Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 2 => Topic started by: bk on July 29, 2004, 11:59:17 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, you're zonked from having read the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the zonked cows come home. To it, I say.
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Media check.
CDs: "Gold" Linda Eder
"Storybook" Linda Eder
"Broadway - My Way" Linda Eder
DVD: My Favorite Broadway - "The Leading Ladies"
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I thought "Islands In The Stream" was a duet sung by our very own TCB and some Theme Park songbird.
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CD: Ian Tyson:Live At Longview (cowboy songs, mostly)
DVD: The original MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, which I've never seen all the way through....WONDERFUL!
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BK will be very happy. His publicist must be working in Boston. One major theme of John Kerry's acceptance speech tonight was "What If...?"
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Man, EVERYONE reads this website. Now John Kerry is ripping us off.
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Man, EVERYONE reads this website. Now John Kerry is ripping us off.
That's exactly what I thought when I watched his speech!
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If Kerry takes the time to read HHW and learn from the wonderful posts - he must surely be deserving of your votes.
And where is DR Kerry? They are different people aren't they?
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I just paid all of my bills...I wrote checks for two and all the others are paid on-line! And I just checked my bank account (also on-line) and the direct deposit of my paycheck was deposited directly into my checking account! For as long as I've had direct deposit, I'm still amazed (and incredibly grateful) that the money is deposited the night before we're actually supposed to get paid...that way the checks that I wrote on Wednesday will be covered if they come through today (Friday). ;)
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Good nighty-night!
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SCREAMING YELLOW ZONKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Well I feel better now. :P
DRJOSE at a baby grand! Whew! JOSE did you recover your cell phone? I think it should become part of the end of rehearsal process that everyone asks: "Jose, do you have your cell phone?" ;D
DVD Player - The Ten Commandments
CD Player - FASHION, an Australian compilation from TomofOZ
VHS - Susan Slade!
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Of course the Australian compilation is of all (except for the first and last tracks which are British) USA produced recordings!
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Good morning Atlantic coast people.
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Good morning, all! I've been mostly lurking this week, most of my attention has been on the convention, and I had a great time listening to the speakers and the commentary.
My back has moments when I think it's improving, and long periods of pain during which I fear it will never heal. I have another week of ibuprofen, muscle relaxant, and some penicillin-based drug before I see my doctor again, so hopefully this week will see some sort of stabilization.
I spent an interesting couple of hours at the NY Public Library Music Collection yesterday looking at original Broadway materials on WHERE'S CHARLEY? and I found a few lyrics not in the show. I've always suspected that some of the awkward lyrics in the published vocal score were errors of Mathilde Pincus and Don Walker in 1954 when MTI assembled the show for rental purposes. Unfortunately, I could find no lyric solution in the materials I was examining.
I have to get on my soapbox, too, and state that the NYPL doesn't offer the freedom of examining cartons of files that the Library of Congress does, and to check out 10-15 folders of various manuscripts in the storage box means a constant trip to the Special Collections desk. The librarian at the desk yesterday, who is usually an amiable man, appeared to be stretched to his limit. I did a cursory check and left, so I will go back next week and continue my search. The Library of Congress, in the research I've done, usually hands me one storage carton at a time, so that I can take all the files in the carton to a table and examine everything at my liesure. And this, DRs, is why all of my ms are with the Library of Congress.
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Special healing vibes of the OZ kind for your back DR Elmore.
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Good morning Atlantic coast people.
Good morning, Tom!
I got on my soapbox and forgot the TOD!
VCR: Australian Ballet COPPELIA
DVD: No idea, yet. Maybe MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.
CD: Tchaikovsky SLEEPING BEAUTY conducted by Antal Dorati
Guy Haines; I can't get enough of "Here You Come Again"
Mancini PINK PANTHER compilation
THE SONG OF NORWAY
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Good morning Tom, Michael and Larry.
I will be listening to City of Angels (OBC), 110 in the Shade (OBC) and Sugar (OBC) this morning. Not sure what I'll listen to in the afternoon, perhaps Friday Night is Music Night on BBC.
I had a presentation due yesterday and it went well so I actually slept last night. I tend to get obsessive about these things. Since Monday I have been working on the presentation and waking up at 4am (not by choice) unable to go back to sleep. It's now out of the (successful as I thought it would be) and I actually slept until 6am today. TGIF so I can sleep late tomorrow morning.
I will be alone this whole week. Anthony has clown shows on Saturday and Sunday and then next Saturday as well so he will be staying on Long Island for the entire week, not back in the city until August 9th. He has things to do during the week. He's making some radiator covers for the apartment and his father has a workroom w/all those sexy power tools. He's also finishing some sewing, curtains, a bed skirt and a cover to hide the TV tray tables. From power tools to sewing machines. What a jump.
I must resist going to Academy and Footlight. I must, I must, I must. I will go up to the Equity office and see if there are any free theatre tickets for the weekend. That will keep me busy!
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DR Panni you should be asleep! Peaceful restful thoughts to you.
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Yes, healing vibes to your back Larry.
Good morning Miss Panni! 4:22am. Are you walkin' the dog?
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From Yesterday
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.
As I was started to read I was treated to a mini Julie Andrews festival on Theayrically Challenged on Live365 one of the better "radio" programs on the system.
I do have a question though about the about article. In reference to Blake Edwards THEY DIDN"T LIKE IT was it the actors and creative personal who didn't like him or the critics?
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Good morning. 4:20 AM. May I say I'm zonked. Loved John Kerry's "What If's"... His choreography was not too imaginative, however.
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If you do go to footlight DR Ben - Remember that your friends here may offer you a much better price!
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Irvin Shortess "Shorty" Yeaworth Jr., who directed the 1958 cult movie "The Blob" and later made hundreds of films with religious and social messages, died in a car accident in the Middle East. He was 78.
Yeaworth was traveling in Jordan when his vehicle went off the road near Petra on July 19, his wife Jean Bruce Yeaworth said.
"We think he fell asleep," she said.
Yeaworth often struggled with his legacy as director of the camp sci-fi classic "The Blob," much of which was filmed in his backyard in Pennsylvania. "He was not very proud of it," his wife said.
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Maybe DR François - our resident Dame Julie expert will know more Michael. (Oh! A Michael Moore reference).
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The Miss America pageant is pulling the plug on its talent competition, eliminating the amateurish two-minute routines that have come to feature cheesy stunts such as tractor driving and trampoline jumping.
Instead, this year's crowning Sept. 18 will showcase some of the women performing in a videotaped montage culled from talent routines staged in preliminary competition.
Just one contestant chosen by the pageant's producers will perform live, after the selection of the five finalists for Miss America 2005. ABC-TV is trimming the telecast to two hours this year.
"It's the cornerstone of our organization. It's what sets us apart," said Miss America CEO Art McMaster. "If it were up to me, I'd show all 52 talents on TV. But when you're in a collaborative effort, as we are with ABC, there had to be a compromise somewhere
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Tv watching this evening - (in about 10 minutes) is British show "New Tricks" a "feel good" cop show with a great cast.
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Well I am going to watch all things NYC because next weekend I am off to NYC for the weekend to catch a few shows.
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DR Tom, I'll keep that in mind :-)
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The last half hour on WQXR was very strange:
Dvorak: Slavonic Dance #7
Elgar: One of the Enigma Variations
Berlioz: March to the Scaffold from SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE
Why not the whole piece of any of the above?
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Well....having a talent competition begs the question that you have a talent to show. I enjoyed watching the 1958 Miss America Contest earlier this year on TRIO. Interesting "talent" segment, not all BAD, but not all that interesting either.
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I will be alone this whole week. Anthony has clown shows on Saturday and Sunday and then ... He's making some radiator covers for the apartment and his father has a workroom w/all those sexy power tools. He's also finishing some sewing, curtains, a bed skirt and a cover to hide the TV tray tables. From power tools to sewing machines. What a jump.
Please let me be the first to ask: Will these radiator covers be like "coseys", or is he going to be sawing, nailing, etc.?
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Surley one of the DRs has a pattern for crochéd covers for radiators.
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CD - Lionel Bart's LA STRADA, Rodgers & Hart's EVER GREEN (2 words indicates the British stage version as opposed to the one word movie), 2 Merman LPs from the 60s newly released on one CD
DVD - Probably the original CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN/BELLES ON THEIR TOES
WHS - Nothing
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Well. I've made it to the end of my first week back at work since my arm-breaking fall two weeks ago today.
Some of you might be amazed to learn that my cast-like splint was removed Wednesday morning! X-rays were taken and my doctor announced that things look good. I was then given a removable hinged splint that was "set" to give me a restricted range of motion. My challenge is to maximize my ability to operate within that range over the next three weeks after which a new goal will be set. I can remove splint to allow cleansing/moisturizing/light massage and/or a good scratch!
It's all very new and aggressive to me!
My arm is swollen, very bruised and quite "sore." When a day is done and I've done more than I ought in using it, it positively "aches."
VCR: Nada
DVD: Nada
CD: TONS of things. including the Bacharach recordings mentioned last week of which I've listened to only a selection or two on each CD.
Latest eBay acquisition: Window card for "Funny Girl", featuring original cast listing.
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These are, of course, subjective opinions, not facts, but I said Wildhorn and Eder are talentless for a few reasons:
Wildhorn, before he started writing for the theatre, was a fairly successful writer of pop songs. In the theatre, pop songwriters (such as Rupert Holmes) are welcomed, as long as they move away from the cliches that make pop sell and dramatize characters and situations as has to happen in the theatre.
The three Wildhorn musicals lost more money on Broadway than the combined career Broadway output of any other writer. The shows were set in Victorian England, the French Revolution, and the American Civil War. And yet, for the most part, the scores were set firmly in the same century: late 20th. (He also befouled the score of Victor/Victoria after Henry Mancini died... different setting, same old junk.)
All had lyrics that made me laugh out loud, not with them, but at them - howlingly funny without intending to. One song keeps throwing different adjectives in front of the noun, "moment" and one of these adjectives is "momentous." If a kid in a fourth grade writing class did that, he'd be sent back to third grade.
But wait, I hear you say, Wildhorn isn't responsible for the lyrics; he's the composer. The hell he isn't! When a good composer is handed a horrible cliche like "someone like you loves someone like me and suddenly nothing is the same" he sends his lyricist back to the drawing board. I can't imagine Jule Styne accepting that line.
But each lyrical cliche is matched by a musical cliche, and such things are a little harder to explain. (It's easy to point to a bad lyric.) Take A New Life. Please!
A new life
What I wouldn't give to have a gnu life
Better than a pig or kangaroo life
If I must be furry, set me free
OK, so that's not the lyric, but the tune keeps hitting the rhythm of the middle two lines incessantly, always leading to an ill-chosen rhyme. It puts one to sleep. Sometimes, the singer will combat the dullness of the compositional lines, by singing REALLY LOUD.
Which brings us to Linda Eder, who sings really loud. And in a Streisandish mode. What I concern myself with, most days, is making sure that musical theatre performers are living each moment, acting the hell out of their songs. Eder is wholly unable to do this, which is why, perhaps, she's never been cast in anything her husband wasn't involved with. It doesn't matter what she's singing (I am I, Don Quixote, the lord of La Mancha...) she merely sings it loudly. No acting, no facial expression. She's what my wife calls a park-and-bark. She stands and bellows forth.
I'm not saying its an unattractive sound. But when sound seems to have no thought behind it, it's boring.
Which brings up one more point about Wildhorn. Sometimes, he puts so much time between phrases, you could drive a truck through them.
Tell my father that I'm dead (pause, pause)
And tell Fred (pause, pause)
Our chaffeur (pause, pause)
Tell my father that I cried (pause, pause)
As I died.
I know some people like that song, but I can't hear it without falling asleep.
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Surley one of the DRs has a pattern for crochéd covers for radiators.
It's mind-boggling is what it is! I expect they could operate a web-based business with these things!
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RLP, no coseys they. The radiator covers will be wood w/a metal grate in the front (we need two, one for the living room and one for the bed room). We live in an old building w/those big old honker radiators that take up lots of space. Since my upstairs neighbor and my downstairs neighbor both LOVE their heat in the winter we rarely turn the radiators on. It has to be really, really cold for us to use them so we will get more use out of them with well designed and functional covers at much less cost than any of the hardware stores in Manhattan would charge to make said covers. I'll try to remember to take pictures when they are finished and I'll post for all to see.
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The Miss America pageant is pulling the plug on its talent competition, eliminating the amateurish two-minute routines that have come to feature cheesy stunts such as tractor driving and trampoline jumping.
Instead, this year's crowning Sept. 18 will showcase some of the women performing in a videotaped montage culled from talent routines staged in preliminary competition.
Just one contestant chosen by the pageant's producers will perform live, after the selection of the five finalists for Miss America 2005. ABC-TV is trimming the telecast to two hours this year.
"It's the cornerstone of our organization. It's what sets us apart," said Miss America CEO Art McMaster. "If it were up to me, I'd show all 52 talents on TV. But when you're in a collaborative effort, as we are with ABC, there had to be a compromise somewhere
You have absolutely NO idea how discouraged and dismayed I am by this news. Dear Partner John and I haev always been BIG Miss America fans (as is his father...), and the talent competition was always our second favorite portion of the evening (well, evening gowns still come first). We were pissed off enough when they started only showing five talents instead of all ten, but this is just the end of the line.....!
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DR Elmore, sorry your back is still hurting you. Feel better soon.
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How does the Miss America pageant have 52 contestants? I know I haven't been watching the news lately, but I thought there were still only 50 states. Okay, so maybe Puerto Rico counts for 51, but how do they get to 52? Was their a tie?
Growing up, my family and I used the watch the pageant religiously every year. And for many of those years, we still had a black and white television so we would have to guess what colors the ladies were wearing. When we got a color television it wasn't as much fun to watch any more. Progress is the root of all evil.
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For any Big Brother watchers who want to know who won HOH. Check out this detailed live transcript. It looks like it was a great contest.
http://www.tvrules.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5428
http://www.tvrules.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5430
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Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you Dear Reader Noel - I thought I was alone in my frustration of Ms. Eder not being able to act her way through a song. All the vocal pyrotechnics in the world mean nothing to me if a performer is unable to give meaning to what they are singing.
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For any Big Brother watchers who want to know who won HOH. Check out this detailed live transcript. It looks like it was a great contest.
http://www.tvrules.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5428
http://www.tvrules.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5430
Thank goodness! This should be a much better week, and I can't wait to see everyone's expressions when Natalie shows up....!
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Currently in my cd player: Sherry!
Currently in my dvd player: Oz, Season 2, Disc 3
Show Boat closes tomorrow night and then it's back to Pennsylvania for me. I'm sad to see the show close and will miss my new friends, but I will be happy to return to my home and not have to share my bathroom with six other people. Today I must face my packing. I don't know how I've accumulated to much more stuff since I've been here, I'm a pack rat and I think I just need to throw some stuff out.
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Media Check:
CD/Office: Rosemary Clooney: "Showtunes"
CD/Car: RAGTIME
VCR: Nothing
DVD: NOthing now, but will be holding THE SHAPE OF THINGS, and the Carnegie Hall Sondheim Tribute at some point over the weekend.
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I read recently about some films being in the public domain and I was wondering if anyone could explain what that means in the context of films.
Also, will musicals ever enter into the public domain and what will that mean for the state of the art?
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All week I've been errant and truent, and I guess today I have a lot to say. I have more, but will hold off until tomorrow. Have a good day everyone!
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Thank goodness! This should be a much better week, and I can't wait to see everyone's expressions when Natalie shows up....!
I was happy with the winner as well. I can't believe they stood for that long.
I still cannot really figure out why the Horsemen changed their vote. Stupid strategy.
But I laughed when I saw Holly's reaction to Natalie. It's like she couldn't figure out how there could be two. :)
So Natalie appears on next Thursday's show. Yeah, that should be good.
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Media check:
CD: Two wonderfu CDs of pop groups from Finland courtesy of our friend in OZ...a man with one heck of an amazing musical collection!! Thanks Tom!!!!
VCR: A tape of the Matt Battaglia QAF episodes courtesy of DR MattH! A big thanks to Matt for sending those!!!!!
DVD: Japanese sci-fi from the 50s, THE MYSTERIANS in Japanese with English subtitles...haven't seen this film since I was a kid.
Stay tuned for this weekends Bollywood movies!
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Re: Miss America's 52 contestants, I know the District Of Columbia is one.
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All I can say about the decision to eliminate the talent portion of the pageant on television is that I'm glad my mom is no longer here to see this. It would have killed her. One of her most anticipated events of the year was watching and critiquing all of the talents on the show each year.
Everyone makes fun of the talent portion, but I can remember down through the years that she and I watched it together being electrified by some of the women, and not always the winners. If I was a regular watcher any more (I watched last year for the first time in deacdes since Clay Aiken appeared on the show to open it with "This Is the Night"), this would lose me as a viewer.
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Friday Media Check:
CD - YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN (Revival Cast) and AVENUE Q
DVD - MYSTIC RIVER and "Devil's Foot" episode of THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
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CD: Jack Donahue- Strange Weather
DVD: Showgirls VIP Edition, which is fantastically campy...
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Not much to my Media Check this week. I've pretty much been watching the Dems Convention for the past four days, and aside from the new kd lang CD, I haven't been listening to any music either, at home or at work. I think I taped the premier episode of Dennis Leary's Rescue Me, but I neglected to tape this week's episode.
I am in a state of media-ho-humm. However, I have this afternoon off, so I'm going to go see The Village. I've read a few good reviews this morning.
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The local movie critic gave THE VILLAGE three stars out of four. Also gave the same rating to THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.
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Off to a story meeting. Meaning I'm getting NOTES. :P
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I only have 17 more days to read before I'm all caught up with the December notes! It's taken me a long time to get through them. I was E&T for most of December (from Thanksgiving on actually). I popped in here and there but it's interesting to go back and see what was discussed months ago.
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I'm not quite caught up from the postings at the end of last week when I was gone. Should be finished by the end of the weekend.
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Well, we must move to page 2. Here goes.
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Page Three!!!
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Oops (or Spoo)
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RLP continued good healing vibes. Your new cast sounds interesting.
DearReaderLaura the picture and knowing you walked this morning brought a big smile to my face. :D
Divarobbie, nice avatar. :)
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Thanks, Jane, it's not half bad...
Bruce, the press release is up on my website for ya...
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Thanks, diva.
Public domain films: When films passed whatever the amount of years of copyright protection they had, they went into the public domain unless the copyright was extended. So, that's why there have been multiple DVDs and tapes of certain silent films, etc. Then there are the cases where the studios have screwed up and not put a copyright notice anywhere in the body of their film, i.e. Charade, Till the Clouds Roll By, etc. and those films are in the Public Domain as well. Where certain films have been able to be protected, ironically, is their music - although I don't believe any publishers have gone after these PD companies, on Till the Clouds Roll By they conceivably could because the composers music is protected and is under copyright.
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In a lousy mood to start with, trapped in a house with two crabby kids who can't seem to stop picking at each other...why does the clock pick times like these to slow down to a crawl??
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It is known as Crawling Time Syndrome.
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any known cure?
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Found the cure! Harvey Fierstein on Sesame Street singing "Everything's Coming Up Noses" Too funny!
The kids, of course, had no idea why I was laughing so hard
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The Miss America pageant is pulling the plug on its talent competition, eliminating the amateurish two-minute routines that have come to feature cheesy stunts such as tractor driving and trampoline jumping.
Instead, this year's crowning Sept. 18 will showcase some of the women performing in a videotaped montage culled from talent routines staged in preliminary competition.
Just one contestant chosen by the pageant's producers will perform live, after the selection of the five finalists for Miss America 2005. ABC-TV is trimming the telecast to two hours this year.
"It's the cornerstone of our organization. It's what sets us apart," said Miss America CEO Art McMaster. "If it were up to me, I'd show all 52 talents on TV. But when you're in a collaborative effort, as we are with ABC, there had to be a compromise somewhere
Is Simon Cowell one of this year's judges for MA?
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New CDs to plug into my player:
Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook
The Goodbye Girl -- Broadway cast recording
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RLP continued good healing vibes. Your new cast sounds interesting.
Pictures! We want pictures of the cast! Many, many pictures! So we can have a Cast Album!
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Ann,
When I babysat for crabby kids a zillion years ago, I'd get a friend to phone me. I'd tell the kids it was their mother/father, who said to cool it. This usually worked. On the other hand, two crabby brothers once reacted to this tactic by locking themselves in the bathroom (this was an apt. building, fifth floor) and threatening to jump out the window.
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DVD Player:
Der Brucer and I watched Hellboy earlier this week. Ron Perlman is clearly this generation's Lon Chaney, Jr., with his ability to act under a ton of prosthetics.
At the same time that we picked up Hellboy, we also picked up Starman, Cat Ballou, and The Tailor of Panama, all at a good discount price. But last night I wasn't in the mood for any of them.
I slipped Fantasia 2000 into the player, instead. I happen to like the film, and it's a good relaxation/decompression flick, to boot, and to flash back to an earlier TOD.
At some point, we've got to get me a new discman, so I can play music in my room without having to blast it through the entire house. (That's what headphones are for.) And getting one that has an adaptor we can plug into the car stereo would be nice, too.
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DIT it makes you wonder what the parents did to the kids.
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Ann glad you found the cure. Nothing beats laughter to lift a mood. :)
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Wow poor DR Ann. Don't kids usually get crabby at night?
Try to separate them.
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Well, I finally lost my patience, threw both kids in the car, an went for a drive. Didn't take more than 10 minutes for the 2 year old to fall asleep, just as I suspected. Now he's asleep on the couch and Riley is playing quietly for the time being. He knows he will be in major trouble if he decides to wake Quinn up...but that usually doesn't stop him...
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You have absolutely NO idea how discouraged and dismayed I am by this news. Dear Partner John and I haev always been BIG Miss America fans (as is his father...), and the talent competition was always our second favorite portion of the evening (well, evening gowns still come first). We were pissed off enough when they started only showing five talents instead of all ten, but this is just the end of the line.....!
For me too! The talent portion was actually the only reason that I watched the Miss America pagent. I shall watch no more. :(
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A lull.
In my DVD player at home: nothing...yet. I have a stack, but I don't remember what all is in it.
In my CD player at home: nothing.
In my CD player at work: the original cast recording (produced by our very own BK): The Irish...and how they got that way.
In my VCR: a tape to tape tonight's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." I've taped all this week (special DNC coverage) and my parents want to watch it.
That's it so far.
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Good Afternoon!
-I, too, was a bit zonked after last night's rehearsal. It was just a long day for me. I headed out shortly after 9:00am to head back to the rehearsal studio to fetch my phone - which was, as I thought, sitting "in" the piano (I had closed the fall board/keyboard cover before removing my phone - out of sight, out of mind). Then it was a short bus ride over to Highland and Santa Monica, and then a short few blocks walk to the Hudson. I hung out while the piano tuner finished his tuning. -And it's more like a mini-baby-brand piano size-wise, but it works nicely in the space and for the show. Then I headed out and decided to explore and get some lunch.
I headed over to La Brea, and checked out the relatively new Target store there. Very nice. Actually, the whole complex, The West Hollywood Gateway, is very nice - a Best Buy, some restaurants, a Ben & Jerry's (yes, I had ice cream - and the scooper had to be one of the friendliest scoopers I've ever had), etc. However, it was weird walking just a few feet past the complex down La Brea and seeing all the "industry" back there. While at Target, I decided to "splurge" on a new portable CD player - $12.99!!! I had forgotten to pack mine for the trip out here, and I figured for $12.99, what the hell? I also needed a new portable cassette recorder. That piece of equipment, however, was $25.00. It's just strange how the "old" technology was priced higher than the "new".
Then it was back to theatre to get some practicing in on the new-to-me piano. It feels good, and I can get some nice "colors" out of it.
The rehearsal went well. It was a "typical" first night in the theatre rehearsal. Just lots of new "stuff" to deal with - and still some old stuff to work through.
Once I got back to the apartment, I decompressed with "The Daily Show", and then headed to bed... And slept... and slept. :)
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OH! And BK also gave me another bit last night. Should be fun. I get to flex my long-dormant acting chops - well, more like schtick-chops! -Or would that be chop-schticks?!?!?
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Heading out for some lunch and meeting combo and then to haircut.
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Friday Sweet Friday!!!
Just finished watching ICE STATION ZEBRA!!
Radiator covers, temporary splints, ice cream scoopers, screaming babies...what interesting lives we all lead!
RE:Talent Competition. Sad, but don't try to email the MAO (that's the Miss America Organization to us civilians) they have NO sense of humor about their organization...and it is NOT a beauty pageant, it is the largest women's scholarship organization in the WORLD!!! If not for MAO there would be NO educated women in the United States of America!
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Here is the official bathing suit photo of Miss Mary Jane (Allison) Hayes, Miss Washington DC of 1949! ;D
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For the talent competition portion of the scholarship pageant, Miss Hayes played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata! 8)
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I am still trying to figure out how a woman who was 5'7" and had a 36" bust could play golf! Maybe it had something to do with the size 7 glove!
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Much enjoyed MYSTIC RIVER despite its achingly downbeat slice of humanity on view. I thought all of the performances were wonderful, but my favorite performance was by Marcia Gay Harden.
On to "Devil's Foot" later today. After that, probably THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES.
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And, of course, there is THE JURY and MONK on tap tonight.
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Re: Miss America's 52 contestants, I know the District Of Columbia is one.
I guess the other one is either Miss Iraq or Miss Australia - from two of the newer states.
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I vote for there being a Miss Shire and a Miss Rivendell, a Miss Rohan and a Miss Gondor.
But don't let in Miss Mordor.
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I guess the other one is either Miss Iraq or Miss Australia - from two of the newer states.
As dear reader MBarnum would say: LOL! :D
Media check:
CD player:
-- Flower Drum Song (soundtrack)
-- HAIRSPRAY
-- Flower Drum Song (NEW OBC)
-- Carol Channing: Jazz Baby (DRG).........
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oops -- spoo!
Forgot to answer Michael Shayne's remark re: Tony Roberts ' comment about Blake Edwards!
I believe he meant that the Broadway people he got to work with didn't like his "Hollywood attitude" and that also reflected on the Tony voters' decision, but I can only rely on what the article excerpt says!
It might have been a Hollywood VERSUS Broadway thing! :(
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RE:Talent Competition. Sad, but don't try to email the MAO (that's the Miss America Organization to us civilians) they have NO sense of humor about their organization...and it is NOT a beauty pageant, it is the largest women's scholarship organization in the WORLD!!! If not for MAO there would be NO educated women in the United States of America!
And the leader of this organization is referred to as Chairman MAO?
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Stimulating posts required DRs or I shall return to bed.
Those in pain (Elmore and Ron) are exempt from such stimulation of course. (Unless it helps).
Last Cd played last night was a Beatles compilation - I was recording the songs "Girl" and "If I Fell".
I made a Bee Gees compilation for a friend the other day - some wonderful melodies but NEVER read those lyrics. I guess songs don't need to make sense to be successful. I would prefer to leave my cake out in the rain. Taste is such a personal issue.
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The daugher of der Brucer and her family are scheduled to visit tomorrow.
They aren't bothering to tell us when they will arrive.
The good news is that I have to work tomorrow, so maybe I'll miss them entirely. Or not at all, depending on how you want to interpret this.
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Back from my LONG meeting and lunch. Now have a zillion things to do before DD departs tonight for San Francisco.
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Old news I guess but there is yet another "pop song" show around "Colour My World" - songs from the group "Chicago".. I thought it would have been Jackie Trent & Tony Hatch songs as the reference was Colour rather than color! (Broadway News or whatever it is called).
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DR Panni. Did the meeting start at 4.30 am after your last appearance here. One of those zillion things should be to take a nap!
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my parents came home from the Jean-Talon market (think gynormous outdoors farmer's market with a mediterranean mix) today with a crate (!) of my absolute favourite summer time treat:
FRESH FIGS!!!
In the spate of two hours, I have eaten six and am seriously considering downing a couple more.
Media Check:
VCR: nothing
DVD: Calendar Girls
CD: I popped in my Zanna Don't! cast recording today
MP3: I'm very much loving Maximum Broadway Radio on Live365. They've even stopped playing "She Loves Me!" every three seconds :)
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CD - Lionel Bart's LA STRADA, Rodgers & Hart's EVER GREEN (2 words indicates the British stage version as opposed to the one word movie), 2 Merman LPs from the 60s newly released on one CD
DVD - Probably the original CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN/BELLES ON THEIR TOES
WHS - Nothing
Are you actuallly listening to Bart's score that he wrote or the one that appeared on Broadway with only about 4 of his songs and the rest written by the uncredited Martin Charnin and the musical director whose name escapes me at the moment I write this.
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Re: Miss America's 52 contestants, I know the District Of Columbia is one.
And this is from a Canadian!!!!
How many contestants in Miss Canada? I don't think I ever watched one when I lived there.
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Dangerous Area Emily. Once again there will be lurkers out there trying to discover more about this wonderful Fig site. Of course some of us would not be considered that fresh.
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Okay I looked up La Strada. According to my notes: Only four songs written by Lionel Bart made it to the opening and closing night performance. !3 other songs by Bart were dropped along the way. 10 songs written by Martin Charnin and musical director Elliot Lawrence made it to the opening. Although they did write 7 others songs that did not.
A good deal of score was reused for The Optimists aka The Optimists of Nine Elms. has anyone seen this film from 1973 that starred Peter Sellers
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Since Noel mention Frank Wildhorn and his Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde and I just mentioned Lionel Bart. Does anyone remember the musical version that Lionel Bart wrote for TV that starred Kirk Douglas? When he was Mr. Hyde his famous cleft chin was filled in. It was Directed by David Winters who also directed BK in the classic film Racquet.
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Dangerous Area Emily. Once again there will be lurkers out there trying to discover more about this wonderful Fig site. Of course some of us would not be considered that fresh.
I'm more concerned about the quantity of figs she has consumed and threatens to consume. "Euphemstically" speaking, she shouldn't make any road trips for a while.
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...and this weekends Bollywood movie is:
LAKEER.
I don't quite know what the plot is about but I bought the soundtrack several months ago and it has become one of my all time favorite CDs. So even if the movie is no good I know it will have some great music and it will be fun to see how they have "picturized" the songs.
Also it has two of the hottest Bollywood actors around starring in it, Sunil Shetty and John Abraham!
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Emily I also have CALANDAR GIRLS in my DVD along with THE GIRL WITH THE PEAR EARING. Those figs sound yummy and RLP expressed my thoughts regarding the quantity you are consuming. ;D
CD: BABES IN TOYLAND
TIVO: the usual, SG1, Atlantis and MONK
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DR Jane, can you let me know how those two dvds are. They are two films I am interested in renting.
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Jennifer, sure. Please remind me if I forget.
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DR Michael Shayne. I saw "The Optimists" years ago. It is a delightful film.. I still have the Soundtrack. BK used to have it I think. I did post a pic of the cover at some stage.
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my annual fig binges have never caused me any duress...
although they probably SHOULD given that the average sized fig packs quite the wallop of containing just under 20% of a person's daily recommended intake of fibre :)
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as I write this I am, of course, eating a fig :P
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Do we have words of wisdom from DiT today? More sweeping and dusting with Steve & Eydie perhaps.
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as I write this I am, of course, eating a fig :P
Emily, I didn't know you were such a fig-hag! ;)
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And this is from a Canadian!!!!
How many contestants in Miss Canada? I don't think I ever watched one when I lived there.
Well I have watched Miss America before and seen Miss District of Columbia.
There is no more Miss Canada pageant. Or at least nothing we can watch. I'm not sure how our rep is chosen.
I really am not sure how many contestants there were when it existed. I find it hard to picture a pageant with only 10 women.
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All I can tell all y'all is that the power of suggestion is ALIVE and WELL on HainesHisWay.com.
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...and this weekends Bollywood movie is:
LAKEER.
I don't quite know what the plot is about but I bought the soundtrack several months ago and it has become one of my all time favorite CDs. So even if the movie is no good I know it will have some great music and it will be fun to see how they have "picturized" the songs.
Also it has two of the hottest Bollywood actors around starring in it, Sunil Shetty and John Abraham!
Oooh! A Bollywood film about the Los Angeles Basketball Team!
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(www.pbs.org)
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Throughout the years, the Tony Awards® have not only recognized the best of Broadway but also, with their annual telecast, created an amazing archive of star performers in their Broadway prime. Now, BROADWAY'S LOST TREASURES II presents more of the showstopping performances culled from decades of Tony Awards® ceremonies. Among the leading men and ladies performing classic numbers from legendary Broadway shows are Angela Lansbury in "Everything's Comin' Up Roses" from "Gypsy"; Julie Andrews in a medley of songs from "Camelot" and "My Fair Lady"; Jerry Orbach as the original Billy Flynn in "All I Care About Is Love" from "Chicago"; Gregory Hines and the cast of "Jelly's Last Jam" in a sizzling show medley; Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman's duet "Music of the Night" from "The Phantom of the Opera"; Brent Barrett and Michael Jeter in "Take a Glass Together" from "Grand Hotel"; Debbie Allen leading a rousing rendition of "America" from "West Side Story"; and other hits from shows like "Sweet Charity," "La Cage aux Folles," "Follies," "Ain't Misbehavin'," and many more.
Watch for the launch of the Web companion on Monday, August 2, 2004. www.pbs.org
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Emily, I didn't know you were such a fig-hag! ;)
I hope I didn't offend anyone! Really, I didn't mean to...if I did! :-\
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Der Brucer and I had a very nice repast, traveling downtown to a restaurant called the Stoney Lonen. It's supposed to have Irish references, and our waitress was indeed from Ireland.
We went because every Friday night they have a bargain: half-off on the fish and chips, and $2 Guiness.
We started with their soup of the day, lobster bisque with fresh crab meat. The bisque itself was on the brothy side, but had a good flavor, and there was plenty of crab.
As for the fish and chips, the halibut was ale-battered and breaded nicely, crisp on the outside and very tender inside. The chips, shoestring potatoes, were just right, not overdone (as can often happen). This was served with a nice cup of cole slaw, not skimpy but enough to last through the meal.
Very enjoyable.
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Good news indeed François.
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I hope I didn't offend anyone! Really, I didn't mean to...if I did! :-\
We'll forgive you, if you dance! ;D 8)
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Dance of the 7 figs perhaps.
Media check update.
Neil Sedaka is about to sing about climbing one more mountain. This shall be followed by the wonderful and popular Miss Ronstadt singing "White Rhythm and Blues".
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Back from the airport where I dropped off DD. After feeding and walking the hound, I need to clean up the place, then get my notes together from my LONG meeting, then, if I have energy left, start to write. Color/colour me exhausted. :P
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LOL - definitely no offence taken George :D
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oooh... lobster bisque is one of my all time favourites!
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Old news I guess but there is yet another "pop song" show around "Colour My World" - songs from the group "Chicago".. I thought it would have been Jackie Trent & Tony Hatch songs as the reference was Colour rather than color! (Broadway News or whatever it is called).
What I want to know is, where is the Duran Duran musical?
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Do we have words of wisdom from DiT today? More sweeping and dusting with Steve & Eydie perhaps.
Steve and Eydie did a superlative job, and the joint sparkles.
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Isn't the Duran Duran musical called "Hungry Like The Wolf"? I think Michael Crawford is to star. Sort of a gothic thriller! They are doing so well with the genre lately.
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Neil Sedaka is about to sing about climbing one more mountain.
I didn't know Neil ever played Mother Abbess!!!!
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He had "bad blood" and was not welcome at the convent. I remember reading it in his "diary" Too bad the Tra La La days are over. And now I am probably just going off on a pop tangent that not even the kings of clowns on this site will follow. I''ll go play solitaire for a while..
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DR Panni: We'll color you BLUE...for exhausted and for mom seeing her baby off, too.
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Isn't the Duran Duran musical called "Hungry Like The Wolf"? I think Michael Crawford is to star. Sort of a gothic thriller! They are doing so well with the genre lately.
Maybe they can get Harvey Fierstein to play Rio.
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Can't seem to clean up. I'm just moving things around from place to place. This calls for ice cream -- the one true source of energy (aside form chocolate). Perhaps CHOCOLATE ice cream. I shall attempt to put on some clothes and venture out for ice cream.
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Panni have you thought about relaxing tonight and cleaning tomorrow? I would save the chocolate for the morning. :)
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Just curious:
Has Harvey Feinstein changed the spelling of his name lately?
It's not divine to me!
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I shall attempt to put on some clothes and venture out for ice cream.
Oh Panni! you mean to say that you've been moving things around IN THE NUDE!! :o :o
Hope you succeed in your attempt!! ;)
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"Panni have you thought about relaxing tonight and cleaning tomorrow?"
Jane!
Is tonight that tired and tomorrow that dirty?? :D
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Mmmm... Ice cream! Good idea, Panni. I myself am eating a carton of Ben & Jerry's Karamel Sutra. It's yummy!
I have so much furniture in my room right now and it doesn't all fit. I have a futon/bunkbed, a dresser, a bureau, a nightstand, four end tables, a desk, four chairs, and two bookshelves. I've been trying to make it all fit so that you don't have to climb over something to get through the door. It's like a really big version of that game where you move those tiles around to make a picture and there's only one empty space.
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To err is human to forgive is divine.
No that can't be right.
To each chocolate and/or ice-cream is divine,
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Yes, DR Francois, there was some talk about Broadway's Lost Treasures here some weeks ago. William E. Lurie, I believe, posted the rundown of the next installment, and while I'm grateful to have ANYTHING, regretted that the powers that be still can't seem to procure rights to the clips from DREAMGIRLS, I DO! I DO!, A CHORUS LINE, PURLIE, and COCO, among others.
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Commercial world, dear reader Matt, commercial world!
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Speaking of ice cream, der Brucer and I picked up a box of ice cream sandwiches today! They are yummers!
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Commercial world, dear reader Matt, commercial world!
I think seeing Katharine Hepburn in her only musical would or should be commercial. So would CHORUS LINE and DREAMGIRLS, iwo of Broadway's all-time hits. Mary Martin was one of the first ladies of musical theater and whose name still should mean something to the people for whom this video program is intended. And PURLIE features the electrifying opening number and the unforgettable "I Got Love."
I know, Lansbury and Orbach are still around and can publicize the video, but I think the numbers named are every bit as commercial as "We'll Take a Glass Together" (which I LOVE, BTW, as it features the amazing Jeter and HHW pin-up boy Brent Barrett.)
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LOL, yes I am sure the head of the Miss America Pageant is or SHOULD BE referred to as Chairman MAO.
Good news about BROADWAY TREASURES II. We have heard about figs, and pear necklaces, cleaning in the altogether, and ice cream. What a day this has been.....
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Had the ice cream (with sprinkled almonds) and am now going to clean again.
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On Tuesday the tenth, at the Triad, "I Got Love" will bring down the house again. You heard it hear first.
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I rhink I'll take us to...
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...PAGE SIX!
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I saw one of the three worst Broadway musicals I've ever seen tonight, pure tedium from start to finish. I appreciated the brief nudity, and that's about it.
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I rhink I've invented a new word.
...What was the musical and who was nude?
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Media check...
DVD - So I Married An Axe Murderer
VHS - tape to record The Manchurian Candidate off PBS tonight
CD - Natalie Cole Stardust
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I saw one of the three worst Broadway musicals I've ever seen tonight, pure tedium from start to finish. I appreciated the brief nudity, and that's about it.
Talk about wanting to have it both ways! If it's nudity, it really should be nudity. If they're wearing briefs, then they ain't nude. Producers will try to get away with anything these days.
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For Mary Poppins and disney music fans!
Infos posted by HOPEMAX at www.magicmusic.net
"Hi, I normally just lurk, but I did attend the NFFC convention. I'm not sure there is as much info about the DISNEYLAND set as you would like. Randy Thornton spent a lot of time talking and playing snippets from Mary Poppins. Here are what I have from my notes, I hope I haven't messed anything up too badly. I wrote this for another Disney board, so some of the stuff I explain for them.
First, Randy started talking about the Wonderland Music Project. If you visit the 20th century music shop, at Disneyland you will find some kiosks where you can order music. Randy's goal is to get everything that was ever released on vinyl on those kiosks so you can get them on CD. The covers on the CD's will look like the original album covers, the labels on the CD will look like the labels on the original albums, the original product numbers, etc.
Eventually, these kiosks will also be made available at WDW and hopefully the World of Disney stores. The plan is to add approximately 5 titles per quarter, the kiosks opened with 50 titles. The next two quarters will be light on park stuff because they focused on the Storytelling Albums, since they are are easier to produce, so Randy could focus on...
The Mary Poppins 40th Anniversary 2-Disc set.
They've been trying to get this project off the ground for 15 years. And one day at work, when Randy was working in the tape room he came across a reel called "Mary Poppins pre-demo." Mary Poppins, was Randy's high school band teacher's favorite movie, and he was the one who taught Randy how to edit and clean up tapes. And if he could get a great MP soundtrack made, that would be kinda a way to say, "Thanks." So when his bosses came by and asked what they should do, Randy said Mary Poppins. The boss wasn't too sure, they had done a soundtrack before, hadn't done too well, (Randy said, of course not it was a bad vinyl pressing and the cover art made Julie Andrews look like a dancing girl) they would need to do something to make it special to get it approved by management. Randy pulled out the pre-demo and said, "Does anyone know that this is here?" No one did, including the Sherman Brothers. So that became the impetus for the new project.
So they still had this stuff to work with. And then one day, Randy was with Dick Sherman and Dick brought out 6 reels, 7 hours of tapes of the early story meetings with Walt, P.L. Travers, Dick & Bob Sherman and a few other top people.
On the second CD will have 41 minutes of these meetings. All the songs that didn't make the film, like the compass sequence. There is a 12 minute interview with Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Sherman Bros and Irwin Kostal (arranger and conductor) done by the Hollywood Spotlight Microphone, the radio spots, the Sherman Brothers interview that did make it on the restored soundtrack, snippets from the orchestra sessions. The first CD will have 26 new minutes of score added to the soundtrack. The soundtrack now comes in at a total of 79 min 48 sec which gives them 12 sec to spare on the CD. Definetely a jam-packed album.
A few tidbits: Cherry Tree Lane is based on Mrs. Travers house, 90% of the whistling in the movie was done by Julie Andrews, Dick Sherman played the Kazuu in the Jolly Holiday sequence and Irwin Kostal did the softshoe sounds for the penguins.
Randy spent so much time playing tidbits from the album and chatting about Mary Poppins, that he ran quickly through the rest of his stuff.
Walt Disney Records will be celebrating its 50th anniversary next year. It started because it occured to Roy O. Disney that they didn't need to have to work with some other label, "they should just do this ourselves." They are writing a book on the history of Disneyland / Walt Disney Records. And next April an retrospective exhibit of the history of Walt Disney records will be opening at Paul Allen's Experience Music Project in Seattle.
He talked only briefly about the CD set that will be coming out for DL's 50th birthday. Bruce Gordon and Stacia Martin will be doing the booklet. And that they did take some liberties with the material to "fluff it up." Instead of just having the spiel for the Mark Twain, or an instrumental piece you might hear in the queue, they layered the two together. "So it didn't sound like school."
There's the six disc version and there will be a 2-disk version for the more casual listener. It will be the same stuff as on the larger set, but snippets instead of full ride-thru. Things I remember him mentioning: the Barker Bird in Adventureland, a new HM ride-thru, Country Bears shows, CoP. Silly me, I thought I could remember everything and didn't take better notes."
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Fascinating reading DR François - I assume you have your pre-order in already. I am looking forward to those extra songs.
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I'm back, and to prove it, I'm here. And yes, zonked, which you'll read about in tomorrow's notes which I will of course be writing tonight. Eating Cheese-Its right now and reading your deliciously delicious postings.
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Mmmm... Cheese-Its... *hungry*
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My last media check for the day: "Listen To My Heart" by the wonderful Nancy La Mott.
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Ya know, I don't think I've posted at all today. Not sure how that happened!
I just got back from synagogue. We had a special service this evening marking our Rabbi's tenth anniversary with the congregation. It was a very nice service and now I feel spiritually recharged.
As they say in the South, Shabbat Shalom, y'all.
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Is it just me, or does John Edwards look like he could have been played by John Ritter?
I think it's the hair.
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Just woke up a few minutes ago. I don't remember falling asleep. What a waste of an evening!
Would you believe I, too, was eating Cheeze-Its earlier tonight? DD left a box here and it was just staring at me and i was hungry and the rest is history. I've now O-D'd on Cheeze-Its. Okay, gotta phone the bank and go to bed. Or phone the bed and go to bank... One of the two.
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Just saw on the news that Nick Cage has married a 20 year old former sushi waitress.
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...Hope she doesn't get a raw deal.
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...Sorry.
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We'll forgive you, if you dance! ;D 8)
Dance of the 7 figs perhaps.
If that's what it takes (I hope this works)!:
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LOL - definitely no offence taken George :D
Thanks!
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No, no, not figs - raisins. Ah, liasons.