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Well, you've read the notes, reading the notes was like pulling teeth, and now it is time for you to post until the toothless cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: BAMBOOZLE!
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It's the ATTACK OF THE WUSSBURGERS.
I suppose I'll just toddle off to the bedroom environment then.
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But, before I go, might I just say - BAMBOOZLE!
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BAMBOOZLE? This doesn't have anything to do with the Spike Lee movie "Bamboozled," does it? Nah...I didn't think so. ::)
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I'll have to think about the Topic of the Day. I've never thought about what my worst nightmare or fear would be.
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So now I am going to go to bed. Good night!
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When I was a kid I had a dream that would happen once a year (for four years) and had a "special guest star" playing the same role. Basically it took place in a small European town with a big church. The church had these two huge front doors. The church was rigged to blow up at 12:00 o'clock. It was up to me and the "hero" to convince everyone to leave. We were successful and we watch the two huge doors close and the church blew up and I would wake up. The special guest stars included Simon Templar (The Saint), Maxwell Smart, James Bond and someone else I no longer remember.
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Wow, so few posts!
DR Jane, btw, I of course did not watch Stuart Little (only the 4 yr old did). :)
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Good morning, all! I've slept quite late, and now I've got to tidy up the apartment before attacking the NYPL Theatre Collection.
More later.
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The internet is somewhat working today, but I have my laptop plugged directly into the modem and it is still being as slow as anything. I'll probably be calling Comcast in a few minutes and see what they say. This is the second time since August that we've had troubles, but a call to Comcast gets it fixed immediately most of the time.
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Good luck with Comcast, DRJOEY!
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I think the famous Perfesser Harold Hill was a master of the Bamboozle right down to the last wave to the brakeman on the last train out of town.
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I have always been afraid of being sick and not having a way to the doctor or having any medicine.
My scariest nightmares have always been about falling or especially being in a car or truck going over a bridge that collapsed into the water....yikes!
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Peggy is a gadabout!
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I need to ask a quick question. Is the Indy gathering going to be for the Saturday Matinee or the Sunday matinee? (I am thinking Saturday.) I am double checking because I may need to ask to leave something early here at school so I can make it down.
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Good morning, all! I’m sitting here enjoying my 2nd cup of tea (courtesy of DR Rodzinski) along with the last of the cookies that were left on my bed at the hotel every night. I’m trying the “Prince of Wales” type of tea and it is very, very good. Thank you! I love tea.
Yesterday was a “lost” day. I think I slept most of it away and went to bed almost as soon as I posted the pictures last night only to sleep the whole night away as well. I think I finely feel rested.
I wanted to say how much I enjoyed your show, DR Penny. I’m sorry that I didn’t see Jose’s post about wanting pictures at the theater—I had my camera with me and would have taken them for you.
I guess the Unicorn does have a bit of an “Alf” look to him. But he sure is neat looking considering he was just made of flowers.
Did I tell you that I got to see “Chitty”? They had it in Macy’s and I took pictures from every angle. I was going to enter the contest they had to win a free pair of tickets for the show but since I wouldn’t be in NY to claim them (if I had won) I didn’t enter.
There sure are a lot of cute dogs in NYC. I snapped several pictures of them and will share them over the next few days.
I’m so glad one of the puppies have found a home. To be honest, I’m a bit worried that the lady couldn’t afford to take the puppy to the vet—puppies need all of their first shots and Heart worm meds every month. I hope she understands that a puppy is a responsibility, just like a kid, and you don’t dump it the first time it gets sick.
I received the sheet music to “Don Juan Triumphant” from the composer, Misha Segal. If you don’t mind, DR Jose, I would like to send you a copy so you could play/record it for me. If anyone else would like to see it, just let me know.
TOD, I’ll have to think on it. I’ve had several bad dreams that came true and a few that just plain scared the heck out of me that I pray never come true.
I have to unpack and wash my clothes from NY today. Sigh. Was it only a week ago that I was packing my clothes to go?
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I, too, saw FINIAN'S RAINBOW in the theatre in its original roadshow form. Still have the souvenir booklet. My biggest problem with it is all too often Coppola breaks what had been a long-standing edict of Astaire's and does not always shoot him full-figure when he is dancing.
I happen to agree with Mr. Astaire and think there is nothing more pointless than a waist-high shot of a dancer. If you can't see their feet what's the point? In fact, if you can't see the entire body in movement what's the point? Cutting off intricate choreography for close-ups and medium shots is like watching widescreen in pan-and-scan. You're not seeing it as intended.
Of course, the big question about FINIAN'S RAINBOW...What the Hell ever happened to Don Francks? No one came on the scene or disappeared faster...
Though I haven't seen it in a long time, I remember liking BLOOD ON THE MOON a lot, thinking it a moody little western. And I love the title. I need another viewing to see how it stacks up with those other noir westerns PURSUED and, for my money, the best noir western, RAMROD, with Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, and Don DeFore giving the best performance of his life.
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Adored Don Francks and Petula Clark's "Old Devil Moon," to me the most romantic musical number ever shot. I, too, still have the souvenir book from FINIAN'S RAINBOW and loved it when I first saw it. I haven't watched the DVD yet. I remembered it being long, so I was waiting to find a complete afternoon or evening to give to it. Perhaps Saturday at some point.
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I had "The Teacher's Nightmare" quite a few times in my life, even after I retired from the classroom:
having a roomful of students I could not get under control and thus felt helpless.
Fortunately for me during my 30 year career, it never happened a single time, but that didn't stop me from having that dream and I find it odd I still have it occasionally even though I have no intention of ever stepping back into a classroom.
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DRJOEY I think we decided on Sunday matinee.
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Yesterday, I got the Shirley Jones-Jack Cassidy BRIGADOON on CD, and I've been really enjoying it.
Susan Johnson's "The Love of My Life" is my single favorite track from a musical ever recorded, I think.
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I had the soundtrack LP for "Finian's Rainbow" for a long time before I ever saw the movie. I loved it and played it many, many times.
I was a bit disappointed in the movie just because I thought Hermes Pan did a terrible job with the dances. I had already done them in my head, and he didn't come close!!
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DR CP I think it was Renata Adler's review of FINIAN'S RAINBOW that said any dance shot the only features half of Fred Astaire isn't doing the dance justice. She thought that there was something wrong with the framing the night she saw it, because so many of the shots cut Fred off at the ankles.
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I can't ever like Renata Adler. She loathed THE LION IN WINTER, and since I loved it, she and I can never see eye-to-eye. Fortunately, after a year, the Times realized her tastes were a bit too eccentric and she was let go.
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DRJOEY I think we decided on Sunday matinee.
Thanks for the info. That works out much better for me. :D I am off to class. Have a great afternoon everyone. :)
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When I minimize my HHW screen at work today, the little box at the bottom of my computer screen says Pulling Teet.
I think that is rather unseemly.
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Re: Don Francks. Well we flop musical fanatics know he was the star of one of the biggest flopperoos of all time, Kelly (so it's kind of a miracle he had a career at all after that). I haven't checked but I want to say he did some tv (maybe even a series) after Finian.
TOD: I had a recurring nightmare for several months when I was a kid. My parents had built a new house in SLC that wasn't quite ready until right before Christmas that year, so they decided to keep me in my old school until after Christmas break. So for several weeks my Mom would have to drive me the 10 miles or so from our new house to my old school, and then of course pick me up in the afternoon. Well my nightmare was that I forgot she was picking me up and started walking to our old house. I would get about 3/4 of the way there and remember she was picking me up and I would run back to the school (it was quite a ways even from our old house, but we would walk--probably a mile or two). Anyway, I would get to school just to see Mom pulling away from the school in our old station wagon. I would yell after her, but she couldn't hear and drove away. So I would start the LOOOOONG walk to our new house, which meant I had to get on the freeway. The last "shot" of my nightmare (I have very cinematic dreams, LOL) was kind of a copy of some old album cover one of my sisters used to have. I want to say it was a Tony Bennett album, but it may have been Mathis or even Yarborough. The album cover (I think the album was called "Streets I Have Walked") was an overhead shot of the singer (whoever it was) walking away with his coat slung over his shoulder.
Freudian analysis welcome, but only if it's free. :)
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Some supposedly well-known L.A. television "personality" has been emailing me about Frances. He is purchasing hundreds of dollars of photos of Frances from me for his girlfriend's office. Next time I'm in L.A., I think I need to visit her. ;)
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When I minimize my HHW screen at work today, the little box at the bottom of my computer screen says Pulling Teet.
I think that is rather unseemly.
Work? What is "Work"? Sounds like a four letter word to me! (At least for this week.) ;) :D
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I can't ever like Renata Adler. She loathed THE LION IN WINTER, and since I loved it, she and I can never see eye-to-eye. Fortunately, after a year, the Times realized her tastes were a bit too eccentric and she was let go.
Many folks here will remember Judith Crist as a movie reviewer for TV Guide in the 1970s-80s. But Crist had a previous life as one of NYC's most powerful critics at the NY Herald-Tribune. She was right up there with Bosley Crowther of the NY Times and a few others at one time as a critic to be won over. But...in 1965, she disliked "The Sound of Music." Not only did she dislike it, but she was snide about it. And the readership was not amused. The Herald-Tribune fired her because of her review rather than lose thousands of subscribers.
It didn't help that "The Sound of Music" was an instant phenomenon at the box office and quickly joined a rarefied group of films that ends up on most people's "favorites" lists.
Ahhh...the art of critiquing is fraught with peril....
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Good Morning!
Yeah! The skies have cleared up for now in the Big Apple. And I'm thinking I may go out and explore this neighborhood, Washington Heights, since it may be "my" neighborhood soon. -I've walked around here a lot at night, but not during the daytime yet. -And Greunebaum's Bakery a few blocks up is supposed to be very good. ;)
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Most common recurring dream:
I'm in college, I'm getting ready to wrap up a school year and suddenly remember that I have a final exam in a class I attended at the start of semester and then forgot about. I know that if I can make the exam, I can still salvage some credits as long as I pass. The only trouble is, I cannot remember where the class is...only the building...and it's full of hallways and dour-looking professors standing at doors looking at me oddly as I, alone in the hallway, walk past their rooms looking for a familiar face.
Have had this dream infrequently over the past 10 years, but at least twice. Before, I'd have it at least once a year.
Two weirdest dreams:
I was in the Navy, but dreamed I was back in college. It was snowing. And the U.S. and USSR had exchanged missile strikes. I was among my classmates being herded into a basement, but I remember looking out a door window and watching the snow...and wondering if I'd ever see my parents again...and worrying whether they were safe.
Another one I dreamed only once, but it was a powerful dream. It was in the early 1980s. I was back in my "hometown" and living with my parents in a house we had circa 1959-61. My guess is that it had to be "that" house for my dream because a huge picture window with a view of the night sky was essential to the dream as it played out and that's the only house we had lived in that fit the bill. At any rate, an alert had been issued over TV that the U.S. was sending out the air force to investigate unauthorized traffic over U.S. air space. We were told to turn out our lights. It was a blackout, essentially. My parents were sitting by the fireplace telling me not to worry, but I was watching the skies...seeing stars...and suddenly I saw the stars move. They moved and formed a shape....moved again and formed another shape....and I realized that whatever was up there was visible and forming the shapes of well-known star clusters -- the Big Dipper, Orion, Cassiopeia, etc.
It was a visitation from aliens!
And then I woke up. It was vivid, that dream. And I thank Steven Spielberg for it!
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Jose's movin' to my hood!
Hmmm...this might be a nice time to invest in restaurants and bakeries in Washington Heights...
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TOD -
When I was about nine years old, I had this recurring nightmare over the period of about two weeks. I was basically falling continuously down this hole/well/tunnel. It all happened in a sort of slow motion, but I remember feeling like it was never going to stop - the I was going to keep falling and falling. At the same, I was sort of spinning and the "wall" around me twisted like a cyclone. And the wall seemed to be made up of a bunch of the black marble-covered composition books. ???
I would wake up breathless, nauseous and dizzy. It went on for a series of days, and then it just stopped. It was so bad and so vivid to me, that there were a few nights I did not want to go to bed. That I did not want to close my eyes even, since when I closed my eyes, it would start right back up again with just me thinking about it. Dreading it.
I have to wonder now, if maybe I had come down with some sort of ear infection at the time. Or some other physical/medical condition that was making me dizzy.
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DRJOSE - two tickets please for the Sunday Matinee of MAMMA MIA! I am assuming we can use MasterCard. Do we get them at the will call window?
Email to follow with name and phone number.
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Jose's movin' to my hood!
Hmmm...this might be a nice time to invest in restaurants and bakeries in Washington Heights...
Or at least time for the restaurants and bakeries in Washington Heights to start getting their act together!
;)
And, yes, I am a Zagat voter.
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DR JRand - I believe Clowes Hall takes all the cards.
*Remember, the matinee is at 1:00 on Sunday. -The evening show that night is at 6:30.
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DR JOSE - too much sugar?
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Oh that's right 1 pm on Sunday. That's even better!
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Site of the April Indianapolis HHW gathering! ;D
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I love dreams about space and stars, DR RLP.
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One of my most disturbing recurring dreams which I still have is that it turned out that I actually did not graduate from high school....so I have to return and take a science or math class (the classes that I hated the most, and that were the most difficult for me).
One that I used to have, but haven't in many years, is where I am walking (usually in high school) but can't seem to actually move...my feet are like lead and I can barely move them...or something like that.
And then there was one where the zombies from the original Night of the Living Dead were chasing me, and others (sometimes the other people with me were friends or family...sometimes just generic townspeople). These dreams would scare the heck out of me, but thankfully I stopped having them some years back.
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I also used to get a "Recital Nightmare" - which I think I've mentioned before, but for those DRs to whom this may be "New To You!"...
I walk out on a stage. The hall is packed. The audience is waiting. I sit down at the piano. I start my first piece.
All I hear is one note. ONE NOTE. -Middle C. -Even though I'm playing with all my fingers, and on different keys.
Someone has tuned each note on the piano to the same pitch!
I just start playing by rote, by feel. And all I'm hearing is the same pitch over and over again.
I finish the piece. And the audience breaks into thunderous applause. A standing ovation. I take a very tentative bow, and start to walk off the stage...
And that's when I wake up. -And run to my piano to make sure no one has tuned all the keys to the same pitch!
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And now of course, we realize that we will all have nightmares tonight!
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Maybe each other's nightmares!
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One that I used to have, but haven't in many years, is where I am walking (usually in high school) but can't seem to actually move...my feet are like lead and I can barely move them...or something like that.
OOohh... I used to get those ones too. Still do every now and then. Kind of like a "Night Fright". I'll just wake up, and sense "something bad". I try to move my body, but nothing moves. My arms and legs feel very heavy. Of course, then I start to feel even more afraid since I can't get away from that "unknown".
Very oogie.
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I wouldn't mind some of that Southern Fried Chicken again--that was good! Just sorry yours was cold inside, Rodzinski.
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I've never had the "I'm sorry you missed one class. You cannot graduate high school/college" nightmare. But I have ones where I thought I've either slept through a performance, or just forgot about it and did something else.
This usually happens when I'm working a show at Arena Stage in DC since their schedules are always soooooo weird. Matinee this Sunday, but not the next one. A Noon Matinee on Tuesday, but no Tuesday night show. Thursday night off in the middle of the run for no apparent reason. "Where's my calendar?"
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LOL! DR Jose, at first I misread your post as saying: your "rectal nightmare".....!! :o
I have had many nightmares where I am in a play and have not learned my lines, or am given my lines just minutes before the curtain opens on opening night.
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I'm up, I'm up. What a swell night's sleep I had, and no Floor Men or Wall Men a knockin' at my door.
Re Astaire's feet in Finian's. Coppola spends a lot of time talking about it and his regrets that he didn't keep him full frame all of the time. However, there really aren't all that many cut-ins to him, and when there are the camera is usually dollying back to reveal him full frame.
Every time Fred's feet get too close to the bottom of the frame, Coppola says, "Oh, that's making me nervous." But his feet never go out of frame. Adler's comment about the mis-framing the night she saw it is spot on. When it was decided the film would be roadshow (it wasn't originally planned that way - it was a very modestly budgeted film), they blew the film up to 70mm for its initial engagements, thereby losing four or five percent of the top and bottom of the Panavision image. Hence, Mr. Astaire's feet were frequently out of frame. Coppola is thrilled that they're visible in this correctly-presented 2:35 framing.
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BAMBOOZLE!
Nightmares are one thing, but I'm talking about worst nightmares in terms of reality - FEARS, things you DREAD that might happen in real life.
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And my other "nightmare" is that something serious has happened to my hands/fingers. I don't think I've ever had an dream/nightmare about that, but it's something that does cross my mind every now and then when I hear about "it" happening to someone else. Gives me the shivers, literally.
OH!...
One of the phone calls I got over the past few days was from Ford's Theatre. The keyboard player they hired for BIG RIVER has had to drop out of the show for a few weeks. One of his pinkies started to turn white during rehearsal one day. And then the next day it started to turn black. It was a major circulation issue. He was eventually admitted to the hospital for a few days. And at one point during the whole "process", "amputation" was brought up as an option for treatment.
I can't imagine... I don't want to imagine that...
In any case...
He got out of the hospital this past Monday, and is home resting for a few weeks. He's gonna try to start back up with the show in two weeks. However, if he does not get the go ahead from his doctor, then it looks like I will be stepping into the show. -Right after I get back from MAMMA MIA! !!! -And then I'd be going right back into MAMMA MIA! once it heads back to Richmond - then back up to DC. So...
I'm just glad to know he's doing better. And this is one time, I hope I do NOT get the gig.
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BAMBOOZLE!!!
-As for chat - this coming Sunday and Monday will be travel days for me. However, something later Monday could possibly work. Just depends on flights and time zones.
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BAMBOOZLE!
Nightmares are one thing, but I'm talking about worst nightmares in terms of reality - FEARS, things you DREAD that might happen in real life.
That a family member or friend will die or be seriously injured.
Having an celebrity interview go awry.
That Bollywood movies will no longer be available in the United States.
That I would lose my job because I spend too much time posting on HHW.
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OK - Time for me to stretch my legs for a bit...
Laters...
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I'd be sorry in one way that you didn't get the gig, DR Jose, but I also hope that you don't.
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Oh, a chat would be fun! It has been way too long since the last one! Sunday or Monday works for me...just make sure it isn't during Elmore3003's viewing of Desp. Housewives at 9pm ET!!
DRs Vixmom, Rodzinski, and Ginny, I think, have never experienced an HHW chat before! Please join us as they are always a lot of fun...although, the chats do seem to break up rather quickly if BK leaves the room to enjoy some soup! :-\
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My fear is that my Mom passes, I get into a bad accident and when they ask who should they call, there is no one.
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Chat is fun! Sunday or Monday works for me as well. Please do try to join in, DRs Vixmom, Rodzinski, and Ginny!
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I forgot to do a page 2 dance but here is my page 3 dance!
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Hey, he's not dancing!
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LOL! DR Jose, at first I misread your post as saying: your "rectal nightmare".....!! :o
I have had many nightmares where I am in a play and have not learned my lines, or am given my lines just minutes before the curtain opens on opening night.
LOL...I, TOO, saw it that way at first....and how amusing it is to suddenly see that if you take the "I" out of "recital," you get RECTAL!
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Let's try something different...
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Mouse dancing!
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Sunday night chat would be fine.
Monday night would be my second choice.
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I liked Renata Adler (I read a book of her collected reviews) and Judith Crist in TV GUIDE. Pauline Kael I could take or leave.
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If you don't have a friend in the business - and you often try to find the best price for a DVD online - you can use this website. ;D
http://www.bargainflix.com/ (http://www.bargainflix.com/)
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Sunday night chat would be fine.
Monday night would be my second choice.
:D
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Re: last night's repeat American Idol, I don't think it was really fair. Yes I think it was right to scrap tuesday's votes. But I think they should have just not eliminated anybody this week and then eliminated two next week.
People like Nikko, who are just okay, got complete raves last night. Because they did not speak to every judge for each contestant. So all people got to hear was Paula's over the top praise for Nikko. Yet the only person we got to hear for Nadia was Simon slamming her. Even though she wasn't very good on Tuesday, she is still one of the best. And I just didn't think the way they did things seemed fair.
The worst infraction was Mikalah (who probably would have gone home after Tuesday's votes). But her plea last night was very sympathetic and sweet. And I'm thinking her personality and that whole chat thing they did with her is gonna have an impact on the votes.
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I received the sheet music to “Don Juan Triumphant” from the composer, Misha Segal. If you don’t mind, DR Jose, I would like to send you a copy so you could play/record it for me. If anyone else would like to see it, just let me know.
DRDanise, I asked you for a copy at Footlights! Don't forget me (a ZORBA ref).
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I thought MGM shelved "Don Juan."
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Of course, the big question about FINIAN'S RAINBOW...What the Hell ever happened to Don Francks? No one came on the scene or disappeared faster...
DRPogue, Don Francks did a couple of things in New York, a review of Bernstein theatre songs with my friend Leigh Beery (Mrs Jonathan Tunick) and Micki Grant. He also played Kelly, the man who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, in the enormous bomb KELLY. After that, I don't know what happened to him!
Well, I haven't got to the NYPL yet, just ran some errands, I'm going to catch up on posts and then go.
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When I minimize my HHW screen at work today, the little box at the bottom of my computer screen says Pulling Teet.
I think that is rather unseemly.
You're such a baby! :-*
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He also played Kelly, the man who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, in the enormous bomb KELLY.
Well I guess I know who doesn't read my posts!! Last time I ever have a dream about you! ;D ;D ;D
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DR JMK: Your dream about DR Elmore3003 was rather disturbing to some of us....and I won't say why lest it....you know....causes everyone to shiver.
Ptooi......
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And then there was one where the zombies from the original Night of the Living Dead were chasing me, and others (sometimes the other people with me were friends or family...sometimes just generic townspeople). These dreams would scare the heck out of me, but thankfully I stopped having them some years back.
They're coming to get you, Barbara!
I looked Don Francks up on IMDB. He's still working.
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DR JMK: Your dream about DR Elmore3003 was rather disturbing to some of us....and I won't say why lest it....you know....causes everyone to shiver.
Ptooi......
I know what you mean....Daily Variety does that to me, too. :)
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BAMBOOZLE!
Nightmares are one thing, but I'm talking about worst nightmares in terms of reality - FEARS, things you DREAD that might happen in real life.
After my mother's lingering death in 1994, I'm afraid I'll go through the same. I want it swift and short. I'll probably have a stroke and end up a vegetable for years, and if so, I want to be broccoli.
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DRDanise, I asked you for a copy at Footlights! Don't forget me (a ZORBA ref).
That's right you did! It will be winging it's way to you!
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Hey that Bargainflix is a good link to check out, JRand54! Thanks!
Also, if you want to (and really, and who doesn't?! :D), you can buy Voodoo Island/Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake and some of those other new MGM Midnite Movie double features at Amazon.ca. For some reason Canada has them, even though us American's do not.
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Well I guess I know who doesn't read my posts!! Last time I ever have a dream about you! ;D ;D ;D
I answered DRPogue's post before I got to yours! I was going to say my worst nightmare was finding you are my stalker. :-* :-* :-* :-*
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I think something is winging it's way to me right now! Something from Indiana (and partly from New York), I believe! Woohoo!
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...I’m so glad one of the puppies have found a home. To be honest, I’m a bit worried that the lady couldn’t afford to take the puppy to the vet—puppies need all of their first shots and Heart worm meds every month. I hope she understands that a puppy is a responsibility, just like a kid, and you don’t dump it the first time it gets sick.
Der Brucer was also able to find a vet just blocks from where she lives, with worker-friendly hours and very reasonable rates.
I'm always amazed by how easily he does research like this, a skill very few people have. And I'm glad he was able to do it for her.
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...Of course, the big question about FINIAN'S RAINBOW...What the Hell ever happened to Don Francks? No one came on the scene or disappeared faster...
Mr. Franck's credits include a great deal of voice work, and a lot of work in Canada.
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DR JRand, I don't know if I ever mentioned this, but I used to be in the Indianapolis Children's Choir and the Youth Chorale. I have performed at Clowes many a time so that that place has always held a special place in my heart. I even sang the Ahhs in the Nutcracker there one year. :-) I remember thinking the first time I ever performed there in fifth grade how neat it was to be up on that stage, but I also remember being snobby and upset in eighth grade because we went to Oregon for the Bach Festival instead of performing at Carnegie Hall because the director wanted a bit of a change.
Which brings me to one of my nightmares... Dying before I get to go to New York. I also think losing my hearing is one thing I would never want to happen. I could live without my sight, but I would go nuts if I could no longer hear music!
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DR JRand, I don't know if I ever mentioned this, but I used to be in the Indianapolis Children's Choir and the Youth Chorale. I have performed at Clowes many a time so that that place has always held a special place in my heart. I even sang the Ahhs in the Nutcracker there one year. :-) I remember thinking the first time I ever performed there in fifth grade how neat it was to be up on that stage, but I also remember being snobby and upset in eighth grade because we went to Oregon for the Bach Festival instead of performing at Carnegie Hall because the director wanted a bit of a change.
Which brings me to one of my nightmares... Dying before I get to go to New York. I also think losing my hearing is one thing I would never want to happen. I could live without my sight, but I would go nuts if I could no longer hear music!
DRJoey, you look like Hans Brinker sitting there. You need DRDanise's silver skates.
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My fear is heights. Specifically places where you can look over a railing and see far below. At MOMA now, on the higher floors, I can't really get near the railings, and it bothers me to even see other people look over them.
Chat sounds good, any time.
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Site of the April Indianapolis HHW gathering! ;D
(http://clowes-hall.visit-indianapolis.com/Clowes-Stage.jpg)
We'll book one or two of the boxes and spend the evening shooting spitwads down on the rest of the audience! ;D
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Yes, Francks seems to have worked steadily, especially in animation voiceovers. Also in the TV version of La Femme Nikita. Coppola says they didn't get along at all and that he seemed to have a chip on his shoulder, but in retrospect Coppola thinks he was just "being" Woody. I think that's a nice way to spin it.
BAMBOOZLE!
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I want something interesting for luncheon. Since my five o'clock rehearsal is near the Farmer's Market, I might just mosey over there a couple of hours early and eat something yummilicious. That way I can stop at Amoeba and see if there are any new region 2 DVDs.
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It is cropped from one of the Godspell pictures I shared the other day. :) But no skates for me unless they are roller skates or roller blades! This has been one of the worst Muncie winters for cold. I am ready for it to be warm! Marathon training in the cold isn't very much fun...
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Nightmares are one thing, but I'm talking about worst nightmares in terms of reality - FEARS, things you DREAD that might happen in real life.
I've a very strong fear of heights. Which is really a fear of falling. Which is really a fear of my glasses falling off of my face from some terrible height. Which is really a fear of heights.
I'm 6'2". A fear of heights at my height is silly. But there it is.
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Oh my, DRJOEY - were you in that original show that the ICC did about the three kids who went looking for music or something like that? I can't think of the title right now.
Oh, "Trio of Minuet." :P
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I forgot to do a page 2 dance but here is my page 3 dance!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v373/DofB5/tapdance.bmp)
Not dancing, but cool, Daddy-o!
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No, that was done a year or two after I was out of the program. I missed out on a lot of the exciting things, but I got to do some things many people have never gotten to do so I can't complain too much.
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DR JOEY you were well out of THAT! I have seen it a couple of times and it's terrible!
Scroll down a click to see some photos from "Trio of Minuet."
http://www.icchoir.org/rec02032.htm (http://www.icchoir.org/rec02032.htm)
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OK, I know it isn't "Ask BK Day,' but I have a question for BK anyway:
Do you think you would enjoy a career doing voicework?
Or is this something you would rather steer Guy Haines into doing?
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Have to dash...we're adventuring again today!
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I know I would enjoy doing voice work and I know I would be really good at it, but it's a very hard wall to break through.
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Glad you liked the link, MB! Yes there is a package somewhere between here and there with Ginger Rogers AND Arch Hall, Jr inside it.
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Anyone out there in LaLa Land know Ralph Votrian?
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Glad you liked the link, MB! Yes there is a package somewhere between here and there with Ginger Rogers AND Arch Hall, Jr inside it.
And that is certainly a combination you won't often see!
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As BK said, "I know I would enjoy doing voice work and I know I would be really good at it, but it's a very hard wall to break through"
It's a VERY tough wall to break down. I tried for years and even with an agent during that time it's one of the most difficult (in my humble opinion) areas in which to have success.
Terrible fear of heights to the point that even though I knew I shouldn't do it, in 1988 when we were in London I climbed the stairs (with my friend) going up to the top of the dome at Saint Pauls. I saw the signs saying you cannot go back the way you came but I thought I could get through it. The minute I stepped out on the balcony to the stairs I went down to the floor and began hyperventilating. I was frozen and luckily the guard understood and let me, literally, crawl back to the door and go back down the same stairs I had just climbed. It was one of the most frightening moments of my life. I recently had another similar experience although it wasn't as severe as the St. Paul's episode. I saw All Shook Up at the Palace Theatre. The Palace is an old vaudeville house and the balcony goes up to the sky. I got a $19.55 (the show takes place in 1955 hence the ticket price). I proceeded to take the elevator to the balcony and there was my seat in the very first row, overlooking the mezzanine. The stairs are very steep and I had to walk very carefully (as did all the patrons in the balcony) to my seat. Even though I didn't lean over the railing I felt that rush of vertigo again and I had to close my eyes and breathe deeply to calm myself. I pulled through and was able to watch the show without incident but I realize I can't sit in the balcony of the Palace any longer. It's not worth the trauma.
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I have always thought voicework would be a lot of fun. I have had a lot of people tell me that I should be an announcer, but when I hear my voice I just don't see it...but if I could do it, I would.
Some of my interviewees moved into voice work in later years...Michael Forest, star of VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT and SKI PATROL ATTACK now does voice work for multitudes of Japanese anime...says he makes good money at it. Peggy Webber went from working in MACBETH with Orson Wells to voicing Farmer Smurf on Saturday morning cartoons.
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Computer just did an auto update and needs to reboot--be back soon.
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DR JOEY you were well out of THAT! I have seen it a couple of times and it's terrible!
Scroll down a click to see some photos from "Trio of Minuet."
http://www.icchoir.org/rec02032.htm (http://www.icchoir.org/rec02032.htm)
Well the general consensus at the time with people who had been with ICC a long time was that the program was going downhill as I was getting out of it. Expanding too quickly. I have no idea as to their quality today though.
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Good Afternoon!
I'm back from my walking and eating tour of Washington Heights.
:)
What an amazing area of the city. Basically another city within the city - just like a lot of the other neighborhoods in Manhattan.
All the various grocery stores, electronics outlets, candy & cigarette counters... joyerias, panaderias, lavanderias... The various restaurants - Mexican, Dominican, Japanese, Chinese, Chinese & Latin, Russian, Middle Eastern... And all those store displaying their bargains and wares on makeshift cases on the sidewalks. -Two packs of Hanes Men's Underwear for only $5.00. -No, I did not buy any underwear, but I was tempted to at that price!
I stopped in a Spanish lunch counter place. I pointed to a few things in the case up front, and walked out with my lunch in hand. I ended up with a yucca rellenos and an [/i]empanada de carne[/i]. Both are sort of turnovers filled with meat, but one has a crust made out of cassava route, and the other one made out of masa,corn flour. Both were very good - and only a $1.00 piece.
Walking further down St. Nicholas, I came across another panaderia, and went in. I needed a cafe to wash everything down. I ordered a French Vanilla cappucin, and while the milk was steaming, I asked the young woman behind the counter what was in the display case. She gladly followed my pointing finger and told me the name of each item and what they were made of and filled with. -Next time, I'll be able to order like a "native". ;)
I took my cafe - only $0.75! - and continued walking up St. Nicholas. When I got up to 187th, I took a left and headed over to Broadway. Interesting geography this part of the island. This is the area where I got a little lost the other night when DR Rodzinksi went to have a beer. Big hills, and some rather steep climbs. *And after reading about your fear of heights, DR Rodzinski, thank you very much for walking me around there the other night!
When I got over to Broadway, I took another left and proceeded to walk back toward the apartment. When I got to 181st, I took a left...
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DR's Jose and Elmore--check your e-mail. Let me know if have a problem with it.
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I just found this video clip online that I had found about a year ago. I always say I wish life were more like a musical so these videos tickle my funny bone. :D The second one is new, but you have to click on the picture of the guy in the green shirt to get to it. (I apologize to anyone with low bandwidth as it will take forever to load or might not load at all.)
http://www.prangstgrup.com/lm/lm.htm (http://www.prangstgrup.com/lm/lm.htm)
http://www.prangstgrup.com/index_1000.html (http://www.prangstgrup.com/index_1000.html)
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Gruenbaum's Bakery - Kosher K.A.J.
When I walked into the place, I knew immediately that I was gonna like it there. A Kosher bakery, what's not to like?
Challah, rugelach, babkas, strudels, tea cookies, water rolls, egg breads, black & whites, linzer tortes... a tray of still warm poppy seed danish sitting out on one of the counters...
The accents in there were all over the place - Russian, Polish, Spanish, American...and, of course, Jewish.
I stood back for a few minutes just watching the whole scene in front of me. Took my time looking at everything on the shelves behind the counter, and all the baked goods in the displays up front.
A true neighborhood place. There were at least two people who walked in, and when they did, one of the ladies behind the counter would grab a bag, and start placing things in it. The customer would walk up to the counter, and his/her order would already be ready before they even placed it. "Oh, and could you add some hamantaschen today - poppy seed, please." "Oh, but we have mini-chocolate ones today too. Here - Try one."
After watching some of the regulars place their orders, I proceeded to place mine. I decided to put together my own sampler: two of each flavor of mini-hamantaschen (poppy seed, prune, apricot, raspberry and chocolate), and one of each flavor of rugelach (apricot, chocolate and cinnamon-walnut). -And, so far, all I've tried is one of the chocolate hamantaschen, and the apricot rugelach. Very good. I shall portion out the rest of my sampler throughout the day - perhaps bring some in for DR Penny tonight!
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Hehehe funny clip.
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JMK & elmore, I do remember that Francks was in the infamous KELLY. It's seems his film stardom was as brief as his fling at Broadway stardom.
Has anyone ever heard the score to KELLY? The other score I'd be interested to hear was HOME,SWEET HOMER...a musical version of the audience with Joan Diener and Yul Brynner. Were either of these ever recorded in any form?
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After leaving the Gruenbaum's, I kept walking down 181st until I got to the River. WOW! An amazing view of the George Washington Bridge. Awe inspiring. -I wished I had brought my camera with me... Next time...
I headed back up 181st passing all sort of interesting places - a health food store called Karrot; a Spanish restaurant called Hispaniola (which had some pretty nice reviews posted in it's window); a place that sold "Japanimation" and "Bullet Proof Video Games" (?? - Is Bullet Proof a brand of games?); a Russian Deli; a Glatt Kosher Butcher shop that had some pretty nice-looking roasted chickens up front.
I eventually made my way to Ft. Washington, and started walking back towards the apartment. I made a brief detour to check out the indoor track and field complex at 169th and Ft. Washington. Another WOW! Apparently, it's the biggest indoor track & field complex on the Eastern Seaboard. There's a competition track on the Third(!) level of the place, and another Warm Up track on the Fourth(!) level. They've apparently had meets there were up to 6,000 people have competed in one day's time.
I'm suspecting that this will be one of the venues for the 2012 Olympics if New York City wins the bid. There were also signs for the new track & field stadium over on Randall's Island.
Who'd of thunk in New York City?
I couldn't tell if they open the track up for amateur use. The schedule of meets seems pretty well-booked. They do have listings for training runs, and memberships, so.. We shall see...
http://www.armorytrack.com
And the National Track & Field Hall of Fame is also housed in the same complex (which is sponsored by New Balance).
http://www.trackhall.com
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So, now I'm back at the apartment...
I'm gonna take an e-break in a bit, and do some practicing. Nick has a keyboard here! So, I can do some note-checking on my Mamma Mia! book. And I can also play the CDs they sent along with the "advance books", so that I can play-along in real time.
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DR Danise - Got your e-mail! I'll see what I can do once I'm back home in two weeks.
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Oh... And a bit of sad news from the entertainment world...
Barney Martin, the original "Mr. Cellophane", and Seinfeld's Father, Morty, has passed away.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91922.html
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DR Danise - The pages look good... And I may have a way to record and send you a .wav file sometime in the next 24 hours. We shall see...
Laters...
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Thanks, Jose. It didn't work for DR Elmore so I shall send him a hard copy. If it doesn't work for you, let me know.
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OH! One of my favorites store signs that I saw while walking around earlier was:
Chocolates
Perfumes
Sunglasses
Hmmm..... Interesting combination of wares.
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Yeah, Page Five!!!!
Do the Hustle!
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Do-do-doot, do-doo-do-doo-doot-doot
Do-do-doot, do-doo-do-doo-doot-doot
Do-do-doot, do-doo-do-doo-doot-doot
Do-do-doo, do-doo
Do the Hustle!
All together now!
-And don't blame me if you get that darn whistling going through your head the rest of the day.
;D
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DR Danise - Is is just the three pages? And is it really that short?
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Pogue, Kelly is out on CD on the Original Cast label (the other Bruce's label :) ). The liner notes are fascinating. Charlap insists it was a hit, it just didn't run, LOL. And there are some bonus cuts, including Mrs. Charlap, Sandy Stewart, singing the big ballad, which, again, he claims was a top 40 hit, but I have never been able to find in Whitburn, LOL
Perhaps you know this already, but Charlap and Stewart's son is a jazz pianist of the first order. He is known to do songs from Kelly occasionally in his sets.
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My worst nightmare is the one where I'm in the underground mausoleum and they shut the entry and I can't get out.
My worst fear is that they will paint the new church interior flamingo pink.
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OH! One of my favorites store signs that I saw while walking around earlier was:
Chocolates
Perfumes
Sunglasses
Hmmm..... Interesting combination of wares.
Chocolate, perfumed sunglasses--Yum! (NOT!)
Yes, DR Jose, 3 pages is all. Remember, it is the Phantoms "unfinished" work.
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DR CP said:
"Has anyone ever heard the score to KELLY? The other score I'd be interested to hear was HOME,SWEET HOMER...a musical version of the audience with Joan Diener and Yul Brynner. Were either of these ever recorded in any form?"
There is a studio recording of Kelly. It was made in 1998. I have a copy. There is nothing in the score that stands out. It wasn't horrible enough to contribute to the legend of the bomb. There are some bonus tracks of one of the performers in the show. She made a couple of recordings for release as pop tunes during the time of the show. They are pleasant but that's about it. It's also available at Footlight Records. Here is the info from their Web site:
Audio CD
Studio Cast
Title: Kelly
Version: STUDIO
Composer: Charlap, Moose
Lyricist: Lawrence, Eddie
Starring: D'Arcy James, Brian/Mayes, Sally
Price: $16.95
Product Description
Starring Brian D'Arcy James and Sally Mayes
Including Bonus Track: "I'll Never Go There Anymore"(pop version) performed by Sandy Stewart and arranged by Don Costa.
Recorded June/July 1998
14 Track total
IIRC (if I recall correctly) there are bootlegs of Home Sweet Homer floating around this great land of ours but I don't think there has ever been a real recording or even a studio recording made of the score.
I can make a copy of Kelly for folks who are interested.
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And hey, watch the "short" comments--I resemble those remarks!
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Anyone over heard of SMIKE the musical? Based on the character from Nicholas Nickleby. I saw the LP the other day at Footlight and it looked kinda crazy.
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DR Danise, I would be interested in checking out "Don Juan Triumphant" if it is available through email. I'm such the adict! Let me know what info you'd like from me.
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Anyone over heard of SMIKE the musical? Based on the character from Nicholas Nickleby. I saw the LP the other day at Footlight and it looked kinda crazy.
No, but there's a great musical based on Smike's brother, called Swonderful. :P
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Oddly enough, I did a little voice-over work for the first time in probably thirty years for a friend of mine on a promo reel for a movie. I was amazed at how quickly it all came back and how well I acquited myself. Everyone seemed quite pleased with my work. Nice to know I've still got the chops.
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DR Danise, I would be interested in checking out "Don Juan Triumphant" if it is available through email. I'm such the adict! Let me know what info you'd like from me.
Check your e-mail, DR Matthew! I made an attempt to send it. If you have a problem, just let me know.
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This morning I went to the river for a walk, and this is what I saw:
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And this:
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DR Jose, if and when I get to New York I want you to be my "food" guide! Diabetes be-darned I am going to try everything there is to eat there!!!!!!
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If Jose comes ever comes to your neigborhood, be prepared to find out about restaurants he has found in a day that you never knew about in four years of living there!
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So just what is this KELLY musical? I can't find any info about it on the web.
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Many folks here will remember Judith Crist as a movie reviewer for TV Guide in the 1970s-80s. But Crist had a previous life as one of NYC's most powerful critics at the NY Herald-Tribune. She was right up there with Bosley Crowther of the NY Times and a few others at one time as a critic to be won over. But...in 1965, she disliked "The Sound of Music." Not only did she dislike it, but she was snide about it. And the readership was not amused. The Herald-Tribune fired her because of her review rather than lose thousands of subscribers.
On the other hand, Judith loved THE LION IN WINTER so I I liked her. In fact, she was at the vanguard of critics who championed THE LION IN WINTER for the Best Film award from the N. Y. Film Critics Circle. When it ended up winning the prize, Adler resigned from the organization.
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DR Danise, what email addy did you use?
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It just went through--I'm sorry, it was sitting in my out box.
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Seems like there was an article on Don Francks in SHOW MUSIC years ago, but I'm not going through all those back issues to find it. Or maybe it was in THEATER WEEK.
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Nevermind... it's arrived :)
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Didn't they record HOME SWEET HOMER through the sound system and release it on a bootleg LP? Seems like I remember someone writing about it. I don't have it.
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DR Danise, very cool email. Thank you for sharing :)
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I am planning on watching the NBC Americanized version of THE OFFICE tonight. I know it can't begin to match the wit and brilliance of the British version, but I'm going to give it a try. The reviews haven't been damning, and with no laugh track (a la SCRUBS), it might appeal to me.
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I also am going to make a mighty effort to watch MEDIUM tonight. With the CBS line-up gone due to basketball, I should be able to find the time.
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DR Danise, very cool email. Thank you for sharing :)
Your welcome!
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JMK & elmore, I do remember that Francks was in the infamous KELLY. It's seems his film stardom was as brief as his fling at Broadway stardom.
Has anyone ever heard the score to KELLY? The other score I'd be interested to hear was HOME,SWEET HOMER...a musical version of the audience with Joan Diener and Yul Brynner. Were either of these ever recorded in any form?
DRPogue, my memory is that there's a sound system tape of KELLY that was released on vinyl in the late 1970s, and it might have actually made it to CD. I suspect there are private hand-held cassette tapes of HOME, SWEET HOMER under its various titles, as it moved to New York, but I have never come across one.
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Oh... And a bit of sad news from the entertainment world...
Barney Martin, the original "Mr. Cellophane", and Seinfeld's Father, Morty, has passed away.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91922.html
I knew Barney Martin when he was doing WOMAN OF THE YEAR. He was a very sweet man. I'm sorry to hear that.
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Anyone over heard of SMIKE the musical? Based on the character from Nicholas Nickleby. I saw the LP the other day at Footlight and it looked kinda crazy.
DRRodzinski, if I remember correctly, I used to buy copies of the SMIKE vocal score for The Drama Book Shop. I'll see if I own one.
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So just what is this KELLY musical? I can't find any info about it on the web.
Would someone do a page 6 dance? I'm still reading page 5.
DRRodzinski, KELLY was about a man who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge and lived. I believe William Goldman writes about it in THE SEASON. The problem about the show, as I recall, is that they couldn't show the Big Moment of the jump.
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I knew Barney Martin when he was doing WOMAN OF THE YEAR. He was a very sweet man. I'm sorry to hear that.
I have a friend here in Olympia (Joe), whose father was friends with Barney Martin. Joe grew up knowing him, too. A couple of years ago, he played Amos in a local production of Chicago. I haven't spoken with Joe in a while. I'll have to find out if he knows. :-\
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and if so, I want to be broccoli.
... and produce James Bond movies and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?? ;)
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DR Jose, if and when I get to New York I want you to be my "food" guide! Diabetes be-darned I am going to try everything there is to eat there!!!!!!
Well, then I hope........................ Oh, never mind.
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So just what is this KELLY musical? I can't find any info about it on the web.
HERE (http://www.footlight.com/product.cfm?product_id=2787) is the Footlight listing.
HERE (http://www.castalbumdb.com/rec.cfm?RNumber=602) is the Cast Album Database (http://www.castalbumdb.com/) listing.
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Yes, Francks seems to have worked steadily, especially in animation voiceovers. Also in the TV version of La Femme Nikita. Coppola says they didn't get along at all and that he seemed to have a chip on his shoulder, but in retrospect Coppola thinks he was just "being" Woody. I think that's a nice way to spin it.
BAMBOOZLE!
I don't know. Call me weird, but do we need dvd bonuses to hear who liked who, or what who thought of who!
Did they also get Mr Francks to say that he thought Mr Coppola was a pompous director and that Miss Clark had bad breath???
Mr Coppola has it easy since we all know Mr Francks never made it big!
Talk about CLASS! -- a pet subject of mine!
Ahhh, Hollywood! :)
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Would someone do a page 6 dance? I'm still reading page 5.
I found this a few days ago: Click HERE (http://www.heyfreak.com/index.php/heyfreak/boogie_fever/), then click the link that is in the words "... a video ...." in the first sentence. When I first found it, I was literally ROTFLMAO!! (the computer security set up at my work doesn't allow .wmv files to be played, so I hope it works for everyone else! My home computer plays it just fine. ::))
And THAT can be today's Page 6 Dance!! ;D
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Sorry DR George but my computer said it was NOT FOUND.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v373/DofB5/dancingrosered.gif)
Here is a dance for you!
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I think I better check my room for hidden cameras. Wouldn't want to end up doing my special choreography on line!
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I wanted to check and see if you guys know about this:
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/
Here is a picture of that camera--
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Up close--
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And finely the same view as from the camera.
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George Orwell would be pleased. :)
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BAMBOOZLE!
Just back from lunching with my pal David Wechter, who's just finished shooting his fourth season of Cowboy U.
He is a better man than I, Gunga Din.
I had penne pasta with ground turkey. It was very cheesy, and not too bad. I was a good boy and didn't finish the entire rather large portion.
Now I'm logey.
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BK, Book Baron down in Fullerton is having a "Lost Our Lease" sale. Everything including the fixtures must go. Beginning March 25, all books are 50% off. During April, all books 6o% or more! This may merit investigation!
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Well, I tracked that camera down!
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Ron I remember Judith Christ. For the most part I enjoyed her reviews. Thanks for the interesting story.
Danise I’m enjoying your NY pictures and stories.
We have out of town company arriving soon and I need to get ready. I just washed my hair and I think I got shampoo in my right eye because it is burning, making it difficult to read.
I will try and return later.
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For anyone who wants to know about the current doings of Don Francks:
http://www.donfrancks.com/
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Don Francks seems to be clinging to that hippie lifestyle.
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Good Evening!
Practice makes... more practice! -I found that I'm so used to playing the other book, that when I was going through this "new" one, I kept waiting for the entrance cues (on the CD), but realized that I was the one now playing those cues. Like I said, Practice makes more practice! I should be fine after one more read-thru. The tricky part will be the "feet" - pedaling and patch-changing and volume, and that I will take care of during the sound check next Tuesday at the Orpheum in Memphis, TN - and the four hours after sound check before the show begins.
:)
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Thursday.
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DR Danise - A few years ago, Steve and I would look up video cameras that were set up in cities where I was going on tour. Then, schedules permitting, I would go to said place, and Steve would "take a picture" of me on the web cam. I have pics of me in the old - and haunted - library in Evansville, IN. I have a couple of me in Times Square - there are a couple of them around there. The one by the TGIF's was always the easiest to get on. I have one of me on the banks of the Mississippi in Rock Island, IL. Etc., etc., etc.
It was such fun. And it was a great way to "see" each other while I was on the road.
*I would also travel with my own webcam on my laptop so that we could say, "Goodnight" to each other in person.
:)
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DRRodzinski, if I remember correctly, I used to buy copies of the SMIKE vocal score for The Drama Book Shop. I'll see if I own one.
...And I do believe there are still two copies - old and a bit browsing-worn - sitting on the shelf of the Drama Book Shop. -It's always amazed me some of the interesting inventory that can stay on a bookshelf for years. I remember the SMIKE scores from the old location.
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DR Jose, if and when I get to New York I want you to be my "food" guide! Diabetes be-darned I am going to try everything there is to eat there!!!!!!
DEAL!!!
;D
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If Jose comes ever comes to your neigborhood, be prepared to find out about restaurants he has found in a day that you never knew about in four years of living there!
I tend to have a knack for doing that. Must be my "sixth sense".
;)
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OK...
Time to run to the train so that I can get to the Clurman... Running a little late... oops...
I'm gonna see the 10:00 show of SHOCKHEADED PETER tonight, so...
Laters...
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DR JoseSPiano: Did you ever see the movie "The Boys From Brazil"? If so, you'll remember the boy who played all the Hitler clones. His name is Jeremy Black, and he is a "working" actor in NYC.
Here's a URL...don't know if his type of theater interests you:
http://www.castillo.org/pdf/press/presspage5.pdf
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I tend to have a knack for doing that. Must be my "sixth sense".
;)
The man is just a food sniffing natural. It's a gift, folks. I tell you, it's a gift!
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DR Danise - A few years ago, Steve and I would look up video cameras that were set up in cities where I was going on tour. Then, schedules permitting, I would go to said place, and Steve would "take a picture" of me on the web cam. I have pics of me in the old - and haunted - library in Evansville, IN. I have a couple of me in Times Square - there are a couple of them around there. The one by the TGIF's was always the easiest to get on. I have one of me on the banks of the Mississippi in Rock Island, IL. Etc., etc., etc.
It was such fun. And it was a great way to "see" each other while I was on the road.
*I would also travel with my own webcam on my laptop so that we could say, "Goodnight" to each other in person.
:)
That's cool! I wish I had a laptop with me while I was there. I might have been able to go there and then run the 24 hour loop and see myself.
I promise that by the next trip, I shall have a lap top. With built in Wi Fi and a high speed modem. I'm still reading things I missed while I was there. :(
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Ron I remember Judith Christ.
Jesus' little-known older sister.
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People have told me most of my adult life I should be doing voicework, too.
And of course DS Betsy has done voicework for a large part of her career. Though she doesn't do a fulltime radio gig anymore, she still gets asked to voice spots with great regularity. There's a series on green power alternatives that she voices that's all over the radio in these here parts.
And her radio saga continues: she actually said "no" to the higher offer a couple of weeks ago. Well lo and behold, the PM is on our machine again today, asking her to call him back. We've been laughing all day, doing routines about what he'll say. "OK, $100K for a 6 hour day, no creep, and Yu-Gi-Oh cards for both your boys. Now that's my final offer." Pause. "OK, OK, $120 for a 5 hour day, top billing over the other host, and lifetime shopping priveleges at Toys R Us. Now that is really my final, final offer." Pause. "No, wait..." Well, you get the idea. :)
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BTW, "creep" is a radio term for being asked to do extra newscasts after your regular shift. It's a regular feature of the new, improved Megalopoly rules where national concerns own sometimes 5 or 6 stations in one market. The voice talent voices segments for all the different stations.
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I am my own mini-Frenzy!!
Hey, it's Purim!!! (An obscure Billy Crystal reference).
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Finally! The new car gets delivered tomorrow! Mobility once again!
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I'm back from listening to lots of music with Mr. Kevin Spirtas.
BUTT - let me get this perfectly straight - the last post was over TWO HOURS AGO. May I just say that that makes me want to vomit on the ground.
We're havin' the old BAMBOOZLE here at haineshisway.com. I should think we'd better get some postin' goin' on before I get ye olde bitch-slap machine out.
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New car! Excellent. A perfect excuse to drive down to Book Baron.
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Good Evening!
Well... I was going to see SHOCKHEADED PETER....
Hi!.. Do you...
-Sold out. Sorry.
How about the 10 o'...
-Sorry. Sold out.
Ah, well... Guess it just wasn't meant to be this trip. I'm guessing with all the spring-breakers in town - high school and college age - the 10:00 show - and $25.00 tickets have been pretty popular. And it's also been a very well-reviewed show, too, so... Guess I'll just pop in a DVD from "The Family Guy" set.
;)
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Good show. Good audience. Not a big audience. Not a responsive audience. But a good audience nonetheless.
;)
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Me Old Bamboozle.
One of my favorite songs from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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I feel like I'm having a tooth pulled.
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...And to "celebrate" Purim, I just finished off the mini-hamantaschen I bought earlier today at Gruenbaum's. A mechayeh!
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DRLAURA I really liked the horse picture today!
DR CP - I must have missed it. What kind of new horseless carriage are you getting?
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Why is tonight different from every other night?
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I feel like I'm having a tooth pulled.
I need to get my wisdom teeth pulled within the next month or so. :-\ I've been told to get them all out at once because you'll never want to go through it again.
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Well, I enjoyed MEDIUM. Nope, it wasn't as compelling an episode as we've had in past episodes. Time didn't really seem t be of essence in the story which turned the tension level down some notches.
Still, the way her psychic powers are incorporated into daily life is still rather fascinating for me.
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DR JOEY go to a painless dentist!
DRJOSE have you gotten any fan mail or mash notes during this run?
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And they've done a credible job with adapting THE OFFICE into the American scheme of things. I laughed out loud a couple of times even though I was totally familiar with the story since the pilot episode was based on the first episode of Britain's THE OFFICE. The other five episodes which have been shot for the show will feature all new scripts, not adapted from British OFFICE scripts. I'll be curious on Tuesday to see how they do on their own. I do like the cast a lot.
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I watched THE STARLET this evening. The acting "coach" should be shot and all of those girls should go home and direct the shows for the high schools in their towns - no I take that back. They should buy tickets and watch the shows put on by the high schools in their towns.
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And the 9th season of FRIENDS has some gut-busting episodes. I'm on the third disc in the set now, and I have laughed heartily all afternoon.
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I didn't watch THE OFFICE DRMATTH....hmmmmmmm...... It's hard for me to decide to invest the time in a series. And of course if I like it, then I get upset if I miss it, if it's moved around on the schedule, or if it's cancelled.....
I can't win.
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I really liked the cast of FRIENDS - and the ones that were funny were really FUNNY. I guess it's the A Story-B Story sitcom writing that gets SO predictable now that bothers me.
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DRJOSE have you gotten any fan mail or mash notes during this run?
Sadly, no. But we still have four performances left! -And, actually, I know I have some friends coming to see it this weekend, so that should be fun.
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"Real life" has been getting in the way lately, and so I'm way behind on reading posts-- and even posting.
Sometimes it's hard to tell my worst fears and nightmares from my daily life. I guess the easiest way to tell is that when it's only a nightmare, I wake up screaming and the nighmare ends. In daily life, I wake up screaming, but it still goes on. I'm kidding. Well, partially.
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DRKERRY - did you ever feel like you were preaching to the choir?
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We will keep our fingers crossed for you DRJOSE.
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I tank I go home now.....
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I didn't watch THE OFFICE DRMATTH....hmmmmmmm...... It's hard for me to decide to invest the time in a series. And of course if I like it, then I get upset if I miss it, if it's moved around on the schedule, or if it's cancelled.....
I can't win.
There will only be six episodes total this season. Honestly, I think it's too droll to succeed on a mass scale that a network show needs to prosper. I'll find a show whereever it lands on a schedule IF I LIKE IT. I liked this enough to tune in on Tuesday night (well, I'll record since I'll be watching HOUSE live).
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I really liked the cast of FRIENDS - and the ones that were funny were really FUNNY. I guess it's the A Story-B Story sitcom writing that gets SO predictable now that bothers me.
If the writing is THIS good (and it is terrific for these characters that fans know oh so well), the formula simply works.
BTW, NBC "supersized" most of this season's episodes so there are actually A story, B story, and C story threads in most of them.
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SOme nice surprises on the IDOL results show, too.
All I can say about the bottom three is that one must never get too comfortable on the show. Fantasia and Ruben during their respective competitions landed in the bottom 3 during the finals. It can happen to even those we think must be among the most popular.
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We are getting a Toyota Corolla Sport. Very snazy red. It gets great mileage, which was the main reason we got it. Basically my wife will be driving it as she puts about 300 miles a week on the car. Me, who's at home most of the day, will be using the Caravan for any puttering around I need to do.
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JRand, have you been watching THE NAME'S THE SAME? I just watched last nights episode and there are TWO hosts...two really, really, annoying, not very intelligent nor funny, hosts...I miss Robert Q. Lewis!
And on a related note, have you ever seen Dorothy Kilgallen's last WHAT'S MY LINE episode? Or the next one following her death? I would think that would be a very sad episode.
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I must say I am growing weary of Alias this season and am close to giving it up. It's become completely predictable in its structure and contains none of the loopy weirdness it had in other seasons.
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Those two "annoying, unfunny" hosts of THE NAME'S THE SAME are the infamous comedy duo, Bob & Ray.
Per our discussion of FINIAN'S RAINBOW, I just came across a Berkley Medallion paperback in my library of the play with graphics from the movie on the cover, as well as photos on the back cover and inside the book. The book is actually the playscript...not the screenplay.
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Those two "annoying, unfunny" hosts of THE NAME'S THE SAME are the infamous comedy duo, Bob & Ray.
Aha! That rings a bell...well, they are just not very funny on THE NAMES THE SAME, that is for sure.
For me, no one beats John Daley as a game show host.
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I need to get my wisdom teeth pulled within the next month or so. :-\ I've been told to get them all out at once because you'll never want to go through it again.
No, no, no!
Wisdom teeth are useful.... unless they hurt!
I had one removed so far and I still have nightmares about the pulling... (One can get headaches and fever after the operation... and PAIN!)
When I lived in the States, my dentist told me the same story; let's pull the remaining ones, all at once!
I said no; it's 20 years after and I haven't had any problem with them!
Most dentists see the "money" side of it and don't really care about the owner's (of said wisdom teeth!) well-being!
Just an advice! :)
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Great/interesting article in Today's/Friday's New York Times about Charlotte d'Amboise, the upcoming revival of Sweet Charity, and the possibility and non-possibility of Ms. d'Amboise opening the show on Broadway in a few weeks.
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All my wisdom teeth came in, and they didn't hurt, so... I still have all of them. And plan to be pain-free with them for a long time to come!
;)
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And I think it's good/lucky genes... My father still has his as do all three of my younger brothers.
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And they've done a credible job with adapting THE OFFICE into the American scheme of things. I laughed out loud a couple of times even though I was totally familiar with the story since the pilot episode was based on the first episode of Britain's THE OFFICE. The other five episodes which have been shot for the show will feature all new scripts, not adapted from British OFFICE scripts. I'll be curious on Tuesday to see how they do on their own. I do like the cast a lot.
I didn't get it...I mean, I watched it, but I just didn't think that it was funny. Horse racing, I guess. :-\
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Good evening all.
DR TCB, DR Jed, and I met for ice cream this evening at ColdStone. A grand old time was had by all. Simply amazing to me, the similarities between this cyber-father/son pair.
I had never had ColdStone ice cream before, and I found it excellent if a bit rich. I had a Boston Cream Pie ice cream, with cake bits, chocolate fudge syrup, and whipped cream all mixed right in. DR TCB had Nights in White Chocolate, which he liked very much except for the chocolate chips, which he said turned too hard and crunchy. Fewer chips and more caramel, he decided, would make it much better. DR Jed had Mudpie Mojo, which I sampled. Extremely rich, but tasty. We talked and laughed and also laughed and talked, and rolled our collective eyes each time the employees broke into song. A most excellent evening, all in all. We plan to get together for dinner as soon as the three of us get paychecks.
I had another customer take a picture of us with my cell phone camera. Unfortunately, between the fluorescent lights and the customer's inexperience with camera phones, it came out rather badly. After tweaking with the color for a while, trying to rid us of the sickly blue green tinge we had acquired, I gave up. So here is the modified version of our group shot. Looks like I clipped it out of a newspaper, doesn't it?
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Had a lovely and long conversation with Mr. Harvey Schmidt, with both of us bemoaning the sad state of the musical and the world in general. Mr. Schmidt is also recently turned seventy-five, and yet we're not having any Wall to Wall endless year-long tributes to a team (he and Tom Jones) who have given the musical theater many unique and wonderful shows. Nor is Mr. Strouse having tributes, nor Mr. Kander, nor Mr. Herman.
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Still a great pic, DR Ann!
Good to see all of your smiling faces.
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...Actually, there's a Charles Strouse concert/tribute coming up in NYC in a couple of weeks. I know some people singing in it. I'm not sure if it's going to be "grand affair", but there's going to be one.
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Sorry DR George but my computer said it was NOT FOUND.
I'm sorry that it didn't work! It did work just yesterday. Anyway, here (http://www.glumbert.com/media/dancewhiteboy.html) (hopefully ::)) is a link that works. It's just too too funny!
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...I just read a rather sad story about a teacher in Arlington, VA, and her mother who were killed in a car accident this past week in North Carolina. They were visiting family and friends since it was Spring Break.
They were hit by a driver driving a truck after he had run a stop sign. He's being charged with "misdemeanor death by vehicle".
MISDEMEANOR DEATH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
When did killing anyone by any means become a misdemeanor?!?!?!?
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...Sorry for the rant...
Well...
Tomorrow/today will be my last "free day" here in Manhattan. For now.
:)
Goodnight.
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I just finished my last paper! Yay! Cherry Cokes for everybody! Except that I drank the last one. I NEEDED it.
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...I just read a rather sad story about a teacher in Arlington, VA, and her mother who were killed in a car accident this past week in North Carolina. They were visiting family and friends since it was Spring Break.
They were hit by a driver driving a truck after he had run a stop sign. He's being charged with "misdemeanor death by vehicle".
MISDEMEANOR DEATH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
When did killing anyone by any means become a misdemeanor?!?!?!?
Well, Jose, thirty days in jail is all the two drag racers got that killed my Mother and her best friend. No, wait, I forgot the 100 hours of community service.
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No, no, no!
Wisdom teeth are useful.... unless they hurt!
I had one removed so far and I still have nightmares about the pulling... (One can get headaches and fever after the operation... and PAIN!)
When I lived in the States, my dentist told me the same story; let's pull the remaining ones, all at once!
I said no; it's 20 years after and I haven't had any problem with them!
Most dentists see the "money" side of it and don't really care about the owner's (of said wisdom teeth!) well-being!
Just an advice! :)
Well my parents have invested in putting me in braces for an unnamed number of years and basically my wisdom teeth are at all odd angles which will push my teeth out of alignment if I don't get them out soon after my braces come off. (Next week) Basically all that money to straighten my teeth and fix my jaw would be of waste so I doubt I will have any choice in the matter as I am still dependent on my parents for insurance.
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Well, Jose, thirty days in jail is all the two drag racers got that killed my Mother and her best friend. No, wait, I forgot the 100 hours of community service.
TCB that is TERRIBLE! I am so sorry to hear that.
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That is the justice system in this country. Martha Stewart needs to go to jail and serve serious time, but killers in cars rarely pay for what they've done. It's one thing if it's an unavoidable accident - it's another if two idiots are drag racing, or if it's a drunken twit.