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Title: NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 12:01:07 AM
Well, you've read the notes, you know the new watch cry of haineshisway.com, you know we're havin' a partay, and thus you may now post until the cows come home, which they now will because of the no halvah edict.
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 19, 2004, 12:10:11 AM
Happy Birthday Jason.
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 19, 2004, 12:19:30 AM
CDs: The Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club  Band"
         London Cast (Tommy Steele) "Some Like It Hot"
          Still Jerome Kern!!!!

DVD: Bobby Darin:  "Mack is Back"
Record: "On The Wings Of Love"  Jeffrey Osborne.
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 01:09:19 AM
DVD player: I'm catching up with films that start with the letter A.  Adam's Rib, Angels in America, Adaptation.

CD player (car): Der Brucer bought a disc of Ferrante and Teicher during our DVD raid last week.  

CD player (house): just a variety of stuff, getting used to having a CD player in my room.  Yes, BK, a lot of what's playing is what you've produced.  Only this time, I'm paying more attention to what Elmore worked on, too.  (See, the discussions on this site do have their effect.)

And I'm reading this mystery story set in 1969.  I'd include the title, but I'm stuck to remembering it.
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Post by: Danise on November 19, 2004, 03:33:40 AM
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Birthday,[/move]

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]DR Jason!!![/move]
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: elmore3003 on November 19, 2004, 04:00:00 AM
Good morning, all!  First, DRJason, Happy Birthday and wishes for many more healthy and happy ones.

DRNoel, I hope things didn't get too testy yesterday about opera and musical theatre.  When I was much much younger than I am now, I believed a lot more in things I read about subjects only to find later that the writer fed me a line.  I find this happens a lot - Ethan Mordden's entirely incorrect account of my Cole Porter restoration JUBILEE is the latest, and since it's in print it must be true! -  and I've been lucky to work in a field where a lot of things I'd seen in print turned out to be wrong, from plot synopses to casting.

So, I'm outspoken, not mean (I hope), but I'm a Virgo, and I analyze the hell out of things.  I've had about 40 years of reading, listening and working in various aspects of musical theatre, from opera to musical comedy.  I couldn't tell you which came first, probably opera, and I've formed my own opinions of the field, which often are totally the oppposite of your views.  I respect them, but I'll challenge them, partly to keep the debate going and partly to help me formulate my own thoughts.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Michael on November 19, 2004, 04:00:41 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON


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Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on November 19, 2004, 04:28:14 AM
A barely-survived trip to the dentist followed by a halvah binge. Is there something not right with this picture?

* * *

No More Halvah - Two Versions

When you lift the lid, the music plays
Like a disapproving nod.
And it sings in your ear:
"No more halvah, my dear!"
In a way, it's a little like the voice of God.



Comes the day you say, 'What for?'
Please.. no more (halvah).

Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on November 19, 2004, 04:28:39 AM
Happiest of Birthdays to DR Jason!
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Post by: Ben on November 19, 2004, 04:30:25 AM
Oh, Michael!!! Where on earth did you find that picture???

Happy Birthday Jason! Think of MTI as Minscule Talentless Imbiciles (except for you)

Listening to a rebroadcast of Russell Davies on BBC Radio Two right now. I'm not sure what else I will listen to during the day.

I will be seeing a cabaret show tonight. Friends who had a singing group for a few years have decided this is the end. They are performing at Don't Tell Mama's and recording the evening to make a CD. It will be the farewell performance.

Anthony will be working at ActorFest tomorrow. It's a full day seminar hosted by Backstage, the trade paper here in New York (I think they also have a Los Angeles edition). I shall attempt to purchase a couple of his Christmas gifts since he will be away. Shhh, don't tell him. Since I'm about to embark on my monthly vacation from work, we will be together full time for the next month so there isn't much time. I also have to get a few more Hannukah presents (I have five of the requisite eight) so I can mail out the box on Monday.

Hi, Dan. Hi, Woody.
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Post by: Emily on November 19, 2004, 05:07:46 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON! :)
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on November 19, 2004, 05:11:22 AM
Happy Happy Birthday, Dear Reader Jason!!!
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 19, 2004, 05:47:00 AM
No More Halvah - Two Versions

When you lift the lid, the music plays
Like a disapproving nod.
And it sings in your ear:
"No more halvah, my dear!"
In a way, it's a little like the voice of God.



Comes the day you say, 'What for?'
Please.. no more (halvah).


DRDIT, you beat me to it!

Media alert:

CD:  Always Guy Haines, and now I have this "Bus and Truck" demo to listen to.   Beyond that, no idea.

DVD:  I've got one Netflix film and I forget what it is!

VHS:  I have this new player, nothing I do programs it correctly, and I'm abandoning videocassettes.  What the hell?

And I'm seeing the Almodovar film tomorrow night.  Beyond that, I'll see where my listening/viewing takes me.  I'm reading the new Bankhead and Margot Fonteyn bios simultaneously, so now I want to see Talullah in THE SLEEPING BEAUTY and Fonteyn in LIFEBOAT.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on November 19, 2004, 05:48:52 AM
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]! ! ! ! !  HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR JASON  ! ! ! ! !   [/move]
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Dan (the Man) on November 19, 2004, 06:19:28 AM
My Halvah-Free Media Check:

CD Player (at home):  A Party With betty Comdon and Adolph Green (the first one)

CD Player (at work):  Nothing.

DVD Player:  My Man Godfrey bought by my sister at K-mart for the price of--you guessed it--a dollar.  What is it with all these $1 DVDs?

VHS:  Nothing.

MP3 player:  Frank Zappa's Chocolate Halvah  D'oh!  Almost made it all the way through...  Isn't it insidious how much halvah invades our lives?

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Post by: Jennifer on November 19, 2004, 06:48:38 AM

Happy Birthday DR Jason!


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Post by: MBarnum on November 19, 2004, 07:06:15 AM
Media check:

CD: Arabian Pop Hits

VHS: Mask of Fu Manchu

DVD: W.C Fields collection and The Marx Bros. Collection, Johnny One Eye.

And my Bollywood movie of the week is Angilumala. A fun costume drama that I started last night and will finish this afternoon.

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Post by: MBarnum on November 19, 2004, 07:07:05 AM
Have a wonderful Birthday Jason!!!  ;D :D ;) :)
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on November 19, 2004, 07:13:44 AM
The Number One reason I should never try to multi-task:

I forgot the change the master on the copy machine and ran off the wrong page on ALL of the Thanksgiving bulletins.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Dan (the Man) on November 19, 2004, 07:14:58 AM
I go to retrieve my toasted bagel and return to my desk to find that someone has left a mysterious package there.  I wonder what it can be...
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Noel on November 19, 2004, 07:15:00 AM
Zombie Prom, a musical by Dempsey and Rowe
The Christmas Bride, a musical by Noel Katz (demo)
Lost In Boston III

The tape deck has various cassettes involving work on Generation F'd.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 08:03:32 AM
elmore's post above (his response to Noel) is why I love this site and why we will soon be the most popular site on all the Internet.
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Post by: Ginny on November 19, 2004, 08:06:11 AM
CD - A Saturday Tradition, The University of Michigan Marching Band, to counteract all the Ohio State Buckeye mania going on in my workplace today.  Go Blue!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 08:17:54 AM
Good Morning!

...As much as I like being a late-night denizen, I'm sort of digging being on a "normal" schedule.  Of course, as soon as I start rehearsals and performances for Hallelujah, Baby! in two weeks, all bets are off...

Media Check:

CD Player: Bus and Truck (demo), Caroline, or Change (OCR), Dave Grusin's new solo piano movie themes disc, and a bunch of other things on stand-by

DVD: Broadway: The Golden Age, Khwahish

VCR: ????
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 08:22:43 AM
Just heard the sad news that Cy Coleman had a massive heart attack and has died.  

I have so many lovely memories of him - he was very sweet, very kind, very gracious.  I remember going over his house to play him the Coleman cuts on Emily and Alice's album (I think there were three) and he was just like a little kid and he loved them.  

I remember the first time I met him - I'd sent him a note about including a classical piece by him on the Bay Cities' Classical Broadway album.  I hadn't heard back from him, and then one day the phone rang and I heard, "Bruce?  This is Cy.  Listen to this."  And he proceeded to play for me over the phone "Never Met a Man I Didn't Like" which he'd just gotten the mix of.  I thought it was such a funny way to meet one of my legends.

I remember badgering him to come and record a jazz CD for me - we talked and talked about it, but sadly the timing was never right.

I remember doing the revival cast album of Little Me - Neil Simon didn't want to be involved in the dialogue choices for the album, but I was insistent on having them because I felt it was the only way you'd know what Marty Short was about in the show - so, Cy and I sat for two days figuring it out, and we just had so much fun doing it.  I met his lovely wife that day, and her telling the story of how they met and their courtship was priceless and pure Cy.  And I remember the Little Me session as one of the easiest ever, and Cy just sitting next to Harold Wheeler, the orchestrator, and just loving hearing the tracks go down.

Finally, I remember him getting me his house seats for The Life, which he wanted me to see.  After the show, I handed him Lost in Boston IV, which we'd just finished, and which had Gimme a Raincheck, a cut song from Sweet Charity.  I'd seen a workshop of The Life months before and hated it - but somehow between then and what I saw that night, the show had become pretty good, thanks to Cy's music and Michael Blakemore's production.  Anyway, I handed Cy the CD and he, as always, was thrilled that the song had been recorded - I then told him how much I'd enjoyed the show, and said, "Cy, you are always the hippest one in the room."

And that was Cy - always the hippest one in the room.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 08:24:12 AM
Now, back to the halvah...

-What flavor of halvah was it? Plain (vanilla)? Chocolate? Pistachio? Marble (vanilla and chocolate)? Chocolate Covered?

-What form of halvah was it? A stick (like a quarter of butter)?  A brick (like a brick of cheese)?  Sliced to order from the deli? A pre-sliced, and wrapped piece?

And most importantly...

-Just how much of said halvah did you eat? ;)
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 08:28:40 AM
Very sad news about Cy Coleman...

"The Colors of My Life..."
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Post by: Panni on November 19, 2004, 08:34:42 AM
Very sad about Cy Coleman. I obviously have no personal memories of him like bk does, but will add the following... I was in New York with DD once when she was quite young. I told her we could see any show she wanted -- and she picked THE LIFE. Not ANNIE or something equally benign. My kid. Well, she just loved it. In fact, I had to explain to her that being a "ho" was not an option as a career choice. I still have the little match box from the show that she insisted on buying.
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Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 08:35:13 AM
Two other funny memories:

We'd done the Randy Graff Cy Coleman album.  We sent Randy the mix and she had certain problems with it, which neither Vinnie nor I agreed with.  We went back and forth on it.  In the meantime, she sent the CD to Cy, saying nothing, just to get his reaction.  He called her and told her he loved it, loved her singing, loved the song selection.  And then he said, "Oh, and tell Bruce that's one of the best-mixed albums I've ever heard."  That was the end of Randy's problems with the mix.

And when I saw Will Rogers Follies, I developed a crush on one of the showgirls, Wendy Waring.  I called Tony Walton, and he told Wendy about it, and I later met her (never meet the people you have crushes on).  I told Cy that I had a little schoolboy crush on Wendy (just prior to meeting her) and his reply?  "Get in line."
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Post by: Panni on November 19, 2004, 08:35:53 AM
...Oh, I almost forgot... She also insisted on waiting by the stage door after the show and meeting the cast. I think I still have the autographed playbill.
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 08:38:46 AM
I agree, very sad news about Cy Coleman.

I have a recording of him singing with Dorothy Fields, circa '72, dueting on numbers they wrote for Sweet Charity and See-Saw.  One of the tracks is a song that wasn't used for the latter show called "If There Were More People Like You."  I think I need to play it now.
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Post by: Panni on November 19, 2004, 08:41:16 AM


            HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JASON!

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Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 08:52:55 AM
I was right, that was the right song to play just now.

Article over at Playbill On-Line (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/89700.html).
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Post by: Ginny on November 19, 2004, 08:52:57 AM
Very sad about Cy Coleman - he was guest performer with our local symphony in 1977 and was very gracious at the reception afterward.  I was going to NY the very next week and he made sure I knew how to get good seats for I Love My Wife, which had just opened.  The Santa combo singing "Hey There, Good Times," always cheers me up.
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Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 08:54:32 AM
May as well do our favorite Cy:

On the Other Side of the Tracks
Little Me
The whole of Sweet Charity
Then Was Then, and Now is Now
Song from The Heartbreak Kid
Hey There, Good Times
Witchcraft
Hey Look Me Over
What Takes My Fancy
Tall Hope
You've Come Home
Pass Me By (from the movie Father Goose)
and many others.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 08:57:53 AM
Happy Birthday, Jason!
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Post by: Charles Pogue on November 19, 2004, 09:00:34 AM
Favourite Cy Coleman:  You Fascinate Me So!
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Post by: Noel on November 19, 2004, 09:05:28 AM
One of my favorite Cy Coleman songs is I Walk a Little Faster and it's about being alone in New York but ever optimistic that around the next corner will be the person you'll fall in love with.  It was once selected as the best song ever written about New York, even though there's no indication it's about New York in the main body of the song, just the tiny intro verse.

Today, with Coleman gone (and not possibly around the corner), I Walk a Little Slower
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Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 09:08:42 AM
I know a couple of you said you might be willing to take over the formatting of our Unseemly Interviews.  The person who used to do that, Mr. Craig Brockman, has said it's not all that easy and that the person should have something called Dreamweaver software.  I don't know if that's downloadable or not, but I really would love someone to be able to do this - his other suggestion was to just put the interviews on our daily discussion board but for me that doesn't work at all.
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Post by: Stuart on November 19, 2004, 09:12:30 AM
First and foremost, Happy Birthday DR Jason.  Don't let life (or MTI) get you down.  Celebrate!  Life is a banquet...well, you know the rest.

But secondly, and just as important are the deaths of both Gregory Mitchell AND Cy Coleman.  The Dear Partner was always a HUGE Gregory Mitchell fan.

But Coleman.....  Favorite Coleman?  Hard to list them all, but certainly:

Witchcraft
Our Private World
Where Am I Going?
Welcome to Holiday Inn
You Wanna Bet?
Pink Taffeta...
The Best is Yet to Come

I am sure I will think of others
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 09:13:58 AM
Found this bio (http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=6) on-line.
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Post by: Noel on November 19, 2004, 09:14:30 AM
Civil disagreement is a wonderful thing.  Not only did I detect no testiness in DR Elmore's posts, it was hard for me to see how we'd disagreed.  From my point of view, the discussion went something like this:

N: Horses have four legs with very rare exceptions.

L: No, that can't be true.  I've seen a zebra, and it has four legs.

N: I'm not denying what you say about zebras.  I've only said that most horses have four legs.

L: What about goats?  Goats have four legs, I think.

N: We could name four-legged creatures until the cows come home.

L: Cows have four legs.

N: So do unicorns, but it doesn't have anything to do with the quantity of legs of horses.

L: It takes some time to figure out that just because stuff is printed in a book, doesn't mean it's true.

N: I give up.  I only ascertained horses had four legs by reading Gerald Bordman.  Forget that I've been to Belmont Park.

L: That's horse racing!

N: And on that we can agree.
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 09:18:44 AM
The Colors of My Life, Come Follow the Band, Real Live Girl, Veronique, Life is Like a Train, I've Got It All...

...The Legacy.
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Post by: Noel on November 19, 2004, 09:29:50 AM
Thinking over the Coleman canon, it's interesting that he did his best work in collaboration with female lyricists.  I think his best show was Sweet Charity (Dorothy Fields), but if one were to look at music and not all the other elements of the show, it might be On the 20th Century (Betty Comden & Adolph Green).  I think much of his best work was the early "pop" writing with Carolyn Leigh (You Fascinate Me So, A Doodlin' Song, Witchcraft, It Amazes Me, I Walk a Little Faster).  My least favorite Coleman scores are the ones he wrote with men, The Life, Barnum, I Love My Wife.  He wrote a brilliant song, You There in the Back Row, for a never-produced musical (Barbara Fried).  The exception to all this is City of Angels.  Wednesday my day included playing With Every Breath I Take and It's a Nice Face - and the gift those melodies give to the performer, just extraordinary.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 09:36:35 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JASON!!
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 09:38:13 AM
Cy Coleman.....so sad....but he left us with so many wonderful songs.

HEY LOOK ME OVER is such an optimistic song!

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Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 09:43:05 AM
Media Check:

CD: Bobby Darin The Hit Singles Collection and BUS AND TRUCK demo CD

DVD: Skeleton of Cadavra and Judgment at Nuremburg

VHS: I LOVE LUCY - Lucy Learns to Drive, "How was I to know there wasn't room to make a U-turn?"
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Post by: Ginny on November 19, 2004, 09:53:23 AM
Media check, amended - Just went to the AV dept. in the library where I work and came away with 2 CDs:

Barnum OBC and Julie Wilson Sings the Cy Coleman Songbook.
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 10:08:10 AM
Hmmmmm.....I guess my favorite - if I could have one - Cy Coleman song...or at least WAY up there is:  The Best is Yet to Come.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 19, 2004, 10:17:47 AM
Elmoore, Elmoore
He's our man!
If he can't placate you
No one can!

:)
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 19, 2004, 10:18:07 AM
Happy Birthday, Jason B.!!!!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 19, 2004, 10:18:48 AM
Cy Coleman...bless his soul!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 19, 2004, 10:20:10 AM
Halvah?  Ain't that in a song from some Neil Simon show?

"Halvah! Halvah!
El mal Kamalvah!"

No?  Guess that was "Sharma, sharma, el mal kamarma" come to think of it.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 19, 2004, 10:22:00 AM
It's Friday.  It's a payday.

I've had two GREAT therapy sessions this week and my elbow smarts like a sumbitch!

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Post by: George on November 19, 2004, 10:23:27 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dear Reader JASON!!
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Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 10:26:24 AM
First:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BROADWAY BRAT!

Dija get my present yet?  Dija, dija?
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 10:33:32 AM
New York, New York!
It's a halvah town!
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on November 19, 2004, 10:33:40 AM
I know I should feel sad or a sense of loss about Cy Coleman's passing, but I can't help thinking about all the wonderful songs he's given us over the years.  And then I start humming bits and pieces of the songs and the next thing I know I'm groovin' along.  Hard to feel bad when you have "Hey There, Good Times" going through your head.
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Post by: George on November 19, 2004, 10:46:13 AM
I love City of Angels, On the Twentieth Century, Sweet Charity, etc., but I also have Cy's solo album, "It Started With A Dream (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005UT2M/qid=1100888507/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-9712151-7223155?v=glance&s=music&n=507846)."  It's just Cy singing and playing a piano with guests Tony Bennett and Lilias White.  It's absolutely delightful!
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Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 10:47:11 AM
Second:

Cy Coleman was here at Hofstra for a conference on musical theatre a year and a half ago.  I had a horrible toothache that week and missed a lot.  I did, however, see Cy on two occasions.

He gave a "lecture", which was basically a bunch of wonderful remeniscences--stories about David Merrick and Carolyn Leigh, and everybody else.  He said that he eventually got fed up with working with Carolyn and was looking for a lyricist.  He met Dorothy Fields, the Great Dorothy Fields at a party, and with some trepidation approached the famous lady:  could she find time in her, presumably, busy schedule to work with him?  "Of course," she replied.  "You know, nobody ever asks any more."  Voilà Charity!

The next day I actually got Joe to shlep to campus with me to see "Cy Coleman and Friends" in the campus theatre.  Michelle Lee, Carollee Carmello, and others sang various Coleman songs, Cy did "I Never Met a Man I Didn't Like", and the Cy Coleman Trio did some jazz pieces.  The most amazing was "Three" from I Love My Wife as a jazz instrumental.  I never realized how terrific the music was to that song, always listening to the lyrics.

By the end of the evening I was thinking, "I really want to work with this man."  Now I'll never have the chance.  Somewhere I have a vinyl recording of him singing his own material.  But we don't have a turntable set up.

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Post by: George on November 19, 2004, 10:47:33 AM
And one for Coleman!!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 10:47:57 AM
Good Afternoon!

-I just finished a bit of tidying up around the apartment, and now I must get ready to head up north - well, at least up to Fairfax to spend some time with my family.  And, as luck would have it, my brother, Jay - not to be confused with DR Stuart's DB/DR Jay - will be flying in tonight too from San Diego.

Laters... from Fairfax
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Post by: Sandra on November 19, 2004, 10:48:48 AM
Happy birthday, Dear Reader Jason!! *Throwing confetti* To celebrate, I will go get a Cherry Coke as soon as I leave the library.

You may have written a whole paragraph about halvah, BK, but I bet that my fencing buddies and I are the only ones to have a ten-minute conversation about having anvils down your pants.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vibes for my mom while she tries to clean up her bulletin mess.
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Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 10:58:39 AM
CD Player at Work:  I just finished listening to the BK-produced Bay Cities The Anastasia Affair.  But now I have in The Will Rogers Follies, because it's the only Cy Coleman CD I have at work, and I want to hear Keith Carradine sing "I Never Met a Man I Didn't Like", so I can cry.  I feel I deserve a good cry when someone like him passes.  I'll go home later and play "Hey There Good Times" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now" and dance around the room with joy and celebration and laughter and legs.

VCR:  A blank tape, of course, for tonight's episode of Enterprise.  And speaking of Keith Carradine, yes, I did cry in the episode where his character died.  But hey, it was T'Pol, the Vulcan, who suggested naming the new nebula after him.  
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Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 10:59:48 AM
And I grew up in Oklahoma, where Will Rogers is something of a demi-god, second only to Mickey Mantle.
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Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 11:07:57 AM
Now since no one has made even one little peep about my riddle from yesterday, I will repeat it:

How (variant = Why) is a mouse when it spins?

And another couple of hints:

Steven King had the answer, but he was asked a different question, down a rabbit hole.

Alexander Rozhenko knew the answer, but he never heard the question.
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Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 11:08:23 AM
What do you mean, "Who is Alexander Rozhenko?"?
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Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 11:09:09 AM
Why, he is the grandson of Baron von Trapp and Bill Sykes' Nancy, of course.
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Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 11:09:42 AM
I am a my own frenzy.
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 19, 2004, 11:12:21 AM
He's baaaaaaaack!  I've been hither and yawn since 8 this morning and I just started the laundry.  Where the hell is the Glamorous Life.  I'm enjoying WRITER'S BLOCK  quite a lot, although Dear Friend BK threw me for a loop right smack in the middle and I don't know where it will lead.  Hmmm . . .

DRRLP, thank you for the chaming poem. ;D

Cy Coleman's death is very sad.  I was at the same concert with DRGinny, and he was adorable about helping her with a ticket for I LOVE MY WIFE.  It was at the reception after the concert, and he was the epitome of graciousness and charm.  He may have been exhausted, but he was knd to everyone there.
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 19, 2004, 11:13:45 AM
What do you mean, "Who is Alexander Rozhenko?"?

What I mean is, who the hell is Alexander Rozhenko?  Why is he saying those mean things about mice?
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 19, 2004, 11:15:33 AM
Now I have to put down BUS AND TRUCK and listen to Cy.  I think WILDCAT, just for "Tall Hope" and "What Takes My Fancy."  And Robert Ginzler's fabulous orchestrations.
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 11:23:17 AM
One more discount code for DEEPDISCOUNTDVD in case you want to place that third order....hehehe

NYTIMES
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 11:27:11 AM
I don't understand the mouse question.

Lovely Cy Coleman stories.  EBAY has a few Cy Coleman Trio albums....
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Post by: Jay on November 19, 2004, 11:30:07 AM
[size=8][move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]The happiest of birthdays to you, Dear Reader Jason!!![/move][/size]
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 11:51:32 AM
DRJAY - I now have the lovely Allison house photos in a frame next to the lovely photos of her home in Orange County and the lovely photos of her present abode at Holy Cross!

Just got my DVD of CALL ME MADAM - any opinions from DR's on the Krueger commentary?
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Post by: Jennifer on November 19, 2004, 11:52:49 AM
Question for all you guys placing orders with deepdiscount.  Why do you all need to place 2 or 3 orders?  If it's for 20% off, how come you can't just place one big order?

I'm confused. :)
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Post by: Jennifer on November 19, 2004, 11:54:29 AM
***APPRENTICE SPOILER FROM LAST NIGHT ***






The best line of the night was Wes sitting beside Maria at the end saying, "geez I at least wanted my own cab."

:)
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Post by: Ben on November 19, 2004, 11:58:33 AM
Thanks to Google:

"Another entry was on the meaning of the curious nonsense riddle Why is a mouse when he spins? and its even sillier answer, The higher, the fewer. This was one of my father's favorites. The most interesting answer was that it is not altogether nonsense - properly it should go How is a mouse when it spins? - The higher, the fewer. And the meaning had to do with the centrifugal governor on an old steam engine - the weight was called the mouse, and as the engine rpm increased the mouse would rise due to centrifugal force. But as the mouse rose, the arm would force the steam valve in the more closed direction, thus reducing the rpm, that is, the higher (the mouse), the fewer (rpms). So for a given setting of the mouse on the arm, the engine would run at a constant speed."
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 19, 2004, 12:07:44 PM
Thanks to Google:

"Another entry was on the meaning of the curious nonsense riddle Why is a mouse when he spins? and its even sillier answer, The higher, the fewer. This was one of my father's favorites. The most interesting answer was that it is not altogether nonsense - properly it should go How is a mouse when it spins? - The higher, the fewer. And the meaning had to do with the centrifugal governor on an old steam engine - the weight was called the mouse, and as the engine rpm increased the mouse would rise due to centrifugal force. But as the mouse rose, the arm would force the steam valve in the more closed direction, thus reducing the rpm, that is, the higher (the mouse), the fewer (rpms). So for a given setting of the mouse on the arm, the engine would run at a constant speed."

Thank you, Ben.   :-* :-* :-*
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 19, 2004, 12:14:21 PM

The best line of the night was Wes sitting beside Maria at the end saying, "geez I at least wanted my own cab."

:)

DRJennifer, as soon as I saw they had to get into the same cab, I thought "I bet they throttle each other!"  I love this show.

Has anyone ever watched PASSIONS the stupidest show on afternoon tv?  I caught a bit of it today, and the title should change to "Sniveling, Whining."
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Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 12:15:06 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON!!  

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!
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Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 12:16:12 PM
 I'm reading the new Bankhead and Margot Fonteyn bios simultaneously, so now I want to see Talullah in THE SLEEPING BEAUTY and Fonteyn in LIFEBOAT.

 ;D
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on November 19, 2004, 12:28:49 PM
Favorite Cy Coleman songs? How about Here's To Us?

There are so many wonderful songs. Others that immediately come to mind:

We Had A Dream
Where Am I Going?
I'm Way Ahead
Our Private World

BK, Thanks for sharing those wonderful stories.

About four years ago I was in New York and went to hear Lillias White sing at Arcie's Place. I arrived as Cy Coleman was leaving the first show. Between shows he sat in the lounge while I listened to him sing Lillias's praises to friends and strangers. It was Lillias's evening, and Cy Coleman brought every conversation back to her. It was nice but not surprising to see him go back for her second show.
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Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 12:34:26 PM
Matt H. Tuesday I wasn’t able to get here Tuesday until the afternoon, after a very hectic day.  I figured I was likely speed reading and missed your suggestion to record HOUSE.  I have noticed I enjoy and watch a number of the same shows you do so I would have recorded HOUSE if I had seen it.  Just out of curiosity I checked your posts to see what I missed-and I still can’t find it.
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 12:36:17 PM
Well DRJENNIFER - at first I thought of just a few DVD's I wanted so I ordered...then I thought of some more.  

Then DRMBARNUM mentioned some more.  
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Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 12:36:39 PM

François thanks for the Castle link.

I like my marbled halvah cold and without nuts.  Eating too much halvah also makes me sick-if only I didn't make such a pig of myself, the problem is stopping it is soo good.

DtM which MY MAN GODFRY?  I prefer the David Niven & June Allyson, 1957 remake.  I suspect I’m in the minority on this.

Noel on four legs: LOL

RLP cute ditty to elmore
GREAT therapy-at first I thought wonderful then decided you were being sarcastic-hope it was both.
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Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 12:42:05 PM
I threw elmore for a loop, excellent.  The loop will lead you, do not worry.
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Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 12:43:23 PM
I watch PASSIONS when I can, it's the silliest most entertaining thing on NBC!  But now that we have that unseemly angle to speak about, there's a certain seriousness invading Harmony.  It's not always easy to tread that line between offensive and entertainment value, but, a good deal of the time PASSIONS gets its right.  Poor Chad.  Poor Whitney.  I still believe that if PASSIONS had more talented actors, like Juliet Mills and Kathleen Noone, rather than the bottom of the casting pool, things would be even more entertaining in Harmony.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON!

Very sad about Mr. Coleman, I LOVE MY WIFE was one of the earliest Broadway shows which I saw - and gawd, was James Naughton young then, too!
Like Noel, my favorite Cy Coleman song is "I Walk a Little Faster."

MEDIA CHECK:
cd players:  Bobby Darin sings Ray Charles, Dusty in Memphis, BUS AND TRUCK, Maureen McGovern sings Gershwin, Dionne Warwick:  My Favorite Time of the Year.
dvd:  TENEBRE (really liked this one, and didn't guess the murderer's identity), MICHAEL BALL LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL.
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Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 12:49:12 PM

Interesting stories on Cy Coleman.  When someone special is lost the stories keep them alive.

WITCHCRAFT
THE BEST IS YET TO COME

“Mr. Coleman's musical education began early. Born Seymour Kaufman on June 14, 1929, the son of Russian immigrants, Max and Ida Kaufman, he was raised in a Bronx apartment house owned by his mother. As he later told it, one of the tenants moved out and left a piano behind. The Kaufmans made the piano their own and soon their 4-year-old son made it his. The boy was good enough to attract the attention of the building's milkman, who in turn mentioned the prodigy to his own son's piano teacher. The teacher was impressed and offered classical lessons, with the result that young Coleman (he was still Kaufman then) made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 7.”
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on November 19, 2004, 12:49:13 PM
Has anyone ever watched PASSIONS the stupidest show on afternoon tv?  I caught a bit of it today, and the title should change to "Sniveling, Whining."

I watched it for a while when it first started.  It was being billed as the new Dark Shadows, but aside from some new agey wiccan kind of spells and the fact that Juilet Mills' Tabatha was supposed to be over 200 years old, I didn't find the soap sufficiently supernatural to keep my interest.  It did eventually go that way whole hog (there was that Timmy the Doll character and I think there might have been a storyline about aliens), but now I understand that it's just a basic soap now.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 19, 2004, 12:51:07 PM
What I wanna know is, why I've never heard of this "Buck and Truss" show  before!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 19, 2004, 12:52:38 PM
[cut]I think there might have been a storyline about aliens), but now I understand that it's just a basic soap now.

Ah...they've taken the "real life" approach....
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on November 19, 2004, 01:01:24 PM
Page Four Dance (best I could come up with quickly)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/charity2.gif)
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on November 19, 2004, 01:05:45 PM
I made stuffed cabbage yesterday. The recipe is from Jennie Grossinger's The Art of Jewish Cooking, a paperback that I've been using for decades. The book is held up with rubber bands. If the pages aren't brittle and falling out of the binding, then they're so heavily caked with ancient ingredients that I can barely make out the instructions. I just checked Amazon to see if this classic is still around (it is; used; expensive). I had to smile when I read: "Customers who bought this item also bought ... The Da Vinci Code."
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Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 01:09:54 PM
DiT-LOL.  I often wonder where they come up with those titles.
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Post by: Stuart on November 19, 2004, 01:10:28 PM
Page Four Dance (best I could come up with quickly)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/charity2.gif)

This looks as if it could have come from the Pittsford Musicals version of SWEET CHARITY!  

No disrespect to Mr. Coleman, but the above referenced production is one that apparently had a less-than-stellar Charity, which led to my mother-in-law (who is normally demure, and mostly lady-like, and much more theatrically savvy than the following will lead you to believe) to comment:  "If that girl in the black dress came out on stage one more time, I was gonna haul off and slug her!"

Unfortunately, the Dear Partner and I were not yet living here in order to see said performer.
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Post by: Stuart on November 19, 2004, 01:16:40 PM
I still believe that if PASSIONS had more talented actors, like Juliet Mills and Kathleen Noone...

A) I once had drinks at the Rainbow Room with Juliet Mills, and her more than pulchritudinous husband.  As I recall, it was prior to the RCMH premiere of the restored Garland A STAR IS BORN.  As I also recall, my date (who was a press agent for something that one of them was involved in) and Miss Mills' husband disappeared into the men's room for an exceedingly long time, during which they were either doing lines of cocaine, or each other.  It was the most awkward cocktail I have ever had.

B) I LOVE Kathleen Noone.  Stretching from the somewhat milquetoast, yet always riveting Ellen Cudahy on ALL MY CHILDREN to the conniving Claudia Sumner on KNOT'S LANDING, I think she is always stupendous.  And I am at least glad to know she is working.....
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Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 01:18:03 PM
And the Prize goes to:  Dear Reader Ben!

And for the other clues:

In The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter asks the riddle, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?", which he never answers.  Various people, including Carroll, have offered answers.  Stephen King's was, "The higher, the fewer, of course."

In the Star Trek:  the Next Generation episode "The Cost of Living", Lwaxana Troi takes Worf's son, Alexander Rozhenko to a holodeck program, where a philosopher propounds, a propos of nothing, "The higher, the fewer!", a phrase which Alexander uses later to stop an argument.

Alexander was raised by Worf's adoptive parents, his own grandparents, who are played by Thodore Bikel (Baron von Trapp) and Georgia Brown (Nancy).

And now you know.
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on November 19, 2004, 01:21:07 PM
From the NY Times:

Mr. Coleman's musical education began early. Born Seymour Kaufman on June 14, 1929, the son of Russian immigrants, Max and Ida Kaufman, he was raised in a Bronx apartment house owned by his mother. As he later told it, one of the tenants moved out and left a piano behind. The Kaufmans made the piano their own and soon their 4-year-old son made it his. The boy was good enough to attract the attention of the building's milkman, who in turn mentioned the prodigy to his own son's piano teacher. The teacher was impressed and offered classical lessons, with the result that young Coleman (he was still Kaufman then) made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 7.

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Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 01:26:26 PM
Did I mention that I love BK's Little Me album?  Love it, love it, love it.  A real tribute to Coleman, among other things.  I think I'll go home and listen to Randy Graff's album.

Oh, and favorite Coleman songs.  I would add "You're Nothing Without Me" aka "I'm Nothing Without You", especially the reworked version that Cleo Laine and Mel Torme do ("How much is a bank worth?  A Dankworth is worth so much more.").
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 01:30:05 PM
I've had two GREAT therapy sessions this week and my elbow smarts like a sumbitch!
Your elbow needs a shrink?
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 01:51:25 PM
And I grew up in Oklahoma, where Will Rogers is something of a demi-god, second only to Mickey Mantle.
It's amazing how much that tidbit explains.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 19, 2004, 01:58:36 PM
Happy Birthday, Jason!

Very sad about Cy COleman. So many fabulous scores. My favorite is SWEET CHARITY, but there's something good in all of them that I've heard. One day I'll get to hear WELCOME TO THE CLUB.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 19, 2004, 01:59:06 PM
DR Jane, Fox is rebroadcasting the HOUSE pilot episode tonight at 8 p.m. EST.
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Post by: Stuart on November 19, 2004, 02:01:14 PM
One day I'll get to hear WELCOME TO THE CLUB.

Just pray you don't ever have to SEE it.  Dreadful.  Several nice songs, some of which were recorded on albums produced by our own BK, but overall, a dreadful, dreadful evening in the theatre.  
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 02:02:35 PM
Question for all you guys placing orders with deepdiscount.  Why do you all need to place 2 or 3 orders?  If it's for 20% off, how come you can't just place one big order?

I'm confused. :)
The first order takes care of the "obvious stuff."  The second order is for all the wish-list stuff that "sensible people" never order.

The third order is for everything else in the catalogue.  What the hell, get it all!
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Post by: Matt H. on November 19, 2004, 02:07:18 PM
Last night, Charles Pogue wrote in reference to "Smoke Dreams" from AFTER THE THIN MAN:

"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Matt H, you're right, of course.  And I did know it.  I do an embarrassingly tacky impression of Penny Singleton's sort of whiny wail on  it (It is Penny Singleton, isn't it?)"

Yes, but it when she was still going by the name Dorothy McNulty.

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Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 02:11:48 PM
Thanks Matt H.  I don't know if I can get a decent picture on our FOX channel (it is local).  I will try and catch it.
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 19, 2004, 02:19:18 PM
The first order takes care of the "obvious stuff."  The second order is for all the wish-list stuff that "sensible people" never order.

The third order is for everything else in the catalogue.  What the hell, get it all!

Amen!
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 02:20:35 PM
And the Prize goes to:  Dear Reader Ben!

And for the other clues:

In The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter asks the riddle, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?", which he never answers.  Various people, including Carroll, have offered answers.  Stephen King's was, "The higher, the fewer, of course."

In the Star Trek:  the Next Generation episode "The Cost of Living", Lwaxana Troi takes Worf's son, Alexander Rozhenko to a holodeck program, where a philosopher propounds, a propos of nothing, "The higher, the fewer!", a phrase which Alexander uses later to stop an argument.

Alexander was raised by Worf's adoptive parents, his own grandparents, who are played by Thodore Bikel (Baron von Trapp) and Georgia Brown (Nancy).

And now you know.
Dear DR William: I'd suggest that you might want to get out more, but first let us know when so everyone else can RUN!
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 19, 2004, 02:20:58 PM
Just pray you don't ever have to SEE it.  Dreadful.  Several nice songs, some of which were recorded on albums produced by our own BK, but overall, a dreadful, dreadful evening in the theatre.  

That poor show!  It played first in Florida (?), bombed on Broadway with Avery Schreiber and Marilyn Sokol, got revised at Godspeed, played at the York . . .
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Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 02:21:49 PM
I tried to order several things from deepdiscount including the new GWTW set, but when I clicked to place the order I got an error message - several times.  The order never went through, and, as it turns out, that was a good thing, since my local DVD store got it in and it's much cheaper there than even deepdiscount.
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Post by: Jason on November 19, 2004, 02:22:14 PM
Thanks for the birthday wishes. I had a wonderful birthday surprise this morning - an offer to play Sparky in a production of FOREVER PLAID in Wichita, KS. I'm going to have to turn it down for several reasons - one of those reasons being MTI. :-(

And now I'm off to the Met for another 6 hours of work. Hoo and ray.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 19, 2004, 02:29:21 PM
DR Jason, have you ever done FOREVER PLAID before? I know you have to keep your job, but that show is one of the most enjoyable shows to perform of any I have ever done (I was Smudge).
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Post by: Matt H. on November 19, 2004, 02:31:31 PM
Thanks for the warnings about WELCOME TO THE CLUB. Yes, I know it HAD to have been abysmal landing in that poiisonous Broadway season that also fielded LEGS DIAMOND, CHU CHEM, and STARMITES. Still, I would love to hear the complete score.
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on November 19, 2004, 02:32:56 PM
Peggy Lee and Cy Coleman - what a match! From her discography:

The Best Is Yet To Come
Big Spender
A Doodlin' Song
Hey Look Me Over
I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life
(I'm) In Love Again
I've Got Your Number
My Personal Property
Pass Me By
That's My Style
That's What It Takes
Then Was Then (And Now Is Now)
When In Rome
You Fascinate Me So
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Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 02:40:26 PM
Jason-nice birthday surprise.  Hope you have more during the day. :D
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Post by: Michael on November 19, 2004, 02:50:53 PM
A) I once had drinks at the Rainbow Room with Juliet Mills, and her more than pulchritudinous husband.  As I recall, it was prior to the RCMH premiere of the restored Garland A STAR IS BORN.  As I also recall, my date (who was a press agent for something that one of them was involved in) and Miss Mills' husband disappeared into the men's room for an exceedingly long time, during which they were either doing lines of cocaine, or each other.  It was the most awkward cocktail I have ever had.

Maybe they were having a cocktail or two in the bathroom
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Post by: Michael on November 19, 2004, 02:53:53 PM
Favorite Cy Coleman songs

Our Private World
You There in the Back row sung by Liz Callaway
Where Am I Going?
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 19, 2004, 02:53:56 PM
DiT:  Miss Peggy lee sings the Songs of Cy Colman.
(EMI capitol records 1979). A favourite here in this house. 10 of the above songs.
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Post by: Michael on November 19, 2004, 02:56:41 PM
Oh, Michael!!! Where on earth did you find that picture???


I was looking for Jason from Friday the 13th and came across this one. He is an actor named Jason who played Brad Majors in a production of Rocky Horror Show.
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Post by: Michael on November 19, 2004, 02:59:42 PM
Stephen Sondheim
John Kander
Jerry Herman

are all that are left from notable composers. There are no more composers who can match the quality or the out put. Who are there equals? No one in my opinion.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 19, 2004, 03:02:25 PM
Your elbow needs a shrink?

Yes, and the shrink wants my elbow to bring you along with it to the session.

;)
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Post by: Michael on November 19, 2004, 03:04:13 PM
Here is the record that Bruce was talking about:

(http://www.brucekimmel.com/images/classicalbroadway1.jpg)

Bay Cities BCD-1038

Produced by Bruce Kimmel

featuring original music by

(http://www.brucekimmel.com/images/colemancy.jpg)
Cy Coleman

New York Sketches
1. Morning
2. Afternoon
3. Evening

(http://www.brucekimmel.com/images/rudetskyseth.jpg)

Seth Rudetsky, piano

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Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 03:04:21 PM
What did he say, Take Me Along?
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Post by: George on November 19, 2004, 03:06:19 PM
I tried to order several things from deepdiscount including the new GWTW set, but when I clicked to place the order I got an error message - several times.  The order never went through, and, as it turns out, that was a good thing, since my local DVD store got it in and it's much cheaper there than even deepdiscount.
Did you order not-yet-released or back-ordered items?  The discount code is only good on "in stock" items.  I tried to order a not-yet-released DVD and it didn't work.

Stephen Sondheim
John Kander
Jerry Herman

are all that are left from notable composers. There are no more composers who can match the quality or the out put. Who are there equals? No one in my opinion.
Sad, but true.  In my humble opinion, (IMHO in Internet lingo) Alen Menken and Stephen Flaherty are two of the best of the "younger" generation.  If only Menken would write more directly for the stage!
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 03:10:04 PM
Hmmmmmmmm......I like the color on the CALL ME MADAM dvd, and the dance by the water with O'Conner and Vera-Ellen seems to have been ripped off the following year in WHITE CHRISTMAS for V-E and Danny Kaye.

Merman always makes me laugh - and she sells the songs, of course.  No chance to be subtle.  It's better than I remembered it was.  Glad to have it.  CALL ME MADAM - dated AND entertaining.
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Post by: George on November 19, 2004, 03:19:14 PM
I love it when my dates are entertaining! ;D
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Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 03:30:50 PM
YOU THERE IN THE BACK ROW is a beautiful song.
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Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 03:57:15 PM
Dear DR William: I'd suggest that you might want to get out more, but first let us know when so everyone else can RUN!

Now, now, Swoody!  That charge could be leveled at all of us by anyone reading these boards.
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 04:01:54 PM
Indeed it could dRWFO!  LOL

Hmmmmm...Donald O'Conner was a terrific dancer - but why is Vera-Ellen's neck so scary?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 19, 2004, 04:03:12 PM
Now, now, Swoody!  That charge could be leveled at all of us by anyone reading these boards.

True, but you'd be running TOWARD some while others you'd run away FROM.
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Post by: Jennifer on November 19, 2004, 04:05:46 PM
Do any of you guys have dvd recorders?  We don't have TIVO here.  And I believe most dvd recorders can record only 16 hours per disk.  Are they just like VCRs?  Is it similar to TIVO?
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Post by: TCB on November 19, 2004, 04:15:00 PM
Indeed it could dRWFO!  LOL

Hmmmmm...Donald O'Conner was a terrific dancer - but why is Vera-Ellen's neck so scary?

Poor Vera-Ellen!  A real life Norma Desmond.
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 19, 2004, 04:20:07 PM


but why is Vera-Ellen's neck so scary?


So you noticed that too, huh?
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 04:23:14 PM
Stephen Sondheim
John Kander
Jerry Herman

are all that are left from notable composers. There are no more composers who can match the quality or the out put. Who are there equals? No one in my opinion.

Well, excuse me for having to disagree and perhaps even bitch-slap, but aren't we leaving out someone very important, like Mr. Harvey Schmidt (and partner Tom Jones)?  I just got off the phone with him, as a matter of fact, and we were discussing Classical Broadway and how much fun it was to do.  I haven't heard it in close to twelve years - I'll have to give it a listen.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: William F. Orr on November 19, 2004, 04:24:58 PM
Actually, DR SWS, what started this was Joe asking me what that thing was that the guy in the beard said to Alexander in the episode with Lwaxana.  I didn't have a clue, so I googled a bit and found, lo and behold, a Web Site (http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/") that has all the scripts to Next Generation, as well as Deep Space 9, 24, Six Feet Under, and a dozen more.

Isn't that too too?
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 04:24:58 PM
I just washed this weeks dust out of my hair since the workmen have left for the weekend.  Today the plumbers put most of the new pipes into what will not just be a shower, but a shower experience.  Keith wants us to be blasted with multiple shower sprays.  All I keep thinking is my eyes are going to get blasted.  It’s okay because I don’t plan on using the shower as often once my whirlpool tub is in place.  Plus I can turn off all those extra shower heads.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 19, 2004, 04:29:31 PM
I just washed this weeks dust out of my hair since the workmen have left for the weekend.  Today the plumbers put most of the new pipes into what will not just be a shower, but a shower experience.  Keith wants us to be blasted with multiple shower sprays.  All I keep thinking is my eyes are going to get blasted.  It’s okay because I don’t plan on using the shower as often once my whirlpool tub is in place.  Plus I can turn off all those extra shower heads.

I can see it now....you'll be walking back toward home with Bogie...and Keith will drive by.  You'll look all hot and sweaty...and Keith will know that you are probably thinking about using all those shower heads...and he'll speed up to get home before you.

Of course, you'll break into a full run, with Bogie barking at your heels.  Keith will squeal into the driveway....and he'll be taking off his shirt.

You'll start yanking at your sweater as you run up the yard, but Keith will have gotten in the house and slammed the door, his pants leg sticking out.

You'll try to open the door, only to find that Keith has chain-locked it.

You'll hear the shower running...and you'll scream out: "KEITH...it's MY turn....."

Bogie will be chasing his tail as you plot your revenge.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 04:29:32 PM
Jennifer TIVO is different from a DVD.  You set the programming through your TV and all the information is stored there.

Check out the TIVO site it might answer some of your questions.

If you want to hack into TIVO from Canada just follow these directions.
http://www.tivocanada.com/  ;D
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 04:38:19 PM
And yes, Virginia, the Unseemly Trivia Contest will return tomorrow as promised.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 05:11:30 PM
Ah, the Merry Searchers have returned to merrily search.  I do hope what they found is up their alley, don't you?
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Noel on November 19, 2004, 05:23:03 PM
Stephen Sondheim
John Kander
Jerry Herman

are all that are left from notable composers. There are no more composers who can match the quality or the out put. Who are there equals? No one in my opinion.

IMHO, Jerry Bock is the greatest living show composer, far superior to all the living greats mentioned so far.  It's a shame he's been unable to get a show on Broadway since 1970.  Four of his works, She Loves Me, The Apple Tree, Fiorello and Fiddler on the Roof are among the greatest musicals ever.  (The idea here is not to knock the recently-departed by comparison, but suffice it to say that CC wouldn't have as many in the top tier.)

But here are a few others: Charles Strouse can weave a pretty good tune.  Some of his shows (All American, Charlie and Algernon) may not be well known today, but they've some wonderful songs in 'em.

I think David Shire is a wonderful composer (and he's part of two worlds that we have fans of on this board - film scoring as well as musicals) and achieves a level of sophistication, now and then, unknown to Kander and Herman.

The aforementioned Harvey Schmidt and Alan Menken certainly have done wonderful work.

Coincidental, ain't it, that I had Lost In Boston III already in the CD player?  Some great Coleman tunes on that - I'd just recommended Big Fat Heart to someone yesterday, and Pink Taffeta Sample's among my favorites.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 05:27:27 PM
Indeed it could dRWFO!  LOL

Hmmmmm...Donald O'Conner was a terrific dancer - but why is Vera-Ellen's neck so scary?


From http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4439/vera_ellen.html


The reason for her disappearance from the movies is complicated. It is obvious that she became alarmingly thin in her thirties. Her peculiar eating habits are well documented. Always a reclusive person, she started to withdraw from Hollywood as her alleged anorexia took its toll on her. This was also during a time when Hollywood simply stopped making many musicals. Although Vera-Ellen could act as well as dance, MGM didn't take her talents seriously enough to give her many non-dancing parts.
One of the side effects of anorexia is that she began to age rapidly. Many people have asked why Vera-Ellen always covers her neck in "White Christmas" - it is because that is where she started to age. She also had a daughter, Victoria Ellen Rothschild, who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. This was very traumatic for her.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 05:58:40 PM
Good Evening!

Greetings from my parents' house in Fairfax, VA!  -Also known as "The house that has way too much junk food stashed in too many places."   :-X  Alas, no halvah...

It was an easy drive up, and, thankfully, all the southbound traffic snarls and accidents did not affect the northbound traffic.   It looked solid all the way from Springfield down to Fredericksburg - almost 50 miles.

Now I'm just watching ABC's Friday night line-up... Eh...
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 06:04:09 PM
And back to halvah for a second...

Now that I think of it, I haven't had any halvah in a while.  But when I do have it, I usually have it with a with a cup of strong-brewed, full-bodied coffee.  I'm partial to plain/vanilla, but the chocolate covered type is good too.  I did try this variety that had pistachios that was laced with honey - very good.  The mediterranean deli/bakery I got it from was out the last time I was there.  -Guess I now know where I'm going when I get back to Richmond on Sunday! ;)
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 06:16:10 PM
I just washed this weeks dust out of my hair since the workmen have left for the weekend.  Today the plumbers put most of the new pipes into what will not just be a shower, but a shower experience.  Keith wants us to be blasted with multiple shower sprays.  All I keep thinking is my eyes are going to get blasted.  It’s okay because I don’t plan on using the shower as often once my whirlpool tub is in place.  Plus I can turn off all those extra shower heads.

I like those showers with the multiple-shower heads.  At least the three or four times I've been in one.  Depending upon how they're set up, you shouldn't have to worry about getting your eyes blasted out.

Did you consider one of those European-style shower heads, the ones that are like a foot across, and basically shower you in a rain shower?  Those are nice.  Yes, they may not be the most eco-friendly, water-bill friendly way to outfit your bathroom, but they're very nice.

Like this one:
(http://www.brookstone.com/bs_assets/images/shop/p2/268201_p2.jpg)
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Noel on November 19, 2004, 06:17:51 PM
Doesn't the title song to a Cy Coleman-Dorothy Fields musical end "It's sure been a halvah ride"
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Danise on November 19, 2004, 06:29:32 PM
Agh!  I went to make my post and lost it!  I HATE it when that happens.  I was still trying to post that last DS photo.  

Let’s see, what did I say?

I know I wanted to know what halvah is.

I asked Jason if he had a happy Birthday.

Oh, I said I want to start a new game called “Where in the World is DR Jose?” because I can’t keep up with where he is from day to day!  In California with BK, in Texas, in NYC, in Fairfax, VA!  Is there anywhere in the US you haven’t been?  ???  :D
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Michael on November 19, 2004, 06:29:36 PM
Well, excuse me for having to disagree and perhaps even bitch-slap, but aren't we leaving out someone very important, like Mr. Harvey Schmidt (and partner Tom Jones)?  I just got off the phone with him, as a matter of fact, and we were discussing Classical Broadway and how much fun it was to do.  I haven't heard it in close to twelve years - I'll have to give it a listen.

I didn't include Mr. Schmidt or Mr. Bock because I felt that they did not have the output of shows that the others did.

Each only really had three or four shows to the credit.

Mr. Bock: Fiorello!, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, The Rothschilds (Others less memorable: Mr. Wonderful, Body Beautiful, Tenderloin, Man in the Moon, The Apple Tree)

Mr. Schmidt (Who is also a wonderful artist) The Fantasticks, 110 In the Shade, I Do! I Do! Their first three shows were in within a six year period and then nothing successful after that Philomen, Colette, Celebration, Our Town.

Cy Coleman had 10 pretty good shows over a 17 year period (some closed on the road). Kander 13 shows over a 15 year period with a couple that closed out of town, Sondheim had about 21 shows over a 45 year period.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 06:35:21 PM
François thank you for the Vera-Ellen link.  I always enjoyed her.  It is sad her reality wasn’t as sweet as her movies.

Jose I think Keith wanted to hang something like that from the ceiling.  All I can say is thank g_d he didn’t.  Honestly I don’t care what he has as long as I can shut it off. My biggest concern is the main shower head will be up too high for me and hit the top of my head instead of my shoulders and neck where I prefer it. I had to ask Keith how many things we have coming out of the walls to spray us.  He said a total of six.  Two shower heads, one on each side of the shower.  One of these will be on a sliding bar and is removable for easy cleaning of the shower.  The other four are coming out of the sides of the shower.  Where exactly they are located I will find out when the shower is complete.  
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 06:43:35 PM
Danise this may be more information than you want.  

Check out the Joyva, the most popular brand of halvah, site. http://www.halvah.biz/

Halvah is a Turkish confection. It is one of the worlds oldest candies.The earliest references to halvah date as far back as the year 3000 B.C. The word halvah means literally 'sweetmeat'.
Ingredients include tahini and sugar. Tahini is created by grinding sesame seeds into a smooth creamy butter. Sesame seeds are rich in calcium, zinc, iron, phosphorous, protein, niacin and lecithin and many B complex vitamins.
Halvah contains three basic nutrients; protein and vegetable fat from tahini and carbohydrates from sugar. Halvah provides protein and calories, making it an excellent choice for the beginning of the day or for a backpacking energy source.
    
Halvah varieties include
• Plain (vanilla) without flavoring is the purist form.
• Plain halvah flavored with chocolate.
• Plain halvah and chocolate halvah create marble halvah.
• Plain halvah bars covered in chocolate.
• Plain halvah bars covered in chocolate and rolled in almonds.
• Plain, marble or chocolate halvah with the addition of mixed nuts.
• Plain halvah with the addition of pistachio nuts.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 06:51:49 PM
My, Danise!
You've never heard that song about a piece of cake???

Halvah nagila, halvah nagila
Halvah nagila venis'mecha

Repeat

Halvah neranena, halvah neranena
Halvah neranena venis'mecha

Uru, uru achim
Uru achim belev same'ach


-- hmmm... I hope I'm not printing something nasty! LOL!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 06:52:11 PM
Michael Shayne how are you feeling?
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Danise on November 19, 2004, 06:54:03 PM
Sorry but I haven't.  That's why this site is such an education!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 06:56:33 PM
Honestly I don’t care what he has as long as I can shut it off.  


Really, Jane!

Do you think that's a decent way of talking about one's husband?? :D
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 06:58:18 PM
Sorry but I haven't.  That's why this site is such an education!

Danise, I'm pulling your leg!
No, the left one! ;D ::)
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 06:59:25 PM
Sorry but I haven't.  That's why this site is such an education!

Now, what Jane printed is correct!
Not my silly allegation! ;)
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Danise on November 19, 2004, 07:01:07 PM
Hey Jane,

Thank you for the link!  Once I saw what it looked like, it seemed more familar.  I don't think I have had it but have seen it.

On another note, the page with the sesame seed/honey bars was VERY familar.  I buy them all the time at the health food store.   :D  I LOVE them!
 
 
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Noel on November 19, 2004, 07:02:34 PM
I, too, lost a post tonight.  And it was my own fault.
It was something inspired by listening to Lost In Boston III:
Two songs cut from Gypsy, Mama's Talking Soft, and Nice She Ain't both describe Mama Rose's behavior.  But, when you see Gypsy, Mama Rose's behavior is already vividly depicted.  Therefore, it was not necessary for these supporting characters to tell us about the star of the show.

I continue to believe that if Inside My Head had remained in 110 in the Shade, it would be about 110 times better than it is.  The song gives us a reason to root for File.  I've actually seen people, disgusted, shaking their heads at the show's ending.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Danise on November 19, 2004, 07:02:52 PM
François de Paris, your such a tease!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 07:07:04 PM
François de Paris, your such a tease!

Tease for two and two for tease?

how many lumps? :D
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Danise on November 19, 2004, 07:09:18 PM
You'll have to make them Splenda lumps--remember my diet!  Humm does Splenda come in lumps?  I've never seen it if it does.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: MBarnum on November 19, 2004, 07:10:16 PM
Well DRJENNIFER - at first I thought of just a few DVD's I wanted so I ordered...then I thought of some more.  

Then DRMBARNUM mentioned some more.  

Ditto! LOL!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Panni on November 19, 2004, 07:15:39 PM
Hello, all! Been working my buns off all day and now must grab a bite before I fall down. What's nice about my new home environment is that I don't have to get in the car to do this. (By next week, I won't even have to go out to do this - but right now the kitchen is not quite ready for cooking.)
As for progress... The living room is almost done as is the bathroom. I worked all day with the terrific handyman whose motto is "No problem!" (I also had a phone meeting re a wonderful gig which I'm hoping to get.)  Haven't read all the posts, but among the ones I HAVE read are some lovely tributes to Cy Coleman.
Laters!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Tomovoz on November 19, 2004, 07:20:55 PM
I worked all day with the terrific handyman whose motto is "No problem!"
How to create ENVY on this family friendly board.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Danise on November 19, 2004, 07:24:01 PM
Nice to hear that the new home environment is coming along like you want it to, Panni!

Good luck with the new gig as well.

I hate to say it but it is getting to be that time.  My pillow is calling to me and I can't resist it's Sirens song.  

Have a good evening all!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 07:28:27 PM
François- ;D

Panni, GOOD GIG VIBES!!
It will be nice to read you got youself something to eat from your kitchen instead of running out for it. :D
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jane on November 19, 2004, 07:43:44 PM
CD-BUS AND TRUCK, over and over again like last night.
DVD-MY LITTLE MARJIE and I MARRIED JOAN
TIVO-OFF THE RECORD 1939 with Pat O'Brien & Joan Blondell
TV-HOUSE if I can get a decent picture

Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 07:47:34 PM
...So when did "20/20" become so Ricki Lake/Maury/Entertainment Tonight?!?!?
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: TCB on November 19, 2004, 08:00:34 PM
...So when did "20/20" become so Ricki Lake/Maury/Entertainment Tonight?!?!?

Why?  What was their show about tonight?
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: TCB on November 19, 2004, 08:06:39 PM
I am now in Holiday Heaven!  M & M's Holiday Mint candies are back on the shelves until New Year's.  If you haven't tried them, you have got to taste, at least, one!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: TCB on November 19, 2004, 08:11:02 PM
Does Holiday Heaven, in my previous post, show up in red and green?
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 08:12:18 PM
Why?  What was their show about tonight?

Well, I guess it was more the style and tone of the pieces rather than the content.  The topics covered on tonight's program:

-Cheating in college.  Cheating that is on papers, tests, etc.  And they focused on one particular young woman who wrote papers and took test for one of the Wal-Mart heiresses.

-A story about identical twin girls.  One of them "grew up" to be a boy/man.  Actually quite an interesting story.

-Why would Beyonce go back to being part of a group (Destiny's Child)?  Do we really care?!?!?  -And, besides, if they had been following the news when the group "broke up", they would have known the break was planned, and the "reunion" was planned too.  Don't they read Entertainment Weekly? ;)

So... The opening and closing stories just had that air of sensationalism to them.  But I guess if that's what they need to do to attract viewers.  I had also forgotten that both Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters are no longer hosting the show either.  However, they previewed next Friday's feature story which is an interview with the young men who murdered Matthew Shepard... and how it may not have been a hate crime.  -Actually, my stomach started to turn when they started hinting at the possible - but not yet revealed - new motive(s)...
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Matt H. on November 19, 2004, 08:15:12 PM
Because I was gone on a day-long rehearsal, I forgot to enter my Friday Media Check when I finally got home late this afternoon:

CD - Clay Aiken: MERRY CHRISTMAS WITH LOVE

DVD - FRIENDS - Season 8, Disc 3
         
DVR - last night's JOEY and WILL & GRACE
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 08:15:26 PM
Does Holiday Heaven, in my previous post, show up in red and green?

Yes, they do!

And remember... they freeze well too!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Matt H. on November 19, 2004, 08:18:33 PM
Again Noel and I have a big difference of opinion. THough I respect his work to the utmost and SHE LOVES ME remains one of my all-time favorite musicals, Jerry Bock is my least favorite of the composers of his generation. That isn't saying he isn't talented or that he hasn't written some terrific musicals, just personal preference that I'd rather listen to the music of Sondheim, Kander, Strouse, Schmidt, Herman, Styne, and Coleman than that of Bock.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 08:26:56 PM
OH!!!...

Something that made me do a double- even triple-take as I was checking out at the grocery store earlier today... Sometimes they put books for sale next to the candy and magazines.  Well, today, I noticed they had the new Allan Gurganus ("Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All") paperback on display.  Well, this is what the sale sign I saw looked like:

White People
On Sale
$11.99
[/size]

:o
 ???
 :D
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: TCB on November 19, 2004, 08:28:06 PM
Yes, they do!

And remember... they freeze well too!


Isn't that strange!  On my computer, neither one of those posts shows up in color.  My settings must be wrong........ and the computer's settings, too.  But how do I fix them?
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 08:46:20 PM
Isn't that strange!  On my computer, neither one of those posts shows up in color.  My settings must be wrong........ and the computer's settings, too.  But how do I fix them?

Well, maybe if you take off those old 3-D glasses...

;)
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 09:10:04 PM
Judy Garland sings from the Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane songbook...

"Halvah Self a Merry Little Christmas."
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 09:19:55 PM
I'm back and to prove it, I'm here.  Had a spot of supper with la Pogues (and delivered their book and CD) - at Schwab's - food was excellent, as always.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: JoseSPiano on November 19, 2004, 09:35:26 PM
Well, with all this talk of halvah and m&m's, I think I'm going through a sugar drop right now... ;)

Goodnight.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 09:39:18 PM
In watching the lovely dvd presentation of RAGTIME (NOT the musical), I'm reminded of just how wonderful Ahrens & Flaherty are as musical theater composing teams.   I am also reminded of how wonderful Randy Newman's score for the film is.  Lastly, I am reminded of how well-made this Milos Forman film is, the casting from the tiniest bit part to the giant that is James Cagney is perfect. (Even Debbie Allen acquits herself nicely).

On the other side of the tracks, Minx and I have made a new friend.
Late night on Wednesday, as I was taking her for her bedtime walk around the yard, a small male beagle puppy came wandering over to us from the woods.  Damp and dreary, he wagged his tail, Minx wagged her tail; they sniffed each other without growling and the little guy followed us up onto the back porch, where I promptly got him some dog treats and a dish of water.
The next morning, the little guy was on the back porch when I took Minx for her 7:30am walk. he must have slept on the carpeting, but he was full of enthusiam to see the friends he had made the night before.
When I returned from work on Thursday afternoon, the little guy was all wags and jumps at seeing me. (With my parents' ages and health conditions, another dog seems to be out of the question - a point which I have raised over the last few days).
In the meantime, I have been scouring the Lost & Found sections of the newspapers and posting ads at the local grocery and variety stores.
Thursday night, I put an old fleece blanket on the front porch, which has a locakable gater, and set out bowls of Kibbles 'n Bits and water, closing the little guy onto that porch for the night.  Now, whenever Minx and I go for our walks, whether morning, afternoon, evening or late night, the little guy tags along.  Minx is alright with him - considering that she's nearly 14 and arthritic - BUT, if he even tries to sniff her tail end, then the growling starts.
Tonight, the youngster may have become a fixture - I stopped at Wal*Mart and bought him a toy and two real dog dishes for food and water. . .
This puppy can't be over nine months old, looks like and acts like a pure-bred beagle, may have been deliberately thrown out of a car along our road, his rear right leg has a very, very minute limp to it  and he does not like LOUD voices or noises, and will always approach any of us on haunches, but with tail a-wagging.
I'll keep the DRs posted.
If he is indeed a permanent fixture, and with Bruce's kind permission, we're thinking of naming him KIMMEL.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 09:52:59 PM
It's funny how td sounds like SWW tonight! LOL!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 09:54:54 PM
I've been waiting,
and waiting,
and waiting -- oh, a King & I reference ! -- for BK to post pictures of the beautiful artwork he got today!.....
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 09:54:58 PM
Is there SOUND on this site now?!*  What will they think of next?

*(other than the faboo radio show).
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 09:56:18 PM
It's funny how td sounds like SWW tonight! LOL!

SWW is a fan of RAGTIME?  I never knew. . .and if he keeps going in alphabetical order through his dvd collection. . .well, it''ll be a long time before he reaches the Rs.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 09:59:21 PM
we're thinking of naming him KIMMEL.

Kimmel me suive!

A tricky French/English play on words!
Sorry!

(Qui m'aiment me suivent!)
Don't mind me ;)
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 10:00:50 PM
You love to follow yourself?  Doesn't that have you going around in circles, like a circle in a spiral like a wheel within a wheel?
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:01:29 PM
SWW is a fan of RAGTIME?  I never knew. . .and if he keeps going in alphabetical order through his dvd collection. . .well, it''ll be a long time before he reaches the Rs.

Now is the Righttime anyway! Rag? :)
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:03:29 PM
You should call the dog HALVAH! HAVLAH, à l'envers!

Ah! V'la Halvah!

Here comes "Sweet meat"! BOL! (Barking Out Loud!)
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:05:56 PM
You love to follow yourself?  Doesn't that have you going around in circles, like a circle in a spiral like a wheel within a wheel?

Nah!
Those who favor me please follow me!
Something like that!

(Ceux) Qui m'aiment, me suivent!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 10:06:06 PM
Garcon, peut-etre.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 10:07:03 PM
Nah!
Those who favor please follow me!
Something like that!

(Ceux qui m'aiment, me suivent!)

I followed you with a POST.
I favor you.

We are a posting frenzy!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 10:09:10 PM
I'm kinda fond of this one:
"Qui m'aime aime mon chien."
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:10:04 PM
Just Follow The Band!

I'm such a sucker, who was not born yesterday!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 10:12:11 PM
Of course you weren't born yesterday!  Like many other DRs, you're younger than springtime.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:14:18 PM
I'm kinda fond of this one:
"Qui m'aime aime mon chien."

Yep! I like it!

There's a French saying that goes:

Plus je connaîs les Hommes et plus j'aime mon chien!

Ain't it the truth?..... oh, a Lena Horne reference!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:16:41 PM
Of course you weren't born yesterday!  Like many other DRs, you're younger than springtime.

And how old is Springtime btw??
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 10:17:30 PM
LOL....I am laughing.

DR FRANCOIS thanks for the Vera-Ellen post - I was aware of her problems.  And yes DRELMORE, it had been so long since I had seen CALL ME MADAM - and the next year in WHITE CHRISTMAS yes Edith Head did a great job in disguising V-E's upper body - that it was just a shock to see it looking so bad....  The dance sequence is the worst....and some of her other costumes must have been altered because there are ruffs and high collars on some of them.  Yes, sad.

Well tomorrow is choreography day.  Of course I am working with a director he really does not understand dancing and choreography - he has scheduled 2 hours to teach 4 songs to non-dancers - and then of course, the music director is coming in AFTER that to teach the songs.  
Oh well, he will change everything anyway.  And of course, the finale is not on the Cd he made for me, so I had to choreograph to the score.  And well.....stop complaining!!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 10:17:52 PM
Spring will be a little late this year.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 10:18:17 PM
Great dog story, td.  Holly the zaftig Shar-pei goes to the vet tomorrow to have a problem checked out.  Fingers crossed, of course.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Tomovoz on November 19, 2004, 10:20:23 PM
It can really hang you up the most.
Of course it is Spring here.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 10:22:21 PM
On the other side of the tracks, Minx and I have made a new friend....a small male beagle puppy came wandering over to us from the woods....Minx is alright with him - considering that she's nearly 14 and arthritic - BUT, if he even tries to sniff her tail end, then the growling starts.
Tonight, the youngster may have become a fixture - I stopped at Wal*Mart and bought him a toy and two real dog dishes for food and water. . .
This puppy can't be over nine months old, looks like and acts like a pure-bred beagle, may have been deliberately thrown out of a car along our road, his rear right leg has a very, very minute limp to it  and he does not like LOUD voices or noises, and will always approach any of us on haunches, but with tail a-wagging.
I'll keep the DRs posted.
If he is indeed a permanent fixture, and with Bruce's kind permission, we're thinking of naming him KIMMEL.
This sounds very much like how der B and I found our family growing a year ago.  When you can, get him to a vet you trust to look him over.  He might have a chip implant (we've had one successful reuniting of a family because of a chip), and that leg needs to be checked.  In any case, Minx sounds happy with the idea of a young friend.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 10:22:31 PM
See, springtime is really young, since it's just reached Australia!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:24:04 PM
Shar-pei diem!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 10:25:45 PM
It's funny how td sounds like SWW tonight! LOL!
I use more parenthesis when I talk.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:26:38 PM
Australia?

You mean there's a place called Australia on this planet of ours???
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 10:27:50 PM
I use more parenthesis when I talk.

and, like der brucer, is a most excellent speller!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 10:29:36 PM
SWW is a fan of RAGTIME?  I never knew. . .
The way I keep posting recipes, I'm more a fan of Ragu Time!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 10:30:44 PM
Well, I'll be hornswoggled if we haven't been having a frenzy here at haineshisway.com.  

I will post art pix tomorrow (that's when I'll get back the two pieces that I had to have framed).

I'm really tired for some reason - can barely keep my eyes open.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 10:31:08 PM
The way I keep posting recipes, I'm more a fan of Ragu Time!

Yes, of course, but does Jennifer Warnes sing a magnificent waltz by Randy Newman whilst you're cooking?
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:31:54 PM
I use more parenthesis when I talk.

Yes, but no one can see them! ;)

-- Parent thesis? --
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 10:33:06 PM
Well, I'll be hornswoggled if we haven't been having a frenzy here at haineshisway.com.  

I'm really tired for some reason - can barely keep my eyes open.

It must be that think L.A. smog; I spoke to Al Paige a little while ago, he's beat too (well, he had that flight from Sydney) and he said that he's never seen as much smog in L.A. as he did today.
You'll be meeting Al tomorrow night, BK, at Forry's Birthday Bash!

modified for the benefit of francois
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:35:45 PM
New Paige.... I mean... page!

Let's do the Ragu Time Twist!

Is Al Paige à la page??
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 10:36:32 PM
Yes, of course, but does Jennifer Warnes sing a magnificent waltz by Randy Newman whilst you're cooking?
No, a waltz by Mason Williams.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: td on November 19, 2004, 10:37:02 PM
New Paige.... I mean... page!

Let's do the Ragu Time Twist!

Is Al Paige à la page??

as a former surfer, I'm sure he was sur la plage. . .
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:38:01 PM
It must be that think L.A. smog; I spoke to Al Paige a little while ago, he's beat too (well, he had that flight from Syndey) and he said that he's never seen as much smog in L.A. as he did today.
You'll be meeting Al tomorrow night, BK, at Forry's Birthday Bash!

.... think.... Syndey....

Have you been dringing again????
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: S. Woody White on November 19, 2004, 10:39:43 PM
I need to wussburger.  I had very little sleep yesterday or today, and I'm already three hours further along than BK.
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: François de Paris on November 19, 2004, 10:40:35 PM
No, a waltz by Mason Williams.

Mason Williams must be ... Panni's handyman?!? ;)

It's nice to have a mason around the maison, non?!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 10:49:12 PM
Not for the Faint of heart - Miss Julie London blows a take.  :o

http://www.kittyville.com/wayout/julie.html (http://www.kittyville.com/wayout/julie.html)
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 10:52:10 PM
Sharpei Diem...LOL FRANCOIS!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Jrand73 on November 19, 2004, 10:52:42 PM
Hi Iris!
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: bk on November 19, 2004, 11:09:18 PM
I have written the notes, and the eight part trivia question.  
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Panni on November 19, 2004, 11:22:59 PM
I'm going to bed with a funny horror script now. Must get up early and clear up as much as I can of the remaining boxes so the she of the non-evil eye (so far she's been very nice to me) can clean in the afternoon.
But first, some photos...
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: George on November 19, 2004, 11:24:50 PM
Australia?

You mean there's a place called Australia on this planet of ours???

Yup, in the Pacific Northwest...sister city to Centralia, Washington! ;D
Title: Re:NO MORE HALVAH
Post by: Panni on November 19, 2004, 11:33:08 PM
Tried to post photos of the new home environment, but received the following message:

The upload folder is full. Please try a smaller file and contact the administrator.

Skammen!