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Well, you've read the notes, you've received their balm, they've made you calm and now you are ready to post until the ointment and balmed cows come home.
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Someone was posting to the old thread when they should have been waiting for the new thread. Now they should post to the new thread so they can be au courant.
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I made my post (the last of yesterday's) just in time...a Bells Are Ringing reference!
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And speaking of balms in Gilead, when I was in the Concert Choir at Western Washington University, we did an a cappella arrangement of "Balm in Gilead" that was one of the most beautiful arrangements that I had ever sung...not just one of the most beautiful arrangements of that song, but one of the most beautiful a cappella arrangements at all (to me at least).
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Now, I'm off to bed. Good night all!
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Bacon sandwiches. Nothing better if the bacon is great and so is the bread or roll. No condiments thank you.
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And a happy birthday to errant and truant dear reader Hapgood.
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I'm back and to prove it I'm going to bed. LONG day today filled with long day stuff.
Saw HAIRSPRAY tonight. It's really one gigantic piece of fluff. I was pleasantly surprised by Bruce Vilanch. Thought he was very sweet in the part. It didn't seem like trick casting.
Off to bed.
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I hope Hapgood has a happy birthday. Maybe he will visit to see if he is remembered!
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Good Early Morning!
Speaking of balms... I noticed a little red and bumpy spot of my arm earlier today. Kind of a rash, I guess. It doesn't really hurt or anything... just looks kind of strange. I've put some antibiotic ointment on it, and, hopefully, it's just one of those thingies that happens from time to time, maybe a bug bite or I came in contact with some plant - ??. I guess I'll know more in the morning...
-Sorry if that grossed anyone out... :o
Rehearsal was good. I will admit that I was a bit out of sorts due to various and sundried reasons - my spaciness even caught me off guard at times. There were times where I thought I had forgotten how to read music. Well, it really wasn't that bad, but it sounded like it a few times. Thankfully, and mercifully, BK had a light hand with the wet noodle tonight. ;)
-Hmmm... I wonder if the small, bumpy rash thingy is related to my spaciness... Hmmm... Again, I guess I'll know more in the morning.
But it was a good rehearsal, and it was nice to play all material in a row - or close to a row - for the first time. And it was also nice for everyone to have a sort of audience to play to and have them react also.
Unfortunately, as I was walking back from the Metro station, and fumbling through my bag, I realized I had left my cell phone at the rehearsal studio. And, of course, as BK mentioned in today's notes, we move into the theatre tomorrow/today/tonight. Ah, well... I do have to run an errand in the morning before meeting the piano tuner at the theatre, and the detour back to the rehearsal studio should only add about 30 minutes to my travel time. Hmm... but if I e-mail Tammy now.. Hmm... ;)
As for sandwiches... Almost anything between two slices of bread... But favorites have to be a Reuben (I don't like the ones with a smear of tomato paste on them - ??), Monte Cristo (the sweet and savory and fried combination works for me!), and a really good Tuna Melt! And one sandwich I haven't had in years, but used to have all the time growing up was fried bologna on Wonder Bread. So simple, and so good - salt, fat and bread! Oh, and there was a small catering place in Richmond by the university that had a wonderful cold meatloaf sandwich - some very good meatloaf on wheat bread topped with grated carrots, French dressing and raisins!
Well, time for me to head to bed. I'll most likely be away for most of the day since I plan to stay at the theatre after meeting the piano tuner to do some practicing and charting. So, keep the home fries burning for me too.
Laters...
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Bacon sandwiches. Nothing better if the bacon is great and so is the bread or roll. No condiments thank you.
Specially if the bacon is meaty and crisp...an egg always helps too
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And what a delight to see my countryman here.
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Oh well.....
My first professional theatre part was in BALM IN GILEAD...I played Harry, this guy who sat at the cafe and talked now and then. I was fun! And that is where I met my wonderful life-long friend Marika....I think I posted the picture of us in the show before.
So exciting to be moving into the theatre....the show is moving right along as well it should. Jose, be seen be heard....louder faster funnier! I expect to see you mentioned in the reviews!!
Sandwiches....well I have mentioned my favorite here before, and I hesitated to mention it again, until DRJOSE mentioned his fried bolonga and white bread sandwich....which I also had a lot when I was growing up. Great with lettuce and tomato from the garden.
But my favorite is of course Spam and Velveeta on white bread cut in half. MMMMMMMMMMMMM.....
The more exotic side of me likes a good Club sandwich with bacon and ham and turkey on toast with American Cheese, lettuce, tomato....no dressing!
I am sure there are others....like the Philly Cheesesteak...but I must leave some for the other dear readers.
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I don't know - this here might be the biggest ham and bologna sandwich to hit LA in many a year. ;D
http://www.the10com.com/ (http://www.the10com.com/)
The choreographer has worked with Janet and Michael Jackson and won the MTV Video Award 4 times! I am very afraid!
And wasn't Moses at the Courts Show last June with Mr BK?
(http://www.autographcollector.com/acm0104/kilmer_3.jpg)
Previews start September 18 (WHAT IF will just escape the overlap) and tickets can be had for $102.50 - get 'em now. And if anyone is going, let me know - I want a souvenir book and Playbill!!
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A balm in the gilead definition
medium-sized fir of northeastern North America; leaves smell of balsam when crushed; much used for pulpwood and Christmas trees
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Fav Sandwhiches
3 decker club sandwhiches
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And oh yes I also like French Dip
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Salami on rye.
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Yesterday for lunch I had one of my favorite sandwiches: a greek sandwich with feta, spinach, tomatoes, onions and a layer of mozzarella. Served hot on a french baguette. Sometimes, I'll ask for anchovies or black olives on it, too.
I also like paninni sandwiches, preferable with grilled chicken and roasted red peppers.
Also, I recently discovered a chicken salad sandwich with a creamy pesto sauce on toasted raisin bread at a local bakery/eatery called Le Bus here in Philly. At another Le Bus location, they have a yummy Cajun crab cake sandwich served on a toasted onion roll.
And then there's the mysterious grilled chicken sandwich which is available at a local lunch truck a few blocks from my office building. I have no idea what the guy marinates the chicken in, but there must be crack in it cuz it's addictingly delicious. I'll often go there with a friend from my office so we can get three of them and split the one so that we each wind up with one and a half sandwiches.
Now I'm hungry...
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Sandwiches were done on May 18. My post follows, and still stands....:
And I thought my Dear Partner John was the only one who ate peanut butter and cream cheese! (usually on a bagel....)
My fave sandwiches:
From childhood: American Cheese and Strawberry Preserves on white bread.
From Brooklyn: Adelman's Deli on Kings Highway, Pastrami, Corned Beef and Tongue on REAL Jewish Rye with Cole Slaw (on the sandwich itself), and russian dressing. With a Dr. Brown's Cream Soda. Heaven.
Lately, Thanksigiving (or any other big Turkey-making holiday) is only half as anticipated as the club sandwiches that follow. They must be triple deckers; they must include dressing/stuffing in the sandwich itself, as well as Hellman's mayo (Best Foods, for you west coasters); and they should also inlcude a smear of cranberry sauce on one of the mayo'd pieces of toast. For me they also include turkey or veggie bacon, since I do not eat pork products. Yum!
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I know there was a dear reader who was extolling the virtues of a computer software program called CLEAN. Can you tell me what it does, and how much to expect to pay for it.....we seem to be having some computer troubles at home, and I would rather not have to buy a new PC.......
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As long as the French dip doesn't get caught with the stolen francs...
I love a tuna melt with American cheese on rye bread.
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I am sorry, but was the last post an HOUR ago???? Where in tarnation is everyone???
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Peanut butter and Jelly used to be my favorite sandwich, but I have now switched to Almond butter and no-sugar strawberry jam!
My doctor told me to hold off on the peanut butter and switch to almond butter as almonds help reduce cholesterol...and it tastes even more delicious!!
At a lot of stores you can even grind your own almond butter!
Also love a good egg salad sandwich or tuna salad sandwich (no onions).
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Almond butter is better for you than peanut butter, in terms of lowering cholesterol?? Mon dieu! I must try this, as my cholesterol count as told to me by my doctor earlier this week is.....well, it's much higher than it should be.
Which also means that the exer-cycle that I bought at a garage sale will have to actually be put into action, rather than being the objet d'art I was hoping it would become......
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LOL, Stuart! Yep Almonds, walnuts, and green tea are all good for your cholesterol according to my doctor.
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Bringing over last nights subject that JRand53 started...
EBAY score:
471 @ 100% positive
590 positive feedback left by 471 members
About 4 or 5 years ago I was selling on Ebay and did fairly well...JRand53 was one of my best customers!
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Good morning.
Michael Shayne - I think yesterday you asked about Emmy judging. I think it's just looking at the films/shows, not the scripts. I haven't got the material yet, but I'm fairly certain that's how it works. With Humanitas, we read the scripts first - quite a few, then look at the Finalists' actual films.
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I also like club sandwiches best of all.
A sports bar near my house which has excellent food also does a meat loaf sandwich that is to DIE for. Sad to say, the restaurant/bar is closed temporarily, and I must go elsewhere on the few occasions when I venture out at night to eat someone else's cooking.
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I have made my DVD selection for today - TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS. Can you believe I have never seen this all the way through.
I'll also be watching another Sherlock Holmes episode - "Wisteria Lodge."
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Bringing over last nights subject that JRand53 started...
EBAY score:
471 @ 100% positive
590 positive feedback left by 471 members
About 4 or 5 years ago I was selling on Ebay and did fairly well...JRand53 was one of my best customers!
I am a piker compared to everyone here: my eBay score is only:
Feedback Score: 108
Positive Feedback: 99.1%
Members who left a positive: 109
Members who left a negative: 1
All positive feedback received: 132
I think I might have bought a CD from DR JRand53 once.
I've been on an eBay spree this week. Someone was auctioning off a lot of Broadway window cards. I got myself Sweeney Todd, SITPWG, On the 20th Century, the 74 Candide and the London Follies revival (I will be trying in the next few minutes to also win the poster for Platinum, if the price doesn't go much higher than it currently is.) I also picked up an LP set of The Rose Tattoo with Maureen Stapleton--can't wait for that to arrive!
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Just pre-ordered my Deana Durbin Sweetheart Collection which will be released next week. It contains:
THREE SMART GIRLS - her first feature but one of my least favorites. I like her much better as a grown up young lady
FIRST LOVE - my favorite with her as a teen and the one in which Robert Stack gives her her first kiss.
IT STARTED WITH EVE - judged by most her best film (I like HIS BUTLER'S SISTER best) and features GREAT chemistry with Charles Laughton
CAN'T HELP SINGING - her only Technicolor film with a lovely Jerome Kern score. She looks overly made up for the color cameras and has gone blonde for this and the next one (not a flattering color for her), also looks a trifle overweight. But it doesn't matter. She's great.
LADY ON A TRAIN - her wonderful murder mystery film. Has always been one of my favorites.
100 MEN AND A GIRL - there is some question on various internet sights that Universal has replaced this earilier film with one of her last movies, SOMETHING IN THE WIND. Actually, I'd rather have WIND even if 100 MEN features Leopold Stokowski. I just prefer the mature Durbin to the little girl.
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The Page Deux Dance--it is dangerous, no?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/advanced-poster.jpg)
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I guess everyone is aware that Disney is releasing the jaunty and delightful DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE next week in a full frame release. I know, it was probably shot in England at 1.66:1, but I'd still rather have an anamorphic transfer. I guess I'll just pass this one by. Waiting for THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR paid off. Maybe they'll reconsider this one at a later date, and do it right.
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Yesterday, TomovOz said:
The "Amish" in reality TV - sounds like a reason for them having to leave their community as a result of such involvement.
One of the great unknown things about the Amish is that there comes a time in each of their lives when they are permitted to go "wilding": This is usually as early as age 16. Each Amish youth is free to pursue whatever paths/indulgences/etc., he or she wishes. The end result is for them to either choose Amish beliefs/way of life and return to the fold -- WITHOUT censure for the wilding period -- or to pursue an alternate path and be shunned from Amish society.
These Amish youth may very well fall under the "wilding" codes.
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I didn't even bother to bid on the Platinum window card--someone jumped in and anted up the bid to $57. Too high for me...
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Oh, now I remember - we did sandwiches on May 18th, not so long ago. Still, one can't have enough sandwiches. I should just realize we've probably done all foodstuffs but I do love hearing about food so I keep forgetting we've probably done all foodstuffs.
Here's another topic du jour: What do you do when you're afraid of something? Do you hold your head erect? Whistle a happy tune? How do you stand up to your fears or conquer them?
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I just received a w indow card that is the single "best" value I've gotten at eBay, IMO:
I found an original cast window card in mint condition for "La Cage Aux Folles" and bought it for $10.49. The same seller had an original cast "Dreamgirls" on the block, too, and it went for a few dollars more.
The latter card has gone for well over $100 in past auctions. And I've never even seen one for "La Cage..." until recently. It's gorgeous!
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I have made my DVD selection for today - TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS. Can you believe I have never seen this all the way through.
Having seen the Broadway production of this, yes, I can.
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I thought I remembered writing about club sandwiches no too long ago. Still reading about them does make my mouth water.
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Today's LA Times offers something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.
SOMETHING OLD
SCREENING ROOM (http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-wk-screen29jul29,2,6609888.story)
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Charlie Chaplin, Marie Dressler, center, and Mabel Normand star in “Tillie’s Punctured Romance.”
(UCLA Film and Television Archive)
Legendary Sennett comedy all aglow
UCLA's Festival of Preservation screens an early Chaplin classic.
By Kevin Thomas
Times Staff Writer
Jul 29 2004
KEYSTONE KOPS never looked so good.
A painstakingly restored version of Mack Sennett's "Tillie's Punctured Romance" — which featured Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin and a cast of comic Sennett legends — screens tonight as part of UCLA Film Archive's 12th Festival of Preservation.
An 82-minute six-reeler based on the play "Tillie's Nightmare," it is regarded as the first feature-length comedy and is still hilarious. Most familiar for early Metro talkies, Dressler in 1914 was a hefty 46-year-old stage star who, in her screen debut, throws herself into the slapstick and pratfalls that were the staples of Keystone Studios.
Dressler's Tillie Banks is a farmer's daughter who is persuaded by Chaplin's city slicker to steal her father's savings and run off with him. When Charlie runs through Tillie's money, he ditches her for his regular girl and partner in crime (Mabel Normand). But when Tillie becomes a multimillionaire heiress, Charlie is determined to walk up the aisle with her. Sennett mines every comic twist imaginable from this simple plot.
There will be live musical accompaniment performed by Tillie's Nightmare, a five-piece ensemble featuring Ken Winokur of the Alloy Orchestra, renowned for its original scores for silents.
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der Brucer (wondering if this is a new restoration or a showing of the Image Enteraiment 1999 release)
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SOMETHING NEW
Extracts from the LATimes CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK (http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-knight28jul28,2,2484967.story):
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A computer rendering of “Collar and Bow” by Pop artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The sculpture is now being fabricated and will be installed in front of Walt Disney Concert Hall next summer.
(Composite by Mathieu Pung)
The hall mark
Does Gehry’s grand edifice need a punny sculptural greeting card?
By Christopher Knight
Times Staff Writer
Jul 28 2004
Do you know about the Dept. of Redundancy Dept.? It's the official (if fictional) place to go to accomplish something needless, and to get it done double-time. The Dept. of Redundancy Dept. is good at glut, superb at superfluity. Excessive duplication is a specialty.
Surely the department is behind the commission to erect a monumental sculpture at the corner of 1st Street and Grand Avenue, at the entrance to the splendid new Walt Disney Concert Hall. At that specific spot in our otherwise beleaguered civic landscape, the glorious view of Frank Gehry's critically acclaimed building is so drop-dead impressive that putting an enormous sculpture out front to mimic the instant-landmark's buoyant curves can only augment the magnificence. Don't you think?
And look at the subject! A white wing collar and black bow tie, tossed to the wind! Carefree audacity, in fiberglass and steel.
The sculpture is being fabricated now, and it won't be installed until next summer. But based on a digitally fabricated picture of the sculpture on-site, it works like the giant Carpeteria genie or Michelin Man outside a rug shop or tire store — sculpture that functions as a sign. In less than a year, Disney Hall has become perhaps the most famous building in Los Angeles, which means one of the most famous in the nation. You wouldn't think it needs a sign.
The stainless steel concert hall is a wild abstraction, which wraps the most genteel and tradition-bound of all the performing arts within the computer-plotted cloak of radically progressive architecture. The sculpture is a parody of that distinctly modern tension, rendered in representational terms. Never mind that the conventional sartorial requirement for a philharmonic orchestra is white tie, not the black tie that this sculpture proposes to cast aside. Amy Vanderbilt is dead, and pedantry is a bore. The Dept. of Redundancy Dept. knows what it's doing, and furthermore is doing what it knows.
It knows that a Pop sculpture by the New York husband-and-wife team of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen — the OldenBruggens, to simplify — is practically a requirement for a Gehry building in L.A. This will be the third example.
"Collar and Bow" joins the giant pair of binoculars at the former Chiat/Day Building in Venice (one of the famous duo's best works) and the toppling stepladder and spilling paint can at Loyola Law School near downtown (among their worst). Gehry recommended the OldenBruggens for all three projects.
Since 1976, they've erected more than two dozen Pop sculptures in urban settings across the United States and Europe, as well as in Tokyo, and of those I've seen, misses have outnumbered hits. Manhattan, where the artists live, cannot boast a single large-scale, permanent, site-specific work by the team. Maybe that's just because New York can't seem to get a major building erected by the most important American architect of our time.
L.A. might be overrun with major artists, including sculptors of colossal talent who have worked here for decades and built international reputations of the first rank but who haven't had an opportunity to erect a major sculpture on prime local real estate. But safety counts when redundancy matters: Do not take chances, especially on culture.
Stick with the predictable. Certified out-of-town art celebrities are a warm security blanket, because you don't have to put your own taste on the line and then defend it. Yes, there is irony here. Gehry was in an identical position when he got the coveted 1988 commission to design Disney Hall — local genius, ignored by cultural pooh-bahs locally. His hiring was a miracle that set the town giddily on its ear. Apparently that out-of-character artistic event hasn't had long-term consequences for civic self-confidence over at the Music Center.
Plus, "Collar and Bow" is safe because partly pretested. The sculpture is a variation on a dull 1994 piece, commissioned for a sidewalk outside a major bank in Frankfurt, Germany. (Banks take no more chances than music centers do.) That corporate sculpture did to a man's traditional business attire — dress shirt collar and striped tie — what the Disney sculpture plans to do for masculine formal wear: toss it aside.
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Voluptuous breasts, engorged phalluses and other bodily allusions abound in the OldenBruggen's most vivid work, and a 65-foot-tall sex act on the corner of 1st and Grand would sure stop traffic. Yet the blandly veiled "Collar and Bow" is unlikely to scare the horses.
Thing plus person, inanimate but vital, art object and sex act — double entendres are a trademark of their approach. Oldenburg's earlier, pre-Van Bruggen sculptures were often small articles (electric plug, clothespin, pool balls) made huge, or hard things (telephone, toilet, typewriter) made soft. Linguistically a double entendre is an indelicate pun, in which a single word can suggest multiple meanings. Pop art is a punster's paradise.
At Disney Concert Hall, a bow might describe a necktie, but it's also the name of the wooden stick that musicians drag across violin strings. Pronounced another way, bow is what conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and company do at the end of a performance. The bow is also the forward part of a sailing ship, and billowing sails and jibs are Gehry's stated inspiration for the design of his curvaceous building.
Last and probably least, a collar is a band — like the philharmonic. "Collar and Bow" makes a chic wisecrack. Regrettably, gigantic tonnages of steel and fiberglass make bubbly witticisms elephantine.
Groaning is not encouraged by the Dept. of Redundancy Dept., but an aura of mystery is. The undisclosed cost of the big, privately funded joke out on a public sidewalk is apparently a state secret, ranking right up there with who leaked Valerie Plame's identity as an undercover CIA operative.
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As a corny sculptural sign for an iconic building that has no need for one, the lackluster "Collar and Bow" proposal is a classic gambit of the Dept. of Redundancy Dept. But that's not its only failing. It's also a monumental sign of an intractably timid, clubby state of mind.
I bet there'll be comments about:
"Manhattan, where the artists live, cannot boast a single large-scale, permanent, site-specific work by the team. Maybe that's just because New York can't seem to get a major building erected by the most important American architect of our time."
der Brucer (noticing that the HHW "No Groaning Allowed" campaign is catching on)
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I do hope that's not the ENTIRE article - as we should not be posting entire articles. Extracts, however, are fine as long as they're attributed.
No one has fears they face? No one has faces they fear?
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What I do when I'm afraid.... I'm rarely afraid - really. Nor for myself anyway. (I was shot at, in a fire, lost a parent, lost my homeland, walked across borders was captured, was in jail, etc. etc - all before age 8 - so what's to be afraid of?). I get startled very easily, but that's more of a reflex, than an emotion.
Anyway, if I AM for some reason afraid, I get very very calm. Everything is in slow motion and I just think about how to deal with it. I gues what that means is that I turn it from an emotion into an intellectual exercise. That's what I do, DRs.
I will be E&T for much of this morning and early afternoon dealing with a medical matter (not mine) that I would like some REALLY good vibes for. Thanking you in advance, DRs.
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SOMETHING BORROWED
Extracts from the LA Times STAGE (http://www.calendarlive.com/stage/cl-et-brandes28jul28,2,4807044.story)
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Tami Tappan Damiano, left, Teri Ralston and Davis Gaines do justice to Stephen Sondheim’s creativity.
(Ed Krieger)
Depth and talent: 'Gimmicks' work
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Polished singing and performances make the cast of "Side by Side by Sondheim" a formidable double threat.
By Philip Brandes, Special to The Times
Jul 28 2004
The revue has become a staple of budget-conscious producers seduced by its minimal staging requirements (three per-formers, one narrator and two pianos). In reality, the lack of props and dramatic context makes it harder to do justice to the songs' complexity and sophistication. Unlike many popular show tunes, Sondheim compositions are not "plug-and-play"; they remain defiantly specific to the story and characters for which they were created.
Director Nick DeGruccio is no stranger to the intricacies of a Sondheim revue (having staged the West Coast premiere of "Putting It Together") and has met the challenge here with interpretations that delve deep into the psychological and emotional nuances of the material.
Igniting the cast's agreeable chemistry is Teri Ralston, a veteran of the original Broadway productions of Sondheim's "Company" and "A Little Night Music," who brings penetrating insight and authority to the show's haunting sadder-but-wiser meditations: "In Buddy's Eyes," "Broadway Baby," "Send in the Clowns" and "I'm Still Here."
Handling the male characters of all ages with deceptive ease is Davis Gaines, who pokes fun at his long-running lead stints in L.A. productions of "Phantom of the Opera" by brandishing a phantom mask at the "cunning disguises" line in "Comedy Tonight." Davis' melodic inflections bring clarity and impact to some of the show's more obscure numbers: "Remember," "Marry Me a Little" and "Anyone Can Whistle."
From the giddy rush of big-city newcomers ("Another Hundred People") to the depths of romantic anguish ("Losing My Mind"), the younger female perspectives are pitch-perfect and beautifully acted by Tami Tappan Damiano, her seventh month of pregnancy notwithstanding. (Her condition slyly incorporated with a belly rub during "Love Is in the Air" and a hilariously modified gladiator breastplate for "You Gotta Have a Gimmick").
Speaking of gimmicks, this production sports a lineup of guest narrators, changing weekly. Opening week's Henry Polic II got the show off to a breezy, avuncular start; Betty Garrett, Richard Kline and Donna McKechnie will follow.
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The period conceit is wittily accentuated in Alex Jaeger's gaudy post-psychedelic polyester costumes for the "informal" first act. Lee Martino's choreography is more concerned with character embellishment than with taxing physicality. Even so, polished singing and performances make this cast a formidable double threat.
Dates, times, and ticket data for all three venues available on-line (or PM me).
der Brucer
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Positive feedback score - 100% (from 77 sellers, among them DR Michael Shayne (Valmouth CD); 103 transactions)
I had to do some fast talking during my early buying days. I was using a US chequing account from a Canadian bank. Some of the sellers in small communities had major difficulties convincing their bankers that the currency really was US. Life became easier with PayPal.
I too hope to start selling - one of these days.
I made one friendship with a fellow buyer, and have enjoyed some nice e-mail exchanges with sellers.
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(http://images.calendarlive.com/media/photo/2004-07/13585082.jpg)
A computer rendering of “Collar and Bow” by Pop artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.
How about the fact that no (OK, few) self-respecting male concertgoers who would think of donning formal wear for a Phil concert would even dream of wearing a pre-tied bowtie!
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Really good VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVibes (yes, they are vibes, not wibes) heading DR Panni's way.
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yes......Good vibes, DR Panni.
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"Director Nick DeGruccio is no stranger to the intricacies of a Sondheim revue (having staged the West Coast premiere of "Putting It Together") and has met the challenge here with interpretations that delve deep into the psychological and emotional nuances of the material"
The West Coast Premiere of Putting it Together was hardly staged by Nick de Gruccio. Maybe the WAIVER theater premiere, but the actual West Coast Premiere was, in fact, directed by that fellow who runs the Signature. The actual West Coast Premiere starred Carol Burnett, Susan Egan, John Barrowman, and others. It was done at the Mark Taper Forum.
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This request came in from one of my other online groups (actually, it's my only other online group). I know there are several DRs in this area (Oregon), and if anyone has a suggestion please send me a PM.
Thanks.
"Does anyone know of a Movement Disorder neurologist in the Salem area? This would incluide Corvallis, Albany, even Portland."
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So did anybody watch the Amish show last night?
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Good vibes to DR Panni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!
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I love smoked meat sandwiches!
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I do hope that's not the ENTIRE article - as we should not be posting entire articles. Extracts, however, are fine as long as they're attributed.
No one has fears they face? No one has faces they fear?
All are extracts, all are attributed, with particular care to pick up the picture attributions.
der Brucer
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So did anybody watch the Amish show last night?
OK, I admit it......
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Good vibes to DRPANNI.
And I hope DRDANISE is feeling better today as well.
Yes, I try to face my fears...and go ahead and just do it. Riding a roller coaster, auditioning at a new venue, driving someplace alone - these are all things I have been afraid to do, until I did them once. And so one at a time, I am conquering my fears.
I remember that I used the lyrics of Whistle a Happy Tune, when I had to walk up the bleachers - the kind that were open underneath. That was the scariest thing I had to do when I was in the second grade....and I did it. Thanks Rodgers & Hammerstein.
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I did NOT watch the Amish show because it was a made-for-television setup. I did see the film it was based on since it was a real documentary where they followed around some of these Amish youth and interviewed them. Other than one person dominating the film so much that it became a film about him rather than a variety of youth it was quite interesting. What blew my mind was that after living in the real world, 90% of the youth return to the church. However none of them was set up in a Hollywood apartment with a group of modern non-Amish youth.
Following in the footsteps of Andrew Lloyd Weber and Sarah Brightman, it was announced today that Frank Wildehorn and Linda Eder have split up.
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Thanks for the good vibes. See you later!
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"Director Nick DeGruccio is no stranger to the intricacies of a Sondheim revue (having staged the West Coast premiere of "Putting It Together") and has met the challenge here with interpretations that delve deep into the psychological and emotional nuances of the material"
The West Coast Premiere of Putting it Together was hardly staged by Nick de Gruccio. Maybe the WAIVER theater premiere, but the actual West Coast Premiere was, in fact, directed by that fellow who runs the Signature. The actual West Coast Premiere starred Carol Burnett, Susan Egan, John Barrowman, and others. It was done at the Mark Taper Forum.
Director: Eric D. Schaeffer
Musical Staging: Bob Avian
Others: John McCook, Bronson Pinchot
der Brucer (Woody and I had seats right in front of Barrowman's parents who had flown in just for the show)
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... when I had to walk up the bleachers - the kind that were open underneath. That was the scariest thing I had to do when I was in the second grade....and I did it.
Honey, I'm going to be 41 (that slipped out...) and I STILL hate walking up (or down) open bleachers!
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I searched on "Dance +Health" on Google and came up with this:
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Frank Wildehorn and Linda Eder have split up.
Frank is a "Wild" (as in About Harry or Mary), not a "Wilde" (as in Oscar or beest).
But you gnu that.
der Brucer
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Good vibes to DR Panni.
And out i go to feed my birds, thence to the garden to hack and slash and haul and yank and tote. (This is my cardio...)
Did i mention that 3 raccoons have been coming nightly? I bought cat kibble for them, which they seem to love. And two nights ago, i put out some of the blue jays' peanuts, as they watched me from a slight distance... then grabbed peanuts by the (tiny) handfuls. I am in LOVE!!!
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Sandwiches: Sliced turkey on really good multi-grain bread, with some ripe avocado and sun dried tomato, lots of lettuce, one swipe of dijon mustard, put a few pine nuts in with the avocado... sheesh, now I'm hungry.
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Fear: get angry, puff out all my quills, strut around making lots of raucous noise, spout witheringly sarcastic phrases... look and sound just as looney as possible, and the scary folk get scared and quickly walk the other way. Another, (which I used to do and have abandoned in favor of the more theatrical performance described above) is carefully unzip my carry pack and feel for the reassuring steel of the Sig Sauer P-230 concealed therein...
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Frank is a "Wild" (as in About Harry or Mary), not a "Wilde" (as in Oscar or beest).
But you gnu that.
der Brucer
I think Frank is about as far from "Wilde" (as in talented and witty) as one can get.
So I wonder which one no longer considered the other useful in this marriage?
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And last, but not least :
SOMETHING BLUE
Extracts from the LATimes TELEVISION REVIEW (http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-wk-lloyd29jul29,2,3158072.story)
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Well, yes, he's average
Jeff Foxworthy pretends to be 'Blue Collar' but is merely middling.
By Robert Lloyd
Times Staff Writer
Jul 29 2004
"We are not here to change the world; we are here to make it a little more bearable, OK?" Jeff Foxworthy says at the top of his new sketch comedy show, "Blue Collar TV," premiering tonight on the WB.
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"Between New York and Los Angeles there are 200 million people," Foxworthy said recently. "That's what this country is. It really isn't cutting-edge hip." …One gathers from the show's title — and the title sequence, with its images of a clock, a mower and a trailer — that this is supposed to be some sort of regular-folks alternative to the sophisticated humor of the smarty-pants big-city elites (though, heaven knows, they must have been watching "Seinfeld" out in the sticks too, to generate those ratings). Something for the red staters, the NASCAR-ites, the country music fans, the beer drinkers, the people waiting for "Hee Haw" to return.
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There are three long sketches in the opening show. The first is a mock ad for the House of Gravy, where gravy is slathered over pasta, steamed vegetables, an ice cream sundae. It gushes from a fire hose, soaking everyone onstage. The second features an enormously fat family that regards dieting as a kind of substance abuse. Both these sketches seem to celebrate and defend what they critique and lampoon: Proud to be fat, proud to eat gravy, this is who we are.
In the third, the three stars play little children fighting in the back seat of an SUV, with the large Larry kitted out in a diaper. Although there are some nice line readings, the sketch is ultimately as annoying as the situation it lampoons. It finishes with an extended urination gag (resembling, oddly, the end of the gravy sketch).
Finally, Foxworthy, Engvall and Larry sit down together and trade inspirational homilies.
"I believe the color of the state flag of Alabama should be primer.... " "I believe guns don't kill people. Husbands that come home early do.... " "I believe there should be an application process for anyone who wants to wear a thong."
The show concludes with a masturbation joke. Welcome to the real America.
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Honey, I'm going to be 41 ...
But I still have my virility.
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I have a question for Bruce and all Dear Readers, how do you open a CD case without damage to ones nails?
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This is why one has a husband, silly!
SWW true, which is why I completely forgot about the case opener. ;D Thing is dear husband was working out at the gym. And poor dear husband lost a good portion of his thumb nail so I have been trying to be more independent and let him rest his sore thumb.
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It's too bad the Disney Channel is only watched by 'tween-aged girls.
Hey, I watch the Disney Channel.
We will be definitely be watching it on August 7th, the day TIVO is set to record TIGER CRUISE. :)
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..and feel for the reassuring steel of the Sig Sauer P-230 concealed therein...
and then "thence to the garden to hack and slash and haul and yank and tote" ...
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Favorite Dine-out sandwich:
Croque Monsieur
For which there seem to be as many diffrenet recipes as there are recordings of "Feelings".
der Brucer
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So DR Stuart, how was it?
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PANNI, REALLY GOOD VIBES!!!
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This request came in from one of my other online groups (actually, it's my only other online group). I know there are several DRs in this area (Oregon), and if anyone has a suggestion please send me a PM.
Thanks.
"Does anyone know of a Movement Disorder neurologist in the Salem area? This would incluide Corvallis, Albany, even Portland."
DIT, there are several neurologists in Salem but I don't know if they are Movement Disorder neurologists (the phone listings don't specify).
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DRLaura, one more day. Good luck.
Bruce I know what you mean about the floor. I bet Jose is a natural.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPGOOD, wherever you are.
Jose did you find your phone?
How is your rash? A Cortisone ointment or Benadryl might work better.
MBarnum I shall have to try almond butter. :)
Matt H, IT STARTED WITH EVE is my favorite. i don’t think I have seen all of her adult movies, a shame I’m sure.
DIT I have never heard of a Movement Disorder neurologist. My suggestion, if your friend hasn’t done so already, is to call Oregon Health and Sciences in Portland. http://www.ohsu.edu/
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I know we've done sandwiches before, but here I go again. The best sandwich in the universe is at the Pony Espresso in Wickenburg, Arizona. It's worth the two-hour drive.
When I'm scared, I tremble and fear it but keep my fighting spirit alive (Yeah, I know, a Frank Wildhorn reference).
My eBay score is only 63 with 71 total feedbacks.
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DR Jennifer, I didn't watch the Amish show last night, but I taped it and will try to watch it in the next couple of days.
I actually thought it sounded interesting as it gives two groups of kids the opportunity to get to know people completely unlike themselves. My hope is that they would come away with a realization that people can be different and that is OK.
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MBarnum I shall have to try almond butter. :)
At both Fred Meyers and Winco they have the machines where you can grind it yourself...so it is all natural and tasty! Yum!
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How I respond to fear really depends on what is frightening me. Little fears, like big loopy roller coasters or attacking dogs, cause me to scream. I have been known to run when threatened, or to stand up and fight, just depends on the situation. But big fears, the stuff that puts a pit in your stomach and can make you shake, I’m most likely to become very quiet. Somewhere along the way I might cry or get upset but dealing with what is happening must be done and I try to put other emotions aside.
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Does a souvlaki pita count as a sandwich?
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Thanks MBarnum. I bet our local co-op has it too. I shall check there first. I'm not a fan of the super large stores.
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Yes Jennifer, whatever that is. If it's in pita bread I would count it.
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When I'm scared, I tremble and fear it but keep my fighting spirit alive (Yeah, I know, a Frank Wildhorn reference).
I would expect nothing less of the gal with a sword in her hand.
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Oh, now I remember - we did sandwiches on May 18th, not so long ago. Still, one can't have enough sandwiches. I should just realize we've probably done all foodstuffs but I do love hearing about food so I keep forgetting we've probably done all foodstuffs.
Here's another topic du jour: What do you do when you're afraid of something? Do you hold your head erect? Whistle a happy tune? How do you stand up to your fears or conquer them?
Sandwiches: cheese and bologna with mustard and mayo on white bread.
Speaking of being afraid and bologna...did anyone notice that the lines "Whenever I feel afraid, I hold my head erect" and "My bologna has a first name, it's O.S.C.A.R" have practically the same melody?? I started humming the "Whistle a Happy Tune" tune (because of BK's mention of the song) and then started thinking about my favorite sandwich which made me start humming the Oscar Meyer song and they're almost the same thing! Of course, we all know which melody came first. ::)
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Yes Jennifer, whatever that is. If it's in pita bread I would count it.
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Souvlaki pita is a Greek sandwich. It has souvlaki meat with tzatziki and lettuce, rolled in a pita. It is very good.
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Does Subway count? I love their grilled chicken.
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Director: Eric D. Schaeffer
Musical Staging: Bob Avian
Others: John McCook, Bronson Pinchot
der Brucer (Woody and I had seats right in front of Barrowman's parents who had flown in just for the show)
NOT TRUE! I sat NEXT to Mrs. Barrowman, with der Brucer on my other side. (Curtain time was delayed that night, and the Barrowmans, like ourselves, just barely made it to the theater on time. And that included John!)
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Hey, I watch the Disney Channel.
We will be definitely be watching it on August 7th, the day TIVO is set to record TIGER CRUISE. :)
I was, of course, referring to an earlier comment made on the board.
Strange, how the eyes-rolling smiley didn't translate over to the quote.
Ah, well. ::) :P
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And, in honor of Panni's Tiger Cruise, the page four dance:
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Favorite Dine-out sandwich:
Croque Monsieur
For which there seem to be as many diffrenet recipes as there are recordings of "Feelings".
der Brucer
But the sandwiches are all in much better taste.
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I haven't had a good ice cream sandwich for what seems like ages!
Yummers!
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Sounds good!
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Well if ice cream sandwiches count, count me in.
Costco sells the most delicious 3 variety pack. And I could literally eat the entire family pack at once. So good!
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Well of course I cannot eat the entire family pack because there are like 30+ in there. But they are still good.
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So NO ONE is interested in the musical The Ten Commandments with Mr Val Kilmer as Moses? Oh well....
Oh MATTH - I really enjoy Miss Deanna in FIRST LOVE....she sings a song from Madame Butterfly, is tied down to wacky family, and gets the boy! And I love Esther Dale as the "old maid" schoolteacher who gives her some great advice.
TCM is doing a great job for me today and tomorrow. I just watched ALL FALL DOWN (Lansbury's other great 1962 mother role for John Frankenheimer) with really fine performances by Brandon deWilde and Warren Beatty and Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint, and a touching and sexy script by William Inge. Coming up is OPERATION CROSSBOW and tomorrow ICE STATION ZEBRA!!
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Souvlaki pita is a Greek sandwich. It has souvlaki meat with tzatziki and lettuce, rolled in a pita. It is very good.
"Souvlaki meat"????
If it's really Greek, that would be lamb, I believe. A substitute is beef.
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Still haven't gotten to TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS. Another gay-themed movie, THE SUM OF US, came on one of the Showtime channels, and I wanted to make a DVD-R of it. I had it on laserdisc but hadn't upgraded to DVD yet. This will save me a few bucks. Have always liked the film.
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Oh MATTH - I really enjoy Miss Deanna in FIRST LOVE....she sings a song from Madame Butterfly, is tied down to wacky family, and gets the boy! And I love Esther Dale as the "old maid" schoolteacher who gives her some great advice.
Her song at the end of the film is an English adptation of "Nessum Dorma" from TURANDOT which is one of her most heartfelt and beautiful performances ever. One of the reasons I really love the film and get choked up by the ending.
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The only real disappointment of my NYC trip was that when we went to the Museum of the City of New York, the Broadway wing was closed because they had taken down the latest exhibit and hadn't put up a new one. Big, big disappointment. The rest of the museum was fine, interesting, a new experience, but I really went there to see this exhibition wing.
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Sigh. Well, it's done.
I went over to let the men from the thrift store in to remove the bed, and the buyer and both agents were in the house looking around. My agent hands me a paper allowing the buyer to move in early.
Maybe tomorrow I can go for a walk. I haven't had time.
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DearReaderLaura, a bittersweet feeling. I'm glad it's done and you can walk tomorrow.
Now I want to watch FIRST LOVE.
I had a wonderful surprise today from elmore. THANK YOU!! :D :D
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And with it I hope, Dear Reader Laura, a considerably lightened burden and perhaps some sense of closure.
Feel well and, indeed, do something that will perk up your spirits.
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The Ten Commandments with Val Kilmer smells like one of those sure-fire all time worst things - a total disaster in the making. I believe it will never happen.
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DRLAURA - a difficult job done with love by someone who cared....there will be no "what ifs" on down the line! Congratulations!
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At $102.50 a ticket somebody better be having some fun!
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Oh yes, DRJANE, I second MATTH's recommendation. FIRST LOVE is a great introduction to Durbin. She is a bit older than in her first films (gets her first screen kiss here) and her personality and talent shine!
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The Ten Commandments with Val Kilmer smells like one of those sure-fire all time worst things - a total disaster in the making. I believe it will never happen.
They could have a double-bill: The Ten Commandments and Masada! ;)
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I'll be heading over to the theater around three-thirty. I'm sure tonight will be spent in adjusting to the space. As it turns out the floor will not be put in until tomorrow.
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Moving from the rehearsal space is always a strange experience. Even if the space has been taped with the exact dimensions...the stage seems different....the entrances and exits....
I always get my left and right confused no matter how much rehearsal I ahve been doing. And have you had mirrors in the rehearsal space? It's always a shock to look out at all the empty seats.
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DRMATT I am SO sorry that theatre wing of the MCNY was not open for you. Darn! I can't recommend it enough....and heaven knows, I have! Maybe your next trip! Seeing original costumes from The King and I, Sound of Music, and Peter Pan....seeing the original stage models from POTO....
The nicest thing is that the Guggenheim is practically on the way so you can stop on the way up or on the way back.
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They could have a double-bill: The Ten Commandments and Masada! ;)
That's Entertainment!!!
But nobody can make the face that Edward G. Robinson did when he found the blood on his door.... ;D
"I'm no Jew, see....yea....mother of mercy, is this the end of Dathan?"
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Yes, we had mirrors and that's been a prob, as our less experienced people, movement-wise, are so used to looking at themselves screwing up. I think that it will be a big plus for them not to have the mirrors.
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In retrospect, "The Ten Commandments" as a straight drama with Charlton Heston as Moses seems totallly laughable.
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LOL....I have just been looking at the IMDB listing for TTC. Interesting stuff. I have the original DVD release, but I don't have the latest one with the commentary. Does any DR have that one....have you listened to the commentary and watched the extra features? Worth buying?
I like the movie A LOT!
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My very favorite(st) sandwich meal is a hot Reuben on rye, served with a side of hot German potato salad and a kosher dill slice.
A hot pastrami is a close second.
A roast beef w/gravy is third.
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From an internet Google search, I have learned:
Balm is used for a number of natural aromatic substances that are utilized for healing and soothing. They are obtained from certain resinous plants. During Bible History, the area of Gilead was rich in spices and aromatic gums that provided balm, which was exported to Egypt and Tyre - and the land of Israel. The word balm is derived from balsam, which originated from the Greek word (pronounced) balsamon, which was adopted to represent the Hebrew words baal shemen, meaning "lord of oils." (the term Baal is used in various ways in the Old Testament, with the usual meaning of master, or owner. It came to sometimes mean the local pagan god of a particular people, and at the same time all of the idols of the land - see Baal. It is also found in several places in the plural Baalim, or Baals. There were many variations, such as the sun god, the god of fertility, and Beelzebub, or the "lord of flies" - see Baal-zebub and Beelzebub).
Gilead was a well-known exporter of balm from the earliest of times. The Israelite patriarch Joseph was sold by his brothers to a caravan of Ishmaelite traders who were transporting a cargo that included balm.
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oooh... great topic today! It's a good thing I've eaten already :)
There's a restaurant near my house that makes pizza, souvlaki and submarine sandwiches - and if you're nice to the cook he'll combine all three into one sandwich that is absolutely to die for. Picture pizza dough shaped into a baguette-shaped loaf of bread, cut in half and filled with souvlaki fillings, lettuce and tomato.
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My favourite home-made sandwich requires a warning...
IF YOU KEEP KOSHER AND DON'T WANT TO EVEN THINK ABOUT THE MOST SUPREME NON-KOSHER SANDWICH OVERT YOUR EYES NOW!!!
... ham and cheese on challah :)
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Thank you RLP for your Amish comment.
I was really more concerned about the whole "TV thing" and exploitation of the participant and family rather than the individual's chance to experience the world. I noticed when I was in the Lancaster area a few years back that there is a "mutual dependence" on tourism trade. I wonder how the Menonites (sp) would view the TV connection.
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Aaargh! I kept getting this pop up while listening to internet radio at work that asked me if I wanted to run and IE Plug-in. It wouldn't go away even though I kept clicking cancel! I accidently hit "yes" and it went away, but now I am inundated with a constant stream of pop-up adds!
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The one line I remember from THURBER CARNIVAL is from my summer theatre days around 1967:
Is there no bomb in Gilead? Quothe the raven: no more war.
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Thank you RLP for your Amish comment.
I was really more concerned about the whole "TV thing" and exploitation of the participant and family rather than the individual's chance to experience the world. I noticed when I was in the Lancaster area a few years back that there is a "mutual dependence" on tourism trade. I wonder how the Menonites (sp) would view the TV connection.
Thee are welcome.
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I'm back!
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But nobody can make the face that Edward G. Robinson did when he found the blood on his door.... ;D
"I'm no Jew, see....yea....mother of mercy, is this the end of Dathan?"
ROTFLOL ;D
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Wrong religion but now I'll be singing "Friendly Persuasion" all day. Thanks Ron. Perhaps I should be singing "Young and Foolish". With my talent (NOT) I shouldn't be attempting to sing anything.
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Jane - Reset the TIVO! :P
TIGER CRUISE will first air on August 6!
8 PM, I believe, but check your listings.
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MBARNUM have you tried the FREE Google pop up stopper? It has worked for me....with only a couple of exceptions. You should be able to find it on the Google home page....just click and install.
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Off to rehearsal!
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SWW Channels
Martha Stewart Seymour Krelborn :
Our Moon Flowers - not a Musical
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der Brucer
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Another "Dear Jane" T - Shirt:
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der Brucer
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Ha! Ha! ;D
Someone please post a photo of the old sign, by Gary Larson, with a bear holding a gun. The captain reads, "The right to arm bears".
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Jane - Reset the TIVO! :P
TIGER CRUISE will first air on August 6!
8 PM, I believe, but check your listings.
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Panni, sorry about that. TIVO is very clever. You tell it to automatically record a show and when the listing becomes available it sets the show to record at the first available time. In this case it was August 7th for me. Unfortunately the August 6th times of 5:00, 6:30 8:00 and 9:30 on my Disney Schedule conflict with SG1, Monk and Atlantis. Fear not, I think I will be able to do some creative rescheduling and record all four shows. On the 7th TIGER CRUISE only airs twice, for me.
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Ha! Ha! ;D
Someone please post the photo of the old sign with a bear holding a gun. The captain reads, "The right to arm bears" or something like that.
My Pleasure - it's a book cover:
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I just modified while you were posting.
I believe this is a variation on the Gary Larson drawing.
It works though. Thanks. :)
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no comment!
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I found TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS a thoroughly affecting melodrama. I got caught up in the debates and feelings and had tears in my eyes by the end.
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Yes, I'll give the Museum another try on my next trip to NYC, though I don't know when that will be. I guess it will depend on the shows that open there this coming season.
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One thing about it MATTH - shows will come and go, but the Museum will still be there. I liked seeing the old horse drawn fire wagon....and all the photos of the different districts. There were also a couple of great exhibits of the bridges when I was there....
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Of course, there's some disagreement about who is the greatest American architect. About half of architecture fans would name I.M.Pei, who designed, in Manhattan, a wonderful white office building downtown, the Four Seasons Hotel, and the Javitz Center. But the more in-the-know half of all fans would of course name Philip Johnson, who designed the lipstick building, the State Theatre, and the Sony Building for AT&T here.
Frank Gehry hasn't designed as many buildings as Pei and Johnson did in any decade of their adult lives, but, if you've looked at his designs for New York, you know why they've not been built. It sure took the town where he lives a number of years to construct something of his. And I like it, sans bow tie.
I've become fond of Pret-a-manger's Asian Tuna sandwhich, although their Coronation Chicken is both the best chicken salad and best Indian item I know of.
Even I saw the John Barrowman-Carol Burnett-Susan Egan Putting It Together, and knew the director was Eric something with an Sh.
I'm picturing the Eder-Wildhorn divorce papers include the phrase "irreconcilable lack of talent"
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Tonight, DH and I went out for a special dinner to celebrate. Thank you all for your well wishes.
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Hello mon ami François. L'Homme Araignée.
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I'm puzzled!
"Seen" from this side of the Atlantic, i don't understand the strong criticism Mr Wildhorn and Miss Eder get in the States and quite often at this forum!
They must have done -- or NOT done! -- something real bad to be treated that way!
Is it because they also fiddle with pop-music?
Are they strong supporters of Mr Michael Moore?
What is their fault(s)... I'd like to know before I die stupid! :D
In my book, they are quite talented people but there's something I might ignore which make those people quite .... laughable....
Wow! thanks for providing me with something to post about! :)
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Maybe you can spin us a web of intrigue!
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Hello, Oz!
Are Wildhorn and Eder considered jerks down under too?
I doubt it, but, then, what do I know? :D
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Must agree François. Success is cause for the "no talent" line I expect. I do not have to like the shows to appreciate that many people do like Mr Wildhorne's music. If he appeals to many then surely he is doing something right. Ms Eder's voice may not be to everyone's taste but she is very close to "Streisand" IMHO and I have purchased and enjoyed all her Cds.
It is so easy to envy the success of others rather than to appreciate it.
Taste is after all a value judgement.
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DR François - the Anthony Warlow connection has assured Wildhorn and Eder are indeed well known and appreciated. I disliked the DVD of "J & H" but I know many who thought it most enjoyable. There is to be a local production of "Pimpernel" in the next few months. Any Broadway show that has a couple of songs that are familiar to the general public must have done something right.
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MORE gossips!! ;)
(Excerpt from www.lancastereaglegazette.com by Hollie Saunders)
Roberts shares his life over coffee
Sitting around a table, sipping coffee is a good way to generate interesting conversation -- especially when it's with actor Tony Roberts.
Roberts played opposite Julie Andrews in "Victor/Victoria." He described her as one of the "true great ladies who lived beyond one's expectations."
"Julie is very kind and generous, and treated everyone the same. At the same time, she is very down to earth. She was poor and supported her family with her talent when she was young. She is a working woman," Roberts said. "(Julie's husband) Blake (Edwards) is the complete opposite. He wasn't well liked because he was a Hollywood director. He was arrogant in his approach (to stage directing), and they didn't like it."
He said Andrews declined the nomination for her role in the play because no one else was nominated, and said it was a slap in Blake's face.
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It's been a LONG day and I've got a zillion things yet to do. Have a big story meeting to prepare for tomorrow morning. So I think I'll sign off early tonight. Might drop by later to lurk.
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To Hell with Kerry!
To Hell with Bush!
I just want to know where I can sign up to nominate Chris Heinz for First Son???[/i][/color]
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Wonderful to see you TCB.
I hope the weekend brings new life to your computer.
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I'm back, and to prove it, I'm here. I'm zonked and now have to write the notes.