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Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on February 25, 2013, 11:20:18 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were scarce, like the onion bagel, and now it is time for you to post until the scarce cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: YARE!
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Topic of the Day:
I love a good, fresh, plain bagel with cream cheese, but I also love a sesame bagel. I've have various other kinds, but the plain or sesame are my favorites. I don't think that I've had an onion bagel, though. I'll have to try it someday. There are a couple of local places that make fresh bagels.
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Oatmeal, pecans, raisins and cinnamon and coffee.
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Shower, dress, office.
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Good morning, all!
Today I visit my eye doctor and take a trip to 22nd Street and Park Avenue to do so. Following that, I will wander up to Toyland, check out the office, accomplish a few things and return home. I'm hoping for a quiet day. When I get back here, I'll put some more work into the recording libretto. I'm now on Act Two.
Our latest round of recording anxiety is the conductor. I've got two good men lined up but both are suddenly having schedule glitches. I'm giving the glitches a week to settle or worsen before I begin a search for a third.
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Good morning, all.
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TOD: Back when I used to eat bread, I loved a good onion bagel or one with several toppings that included onion. But the bagels here are not bagels at all. They're more like bread donuts, all big and puffy in appearance, but just sad and dense when you bite into them. You practically need a half-pound of cream cheese to balance the overwhelming flavor of bread.
I'm really not a fan of sweeter bagels, such as the blueberry ones, largely because you can't put lox with them.
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Good morning, all.
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TOD:
My favorite bagel is generally a garlic bagel, but I like a good onion, too. We occasionally get bagels here in the office from one of those franchise places that have a very delicious jalapeno bagel.
The best bagels I ever had were in New York, natch!
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I think I usually like a sesame seed or poppy seed bagel.
The power bagels (with nuts, cranberries and raisins) at Einstein's are pretty good, but I doubt that they qualify as actual bagels.
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I'm having a store-bought bagel (Thomas's, of English Muffin fame) as I type this.
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I think onion bagels were my first favorite back in the day, and I've been through several phases of favorites. [Onion sandwich rolls were also a staple back then, I just remembered.] Nowadays, I ALWAYS like an everything bagel. For a basic one, sesame seed is my cherce. I think I'd consider a salt bagel as the most exotic, since it's so outrageous from the get-go -- but SO good, just once in a while, toasted with butter. Oh yeah baby. I'm afraid I find plain bagels boring, and poppy seeds themselves don't do much for me except leave black dots on my teeth.
Though I've had many over the years, I no longer find myself interested in blueberry or whole-grain or other bagels of that stripe. All of those ingredients, IMHO, are better served in regular bread products other than bagels. I don't see the point. Bagels are just a little too unique or individual a thing to have been given such a "mainstream" treatment, even though of course it's inevitable that it happened. And I don't mind -- I'm glad bagels themselves became infinitely more available over the years. Just keep my everythings coming, along with BK's onion, and everybody will be happy.
Best bagels? The New York dense but chewy, hands down. Even there, there's plenty of variety. I've had some from Arthur Avenue in the Bronx that I thought were among the very best. I liked H&H (are they still around?). The single best bagel experience that stands out in my mind, however, was a day that some friends and I met in Manhattan to go see some museum exhibit out in the wilds of Long Island. We had to stop in Great Neck to pick up the last person, and they knew a convenient bagel place to meet. That jernt was the most bustling and amazing one I've ever been in, and everything there was to die for. For years I've meant to find it and go back for a bag of bagels.
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ADDENDUM TO YESTERDAY'S TOD --
Kept meaning to come back and post this.
French fries, fried in beef tallow the way they used to be. The way McDonald's did it (and how they earned their reputation for fries) for years. Many think it's healthier for you in the long run, but I don't eat french fries for my health so let's just say there's NO COMPARISON, taste wise.
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Re: MIDNIGHT LACE -
I never cared much for the movie, but there's one thing that I've always remembered about it.
I was 19 when it came out; living in Seattle. (I think it played the Music Hall.)
I recall reading a 2-3 sentence synopsis of the picture that did not reveal any plot twists whatsoever, yet I immediately knew the secret identity of the villain. And, I was right.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who guessed that, because it was so obvious from the casting.
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TOD:
I can only eat gluten free bagels now, but back in the day, my preferences were egg, pumpernickel and rye.
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For years, my mother tried to make bagels. She studied the recipe and made attempt after attempt to get them right. She never did. But since she never threw anything out, we had to eat the mistakes. We thought they were horrible at the time, but they were actually better than the bagels you get at the supermarkets here.
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MIDNIGHT LACE has more unexplained red herrings than should be legal in a movie..... Those mysterious phone calls that John Gavin is accused by the pub owner of making are never mentioned again... For example.
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I'd heard about MIDNIGHT LACE for years, and when I finally saw it (which was only recently, btw), I was disappointed. The film did look murky, but maybe that's the way it is. But I didn't think it was all that great a thriller, unfortunately.
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Howdy all you HainesHisWay listeners! The new edition of the Broadway Radio Show is now up on this here splendid website for your listening enjoyment. This time we ponder the questions.....When is a Cast Recording not a Cast Recording? When is a Soundtrack not a Soundtrack? Can it be both???? That's right, we take a listen to the new release of BOMBSHELL, the Marilyn Monroe musical that's the center of the TV show everyone loves to hate, Smash! In addition we listen to other songs from real cast recordings also written by the duo of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Follow the radio show link here on the site and have a listen!
DONALD FELTHAM
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I love THE BIG COUNTRY....mentioned by DR JANE yesterday. It's one of my favorite Carroll Baker performances.
Carroll Baker has said that shortly after she signed for the movie, she discovered she was pregnant. She had a meeting with Wyler, who had a meeting with United Artists, and they decided to go ahead since they would be finished with the film before she was "showing."
However delays.....they had started filming without having an ending to the story....kept cropping up. By the time of the filming of the party scene, a special "concealing" dress had to be made for Carroll...... And she kind of just disappears from the story without much of a resolution.....
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Result: Her son Herschel Garfein who is now a composer and Grammy winner.
http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2012/02/14/nyu-steinhardt-professor-of-music-herschel-garfein-takes-home-a-grammy-award-for-american-opera-elmer-gantry.html
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Uh oh....another long link.
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I like poppy seed bagels.
re: the onion bagels are they brown with onions. That is how they make them here.
I wasn't sure if you meant that or more like the onion rolls we get here (which are white with dark onions on them). I like both.
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MIDNIGHT LACE used to be shown often on British TV but I haven't seen it for many years. I always thought it very enjoyable. I didn't know there was a German Blu-ray of it.
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Page One?
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DR ELMORE thanks for the package that arrived yesterday!
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TOD:
I like onion bagels, as well. And...I seldom see them in bagel shops. I buy mine from the grocery store.
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I am VERY excited about the upcoming "My Geisha" release on Kritzerland.
Franz Waxman is a major favorite and his scores from the 50s and 60s are particularly vibrant.
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Greetings from Toyland! Eyes examined and I'm having a raisin bagel with cream cheese as I type this. It's my first in over a year and quite deelish.
Negotiations are underway with an Aunt Minnie's agent, "Lovely To Look At" waits for me, and all the packages I shipped last week have reached their destination. I'm quite relieved.
And Arnold's been to Toyland and cleaned our offices.
THE BIG COUNTRY Suite by Jerome Moross and edited by yours truly is available for symphony orchestra performances. I love the Main Title.
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Page 2?
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!! Page 2 !!
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TOD:
I have not had that much experience with bagals, so I likely don't know a good one from a bad one. I do like the ones with fruit in them, but a plain bagel with strawberry creamcheese is usually good
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Even a bad John Gavin is good.
and wow, I love this photo!
(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/VERA-MILES-JANET-LEIGH-JOHN-GAVIN-original-movie-photo-PSYCHO-/00/s/NjMxWDc4Mg==/$T2eC16ZHJF8E9nnC8GkcBQ4Ru4mp2g~~60_3.JPG)
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Which reminds me that I need to finish up watching the John Gavin series DVD set of his show DESTRY.
It is AN entertaining series, but it was trying way too hard to be another MAVERICK.
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I’ve been watching James Cagney’s A LION IS IN THE STREETS on TV. I had never seen this film before but I couldn’t believe how bad it is. I usually always like James Cagney but in this, his character is intensely irritating and Cagney overacts like mad. There are so many ridiculous scenes from Barbara Hale’s ludicrous fight with a crocodile to the court scene when Cagney continues to defend a man of murder, despite the man having died in the court after having been shot. It’s all so overwrought and unbelievable. Made by Cagney’s production company, it’s a good example of how stars were often better off sticking to the studio system!
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And the word of the day is: YARE!
And The Song Of The Day Is: SAIL AWAY
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And the word of the day is: YARE!
And The Song Of The Day Is: SAIL AWAY
The word "Yare" always makes me think of "The Philadelphia Story."
Tracy: She was yare alright. I wasn't, was I?
Dexter: Not very. Oh, you were good at the bright work, though.
Tracy: I made her shine.
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Tuesday afternoon greetings! I had to go for a blood test this morning, plus several errands, so didn't even turn on the computer until now. Could have made more stops, but it's cold and rainy here and I decided to come home.
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TOD - When I worked in downtown Dayton we often went to a muffin & bagel shop for lunch. My favorites were the sesame seed bagel with chicken salad and the sun-dried tomato bagel with veggies and low-fat cream cheese. The most unusual bagel I've ever eaten was in Ann Arbor, MI. It was a cinnamon bagel, deep fried and coated with sugar, called a Fragel.
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I'm awake and accomplishing. That's all I got
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I'm up, I'm up after a good night's sleep. I'm still somewhat congested even though I've been better for a week now.
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From DR MBarnum:
I read today that the family of the deceased have to campaign to have the person included, which seems highly ridiculous....and sad
???
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From DR TCB:
The Academy also published a web gallery honoring 114 of the people who died last year.
http://oscar.go.com/photos/85th/show/in-memoriam-2012/media/norman-alden
It is probably just me but this was giving me a headache to look at. It is kind of dark and the photo changes were too slow & bothered my eyes.
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From DR John G:
Jane, I have discovered that one of the restaurants in town carries both custard pie and buttermilk pie.
I will be right over for the custard pie.
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I think I usually like a sesame seed or poppy seed bagel.
The power bagels (with nuts, cranberries and raisins) at Einstein's are pretty good, but I doubt that they qualify as actual bagels.
I'm not sure if any Einstein's bagels qualify as actual bagels. ;)
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From DR John G:
Jane, I have discovered that one of the restaurants in town carries both custard pie and buttermilk pie.
I will be right over for the custard pie.
I've been doing research on this topic and may have to make one this weekend. I have a trusted pie cookbook from Susan Purdy called "The Perfect Pie," in which she recommends baking the crust and the filling separately for the most part because the crust needs a higher temperature to bake than the filling. You then "slip-slide," as she calls it, the filling into the crust and then finish them off together. Never heard of anything like. She swears it's easy.
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I love THE BIG COUNTRY....mentioned by DR JANE yesterday. It's one of my favorite Carroll Baker performances.
Carroll Baker has said that shortly after she signed for the movie, she discovered she was pregnant. She had a meeting with Wyler, who had a meeting with United Artists, and they decided to go ahead since they would be finished with the film before she was "showing."
However delays.....they had started filming without having an ending to the story....kept cropping up. By the time of the filming of the party scene, a special "concealing" dress had to be made for Carroll...... And she kind of just disappears from the story without much of a resolution.....
I'm not sure what resolution there could have been unless she ended up with Heston. I pictured her sad and alone.
They did a fine job with her "concealing" dress. I noticed she wore something more flowing but didn't pick up on the pregnancy.
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I like poppy seed bagels.
re: the onion bagels are they brown with onions. That is how they make them here.
I wasn't sure if you meant that or more like the onion rolls we get here (which are white with dark onions on them). I like both.
We also have onion rolls. I don't recall seeing a brown onion bagel. Most are whitish with onion on top. Keith is very happy when he can find them made with the onions all the way through the bagel.
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Direct from Criterion:
24-hour 50% off sale till noon EST tomorrow. Use code FLASHY on checkout.
http://goo.gl/OMjlG
EDIT: ON THE WATERFRONT Blu-ray just sold out!
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TOD - When I worked in downtown Dayton we often went to a muffin & bagel shop for lunch. My favorites were the sesame seed bagel with chicken salad and the sun-dried tomato bagel with veggies and low-fat cream cheese. The most unusual bagel I've ever eaten was in Ann Arbor, MI. It was a cinnamon bagel, deep fried and coated with sugar, called a Fragel.
The only place I've had fried bagels was in Michigan.
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From DR John G:
Jane, I have discovered that one of the restaurants in town carries both custard pie and buttermilk pie.
I will be right over for the custard pie.
I've been doing research on this topic and may have to make one this weekend. I have a trusted pie cookbook from Susan Purdy called "The Perfect Pie," in which she recommends baking the crust and the filling separately for the most part because the crust needs a higher temperature to bake than the filling. You then "slip-slide," as she calls it, the filling into the crust and then finish them off together. Never heard of anything like. She swears it's easy.
Sounds interesting. I've heard of doing this and never tried it.
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The best rye bagel I've had was a place in Pennsylvania. I had to drive very far just to get bagels.
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Overall the best bagel places were in Michigan.
New York bagels make excellent rye bagels but my favorite were the great egg bagels. http://newyorkbagel-detroit.com/newyorkbagel-detroit_storeinfo.htm
There was another bagel place that sadly closed down. While I'm not a fan of everything bagels I thought their everything egg" bagels were great. They made extra big bagels & I would first toast the top have with the "everything" on it & the next day toast the bottom egg half.
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LOL DR JANE - that was probably the best fate for her character....
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;D
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From DR John G:
Jane, I have discovered that one of the restaurants in town carries both custard pie and buttermilk pie.
I will be right over for the custard pie.
I've been doing research on this topic and may have to make one this weekend. I have a trusted pie cookbook from Susan Purdy called "The Perfect Pie," in which she recommends baking the crust and the filling separately for the most part because the crust needs a higher temperature to bake than the filling. You then "slip-slide," as she calls it, the filling into the crust and then finish them off together. Never heard of anything like. She swears it's easy.
Sounds interesting. I've heard of doing this and never tried it.
As soon as I get the recipe typed up, I'll send it on.
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I like poppy seed bagels.
re: the onion bagels are they brown with onions. That is how they make them here.
I wasn't sure if you meant that or more like the onion rolls we get here (which are white with dark onions on them). I like both.
We also have onion rolls. I don't recall seeing a brown onion bagel. Most are whitish with onion on top. Keith is very happy when he can find them made with the onions all the way through the bagel.
Here onion bagels are dark brown (like pumpernickel bread) with brown onions on top. I have these quite often.
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Sorry i am having trouble putting up the picture. But do most people's bagels look like the NY ones? I don't know if i've ever eaten a bagel that doughy. Ours look exactly like the picture of the Montreal ones.
http://honestcooking.com/2011/07/12/new-york-versus-montreal-bagels/
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Mercy post.
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There!
Page 3.
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I bought my dad a new flat screen - just a 32 inch model - because his box tv had diagonal lines across the screen and a very definite GREEN hue to it......
Got it hooked up.....
Since I got my new television - I haven't been happy with the Broadcast HD quality, so while I had my cables out, I looked at my television and discovered that when the Comcast technician installed my new box, he had hooked it up with Component wires instead of the HDMI connection.....so I redid that....now it looks MUCH better.
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Home from Toyland. I'm thinking about cole slaw.
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I bought my dad a new flat screen - just a 32 inch model - because his box tv had diagonal lines across the screen and a very definite GREEN hue to it......
Got it hooked up.....
Since I got my new television - I haven't been happy with the Broadcast HD quality, so while I had my cables out, I looked at my television and discovered that when the Comcast technician installed my new box, he had hooked it up with Component wires instead of the HDMI connection.....so I redid that....now it looks MUCH better.
Ah, Comcast. I've always disliked that company.
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JRand, that is amazing that the Comcast guy did not use the correct hook up!
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I am so very tired of being congested and blowing mucus out. Boring already.
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Back from a turkey sandwich and no fries.
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I gotta tell you.
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Will we never get to page fifty?
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BK:
Is John Gavin's English accent worse than Dick Van Dyke's in Mary Poppins?
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Here is Susan Blakeslee show stopping "A Little Lift"
http://youtu.be/HW9DBdg-FLs (http://youtu.be/HW9DBdg-FLs)
Wearing a costume by Academy Award Nominee Amy Adams
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TOD
When growing up in Montreal there was no such thing as an exotic. It was either poppyseed or sesame. Or as we called the black seed or white seed." To this day I don't know which is which so I have to look at them in the display case. It wasn't until I was a teen that other places started making (horrors or horrors!) plain bagels. The came cinnamon and raisin and other flavors
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The mucous-y congestion after a cold can hang on for a really long time. Sometimes I can throw it off pretty fast, but usually not. For me, though, just feeling well is so rewarding that I almost don't care.
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Congrats to Bruce on another sold out Kritzerland Show. Called today to make reservations only to learn of the sold out status, so Janet and I won't be going but it's great to see that the Billy show is doing so well.
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Sorry i am having trouble putting up the picture. But do most people's bagels look like the NY ones? I don't know if i've ever eaten a bagel that doughy. Ours look exactly like the picture of the Montreal ones.
http://honestcooking.com/2011/07/12/new-york-versus-montreal-bagels/
Montreal bagels are unique. Especially the ones from "the bagel factory" as depicted in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. It isa very Eastern European style.
They are thinning. Dipped in honey water and rolled in poppy or sesame sends and then but into a wood burning oven. There is nothing quite like getting one straight out of the oven.
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oh & btw
good afternoon to all.
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I live in Arizona. I don't know from real bagels.
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Love Vintek's quote at the bottom of his posting
"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets, then teams up with 3 complete strangers to kill again" Marin County newspaper listing for The Wizard of Oz
But where is Marin County?
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From DR TCB:
The Academy also published a web gallery honoring 114 of the people who died last year.
http://oscar.go.com/photos/85th/show/in-memoriam-2012/media/norman-alden
It is probably just me but this was giving me a headache to look at. It is kind of dark and the photo changes were too slow & bothered my eyes.
I forgot to mention
The first in the slide show was Norm Alden.
Here is my Norm Alden story. I was working on the production side on a tv series in Montreal and they sent me to the Airport to pick him up because I was the only person who knew who he was other than the producers and writers.
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VinTek, the last few shows have sold out a week in advance - hard to wait to reserve anymore.
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Going through the list there were quite a few characters who passed this last year and a few better know stars who I have to say I was surprised that were omitted like Harry Carey Jr, Ann Rutherford and Phyllis Thaxter
People like Andy Griffith and Larry Hagman were better know for TV than there film work.
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So, for the last year I've been thinking about doing an omnibus version of the Kritzer books - all three in one large volume. What do you all think? Doing so would enable me to fix some style issues in the first book (presuming I can even find the Word file - I think it's on a Zip drive or a floppy - have to go hunting - it also might be on my old Toshiba laptop - I plugged that in a couple of years ago and it was working - I'd have to locate it, though. I just like the idea of having all three books in one volume for people at a reasonable price.
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Mr. Gavin's accent makes Dick Van Dyke's accent sound more authentic than an actual cockney.
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JRand, that is amazing that the Comcast guy did not use the correct hook up!
They look at HDMI cables as "optional". They leave getting them up to you. They only use component cables.
Go figure.
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Going through the list there were quite a few characters who passed this last year and a few better know stars who I have to say I was surprised that were omitted like Harry Carey Jr, Ann Rutherford and Phyllis Thaxter
People like Andy Griffith and Larry Hagman were better know for TV than there film work.
I think that last comment really depends upon your memory. Since the boomer generation probably first met Griffith in "No Time For Sergeants", "Onionhead" and "A Face in the Crowd", many of us remember those cinema moments as something extraordinary. Many of the folks "remembered" were never "in" a movie.
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Love Vintek's quote at the bottom of his posting
"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets, then teams up with 3 complete strangers to kill again" Marin County newspaper listing for The Wizard of Oz
But where is Marin County?
Due north of San Francisco County...directly across the Golden Gate bridge!
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Will we never get to page fifty?
Not at this rate.
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End of an era: As of March 19th, the new owner of Variety, who should be run out of town on a rail (it's the entitled rich kid who owns various movie websites like Deadline) will cease issuing Daily Variety - it's only been nine decades of tradition down the drain in an instant.
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I'm still not over Life Magazine ceasing weekly publication.
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Mercy, mercy me post.
(With a tip of the hat to ChasSmith)
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So many things are disappearing...being shut down...or taken away.
It's the end of many eras, it seems.
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I love THE BIG COUNTRY....mentioned by DR JANE yesterday. It's one of my favorite Carroll Baker performances.
Carroll Baker has said that shortly after she signed for the movie, she discovered she was pregnant. She had a meeting with Wyler, who had a meeting with United Artists, and they decided to go ahead since they would be finished with the film before she was "showing."
However delays.....they had started filming without having an ending to the story....kept cropping up. By the time of the filming of the party scene, a special "concealing" dress had to be made for Carroll...... And she kind of just disappears from the story without much of a resolution.....
I really like THE BIG COUNTRY, too.
Buff Brady, who was one of my very first publicity clients, played one of Chuck Connors' gang. He was a top stuntman and did the trick riding in that opening sequence when Peck and Carroll are on their way to the ranch.
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I know things change, the old giving way to the new.
But what is (or where is) all the new that is supposed to replace all the old stuff we've lost or are losing?
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End of an era: As of March 19th, the new owner of Variety, who should be run out of town on a rail (it's the entitled rich kid who owns various movie websites like Deadline) will cease issuing Daily Variety - it's only been nine decades of tradition down the drain in an instant.
Who is the owner these days? I once knew the Silvermans, who owned back in the 1980s, but they were trying to sell it back then.
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Oh man. RIP Variety.
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I have to say, Grant Geissman was very keen on doing the Kritzer books as an omnibus, so we probably will in a few months.
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No Daily Variety
Well - that has been the story of my life for quite some time now.
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DR TCB begin saving now for this cruise
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2013/02/26/titanic-ii-will-be-built/1948935/
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I think a Kritzerland Omnibus would be a nice thing.....and it might increase the value of the individual volumes....
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DR RLP is correct. If I had given the Comcast Man my HDMI cable, he might have used it.
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From DR John G:
Jane, I have discovered that one of the restaurants in town carries both custard pie and buttermilk pie.
I will be right over for the custard pie.
I've been doing research on this topic and may have to make one this weekend. I have a trusted pie cookbook from Susan Purdy called "The Perfect Pie," in which she recommends baking the crust and the filling separately for the most part because the crust needs a higher temperature to bake than the filling. You then "slip-slide," as she calls it, the filling into the crust and then finish them off together. Never heard of anything like. She swears it's easy.
Sounds interesting. I've heard of doing this and never tried it.
As soon as I get the recipe typed up, I'll send it on.
Thanks but wait until you have tested it first ;)
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From DR John G:
Jane, I have discovered that one of the restaurants in town carries both custard pie and buttermilk pie.
I will be right over for the custard pie.
I've been doing research on this topic and may have to make one this weekend. I have a trusted pie cookbook from Susan Purdy called "The Perfect Pie," in which she recommends baking the crust and the filling separately for the most part because the crust needs a higher temperature to bake than the filling. You then "slip-slide," as she calls it, the filling into the crust and then finish them off together. Never heard of anything like. She swears it's easy.
Sounds interesting. I've heard of doing this and never tried it.
As soon as I get the recipe typed up, I'll send it on.
Thanks but wait until you have tested it first ;)
That's like to be this weekend. Too bad it won't ship. That just means more for me to eat. :)
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Off to a crawfish boil.
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Sorry i am having trouble putting up the picture. But do most people's bagels look like the NY ones? I don't know if i've ever eaten a bagel that doughy. Ours look exactly like the picture of the Montreal ones.
http://honestcooking.com/2011/07/12/new-york-versus-montreal-bagels/
Thank you. This was interesting. I would like to try a Montreal bagel. Do they come in egg?
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I bought my dad a new flat screen - just a 32 inch model - because his box tv had diagonal lines across the screen and a very definite GREEN hue to it......
Got it hooked up.....
Since I got my new television - I haven't been happy with the Broadcast HD quality, so while I had my cables out, I looked at my television and discovered that when the Comcast technician installed my new box, he had hooked it up with Component wires instead of the HDMI connection.....so I redid that....now it looks MUCH better.
I bet you were very happy to figure out what was wrong, also annoyed the technician didn't know better.
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I'm about 99% certain my local Comcast office HAS been including HDMI cables with the boxes. Maybe it was because I've specifically mentioned I'd be connecting that way when picking up a new box, but at any rate, they've been supplying them.
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Mr. Gavin's accent makes Dick Van Dyke's accent sound more authentic than an actual cockney.
I totally agree with the overall opinion on the board re: John Gavin's acting abilities.
Yet, despite that, he wound up co-starring in two classic films, PSYCHO and SPARTACUS.
I've never had the pleasure of meeting him, but I understand that he's a nice guy, too.
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TOD
When growing up in Montreal there was no such thing as an exotic. It was either poppyseed or sesame. Or as we called the black seed or white seed." To this day I don't know which is which so I have to look at them in the display case. It wasn't until I was a teen that other places started making (horrors or horrors!) plain bagels. The came cinnamon and raisin and other flavors
Do you prefer Montreal or NY bagels?
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Sorry i am having trouble putting up the picture. But do most people's bagels look like the NY ones? I don't know if i've ever eaten a bagel that doughy. Ours look exactly like the picture of the Montreal ones.
http://honestcooking.com/2011/07/12/new-york-versus-montreal-bagels/
Montreal bagels are unique. Especially the ones from "the bagel factory" as depicted in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. It isa very Eastern European style.
They are thinning. Dipped in honey water and rolled in poppy or sesame sends and then but into a wood burning oven. There is nothing quite like getting one straight out of the oven.
You make them sound delicious-guess that also answers my question.
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From DR TCB:
The Academy also published a web gallery honoring 114 of the people who died last year.
http://oscar.go.com/photos/85th/show/in-memoriam-2012/media/norman-alden
It is probably just me but this was giving me a headache to look at. It is kind of dark and the photo changes were too slow & bothered my eyes.
I forgot to mention
The first in the slide show was Norm Alden.
Here is my Norm Alden story. I was working on the production side on a tv series in Montreal and they sent me to the Airport to pick him up because I was the only person who knew who he was other than the producers and writers.
That's funny.
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I'm about 99% certain my local Comcast office HAS been including HDMI cables with the boxes. Maybe it was because I've specifically mentioned I'd be connecting that way when picking up a new box, but at any rate, they've been supplying them.
Indiana is probably using all of your old boxes and cables.
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End of an era: As of March 19th, the new owner of Variety, who should be run out of town on a rail (it's the entitled rich kid who owns various movie websites like Deadline) will cease issuing Daily Variety - it's only been nine decades of tradition down the drain in an instant.
That's a shocker! :o :o :o :o
So, if you're in the biz and not on the Internet, where are you going to get your daily entertainment news?
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Going through the list there were quite a few characters who passed this last year and a few better know stars who I have to say I was surprised that were omitted like Harry Carey Jr, Ann Rutherford and Phyllis Thaxter
I find it shocking these people were missed.
When I think of Andy Griffith I remember him in A FACE IN THE CROWD, NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS, & ONIONHEAD.
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Actually, Daily Variety has not been "right" since the late 80s or early 90s.
When I started in the business (mid-1960s), if it was in Daily Variety, you could "take it to the bank". Tom Pryor, Dave Kaufman, Bill Edwards, Army Archerd and the rest of the staff were what good journalism was all about.
Not anymore. When the paper was sold back then, editorial became too "advertiser friendly".
This news makes me very sad.
:'(
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Going through the list there were quite a few characters who passed this last year and a few better know stars who I have to say I was surprised that were omitted like Harry Carey Jr, Ann Rutherford and Phyllis Thaxter
People like Andy Griffith and Larry Hagman were better know for TV than there film work.
I think that last comment really depends upon your memory. Since the boomer generation probably first met Griffith in "No Time For Sergeants", "Onionhead" and "A Face in the Crowd", many of us remember those cinema moments as something extraordinary. Many of the folks "remembered" were never "in" a movie.
You said that better than I did. :)
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I love THE BIG COUNTRY....mentioned by DR JANE yesterday. It's one of my favorite Carroll Baker performances.
Carroll Baker has said that shortly after she signed for the movie, she discovered she was pregnant. She had a meeting with Wyler, who had a meeting with United Artists, and they decided to go ahead since they would be finished with the film before she was "showing."
However delays.....they had started filming without having an ending to the story....kept cropping up. By the time of the filming of the party scene, a special "concealing" dress had to be made for Carroll...... And she kind of just disappears from the story without much of a resolution.....
I really like THE BIG COUNTRY, too.
Buff Brady, who was one of my very first publicity clients, played one of Chuck Connors' gang. He was a top stuntman and did the trick riding in that opening sequence when Peck and Carroll are on their way to the ranch.
We appreciated his trick riding very much.
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From DR John G:
Jane, I have discovered that one of the restaurants in town carries both custard pie and buttermilk pie.
I will be right over for the custard pie.
I've been doing research on this topic and may have to make one this weekend. I have a trusted pie cookbook from Susan Purdy called "The Perfect Pie," in which she recommends baking the crust and the filling separately for the most part because the crust needs a higher temperature to bake than the filling. You then "slip-slide," as she calls it, the filling into the crust and then finish them off together. Never heard of anything like. She swears it's easy.
Sounds interesting. I've heard of doing this and never tried it.
As soon as I get the recipe typed up, I'll send it on.
Thanks but wait until you have tested it first ;)
That's like to be this weekend. Too bad it won't ship. That just means more for me to eat. :)
That would be nice as I only want one piece & not an entire pie.
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The mucous-y congestion after a cold can hang on for a really long time. Sometimes I can throw it off pretty fast, but usually not. For me, though, just feeling well is so rewarding that I almost don't care.
Yes, the cold I had in December started as a painful sore throat and the congestion hung around for about 4 weeks. Those symptoms have been fairly common this winter in the UK.
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Kritzer Omnibus will happen probably in June. Now I have to go on the hunt for the old Word docs.
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I'm about 99% certain my local Comcast office HAS been including HDMI cables with the boxes. Maybe it was because I've specifically mentioned I'd be connecting that way when picking up a new box, but at any rate, they've been supplying them.
When I got my hi-def TV, I got a new hi-def DVR from Comcast, but they didn't give me an HDMI cable. I had to get that myself...of course, that was four or five years ago, so they could've changed since then.
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Sorry i am having trouble putting up the picture. But do most people's bagels look like the NY ones? I don't know if i've ever eaten a bagel that doughy. Ours look exactly like the picture of the Montreal ones.
http://honestcooking.com/2011/07/12/new-york-versus-montreal-bagels/
Thank you. This was interesting. I would like to try a Montreal bagel. Do they come in egg?
I don't know. Mostly there are just sesame seed and poppy seed bagels. Those are the main two kinds. But there are some bagel places that have all different kinds. I remember there is one kind called all dressed that was interesting. But I usually just have the two listed or the pumpernickel onion one. But that one is not made the same way as the black and white seed ones.
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I will be surprised if you see egg bagels.
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So, for the last year I've been thinking about doing an omnibus version of the Kritzer books - all three in one large volume. What do you all think? Doing so would enable me to fix some style issues in the first book (presuming I can even find the Word file - I think it's on a Zip drive or a floppy - have to go hunting - it also might be on my old Toshiba laptop - I plugged that in a couple of years ago and it was working - I'd have to locate it, though. I just like the idea of having all three books in one volume for people at a reasonable price.
I think that it might be good for public libraries. :D
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The mucous-y congestion after a cold can hang on for a really long time. Sometimes I can throw it off pretty fast, but usually not. For me, though, just feeling well is so rewarding that I almost don't care.
Yes, the cold I had in December started as a painful sore throat and the congestion hung around for about 4 weeks. Those symptoms have been fairly common this winter in the UK.
I am in my 7th week - just sayin'
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The mucous-y congestion after a cold can hang on for a really long time. Sometimes I can throw it off pretty fast, but usually not. For me, though, just feeling well is so rewarding that I almost don't care.
Yes, the cold I had in December started as a painful sore throat and the congestion hung around for about 4 weeks. Those symptoms have been fairly common this winter in the UK.
I am in my 7th week - just sayin'
That's because it was a UK cold ;)
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Actually, DR Jane, one of the seminary professors brought it to London from Wisconsin.
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LOL, no excuse then for it lingering. ;)
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So, for the last year I've been thinking about doing an omnibus version of the Kritzer books - all three in one large volume. What do you all think? Doing so would enable me to fix some style issues in the first book (presuming I can even find the Word file - I think it's on a Zip drive or a floppy - have to go hunting - it also might be on my old Toshiba laptop - I plugged that in a couple of years ago and it was working - I'd have to locate it, though. I just like the idea of having all three books in one volume for people at a reasonable price.
Sounds like a good idea!
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Actually, Daily Variety has not been "right" since the late 80s or early 90s.
When I started in the business (mid-1960s), if it was in Daily Variety, you could "take it to the bank". Tom Pryor, Dave Kaufman, Bill Edwards, Army Archerd and the rest of the staff were what good journalism was all about.
Not anymore. When the paper was sold back then, editorial became too "advertiser friendly".
This news makes me very sad.
:'(
I think that was about when Sid Silverman sold the paper.
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Crawfish, beignets, a vegan red cabbage rolls and gumbo -- shared with friends. Oh, a couple of good brews. Nice.
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So, for the last year I've been thinking about doing an omnibus version of the Kritzer books - all three in one large volume. What do you all think? Doing so would enable me to fix some style issues in the first book (presuming I can even find the Word file - I think it's on a Zip drive or a floppy - have to go hunting - it also might be on my old Toshiba laptop - I plugged that in a couple of years ago and it was working - I'd have to locate it, though. I just like the idea of having all three books in one volume for people at a reasonable price.
Sounds like a good idea!
Will you sell it as an e-book too? Either way, sounds like a very good idea.
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Toby is becoming an ever so slightly picky dog as he approaches 13, but then that's 91 for you and me.
It's like he wants to be petted when he wants to be petted and when he's had enough at this age, he edges away. Dylan on the othe rhand is a year younger and will still put up with as much petting as a human is willing to do.
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So, for the last year I've been thinking about doing an omnibus version of the Kritzer books - all three in one large volume. What do you all think? Doing so would enable me to fix some style issues in the first book (presuming I can even find the Word file - I think it's on a Zip drive or a floppy - have to go hunting - it also might be on my old Toshiba laptop - I plugged that in a couple of years ago and it was working - I'd have to locate it, though. I just like the idea of having all three books in one volume for people at a reasonable price.
Sounds like a good idea!
Will you sell it as an e-book too? Either way, sounds like a very good idea.
Fred, did you know that the individual titles are available as e-books?
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I must say I'm somewhat astonished at City Center. Every other non-profit that's an advertiser or user of of Talkin Broadway that i wrote to about my problem took the time to write back or call. City Center is the only one that took the attitude "You;re a speck, we are big, bug off" Even 92nd Street Y, which ultimately decided to stand united with Talkin Broadway at least asked for the information and considered the information but seems to have made the (I think unfortunate) decision that they needed the potential audience.
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So, for the last year I've been thinking about doing an omnibus version of the Kritzer books - all three in one large volume. What do you all think? Doing so would enable me to fix some style issues in the first book (presuming I can even find the Word file - I think it's on a Zip drive or a floppy - have to go hunting - it also might be on my old Toshiba laptop - I plugged that in a couple of years ago and it was working - I'd have to locate it, though. I just like the idea of having all three books in one volume for people at a reasonable price.
Sounds like a good idea!
Will you sell it as an e-book too? Either way, sounds like a very good idea.
Fred, did you know that the individual titles are available as e-books?
i was just saying if he sold the three-for-one as an e-book deal, he might sell a lot of them!
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Crawfish, beignets, a vegan red cabbage rolls and gumbo ...
I am so proud.
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Toby is becoming an ever so slightly picky dog as he approaches 13, but then that's 91 for you and me.
It's like he wants to be petted when he wants to be petted and when he's had enough at this age, he edges away. Dylan on the othe rhand is a year younger and will still put up with as much petting as a human is willing to do.
Sometimes our older dogs didn't want the cats cuddling with them as much.
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Catching up on laundry.
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Toby is becoming an ever so slightly picky dog as he approaches 13, but then that's 91 for you and me.
It's like he wants to be petted when he wants to be petted and when he's had enough at this age, he edges away. Dylan on the othe rhand is a year younger and will still put up with as much petting as a human is willing to do.
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Sometimes our older dogs didn't want the cats cuddling with them as much.
Hmmm, maybe it's a physical comfort thing as a dog gets older
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Does he have arthritis or any problems? I also found the dogs startled more easily when sleeping. Sadly it has been awhile since we had a dog reach old age. Bless your sweet Toby.
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'night
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I am very interested in hearing the story behind Laura's quote
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Living here on Long Island we are overun with bagel shops there are three bagel shops in the neighborhood
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Rye bagels
Egg and bacon bagels
Raisin Cinnamon Bagels
Sesame Bagels
Onion Bagels
Salt Bagels
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So, for the last year I've been thinking about doing an omnibus version of the Kritzer books - all three in one large volume. What do you all think? Doing so would enable me to fix some style issues in the first book (presuming I can even find the Word file - I think it's on a Zip drive or a floppy - have to go hunting - it also might be on my old Toshiba laptop - I plugged that in a couple of years ago and it was working - I'd have to locate it, though. I just like the idea of having all three books in one volume for people at a reasonable price.
I'm all for an omnibus version. I have a suggestion though. Many of us already have all 3 volumes. It would be a nice incentive for us who already have the books if you added a short section on what I consider the "Lost Years," which cover your time at LACC. It would be a nice bridge between the Kritzer books and your first autobiography. Just a thought.
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I am thinking of writing two short stories - and taking the short story in my collection and making it the Kritzer story it should have been - we'll see, though. Part of me thinks that might be fun, and part of me thinks "leave it alone."
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August of 2008, January of 2009 - these dates are of great interest to our thirty-something GUESTS.
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I am thinking of writing two short stories - and taking the short story in my collection and making it the Kritzer story it should have been - we'll see, though. Part of me thinks that might be fun, and part of me thinks "leave it alone."
I like the idea of the added short stories...and as for "leav[ing] it alone," the original versions are still available.
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JRand, that is amazing that the Comcast guy did not use the correct hook up!
The only time I have cursed someone out (over the phone) was a Comcast customer service rep, and more than once. It took them SIX trips to get my cable hooked up. Half of the people were subcontractors and each person blamed it on the previous worker for hooking it up wrong. Each time I told them they needed to bring a very tall ladder or a bucket truck. Several times they left because they couldn't reach the line. Maybe they could have used A LADDER??? The last time they came out and almost left, Greg went to Home Depot, bought the biggest ladder they had, and after they used it, he took it back. (We spend so much $$$ there we didn't feel bad about it.) I missed 3 days of work waiting for people who strung me along all day and then never showed up.
If I had any choice on providers I would have given up on them long ago.
That said, I now have my internet service with them and it is 10 times better than mindspring, who just have given up caring at all.
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End of an era: As of March 19th, the new owner of Variety, who should be run out of town on a rail (it's the entitled rich kid who owns various movie websites like Deadline) will cease issuing Daily Variety - it's only been nine decades of tradition down the drain in an instant.
Glad they reviewed our new film already!
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117949128/
We also got a good review in Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/aka-doc-pomus-film-review-410435
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TOD: The best bagels I've had are in NY. I usually go to Lenny's because it's a block from my partner Peter's apt. I like the Bad Boy: poppy seeds and onion on an egg bagel. But my favorite place to have them is Barney Greengrass because I love the whitefish salad there. Essen Bagel is good, too, but I think there is probably a "best" bagel in NY that I haven't had yet.
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Congratulations, Edisaurus. Will definitely have to see it. Not only do I love Pomus' music, but an old high school classmate, Joan Osborne, is in it. She was great in "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."
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Atlanta bagels have been so-so ever since the Royal Bagel closed, but we finally have a good place to go: Brooklyn Water Bagels. Supposedly it's the water that makes the bagel, so this place has come up with some method to recreate the Brooklyn water, and their bagels are delicious, made right on site. They also have U-bet syrup on tap and you can make your own egg creams. And they have iced coffee, with ice cubes made out of coffee so your coffee doesn't get watered down.
http://www.brooklynwaterbagels.com/
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I thought Midnight Lace was very scary when I was a child watching it on TV. The main thing that was so creepy was the Marvin the Martian-type voice drifting through the fog. When I saw it as an adult I thought it was pretty silly but I still enjoyed it!
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T.O.D.
I was well into adulthood before I ever tasted a bagel. Methodists don't eat bagels. Methodists eat toast. To this day, I rarely think to pick up bagels, although I love them.
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Congratulations, Edisaurus. Will definitely have to see it. Not only do I love Pomus' music, but an old high school classmate, Joan Osborne, is in it. She was great in "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."
She's wonderful, and when we opened the NY Jewish Film Festival in Jan., she came to Lincoln Center to see it. An interesting thing I learned: she was originally a documentary student (of the legendary George Stoney) and always thought she would become a doc filmmaker. She is very beautiful in the film, and a nice person!
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Congratulations, Edisaurus. Will definitely have to see it. Not only do I love Pomus' music, but an old high school classmate, Joan Osborne, is in it. She was great in "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."
The Motown film is one of my favorite music docs. I forgot she was in it; I'll have to watch it again.
Greg had started to work on a doc for this same director about Muscle Shoals, but he was insistent that the musicians be paid what they deserved (which he wanted for Motown but sounded like it didn't happen) so I don't think they got too far because they couldn't raise the funds. Now I think there's another Muscle Shoals film coming out. I was really hoping Paul's film would go forward; I think he's a very good doc director!
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So, for the last year I've been thinking about doing an omnibus version of the Kritzer books - all three in one large volume. What do you all think? Doing so would enable me to fix some style issues in the first book (presuming I can even find the Word file - I think it's on a Zip drive or a floppy - have to go hunting - it also might be on my old Toshiba laptop - I plugged that in a couple of years ago and it was working - I'd have to locate it, though. I just like the idea of having all three books in one volume for people at a reasonable price.
Great idea.
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Congratulations, Edisaurus. Will definitely have to see it. Not only do I love Pomus' music, but an old high school classmate, Joan Osborne, is in it. She was great in "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."
The Motown film is one of my favorite music docs. I forgot she was in it; I'll have to watch it again.
Greg had started to work on a doc for this same director about Muscle Shoals, but he was insistent that the musicians be paid what they deserved (which he wanted for Motown but sounded like it didn't happen) so I don't think they got too far because they couldn't raise the funds. Now I think there's another Muscle Shoals film coming out. I was really hoping Paul's film would go forward; I think he's a very good doc director!
She comes off well in the Motown documentary because she's the only one of the guest stars who seems to care about the people that the movie is about. She asks them questions and listens attentively to their answers. She's like most of us would be: a fan who is thrilled to be in the presence of these legendary musicians.
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Funny, but she knew in high school just who she wanted to be. The only yearbook she ever appeared in was ninth grade, and she wrote something in mine about the time when she became a singer.
I only had English classes with her, but I remember her growing into herself over the years. As a freshman, she wore lace collars attached to her shirts. Not the woman who wore the nose ring on the cover of her first album.
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End of an era: As of March 19th, the new owner of Variety, who should be run out of town on a rail (it's the entitled rich kid who owns various movie websites like Deadline) will cease issuing Daily Variety - it's only been nine decades of tradition down the drain in an instant.
Glad they reviewed our new film already!
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117949128/
We also got a good review in Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/aka-doc-pomus-film-review-410435
Congrats, Edisaurus!
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You know what's funny? Here's what's funny - I've never had a bagel in NY that I liked as much as the bagels I get here. Go know.
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There is an actress on Facebook who is one of the most relentless "look at me" people I've ever seen. She's a very nice gal and talented, but watching it I can't imagine it does her one bit of good. Two weeks ago she said she was going to take a break from Facebook because some people took exception to something she said. Naturally she didn't take the break. Tonight she said the same thing, an indefinite hiatus from Facebook - I finally went in and posted and mentioned she'd just posted the same thing two weeks ago and that it's not a good idea to post that stuff and then not do it, and then post the same thing again. I recommended she actually take the hiatus and that Facebook addiction, especially for actors, isn't really something they need.
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DR TCB begin saving now for this cruise
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2013/02/26/titanic-ii-will-be-built/1948935/
No thanks, I'll pass. In one of the other storiies I read earlier, the owner assured future passengers that the ship would be equiped with safety chutes and slides. I am not sure exactly how they will help anyone in the middle of the Atlantic. Also, I am not sure where they will find 3rd Class passengers willing to share two sets of bunkbeds in an 8 by 8 cabin.
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Finished the latest season of Justified. It really did pick up in the second half. It helped that they had some good directors, including Jon Avnet and John Dahl.
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Night, all.
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Mr. Gavin's accent makes Dick Van Dyke's accent sound more authentic than an actual cockney.
I totally agree with the overall opinion on the board re: John Gavin's acting abilities.
Yet, despite that, he wound up co-starring in two classic films, PSYCHO and SPARTACUS.
I've never had the pleasure of meeting him, but I understand that he's a nice guy, too.
Actually, I saw Mr Gavin onstage in SEESAW (the musical) and he was really pretty good.