Well I will join the crowd and mention Adele as a singer that I enjoy right now. I also like some of Katy Perry's songs....as DR FJL mentioned....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK3MLlTL5Ko
I had to look Tena Clark up on Google. MR BK she is an unassuming legend who has a hit song laboratory.
There are some interesting articles about her and her life and work.
She also programs the music for Air Force One......
Plumbing vibes for DR GINNY.
That video is kind of like a Mentos commercial DR MBARNUM.
Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of being finally cast, and now it is time for you to post until the finally cast cows come home - one of them is playing Mazeppa in Gypsy, the MOOsical.
DR Pogue - Ben Brantley in the Times reported that OLD TIMES had two different casting variations. How did you choose which one to see, or did you just go with scheduling?
And the word of the day is: SUFFRAGIST!
I'm not quite sure how that smiley face icon, got on MacBeth, but I certainly didn't put it there as any editorial comment. It was, in fact, probably my least favourite of everything I saw.
I, for one, would like to hear more about the shows Pogue saw.I would, too. I am especially interested in hearing about Helen Mirren since that might come to New York, but also Trelawney of the Wells.
I, for one, would like to hear more about the shows Pogue saw.
I saw Quartermaine's terms at Williamstown Theatre Festival a few years ago, starring Jefferson Mays. What a fine play.
Ben Brantley (in another of his Times reports from London) did an article drawing parallels between the fact that both Rupert Everett in JUDAS KISS and Rowan Atkinson in QUARTERMAINE'S TERMS spend a large part of their time onstage sitting. I hadn't noticed that as a key element in the role at Williamstown, so i wonder if it's a choice made for Atkinson's performance. (maybe for a "contrast" with his normally active Bean)
I really didn't think the Cannibal Cop story had any legs.
Thank you DR MBARNUM. I am looking forward to the oddities.
I have only completed the first disk of WEST POINT - but it is most entertaining. I see that Lawrence & Lee are the script consultants....they have many Broadway/movie credits..... And one of the episode writers is Gene Roddenberry......
Last night I saw Barbara Eden and Corey Allen in separate episodes - when she was backing a 1956 Dodge convertible out of a driveway, Barbara almost took out a few parked cars......
At first I thought host Cadet Charles C. Thompson (or Townsend) was a real cadet....until I started looking at the credits and realized it is Donald May - who was later in THE ROARING 20's and THE EDGE OF NIGHT.
And Leonard Nimoy when he was young - looks VERY MUCH like Zachary Quinto....it is uncanny.
That video is kind of like a Mentos commercial DR MBARNUM.
Oh, and Richard Harrison is in the first episode on disk two of West Point.
I'll have to do my London report in segments over several days. FJL, I love QUARTERMAINE'S TERMS (I'm a big fan of Simon Gray, in general) ever since I saw a televised version of it back in the eighties with Edward Fox playing Quartermaine. He also originated the role onstage. This production directed by Richard Eyre, a director I much admire, was a lovely production with a terrific cast. Sadly, the weakest link in it for me was Rowan Atkinson, who I have always adored as Blackadder. He could not erase the memory of Edward Fox for me in this role and somehow missed the poignancy the character has always produced for me.
It's true both Atkinson and Everett sit a lot in their seperate roles...and, perhaps, it is a tribute to Everett that he can hold the stage just sitting. His Oscar Wilde was mesmerizing and this play and his performance were one of the best things I saw. Freddie Fox (Edward Fox's son) was also very good as Bosie. We saw him a couple of years ago in a production of FLEA IN HER EAR at The Old Vic (he played Camille with the cleft palette, for those who know the play) and we knew then he was a young actor to keep an eye on.
John G. THE AUDIENCE with Helen Mirren turned out to be high on my list of favourites as well. It was surprisingly good. I say "surprisingly", because I feared this play might be a tourist trade piece with both Mirren and Peter Morgan the writer capitalizing on their movie success with THE QUEEN. With two such talents I should have known better. It was a rich, insightful piece. And she gave a smashing performance. TRELAWNEY OF THE WELLS interested me because I am a theatrical archeologist who is always fascinated by the obscure, the forgotten, the rarely done. And it was also playing at the Donmar Warehouse, a favourite venue of mine. The play, I felt, showed its age with a bit of a rocky start in the first scene, but picked up steam, and I had quite an enjoyable experience by the end of the play. It is a slight Victorian comedic piece by Pinero, but enjoyable for what it is. I don't think it's as good a play as, say, his THE MAGISTRATE. Also Patrick Marber did some " most respectful additions and ornamentation" to the piece, so I don't really know whether these helped or hurt it.
I'm not sure this is an extraordinary season...or at least the two weeks I was there...I've been there when the available plays I felt were much more exciting. With the exception of a couple of things at the National, I saw every straight play that was pretty much available which says something about the season right there. Shaftsbury Avenue is still over-run and booked with long-running but essentially clapped-out musicals, often of the jukebox variety. Sorry, but I don't consider things like THRILLER and STOMP and ROCK OF AGES and LET IT BE real musicals, let alone real theatre. Also, while it's nice to see terrific actors like Helen Mirren onstage, I can remember a time when the West End was not so dominated by the need for movie star or tv names. You could see people who might be terrific actors but were hardly household names in terrific plays. It was certainly not the worst selection of plays I've seen over the years; nor was it the best. But overall, it was eminently satisfactory.
Hey everyone. Sorry I've been E&T the last few days. It's been a crazy few days. I'm going to share some info with you that I'm not sharing with my "other' online family. Went to the Dr, my blood sugar and blood pressure is up. All can be controlled by diet and exercise. And since I don't plan on relying on medication for the rest of my life, I began exercising and really reading labels. MAKING myself find time at least an hour to day to walk, ride my bike, go to the gym, etc. Something that has to be done and I'm good with it. I've also been experiencing tension headaches, which could be caused by many things, one being caffeine which I stopped pretty much on Sunday. The Dr also suggested I see a behavioral therapist, which I'm more than happy to begin doing and the appointment has been made.Good for you for listening to your doctor. I feel I should that more than I do.
So, there you have it. I'll try to be around more.... And these are the days of our lives
Hey everyone. Sorry I've been E&T the last few days. It's been a crazy few days. I'm going to share some info with you that I'm not sharing with my "other' online family. Went to the Dr, my blood sugar and blood pressure is up. All can be controlled by diet and exercise. And since I don't plan on relying on medication for the rest of my life, I began exercising and really reading labels. MAKING myself find time at least an hour to day to walk, ride my bike, go to the gym, etc. Something that has to be done and I'm good with it. I've also been experiencing tension headaches, which could be caused by many things, one being caffeine which I stopped pretty much on Sunday. The Dr also suggested I see a behavioral therapist, which I'm more than happy to begin doing and the appointment has been made.Good for you for listening to your doctor. I feel I should that more than I do.
So, there you have it. I'll try to be around more.... And these are the days of our lives
Hey everyone. Sorry I've been E&T the last few days. It's been a crazy few days. I'm going to share some info with you that I'm not sharing with my "other' online family. Went to the Dr, my blood sugar and blood pressure is up. All can be controlled by diet and exercise. And since I don't plan on relying on medication for the rest of my life, I began exercising and really reading labels. MAKING myself find time at least an hour to day to walk, ride my bike, go to the gym, etc. Something that has to be done and I'm good with it. I've also been experiencing tension headaches, which could be caused by many things, one being caffeine which I stopped pretty much on Sunday. The Dr also suggested I see a behavioral therapist, which I'm more than happy to begin doing and the appointment has been made.
So, there you have it. I'll try to be around more.... And these are the days of our lives
Oh, and Richard Harrison is in the first episode on disk two of West Point.
That's my next episode. Gloria's ears were sticking out in that entire episode.....I don't remember noticing that so much before...
Yes, we have a lady plumber...
Of the really popular singers, there's some of Katy Perry's songs, and of course the person who seems to have made a new career of winning every award in sight whether she should or not - Adele. One of the Times writers said he's sure there's a law in california that when Adele is nominated, it's against the law for Adele not to win. :)
Adele catapulted to a phenomenon (despite being really good, IMHO, which normally shouldn't be a barrier) by being an ordinary-looking "be yourself' kind of gal. Did I ever post this Youtube tribute to the Vogue spread, where Vogue airbrushed even normal-gal Adele into looking like a super-model, pretty much defeating the whole point of why people loved Adele so much?
"Rolling in the Deep" spoof about Adele's Vogue magazine spread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN_oexA7W-g
MAD MEN Season Seven coming in April
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Well I will join the crowd and mention Adele as a singer that I enjoy right now. I also like some of Katy Perry's songs....as DR FJL mentioned....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK3MLlTL5Ko
And followers of SMASH in its first season will likely recall that Adele's song RUMOUR HAS IT (which Jrand posted) was the song for one of the truly memorable SMASH dance sequences:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpP_0awEsEk
memorable for SMASH in I think a good way, for all the dancers involved.
It's not calamari for dinner:
http://shopping.yahoo.com/news/food-fraud-in-america--what-are-you-really-eating--202219209.html
DR KEVIN H is that a new avatar or have I been asleep?
Of the really popular singers, there's some of Katy Perry's songs, and of course the person who seems to have made a new career of winning every award in sight whether she should or not - Adele. One of the Times writers said he's sure there's a law in california that when Adele is nominated, it's against the law for Adele not to win. :)
Adele catapulted to a phenomenon (despite being really good, IMHO, which normally shouldn't be a barrier) by being an ordinary-looking "be yourself' kind of gal. Did I ever post this Youtube tribute to the Vogue spread, where Vogue airbrushed even normal-gal Adele into looking like a super-model, pretty much defeating the whole point of why people loved Adele so much?
"Rolling in the Deep" spoof about Adele's Vogue magazine spread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN_oexA7W-g
That was pretty funny, Fred. :D
Heard two auditions today for Hofstetter. Fascinating. Both were good, neither quite captured the rhythm of the writing and dialogue and neither quite captured Adriana herself, which, for me, is the key to doing these. I'll assume I'll know when it's right when I've heard the right one. Then I began to think what if I just did it - I've certainly done readings that way and it worked, but with these books I just think young readers will respond more if it's a young-sounding Adriana-like voice. When I get closer to finding what I like, then maybe what I'll do is send the final candidates me reading four pages and narration and dialogue with the right rhythms, and have them try to make that their own - I just think it will help them understand the way I write and how it sounds best. This is tricky and really difficult work.
Had a very irritating call with Ontrac - they just profess not to care that our driver has arbitrarily made us his last commercial stop of his day (package STILL isn't there, even though another amazon package IS there and was delivered via UPS by one). I told his whiny woman that seven months ago I obviously had made a difference, since the yahoo who is our delivery person began switching it up and getting there earlier occasionally - I should probably have just gone directly to a supervisor as I'd done last time, and I may call back tomorrow and do exactly that. She suggested complaining to amazon since they've given Ontrac from eight to five to deliver to commercial addresses. I told her my complaint was with Ontrac because they've obviously chosen the five rather than the eight. I then did call Amazon and got a nice fellow on the phone and told him I was kind of at the end of my rope. He's going to file a complaint about this with his superiors - he said he didn't know how much control they'd have over Ontrac and I explained to him with the kind of money they're throwing at Ontrac they have nothing BUT control. But I said, just ship all my stuff by UPS and we'll never have a problem - don't know that that can happen, but he's noted that wish in my account profile.
Package has not arrived. I'll wait patiently for ten more minutes. At 5:01 Ontrac will get the call from me they'd wish they'd never gotten, since they themselves told me amazon has given them between eight and five to deliver their packages. In nine minutes they will have not done that. Then I can get tough.
Oh, and DR JRand, your copy of SPRING REUNION will be on its way in the very near future
Oh well, I guess I will ever know.
Vibes for DR Matthew!
Just finished talking to my brother and sister-in-law. It's his 65th birthday today. Hard to believe! (I'm the youngest, by the way).
Just finished talking to my brother and sister-in-law. It's his 65th birthday today. Hard to believe! (I'm the youngest, by the way).
Happy 65th to your older brother.
DR Cillaliz, it's pretty cool that you've met one of the cardinals!
Just finished talking to my brother and sister-in-law. It's his 65th birthday today. Hard to believe! (I'm the youngest, by the way).
Hey everyone. Sorry I've been E&T the last few days. It's been a crazy few days. I'm going to share some info with you that I'm not sharing with my "other' online family. Went to the Dr, my blood sugar and blood pressure is up. All can be controlled by diet and exercise. And since I don't plan on relying on medication for the rest of my life, I began exercising and really reading labels. MAKING myself find time at least an hour to day to walk, ride my bike, go to the gym, etc. Something that has to be done and I'm good with it. I've also been experiencing tension headaches, which could be caused by many things, one being caffeine which I stopped pretty much on Sunday. The Dr also suggested I see a behavioral therapist, which I'm more than happy to begin doing and the appointment has been made.
So, there you have it. I'll try to be around more.... And these are the days of our lives
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