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Title: THE KOOKY DAY IS DONE
Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:37:21 AM: Well, you've read the notes, the notes were kooky, and now it is time for you to post until the kooky cows come home.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:38:41 AM: And the word of the day is: NITID!
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 12:41:30 AM: First post after BK.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 12:42:23 AM: Oh, do I love a good potato(e) salad!
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 12:43:51 AM: T.O.D.

It must be Christmas in March because I can’t get A CAROL CHRISTMAS out of the CD player in my car!!
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 12:44:14 AM: I truly love it.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 12:44:46 AM: Now, I shall say goodnight.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 12:44:58 AM: Goodnight.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 12:47:45 AM: Tom, when you asked:
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Is the one at Hawk’s Prairie across the freeway from the HP restaurant?

Do you mean Meconi's? Then, yes, it's on the same street but on the other side of I-5.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 12:48:21 AM: Quote from: TCB on March 15, 2019, 12:44:58 AM
Goodnight.

Good night, Tom.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:58:27 AM: Finally! The Court Jester at the Lido, the week of June 27th, 1956 - interestingly it also played at the Stadium and the Picfair, my other two nabes, but I'm not at all sure I saw it at those two theaters, which is odd to me.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 01:00:23 AM: ~~~Some Really Strong Patented Most Excellent Vibes and Xylophones for BK for No Problems About Anything!!~~~
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 01:14:41 AM: August 15, 1956 - as I knew I did, saw Lisbon at the Wiltern, with my full blown allergy attack. In the weird department, The Man Who Knew too Much played the crappy Picfair BEFORE the Lido, which is where I saw it. The week after the Picfair, it moved to the Lido but with Anything Goes as the second feature, whereas I know I saw it with Autumn Leaves. Let's jump to the next week. Aha - August 22, 1956 - The Man Who Knew Too Much and Autumn Leaves - the cover of Benjamin Kritzer :) Whew!
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 01:37:15 AM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2019, 01:14:41 AM
August 15, 1956 - as I knew I did, saw Lisbon at the Wiltern, with my full blown allergy attack. In the weird department, The Man Who Knew too Much played the crappy Picfair BEFORE the Lido, which is where I saw it. The week after the Picfair, it moved to the Lido but with Anything Goes as the second feature, whereas I know I saw it with Autumn Leaves. Let's jump to the next week. Aha - August 22, 1956 - The Man Who Knew Too Much and Autumn Leaves - the cover of Benjamin Kritzer :) Whew!

That's so cool!
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 01:37:43 AM: Time for bed.

Have a good day, all!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:06:02 AM: July 29th, 1959 - Hercules at the Wiltern - I was there!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:12:16 AM: August 19, 1959 - Some Like it Hot at the Stadium - unforgettable!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:14:01 AM: August 26th, 1959 (actually, for me, August 29 matinee) - Horrors of the Black Museum at the Picfair. I ran from the theater.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:16:55 AM: And monumentally - September 2, 1959, the week before school resumes - opening day at the Wiltern for me, noon show: North by Northwest.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:30:13 AM: October 21, 1959 - after seeing North by Northwest three times at the Wiltern, it finally shows up at the Stadium - I've always thought the second feature was Sapphire, but it was, in fact, Room 43 with Diana Dors.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:38:32 AM: November 25 (I would have been there on the Friday evening the 27th) Anatomy of a Murder and The Scapegoat at the Stadium.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:39:23 AM: Also, Ben-Her opens at the Egyptian and in just a couple of weeks it will be Christmas vacation and I will insist we go.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:47:10 AM: December 8, 1959 for my birthday - The Angry Red Planet at the Four Star in Cinemagic. I turn twelve.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:49:43 AM: December 16, 1959 - Christmas vacation - I'm at the Wiltern with my turkey sandwich for the first show: Li'l Abner. I'll be back two or three more times that week.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:56:04 AM: January 6, 1960 - Journey to the Center of the Earth at the Stadium - in stereo.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 02:56:10 AM: BK, no wonder you sleep until three o’clock!
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 02:57:04 AM: I thought you weren’t going to obsess over that newspaper.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 02:58:24 AM: I never saw ANATOMY OF A MURDER. I have no idea why I missed it.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:59:45 AM: January 25, 1960 - Scent of Mystery opens - I see it soon thereafter at the Ritz - interestingly, prior to that the Ritz, which had been a movie house forever, had been having live shows, including in December of 1959, The Billy Barnes Revue (direct from B'way where it had closed after a handful of performances) - purportedly with a full orchestra yet.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 03:01:18 AM: I loved JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. I just watched again a few months ago.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 03:01:47 AM: Page Two
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 03:01:56 AM: Meanwhile, a week and a half prior to Scent of Mystery's premiere, down at the Four Star Behind the Great Wall has opened - in AromaRama - competing smell movies. Of course I was there opening day.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 03:03:20 AM: And oh, THE COURT JESTER! I can’t even begin to count how many times I saw that film.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 03:04:22 AM: I never saw a film in Aromarama.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 03:05:04 AM: Obviously, I can’t sleep.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 03:06:03 AM: Perhaps I should read more of my Andrea Doria book.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 03:07:00 AM: Actually, I should find something a little more boring to read if I want to fall asleep.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 03:09:45 AM: Well, I will try again to fall asleep. I am looking at another condo this weekend. That is probably why I am wide awake.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 03:10:27 AM: February 17 - Jack the Ripper at the Wiltern - I'm there that weekend.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 03:10:45 AM: Enjoy your stroll down Memory Lane, BK!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 03:19:13 AM: March 23rd at the Stadium (I would have been there on Friday or Saturday) - double bill: The Gazebo and The Last Voyage.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 03:24:04 AM: Well, I suppose an enigma has been solved and I suppose it makes sense to me on some level now. In Benjamin Kritzer, I have Benjamin needing a North by Northwest fix, going to the New View in Hollywood to see it - horrible theater, pouring rain after and getting soaked all the way home. But I'm into March 1960 and it never played there. So, unless it was WAY later, which I doubt, I in fact saw it at the Admiral just down the street, also a horrible theater. It's making sense and so is the timing - around December 28, rainy season according to the newspaper.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 03:24:17 AM: And now maybe I should get some sleep.
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Post by: John G. on March 15, 2019, 05:19:00 AM: Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on March 15, 2019, 05:21:47 AM: I, too, enjoy the cast of Pocketful of Miracles, though I wonder what’s going to happen to Apple Annie the day after the daughter sails off. It really needs 20 minutes cut. But you can’t beat Falk, Davis, Glenn Ford, Edward Everett Horton, Ellen Corby and all those great character actors.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2019, 05:47:00 AM: Good morning, all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2019, 05:48:22 AM: I slept in much later than I intended and Annabelle is ready to patrol. I am not moving well today, so our patrol will be short.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2019, 05:54:55 AM: DR JohnG, I was just looking at Jesse Green's Kiss Me, Kate review. He generally pans every Encores! production, and my impression is he's so "hip" that he must dislike period musicals unless they're modernized to be "hip" too.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 15, 2019, 05:56:32 AM: And a light bulb just blew, so I must change it and clean the litter. Annabelle has begun tossing thiongs off the table. I hear them fall, and wonder what she just tossed.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 05:56:39 AM: I have been awake since 4:30. Sigh.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 05:57:06 AM: Good morning, all.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:00:53 AM: Last night was a Benadryl night for me, which resulted in a more solid sleep than usual and an extra hour of it this morning.

And the return of two or three crazy dreams strung together...every one of them yet more variations on usual themes.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:03:27 AM: Today I must review A Chorus Line for tomorrow morning’s sitzprobe.

And a most unusual sitzprobe it will be for the likes of me, being as we’ll be separated from the cast by a country mile.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:05:02 AM: The other thing I must accomplish today is doing the shopping for Sunday’s corned beef dinner. Because, folks, it’s that time of year again.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:10:59 AM: More bits of the dream are coming back to me. I wish I had the energy to document it, if only for myself, but this one ain’t happening.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:14:10 AM: TOD

No idea. And I didn’t end up watching anything last night either, sorry to say. I got going on some other stuff, which was all well and good, but I still need me a good movie night. Maybe tonight. Maybe tomorrow night.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:27:51 AM: OMG. I’ve been tempted to do the newspapers.com thing, too, and I know it would be an incredible time suck.

BK, are you able to view the actual pages from the printed paper?

The L.A. Times, of course, is an automatic win. But I’d also need to know what’s available from my other home towns. Fort Lauderdale in the 1960s is a must. Then to be complete, I’d need Cleveland (for 5 years), Chicago (1 year), and Columbus (for my first decade on the planet).
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:32:24 AM: More coffee!
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Post by: FJL on March 15, 2019, 06:34:16 AM: Quote from: TCB on March 15, 2019, 03:04:22 AM
I never saw a film in Aromarama.

There was this moment from Kentucky Fried Movie making fun of the TV ads about lingering odors

LANGUAGE WARNING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIoNt9KunQ
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Post by: FJL on March 15, 2019, 06:36:37 AM: I'm surprised this eBay listing is only $9 for the Odorama card from "Polyester"

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Polyester-1981-Original-Scratch-N-Sniff-Movie-Card-John-Waters/254099729188
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Post by: FJL on March 15, 2019, 06:42:13 AM: I've been having trouble staying current in general.

Planning to (try to) catch up on the week this weekend.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2019, 06:42:47 AM: Friday!
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2019, 06:43:08 AM: I finally saw the first robin of the season for me....a big FAT one.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2019, 06:44:47 AM: I love newspapers.com which I used a lot when putting together my online Allison Hayes biography.....and of course added a lot of info to my Frances Farmer goldmine.

It is a great resource and yes DR CHAS SMITH, you view full pages from newspapers....usually the entire edition of the day....the search feature is easy to use and you can save pages or articles that you want to archive.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2019, 06:45:23 AM: I can't really afford it now, but it is fun.
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Post by: John G. on March 15, 2019, 06:57:27 AM: Quote from: elmore3003 on March 15, 2019, 05:54:55 AM
DR JohnG, I was just looking at Jesse Green's Kiss Me, Kate review. He generally pans every Encores! production, and my impression is he's so "hip" that he must dislike period musicals unless they're modernized to be "hip" too.

True. I never pay attention to his opinion on anything.
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Post by: John G. on March 15, 2019, 06:59:07 AM: Quote from: FJL on March 15, 2019, 06:36:37 AM
I'm surprised this eBay listing is only $9 for the Odorama card from "Polyester"

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Polyester-1981-Original-Scratch-N-Sniff-Movie-Card-John-Waters/254099729188

I wonder if I still have mine.
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Post by: John G. on March 15, 2019, 07:03:35 AM: Facing a first world problem today. The free Starbucks machine on my floor is broken. If I want coffee, i have to go up one or two floors.
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Post by: Druxy on March 15, 2019, 07:38:23 AM: Today, I'm taking a box of old home movies (on 16mm) to a place where they will transfer them to DVD.

Nobody has watched these films for 60+ years, so it should be interesting.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 07:41:54 AM: I've browsed through the newspapers.com subscription information.

You know, when something sounds almost reasonable, there's always a way that they get you. If $8 per month should float yer boat, guess what? Many of their papers fall under a "Publisher Extra" category of $20 per month. And which papers do you think those might be?

L.A. Times
Fort Lauderdale News
Chicago Tribune

Nothing from Cleveland yet. They do have Columbus at the $8 level, but I could probably find everything I need from there in a trial week.

At least the trial week gives you access to the "plus" papers, as evidenced by BK. I'd sure have to plan the right week, though, to be sure of being able to spend the time at it.
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Post by: John G. on March 15, 2019, 07:43:14 AM: Quote from: Druxy on March 15, 2019, 07:38:23 AM
Today, I'm taking a box of old home movies (on 16mm) to a place where they will transfer them to DVD.

Nobody has watched these films for 60+ years, so it should be interesting.

Sounds great. How many hours do you think you have?
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 07:44:17 AM: Quote from: Druxy on March 15, 2019, 07:38:23 AM
Today, I'm taking a box of old home movies (on 16mm) to a place where they will transfer them to DVD.

Nobody has watched these films for 60+ years, so it should be interesting.

An excellent thing to do.

We had a few 8mm home movies that stayed around for the longest time...until one day they just weren't around any more. Lord knows what happened to them, but my family was awful about not preserving things well. As I recall, the movies were humdrum, but they provided glimpses of grandparents and other relatives, and homes, all long gone.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2019, 07:52:19 AM: Yes DR DRUXY we transferred our Super 8's to DVD and it was most entertaining and interesting.

DR GEORGE there was NO new episode of THE ORVILLE last night....something called the iHeart Radio Awards were on....
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2019, 07:52:44 AM: Title page fix vibes for MR BK and Adriana.
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Post by: Druxy on March 15, 2019, 08:56:13 AM: Quote from: John G. on March 15, 2019, 07:43:14 AM
Quote from: Druxy on March 15, 2019, 07:38:23 AM
Today, I'm taking a box of old home movies (on 16mm) to a place where they will transfer them to DVD.

Nobody has watched these films for 60+ years, so it should be interesting.

Sounds great. How many hours do you think you have?

I have 9 10 minute reels, but not all of them are full.
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Post by: John G. on March 15, 2019, 09:32:47 AM: The national tour of Hamilton is coming to San Antonio. Tickets to the public went on sale today. A co-worker signed up and got her tickets for $80 apiece.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 09:39:07 AM: I believe I've slept about ninety minutes - so I'm not sure I'm exactly up.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 09:40:22 AM: Have talked to the resubmission gal who seems confused, my gal isn't in today, so I'm not sure anything is getting done today.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:16:39 AM: June 1 at the Stadium (probably Saturday for me): Our Man in Havana (hated it) and Tall Story (enjoyed it). The following week was great: Who Was that Lady (loved it) and The Mouse that Roared (love it even more).
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:55:50 AM: This movie I wrote about the other day - very low-budget - Private Property - it opened in June of 1960 at the Paramount - a huge, first-class theater. How did that happen?
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:56:05 AM: New helper has come and gone - this is going to be sooooo much better.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:04:58 AM: June 29 at the Wiltern - summer, I'm there, first show - Hercules Unchained.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 11:07:56 AM: I'd bet you there are very few people who have had anything close to the moviegoing childhood and young-adulthood that BK had.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:19:19 AM: August 10 - newly returned from my first time away from home - trip to St. Louis. Summer - and I'm at the noon showing of - Psycho at the El Rey. The film opened wide in LA, unlike NY where it had opened in June at just a few theaters.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:23:09 AM: And that Saturday I see the matinee of Around the World in Eighty Days at my beloved Stadium - in stereo. And then Ocean's 11 at the Wiltern. Very busy movie week for BK.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:24:50 AM: And the Kritzerland guest star for the April show is starring in a musical revue at the Ivar - but I hadn't begun my theater journey yet - Fay De Witt in Vintage 60.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:26:16 AM: And Psycho, which didn't open in any major theaters here, in one week has moved over to the Wilshire, a much bigger theater than the El Rey, but the ads are tiny. Weird, as it was a huge hit.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:28:13 AM: Then on August 24 the Psycho ads are huge again - third week and still at the Wilshire.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:29:24 AM: At the Biltmore - A Taste of Honey with Joan Plowright and Angela Lansbury.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:30:56 AM: A pint of Thrifty Deluxe ice cream is nineteen cents.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:31:59 AM: In its fourth week, Psycho is playing third-run houses like my nabe the Picfair, although it's still at the Iris in Hollywood.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 11:32:39 AM: BK is going to have us on page fifty-three in no time at all.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:36:48 AM: And here's the thing about Psycho - five weeks in a wide run was unheard of back then. No exclusive first run - just five great weeks in smaller theaters.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:44:17 AM: September 28, 1960 news item: fourteen-year-old Sue Lyon has been cast in Lolita.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:50:00 AM: October 12, 1960 - reissue of The Ten Commandments - I've seen it before, but this time it's at the Stadium and it's one of the only times I've sat in the upper section of the theater, with my friend, and we are howling uncontrollably at the movie. I believe that story is in Kritzerland.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:54:06 AM: That week I go with my mother to a sneak preview at the Wilshire. Feature is Let's Make Love. The preview is Brigitte Bardot in Come Dance With Me - in one scene the leading man undoes Miss Bardot's nightie top and puts his hand on her boob. My other drags me out of the theater. Also written about in Kritzerland. Come Dance With Me opens there the following week.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:54:46 AM: October 19, Spartacus opens at the newly remodeled Pantages.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 11:55:22 AM: But that weekend I'm at the Stadium seeing Bells Are Ringing twice.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:03:49 PM: November 16, Midnight Lace opens and although it plays the Wiltern, I see it in Westwood at the Picwood. I love it.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:04:27 PM: And that same week, Gigi at the Stadium, and I am cramming for my upcoming Bar Mitzvah.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:06:51 PM: November 23 - strange double bill at the Lido - Fernandel in The Big Chief and Peter Sellers in Man With a Cocked Hat - funny stuff. I'm about to enter my foreign film phase.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:14:44 PM: I turn thirteen on December 8 and on the tenth I am a man - Bar Mitzvah. The following week it's The Magnificent Seven at the Stadium. Love it.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:16:17 PM: Exodus opens on December 21 at the Wilshire - I'll see it right after the first of the year.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:19:01 PM: For some reason, Where the Boys Are opens on the 22nd, a Thursday, at the Four Star. I'm there with Betty Breemer, making out in the last row. I was a precocious new thirteen year old - and maybe one kiss isn't really making out.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:25:55 PM: Beginning of January brings Inherit the Wind at the Stadium - I see it twice. Love it. There are some weird gaps however - I know I saw The Time Machine and Village of the Damned at the Stadium, but I haven't seen them playing there unless somehow they switched movies on Saturday - I'll go back and check that at some point, just to see if it was possible.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:29:52 PM: Ah, Village of the Damned solved - played January 18 bottom of the bill, but I loved it and saw it twice.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:40:45 PM: Feb 15, I fall in love with the movie Hand in Hand at the Four Star - I see it many times.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:43:26 PM: March 1 - Psycho is back because it's nominated for four Academy Awards - on a double bill with Vertigo. Not playing at any theaters I can get to, although I was probably too scared to go and see it again.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:44:49 PM: Also, The Great Imposter opens that day at the Wiltern - I'm there on that Saturday. See it three times.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 12:47:25 PM: March 8 - the Psycho/Vertigo double bill comes to the Stadium - unless I'm simply too frightened to see Psycho again, I cannot imagine why I didn't at least go and see Vertigo.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 01:00:01 PM: Quote from: Druxy on March 15, 2019, 07:38:23 AM
Today, I'm taking a box of old home movies (on 16mm) to a place where they will transfer them to DVD.

Nobody has watched these films for 60+ years, so it should be interesting.

We should do that.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 01:00:15 PM: Where the Boys Are is at the Stadium with Carry on Nurse - naturally I was there.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 01:01:11 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:56:05 AM
New helper has come and gone - this is going to be sooooo much better.

Excellent.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 01:03:11 PM: April 28, Pepe, after seven weeks at the Stanley Warner, moves over to the Four Star - which is where I see it and love it.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 01:04:11 PM: We rented GREEN BOOK from Redbox today.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 01:05:52 PM: Sunday May 7 one night only - Shelly Berman at the Santa Monica Civic - I'm there!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 01:13:48 PM: End of May brings another major movie event in my life - the Cinerama reissue of Seven Wonders of the World. My father surprises me and takes me.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 01:17:07 PM: See Days of Thrills and Laughter at the Vogue, a silent film compilation - I enjoy it, but not as much as what I'm about to enjoy at the Vogue. Stay tuned.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 01:27:28 PM: June 23, 1961, another life-changing motion picture opens at the Vogue, a very rare Friday opening of a "happy summer hit." I'm there that day for The Parent Trap and I'm head over heels in love with the twins. I go back every day for the next four or five days.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 02:04:43 PM: And so now I know definitively - The last few days of August, the double bill at my beloved Stadium was Pepe and Hand in Hand - I'd probably seen both too many times, or I just didn't pay attention, but I know I did not go see this double bill. On September 6th there should have been a new double bill - there wasn't, because on September 5th the Stadium played its last show. I'm sure I looked at the paper on the 6th in shock, and I know I immediately walked there, just as I describe in the Kritzer book, to find it closed up.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2019, 04:28:02 PM: CLOSED FROM BUSINESS....

Very entertaining reading about MR BK's movie viewing.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2019, 04:29:33 PM: I was a member of Newspapers.com and I was able to help MR BK when someone was telling him he was wrong about the release date of the Valley of Dolls soundtrack LP.

I found an ad from a record store showing that the LP was on sale in March of 1967, just as we both had known.....
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 15, 2019, 04:30:36 PM: Page Five.

The 20/20 episode about that woman who had a company that was selling that thing that cured you or told you all about your health or something is on tonight.....of course it was a fraud and investors lost millions.....I may watch that.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 06:24:57 PM: Um, others need to chip in here.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 06:25:25 PM: Back from a grand dinner at the Smoke House with Peyton and mom, celebrating her birthday. She'll be reading the new book this weekend.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 06:26:23 PM: September 20, 1961, Little Mary Sunshine comes to LA's Legrand Theater on Cahuenga and you won't believe who the star is - Shirley Knight.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 06:28:09 PM: It was right about this time that I began to actually take notice of the theater ads for the first time. Gypsy was about to open here with Miss Merman. And I absolutely remember thinking about seeing Little Mary Sunshine because those tickets were affordable. And Under the Yum Yum Tree was just opening, too, at the Las Palmas with Robert Vaughn and Richard Long - I wouldn't see it there, but would many, many times after it's moveover to the Ivar.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 06:28:47 PM: Fanny was at the Paramount - I saw it there and loved it.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 06:29:21 PM: And Ben-Hur was in its last three weeks of its nearly two-year run at the Egyptian.
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Post by: Jeanne on March 15, 2019, 06:35:01 PM: Hello, everyone.
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Post by: Jeanne on March 15, 2019, 06:35:55 PM: I had acupuncture, went out for some tacos, then did some things here.
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Post by: Jeanne on March 15, 2019, 06:36:23 PM: QUEER EYE starts its third season today and I'll watch that.
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Post by: Jeanne on March 15, 2019, 06:37:42 PM: Bruce, of the movie theaters you used to frequent which ones are still around?
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Post by: Jeanne on March 15, 2019, 06:38:57 PM: Quote from: TCB on March 15, 2019, 12:43:51 AM
T.O.D.

It must be Christmas in March because I can’t get A CAROL CHRISTMAS out of the CD player in my car!!

I kept playing it a lot, too. And I'm not a very Christmasy person.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 06:40:58 PM: October 11 - Ben-Hur closes and King of Kings takes its place - I'm there in the first couple of weeks and love it very much and see it five or six times. I also see Splendor in the Grass at the Paramount. Also that week, The Red Shoes encores at the Lido, which is my first time seeing it.
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Post by: Jeanne on March 15, 2019, 06:41:34 PM: Quote from: George on March 15, 2019, 01:00:23 AM
~~~Some Really Strong Patented Most Excellent Vibes and Xylophones for BK for No Problems About Anything!!~~~

Ditto.

And,
Quote from: George on March 15, 2019, 01:00:23 AM
~~~Some Really Strong Patented Most Excellent Vibes and Xylophones for ALL OF US for No Problems About Anything!!~~~
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Post by: Jeanne on March 15, 2019, 06:42:55 PM: I have no other news. (Sometimes that's a good thing.)

TTFN.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:46:43 PM: So, a few nights ago I was really in the mood to read the new book, so I Kindled it. And of course it's as enjoyable as the others. And I wrote a li'l review and submitted to Amazon last night at just about this time. And here we sit, twenty-four hours later... waiting...
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 06:47:20 PM: October 18, Breakfast at Tiffanys opens at the Chinese. Now, interestingly, I've always thought I'd seen it at the Stadium - that and the week's other opening, Devil at 4 O'Clock - but obviously I did not see either there since it had closed. So, I'm curious to see where those played once they went wide.
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Post by: vixmom on March 15, 2019, 06:48:28 PM: Bruce thank you so much for your advice. It took 53 minutes and 12 seconds according to my phone, but they finally gave me access to m account
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:48:47 PM: A few weeks ago we went to a restaurant near us that, to our disappointment, removed a couple of items off of the menu. On of those was that the new chef would not make thousand island dressing for the wedge salad. While there blue cheese dressing is very good I can't eat an entire salad with blue cheese. Considering how easy it is to make thousand island dressing I was rather annoyed.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:48:56 PM: Today at Beaches I was in the mood for a salad that has not been on the menu in over a year. I wanted the Asian salad that had a sesame dressing. While they didn't make the same dressing, they mixed up a delicious salad with an Asian honey dressing. The waitress told us they made extra for them to eat in the kitchen and it was a big hit. I just might see it on the menu this summer.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:49:18 PM: No wonder we eat at Beaches as often as we do.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:49:35 PM: Quote from: vixmom on March 15, 2019, 06:48:28 PM
Bruce thank you so much for your advice. It took 53 minutes and 12 seconds according to my phone, but they finally gave me access to m account

Great!
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:51:10 PM: Considering the number of people who don't care to eat blue cheese AT ALL, refusing thousand as a substitute would seem to be a pretty dumb headed move.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:52:28 PM: But by coincidence, guess what I picked up and made (if you call one minute's work "making" something) tonight?

http://www.dole.com/products/chopped-sesame-asian
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:53:44 PM: Quote from: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:51:10 PM
Considering the number of people who don't care to eat blue cheese AT ALL, refusing thousand as a substitute would seem to be a pretty dumb headed move.

You would think.

More annoying was the fact they took of the sweet potato fries.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:54:36 PM: Quote from: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:52:28 PM
But by coincidence, guess what I picked up and made (if you call one minute's work "making" something) tonight?

http://www.dole.com/products/chopped-sesame-asian

How is the dressing? The salad looks good.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:55:25 PM: Oh, and it was a rather plain thousand island, just ketchup and mayo as far as I could tell.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:56:38 PM: Quote from: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:54:36 PM
Quote from: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:52:28 PM
But by coincidence, guess what I picked up and made (if you call one minute's work "making" something) tonight?

http://www.dole.com/products/chopped-sesame-asian

How is the dressing? The salad looks good.

I think it's good, but I haven't had any other of this type. But I tend to like Asian salads in general.

And I do like a few of these Dole salad "kits".
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:56:44 PM: I like it that way so it is ok, and a treat for me. My mother always made hearts of lettuce salad and I ate it with thousand island dressing.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 06:58:06 PM: November 15, 1961 - The Fantasticks opens at the Ivar Theater.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:58:52 PM: Oh man. Who was in it?
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:59:23 PM: Quote from: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:56:38 PM
Quote from: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:54:36 PM
Quote from: ChasSmith on March 15, 2019, 06:52:28 PM
But by coincidence, guess what I picked up and made (if you call one minute's work "making" something) tonight?

http://www.dole.com/products/chopped-sesame-asian

How is the dressing? The salad looks good.

I think it's good, but I haven't had any other of this type. But I tend to like Asian salads in general.

And I do like a few of these Dole salad "kits".

Thanks. If I see it I will buy one to try. I used to get a delicious bottled sesame dressing in L.A. on Westwood Blvd at a little take out Asian restaurant down the street my Juniors Delicatessen. Deli food for lunch, then a bottle or to of dressing to take home. I have no idea if the place is still there. I stopped going when we stopped driving to LA.
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:59:50 PM: Time to watch GREEN CARD :)
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 07:02:57 PM: November 22, 1961 - the Lido has been closed for a week and reopens with a move over for Never on Sunday. The front box-office is gone and the new box-office is on the right side of the front wall.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 07:12:39 PM: December 8, 1961 - I turn fourteen and my moviegoing world is about to get very, very exciting during the busy Christmas openings.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 07:14:21 PM: December 13, 1961. West Side Story has its Hollywood premiere. I'll see it within the week.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 07:19:35 PM: The following week - I've seen West Side and it changed everything for me. Then Flower Drum Song opened at the New Warner Hollywood, having removed their Cinerama screen. That giant screen would be back within the year. Oh, and El Cid opens at the Carthay Circle - a theater I've never been to. That will be rectified with El Cid but not until after the New Year.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 07:20:17 PM: Quote from: Jrand68 on March 15, 2019, 07:52:19 AM
Yes DR DRUXY we transferred our Super 8's to DVD and it was most entertaining and interesting.

DR GEORGE there was NO new episode of THE ORVILLE last night....something called the iHeart Radio Awards were on....

I did realize that. They had commercials for the next episode "in two weeks." Of course, that just means next week for me because I hadn't watched the last two episodes.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 07:20:49 PM: I'm at the theater! I've got some ketchuping to do.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 07:22:26 PM: Well, I may well have seen Breakfast at Tiffany's at the Chinese prior to West Side - it still hasn't gone wide, and Devil at 4 O'Clock is still shockingly exclusive at the Stanley Warner Beverly Hills, so maybe that's where I saw that.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 07:23:42 PM: Work was slowly busy. ::)
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 07:23:55 PM: I had two meetings in a row that lasted a total of 2-1/2 hours...and I just had to sit there. :P
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 07:24:24 PM: THEN I got to go to lunch at 4:15 p.m.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 07:24:52 PM: And now, back to posts.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 07:25:42 PM: Quote from: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:56:05 AM
New helper has come and gone - this is going to be sooooo much better.

Great news, BK!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 07:28:50 PM: January 10 - Tiffanys goes wide so I may have seen it at either the Picwood or the Wiltern - the only two choices. And Bachelor Flat, which I've seen at a preview at the Lido, opens its wide engagement and I see it again at the Bruin.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 07:35:34 PM: At the mid-January point, I begin seeing West Side Story every Saturday and that continues for the next fourteen weeks.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 07:36:54 PM: Quote from: Jrand68 on March 15, 2019, 04:28:02 PM
CLOSED FROM BUSINESS....

Very entertaining reading about MR BK's movie viewing.

Definitely!
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 07:40:20 PM: Quote from: Jane on March 15, 2019, 06:48:56 PM
Today at Beaches I was in the mood for a salad that has not been on the menu in over a year. I wanted the Asian salad that had a sesame dressing. While they didn't make the same dressing, they mixed up a delicious salad with an Asian honey dressing. The waitress told us they made extra for them to eat in the kitchen and it was a big hit. I just might see it on the menu this summer.

That's pretty cool!
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 07:44:13 PM: I'm now current with all the posts. Whew!
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 07:44:47 PM: Back to my cues!
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 07:48:33 PM: Another life-changing event: I've been following the theater ads and somewhere in the two-week period beginning on February 6 I take the plunge - a bus to Hollywood, the purchase of a single ticket sixth row center aisle to see Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man. And oh my, the skies open and my world completely changes with the magical Jews I see on that stage.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 07:51:01 PM: Aha - Devil at 4 O'Clock ended up at the Picfair on a double bill with Town Without Pity - and that solves that.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 07:56:30 PM: I begin my final year of junior high. And on March 12, choose my next theater experience, also at the Huntington Hartford - A Thurber Carnival. This one I love so much that I see it two more times during its two-week run.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 08:16:59 PM: Intermission!
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 08:43:59 PM: Act two has started and is going well.
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Post by: Laura on March 15, 2019, 08:45:44 PM: Good evening.
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Post by: Laura on March 15, 2019, 08:46:21 PM: Today we went for a nice hike in the Superstition Mountains. Then Wae-Ling and I baked about 400 muffins for the soup kitchen.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 08:55:25 PM: Really astonishing is how long certain movies ran in one theater and not the roadshows - Never on Sunday played the Fine Arts for over two YEARS.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 09:09:14 PM: And then in mid-April another show opens that will be a life-changer for me and my first musical in a big theater in LA - The Unsinkable Molly Brown. It plays through June 9 and I'm guessing that that closing week is when I saw it, as school would have been out (I think I did a Wednesday matinee).
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 09:21:46 PM: May 23rd, with no fanfare and not even the tiniest advert, The Miracle Worker opens at the Fine Arts. Over the course of its run I will see it many, many times.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 09:24:15 PM: May 30th. Under the Yum Yum Tree moves to the Ivar and it is there that I will see it many, many times, first with Richard Erdman and Bill Bixby, then with Bixby and Del Close.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 09:25:12 PM: Oh, and over at Royce Hall they're having a little music festival and you can see Eugene Ormandy, William Walton, and Franz Waxman conducting. And Oscar Brown, Jr. begins a fifteen-performance run at the Music Box, corner of Hollywood and La Brea. I saw him there three times, but I'm thinking this is a little early and that he must have come back later that year.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 09:29:48 PM: And I graduate from junior high school. Grad night is spent with Rosemary Green at the Coconut Grove seeing Gordon and Sheila MacRae.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 09:39:15 PM: End of June, I see West Side Story onstage at the Moulin Rouge, with Chita Rivera and Larry Kert and many folks from the film. I'm also taking dance lessons in the jazz style, first from Roland Dupree, but then when he's out of town from David Winters himself.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 09:49:33 PM: Wednesday July 25, another banner movie day for me. I'm at the Paramount at noon for the first show of The Music Man. I return with my parents that night and spy Pert Kelton in the audience, all written about in Kritzer Time. I will be back about six times over the next two weeks.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 09:55:47 PM: The out-of-town tryout of Oliver opens here - I don't see it. The headline of the review is "Oliver! Easy-Going Bland Musical Show.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:00:56 PM: Sometime around August 3 I begin acting classes with Jerry Bloom. All young people my age, which is 14. I find myself surprised to be sitting next to Monique Vermont, who I've just seen in The Music Man film about eight times. We hit it off and become fast friends, with many nighttime telephone calls, until her mother puts a stop to it. We're still friends, on Facebook. Also in the class is a cute redhead named Steffi. When I start Hamilton Hight school a month later, after a month of classes with Bloom (who is later arrested and jailed for something to do with inappropriate behavior with young boys), I run into her on my first day. She doesn't want to give me the time of day since she's in the class ahead of me and can't be seen talking to a new kid. Disappointing. The following year I'd see her in the crowd scenes of Bye Bye Birdie.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:11:55 PM: Mid-September, the flop B'way musical A Family Affair opens at the tiny Cameo Theater on Santa Monica Blvd. (ultimately became the Pan-Andreas and then the Coast - I did my play The Good One there). I insist I be taken to see it so I am. I love it. Terry Becker, Suzi Kaye (from the West Side Story film) and handsome John Gabriel, with whom I would later work. My mother is very upset because she feels the kissing scenes are a little too - real.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:17:01 PM: And now let's see if I can find Vertigo at the Lido, which is where I'm pretty certain I saw it. It opened its exclusive run at the Paramount on May 28, 1958 so it's probably a couple of months after that.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:28:40 PM: I'm beginning to think I've been wrong all these years and that I saw Seven Wonders of the World during its original engagement, because I know I also saw Windjammer just a few weeks later at the Chinese in Cinemiracle and in July of 1958 they're both playing. So, that's solved. Why am I the only one posting today?
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Post by: Jane on March 15, 2019, 10:34:17 PM: Quote from: Laura on March 15, 2019, 08:46:21 PM
Today we went for a nice hike in the Superstition Mountains. Then Wae-Ling and I baked about 400 muffins for the soup kitchen.

I am glad you had help this time.
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:36:17 PM: Matinee at the Picfair on August 2 - The Fly - that sent me running out of the theater, too, and is the opening of Benjamin Kritzer
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Post by: bk on March 15, 2019, 10:51:49 PM: Finally! Vertigo played the Picfair but I would never have gone to see it there, and it played bottom half of a double bill at the Stadium, but then a week later it was at the Lido, where I knew I saw it. Whew. September 24, 1958.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 11:41:57 PM: Good evening.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 11:47:41 PM: All BK’s talk about seeing movies at certain theaters reminded me of this event that took place back in 1963. About 100 customers were in the middle of watching THE BIRDS when fire broke out and destroyed the beautiful Music Box Theater in downtown Tacoma.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/11369/photos/136880
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 11:47:43 PM: Quote from: George on March 15, 2019, 08:43:59 PM
Act two has started and is going well.

The whole show went really well.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 11:47:52 PM: It was a smallish but attentive crowd.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 11:48:05 PM: Gratuitous Post #200!
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 11:48:26 PM: :D
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 11:48:39 PM: Hi, Tom.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 11:50:42 PM: Hi, George.
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 11:52:05 PM: Page 7, almost page 8? I think my work (and BK's) here is done.
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 11:53:06 PM: Quote from: TCB on March 15, 2019, 11:47:41 PM
All BK’s talk about seeing movies at certain theaters reminded me of this event that took place back in 1963. About 100 customers were in the middle of watching THE BIRDS when fire broke out and destroyed the beautiful Music Box Theater in downtown Tacoma.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/11369/photos/136880

:o Do you know if anyone was hurt...or worse?
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 11:53:35 PM: No Jan this evening?
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Post by: TCB on March 15, 2019, 11:55:41 PM: Quote from: George on March 15, 2019, 11:53:06 PM
Quote from: TCB on March 15, 2019, 11:47:41 PM
All BK’s talk about seeing movies at certain theaters reminded me of this event that took place back in 1963. About 100 customers were in the middle of watching THE BIRDS when fire broke out and destroyed the beautiful Music Box Theater in downtown Tacoma.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/11369/photos/136880

:o Do you know if anyone was hurt...or worse?

Nope, none of the patrons were injured or killed, but they sure were pissed that they missed the end of the movie!
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Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 11:58:45 PM: Quote from: TCB on March 15, 2019, 11:55:41 PM
Quote from: George on March 15, 2019, 11:53:06 PM
Quote from: TCB on March 15, 2019, 11:47:41 PM
All BK’s talk about seeing movies at certain theaters reminded me of this event that took place back in 1963. About 100 customers were in the middle of watching THE BIRDS when fire broke out and destroyed the beautiful Music Box Theater in downtown Tacoma.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/11369/photos/136880

:o Do you know if anyone was hurt...or worse?

Nope, none of the patrons were injured or killed, but they sure were pissed that they missed the end of the movie!

I can understand that! ;)
Title: Re: THE KOOKY DAY IS DONE
Post by: George on March 15, 2019, 11:59:53 PM: Laura Benanti was just on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Melania Trump!
Title: Re: THE KOOKY DAY IS DONE
Post by: TCB on March 16, 2019, 12:01:16 AM: Page 8
Title: Re: THE KOOKY DAY IS DONE
Post by: George on March 16, 2019, 12:01:22 AM: PAGE EIGHT DANCE!!
Title: Re: THE KOOKY DAY IS DONE
Post by: George on March 16, 2019, 12:01:44 AM: Quote from: TCB on March 16, 2019, 12:01:16 AM
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What he said. ;D