Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on May 02, 2020, 12:21:35 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were sassy, and now it is time for you to post until the sassy cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: HOARY!
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And now - Dino at the piano.
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April: Best posting month this year. And close to two MILLION page views.
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April: Best posting month this year. And close to two MILLION page views.
Congrats, BK!
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In 1991, The Manhattan Transfer recorded a song called "Sassy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvXaY5gHXqc)," and it won them a a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance. :)
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I think the song is about Sarah Vaughan.
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I have no plans today, but I probably should do some laundry. We'll see what happens.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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I slept well, given my pain levels. Thatch stayed with me most of the night. Somewhere between 4:00 and 5:00 he abandoned me to frolic with Stella. Around 5:00 Annabelle crawled under the blankets and slept in the space between my knees and feet.
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Today I need the Big Ladder to deal with cat food, and I need to sweep the floor and make a short ride for a short trip to Petco. I am out of Thatch's favorite treat.
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I also need a short trip to Staples to photocopy 50 sheets of blank score paper for this piece I am working on.
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TOD
George C. Scott
Patton
A Christmas Carol (TV)
They Might Be Giants
Dr Strangelove
Cary Grant
Charade
Arsenic and Old Lace
North by Northwest
The Bishop's Wife
Philadelphia Story
His Girl Friday
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Yikes, I'd messed up my profile!
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I found out I'm 60 because Skip made a special birthday breakfast. I'd really not thought about it,
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since the thought of not being able to get out on my birthday must have been something I didn't want to deal with, I guess.
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Even when I'd stay in, just the freedom to get out if I chose to made staying in a choice - therefore not a burden.
Oy, I;m sounding like Yoda.
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Or maybe like Hoda from the Today show.
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Happy Birthday, DR FREDDIE!
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Isn't a HOARY what they call a small cathouse?
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The notes were Brash and Sassy!!!
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I think I will post a link on my BookFace page for the show tomorrow - perhaps a couple of my theater friends will join us for the Kritzerland Inside In May programme.
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TOD:
George C. Scott:
Anatomy of a Murder
Dr. Strangelove
Movie Movie ("Give me a big spotlight in front and a baby blue behind!")
Cary Grant:
His Girl Friday
Arsenic & Old Lace
North By Northwest
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse
The Awful Truth
My Favorite Wife
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I watched the first four episodes of HOLLYWOOD last night....it was okay....it was nice to see the period details. It is way too WOKE for me....all of the actors are good except one and he makes up for everyone else by being SO BAD.
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Good morning, all.
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The sun is out, something we only get once in every four or five days, it seems.
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Supposed to get to over 60 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale today, then over 70 tomorrow. Lord have mercy, what is this world coming to? Do they want us to think it's Spring, or something?
But never fear. Come Monday, it'll be back down in the 50s and probably overcast and rainy again.
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Good morning, all.
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Happy birthday, Fred.
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I’m still lounging in bed, waiting to figure out if I want to start the day.
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I don’t.
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Two!
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It's been a rather frustrating morning. I gave the cats a new Fancy Feast dish and they all refused to go near it.
After 90 minutes I rook the dishes and cleaned them. In another 10 minutes I will head for Petco, so rather than leave three starving kitties till dinner time, I offered them Fancy Feast chicken hearts and liver. Stella jumpewd on it, Thatch is debating, and Annabelle is refusing. They usually eat it right up.
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TOD 1:
Cary Grant in anything. A few favorites:
The Philadelphia Story
Charade
Bringing Up Baby
North by Northwest
Suspicion
To Catch a Thief
His Girl Friday
The Bishop’s Wife
The Awful Truth
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TOD 2:
Scott
The Hospital
They Might Be Giants
Movie Movie
A Christmas Carol
Jane Eyre
Dr. Strangelove
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The bird squawketh. I must obey.
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I was thinking about A Christmas Carol and how wonderful George C. Scott is, second to the brilliant Alistair Sim, and I forgot to mention watching A Carol Christmas, which I must admit gets a qualified rave. I liked the cast, the score, which is funny, moving, and full of heart, but I wasn't crazy about the book. I thought it had great ideas like Marley's ghost being a DVD and the three spirits, but it never moved me. This past Christmas I watched every Christmas Carol I had - Alistair Sim, George C. Scott, Michael Hordern, Patrick Stewart, Basil Rathbone, and the Carl Davis ballet - and only George C. Scott's version moved me. To paraphrase Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Scrooge is not as simple as he seems.
I loved Blake's ballad, BK; it's wonderful.
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I'm off to Petco!
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Good morning!
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Happy Birthday, Freddie!
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T.O.D.
Too many favorite movies for each actor.
I had the pleasure of seeing George C. Scott on stage in NYC in THE BOYS IN AUTUMN.
I also did a phone interview with Cary Grant when I was writing my now OOP book on movie sequels, ONE GOOD FILM DESERVES ANOTHER. We talked about the TOPPER movies.
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Petco was hell. There was only one worker, a nice young lady, since the other worker was over 30 minutes late because of the transit. Well, hell, that's been the casr for some time now, so leave 30-45 minutes earlier, dumbass.
So, she was only allowing one customer in at a time, so it took me around 30 minutes to get into the store. The website assured me that Thatch's treat was in stock, and I wanted to purchase five of them. They only had two. This treat comes in three flavors - shrimp, chicken, and salmon - and he will only eat the shrimp. So, I will begin a Petco quest on Monday to find more for him.
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I'm watching the rest of Night of the Shooting Stars, an Italian movie I loved when I first saw it back in the early 1980s. Somehow it doesn't hold up as well as I remembered it. But it's still a sweet look at a group of Italians toward the end of WWII who go on the road looking for Americans to protect them, but all they seem to find are Germans.
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Would you please sign this petition?
https://forcechange.com/559480/dogs-reportedly-thrown-off-apartment-balcony-to-their-deaths-deserve-justice/
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I put a sweet video on Facebook yesterday. In the evening Keith's cousin, who had loved my post, sent it back to us in an email. I suspect she hadn't meant to include us with her parents ;D
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DR Freddie you should enjoy this video of a weatherman & his dog.
https://youtu.be/XehLZLOyVUc
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Thanks so much, Jrand!
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Thank you for the wishes, JohnG!
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Thank you, Kevin! Hope all is great with you.
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DR Freddie,
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71cEo2IzFdL._AC_SY355_.jpg)
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April: Best posting month this year. And close to two MILLION page views.
Nice.
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DR Freddie you should enjoy this video of a weatherman & his dog.
https://youtu.be/XehLZLOyVUc
That's wonderful! Thanks, Jane.
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I found out I'm 60 because Skip made a special birthday breakfast. I'd really not thought about it,
;D
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DR Freddie,
(https://www.carlswebgraphics.com/birthday/2019-balloons-happy-birthday-animation.gif)
And thanks for that, too!
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since the thought of not being able to get out on my birthday must have been something I didn't want to deal with, I guess.
Are you not going anywhere?
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I was thinking about A Christmas Carol and how wonderful George C. Scott is, second to the brilliant Alistair Sim, and I forgot to mention watching A Carol Christmas, which I must admit gets a qualified rave. I liked the cast, the score, which is funny, moving, and full of heart, but I wasn't crazy about the book. I thought it had great ideas like Marley's ghost being a DVD and the three spirits, but it never moved me. This past Christmas I watched every Christmas Carol I had - Alistair Sim, George C. Scott, Michael Hordern, Patrick Stewart, Basil Rathbone, and the Carl Davis ballet - and only George C. Scott's version moved me. To paraphrase Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Scrooge is not as simple as he seems.
I loved Blake's ballad, BK; it's wonderful.
You are missing my favorite version with Albert Finney. I also liked George C. Scott's performance.
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Saturday afternoon greetings! We are back from great-nephew J’s drive-by birthday party. He’s 5 today and knew right away that the bill folded up in the card I made was “twenty bucks!”
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Happiest of birthdays to DR Freddie!
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This afternoon's epic is Luschino Visconti's The Leopard with Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon.
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Let's move on ...
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Three!
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Saturday afternoon greetings! We are back from great-nephew J’s drive-by birthday party. He’s 5 today and knew right away that the bill folded up in the card I made was “twenty bucks!”
:)
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I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep - got up at noon.
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Happy birthday to Freddie - apparently he's not in the birthday calendar, hence it not being in the notes.
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elmore, glad you liked A Carol Christmas. And the score. The book was tough and if you'd seen how it was at first you would know how tough I was on it and how it changed and changed and changed. And it changed again even after it was taped, which was the second weekend. A major monologue went in for Carol, to address the kind of thing you're talking about and it helped. If we were to do it again, there'd be a few more changes. The audiences mostly loved it, but you know I'm a perfectionist. So, I tried my damndest to get the emotional aspect and the moving aspect into the songs.
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I was thinking about A Christmas Carol and how wonderful George C. Scott is, second to the brilliant Alistair Sim, and I forgot to mention watching A Carol Christmas, which I must admit gets a qualified rave. I liked the cast, the score, which is funny, moving, and full of heart, but I wasn't crazy about the book. I thought it had great ideas like Marley's ghost being a DVD and the three spirits, but it never moved me. This past Christmas I watched every Christmas Carol I had - Alistair Sim, George C. Scott, Michael Hordern, Patrick Stewart, Basil Rathbone, and the Carl Davis ballet - and only George C. Scott's version moved me. To paraphrase Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Scrooge is not as simple as he seems.
I loved Blake's ballad, BK; it's wonderful.
You are missing my favorite version with Albert Finney. I also liked George C. Scott's performance.
Don't forget my favorite SCROOGE. Everyone should make sure to pull out Tom Birkeland as Scrooge for the winter holidays.
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So, Florida refuses to release death totals from covid-19 because it makes them look bad and the number released so far is considered highly conservative. Self-serving creeps.
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Thank you so much, Ginny!
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Happy birthday to Freddie - apparently he's not in the birthday calendar, hence it not being in the notes.
Why, er, er, whatever do you mean, BK? :) :)
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So I'll be there next year.
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elmore, glad you liked A Carol Christmas. And the score. The book was tough and if you'd seen how it was at first you would know how tough I was on it and how it changed and changed and changed. And it changed again even after it was taped, which was the second weekend. A major monologue went in for Carol, to address the kind of thing you're talking about and it helped. If we were to do it again, there'd be a few more changes. The audiences mostly loved it, but you know I'm a perfectionist. So, I tried my damndest to get the emotional aspect and the moving aspect into the songs.
You did good, BK! I'm looking forward to the lyrics book to read the bits I couldn't catch on the video
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since the thought of not being able to get out on my birthday must have been something I didn't want to deal with, I guess.
Are you not going anywhere?
I've been very diligent in not leaving the block. Since my Dad is 99 (fingers, toes, eyes, everything crossed, 100 Labor Day weekend) I'm trying my best to avoid being in a position where I won't be able to be there if Florida allows us to celebrate his 100th.
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Skip always walks Liam anyway, which I only have done when Skip was on a panel or teaching or in rehearsal.
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Liam doesn't like that we don't go to greet other dogs when I walk him - I've never been able to keep track of which dogs like him and which do not, so when I walk him, we stay away from other dogs.
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track of which dogs like him and which do not
I guess it can happen the other way too.
Toby especially when he was older after he hurt his shoulder didn't care for some other dogs and I never got the reason, unless it was they had more energy for playing than his shoulder could handle. . Dylan seemed to like everyone - but boy, could his mouth clamp shut if he got a treat he shouldn't have on the street. Toby was better about releasing something if he knew I felt he shouldn't swallow it.
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I was thinking about A Christmas Carol and how wonderful George C. Scott is, second to the brilliant Alistair Sim, and I forgot to mention watching A Carol Christmas, which I must admit gets a qualified rave. I liked the cast, the score, which is funny, moving, and full of heart, but I wasn't crazy about the book. I thought it had great ideas like Marley's ghost being a DVD and the three spirits, but it never moved me. This past Christmas I watched every Christmas Carol I had - Alistair Sim, George C. Scott, Michael Hordern, Patrick Stewart, Basil Rathbone, and the Carl Davis ballet - and only George C. Scott's version moved me. To paraphrase Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Scrooge is not as simple as he seems.
I loved Blake's ballad, BK; it's wonderful.
You are missing my favorite version with Albert Finney. I also liked George C. Scott's performance.
Don't forget my favorite SCROOGE. Everyone should make sure to pull out Tom Birkeland as Scrooge for the winter holidays.
I would like to see him as Scrooge.
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since the thought of not being able to get out on my birthday must have been something I didn't want to deal with, I guess.
Are you not going anywhere?
I've been very diligent in not leaving the block. Since my Dad is 99 (fingers, toes, eyes, everything crossed, 100 Labor Day weekend) I'm trying my best to avoid being in a position where I won't be able to be there if Florida allows us to celebrate his 100th.
I hope you are also getting some exercise.
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Liam doesn't like that we don't go to greet other dogs when I walk him - I've never been able to keep track of which dogs like him and which do not, so when I walk him, we stay away from other dogs.
Understandable but poor Liam :)
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It's only about 5 or 6 times a year that Skip has those events that keep him away the whole day.
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I have no plans today, but I probably should do some laundry. We'll see what happens.
Have a good day, all!
Well, laundry hasn't happened, but my mom called and asked if I wanted to come over there and play cards and have dinner, so I'm headed out...as soon as I ketchup on today's posts. :)
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I found out I'm 60 because Skip made a special birthday breakfast. I'd really not thought about it,
A Very Happy Birthday to DR Freddie!! :D
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Would you please sign this petition?
https://forcechange.com/559480/dogs-reportedly-thrown-off-apartment-balcony-to-their-deaths-deserve-justice/ (https://forcechange.com/559480/dogs-reportedly-thrown-off-apartment-balcony-to-their-deaths-deserve-justice/)
Signed!
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DR Freddie you should enjoy this video of a weatherman & his dog.
https://youtu.be/XehLZLOyVUc (https://youtu.be/XehLZLOyVUc)
That's funny!
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It is sunny and 81 degrees here which is fine.
I am running a couple of fans and keeping things comfortable.
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I was thinking about A Christmas Carol and how wonderful George C. Scott is, second to the brilliant Alistair Sim, and I forgot to mention watching A Carol Christmas, which I must admit gets a qualified rave. I liked the cast, the score, which is funny, moving, and full of heart, but I wasn't crazy about the book. I thought it had great ideas like Marley's ghost being a DVD and the three spirits, but it never moved me. This past Christmas I watched every Christmas Carol I had - Alistair Sim, George C. Scott, Michael Hordern, Patrick Stewart, Basil Rathbone, and the Carl Davis ballet - and only George C. Scott's version moved me. To paraphrase Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Scrooge is not as simple as he seems.
I loved Blake's ballad, BK; it's wonderful.
You are missing my favorite version with Albert Finney. I also liked George C. Scott's performance.
Scrooge my favorite version, also.
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So, Florida refuses to release death totals from covid-19 because it makes them look bad and the number released so far is considered highly conservative. Self-serving creeps.
WTF?? >:(
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Doesn't it seem like there should be a Kritzerland show this evening? :)
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Doesn't it seem like there should be a Kritzerland show this evening? :)
I hope that there isn't because I'm leaving for my parents' house right now.
Be back later.
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Here's what I did today: I'd been wanting since...when, last summer??...to put on DEMENTIA 13, to watch it for the first time in years, and to find the Ronald Stein handwritten cue I have here thanks to BK and a most adventurous Indiegogo experience. :)
My copy of the film is a Roan Group laserdisc (I think there's a BD out there now), so, what happens but the LD player keeps ejecting the disc. Well, these things happen. I hadn't used it in who knows how long. And then I found the batteries in the remote were corroded so I tackled cleaning that up. It looks fine but still isn't working, so I sadly suspect the corrosion went deeper than I can access.
But back to the player. I just kept hitting 'play', and it finally did. I was able to use the remote to my receiver which, like many remotes, is a quasi-"universal" one that can operate various things. Fortunately, I'd programmed it for that long ago.
So the score is very atmospheric and helps the movie considerably, as one would expect from Mr. Stein, and I found the cue. It's played intact, as written on this manuscript, and this is a wonderful thing to have.
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Thanks to BK and DR Elmore for that little conversation regarding A CAROL CHRISTMAS. Agree with all of that.
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I was thinking about A Christmas Carol and how wonderful George C. Scott is, second to the brilliant Alistair Sim, and I forgot to mention watching A Carol Christmas, which I must admit gets a qualified rave. I liked the cast, the score, which is funny, moving, and full of heart, but I wasn't crazy about the book. I thought it had great ideas like Marley's ghost being a DVD and the three spirits, but it never moved me. This past Christmas I watched every Christmas Carol I had - Alistair Sim, George C. Scott, Michael Hordern, Patrick Stewart, Basil Rathbone, and the Carl Davis ballet - and only George C. Scott's version moved me. To paraphrase Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Scrooge is not as simple as he seems.
I loved Blake's ballad, BK; it's wonderful.
You are missing my favorite version with Albert Finney. I also liked George C. Scott's performance.
I hated the movie Scrooge! I know people like it, but count me out.
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Page 4 Dance!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY FREDDIE!!
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Had a quiet day, doing a little cleaning up. Boo had a fit when she woke up and her throw rugs were missing. She stood right where one usually is and chewed me out. I told her they were in the dryer, but she didn't calm down until I took them out.
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It rained today, so my freshly laid grass seed is getting a little watering
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Don't know much today. I went to the office and got the mail and came home. I did have a nice conversation with some friends who moved to Wisconsin. It's been fun to have people call and email just to say hi and it' been happening a lot lately
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Had a quiet day, doing a little cleaning up. Boo had a fit when she woke up and her throw rugs were missing. She stood right where one usually is and chewed me out. I told her they were in the dryer, but she didn't calm down until I took them out.
;D
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Happy Birthday DR Fred!
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Done, 11th birthday gift ordered for a Zoom party. Two items from Amazon and a gift certificate for Powell's.
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I like supporting Powell's. After having to close their stores due to the virus and laying off the workers their was a surge in online orders to support them. They were able to rehire over 100 workers full time with employee benefits.
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Watching Richard Nelson’s What Do We Need to Talk About? Very up to the minute. The characters are on Zoom talking about living in the time of tge coronavirus. Here’s s link if anyone is interested.
https://youtu.be/R76oRm76mMM
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Apparently there is a schedule for times that the play appears.
https://curtaintimes.com/ to find out showtimes.
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Thank you, George!
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Thank you, Cilla!
So nice to see you here again!
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Thank you, Jennifer!
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Been working away all day - last-minute details, making sure everyone and everything is ready to go, doing some private tests and all that.
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Had tuna sandwiches for lunch.
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Watched a movie just now and will now go for a little drive.
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I started writing a new play in THE HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS collection today.
It's about one of my all-time favorite performers, and somebody who I had the pleasure of meeting a long time ago.
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Just finished a really bad crossword puzzle. I've started doing these again in the last couple of weeks. I haven't done them in maybe 20 or more years. Anyway, the theme clues were dreadful. They mixed up people's names. So answers were Hoss Mart instead of Moss Hart. Or Melonious Thunk instead of Thelonious Monk. My least favorite was the one I got last: Loose Brie instead of Bruce Lee.
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I decided I had seen enough movies with the two Italian flicks I watched earlier. Instead I listened to an interesting book called George by Alex Gino. It was on the banned books list, so I wanted to see what the big deal was. It was a YA book about a kid who realizes she is transgender. Very hard for the kid, to be sure, but it showed other people just how hard it can be. So, a book about tolerance, of course, is going to be banned. The Great Gatsby was banned this year in an Alaska school district by a school board that proudly announced that they weren't going to bother to read challenged books.
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Enough of my soapbox.
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I'm headed to bed.
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good night, all.
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So I’m typing this from my mothers couch.
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11 am a strange woman calls to tell me she’s with my Mom
! Apparently Mom decided to drive to the post office to mail a letter.
She could have just put it in her own mailbox fir the postman to collect but no... 88 year old Mom thought it was a good idea to break quarantine and hAng our with a bunch of strangers
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But a funny thing happened on the way to the post office... well not really.. after she parked she got out of the car, step on a stone, rolled her ankle and fell
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Broken wrist, two places, and displaced bones
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So I lifted her into my car (she’s like 100 lbs and I was on adrenaline high) and take her off to the urgent care
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15 xrays later (hips)legs elbows arms etc they finally tell us what we already told them 2 hours earlier...broken wrist
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They splint her up and start calling around to find an open orthopedic office
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Finally find one 15 miles away and I take her there
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They try to reset her wrist.. her skin is so fragile that her forearm , from wrist to elbow bursts open like a ripe tomato.
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So a couple of dozen stitches and all attempts to reset wrist put on hold
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Temporary cast put on and appointment made with orthopedic surgeon for Monday morning
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Then it’s off to the pharmacy to get her meds and finally get her home
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Give her pain meds and then run home to get Vixdad so we can retrieve her car
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Then bring her the car (not that she’ll be driving for the next 4-6 months) and make her dinner, change her into night clothes and settle her down and go home (I live on other side of town)
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Make dinner , call brothers and Vixter to advise of days events , eat, change into pjs
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Mom calls” I want you to stay here”
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So dress, throw some stuff into a overnight bag and back I come
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Just gave her another pain pill, she’s dozing in recliner I’m reclining on sofa in pitch black room
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Yep that was my day so far.
I suspect it’s not yet over, we’ve still got the night to get through
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When I’m in pain I tend to pinch my lips shut squeeze my fists and get very very quiet
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She screams
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Like a banshee
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At one point I had to step out of the treatment room and retrieve some paperwork from my car
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I could still hear her
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In. My. Car.
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Also called my boss to tell him I would be late in on Monday and why
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I am drained
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And wired
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Can you be both simultaneously?
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Gonna try and get some sleep while Mom is asleep
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Goodnight
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Like a banshee
OMG. Has she always done this?
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In. My. Car.
:o
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You know I have great sympathy for the pain of a break, and her skin must really hurt but oh my that is a lot of screaming.
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I hope she doe not need surgery.
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Major coping vibes for DR Vixmom. I am not surprised she wanted you to sleep there.
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Can you be both simultaneously?
Yes.
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Temporary cast put on and appointment made with orthopedic surgeon for Monday morning
I hope she doesn't need surgery.
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HappY belated birthday Freddie!! I hope it was great!
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Like a banshee
OMG. Has she always done this?
Yep
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Temporary cast put on and appointment made with orthopedic surgeon for Monday morning
I hope she doesn't need surgery.
Thank you
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Finished with my viewing. Earlier, I took a drive, stopped at Jerry's Deli - empty but for me and very eerie. Got some fries for my evening snack and some lox and cream cheese for tomorrow's food. Came home and ate half the fries and could eat no more.
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Watched that Broadway's Lost Treasures DVD - Tony Award highlights - always enjoyable. Fell asleep for about twenty minutes.
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Can you be both simultaneously?
Being drained and wired the same time is pretty much "But Alive" fodder in a nutshell -
Much too exhausted to go the opening night party, but also much too excited to go home and sleep.
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Not the same glamour but that's the same feeling really
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRikWbT6WG0
except at 2:14 we scream "vixter's mama" instead of "Margo Channing"
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Broken wrist, two places, and displaced bones
Recovery vibes to grand vixmom!
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vixmom - at the new place, do they know your "vixmom' online identity?
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Prayers and good vibes to dear vixmom!
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Next weekend, we have a chance of hitting 80 degrees.
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Sorry I am late getting here, but I was watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel.
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Happy Birthday, DR Fred!
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I was thinking about A Christmas Carol and how wonderful George C. Scott is, second to the brilliant Alistair Sim, and I forgot to mention watching A Carol Christmas, which I must admit gets a qualified rave. I liked the cast, the score, which is funny, moving, and full of heart, but I wasn't crazy about the book. I thought it had great ideas like Marley's ghost being a DVD and the three spirits, but it never moved me. This past Christmas I watched every Christmas Carol I had - Alistair Sim, George C. Scott, Michael Hordern, Patrick Stewart, Basil Rathbone, and the Carl Davis ballet - and only George C. Scott's version moved me. To paraphrase Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Scrooge is not as simple as he seems.
I loved Blake's ballad, BK; it's wonderful.
You are missing my favorite version with Albert Finney. I also liked George C. Scott's performance.
Don't forget my favorite SCROOGE. Everyone should make sure to pull out Tom Birkeland as Scrooge for the winter holidays.
Thank you, Freddie.
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For the first time in a month, I heard from our producer for MURDER ON THE NILE. We are still going forward with a July 17 opening, but they want to have some table reads starting next week. Why?
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They want, at least two table-reads a week on Zoom. If the quarantine is lifted on May 31, as scheduled, we still have all of June and 15 days in July.
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Good night, nobody!
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Good night, Tom!
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Doesn't it seem like there should be a Kritzerland show this evening? :)
I hope that there isn't because I'm leaving for my parents' house right now.
Be back later.
Dinner at my parents' were the Costco hot dogs that my mom bought in the package at Costco, not individual dogs from the deli. She had the whole big package of them and they were quite delish. I had two, but took four home and those are now in my freezer. ;D
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Their friend Mona came over after we ate and we all played Phase 10 (of course). Mona won both games. :P
;)
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After I left there, I did a little shopping at the Lacey Fred Meyer.
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I needed some kitty litter.
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The last time I looked for some at the Tumwater Fred Meyer, they were out of the kind that I get, so I wanted to see if they had any before I went back to the Tumwater store.
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They did!
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I got two bags of the Arm & Hammer Naturals Clumping Litter:
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The only thing I don't like about it is that the bag doesn't have any kind of closure...once you open it, it's just open.
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First world problems, I know. ::)
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PAGE SEVEN DANCE!!
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After Fred Meyer, I went to my sister's and helped her attach an adjustable keyboard tray onto the desk in her home office.
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She said that she's had that thing for years, but just never installed it.
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The think is pretty darned heavy, so I can kind of understand why.
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Then, I came home.
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:D
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Now, I need to ketchup on all of today's posts!
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I like supporting Powell's. After having to close their stores due to the virus and laying off the workers their was a surge in online orders to support them. They were able to rehire over 100 workers full time with employee benefits.
That's fantastic!
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I decided I had seen enough movies with the two Italian flicks I watched earlier. Instead I listened to an interesting book called George by Alex Gino. It was on the banned books list, so I wanted to see what the big deal was. It was a YA book about a kid who realizes she is transgender. Very hard for the kid, to be sure, but it showed other people just how hard it can be. So, a book about tolerance, of course, is going to be banned. The Great Gatsby was banned this year in an Alaska school district by a school board that proudly announced that they weren't going to bother to read challenged books.
Idiots. :P
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15 xrays later (hips)legs elbows arms etc they finally tell us what we already told them 2 hours earlier...broken wrist
Oh, no!!
~~~Vibes of All Kinds for Vixgran!!~~~
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I am drained
And wired
~~~Coping Vibes for Vixmom!!~~~
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For the first time in a month, I heard from our producer for MURDER ON THE NILE. We are still going forward with a July 17 opening, but they want to have some table reads starting next week. Why?
At least you're two and a half months out. Mamma Mia! is still supposed to be opening on June 12!
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I have the score and script, so I suppose I should actually start to look at the music. ::)
;)