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Archives => Archive 2 => Topic started by: bk on November 22, 2004, 11:59:52 PM
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Well, you've read the notes one word at a time, you've realized we must take things one day at a time, and now it's time to post one post at a time until the cows come home one day at a time.
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In answer to George's late-night question - I do display painting and book together, if possible. The Astrud Gilberto painting and its album cover are together, as are the new painting and paperback.
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Concerning the gamy language in Writer's Block, and finding passages to read at the readings, I would suggest one of two solutions:
A) Substitute the word "Blank." If it can work for one of the songs, it should be workable for a reading.
B) If substituting the word "Blank" is confusing, because of several different gamy words in the section being read, I suggest using specific types of game. For example, "Deer." Or "Rabbit." "Goose" is very good, particularly with a nice fruity sauce of some sort. "Bear" is also good, but may require some extra cooking time to tenderize the meat. Although I have not had it myself, I understand "Alligator" tastes like chicken!
I would not suggest using road kill terms. I don't believe the denizens of New York City have developed a taste for road kill.
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Topic: First to spring to mind was the Horizontal stripe suit episode in "M.A.S.H.". Of more recent vintage - the Gay/Opera Board episode of "Frazier" was a delight.
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There are many episodes or moments from I Love Lucy that I still laugh at even thought I have seen them many times. I also think the episode of "Sammy's Visit" on All In the Family is a classic. "Edith's Problem" is also very funny thanks to the bravo performance by Jean Stapleton who I think won the Emmy for that particular episode. There are other moments from Barney Miller
But I still think "Chuckles The Clown Bites The Dust" is the funniest episode. I still remember it 30 years later.
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The most UNINTENTIONAL funniest episode I ever saw was "Spock's Brain" where an alien steal's the organ to run a computur. The nadir of the entire series.
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The opera board episode of Frasier also sent me into fits of laughter. So did several other episodes, especially the one in which the Cranes pretend to be Jewish on Christmas Eve.
Another that nearly did me in was the Seinfeld episode in which Kramer designs the Bro/Manssiere for Frank Costanza. When Estelle walks in on the bra-clad Frank doing a cha-cha with Kramer, I nearly lost it.
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Admiration for those who solved the trivia contest - and congrats to Dan-the-Man for getting pulled out of the hat.
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Congratulations to DtM!
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In answer to DRJOSE's question yesterday - I am a two hour drive from Fort Wayne (named for General Mad Anthony Wayne) - and they are indeed being plagued by mysterious loud "booming" explosions of unknown origin. Windows rattle, and they occur once or twice a week. No one knows what is causing them. I think it's the voodoo!
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Notes from yesterday:
DR Noel observed:
Viewers consider Donald Trump a good businessman, savvy and tough. They're fooled by a "reality show" that has nothing to do with reality and they've enjoyed Trump read lines written for him by a non-WGA writer. Fooling America he can do. Turning a profit running casinos is too hard for him.
Actually, Trump has been making money on the casinos; the bankruptcy was voluntary and allowed him to restructure the 1.3 Billion dollar debt that was against his 1.5 Billion dollar casino empire, and got him an additional .5 Billion to do some casino upgrades (plus a 100 Million in "spending money" to tide him over). 8) It seems turning a profit using other people's money is easy for him to do. The "other people" seem to agree - they have left him in charge of the reorganized company.
der Brucer
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Well....for me....sitcom wise - some of my very favorites have already been mentioned.
I LOVE LUCY is the original - still copied today and never duplicated. There are the obvious ones, but I will also mention - Lucy modeling a tweed suit at the Don Loper show after getting a SERIOUS sunburn, Lucy learning to drive, Lucy on the runaway lawn mower making short work of Betty Ramsey's tulips (two episodes with great support as usual by Vivian Vance), Lucy pretends to be Ricky's agent and gets him fired from MGM, Lucy messes up Ricky's screen test (Are you running out of film? No, I'm running out of chalk!), and so many others. I love Lucy, it is NOT just a title.
"Chuckles" of course, with Mary Tyler Moore is fine form. "Coast to Coast Big Mouth" with Mary and Dick (I told the world that Alan Brady is bald).
Leave it to Beaver - Beaver gets an accordion and doesn't tell his parents. When he can't pay for it, a man comes to pick it up, Ward is outraged and says: "If there's an accordion in this house, I will eat it." And of course at that moment it comes, slinky-like, down the stairs.
And although it was NOT a sitcom - Steve Allen's man on the street and camera in the audience segments would have me rolling on the floor.
The Beverly Hillbillies when Granny decides to run for Possum Queen of Beverly Hills against Mrs. Drysdale who doesn't even realize she is in the contest.
BUT I must leave a few for others here at HHW! LOL
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Today's Point to Ponder:
Think a gallon of gas is expensive?
This makes one think, and also puts things in perspective:
Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 ..... $10.32 per gallon
Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ......$9.52 per gallon
Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 ........... $10.17 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 . .....$10.00 per gallon
Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 . ........$33.60 per gallon
Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 ....... $178.13 per gallon
Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 ...... $123.20 per gallon
Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 ........... .. $25.42 per gallon
Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 .................$84.48 per gallon
And this is the REAL KICKER...
Evian water 9 oz $1.49............$21.19 per gallon?!
$21.19 for WATER - and the buyers don't even know the source. (Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)
So, the next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run on water, Scope, or Whiteout, or God forbid Pepto Bismal or Nyquil.
der Brucer (wondering if a Pepto Bismol fill-up would settle-out the engine?)
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I bought my turkey last night on the way home from rehearsal. There was quite a selection.....so I spent some time checking them all out. Also got some Stove Top stuffing, a pumpkin pie, and some Whipped Topping. Yes, we cook at our house...but we aren't "cooks" the way some DR's are. More's the pity for us, I am sure. But reading all the wonderful posts about food here is always delicious.
I loved all the captions yesterday! Thanks!
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In lieu of your Allison Hayes Picture of the Week - here is a "candid" snap of a popular couple on a "date." Anyone who cares to guess their identities is welcome to give it a try. I will only say that the girl is a favorite of DRMBARNUM and the man is a popular record producer. 8)
The photo credit reads:
Eddie Rocco
1338 No Vista St
Hollywood 46, Calif
HOllywood 3-9618
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TOD
Funniest TV episode (which was unintentional) was one of the early Honeymooner skits when Norton was outside the apartment trying to get in and the door stuck - there was much knob fiddling and yanking, then finally Carney caually opened the heaven-knows-what story up kitchen window and climbed in. Then there was the time the entire set backdrop came crashing down at the scene end - and the not so funny time Gleason slipped and broke his leg.
der Brucer (the best part was watching Alice and Trixie trying to keep straight faces while Ralph and Ed bumbled their way through the script)
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Greetings all.
TOD: Some of my favorites have already been mentioned. There have been many episodes of FRASIER that made me laugh out loud. There was one episode of CHEERS (a show I normally did not care for), that I recall being laugh out loud funny...it involved a wedding....Woody's wedding to Kelly, perhaps?
Christine Baranski on CYBILL made me laugh out loud. Some episodes of WILL & GRACE still make me laugh out loud.
Though it's not techinically a sitcom, Miss Burnett in the "curtain dress" still make me laugh out loud.
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Last night's Cher concert was pretty terrific. We had bought the cheap seats, but Miss Sarkisian Bono Allman did not sell out, so we were able to move down about 12 rows. (Her last appearance here was within the last 12 months or so, so it it somewhat understandable). She had costume problems during "Strong Enough" so by the time she finally made her entrance, she decided to do it over from the top. (Which was fine, as some of her dancers were just as entrancing as her entrances.)
The Village People, I am sad to say, are a shadow of their former selves, with only two originals (David Hoty/Construction Worker and Felipe Whatever-his-name-is/Native American). It was a half-hour set, and unfortunately they did not get to some of my favorites of their oeuvre.
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Pie crust dough has been made. Tonight will be soup-making time (carrot); tomorrow night will be the pies themselves (pecan, a carmelized apple that I have done before -- recipe courtesy of FoodTV.com -- and sweet potato). Thursday will be the bird and stuffing (from scratch, sorry, DR JRand!) and the other side dishes.
Busy, busy, busy.
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Some additions for the TOD: All Frasier episodes featuring Anthony La Paglia as Daphne's loutish brother, Simon. It's amazing to realize that this is the same actor who gives an equally brilliant performance in the drama Without A Trace.
As for Lucy. The episode that always gets me going is the one where Lucy and Ethel go to work in the chocolate factory. But I do think that Joan Davis is every bit as hilarious in the in the I Married Joan taffy-pull episode.
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Sigh...it's time to change Amanda's water.
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Probably the funniest sitcom moment for me is Lucy's vitameatavegiman commercial rehearsals...!!
I can't think of any other laugh out loud sitcom moments just at the moment, but shows like Gilligan's Island, Beverly Hillbillies, The Munsters, The Addams Family, and Carol Burnett Show (ok, not really a sitcom) always make me laugh!
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DR Danise, I had forgotten about Nestor the Long Eared Donkey!
When I was a wee sprig of a lad I recall a Christmas special that had to do with some animals travelling, I think, to see the baby Jesus...all the animals were puppets similar to the Muppets...and indeed may have been muppets of some type. This was around 1972 or 73. Never saw it again, but it has always stuck in my mind.
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DRSTUART - that CHEERS episode of Woody's wedding had a line that still makes me laugh....Woody ran into the kitchen looking for a plunger....and Sam asked if they were having problems in the bathroom, and Woody replied: "No, Uncle Bob left his wooden leg on the bus, and there's gonna be dancing!"
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Thanks to DRs Dan-In-Toronto and Jrand54 for the congrats.
Some Favorite Sit-Com Laughs (that haven't been mentioned yet):
MTM: Mr. Grant taking three entree servings at one of Mary's disasterous dinner parties and then having to put two of them back.
Phyllis(Cloris Leachman's MTM spinoff): The first time sweet little old Judith Lowry told Phyllis "F' you!" or words to that effect.
Fraiser: The night the new radio station manager (who thought that Fraiser was gay) came to dinner.
Maude: Vivian's heirloom dragonfly broach is about to be buried with a detested woman to whom Maude once lent it to.
All In The Family: The toilet flushing during Mike and Gloria's wedding.
And while I never saw the entire episode (or any episode, for that matter) I once saw a clip of Mr. Peepers that had me rolling on the floor. In it, Mr. Peepers was handing a box of rags over to Marion Lorne's character. As he rummaged through it he pulls out a piece of material that's the same exact pattern as the dress that Lorne is wearing. The silent embarassed expressions they both display were priceless.
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Oh, and the Jack Benny Program had many moments that made me laugh out loud!!!
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MTM: Mr. Grant taking three entree servings at one of Mary's disasterous dinner parties and then having to put two of them back.
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In it, Mr. Peepers was handing a box of rags over to Marion Lorne's character. As he rummaged through it he pulls out a piece of material that's the same exact pattern as the dress that Lorne is wearing. The silent embarassed expressions they both display was priceless.
Mary was serving Veal Prince Orloff that evening. Poor Mary. Never could throw a party.
A favorite MTM episode (I may be confusing a plot with a punchline) is the one where Sue Ann is having an affair with Lars Lindstrom. Phyllis goes to the studio to confront her, and after hearing her out, Sue Ann retorts "And in the kitchen, dear, that's what we call a crock." At which point Phyllis asks if Sue Ann knows how to remove chocolate stains. "Why, yes," Sue Ann answers. So, Phyllis reaches into a pot of chocolate syrup and throws it at SA's immaculate white apron. But it's the "crock" line that always got me. (And I apologize if I am combining two episodes in my mind.)
And I think Marion Lorne (especially on BEWITCHED) was pretty priceless herself.
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Excellent choices all. My favorite Jack Benny moments are the hillbilly routine (hilarious), and the entire Julie London guest shot show (with the twelve year old girl who plays the violin). Also the Zippy the Chimp episode of The Phil Silvers Show.
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Speaking of turkeys...
Last night I went to the Musical Theatre Guild's semi-staged concert presentation of Redhead.
'Splain sunthin to me Lucy (Oh. A sort of reference to the topic of the day): How, how, how (that is three hows) in the world did that mess win Best Musical Tony over Flower Drum Song and...Gypsy?!?!?!?!
Unmemorable music. Pedestrian lyrics. A weak book by a committee of four. The performance wasn't helped by a cast that apparently was trying to compensate for the weak material by overdoing their lines and songs. Not one of my happiest nights at the MTG.
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Marion Lorne was wonderful! When I was about 3 or 4 I saw her on Bewitched and thought she was my grandmother...there was a bit of a resemblance.
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In response to posts by Dear Reader Der Brucer and Dear Reader Jose from yesterday:
Yes, I will file a report on Vanessa after I see it on December 15.
By the way (BTW in internet lingo), I am NOT looking forward to hearing Miss Rosalind Elias' performance as the Baroness. I last heard Miss Elias a couple of years ago as Zita in Gianni Schicchi and her voice, to be kind, was in shreds.
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I forgot about Redhead - I wanted to check it out. It IS amazing that it won for Best Musical over Gypsy and Flower Drum Song, but the latter two shows have obviously had the last laugh in every possible way - revivals, staying power and hit songs, whereas Redhead is a virtually forgotten show.
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Speaking of turkeys...
Last night I went to the Musical Theatre Guild's semi-staged concert presentation of Redhead.
'Splain sunthin to me Lucy (Oh. A sort of reference to the topic of the day): How, how, how (that is three hows) in the world did that mess win Best Musical Tony over Flower Drum Song and...Gypsy?!?!?!?!
Unmemorable music. Pedestrian lyrics. A weak book by a committee of four. The performance wasn't helped by a cast that apparently was trying to compensate for the weak material by overdoing their lines and songs. Not one of my happiest nights at the MTG.
Dear Brother, REDHEAD didn't win the Best Musical Tony (R) over GYPSY.
That honor would be shared by a tie between THE SOUND OF MUSIC and FIORELLO, in 1960, not 1959.
But, yes, REDHEAD won over FLOWER DRUM SONG. Which was not much liked at its premiere, whereas the magic of Verdon and Fosse transcended the muck that is REDHEAD.
Can you say FOLLIES/TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA? ;)
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What else was nominated in the Redhead year, just out of curiousity.
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IF you would like to find more things wrong with the 1959 Tony Awards (R), you might want to note that Elaine Stritch wasn't even nominated for GOLDILOCKS, while two of her supporting players walked away with awards for their performances.
Methinks the nominating process was much different then, since there are far fewer musical acting nominees than those of their straight play counterparts. And with only three nominees for Best Musical that year, you would think there would have been room for GOLDILOCKS there as well. Unless there was Kerr backlash......
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Only three nominees? Stuart, is there a list of the musicals that opened that season? I'd suspect there was more than Goldilocks that should have been up.
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Dear Brother, REDHEAD didn't win the Best Musical Tony (R) over GYPSY.
Hmm. I guess that just proves you can't believe everything you read in a performance program. The note, which was written by Mr. Tom Hatten, goes on to mention Miss Gwen Verdon's win for Best Actress (Musical) for Redhead over Miss Ethel Merman in Gypsy.
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What else was nominated in the Redhead year, just out of curiousity.
'Twas just REDHEAD, FLOWER DRUM SONG and LA PLUME DE MA TANTE.
(Whereas there were FIVE plays nominated.)
And oddly enough, the physical production from FDS wasn't nominated. In fact NONE of the nominated scenic designs were from musicals. Hard to imagine in this day and age.
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Hmm. I guess that just proves you can't believe everything you read in a performance program. The note, which was written by Mr. Tom Hatten, goes on to mention Miss Gwen Verdon's win for Best Actress (Musical) for Redhead over Miss Ethel Merman in Gypsy.
Sorry, wrong number.
Miss Martin won for her postulant over Miss Merman.
Mr. Hatten should be drawn and quartered for fudging the incident that provoked Miss Merman's comment "How can you buck a nun?"
Always a realist, she.
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Wow, what a strange season for musicals. The only other major musicals were Whoop Up! Juno, and Destry. However, I like all of those better than Redhead. Interestingly, Gypsy is listed in that season as the last show to open (according to the ibdb). Did they lobby to get moved to the next season or what happened, because they most assuredly would have won if they'd stayed put.
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Only three nominees? Stuart, is there a list of the musicals that opened that season? I'd suspect there was more than Goldilocks that should have been up.
'Twas the season of WHOOP-UP!
(As memory serves, 58-59 wasn't a stellar season, though I can't recall what else opened. It was one of those years where everyone was trying to come up with the next MY FAIR LADY. It may have been the season of FIRST IMPRESSIONS, but that might have been the following year.)
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'Twas the season of WHOOP-UP!
(As memory serves, 58-59 wasn't a stellar season,
NOT THAT I WAS AROUND FOR IT....!
(I just wanted to clarify, for all you Dear Readers out there who are poised to tease....)
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In the meanwhile, we missed our Page Two Dance, courtesy of La Verdon!
Let's all do 'Erbie Fitch's Twitch!
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Do any of you TAR/Apprentice fans watch The Bachelor? Apparently the National Enquirer has leaked the winner. And I am SO hoping they are right.
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First Impressions opened March 19th, 1959.
April 23: Destry Rides Again
May 11th: Once Upon a Mattress (up for awards in '60)
May 21st: Gypsy.
Meanwhile, Redhead opened February 5th, which would make it the most recent opening of the 1959 eligiblity year. Timing, as usual, is everything, and Fosse had great timing.
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I am a fan of "Frasier," although the later years (of 11) were not nearly so rewarding as the first four or five.
Season 4 offered two of the funniest shows -- of any TV sitcom -- I've seen:
One was called "Ham Radio". In it, the station decides, with Frasier's urging, to do a live radio drama. Frasier was to direct. He cast the show. Niles did not want to take part because of past experience in prep school under Frasier's guidance. Frasier casts a local British man to play an inspector for the mystery that takes place on the moors of England...and fires him for not being "authentic." That sets up Frasier to not only direct but to "star"...and then the true fun begins. Gil Chesterton has a role that gets cut...including a monologue he desperately wants to recite...and begins many times, each time getting killed off by Frasier before he can finish. Roz has a part, too, but shows up straight out of the dentist's chair where she has received an unexpected root canal and her tongue is still deadened from anesthetic. And Bulldog brings in his current girlfriend who has one line to read -- "He's got a gun!" which she delivers, dyslexically, as "He's got a nug!"
As the play drags on, time grows short, and Frasier continues to cut parts willy-nilly, to the disdain of all. He has badgered Niles into taking a role, which turns out to be something like five small parts, each requiring different voices/accents.
It's a magnificent show and the cast never reached such dizzying heights of perfection as in this one episode.
Another episode involves a gift Martin had received from someone -- a hot foam dispenser. He, or Daphne, puts it in the bathroom just off the entry where, later, after you've forgotten about it, Niles goes...there's an explosion...and Niles staggers out, covered with foam.
It's a priceless sight gag.
In Season two or three, there was the hysterical episode in which the new station manager is invited to dinner by Frasier who has complimented the man's taste in ties, and by gushing over a men's store in London. Frasier thinks he's invited the man for Daphne to meet...but the station manager, who is gay, thinks he's on a date with Frasier, and everyone says things to make him believe everyone in the houshold is gay except Daphne (who has a terrific sight gag at the end with a strapless wire bra).
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$21.19 for WATER - and the buyers don't even know the source. (Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)
Penn & Teller did a Bullshit! episode on bottled water. The best one they found was a high-priced premium water named Glacier or something with pictures of snowy mountains on the label. Anyone who took the time to read said label learned that it contained "Galveston Tap Water". Hey, they wouldn't lie to you, would they?
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I bought my turkey last night on the way home from rehearsal. There was quite a selection.....so I spent some time checking them all out. Also got some Stove Top stuffing, a pumpkin pie, and some Whipped Topping. Yes, we cook at our house...but we aren't "cooks" the way some DR's are. More's the pity for us, I am sure. But reading all the wonderful posts about food here is always delicious.
I loved all the captions yesterday! Thanks!
I fix up Stove Top stuffing all through the year. Der B loves Stove Top. I do doctor it up a little, with some fresh celery, onion, maybe some bell pepper, sauteed in the butter the mix calls for, but it's still Stove Top.
Which reminds me, I've got dinner to start planning. Pork chops and...Stove Top Stuffing! Now I just need a veg.
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Any moment of CHUCKLES BITES THE DUST from the old MTM show. The perfect half hour.
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Best line, not really rotfl but so true.
MTM, the wedding of Georgette and Ted. Just prior to the wedding, Mary asks Georgette if she really loves Ted.
Georgette: Well, of course I do, Mary! Somebody has to!
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Good Afternoon!
I slept rather well last night, but, of course, I'm starting to feel a little groggy again after being up a few hours. However, I think my grogginess has to do with my clogged sinuses. Ah, well... But at least the weather continues to be consistent today: gray, drizzle, rain...
As for today's topic:
Ditto!
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Channel 5 in DC used to have hour blocks of "I Love Lucy" - one hour (two episodes) at 10:00am, and another hour at 4:00pm. It was always nice to be able to watch those shows - especially during summer vacation - during those typical "dead" TV hours.
"Seinfeld", "Cheers", "Will & Grace", "Frasier", etc.. heck, even "The Cosby Show" have all had their moments. As I continue to wake up, I'll try my best to post some specific moments/episodes.
Hmmm... "Too Close for Comfort" and "Bosom Buddies" just popped into my head right now...
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Just an aside... Just when I thought soap operas couldn't get more downright stupid and silly with their plots, I turn on "The Bold and the Beautiful".... ugh...
-And I only "watch" "B&B" since it falls between "Y&R" and "ASWT".
;)
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So now that youse guys sent me to the Tonys archive, can someone tell me how Tom Bosely won best supporting actor in a musical for Fiorello! in 1960? Who, I ask, was the star?
And why was Robert Morse nominated in 1959 for best supporting (drama) for Say Darling, which was a musical?
And while we're on the subject, why were Blake Edwards and the rest of Victor Victoria egregiously overlooked ?
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I think I've just come up with the perfect definition of "redundant": watching the Food Network on Thanksgiving.
On the other hand, just to prove how the seasons flow in this commercial age, their entire schedule for the day after Thanksgiving is all about...CHRISTMAS!
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Oh......maybe B&B is causing those mysterious explosions, DRJOSE!
I got my last few 20% off DVD's today....including DRMBARNUM's Birthday present!
Watching BROADWAY THE GOLDEN AGE....oh, yes, everything that has been said and written here at HHW is so....I love this DVD.
Also received BON VOYAGE - a 1962 Disney feature with Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Kevin Corcoran, and Michael Callan AND the SS United States!
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DR WFO - I think SAY, DARLING was considered a "play with music."
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Oh.
Does that make Lady in the Dark a "musical with play"?
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And why was Robert Morse nominated in 1959 for best supporting (drama) for Say Darling, which was a musical?
Because Say Darling was considered to be a drama (or a comedy), with songs, and not a musical. (It was billed as a "play with songs.") I know, it doesn't make sense.
It sounds a little like a report card: Plays nicely with songs.
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LOL SWW I owe you a Coke.
Could be, DR WFO - kind of a like calling STREETCAR a play with dialog.
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So now that youse guys sent me to the Tonys archive, can someone tell me how Tom Bosely won best supporting actor in a musical for Fiorello! in 1960? Who, I ask, was the star?
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And while we're on the subject, why were Blake Edwards and the rest of Victor Victoria egregiously overlooked ?
A) Tom Bosley won a supporting Tony Award (R) for starring in FIORELLO! for the same reason that Tammy Grimes won a supporting Tony Award (R) for MOLLY BROWN. Billing, plain and simple. (But not PLAIN AND FANCY.) They were both below the title. In those days that was tantamount to NOT being a STAR. I think that Wm. Daniels pulling himself out of the race in '69 made them reconsider this arbitrary bylaw. By A CHORUS LINE and DREAMGIRLS, ensemble pieces sometimes clearly had a lead character or two. Or not, as the case may be.
B) I know this is not often said out loud, and I know it was a rhetorical question, but DR WFO, VICTOR/VICTORIA was egregiously overlooked because it wasn't very good.
C) You question about Bobby Morse in SAY, DARLING (which I deleted from the above quote) was already answered correctly.
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While we're talking about television series.....does anyone else remember any bizarre guest star turns? I know that Lucy had a "star" on every week - but guest stars doing weird things on other series?
Anybody else remember Mae West on "Mr Ed" or Jayne Mansfield on "Surfside Six" or John Wayne on "The Beverly Hillbillies"?
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B) I know this is not often said out loud, and I know it was a rhetorical question, but DR WFO, VICTOR/VICTORIA was egregiously overlooked because it wasn't very good.
Dare one say, it was egregiously overlooked, because it was egregious? (Sorry, Julie. And we all love you dearly.)
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I think I've just come up with the perfect definition of "redundant": watching the Food Network on Thanksgiving.
On the other hand, just to prove how the seasons flow in this commercial age, their entire schedule for the day after Thanksgiving is all about...CHRISTMAS!
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Well, just wait till you get to watch Food Network during Christmas!! ;)
-I am amazed at how many times they've broadcast that "All-Star Thanksgiving" program. And they even have a 60 minute cut of it in addition to the original 90 minutes version. And, of course, the program itself is redundant since some of the cooking segments are from corresponding episodes of each of the chef's who are featured on the show.
However, they have begun the Ina Garten's new Paris series, and that was a nice break from all the Turkey Day programming the other day.
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Hi all, quickly browsing the posts from Sunday, Monday and today while between classes at school, will read them more thoroughly later today. One of the records I discovered when I went through my records the other day was "Redhead", I'm not sure I listened to it before, I'll listen when I have a chance.
DR Noel, you mentioned something about "Zombie Prom" recently. I'm set to md that show this fall, besides the cast recording, I know nothing about the show. Can you shed some light or some opions on the show? If any other DR has an info or opinion on the show, I'd love to know also!
Back to work....
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While we're talking about television series.....does anyone else remember any bizarre guest star turns? I know that Lucy had a "star" on every week - but guest stars doing weird things on other series?
Anybody else remember Mae West on "Mr Ed" or Jayne Mansfield on "Surfside Six" or John Wayne on "The Beverly Hillbillies"?
Tallulah Bankhead on Batman!
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"Boom" Update...
Well, it looks like the local authorities have found the source of the mysterious "booms" that have been occuring in the Northside area of Richmond. There was a brief news conference, and the police mentioned that they have found some "pressure producing devices". They weren't explosives, but that's all the detail they could reveal at this time. However, there is a large block of Northside that has been cordonned (sp?) off with police tape - it's a large crime scene area which is made up of a bunch of smaller crime scene areas. Hmm... I'm just hoping it's some homemade experiment, and not an indication of something else, something bigger.
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But the same thing is happening in Fort Wayne, Indiana! Mysterious!
DRMATTHEW who is doing ZOMBIE PROM?
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JRand, you might need to duck and cover! LOL!
...and I do remember the Mae West episode of MR. ED.
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JRand you got your DeepDiscountDVD orders fast! I won a DVD of episodes from the sitcom HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (Lori Nelson, Merry Anders, and Barbara Eden)...the seller had forgotten to ship it out...but they should be on their way now...maybe I will get them today! That would be nice. Haven't seen that show in many, many years.
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Nanny case, to the business at hand:
I have been "late" to work twice this week, and it is all the fault of Mr. Bruce Kimmel. Since I usually arrive at work exceedingly early, late is a relative term, however, and I was here before anyone else.
But Mr. Kimmel (I know he hates dislikes being called that) must bear the blame. I did, however finish Writer's Block, so being late was well worth it. I couldn't bring the book to work, of course, because it would have kept me from performing my more important tasks in the office. Like posting to this here web site, for instance.
I am happy to say that, with 50 pages to go I had a Jessica Fletcher moment and figured out the who (but not the why, how, when, and other interrogatives) from a clue that appeared very early on in the book. I mean very early.
I didn't catch any anachronisms, intentional or otherwise, but I was a bit annoyed by the grammatical slips of one or more authorial voice, anent accusative pronouns.
As for the shocking head-turner somewhere midnovel, which others have found off-putting. I did not find it off-putting. I actually found it quite on-putting. I love that sort of stuff. Do it myself. Which accounts for my initial guess as to the identity of The Real A, for those of you familiar with ancient internet history.
Anyway, in a word:
Delightful!
Bruce, you are indeed a man of many talents. As if we didn't all know that already.
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DR Noel, you mentioned something about "Zombie Prom" recently. I'm set to md that show this fall, besides the cast recording, I know nothing about the show. Can you shed some light or some opions on the show? If any other DR has an info or opinion on the show, I'd love to know also!
Back to work....
Well, if I may butt in here...
I was supposed to do Zombie Prom a few years ago, but then seasons got switched around and changed. However, during my prep work, I did come across a fan site. If you haven't come across it yet, here's the link:
Zombie Prom (http://www.geocities.com/zombieprombie/)
There is also information about the other shows that Rowe & Dempsey have written. Hope it helps.
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I had better start reading the book soon! Had planned on it being my gym-cardio book to read...but since I am a slacker and haven't gone to the gym since I got the book I may have to find time at home to read, otherwise I will be the only one who hasn't read it!
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GYPSY was not nominated against FLOWER DRUM SONG and REDHEAD. It came at the end of that season but after the Tony cutoff date, so it was up against THE SOUND OF MUSIC, FIORELLO, and ONCE UPON A MATTRESS.
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OMG DRMBARNUM - the only thing I remember clearly about the television series HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE is that a couple of the girls....probably Merry and Lori....worked as models on a TV game show and sometimes you saw them at work putting guests in and out of the isolation booth. At the time I didn't think anything could be MORE glam than that!
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DR Stuart, the construction worker's name (in the Village People) is David Hodo. No relation to Dee Hoty.
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WFO, thanks for the lovely comments. Actually, of all the people who've read the book, only one was "off-put" by what happens mid-novel. And that was from someone who read the manuscript. Otherwise, I couldn't be more pleased by the reaction. Please do take time to write those amazon reviews, for those who've read it - but, as I keep saying, please be careful of spoilers, lest you ruin the book's few surprises for others.
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DR Jose:
Did you mean this link (http://www.geocities.com/zombieprombie/)?
Now that I see it is by Dempsey & Row, I am more interested. I have the CDs to The Fix and The Witches of Eastwick, and I find much to like in both scores. Also John Barrowman. Much to to like in John Barrowman. And that said, I just discovered he has a solo Cole Porter CD out. There goes more of my money!
For those of you not familiar with Mr. Barrowman's singing voice, you will have to content yourselves (alas!) with a photograph.
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The Village People, I am sad to say, are a shadow of their former selves, with only two originals (David Hoty/Construction Worker and Felipe Whatever-his-name-is/Native American). It was a half-hour set, and unfortunately they did not get to some of my favorites of their oeuvre.
And "Felipe Whatever-his-name-is/Native American" is a resident of Richmond, VA!
Oh, and his full name is:
Felipe Rose (http://www.officialvillagepeople.com/Flip%20page.html)
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Shame this is a family site, or Mr. Orr could've granted us the sight of Mr. Barrowman doing his hamburger impression. ;)
(Did I really just say that?) I should be blushing.
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Bruce I can’t begin reading WRITER’S BLOCK because I want to read it straight through and don’t have the time to do that. Heck, I shouldn’t even be posting. So much is going on here with the remodeling, interruptions and things, plus I have over a hundred holiday cards to get out. I need to write letters for at least half of those. Currently I’m reading The Knight of Maison-Rouge by Alexandre Dumas. Would you believe I am only getting through a chapter or two before falling asleep at night? You wouldn’t want that to happen with your book, nor would I.
Just a Caesar salad and a burger is very high in calories.
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DR Jose:
Did you mean this link (http://www.geocities.com/zombieprombie/")?
Why whatever do you mean?!??!
;)
-It's just not my day for URLs. Hopefully, I finally got the Village People/Felipe Rose link edited properly.
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Shame this is a family site, or Mr. Orr could've granted us the sight of Mr. Barrowman doing his hamburger impression. ;)
(Did I really just say that?) I should be blushing.
Who have you been talking to, DR td?!?!??!
Actually, his hot dog impression is pretty spot on.
-And, yes, I really did just say that!
:o
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Jennifer the film Les Invasions Barbare begins in an overcrowded hospital with patients lined up in the hallways. The lack of proper medical care continues throughout the movie.
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Well then, here is Mr. Barrowman in Hair? That's a family-oriented show, isn't it?
Those with absolutely no interest in the costume design can hum the music.
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Well then, here is Mr. Barrowman in Hair? That's a family-oriented show, isn't it?
Those with absolutely no interest in the costume design can hum the music.
...Just remember, we don't want the Upload Folder getting filled up again!
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Shocked I am shocked....and for one I am glad that DRCHARLESPOGUE is not here to see this...this....racous and disgusting display of beefcake.
Are those the only pictures anyone has?
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Okay. I'm done. Do your own googling.
I would however suggest http://www.johnbarrowman.net (http://www.johnbarrowman.net).
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Panni are you entertaining for Thanksgiving?
Have a good meeting tomorrow. Walking should be a real treat.
MBarnum take the book and go to the gym!
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Last night we watched BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS. We think Peter Fonda might be in for a nomination with his performance.
Hillary Danner played young Rebecca, Blythe Danner’s character. This morning I looked on-line to see if they are related. I found Hillary Danner is Katherine Moennig’s cousin. So I look up Katherine Moening and find she is Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner’s niece. LOL
Further sleuthing shows Hillary is the daughter of Harry Danner, Blythe’s brother.
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OK.. It's time for another walk in the rain...
Laters...
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Now that I've taken BK to task for making me late to work, I really must apologize to him.
I have been remiss, not to mention errant and truant, in posting reviews on amazon.com. I have not posted my review of Kritzertime, alas. And that was some months ago.
My recent reading has been all hainesy/kimlet stuff, come to think of it. I read Jewish Thighs on Broadway this summer by our very own PennyO, as well as Dragonheart, the novel by our very own Charles E. Pogue. And I owe them both reviews, too. Tomorrow will be a slow day at work, so I plan to post several.
I heartily recommend both of the above to all of you. Penny's work is a laugh riot, as one is wont to say, and I am eagerly anticipating the stage version in March. If you have seen the film of Dragonheart, and you can somehow acquire the out-of-print novel, you will find it much more detailed in depth of character, especially of some of the villains. There are many scenes in the novel that would have vastly improved the film if they had been on screen.
I am crossing my fingers that Hercules as it appears on TV will be what DR Pogue wrote and intended, because a lot of people know how to tell such a story wrong, but he definitely knows how to tell it right.
I actually love the über-campy TV series starring DR Edward Pogue's close personal friend Kevin Sorbo, but face it: it isn't Hercules. Looking forward to seeing the legend as it should be told.
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I know next-to-nothing about Zombie Prom, and, like you, need to know more. My father called me very late at night, desparate to suggest some good musical for the high school he's on the Board of. Zombie Prom's on a rather long list I made for him, and he wants to know more. So that's two of us. Dempsey & Rowe's other shows, it seems, have only been produced in England.
Some might think I'd be able to sell him on Area 51, or Murder at the Savoy or any of my other musicals. Well, the answer to that is a question:
Who do you have to be sired by to get a show produced in this town?
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I heartily recommend both of the above to all of you. Penny's work is a laugh riot, as one is wont to say, and I am eagerly anticipating the stage version in March.
And wait to you hear her sing. You are in for a real treat. :D Oh do I wish I could be there.
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I think Redhead's Tony victory has a whole lot to do with the magic wrought on the material by the husband-and-wife team of Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse. I've never seen Redhead, but I've often commented that Pippin was an example of Fosse's genius: all the elements - choreography, costumes, sets, dance arrangements, are working together to make an entertaining experience for the audience. If you remove Fosse's contribution from the equation, you're left with a not-as-impressive trifle. My guess is that something similar is at work with the version of Redhead DR Jay saw. That Tony wasn't specifically for the book and score, it was for the whole Bob-and-Gwen package.
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Jennifer the film Les Invasions Barbare begins in an overcrowded hospital with patients lined up in the hallways. The lack of proper medical care continues throughout the movie.
Well I'm not an expert on hospitals here, but I have been to a few. If you need a doctor you can make a regular doctor's appointment and get in no problem. Or you can go to clinics and wait maybe an hour.
As for hospitals, if you go to the emergency room you might have to wait an hour. But they will see you and treat you.
The only thing I can think of that reminds me of what you described is when a person has a serious problem. It can take a day to get transferred to a room. And the emergency rooms have stalls that are full. I don't know if that is different in the US.
I will say this, the only time I spent in a hospital was not too bad. I got right in at the first hospital. I was transferred immediately by ambulance to another hospital. And again seen right away. I did have to spend the first night on a bed outside a nurse's station until a room was free the next morning.
The room had one other person. And they paid very good attention to me.
And this was all free.
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Well, I've never seen REDHEAD (and it certainly isn't staged much, is it?), but the cast album is certainly underwhelming.
On the other hand, it must have had lots of good elements. Not just Gwen and Bob's contributions, but Richard Kiley won his first Tony for this, and Leonard Stone won a supporting actor Tony (tied with Russell Nype from GOLDILOCKS) and it won best costumes, too. Obviously, there was a lot of quality in the show. Score and book seem to be the least of its virtues.
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Leonard Stone won a supporting actor Tony (tied with Russell Nype from GOLDILOCKS)
Leonard Stone was nominated for a supporting actor Tony Award (R), but did not win.
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Leonard Stone was nominated for a supporting actor Tony Award (R), but did not win.
Sorry, but you're wrong. That's an error that's been perpetuated in all THE TONY AWARD volumes since their inception, but THE TONY AWARDS BOOK corrects it. There WAS a tie that year.
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In honor of Thanksgiving, there is the episode on MAD ABOUT YOU where they decide to invite their families for Thanksgiving dinner. Paul and Jamie want to show their parents they can give a nice dinner and want everything to be perfect. The scene with Murray the dog standing on the table eating the turkey is a riot. From then on the various attempts by Jamie and Paul to smuggle a new turkey into the kitchen had us in stitches. This had to have been the best episode of the show.
We have a guy here helping Keith pick up leaves. Echo is going ballistic as his Chihuahua is running around our yard. I can’t let Echo out unsupervised-she might run him over.
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BTW, THE TONY AWARDS contains quite a few errors. It also says Frank Loesser won the Best Score Tony for GUYS AND DOLLS, but Irving Berlin took it that year for CALL ME MADAM.
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Most of my favorite comedy episodes have been named:
"Coast to Coast Big Mouth," "Chuckes Bites the Dust." I certainly think THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW and MARY TYLER MOORE provided for me the most laugh out loud moments in my life.
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The best episode of MAD ABOUT YOU.....there couldn't be much competition there now, really, could there?
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Sorry, but you're wrong.
Ditto.
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Well I'm not an expert on hospitals here, but I have been to a few. If you need a doctor you can make a regular doctor's appointment and get in no problem. Or you can go to clinics and wait maybe an hour.
As for hospitals, if you go to the emergency room you might have to wait an hour. But they will see you and treat you.
The only thing I can think of that reminds me of what you described is when a person has a serious problem. It can take a day to get transferred to a room. And the emergency rooms have stalls that are full. I don't know if that is different in the US.
I will say this, the only time I spent in a hospital was not too bad. I got right in at the first hospital. I was transferred immediately by ambulance to another hospital. And again seen right away. I did have to spend the first night on a bed outside a nurse's station until a room was free the next morning.
The room had one other person. And they paid very good attention to me.
And this was all free.
Emergency rooms here can take much longer than one hour since they take you in order of the emergency.
I don't think I would enjoy spending a night outside the nurses station. Maybe you received better attention that way because you could stop the nurses as they walked past you.
The only time I have heard of people waiting for a room was the morning I left the hospital after Craig was born. So many babies were born that month there were a couple of days it was a problem. (All I say, it was nine months after a cold winter). The morning I left the hospital they were counting the patients who were leaving to find how many beds were available.
The hospital in the movie had multiple people in the room and getting important test done took forever, even though he was seriously ill.
Glad you felt your experience was good.
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Favorite sit-com, any episiode of "The Nanny" :)
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JRand ;D. IT was a funny episode.
We have been watching AMOS & ANDY. Scenes from some of those episodes are hysterical. We have been having some good laughs watching MY LITTLE MARGIE.
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Ditto.
It's really not that important, but Ken Mandelbaum settled this dispute a year or so ago by researching the controversy and discovering that it was indeed a tie that year.
And it was Russell Nype who validated that both of them won that year.
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And for something I don't think is so important, I guess I'm making it so, but it bothered me that I'd stuck my neck out. Peter Filichia says in the liner notes to the cast CD that it won in all categories it was nominated except Conductor (won by FLOWER DRUM SONG). As I said earlier, he confirmed that Stone did indeed tie with Russell Nype.
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I wrote this ages ago, got a phonecall and forgot to post it...
I seem to be the only one here! More unpacking. And I still should go out to Santa Monica to pick up a rug ( I DID return yesterday's selection). But now it's rush hour. Oh well. Maybe I'll just rest. What a concept.
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Evening all.
Ok. Let’s get this out of the way before I say anything else. I’ve had a “Duh” moment. Last night after I spoke about how I wanted Nestor The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey I went on a search to see if I could find it.
First stop, Amazon. Com. They had it. On a DVD with The Year With Out A Santa Claus and Rudolph’s Shiny New Year. I took one look at the picture of the box and said to myself, “I HAVE that!”. Sure enough, a search through my DVD collection turned up the very same DVD! See attached picture.
I bought it last year at an after Christmas sale and it’s still in the shrink wrap because Christmas stories should only be watched at Christmas time. I never noticed that it had the two other shows on it.
In my defense, you can see that it is in the bottom right hand corner and very small compared to The Year With Out A Santa Claus
Anyway, the good news is I have it! :D
As for the TOD, the funniest episode I’ve EVER seen on a show was on Space: 1999. The episode was called, The Space Brain. The plot involved the runaway moon going though some kind of living brain in the vacuum of space, killing it. The funny part came when they passed through said brain. The special effects were tons and tons of…….soap suds! I have a often wondered what brand of soap they used and how much they had use to soap up the “moon”. At least everything was clean when they were finished.
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Good Evening!
-Another nice walk in the rain. I had planned to pick up some food and supplies at the grocery store while I was out, but once I got to the grocery store I realized I had left the apartment without my wallet. Ah, well... However, I did have a spare bill and some change in my jeans, so I picked up a very good oatmeal raisin cookie and the bread bakery.
:)
Most interesting thing I noticed during my walk: Above the new fireplace in the newly remodeled McDonald's, they were installing a widescreen, flat panel, possibly plasma television set. Hmm... I wonder who gets control of the remote? Or does McD's have their own in-house TV network?
Funniest thing I noticed during my walk: In the window of a gift and knick-knack store was a small chalkboard on a decorative "holder" (for lack of a better word). And on said chalkboard was written (in chalk):
Antique Palm Pilot
$12.96
;D
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I wrote this ages ago, got a phonecall and forgot to post it...
I seem to be the only one here! More unpacking. And I still should go out to Santa Monica to pick up a rug ( I DID return yesterday's selection). But now it's rush hour. Oh well. Maybe I'll just rest. What a concepts.
...Hmm.. Sounds to me like you need some See's Chocolates!
:-*
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I've seen a pencil with a tag that said it was the original word processor on it.
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Am I right, does that make FOUR rugs you've returned?
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My favorite sit-com scene was the one where Niles Crane irons his pants and sets the couch on fire. Not one word was spoken.
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Spoiler alert (REDHEAD).
DR Jay,
In the production you saw, was the villain sitting in the box seats?
That scene may have inspired an old New Yorker cartoon. An older couple are sitting in their box seats, with an ape beside them. At the end of the play the wife turns to the husband and asks, "You mean he wasn't in the show?"
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One of my favorite sitcom scenes was in the original Ellen DeGeneres sitcom (it may have been when it was still called "These Friends of Mine")...it was a very Lucy moment. She was replacing a big water bottle and spilled it all over the place. It just felt like the whole "accident" really was an accident and Ellen (the actress, not the character) had to stay in character and just go with it. Hysterical!
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Am I right, does that make FOUR rugs you've returned?
LOL. I’m looking for a new comforter for my bed. Those things are heavy and my arms are sore from carrying so many home and back to the stores.
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Spoiler alert (REDHEAD).
DR Jay,
In the production you saw, was the villain sitting in the box seats?
That scene may have inspired an old New Yorker cartoon. An older couple are sitting in their box seats, with an ape beside them. At the end of the play the wife turns to the husband and asks, "You mean he wasn't in the show?"
No, the villain was not sitting in the box seats.
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Wow, what a strange season for musicals. The only other major musicals were Whoop Up! Juno, and Destry. However, I like all of those better than Redhead. Interestingly, Gypsy is listed in that season as the last show to open (according to the ibdb). Did they lobby to get moved to the next season or what happened, because they most assuredly would have won if they'd stayed put.
The tony award season was different back then. I am not sure when the June 1 to May 31 period started. For example Company opened April 1970, but won for the 1971 Tony awards
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I should have posted this earlier, before 8:00pm on the east coast. Can anyone record a movie for me on the WB channel? A DVD is even better since my VCR is in my bedroom and I won’t be watching anything in there for awhile. The exciting movie I want to see is SAMANTHA: AN AMERICAN GIRL HOLIDAY.
http://www.thewb.com/Shows/Special/0,11116,192854,00.html
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Dear Reader George's mention of Ellen DeGeneres does remind me of one of my biggest laughs in response to a sitcom episode. It is the last scene in Miss DeGeneres' famous coming out episode, in which her lesbian paperwork is stamped and a toaster is awarded.
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So now that youse guys sent me to the Tonys archive, can someone tell me how Tom Bosely won best supporting actor in a musical for Fiorello! in 1960? Who, I ask, was the star?
And why was Robert Morse nominated in 1959 for best supporting (drama) for Say Darling, which was a musical?
And while we're on the subject, why were Blake Edwards and the rest of Victor Victoria egregiously overlooked ?
Tom Bosley and Tammy Grimes won for supporting roles despite playing the title roles because their names where billed below the title of the show.
Say Darling was considered a play with songs so that is why Robert Morse was nominated for playing Hal Prince in Say Darling
SOMEONE BEAT ME TO IT
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I should have posted this earlier, before 8:00pm on the east coast. Can anyone record a movie for me on the WB channel? A DVD is even better since my VCR is in my bedroom and I won’t be watching anything in there for awhile. The exciting movie I want to see is SAMANTHA: AN AMERICAN GIRL HOLIDAY.
http://www.thewb.com/Shows/Special/0,11116,192854,00.html
DR Jane - Did you go to American Girl Place while you were in NYC? There's also one in Chicago.
If not, something to add to your list for next time!
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Jose I walked past it but didn't have time to go in.
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Michael Shayne, get your butt cheeks over to amazon.
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DR Jane - If you're interested, here's a link to the review of "Samantha" from the Washington Post. It's a positive review, but there's an extra "twist" to it too.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6119-2004Nov22.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6119-2004Nov22.html)
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Interesting that the official Tony Award site lists Russell Nype as the only winner that year. And didn't realize that all 4 musical acting categories only had 2 nominees! They could have fleshed it out
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I am off to the Renberg Theatre at the Gay & Lesbian Center of Los Angeles for a performance by Miss Margaret Cho. Miss Cho frequently uses this 400 seat venue to work through material she subsequently uses on her tours around the U.S. of A. and beyond, usually performed in much larger venues.
Report later.
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Michael Shayne, get your butt cheeks over to amazon.
I am writing it in word first.
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Food for thought:
Long before Ms. Zet-Jones and Ms. Zellwegger, possibly sometime in the 1980s, wouldn't Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart have been ideal roles for the teaming of Leslie Ann Warren and Goldie Hawn?
(Gee, can anyone tell that I finally got around to a certain Disney film?)
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td I think you are right.
Jose I couldn't get into the site. I will try later-thanks.
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Well, I'm back from DC! And a splendid visit it was. I saw all my friends in the Music Division, got most of my research finished (they couldn't find a couple of orchestra parts so they'll be copied and sento to me next week), had a lovely dinner with musical director John Kalbfleisch, and developed a crush on a music librarian. All in all, a successful trip.
Sit-coms: Chuckles the Clown's death on MARY TYLER MOORE
William holden on I LOVE LUCY
Tallulah Bankhead vs Desilu
All Nanny episodes
All Seinfeld episodes, but especially the puffy shirt, the Bette Midler musical, and any with Estelle Harris
REDHEAD: I did a revival of this at Goodspeed, 1998, and it's really a second-rate show; I kept wishing that director Chris Ashley had looked at earlier scripts because I suspect there may have bee na better mystery when the show was written for Bea Lillie. There were so many songs and dances for Verdon that she later in the run and tour dropped numbers. The original souvenir booklet, however, shows that the musical was the epitome of Victorian chic in scene and costume design, and I'd bet that Fosse's fluid staging (the underscoring never stops and I'm sure it was there to keep a rhythmic pulse under the movement) was another reason for its rave reviews. Alas, there was little chic or magic at Goodspeed.
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Well, I'm back from DC! And a splendid visit it was. I saw all my friends in the Music Division, got most of my research finished (they couldn't find a couple of orchestra parts so they'll be copied and sento to me next week), had a lovely dinner with musical director John Kalbfleisch, and developed a crush on a music librarian. All in all, a successful trip.
Welcome back to NYC, DR elmore! And so glad to hear you were able to have dinner with Jon K.!
As an aside... When Jon went to Germant a few years ago, he would always run into some confusion when making restaurant reservations. "Sir, yes, we do serve Kalbfleisch." "No, no, no.. my name last name is Kalbfleisch." -Kalbfleisch = Veal in Deutschland.
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[...Much to to like in John Barrowman. And that said, I just discovered he has a solo Cole Porter CD out. There goes more of my money!...
You might want to hold onto your money. The Porter collection lacks a certain zing. In fact, it goes plonk where it should go proinginging. I don't blame barrowman, I blame his team. Disappointing.
Or maybe I'm just spoiled by BK's work in the field.
Nah.
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Welcome home elmore. :D
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...And I still should go out to Santa Monica to pick up a rug ...
Panni, dear, you have a lovely head of hair. You do not, I repeat, NOT need a rug.
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I should have posted this earlier, before 8:00pm on the east coast. Can anyone record a movie for me on the WB channel? A DVD is even better since my VCR is in my bedroom and I won’t be watching anything in there for awhile. The exciting movie I want to see is SAMANTHA: AN AMERICAN GIRL HOLIDAY.
http://www.thewb.com/Shows/Special/0,11116,192854,00.html
Jane, has anyone said that they'd be able to record this for you? My sister's boyfriend has a DVD recorder hooked up to his TV. I called to ask if he could do it (I have a bunch of blank DVDs) but he hasn't called back yet. However, it's also going to be rebroadcast on Thursday at 8:00 p.m., so if it doesn't happen tonight, he might be able to on Thursday...unless someone can record it for you tonight.
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Thank you George. No one has offered so far. It doesn't help it has been a quiet night here. I should have checked if it would be on again and appreciate your doing so.
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I just got a call from Larry, my sister's boyfriend and he said that he can do it. So, no problem! ;D
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Great. Isn't it wonderful your sister has such a nice boyfriend? Please tell him thank you from me.
'night.
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Who does BK know at Amazon? My review has been posted in less than an hour after I sent it. Usually it takes 24 hours.
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I saw Redhead in New York when I was a kid. I don't remember much about it, other than that I thought it was funny and scary. And I certainly remember the collective gasp when the villain was revealed sitting in the box seats.
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DR Danise, have you ever visited the official Rankin-Bass site (http://www.rankinbass.com/)? A lot of info about Rudolph, Frosty, Nestor and other shows there.
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Yes, I was well aware that the Tony Award site listed only Russell Nype, but as I said earlier, after the controversy of conflicting information from different books (and from an old World Book Yearbook for 1960 which cited two winners), Ken Mandelbaum researched it by going straight to Russell Nype who said that both of them won. Peter Filichia also validated that information in his liner notes.
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I watched the first hour of WALK ON THE WILD SIDE tonight. The credits were in such terrible shape with dirt and debris, huge scratches and lines all over the place that I thought it was going to be a hideous transfer. Turned out once the credits were over, the picture became quite sharp and well done - anamorphic, too.
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I received this in an e-mail and thought I'd share ;D :
(http://www.haineshisway.com/community/attachments/Happiness_Fairy.gif)
A Happiness Greeting!
Hello.
I am the Happiness Fairy.
I've sprinkled happy dust on you.
So Smile! - This sh**'s expensive!!
(Don't use it all in one place! Happy Thanksgiving!!)
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What?!?!?! No posts in almost an hour and a half? Why you'd think it was past midnight on the East Coast?!?!
:P
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What?!?!?! No posts in almost an hour and a half? Why you'd think it was past midnight on the East Coast?!?!
:P
Hey, Jose, I beat you by 4 seconds!!
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Michael, amazon seems to have gotten their act together - reviews seem to go up in mere minutes. Michael wrote a lovely review.
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Hey, Jose, I beat you by 4 seconds!!
SKAMMEN!
Now you pour salt on my wounds!
:P
:o
;D
;)
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Hello, DRs. I was supposed to have a very productive evening tonight of posting, unpacking and movie watching (work related). Instead, I fell asleep. I didn't mean to fall asleep -- it just happened. Must be exhaustion from carrying all the rugs back and forth.
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Too much to do tomorrow, myself. We've got cranberries to relish, sweet potatoes to candied, onions to cream, and a damn ham soaking in the sink waiting to be skinned and roasted.
Yeah, that's right, skinned. Trivial little detail, that.
On top of which we've got to head over to Maryland to grandladsit while their parents take care of some business. (The upside of this, along with the grandlads themselves, is that their mother hasn't wanted to see The Incredibles herself, so we get to take them. :D)
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It's two fourty in the fenorking morning! I won't dance, don't ask me.
(A Kern and Fields reference.)
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I relish some cranberries right about now.