Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on June 08, 2024, 12:19:15 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were tuned and played on the piano, and now it is time for you to post until the tuned cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: PHANTASMAGORICAL!
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Notes digested. Assimilated.
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Mike Shayne with the Barbra takedown! Oh snap!
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Speaking of Mike Shayne, Morton Gould looks not unlike Lloyd Nolan.
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Mike Shayne with the Barbra takedown! Oh snap!
I know, right? ;D
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Wordle 1,085 6/6
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Whew! :o
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Great to hear about the sold-out house for Jrand and company at OKLAHOMA!
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Feel-better vibes for WFO!
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More healthy vibes for vixmom!
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Most enjoyable reviews of "Directed By" in today's Notes.
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Good morning, all.
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Good morning, all!
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Slept fitfully. Weird dream. I was on a review panel with a bunch of much younger people. You had to do a five-letter Wordle to get into the panel discussions. Turns out an older Hispanic woman and I had to go through a different entrance and our Wordles were longer. Then they dressed the entry guards in Shakespearean costumes. Only mine had drawn swords. When I pointed out that that was intimidating, the organizers laughed it off. I no longer had to do the puzzle to get in, but the woman did, and they kept making it harder for her.
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I woke around 12:30 with my leg pains making sleep impossible. I don't think I got back to sleep before 4:00 or so. Thatch and Annabelle stayed with me all night, although my restlessness must have been a pain.
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Last night, for the first time in weeks, I watched the ballet Star on the Rise. I listened to the score on earphones, and I'm happy that it sounded so well. Doug Fullington told me yesterday that another company has expressed interest in staging it. I do love the cowboys in it. They remind me a bit of the Keystone Kops, and there always seems to be some mischief going on just out of the primary focus.
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Paint Your Wagon was revived by Encores!, starring a wonderful Keith Carradine, and the Frederick Loewe Foundation sponsored a wonderful cast album of the show. The version that Tams-Witmark rented for the past 60 years was the post-Broadway tour version. Like Camelot, Lerner never fixed the book to his satisfaction, and he stopped working with Agnes de Mille because her dances got better reviews than his script. I do wish the album had been a 2-CD set, with Trude Rittman's dance arrangement played without cuts, and the 3-5 cut songs recorded., although the Encores! recording does include the cut "What do the Other Folk Do?"
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Paint Your Wagon was revived by Encores!, starring a wonderful Keith Carradine, and the Frederick Loewe Foundation sponsored a wonderful cast album of the show. The version that Tams-Witmark rented for the past 60 years was the post-Broadway tour version. Like Camelot, Lerner never fixed the book to his satisfaction, and he stopped working with Agnes de Mille because her dances got better reviews than his script. I do wish the album had been a 2-CD set, with Trude Rittman's dance arrangement played without cuts, and the 3-5 cut songs recorded., although the Encores! recording does include the cut "What do the Other Folk Do?"
It's a great recording.
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As bigamy musicals go.
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Good morning, friends.
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I never miss a good bigamy musical.
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Who decides these things?
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~~~CONTINUED HEALTH IMPROVEMENT VIBES~~~ for WFO!!!
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As opposed to UFO.
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Interesting video, DR George. Thanks for trying the new items in question and for offering your own assessment.
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I never miss a good bigamy musical.
How biga you!
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Thanks for answering my question last night, DR John G.
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I have never seen Wait Until Dark.
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I would like to watch DR elmore3003's ballet again.
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At long last! PAGE TWO.
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Good morning
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Excellent reviews in the notes!
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Guess I’ll Wordle
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Quoted In The Notes!
How nice.
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Tonight I have my season tickets, so I will be sitting in the audience for OKLAHOMA!
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TOD:
The Erik and Lyle Menendez trial (murdered their parents)
The Sirhan Sirhan trial (murdered Bobby Kennedy)
The Claudine Longet trial (tried for killing skier Spider Sabich) (She was ex-wife of singer Andy Williams)
James Earl Ray trial (for murdereing Martin Luther King Jr.)
Those are the main murder trials i recall seeing video of and reports about on the news. I saw some proceedings of the Menendez trial on TV.
And the murder of Sharon Tate was major news with the Charles Manson cult members all on trial.
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Tonight I have my season tickets, so I will be sitting in the audience for OKLAHOMA!
I hear very good things about this production.
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I would like to watch DR elmore3003's ballet again.
Haven't you been asked to call him Larry?
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At long last! PAGE TWO.
Suffering succotash! Was it an ordeal?
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Caylee Anthony
JonBenet Ramsey
Chad and Lori Daybell
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TOD:
Jodi Arias convicted of killing her boyfriend....she was a lying piece of work.
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Interesting video, DR George. Thanks for trying the new items in question and for offering your own assessment.
It's all for science. ;)
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Tonight I have my season tickets, so I will be sitting in the audience for OKLAHOMA!
Enjoy the performance, but just as a performance! ;D
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Good morning, all.
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Allowed myself a VERY leisurely Saturday morning. And I feel much better than yesterday. I'll be ready to go to the theeder tonight.
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It's a beautiful sunny dry day here, around 70 right now, and I think it's only going up to 75 today. A nice change from the warmer and very muggy days we've been having.
And that's the weather.
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So do the farmer and the cowman ever finally become friends, or is that left unresolved?
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I mean, with all the other mishegas going on. Do we ever know? Does eventual statehood bring those parties together?
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I need to get out and mow some weeds. Get that much done today, then I can move on to other things.
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Interesting video, DR George. Thanks for trying the new items in question and for offering your own assessment.
It's all for science. ;)
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I have, however, been enjoying the morning doing none of that. I've been on YouTube listening to some songs I'll be playing next week. There's a li'l musical theeder showcase for some high school students that I just got handed to me.
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And a week later, another set of auditions to play.
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Two weeks from today, Kristi and I will be heading in to the Big Apple for the Encores! Titanic.
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So do the farmer and the cowman ever finally become friends, or is that left unresolved?
I'm wondering what the coverage would have been like of the trial of Curly in the death of Jud.
Like would there have been a big reveal surrounding Curly having sung about Jud's death not long before.
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Allowed myself a VERY leisurely Saturday morning. And I feel much better than yesterday. I'll be ready to go to the theeder tonight.
Wonderful no-allergy-symptoms news!
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Two weeks from today, Kristi and I will be heading in to the Big Apple for the Encores! Titanic.
I thoroughly enjoyed the original. That song before launching was thrilling.
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Here it is on Rosie.
https://youtu.be/Cv07o8Xa1W0?si=esQELuMe_hFRGEZ_
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Three!
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Here it is on Rosie.
https://youtu.be/Cv07o8Xa1W0?si=esQELuMe_hFRGEZ_
Thanks for linking that, John G.
Everyone is so young - almost 30 years ago!
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I’m back to The Tin Star. The Elmer Bernstein score is a riot of melody.
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Here it is on Rosie.
https://youtu.be/Cv07o8Xa1W0?si=esQELuMe_hFRGEZ_
Thanks for linking that, John G.
Everyone is so young - almost 30 years ago!
Yes.
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I remember back then seeing TITANIC, I could fit in theater seats in the middle of a row with no discomfort.
Did the seats get smaller? :)
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Do theaters now have 14 seats in space that previously had 13?
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Brian d'Arcy James and Victoria Clark weren't stars yet at that point.
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The musical hadn't settled in to becoming a hit at that point.
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Broadway top ticket prices certainly weren't hovering around even $100 yet.
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I suppose I'm up, but may try for another couple of hours - right now, four hours of sleep.
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I hear the dream ballet in DR Jrand73's Oklahoma! is a radical reinterpretation, though.
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Watching the arrivals in France for the state dinner attended by the Bidens.
Maybe in tribute to Emily Litella (played by Gilda Radner on SNL), I sometimes hear the announcers saying they're having a "steak dinner" rather than "state dinner."
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So glad DR ChasSmith is going to see Titanic. The rehearsal clips have been amazing.
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I saw the original Broadway production as well.
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Speaking of ballets, loved the video of Interplay that BK wrote about.
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I hear the dream ballet in DR Jrand73's Oklahoma! is a radical reinterpretation, though.
:) In the spirit of "Forbidden Broadway" - that could be for "Forbidden Indiana theater"
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In Forgotten Musicals on Facebook, someone mentioned Diana Canova playing Sally in Follies at LACC (she was terrific) and making Sally seem like a Tennessee Williams' character. Two which some woman enters the discussion saying, "I never saw a Sondheim woman who wasn't." I made a one sentence response, to wit, "Sondheim didn't create Sally, James Goldman created her." She retorts let's not fight it's just an opinion OKAY, then adds give it a rest. I respond in kind and basically say it's NOT an opinion that James Goldman created the character of Sally, it's a fact. Sondheim embellished the character through his words and music, but there would have been no character to musicalize and give lyrics to without Mr. Goldman. She can't stop and replies that I got her name wrong (it's a weird first name that looks like DeeDee at first glance) and to not shove my opinion down her throat.
My temptation was to retort I can't think of anything more nauseating than shoving something down your throat, but I didn't. I simply replied that once again I wasn't offering an opinion, I was offering a simple fact and that it is she who should give it a rest. I said I didn't know who she was - but then I Googled her - and guess what? She was in the off-B'way production of something called The Last Starfighter, and she also did it at NYMF - yes, NYMF, where I played the role originally played by Bill Parry - yes, we shared a stage, old DeeGee Brandemour and I. Freddie, this woman is very foolish. I told her to block me if she doesn't like facts. Funny stuff. Freddie, you should chime in, just for fun, of course.
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I know her. This sounds like out of character for her.
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In my experience, at any rate.
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I hear the dream ballet in DR Jrand73's Oklahoma! is a radical reinterpretation, though.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7622.0;attach=22224)
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In Forgotten Musicals on Facebook, someone mentioned Diana Canova playing Sally in Follies at LACC (she was terrific) and making Sally seem like a Tennessee Williams' character. Two which some woman enters the discussion saying, "I never saw a Sondheim woman who wasn't." I made a one sentence response, to wit, "Sondheim didn't create Sally, James Goldman created her." She retorts let's not fight it's just an opinion OKAY, then adds give it a rest. I respond in kind and basically say it's NOT an opinion that James Goldman created the character of Sally, it's a fact. Sondheim embellished the character through his words and music, but there would have been no character to musicalize and give lyrics to without Mr. Goldman. She can't stop and replies that I got her name wrong (it's a weird first name that looks like DeeDee at first glance) and to not shove my opinion down her throat.
My temptation was to retort I can't think of anything more nauseating than shoving something down your throat, but I didn't. I simply replied that once again I wasn't offering an opinion, I was offering a simple fact and that it is she who should give it a rest. I said I didn't know who she was - but then I Googled her - and guess what? She was in the off-B'way production of something called The Last Starfighter, and she also did it at NYMF - yes, NYMF, where I played the role originally played by Bill Parry - yes, we shared a stage, old DeeGee Brandemour and I. Freddie, this woman is very foolish. I told her to block me if she doesn't like facts. Funny stuff. Freddie, you should chime in, just for fun, of course.
She's also on "The Last Starfighter" musical's Kritzerland original cast recording.
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She's also a beloved neighbor here in this building complex.
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Her husband Dan is a sweet guy.
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Listening to Elmer Bernstein’s son, Peter, talk about his father’s music. He’s more than a son, in that he orchestrated his father’s music from the mid-1970s and on. He admits he’s no composer like his father was, but he also says Elmer couldn’t play a rock bass guitar worth a shit, which is more his gift.
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Blanche duLovett and Amanda Armfeldt are among my favorites.
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And is there an injured Southern belle more affecting than Joanne? I’ll drink to that. And one for Stella!
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And is there an injured Southern belle more affecting than Joanne? I’ll drink to that. And one for Stella!
I have always depended on the kindness of people who can get us to page 4.
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But since page 4 is so close
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It might be worth getting off page 3
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Almost ...
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Page Four!
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So, move us along.
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There we go.
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There we go.
Or as OKLAHOMA! was once called, Away we go!
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Poor shark has a loose canine.
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And West Side Story was once called Gang Way!
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Starting Memory of the Camps with lost documentary footage Hitchcock shot.
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And Pacific Overtures was once called Night of the Iguana.
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I was just reminded by a Washington Post story that "Bye Bye Birdie" did not get a good, or even decent, review from Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times.
Here's the review
https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/theater/ByeByeBirdie.pdf
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Maybe DeeGee should notch it back a few clicks. I said nothing personal to her in my initial brief one-sentence post. SHE made it personal. I'm sure she's nice but seriously, read the back and forth.
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And Pacific Overtures was once called Night of the Iguana.
Isn't that in Chrysanthemum Tea, "It's the night of the iguana, my lord. With but two days remaining, I am tired of explaining, So ignore me if you wanna, my lord."
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;D
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Poor shark has a loose canine.
Can't we ignore the "no groaning allowed" rule just for that one? :)
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Speaking of "Pacific Overtures" - is "Don Ameche" an acceptable rhyme with "Hanamichi"
Asking for a friend :)
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She replied with a snarky, "I knew exactly who you were." - I responded with she should just stop and that she turned this into the stupid that it was/is. I then immediately sent her to the cornfield, i.e. blocked her. I'm sure she's a swell person, but she came off like an idiot in this exchange - have you all actually READ it?
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From DR Singdaw:
At 98, Dick van Dyke has become the oldest Daytime Emmy winner ever.
Wow! Good for him. Since I don't watch daytime tv I had to it up.
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DR Vixmom I am sorry you had to cancel A Bronx Tale.
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Continued get well vibes for WFO!
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Vixmom, continue to get well vibes and going to your original planned brunch.
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DR Rodzinski, I watched Green Mansions years ago. I preferred the book and was very disappointed in the film.
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From DR Rodzinski:
One of my favorite books, but I can’t imagine the film capturing its essence.
IMHO it did not capture its essence.
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I have never seen Wait Until Dark.
You really should watch it.
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Two weeks from today, Kristi and I will be heading in to the Big Apple for the Encores! Titanic.
I really must mail you your ticket.
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Memory of the Camps was horrifying. It was documentary footage from just after the liberation of the concentration camps. they visited large and small camps. Hitchcock apparently did the treatment for the film and laid it out. The inhumanity is off the charts. The parallels to today are scary.
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I must take a break.
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Memory of the Camps was horrifying. It was documentary footage from just after the liberation of the concentration camps. they visited large and small camps. Hitchcock apparently did the treatment for the film and laid it out. The inhumanity is off the charts. The parallels to today are scary.
I wish all non believers would be forced to watch this :(
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I must take a break.
Speaking of this documentary and 1930s Germany, has anyone read this? I loved The Devil ion the White City.
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The Washington Post article about "Bye Bye Birdie" is called
"The ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ songwriters are in their 90s — and still best friends"
Does anyone here recall: Weren't there serious legal problems between the two of them?
I guess they've made up now, though.
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While The Garden of Beasts is interesting and worth reading, I don't think it is nearly as good as The Devil in the White City, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, or Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.
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Memory of the Camps was horrifying. It was documentary footage from just after the liberation of the concentration camps. they visited large and small camps. Hitchcock apparently did the treatment for the film and laid it out. The inhumanity is off the charts. The parallels to today are scary.
That was an early, incomplete version. The full version was completed and restored ten years ago as German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. It's available from the Imperial War Museum at:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/partnerships/german-concentration-camps-factual-survey
My second cousin once removed initiated the film and his daughter helped get it completed. My understanding of Hitchcock's role matches yours.
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Another film about the camp liberation is 16 Photographs at Ohrdruf. This is about the camp my Dad helped liberate, the first one discovered by the U.S. Army. Seeing this film helped me identify which camp that was, and start to put together the larger story of his World War II service. His stories always ended in France. The film is about a similar process of discovery of a father's World War II service:
https://www.454productions.com/16-photographs-at-ohrdruf
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At one point I was going to (jokingly) suggest the German Concentration Camps film to DR JohnG for his Hitchcock marathon. I'm impressed that you included Memory of the Camps in it!
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Memory of the Camps was horrifying. It was documentary footage from just after the liberation of the concentration camps. they visited large and small camps. Hitchcock apparently did the treatment for the film and laid it out. The inhumanity is off the charts. The parallels to today are scary.
That was an early, incomplete version. The full version was completed and restored ten years ago as German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. It's available from the Imperial War Museum at:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/partnerships/german-concentration-camps-factual-survey
My second cousin once removed initiated the film and his daughter helped get it completed. My understanding of Hitchcock's role matches yours.
Good for your cousins.
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Another film about the camp liberation is 16 Photographs at Ohrdruf. This is about the camp my Dad helped liberate, the first one discovered by the U.S. Army. Seeing this film helped me identify which camp that was, and start to put together the larger story of his World War II service. His stories always ended in France. The film is about a similar process of discovery of a father's World War II service:
https://www.454productions.com/16-photographs-at-ohrdruf
Did your father also take photographs? Did he ever talk about his experience with you?
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I must take a break.
Speaking of this documentary and 1930s Germany, has anyone read this? I loved The Devil ion the White City.
I think it may be my favorite of his. Now listening to his latest, The Demon of Unrest about the days leading up to the Civil war.
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Another film about the camp liberation is 16 Photographs at Ohrdruf. This is about the camp my Dad helped liberate, the first one discovered by the U.S. Army. Seeing this film helped me identify which camp that was, and start to put together the larger story of his World War II service. His stories always ended in France. The film is about a similar process of discovery of a father's World War II service:
https://www.454productions.com/16-photographs-at-ohrdruf
Ohrdruf is one of the Camps in Memory of the Camps, one of more than 300 out there. We only hear anymore of the major camps. They were all horrifying.
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MichaelG, your father was a hero.
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While The Garden of Beasts is interesting and worth reading, I don't think it is nearly as good as The Devil in the White City, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, or Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.
I enjoyed all of those.
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Food has been consumed - teriyaki chicken, tempura, and later I have cucumber salad. All very tasty.
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At one point I was going to (jokingly) suggest the German Concentration Camps film to DR JohnG for his Hitchcock marathon. I'm impressed that you included Memory of the Camps in it!
I also watched Hitchcock's two shorts for the French Resistance, one of which was called Bon Voyage. The other was Adventure Malgache.
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DR singdaw we were just trying to please all the tastes in the audience.
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DR FREDDIE from the shenanigans I observed backstage at Wednesday night's rehearsal at a few of the cowboys and farmers have become very good friends.
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And...................it's official....
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/three-arrests-of-frances-farmer-by-jack-randall-earles-play-reading-tickets-921545646837?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1l7w9J2DWyDN1FuOlvKG1FXmWtODSrXPCj6Ro89GcIOJzBpgpS3TnVo48_aem_AcRPqUdpFbVTvvCOIQZh2scghqlv0z2dUuONgCFE8XFk71h4hDgRisDQ8lsZs8jALXA3QXXHFmNhhnbNpqeSB4cD
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MichaelG, your father was a hero.
No past tense please! He's still doing well, relaxing in Sarasota at 99 years old.
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Another film about the camp liberation is 16 Photographs at Ohrdruf. This is about the camp my Dad helped liberate, the first one discovered by the U.S. Army. Seeing this film helped me identify which camp that was, and start to put together the larger story of his World War II service. His stories always ended in France. The film is about a similar process of discovery of a father's World War II service:
https://www.454productions.com/16-photographs-at-ohrdruf
Did your father also take photographs? Did he ever talk about his experience with you?
No photographs that we know of - he's the type of person who throws nearly everything out anyway. He talked to us about his time in France but not about "that country across the river." He mentioned the camp just once to my stepmother, and never to my Mom, my sister or me.
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Reading vibes for DR JRand!
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I also watched Hitchcock's two shorts for the French Resistance, one of which was called Bon Voyage. The other was Adventure Malgache.
Ooh, I hadn't heard of those, I should look them up.
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Good for your cousins.
She has her own nonprofit organization that makes documentary films about human rights issues:
https://3generations.org/
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And...................it's official....
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/three-arrests-of-frances-farmer-by-jack-randall-earles-play-reading-tickets-921545646837?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1l7w9J2DWyDN1FuOlvKG1FXmWtODSrXPCj6Ro89GcIOJzBpgpS3TnVo48_aem_AcRPqUdpFbVTvvCOIQZh2scghqlv0z2dUuONgCFE8XFk71h4hDgRisDQ8lsZs8jALXA3QXXHFmNhhnbNpqeSB4cD
Fabulous!
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Listening to Elmer Bernstein’s son, Peter, talk about his father’s music. He’s more than a son, in that he orchestrated his father’s music from the mid-1970s and on. He admits he’s no composer like his father was, but he also says Elmer couldn’t play a rock bass guitar worth a shit, which is more his gift.
;D
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Poor shark has a loose canine.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7622.0;attach=22226)
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DR FREDDIE from the shenanigans I observed backstage at Wednesday night's rehearsal at a few of the cowboys and farmers have become very good friends.
From such children, come other children.
Oh wait, that's from Fiddler, not Oklahoma!
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And Pacific Overtures was once called Night of the Iguana.
Isn't that in Chrysanthemum Tea, "It's the night of the iguana, my lord. With but two days remaining, I am tired of explaining, So ignore me if you wanna, my lord."
That's funny! :D
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Good afternoon.
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MichaelG, your father was a hero.
No past tense please! He's still doing well, relaxing in Sarasota at 99 years old.
Great news about your dad. I used to live in Sarasota.
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I also watched Hitchcock's two shorts for the French Resistance, one of which was called Bon Voyage. The other was Adventure Malgache.
Ooh, I hadn't heard of those, I should look them up.
They’re on Kanopy, if you use that.
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And...................it's official....
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/three-arrests-of-frances-farmer-by-jack-randall-earles-play-reading-tickets-921545646837?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1l7w9J2DWyDN1FuOlvKG1FXmWtODSrXPCj6Ro89GcIOJzBpgpS3TnVo48_aem_AcRPqUdpFbVTvvCOIQZh2scghqlv0z2dUuONgCFE8XFk71h4hDgRisDQ8lsZs8jALXA3QXXHFmNhhnbNpqeSB4cD
Super.
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Sabotage was powerful. Sylvia Sidney is really affecting.
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Taking a break from Hitchcock with The Criterion release of Raoul Walsh’s The Roaring Twenties.
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Onward!
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Six!
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Good evening!
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Wordle: 4/6
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And...................it's official....
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/three-arrests-of-frances-farmer-by-jack-randall-earles-play-reading-tickets-921545646837?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1l7w9J2DWyDN1FuOlvKG1FXmWtODSrXPCj6Ro89GcIOJzBpgpS3TnVo48_aem_AcRPqUdpFbVTvvCOIQZh2scghqlv0z2dUuONgCFE8XFk71h4hDgRisDQ8lsZs8jALXA3QXXHFmNhhnbNpqeSB4cD
Congrats!
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I must take a break.
Speaking of this documentary and 1930s Germany, has anyone read this? I loved The Devil ion the White City.
I think it may be my favorite of his. Now listening to his latest, The Demon of Unrest about the days leading up to the Civil war.
I'm waiting until later in the year to read this.
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MichaelG, your father was a hero.
I agree that he is a hero.
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I just had a long video chat with a friend who's father helped liberate Dachau. She still has the photos that he took. He told her that 60 miles before getting to the camp they could smell the burning bodies.
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DR FREDDIE from the shenanigans I observed backstage at Wednesday night's rehearsal at a few of the cowboys and farmers have become very good friends.
;D
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And...................it's official....
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/three-arrests-of-frances-farmer-by-jack-randall-earles-play-reading-tickets-921545646837?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1l7w9J2DWyDN1FuOlvKG1FXmWtODSrXPCj6Ro89GcIOJzBpgpS3TnVo48_aem_AcRPqUdpFbVTvvCOIQZh2scghqlv0z2dUuONgCFE8XFk71h4hDgRisDQ8lsZs8jALXA3QXXHFmNhhnbNpqeSB4cD
I am thrilled for you. Congratulations!
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MichaelG, your father was a hero.
No past tense please! He's still doing well, relaxing in Sarasota at 99 years old.
This is wonderful.
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Good for your cousins.
She has her own nonprofit organization that makes documentary films about human rights issues:
https://3generations.org/
I admire her for this.
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I need to listen to some music. I’ve got the new recordings of Days of Wine and Roses, Gutenburg! and How to Dance in Ohio as well as the original Illinoise.
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It’s 100 degrees outside and I’m making chicken stock. Go figure.
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Do you plan to go outside in this heat or stay inside with the air on?
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Another film about the camp liberation is 16 Photographs at Ohrdruf. This is about the camp my Dad helped liberate, the first one discovered by the U.S. Army. Seeing this film helped me identify which camp that was, and start to put together the larger story of his World War II service. His stories always ended in France. The film is about a similar process of discovery of a father's World War II service:
https://www.454productions.com/16-photographs-at-ohrdruf
Wow.
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MichaelG, your father was a hero.
Absolutely agreed.
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And...................it's official....
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/three-arrests-of-frances-farmer-by-jack-randall-earles-play-reading-tickets-921545646837?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1l7w9J2DWyDN1FuOlvKG1FXmWtODSrXPCj6Ro89GcIOJzBpgpS3TnVo48_aem_AcRPqUdpFbVTvvCOIQZh2scghqlv0z2dUuONgCFE8XFk71h4hDgRisDQ8lsZs8jALXA3QXXHFmNhhnbNpqeSB4cD
Congrats, Jrand!!
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MichaelG, your father was a hero.
No past tense please! He's still doing well, relaxing in Sarasota at 99 years old.
That's fantastic!
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Good for your cousins.
She has her own nonprofit organization that makes documentary films about human rights issues:
https://3generations.org/
That's really cool!
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I just had a long video chat with a friend who's father helped liberate Dachau. She still has the photos that he took. He told her that 60 miles before getting to the camp they could smell the burning bodies.
Oh, my goodness. :(
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Congratulations on the reading front, DR Jrand73!!!!
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MichaelG, your father was a hero.
No past tense please! He's still doing well, relaxing in Sarasota at 99 years old.
That's great!
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We watched The Founder (2016), about Ray Kroc and the genesis of the McDonald's franchise.
Ray was not a very nice guy, if it happened as depicted.
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But his widow gave oodles of money to charities, so that part came to a good end.
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I had lunch today with the widow of August Wilson, who is a former neighbor of ours.
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She had lots of tea to spill.
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And now, I give you.... mosaic gelatin!
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She had lots of tea to spill.
Anything that we can assure you will be kept quiet among us - and the 53 anonymous Guests who are reading this board?
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It wasn't very practical. so eventually Medieval cathedrals resorted to using glass.
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I'm afraid I can't break the seal of the confessional.
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Since page 7 is so admired and adored
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PAGE SEVEN
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I think page seven is unfairly maligned.
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Good night, friends.
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Good night, singdaw
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I had lunch today with the widow of August Wilson, who is a former neighbor of ours.
That's really cool!
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I think page seven is unfairly maligned.
Isn't that page 7 rumor only a rumor?
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And now, I give you.... mosaic gelatin!
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7622.0;attach=22229)
That's pretty cool, too. ;)
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And they say that to get to page eight, you have to get through page seven first.
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I think page seven is unfairly maligned.
Isn't that page 7 rumor only a rumor?
Some people (a Sondheim reference) think so, but others (who shall remain nameless) can't let it go. ::)
;D
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I think page seven is unfairly maligned.
Isn't that page 7 rumor only a rumor?
Some people (a Sondheim reference) think so, but others (who shall remain nameless) can't let it go. ::)
;D
:)
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Here's Bernadette Peters in a new print ad for Breyer's ice cream, and the BWW story about it.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Bernadette-Peters-Makes-A-Splash-In-Viral-New-Breyers-Ad-20240607
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speaking of some people
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From the article, Bernadette Peters said:
"The message behind Breyers CarbSmart 'Anti-Aging Cream' truly resonates with me and I'm so inspired to remind everyone that aging well isn't just about what you see in the mirror, but about what you can do to help yourself feel younger, and that includes enjoying life's simple pleasures."
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I had lunch today with the widow of August Wilson, who is a former neighbor of ours.
Wow. He was amazing. I've seen about half of the cycle he wrote.
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And now, I give you.... mosaic gelatin!
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7622.0;attach=22229)
That's pretty cool, too. ;)
No thank you.
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Listening to Days of Wine and Roses. It's okay.
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I had lunch today with the widow of August Wilson, who is a former neighbor of ours.
Wow. He was amazing. I've seen about half of the cycle he wrote.
August Wilson's name growing up was actually Freddie, but could you imagine his cycle of plays being so revered (or even done) if he'd written as Freddie Wilson?
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Maybe choosing a month of the year as a first name could be a better approach for success as a writer.
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Would going through the months of the year be a novel way of getting beyond page 7?
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What about March as a first name?
How about a name like March Madness to get taken seriously as a writer?
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Marsha Madness could be a possible drag name.
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I have faith that we will get to page 8 somehow.
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Maybe a name like July And-You'll-Be-Sorry
(almost a "Pillow Talk" song reference)
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Well, "they" do gossip that BK doesn't care for page 7
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though it's better than winding up at page 6
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but page 8 could be here with a little effort
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and BK seems to like page 8
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Just two more
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Now one more
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Page Eight!
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And I'm home after a viewing from the audience of OKLAHOMA!
Really good work onstage and a very nice audience. My sister Paula liked it a lot too.
Now two days off for everyone and then our final five performances.
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Thanks to all for the kind comments about the play. I will be happy to hear it.
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Good night, all.
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I had lunch today with the widow of August Wilson, who is a former neighbor of ours.
Wow. He was amazing. I've seen about half of the cycle he wrote.
I actually haven't seen any, but The Green Space recorded all ten in his cycle back in 2013, and simulcast the audio.
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They're no longer available to stream, but according to this article:
New York Public Radio Announces American Century Cycle (https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/11/02/new-york-public-radio-announces-american-century-cycle/)
The 2013 recordings of August Wilson’s seminal series will be made available for educational purposes.
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However, I have the complete set of downloaded recordings. :)
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According to THIS article (https://www.uncsa.edu/announcements/20230223-august-wilson-recordings.aspx):
Directors for the performances included Kenny Leon, Phylicia Rashad, Michele Shay, and Marion McClinton. The recorded readings feature actors including Leslie Uggams, Anthony Chisholm, Brandon Dirden, Russell Hornsby, Roger Robinson, Keith David, Ebony Jo-Ann, John Earl Jelks, Roslyn Ruff, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerome Preston Bates, Taraji P. Henson, Jonathan Majors (UNCSA B.F.A. Drama' 12) and Chadwick Boseman. Bill Sims Jr. and other composers who worked with Wilson scored the readings with original music.
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Better eight than never.
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Must write some notes.
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From DR Rodzinski:
One of my favorite books, but I can’t imagine the film capturing its essence.
IMHO it did not capture its essence.
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Thanks!!
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The Days of Wine and Roses should have used the Mancini song.
The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play, etc.
Andy Williams did a lovely recording.
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Here’s Andy doing it live.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5jKIHnAnouU&pp=ygUkYW5keSB3aWxsaWFtcyBkYXlzIG9mIHdpbmUgYW5kIHJvc2Vz
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Today, I went to the local Meconi's Italian Subs (https://www.meconissubs.com/) and got my usual Combo (which is Chicken, Turkey & Ham), and, of course, had it Cosmo style (which is toasted).
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My friend Shelly was over, so she also decided to have the Combo Cosmo style.
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I leave an hour ago and we've had five posts since then?
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This is wrong.
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I ordered one whole sub, so we each had a half Combo.
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George makes a single post then takes a hike?
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We need some action.
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Action is what we need.
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Shelly was over here helping me clean my place.
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Action is what we need.
What? Anybodys isn't enough.
;)
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Tomorrow, the family is coming over to my place for our quasi-weekly family meal to see the progress on my place.
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I was going to get some pizzas from Costco, but my mom said that she would get them.
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I need to put some sodas in my fridge so that they'll be cold by tomorrow.
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Everyone's coming over around noon.
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Have we had any action?
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Good, a little action was had.
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I'm gonna take a Mucinex-D to try and cut through some of the phlegm.
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I don't think we should be on page eight.
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See?
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.
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I've seen them.
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I've read them.
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I wrote them.
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And I don't care who knows it.
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My sister and her boyfriend may not stay very long because they're on the board of the Olympia chapter of PFLAG (https://pflag-olympia.org/), and they have a meeting at 2:00 pm.
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And since we're so close...
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Gratuitous Post #250!!