Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on January 28, 2021, 12:07:16 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had a sneak preview, and now it is time for you to post until the sneaky cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: BENEFIC!
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Topic of the Day: I'm pretty sure that I've never been to any movie theater that could be called a "movie palace," unless you count Seattle's Cinerama. I'd only been there two, maybe three times, but not any other palace-type theater.
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'night
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Tom, this doesn't have David Muir (and there's no sound), but is this the video that you were talking about last night?? :-\
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/pickup-truck-swerves-collides-oncoming-vehicle-utah-75517541 (https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/pickup-truck-swerves-collides-oncoming-vehicle-utah-75517541)
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Forgot to mention that I talked to the Shermans and it was nice to catch up. They'll be watching our premiere for project one aka Tonight's the Night. I may drop by next week just to leave them a few things.
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Good morning, all!
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Last night was jam-packed with strange dreams:
1. It took place sometime between 1940 and 1950; I was working in some desert with a group fighting anti-semitism; Leonard Bernstein is the only person I recognized. At one point we were trying to identify several men from a photo of them inside a cavern.
2. I was involved in London with the Royal Ballet and dancers defecting from communist Russia; there was a search for either a Russian author or her book about ballet.
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It's going to be 30 degrees F in Manhattan today and worse tomorrow. I have no urge to step out for this PSA test. At the moment I have no wish to step out, but I will see how I feel in a couple of hours.
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Good morning, everyone.
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Got caught up this morning in watching the Baby reunion (thanks for the link, DR George!)
I saw the original Broadway production several times, including the closing performance. Love that score.
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The only "movie palace" I've ever been to is NYC's Radio City Music Hall. Great memories.
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DR elmore3003 - regarding your Strange Dream #2: I remember seeing a performance of dancers and singers from Russia at Carnegie Hall. This would have been in the mid to late 70s. On the floor level, at the foot of the stage, were two burly guards sitting, facing the audience, for the entire performance. I presume they were there to keep any performers from leaving the stage and trying to defect. I'll never forget it.
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That was quite a piece of sleuthing in today's notes, bk. Glad you found your answer.
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Great Cloris story, DR John G. Thanks for sharing!
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Got caught up this morning in watching the Baby reunion (thanks for the link, DR George!)
I saw the original Broadway production several times, including the closing performance. Love that score.
Horseracing! I like much of the score, but when I saw the original production, all I could think was, this show needs one good abortion.
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Great Cloris story, DR John G. Thanks for sharing!
Ditto!
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LOL!
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I never have my cell phone handy when I need it. Last night, while I was brushing Thatch, Annabelle - who had already been brushed - sat watching Thatch with an expression I can only describe as pure love. I had never seen it before, but it was so adorable and heartbreaking.
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Good morning, all.
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From the Famous Last Words department: "Here it is."
In the notes today! :)
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There used to be a huge movie palace on Broadway between 50th and 49th Streets, as I recall. I saw a 1979 or 1980 release of Disney's Peter Pan there, and that might have been the last movie showed there before it was torn down. The only other palaces have been to were Radio City Music Hall - but I have never seen a movie there, only the Christmas show - and the Ziegfeld, which was on West 55th Street, where I saw three movies: Frank Langella's Dracula, Apocalypse Now, and one of the Star Wars movies, the dreadful first one after the original three.
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I like much of the score, but when I saw the original production, all I could think was, this show needs one good abortion.
True, the book wasn't the best.
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Good morning, all.
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And that shower curtain wouldn't shut up! :)
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And that shower curtain wouldn't shut up! :)
It had a mind of its own.
My friend Kim Criswell had a song that was cut and ended up in Closer Than Ever, but I think she had left before I saw it. I think she might have gone on to the national tour of Cats.
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CALIFORNIA:
Chinese
Egyptian
Pantages
Loew's Paramount (now El Capitan)
Pacific (formerly Stanley Warner)
Village
Wiltern
Fox Wilshire
Beverly (Beverly Dr.)
Beverly (formerly the Warner Beverly Hills)
OTHER:
Radio City Music Hall
Palace, Columbus OH
Capitol, Rome NY
Loew's Jersey, Jersey City NJ
Hunt's Cinestage, Columbus OH
Colony, Cleveland OH (Shaker Square)
Loew's State, Cleveland OH
RKO Palace, Cincinnati OH
Summit, Detroit MI
Warner, Torrington CT (but only in its post-movie theater days)
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What a day already.
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Onward
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Two!
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San Antonio’s Majestic Theater was a movie palace. It’s still a magnificent structure. I’ve seen everything and everyone from Ragtime and Hamilton to Kristin Chenoweth and Jose Carreras there.
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I would hate to have to dust it.
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And I have fond memories of the Middletown Opera House.
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There's probably room for argument on a couple of mine, but they should mostly fall under the generally accepted definition of "movie palace".
DR Elmore, for my purposes I'd place the Ziegfeld in the category of "absolutely wonderful movie theaters" that aren't traditional "palaces", but are of a more modern sensibility and were first rate and lovable theaters.
Some I'd include here would be the National in Westwood, Plitt in Century City, Picwood, AVCO Center Cinemas, Cinerama Dome, Edwards Cinema in Newport Beach, Woodfield Cinemas in Schaumburg IL, Fox Cedar Center in Cleveland Heights. And many many more. I loved them dearly.
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Nice notes today.
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Snow on the ground today.
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I never have my cell phone handy when I need it. Last night, while I was brushing Thatch, Annabelle - who had already been brushed - sat watching Thatch with an expression I can only describe as pure love. I had never seen it before, but it was so adorable and heartbreaking.
Those moments are indescribable, though you did it perfectly well.
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There used to be several BIG theatres on the circle and in downtown Indy.
I was in The Circle - which is now the home to the Indianapolis Symphony and called the Hilbert Circle Theatre - in fact it's the Hilbert Symphony - both named after a grifter with a stripper wife who both have long left town in disgrace......
I saw the film version of Fiddler On The Roof there, and earlier had seen the 1968 re-release of Gone With The Wind there. Both times I sat up in the balcony.....
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Yesterday's snow cleanup was swift, easy, and beautiful.
As a fitting punishment, we are to receive a strong nor'easter - starting Sunday night, last I heard.
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I've been looking forward to my own next adventure in the newspapers.com rabbit hole, but I'm telling you right now that I'll be greatly disappointed if I don't discover a movie that I produced or was otherwise involved in.
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I like to go to Newspapers.com just to see what I can see.
Often times it is very interesting.
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It's going to be 30 degrees F in Manhattan today and worse tomorrow. I have no urge to step out for this PSA test. At the moment I have no wish to step out, but I will see how I feel in a couple of hours.
Wow 30F actually sounds nice. It's been super cold here the past week. And right now it's 20F with a windchilll making it colder. And that isn't even anywhere near as cold as it's going to be the next few days.
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The trip to and from East 77th Street took me less than an hour. As soon as I got into the lab they took me right back and drew the blood, and I literally stepped out of the lab when a taxi pulled up. I'm very glad to be home.
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I've been looking forward to my own next adventure in the newspapers.com rabbit hole, but I'm telling you right now that I'll be greatly disappointed if I don't discover a movie that I produced or was otherwise involved in.
Best of luck with that.
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I've been looking forward to my own next adventure in the newspapers.com rabbit hole, but I'm telling you right now that I'll be greatly disappointed if I don't discover a movie that I produced or was otherwise involved in.
Best of luck with that.
Well, you never know. It could be my big break.
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It's going to be 30 degrees F in Manhattan today and worse tomorrow. I have no urge to step out for this PSA test. At the moment I have no wish to step out, but I will see how I feel in a couple of hours.
Wow 30F actually sounds nice. It's been super cold here the past week. And right now it's 20F with a windchilll making it colder. And that isn't even anywhere near as cold as it's going to be the next few days.
I feel for you and am glad I don't currently live in a colder climate.
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Good afternoon!
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It's currently 36 degrees with 21 mph winds in Fairfax County, VA.
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I enjoyed your Cloris story, DR John G.
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Thursday morning greetings! I have my routine semi-annual cardiologist appointment today. Wonder if my car will start...
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For bk, deep in the throes of proofing...
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~~~CHECK-UP VIBES~~~ for DR Ginny!
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TOD - Detroit was full of movie palaces in the 1950s and 1960s. Downtown we had the Fox, the Madison, the United Artists, and Music Hall, where we saw Cinerama (I remember How the West was Won and Windjammer). I remember seeing My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, and Doctor Zhivago at reserved seat showings, but I don't remember which theatre for which movie.
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Then there was the Riviera, which was originally a movie palace. But I remember it as the venue for my first 2 touring live musicals - The Music Man, starring Forrest Tucker, and The Sound of Music, starring Florence Henderson. When the Fisher Theatre became the live show venue, the Riviera went back to a movie house and, eventually, closed.
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In our neighborhood, there was the Redford and it's still open. Apparently it's owned by the Motor City Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society.
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And, also still in operation, is the Michigan Theatre, in Ann Arbor. I remember seeing Love Story there when I was in college.
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DR Ginny, please correct me if I'm wrong about the Summit in downtown Detroit having been an actual movie palace.
Sadly, I never had the chance to get to know the city during the Golden Age of Downtowns, and that's the only one of its theaters I was in. It was for the Cinerama run of 2001 during the summer of 1968. Friends and I drove down from Meadowbrook to see that one night, and I'm sorry to say I remember nothing about the theater itself -- its style or decor.
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As for Radio City, I saw movies (accompanied by stage shows, including the Rockettes) there in 1967 (Torn Curtain) and 1977 (Pete's Dragon). Richard and I saw the Christmas Spectacular there several years ago, but, of course, no movie.
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Yes, DR ChasSmith, the website Cinema Treasures lists the Summit as a Cinerama house after Music Hall.
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I enjoyed your Cloris story, DR John G.
She apparently did similar things with other people. Here’s a Washington Post from someone who encountered her when he was an extra in a movie she was in:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cloris-leachman-acting-career-rising-below-vulgarity/2021/01/28/62412c4e-60f3-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html
If you can’t get past the WaPo wall, let me know.
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Three!
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I have never been inside Radio City.
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I'm up, I'm up - seven-and-a-half hours of sleep.
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I finally finished the show pages for JOSEPH on the website. That means 3 of five are completed - counting SHAKESPEARED! The Youth Theatre Workshop.
I still need Director's Note from two folks.
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Forgot to mention that I talked to the Shermans and it was nice to catch up. They'll be watching our premiere for project one aka Tonight's the Night. I may drop by next week just to leave them a few things.
Cool! I hope I can watch the premiere live!
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(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6392.0;attach=11241)
HA! HA! ;D
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Great Cloris story, DR John G. Thanks for sharing!
Ditto!
Ditto, too!! :D
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The trip to and from East 77th Street took me less than an hour. As soon as I got into the lab they took me right back and drew the blood, and I literally stepped out of the lab when a taxi pulled up. I'm very glad to be home.
Great timing, Larry!
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For bk, deep in the throes of proofing...
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6392.0;attach=11243)
:))
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~~~CHECK-UP VIBES~~~ for DR Ginny!
~~~SUPER DITTO!!~~~
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I have never been inside Radio City.
During the one time that I went to New York, a bunch of us took a tour of the building, but I've never seen any performance. ::)
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Thursday morning greetings! I have my routine semi-annual cardiologist appointment today. Wonder if my car will start...
Oh no, I hope your car started and your appointment went well.
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For bk, deep in the throes of proofing...
;D
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And, also still in operation, is the Michigan Theatre, in Ann Arbor. I remember seeing Love Story there when I was in college.
Is that the beautiful theater downtown that was renovated?
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I enjoyed your Cloris story, DR John G.
She apparently did similar things with other people. Here’s a Washington Post from someone who encountered her when he was an extra in a movie she was in:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cloris-leachman-acting-career-rising-below-vulgarity/2021/01/28/62412c4e-60f3-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html
If you can’t get past the WaPo wall, let me know.
Thanks, DR John G! I do have an online subscription to the Post, but hadn't seen this. It was nice reading a reminiscence from a fellow Buffalonian.
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Making some Wacky Noodles.
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TOD - I've been to the Stanford in Palo Alto, that's the only older movie theatre left in the Bay Area.
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This was the little piece of serenity I needed today. The Beethoven video is stunning with the sounds around it as well as the images.
https://laughingsquid.com/pianist-plays-for-rescue-elephant/
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BK, after your foray into the operettas of Andre Messager, I'm going to suggest my favorite post-Offenbach operetta, Hans le joueur de flûte, a takeoff on the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The town burgers of Milkatz care only about commerce and making money, and the burgermaster's daughter Lisbeth loves Yoris, a poo poet pushing the burgers to reinstate the town's arts festival and subsidize the arts. The burgermaster therefore hates him and promises Lisbeth in marriage to a rich old friend. Enter Hans the flutist, who plays his flute and all the cats in the town run to the river and drown and the rats invade the grainaries. Hans will only get rid of the rats if the town burgers reinstate the arts and bring back the festival. Using the trick out of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Yoris marries Lisbeth and the rich old man marries a doll.
It's a wonderful score. The recording is from a French radio broadcast from the 1960s, I believe, and it features the great French baritone Michel Dens as Hans. Yjer original Hans in 1906 was Jean Perier, who created the leading roles of Florestan in Messager's Veronique and Peleas in Debussy's Peleas and Melisande.
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Elements of Hans le joueur de flûte ended up in the film Carnival in Flanders, one of my favorite films.
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Time for kitty cleanup, and then I will close up shop for the night.
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This was the little piece of serenity I needed today. The Beethoven video is stunning with the sounds around it as well as the images.
https://laughingsquid.com/pianist-plays-for-rescue-elephant/
That was so cool.
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~~~CHECK-UP VIBES~~~ for DR Ginny!
~~~SUPER DITTO!!~~~
Thank you, DRs Singdaw and George! All went well and I’m good for 6 months.
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Thursday morning greetings! I have my routine semi-annual cardiologist appointment today. Wonder if my car will start...
Oh no, I hope your car started and your appointment went well.
Yes to both, DR Jane!
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Had Wacky Noodles, picked up some packages, including a screener for News of the World, which I was interested in, and now proofing. In other news, Barry Pearl has been nominated for an Ovation Award for his performance as Banjo in The Man Who Came to Dinner, the production I directed.
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And, also still in operation, is the Michigan Theatre, in Ann Arbor. I remember seeing Love Story there when I was in college.
Is that the beautiful theater downtown that was renovated?
Yes, it’s in the part of downtown that’s close to the U of M campus.
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Wacky noodles are... wacky.
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That's my wisdom for today.
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Thanks for that beautiful link, DR John G.
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I really wish I had been saving all of DR elmore3003's opera posts as they occurred. I can go back and capture them all, but that's going to be a lot of work. And the album cover files apparently have to be copied separately.
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PAGE FOUR COQUETTISH DANCE. I'm shy.
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Hey, gang! It's 1968 and we're in Detroit!
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One of the very few ads I saved in those years.
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Had Wacky Noodles, picked up some packages, including a screener for News of the World, which I was interested in, and now proofing. In other news, Barry Pearl has been nominated for an Ovation Award for his performance as Banjo in The Man Who Came to Dinner, the production I directed.
Congrats to Barry Pearl! And to BK...it's also a reflection on your directing. :)
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Dr Ginny, great news regarding your doctor's visit today.
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And, also still in operation, is the Michigan Theatre, in Ann Arbor. I remember seeing Love Story there when I was in college.
Is that the beautiful theater downtown that was renovated?
Yes, it’s in the part of downtown that’s close to the U of M campus.
I have seen a couple of movies there.
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Cicely Tyson passed away, sad but a long life at 96.
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Cicely Tyson passed away, sad but a long life at 96.
I just saw that on MSNBC. :(
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Cicely Tyson passed away, sad but a long life at 96.
She was wonderful.
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Gratuitous post No. 100!
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Cicely Tyson passed away, sad but a long life at 96.
:'(
She was one of the featured speakers for the virtual ALA conference this past weekend.
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Cicely Tyson passed away, sad but a long life at 96.
:'(
She was one of the featured speakers for the virtual ALA conference this past weekend.
Oh, my goodness!
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Cicely Tyson passed away, sad but a long life at 96.
She was wonderful.
Yes she was.
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Cicely Tyson passed away, sad but a long life at 96.
:'(
She was one of the featured speakers for the virtual ALA conference this past weekend.
She was still working at 96, bless her.
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And her autobiography came out in the last few days.
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Must do dishes.
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Life is unfair sometimes.
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That's for sure.
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Must do dishes.
Alas, you new knife set won't help you, there.
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Good night, everyone.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/nora-roberts-responds-criticism-over-214400214.html
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Finished watching a very good motion picture, about which more in the notes.
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I've proofed 100 pages so far, so moving right along.
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May watch another movie, may not.
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Has anyone heard from DR Laura recently?
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Good night, all.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Watched half of another movie and now listening to a very interesting opera.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
I'm here!
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five!!!!!
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Well, I FINALLY finished Troubled Blood, the latest Cormoran Strike novel, written by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling).
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I started it in November! :o
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Of course, around the time I started it, I also started the latest (last?) Harry Dresden novel, Battle Ground, written by Jim Butcher (a.k.a. Jim Butcher). :)
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I finished Battle Ground, but I don't remember exactly when I finished that.
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Now, I need to decide on what to read next.
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I've been downloading books from the library, and I get some of the free books that BookBub notifies me about, so I have plenty to choose from.
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One of the highlights of my life was stepping on stage at the Radio City Music Hall.
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Hey, gang! It's 1968 and we're in Detroit!
I went see the Seattle premiere of 2001 t the Seattle Cinerama Theater. I was there as a reviewer for my college radio station, but you would hav thought I was a reviewer from The NY Times, or even the Seattle Times.
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The lines were around the block, and I got to walk up to the front door, and I was escorted in like I was a big celeb. I loved it! Oh yeah, the film was okay, too.
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Hey, gang! It's 1968 and we're in Detroit!
I went see the Seattle premiere of 2001 t the Seattle Cinerama Theater. I was there as a reviewer for my college radio station, but you would hav thought I was a reviewer from The NY Times, or even the Seattle Times.
That's pretty cool, Tom! What was it like seeing it on that huge screen?
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I saw 2001 a couple of nights after it opened at the Warner Cinerama - it was immense.
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I gotta tell you.
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I sent my review for BK’s new book to Amazon two days ago, and it still hasn’t gone on line. I suppose the fact that I didn’t have a title yet, but that shouldn’t have anything to do with it.. I am going to file a complaint tomorrow morning!
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Hey, gang! It's 1968 and we're in Detroit!
I went see the Seattle premiere of 2001 t the Seattle Cinerama Theater. I was there as a reviewer for my college radio station, but you would hav thought I was a reviewer from The NY Times, or even the Seattle Times.
That's pretty cool, Tom! What was it like seeing it on that huge screen?
It was fantastic. Of course, I still didn’t understand anything about the damn movie, but it looked fantastic.
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I need to go to bed, now. Sorry.
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Good night, Tom.
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Not to get political, but WHAT THE F*CK?? (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/arizona-gop-lawmaker-introduces-bill-give-legislature-power-toss-out-n1256097)
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:o
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>:(