Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on June 14, 2015, 12:43:04 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes did not do much, and now it is time for you to post until the not doing much cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: PECCAVI!
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Feels like the humidity in NYC is down today, even though it's 72 degrees already.
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Did anybody watch the AFI tribute to Steve Martin last night?
I almost turned it off at the start when Jack Black did that "National Anthem" bit. Both my wife and I thought it was "inappropriate".
Funniest line of the night was from Martin Short about Walt Disney.
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Good morning!
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Good morning, everyone.
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Guide to the frozen (ice-creamy) drinks of summer:
http://goo.gl/K1Mlye
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Thanks for the ear plugs site link yesterday, DR Jeanne!!
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Good morning, all.
Following a 12-hour jaunt to the city and back, I am ready for a day at the homestead. There's plenty I want to get done around here, but it will be relaxing.
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Coffee!
And -- wait for it ----- a Napoleon.
Fresh (well, as of last night) from Zaro's in Grand Central.
Which takes me back to when BK was talking about pastries. I haven't had one of these in years. But I needed a snack for the train, and this just seemed like something to take home for the morrow.
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Good morning, all! I have some Moross work to finish up Act One and some housekeeping to attend to. I have no plans to leave the air conditioning today.
DR ChasSmith, what films did you see yesterday?
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The first program was a presentation of some 90 minutes of the contents of this new release:
http://www.flickeralley.com/classic-movies/#!/3-D-Rarities/p/49245170
That disc contains about 2 1/2 hours worth of material, and I'll have it in hand to watch the rest later this week. We know the guys who assembled and restored this material from Home Theater Forum.
The later show was HONDO, an unusual and compelling John Wayne film that was filmed at the end of the 1953 3-D craze. After its initial and very short 3-D run in NYC and LA (Edit: I'm told it enjoyed a 3-week run at NYC's 3600-seat Paramount Theater), it's mostly been known as a flat 2-D film. It's a very interesting movie, not least for the unusual role by Geraldine Page. And the 3-D is stunning. I'd say it shoots right up to the top dozen or so of the most beautifully shot, naturalistic, 3-D films to date, and it's a crying shame that Paramount chose to issue only the flat version on Blu-ray a couple of years ago. That's an excellent disc, but the beautiful depth of this one has to be seen to be believed.
Gretchen Wayne (widow of Michael) introduced the film, and the son of Geraldine Page was in the audience. This one is being shown all week, and I would be mighty tempted to go back and see it again.
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Seeing all of this on the big screen is rewarding in itself, but we also had great audiences (a full house for the first show), and the experience of that is more rewarding than I have words for. One forgets how much richer and more enjoyable the movie watching experience can be when multiplied by a few hundred asses in seats.
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I had planned to drive, but at the last minute decided to take the train so I could just relax and read. Took the iPad, and got started on the Kindle version of Music Direction for the Stage: A View from the Podium.
http://www.amazon.com/Music-Direction-Stage-View-Podium-ebook/dp/B00RP15PE8/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434288960&sr=1-1&keywords=joseph+church
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Good Sunday Morning!
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The kitchen sink and stove, which i've avoided for the past several weeks, are scrubbed and clean. I think I'd so some Moross work before I tackle the bathroom.
My listening for the day includes the new GOLDEN APPLE and two recordings, THE KING & I and ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, featuring the late great Christopher Lee.
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And the word of the day is: PECCAVI!
And The Song Of The Day Is: SINNER MAN
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Sunday.
7 Brides for 7 Brothers is over.....today there will be Round One of auditions for Into the Woods, which I will not be attending....probably the only person in the tri-county area not to do so.
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Cindy Williams was on the Today Show with Kathy Lee & Hoda last week talking about her book....I just saw her in passing.
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DR Cilla, I have heard how painfull rabies shots are and cringe when I think of you getting them. Have you had any side effects?
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Hello
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Where is everyone today?
I just finished Act one of the Moross. That Act One Finale is a long mother!
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Still on Page 1!
Horrors!
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I'm up, I'm up. Awoke at noon after ten and a half hours of glorious sleep, but my head back on the pillow and slept for another ninety minutes.
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Guess I needed that.
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What is this page one malarky at four-thirty in the afternoon East Coast time.
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That is noxious.
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That is specious.
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And mostly that is unseemly.
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And I suspect we'd better get some posting going on pronto.
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Peccavi! I feel peckish for peccary.
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We are having a nice thunderstorm today.
I am on a watch schedule for a couple of days. My father has his appointment on Tuesday, until then we have to keep an eye on him to watch for nosebleeds and any other unusual occurrences, so it is lots of staying up late and no sleep.
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Sunday afternoon greetings! We left at 9:30 this morning for Rob and Mary Linda's church where they had a guest preacher - Fr. Richard. He did a great job, as did the substitute organist. After church, we went to Smashburger for lunch and then the guys went to Home Depot and the girls went to Target. Got home in time to change my clothes before my friend Carol came for a brief visit. She and I were young librarians at Miami University back in the '70s and she'd been in Oxford for alumni weekend. She stopped here on her way to the Dayton airport and she should be on her way home to the DC area by now.
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(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/singdaw1/librarians_zpswii0reto.jpg)
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Cindy Williams was on the Today Show with Kathy Lee & Hoda last week talking about her book....I just saw her in passing.
"Ghost writers in the sky(pe) [or Cloud]"
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Okay, this is sickening - it's not a holiday and we're barely on page two. I REALLY suggest we get a frenzy or three going.
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What is it, Flag Day or something?
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I'd love to get us to page 3 but it's just too humid
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and the air conditioning isn't working well
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Must be the whole building using it at the same time
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Well, at least we got to 40
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DR Jane, if you are accident prone and worried then why not get an adult 3 wheeler. There is no way that you could fall off of that, but you could still get the exercise and enjoy the view.
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Have those with noisy neighbors tried a white noise machine? I love mine so much and cannot sleep without it even if it's quiet.
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The outdoor pool i go to opened this weekend and the weather was very nice!
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Went to Jurassic world today with Vixdad and the vixter first time I ever we had been to a movie as a family in a long long time
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I kept thinking about skip and fjl through out the movie
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No, the dinosaurs did not make me think of them, but everytimebd Wong appeared it made me think of them
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Vibes for jack's daddy
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I kept thinking about skip and fjl through out the movie
Because of the role the movie played in delaying BD's and Skip's Herringbone CD?
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Vibes for cilla
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Elmore I am glad you had such a wonderful time at the ballet
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I kept thinking about skip and fjl through out the movie
Because of the role the movie played in delaying BD's and Skip's Herringbone CD?
As Skip's agent predicted, now that their Herringbone CD is out and seems to have been well-received, what's in the air is that BD and Roger and all did a great job with the recording, and the two-year delay seems to never come up.
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Filling space to get to page 3 already!
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Everyone must be out enjoying the cool weather.
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Good to hear Elmore's ballet experience went well.
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Tomorrow will be a high of 76
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i could do the 5-day forecast
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and get to page 3 that way
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Did I lose vixmom?
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Almost there
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Page 3!
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Oh, guess vixmom is still here
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Good evening!
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Today I went to the grand opening of a new Wegman's supermarket. I don't know if anyone's familiar with that store--I think they're only in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. They're based in Rochester, NY. They've had stores in the Buffalo area for many years.
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There are already a few in the outlying areas of DC. It's amazing how crowded the stores usually are.
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I also bought a new router (not at Wegmans). I didn't try to install it yet. It's been very frustrating the way my internet goes on and off all the time.
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Can it really be a week since the Tony Awards? It's amazing how time flies.
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Had our read-through - all the changes worked and will work better when she learns them - I also made some other tiny changes on the fly as I heard it.
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Must go eat now.
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While it wasn't extremely hot today, the humidity made up for it! Ugh!
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I did not logout while I went to make dinner
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Diana Canova, a frequent collaborator of bk's back in the day, has authored a new play. It is having its premiere at the Wilton Playshop, in DR ChasSmith's neck of the woods.
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Good evening.
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Oh dear only on page three
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Wat he'd the fifth season finale go game of thrones. They have diverged quite a bit from the books. And George rrrrrrrrrrrrrrmartin. Left everybody in limbo at the end of book 5 and book 6 is still nowhere in sight.
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I wonder whether the books will end up folllowing the show rather than the other way around
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Jurassic world was fun if predictable of course the vixter never saw the first three in the theatre so she was really the impetus for us going to see this as a family
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Vixdad just started flipping the channels and found that old Stephen king movie christine
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And where has Ginny been this evening? Ginny has been at Nita's handing over the AAUW president's notebook to her. We're both going to the national convention in San Diego next weekend, but she's coming back from California before I am and my term will be over by the time I'm home late on July 1.
Color me relieved.
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Kid is now running down the street trying to outrun a burning car
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Guess the outcome
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Ah the car has just returned to the garage I assume to recuperate
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Is Christine the stupidest movie ever?
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Have you seen something more stupid that was not intentionally stupid?
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Has anybody else watchedalltne episodes of of grace &frankie?
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Is a second season planned?
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I miss Matt h and this tv updates
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Can I get us to page 4?
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Not on that post
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Will this do it?
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Page four finally!!
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Has anybody else watchedalltne episodes of of grace &frankie?
We did, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I noted bk's comments about the pilot a few weeks ago. Yes, it was a bit forced. But I thought it got better and better as it went along. I think of it as more a character study than a situation comedy. Anyway, we really enjoyed the performances. And yes, it has been picked up for a second season.
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Some other DR (was it DR Jane?) posted also that they enjoyed it more and more as the episodes moved along.
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Vixdad's folks have been settled into an assisted living facility.
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They were able to locate a place where they have a shared suite with their own sitting room, a bedroom and bath but allmealsare taken in the dining room
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DR Vixmom, I've watched several episodes of Grace & Frankie. I liked it and want to get back to finish the season.
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Vixdad's folks have been settled into an assisted living facility.
Hope it works out for them...
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Some other DR (was it DR Jane?) posted also that they enjoyed it more and more as the episodes moved along.
I found. That as well. And the last few moments of the season finale left me wanting more
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Is Christine the stupidest movie ever?
Pumpkinhead or Maximum Overdrive. I would also add Flashdance. Even though there are many fans of the latter, I wanted a refund when I saw it in a theater. There's nothing to the movie once you start with the premise that Jennifer Beals does arc welding as a day job and dancing while water splashes on her at night. Of course, she goes to college full time too. Not. Believable. Ever. Bad acting everywhere. Made me want to vomit on the floor, but the theater floor was already grungy.
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Thank you Ginny
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I hope so as well. I amso sad I will never again get to see their beautiful home in the mountains. They are quite always from the rest if the family now it's about 2 hours away from threat of the Canadian clan but it was the only facility that would allow them to stay together
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I have enjoyed the episodes I've seen about Freddie and Stuart, portrayed by Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, in VICIOUS. They are hilarious, and they're the tops in acting.
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Is Christine the stupidest movie ever?
Pumpkinhead or Maximum Overdrive. I would also add Flashdance. Even though there are many fans of the latter, I wanted a refund when I saw it in a theater. There's nothing to the movie once you start with the premise that Jennifer Beals does arc welding as a day job and dancing while water splashes on her at night. Of course, she goes to college full time too. Not. Believable. Ever. Bad acting everywhere. Made me want to vomit on the floor, but the theater floor was already grungy.
I did not see pumpkin head or maximum overdrive. I remember enjoying flash dance when I saw it. But I think it was the romance factor I liked. I was a young woman in search of romance at the time so I was a sucker for those at the time
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I have enjoyed the episodes I've seen about Freddie and Stuart, portrayed by Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, in VICIOUS. They are hilarious, and they're the tops in acting.
I tried watching those and I couldn't stick with it. I wanted. Freddie and Stuart to be kinder to one another
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I am quite a fan if both those gentlemen and I very much wanted to like the show
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Speaking of Derek Jacobi. I have just started re watching our I,Claudius DVDs
All these years later and i still enjoy it
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I hope Davey and Freddie will help me get us to five
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The boys have deserted me.
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And now we are watching poirot
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David Suchet was wonderful in this role
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Andjeremy brett was my favorite Sherlock holmes
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Just rambling along
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Hoping to move us to page five
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Somebody come and play
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Somebody come and play today
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I just thought up a great idea for a movie that doesn't really need any remake, since that's the going trend these days. How about a remake of THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO? Since we no longer have the talents involved with the original classic, Cher and Burt Reynolds could co-star, each taking half of the faces. The lady in the attachment could be the guest star as the feline who's always getting in and out of trouble, with a sub-plot about spaying.
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What a dreadful job of plastic surgery
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I forgot to mention that I'd get Kenny Rogers to do the theme song. Mickey Rourke could do an interpretive dance with Carrot Top.
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What a dreadful job of plastic surgery
I think these people need to realize that you just can't reverse time. My head has lost a lot of hair, but I will never, ever get a rug or any Bosley treatments. I feel bad that people like Peter Brady (Christopher Knight) are promoting that junk. Ease into your mature years but don't do unnecessary surgery. Each time you are put under anesthesia, your heart essentially stops and is put on a machine, you are put on breathing apparatus, you are in suspended animation. The more times you do that to yourself for something so frivolous, you are shortening your life. Save the plastic surgery for the people who need repairs or reconstructions due to birth defects, injuries and accidents, and results from disease. That was the original intent of plastic surgery, following WWI.
I will step down from the soap box.
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The reason I got into this is that I'm suffering through a rerun of EVENING SHADE contemplating what died and resides on top of Burt Reynolds's head. In some angles, it looks like a raccoon or a small black poodle. You can see the join line between his scalp and the tribble that he hijacked.
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In fact his moustache is one step removed from the painted moustache that Groucho wore in the 1930s.
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Will this turn the page?
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Hurrah page five thank you dan
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I must be up in six hours so good night
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If it were possible, that is if the original tapes haven't degraded beyond restoration, I think Raoul Kraushaar deserves some kind of tribute. Invaders from Mars, when you find a copy that has the appropriate score, is eerie. He also wrote THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW theme, which is something that has stayed with me for years, in a good way.
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And Raoul Kraushaar was involved with NEW FACES (1952) which was a very early point in Mel Brooks's career. Eartha Kitt is a force. What's amazing is that Paul Lynde and Alice Ghostley appear together, which dispels the rumor that they were one and the same person. It is funny to see how many vocal and physical mannerisms they either shared or copied between them. But who was first? To me they are great comedic actors and I miss people who are as deft as they were.
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Alice Ghostley performs Sheldon Harnick's "Boston Beguine".
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Here's what I'm wondering at 9:15 on a Sunday evening: When people who've had their Adriana Hofstetter books for, what, over two months now, are actually going to read the damn thing.
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DR Cilla, I have heard how painfull rabies shots are and cringe when I think of you getting them. Have you had any side effects?
Actually, they aren't painful. The Human rabies immunoglobin or whatever you call it, was because they had to give me a shot in my finger. Other than that I get them in my arm and they hurt less then the flu shot. The days of shots in your stomach are long gone. It really isn't that bad. I think I had some reaction to the first set, but nothing today. Two more to go
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BK, My Gene Wilder post on FB was a birthday post, not a post that he had died.
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Vibes for cilla
Thanks Vixmom.
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Has anybody else watchedalltne episodes of of grace &frankie?
Yes, I enjoyed it
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DR Jane, if you are accident prone and worried then why not get an adult 3 wheeler. There is no way that you could fall off of that, but you could still get the exercise and enjoy the view.
I am more worried about other forces crashing into me-lol. I'm off the hook about the bike. While walking and watching the bikers pass us Keith said he would rather walk. I agree. Riding a bike on a path will never recapture my childhood days of riding my bike everywhere and the joy of riding downhill with my arms spread out and the wind blowing in my hair.
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I'm Some other DR (was it DR Jane?) posted also that they enjoyed it more and more as the episodes moved along.
I found. That as well. And the last few moments of the season finale left me wanting more
I think I said that. I did enjoy it more as it went along
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I have not read the book BK. I haven't had time to read any books since that came in.
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While I was doing the laundry today, I did manage to watch most of the new Orange is the New Black episodes. It's so hard not to binge watch on Netflix. Anyway, have to get up in the AM so I'm calling it a night.
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Some other DR (was it DR Jane?) posted also that they enjoyed it more and more as the episodes moved along.
Not me.
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BK, My Gene Wilder post on FB was a birthday post, not a post that he had died.
I wasn't talking about your Facebook Gene Wilder post - I knew it was a birthday post. I was talking about the fifty other posts I saw "sharing" the news he'd died - which of course he had not.
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They were able to locate a place where they have a shared suite with their own sitting room, a bedroom and bath but allmealsare taken in the dining room
Who do they shate with? I wish them well there.
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I hope so as well. I amso sad I will never again get to see their beautiful home in the mountains. They are quite always from the rest if the family now it's about 2 hours away from threat of the Canadian clan but it was the only facility that would allow them to stay together
2 hours :(
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DR Cilla, I have heard how painfull rabies shots are and cringe when I think of you getting them. Have you had any side effects?
Actually, they aren't painful. The Human rabies immunoglobin or whatever you call it, was because they had to give me a shot in my finger. Other than that I get them in my arm and they hurt less then the flu shot. The days of shots in your stomach are long gone. It really isn't that bad. I think I had some reaction to the first set, but nothing today. Two more to go
Good to hear, if only the cost was less painful.
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FJL read it and wrote a very nice review on Amazon. Perhaps the few for whom it is still sitting there like so much unread fish, will finally pick it up and read it. It's so exciting when we send them out, when comments come in, and I've tried to just be silent about it but after two months I decided to mention it.
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Even George isn't here - no posts in over two hours, maybe three. Most unseemly.