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Title: MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: bk on February 28, 2005, 11:58:32 PM: Well, you've read the notes, you're marched into March eating a Marchmallow, and now it is time for you to post until the marching cows come home whilst eating Marchmallows.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 12:02:54 AM: And the word of the day is: PHANTASMAGORIA!
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 12:03:17 AM: And a very happy birthday to occasional dear reader Kurt.
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Post by: Charles Pogue on March 01, 2005, 12:10:19 AM: Didn't we do PULCHRITUDE about a week and a half ago? I remember my word of the day sentence was Sophia Loren was the epitome of PULCHRITUDE.

I like all the Boetticher westerns on DVD and I would like another western with Joel McCrea on DVD, called RAMROD, it is a noir western which also stars Veronica Lake, Preston Foster, Donald Crisp, and Don DeFore in maybe his best performance.

And speaking of noir westerns, I would also like to see on DVD...Blood on the Moon and Whispering Smith (which isn't reallly a noir western, I guess).

Lastly I'd like on DVD the great movie about theatre and summer stock and actors, THOSE LIPS, THOSE EYES...starring Frank Langella and BK's erstwhile co-star, Tom Hulce.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 12:16:18 AM: I KNEW it sounded familiar. Damn them, damn them all to hell! I'm changing it now and then NO one will know what you're going on about. And we shall laugh and laugh and just when they think we cannot laugh any more, we shall laugh again.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 12:17:54 AM: PHANTASMAGORIA! I've got a million of 'em.

I was actually worried about PULCHRITUDE, but when I tried to search it the search function didn't work.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 12:19:27 AM: It's the ATTACK OF THE WUSSBURGERS!
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 12:28:23 AM: Has Ann caught up?
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 12:29:00 AM: Who will be the first to use PHANTASMAGORIA in a sentence?
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 12:29:11 AM: I am my own frenzy.
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 12:32:06 AM: At the tail end of yesterday's notes, BK wrote:

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People come, people go, like Grand Hotel.

On the off-chance that he was referring to yours truly, I can only say in my defense that it is easier for me to access the new daily notes if I back out of AOL entirely and then reload.

Raspberries, ripening on the vine, would provide us with a PHANTASMAGORIA!
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 12:34:20 AM: No, I was not referring to you specifically, oh, no, I was not referring to you specifically.

PHATASMAGORIA!
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 12:34:51 AM: Well, I guess I shall toddle off to the bedroom environment since we don't have any ACTION going on at this time.
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 12:36:00 AM: Toddle forward, and may your dreams be a pleasant phantasmagoria.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 12:49:02 AM: And so I shall. So it is written, so it shall be done.
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Post by: Sandra on March 01, 2005, 12:57:26 AM: Well, it wasn't quite an all-nighter because I'm printing my paper right now and it's just short of two in the morning. I'll actually get some sleep tonight!
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 01, 2005, 02:39:03 AM: Rhoda Penmark remained dangerous even though she had joined the ranks of the phantasmagoria.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 01, 2005, 02:41:11 AM: Yes, it is wonderful that so many films that I have wanted to be on DVD are now ON DVD. But there are exceptions of course.

I would like to see on DVD:

HARLOW with a nice Carroll Baker commentary track.

SON OF FURY with Tyrone Power and Frances Farmer with some nice extras

THE HORSEMASTERS with Annette Funicello a Disney film about Horse Jumpers in England and let's put ESCAPADE IN FLORENCE on the B side.

I will leave other choices to other DR's.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 01, 2005, 02:42:49 AM: Here is your Allison Hayes picture of the week....which fits pulchritude and marshmallow. :o
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 01, 2005, 04:31:55 AM: Good morning, all! Back to BABES IN TOYLAND today. I've read all about the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire, I've been looking at scores of photos,and I'm ready to finish the proof of the orchestra score. I've got one more Act Three number, then around 10 Appendix pieces, which should take me the rest of the week.

Before I start my DVD wish list, what's happening with the LI'L ABNER release? I can't find an official release date any more, and I hope it hasn't been cancelled or postponed.

DVD requests:
FLOWER DRUM SONG
OH, WHAT A LOVELY WAR!
THE INNOCENTS (Deborah Kerr)
THE UNINVITED
GEORGY GIRL
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Post by: Michael on March 01, 2005, 05:20:43 AM: DVD: A vote for Flower Drum Song

Porgy and Bess (Please release it Gershwin estate)
Darling Lili (Either the theatrical or revised version)
Wild Rovers (Director's version)

Li'l Abner is slated for April 19th
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Post by: Michael on March 01, 2005, 05:21:50 AM: (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007TKGXK.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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Post by: Michael on March 01, 2005, 05:23:49 AM: Looks like LEslie Parrish was pasted into the photo, but then again who cares?
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Post by: Michael on March 01, 2005, 05:26:29 AM: Not quite the Deborah Kerr version

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000633RZ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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Post by: Michael on March 01, 2005, 05:31:53 AM: David Copperfield's stage show is a phantasmagoria of the senses.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 06:01:52 AM: Hello all!! I had some computer issues ::) however they now seem to be OK here at home. I have to see if they are resolved at the work computer as well. (Because of the snow the schools are on a two hour delay so I will be going in to the office later) I have been reading along for the past few days as a guest... it was extremely frustrating to read all those wonderful posts and not be able to join in the fun!!

Congratulations to everyone on the 31 pages and 900 posts on Sunday. It was wonderful reading all your comments, what an brillant , educated and astute group of people post here... it is an education every day and I feel privledged to share in your conversations. I suspect I will not be speaking a word at the NYC HHW meet, just listening and enjoying!!

Speaking of the meet, DR derB will you two be joining us? I do hope so!!

Well I must go and de-ice the car. Hopefully I will be joining you later from the worksite!!!
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Post by: td on March 01, 2005, 06:05:29 AM: Not to be a broken record, but, I want my VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.
I'll second, or third, THE INNOCENTS. (If RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE can be released as a Fox Studio "Classic," then where is/are THE INNOCENTS?)
Ross' GOODBYE MR. CHIPS.
Bogdonavich's AT LONG LAST LOVE - see Fox Studio Classic line above.
HEROES with Harrison Ford, Sally Field and Henry Winkler.
The Alice Faye catalogue.
JUPITER'S DARLING - and, while we're at it, ALL of the Esther Williams extravaganzas.
Ken Russell's THE BOY FRIEND and THE DEVILS.
James Ivory's SLAVES OF NEW YORK.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 06:08:37 AM: Phantasmagoria
by Lewis Carroll

The Trysting
One winter night, at half-past nine,
Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,
I had come home, too late to dine,
And supper, with cigars and wine,
Was waiting in the study.

There was a strangeness in the room,
And Something white and wavy
Was standing near me in the gloom--
I took it for the carpet-broom
Left by that careless slavey.

But presently the Thing began
To shiver and to sneeze:
On which I said “Come, come, my man!
That’s a most inconsiderate plan,
Less noise there, if you please!”

“I’ve caught a cold”, the Thing replies,
“Out there upon the landing.”
I turned to look in some surprise,
And there, before my very eyes,
A little Ghost was standing!

He trembled when he caught my eye,
And got behind a chair.
“How came you here,” I said, “and why?
I never saw a thing so shy.
Come out! Don’t shiver there!”

He said “I’d gladly tell you how,
And also tell you why;
But” (here he gave a little bow)
“You’re in so bad a temper now,
You’d think it all a lie.

“And as to being in a fright,
Allow me to remark
That Ghosts have just as good a right,
In every way, to fear the light,
As Men to fear the dark.”

“No plea”, said I, “can well excuse
Such cowardice in you:
For Ghosts can visit when they choose,
Whereas we Humans ca’n’t refuse
To grant the interview. "

He said “A flutter of alarm
Is not unnatural, is it ?
I really feared you meant some harm:
But, now I see that you are calm,
Let me explain my visit.

“Houses are classed, I beg to state,
According to the number
Of Ghosts that they accommodate:
(The Tenant merely counts as weight,
With Coals and other lumber).

“This is a ‘one-ghost’ house, and you,
When you arrived last summer,
May have remarked a Spectre who
Was doing all that Ghosts can do
To welcome the new-comter

“In Villas this is always done--
However cheaply rented:
For, though of course there’s less of fun
When there is only room for one,
Ghosts have to be contented.

“That Spectre left you on the Third--
Since then you’ve not been haunted:
For, as he never sent us word,
‘Twas quite by accident we heard
That any one was wanted.

“A Spectre has first choice, by right,
In filling up a vacancy;
Then Phantom, Goblin, Elf, and Sprite--
If all these fail them, they invite
The nicest Ghoul that they can see.

“The Spectres said the place was low,
And that you kept bad wine:
So, as a Phantom had to go,
And I was first, of course, you know,
I couldn’t well decline.”

“No doubt”, said I, “they settled who
Was fittest to be sent:
Yet still to choose a brat like you,
To haunt a man of forty
Was no great compliment!”

“I’m not so young, Sir,” he replied,
“As you might think. The fact is,
In caverns by the water-side,
And other places that I’ve tried,
I’ve had a lot of practice:

“But I have never taken yet
A strict domestic part,
And in my flurry I forget
The Five Good Rules of Etiquette
We have to know by heart.”

My sympathies were warming fast
Towards the little fellow:
He was so utterly aghast
At having found a Man at last,
And looked so scared and yellow.

“At least”, I said, “I’m glad to find
A Ghost is not a dumb thing!
But pray sit down: you’ll feel inclined
(If, like myself, you have not dined)
To take a snack of something:

“Though, certainly, you don’t appear
A thing to offer food to!
And then I shall be glad to hear--
If you will say them loud and clear--
The Rules that you allude to.”

“Thanks! You shall hear them by and by.
This is a piece of luck!”
“What may I offer you?” said I
“Well, since you are so kind, I’ll try
A little bit of duck.

“One slice! And may I ask you for
Another drop of gravy?”
I sat and looked at him in awe,
For certainly I never saw
A thing so white and wavy.

And still he seemed to grow more white,
More vapoury, and wavier--
Seen in the dim and flickering light,
As he proceeded to recite
His “Maxims of Behaviour”.

for the next four Cantos please see: http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Carroll/Phantasmagoria.html
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 06:11:41 AM: TOD: the before mentioned movie "Friends"
"Pirates of Pensanze" (the one with Angela Lansbury and Kevin Kline)
and I agree with DR Michael, Porgy & Bess and Flower Drum Song
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Post by: PennyO on March 01, 2005, 06:37:06 AM: I, too, would love a copy of that Pirates of Penzance!! I think Kevin Kline was just the best Pirate King EVER!!! I'm a huge fan - also love him in SOAPDISH!!! FISH CALLED WANDA. BIG CHILL. Even, so help me, DAVE!

Just sitting here at the keyboard, vocalizing. That first blast of caffeine, and vocalize is all I wanna do -- started years and years ago... while I was a Juilliard student. The first thing in the morning, I'd make coffee, and start vocalizing at 9 AM. So, like a Pavlovian Pooch, when that caffeine jolt hits, all I wanna do is yodle. Free choice??? Hahahahahahaaaaaa!!
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Post by: PennyO on March 01, 2005, 06:40:41 AM: And thanks, Vixmom, for the Lewis Carroll!! The one remaining complete epic poem still lodged in my brain from childhood is The Jabberwocky. Love the guy. Out-Gilbert's WS Gilbert.
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Post by: PennyO on March 01, 2005, 06:41:12 AM: Oh, wow!! Did I just get to start Page 2??????
Huzzah!
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 06:56:47 AM: I also am grateful for the wonderful films that have so far been released on DVD...but I want more!!!

I would really like to see Universal open up there vaults and release more of their 1950s films...their Audie Murphy westerns, their sci-fi and horror, their Barbara Stanwyck films, and most of all the Esther Williams/George Nader/John Saxon film THE UNGUARDED MOMENT!!

Also the as yet unreleased AIP horror and teen films and Allied Artist's QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE!

Maybe someday...
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 07:13:32 AM: It is the 1st of March and that means it will be busy for me at work....I will need more coffee!
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 08:05:13 AM: So many of my DVD wish list (the MISS MARPLEs, THIN MANs, EASTER PARADE) are coming this year, but I still have a few MGM musicals I'm chomping at the bit for:

IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER
I LOVE MELVIN
THE OPPOSITE SEX
TORCH SONG
SUMMER STOCK
ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
THE PIRATE

I second requests for FLOWER DRUM SONG and PORGY AND BESS.

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford classics:

THE CORN IS GREEN, FEMALE ON THE BEACH, FLAMINGO ROAD, A STOLEN LIFE, THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS, THE OLD MAID.

Gosh, there are SO many!
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 08:08:41 AM: Sure would like a second boxed set of Deanna Durbin films which I hope would include HIS BUTLER'S SISTER, NICE GIRL?, CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY, SPRING PARADE, FOR THE LOVE OF MARY, and HERS TO HOLD.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:23:25 AM: Good morning. Floor People should be here soon. I'm so glad they didn't come knocking at the door at eight.

PHATASMAGORIA!
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:24:46 AM: I believe Darling Lili is coming.

I would like Universal to finally release its fifties sci-fi library, including The Incredible Shrinking Man and Tarantula, my two faves.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:28:08 AM: I would like some enterprising company to release Sundays and Cybele.

I would like Fox to release High Time and Bachelor Flat, along with Hangover Square and a proper Valley of the Dolls (available in region 2).

I would like MGM/UA to redo Exodus properly.

I would like Columbia to release all the Randy Scott Budd Boetticher westerns.

I would like Warners to release The Spirit of St. Louis.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:33:44 AM: Quote from: PennyO on March 01, 2005, 06:40:41 AM
And thanks, Vixmom, for the Lewis Carroll!! The one remaining complete epic poem still lodged in my brain from childhood is The Jabberwocky. Love the guy. Out-Gilbert's WS Gilbert.

When I was a smartass knowit all senior in high school I had an English teacher who spent an entire semester on "Poetry Appreciation" but she was so dry and boring and she analyzed the beauty and joy out of everything she read, the course shpud have been called Poetry Aversion, it was as effective as the treatment Malcolm underwent in "A Clockwork Orange " with similar results...but I digress (how unusual! ;D)

For a final project we were required to choos e a poem, read it to the class and provide a "translation" of the subtext... I, of course being the aforementioned 17 year old smartass, used Humpty Dumpty's translation:

That's enough to begin with,' Humpty Dumpty interrupted: `there are plenty of hard words there. "BRILLIG" means four o'clock in the afternoon -- the time when you begin BROILING things for dinner.'

`That'll do very well,' said Alice: and "SLITHY"?'

`Well, "SLITHY" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau -- there are two meanings packed up into one word.' "

I remember I got an "A", a reluctant "A", but an "A" all the same :D
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 08:37:48 AM: THE LOVED ONE, that would be good to have on DVD.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 08:40:49 AM: SKYSCRAPER SOULS, it is time for you to be out on DVD.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:40:52 AM: JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

dshaw@jabberwocky.com
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 08:41:32 AM: And, of course, THE BOATNIKS.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:42:53 AM: Pitoni
(Hebrew transliteration)
http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/hebrew-wocky.html

Ba'et bashak ushlay pachzar
Be'afsay-chak savsu, makdo:
au az chilcain haya nimzar
umtay-aran kairdu.
"Gura bnee, min hapiton
mai 'chod-shino, chil-ziparno!
mayof-girgir tanoos, za'on
maychetesh bim'gono!"

Vehu shalaf saypho hachaz:
nad, cheepace et pechik-tzarav --
veko amad betzel zamzam,
tapoos beheerhoorav.

Odo omed shefa hagoot
vehapiton, einav dolkot
veesh'vesh beya'ar hamanood,
ho'e'ah venakot!

Bim'chi chazooz - habas! habas! -
ticktaich hasayif benimhar
natal et rosh pigro hazed
ve'el beito tzahar

"Af ketalto, et hapiton?
achabkecha, yaldi hatzach!
ho yom-tzilha! yabah! yabah!
bechedvato patzach.

Ba'et bashak ushlay pachzar
Be'afsay-chak savsu, makdo:
au az chilcain haya nimzar
umtay-aran kairdu.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 01, 2005, 08:49:22 AM: Boy when it comes to culture, we're the first hogs to the trough, ain't we?
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:52:40 AM: I believe The Loved One is coming.

Vixmom, great you got back on. Did you have to use any of my suggestions?
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:53:30 AM: DR Danise (and everyone else of course) would this be of any interest to you?

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

Sat nights available!
The Biggest, Funniest, Hottest Musical of the Year!
Sensational dancing by a beautiful chorus of Cagelles, a hilarious plot, glittering costumes & songs you’ll walk out singing, all make this the must-see show of the season. “A big Bway extravaganza with a magnificent chorus of long stemmed beauties,” (NYT) this exhilarating show is set in an elegant nightclub where surprises lurk at every turn... And when a family’s future in-laws come for a visit, the truth comes out in the wildest ways! “Les Cagelles are simply splendid…they’ll knock your socks off!” –Liz Smith

OFFER: Tickets are $65, reg $100, Tue 7pm, Wed-Fri 8pm, Wed 2pm (mat reg $90). Tickets are $85, reg $100, Sat 2/8pm, Sun 3pm. Good for perfs thru 5/22.

TO ORDER: Call (212) 307-4100 & mention code LCSVMD.* Or bring Guide to the Marquis, 1535 Bway & 46th. Not valid 3/25-4/3. Limit 8 tix/ order.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:54:18 AM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:52:40 AM
I believe The Loved One is coming.

Vixmom, great you got back on. Did you have to use any of my suggestions?

I just sent you an email... it was a "security" issue
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:55:14 AM: Floor People and Roof People have come and gone, so I shall work in peace today (and all of this week). The floor news is good - he thinks he can do it all in one day or, at the worst, a day and a half. So, very little disruption there. The whole back half of the roof will be replaced, but that won't bother me since they're ON the roof, not in the house. The roof could actually start repairs by the end of this week. And the floor will follow next week. As soon as all the work is completed, I can guarantee you there will not be one drop of rain for the rest of the year.
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Post by: Elan on March 01, 2005, 08:56:14 AM: Vixmom:

Thanks for the translation! Although I must say, transliterated Hebrew is hard enough for me to work through without nonsense words.

Not being a movie buff at all, I can't think of anything in particular that I want on DVD that isn't already out there... :(
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:58:27 AM: Or DR Danise would this interest you?

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY

Great for Groups!
“Lethally Funny!” “High Hilarity!” –AP “Terrific!”- New York Times
“The Gold Standard of Theatre!” –NY1
Can’t decide between Wicked, Hairspray, Avenue Q or Movin’ Out? See them all and more in the hilarious brand-new edition of Forbidden Broadway! This wickedly funny love letter to the theatre spoofs everything in 97 minutes of non-stop hilarity. All the stars, all the smash-hits and all the stinkers of the season get their due. “The theater has its rituals & the one that cannot be denied is the annual midseason pilgrimage to ‘Forbidden Broadway’.” -Variety
OFFER: $32 Tix, reg $55, Tue 8:15pm, Sat 4pm. $35 Tix, reg $55 (Sat eve $57.50), Mon/Fri/Sat 8:15pm, Wed 2:30pm, Sun 3:30/7:30pm. Good thru 4/30.

TO ORDER: Call (212) 947-8844 & mention code FBSVM56.* Or bring this Guide to Douglas Fairbanks, 432 West 42nd Street. Limit 10 tickets per order.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:00:28 AM: I'll definitely be seeing Spamalot whilst I'm in town.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 09:01:21 AM: Here are some more choices for you:
MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL

Now in its 4th Year!
“It’s Impossible Not to Laugh!” –The New York Times
The hilarious celebration of women & The Change, this original parody chronicles the meeting of 4 women at a lingerie sale at Bloomingdale’s who have nothing in common but a black lace bra… & memory loss, hot flashes, night sweats, hormones & more! With 28 “relyricked” songs from the disco favorite “Stayin’ Awake, Stayin’ Awake” & “My Husband Sleeps at Night” to country’s “Lookin’ for Food in All the Wrong Places,” this “word-of-mouth hit” (USA Today) is the perfect Girl’s Night Out.
Great for husbands too!
OFFER: $39.50 Tix, reg $55, Tue-Thu 8pm. $45 Tix, reg $55, Fri/Sat 8pm. Good thru 4/23.

TO ORDER: Call (212) 831-2000 (1-8pm) or (212) 307-4100 & mention code JSVM3.* Or bring this Guide to Playhouse 91, 316 East 91st St. Limit 8 tickets per order. $1 facility fee will be added to price of each tkt.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

MODERN ORTHODOX

$36 Tix! Only for 3 Weeks!
A Romantic Comedy about Love, Dating & Unlikely Friendships!
Don’t miss your chance to see this hilarious comedy that critics & audiences are falling in love with! It’s a wildly funny story of a financial consultant, his doctor girlfriend & the Jewish diamond jeweler named Hershel who sells them an engagement ring, invades their lives & creates all kinds of mishegas. This show will have you laughing hysterically so call your friends, your sweetheart or your mom…you’ve only got 3 weeks to see this! “Honest to G-d belly laughs!”–Variety “A sharp, snappy romantic comedy!”–NYT

OFFER: $36 Tix, reg $66, Tue - Thu 8pm, Sun 7pm. $46 Tix, reg $66, Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm, Sun 3pm. Good perfs 3/8- 4/3 ONLY.

TO ORDER: Call (212) 947-8844 & mention code MD24SVM.* Or bring this Guide to Dodger Stages, 340 W. 50th Street. Limit 8 tix/ order. $1 facility fee included in price of each ticket.

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MURDERED BY THE MOB

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This interactive comedy mystery lets audiences experience the Mafia & a great meal. Mingle with Mobsters & Molls; break bread & heads with Wiseguys & Mafia princesses. Rubbing elbows with goodfellas & ducking bullets over Broadway has never been this much fun. It’s the most fun you’ll have getting whacked, in fact, you could die laughing! Enjoy a 3 course dinner, dancing & surprises at every turn. Solve the mystery and win fabulous prizes! Great for bdays, anniversaries, bachelorette parties & more!
OFFER: 1-4 Tix: $60 Tix (code: SVMMOB). 5 or more: $55 Tix (code: SVMMOBG). All tix reg $70 and include dinner. Good for perfs Fri 7:30pm & Sat 7pm thru 4/23.

TO ORDER: Call (800) 687-3374 (9am-6pm) & mention above code.* Event is located at Arno Ristorante, 141 West 38th Street.

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“It’s the DAILY SHOW set to music!” –Associated Press
Whether it’s breaking news, political scandal, celebrity gossip or cultural trends, this 4 person musical explosion is there to spoof it. Now SpongeBob, Paris Hilton, Ussama & Brad Pitt are thrown into the mix with old favorites Anna Nicole, Michael Jackson, Dubya & Martha. “Newsical makes it possible to get high on hilarity.” (New York Times) See it more than once as it features new songs & material every week. Come 1 hr. early to enjoy food & cocktails!
OFFER: Tickets are $35.95, reg $60, Wed 2/8pm, Thurs 8pm (code: SVMDISC). Tickets are $45, reg $60, Mon/Fri/Sat 8pm, Sat 2pm, Sun 3pm (code: SVM45). Good thru 4/24.

TO ORDER: Call (212) 307-4100 & mention above code.* Or bring this Guide to Upstairs @ Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St. Note: Box Office opens 2 hours before each performance. Limit 8 tix/ order.

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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 09:03:17 AM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:00:28 AM
I'll definitely be seeing Spamalot whilst I'm in town.

Which of your limbs are you parting with to get a ticket? :D
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 09:04:47 AM: I get these ads...

THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS-THE MUSICAL!

Sometimes One Musical is Not Enough!
“Real Wit, Real Charm! It’s Zany Fun!” –The New York Times
In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form- Rodgers & Hammerstein (The Sound of Music), Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd), Kander & Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago), Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly!) & Andrew Lloyd Webber (Phantom of the Opera). This delightful, critically acclaimed show is suitable for the entire family. Selling out fast!

OFFER: $39.50 Tix, reg $56, Tue-Thurs 8pm, Sat 4pm, Sun 3/7pm. $45 Tix, reg $60.50, Fri/Sat 8pm. Both offers good thru 4/17.

TO ORDER: Call (212) 947-8844 & mention code TMSVM32.* Or bring this Guide to Dodger Stages, 340 W. 50th St. $1 facility fee included in the price of each tkt. Lmt 6 tix/ ord.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:10:42 AM: Happily I don't have to part with limbs - the conductor is a friend and someone I've used on many, many albums of mine.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 01, 2005, 09:12:03 AM: Latest news from Jolly Old Englande:
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 01, 2005, 09:13:57 AM: Quote from: JRand54 on March 01, 2005, 08:49:22 AM
Boy when it comes to culture, we're the first hogs to the trough, ain't we?

Not just culture, either!

:)
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:15:57 AM: And one for Mahler.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:16:18 AM: Not quite. PHANTASMAGORIA!
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:19:51 AM: That did it.

A few other movies I'd like on DVD, none of which has been scheduled:

Night of the Iguana
Autumn Leaves
The Five Pennies
Gambit
Monsieur Hire
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 09:20:33 AM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:10:42 AM
Happily I don't have to part with limbs - the conductor is a friend and someone I've used on many, many albums of mine.
Need a date? :D (Yeah, like DH would let me go!!!)
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 09:22:14 AM: Folks who enjoy their punk music with a gothic and melodic tinge, and I know there are dozens of you on here, you will enjoy the 1985 album PHANTASMAGORIA by The Damned.

Does that count as using it in a sentence?
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 09:39:59 AM: Skyscraper Souls...isn't that the one that takes place in a large 1930s department store? I do think I remember that one!

More DVDs needed:

All the rest of June Kenney's and Allison Hayes' films...but I won't hold my breath!

I would love to see some of Russ Meyer's 1960s films on DVD also.
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 09:41:21 AM: ...and the Gordon Scott Tarzan's...and Doris Day's BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON/ON MOONLIGHT BAY.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 10:18:47 AM: Quote from: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 09:39:59 AM
Skyscraper Souls...isn't that the one that takes place in a large 1930s department store? I do think I remember that one!

Oh yes, MBarnum, Warren William is the epitome of smooth evil in that one.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 10:23:29 AM: phantasmagoria \fan-taz-muh-GOR-ee-uh\, noun:
1. A shifting series or succession of things seen or imagined, as in a dream.
2. Any constantly changing scene.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 01, 2005, 10:32:25 AM: Waiting for me at work (I was out sick yesterday):

4-CD set -- Aretha Franklin & King Curtis Live At Filmore West, recorded March 5, 6 & 7, 1971.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: Jennifer on March 01, 2005, 10:37:02 AM: Hey all. Don't forget tonight is the 2 hour premiere of THE AMAZING RACE!
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 10:43:30 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 10:18:47 AM
Oh yes, MBarnum, Warren William is the epitome of smooth evil in that one.

Skyscraper Souls....Yes, that movie always reminded me of my days in retail.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 10:44:47 AM: Quote from: Jennifer on March 01, 2005, 10:37:02 AM
Hey all. Don't forget tonight is the 2 hour premiere of THE AMAZING RACE!

I will be there!! Woohoo!

Well, actually I will tape it as I need to get myself to bed early tonight.
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 10:46:15 AM: You know what I did not realize...actress Anita Page, star of BROADWAY MELODY OF 1929, is still alive...and is still a working actress! My gosh she is like 94 years old! What a gal!

Hmmmm...has anyone seen a recent interview with her?????? Something needs to be done about that, if not.
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Post by: Jane on March 01, 2005, 11:03:46 AM: Happy 50th birthday to very occasional poster Kurt
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Post by: Sandra on March 01, 2005, 11:29:00 AM: Happy birthday to occasional Kurt.

I got my paper done at two in the morning, but since I was so hyped up on caffeine (Cherry Coke) and sugar (chocolate), I couldn't get to sleep until 4:30. You want to talk about phantasmagorias...

Hey, BK, is it too late to make suggestions for Guy Haines' new album? I've been meaning to say that I think he should sing "Mack the Knife," "Catch a Falling Star," and "(The Gang That Sang) Heart of My Heart."
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 11:36:17 AM: We're still choosing songs, so no, you're not too late.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 11:39:46 AM: OH! Before I forget again

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~~~MOST EXCELLENT HEALTH VIBES~~~~~~~~~[/move]

to DR elmore..... I hope you are feeling better althoough I suspect this weather is not helping....
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 01, 2005, 12:05:09 PM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 11:36:17 AM
We're still choosing songs, so no, you're not too late.

Kurt Weill's "Lost in the Stars"

"And we're lost out here in the stars.
Little stars, big stars...
Glowing through the night..."
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 01, 2005, 12:25:59 PM: Quote from: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:53:30 AM
DR Danise (and everyone else of course) would this be of any interest to you?

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

Sat nights available!
The Biggest, Funniest, Hottest Musical of the Year!
g Guide to the Marquis, 1535 Bway & 46th. Not valid 3/25-4/3. Limit 8 tix/ order.

DRvixmom, Saturday night is Penny's show!!!!!!!!

DVD I forgot: Bob Hope's THE CAT AND THE CANARY
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 12:31:20 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on March 01, 2005, 12:25:59 PM
DRvixmom, Saturday night is Penny's show!!!!!!!!

Well of course, that's why they have tickets available, all the really "in" people will be at Jewish Thighs On Broadway!! :D

But I thought since DR Danise is looking to see a couple of shows while she's here that one of the other days would be good for her ;)

such as: OFFER: Tickets are $65, reg $100, Tue 7pm, Wed-Fri 8pm, Wed 2pm (mat reg $90). Tickets are $85, reg $100, Sat 2/8pm, Sun 3pm. Good for perfs thru 5/22.

How are you feeling BTW, elmore?
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Post by: Iris* on March 01, 2005, 12:31:21 PM: Welcome back, Vixmom! Thanks for all of the Lewis Carroll. Where else on all of the internet would you find the Hebrew translation of Jabberwocky, I ask you?
And, by the way, I find all of your posts to be
"educated, brilliant, and astute"
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 12:33:58 PM: Quote from: Iris212 on March 01, 2005, 12:31:21 PM
Welcome back, Vixmom! Thanks for all of the Lewis Carroll. Where else on all of the internet would you find the Hebrew translation of Jabberwocky, I ask you?

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/hebrew-wocky.html

I can't take credit for the translation, however, please note the website given for proper credit!

Quote from: Iris212 on March 01, 2005, 12:31:21 PM
And, by the way, I find all of your posts to be
"educated, brilliant, and astute"

gosh, thanks
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 12:47:01 PM: Good Afternoon!

Greetings from Fairfax!

I didn't leave Richmond until just after Noon, but after waking up still very sleepy and tired at 8:00, I decided it would be best for me to make the drive up not so sleepy and tired. Good self-advice, dontcha think?

Great day for a drive. On the cold side, but nice and sunny. And the traffic was non-existent too.

The only "bad" part of the drive was when I switched to my usual DC area radio stations after passing Fredericksburg. I hit the button for WETA, 90.9, just in time to hear the 1:01 NPR news. Then the news continued... Ohh... I forgot that the change to the all-news format started yesterday. :( So, instead of listening to some classical music like I was hoping to, I tuned into a pop station for a while, then turned the radio off, and finished my trip up just listening to my car on the highway. Ah, well...

Before heading to my parents' house, I made a stop to get my hairs cut at my favorite barber shop. Unfortunately, my cut today wasn't as good as it usually is. I had to to do some fine tuning when I got to my parents' place. Luckily, with my hair, after just a day or two of growth, any inconsistencies even out on their own.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 12:48:47 PM: ...And it appears my parents have raided the collection of CDs I have stashed here. -I was looking for a few more CDs to burn, and couldn't find them, but after checking some other places... AH!! There they are! In any case, it's nice to know my parents' musical tastes are starting to broaden. ;)
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 12:52:24 PM: As for DVD releases....

Hmmm...

Yet one more vote for Flower Drum Song.

The only other films I can think of right now are two French ones: Un Coeur En Hiver, and La Lectrice. -And they may actually be available on DVD by now - I haven't checked on them in a while.

-Btw, to tie this in with the mention of "Jabberwocky", there is a very amusing sequence in "La Lectrice" where the Reader (The "lectrice") is reading some Lewis Carroll.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 12:54:15 PM: DR vixmom - Thanks for reminding me to take my Season of Savings Book with me when I head to NYC next week.

I'm also trying to line up a couple of "pit observations" while I'm in the city. If you thought the show on stage was something, sometimes the show in the pit is ever moreso!

;)
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 12:55:47 PM: I'll be heading over to my brother's place around dinner time in order to spend some time with my niece and nephew. :)

But in the meantime, I'll be tending to some things around here...

Laters...
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Post by: Matthew on March 01, 2005, 01:08:32 PM: Phantasmagorical is used in the theme song for "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" - what a phabulous word! The DP is quite the creator of homemade MarchMellows, and they ARE yummlicious, great in cocoa. DVD releases.... any Broadway show that was videotaped for archive purposes, I think, by now should have a chance to make it to DVD. And from what I've read, there are a lot.
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Post by: George on March 01, 2005, 01:15:21 PM: Topic of the Day: of the movies that I'd like on DVD, these get my vote (and all have been mentioned already):

At Long Last Love
The Boy Friend
Flower Drum Song
Gambit
The Pirates of Penzance (Angela Lansbury)
Song of the South (mentioned on a previous day)

I can't think of any that haven't already been mentioned...yet. Maybe later.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 01:18:02 PM: I've seen Anita Page interviewed in quite a few documentaries ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE. Seems like she was just featured in the Irving Thalberg documentary that aired last month on TCM, and in quite a few other ones as well.

Poor old dear in her interviews is always, like Mae West in her later years, wearing a huge honey blonde wig and enough makeup to paint the entire cast of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. But she's a grand old trouper, so I don't mean to sound indelicate or critical - just informative.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 01:19:21 PM: Yes, TARANTULA! is long overdue. After we got THEM! from Warners, I was sure Universal would follow suit with TARANTULA! but no such luck.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 01:20:19 PM: CBS didn't waste any time between AMAZING RACE seasons! That must be the fastest turnaround in reality show history.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 01:22:31 PM: I also would love to have AT LONG LAST LOVE.

I'd also like TEN LITTLE INDIANS (with Hugh O'Brien) and TEN LITTLE INDIANS (with Richard Attenborough - deadly dull but I'd like to have them all). Well, the fourth version with Frank Stallone is so terrible that even I don't want it (though I have it on laserdisc and that's sufficient).
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 01:25:19 PM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 12:54:15 PM
DR vixmom - Thanks for reminding me to take my Season of Savings Book with me when I head to NYC next week.

I'm also trying to line up a couple of "pit observations" while I'm in the city. If you thought the show on stage was something, sometimes the show in the pit is ever moreso!

;)

Jose, don't forget to bring your Seasons of Savings book when you come up here to NYC! ;D
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 01:27:15 PM: TOD:

Is "Mars Needs Women!" out on DVD? how about "Wild Women of Wango"?
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 01:33:08 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 01:22:31 PM
I also would love to have AT LONG LAST LOVE.

I'd also like TEN LITTLE INDIANS (with Hugh O'Brien) and TEN LITTLE INDIANS (with Richard Attenborough - deadly dull but I'd like to have them all). Well, the fourth version with Frank Stallone is so terrible that even I don't want it (though I have it on laserdisc and that's sufficient).

Perhaps you should also get the Bollywood version of TEN LITTLE INDIANS...entitled GUMNAAM (1965). It is quite entertaining.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 01:35:58 PM: "Heart of my heart"? I love that melody.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 01:41:06 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 01:33:08 PM
Perhaps you should also get the Bollywood version of TEN LITTLE INDIANS...entitled GUMNAAM (1965). It is quite entertaining.

Is it directly based on AND THEN THERE WERE NONE or is it just similar to Christie's story?
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 01:43:28 PM: Quote from: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 01:27:15 PM
TOD:

Is "Mars Needs Women!" out on DVD? how about "Wild Women of Wango"?

Vixmom...Mars Needs Women and Wild Women of Wongo are both available on DVD!

And I am amazed that you know of WILD WOMEN OF WONGO!!! I love that movie!!
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 01:44:24 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 01:41:06 PM
Is it directly based on AND THEN THERE WERE NONE or is it just similar to Christie's story?

According to the credits it is based on Christie's story.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 01:48:49 PM: Back from errands. Trying to slog through a new section. This was a last-minute idea, which I'm hoping is working. As I started work on what I thought was going to be the next section, it suddenly occurred to me that I needed to do this other thing first. I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me before, and I suppose after I finish that I might discard it, but it seemed to want it, so I'm doing it. Is that a convoluted enough sentence for everyone?

And furthermore: PHANTASMAGORIA!
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 01:53:12 PM: Thanks for the info, DR MBarnum. I had no idea this film was in existence and will do some reading up on it.
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 01:57:50 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 01:53:12 PM
Thanks for the info, DR MBarnum. I had no idea this film was in existence and will do some reading up on it.

Yes, and ask BK and JRand54 about it also...they are the ones who originally steered me towards the film (which set off my Bollywood addiction!)...it has been mentioned in these here parts a few times!

You can order it from www.nehaflix.com (http://www.nehaflix.com) or www.indiaweekly.com (http://www.indiaweekly.com)
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 01:59:32 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 01:43:28 PM
Vixmom...Mars Needs Women and Wild Women of Wongo are both available on DVD!

And I am amazed that you know of WILD WOMEN OF WONGO!!! I love that movie!!

My husband loves WW of W and I love the "Mars Needs".. just for the opening sequence where they repeat the title of the film four hundred times or so...

I shall have to find these DVD's fro DH for part of his "birthday box" any suggestions for online shopping for these particular goodies?
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Post by: Joey on March 01, 2005, 02:02:32 PM: Hello All!

There are so many movies I would love to have on DVD including all of the ones already mentioned. (Penzance, Lil Abner, Flower Drum Song, Porgy, etc.) I jumped ahead to post this so I hope no one has mentioned it yet, but one movie I would really love to have on DVD is the 1936 version of Showboat. I enjoy it much more than the one made in the 50's though it is still enjoyable. I really just need to vamp up my movie musical collection, but as I am really just starting I need to have more patience.
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 02:02:44 PM: (http://www.erosentertainment.com/erospromos/eros_us/Product/image_b/Gumnaam_b.jpg)
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 02:04:42 PM: Quote from: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 01:59:32 PM
My husband loves WW of W and I love the "Mars Needs".. just for the opening sequence where they repeat the title of the film four hundred times or so...

I shall have to find these DVD's fro DH for part of his "birthday box" any suggestions for online shopping for these particular goodies?

Both films can be found on Amazon.com or Ebay very easily.

Tell DH that I am in the process ( a 3 year process so far) of tracking down and interviewing the cast members of WILD WOMAN OF WONGO....quite an interesting bunch of people!
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Post by: Joey on March 01, 2005, 02:12:01 PM: Extra note: I have looked online for information to see if the 1936 Showboat has come, or is coming to DVD but I am getting mixed answers. Does anyone know if anything is actually in the works?
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 02:12:15 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 02:04:42 PM
Both films can be found on Amazon.com or Ebay very easily.

Tell DH that I am in the process ( a 3 year process so far) of tracking down and interviewing the cast members of WILD WOMAN OF WONGO....quite an interesting bunch of people!

I will, he'll be most interested. Are any of these interviews available for reading now, or are you compiling them for a book?
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 02:13:55 PM: Gumnaam is briliant. From its ripoff of Christie, to its ripoff of Mancini's Charade theme, to the great, great ten minute musical number (or is it longer???) that was partially used in the title sequence of Ghost World. I may have to watch that again a little later.

I have to eat some tuna pasta salad now. And cousin Alan's ever-lovin' Dee Dee stopped by this morning with a nice food surprise - this incredible appetizer thing she does on English muffins - some kind of crab, parmesan, onion thing. I've been shamelessly after her for two or three months to make me a batch, and today I got the batch. So, I shall have to eat that, too.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 02:24:55 PM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 02:13:55 PM
. And cousin Alan's ever-lovin' Dee Dee stopped by this morning with a nice food surprise - this incredible appetizer thing she does on English muffins - some kind of crap, parmesan, onion thing. .

:P

am desperately hoping this is a typo :D
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Post by: Jane on March 01, 2005, 02:32:58 PM: Vixmom :D
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 01, 2005, 02:33:03 PM: Quote from: Joey on March 01, 2005, 02:02:32 PM
one movie I would really love to have on DVD is the 1936 version of Showboat. I enjoy it much more than the one made in the 50's though it is still enjoyable. I really just need to vamp up my movie musical collection, but as I am really just starting I need to have more patience.

DRJoey, how could I have forgotten that film on my list! I've been lucky to have SHOWBOAT a big part of my career in New York: the complete recording with John McGlinn, the Roders & Hammerstein rental edition of the Harold Prince revival, and an inventory of all SHOWBOAT materials at R&H. The James Whale production is one of my favorite films. Mea culpa!
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: Jane on March 01, 2005, 02:36:00 PM: We had a windows professionally cleaned and they look beautiful. What didn’t look so great were the drippings left on our new rug in our bedroom. Fortunately I was able to reach our carpet cleaner who told me what to do. Forty-five minutes later the carpet looks much better. I will have to wait and see if it stays that way. It still needs to dry a bit and dirt spots on carpets have an odd way of reappearing for some reason.

I think I will go take a walk now.
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Post by: Jed on March 01, 2005, 02:49:27 PM: Allow me to re-post my query from late last night...

Quote from: Rodzinski on Yesterday at 05:40:13pm
Quote
I shall be in San Jose covering the Pac-10 Women's Basketball Tournament from Friday to Monday, then I will drive down south and do the same for the Men's Tournament. I am hoping for WARMTH.

Just what is your line of work, Rodzinski? Sounds like something I may just be envious of. (Of course, being unemployed at the moment, I'm a bit envious of any occupation... :))
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 02:56:08 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 02:04:42 PM
Both films can be found on Amazon.com or Ebay very easily.

Tell DH that I am in the process ( a 3 year process so far) of tracking down and interviewing the cast members of WILD WOMAN OF WONGO....quite an interesting bunch of people!

Oh yeah! I just scored a WW of W for $6.99 for a brand spanking new DVD on Amazon
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Post by: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 02:57:05 PM: Quote from: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 02:12:15 PM
I will, he'll be most interested. Are any of these interviews available for reading now, or are you compiling them for a book?

I am putting them together for a magazine article...I just need to get two or three more interviews down and then I am mostly done!

But if there is anyone in the cast he wants to know about feel free to ask!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 02:57:44 PM: Good Afternoon!

Done puttering around my parents' house for now, and I'm about to head out for a bit to run a few errands, and to hopefully catch up with my niece and nephew.

Some interesting and exciting news over at Playbill.com-

Christine Baranski in and as Mame at the Kennedy Center next season
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91469.html

And the Helen Hayes - aka the DC Tony's - nominations were also announced today too
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91474.html
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 03:00:25 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on March 01, 2005, 02:57:05 PM
I am putting them together for a magazine article...I just need to get two or three more interviews down and then I am mostly done!

But if there is anyone in the cast he wants to know about feel free to ask!

I don't know thathe has any particular favorites, but once we get the DVD things may change. So far we have only been able to catch this in pieces on late night TV cable channels!
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 03:01:08 PM: OMG its late!! Time to head homewards!!
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 03:10:42 PM: vixmom and Jane - I don't know WHAT you two are talking about.

PHANTASMAGORIA!

I had the appetizer thing - I think I'm wrong about the craB - I think it's just cheesy and oniony. And VERY yummilicious.
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Post by: Kerry on March 01, 2005, 03:22:00 PM: Among other movies, I would like "The Pleasure of His Company," "Susan Slept Here" and "Enchanted April" to be released on DVD.
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Post by: Michael on March 01, 2005, 03:52:06 PM: Quote from: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 09:04:47 AM
I get these ads...

THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS-THE MUSICAL!

Sometimes One Musical is Not Enough!
“Real Wit, Real Charm! It’s Zany Fun!” –The New York Times
In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form- Rodgers & Hammerstein (The Sound of Music), Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd), Kander & Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago), Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly!) & Andrew Lloyd Webber (Phantom of the Opera). This delightful, critically acclaimed show is suitable for the entire family. Selling out fast!

OFFER: $39.50 Tix, reg $56, Tue-Thurs 8pm, Sat 4pm, Sun 3/7pm. $45 Tix, reg $60.50, Fri/Sat 8pm. Both offers good thru 4/17.

TO ORDER: Call (212) 947-8844 & mention code TMSVM32.* Or bring this Guide to Dodger Stages, 340 W. 50th St. $1 facility fee included in the price of each tkt. Lmt 6 tix/ ord.

My mother saw it and wasn't impressed. She bought me the cd. I listened to it without reading the notes and got what they were trying to do and wasn't impressed. Although the critics did like it. I didn't and this will be a pass.

Spamelot is on my list too.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 01, 2005, 04:23:57 PM: Whatever happened to Teddy Rooney?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 01, 2005, 04:24:16 PM: New DVDs that arrived in the mail today:

Twentieth Century
Bambi
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 01, 2005, 04:26:39 PM: Quote from: Michael Shayne on March 01, 2005, 04:12:38 PM
Here is an interesting article I read that I would like to share. It also has interesting side bars.

WB on DVD
Warner Bros. is the new Criterion Collection. How the DVD label cleaned up its act (and its digital transfers).
By Fred Kaplan
Posted Monday, Feb. 28, 2005, at 3:02 PM PT

http://slate.msn.com/id/2114143/
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 05:51:23 PM: Did this turn into a slow news day here at haineshisway.com?
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 05:51:46 PM: PHANTASMAGORIA!
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 06:04:01 PM: Sorry Jed!
I work as an editor/writer for a publishing company that does mostly sports-related stuff.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 06:10:13 PM: By "sorry" I meant sorry I didn't respond sooner to your query. Not "sorry that I work there". The company is going through some changes though that don't bode too well for the future, so we shall see.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 01, 2005, 06:26:12 PM: GUMNAAN also has some wonderful "Beach Party" type songs and scenes as well. DR MATTH - it just never stops. Give it a try.

I don't get to go to New York. ;(

Yesterday was DR EVIL KURT's birthday - but he moving into a new apartment so he is hard to find - always on the move.

I will tell him that he was mentioned and perhaps he will make a visit to HHW. He got WRITER'S BLOCK for Christmas.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 01, 2005, 06:28:34 PM: TAR is on!
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 06:31:51 PM: Looking forward to the show, PennyO!
Me and the gal will be in the 5th row.
So, if you could, you know, play to the 5th row a bit, that would be great.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 06:36:18 PM: SHANKS should have a DVD release. Starring Marcel Marceau, it was William Castle's last film and one of the weirdest movies ever. I have a bootleg video of it, but it deserves far better.
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Post by: PennyO on March 01, 2005, 06:39:50 PM: Hey, Rodzinskiii! Of course, I play to the 5th row! Are you coming to the gala event on the 19th, with the HainesHisWay contingent?? or some other star-studded evening? Like, oh, Opening Night?? which I think is Wednesday, March 16, but which my -- er, excuse the expression - Press Rep seems to have announced is Friday, March 18. Oy. Was it a typo?? Or what??? anyway... whenever you grace the 5th row of the Clurman, rest assured my performance is flowing in the direction of the seats!!
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Post by: PennyO on March 01, 2005, 06:42:45 PM: And so, goodnight, all. Off I go to grease the creases the Botox failed to conquer... (I'm actually considering Growing Old Gracefully... at some point... but not in the next 4 weeks, I can tell yuz...)
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 06:56:02 PM: Oh, we're all about the gala.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 06:58:39 PM: Due to a software update, the MAC is demanding I restart. It's ordering me around! Hope I make it through alive!
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 07:13:37 PM: Quote from: JRand54 on March 01, 2005, 06:26:12 PM

I don't get to go to New York. ;(

EVER??!!!!

:'( Say it ain't so Jack!!
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 07:15:54 PM: Quote from: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 06:31:51 PM
Looking forward to the show, PennyO!
Me and the gal will be in the 5th row.
So, if you could, you know, play to the 5th row a bit, that would be great.
\
Sorry, we fourth rowers shall be hogging all the good stuff ;)
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 07:17:43 PM: Seems to be a slow news day at HHW land.....
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Post by: Jed on March 01, 2005, 07:21:05 PM: Sorry to hear about the changes at work, Rodzinski... but still sounds like a decent gig to me!

Looks as if I'll have a slight break from my total unemployment coming up. Only a four-week temp job (starting 3 weeks from now), but it'll at least give me something to do for awhile, and will allow me to pay a few bills for a little while. I'll be scoring standardized public school tests, specifically 4th grade writing assessments from Ohio. Turns out an education degree actually IS good for something other than teaching!
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 07:23:55 PM: Quote from: Jed on March 01, 2005, 07:21:05 PM
. I'll be scoring standardized public school tests, specifically 4th grade writing assessments from Ohio. Turns out an education degree actually IS good for something other than teaching!

Congrats on the gig... if you want a teaching job come to Long Island we desperately need good teachers here and they pay quite well....
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 07:25:25 PM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 03:10:42 PM
vixmom and Jane - I don't know WHAT you two are talking about.

PHANTASMAGORIA!

I had the appetizer thing - I think I'm wrong about the craB - I think it's just cheesy and oniony. And VERY yummilicious.

Imagine my relief!! ;D
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 01, 2005, 07:34:44 PM: Vixmom - hopefully just THIS time around.....and a later trip to NYC will happen sometime.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 07:54:25 PM: My, my, my (that is three mys), what is happening here at haineshisway.com? How do we go from 900 posts to 144 posts in two brief days? Actually, amusingly, we're running true to form. Last March the same thing happened.

February toppled last February's stats quite handily.

Now, we need some PHANTASMAGORIA around these here parts.
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Post by: Jrand73 on March 01, 2005, 07:58:59 PM: THE AMAZING RACE starts out with TOO MANY TEAMS.....
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Post by: Jed on March 01, 2005, 08:08:17 PM: Quote from: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 07:23:55 PM
Congrats on the gig... if you want a teaching job come to Long Island we desperately need good teachers here and they pay quite well....

Precisely the problem... I'm not looking for teaching jobs at the moment, but finding it exceedingly hard to get hired on for anything else, having my degree in education (music education, at that). Ah well, I'll keep Long Island in mind if I ever decide to swap coasts! :)
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:08:56 PM: Oh, THAT'S where everyone is. Watching a TV show. NOW I understand. PARDON ME.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:09:30 PM: And where in tarnation has Ann got to?
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:10:12 PM: Holy moley on rye - I passed 11,000 posts a little while ago. Who knew?
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:11:22 PM: Holy moley on rye - page six!

PHATASMAGORIA!

I'm watching the Ale and Quail Club and The Weenie King. Name that film.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:11:40 PM: I am my own frenzy.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 01, 2005, 08:12:33 PM: With a little more effort, you can get to 12,000 by week's end.

We'll all cheer you on.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:13:31 PM: I've finished the tuna pasta salad. That is all I've eaten today, plus two English muffin things (the equivalent of yesterday's cupcake). So, I definitely lost weight yesterday, and I'm hoping I'll definitely lose weight today.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:14:49 PM: Name that film.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:20:13 PM: Quote from: JRand54 on March 01, 2005, 07:34:44 PM
Vixmom - hopefully just THIS time around.....and a later trip to NYC will happen sometime.

whew!
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:23:03 PM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:08:56 PM
Oh, THAT'S where everyone is. Watching a TV show. NOW I understand. PARDON ME.

I have not been watching TV shows I have been posting reviews on Amazon, .....I'm a good girl I am
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:24:34 PM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:11:22 PM
Holy moley on rye - page six!

PHATASMAGORIA!

I'm watching the Ale and Quail Club and The Weenie King. Name that film.

The Palm Beach Story (1942) ?
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 08:25:25 PM: Good Evening!

I just back into Richmond about half an hour ago. The drive back down 95 was fine, but I did have to play dodge-the-potholes from time to time. Most unseemly.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 08:32:37 PM: My visit to my brother and his family was quite wonderful! They had plenty to snack on including some sinfully rich brownie "loaf" my sister-in-law made. I had a slice or two.. or three.. and some ice cream.. and some Girl Scout Cookies... and...

;)

However, the best part of the evening was going up to my niece, Alyssa, giving her a big hug, and NOT having her scream and run away from me. :D She was in quite a playful mood tonight. She's apparently discovered how to whisper - although I don't think she's grasped the concept completely. Yes, she was whispering things to me, but I'm still not sure what she was telling me and if they were actual words. She was fascinated with the light-up ring I brought for her, and she even thanked me for it. And kissed me too!

John Michael was his usual rambunctious self, and he filled me in on all the new things he learned at school. We did have a small disagreement when I wanted to watch "American Idol", and he wanted to keeping watching Toon Disney, but his father stepped in. It was his bedtime anyway, so... He was more upset about having to go to bed than having to stop watching TV.

Before he went up to bed, he gave me a hug and asked if I could send him something from New York City. Of course, he didn't really need to ask since I always bring him something back from New York.

"Goodnight, Uncle Jojo."

:)
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:34:00 PM: The Palm Beach Story is keerect.

"Chivalry is not only dead, it's decomposed."

"I'm in the sausage business."
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 08:36:40 PM: I didn't think about the 1936 SHOW BOAT either, and it's grand. I have it on two different laserdiscs (Criterion and MGM/Turner), so it doesn't occur to me that I don't have it.

I haven't read anything about an imminent release for it, however.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 08:36:49 PM: I got to see my parents for a bit too. They're both doing fine, and my father truly seems back to normal. I made him a little happier tonight by taking back a couple of boxes of magazines I've had sitting in the basement for at least five years at this point. The recycling program in Northern Virginia does not accept magazines which is part of why I've left them in boxes for a while.... Hmm... So, I brought them back with me, and in a few I'll get them bundled up and put them out on the curb with the other magazines I bundled over the weekend.

-Just how many back issues of Men's Health do I really need? If at all?!?!?!

;)

However, I did notice I have a copy of the first issue of Men's Health as well as the first issue of This Old House magazine, and I'll probably keep those just in case.

Any takers?

;D
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:37:32 PM: Congrats on the 11,.000 bk!!
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:38:03 PM: I excoriate you all to read vixmom's amazon reviews of Writer's Block and Benjamin Kritzer. Beautifully written, and I thank vixmom and, of course, excoriate her to complete her review-writing with Kritzerland and Kritzer Time.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 08:38:56 PM: In other news...

PHANTASMAGORIA!
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:39:44 PM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 08:32:37 PM

However, the best part of the evening was going up to my niece, Alyssa, giving her a big hug, and NOT having her scream and run away from me. :D She was in quite a playful mood tonight. She's apparently discovered how to whisper - although I don't think she's grasped the concept completely. Yes, she was whispering things to me, but I'm still not sure what she was telling me and if they were actual words. She was fascinated with the light-up ring I brought for her, and she even thanked me for it. And kissed me too!

;D I keep meaning to ask you how old your niece Alyssa is. I keep imagining her as a two year old.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 08:39:59 PM: As for tonight's "American Idol"...

Ladies, ladies, ladies...

<shakes head>
:-\
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 08:40:02 PM: I've all sorts of posts to catch up on today, but first...

[size=20]THERE
ARE
PUPPIES
IN OUR
BASEMENT!!!!![/size]
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 08:40:31 PM: For any of you who are Christopher Meloni fans, tonight he gives his best ever performance on LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT. Much of the show is a face-off between Chris and Matthew Modine, and they are electric. The ending is upsettingly harrowing to say the least.

I'm sure this will be Emmy submission material for both actors.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:40:45 PM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 08:36:49 PM
I got to see my parents for a bit too. They're both doing fine, and my father truly seems back to normal. .

Good news indeed!!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 08:41:03 PM: OK... I better get a-bundling... And I'll also be a-burning more CDs to my hard-drive. Multitasking!

I'll be back before heading to bed...

Laters...
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Post by: Michael on March 01, 2005, 08:42:59 PM: It's uncategorical
A fuel burning oracle
A fantasmagorical machine
It's more than spectacular
To use the vernacular
It's wizard, it's smashing, it's keen
Oh Chitty you Chitty pretty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
We love you,
And Chitty our Chitty pretty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang loves us too
High Chitty low Chitty anywhere we go
On Chitty Chitty we depend
Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Our fine four fendered friend
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:44:23 PM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:38:03 PM
I excoriate you all to read vixmom's amazon reviews of Writer's Block and Benjamin Kritzer. Beautifully written, and I thank vixmom and, of course, excoriate her to complete her review-writing with Kritzerland and Kritzer Time.

Thank you , thank you... I'd like to thank my English teacher (NOT the 12th grade Poetry-Killer); my optician; Miss Pankush, the first grade teacher who taught me how to read; DR WFO who introduced me to this site, the Avon lady who sold me my lipstick, the great people at LemonTree, my newspaper carrier, the postman oh! Is that the music already?
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Post by: Michael on March 01, 2005, 08:45:40 PM: I was previewing the new DVD of Bambi and I cam across a scene that had me thinking that the same Christian right that said the Sponge Bob Squarepants was offensive could find Bambi offensive. There is a scene where Bambi and Faline sleep together without the benifit of being married. Shocking! Absolutely shocking!!
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 08:45:41 PM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 08:39:59 PM
As for tonight's "American Idol"...

Ladies, ladies, ladies...

<shakes head>
:-\

Boy, are you right about that! Not an idol in THAT bunch at all. Only the Las Vegas showgirl had anything like star quality tonight. Really an off night for the women.

And, I must be on another wavelength or inhabiting another diminsion, but the three judges raved about Mikalah who gave the WORST performance of the night; well, maybe second worst along with Jenay (who was also awful last week). But there was NOTHING praiseworthy in Mikalah's vocals tonight, and they all thought she was terrific. Made me want to have my hearing checked.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:45:59 PM: Quote from: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 08:40:02 PM
I've all sorts of posts to catch up on today, but first...

[size=20]THERE
ARE
PUPPIES
IN OUR
BASEMENT!!!!![/size]

Did you call Terminex?
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:47:23 PM: Quote from: Michael Shayne on March 01, 2005, 08:45:40 PM
I was previewing the new DVD of Bambi and I cam across a scene that had me thinking that the same Christian right that said the Sponge Bob Squarepants was offensive could find Bambi offensive. There is a scene where Bambi and Faline sleep together without the benifit of being married. Shocking! Absolutely shocking!!

Well that's it then, I am organizing a DVD burning!!! Grab your pitchforks and follow me!!!!
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Post by: Matt H. on March 01, 2005, 08:49:15 PM: I walked up to the mailbox a block or two up from my house a minute ago, and it's FREEZING outside. Just a few nigths ago, I stepped out on my porch in a long sleeved shirt, and felt clammy. Now, a person would freeze quickly without a coat on in this weather. Simply amazing how quickly it can change.
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:49:22 PM: Dear SWW, just kidding!! ;D

Is it an expected blessed event or are you acting as rescuers again?.

.... and selfishly I ask, does this mean you and derB are not coming to NYC?
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:50:04 PM: PAGE SEVEN!!!

I should be dancing, dancing
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 08:53:20 PM: Around noon today, der Brucer received two urgent calls. The first was from his daughter, who desperately needed someone (or two) to ladsit this evening whilst she and her husband went to meet with a prospective client of his...all whilst said husband is dealing with infected eardrums, infected sinuses, and so on and so forth.

It never fails that if there is one emergency, there has to be another. It, wherever "It" dwells, did not fail us this time at all. Within minutes of der B agreeing to help his daughter, he received the second urgent call, this time from the Animal Rescue group. Diane had just been told by the Sussex County SPCA that, if she didn't pick up an ailing mommy dog and her three pups, they would be disposed of this very evening.

This, of course, left Diane with very little time to find someone who could a) take in four dogs who b) have mange problems and c) probably have other health problems, such as worms, kennel cough, etc. In other words, mommy and the three pups have to be kept separate from the other dogs, and have their health problems attended to...and it all has to happen within the next couple of hours.

Fortunately, we have a basement, so we can keep mommy and the pups separate from the other dogs. We got to the SPCA pound, met with Diane, and took the foursome back home with us.

Mommy, who we have dubbed "Peggy," is a pit bull mix. She is a total sweetheart, if a little afraid, but given that she was suddenly being thrown into yet another new environment, I can't blame her. Her pups, dubbed "Baxter," "Bruno" and "Benedict," are probably somewhere between six and eight weeks old. They are all brindle-colored, happy if shy, and devoted to their mommy.

We've set up blankets and bowls for them all downstairs, and there's heat down there.

There's no telling how long they'll be with us, probably just for a few days.

And der Brucer is calling me to help out downstairs. Laters.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:56:25 PM: "I grow on people... like moss."
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:58:47 PM: Quote from: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 08:53:20 PM
Around noon today, der Brucer received two urgent calls. The first was from his daughter, who desperately needed someone (or two) to ladsit this evening whilst she and her husband went to meet with a prospective client of his...all whilst said husband is dealing with infected eardrums, infected sinuses, and so on and so forth.

It never fails that if there is one emergency, there has to be another. It, wherever "It" dwells, did not fail us this time at all. Within minutes of der B agreeing to help his daughter, he received the second urgent call, this time from the Animal Rescue group. Diane had just been told by the Sussex County SPCA that, if she didn't pick up an ailing mommy dog and her three pups, they would be disposed of this very evening.

This, of course, left Diane with very little time to find someone who could a) take in four dogs who b) have mange problems and c) probably have other health problems, such as worms, kennel cough, etc. In other words, mommy and the three pups have to be kept separate from the other dogs, and have their health problems attended to...and it all has to happen within the next couple of hours.

Fortunately, we have a basement, so we can keep mommy and the pups separate from the other dogs. We got to the SPCA pound, met with Diane, and took the foursome back home with us.

Mommy, who we have dubbed "Peggy," is a pit bull mix. She is a total sweetheart, if a little afraid, but given that she was suddenly being thrown into yet another new environment, I can't blame her. Her pups, dubbed "Baxter," "Bruno" and "Benedict," are probably somewhere between six and eight weeks old. They are all brindle-colored, happy if shy, and devoted to their mommy.

We've set up blankets and bowls for them all downstairs, and there's heat down there.

There's no telling how long they'll be with us, probably just for a few days.

And der Brucer is calling me to help out downstairs. Laters.

There is a place in heaven for you two lovely, bighearted men, :-* Someday I hope to introduce you to my possum rescuing DH
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Post by: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 09:01:05 PM: Well it is coming up on midnight here on the Island of Long and six am appears to be only six hours away, so I must hie me to my bedroom environment... and no cries of "wussburger" !!!!
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 09:06:09 PM: Thank-you, VixMom. It's nice to have our insanity praised. :-*
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 09:10:40 PM: It seems that Peggy doesn't like being in the caged-in area within our basement. Some time back, der B bought a freestanding fenced enclosure, about six by ten square and five feet tall, no roof. Peggy had escaped the enclosure prior to our getting back from ladsitting. She has no problem with being with her pups, but when we herded everyone back into the cage, she immediately started plotting her escape. Even with us standing right there, she lept up and started climbing out.

We've decided that, for now, the best solution is to let her have free range in the basement, while her pups stay in the enclosure. Benedict is very vocally protesting this decision. But it's the best we can do for the moment.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:18:02 PM: Finished with The Palm Beach Story - brilliant. Much more about it later.

PHANTASMAGORIA!

Moving on to The Letter.
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Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:18:29 PM: People come, people go, like Grand Hotel.
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 09:39:50 PM: Well, the computer restarted properly, then I was promptly booted off by the gal who had to write a paper. Where are the priorities, I ask you?

Anyway, I got caught up in the letterboxed MODESTY BLAISE on Fox. I know I said this about SHANKS earlier, but I was mistaken. MODESTY BLAISE is the weirdest movie ever made. I mean Monica Vitti and Terrence Stamp look good, but you can't understand a word they say (or sing). The whole movie looks great in fact, but it is as if they forgot the story midway through and it turns into utter madness and anticlimax. Joseph Losey was the wrong guy to try a mod spy spoof, as the guy never had a light moment in any film. Good to see Dirk Bogarde having fun though. As a curio, A+, as a coherent film, D.

What am I, Roeper all of a sudden?
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:46:19 PM: I was rather fond of Modesty Blaise when it was originally released. In fact, I thought it was the berries and must have seen it about twenty times in three weeks. It hasn't worn the test of time all that well, but parts of it still amuse me greatly - Dirk Bogarde, Clive Revill and Harry Andrews are all wonderful.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:47:09 PM: PHANTASMAGORIA.

Not quite loving The Letter at this point. Maybe it will pick up - I'm only twenty minutes in.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: Rodzinski on March 01, 2005, 10:01:37 PM: A good double feature would be MODESTY BLAISE and FATHOM, wherein Clive Revill gets to be the hammy villain in a mod spy comedy. Both very colorful films.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 10:10:53 PM: I'm quite relaxed now. I'm trying to motivate myself to watch more of The Letter. But, first I must write the notes, oh, yes, first I must write the notes.

"I'm in the sausage business."
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: DERBRUCER on March 01, 2005, 10:11:27 PM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 09:18:29 PM
People come, people go, like Grand Hotel.

AND SO DO DOGS!

Boss Lady (Peggy - with Benedict peering beneath)

(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/5911570/87503875.jpg)

Baxter:

(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/5911570/87503878.jpg)

Bruno:

(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/5911570/87503877.jpg)

Benedict seems not yet ready for his close up.

der Brucer
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: Charles Pogue on March 01, 2005, 10:11:48 PM: My other favourite line from PALM BEACH STORY delivered by the exquisite Mary Astor: "I grow on people...like moss."
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 10:40:37 PM: Me too - I posted it it a page ago.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 10:40:50 PM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:28:08 AM
I would like Warners to release The Spirit of St. Louis.
YES!!!
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 10:41:33 PM: Finished with the notes, have chosen The Word, and now will try to slog through a bit more of the MELODRAMA that is The Letter. I might be better disposed towards it if the DVD box didn't promise a mystery thriller.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 10:51:03 PM: Quote from: bk on March 01, 2005, 08:52:40 AM
I believe The Loved One is coming.
I am biting my tongue. ::)
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: Charles Pogue on March 01, 2005, 11:01:48 PM: Great minds. I swear I posted it before I saw that you had also posted it.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: Charles Pogue on March 01, 2005, 11:06:49 PM: I like The Letter. It is one of my favourite Bette Davis movies...who over the years has gotten a bit mannered for me. But this suits her. I think James Stephenson is great in it. And isn't the redoubtable Bart Marshall also in it, hobbling about on his wooden leg? And the delicious Gale Sondergaard.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: Charles Pogue on March 01, 2005, 11:08:01 PM: "Give me the letter!" I can just see Charles Pierce doing Bette saying it.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: Sandra on March 01, 2005, 11:10:52 PM: PUPPIES!

That's all. Good night.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 11:17:51 PM: Good Evening!

WHEW!!!!!

Tonight's recycling "pile" consists of:

3+ years of Gourmet
2+ years of Cooking Light
1 year of Eating Well (guess I didn't renew)
6 months of Consumer Reports - from 1988!!?!?!?!?!
2 years of Southern Theatre (it's just a quarterly)
3 years of American Theatre (I almost held onto these)
1 year of This Old House
Miscellaneous single issues of miscellaneous magazines
Various and sundried catalogs
Etc., Etc., Etc...

-And the usual newspapers, cardboard, plastics and bottles.

I truly do feel unburdened right now. And, of course, in the process of sorting through the magazine files, I came across some keepsakes - various theatre programs, issues of the still sorely-missed Show Music, the first three years of the Sondheim Review, and copy of the set of orchestra parts for The Music Man(??).

Come morning, I'll vacuum all the dust that will hopefully have settled by then. I've already washed my face and arms, and rinsed out my mouth - Ptooey!. I still have about 30 minutes of straightening up to take care of, but I'll tend to that in the morning.

And speaking of morning...
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 11:21:37 PM: OH!!...

I forgot to list the 3+ years of Bon Appetit!

And I even managed to dump the big planter that the next door neighbor left on our common porch. And I mean BIG! It used to hold a palm tree, but had come to hold just a lot of dirt, water and cigarette butts lately. No drainage holes either - which, in retrospect, was a good thing. I somehow maneuvered it to the small set of stairs, and gave it a nice PUSH onto the lawn. -My exercise for the day!

;)
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 01, 2005, 11:22:46 PM: Well, time to tend to some other internet stuff before heading to bed...

But I'll probably end up checking in "tomorrow" when the new notes go up.

Laters...
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 11:26:25 PM: Quote from: vixmom on March 01, 2005, 08:47:23 PM
Well that's it then, I am organizing a DVD burning!!! Grab your pitchforks and follow me!!!!
Fantasia is the worst film Disney ever made!

It starts out all right, with that Tocatta and Fugue by Bach. But then the nasty stuff gets going.

The Nutcracker Suite contains nudity!

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is all about witchcraft!

Evolution is preached during The Rite of Spring!

The Pastoral Symphony exposes us to pagan mythology!

The Dance of the Hours is an ode to beastiality!

The Devil himself is celebrated during Night on Bald Mountain!

But the worst is saved for last, with Ave Maria. Yes, my brothers and sisters, we are reduced to...papism!

Oh, the shame, the shame.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 11:30:48 PM: The pups (and Mom) need to be dewormed.

They all need good baths.

They need dipping for that mange problem.

They all need good homes.

I'm falling in love with Benedict. He's got spunk.

But five dogs on a permanent basis is enough.

Dang.
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: bk on March 01, 2005, 11:31:54 PM: Has Ann caught up yet?

Has Ann fallen off the face of the earth?

PHANTASMAGORIA!
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 11:34:16 PM: Everyone downstairs has settled down for the night.

It's been a long time since I've had actual "puppy" puppies in the house. Bonnie and Buster were nearly adult size when they joined up, and Fletcher has always been larger than life.

More to the point, this is the first time I've had a Mamma around. Marty and Mikey, both puppies when they joined us, were already separated from their mothers. Mammas need loving, too!
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: S. Woody White on March 01, 2005, 11:35:45 PM: Maybe Ann needs a puppy!
Title: Re:MARCHMALLOWS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 01, 2005, 11:58:05 PM: Happiness IS a warm puppy!