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Title: SO IT IS WRITTEN, SO IT SHALL BE DONE
Post by: bk on June 08, 2005, 11:59:35 PM: Well, you've read the notes, you know that both Scarlett O'Hara and Cecil B. DeMille were invoked in the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the thoroughly modern cows come home - so it is written, so it shall be done.
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 12:10:38 AM: And the word of the day is: GLOSSITIS!

Hint: What you get when you talk to damn much.
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Post by: George on June 09, 2005, 12:18:40 AM: One of my favorite books as a child (not a book of my parents') was "Hilda Boswell's Treasury of Children's Stories." It has fables and fairy stories (some stories actually have fairies in them!), a prince of rain and princess of fire who are in love but don't know how they can be with each other because they'll both die...wonderful stories with wonderful illustrations. I loved this book. When I moved last year, I found the copy that I grew up with. The (thin) paper that covers the outside of the book is ripped at the spine, but the pages are intact...good enough for me. :)
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Post by: George on June 09, 2005, 12:28:33 AM: I'll have to think about books that my parents had that I might have picked up. It'll take a while, so in the meantime, I'll go to sleep and see if anything comes to me. Goodnight!
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Post by: Charles Pogue on June 09, 2005, 12:45:32 AM: We had a lot of the Golden Books when we were kids. All of which got handed down to nieces and nephews. I remember the Pokey Little Puppy and Bongo the Bear.

My parents made a considerable investment in its day to buy us a set of Grolier Encyclopedias when I was about seven or eight. These also came with a series of books about Lands & People and Random House books, most of which as I recall were the "All About" series or biographies of famous people . I remember one called All About Dinosaurs that was authored by Roy Chapman Andrews, I believe. There was one other series that came with all this that seem to feature faery stories, legends and other stories. All these got handed down to younger relatives too...never to be seen again.

We had some Seckatary Hawkins books, which was a rather famous and beloved boys series of books written in the twenties and thirties (and maybe earlier) about a group of boys who had a club-house on the Ohio River. Oddly enough, I never really read these and so couldn't say I was influenced by them...though most of my friends were. I've since collected all of these rather rare volumes save for one which was a Purina soft cover. The man who wrote these stories was Robert F. Schulkers and either he or his relatives owned the drugstore in the centre of Fort Thomas, Kentucky. The little town I grew up in across from downtown Cincinnati. They always had reprints of his books in the store. There is a Seckatary Hawkins website.

My first memory of stories was my mother reading us Walt Disney's Comics and Stories at naptime, which our grandparents gave us a subscription to for years. The wild and wooly adventures of Scrooge McDuck were highly influential.

I also remember my father reading us a stirring rendition of Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling.

Both my parents read a lot, particularly my father...Nevil Shute was a favourite of his...but I was really never influenced by what they were reading. They belonged to a book club for awhile and got books sent each month. I'd be hard-put to remember the titles.

When I started getting into Tarzan novels around eleven or twelve, my father would always bring me home a couple of Tarzan paperbacks I had requested when he went on a business trip.

I think what influenced my early reading more than anything were the weekly magazines that came...I loved Life, Look, and the Saturday Evening Post. And then, of course, there were my dad's old Playboys in a box in the basement.
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 12:51:15 AM: My parents really did not have many books. My mother read magazines and I can't remember ever seeing my father reading a book. My dad did buy some books - special deals through the newspaper - so I did get to read "For The Term Of His Natural Life" but that was long after my interest in reading had developed.
I loved reading and thanks to my older sister I could read before I started school. Neither of us were much into toys and our Christmas and Birthday presents would always be books. I grew up reading Enid Blyton stories and of course The Bobsey Twins. I didn't really care for "The Boy's Own" adventure stuff but did enjoy "Coral Island" by R M Ballantyne and his other books - "The Young Fur Traders" and "The Gorilla Hunters" Very non PC of course.
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 12:55:14 AM: We had Hardy Boys books in the house (one of the benefits of having an older brother), and I loved looking through the encyclopedias (Funk and Wagnall's, if I remember correctly). My favorite book that I found on the shelf of our bookcase was an Arabian Nights book, which I read over and over again, especially Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. In the first Kritzer book, when you see Benjamin's movie screen doodles, that's the book they were done in, which I still have to this day.
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Post by: Jed on June 09, 2005, 01:06:11 AM: I know my folks had a number of books around the house, but I pretty much stuck to my own collection. That is, except for the collection of Judy Blume books my mother had around (due to her dabbling in writing children's literature for a few years). Hardy Boys were definitely favorites of mine, following a couple years of going through stack upon stack of those Choose Your Own Adventure books. Of course, there was a wide variety of Golden Books around when my sister and I were quite young, with The Pokey Little Puppy always being a favorite of mine.
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Post by: Danise on June 09, 2005, 03:50:48 AM: Good morning all!

As far as childrens books go…..

I remember the little Golden Books. Digger Dan and Doctor Dan are the two that really come to mind. Doctor Dan had little candy “pills” in it, a plastic stethoscope (is that the right word?—Sorry if it’s not I’m in a hurry) and Band-Aids. I remember Mom said that whenever I got a boo-boo I had to run and get my Dr Dan book because it would make everything ok.

She sometimes had a hard time finding the same candy to do a “refill”.

I had a thing for the big machines when I was a kid. I thought they were like dinosaurs and the other thing I really loved and was fascinated with was water towers. Go figure. I think I thought they were some kind of castle.

Gota scoot! We’re going to have more showers tonight so I don’t know if I’ll be on or not.

Laters!

Hi Jed! Bye Jed! :D ICU!
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 04:44:18 AM: Good morning DRs Elmore and Ben. Bedtime in OZ.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 09, 2005, 05:13:37 AM: Good morning, all! Another hot muggy day at 7:40 am. I have laundry and a full day on DARLING OF THE DAY. Lord.

TOD: My mother's taste in reading declined the further away from reality she moved, but when I was young, she read bestsellers, which had no appeal to me, as well as READER'S DIGEST, which I liked for the jokes and other ephemera; occasionally, I'd find an excerpt that appealed to me and I'd track the book down at the public library. Two that come to mind are TOO MANY GHOSTS by Paul Gallico and THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson.

My father never read more than a newspaper twice a day, CINCINNATI ENQUIRER in the morning and the MIDDLETOWN JOURNAL in the evening, and of the books my mother kept around the house, I believe the only one I ever read was GONE WITH THE WIND, which was her favorite novel. Even though we were lower middle class, my parents never stinted on books for my brother Tom and me. Since I was reading by age four, I have memories of a Little Big Book of Disney's CINDERELLA around 1951, tons of Little Golden Books, a strange collection of fairy tales that included Ruskin's "King of the Golden River," and hundreds and hundreds of comic books, primarily Disney and Little Lulu. It was a Scrooge McDuck comic about the golden fleece that turned me to mythology and Homer's two epics. Around 1954, my favorite book was THE WIZARD OF OZ, which was given to my by my Aunt Jean, who became my surrogate mother after she and her husband learned they would never have children. Many of my books between 1954 and 1960 were gifts from her. In fact, it was my Uncle Harold who, watching me draw one day, determined I needed glasses from the proximity of my face to the paper. I don't think my Mother ever noticed me that closely.

Like DRPogue, I was given Roy Chapman Andrews' ALL ABOUT DINOSAURS in 1956 on a trip to Kansas City, MO, and for a while, dinosaurs and the comic TUROK SON OF STONE were my major obsessions. On the same trek to Missouri, we saw the film of THE KING AND I, and musical theatre, especially Rodgers & Hammerstein, became my next obsession. At some point in this period, too, I read Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN and LITTLE MEN, and TOM SAWYER.

I liked BEN-HUR, which I read either before or after I saw the film in 1958 (?), but I found QUO VADIS? impossible. Aound 1960, I bought a paperback titled something like GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, which listed great books under categories and offered a brief synopsis. If a book sounded appealing to me, I'd take the bus to the public library and check it out; that got me to Aaron Copland's books on music and the drama section. Suddenly, plays and their dialogue became fascinating, and I went through anthologies and every single play on the shelves of the public library. Some of those early 20th Century translations of Greek, Scandinavian, and Russian drama are lethal, however, and left their mark on my feelings about the playwrights. It took me a long time to get over the trauma of a poor Chekhov translation!

There was one great Signet collection, 8 GREAT COMEDIES, which introduced me to THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST and ARMS AND THE MAN. This volume and the THREE PLAYS BY THORNTON WILDER became two of my favorite books. Still are.

My other favorite books from the mid-1960s were two great reference books, THE VICTOR BOOK OF THE OPERA and THE VICTOR BOOK OF BALLET, which increased my listening enjoyment by introducing me to composers I knew nothing about and works that have been favorites for a long time now.
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Post by: Michael on June 09, 2005, 05:16:14 AM: TOD: The Joy of Sex.
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Post by: Michael on June 09, 2005, 05:18:50 AM: Not really. But I thought I'd throw that in.

I enjoyed reading and read them many times were The WOnderful Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Yom Sawyer, and Huck Finn.

I just notice I wrote Yom Sawyer. That of course was the Jewish version of Tom Sawyer, which I also read.
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Post by: Kerry on June 09, 2005, 05:54:21 AM: The books around the house that affected me most (and which I still have) were Rachel Carson's "The Sea Around Us," a number of Max Schulman paperbacks, David Blum's "A Pictorial History of the Theatre" and books on Monet, Manet, Lautrec, Titian, Renoir, etc.

Books at my aunt's house that I read and and forever changed my life were Blum's History of the Silent Screen and History of the Talkies and Patrick Dennis' "Little Me."

I loved "The Boxcar Children," Dick and Jane books (life as I never knew it). "The Twenty-One Balloons" was, and is, still a favorite. And of course, "Eloise."
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on June 09, 2005, 05:59:16 AM: Again, as with their record collection, I don't remember having a great deal of interest in my parents' books. I do recall my dad building our first encyclopedia set by buying a volume each week at the Shop-Rite and then the two of us together leafing through the latest edition. And when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I was attracted enough by the cover of my mom's copy of Agatha Christie's Hall'ween party to pick it up and read it and become a devout Christie reader.

My own childhood collection of books was enormous. Books were the one thing my parents didn't seem to mind spoiling us kids with. I had lots of Golden Books, Little Big Books, and a smattering of Big Little Books. We also had soething called the Good Housekeeping Collection of Stories for Children that ran the gamut from a very simplistic telling of The Little Red Hen to a story by Kipling.

And, of course, I read comics, too. I leaned towards the Harvey line of books, enjoying the various Casper titles, along with Richie Rich and Hot Stuff.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on June 09, 2005, 06:05:48 AM: I don't recall any books at my parents' house, except a set of children's encyclopedias.

Too bad Kerry has to work today. He will miss out on all the fun and excitment: My husband is going to rent a little plane, fly to a small town outside of Phoenix, and I am going to drive there and meet him and we'll have breakfast. We always do it this way, because I refuse to get into the little plane.
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Post by: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 06:35:41 AM: Reading my dad's Woody Allen short story books was quite a turning point in my reading life. None of that guy's movies compare to some of his short stories.

Also WORKING, by Studs Terkel I read at a young age.

The best early kids books were Dr. Seuss's DID I EVER TELL YOU DUCKY HOW LUCKY YOU ARE? and P.D. Eastman's GO DOG, GO! I could stare at some of the pictures all day long.

Beverly Cleary's books.

Then discovering Daniel Pinkwater's books in junior high was another revelation. LIZARD MUSIC, THE SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE AVOCADO OF DEATH, WORMS OF KAKUMLUMA
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Post by: MBarnum on June 09, 2005, 07:06:57 AM: My mom was a big reader of historical novels, particularly those that took place during the civil war. My dad, later in live, enjoyed western novels. I never had a fascination with either, but we did have a wonderful set of encyclopedias which I enjoyed looking through often when I was very young.

As for my own reading materials, my favorite book was THE CONTENTED LITTLE PUSSY CAT by Frances Ruth Keller.

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Post by: Hisaka on June 09, 2005, 07:12:11 AM: I think it's a very romantic plan, DR LAURA.
Have a lovely breakfast with your DH!
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Post by: Hisaka on June 09, 2005, 07:23:37 AM: TOD, I remember my grandfather had many photo books of castles in Japan. He'd loved to paint castles and also birds, so he had a thousand of these sort of very colorful photo books.
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Post by: vixmom on June 09, 2005, 07:24:05 AM: I don't remember my parents reading books, but they always had the newspaper and Life Magazine and The National Geographic

I did "inherit " two of my mom's childhood books (my grandmother had thrown all the rest out while my mother was on her honeymoon, these two were in a drawer and missed the cleansing)

One was the Little Dutch Tulip Girl... which I still have and the other which I have misplaced and have been trying to find for years was caled something like Tommy and The Golden Way or Tommy and the Golden Cat ... I loved this book. It was about a boy livingon a farm I would guess in the 1930's and the adventures he has playing in his father's workshop...

Golden Books... my dad used to take me out every Sunday from the time I was about 3, to the local drugstore and buy the sunday paper for himself and a golden book for me by the itme I was 6 I had a bookcase full of them... unfortunately one day when I was out at school my little brothers got into my room and between them colored on the pages and ripped the pages out until my books were no more

My dad also took me to the library every Saturday from the time I was 6. I still remerb the very first book I took out of the library with my own card, "B is for Betsy" by Carolyn Haywood. I read everything that she wrote and she had some wonderful stories.

When I got older I loved all the books by Louis May Alcott , Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys, Under the Liloacs, Jack & Jill, Eight Cousins, Rose In Bloom, An Old Fashioned Girl

The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Farmer Boy the story of her husband's boyhood

The Anne of Greeen Gables Series

and there were a series of 'shoes" books, Theater Shoes, Ballet Shoes, Circus Shoes, I'm missing one.... all by Noel Streatfield I think...

There was a series of All of A Kind books, I cannot remember the author, about a Jewish family living in New York probably in the 30's or 40's

When I was about 10 - 12 I went through a "horsey period "Misty Of Chitteoatogue Island ( I know I am misspelling this) and all the sequels, Man of War, Black Beauty, The Red Pony

I loved all the Mark Twain books I read , Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Puddinhead Wilson, A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the Prince & the Pauper

Alice in Wonderland, and Alice Through The LookingGlass

There was a series of Fairy Tale books in my library The Red Fairytale Book,. The Green Fairytale Book, you get the drift... I read the whole rainbow...

I like the Greek and Roman Mythologies

I read all the Nancy Drew books I had the whole series at one time and my mother persuaded me to give them away... I still wish I hadn't
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Post by: Hisaka on June 09, 2005, 07:28:18 AM: I, too, watched Diamond Head before and I didn’t like it much, because I felt the story (and also Charlton Heston’s character same as dear BK mentioned) was strange. And George Chakiris was not so good as his role, Bernardo, in West Side Story...
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Post by: vixmom on June 09, 2005, 07:28:58 AM: Oh and how could I forget Dr. Seuss! Hortan Hatches the Egg is my favorite " I said what I meant and I meant what I said, an elephant's faithful one hundred percent"

closely followed by Green Eggs and Ham and Horton Hears a Who
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Post by: Hisaka on June 09, 2005, 07:33:24 AM: How lovely THE CONTENTED LITTLE PUSSY CAT's cover picture is, DR MBarnum!
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Post by: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 07:58:45 AM: My parents were both big readers, and there were lots of book around the house, though I can't say that I spent much time with THEIR books as they bought me my own.

However, I do remember that once I learned to read well enough to look at their books, I noticed a two book fairy tale set. The green volume was Andersen's Fairy Tales and the red volume was Grimm's Fairy Tales. I remember those two books VERY clearly.

I think the first book I ever took from their bookcase in the family room to read for myself was John Steinbeck's THE RED PONY. Wonderful book but sad as I recall.
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Post by: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 08:01:08 AM: Didn't get around to listening to THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA yesterday, and now I don't know when I'll get to it. I'm still enjoying TWO'S COMPANY at home, and I haven't taken LA CAGE out of the car CD player.
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Post by: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 08:02:42 AM: Off to getg some housecleaning done before I start preparing my lunch. We're in for another hot day here with (more) thundershowers forecast for later.
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Post by: JMK on June 09, 2005, 08:38:11 AM: 2 Day TODs: It was actually my oldest sister more than my parents who introduced me to new music. She loved the "big" soundtracks of her day, everything from West Side Story to Mutiny on the Bounty. But her biggest influence was introducing me to Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 when I was 9 or 10. That got me hooked on Brasilian music which has deeply impacted my life.

I loved The Silly Book by Stoo Hample when I was a kid. I believe Former DR Noel has said he knows (and maybe worked with ???) Stoo. My copy of The Silly Book mysteriously disappeared many years ago. I had come to believe my father gave it away after I left home for college. In the meantime (20 years later) I bid on and won a signed (and drawn--a handdrawn "Boodleheimer", and you Silly Book afficianados will know what that means) copy on eBay. Punchline: my other sister shows up out of the blue from Alaska one day and hands me my copy of The Silly Book, now completely worn-through on the spine and with her name written in permanent marker across the cover. She had been using it as a "teaching aid" in her classrooms for 20-odd years.

But the good news is I have 2 copies of it now to share with my sons, and they both love it.

I believe it was recently re-published, with maybe some new stuff.

And there's a record that was put out at the same time, appropriately titled The Silly Record, that I've never been able to find.
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Post by: JMK on June 09, 2005, 08:40:58 AM: BK: I sprang for that Rhino Bacharach comp, so I have added Me Japanese Boy (and the semi-delicious Blue Guitar) to the flop medley. I think it will be a lot of fun.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 08:52:34 AM: Good Morning!

Well... I thought I was going to be niece- and nephew-sitting this morning, but it looks like I'll be doing so this afternoon... wait, this evening... The number of phone calls from my brother and his wife... I've lost count! In any case... Now I have to shuffle some other things that were potentially on my schedule for today.

I think.

-Yes, I'm still waking up.

;)
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 08:58:53 AM: As for books...

The two literary books I distinctly remember sitting on my parents' bookshelf were "Love Story" and an edition of "Don Quixote". I remember them for their covers. "Love Story" had a sort of pale green cover, with the title in a "Mistral" type of font, and "Don Quixote" looked to be from one of those special Home Library editions - nice leather, gold leafing, etc. I finally read "Love Story" when I was in high school, but I never got around to reading "Don Quixote". But I still have both books in my library now.

The other books I remember were some cookbooks - a candy one; a big, red, New York Times cookbook - big print too, etc.

And my parents had one songbook: "Something To Sing About" - a neat collection of songs and stories about the songs and singers, mainly folk artists. My first exposure to "Peter, Paul & Mary" was through that book.

OH! And quite a collection of Reader's Digest Condensed Books. I never really read those either, but they always looked good on the shelves.
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 09:06:28 AM: JMK: Sorry I didn't get around to getting you the song - it's just too crazy around here right now.
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 09:07:24 AM: It seems we have less and less posts at this time each day that passes. It must be because it's June, June, June, because the exact same thing happened last year and the year before. Let's not be predictable!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:09:15 AM: As for childrens' books...

There was one of those Big collection of Mother Goose Stories and Rhymes. I actually came across a copy in a used bookstore not too long ago... I guess I should have taken better care of my "original", since the one I saw was listing at $200. In any case...

One of my favorite things in elementary school was the Scholastic Book Club. We'd get that mini-newspaper flyer every few weeks. I'd check off the books that I wanted. Then beg my parents for the money. Then wait.. and wait... And then...!!! Sometimes I even helped check the books in when the box got delivered to the classroom.

"Alvin's Secret Code"; "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and it's sequels; the "Ramona" books; "The Hardy Boys" series; "The Summer of the Swans"; "The Bridge to Terabithia"; "The Great Gilly Hopkins"; Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time" series...

"James and the Giant Peach" - How I miss the original edition with the pencil line drawings. The "new" edition with the movie-inspired drawings... Yuck! -And since the movie changed the ending anyway... Yuck!

"A Cricket In Times Square" - This was read to us almost yearly from 2nd to 5th grade.

Lots of books. And I'm sure that I actually did read them at the time, not just collect them.

Oh, and since I did go to a Catholic elementary school, "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" was more or less required reading. I remember being introduced to "The Chronicles of Narnia" in 6th Grade, but "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" was actually on my high school's freshman summer reading list.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:20:16 AM: DR elmoore - I had and still have a couple of those Signet collections. There's one with Great American Plays (?) which has "The Glass Menagerie" in it. However, it also has "Winterset" too - which I've never been able to get through. The blank verse still throws me. I need to read it out loud for it to make sense.

And, I, too, cherish my copy of "Three Plays By Thornton Wilder". I have two editions of it. Some small paperback-size edition, as well as some "anniversary" copy - oversize paperback. The Skin of Our Teeth is one of my favorite plays of all time. -And I became even more hooked on it after the PBS broadcast of the Old Globe production with Blair Brown, Sada Thompson, et al.

When I was in my junior year in high school, I started noticing that there were some minor textual changes from edition to edition of "The Skin of Our Teeth" - mainly in the whole "Adam! Cain!" fight. I ended up doing my AP English project on the play. However, due to my lack of access to certain research materials, I never really was able to find out the reasons for the changes, just that they existed.

And as much as people may want to turn it into a musical... I really think it should stay a play. The addition of songs would just mean that some of the original text/material would have to be cut out in order to bring the whole evening into an "acceptable" running time. I missed the Signature production of Kander & Ebb's version - and, from all accounts, that was a good thing.
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Post by: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 09:21:18 AM: Scholastic Books were the greatest. Order x amount of books, get a free poster of a kitten. There was nothing as fun as the day when your books arrived. "Bridge to Terabithia", that was classic, like, who knew a kid could die in a kids book?

I have an old series of old books about a family called THE HAPPY HOLLISTERS. Anyone familiar with those?
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:22:48 AM: "Rikki Tikki Tembo No Sarembo Chari Bari Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo"

(sp?)

;)
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Post by: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 09:23:59 AM: I had a Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedia set fro 1974 in my bedroom. I read them rarely, but can still remember a lot of the guide words from the sides of the books:

A-AMERI
FINNI-GANGR
HORTI-ISOTO
RUSSI-SOMAL
TELEP- UNITE
UNITE-WATER

and so forth...
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Post by: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 09:26:21 AM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:22:48 AM
"Rikki Tikki Tembo No Sarembo Chari Bari Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo"

(sp?)

;)

Or as me and my pals would say, "Chari Bari Buchi, Father Sarducci."
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:28:21 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 09:21:18 AM
Scholastic Books were the greatest. Order x amount of books, get a free poster of a kitten. There was nothing as fun as the day when your books arrived. "Bridge to Terabithia", that was classic, like, who knew a kid could die in a kids book?

I have an old series of old books about a family called THE HAPPY HOLLISTERS. Anyone familiar with those?

As for Scholastic Books - read above!

;)

-And I had forgotten about the premiums if you ordered a certain book or a certain number of books.

OH! And those Book Fairs that would go from school auditorium to school auditorium. I would spend hours browsing and scouting. All types of books for children and adults. I think I even bought some origami books at one in fourth grade.

Yeah, "Bridge To Terabithia"... Who knew? When it came to that passage in the book, I remember having to read it over a few times... It truly caught me off guard. I just had to make sure that what had happened, happened. Very moving. Hmm... I wonder if Katharine Patterson is still writing.

"The Happy Hollisters" was that that series about the family who was sort of 'weird' - interesting physical traits, abilities. -Something ringing a bell.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:29:19 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 09:23:59 AM
I had a Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedia set fro 1974 in my bedroom. I read them rarely, but can still remember a lot of the guide words from the sides of the books:

A-AMERI
FINNI-GANGR
HORTI-ISOTO
RUSSI-SOMAL
TELEP- UNITE
UNITE-WATER

and so forth...

LOL!!! -Literally!

;)
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 09:31:25 AM: I've already been going like crazy. It seems certain papers that were supposed to be Fed Exed back to me didn't get here, so I'm having to scurry and type up song lists, and cast lists, and credit pages for ATB.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:32:13 AM: Oh, and how could I forget..

"Old Yeller"
"Sounder"

There's still that one passage in "Sounder" that sticks in my mind... Where the young boy is looking at the bit of wood from his carving/whittling that are sitting underneath their stove/fire... How the curved pieces would straighten out, and how the straight pieces would curve when they would start to burn up.

-At least I think that was in "Sounder".

Oh, and "Tuck Everlasting", and "The Boxcar Children".
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Post by: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 09:33:42 AM: You couldn't get less weird than the Happy Hollisters. Unless total, ceaseless happiness weirds you out. They were a happy bunch.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:33:53 AM: I need some breakfast/brunch/lunch...

Laters...
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:34:48 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 09:33:42 AM
You couldn't get less weird than the Happy Hollisters. Unless total, ceaseless happiness weirds you out. They were a happy bunch.

Thanks for the visual aid, DR Rodzinksi. I do remember them now.

:)
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Post by: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 09:39:33 AM: Scholastic Book Fairs, that's another story. I wanted the Farrah Fawcett cheapie bio, so I asked my mom for a couple dollars. She, for some reason, demanded to know what book I wanted, and I just turned beet red and ran out rather than admit my crush on Farrah.
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Post by: vixmom on June 09, 2005, 09:54:16 AM: I read Bridge to Terabitha for the first time last year when the Vixter brought it home from school

what a sad book!
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 09, 2005, 09:57:23 AM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:20:16 AM

And, I, too, cherish my copy of "Three Plays By Thornton Wilder". I have two editions of it. Some small paperback-size edition, as well as some "anniversary" copy - oversize paperback. The Skin of Our Teeth is one of my favorite plays of all time. -And I became even more hooked on it after the PBS broadcast of the Old Globe production with Blair Brown, Sada Thompson, et al.

And as much as people may want to turn it into a musical... I really think it should stay a play. The addition of songs would just mean that some of the original text/material would have to be cut out in order to bring the whole evening into an "acceptable" running time. I missed the Signature production of Kander & Ebb's version - and, from all accounts, that was a good thing.

DRJose, SKIN OF OUR TEETH is one of my most favorite plays as well, and I agree with you about a musical version. I think the play's textual jokes and switches in time and space, require a composer of vast knowledge, wit, and compositional skills. Leonard Bernstein is the only composer I think capable of pulling it off and he gave up on it. Perhaps it was because he'd already written his great comic opera with CANDIDE and couldn't go back? With THE MATCHMAKER, however, I think HELLO DOLLY's an improvement.
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Post by: Jennifer on June 09, 2005, 09:58:17 AM: I also remember getting those pamphlets in elementary school to buy books. I loved those! You'd get a couple of weeks to look through the brochure and then bring in your order. And then wait for the books! That was fun.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on June 09, 2005, 10:02:52 AM: My mother subscribed to a book club for me, as a Christmas present, when I was in second grade. Book titles I remember are "Slim Green" and "A Boy Named Boo."

I remember reading "The Bobbsey Twins" in various adventures, and my parents bought the Encyclopedia Americana which came with The Book of Knowledge. The Book of Knowledge was a feast for me...each book was filled with information, including full stories, and poems. I spent hours and hours poring over those books. I wish I had them now, but they were long ago given away by my folks who got tired of lugging them from address to address as they moved around.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on June 09, 2005, 10:03:28 AM: DR Elmoore3003: I remember a Scrooge McDuck tale about a golden fleece, too. No particulars...just an image.
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Post by: Ben on June 09, 2005, 10:04:06 AM: a couple of photos to jog memories
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Post by: Ben on June 09, 2005, 10:04:36 AM: Presenting The Hollisters
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Post by: MBarnum on June 09, 2005, 10:05:43 AM: My other favorite book was MISS SUZY. I can remember making a cardboard verison of Miss Suzy's tree house.

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Post by: MBarnum on June 09, 2005, 10:07:44 AM: And THE OLD BLACK WITCH!
I loved this book!

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Post by: MBarnum on June 09, 2005, 10:10:08 AM: And finally, THE BLAH.

Another favorite. I have copies of all my other favorite books, but not this one.

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Post by: DearReaderLaura on June 09, 2005, 10:10:33 AM: Here he comes!
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Post by: Ginny on June 09, 2005, 10:19:06 AM: Quote from: bk on June 09, 2005, 09:07:24 AM
It seems we have less and less posts at this time each day that passes. It must be because it's June, June, June, because the exact same thing happened last year and the year before. Let's not be predictable!

Sorry, bk, I tried to post earlier this morning and learned what people mean when they say, "I just lost a long post!" Then I had to go spend 3 hours answering questions from the great unwashed. So, I'm back now, having my lunch and will try again.
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Post by: Stuart on June 09, 2005, 10:20:04 AM: As for the TOD....hmmmmmm, let me think a second. Definitely a set of World Book encyclopedia (I am assuming that from the "ia" ending on encyclopedia it is plural for something. Would a single one be an encyclopedium?). They were c.1965 but Mom would faithfully buy the annual addendum each year until I graduated from HS.

I also remember, on their/her bookshelves various Judaica books. And some not so Judaic, in a sense, such as "Loxfinger," which I never read, but always assumed was about the Jewish James Bond. Also Alan King's "Help! I'm a Prisoner in a Chinese Fortune Cookie Factory." Also, loads of paperbacks, sometimes retreived from the incinerator room.

There was always a newspaper of some sort. In my younger days, definitely the NY Post, when it was still a liberal Jewish paper, not the scandal sheet it is today. The Sunday Times and Sunday Daily News. Magazines, too: New York, Time (and/or Newsweek), Life, when it was still a weekly. I think Look, too, while it was still around.

And, yes, Readers' Digest condensed books. One of which I think contained "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant."

As far as my own books were concerned, I was fond of Beverly Cleary's "Ribsy," Encyclopedia Brown. We had a terrific set of children's books in very bright cloth-covered hardback editions. Couldn't tell you what the titles were, as I never cracked one open, as I recall. But there they stood, paint job after paint job. Red, Blue, Yellow, Green. Maybe other colors.

As memory serves, the Flatlands branch of the Brooklyn Public Library (which was actually on Flatbush Avenue, not Flatlands Avenue) was where I first discovered Theatre Worlds. It was also from where I borrowed "Auntie Mame," at probably a too-young age to appreciate it.
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Post by: George on June 09, 2005, 10:25:15 AM: And one for Mahler!
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Post by: Ginny on June 09, 2005, 10:28:52 AM: My parents' books - Dad was a member of Book-of-the-Month Club and I distinctly remember him reading the novels of Mary Renault and Robert Ruark. He also came home from work one day with several boxes of books that a coworker had given us from his (the coworker's) late wife's library. That's where my 4-volume complete works of Shakespeare and my one-volume complete Mark Twain came from.

My mom read (and still reads) many magazines and I have one vivid memory of her cooking with one hand while reading a paperback copy of Steinbeck's Travels with Charley with the other. She also kept a copy of The Group where she thought I wouldn't be able to find it ;)
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 10:30:39 AM: I think I finally finished typing for the ATB stuff. Whew!

Is amazon completely down or what?
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Post by: Charles Pogue on June 09, 2005, 10:34:39 AM: We also had several Uncle Wiggly books.

I remember several books from my grandparents...One was Etidorhpa a really turn-of-the century really weird fantasy about a man journeying under the earth, full of Mason lore and with wonderful illustrations. Etidorhpa was Aphrodite spelt backwards of course. I have never read this book, though I now have it in my collection. My other granparents had a version of the 11th Edition Enclyclopedia Britainnica (which had articles written by many famous writers and scholars), which I now own and a copy of the play Dinner At Eight with stills from the film, both of which are now in my possession. I also have an early program from GONE WITH THE WIND (maybe the '39?) which that was in their house when my Grandmother finally passed away and some other early theatre programmes of shows that passed through Cincinnati.

elmore, I too was a big Turok, Son of Stone fan.
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Post by: MBarnum on June 09, 2005, 10:39:55 AM: As I got older, around 5th grade, I remember riding my bike down to the Central Point City Library and checking out bios of Jack Benny and Judy Garland. It was at this time that I began reading about movies and the people who made them.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 10:42:17 AM: Ah, Thank You, DR Stuart.... "Encyclopedia Brown"!!!

And I also remember being disappointed and bit bewildered by the version in the Sunday comics. A whole "mystery" presented and solved in 6 to 8 panels. Hmmm...
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Post by: Ginny on June 09, 2005, 10:45:48 AM: In the mid-1950's, my sister took me to the downtown Detroit J. L. Hudson store to meet Kay Thompson and have her autograph my copy of Eloise.

I read a lot of pre-teen stories about women with careers - a student nurse named Cherry something, a tour guide at the UN (Phyllis Whitney's The Highest Dream), and a novel about a young woman working as a librarian in Chicago. Can't remember the title of that one, but she was invited to a Halloween party where guests were to dress up as literary characters. She went as some cat and carried a pocket comb, which she ran her thumb across to make a purring sound. Why can I remember that detail, but not the title of the book?
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 10:48:44 AM: When I was in fourth grade, we actually had "Library Class". Besides learning about the Dewey Decimal System, we also learned about the Newberry and Caldecott awards. There was a time when I would always make sure to find out who the winners and runner-ups were. Some company would even come out with bookmarks with the listings on them - and I would use them as a shopping list.
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Post by: Ginny on June 09, 2005, 10:48:48 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 09:23:59 AM
I had a Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedia set fro 1974 in my bedroom. I read them rarely, but can still remember a lot of the guide words from the sides of the books:

A-AMERI
FINNI-GANGR
HORTI-ISOTO
RUSSI-SOMAL
TELEP- UNITE
UNITE-WATER

and so forth...

DR Rodzinski - In the first library where I worked professionally, they had a "rule" to put the call number labels exactly one inch from the bottom of the spine. Often, it covered up these useful guide words, or the "A," Ca-Cz," etc. on the spines of the reference books. I put a stop to that fixation real fast.
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Post by: Stuart on June 09, 2005, 10:54:23 AM: Quote from: Ginny on June 09, 2005, 10:45:48 AM
I read a lot of pre-teen stories about women with careers - a student nurse named Cherry something

Coke?
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Post by: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 10:54:44 AM: Hey Ben! How is Anthony doing so far on the road?
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Post by: vixmom on June 09, 2005, 10:57:20 AM: Quote from: Ginny on June 09, 2005, 10:45:48 AM
I read a lot of pre-teen stories about women with careers - a student nurse named Cherry something,

Was it this? There wsas a whole series from the time she bagan as a student nurse to her being chief nurse... she was an army nurse at some point.... I read these too@!
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Post by: vixmom on June 09, 2005, 10:58:38 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 10:54:44 AM
Hey Ben! How is Anthony doing so far on the road?

And how are you doing with Anthony on the road?
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Post by: vixmom on June 09, 2005, 10:59:34 AM: And how could I forget A Secret Garden and A Little Princess ?! Read and reread those many times....
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Post by: Ginny on June 09, 2005, 11:00:18 AM: Quote from: Stuart on June 09, 2005, 10:54:23 AM
Coke?

LOL - not quite, DR Stuart!

DR vixmom found the right answer for me - thank you! You didn't happen to read the one about the librarian in Chicago, did you?
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Post by: vixmom on June 09, 2005, 11:00:24 AM: And Five Children and IT

and the Narnia Series
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 11:04:05 AM: A query from/for a friend....

Was the video Lincoln Center production "The House of Blue Leaves" ever available for public sale? I remember it on PBS, Bravo, Ovation, etc... -Or was it cable originally? In any case... I also seem to remember it being in the initial batch of releases from the Broadway Archive series, but I just checked their site, and it's no longer listed - if it was there in the first place.

Anyone?
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 11:05:03 AM: Quote from: vixmom on June 09, 2005, 11:00:24 AM
And Five Children and IT

and the Narnia Series

IT - ?!?!? The Stephen King book? As a children's book?!?!?
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Post by: Jennifer on June 09, 2005, 11:09:13 AM: Here is an interesting tidbit. AMAZING RACE winner Joyce used to be on Star Trek: Next Generation:

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Post by: vixmom on June 09, 2005, 11:10:35 AM: Quote from: Ginny on June 09, 2005, 11:00:18 AM
LOL - not quite, DR Stuart!

DR vixmom found the right answer for me - thank you! You didn't happen to read the one about the librarian in Chicago, did you?

No that doesn't ring a bell

Do you remember one about an evil doll?

It takes place in England in a Manor house on the moors. It was in two parts, the firsty part being these two teenage sisters before WWII and one of them falls off a cliff and is paralyzed, the other stays to care for her... they raise a girl who is I think the either the orphaned daughter of a third sister, or a much younger third sister... this girl is a wonderful ballerina and runs off to join the ballet

years pass , WWII is over and the orphaned daughter of the ballerina is sent to be raised by these two sisters

The doll is always present when ever something terrible happens (which is does often in this book)

one thing that stood out in my memory (and it has to be 35 years at least since I read this) was the sisters talking about how graceful the ballerina was and how she danced, and the girl saying she only knew a mother who was crippled and hoppled beause the Nazis had burned the soles of her feet off

Any idea of what this book was called?
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 11:11:04 AM: Amazon.com seems to be back up and running.
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Post by: vixmom on June 09, 2005, 11:15:52 AM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 11:05:03 AM
IT - ?!?!? The Stephen King book? As a children's book?!?!?

No, no silly Jose, "Five Children and It"
you can read it here http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.3/bookid.136/

but here is a sample

Quote
Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything, and grown-ups know this. That is why they tell you that the earth is round like an orange, when you can see perfectly well that it is flat and lumpy; and why they say that the earth goes round the sun, when you can see for yourself any day that the sun gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night like a good sun as it is, and the earth knows its place, and lies as still as a mouse. Yet I daresay you believe all that about the earth and the sun, and if so you will find it quite easy to believe that before Anthea and Cyril and the others had been a week in the country they had found a fairy.
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Post by: Ginny on June 09, 2005, 11:27:45 AM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 10:48:44 AM
When I was in fourth grade, we actually had "Library Class". Besides learning about the Dewey Decimal System, we also learned about the Newberry and Caldecott awards. There was a time when I would always make sure to find out who the winners and runner-ups were. Some company would even come out with bookmarks with the listings on them - and I would use them as a shopping list.

Oh, DR Jose, I love it when you "talk library."
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Post by: François de Paris on June 09, 2005, 11:49:53 AM: Andrews' news!

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=julie%2Bandrews&sm=Yahoo%21%2BSearch&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&c=news_photos

Also -- and excuse me if someone has already posted about that! -- DRG Records has released the original (French) soundtrack to Young Girls Of Rochefort with bonus tracks!
Just saw the cd but don't own it!

Cheers!
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Post by: George on June 09, 2005, 11:55:09 AM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 11:04:05 AM
A query from/for a friend....

Was the video Lincoln Center production "The House of Blue Leaves" ever available for public sale? I remember it on PBS, Bravo, Ovation, etc... -Or was it cable originally? In any case... I also seem to remember it being in the initial batch of releases from the Broadway Archive series, but I just checked their site, and it's no longer listed - if it was there in the first place.

Anyone?

I remember watching (and possibly taping) that production. It was the first time that I have ever heard of Christine Baranski or John Mahoney. ;D
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Post by: George on June 09, 2005, 11:55:49 AM: But I don't know if it was ever released commercially. :-\
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Post by: Sandra on June 09, 2005, 11:59:29 AM: Ah yes, Five Children and It. And its two sequels, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of the Amulet. Everyone go out and read these books right now.

When my brother and I were little, my mom took us to see the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I was fine with it, but Mom was really scared. She still won't read the book even though she knows it has a happy ending. I remember checking the book out from the school library when I was in seventh grade and hiding it from my mom because I knew she wouldn't want me reading it.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 09, 2005, 12:03:26 PM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 11:04:05 AM
A query from/for a friend....

Was the video Lincoln Center production "The House of Blue Leaves" ever available for public sale? I remember it on PBS, Bravo, Ovation, etc... -Or was it cable originally? In any case... I also seem to remember it being in the initial batch of releases from the Broadway Archive series, but I just checked their site, and it's no longer listed - if it was there in the first place.

Anyone?

DRJose, I've never seen that production for sale as a commercial video. I love the play, but I wasn't crazy about the production.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on June 09, 2005, 12:07:06 PM: Hey, it's a VERY scary movie. All those children just disappear!
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Post by: Sandra on June 09, 2005, 12:09:08 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on June 09, 2005, 12:07:06 PM
Hey, it's a VERY scary movie. All those children just disappear!

We have been over this. It was a competition to see which one of the kids could be trusted to take over the factory. None of them were hurt and they were all given truckloads of chocolate. I should be so lucky.
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Post by: MBarnum on June 09, 2005, 12:10:04 PM: DR Jennifer, I had read about Joyce being a former actress..I guess she didn't want everyone on the show to know about it while the race was going on.

In fact she had roles in quite a few movies in the 70s and 80s.
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Post by: Jed on June 09, 2005, 12:26:45 PM: Can't believe I forgot to mention just about every book written by Beverly Cleary. Ramona, Beezus, Henry, Ribsy, Ralph S. Mouse... loved all of 'em! Was also a fan of Encyclopedia Brown. Never knew of an Encyc. Brown comic strip... odd idea.
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 12:37:03 PM: The DRG Young Girls is a direct copy of the two CD import release, including the bonus tracks. The only plus is that it has the original album artwork, which the import did not.

amazon was down for about ninety minutes, but seems to be fine now.
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Post by: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 12:45:43 PM: My fifth grade teacher introduced us to the MISS MINERVA series of books. She read the first one to us on rainy days when we'd be stuck inside at recess, and, of course, after a couple of chapters, we'd beg to stay inside and listen and not go out to recess. What a wonderful teacher. Of course, we checked out the others from the library.
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Post by: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 12:48:17 PM: I've never seen HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES for sale on a commercial tape or DVD, but that doesn't mean it wasn't available at some point or other. I certainly saw it on Bravo or A&E many times.
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Post by: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 12:51:09 PM: Yes, I certainly sold Scholastic books to my students because teachers got free bonuses, too, like things for our classrooms, bulletin boards, extra books, etc. Everybody came out a winner with those.

Actually, I made selling them a part of my literature lesson for the day. I'd give mini-book talks about several of the books that were being featured in that particular flyer. My kids always seemed VERY eager for those days, and I did sell A LOT of books.
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Post by: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 12:52:06 PM: Cleared off SMALLVILLE and one of last night's LAW & ORDER reruns off the DVR this afternoon. I hadn't seen either show's episodes last night.
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Post by: Jrand74 on June 09, 2005, 12:54:44 PM: Whew! Lots of posts today.

I have been doing "play" work and just got here.

DRMBARNUM - that contented cat doesn't look like Freddy.
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Post by: Jrand74 on June 09, 2005, 12:56:57 PM: As several DR's have already mentioned, I also grew up in a household in which the BIG weekly magzines were great reading material. Life, Saturday Evening Post - with stories and "Hazel" - Look, and tiny Readers Digest.

Two books that I remember finding and reading on my own in the house were A NIGHT TO REMEMBER and a book about the Lindberg kidnapping and oh, another about the Andrea Doria sinking.

I then bought my own copy of A NIGHT TO REMEMBER - where else - the Scholastic Book Club, where I also got my first copy of Steven Schuer's MOVIES ON TV....in the 8th grade.
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Post by: Jrand74 on June 09, 2005, 12:57:41 PM: I have to go now. I have to work at the OLIVER! performance. Pray for Rosemary's Baby...or for the people who eat the popcorn that I make.
:P
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on June 09, 2005, 01:20:15 PM: I'm off to get buzzed for the summer.
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Post by: Jed on June 09, 2005, 02:24:57 PM: Lullsville, man.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 09, 2005, 02:58:48 PM: I'm back from a two hour break with my talented composer friend David Byrne, who is now a Los Angeles resident, working in the Music Dept of Barnes and Noble at The Grove (?). David's a recent U of Michigan grad, a student of William Bolcom's, a talented composer, dating a lovely mezzo-soprano, and New York's loss and Los Angeles' gain. He's helped me out on a couple of orchestrations when I've been stuck for time, and I miss having him around. He said that all my friends in L.A. should stop by Barnes & Noble and say hello. So do it!

Now, back to DARLING OF THE DAY!
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Post by: MBarnum on June 09, 2005, 03:33:07 PM: Tarnation must be a busy place today.
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Post by: TCB on June 09, 2005, 03:36:59 PM: Quote from: Rodzinski on June 09, 2005, 09:21:18 AM
Scholastic Books were the greatest. Order x amount of books, get a free poster of a kitten. There was nothing as fun as the day when your books arrived. "Bridge to Terabithia", that was classic, like, who knew a kid could die in a kids book?

I have an old series of old books about a family called THE HAPPY HOLLISTERS. Anyone familiar with those?

I don't remember Scholastic Books. That was probably after my time. it was harder to ship stone tablets.
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 03:53:36 PM: Quote from: TCB on June 09, 2005, 03:36:59 PM
I don't remember Scholastic Books. That was probably after my time. it was harder to ship stone tablets.
I thought you would have been reading the Dead Seattle Scrolls.
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Post by: TCB on June 09, 2005, 04:01:23 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 03:53:36 PM
I thought you would have been reading the Dead Seattle Scrolls.

There is no groaning at HHW....There is no groaning at HHW....There is no groaning at HHW....There is no groaning at HHW....There is no groaning at HHW....There is no groaning at HHW....
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 09, 2005, 04:04:26 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 03:53:36 PM
I thought you would have been reading the Dead Seattle Scrolls.

Or the Rosetta Stone.
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 04:07:55 PM: Is that Sharon's mother?
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Post by: Jane on June 09, 2005, 04:24:10 PM: We are having a fun time visiting family and friends. :)

Today a bird crapped on Keith's head. An experience he would have been happy to have missed. I had a good laugh at his expense. I did clean it off for him.

Tuesday Bruce treated me to a delicious breakfast at Dupar's. Bruce, I'm pleased to say you were right, I had locked my car. ;D

Last night we had dinner at the home of our good friend Marsha's. Penny intruduced us to Marsha when we were in high school and like Penny she was a bridesmaid at our wedding. Bruce, Ricky and his wife were also there and then a suprise guest arrived. The surprise guest knew us but Keith Ricky and I just stared at her in silence ;D. Finally Keith said "Geri".

Gotta go, off to get ready to visit Keith's Aunt and family for dinner.
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Post by: Jane on June 09, 2005, 04:26:52 PM: Larry, too late. We were at the Grove on Monday. We met another high school friend in front of Barnes and Noble. Darn! I would have enjoyed meeting your friend.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 09, 2005, 04:30:32 PM: Quote from: Jane on June 09, 2005, 04:26:52 PM
Larry, too late. We were at the Grove on Monday. We met another high school friend in front of Barnes and Noble. Darn! I would have enjoyed meeting your friend.

Well, he's in Manhattan till Tuesday. Maybe next visit. We talked about you today. Did your ears burn?
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 09, 2005, 04:31:15 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 04:07:55 PM
Is that Sharon's mother?

Yes, didn't she write MY DAUGHTER BIG SLUT?
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 04:42:09 PM: Geri??? Oy and vey, and a large one at that.
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Post by: Danise on June 09, 2005, 05:11:17 PM: Gee, 8:14 PM and nobody home. I feel like a latch key kid. :( :'(
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Post by: Danise on June 09, 2005, 05:18:39 PM: Bk must have the Sight, asking about our favorite childhood books. We had a book a fair at work today and guess what I found? A book collection of all of the Dick and Jane books! No, I didn’t buy it but it sure brought back some memories.

Look BK! Look! Look! See Bear run! Run, Bear, run! Oh, Oh, Oh! ;) :) Imagine if we really talked that way.

I also liked Encyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew. I think at one time I also had most, if not all, of both books. I wonder what happened to them? Lost in the mists of time I guess.
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 05:19:29 PM: Now have a meeting with the LACC faculty member.
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Post by: Danise on June 09, 2005, 05:36:13 PM: Quote from: Stuart on June 09, 2005, 10:20:04 AM

We had a terrific set of children's books in very bright cloth-covered hardback editions. Couldn't tell you what the titles were, as I never cracked one open, as I recall. But there they stood, paint job after paint job. Red, Blue, Yellow, Green. Maybe other colors.

I wonder if your talking about the "Red", "Green", "Blue" and "Yellow" fairy story books. I loved them and still managed to hang on to them somehow. They're in my room along with my unabridged copies of the Arabian nights set. If my parents only knew. Those stories (The Arabian nights) are really quite dirty reading material for a youngster. I think most people are used to the watered down versions of the stories.

I used to love the school bookfairs as well. Remember, a couple of months ago I found a copy of one of the books I had as a child from one of them. “Champion Prince Tom” or some such title. It’s the true story of a little cocker spaniel dog. Great read.

Books were such wonderful friends. I spent many a happy hour with my nose buried in a book. My Mom blames my reading so much for causing my poor eyesight but if that was the cause, it was worth it.

Speaking of eyesight, I have to go to the eye doctor tomorrow. Time for my new supply of contacts for the year.

Somewhere along the way I discovered Sci Fi and Fantasy books. Ahh. What a boon that was.

I wish I had the time to spend on my books like I used to. I do read on the bus or at lunch time but not nearly as much as I used to. Someday.
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Post by: George on June 09, 2005, 05:58:37 PM: Quote from: Jane on June 09, 2005, 04:24:10 PM
Last night we had dinner at the home of our good friend Marsha's. Penny intruduced us to Marsha when we were in high school and like Penny she was a bridesmaid at our wedding. Bruce, Ricky and his wife were also there and then a suprise guest arrived. The surprise guest knew us but Keith Ricky and I just stared at her in silence ;D. Finally Keith said "Geri".

Quote from: bk on June 09, 2005, 04:42:09 PM
Geri??? Oy and vey, and a large one at that.

I assume that there's a story buried somewhere in that "Oy and vey." ;)
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Post by: Hisaka on June 09, 2005, 06:22:33 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on June 09, 2005, 10:10:33 AM
Here he comes!

Just as I expected, it's very romantic!
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Post by: Michael on June 09, 2005, 07:03:37 PM: Two film version Sweet Charity questions.

1) Was the alternate "happy ending" ever shown in the theaters?

2) Was the general release (as opposed to roadshow version) the cut version or did that come later?
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Post by: Michael on June 09, 2005, 07:04:37 PM: And what exactly is a six track soundtrack (other than there is six tarcks of sound)?
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on June 09, 2005, 07:59:05 PM: Ain't it awful, the heat? Ain't it awful?
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 08:05:11 PM: Our radio news here just carried a story about a shark attack in New Jersey. (I watched "Shark Tale" last night too). Stay away from the water DtM.
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 08:50:06 PM: All right, this is completely unacceptable, this ridiculous errant and truantness. The TV season is over, kiddies. So, let's get off our predictable, complacent butt cheeks and get some postin' goin' on before I have to bitch slap the errant and truant from here to eternity and hell and back.

The Sweet Charity happy endind was only shown in one or two preview screeenings. Sanity won out. The general release version was the "cut" version, although there was a further "cut" version for the airlines that ran just under two hours.
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 08:51:31 PM: Had an interesting meeting with the LACC faculty member, about which more I cannot say at this time, oh, no, more I cannot say at this time.

Then Tammy and I had a working dinner that was quite fruitful. And now I am back, have read through the four posts made since six o'clock (I mean, REALLY), and I shall now finish the movie I started last night.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:03:27 PM: Good Evening!

Back from niece- and nephew-sitting. It started off with the usual "Where's my mommy?!?!?!!?" trauma for my niece, Alyssa, but due to the intervention of my nephew, she settled down pretty quickly.

"Uncle Jojo, if she watches her Care Bears, she'll calm right down."

So, John Michael loaded up the DVD player, hit play, and, lo and behold, Alyssa stopped crying. Then she and her brother just sat in the big recliner in the living room watching various adventure of the Care Bears for the next hour or so.

:)

While they were watching the Care Bears, I took out my camera-phone and took some pictures. Now if I can just figure out how to post them here - the format is strange. But they both are camera hogs, so it was a nice way to get Alyssa even more comfortable with me. :)

After building Lego castles in the basement, it was time to get ready for bed. John made sure to tell me that he takes his shower after Alyssa takes her bath. And Alyssa made sure I knew which soap and shampoo to use. Of course, earlier in the evening, when I would say, "Hey, it's time for a bath," she would say, "No." But as soon as it was 8:00, and "Time for bed," she just went through her routine.

After her bath, John Michael took his shower. All by himself. While he was cleaning up, I got Alyssa dressed for bed - she even took out her pajamas for me. She told me where her hair brush was, and that I had to read to her too. We read some Mickey Mouse adventure book - and, actually, John Michael read to her too.

After all the reading, Alyssa told me that she sleeps with her light off, but she has her own special light behind her bed - a night-light. And then she told me that I needed to lie down with her while she went to bed. So, I did what she told me, and once she was asleep, I quietly left her room, and headed over to John Michael's room.

John Michael was already under his covers, but he wanted someone to read to him too. So, I read him the Mickey Mouse adventure book - something about Father Time and his missing Millenium Clock. However, unlike his little sister, he does sleep with his light on - and the door cracked open just a little bit.

:)

All in all, it was a wonderful evening. They are really wonderful kids. And John Michael is a great big brother, very protective. And Alyssa is a great little sister.

When my brother and his wife called in to check in on things, they were actually surprised they were in bed on time - well, almost on time - and that Alyssa had actually calmed down after the "scene" when they were leaving the house.

And tomorrow, I will be attending John Michael's school musical, "Go Fish!". He apparently even has a "BIG" two-line solo in one of the songs.

I can't wait!

:)
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:03:53 PM: According to my handy dandy one off calendar from the NW, today/tomorrow is the birthday of Judy Garland.
I may play a recording by Toto to celebrate. Or perhaps "Tin Man" by America or Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:05:52 PM: Nephews and nieces are wonderful beings.
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:06:23 PM: I have a 45 year old nephew who would make a great care bear.
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Post by: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 09:07:22 PM: DR Danise, that book was called CHAMPION DOG PRINCE TOM. I got mine from the Weekly Reader Children's Book Club along with DANNY DUNN AND THE HOMEWORK MACHINE and many other wonderful books.
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:07:40 PM: Hello DR MBarnum. Ebbtidings to you. Hope you enjoy the tracks.
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:09:05 PM: Get to work DRs - my quota is nearly met. I intend to avoid the bitchslapping.
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Post by: MBarnum on June 09, 2005, 09:10:42 PM: I will most definately be enjoying them DJ Dazzy TomovOz!
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Post by: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 09:10:55 PM: According to Gretchyn Wyler, whom I interviewed when she came through here with a national tour of SWEET CHARITY, the licensing company for the stage version offered the choice of the Broadway ending or the happy ending (which I assume was the same as the ending filmed and not used). Ms. Wyler told me that they had used the happy ending version when the show played New Orleans, but Charlotte got the Broadway ending.
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Post by: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 09:12:01 PM: Back from the show where we had a big, sensational audience who laughed and cried and really seemed to enjoy the show. Very grratifying.
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Post by: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 09:14:20 PM: Well, I'm really tired tonight, so having checked in, I'll going to head on toward the bedroom area and see what awaits me there.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:16:17 PM: Oh...

"Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by John C. O'Brien... and the sequel "The Secret of NIMH"

-And after checking Amazon, I didn't realize that his daughter has written some sequels to the books.
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Post by: MBarnum on June 09, 2005, 09:18:45 PM: Well, Laurie (QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE) Mitchell will be attending the July Ray Courts Hollywood show so I do believe that I will be attending as well! Woohoo!

Also there will be Marcia Mae Jones and Rhodes Reason's hottie brother Rex Reason!

It should be a good show!
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Post by: MBarnum on June 09, 2005, 09:19:21 PM: It is fun being an uncle, isn't it DR Jose!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:24:06 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on June 09, 2005, 09:07:22 PM
DR Danise, that book was called CHAMPION DOG PRINCE TOM. I got mine from the Weekly Reader Children's Book Club along with DANNY DUNN AND THE HOMEWORK MACHINE and many other wonderful books.

Ah! "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine"!!!

How we all wanted one of those machines!!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:32:35 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on June 09, 2005, 09:19:21 PM
It is fun being an uncle, isn't it DR Jose!

Yes, it is!

Tonight was the first time I got to spend some one-on-one time with them which made the evening more special. And it also showed the excellent parenting skills of my brother and his wife. Those are two very well-behaved children - who are still "kids" too.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:33:57 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:05:52 PM
Nephews and nieces are wonderful beings.

Any pics?
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 09:34:27 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:06:23 PM
I have a 45 year old nephew who would make a great care bear.

Any pics?

;D
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:40:23 PM: For Jose
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Post by: TCB on June 09, 2005, 09:41:53 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:06:23 PM
I have a 45 year old nephew who would make a great care bear.

Yeah, I will second that motion!
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:43:48 PM: I have however never read to Malcolm nor have I put him to bed. (He is quite happy to hug his Uncle Tom though).
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Post by: TCB on June 09, 2005, 09:47:18 PM: Sorry I have been E & T today, but I ............. just a second, let me check my excuse book ............... I was at a rehearsal for ANNIE GET YOUR GUN. Our new Frank Butler starts his run a week from tonight, so we had a farily pointless rehearsal with just the leads.
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Post by: TCB on June 09, 2005, 09:48:04 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:43:48 PM
I have however never read to Malcolm nor have I put him to bed. (He is quite happy to hug his Uncle Tom though).

Perhaps you should try putting him to bed.
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Post by: TCB on June 09, 2005, 09:51:37 PM: We got the first of our ANNIE GET YOUR GUN reviews today. I was described by the reviewer as the workhorse of Puget Sound Theater. Hmmmm.
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:56:30 PM: At least you were not referred to as a gelding. Nor was it suggested you should be put out to pasture or worse.
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Post by: Tomovoz on June 09, 2005, 09:58:29 PM: And Jed was referred as the young colt?
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 10:01:21 PM: A new Frank Butler?

Wha' happened?
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Post by: Jed on June 09, 2005, 10:08:13 PM: Quote from: TCB on June 09, 2005, 09:47:18 PM
...so we had a farily pointless rehearsal with just the leads.

Yeah, that about sums it up.
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Post by: Jed on June 09, 2005, 10:12:24 PM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 10:01:21 PM
A new Frank Butler?

Wha' happened?

What happened was a scramble to find a Frank Butler for the production in the first place. The one who was originally cast dropped out before rehearsals even started, having received a better (a.k.a. paying) gig with another theater. After trying to wrangle a few different guys into it, they finally found one who could only do the first two of our four weekends, and he's the only one we've worked with up to this point. A few weeks into rehearsal, they finally roped somebody into covering the second half of the run, and tonight was the first of his two put-in rehearsals.
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Post by: Jrand74 on June 09, 2005, 10:27:20 PM: DRLAURA - who knew the picture of an airplane could be so romantic. Very nice!

I meant to tell you yesterday when you mentioned DIAMOND HEAD, MR BK, that Ms France Nuyen (with all of her scenes filmed in one room, practically) walks away with the movie. She is so beautiful! And the scenery is stunning. That Elizabeth Allan woman who later played Paul Lyndel's wife (!) on his TV series, is probably one of my LEAST favorite actresses...I don't get her message - not that she is sending one especially for me.

OLIVER! was okay tonight. Sold out for tonight and the rest of the run. And audiences are full of crazy people. They call and ask for tickets and you say there are none, and they ask about another night, or you tell them you only have 2 singles and they say I want six together, please.

Then there are those who reserve 10 tickets and when they arrive....well Aunt Esther and Uncle Tanoose couldn't come and we really only need 4 of them, thanks.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.....and they are also a bunch of mess cats - I hate cleaning up after people who should know better.

Can you tell I have had a BAD day. Tomorrow will be better, I am sure.

Oh, and some &^*%# tore the faucet off one of the sinks in the ladies room! Whew!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 11:29:03 PM: DR Jrand - Count to 10...

1...

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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 11:29:29 PM: 5...

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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 11:29:52 PM: 1...

2...

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;D
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 11:30:34 PM: Quote from: Jed on June 09, 2005, 10:12:24 PM
What happened was a scramble to find a Frank Butler for the production in the first place. The one who was originally cast dropped out before rehearsals even started, having received a better (a.k.a. paying) gig with another theater. After trying to wrangle a few different guys into it, they finally found one who could only do the first two of our four weekends, and he's the only one we've worked with up to this point. A few weeks into rehearsal, they finally roped somebody into covering the second half of the run, and tonight was the first of his two put-in rehearsals.

Well, that explains it!

Thanks, DR Jed.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on June 09, 2005, 11:33:16 PM: Quote from: JRand54 on June 09, 2005, 10:27:20 PM

Oh, and some &^*%# tore the faucet off one of the sinks in the ladies room! Whew!

There was that great article in the New York Times last year about the problem with thefts at restaurants - people taking the silverware, ash trays, plates, etc.

Well, one restauranteur noted that someone had stolen the sink fixtures in one his bathrooms. They were some expensive European set-up. However, the person not only stole the sink fixtures, but installed cheap imitations in their place!!!
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Post by: bk on June 09, 2005, 11:54:33 PM: New notes in a mere five minutes.
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Post by: George on June 09, 2005, 11:56:24 PM: I work with a woman whose daughter will be getting married later this year. Madeline (my co-worker) was asking me about music and songs and I suggested "In Whatever Time We Have." It's all I could think of on the spot...that and the wedding processional / "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria" from The Sound of Music. ::) Anyway, I said that I'd make a CD of the versions that I have: the original London cast recording, the American Premiere recording and the BK-produced version from "The Stephen Schwartz Album" (which I got autographed by Stephen Schwartz, himself!) Anyway, that's my last minute post (if this posts). ;D
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Post by: George on June 09, 2005, 11:57:08 PM: I made it! Tomorrow's Friday!!