Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 2 => Topic started by: bk on October 29, 2004, 11:59:44 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, you know everything there is to know about the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the sensitive cows come home.
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TOD #1: I don't do costumes. If you want me to really dress up, ask me to some affair that requires a tuxedo but doesn't require me to be a waiter. Only last time I checked the pants didn't fit. So I might be wearing the tuxedo jacket with jeans.
That could be interesting. Tuxedo jacket, plaid flannel shirt, cummerbund, and jeans. But shoes, which shoes?
TOD #2: The film that freaked me the most when I was growing up was The Time Machine, with Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux. The reason was that, when George (Rod) witnesses an atomic war, the film gave an exact date, as seen on the time machine itself. For years, I was spooked by the idea that the filmmakers might have known something.
The Morlocks, on the other hand, never bothered me at all, since I'd already seen what my sister looked like in curlers.
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"The Innocents" (Deborah Kerr) spooked me out. Wonderful tension and really nothing really scary at all. Great adaptation of the Henry James story. I would have been 15 which is not that young!
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"Don’t forget, at two o’clock a.m. we must all set our clocks back one hour. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, at two o’clock it will be one o’clock."
Actually, not all of us must set their clocks back. JRand and I (being from Indiana) don't have to deal with Daylight Savings. I suppose it is a blessing and a curse. Sorry for my errrant and truancy. Here are a few funny pictures to lessen your "wrath". ;)
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I shave with a razor most days, but I do have an electric shaver (which runs on a rechargeable battery which means I can take it anywhere and not have to worry about having an electric outlet). What generally happens is that if it's been less than 24 hours between shower/shave, I'll use the electric shaver since I'm not going to get a close shave with it anyway. (Don't you find that an hour or two after shaving with an electric shaver, you feel like you could shave again; don't get that feeling with a razor).
If it has been more than 24 hours since I last shaved, then I will use a razor.
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Good morning, all! Yes, there's no more matzoh ball soup, not to be had for ready money (an IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST reference). If Nurse Jane were still visiting, instead of taking care of a dog and cat in Oregon, I'd be back to full health by now.
Halloween was one of my favorite days during my childhood: my Mother made popcorn balls for her favorite neighborhood kids so we had a treat for several days, at school there would be cookies frosted into jack-o-lanterns from Central Pastry, and the big trick-or-treat night was a general group trek which the whole neighborhood got into. At one house, I remember the homeowner (I remember the house but no longer the family), after his wife had given us candy, came running from the back of the house wrapped in a sheet and screaming bloody murder. We all ran down the driveway yelling our heads off and clutching our gaudy trick or treat bags. It was always four of us, my brother, John and Tom Hawkins, and I. John was my best friend and we were inseparable, from the morning school bus until one of us had to go home from each other's house to do homework. I still remember being terrified after the four of us saw THE BLOB, but the most frightening movie I remember from my childhood was INVADERS FROM MARS, which seemed to define my alienated situation from my parents. I had great nightmares about people getting sucked into the ground.
Halloween costumes? No memory, none, except they were usually gaudy and cheap dimestore items.
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To belabor the topic of Dame Julie's neglected Tony ever further, I really don't think the Tony Board has any animosity towards her. She appeared on the broadcast the very next year after her declining the nomination for V/V (when she mentioned that she would be closing in V/V the following week). She obviously held no grudge, and I don't think they do either. To be honest, I was certain they would present her with a surprise special Tony that year (similar to the surprise, unannounced Tonys that were presented to Richard Burton and Henry Fonda on earlier broadcasts).
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I really can't remember any costumes from my childhood; I stopped doing Hallowe'en house-to-house after the fifth grade. As an adult, I've gone to costume parties as a boxer, a priest, a prisoner, and the last time as Merlin, but that has been many, many years ago.
I still have that priest costume in case the costumer for NUNCRACKERS wants to use it. I have a feeling it wouldn't fit as well now.
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I think I've mentioned here before that the movie that creeped me out the most as a very, very young child was TARGET EARTH. When that robot was coming at the couple on the roof of that building, I was paralyzed with fear. (Looking at it now, it's laughable.) As a somewhat older child, I was really hiding under the seat at NIGHT OF THE DEMON. And I certainly screamed loud and long during the three major BOO sequences in PSYCHO.
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So many posts yesterday! Whew! And what lovely photos. Around the world in 80 posts!
I too watched THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS and it was scary as it was the first time I saw it. I didn't like Andrea King then and I still don't, maybe it was the hair, as scary as the hand, if you ask me.
Hmmmmmmmm......went as a spaceman once when I was little, but usually didn't go out for Halloween, We lived in the country and there weren't many houses around. As an adult, I went as a sailor one year, and then of course there is the year that I wore tails including white gloves and carried a cabbage patch doll....going of course as the Valet of the Dolls.
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MR BK there is a store called Tuesday Morning, but the only one I can find in California is in Clovis. ;D
Also Accent on Rugs in Los Gatos.
Oh my here is a store called At Home in the Valley.
http://www.athomeitv.com/ (http://www.athomeitv.com/)
It might be worth a look. I love the Andy Warhol collection and the Guggenheim rug....
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And of course Lawrence of La Brea.
http://www.lawrenceoflabrea.com/ (http://www.lawrenceoflabrea.com/)
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DRJOEY is correct - we do NOT have to do anything to our clocks....everyone else does, but MOST counties in Indiana just sit there like so much fish.
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A quick hello from my beautiful hometown. I'm not at all jet-lagged - not tired at all. The only sign of any "lag" is that I've lost all sense of time. I called up an old friend today who lives on the other side of the city -- and she invited us over. I thought it was around 1 and said we'd be there at 4. When I hung up, DD pointed out to me that it was 3:50. Oh well.
Tonight DD and I go to see Fiddler in Hungarian. We have house seats because as it turns out the old friend - whom I won't be seeing until 5 - is buddies with the actor playing Tevye. We're invited back after the show to say hi to Tevye, so it should be a fun evening. That's my report from Budapest -- which BTW has the most beautiful architecture I've ever seen.
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Just finished reading a marvelous and VERY informative interview between Robert Harris (who retored LAWREENCE OF ARABIA, MY FAIR LADY, VERTIGO, and other films) and George Feltenstein of Warner Home Video about his work on THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT and many other DVD releases he's supervised.
It's a very long interview and full of stuff only real film buffs would be interested in, but contained within it are lots of teasers about upcoming releases, and I was just giddy with pleasure reading all the things that are upcoming.
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/robertharris/harris102504.html
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I don't go to movies to be creeped out. I go to be entertained..
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I was trying to find a photo of myself in a Halloween costume back in the 60s but can't recall where it is right now...so instead here is a photo of myself in costume for my very first play. I portrayed the cat in HICKORY DICKORY DOCK ( the mouse went up the clock)...yes I showed early promise...and no doubt my mother would have made a swell stage mom!
So here I am circa 1970/71 (first grade; Mrs. Tollefson's class; Griffin Creek Elementary School)...and yes I made the cat's head very own self! LOL!
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And more recently (well, about 10 years ago) here I am as one of the Ninja Turtles during a promotion for the toys at the store I worked at, Bi-Mart. I am holding clerk Kim Johnson. It was a way cool costume but hot as the floors of hades!
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And movies that creeped me out as a kid...most were on TV...THE ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER and THE BRAIN EATERS were two that always gave me the creeps. I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF and BLOOD OF DRACULA are two others.
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A few years back, I bought an adult sized "Bear" costume off of eBay. "Bear" being the bear from Henson/Disney's children series "Bear in the Big Blue House" because frankly, and johnnilly, I love "Bear", I think his charactor is wonderful. Plus, I share this liking with my 4 year old niece. Tomorrow is Tech Sunday for "The Secret Garden" and I think Bear may make an appearence.
The sitz-probe went rather well last night. "Wick" is still a mess and I'm going to try and take the time today to remedy that AGAIN, Now, I think it's the players, not the score. But, I always remember to blame the arrangements, not the player, in order to keep the moral and confidence level up. In the end, it will be what it will be. I'll settle for serviceble at this point.
BK - try Pier One Imports for a rug. (there should be at least 127 of them in the area of the Angels) My EL Eric found one there (after MONTHS of doing the same thing you're doing) and it's rather nice. Also, IKEA has some nice area rugs, also.
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I've decided to FINALLY carve my pumpkin, but the best part is that I've decided to watch "The First Nudie Musical" while doing it.
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We're in widescreen but I don't know which photo did it so let's hurry and get off page one, shall we?
I slept so late it's ridiculous. The reasons for this are simple: I have never, ever, had a bedroom that is as quiet as this one. I've always been able to hear street noise or neighbor noise or birds or someone hammering somewhere or starting their car, but in this bedroom you hear nothing. It is totally still and I sleep sounder and better than I ever have anywhere as an adult.
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Nudie Musical goes very well with carving a pumpkin.
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I'm gettin' us off page one, baby.
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And whilst doing so, might I just ask where in tarnation IS everyone?
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One thing that's not clear in that interview is that the gentleman in question is in the marketing department at Warners. He does not "supervise" anything but the marketing. He has nothing to do with transfers or restorations.
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My goodness, I need some help here.
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Hard work but someboday's got to do it.
As I've also said, Target Earth was really scary to me.
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We're in widescreen but I don't know which photo did it so let's hurry and get off page one, shall we?
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I'm sure it was DRMBarnum and that terrifying cat costume. I shall have nightmares for months. It's more frightening than THE BLAIR WITCH!
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STILL on page one? This is pitiful.
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There, there now. Much better.
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Nudie Musical goes very well with carving a pumpkin.
Hell, it goes well with anything! I'm ready to go out trick-or-gin-ning!
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Here I am at 4.45 am - and not much to read!! I thought it was the computer calling me but no, just old age!
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The two movies that creeped me out the most growing up were HOMOCIDAL which I saw quite by accident on a double bill at the local bijou with something I actually wanted to see and STRAIGHT-JACKET with Joan Crawford that a friend dragged me to against my better judgement. Sordid, ugly, gratuitious little films that gave me nightmares weeks after.
I still haven't seen parts of THE FLY. I close my eyes. My wife announced last night she wanted to go see SAW. She did not appreciate my snort of disgust and pronouncement that I had no desire to see this crap. She'll go see it alone.
Once we got to the point of being too old to trick or treat, a group of my buddies and I used to congregate at a friend's house to hand out the treats. We all dressed up as various monsters, Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, Mad Scientist...one guy's dad worked for 3m, so he had access to a lot of free masking tape. He was the Mummy. I dressed as Igor the Hunchback. I always got to answer the door. That was as far as some kids ever got before they turned around. Scaring the little nose-picking buggers was fun!
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Scary movies - huh!
JAWS scared me!
Neat costumes Mr MRBARNUM TURTLE.
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I Bury the Living creeped me out as a youngster, as it still does. Psycho, of course. And when I was old enough to know better, Repulsion creeped me out big time - a film I still can't watch if I'm alone.
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Did you visit the Rug Store sites, MrBK?
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The pumpkin turned out to the be sorriest looking pumpkin ever, at least the movie is entertaiing!!!
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Yes, I'm going to visit the one on La Brea on Monday, unless they're open tomorrow.
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Did anybody else see Brooklyn the musical on the Today show? I actually liked what I saw.
And I did something interesting with my pumpkin. I got a pumpkin light bright set at the dollar store. This is the coolest thing!
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Did anybody else see Brooklyn the musical on the Today show? I actually liked what I saw.
And I did something interesting with my pumpkin.
I don't know which sentence is more frightening. ;D
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DRJOEY is correct - we do NOT have to do anything to our clocks....everyone else does, but MOST counties in Indiana just sit there like so much fish.
Arizona also just sits there like so much fish.
When I was little, my mom was really creeped out by Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. She still refuses to read the book because she was scared by the movie.
One year for Halloween, I wanted to be Pippi Longstocking. My mom didn't want me to dye my hair red, so she bought some colored hairspray. Only, it was hot pink instead of reddish orange. I was the weirdest looking Pippi Longstocking ever.
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Just returned from grocery shopping..and I should really know better then to grocery shop on a Saturday afternoon. I do, as I did today, my major grocery shopping for the month at Winco which is one of those supersized grocery stores. I went to the one on Lancaster Ave in NE Salem which is always very, very busy (and sort of in the white trash part of town). I should have gone to the south Salem Winco, because it is much easier to get in and out of.
I also went to an estate sale. I got there after it had been going for an hour and they still had people lined up outside...this was because they were only letting a few people in at a time. Those standing in line were a bit grumpy...it was a huge house and it really would not have been that difficult to let more people at a time in. I waited in line for just over 30 minutes...went in...bought nothing. :-\
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Ok, now that I have gotten my grumpiness out of my system I shall eat some lunch ...hard boiled eggs, raw veggies, and roasted almonds...and finish watching AAR PAAR.
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Oh, BK, I won a Shadow of Your Smile autographed CD on Ebay just now!
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The actress who's playing Sister Robert Anne in NUNCRACKERS told me she has the BROOKLYN CD with four selections on it (which I understand the producers were using for PR purposes prior to the show opening.) Anyway, she's going to let me borrow it next week. Looking forward to hearing the songs on it.
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Oh, poo, bk, who's quibbling about what George Feltenstein does? The information he had to impart is what interested me and, I assumed, would interest others.
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GOOD HEALTH VIBES TO TCB AND FOR A GREAT SHOW!
François I admire Julie Andrews for her singing in Diaries II, and for wearing those outfits.
Td congrats on eating proberly. I gather you are pleased to be a tad thinner.
Right Bruce, I will get up at two in the morning and set my clock back. ;D
JRand a Tuesday Mornings store recently opened near us and I am very disappointed with it. The ones in Michigan and Portland are far better. For store locations:
http://www.tuesdaymorning.com
Joey and MBarnum-fun pictures. Maybe I can find some of myself in past costumes.
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THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL certainly caused me to scream out loud, especially that one shock moment when the girl turns around and that hideous faced-housekeeper is standing there.
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I still haven't seen parts of THE FLY. I close my eyes.
;D I hope you mean the original and not the wonderful remake.
It is the ending of the original that gave me nightmares and the reason I almost didn't missed out on the remake which Keith dragged me to and I enjoyed very much.
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I enjoyed my break and the first time I had a chance to sit all day. Back to work. There really isn't too much left to do today before I walk Echo.
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Your photo for today.
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Joey and MBarnum-fun pictures. Maybe I can find some of myself in past costumes.
I want the one of you in the nurse uniform!
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Tomovoz I hope you have tons more photos of France.
elmore, I never dressed as a nurse. I did wear green hospital scrubs a couple of times. ;D
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The last time I went trick or treating I was 18. You can get away with a lot when you look young. Unlike Jennifer I didn’t feel the need to disguise myself. I loved Halloween and the goodies that came with it.
Keith and I once won the best costume prize at a party. He went as the mad scientist and I went as his experiment.
When the kids were young I wore a long black dress, a black cape and a witch’s hat. My hair was very long then and went great with my green makeup and black eyeliner.
My favorite costume was one my mother sewed for me when I was young. I can’t recall the top, but I wore a black skirt with a slit up the side, a beret and a cigarette with a long cigarette holder. I think I even got to wear make up, something I wasn’t permitted to do until I was sixteen.
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Maybe there is a photo of td in a Nurse's uniform!
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Hope the rug trip is successful whichever day you go, MRBK.
I am watching some special DVD's that MBARNUM sent me. Movies for the most part I did not know existed.
But one of them is a movie that did scare me when I was little FROM HELL IT CAME - about a man who turns into a tree and goes after the people who killed him. It's a scary monster....and when I first saw it on TV I lived in the country and after that ALL the trees in the woods looked like Tobanga to me!
ALSO there is a movie set in Los Angeles at a car lot and the address is 8855 on some LA street and is called Big John's. Right across the street at 8866 is a big long building called Whiz Kids - but I couldn't tell what it was...a store or what. Anyone from LA then know what that was?
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I am guessing that tick or treating is more sophisticated than trick or teating.
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Tourist costume - France September 2004
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Maybe I'll have a page 3 dance after I drink the contents.
The label is "Morgon" (my email name!)
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JRand I just corrected my post from tick to trick. ;D
I'm typing while on the phone with Keith's mother.
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Nice pic Tom.
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What movie is it, Jrand?
Just back from my Saturday travels.
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I’m so tired I’m about to fall asleep which would be very rude while talking on the phone. ;D
I think we are about to get off the phone soon and I can walk Echo.
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I think the movie JRand54 was referring too in regards to the addresses is HOT CARS (1956) starring John Bromfield and Joi Lansing.
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Nice picture of Rocamadour, Mr Tom!
Here's yours but at nighttime:
http://www.lepontdelouysse.fr/images/rocamadour.jpg
... and some others more:
http://www.rideinfrance.com/Images/P%E9rigord/rocamadour.jpg
http://www.la-vieille-auberge.com/excursions/hautquercy/rocamadour/images/interieur.jpg
http://www.toms.pertuis.com/rosengart/Rocamadour%20vue%20generale.jpg
http://www.math.uqam.ca/Odette/correze/jpgs/rocamadour.jpg
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Thank you DR François
BTW the photo of the Dordogne was taken from Domme.
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Yes, HOT CARS is the movie. A Bel-Air Aubrey Schenck/Howard Koch production.
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Yep! That's it.... Domme!
... with les Eyzies in the distance! (To the left but not on the picture!)
I remember it well!
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Tom...
Excuse us for a moment!!
This pic of the river seen from the remparts of Domme, does look a lot like the one you posted yesterday!
http://france.go-midas.co.uk/images/dommeLarge.JPG
Entrance to the city of Domme!
http://bridgeclubandrezieux.free.fr/activite/Photos/Domme1.jpg
... and the cliff from which you took the pic!
http://bridgeclubandrezieux.free.fr/activite/Photos/Domme3.jpg
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Weird and funny!
I did a Google search for Domme and I also got kinky pics of... domination!!!
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Again - thank you François.
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Report from Budapest where it's now past midnight... Saw one of the best productions of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF I've ever seen. What I wasn't expecting was that during Anatevka at the end, I totally fell apart -- was sobbing so hard I was shaking. All the leaving home stuff really got to me. Plus - we were sitting in a box - house seats - and I was leaning over the red velvet balustrade (is that the word?) of the box like I had as a little girl the very first time i went to the theater when i was 2 and still living in Budapest) - a bit of emotional overload. Anyway - here's a picture taken in the box during intermission - before all the crying...
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That's why we we went to Domme!! Such disappoinment. Not even a woman in a Nurse's uniform.
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Thanks for sharing that experience Anna.
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What a wonderful theatrical experience, DRPANNI!!!
End credits for HOT CARS gives thanks to Big John's and Johnny O'Toole's car lots in Culver City - and the climax takes place at some beach resort with a roller coaster, a bar called Jack's at the Beach, and a restaurant called the Shamrock.
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The ovation at the end was something! Here they clap in rhythm if they really like something -- and the rhythms keep changing. The ovation must have laste 10 minutes. All in different rhythms. Amazing.
We went back afterwards to see Tevye - Tamas Dunai - and he was very sweet and quite humble (in a real way).
BTW - the performers were NOT miked except during the songs and it was terrific.
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I haven't seen Hot Cars. Those addresses were probably on Washington Blvd. or Culver Blvd. Jack's at the Beach was near or on the Santa Monica Pier and very close to Ocean Park which, of course, is where the Gelfinbaum's of Kritzerland lived.
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Tomorrow (today) is a busy day. Lunch with one cousin - the daughter of another cousin is visiting from Switzerland and she will also be there. Dinner with another cousin - whom I haven't seen in 20 years. In between we've been invited to an "interview show" held at a cafe where my friend magda will be interviewing the director, Miklos Jancso - a legendary Hungarian director who is now over 80.
I'm totally not sleepy. Which is a good thing, i guess.
Hope Halloween is fun for you all. I saw a few people in costume tonight. One young man was dressed as a woman (Yes, it was for Halloween) and a couple were dressed as Hungarian flags.
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BTW - I haven't been keeping up with the posts - so if I'm not commenting on something important that's been posted - it's because I haven't seen it.
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BTW - I haven't been keeping up with the posts - so if I'm not commenting on something important that's been posted - it's because I haven't seen it.
Oh, that's ok!
Because, we, on the other end, are keeping up with YOUR posts... and we like them and are quite moved! :'(
Keep having fun.... and if you happen to see someone dressed up as a Nurse, take a pic and save it for Tomovoz! :D
(You'll know why later!) :)
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The actress who's playing Sister Robert Anne in NUNCRACKERS told me she has the BROOKLYN CD with four selections on it (which I understand the producers were using for PR purposes prior to the show opening.) Anyway, she's going to let me borrow it next week. Looking forward to hearing the songs on it.
I've had this in my possession for about a month and haven't bothered to take the shrink wrap off of it.
It's been quite a season for new musicals so far. The critics have been besides themselves coming up with synonyms for dreck in their pans of Dracula and Brooklyn. The name of one of the authors of Brooklyn is the same as the name of one of the authors of the first musical of mine to get produced. Oddly, as is the case with so many Hollywood scripts, I never met the man. Could it be the same fellow?
In any case, I hope the authors of Brooklyn are learning a thing or two about writing a musical, and will come back and write something better. One can't have the same hopes for the authors of Dracula, because they've had many musicals produced before, and seem to get worse and worse.
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One young man was dressed as a woman (Yes, it was for Halloween) and a couple were dressed as Hungarian fags.
??? :o ;D
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That's what I was thinking MRBK....so the roller coaster in HOT CARS may have been one that Benjamin rode on. There is also some kind of tossing game which reads WIN ONE BUST ME.....LOL.....
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Where the l have you put the l in the last word of your quote from Panni's post?
I'm in a swing state now. Joy's in a swing state. Unfortunately not the same one. Monday, she travels to a different swing state. One I can't get to. :-(
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Hey, I came back for a moment before signing off - and may I say that I didn't say what it says I said. :o ::) :P
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Oh, that's ok!
Because, we, on the other end, are keeping up with YOUR posts... and we like them and are quite moved! :'(
Very true Panni.
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Tom,
Here's a nurse pic for you!!
http://www.tomarma.com/Stock/Occupations/Closeups/Nurse.jpg
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And with that, Goodnight (Jo Estet, as Jose would say) from Budapest.
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And one for Franz Liszt.
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Hey, I came back for a moment before signing off - and may I say that I didn't say what it says I said. :o ::) :P
Sure!
Whatever you say! ;D
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Has anybody seen The Singing Detective with Robert Downey Jr? I noticed it was playing tonight on the movie network, so I called my sis and asked her to tape it for me. I have a bunch of movies that she taped including (Girl With A Pearl Earring, 21 Grams, and Angels in America).
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L?
Which L??
L, is for the way you Look at me
O, is for the only One I see
V, is very very.......
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And with that, Goodnight (Jo Estet, as Jose would say) from Budapest.
... and that concludes the votes of the Budapest jury.....
Hello, Sydney?
May we have your votes, please?
??? :D
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Has anybody seen The Singing Detective with Robert Downey Jr?
No, but I saw The Singing Nun, and Tomovoz would rather see The Singing Nurse! ;)
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Has anybody seen The Singing Detective with Robert Downey Jr?
No! He did not join me; he went to see another film instead! ;D
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... and that concludes the votes of the Budapest jury.....
Hello, Sydney?
May we have your votes, please?
??? :D
Eurovision lives!
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Lots of Sponge Bobs and Little Mermaids this year so far.
A couple of witches and a couple of football players.
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Today, I went to work early so that I could make up some time and not use any more vacation time (I only have 4.3 hours left!). Before that (actually), I had breakfast at a local restaurant that buys local products and most are organic. I had their french toast medley, which included eggs (scrambled) and bacon with the french toast. After my time at work, I ate at Dairy Queen...just because...and then mailed off my last bill (water). That has been my day today. Wasn't that exciting? Wasn't that too too?
Now, I must take a shower. I didn't take one before I went to work...what was I thinking?? (It didn't matter. Nobody else was in my part of the building.) I have NO specific plans for the rest of the weekend other than recording some vinyl records to make CDs.
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DAMN!! My housemate just came home from wherever he was today and got into the shower! Normally, that wouldn't be any problem...I have no where to go. I don't need to take a shower at this exact moment. The problem is that I NEED to go to the bathroom at this exact moment! We only have one bathroom! AARRGGHH!!! I'll have to go next door to my sister's. How inconvenient! And convenient at the same time! ;)
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Later! ;D
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a couple of football players.
Boy, that IS scary!! :)
(... on drugs???)
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DAMN!! My housemate just came home from wherever he was today and got into the shower! Normally, that wouldn't be any problem...I have no where to go. I don't need to take a shower at this exact moment. The problem is that I NEED to go to the bathroom at this exact moment! We only have one bathroom! AARRGGHH!!! I'll have to go next door to my sister's. How inconvenient! And convenient at the same time! ;)
Oooohhh... I can see PSYCHO part 7 in there!! :o
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Jane, Nope, I mean there are parts of my remake of THE FLY I can't watch...like the breaking of the arm scene and a couple of others. I'm not a big fan of gore and graphic anything! Most people remember the original Fly fondly...but, truth be told, it isn't a very good movie.
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Jennifer, while I like Robert Downey, Jr. a lot, I've been very reluctant to see the movie, having seen the original mini-series with the great Michael Gambon (which is like six-eight hours)...and absolutely brilliant. I'm not sure how they could condense it down to two hours and it still have the impact of the original. And as good an actor as Downey is...Gambon is one of the finest British actors now living.
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lOL DRFRANCOIS - actually children dressed AS football players....LOL...
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Charles Pogue I do not have fond memories of the original Fly. I’m also sure I also closed my eyes a few times during the remake but bravely kept them open for the ending. Through the entire film I was very nervous about watching the last scene that has traumatized me so as I child. To my relief, it and the entire film were far superior to the original.
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Does anyone have a clew what Panni meant about it not being what she wrote? Is she saying some magical writing just "appeared" in her post. If that's so we must all question what sort of brownies she's been eating. Of course, she isn't reading the posts so we'll never know.
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I thin she meant they were dressed as Hungarian flags, not fags.
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Bruce if you are still confused, look at François’s quote of Panni’s post, then go back and look at her modified post.
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Oh, she MODIFIED her post, did she? That is so Hungarian. And what's wrong with being dressed as a Hungarian Fag I'd like to know.
I'll be heading off to the Bookfellow's Halloween thing in a little while. I finally picked up the Love Me Tonight DVD along with Broadway's Lost Treasures Volume Two, which doesn't look nearly as interesting as Volume One. And I also finally snagged a couple of the Jerry Lewis DVDs, The Nutty Professor and The Disorderly Orderly.
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So, you are going to leave me here all alone again. Walking out while I was talking-just like a guy. LOL
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I will never leave you.
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In fact, I am going to dress up like a Hungarian Fag right now.
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What does the well-dressed Hungarian Fag wear anyway? Burlap?
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Will you post a photo?
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Hmm, there was the very tall woman in Budapest who appeared to exit a massage parlor. I can imagine a Hungarian fag in drag would dress like she did, if he had implants.
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A quick good evening to all.
I just finished watching Van Helsing. It was alright. One I’ll but on the back shelve and watch again a year or two down the line. Mom liked it as well. I was surprised but I guess I shouldn’t be. She loved Babylon 5. G’kar was her favorite though she never could remember his name. She always referred to him as “the lizard man”.
The Fly (new version) didn’t bother me although I will admit the part where he throws up on the donut kinda grossed me out.
Attached is the promised picture of my white four O’clock plant. I shall baby it through the winter and hope to plant it in the spring.
For some reason tonight I feel very tired. I didn’t do that much but am tired just the same. Think I’ll be a wussburger and hit the hay.
Night all. :)
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Very lovely Danise.
I walked away from my computer for a minute. As I was returning I noticed a photo but couldn't see what it was-Bruce I thought it might have been of you-LOL
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I suspect they're selling that 4-song CD at BROOKLYN in lieu of a complete cast album which they recorded the other day. This is the friend who saw the show a couple of weeks ago while it was still in previews and liked it. I suspect having read about it that it won't be my cup of tea, but if she liked it, more power to her. I'm guessing it won't be playing by the time I make it back to NYC next summer.
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Had the time today to watch a movie but opted to watch CSI - Season 4 episodes instead. Tomorrow I think I'll put in ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND. That should be loads of fun to see again and on DVD for the first time.
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I suspect they're selling that 4-song CD at BROOKLYN in lieu of a complete cast album which they recorded the other day.
SELLING it? I'd be very surprised if they were selling it.
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Matt H I haven't seen ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND in years. Have fun watching.
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SELLING it? I'd be very surprised if they were selling it.
Well, contrary to popular belief, not everyone has access to the internet in order to download the songs (I believe they are available) nor do some folks who have the internet find themselves at all comfortable in downloading music. It wouldn't be the first time CDs of partial scores were sold at Broadway theaters. And wouldn't you think the producers would try ANYTHING to make some money on this turkey?
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Matt H I haven't seen ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND in years. Have fun watching.
Thank you, DR Jane. I am a big, big fan of both Tyrone Power and Alice Faye, and I've always loved this movie but haven't seen it in awhile myself.
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DR WEL sent me that sampler CD - and I listened to a couple of the tracks. I was not overwhelmed.
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Bruce if you are still confused, look at François’s quote of Panni’s post, then go back and look at her modified post.
Well... you see... I plead "guilty"!
Panni did write "flag"... I'm the one, when quotting her, who dropped the "L"!... as a prank! ::)
I think Noël did get the joke, as well as panni, i'm sure!
5:02 am here.... in fact... 4:02 am, becOZ of that stupid daylight savings time! I get to work one more hour unpaid!
Thank you Danise for the pic of that beautiful flower! :-*
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It wouldn't be the first time CDs of partial scores were sold at Broadway theaters. And wouldn't you think the producers would try ANYTHING to make some money on this turkey?
I'm unaware that CDs of partial scores have ever been sold at Broadway theatres. If someone knows of examples of this, I'd love to be enlightened.
All I know is that sometimes a new show will give away a CD of three or four songs, free, in order to promote the show or its recording.
This week I did listen to the 4-song CD of the upcoming Broadway musical, All Shook Up. And today I found out a friend of mine is in it. But I won't be attending. I feel if I buy a ticket to one of these musicals made up of old hit songs, I'm putting money in the hands of the enemy. A new musical should be just that: new - with living songwriters creating songs especially for the characters and situations the book writer is creating. Uncreative corporate types are putting together shows based on songs that we've all known for years and this turns my stomach. Call that a "new" musical? How dare they!
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Good evening, all.
Lovely photo of your flowers, DR Danise. I'm so glad a few of them survived the hurricane.
And Tom, I am really enjoying your vacation photos. Thank you, BK, for making this photo sharing possible on this nifty site.
Here in Arizona, we don't do daylight savings, which is a good thing, because I think it would just confuse me.
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A pleasure to share the photgraphs with an appreciative audience Dear Reader Laura.
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Daylight Savings started here this morning. Now I have to try and calculate the time difference between th West Coast and OZ again. It's nearly 3.30pm Sunday here!
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Only about half my photographs were taken with a digital camera and thus easier to share (despite the fact that it took me ages to work out how to reduce the size). My final film of photographs should be processed by now - guess I may be scanning photgraphs of France for the rest of the year - if people still have the interest.
It really is such a great feature of the site that we can indeed share so much.
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How long is it until new notes time BK? I am about to leave to collect my last film - probably mostly of Monet's garden.
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See you tomorrow François. Thanks again for the links to the most beautiful villages of France.
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DR Jrand,
You might enjoy this!?!
http://www.philsears.com/autograp521.htm
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Hasta manana, Tom de Oz!
I guess Halloween is turning this place into a Sleepy Hollow!
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New notes up at midnight - the old midnight, as I don't change the clocks until morning.
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Good evening!
Sorry for being errant and truant all day, but I also slept in this morning too, and I had just enough time to hop in the shower before I had to get in my car for my drive to theater... But it was a very good sleep.
We had a picnic/cookout between shows today. There was LOTS of food. So much that they're going to have another picnic/cookout tomorrow between shows so that we can finish off the rest of the burgers, hot dogs, chicken breasts, sausage, salmon fillets, etc. Oh, and the "hit" of the cookout were these shrimp that were wrapped in bacon that had chunks of cream cheese and jalapeno slices wrapped up with them too! Sooo good! And the shrimp were big too! Somebody splurged!
I took a sort-of nap in the greenroom before the second show...
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The second show was interesting... in a fun way. There was a very happy audience member sitting right in the front row. I couldn't see her, but I - and the rest of the pit - could hear her clapping and laughing throughout the evening. And she clapped and laughed at everything. And she even joined in singing the final "Nothing" at the end of "Nothing". The whole pit - including the conductor - just started getting the giggles each time we heard her. We kept thinking she would tire out eventually, but, no, just like the Energizer Bunny... I'm all for enthusiastic audience members, but when every witty line of dialogue is met with the same somewhat over-enthusiastic reponse, well... -A couple of the band members started making the "drinking" gesture.. I even offered a roll of duct tape to the conductor... ;) I can't imagine what they were going through on stage. And she obviously knew the show too since she would start clapping at least three measures before each song ended... Now that was truly annoying. And from some of the post-show reports from various people, she was quite her own show herself. Ah, well... At least it kept everyone awake. ;)
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Welcome seven GUESTS. We're talkin' about Hungarian Fags.
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Welcome seven GUESTS. We're talkin' about Hungarian Fags.
Where's TCB when you need him?!?!?!
;D