expensive movie about Woodrow Wilson. They premiered it in Zanuck's hometown of Wahoo, Nebraska, with lots of stars in attendance. The theatre was packed.
The next day - NOTHING. Zanuck asked why.....local man said: "These people wouldn't pay a nickel to see Wilson alive, why would they pay twenty five cents to see a movie about him?"
And that's the way I feel about Margaret Thatcher......and sort of why I couldn't get into Frost/Nixon - I had seen it happen, why would I want to see two people pretending to be them?
I'm of the same mind. I never liked Ms Thatcher's politics so why would I want to see a film about her?
DR Jane wrote:QuoteI do but after my shoulder popped even holding the Nook was difficult. Last night I put the Nook down & began my library book.
I have another large book on hold for me at the library. I would read it on the Nook if it were available on eBooks.
Can you lean your nook against something? I often lean my kindle up against a kleenex box on my bed and put something heavier behind it. Then i don't even have to hold it! (I"m lazy but it might be good for your shoulder).
I am almost finished the Lisa Garnder ebook. Just 20% more (and i think a lot of that is a preview of the next book).
DR Jane wrote re: JMK taking a cruiseQuoteSpeaking of cruises, Keith & I both think an Alaska cruise with your children would be a better than the Disney cruise.
I think it depends if you want warm weather or not. Personally with so much cold weather during the year i would 1000 times more rather take a warm cruise than visit Alaska (also depends on if Alaska interests them).
I wrote:QuoteHave you ever tried the netipot? They make one now that is just a squeezer. A lot of people i know who have sinus problems use this (i do, my sis does, her best friend does, her husband does). It really clears out your nasal passages!
DR Jane wrote:QuoteDoes it work better than the ones in the plastic bottles from the drug store?
What do those look like? I've only ever seen and used the one from the netipot company. But they are very good if you have a lot of sinus problems. I don't use mine all the time. Because my probs aren't as severe as my sis and her friend.
It's a big squeezy bottle and you mix formula with boiled water (cooled down). You spray it up one nostril and it pours out the other.
DR George wrote: re; the ebook situationQuoteNo, Jeff is correct...well, at least that's not how our library works. It will be checked in in the library's system. The library doesn't get the check in information from your device, so you can keep the book (and be able to read it) for practically forever...as long as you don't turn on whatever wi-fi-type connection you have and relink with Amazon's system.
That is very interesting!
Although for most people not turning on the wifi is not an option. I see a few free books a week i want and like to download them right away. Plus when i wake up and before bed i like to be able to check my email quickly instead of having to turn on the computer!
I once had the great good fortune of interviewing her by phone when she came to Albany touring in her one-woman Grandma Moses show. She gave me the option of the G-rated interview or the X-rated interview. Naturally, I opted for the latter and I still remember one or two of the jobs. I also remember laughing myself into tears for an entire half-hour without stopping and not being able to print a single thing she said. I just sort of shaped a story about her for the preview.I wanna see Betty White and Cloris Leachman in a tagteam wrestling match with Roseanne and Brett Butler.
Cloris Leachman was unbelievably hilarious on the Bob Saget roast. Did you see it? Betsy and I still quote some of her lines. "Would someone hit me in the head with a mallet so that I can see some f***ing stars?" :)
I use the squeeze bottle, but the cedar pollen is so bad here that I couldn't force water through either nostril yesterday and only one partially this morning.I wrote:QuoteHave you ever tried the netipot? They make one now that is just a squeezer. A lot of people i know who have sinus problems use this (i do, my sis does, her best friend does, her husband does). It really clears out your nasal passages!
DR Jane wrote:QuoteDoes it work better than the ones in the plastic bottles from the drug store?
What do those look like? I've only ever seen and used the one from the netipot company. But they are very good if you have a lot of sinus problems. I don't use mine all the time. Because my probs aren't as severe as my sis and her friend.
It's a big squeezy bottle and you mix formula with boiled water (cooled down). You spray it up one nostril and it pours out the other.
Something like this: http://www.nextag.com/Neilmed-SinuFlo-Ready-Rinse-843315575/prices-html
It works the same only is pre-mixed for you.
I once had the great good fortune of interviewing her by phone when she came to Albany touring in her one-woman Grandma Moses show. She gave me the option of the G-rated interview or the X-rated interview. Naturally, I opted for the latter and I still remember one or two of the jobs. I also remember laughing myself into tears for an entire half-hour without stopping and not being able to print a single thing she said. I just sort of shaped a story about her for the preview.I wanna see Betty White and Cloris Leachman in a tagteam wrestling match with Roseanne and Brett Butler.
Cloris Leachman was unbelievably hilarious on the Bob Saget roast. Did you see it? Betsy and I still quote some of her lines. "Would someone hit me in the head with a mallet so that I can see some f***ing stars?" :)
She didn't on with Mel Brooks and gang for nothing.I once had the great good fortune of interviewing her by phone when she came to Albany touring in her one-woman Grandma Moses show. She gave me the option of the G-rated interview or the X-rated interview. Naturally, I opted for the latter and I still remember one or two of the jobs. I also remember laughing myself into tears for an entire half-hour without stopping and not being able to print a single thing she said. I just sort of shaped a story about her for the preview.I wanna see Betty White and Cloris Leachman in a tagteam wrestling match with Roseanne and Brett Butler.
Cloris Leachman was unbelievably hilarious on the Bob Saget roast. Did you see it? Betsy and I still quote some of her lines. "Would someone hit me in the head with a mallet so that I can see some f***ing stars?" :)
I have it on good authority from someone who should know that Cloris was a rather infamous "party girl" back in the 1950's era when she was on Lassie. I find it quite easy to believe. ;)
I nearly had a fire in the kitchen. My grill pan caught fire as I was grilling a burger. I don't have an extinguisher in the house - maybe I should get one.
Continued hugs and vibes to TCB
DR Jane wrote re: JMK taking a cruiseQuoteSpeaking of cruises, Keith & I both think an Alaska cruise with your children would be a better than the Disney cruise.
I think it depends if you want warm weather or not. Personally with so much cold weather during the year i would 1000 times more rather take a warm cruise than visit Alaska (also depends on if Alaska interests them).
Posting this guy's video not for its content, but only to show that you never know what can go viral, and since this seems to be (I think the word is) trending:
Video on "hating religion, but loving Jesus"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY
Maybe it's that the guy has that "right look" - but still fascinating (to this YouTube numbers addict) that, of all this guy's videos after a few years, this one went viral
CABINET KNOBS?
Thank you all for the good vibes last night and today. Actually I am feeling very positive about things today. I am also writing out extensive (I first typed expensive) notes regarding the doctor appointments and tests over the last eight months.IfWHEN I come thru on the positive 50%, then I may just write a letter to the first doctor and the AMA.If I end up on the negative side of 50,I will probably retaina lawyerWATER.
Thank you all for the good vibes last night and today. Actually I am feeling very positive about things today. I am also writing out extensive (I first typed expensive) notes regarding the doctor appointments and tests over the last eight months. If I come thru on the positive 50%, then I may just write a letter to the first doctor and the AMA. If I end up on the negative side of 50, I will probably retain a lawyer.
DR Jane wrote re: JMK taking a cruiseQuoteSpeaking of cruises, Keith & I both think an Alaska cruise with your children would be a better than the Disney cruise.
I think it depends if you want warm weather or not. Personally with so much cold weather during the year i would 1000 times more rather take a warm cruise than visit Alaska (also depends on if Alaska interests them).
Summer in Alaska isn't exactly igloos and fur parkas. The weather in Anchorage and Fairbanks is very much like Seattle.
DR JRand61, you were correct: the meeting went very well. I think all is good now for recording DEAREST ENEMY in Dublln in August.
Fruit cake.
I want some fruit cake. Preferably "spirited" fruit cake.
Today's Filichia column is about Ethel Merman's birthday.
It's a bit too damning with faint praise for my tastes.
She's dead now. No use eviscerating her further.
Feh!
Hey Kevin, not going to New York this weekend?
Speaking of NY, I didn't mention that at Sunday night's performance of Chicago, there was a medical emergency and the show was stopped for about 5 minutes while the EMTs took the patient to the hospital.
I wrote:QuoteHave you ever tried the netipot? They make one now that is just a squeezer. A lot of people i know who have sinus problems use this (i do, my sis does, her best friend does, her husband does). It really clears out your nasal passages!
DR Jane wrote:QuoteDoes it work better than the ones in the plastic bottles from the drug store?
What do those look like? I've only ever seen and used the one from the netipot company. But they are very good if you have a lot of sinus problems. I don't use mine all the time. Because my probs aren't as severe as my sis and her friend.
It's a big squeezy bottle and you mix formula with boiled water (cooled down). You spray it up one nostril and it pours out the other.
Something like this: http://www.nextag.com/Neilmed-SinuFlo-Ready-Rinse-843315575/prices-html
It works the same only is pre-mixed for you.
TCB I have been thinking about you and praying for you since I read your news -
How soon can you get the surgery?
TCB I have been thinking about you and praying for you since I read your news -
How soon can you get the surgery?
Next Friday I see the doctor that needs to clear me for surgery (my MRSA doctor) and then they will schedule it. I am thinking that hopefully the first week in February. With my luck, I will be in the hospital for the Super Bowl having jell-o instead of chips and dip.
Speaking of NY, I didn't mention that at Sunday night's performance of Chicago, there was a medical emergency and the show was stopped for about 5 minutes while the EMTs took the patient to the hospital.
Were you at the performance of CHICAGO? Is Brent currently in the show?
TCB I have been thinking about you and praying for you since I read your news -
How soon can you get the surgery?
Next Friday I see the doctor that needs to clear me for surgery (my MRSA doctor) and then they will schedule it. I am thinking that hopefully the first week in February. With my luck, I will be in the hospital for the Super Bowl having jell-o instead of chips and dip.
have the chips and dip this weekend just to be sure!
I wrote:QuoteHave you ever tried the netipot? They make one now that is just a squeezer. A lot of people i know who have sinus problems use this (i do, my sis does, her best friend does, her husband does). It really clears out your nasal passages!
DR Jane wrote:QuoteDoes it work better than the ones in the plastic bottles from the drug store?
What do those look like? I've only ever seen and used the one from the netipot company. But they are very good if you have a lot of sinus problems. I don't use mine all the time. Because my probs aren't as severe as my sis and her friend.
It's a big squeezy bottle and you mix formula with boiled water (cooled down). You spray it up one nostril and it pours out the other.
Something like this: http://www.nextag.com/Neilmed-SinuFlo-Ready-Rinse-843315575/prices-html
It works the same only is pre-mixed for you.
Neilmed is the company that makes the netipot. In fact what you linked in the picture is exactly what i have.
In my quest to have a respectable entry in our Churches' fist annual chili cookoff I have been reading chili recipes on the web and looking though my cookbooks -
Would any of you care to weigh in on your thoughts as to
beans or no beans
chopped meat vs cubed meats
beef vs beef/pork mixture
alcohol additives such as beer, bourbon, gin
Speaking of NY, I didn't mention that at Sunday night's performance of Chicago, there was a medical emergency and the show was stopped for about 5 minutes while the EMTs took the patient to the hospital.
Were you at the performance of CHICAGO? Is Brent currently in the show?
Yes and yes (till Sunday).
Speaking of NY, I didn't mention that at Sunday night's performance of Chicago, there was a medical emergency and the show was stopped for about 5 minutes while the EMTs took the patient to the hospital.
Were you at the performance of CHICAGO? Is Brent currently in the show?
Yes and yes (till Sunday).
You still have time to get to Sunday's performance!
Speaking of NY, I didn't mention that at Sunday night's performance of Chicago, there was a medical emergency and the show was stopped for about 5 minutes while the EMTs took the patient to the hospital.
Were you at the performance of CHICAGO? Is Brent currently in the show?
Yes and yes (till Sunday).
You still have time to get to Sunday's performance!
Hmmm. And Monday is a holiday.
TCB--I work for the government.
TCB--I work for the government.
TCB--I work for the government.
he's here to help
TCB--I work for the government.
he's here to help
My SSA Disability application has moved on to the Salt Lake City headquarters. I don't know if that is a good thing or not, but I am thinking that it is good.
TCB--I work for the government.
he's here to help
My SSA Disability application has moved on to the Salt Lake City headquarters. I don't know if that is a good thing or not, but I am thinking that it is good.
TCB -- may I suggest that if you have any problem you should contact your Senator's office for assistance. I used to work in a (federal) office that dealt with Congressional offices that interceded for their constituents for even routine transactions.
TCB--I work for the government.
he's here to help
My SSA Disability application has moved on to the Salt Lake City headquarters. I don't know if that is a good thing or not, but I am thinking that it is good.
TCB -- may I suggest that if you have any problem you should contact your Senator's office for assistance. I used to work in a (federal) office that dealt with Congressional offices that interceded for their constituents for even routine transactions.
Thanks, Kevin, I will keep that in mind.
TCB--I work for the government.
he's here to help
My SSA Disability application has moved on to the Salt Lake City headquarters. I don't know if that is a good thing or not, but I am thinking that it is good.
TCB -- may I suggest that if you have any problem you should contact your Senator's office for assistance. I used to work in a (federal) office that dealt with Congressional offices that interceded for their constituents for even routine transactions.
Thanks, Kevin, I will keep that in mind.
Couldn't I just call you directly, Kevin?
I nearly had a fire in the kitchen. My grill pan caught fire as I was grilling a burger. I don't have an extinguisher in the house - maybe I should get one.
Doug R - so glad to hear you're OK!!!
I wanna see Betty White and Cloris Leachman in a tagteam wrestling match with Roseanne and Brett Butler.
Cloris Leachman was unbelievably hilarious on the Bob Saget roast. Did you see it? Betsy and I still quote some of her lines. "Would someone hit me in the head with a mallet so that I can see some f***ing stars?" :)
There was only one Merman. She was the original No. 11 on the volume dial.
No, I don't like her in everything, but the recording of her final performance of "Rose's Turn" in "Gypsy" is, IMHO, reason enough not to dismiss her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp7S_awm5GU
OK, Here comes Extreme makeover....Jon has given me a number of clues to look for him...he has a goatee kind of thing on his chin, wearing all white under his blue Extreme Makeover shirt, worked on house 1, helped set up the command center, put the stuff on the wall in the movie themed bedroom and carried a banner. SO....that's what I'm looking for. This is sure to be emotional....
In my quest to have a respectable entry in our Churches' fist annual chili cookoff I have been reading chili recipes on the web and looking though my cookbooks -
Would any of you care to weigh in on your thoughts as to
beans or no beans
chopped meat vs cubed meats
beef vs beef/pork mixture
alcohol additives such as beer, bourbon, gin