DP Colin and I have just watched "Queen Of The Stardust Ballroom". I did not know until a couple of weeks ago that it was available on DVD. It really has such charm.
I, too, love baked potatoes with oodles of butter and chives.
And I prefer a Miso Soup with potatoes and onions. It's tasty.
Ah, yes. Text message. I know what they are but since we don't have cell phones (we are probably the only two people in all of New York City Anthony and me, who don't have cell phones) I don't get text messages.
Oh, and my joke about the cast member marrying a legend in the trivia question: Bobby Van married Elaine Joyce. ;)
Yep, and there was also Jay Harnick marrying the legendary Barbara Barrie. I spent about an hour researching this until before I recalled that BK dropped the question.
Also, was the Alive and Kicking sketch writer Michael Stuart the same Michael Stewart of Hello, Dolly? If he was, what was he doing between 1950 and 1960?
(a Dan Quayle reference, he is a fraternity brother of mine).
Look up Mike Stewart! The man CHANGED his name through his career.
When you look up "Michael Stewart", it seems he started off the with book to "Bye Bye, Birdie" and flew from there!
Look up Mike Stewart! The man CHANGED his name through his career.
When you look up "Michael Stewart", it seems he started off the with book to "Bye Bye, Birdie" and flew from there!
What a fabulous career THAT would have been had he not had any prior experiences!!!
Betsy makes an incredible sliced potato, kale and cheese dish that's unbelievably tasty.
The first credit for Michael Stewart I can think of is the book revision to Lillian Hellman's script to CANDIDE, for the 1957 tour and the 1958 London production. It's my favorite libretto for CANDIDE.
I believe the "real" answer BK was looking for was Mickey Deems and Judy Garland (that's what I put), but evidently there is some disagreement as to whether it's that Mickey.
Baked potatoe I like with sour cream and butter.
My only reference material is the Internet Broadway Database, which is never totally accurate.
Jose...my God, man, are you trying to kill me!?!?! (When are we going to those places?) I've not yet been to Magnolia Bakery, but I've heard their cupcakes are UH-MAY-ZING.
Now, about potatoes. I love them. I love them mashed (with garlic or cheese or both. The Viceroy in Chelsea has incredible mashed potatoes). I love them fried. (Joe Allen's fries in that red wine garlic butter is fabulous). I love them baked. (A little margarine, a little bacon, a little heaven). I love them hashed. (Political differences aside, Cracker Barrel serves some of the best hash brown potatoes I've ever eaten). I love potato bread. In short, I love potatoes.
My mom makes a hash brown casserole that I beg for every time I go home. It involves the hash browns, obviously, in sour cream, cream of mushroom soup, chopped onions and then it's absolutely smothered in cheddar cheese and baked. My favorite part is the cheese, but oh! how I do love that recipe. She calls them "Lucious Potatoes." Amen, sister!
I loathe the over-usage of cell phones in public areas, and I despise the cell phone companies for promoting their usage in every situation.. That's why God invented pay phones. I will never (I hope) have one either, DRBen.
William Westmoreland has died. While he is not thought of very highly (especially by people in my generation and those older--those younger probably don't even know who he was), he was a very good friend and colleague of my father's, and I will always be appreciative of the fact that he and his wife Katherine ("Kitzi," believe it or don't) took a special trip to SLC to personally present my father the Military Citizen of the Year Award sometime in the late 80s or early 90s.
I think Mike Barnum might be a Quayle fraternity brother, too!!
:D
Baked with sour cream, hash browns with a bit of ketchup and tabasco, garlic mashed, non-garlic mashed, home fries, not-too-thin French fries, most any style with a thick mushroom gravy, baked wedges covered with cheese, thin-sliced and fried or baked with some loverly herbs, or in a not-overly-mayonaissed salad. Loves me some potatoey goodness!
LOL and when I'm in NY I will be very grateful for my cell phone. :)
MBarnum what did you top your fried potatoes with?
I don't think anyone has mentioned that Geraldine Fitzgerald has passed on at ninety-one. I worked with her on the TV version of Forget-Me-Not Lane, and I absolutely adored her - we really bonded when we filmed the show, and she was gracious and kind and completely lovely.
Jed, you and I are cut from the same cloth.
Repeating my request from yesterday: could some kind NYC H/K try to find yesterday's (July 18) New York Sun and tell me if the review of "St. Frances of Hollywood" mentions my web article "Shedding Light on Shadowland." If you can get the paper in any case and scan the review for me (even if it doesn't mention my article), I'll repay you for the paper. Thank you.
My new theme for work is "Every Day a Little Death."
DR TPunk: What is it you do? I don't recognize you from my office, so you must be suffering some other form of death than the one I suffer. I feel your pain.Hee hee- I work in HR for a "major commercial broadway theater company". I actually enjoy a good number of the people I work with as well as the environment. Really it is just my boss and the way she insists on running our department into the ground and sucking my soul that gets me down. Luckily it's only for a little while longer. I'm leaving in 6 weeks and 3 days to finish my social work degree and do an internship with the Jewish Board. ;D
I'm leaving in 6 weeks and 3 days to finish my social work degree and do an internship with the Jewish Board. ;D
TPunk, are you familiar with the Jewish Child Care Agency (JCCA)?No, I'm not. I wonder if they are or were at some point associated with the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services.
Syrup on fried potatoes?
That is as strange as.....as a fiddler on the roof!
On the flip side, I am slowly figuring out places I want to visit in New York, New York...The Museum of Radio and Television where I can view, to my hearts delight, TV programs starring Allison Hayes and June Kenney and to the Little India section of Queens.
It took me a long time to get used to the idea of malt vinegar on french fries, but once I did--yum!
Congratulations to DR MattH for winning the sparkling prize in the Trivia Contest!
Well done!
Hee hee- I work in HR for a "major commercial broadway theater company". I actually enjoy a good number of the people I work with as well as the environment.Memory tell me that you work for "The Mouse" Right?
LOL and when I'm in NY I will be very grateful for my cell phone. :)
Don't forget the Museum of the City of New York at 105th and 5th - I keep telling people about it, but nobody EVER goes! :P
Congratulations to DR MattH for winning the sparkling prize in the Trivia Contest!
Well done!
Duh! I didn't even think that MatHough was our own DR MattH. I thought it was an instance of some outside lurker who horned in on our act.
Congrats to DR MattH!
I think all of us "creative types" who have felt the life being sucked out of us by the fluorescent lights have hummed that tune from time to time. ;)
LOL and when I'm in NY I will be very grateful for my cell phone. :)
*GASP!* She works for "The Mouse!?!" So do I in a very roundabout way...they're practically taking over MTI. Glad to hear you're getting out...Florie did it - so can you!I do indeed! My apologies for all the secrecy- I just read an article about people who have been fired for posting negative info with their company's names... I'll be able to complain much more freely once I have moved on.
Hi DRGINNY....I am taking my MAMMA MIA! program to show the cast how their faces SHOULD look. It's pretty grim right now.
I've dealt with the 3 major publishing houses when it comes to shows, and MTI by far is the best for costumer service and their understanding of music and orchestrations and such. Tams Whitmark has never been very helpful in that respect. And let's not even talk about Samuel French, who has the poorist upkeep of their musical materials out of anyone I've mentioned. Things like missing pages and such, they don't seem to care. The 'cello book for "The Secret Garden" came with the top line totally missing on every page, they sent us a new one and the bill for overnight postage. UGH! Oh - and R&H Theatricals are great, too - but MTI is the best!
I've caught up with today's posts. Back later. Back to Potter!
I've dealt with the 3 major publishing houses when it comes to shows, and MTI by far is the best for costumer service and their understanding of music and orchestrations and such. Tams Whitmark has never been very helpful in that respect. And let's not even talk about Samuel French, who has the poorist upkeep of their musical materials out of anyone I've mentioned. Things like missing pages and such, they don't seem to care. The 'cello book for "The Secret Garden" came with the top line totally missing on every page, they sent us a new one and the bill for overnight postage. UGH! Oh - and R&H Theatricals are great, too - but MTI is the best!
Don't forget the Museum of the City of New York at 105th and 5th - I keep telling people about it, but nobody EVER goes! :P
I haven't seen this in years. It was a wonnerful telepic with solid performances from Maureen Stapleton and Charles Durning. I hated the ending, though. I always wondered if the story about it being imposed by CBS was true or not.
There are times when I refer to my current situation as "My Dilbert Days." Today is not one of them, though :)
Hisaka
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I feel exactly the same way. It's not nice to feel something touch you and you don't know what it is. Not to mention we have to do the Sting Ray shuffle or risk getting stung. That HURTS!
Sting Ray! So dangerous, they have a deadly poison!
Jane
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I know when I will arrive in NY, just don’t know how long I need to stay, making it very difficult to book a hotel. I’m very disappointed to say the Comfort Inn is now booked except for the first 3 nights of my trip.
Well, it is syrup on fried mashed potatos. It is pretty good!
I am horrified to see that flights from Portland to Burbank have gone from $158 round trip 6 months ago to $340 the last several weeks and now are at $389!!! Son of a *&$#@...I am already commited to going, and I sure don't want to miss going...but for the sake of Buddha why does it have to be so expensive right now?
Does it get any cheaper if I wait until the last minute to get a ticket...or does that make it MORE expensive?
Don't forget the Museum of the City of New York at 105th and 5th - I keep telling people about it, but nobody EVER goes! :P
Hisaka thanks for the photo. Those are big. I wonder if they are Japanese plums or European ones.
Those prunes are imported from Oregon, DR JANE. That's why I asked you if you know the product company, as they pruduce firs-rate prunes.
It's amazing you use a miso as one of ingrediends in your home-made dressing. :D
I should have mentioned Japanese plums are very popular in Oregon. We even have a tree in our yard. Is there an Oregon address for the prunes? I couldn't find anything on line for the brand name you mentioned.
I believe I recorded You'll Never Know. I believe the director and adaptor of the show paid for the recording.
Very good Rodzinski! Anyplace that takes you out to eat is a good place!
Nice photos, DR JOSE. The snug backyard with a rock staircase is beautiful. I have a dream of making my tiny garden a rock garden with a lot of alpine plants like an edelweiss.
French fries are my favorite style of potato, and the best fries I have ever had in my lifetime were at a steak restaurant chain called Western Sizzlin'.
The fries were cut into VERY long strips - like 10 inches long (no innuendo, DR TCB) - and fried a golden brown, and they just filled your platter up with them. I don't know where they got that size of potato in order to make fries that long, but they are far and away the best fries I have ever eaten.
I believe the "real" answer BK was looking for was Mickey Deems and Judy Garland (that's what I put), but evidently there is some disagreement as to whether it's that Mickey.
Jose...now that you're in the City, you need to join TDF so you can get discount tickets cheaper than what you could get a TKTS. www.tdf.org
Well off to the theatre to make improvements in my choreography requested by the director....whew! How do you direct a musical and NEVER leave your chair?
Just back from visiting with my friend, Tommy. He's leaving Friday to do a four-week gig at Bristol Valley Theatre, then he's back for only 3 weeks before he leaves to do the last 3 months of the FULL MONTY tour, so we hung out one last time before he leaves. We watched "The Color Purple" and ate pizza. It was a bonding experience - he cried, I cried, we ate pizza and made up song lyrics for the musical version. I'll see him when he gets back from Naples (NY), but still - I'm gonna miss him...