Today is also Juneteenth! (http://www.juneteenth.com/)
(Combining this with Father's Day, I can't help thinking of John Amos.)
From what I've read in that marvelous interview book Allen did with a (Swedish?) journalist, Maureen O'Sullivan was just not up to doing the mother part justice, and that Elaine Stritch's performance puts O'Sullivan's to shame.
As for Allen's later works, there are two that I'm VERY fond of: SMALL TIME CROOKS and DECONSTRUCTING HARRY. But they still can't compete with his best from earlier decades.
DR George are you going to the gathering tonight or the reading on Monday...or both?
I am also looking quite forward to finally meeting DRs TCB and Jed, who I believe are planning to be at Monday's reading...I do wish DR Ann would come too as I would very much enjoy meeting her!
DR S Woody White what do you do so it read Juneteenth and not the actual website. I never can seem to do that!http://I type in what I want to have highlighted in blue first. Then I highlight that area, and hit the url button. The highlighted type automatically is surrounded by the url and /url in brackets. After the first url (but before the end bracket), I type =, and then enter the website's address.
Only 9 1/2 hours until the I meet Mr. Bruce Kimmel in the flesh.Hmmm...normally, he wears clothes when appearing in public. Is he granting you a private interview?
Well, as strange as it may seem, I'm going to ask for some "sick" vibes for today. I want to take tomorrow off without having to lie about it, so I need to be sick today. Not sick enough that I'd be unable to attend tomorrow, but enough that I'd be wise to take the day off to avoid infecting the kids. So, bring on the sickness! I have a fairly good chance of it, based on the stomach flu that knocking out half of our staff last Thursday and Friday...
Indeed, a happy Father's Day to all the daddys in these parts (and others).
In conjunction with this, it should be noted that this is also National Martini Day!
:D
DR Ann - Well...
Go into your shower with your clothes on. Turn on the shower. Get sopping wet. Go outside. Run around. Get chills. Go back inside.
Repeat.
;D
YES, DR ANN, LISTEN TO DR KEVORKIAN!!
I wonder if BK has landed yet?
I hope he will be pleased with the absolutely wonderful sunny weather we are having today!
Is no one meeting him?
Dialog vs. DialogueTo settle the first two, consider:
Monolog vs. Monologue
Theater vs. Theatre
Any thoughts?
...Or not.
And to continue this frenzy while the Pacific Northwest contingent of HHW is gathering...Things were so much easier when I was in school. Coffee was not some high-priced beverage, intricate and statused.
There was an an interesting article in yesterday's Washington Post about "Javanomics 101" referring to just how much a student's daily Starbucks habit is contributing to their post-graduation debt. For some people, it could average up $9,000 over their educational career with most of them paying for their "comfort latte" with money from their school loans. Which could end up being a nice chunk of their total debt.
Of course, it also made me think of one's post-academic career Starbucks consumption.
Javanomics 101 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061701226.html)
And here's the link to the "Stop Buying Expensive Coffee and Save Calculator"
Money In A Cardboard Cup (http://www.hughchou.org/calc/coffee.cgi)
Hmmm...Boys and their toys!
There are some other interesting "calculators" on that site.
http://www.hughchou.org/calc/
Things were so much easier when I was in school. Coffee was not some high-priced beverage, intricate and statused.
Of course, neither could you earn a living pouring said beverage. Times have changed.
:-\
...And in related news... I found out the managers here in the DC area who manage some of the Domino's Pizza locations, make an average of $10,000 a month! Yes, they work six - or seven - days a week, for 10-12 hours a day, but still... That's a lot of pepperoni!
Hmmm... I guess if New York City doesn't work out...
Does that mean you'll be peddling your hash elsewhere?
SSshhhh.... icks-nay on the ash-hay...
:-X
:P
Dialog vs. Dialogue
Monolog vs. Monologue
Theater vs. Theatre
Any thoughts?
...Or not.
Are you talking Alice B Toklas brownies and I'm talking corned beef?
I have no preference.
Do she have a cookbook out?
DR elmore - And I thought you just got your corned beef around the corner at Artie's?
DR elmore - So all this somewhat witty, innuendo-laced repartee begs the question:
Which one of us is the straight man of the team?
;D
And on that note - a very low A-flat - I'm outta here...
I'm gonna head over to my brother's house to give him his Father's Day card, and spend some time with my niece and nephew too.
Laters...
Theatre[/u][/i]. It always was, it always is and it always will be, at least for me. And the distinction that one is a physical space (er) and the other is the amorphous thing (re) means little to me. I worked in many different theatres and I worked in the business of theatre (also the business of show). As it was, so shall it be.
I now stand off from my soapbox.
Ben, I'm with you!
Jose, stage directions in a script are never credited to the director. The published play is the work of the author. There was a big flap over this I remember a few years back where stage directors were trying to copyright or at least get credit for their blocking...and I think this spilled over into the area of what exactly was published in the script. The Dramatist Guild would have nothing to do with anything that infringed on the their published work and I think also saw it as an attempt by directors to usurp and confuse authorship. Thankfully, the Dramatist Guild is very strong and they would have none of the auteur shit that directors come up with in film. I can remember what happened by I don't think they were allowed to copyright blocking ideas either. I could be wrong.
Dialog vs. DialogueNot alternatives here in OZ.
Monolog vs. Monologue
Theater vs. Theatre
Any thoughts?
...Or not.
That's what you get living near Union Square!If there are no more local responses DR Elmore, and you can wait the 10 days for the mail. Can do. (I Have it transferred from record by a friend in NYC)
DRs, can someone burn me a CD of the Original Broadway Cast of BAKER STREET?
If there are no more local responses DR Elmore, and you can wait the 10 days for the mail. Can do. (I Have it transferred from record by a friend in NYC)
I shall post it today DR Elmore. A pleasure.
I have the BAKER STREET lp - but no way to transfer to CD... :(
Dialogue and monologue, no question. I must admit, however, that I do go with the convention of "theater" for the space and "theatre" for the art form.
Cool and breezy here too.
Just got off the phone with the world's foremost "Babes In Toyland" expert, one Larry Moore. Made plans for some DVD viewing in the days to come.
DVDs with the King! Yay! However, I cannot say of what he is the Kng!
Hello, DRJed! Are you not one of the merrymaking throng at JMK's tonight?
I'll jump in here for a second, too. I think this is a recent development, DRCharlesPogue; it's my memory that most of the Dramatists Play Service and Samuel French scripts up until 1980 were based on the stage manager's copy with properties, business, etc. all based on the original production. This may explain the discrepancies between the "acting editions" and the author's text published by someone representing the playwright. The Samuel French edition of Orton's WHAT THE BUTLER SAW is the rewrite for the McAlpin Rooftop Theatre in New York, after Orton's death; the original text is published by Methuen in England and Grove Press in the US.
I will jump in here too. Some years back a regional theater here did Love! Valor! Compassion! Word got back to Joe Mantello that the production had copied his staging without credit. He came down to see the show and saw that they did and he filed a grevience or even a law suit. I don't remember exactly. The theater claimed that they were only following the script that was supplied to them. It seemed that the script had Montello's concepts and stagings. They were not credited to him. The director and the theater thought it was the playwright's.
An aside to this. I was managing a Blockbuster at the time and he came into the store with this then boyfriend playwright John Robin Baitz. We talked a bit. When I asked him about LVC he wouldn't talk about. I realized he wasn't a happy camper.
And for those of us who haven't yet bought gifts, here's a thoughtful gift suggestion Sandra found in Wal-mart:
Ring out the bells! The news just announced that Katie Holmes and her beloved(?) Tom Cruise are in New York. Does anybody care? Oy!
MB and George are here and we are supping and having a beautiful afternoon. BK has had his first Boca Burger and lived to tell the tale.
More later.
I do, I do. Please tell me all about it-not! ;D
Ginny GOOD VIBES to your nephew Christopher!!
We were out purchasing the game when Craig called and missed talking to him. He said he will call again during the week. I think he is done with his teaching job and will be wrapping up his two years in the Peace Corp at the end of the month.
DR elmore - So all this somewhat witty, innuendo-laced repartee begs the question:
Which one of us is the straight man of the team?
;D
What's an auto parts store Ron?
DR Ann - Well...
Go into your shower with your clothes on. Turn on the shower. Get sopping wet. Go outside. Run around. Get chills. Go back inside.
Repeat.
;D
Cool and breezy here too.
Just got off the phone with the world's foremost "Babes In Toyland" expert, one Larry Moore. Made plans for some DVD viewing in the days to come.
It's all the theatah and dahnse to me! Anyone here read THE EGG AND I?
Did you have a matinee today, DR TCB? If so, how did it go? If not, when is your next show?
Thanks for the info on 42ND STREET. I noted it in my calendar so I can send you broken leg wishes at the appropriate time.
- burger parties in Washington -