Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on August 25, 2013, 01:00:00 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of Umami Burger and other hot topics, and now it is time for you to post until the Umami cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: ROWEL!
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The lost Victorian Mansions of Downtown L.A.:
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/07/25/the-lost-victorian-mansions-of-downtown-la/ (http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/07/25/the-lost-victorian-mansions-of-downtown-la/)
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Interesting notes today on both the burger and the show.
Reminds me of that apocryphal Larry Gelbart quip:
If Hitler's alive today, I hope he's out of town with a musical.
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Morning all.
That is all.
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A favorite Larry Gelbart tongue-in-cheek quote:
Advice to struggling writers? Stop struggling and write.
:)
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Quite a trip down mwmory lane yesterday with all those TV ads.
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Thinking of those old Broadway ads:
A little out of sync between visual and audio, but here are the outdoor SHENANDOAH ads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9cdEZDcTuM
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And here's Donna Theodore doing FREEDOM as a solo a few years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BahoT7cKOys
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Funny that those Shenandoah ad clips actually have a YouTube ad (at least on my machine) you must sit through before the show ads...
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On mine, it did not even give the option of skipping the 15-second ad. seems unusual
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here are the outdoor SHENANDOAH ads
Thank you for sharing those, DR FJL.
The 30-piece orchestra must be just off-camera. :)
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Good morning, all.
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Perfectly poached fish - in the dishwasher:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/25/214799882/dishwasher-cooking-make-your-dinner-while-cleaning-the-plates?utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130825 (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/25/214799882/dishwasher-cooking-make-your-dinner-while-cleaning-the-plates?utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130825)
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Love those Shenandoah commercials (I did get the chance to skip the ad). But Cullum's lip-synching was not the best with the baby squirming in his arms.
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Had some wonderful fresh tomatoes and green beans for dinner last night from a co-worker's garden. She also gave me an eggplant and some yellow bell peppers.
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Looks like Geoffrey Rush is going to star in a film of "The Drowsy Chaperone"
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Geoffrey-Rush-to-Star-in-Film-Version-of-THE-DROWSY-CHAPERONE-20110914
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Good morning, all!
I have another free day, and I will spend it watching the final season of LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD. After that, perhaps a few BBC Christmas ghost stories.
I was sorry to learn of Julie Harris' death. I met her only once, during my Drama Book Shop days, and she was a beautiful, charming lady.
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Good morning, all.
Here comes that all-important first sip of coffee.
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DR TCB, that white noise youtube video IS NOT what the machine sounds like. It is much less staticy. IT is actually very pleasant. I listened to a few youtube videos to try to find one that matched the machine i have. But they were all off. It really does sound like a loud soothing fan.
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Happy to finally hear what an Umami Burger is all about. I'd seen references to it but never took the trouble to read them. I'm glad the burger and other foodstuffs were serviceable, and that the order for "medium" worked out well.
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It's Sunday morning---in case you wondered.
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Those pictures of early Bunker Hill, etc., are amazing. I didn't think there'd be much there that I hadn't seen, but there was. It's worth looking down that entire page.
At the bottom, there's a link called "The Remains of a Hollywood Playground Wiped Off the Map". It's not what you think. That one's probably more interesting for me as, back in my flying days, I used to go down to those abandoned streets off LAX with a portable aircraft-band radio and listen and watch the planes, and there'd usually be a few other people doing the same. It wasn't a fenced-off forbidden zone then.
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I was going to fact-check DR Kerry's post, but on reflection that's probably not necessary.
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Boy, we are still having some fabulously beautiful days. I need to do some mowing and other work, myself, and the conditions are perfect.
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Looks like Geoffrey Rush is going to star in a film of "The Drowsy Chaperone"
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Geoffrey-Rush-to-Star-in-Film-Version-of-THE-DROWSY-CHAPERONE-20110914
This is from 2011....is the project still on?
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Enjoyed the clips from yesterday.
I am not sure that I am ready to see an ANNE FRANK musical....unless it's an Outside the Box episode....
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Good morning. We are supposed to be getting A Big Rain today. We need it.
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I watched A ROYAL SCANDAL on TCM last night, and it was very funny.....
I must see the Czarina....I will give you all I have....fifty rubles.
You dare to try to bribe the Chancellor of all the Russias......with fifty rubles?
And so you have ridden for three days and three nights without sleep?
Yes, your majesty...and I wore out at least a dozen horses.
Perhaps the young soldier should spend the night here in the palace.
So you are the Chancellor, the man who is ruining Russia.
Are you serving in the east?
No, I am from the west.
News travels faster than it used to.
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And here's Donna Theodore doing FREEDOM as a solo a few years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BahoT7cKOys
Donna was, at one time, my publicity client.
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The latest edition of The Broadway Radio Show is now up on this here website for your consumption.....it's a real departure from our normal shows....there is no music this time, instead I am interviewing author Robert A. Schanke about his newest book Queer Theatre And The Legacy Of Cal Yeomans. It's a fascinating biography about forgotten, edgy, gay playwright Cal Yeomans and the emergence of gay theatre in San Francisco and New York; so, if you have any interest in that subject, I highly recommend you give it a listen and also think about picking up the book on Amazon. Enjoy!
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Good morning to all
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Today I am participating in a reading of a new play although Judi Dench and Ben Wishaw are not participating.
(http://eveningstarproductions.org/images/c893c770f6661d482b361f64f4f1ce95.jpg)
'Of course that's how it begins: a harmless fairy tale to pass the hours'
When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original Peter Pan. In John Logan’s remarkable new play, enchantment and reality collide as this brief encounter lays bare the lives of these two extraordinary characters. This is the new play from Academy Award winning screenwriter and playwright John Logan. His previous play RED played in London to great acclaim before transferring to Broadway where it won 6 Tony Awards including Best New Play.
I am reading the role of Peter Llewelyn Davies (Peter Pan)
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Congratulations, DR Mike - sounds fascinating. Hope all goes well!
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Reading vibes for DR MIKE
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Hello Everyone:
Another beautiful day in West Seneca, NY!
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Yesterday, we celebrated my Mother/in/laws birthday and also Sis/in Law's.
We went to the Longhorn, a restaurant that specializes in steaks.
I had strip steak, mashed potatoes,vegetable medley, cheesecake, and a few blue lights.
(My favorite beer). I love beer! (in moderation of course).
The meal was fantastic.
Then we came to our house . All and all a great time spent with my hubby's family.
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my brother, Kevin H will be arriving on Saturday for a visit. Hopefully we can fit a lot of interesting things to do and see during his stay.
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Break a leg to Mike in the reading.
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(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/peanutbuttersandwich_zps19056e64.jpg)
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Looks like Geoffrey Rush is going to star in a film of "The Drowsy Chaperone"
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Geoffrey-Rush-to-Star-in-Film-Version-of-THE-DROWSY-CHAPERONE-20110914
This is from 2011....is the project still on?
I dunno. That's the first I'd heard of it. Sorry I didn't read the date.
On imdb.com, it's listed as "in development."
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It's kinda weird to see the Associated Press obit of Julie Harris and read the words "the late drama critic Michael Kuchwara contributed to this report."
I know that news agencies write obits of famous people long before they die, but I don't know how many readers do. It makes it sound as if they contacted him via seance or something. (Plus, it's against AP style to use the phrase "the late.")
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I'm up - I got exactly eight hours of sleep. Was hoping for nine or ten, but not to be today unless I fall asleep later whilst watching a motion picture.
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And the word of the day is: ROWEL!
And The Song Of The Day Is: I'VE GOT SPURS THAT JINGLE JANGLE JINGLE
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Greetings, BK and DR's all,
Happy Sunday! I hope everyone's been having a good week. I've been lost in too much travel and too many less than satisfying rehearsals, with a corporate event or two thrown in for some extra insanity (and cash). More reheasal and travel to LA for me this day.
Someone please have a lazy Sunday for me. Thanks! :D
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Yes, good luck with your reading DR Mike!
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My Daughter/in law was in Toronto and met and had her picture taken with Nathan Fillion of the TV show Castle!
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I gotta tell you.
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But I won't.
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Five of the six audio samples are to the web guy - sixth one I'm waiting for and it probably won't be here until tonight.
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I guess it's a slow day here on HHW. Let's get to at least page 3!
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BK, you said the onion rings at Umami were not deep fried. How are they cooked?
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Quote from Wikipedia
The meat is seasoned with Umami Sauce—which contains soy sauce—and Umami Dust that includes ground-up dried porcini mushrooms and dried fish heads
:-X Yuck!
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Sunday afternoon greetings! Another lazy Sunday for us. I slept late and Richard even later. He's still suffering with allergies and his cough is keeping him awake at night.
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DR Sandra and Wae-Ling are watching "The Princess Bride," which Wae-Ling has never seen. The princess has been kidnapped and was almost eaten by the Shrieking Eels.
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We are still waiting for The Big Rain.
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The Dread Pirate Roberts and Inigo Montoya are fencing.
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We are still waiting for The Big Rain.
I hope you get. We had a short rain last night. It stirred up a lot of mold. I can barely breathe today.
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Quote from Wikipedia
The meat is seasoned with Umami Sauce—which contains soy sauce—and Umami Dust that includes ground-up dried porcini mushrooms and dried fish heads
:-X Yuck!
Yeah, I don't like soy sauce either. Too much of it is genetically modified.
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Got five phone calls while I was trying to take a nap. I may have to disconnect the phone.
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Three!
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Reading vibes for Mike.
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The logic involving the iocaine powder is dizzying.
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Home from the first part of church for a Sunday. I'm back later. In the meantime, off to do errands and stuff. School begins tomorrow, students arrive on Wednesday. Going to be a great week.
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Break a leg to Mike in the reading.
Ditto!!
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Well, I just ate and now must be off. Today is our first big run through rehearsal and we'll probably wear whatever costume pieces that we have. I'm sure that mine are complete. Our costumer built Hawaiian shirts for me as Maxwell (the producer) and Guy, who plays Matthews, the other producer. They're made from the same material, so we match. Isn't that cute? ;)
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As Kershaw, the cop, I'm just wearing black pants, a blue shirt, a tie and sunglasses. I want to do a bit where I take off the sunglasses and have another pair of sunglasses underneath! And then a little later, do that AGAIN with a third pair of sunglasses! I just need to see if I can find a big pair that fit over my middle-sized sunglasses more easily. They need to be less obvious. We'll see if it all works. :D
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Have a good day, all!
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Mawrridge.
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Back from Tam o' Shanter, where I joined Lanny Meyers for brunch. I had eggs benedict - not too hot but thankfully VERY little hollandaise - plus a good scone.
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Well, I just ate and now must be off. Today is our first big run through rehearsal and we'll probably wear whatever costume pieces that we have. I'm sure that mine are complete. Our costumer built Hawaiian shirts for me as Maxwell (the producer) and Guy, who plays Matthews, the other producer. They're made from the same material, so we match. Isn't that cute? ;)
Have fun, DR George! I'm almost through Season 4 and getting bored with it; these last episodes are really coy and too cute.
I think after all of the happy LARK RISERS I'll watch THE DEVIL'S WHORE as an antidote.
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Cool. The library's placed an order for Pasolini's Trilogy of Life films of the Decameron, the Canterbury Tales and the Arabian Nights. I've never seen any of them. I hear they're more fun than great, but so what?
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Page three?
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Really?
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Hello!
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We had another beautiful day with low humidity. Too bad it can't be like this all summer!
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My Three Sons is on ME TV. I don't think I'd ever seen it in color!
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I went to the cable-tv "store" to switch DVRs. I got it home, hooked it up and there was no audio! I called and was told what to do in the "settings" area. It's working now.
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Break a leg to Mike in the reading.
Ditto!!
Ditto again!
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Almost 4.
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Page 4!
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Oops! Off by 10 posts!
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Today I am participating in a reading of a new play although Judi Dench and Ben Wishaw are not participating.
(http://eveningstarproductions.org/images/c893c770f6661d482b361f64f4f1ce95.jpg)
'Of course that's how it begins: a harmless fairy tale to pass the hours'
When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original Peter Pan. In John Logan’s remarkable new play, enchantment and reality collide as this brief encounter lays bare the lives of these two extraordinary characters. This is the new play from Academy Award winning screenwriter and playwright John Logan. His previous play RED played in London to great acclaim before transferring to Broadway where it won 6 Tony Awards including Best New Play.
I am reading the role of Peter Llewelyn Davies (Peter Pan)
I tried to get a ticket for this when I was in London but it was sold out. The woman at the TKTS booth told me that people were waiting hours before the box office opened for cancellations.
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Sorry to hear about Julie Harris. I remember her so well in Member of the Wedding (the movie!)
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Cool. The library's placed an order for Pasolini's Trilogy of Life films of the Decameron, the Canterbury Tales and the Arabian Nights. I've never seen any of them. I hear they're more fun than great, but so what?
They are very strange. CANTERBURY TALES may be the crudest and ARABIAN NIGHTS the most visually beautiful.
When I first came to New York, there was a revival theatre at 95th and Broadway, the Thalia, where I first saw THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL. I saw all of the Trilogy of Life films there, along with Pasolini's SALO, TEOREM, MEDEA, and THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST MATTHEW, all of John Waters' films, and several other fascinating films including the wonderful Alec Guinness film, THE HORSE'S MOUTH.
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Page three? Really?
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Final audio track came through so we're all ready for our announcement in the morning.
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Looks like Geoffrey Rush is going to star in a film of "The Drowsy Chaperone"
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Geoffrey-Rush-to-Star-in-Film-Version-of-THE-DROWSY-CHAPERONE-20110914
I hope they have Danny Burstein reprise his role as Aldolpho
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DR Sandra and Wae-Ling are watching "The Princess Bride," which Wae-Ling has never seen. The princess has been kidnapped and was almost eaten by the Shrieking Eels.
We love this movie at our house!
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It has been a busy day in which it appears I have accomplished nothing
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So off to do some apparent stuff
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VOILA and VIOLIN
Page FOUR
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and cello too, just for good measure
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Sunday night is nigh.
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Love those Shenandoah commercials (I did get the chance to skip the ad). But Cullum's lip-synching was not the best with the baby squirming in his arms.
Oh, I thought it was the baby singing!
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My Daughter/in law was in Toronto and met and had her picture taken with Nathan Fillion of the TV show Castle!
:)
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Well, I just ate and now must be off. Today is our first big run through rehearsal and we'll probably wear whatever costume pieces that we have. I'm sure that mine are complete. Our costumer built Hawaiian shirts for me as Maxwell (the producer) and Guy, who plays Matthews, the other producer. They're made from the same material, so we match. Isn't that cute? ;)
Cute & funny.
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Sorry to hear about Julie Harris. I remember her so well in Member of the Wedding (the movie!)
After all these years it is also very vivid for me.
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DR Mike I hope your reading went well.
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The reading went quite well. I could just imagine Dame Judi Dench playing the role of Alice she must've been amazing. Well-written play 90 minutes without intermission. It was basically cold reading none of us at the script before today.
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The producer of the theater Company wanted to hear the play out loud in order to decide whether she wanted to produce the play later on in her season.
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DR Mike I'm glad the reading went well.
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Like to share the 'advert' for Peter and Alice.
http://youtu.be/xwLn5csGKKU
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Today I paid my annual (sometimes twice annual) visit to the local Denny's. Okay, it's true that I had me some Denny's on a recent trip, but travel ones don't count. I'm pretty good about limiting myself at home. ANYHOO, I had the Ultimate Skillet, which probably has no more than about three million calories.
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So, in order to work that off, I just watched SHANE, a magnificent film on a magnificent new Blu-ray. Dare I say I'd never seen it before in my life? (Well, whose life do you think I'd never have seen it before in? Of course it was my life.) Why yes, I dare. And it is just magnificent. In case I haven't said that lately.
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DR Chas I'm glad you FINALLY watched "Shane" :)
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I'll have to watch Shane for the first time one of these days!
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Cool. The library's placed an order for Pasolini's Trilogy of Life films of the Decameron, the Canterbury Tales and the Arabian Nights. I've never seen any of them. I hear they're more fun than great, but so what?
They are very strange. CANTERBURY TALES may be the crudest and ARABIAN NIGHTS the most visually beautiful.
When I first came to New York, there was a revival theatre at 95th and Broadway, the Thalia, where I first saw THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL. I saw all of the Trilogy of Life films there, along with Pasolini's SALO, TEOREM, MEDEA, and THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST MATTHEW, all of John Waters' films, and several other fascinating films including the wonderful Alec Guinness film, THE HORSE'S MOUTH.
I've seen Salo, which still ranks as the most horrific movie I've ever seen, Medea and St. Matthew, which I really like, but that may be it for Pasolini for me. Love John Waters, for the most part, and I like but am not fully in love with "The Horse's Mouth." Maybe I need to see it again.
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DR Chas I'm glad you FINALLY watched "Shane" :)
Yup. We had a waiter Tuesday night named Shane. After we'd finished the first bottle of wine, he probably was ready to go into the witness relocation program. Somebody at table kept saying, "Shane! Come back!"
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In case there's a basketball fan on this board, Tim Duncan of the Spurs was at the next table over from me at dinner tonight. He politely obliged when a family asked if their 12-year-old daughter (or some age thereabouts) could have her picture taken with him.
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It has been a busy day in which it appears I have accomplished nothing
Sounds like my day.
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I saw Salo, whose horrificosity left me feeling quite weak, thank you very much. That was my only Pasolini, until I read a bit about the Trilogy of Life films and decided to give those a try via the recent Criterion release. I'll get around to tackling them one of these days.
John Waters is wacky fun, and I have a thing for Baltimore locations, but there are several of his I still haven't seen.
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I'll have to watch Shane for the first time one of these days!
This Shayne has never seen Shane except for some film clips. "Come back Shane!"
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DR Chas I'm glad you FINALLY watched "Shane" :)
Yup. We had a waiter Tuesday night named Shane. After we'd finished the first bottle of wine, he probably was ready to go into the witness relocation program. Somebody at table kept saying, "Shane! Come back!"
;D
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and I am back
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Vixdad kindly treated me to dinner at IHOP where I had half order of the chicken florentine crepes-- meaning I had one crepe
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It is lovely to see DR Jane back we have missed her during her computer diet
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Does anybody else watch The Newsroom on HBO?
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I feel about Salo as I feel about no other film - if someone handed me the negative and all the prints I would set a match to them.
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Page four?
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Really?
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Page five?
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Really?
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Watching The Diary of Anne Frank.
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Vixmom, did you go and break into the Post Office today to see if they had any mail of yours that they hadn't delivered?
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DR TCB, that white noise youtube video IS NOT what the machine sounds like. It is much less staticy. IT is actually very pleasant. I listened to a few youtube videos to try to find one that matched the machine i have. But they were all off. It really does sound like a loud soothing fan.
I think, Jennifer, I may go and track one down at a store this week and see what it sounds like in the flesh (so to speak).
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Bad allergy-related headache tonight. So, I'm off to bed early.
Good night, all.
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DR TCB, that white noise youtube video IS NOT what the machine sounds like. It is much less staticy. IT is actually very pleasant. I listened to a few youtube videos to try to find one that matched the machine i have. But they were all off. It really does sound like a loud soothing fan.
I think, Jennifer, I may go and track one down at a store this week and see what it sounds like in the flesh (so to speak).
This is the one I have:
http://www.amazon.com/Marpac-Dohm-DS-Speed-Sound-Conditioner/dp/B000KUHFGM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377486319&sr=8-1&keywords=marpac+dohm-ds+dual+speed+sound+conditioner
I think many white noise machines also have other options (like nature sounds ...). I decided I just wanted one with white noise. And I love it!
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Vixmom, did you go and break into the Post Office today to see if they had any mail of yours that they hadn't delivered?
why yes, yes, I did and THAT is why I was E & T all day
I found nothing
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I don't have any white noise. I have some green noise, though.
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Get me off this damn page.
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This page is white noise.
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I said, get me off this damn page. We're not on hiatus, you know. It's barely nine, no posts in forty-five minutes.
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Break a leg vibes to DR Mike.
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Page five?
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Really?
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Are George and TCB playing footsie or something - they seem to be here but are not here.
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We have time for a two-hour frenzy. At this point I'd take a ten-second frenzy.
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Are George and TCB playing footsie or something - they seem to be here but are not here.
I'm here and composing a post. :)
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As Kershaw, the cop, I'm just wearing black pants, a blue shirt, a tie and sunglasses. I want to do a bit where I take off the sunglasses and have another pair of sunglasses underneath! And then a little later, do that AGAIN with a third pair of sunglasses! I just need to see if I can find a big pair that fit over my middle-sized sunglasses more easily. They need to be less obvious. We'll see if it all works. :D
Today's rehearsal went quite well...not perfect, but well. And for the most part, the sunglasses bit worked! When I asked the other night if I could do a "bit," I didn't tell him what I wanted to do so that he would be surprised...and he was!
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But he said that I should take off the last pair of sunglasses (funny comes in threes, you know) instead of leaving them on, which is what I did today. I don't think that I should NOT have sunglasses on, so I actually bought a FOURTH pair of sunglasses. I think that that would be VERY funny, but four pairs of glasses might just be too much on my face and be much too obvious.
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Why don't we have some rehearsal photographs?
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Last night of summer deserves a little schnapps or something over ice. But what...?
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Why don't we have some rehearsal photographs?
I haven't taken rehearsal photos. Maybe I can take some tomorrow. It'll be the last night without an audience.