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Archives => Archive 2 => Topic started by: bk on October 30, 2004, 11:59:53 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes have given you goose bumps, you have given the notes goose bumps, and now it is time for you to post until the scary cows come home.
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It's already scary.
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Hmmm... "The Devil Within Her" just came on on Showtime - with Joan Collins! Guess I'll be up for another two hours!!
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Well, here she is...
Presenting in all her Wal-Mart brand makeup...
You have been warned!!!!!
Imelda In Exile
(http://members.aol.com/josespiano/imelda2.jpg)
Mr. DeMille... I'm ready for my close up...
AGAIN! You have been warned!!!!
(http://members.aol.com/josespiano/imelda1.jpg)
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SEE!!! I told you that was scary...
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Hmmm... Am I going to regret this... ;)
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OH!!!
DR Panni - I heard a story on NPR yesterday about the paprika problem in Hungary right now. Apparently, they found some toxin in some batch - apparently due to the mixing of Hungarian paprika and Mexican(?) paprika - so they've banned the sale of paprika right now. And the restaurants are having to come up with alternatives and variations to the classic "paprikas(h)". What the scoop from where you are?
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Hmmm... i guess I scared everyone away...
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OH!!!
I am not dressing up as Imelda in Exile this year/tonight. Rather, I dressed up like that while I was on tour with ANYTHING GOES... So I "went". <ba-doom chick> I don't think I'll be dressing up tonight, but ya' never know... -It's also a two show day, so...
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BOO!
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I see Panni! I see MBarnum!
-Now I want to your Halloween costume!
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Good morning, all! Halloween always reminds me of that great duet in PATIENCE:
Sing Boo to you!
Pooh, pooh to you!
So boo to all of you!
It's around 7:15 am, formerly 6:15, and it takes my mind and body a couple of weeks to adjust each time this occurs. I've got banking to do, treats to purchase, some blank CDs and jewel cases to purchase, and some housecleaning. I'm having a visit from DRBen and Anthony aka Baxter the Clown this afternoon. Last week I received a delightful pop-up get well card from them and today's a visit. Isn't that too too?
Sing boo to you
Too too to you!
Happy Halloween.
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Happy Halloween!
Well my light bright pumpkin looks awesome. I originally bought the kit cause I wanted the light to put inside my pumpkin. But when I read the instructions, I was fascinated. You basically use the pumpkin as you would the lite bright machine by poking the little pegs through.
OMG, it looks so awesome! I love it.
My sis was gonna try to carve her first pumpkin ever this year. But when I told her about this she went and bought a kit too. So I have a spider and she has a happy face (from the patterns in the kit).
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I am actually very excited to watch the Singing Detective. But I don't think I'll get the tape till next weekend. Today I am watching 21 Grams. And so far it's VERY confusing. Hopefully I will start to be able to piece things together. It is very odd how they go from past to present from scene to scene.
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DR Noel wrote last night: "
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."
When Betty Buckley took over Norma in SUNSET BOULEVARD, a CD single of her two arias from the show was on sale in the lobby. That's one partial score I'm sure of.
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Just checking in before we leave to see the wonderful Nancy Anderson in SHE LOVES ME. That woman is so wasted as Helen Loomis in WONDERFUL TOWN it will be ghood to see her in a role she is perferct for.
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Happy Halloween!
Happy Daylight Savings Day!
This morning I woke up at 9/8am and carved our familial pumpkin with my little sister. I have discovered that I have excellent knife handling skills... whoddathunkit?
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For the last two weeks, we have chilly autumn weather every single day, but yesterday, the sun returned in full force and it was 80 here. Supposed to have the same today, too. Kind of late for an Indian summer, but there you are.
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One of my projects with the PHI Musical Theatre project is a complete recording of Victor Herbert's 1912 musical THE LADY OF THE SLIPPER, Charles Dillingham's version of Cinderella for Elsie Janis and Montgomery & Stone, of THE RED MILL and THE WIZARD OF OZ. I'd forgotten that the Prince's ball takes place on Halloween, and I've just listened to a most charming song for Cinderella, her father, and the children, "The Games of Halloween."
This is a weird show: because of the limited voices of the three stars, Herbert never seems to blossom much vocally, although there's a charming cut number for Cinderella and the Chorus, "Jack-o-lantern Love," and a wonderful cut number for the stepsisters , "Flutter, Flutter, Little Butterfly." A lot of the songs lie there like so much fish, but the dance music and a first act curtain pantomime, "The Ride to the Palace," are quite brilliant.
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When I read your stories of those long ago, almost forgotten musicals, DR Elmore, I realize how many more musicals there are out there (particularly from the early part of the 20th century) that I've never heard.
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I have a question for DRs that I'm aching to ask, but have been hesitant. You see, I don't want to touch off a political debate on this here site, but what I want to know is - which candidate is leading in your state?
Of course those not in America wouldn't be answering, and all the DRs in New York and California: I know Kerry's leading there.
Pennsylvania, where I find myself today, is considered too close to call, but here in the Eastern part of the state, you see a lot more support for Kerry.
So, I'm hoping DRs in other states can report on who's leading, without us all arguing. That would be too scary!
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Yes, it's worth noting that some shows live on through their recordings. I think I mentioned recently that, while A New Brain was a puzzlement in the theatre, on the CD you hear a score with quite a high percentage of wonderful numbers. I play that frequently, but have very little interest in seeing the show on stage again.
A good recording may be a show's legacy. I've not heard of any recent productions of Das Barbecu, but I know a number of us are fond of its very funny album.
The converse must also be true: There are wonderful shows that have elated many an audience out there, but they were either recorded badly or not recorded at all. And these shows tend to get forgotten. One example I can think of is The Robber Bridegroom, which, I feel, sounds awful on its recording. It's better on stage. I saw the Paul Lazarus-helmed revue Personals with a dynamite cast that included Dee Hoty and Jason Alexander. This score didn't get recorded until a less-good London cast essayed it many years later. An even-better revue was A...My Name Is Alice, which didn't get a complete recording. Eventually, there was a less good sequel, and a record was made combining songs from both shows. These revues don't get done very often, which could be contributable to the quality of those recordings.
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When I read your stories of those long ago, almost forgotten musicals, DR Elmore, I realize how many more musicals there are out there (particularly from the early part of the 20th century) that I've never heard.
The most frustrating thing for me, DRMatth, is how many vocal scores were published between 1900 and 1940, most of which never ever turn up in used shops or eBay. I lost a bid on aJerome Kern HAVE A HEART score about a year ago, and I'm lucky to have a photocopy, but I hardly ever see Victor Herbert scores for sale, and there were a ton of vocal scores published!
If the foundation heading the project I'm working on ever gets the green light to release some of these recordings, I think their melodic beauty, zip, and charm will amaze and delight. In the meantime, Decca Broadway has released on CD its excerpts from BABES IN TOYLAND, quite nicely performed even if it does omit the score's best song, in my opinion, "Barney O'Flynn." I'm also crazy about John McGlinn's recording of Kern's SITTING PRETTY on New World Records, and I wish EMI had recorded his NO NO NANETTE and THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE, both from concerts at the Weill Recital Hall.
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Hungarians - especially Lugosi and Gabor - can be very scary!
DRJOSE - you are a handsome man - but as IMELDA, oh my!
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DR Noel,
A professor at Princeton has created a meta-analysis of ALL major vote intention polls in the fifty states and, after some statistical massage, has posted daily on his website where the election stands.
The site is at: http://synapse.princeton.edu/~sam/pollcalc.html
Click on "probability map" next to one of the polls and you can see the country's current divisions. The size of the states has been fiddled with so that they represent the number of electoral college votes they have. The darker the red, the more absolute Bush will win that state. The darker the blue, the more absolute Kerry will win that state.
Right now he has Kerry leading in electoral votes with undecideds included and Bush leading among decideds only.
BTW - Pennsylvania is considered definitely leaning towards Kerry in both samples
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Well on my way to a couple of meetings and hopefully I will be back for the par-tay tonight!
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Will anyone top dear reader Jose's VERY scary photos? We shall all have to work very hard indeed.
Toxic Paprika is the title of my next novel.
Here it is, ten-thirty, and yet only nine thirty.
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What's scary is that six people are just sitting there like so much fish, not posting. This is Halloween, you dear, dear people out there in the dark. Tell us scary things.
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OK, here's something scary. If I don't have this proposal turned in on Tuesday, my teacher is going to send me to The Fifth Floor.
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BOO!!!
I finally got to bed around 6:00AM... the "new" 6:00AM.. And now it's Noon - the "new" Noon - and I must now finish getting ready to head to the theatre... I hope the HHW Halloween Festivities are still in full-force by the time I get back from my second show.
Laters...
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DRJOSE - you are a handsome man - but as IMELDA, oh my!
And your point would be?!?!?!
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*The "key" part of that costume is not in the pics, unfortunately. Since all of her shoes were being held in the Philippines, she had to resort to wearing some lime green fuzzy slippers. -Oh, and I also seem to recall pink glitter nail polish!
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BOO!
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In response to yesterday's question "What do Hungarian fags wear?", I think the answer should be "Cigarette papers."
I'm not sure about filters, though.
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Envision those old cigarette commercials, where the pretty lady would dance around dressed like a cigarette box, showing lots of leg.
That's our page two dance!
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Happy Halloween, everybody! I am going to dig through old photos and see if I can't find some old trick or treat shots! Unlike DR Jose, I shall not show and photos that might likely get me blackmailed. :o
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Went to Portland yesterday afternoon to the Hollywood theater on Sandy Blvd and watched two (2) Godzilla movies...DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, which I haven't seen since the 1970s and INVASION OF THE ASTRO MONSTERS (a.k.a MONSTER ZERO). It was a blast seeing both movies on the big, big wide-screen! I had so much fun...and there was quite a good crowd!
After the movies were over (I think I got out of the theater at about 10:30pm) I went downtown to meet up with my buddies Jim and Terry (who evidently preferred to go drinking rather then watch Godzilla movies!). While at a bar called Scandel's I met a nice Brazilian dentist named Rodriguo. We chatted for a couple of hours and then, like Cinderella, I had to leave at midnight (well, actually 1:00 am).
All in all, a fun Saturday...but I am beat today...and I have so many things to get done today!
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I have a question for DRs that I'm aching to ask, but have been hesitant. You see, I don't want to touch off a political debate on this here site, but what I want to know is - which candidate is leading in your state?
Right now, Ruth Ann Minner is leading in the polls, but Bill Lee could still take it.
Oh, you're not talking about the Governor's race?
The big question in my neck of the woods is whether or not the incumbents will be tossed out of the County Council. They've been kowtowing to the western half of the county (which is all farmland) for too long, which has resulted in rampant overdevelopment of the eastern half of the county. "Hey, it all brings in revenue to the county" is the excuse we've been handed. Net result, everywhere we turn there's new construction going on, lots of new housing...but no new fire stations, no new schools, no consideration about sewage, and the highways are already bottlenecked with traffic.
In a bizarre twist (and I admit that my stories usually contain one or two), contrary to the stereotypes it is the Democrats who have pursued the overdevelopment, and their Republican opponents who are running pro-environment campaigns.
They don't call this state Delawierd for nothing.
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Continuing the discussion of musicals living on through recordings...
I despair to think about the number of people who still believe there were no musicals written before Oklahoma, simply because Oklahoma had the first major release on records.
This can be taken a step or two further. Not all of the score to Oklahoma was released on the first album. (And this was, indeed, an "album" in it's first release, consisting of several 78 rpm disks with one song per side.) A second, smaller set of songs was released later, including the songs "Lonely Room," "It's a Scandal," and "The Farmer and the Cowman." The "Volume Two" release didn't sell nearly as well as the first.
So, which are the less well-known songs from the score? And which songs got dropped from the film? Do I really have to type out their titles again?
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And re the Sunset Blvd. four-track CD - they did one for every Norma and it was always sold in the lobby. We included those tracks on a special version of the Petula Clark CD I did.
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I can't wait to take a photo of myself dressed up as a fifty-six-year-old Jew. It will be SCARY, I'm warning you.
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"I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks! I do, I do, I do!"
Whoever would have thought that the Cowardly Lion was paranoid about the CIA?
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I won't be dressing up tonight...well, maybe that tux jacket. At least mine doesn't have moth holes in it ;D ...or it didn't the last time I checked :-\.
We are heading out, however, over to Cafe Zeus. Chef Charles and partner John have a rig set up to to screen The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I've seen the film before, but never with a group of people, so this should be interesting.
I've got a squirt gun stashed somewhere...
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I'm awake (finally) and have taken a shower...which is a good thing. After breakfast of cereal and soy milk, I have to head out and find some Halloween candy to buy so that I'll have something to hand out to any kiddies that may drop by. In past years, Albertson's sold coupons for donuts to give out. The kids loved them because, even though they're getting a coupon and not an actual donut, it's a coupon for an actual donut! The parents love it because they don't have to worry about the safety it. They'll go to a major store to get the item and they know it's safe. It's a win/win situation! And, if I remember correctly, they were fairly inexpensive, as far as donuts at Albertsons goes. I'll find out.
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And if they're out of donut coupons, Alberson's is right next to Costco. I'm sure that they will still have candy. ;D
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In the past, der Brucer has given out quarters. Little kids love that. If a big kid came around with a really great costume, der B would hand out several quarters at once.
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Lyn purposely bought Halloween candy he knows I don't like so that I wouldn't start eating it before Halloween. Now, I ask you-- is that fair?
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I'm off to the theatre for the day (all day Tech for "The Secret Garden" so will be E&T until tomorrow I think. The kids are suppose to dress up as long as they can move in their costume and it doesn't take away from them doing what they need to do on stage. I guess I'll be bringing along the "Bear" costume, whether I'll wear it is another story. Hopefully, EL Eric will be the Uncle "stand in" when my sister takes my 4-year old neice out tonight. Hmmm... maybe HE should wear the Bear costume, I think it would be a cold day in hell before that happened. Have a great, fun day here at HHW.com. BOO!
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I'll be dressing as grumpy, world-weary screenwriter with a bad case of poison ivy on his right arm.
When did Halloween become Christmas? I just pull out Halloween decoration boxes...I have almost as many as I do for Christmas. All this crap is upstaging my pumpkins. It must stop!
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Thanks, DR Emily, for directing me to that site. Just what I was looking for.
Improv star Kimmy Gatewood's trying to get me to do a gig on Election Night. I told her I'm too likely to be vomiting.
But, I hasten to point out - that's not a political comment. I'm nauseous because I'm nervous about the outcome. And I certainly don't expect the election to be called early in the evening. But my comment was NOT a prediction that Bush would win and THEN I would vomit to the ground.
I was chatting with a writers' group and some guy was saying he's glad he lives in the west because he doesn't have to wait up all night for the election results. I asked him: "So, how'd that turn out for you last time round?"
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Lyn purposely bought Halloween candy he knows I don't like so that I wouldn't start eating it before Halloween. Now, I ask you-- is that fair?
My mom did the same thing. Usually, she gets Reese's peanut butter cups and I eat them all. This time she got Milky Ways. I guess she doesn't know that I like Milky Ways too. And so, apparently, does my brother. We're almost out already.
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Just back from a long walk. Couldn't ask for a more beautiful day here in the City of Studio - blazing blue skies, warm, but not too hot and I do believe I'll be stepping into the pool in about an hour.
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I shall now share with you, Dear Readers, the only Halloween joke in my repertoire:
It's Halloween night and a young boy rings a neighbor's doorbell and yells "Trick or treat!" when the neighbor, a kindly woman in her seventies, opens the door.
"Oh my!" says the woman. "And what are you dressed up as, young man?"
"A pirate!" exclaims the boy, not without a little tone of disdain in his voice over the neighbor's failure to immediately recognize the persona of his carefully created costume.
"Well, if you're a pirate," asks the woman, "where are your buccaneers?"
The boy pauses for a moment, looking at the woman quizzically, and then responds, "On the side of my buccan head!"
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A reminder, Dear Readers, that groaning is strictly forbidden here at haineshisway.com, the almost most popular website in all of internetdom.
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I spent a lovely afternoon with ALEXANDER'SRAGTIME BAND. It sounds marvelous and looks almost marvelous. Oh, the picture for the most part is velvety black and white, but there is the most annoying thin white scratch that runs along different portions of the left hand side of the frame for a good deal of the picture. I really found it terribly distracting coming and going as it did.
I think this is the first one of the Fox Movie Classics that I felt had been taken from less than optimum elements. I say, however, that I haven't bought all of them.
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I have Disc 3 in the CSI set ready to spin when I go back down for the early evening viewing.
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Off to the pool. I hope I shall be properly scary whilst swimming in my amusing bathing dress. I shall return shortly. Today I shall finish watching Love Me Tonight, and then I shall move on to Broadway's Lost Treasures II.
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Oh DR WEL, you must tell us about SHE LOVES ME. This is one of my favorite shows that I have NEVER seen live. :(
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So far Halloween Day has been great. Did some shopping. Got the candy ready. Now I just must wait till the kids show up. Hopefully it won't rain. It's sort of been windy and looking like it might rain.
I'm not sure what time the kids will come at. My sis seems to think the kids in her area will start at 5pm. I know usually here they start at 6pm. But that was not on a weekend.
Btw, I have not YET eaten any of the halloween candy.
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I'm getting ready to go to a gay club for Hungarian Halloween. (DD and I have been invited by a gay friend of hers.) Will have a full report later.
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So what is everybody giving out for Halloween?
I have the chocolate 4 pack (100 bars) of kit kat, smarties, coffee crisp and aero. And some gum. And some mini tootsie lollies.
And for decorations I have my lite bright spider pumpkin, an inflatable light up pumpkin in the window (surrounded by orange Halloween lights). I will also have scary music playing, and I have a glow in the dark frankenstein!
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I carved a pumpkin. It started off being Arthur. Then it was Groucho Marx. By the time I was done carving it, it was Harry Potter. Last year's pumpkin started off as a bird and ended up as two fencing foils. I'm not so good at carving pumpkins.
So far, we are going to be handing out Milky Ways, but we'll have to see if we have any left by tonight.
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Scary Boo-day to all of you!
From the Donald Duck short:
Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat for Halloween
Better give a treat that's good to eat
If you want to keep life serene
Trick or Treat (Trick or Treat)
Trick or Treat (Trick or Treat)
Trick or Treat the whole night through
Little scalawags
With fiendish gags
Can make it tough on you
So when ghosts and goblins by the score
Ring the bell on your front door
Better not be stingy or
Your nightmares will come true
Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat for Halloween
When the pumpkin shells
Cast evil spells
Your little white house turns green
Your little white house turns green
Your little white house turns green
Every post
Is a ghost
If you've got a witch's brew
And if you want your gate to circulate
Ho ho! We can do that too!
Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat for Halloween
When ghosts and goblins by the score
Ring the bell on your front door
You'd better not be stingy or
Your nightmares will come true
So when ghosts and goblins by the score
Ring your bell or pound your door
Better not be stingy or
Your nightmares will come true
BOO!
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I'm getting ready to go to a gay club for Hungarian Halloween. (DD and I have been invited by a gay friend of hers.) Will have a full report later.
You don't need any excuse to go to a gay club anywhere, darling Panni! You would light up any venue!
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Still waiting to go out. DD's friend has just arrived. An extremely handsome young man. She's making him up while her boyfriend watches football. A quaint domestic scene.
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I'm starting two pages in a row?
Slip any That's Entertainment disc into the DVD and pick a dance!
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Thank you, SWW! I'm blushing.
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You're quite welcome!
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DW Joy recently told me that, for several elections running, there's been a correlation between who wins the Washington Redskins' last game before an election, and which party wins the election.
When the Redskins win their last game before a presidential election, the party that's in the White House stays in the White House. When they lose, the other party takes the White House. They've never tied.
This correlation goes way back to those Roosevelt victories.
Today, the Redskins lost to the Packers. Good news for Kerry.
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Catching up for the last few days.
Media: The Tony Award Show Volume 2. Really liked the 15 minute sequence from Coco!
Also watch My Fair Lady. I hadn't watched it in a while. I don't think it holds up and what is with all the time codes visable on some of the special material??
And finally up a little early because of the time change and got the ending of act one and the whole of act two of Jekyl & Hyde the musical. God awful. It supposed to take place in England and the all spoke with american accents.
The score sucked from what I heard of it except for In His Eyes which I think BK had orchestrated better for Skinner and Ripley.
What made this show soooooo popular?
Haven't done the halloween thing in a long time.
Just going to sit and watch a dvd pulled at random
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I have a glow in the dark frenchkenstein!
Me too!
But I only show it to special friends on special occasions! :o ;D
... and that's SPOOKY! (I'm told! :D)
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DRMichael Shayne, it's great to see you!
DRFrancois, "Trick or Treat" is my favorite Donald Duck cartoon.
I've just seen my guests, DRBen and Anthony aka Baxter the Clown, to the door, and I hope they enjoyed the visit as much as I did. They brought me a chocolate babka, which looks divoon, and I think I'll take it with me tomorrow down to the recording office. Now I'm putzing around trying to decide if I should eat or go visit my goddaughter's haunted house.
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You would light up any venue!
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Like a Anna-O-Lantern?? ;)
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DW Joy recently told me that, for several elections running, there's been a correlation between who wins the Washington Redskins' last game before an election, and which party wins the election.
When the Redskins win their last game before a presidential election, the party that's in the White House stays in the White House. When they lose, the other party takes the White House. They've never tied.
This correlation goes way back to those Roosevelt victories.
Today, the Redskins lost to the Packers. Good news for Kerry.
Voting may be out then!
Just rely on sports' results!
A new take on politics???
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As long as I've got That's Entertainment: Treasures from the Vault playing in the background...
Something occurred to me while watching the documentary about "The Masters Behind the Musicals." It's just a theory, but hear me out and see if it makes sense. (If the hearing and seeing doesn't make too much of a mixed metaphor, that is.)
The studios, and MGM in particular, all had pretty good machinery and staff in place in order to produce their films, from directors and producers to arrangers and vocal coaches. This came to a halt during the 1960s when independent filmmaking came to the fore.
Is it any wonder, then, that production of the Hollywood musical also came to a halt, as this particular genre of film was so highly dependent upon that support structure?
Yes, there have been musicals produced since the mid-60s, but they've ranged from the mega-productions such as My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music to more wildcat films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The First Nudie Musical, and Moulin Rouge! (the version with the exclamation point, not the earlier film with Jose Ferrer).
What I consider to be the Hollywood Musical simply cannot be produced today, because the means of producing those films is gone. It's not that popular music changed; Elvis had his share of films, remember, back when they were still being produced.
It's comparable to painters trying to replicate DaVinci's work, without knowing how to mix the paints that he used. It can be attempted (and I consider Chicago to be a very good attempt), but it's somehow not the same thing.
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An extremely handsome young man.
Are you talking about ME.... again!?!? :D
(Oops! Had not noticed "young"! :()
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Jekyl & Hyde the musical. God awful. It supposed to take place in England and the all spoke with american accents.
The score sucked from what I heard of it except for In His Eyes which I think BK had orchestrated better for Skinner and Ripley.
What made this show soooooo popular?
DW Joy disagrees with me, but I don't believe Jekyl and Hyde is soooooo popular, at least not with that many o's.
The Broadway production did not make money, and the producers kept stunt casting, to bring in people who don't normally attend theatre (such as rock star Sebastian Bach).
The grammatical ambiguity in that last sentence is intentional.
Songs from Jekyl & Hyde got performed at star search-like competitions and beauty contests long before the show reached Broadway. I'd have to admit that This Is the Moment is one of the better-known songs from recent musicals. Someone Like You, In His Eyes and Bring On the Men have a certain amount of popularity, too, although the latter didn't make it to Broadway.
Once it got put on video with David Hasselhoff, however, I think people started viewing it for the camp value - a truly terrible performance of a truly terrible show. Soooooo, in that sense it's "popular"
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They brought me a chocolate babka, which looks divoon, and I think I'll take it with me tomorrow down to the recording office.
Oh, I'm sure it will enjoy the music and will give us a full rapport...hmm... report! ;)
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DW Joy recently told me that, for several elections running, there's been a correlation between who wins the Washington Redskins' last game before an election, and which party wins the election.
When the Redskins win their last game before a presidential election, the party that's in the White House stays in the White House. When they lose, the other party takes the White House. They've never tied.
This correlation goes way back to those Roosevelt victories.
Today, the Redskins lost to the Packers. Good news for Kerry.
There's a few other theories/coincidences, such as the ones noted in the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12746-2004Oct30.html), but let's run with the Packers for a moment.
Since the Redskins LOST the game in 2000, does this mean all those people who insisted that George W. DIDN'T win the election have been wrong all this time?
Or are they going to blame the election on bad referees?
(Interesting article over at The Urban Legends Reference Pages, (http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/election.asp) by the way, supporting the theory.)
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Are you talking about ME.... again!?!? :D
(Oops! Had not noticed "young"! :()
That's all right, Francois, I hadn't noticed you were young, either.
;D :o 8) :-*
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Songs from Jekyl & Hyde got performed at star search-like competitions and beauty contests long before the show reached Broadway.
"I give it a ten, Mr. Clark, because it's got a beat and is easy to ice skate to!"
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I'm prejudiced! Oh, yes, i'm prejudiced!
The BEST Jekyll & Hyde, by loathed Wildhorn, that is, is the 2 cd studio cast set, led by Anthony Warlow;
here's an Amazon.com review i do support!
"I almost bought this album after seeing Robert Cuccioli in Guys and Dolls. But after listening to samples of this recording AND the 1994 Concept cast, I have reached the conclusion that Cuccioli's voice just doesn't cut it. At all. He does a good job with the ballads, but he lacks the power to control the role of Hyde. Anthony Warlow - IMO Australia's best performer - not only blows listeners away on each and every song with his massive baritone (versus Cuccioli's smooth tenor), but he is truly scary in songs like "Confrontation" and "Alive". Colm Wilkinson, who did the original concept, may have the best voice, but that CD is restricted solely to ballads and does not make sense with the storyline. Linda Eder is great as Lucy in all CD's, but only in the 1994 concept do listeners get to hear the naughty cabaret number "Bring on the Men".
Having played the role in regional theatre, take my advice: Spend the extra few dollars and get the 1994 concept cast recording. If you don't know who Anthony Warlow is...you will."
S. NOOR September 27, 2004.
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Time to start getting ready for the Time Warp. Wussburgering early, so toodles!
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So, dear reader Panni IS going as a Hungarian Fag, to a club where she will fit right in in that getup. I'm more frightened by the daughters boyfriend watching football in Hungary.
It's getting pretty scary in here.
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"S. Noor" If you sound that name out you get "snore".
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I'm prejudiced! Oh, yes, i'm prejudiced!
The BEST Jekyll & Hyde, by loathed Wildhorn, that is, is the 2 cd studio cast set, led by Anthony Warlow; ....
I totally agree. I love the 2-CD set, especially the casting of Anthony Warlow (never heard of him before this, but have certainly heard his stuff after this) and Carolee Carmello (aka Maple LaMarsh!)
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Right now, I'm taping "Porgy and Bess" with Cleo Laine and the recently late Ray Charles. I've gotten the first two (of four) sides recorded, but not yet broken up into individual tracks. I'll finish the rest of it then break it up. I also have the Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong "P&B" (on CD) and it's great to have both versions as well as the Simon Rattle (real) opera version. Three quite diverse and wonderful recordings of this one show. ;D
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As for what I have to give out to the kiddies: Hershey's Minatures: Hershey's (plain) chocolate, Mr. Goodbar, Krackle and Special Dark. I love them all and all of them love me (a Chicago reference!)
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Good Afternoon!
-Just back between shows for some dinner...
Good matinee, but it definitely feels like the end of the work week - which it is. There's a small gathering tonight after the show here at the hotel.. We shall see...
In the meantime....
-I better see some costume shots when I get back tonight!
>:(
:P
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Right now, I'm taping "Porgy and Bess" with Cleo Laine and the recently late Ray Charles. I've gotten the first two (of four) sides recorded, but not yet broken up into individual tracks. I'll finish the rest of it then break it up. I also have the Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong "P&B" (on CD) and it's great to have both versions as well as the Simon Rattle (real) opera version. Three quite diverse and wonderful recordings of this one show. ;D
DRGeorge, my favorite of the "real" versions is the Houston Grand Opera with Clamma Dale on BMG, conducted by John DeMain, who knows that score better than anyone alive. Look for it in the library.
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What is it tonight?
Boo Bush
or
Scary Kerry?
(I should work for Disney, don't ya think?!)
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Since I always wish to alert others when I don't know what I'm talking about, I must admit to you all that I've never seen Jekyl & Hyde on stage. And it gets back to the point in an earlier post that sometimes shows live on due to great recordings, but baffle an audience in a theatre. I'm sure Warlow is a tremendous singer, but here's the question: Who here has seen Jekyl & Hyde on stage and how was it?
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Back for just a sec, while der Brucer gets dressed.
According to the link I posted earlier for the Washington Post, more Bush masks have been sold this year.
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Der B saw J&H on Broadway, and keeps forgetting that I wasn't with him at the time. He liked it.
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Someone else dance, I've got to get going...
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Evening folks!
Here is my Halloween costume. In memory of my fish.
Did everyone remember to fall back last night? It’s only 6:30 PM and it is already pitch dark. I’m gonna hate that when don’t get home until 6. Sigh.
Busy day today. I’ve done my best to prepare the dogs for any goings on tonight by giving them a bath, taking them for a extra long walk, threw saucers for Bear until he was huffing and puffing then finished up by feeding them a wonderful chicken dinner a la Rescue Remedy. I put about seven drops in each of their feed dishes. Not that anything will bother Brandi but just in case. I know I’m tired.
So far, no kids. I didn’t really expect there to be but put a roll of quarters by the front door, just in case. That’s always been a big hit with the kids that did show up. Better than candy.
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Shouldn't have picked from the dvd from random. I put in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and promptly fell asleep watching it after ten minutes.
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Shouldn't have picked from the dvd from random. I put in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and promptly fell asleep watching it after ten minutes.
Don’t you mean, “Star Trek: The Motionless Picture”, DR Michael?
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DRGeorge, my favorite of the "real" versions is the Houston Grand Opera with Clamma Dale on BMG, conducted by John DeMain, who knows that score better than anyone alive. Look for it in the library.
I have it, as well as the one with Mel Tormé, jazz transfigured: the opera, not Tormé! :)
As DR Tomovoz would say: you had to know!
Tom will be with us later; he's gone to put flowers on the grave of a the father of a French friend, -- not me!, who's obviously buried in Oz!
Some people have all the fun!
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Shouldn't have picked from the dvd from random. I put in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and promptly fell asleep watching it after ten minutes.
Should be called STAR DREK then?!
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Shouldn't have picked from the dvd from random. I put in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and promptly fell asleep watching it after ten minutes.
-- Doctor, I can't find sleep! What should I do!
-- Well; watch Star Trek: the motion picture, before bed!
That should work in 10 minutes!
We had tests done! In Florida! :D
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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.
SUNSET BLVD - Betty Buckley
SUNSET BLVD - Petula Clark
SUNSET BLVD - Rita Moreno
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN - Reba McIntyre
You're welcome.
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The Hungarian In The Closet...
With A Bat In His Belfry?
How timely!
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DRDanise, I loved the photo! You'll have to come to Coney Island and be in the mermaid parade next year.
Word of mouth on J&H, which I missed, from people whose opinion I value was that it badly covered all bases: design, direction, score and libretto. I've scored "This is the Moment" twice, and my question from a dramaturgical standpoint is this: how does he know? Did Madame Curie look up before discovering radium, or whatever she discovered - I know I sound like a college graduate of 2004 who doesn't know who's buried in Grant's tomb - did she look at her husband and say "this is the moment! I've been waiting for this!" My problem with all these poperas: too many false power ballads!
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Who here has seen Jekyl & Hyde on stage and how was it?
I saw a production directed by Mr. Cuccioli, starring Kevin Gray, which re-instated "Bring on the Men;" according to my companion, who had seen the show on Broadway, this particular production was leagues ahead of what he had seen in NYC. I thought it was a fun evening of theater, slickly done and quite moving. BUT, not a show I want to see again.
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SUNSET BLVD - Betty Buckley
SUNSET BLVD - Petula Clark
SUNSET BLVD - Rita Moreno
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN - Reba McIntyre
You're welcome.
The HELLO DOLLY additions for Ethel Merman.
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Thanks, DR Elmore. I really had something else in mind but ran out of time and had to cheat.
Tested in Florida, huh? Them's could be fighting words. ;)
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I've scored "This is the Moment" twice, and my question from a dramaturgical standpoint is this: how does he know? Did Madame Curie look up before discovering radium, or whatever she discovered - I know I sound like a college graduate of 2004 who doesn't know who's buried in Grant's tomb - did she look at her husband and say "this is the moment! I've been waiting for this!" My problem with all these poperas: too many false power ballads!
Well, as long as we're speaking dramaturgically, where's the journey in the song? At the beginning of the song, Jekyl tells us that THIS is the moment. And, by the time the song's over - 3 minutes or so later - he's still telling us THIS is the moment. Nothing's progressed. It's dramatically inert.
The other week I made my students laugh by pointing out that the lyric keeps throwing adjectives at the word "moment" including one that would get you a D on a Sixth Grade writing paper: "momentous."
"Momentous" to describe "moment" - wow, that's one adjectival adjective he's got there!
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Gee, I hope I didn't scare François off. I was only kidding!
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Gee, I hope I didn't scare François off. I was only kidding!
It was the costume, nothing you said.
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I have been reading a Robert a Harris interview with George Feltenstein (Warner Home Video).
He says something that I know Bruce will appreciate and those who read the so-called reviews on the internet of DVD releases by people who comment on the grain, artifactes etc
GF:......Fred and Ginger are coming to DVD in 2005 at long last… the Val Lewton films are coming in 2005…
RAH: As a collection?
GF: As a collection. All nine will be in one box. We have a great guy who's going to be doing commentary on that. You know, we're aware of what everybody wants, looking at the threads…
Missing Warner titles has been a recent thread on HTF, and there are some ridiculous titles that show up once in a while, but most of the titles are quite respectable and likely choices, and it makes me happy because I can look at it and say "Yep, we're doing that… and we're doing that…"
RAH: One of the problems that some of the people on HTF and other websites may not understand is that in the VHS days you could get away with a second class film element for transfer…
GF: You could get away with anything. You could put anything at all in a box or a jacket, regardless of the quality and you had a master.
RAH: But with DVD all the warts are out there on the screen.
GF: I know. People are now saying "Well, there are nicks in this shot…" I had to laugh… with the film noir package, every one of those films, we went back to the nitrate camera negatives, and made a new fine grain… we spent a fortune creating new masters and those films have never looked so good.
Most of the reviews had comments reflected as such. The one that really blew me away was Gun Crazy, because that was a low budget movie, and you could see Russ Tamblyn's… the sweat coming off his face in the beginning and the pores in his skin…
RAH: The image quality was incredible…
GF: So clear… and yet some people said "Well there are some nicks and digs and… my favorite new term, it just cracks me up… it didn't exist before the people on the internet is the "age-related artifacts."
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LOL! Wonderful costume DR Danise! But how do you walk with those fins! LOL!
I haven't yet dug up any halloween costumes so instead I will show you a pic of the nifty Hollywood Theater in Portland where I saw the Godzilla movies last night...
(http://www.hollywoodtheatre.org/photos/images/billmarx.gif)
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And Wednesday night I will be going to see the Rogers/Astaire film TOP HAT at Salem's Elsinore theater which has just finished up it's big money restoration! I can't wait to see the theater in all of it's glory!
Here is the inside of the theater! There are two or 3 balcony levels above.
(http://www.elsinoretheatre.com/images-old/interior150_prog.jpg)
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If you would like to read the complete interview go here. It is quite interesting.
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/robertharris/harris102504.html (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/robertharris/harris102504.html)
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Since I always wish to alert others when I don't know what I'm talking about, I must admit to you all that I've never seen Jekyl & Hyde on stage. And it gets back to the point in an earlier post that sometimes shows live on due to great recordings, but baffle an audience in a theatre. I'm sure Warlow is a tremendous singer, but here's the question: Who here has seen Jekyl & Hyde on stage and how was it?
I saw J&H in Seattle during the pre-Broadway tour. It was very different than what was taped with David Hasselhoff (sp?). I thought the show was pretty darned good...not incredibly wonderful, but quite good. Robert Cuccioli was also very good...different that Anthony Warlow, of course, but still good. The set was quite sparce...set pieces, mainly.
The lighting for the "Confrontation" near the end was inventive, I thought. When they had Jekyll and Hyde singing back and forth to "himself," Jekyll sang facing forward and was lit from the front (like the video). But when Hyde sang, he turned sideways and was lit from behind (it wasn't just the hair that let people know the difference between Jekyll & Hyde). They had a spotlight behind him and "Hyde's" silhouette was projected onto the theater wall. It was a simple but effective effect.
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The Momentous moment was an effective effect! ;)
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Now back to Cleo & Ray's Porgy & Bess!
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SUNSET BLVD - Betty Buckley
SUNSET BLVD - Petula Clark
SUNSET BLVD - Rita Moreno
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN - Reba McIntyre
You're welcome.
Songs from The Little Mermaid by Danise
but not on Broadway; only at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, Fl.
A VERY rare cd indeed! :D
BUT you should hear the one Danise's Bear has cut:
Outtakes from "Brother Bear"!.... ;D
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Noël, in all honesty, where do you see "momentous moment" in this song???
This is the moment!
This is the day,
When I send all my doubts and demons
On their way!
Every endeavor,
I have made - ever -
Is coming into play,
Is here and now - today!
This is the moment,
This is the time,
When the momentum and the moment
Are in rhyme!
Give me this moment -
This precious chance -
I'll gather up my past
And make some sense at last!
This is the moment,
When all I've done -
All the dreaming,
Scheming and screaming,
Become one!
This is the day -
See it sparkle and shine,
When all I've lived for
Becomes mine!
For all these years,
I've faced the world alone,
And now the time has come
To prove to them
I've made it on my own!
This is the moment -
My final test -
Destiny beckoned,
I never reckoned,
Second Best!
I won't look down,
I must not fall!
This is the moment,
The sweetest moment of them all!
This is the moment!
Damn all the odds!
This day, or never,
I'll sit forever
With the gods!
When I look back,
I will always recall,
Moment for moment,
This was the moment,
The greatest moment
Of them all!
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2 AM here. Back from the club. The drag show was TERRIBLE. The star was the American owner of the club - and this guy could only get work in his own club, believe me!
We left the show and went into another room to dance, which was fun. Now here's a photo of DD and her very sweet friend, Tyler. He brought this wig with him months ago from San Francisco, just for Halloween. At the club he climbed up into the dancers' cage and did a wild number to Madonna, wig and all. He went home happy. Wish come true.
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"This is the moment!
Damn all the odds!
This day, or never,
I'll sit forever
With the gods!"
I, I already do, Jekyll!
And at HHW no less!
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Just looking at that lyric for This is the Moment is scary.
I saw Jekyll and Hyde on Broadway with its original cast and thought it perfectly dreadful on all counts. Cuccioli was okay, our very own Christiane Noll was fine, Linda Eder was miked heavily and was all about the sound board and reverb and the choreography was some of the most laughably bad stuff I've ever seen. Other than that, it was fine.
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It's almost dark here in the City of Studio and soon, I'd imagine, the little tykes will be a knock knock knockin' at my door.
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Happy Halloween from Budapest to one and all at HHW!
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And one for Bela Bartok!
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Noël, in all honesty, where do you see "momentous moment" in this song???
It would seem that, at some point, the lyric was revised from:
This is the moment,
This is the day,
This is the moment when I know I'm
On my way-
Every endeavor
I have made ever-
Is coming into play,
Is here and now, today-
This is the moment,
This is the time,
When the momentum and the moment
Are in rhyme-
Give me this moment,
This momentous moment,
I'll gather up my past
And make some sense at last-
This is the moment,
When all I've done
All of the dreaming,
Scheming and screaming,
Becomes one-
This is the day,
Just see it shine
When all I've lived for
Becomes mine!
This is the moment,
This is the hour,
When I can open up tomorrow
Like a flower
And put my hand to
Everything I've planned to
Fulfill my grand design,
See all my stars align-
This is the moment,
My final test!
Destiny beckoned, I never reckoned
Second best!
I won't look down,
I must not fall-
This is the moment,
The sweetest moment of them all!
This is the moment,
Damn all the odds!
This day or never, I sit forever
With the gods!
When I look back,
I will recall
Moment for moment-
This was the moment-
The greatest moment
Of them all!
Frightening!
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And one for Bela Bartok!
And one for Bela Lugosi!
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DRNoel, stop! stop! We love you! Stop torturing us! Several years ago, a friend of mine, a noted in town arranger and pianist, ran into me at Encores! and he said, "It's official; I've seen VICTOR VICTORIA, JEKYLL & HYDE, and THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, and a law has to be passed forbidding Frank Wildhorn near a Broadway theatre."
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I'm back from seeing dead people. All Souls Days. The Catholic part of the cemetery was awash (well it will be soon with the rain) with flowers.
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Here's the song I just played, as I do every year on this date. (I also played it in the overture of Friday night's Chicago City Limits show at the Improv)
When the night wind howls
In the chimney cowls,
And the bat in the moonlight flies,
And the inky clouds,
Like funeral shrouds,
Sail over the midnight skies--
When the footpads quail
At the night-bird’s wail,
And black dogs bay at the moon,
Then is the spectre’s holiday--
Then is the ghost’s high noon!
Ha! Ha!
Then is the ghost’s high noon!
As the sob of the breeze
Sweeps over the trees
And the mists lie low on the fen,
From grey tomb-stones
Are gathered the bones
That once were women and men,
And away they go,
With a mop and a mow,
To the revel that ends too soon,
For cock crow limits our holiday--
The dead of the night’s high noon!
Ha! Ha!
The dead of the night’s high noon!
And then each ghost
With his ladye-toast
To their church yard beds take flight,
With a kiss, perhaps,
On her lantern chaps,
And a grisly grim, “good night!”
Till the welcome knell
Of the midnight bell
Rings forth its jolliest tune,
And ushers in our next high holiday--
The dead of the night’s high noon!
Ha! Ha!
The dead of the night’s high noon!
- W. S. Gilbert (with great Schubert-spoofing music by A. Sullivan)
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It's dark out. My front lights, which are on a timer, are set to come on at five o'clock. Of course, five o'clock today is not the same as it was yesterday, so I may have to figure out how to reset the damn thing. I can turn them on manually, which I have, but now I don't know if they'll turn off at the right time. And what is the right time? They normally turn off at three am - does that mean they will now turn off at four am?
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No trick or treaters yet, but I suppose it's still pretty early. Just as I wrote that we had our first trick or treaters, very young ones, maybe three years old. VERY scary they were. We had a scary princess, and two ghosts.
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DRNoel, stop! stop! We love you! Stop torturing us! Several years ago, a friend of mine, a noted in town arranger and pianist, ran into me at Encores! and he said, "It's official; I've seen VICTOR VICTORIA, JEKYLL & HYDE, and THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, and a law has to be passed forbidding Frank Wildhorn near a Broadway theatre."
AAaaahhh, come on!!
Wildhorn is not responsible for most of the music for Victor/Victoria, and what he did is not that laughable!
Of course, i'm far from all of you pros and experts here -- i"m just a redneck of a musical fan, I guess -- but what is really bad with V/V is due to the lousy lyrics of Mr Bricusse!
Something that has been pointed out at large here today/night so far.....
Anyway, I'm NOT a Wildhorn fan, and he does not need my defense...
... and all i wanted to say is that...
DD looks pretty nice on the pic, and that Tyler is pretty in pink!
Hope most will agree with that! ;D
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6:46 p.m. and no trick-or-treaters yet.
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and a law has to be passed forbidding Frank Wildhorn near a Broadway theatre."
Ask Dubuya!
He'll do that for you! :(
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I don't know when exactly Leslie Bricusse became the hack he is today, but I do blame the majority of V/V and Jekyll and Hyde on him - his lyrics are beyond bad. Where did the lyricist of Once in a Lifetime, At the Crossroads. the entirety of Scrooge, and many others go?
Some scary trick or treaters here tonight. I'm shivering in my boots and I'm not even wearing boots.
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DR Noel,
A professor at Princeton has created a meta-analysis of ALL major vote intention polls in the fifty states and, after some statistical massage, has posted daily on his website where the election stands.
The site is at: http://synapse.princeton.edu/~sam/pollcalc.html
Click on "probability map" next to one of the polls and you can see the country's current divisions. The size of the states has been fiddled with so that they represent the number of electoral college votes they have. The darker the red, the more absolute Bush will win that state. The darker the blue, the more absolute Kerry will win that state.
Or go straight to-http://www.race2004.net/
Emily thanks for the link.
Noel, interesting question. I’m sure Kerry will win in Ashland but I had thought it was too close to call in Oregon, which is why Craig wishes he had changed his registration from California to Oregon before entering the Peace Corp.
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I don't know when exactly Leslie Bricusse became the hack he is today, but I do blame the majority of V/V and Jekyll and Hyde on him - his lyrics are beyond bad. Where did the lyricist of Once in a Lifetime, At the Crossroads. the entirety of Scrooge, and many others go?
Some scary trick or treaters here tonight. I'm shivering in my boots and I'm not even wearing boots.
I agree!
It's hard to believe the same man wrote CRAZY WORLD -- in 1981, and PARIS MAKES ME HORNY -- in 1994, and for the same vehicle!!
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I, too, am puzzled by the Bricusse transformation: How'd he go from the charm and specificity of Someone Nice Like You to the generic greeting card prattle of Someone Like You?
But let's not be too quick to let Wildhorn off the hook. When a lyricist presents a good composer with a bad lyric, a good composer sends him back to the drawing board. If you agree that one common element in Jekyl & Hyde, Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War and Dracula is terrible lyrics, then Wildhorn, by this logic, is not a good composer.
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Jose Keith and I enjoyed your “enthusiastic audience member” story. ;D
François after last nights trick I don’t know if I will ever trust you again. ;)
Sandra did you get that proposal done? I don’t want you returning to the 5th floor.
Charles Pogue get some Tecnu to wash your arm with.
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It's the same costume I wore last year, but since BK wants pictures, here you go. I never look good in pictures. I am much cuter in person. ;D
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Sandra did you get that proposal done? I don?t want you returning to the 5th floor.
I was going to do it today, but all I accomplished was to eat a lot of Milky Ways. I'll do it tomorrow.
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François after last nights trick I don’t know if I will ever trust you again. ;)
TRUST ME!
...oh... a V/V reference and a terrific number by the way, music and lyrics, and we won't mention them here anymore tonight! :D
Jane, take it from me; never trust a French person, mainly if that person is a man! ;D :o
But it's nice to know that you've trusted me in the past! ;)
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I don't know, you look pretty durned cute in that photo. We need MORE photos.
I've already had twice as many kids here as I ever had in the other home environment. I wonder why that is. In fact, I just had the family who bought the other home environment.
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If you agree that one common element in Jekyl & Hyde, Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War and Dracula is terrible lyrics, then Wildhorn, by this logic, is not a good composer.
You're repeating yourself, Noël!
We got the message a long time ago!
Were you to work with Mr Bricusse, would do that yourself?!?
"Well, Leslie... I'm afraid but your words stink here!
Go back to the drawing board, will you, old pal!"
I wonder.... :D
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François after last nights trick I don’t know if I will ever trust you again. ;)
Hmmm... I hope you've kept Keith out of it....
Is the ... treat for tonight??? :o ;D ::)
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Here's a nice strange touch - a cop car is going through the neighborhood, lights flashing, giving out candy to the kids.
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Michael Shayne it is nice to see your face again. How are you feeling?
Danise when was the charming photo of you taken?
Sandra your Halloween outfit is beautiful and, as Bruce said, you look pretty darned cute/beautiful.
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Aw, shucks. Thanks BK and Jane. :)
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I had lunch in Frenchtown, right on the Delaware River.
The art of collaboration involves holding your collaborators to the highest standards they can bear. And, hopefully, they'll hold you to similarly high standards. It worries me when a collaborator likes everything I've done.
Who wants to labor over a melody that's going to be saddled with a stupid lyric? Hardly seems worth the effort.
Of course, I gave up working with lyricists nearly 20 years ago...
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When we lived in neighborhoods we were the last of the diehards who gave out large candy bars. I always tried to buy the good chocolate bars. Over the years, as we had fewer kids stop, I began buying stuff I didn’t like but were favorites of my boys and their friends, things like Jolly Ranchers. I didn’t want to be tempted by the leftovers.
Bryan and Craig would each give me a few treats from their bags, then promptly hide their goodies from me. To this day I can’t imagine why they found it necessary to hide their candy. :o
Today was a beautiful day, a bit nippy but sunny and blue skies. It was the best day in over a week. It seems I have either worked at the nursing home on Halloween or we have been on route to or from L.A. This year we went into town to see the children. We didn’t stay for the parade but did walk up and down the street checking out the costumes as well as stop and say hello to friends.
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Noel I still miss Frenchtown in the fall. Did you eat at the bagel/sandwich place?
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Only a few trick or treaters here so far...and all but the little Dracula (who was envious because his sister, Red Riding Hood, had a much bigger basket to put her candy) seem to be teenagers.
I hope more come otherwise I shall have much leftover candy!
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Photos people, we need photos. Things are winding down here, but we're still getting stragglers.
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MBarnum-cute. Teenagers are fun too.
Guess I shall have to wait until tomorrow to find out where Noel ate lunch.
Goodnight.
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It was an old sandwich place that didn't seem to sell bagels. I had a panini. Right on the north side of the stree that includes the bridge to Pennsylvania
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Now I am getting trick or treaters that are teenagers and who didn't even bother to dress up in costumes! And one kid had a hickey on his neck!
I think that when one gets to the age that one is able to obtain hickeys, then one is likely too old to trick or treat!
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I am just about to post photos!
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Now you see - here I thought we were winding down and, in fact, we wound up. I just had about forty kids come to the door over the last fifteen minutes. I'm almost out of candy - nine bags worth.
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Same here BK...7:30 must be the witching hour! I am almost out of candy as well! Lots of kids in the last 15 minutes.
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I tried, but could not find any old halloween pics! I know I have some...but where..
...so instead here is a halloween picture of my neice Katie (the one who just got married this year) when she was about 7 or 8 years old...dressed as the princess her uncle Mike knows she is! She and I picked this dress out from Goodwill!
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And as others were sharing photos of their home environment I will do likewise! Here is a photo of the house I have now been in for 3 years.
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Here is my couch in my living room. I love this couch and had is specially made...picked out the style and fabric!
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Another shot of my living room.
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Here is my buddy Mark, who hates to have his picture took. He is working hard in his office.
Tomorrow I will tell him that I posted his photo on the internet...of course he frequents the Gay.com chat rooms so his photos are really all over the place! LOL!
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Hey, MBarnum, that looks like our couch.
Notice the lovely leopard spotted pillows. And the ugly chicken pitcher in the upper left corner. I love that thing.
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6:46 p.m. and no trick-or-treaters yet.
7:55 (PDT) and no trick-or-treaters! :-\
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I just ran out of candy. Amazing - it's never happened in six years of being in this neighborhood. I've still got seven Almond Joys in the freezer - I'll give those away if anyone else shows up.
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I literally have gone through nine or ten huge bags of candy. How many PEOPLE is that?
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I've still got seven Almond Joys in the freezer
How I envy you. You've made my mouth water.
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Photos people, we need photos. Things are winding down here, but we're still getting stragglers.
My sister showed me her brand new cell phone today. It can take pictures! BUT she won't even learn how to take pictures with it! She only wants a phone to be a phone...not a camera, not an Internet provider, not a gameboy. So, I have no pictures of me in my Charlie Brown shirt (I was in the show a couple of years ago) and my blinking "This is my costume" hat. :(
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Five Almond Joys left. And I can still hear kids out there on the street. I'll give 'em away until there are no more, but I think this is very unusual for it to go on this late. I like it, though - does my heart good to see the cute little kiddies.
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I scanned my hat! Here's a scan of the logo:
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And here's a scan while it's blinking. The lights are actually red:
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8:10 and STILL NO TRICK-OR-TREATERS!! Oh, well...that just means all the Hershey's minature chocolates are for me! ;D
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Down to the last two Almond Joys. Still, it's eight-fifteen, so we MUST be winding down.
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I did not like J&H at all when I saw it. "This Is the Moment" is an involving power ballad, but otherwise, I just didn't like any of the music or anything else. It bored me to tears.
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Darling Michael Shayne: It is so good to see you back with us.
I guess you didn't read yesterday's forum because I had already mentioned that Harris/Feltenstein interview and left the URL for people to check out if interested.
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No treat-or-treaters at my house tonight either, DR George.
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And none here, the last house on the street. But, of course, I came here to avoid crowds. And I've avoided candy as well.
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We had a grand total of seven trick-or-treaters. Very disappointing. Even Mae-Ling Goldstein next door didn't come.
I saw Jekkyl and Hyde with my then young teen son. I worried the whole show that Linda Eder would pop out of her costume whenever she took a deep breath. The rest of the show I pretty much blocked out.
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I think it's finally over, and none to soon as I am now completely out of everything. I was going to start giving cheese slices if anyone else showed up. Speaking of showing up, my neighbor and old pal Ellen Butterfield (who I once took on a date when we were but teenagers) stopped by and she told me that my (and her) street is the most popular in all the Valley. No wonder I had over a hundred kids here. She also insisted I walk two doors north to see the house there. That house was done up in true Halloween style, with music, and glow in the dark scary things and tombstones and people in costumes - amazing, the hit of the neighborhood. And just up the street from that was another house where they'd set up a big screen TV outside and were showing Van Helsing or something.
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I heard on a news item right before turning off the TV that Hallowe'en was a $4 billion business this year. Is Christmas this big any more?
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Good Evening!
Whew! Tonight's show was a bit of a trial to get through for me. I just started getting tired physically and mentally about an hour into it, and it got to the point where I kept thinking I was nodding off while I was playing. -Whatever that means... So... I think I'm just gonna stay here in my hotel room, and veg out in front of TV instead of joining the festivities downstairs... But, who knows...
*We're doing an informal promo for A Chorus Line tomorrow night a local piano bar, so I know I'll be going out tomorrow night, but tonight...
-Alas, it's also supposed to rain tomorrow, and I was planning on walking around downtown Houston as well as checking out Memorial Park and the Arboretum. Hmm, maybe I'll finally check out Chocolate Bar, or maybe the Dessert Gallery! Hmm...
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I've never had trick-or-treaters while living in Richmond, but I've seen them. The part of town I live in, The Fan, is populated by families, singles and college kids, and somehow, those groups seem to live near each other. So, there are some blocks that have sort of a Halloween block party. All the families on one block will arrange some organized fun as well as keep tons of candy on hand - some of the decorating gets quite elaborate. Some kids from the suburbs have been known to drive in to the Fan to "attend" the parties in the blocks. And vice versa. Most of the college kids are either out at the bars on Halloween, or they're having some kegger at their apartment - meaning no kiddies. Thankfully, everyone and everything seems to go on side by side with no hassles.
In Fairfax and Arlington while I was growing up, we would get trick-or-treaters as late at 10:00pm sometimes! Just depended on the weather, and sometimes on the TV programming for that night. -And the day of the week. School night Halloweens were/are always early evenings.
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I heard on a news item right before turning off the TV that Hallowe'en was a $4 billion business this year. Is Christmas this big any more?
Christmas is still bigger, but Halloween is in the Number 2 spot in regards to money spent on decorations and other accountrements.
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I was away from the computer this weekend, and then tonight a friend treated us to an evening with Joan Rivers. It was a fundraiser for 519 Church Street, Toronto's gay community center, and our friend's company had sponsored a table.
The mostly young people at our table were fun and some of the costumes (optional) were amusing. But I wasn't prepared for how obnoxious Joan Rivers would be. Her timing was off and she flubbed her lines a few too many times. And self-deprecating humor is no longer part of her shtick, now that she's had so much cosmetic surgery (she looked airbrushed). Of course, she wouldn't be Joan Rivers without being offensive. But she more than crossed the line with really cruel cracks about Janet Leigh's death and Julie Andrews' surgery (and she thought Julie Andrews was Canadian). And did we really need an extended Amy Carter joke? Or, especially, a tired routine about old people fleeing a fire - now adapted to the World Trade Center? I hope the event raised lots of money. The dinner (steak, very tender) was good, but the evening left me with an unpleasant taste.
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(and she thought Julie Andrews was Canadian).
Her step-father, Ted Andrews, was, but Dame Julie is an English beauty rose, born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey!....
We'll let Joan Rivers go down the grand rapids! Splash! ;)
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I think that when one gets to the age that one is able to obtain hickeys, then one is likely too old to trick or treat!
Sounds to me like he was tricking and treating quite well, holiday or not.
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Rather than deal with the precious young children from the neighborhood in their precious little costumes and the not so precious older kids from outside the neighborhood in their not so precious costumes (or no costume at all), I decided to skip the whole trick-or-treater legalized extortion thing tonight and do something a little different. I went to the Walt Disney Concert Hall for a screening of the 1925 The Phantom of the Opera featuring Mr. Lon Chaney. Live musical accompaniment was provided on the spanking (Oh. A fetish reference.) new concert pipe organ. The event was real swell.
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Good Evening!
WOW! It's not yet 6:00AM and I'm actually tired and thinking of heading to bed?!?! What a concept. ;)
So... I'm off to the Burger of Wuss. ???
Goodnight.