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Well, you've read the notes, you've pranced about the notes like lard on a cheese stick, and now you are ready to post until the cows come home. Aren't you just?
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I'm confused. In order to get Panni to post a picture of herself in cheerleader's skirt and pom-poms, we're NOT supposed to post? OK, I won't post.
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I'm confused. In order to get Panni to post a picture of herself in cheerleader's skirt and pom-poms, we're NOT supposed to post? OK, I won't post.
My sentiments exactly!
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Well, you've read the notes, you've pranced about the notes like lard on a cheese stick, and now you are ready to post until the cows come home. Aren't you just?
Note? What notes? There are no gnu notes. only ye olde notes - waz up?
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I'm flattered, guys, but go ahead and post. My cheerleader's outfit is at the cleaner's, anyway.
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Some time ago, some DR posed a question for Jose that went like this: What song has the same notes as Getting To Know You only with different note values?
I'm not sure who posted it; I'm not sure if Jose answered. But, what I'd really like is the answer.
(That is, as long as Panni's outfit is at the cleaners.)
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Apropos of nothing, here's a factoid I ran across in an article about Jerome Robbins. Notice who first discovered his talent. (We're everywhere...)
Robbins began as a dancer, following his sister Sonia from Weehawken, New Jersey, to New York City, where she danced at Irma Duncan and Senya Gluck-Sandor's Dance Center. Robbins observed classes until he was eventually taken on as a company apprentice. By the late 1930s he was performing with the Dance Center and was versed in Asian dance traditions, flamenco, and classical ballet.
Gluck-Sandor noticed Robbins's varied talents. "He was eighteen or nineteen at the time. I needed a copy of Hamlet and borrowed his. Besides his notes, the margins were full of music he composed. He was always writing stories. He did wood carving and also drew. He had what you might call a photographic memory. Once he saw something, he could do it backwards."
And on that note (b-flat)...Good-night!
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AN APPROPRIATE SUNDAY LEVITY
Toward the end of the service, A Pastor asked his congregation, "how many of you have forgiven their enemies"?
About half held up their hands. He then repeated his question. As it was past lunchtime, this time about 80 percent held up their hands. Impatiently, he repeated his question again. All responded, except one small elderly lady.
"Mrs. Jones?" inquired the preacher, Are you not willing to forgive your enemies? >
"I don't have any." she replied. smiling sweetly.
"Mrs. Jones, That is very unusual. How old are you?"
"Ninety-three." she replied.
"Oh Mrs. Jones, what a blessing and a lesson to us all you are. Would you please come down in front of this congregation and tell us all how person can live ninety-three years and not have an enemy in the world."
The little sweetheart of a lady tottered down the aisle, faced the congregation, and said:
"I outlived the bitches."
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Since there still are know gnu notes, and our probably sweaty host is off searching for a shower, I shall retire and ponder the meaning of "Lard on a Cheese Stick".
der Brucer
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New notes have been up since midnight, albeit with the wrong date on them, which I've fixed. Of course, Panni could have told you that, but she was too busy thinking about her pom poms.
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DR Francois: thanks for the link for the candied orange peel. I wonder if I can buy that here?
What exactly does it taste like?
Also thanks for the waterbed link. I am at wit's end. And I REALLY appreciate it.
That is a great site you gave me. Only problem is I don't see the 54' X 74' double size here. :(
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Waterbed saga continues.
Well things are looking up, sort of.
It turns out I measured my bed incorrectly. It IS '54 X '84 (and not '54 X '74 as I had thought). I cannot believe I did that.
Truth is there are still not too many online sellers that have double. But I have found one (expressbeds). Only problem is they only ship within the US. But at least it's a start. I may just email them and beg them to ship it to me. Or else I will have to find someone who can be a go between. :(
Another weird thing (and this is really weird to me), is that I had found 2 other sites yesterday that sold double beds. But they are both down today. (one was waterbedmattresses.com and the other was e-waterbeds.com). I think I must officially be going crazy. :)
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It’s unusual when Sondheim’ contribution to a show is the least important, but that’s the case with THE FROGS which is neither the disaster that some critics led me to believe nor an important addition to the Sondheim ouvre. The score is mostly new, using only some of the songs from the swimming pool version. The highlights are the familiar opening number “Invocation” (with a lot of new lyrics) and a beautiful new ballad ”Ariadne” which ranks among Sondheim’s best ballads. Most of the rest of the score sounds vaguely like other Sondheim songs, though I think this is as much the fault of Jonathan Tunick’s orchestrations as the songs themselves.
The book is very funny and very topical with so many anti-Bush jokes (although only one uses the word “Bush”) that it is obvious why this was not on the Republican’s list of approved viewing. Since the show ran two-hours-and-twenty-two minutes, it’s obvious that there has been a lot of trimming since the over-three-hour version that played the first preview. Much of it is very funny.
I enjoyed Nathan Lane more than in THE PRODUCERS, but the show belongs to Roger Bart who took over from some “Saturday Night Live” comic on three day’s rehearsal and by now has made the part totally his own. The supporting cast consists of several excellent cameo performances and a chorus.
The show is very lavish, especially for a non-profit theatre and a limited run. In fact, with the puppets, bungee jumping, trapeze flying, etc. it’s as if Susan Stroman didn’t trust the material and was trying to “razzle dazzle” the audience. Of course it is also the least-effective Stroman choreography within recent memory.
THE FROGS is based on a play by Aristophanes, and I was amazed at how similar the basic plot was to another Aristophanes play, PEACE, musicalized in the late 60s by Al Carmines. Both involve a trip to another world as an effort to stop war. How little things have changed since 405BC.
I don’t think there will be the same new or revival debate with the TONY® judges that there was with ASSASINS, but I don’t think it will matter. The only thing Tony®-worthy is Roger Bart’s performance, and I hope he is remembered next spring.
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New notes have been up since midnight, albeit with the wrong date on them, which I've fixed. Of course, Panni could have told you that, but she was too busy thinking about her pom poms.
I don't know from dates. I live outside of time. If someone tells me it's the 4th, I believe them. But it's true that thoughts of pom-poms (and pommes frites and even Pomeranians) have occupied my mind of late.
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New notes have been up since midnight, albeit with the wrong date on them, which I've fixed. Of course, Panni could have told you that, but she was too busy thinking about her pom poms.
Far be it from me to say "Pants on fire!", but here on the East Coast at 12:40 PDT the notes were still yesterday's - with the HOT Stuff content and no link to the discussion board - trust em, I perused them dilgently to search for the meaning of life and LARD on a Cheese Stick.
der griping Brucer
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Oh dear - remakes!
Ding King Kong (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,131482,00.html):
Filling Big Shoes in 'King Kong' Remake
Saturday, September 04, 2004
WELLINGTON, New Zealand —
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New Zealand's Jackson, now 40 and with three Oscars for the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, said the star-studded, multimillion-dollar remake will have some major changes from the 1933 original.
There will be much greater character development — particularly for the "very battered (and) ancient ... gorilla."
"He's a very old gorilla and he's never felt a single bit of empathy for another living creature during his long ... brutal life," Jackson said.
Scriptwriters had put a lot of thought into exploring what would happen if a relationship formed between an aging, brutalized gorilla and a young woman.
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Sounds like a Panni script for LIFETIME TV.
Der Brucer (darling Panni, the Gorilla of my dreams)
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With zilch on television tonight (SIX FEET UNDER's season finale delayed a week, I suppose because of the Labor Day weekend), I think today may be the day for LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS - Extended Edition.
If not, then it'll be THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD.
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Thanks for the review on THE FROGS, WEL. I regret that there were no tickets available during the weekend I was in NYC. I think I might have liked it quite a bit.
And I look forward to a cast recording which I believe I read was going to be forthcoming.
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Why is it, that I can come up with loads of brilliant free-for-all topics during the week, but am brain-dead come Sunday morning?
I could, of course, write them down as they come to me, but that would require me to remember where I put the piece of paper with the topics come Sunday morning (an almost STERILE CUCKOO reference).
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"Scriptwriters had put a lot of thought into exploring what would happen if a relationship formed between an aging, brutalized gorilla and a young woman."
Sounds like the story of my first love affair.
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Hmmmmmmmm...
I am not sure, but I think you can get Lard on a Cheesestick at just about ANY county fair here in Indiana from June thru August!
DR LAURA such lovely photos....and a nice photo from DRJASON as well.
I was on the MTI site on Thursday to check on something and DRJASON is now the Representative for Arkansas and several other states at MTI. He isn't the Rep for Indiana.....but the MTI site links were not working anyway...and no one answered the phone... "Maintenance" the recording said, but I faintly remember DRJASON saying that MTI would be closed during the Republican Convention....or did I dream that?
Extra rehearsal today...suddenly everything revolves around getting the school kid home in time to go to bed...I have stood around for hours in that damn monster costume and full head mask waiting for him to be blocked and RE-blocked and correct HIS mistakes ... sweating and barely breathing....like an actor in a monster costume....without anyone saying: "Are you okay?" Hmmmmmmmmm....so much for playing the title character! Oh welll....
I shall post pictures when I have some.
Free for all! Free for all..... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
I am sending my I LOVE LUCY SECOND SEASON dvd set back today to Amazon and they are going to replace them....but....grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
MBARNUM yes that girl can dance! But I am certain she broke her brain loose from all that shaking in GUMNAAM...she looks like she is about faint in some of the takes as it is!
No chat for me this week. Rehearsal in a monster costume!
Okay, here is a question: Who are some of the other DR's sports heroes, past and/or present?
I will start:
Babe Diedrickson and Jesse Owens, easy choices!
I also like Tony Stewart, a Nascar driver; Eric Lindros, whose hockey career may be over now; and the Williams sister who can play some mean tennis!
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I ordered that William Inge biography in paperback this morning and am looking forward to reading it.
Remember William Goldman's sly reference to the homosexuality of both Tennessee Williams and William Inge in THE SEASON. He pretended he didn't know the sexual orientations of either of the men, but I find that VERY difficult to believe, especially to one who was researching the theater in as close a degree as he was doing. Yes, I know people's personal lives were not as loudly broadcast in newsprint and on TV back then, but theater people have traditionally been more open about their proclivities, and especially in Tennessee Williams' case, his lover was quite widely known in the theatrical community. He even dedicated THE ROSE TATTOO to him.
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Tony Stewart ;D
(http://espn.go.com/media/rpm/2001/0526/photo/a_stewart_i.jpg)
Eric Lindros
(http://img.slate.msn.com/media/114000/114154/010821_EricLindros.jpg)
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DRMATTH - I think the reason for Goldman's not declaring the sexuality of the two men in question was that neither one had publicly "come out" even though at least Williams was open in his lifestyle. And back in 1967-68 when the book was published, declaring someone a homosexual might have been cause for a slander suit against himself or his publisher. I imagine the publisher allowed the "skirting" of the issue such as it was so it would be obvious without using the actual words.
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Good day, all. Interesting review of THE FROGS, WEL. Personally, I thought the score was awful and Nathan Lane bored me to tears. I felt his "jokes" and updates to the book were incredibly pedantic, pedestrian and altogether predictable and it made me sad to hear Viagra jokes on Broadway. I hated the thirty minute Writer's Competition and the choreography was a mess. I agree with you that Roger Bart is by far the best thing in the show. There again, I've loved him in everything I've seen him in. I thought it was more entertaining, perhaps, than BOUNCE, but I have to agree with the critics on THE FROGS...it didn't do anything for me.
Wednesday I had a tooth pulled. No, not pulled - YANKED - from my head. I went in for what I thought was going to be a filling. About a year ago I chipped off a piece of enamel at the gumline from my second molar on the upper right side. Since I don't have dental insurance, I couldn't get it fixed right away which was fine because it never once hurt. Cut to Wednesday: The dentist is drilling around in there as best he can (the tooth was WAY back there - right up against my jawbone) and he says to me that the nerve is exposed and I need a root canal. Problem is, he can't get to the tooth properly because it's too far back, and even if he could do the root canal, he wasn't sure that they could get a crown on it because of it's location. Our other option - which would cost my parents about $800 less than the root canal - would be to yank the sucker out of my head. So he did. That was Weds. Things seemed to have been going swimmingly - I was doing everything I could to avoid dry socket, there's no real pain and I've been very good about keeping it clean, and then last night as I was gently brushing back there, I noticed some blood as I expectorated. Yes, blood. Does that mean that the blood clot has come out and I have dry socket now? I don't know what that means. My ear has been full of drainage for the last two days, but other than that there is no real pain in the area, and from what I understand, dry socket is extremely painful. Should I be worried? I don't know...
I'm going to attempt once more to post a picture of loverly Amish Acres in Nappanee, Indiana, where my best friend is currently serving her 9-month sentence as an actress at their theatre. It's beautiful country up there...I just can't imagine living there for 9 months!
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Sports heroes? Well, I wasn't much interested in sports growing up. My brother worshipped Mickey Mantle and Arnold Palmer. My parents did likewise to Jack Nicklaus, but I really didn't care about sports and didn't really have anyone I rooted for or followed. Even figure skating, which I've always loved, didn't inspire rooting interest in any one particular skater. I wanted the one who skated best to win. I guess if I had one skater I really watched with eagerness, it was John Curry, the world and Olympic champion from Great Britain.
Years later, I did become interested in some sports stars: Lance Armstrong, Greg Louganis (even before his coming out), Mark McGwire, Pete Sampras, Martina Navratilova, and now the Williams sisters in tennis along with Lindsey Davenport, Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson in NASCAR, and in skating Michelle Kwan.
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I agree, Matt, that Goldman probably knew the sexual preference of both Inge and Williams, but, in those days (1967? 1968?) he probably didn't want to be one of the first to state this in print. It wasn't considered respectful back then.
And now, a bit of verse:
After ...Sheba and Bus Stop, Picnic and...Stairs,
The public was crying out "More Inge!"
The clamor of this was so loud, in fact
That Tom Ridge declared level Orange.
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It didn't work.
Jrand: Yes, I am now the rep for Arkansas, Arizona, New Hampshire, Michigan, Massachusetts, Virginia and Oregon. The reason the site and the phones aren't responding...well, we were, indeed, closed for the Republican Nat'l Convention. I believe, however, that the Powers That Be told everyone we were closing for "system updates." We will re-open on Tuesday to piles and piles of emails, snail mails and phone calls beyond belief. I'm actually kind of afraid to know what we're going back to. I'm sure it will be a harrowing experience.
Last night I finished reading Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and I then read Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men." After that, I started "Wuthering Heights." I guess you could say I'm on a reading frenzy.
And now I think it's time to clean my apartment...
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DRMATTH - I think the reason for Goldman's not declaring the sexuality of the two men in question was that neither one had publicly "come out" even though at least Williams was open in his lifestyle. And back in 1967-68 when the book was published, declaring someone a homosexual might have been cause for a slander suit against himself or his publisher. I imagine the publisher allowed the "skirting" of the issue such as it was so it would be obvious without using the actual words.
I'm sure you're right about the possibility of a slander suit, but what I objected to was not the innuendo but his (Goldman's) declaring that he honestly didn't know what their sexual orientations were. I just found it then and find it even more now IMPOSSIBLE to believe.
And the substance of his point was that two of the US's three leading playwrights were telling audiences in their plays about the nature of heterosexual love which they may or may not have ever experienced. How stupid and short-sided is that for an argument. In my opinion, that chapter was the nadir of that otherwise quite wonderful book.
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By the by...Mr. Sondheim and Mr. Lapine were in the office the other day. They send their love to all at HHW. :-)
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Hmmm, Jason. Do you think there might be a musical in that Stoker book? I mean, it's pretty interesting stuff, so you'd have to be, I don't know, an idiot to make THAT dull.
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Noel: I think there might be a great musical in there somewhere. Too bad it's not playing anywhere near Broadway right now! Poor Kelli. Poor Melissa. Poor Tom. All that drek and they have to show their naked chests, too... Well, Kelli has to show it all! Poor, poor things.
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Good morning. Welcome to our annual Labor Day Bash. Who or what should we bash? Conversely, what or who should we bash? Or whom. For whom the bash tolls?
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I have always loved William Goldman’s THE SEASON. It is one of those books that I have picked up over the years and read again and again. Still, I find Mr. Goldman’s views on homosexuals, on both sides of the footlights, to be rather insulting and condescending – even for the late Sixties. For someone who has spent as much time in the entertainment industry as he has, his views seemed, at the time, ridiculously outdated. I have often wondered if Mr. Goldman’s has broadened his views over the years. I know his film work, but I have never read any of his other books. Does anyone know if he has ever written anything with a more balanced view regarding the influence of gays in the theater?
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Hhhmmm! I feel like I am at a rehearsal for TEN LITTLE INDIANS. Only, in this case, every time I type a post, another member of our HHW family seems to diasppear!
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And then there were none!
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I must admit it's been many years since I read Goldman's The Season.
But Matt's posts make different points. I was one of those who responded to Matt's question about why there's only a sly allusion to Williams' and Inge's sexuality. A later post refers to Goldman's attitude towards homosexuals, which is another matter entirely.
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TCB - on our mysterious disappearance:
When I sign in, I use the pull-down box at the bottom, anc choose "1 hour" since I'm usually only signing in to post. At the end of the hour, it may look like I've exited, but, in fact, I'm still here, reading new posts.
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Jason - IMHO - and I mean HUMBLE as I know nothing about the subject - if the area around the tooth (the ex-tooth) doesn't hurt at all, you're probably fine. It not unusual (a Tom Jones reference) for a relatively fresh wound like that to bleed - I think - but what do I know. You can always phone the dentist and ask.
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Good morning HHWers! Here it is 10:00 am and I am still in my bathrobe, unshowered and unshaved! I need to get moving as I hope to get many things accomplished today...but we shall see.
DR Jason it is very nice to see you back on the board...you have been missed!
DR JRand45: Re: sports heroes...hmmmm...Bob Mathias...Lenny Krayzelburg...Greg Louganis...and the Japanese gymnast who, despite a broken leg, still won a medal in gymnastics some years back (don't recall his name but I recall the pain on his face very well!).
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As for sports heroes - I don't know from sports. Sports have never interested me. Sometimes I watch figure skating - but I don't think one has "figure skating heroes." Once in a while I'll watch tennis. No heroes. The only sports person I can think of that I admired is Muhammad Ali. But I don't like boxing -- I like Ali.
And I liked it way back a thousand years ago when the Hungarian water polo team (literally) beat the crap out of the Russian team at the Olympics. That was a satisfying sports event.
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Well....I don't know much from sports myself...but I do know what I like.
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And yes, Goldman's references to gay people in particular in THE SEASON (he wrote some especially cruel things about Judy Garland and her fans) are rather homophobic - but his views then and his views now might be different. He did take pains to mention how important the gay element was to the CREATION of theatre on Broadway.
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Confidential to Dear Reader Jason:
Although apparently everyone else did, I most certainly DID NOT miss the allusion in your late post last night that you were atop the Empire State Building (a romantic spot if there ever was one) with the Chicagoan object of your affections, a person who served as the source of great angst and drama for you not too long ago.
So, at risk of being intrusive--and I'll try to put this as gently as I can--SPILL YOUR GUTS. Details, Dear Reader Jason, we need details.
The only love life I lead of late (there's a song lyric in there, I do believe) is of the vicarious variety. And it appears you are brimming with tale to tell.
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Good morning HHWers! Here it is 10:00 am and I am still in my bathrobe, unshowered and unshaved!
Okay! Mike's got sloth covered. I'll take care of gluttony.
Two down, five to go. Arlene?
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Okay! Mike's got sloth covered. I'll take care of gluttony.
Two down, five to go. Arlene?
Fletcher has covered the entire house with two rolls of toilet paper - you might have to sign me up for Mayhem >:(
der Brucer (and no matter where I hide the bad of peanuts Mr. Blotchy seeks and finds!)
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DR Jay: There is, I'm sad to say, very little to tell. Said object of affection came to visit New York with three friends, and on the final evening of their visit, I went with them to see DE LA GUARDA and then spent the rest of the evening trying to get their "we're from Chicago and don't know how to walk fast" butts around New York. I finally got them to the Empire State Building, which is, of course, where that picture was taken.
After the ESB, we all walked back to their hotel in Times Square, and L'objet and I were left alone for an hour or so to talk. We had a very pleasant, if somewhat awkward, conversation about everything under the sun except what needed to be talked about and then the object's friends showed up wanting to go to a bar. By that time it was 2am and I had to be at work the next day, so I had to get home.
During our conversation, however, there was talk of l'objet returning to New York sometime in October. I've not heard anything further about that development, so I'm not holding my breath. If said person returned in October, said person would be staying here at my abode in Brooklyn, so you'd think I'd need to know one way or the other, wouldn't you? Anyway, since said person left the Big Apple, I have been more at peace with all that transpired back in late June/early July and I'm open to whatever happens from this point on. I'm still madly smitten with this person, but I'm more in control of myself now.
Thanks for asking. :-)
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I'm being very lazy. Doing the final final proofing of the new book and yes Virginia, finding more little errors to correct.
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...Sometimes I watch figure skating - but I don't think one has "figure skating heroes."
Where have you been hiding your expatriate head?
Land of your Birth:
(http://www.efsc2004.hu/hun/pict/sallaiek.jpg)
The most outstanding year (for Hungary) in the modern history of the sport is 1980 when Krisztina Regõczy and András Sallay captuted the world gold medal in addition to their silver at the Olympics and European Championships.
Were you hiding when our friends to the North gave us Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, and, no Elvis has not left the building:
(http://www.skate.org/stojko/elvis-reach.gif)
There's even Candian Romance on Ice:
(http://www.sale-pelletier.com/index_r1_c1.jpg)
der Brucer (who thought the walls of Chex Panni would be covered with Canadian Idols)
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well DRderBrucer - Kurt Browning is STILL my all time favorite male skater. Others have come and gone....but he is (maybe not the BEST all around) but the most fun to watch. Not with ego, I am sure, but he rarely brings it on the ice with him....as opposed to...well..others.
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My mom had a celebrity sighting this last week at the art gallery she volunteers at in Medford.
A lady came in who wanted to have one of her paintings displayed in the gallery of local artists. I don't recall her name just off hand but she talked with my mom for quite a bit. Said lady was a former 1980ss B -movie actress (whose name escapes me just now) who was the female lead in films such as SURF NAZI'S MUST DIE and HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS! LOL! Needless to say this did not impress my mom much! LOL!
She did mention to her that her son does interviews with actresses of her ilk and the lady gave her a business card! I don't know that I really want to interview her, however...but maybe I should branch out a bit! LOL!
Mom said she was sort of odd and so were her paintings! LOL!
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As for sports hereos there are several who I admire for more unseemly reasons! LOL!
Several NFL football players come to mind! 8)
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WELCOME BACK JASON!! And good luck with L'objet! ;)
Noel: I think there might be a great musical in there somewhere. Too bad it's not playing anywhere near Broadway right now! Poor Kelli. Poor Melissa. Poor Tom. All that drek and they have to show their naked chests, too... Well, Kelli has to show it all! Poor, poor things.
Here in Olympia, Harlequin Productions did Richard Sharp's Dracula and they added five songs. It wasn't really a full-fledged musical, but the songs weren't "performed" as performances within the show, the characters were singing their dialogue or internal monologue or something like that. Anyway, it was a beautiful production and the songs were well written. If they expanded their score, it could be a great musical! And they didn't need nudity to get people to see and/or like their show. They had a good script, good songs, good actors, a great set and an overall wonderful production!
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She did mention to her that her son does interviews with actresses of her ilk ...
Hmmm - a column title:
ILK INTERVIEWS
by Michael Barnum
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I'm humming You Don't Know What Love Is as I think back on my childhood of baseball fandom. Imagine a team that comes in to existance soon after you're born. Imagine rooting for the team, year after year, as it pitifully occupies last place. The hopeless case. The underdog of underdogs.
Imagine schoolmates ridiculing for you for rooting for the last place team (even though they rooted for the second-to-last place team).
Then, imagine that team going from worst to first and winning the World Series.
I loved all the 1969 New York Mets, and named a cat after Cleon Jones. When Cleona had kittens, I named them Tug and Duffy for McGraw and Dyer. But this was really because I thought Tom Cat was a bad name.
For there was nobody I admired more than Tom Terrific (he's actually talking in the background, broadcasting, as I write this). I admire the pitcher's art because pitchers, unlike most athletes, spend a whole lot of time thinking about what they're going to do, making a concious choice (in consultation with their catcher) before they do it. By rights, I should love a finesse pitcher, but Tom Seaver and his fastball won many a game for those unlikely heroes.
They were never expected to overtake the Cubs, who had a substantial lead for most of the summer. They weren't expected to beat the Braves in the first ever National League championship series. They certainly weren't expected to beat the Orioles in the World Series. (Everybody knew Baltimore had the better pitching.)
So it's number 41 for me, Tom Seaver.
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Finally finished watching Ransom, a cheesy little Brit thriller with Sean Connery. Trying to figure out what's next.
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Among my tasks in the coming ten days is sending off the first act of my new musical to a prize-giving foundation. So, it's really quite a rush to polish up a first draft. Question to the SCRIBES: What font and font size should I use? I'm on a PC, and will probably use WordPerfect.
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Laura and Jason thanks for the beautiful pictures. :)
Jason-your mouth sounds okay to me, it is the ear connection I’m concerned about. I think you should check with your dentist. If he isn’t concerned about anything and your ear is still bothering you, double check with your doctor.
Brian Boitano is my all time favorite male skater.
MBarnum I don’t believe I have been to any art galleries in Medford. What is the name and where is it?
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JRand I returned to Dancing Paul and can’t find TALL PAUL. I see a selection of songs to choose from but not that one. I will check again later. I did have fun making Dancing Paul dance.
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Welcome back Jason! The only teeth I've ever had pulled were eight baby teeth when I was in fifth grade. Then my mom let me eat pumpkin pie and cheesecake because I couldn't chew.
One of the teeth wouldn't come out, so the dentist pried it out and it broke in half and made a really loud cracking noise. It was really cool.
Now we're going for ice cream. Yay!
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Sandra: My tooth made a popping sound, too, when it came out. I was completely numb, but I could feel it sliding out of the socket. It was really weird.
I hear you're at ASU now. Congrats!!
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...My tooth made a popping sound, too, when it came out. I was completely numb, but I could feel it sliding out of the socket. It was really weird.
[size=8]Too much information![/size]
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Good Afternoon!
Sorry to have been E&T last night and this morning and afternoon (so far). I've been spending the time resting and going through a bunch of "stuff" - sorted out a ton of stuff for the recycling bin - just how many issues of L.A. Weekly do I really need? And do I really need to bring them back to Richmond? NO. ;)
So.. That's what I've been doing so far this Labor Day weekend. I'm still not sure where the rest of the day will be taking me, but I'm sure it will be taking me someplace.
Laters...
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Good Afternoon!
Sorry to have been E&T last night and this morning and afternoon (so far). I've been spending the time resting and going through a bunch of "stuff" - sorted out a ton of stuff for the recycling bin - just how many issues of L.A. Weekly do I really need? And do I really need to bring them back to Richmond? NO. ;)
So.. That's what I've been doing so far this Labor Day weekend. I'm still not sure where the rest of the day will be taking me, but I'm sure it will be taking me someplace.
Laters...
Jose, have you and/or DR Jay watched that Bollywood I sent you?
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DR Jason, welcome back. I am just as nosy as DR Jay and was going to comment that it seemed like we had missed something in the saga. From your comments last night, it seemed like maybe you were having some big romance that we were all missing out on. Hopefully things will work out for you. Good luck.
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DR Jane, I will e-mail my mom and find out the name and address of the gallery. It is a small gallery but there are always a lot of nice paintings from local artist's there. I do recall it is next door to the ACE hardware downtown and it is connected to an art supply store. You enter the store from the street side and the gallery from the alley side next to the parkade.
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I'm back. Snagged an early copy of David Cronenberg's very strange film Videodrome from Criterion. Wonderful packaging and I'll probably give it a spin this evening.
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Haflway through THE TWO TOWERS, and it's wonderful in the extended edition. Really loved the added scenes, and the DTS-ES 6.1 sound is bone-crunching. Marvelous. As for what comes after it tonight, I really have no idea. Maybe I'll get to ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE Season 2.
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Sandra: My tooth made a popping sound, too, when it came out. I was completely numb, but I could feel it sliding out of the socket. It was really weird.
I hear you're at ASU now. Congrats!!
This wasn't just a popping sound. This was a really loud CRAAAAAAAACK as the tooth broke in two. One half came out in the dentist's hand all covered in blood, but the other half was still stuck in my mouth. Oh, it was so cool.
Thanks for the congratulations. ASU is OK, but I'm not crazy about all the homework. But I just read all the Wayside School books for my children's literature class. That was a fun assignment.
Oh, and do you think you would be able to chew some cookies? If they were extra soft?
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Jason - I agree with Jane about the ear thing - forgot all about it when I was giving you my non-expert advice earlier.
I'm redoing my laundry. I totally forgot that I had left it in the washer when I went out earlier. Got back to find it sitting on top of the washer -- which is fine -- but it hadn't been carefully stacked and my nice white (wet) T-shirt was put on top of something dusty and got dirtier than it was before I washed it. Sooo, rather than looking through the whole stack for other dirty things, I just threw it all in again. ....Fascinating, isn't it?
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DR Sandra: I'm sure I could find a way to eat cookies...especially if they're soft. :-)
Jennifer: Nope, you didn't miss any big romance. Nothing to see here, unfortunately...
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Thanks for the photos, DB. I'm not a good Canadian or Hungarian when it comes to sports.
I really don't care too much.
I'm surprised that bk hasn't talked about WRESTLING. The Kritzer books make clear that's where his sports heroes are. A name has just popped into my head - a famous Canadian wrestler (I think he was Canadian) of my youth: SWEET DADDY SIKI. Love that name.
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Scary Headline Today:
"Young woman's body found on McGill campus"
http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=b62cb1b8-b48a-40f2-9742-039ee604c13c (http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=b62cb1b8-b48a-40f2-9742-039ee604c13c)
I don't think I knew the girl... but still very sad for her family and friends...
On a completely DIFFERENT subject, my favourite sports heros/heroine is:
Saku Koivu - the current Captain of the Canadiens who was diagnosed with a form of leukemia when in his late twenties just before the hockey season began, underwent treament for several months, and was able to return to play with his team when they made the playoffs. Amid all this, he and several of his teammates were *very* generous donors to the organization I used to be employed by which works with people with cancer.
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I was looking for something having to do with WHAT IF? on Google and accidentally came up an interesting site. 16 excellent political writers (I know - we don't talk politics here - oops) writing articles for the Washington Monthly under the umbrella heading WHAT IF BUSH WINS. If you want to check it out, here's the link
WHAT IF W WINS (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0409.bushforum.html)
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Scary Headline Today:
"Young woman's body found on McGill campus"
http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=b62cb1b8-b48a-40f2-9742-039ee604c13c (http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=b62cb1b8-b48a-40f2-9742-039ee604c13c)
I don't think I knew the girl... but still very sad for her family and friends..
AND for the woman herself I would think!...........
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I haven't seen the movie, Two Weeks Notice (2002), but I like that quote from it:
Meryl Brooks : Come on, I've known you since Brownies, and the only time I ever saw you cry was when Bush won.
Lucy Kelson : Which one?
Meryl Brooks : Well, both of them.
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Another funny line from that movie:
Meryl Brooks : You should have gone with George
Lucy Kelson : He asked June
Meryl Brooks : He asked you too!
Lucy Kelson : He asked me too? How many women does a man need to take to dinner? Maybe in Utah.
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Are we having fun yet????
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One more? Yeah?
Ok!
George Wade : I own the hotel, and I live there. My life is very much like Monopoly.
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Hey, we're havin' a Labor Day Bash here. Where in tarnation IS everyone? I had a delicious Astro Burger (bacon cheeseburger, to be exact) with a side of delicious zucchini fries with their delicious white stuff.
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Sad to be all alone in the world.
Happy birthday to duskglow, whoever they may be.
Welcome six GUESTS. We're talkin' about whatever the HELL we're talkin' about.
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...my nice white (wet) T-shirt ...Fascinating, isn't it?
Panni - models for her wet T_shirt contest:
FILM AT ELEVEN
der (better-then-pom-poms) Brucer
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The non-American continent contigent is here it seems.
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Just noticed that Emily is here too.
Make that the non USA DRs are on board.
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I'm watching I VITELLONI. Took a quick break to feed wonderdog. Loving this movie. Now I'm thinking of maybe going to a conference I'm invited to in Rome in November because part of it will be touring Cinecitta.
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I still think of Fletcher as a Seagull. I guess they have Bach in common. (Maybe that's obscure as a reference)
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Still non USA citizens!!
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Got a message from my ex-stepson who now lives in Taiwan. He says he just saw MY LOUISIANA SKY on TV there!
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I'm a one-woman United Nations, Tom.
A Canadian-American-Hungarian.
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Smart man to recognise a piece of sky from another country. (Theres a Yentl reference there somewhere).
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But even the United nations can't get my ship to come in DR Panni!
DR DiT has been trying the same method of mail! Same success rate.
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The Phoenix has arisen.
Glad to know you are enjoying the Children's' Literature books Sandra. I like to read some now and again too. The prize winning ones are usually the dull ones!!
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I still think of Fletcher as a Seagull. I guess they have Bach in common. (Maybe that's obscure as a reference)
Beethoven might be the common "thing" with Fletcher -- NOT Jessica -- the Spotted Dog! ;D
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My! What a Sunday frenzie!
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Among my tasks in the coming ten days is sending off the first act of my new musical to a prize-giving foundation. So, it's really quite a rush to polish up a first draft. Question to the SCRIBES: What font and font size should I use? I'm on a PC, and will probably use WordPerfect.
You can't go wrong with Times New Roman, or it's equivelent. Ariel, being a non-serif font, is too sterile.
Size? I'd go with 10. Easy on the eyes.
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MBarnum I can’t remember the last time I was in downtown Medford, aside from the bus station. :-[
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Nobody's mentioned Sandy Kofax. Oy.
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The cold is slowly ebbing away. Thanks to all for the vibes.
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DR Jason, welcome back. I am just as nosy as DR Jay...
Dear Reader Jennifer, Dear Dear Reader Jennifer. I am not NOSY! I am interested.
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Nobody's mentioned Sandy Kofax. Oy.
:-[ One of my favorite pastimes as a child was watching him pitch. One of my all time great memories with my father was watching him, in person, in the World Series. Of course he won the day I was there. :)
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I'm watching I VITELLONI. Took a quick break to feed wonderdog. Loving this movie. Now I'm thinking of maybe going to a conference I'm invited to in Rome in November because part of it will be touring Cinecitta.
While you are there, you could visit all three locations depicted in Puccini's Tosca, as they stand to this day.
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Just finished I VITELLONI. Wonderful! More later.
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I saw Hair this afternoon, Dear Readers, at the Knightsbridge Theatre, which is something between a semi-professional and community theatre.
The score contains some wonderful songs, surrounded by a good many really lousy ones. The book is a mess, this production veered from acceptable to fair, and some of the roles were very poorly cast, most unfortunately so Claude.
Just a bit of chaff in my perpetual search for wheat.
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It isn't Wednesday, I know, but I have a question for Dear Reader Tomovoz, and by golly, I'm going to ask it anyway, dammit.
Dear Reader Tomovoz:
Here in the U.S., the performing arts "season" begins in September, following our summer, the Labor Day holiday and the start of school. The first major institution to get going here in Lalaland is the Los Angeles Opera, which is opening this Wednesday with Mozart's Idomeneo, starring the company's director (is this a conflict of interest?), Placido Domingo. The "season" then runs, usually, until June or so, when summer makes its return.
In Oz, you are coming out of winter now. When does your "season" begin and end?
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Although my posts may not qualify as a frenzy, perhaps they would rate at least as a fre, if not a fren.
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Blue and white striped--vertically striped, of course. Remember? I was the one who took Gluttony this morning. And all you Lusters and Envyers and other Cardinal Sinner Dear Readers out there in the dark who didn't step up to the table: well, all I can say is you know who you are--all cotton short-sleeved button-down collar shirt, 100% cotton blue denim carpenter's shorts (it's broiling in Lalaland today), white all cotton t-shirt, boxers and athletic socks, black leather blucher oxfords.
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DR Jay: I shall have to check! I suspect it all starts at the end of summer. Late February/Early March. Certainly nothing much happens bewteen October and February. Beach weather!
Speedos weather rules. Opera does not clash with the Cricket either.
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Horror. I have been asked to help with some gardening. Manuel and I are not close friends.
Back in a few hours - if I can find my way back from the trees and shrubs or whatever they are called.
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DR Jane, got an e-mail from my mom...here is what she had to say about the art galleries in Medford:
Mom wrote:
Actually, there are two art galleries in Medford plus 2 or 3 other places that show some art for sale. The Rogue Gallery has been active for many years and is on Bartlett and 8th. The Valley Art Gallery, which I am involved in, is at 320 Middleford Alley which runs between Central and Riverside and between 6th and Main. It is right outside the parking garage at the Riverside end. However, it is closing the end of the month and hopefully will be reopening Oct. 1st as a new gallery. SOSA (So. OR Society of Artists) is giving up the Valley Art G and a new, co-op gallery will be taking it's place. It will not be affiliated with SOSA but about 2/3rds of its members will also be SOSA members who hung in the VAG.
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Finished watching JUNGLE HEAT with Lex Barker and Rhodes Reason. Well, I didn't watch it WITH Lex and Rhodes, but you know what I mean. It was fun and it made me realize what an underated B-movie actress Mari Blanchard was...if there is such a thing.
Then I ran to the post office to mail letters to director Leslie H. Martinson and actor Edd "Kookie" Byrnes. Hoping to interview both.
Now I am ready for some dinner and maybe another movie...I only have about 100 unwatched DVDs and yet I cannot decide what to view. I hate that.
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Oh, and my letter to Race Gentry came back with "address unknown" stamped on it. I hate that, also.
Where, oh where are you Race!!
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DR BK, I keep getting "upload folder is full" when I try to post a photo, also!!!
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I saw Hair this afternoon, Dear Readers, at the Knightsbridge Theatre, which is something between a semi-professional and community theatre.
The score contains some wonderful songs, surrounded by a good many really lousy ones. The book is a mess, this production veered from acceptable to fair, and some of the roles were very poorly cast, most unfortunately so Claude.
Just a bit of chaff in my perpetual search for wheat.
So, was the nude scene semi-professional or communal?
:o ::) ;)
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I wish I could speak Italian. Such a gorgeous language. For a while in Toronto, as a kid, we lived in several Italian neighborhoods. (For the Toronto denizens - College Street near Johnny Lombardi's was one location.) My mother, for a short time, owned a gift shop there -- which she called "Agnesa's" (her name being Agnes). She did pretty well as a faux-Italian. Spoke it with all the customers - granted it was with a thick Hungarian accent.
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So, was the nude scene semi-professional or communal?
:o ::) ;)
It was a semi-nude scene. Some actors were fully nude, some nude from the waist up and some not nude at all.
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I wish I could speak Italian. Such a gorgeous language. For a while in Toronto, as a kid, we lived in several Italian neighborhoods. (For the Toronto denizens - College Street near Johnny Lombardi's was one location.) My mother, for a short time, owned a gift shop there -- which she called "Agnesa's" (her name being Agnes). She did pretty well as a faux-Italian. Spoke it with all the customers - granted it was with a thick Hungarian accent.
There's nothing that prevents you from learning it now, cara Panni.
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MBarnum thanks. I shall have to check them out.
Panni when we were in Italy we became enchanted with the language and tried speaking it, but before we could open our mouths everyone spoke English to us. ;D
‘night
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There's nothing that prevents you from learning it now, cara Panni.
Time prevents me, signore.
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I tried posting a pic as an experiment. Got the same message.
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I wish I could speak Italian. Such a gorgeous language.
When it's spoken softly or at "human level"....
Alas, most Italians tend to YELL and hence have hoarse voices!!
I'll take portuguese or South American Spanish anytime!
"Speak To Me Of Love" ;)
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I tried posting a pic as an experiment. Got the same message.
Do like I do!
Don't post any pic!
It WORKS like a charm! ;D
Mamma Mia!
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I've written Mr. Mark Bakalor about doing a photo cleansing, but he may be away for the weekend.
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Finished THE TWO TOWERS tonight, and it was quite wonderful, and the extended editionsmakes relationships and events SO much clearer than the theatrical cut. Now, can't wait for December when the extended edition of THE RETURN OF THE KING is released.
Also watched the first episode in the ROCKY & BULLWINKLE set. Second season got off to a slow start.
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We've been having some absolutely beautiful days and clear, cool nights with low humidity. No wonder I slept until almost 8:30 this morning. That hasn't happened in a LONG time!
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As for tomorrow's DVD selection, I have POINT BREAK on the starting line. Let's see if it makes it into the machine. Might have to finsh the entire side of ROCKY & BULLWINKLE before I switch it out with PB.
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Finished THE TWO TOWERS tonight, and ...the first episode in the ROCKY & BULLWINKLE set.
I, for one, would be unable to tell the two apart. One involves all sorts of funny-voiced characters going off on some ridiculous quest; the other, a fractured fairy tale of some sort. But which is which?
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I just had some lard on a cheesy stick!
-- or was it some cheese on a lardy stick????
And, oh Lardy, was it cheesy!
Sorry!
Don't mind me! 8)
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What is it?
Fish?
Yep! But fish on a stick!
See!
http://worth1000.com/entries/52000/52403uaDY_w.jpg
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Panni,
Did you get all that chocolate off your dress from the dance last night, since you did some laundry?
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It takes two to tango but I seem to be all alone!
It could be the Last Tango In Paris!....
Who needs butter when we have some.... lard!!
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Oh, on my way to work, I was walking behind actress/singer Jane Birkin (First wife to composer John Barry...) who happens to live close to the hotel where I night-audit!
Knowing that should make you feel... cheesy!
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This is the way Jane Birkin looked when she was Mrs Barry:
http://gainsbourg.magiers.de/jane.jpg
This is the way she now looks:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/images/jane_birkin_lead.jpg
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You would tell me if I were bothering you, wouldn't you???
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She -- Jane! I mean Miss Birkin was walking with one of those ugly looking bulldogs. Hers tried to p.. on one of the small trees that adorn "my" hotel entrance...
Can't get some dough out of that on Ebay, hey?!
This is the dog:
http://laurier.vsb.bc.ca/studentp/jt/bull.jpg
This is the small tree:
http://www.plantes-et-jardins.com/photos/cross/kumqat-cp-bourgoin.gif
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Now, we could put a plaque with the inscription:
"Jane Birkin's dog "JE T'AIME MOI NON PLUS" did his thing here on Sep. 5, 2004"
and from a 3 star hotel become a 4 star one!
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If the Arizona Cherry Coke girl had been here she would have taken of picture for posterity!
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Panni,
Did you get all that chocolate off your dress from the dance last night, since you did some laundry?
Mais oui, d'Artagnan.
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One more and we are safe...
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My mom had a celebrity sighting this last week at the art gallery she volunteers at in Medford.
She did mention to her that her son does interviews with actresses of her ilk and the lady gave her a business card! I don't know that I really want to interview her, however...but maybe I should branch out a bit! LOL!
Mom said she was sort of odd and so were her paintings! LOL!
Maybe it was ilk-e Sommers?
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I'm redoing my laundry. I totally forgot that I had left it in the washer when I went out earlier. Got back to find it sitting on top of the washer -- which is fine -- but it hadn't been carefully stacked and my nice white (wet) T-shirt was put on top of something dusty and got dirtier than it was before I washed it. Sooo, rather than looking through the whole stack for other dirty things, I just threw it all in again. ....Fascinating, isn't it?
Panni -- You have a washing machine that takes the clothes out of itself and puts them on top?
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I, for one, would be unable to tell the two apart. One involves all sorts of funny-voiced characters going off on some ridiculous quest; the other, a fractured fairy tale of some sort. But which is which?
It is very easy to tell The Two Towers from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
In The Two Towers, John Rhys-Davies plays Gimli, a warrior dwarf who is shorter than most everyone else (as most dwarfs are) and wears a helmet that has horns on it. In Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bullwinkle is a moose who is taller than most everyone else (as most mooses are) and has horns. Tall guy has horns = Rocky and Bullwinkle. Short guy has horns = The Two Towers.
Second, in Rocky and Bullwinkle, Rocky is a flying squirrel. In The Two Towers, Gollum is just plain squirrelly.
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I love sports! I have had a number of sports heros (or is it heroes, or in Oz is it hereuos) over the years. Among them:
Joe Montana
Mike Piazza
Steve Largent
Ron Musson - one of three hydroplane drivers killed on that sport's Black Sunday in 1966.
Thurmun Munson
John Newcombe
But my favorite, all-time, sports hero is Cal Ripkin Jr.
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Panni -- You have a washing machine that takes the clothes out of itself and puts them on top?
Yes.
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I took the day off today and did no work at all.
So tonight I'm feeling totally exhausted. Go figure.
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This evening was one for the record books! We had a full tech and a run-through this afternoon, so we got to have this evening off. We thought the director was being kind, but turned out it was actually his son's third birthday
So, since I had the evening free, I went to see a movie -- in a movie theater. Now, this may not be unusual to you, but for me, this is only the third movie I have seen in a movie theater in the last fifteen years.
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So I assume it was the LOTR trilogy TCB.
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So I assume it was the LOTR trilogy TCB.
Gee, Tomovoz, if only I could have found a theater showing the trilogy. Actually it was HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN.