Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 17, 2025, 12:18:07 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of letting a cat out of a bag, and now it is time for you to post until the bagged cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SHAMROCK!
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Wordle 1,367 4/6
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Topic of the Day: I'll admit that I don't really know much about orchestrations, but when comparing revival orchestrations with tiny bands versus original orchestrations with the full contingent, the originals, of course, always sound much, Much, MUCH (that's three muches) better!
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Last year, the Olympia Symphony Orchestra and Harlequin Productions collaborated on a concert-style production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and they used the original orchestrations. With an orchestra the size of the OSO, the sound was glorious!
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Well, this is cool! Here's an article about the cookbook for which John posted a link yesterday. It also has information about ordering the new reprint:
https://www.aol.com/cookbook-made-history-now-republished-193403300.html (https://www.aol.com/cookbook-made-history-now-republished-193403300.html)
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Good morning, all!
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Another bad night: that pinched nerve kept putting my left hand to sleep, the neuropathy in my feet was out of control, and I could not get comfortable. Faithful Thatch stayed with me, and I'm sure I drove him batty. There aren't ebough painkillers, dammit.
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Today I must deal with several financial matters and make a serious effort to clean off my work table.
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I think I'd like a copy of that Domestic Cook Book.
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I like too many orchestrations and orchestrators, so I'll mention a few and a few I don't like:
Robert Russell Bennett: for over 40 years, he was the best. My friend Russell Warner said that Bennett's orchestrations were to a performer what an excellent jeweler's velvet box was to a piece of expensive jewelry. I once asked Trude Rittmann about Bennett, and she got very misty and sentimental about him.
Best work: Show Boat; Roberta; Very Warm for May; Kiss Me, Kate; The King & I; My Fair Lady; Camelot; The Sound of Music; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
Worst work: Bells Are Ringing: Bennett's work is fine, but the filml orchestrations are so much better.
Kurt Weill: his chamber scoring for Lost in the Stars (12 players, as I recall).
Ted Royal: Brigadoon.
Don Walker: maybe the most versatile of the period between 1940 and 1976;
Best work: The Most Happy Fella, Carousel, She Loves Me, The Rothschilds, Cabaret, Annie
Worst work: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: I wish it sounded like a 1920s score rather than a late 1940s score.
Phil Lang: Hello, Dolly!; Mame; Kean; My Fair Lady; Camelot; Roar of the Greasepaint.
Jonathan Tunick: Company; Promises Promises; Follies; A Little Night Music; Pacific Overtures; Sweeney Todd; Goodtime Charlie; Gentleman's Guide to L.ove and Murder.
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Continued vibes for BK and company of DRAT! THE CAT! as the dress rehearsal approaches!
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And the list goes on:
Hershy Kay: On the Town; Candide; On the Twentieth Century; Drat! The Cat.
Sid Ramin: West Side Story; Gypsy; A Funny Thng Happened on the Way to the Forum,.
Irwin Kostal: West Side Story; Rex; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Robert Ginzler: Gypsy; Wildcat; Bye Bye Birdie
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It's a milestone!
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Thanks for pointing it out, DR Freddie.
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Great lists, DR elmore3003. Always appreciate it when you share your knowledge and opinions with us.
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It's a milestone!
Congratulations, singdaw!
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Thanks for pointing it out, DR Freddie.
You're very welcome!
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Good morning, all.
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Oh, it's a Monday already.
Besides cooking, there's the usual lineup of things I must attend to today.
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I can't possibly top DR Elmore's list! I might add a couple of things to it later...
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Good morning, all.
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Had a weird dream. I was accompanying a friend on a transatlantic cruise to Europe where he was to be married. Just before the voyage, he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required he have no stress. His fiancée dumped him over the heart condition. He got engaged two more times and both ended quickly and painfully, which caused him stress. I told him that he should marry me. And reader, I married him.
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To add to Elmore’s list:
Irwin Kostal, Mary Poppins film
Hans Spialek, On Your Toes
Ken Thorne, A Funny Thing … Forum film
Tunick, Titanic
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Congrats to DR singdaw on his millstone.
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The Levin Estate is the title of my new novel.
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I like the lists so far....I couldn't choose any others.
I do enjoy the CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG movie.....I think that was Kostal....as was I think THE SOUND OF MUSIC movie.
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Onstage I like CANDIDE, WEST SIDE STORY, THE MUSIC MAN, and GYPSY.
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Page Two.
The original Broadway cast albums of the shows named above.
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TOD:
Film: "South Pacific", "The King and I", "Carousel", "Flower Drum Song", "Camelot". What they all have in common is conductor/arranger Alfred Newman who had one of the very best ears for orchestrations in Hollywood and worked with only the best. Among them were Edward B. Powell (his primary orchestrators), Shuken and Hayes, Earle Hagen, Bernard Mayers and Pete King.
Newman's team orchestrated "There's No Business Like Show Business", "Call Me Madam", "With A Song in My Heart" and a slew of others. Newman's orchestrators were second to none.
MGM had the legendary Conrad Salinger whose work greatly enhances the MGM musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, including "Brigadoon", "Show Boat', "Singin' in the Rain", "An American in Paris", "Kiss Me Kate", "Kismet" the orchestrations of which are swoon-worthy), "High Society", "Gigi", "Bells Are Ringing', etc., etcs. There are others involved, of course.
There are other film musicals which I find thrilling, orchestrationally, including "Porgy and Bess", "Gypsy", "Hello, Dolly!", "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", "Finian's Rainbow", "Mary Poppins", "The Music Man", et. al.
For Broadway, I have only my cast albums from which to register opinions, but DR Elmore hit all the ones I would have mentioned.
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And a good Monday morning to all.
The day looks to be sunny and warm. We got up to 80 yesterday. Nights still get into the 40s, but we warm up considerably in the late afternoon.
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Last night, I watched a TV movie (two parts) that I saw in its original 1980 airing (which was in three parts at that time).
The movie is "Tin Man" starring Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming and Neal McDonough (among a nice sized cast).
It's beautifully made and is an interesting take on the Baum tales of Oz.
The first part introduces the characters, sets up the troubles to be overcome and really delivers, I think. The second part gets a bit sluggish because there are several story lines that happen simultaneously, and the production team decided to present the stories in in a way that slows things way down. It has its moments, though, and it was an interesting film.
It is playing on Amazon Prime.
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The pond behind my house has become a battle zone for geese.
Such squabbling and fighting hasn't been seen here before this year. I don't know whether there are simply too many ganders vying over the females or what. Sometimes it starts in the early morning hours and continues throughout the day.
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Had a weird dream. I was accompanying a friend on a transatlantic cruise to Europe where he was to be married. Just before the voyage, he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required he have no stress. His fiancée dumped him over the heart condition. He got engaged two more times and both ended quickly and painfully, which caused him stress. I told him that he should marry me. And reader, I married him.
The ending has a certain Eyre about it.
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I assume from the spelling of fiancée that the original marriage (at least) was going to be to a woman.
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I assume from the spelling of fiancée that the original marriage (at least) was going to be to a woman.
All were women until me. It’s a very Some Like It Hot-induced ending.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day, y’all.
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Y’all is Irish, right?
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My dad would always wear orange today, never green. That was a Catholic color. Orange was the color of Protestantism.
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Congratulations, Singdaw.
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Fifth day in a row allergy attack. Just took my last Claritin-D - so, must get more in a bit. Hoping I can get the 24-hour version - when it's this bad, the twelve-hours don't last long enough. Sick of this - three hours of sleep.
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It is a bookcase.....wish I had room for it. Very tall and very sturdy.
I did pick up the windchimes I left yesterday because they looked so lonely lying there on the ground.
(https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/484896849_122217952796220142_8667782140103889011_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=Qdk-7MdgHWMQ7kNvgHHByFq&_nc_oc=AdhA2F1l2-qDWmvdY6na9UzV9lP5a0KtZfasrpsKDMnpfE-oMHdydzuR2SQZ-FZKRy2pkUBAiFjujZUnhlJqQIdu&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&_nc_gid=CoeSlmgyo2kETMZD44617Q&oh=00_AYGdZwWcqNUwt-z51U80i0KHNAKiPZqHcDSha5mcezh51w&oe=67DE0076)
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A bookcase!
Putting it as plainly and as simply as I can (because, as we all know, I couldn't make myself any plainer if I was a Quaker on his day off):
I'm a bookcase whore, and I don't have room for one, either.
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I don't think I could be clearer if I was a buttonhook in the well water.
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Ladies and Germs, the corned beef is in the oven!
Two years ago I decided to bake it instead of boiling it, and I vowed I wouldn't go back. (We didn't cook last year, I forget why, probably because of our schedules.)
I bought two packages totaling almost five pounds, so five hours at 350 degrees it shall be.
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It kind of looks like the one we got when I was little and we bought a set of World Book Encyclopedias.
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It is a bookcase.....wish I had room for it. Very tall and very sturdy.
I did pick up the windchimes I left yesterday because they looked so lonely lying there on the ground.
(https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/484896849_122217952796220142_8667782140103889011_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=Qdk-7MdgHWMQ7kNvgHHByFq&_nc_oc=AdhA2F1l2-qDWmvdY6na9UzV9lP5a0KtZfasrpsKDMnpfE-oMHdydzuR2SQZ-FZKRy2pkUBAiFjujZUnhlJqQIdu&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&_nc_gid=CoeSlmgyo2kETMZD44617Q&oh=00_AYGdZwWcqNUwt-z51U80i0KHNAKiPZqHcDSha5mcezh51w&oe=67DE0076)
They don't have feelings, Jack.
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Ah, encyclopedias.
One thing I really like, but it takes up some valuable wall space that another set of shelves could use, is an Encyclopedia Brittanica issued in 1962 or 1963 in a nice special edition commemorating both Queen Elizabeth and John F. Kennedy. We never had a GOOD encyclopedia when I was growing up, and when I saw this one sitting in a Goodwill one day about 20 years ago, I couldn't resist. It came in its own bookcase, as did other editions of same, but the bindings are more beautiful than their prior editions.
It's a nice piece, and still looks good, but I should let it go now. I haven't even taken a volume off the shelf to flip through it through most of these years. I was just a sucker for the fact that it was a Britannica and for the special commemoration. I still love the idea of it. Should probably take some photographic evidence...
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It is a bookcase.....wish I had room for it. Very tall and very sturdy.
I did pick up the windchimes I left yesterday because they looked so lonely lying there on the ground.
(https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/484896849_122217952796220142_8667782140103889011_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=Qdk-7MdgHWMQ7kNvgHHByFq&_nc_oc=AdhA2F1l2-qDWmvdY6na9UzV9lP5a0KtZfasrpsKDMnpfE-oMHdydzuR2SQZ-FZKRy2pkUBAiFjujZUnhlJqQIdu&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&_nc_gid=CoeSlmgyo2kETMZD44617Q&oh=00_AYGdZwWcqNUwt-z51U80i0KHNAKiPZqHcDSha5mcezh51w&oe=67DE0076)
They don't have feelings, Jack.
Uh oh. Sounds like "somebody" hasn't seen Toy Story 3. 8)
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Well, this is cool! Here's an article about the cookbook for which John posted a link yesterday. It also has information about ordering the new reprint:
https://www.aol.com/cookbook-made-history-now-republished-193403300.html (https://www.aol.com/cookbook-made-history-now-republished-193403300.html)
Thanks for the link. I didn't find this when I was searching for information about Malinda Russell. I also couldn't find if she moved back to Tennessee or not. I'm glad to see that she did.
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It's a milestone!
Congratulations!
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Had a weird dream. I was accompanying a friend on a transatlantic cruise to Europe where he was to be married. Just before the voyage, he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required he have no stress. His fiancée dumped him over the heart condition. He got engaged two more times and both ended quickly and painfully, which caused him stress. I told him that he should marry me. And reader, I married him.
;D
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The pond behind my house has become a battle zone for geese.
Such squabbling and fighting hasn't been seen here before this year. I don't know whether there are simply too many ganders vying over the females or what. Sometimes it starts in the early morning hours and continues throughout the day.
Too bad you don't have a pack of dogs to chase them away.
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I assume from the spelling of fiancée that the original marriage (at least) was going to be to a woman.
All were women until me. It’s a very Some Like It Hot-induced ending.
LOL. It sounds like a fun dream.
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My dad would always wear orange today, never green. That was a Catholic color. Orange was the color of Protestantism.
Interesting. I am wearing some orange today, and don't have on any green.
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Good morning.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day, y’all.
And St Gertrude's Day as well!
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day, y’all.
And St Gertrude's Day as well!
That's so nice!
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Page Three!
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And before 2 pm Eastern time - That's not really bad, is it?
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Watching the extras on The Apartment. There was a wonderful interview with Hope Holiday, who plays the drunk in the bar with Jack Lemmon.
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LOL DR RON PULLIAM.
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Our EB is the 1959 23 volume edition including the Text/Text Index and Atlas/Atlas Index.
I still look at it from time to time.
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Back from breakfast, shipping a big package, picking up two residuals - always a surprise. One I'm not sure would pay for a Happy Meal, but the other is a couple hundred bucks and that's always helpful.
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Two Amazon reviews for Vegas Can Be Murder from ChasSmith and Singdaw. I'll post them here shortly.
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Of course, CVS didn't have the 24-hour Claritin-D and I didn't feel like driving to another location to get it. I got the 12-hour.
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Not going out again today.
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I'm just not.
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DR Jrand74, I don't know how frequently they updated them, but your EB is probably just one edition older than this one. Or maybe mine's the same with different bindings and front pages.
This bookcase has a slot for the atlas. My copy of the atlas doesn't match the special edition bindings, and I think I researched that way back when and found that they hadn't reprinted the atlas for that. But I should check again now, because who in the HELL knows how good my research was back then.
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I should check on the corned beef. If only I could find one of our many meat thermometers.
But the house smells wonderful, and on all of my previous corned beefs, the general timing has always resulted in perfect doneness.
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A photo from the Annabelle & Thatch company performance of Finian's Rainbow.
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Good afternoon!
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Wordle: 2/6. The right opening word helps a lot!
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It is a bookcase.....wish I had room for it. Very tall and very sturdy.
I did pick up the windchimes I left yesterday because they looked so lonely lying there on the ground.
I'm sorry you don't have room for it. Where did you put the lonely wind chimes.
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It is a bookcase.....wish I had room for it. Very tall and very sturdy.
I did pick up the windchimes I left yesterday because they looked so lonely lying there on the ground.
(https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/484896849_122217952796220142_8667782140103889011_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=Qdk-7MdgHWMQ7kNvgHHByFq&_nc_oc=AdhA2F1l2-qDWmvdY6na9UzV9lP5a0KtZfasrpsKDMnpfE-oMHdydzuR2SQZ-FZKRy2pkUBAiFjujZUnhlJqQIdu&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&_nc_gid=CoeSlmgyo2kETMZD44617Q&oh=00_AYGdZwWcqNUwt-z51U80i0KHNAKiPZqHcDSha5mcezh51w&oe=67DE0076)
They don't have feelings, Jack.
;D
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Wordle: 2/6. The right opening word helps a lot!
Congratulations!
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Very nice DR ELMORE.
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DR JANE right now they are hanging on a cabinet next to my slotted spoon and spatula that are for decoration not use....eventually I move them to the front porch.
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A photo from the Annabelle & Thatch company performance of Finian's Rainbow.
Very handsomely produced. But I hope they weren’t just singing to tracks…?
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A photo from the Annabelle & Thatch company performance of Finian's Rainbow.
Very handsomely produced. But I hope they weren’t just singing to tracks…?
Worse! Like all their productions, they sing a cappella.
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singdaw
5.0 out of 5 stars They're back!
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2025
Verified Purchase
VEGAS CAN BE MURDER hails the return of wise-cracking duo Harry and Bernice in another tantalizing mystery. All the hallmarks of the earlier tales are here in abundance: nostalgia for the 70s, a puzzling mystery, great food, witty dialogue, plus sprinklings of opera, Broadway, classic television, and movies. Plus the sparking expansion into a new setting: the Las Vegas of the novel's title. Gambling, Liberace, and Sinatra make appearances. Just like the all-you-can-eat buffet, this book has it all, and what could be more wonderful? Highly recommended.
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Chazzz
5.0 out of 5 stars Harry Stearns - from L.A. to Sin City!
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2025
As one who loved Bruce Kimmel’s first two Harry Stearns mysteries, I was thrilled to be able to read an advance copy of VEGAS CAN BE MURDER, the third in the series.
Curmudgeon agent-turned-detective Stearns has been going about his comfortable daily routine, happy that he has once again settled back into his retirement…until the phone rings. Lounge singer Buddy DeMarco in Las Vegas, with whom Stearns has an indirect connection, is receiving threatening notes. Harry has no love for Las Vegas, and has no desire to take on DeMarco’s case, but he feels obliged to at least hear him out. So off he goes to Vegas, and the situation seems ominous indeed. But he still plans to refuse the case…until a quick turn of events involving Stearns himself changes his mind. And off we go on another investigative thrill ride with Harry Stearns.
Followers of Bruce Kimmel’s books know that he’s expert at recreating the glories of mid-century Los Angeles. We can now add Las Vegas to these tantalizing trips into the past. The sense of old time glamour, casino style show biz, and that sweet sense of danger we loved to feel lurking just beneath the glitter…it’s all there. And there are some nice surprises along the way, with guest appearances by a couple of world-renowned celebrities that are thoroughly enjoyable, and some later developments that might just be a little off the beaten track from what one is expecting.
Harry Stearns’ familiar sidekicks (his faithful secretary Bernice, his old friend and last remaining actor client Kurt Kingston) and his favorite activities (keeping up with the show business trades, eating in his favorite L.A. spots, listening to his collection of top-notch opera recordings) are all there, of course. Settle back with this one and enjoy the ride!
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Great reviews, singdaw and Chas!
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DR JANE right now they are hanging on a cabinet next to my slotted spoon and spatula that are for decoration not use....eventually I move them to the front porch.
Once moved maybe you will share a photo with us. I'm still waiting for the photo of the Keets and their new mirror.
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Good afternoon.
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It's warm out today, after having a few cold, gray, windy, and rainy days.
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I saw three roadrunners.
The first was calling for a mate from a tree.
The second and third were hunting for lizards. Probably a pair.
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Fun interview with Bruce Vilanich.
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c
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Four!
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It's a milestone!
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7904.0;attach=25709)
Congrats, Singdaw!
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Great lists, DR elmore3003. Always appreciate it when you share your knowledge and opinions with us.
Ditto!!
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Had a weird dream. I was accompanying a friend on a transatlantic cruise to Europe where he was to be married. Just before the voyage, he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required he have no stress. His fiancée dumped him over the heart condition. He got engaged two more times and both ended quickly and painfully, which caused him stress. I told him that he should marry me. And reader, I married him.
Congrats on the dreamy marriage, John! ;D
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DR JANE of course an updated photo will be shared. Thanks for the interest.
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Bookcase is still available.
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DR JANE of course an updated photo will be shared. Thanks for the interest.
Thanks. I'm glad you didn't quote me as I noticed I needed to correct a typo-lol
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Keith got Wordle in three.
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Have you all seen this 60 Minutes Story?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhwS06U1SnA
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The entire concert is also on Youtube.
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Damn it to HELL. Would one of you fine people have a clean copy of the sheet music to "The Man That Got Away" that you could cleanly photograph or scan and send to me? The key word here being "cleanly". And in any key. I need it just as a guide for cleaning up and notating the horrible copy someone sent me. The aforementioned someone doesn't have a published copy and I'm not inspired to buy one.
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Excellent reviews from both DR Singdaw and DR Chas.
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I recommend those of you who haven't read Vegas Can Be Murder yet do so :)
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Have you all seen this 60 Minutes Story?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhwS06U1SnA
Thanks for the link. I haven't had time yet. I think it is great and plan to watch it.
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Had some chicken soup and a patty melt.
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The day is already gone.
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I fell asleep trying to find something to watch - only about twenty minutes.
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The entire concert is also on Youtube.
That was very emotional.
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The pond behind my house has become a battle zone for geese.
Such squabbling and fighting hasn't been seen here before this year. I don't know whether there are simply too many ganders vying over the females or what. Sometimes it starts in the early morning hours and continues throughout the day.
Yikes! :o Hopefully, they don't start attacking you, Ron!
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My dad would always wear orange today, never green. That was a Catholic color. Orange was the color of Protestantism.
My dad wore green...Catholic until the end. ;)
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A bookcase!
Putting it as plainly and as simply as I can (because, as we all know, I couldn't make myself any plainer if I was a Quaker on his day off):
I'm a bookcase whore, and I don't have room for one, either.
I have several bookcases but I need to get more shelves. The stock wood at Loewe's or Home Depot are too deep, and they can't cut the depth.
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I only have a handheld circular saw to use, but I don't want to cut all those lengths by hand with no easy-to-use guide. :P
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Ah, encyclopedias.
One thing I really like, but it takes up some valuable wall space that another set of shelves could use, is an Encyclopedia Brittanica issued in 1962 or 1963 in a nice special edition commemorating both Queen Elizabeth and John F. Kennedy. We never had a GOOD encyclopedia when I was growing up, and when I saw this one sitting in a Goodwill one day about 20 years ago, I couldn't resist. It came in its own bookcase, as did other editions of same, but the bindings are more beautiful than their prior editions.
It's a nice piece, and still looks good, but I should let it go now. I haven't even taken a volume off the shelf to flip through it through most of these years. I was just a sucker for the fact that it was a Britannica and for the special commemoration. I still love the idea of it. Should probably take some photographic evidence...
My parents got a Britannica set sometime in the 1970s. They eventually got rid of it, but I don't remember when.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day, y’all.
And St Gertrude's Day as well!
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7904.0;attach=25711)
Good to know! :D
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Back from breakfast, shipping a big package, picking up two residuals - always a surprise. One I'm not sure would pay for a Happy Meal, but the other is a couple hundred bucks and that's always helpful.
That's great, BK!
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Two Amazon reviews for Vegas Can Be Murder from ChasSmith and Singdaw. I'll post them here shortly.
Very nice!
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A photo from the Annabelle & Thatch company performance of Finian's Rainbow.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7904.0;attach=25713)
That's so cute!
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Wordle: 2/6. The right opening word helps a lot!
Congrats, Kevin!
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Great reviews, singdaw and Chas!
Agreed!!
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Fun interview with Bruce Vilanich.
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c
John, that link didn't bring up anything, but I found the interview here:
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/cant-stop-the-vilanch-legendary-comedy-writer-spills-on-the-creation-of-his-careers-guiltiest-pleasures (https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/cant-stop-the-vilanch-legendary-comedy-writer-spills-on-the-creation-of-his-careers-guiltiest-pleasures)
Great interview. :)
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My dad would always wear orange today, never green. That was a Catholic color. Orange was the color of Protestantism.
My dad wore green...Catholic until the end. ;)
:D
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FIVE!
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Keith got Wordle in three.
Congrats to Keith!
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Thank you.
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FIVE!
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That's some feel-good page-turn art!
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Fun interview with Bruce Vilanich.
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c
John, that link didn't bring up anything, but I found the interview here:
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/cant-stop-the-vilanch-legendary-comedy-writer-spills-on-the-creation-of-his-careers-guiltiest-pleasures (https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/cant-stop-the-vilanch-legendary-comedy-writer-spills-on-the-creation-of-his-careers-guiltiest-pleasures)
Great interview. :)
Thank you.
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I have a deep dish apple pie in the oven. The crust recipe sounded so good, but it was a nightmare to roll out.
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I don’t care what it looks like. As long as it tastes good.
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A deep dish apple pie is an unconventional marriage dessert, but I wouldn't spurn it.
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A trying day at work. So many tech issues.
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So many.
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But dinner was prepared.
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And then groceries were gotten.
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And now I'm plum tuckered out.
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Starting Dune 2 while the pie bakes. It’s silly. I can enjoy its silliness — so far.
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And I didn't accomplish 1/16th of what DR vixmom usually does.
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Copycat
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And now I'm plum tuckered out.
As opposed to peach tuckered out. Or boysenberry tuckered out.
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They were playing Elton John tunes at the supermarket.
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To entertain the hoi polloi.
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James Taylor jukebox musical coming. Tracy Letts is writing the book.
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To entertain the hoi polloi.
I only care if hoi are entertained. The polloi can fend for themselves.
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Musicals magazine (from Britain) was quarterly, recently went monthly, and is now ceasing publication altogether.
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Like Show Music before it.
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Musical theater in print just can't catch a break.
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Struggling to stay away until page six.
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It's a race to the finish.
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To finish the race.
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But I still have to clean up the kitchen.
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Dang nabbit.
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PAGE SIX
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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Have you all seen this 60 Minutes Story?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhwS06U1SnA
It's terrible that this happened because of the rac(p)ist in the white house, but it's wonderful that at least a version of the concert was able to go on!
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Damn it to HELL. Would one of you fine people have a clean copy of the sheet music to "The Man That Got Away" that you could cleanly photograph or scan and send to me? The key word here being "cleanly". And in any key. I need it just as a guide for cleaning up and notating the horrible copy someone sent me. The aforementioned someone doesn't have a published copy and I'm not inspired to buy one.
ChasSmith, I'm sorry that I don't have this music. :-\
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Dang nabbit.
That’s what I said when I realized the pie will have to rest at least three hours before I can cut into it. So, I guess I know what breakfast will be.
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Here she is
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I’ve just found the next “pie”
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/12532/impossible-buttermilk-pie/
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Listened to a short, funny book today: How to Be a Bad Emperor. It’s a new translation of passages from Suetonius’ 12 Caesars for the Donald tRump era. All the horrible things Caligula, Tiberius and Nero did in that gloriously gossipy tone of the original.
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I am 2 hours into Dune 2. It’s ridiculous. I couldn’t care a whit for any of it. But it’s somehow holding my attention.
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TOD 2:
Can’t believe I forgot Quincey Jones’ work on the movie of The Wiz. I’m sure it’s s major reason Criterion is releasing the movie.
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I bought a few winter flowers today. Well, winter for Texas. Petunias and impatiens. They were $1.25 each. And they look healthy. Maybe I can bring them in if/when it gets too hot.
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Here she is
That looks delicious!
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I survived Dune 2.
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Good night, all.
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Here she is
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7904.0;attach=25717)
Yummy! ;D
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I’ve just found the next “pie”
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/12532/impossible-buttermilk-pie/
Oh, my! That sounds really good!
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I am 2 hours into Dune 2. It’s ridiculous. I couldn’t care a whit for any of it. But it’s somehow holding my attention.
I actually bought the 2-movie Blu-ray set, but I haven't watched them yet. ::)
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I didn't even see them in the theaters.
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That pie looks amazing
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Happy Millstone Dayto Singdaw
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Not to get political or anything, but oh, my effing gee:
Independent Agency CEO: 'DOGE has broken into our building.' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlLv_EIL9OE)
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Here's the description for the video from Rachel Maddow and MSNBC:
The U.S. Institute for Peace announced Monday that despite being independent of the executive branch and controlling its own building and the land it sits on, their objections to members of Elon Musk's DOGE team trespassing in their building were overridden by D.C. police. That came after an earlier confrontation in which DOGE was accompanied by the FBI. Skye Perryman, president of Democracy Forward, who is suing the U.S. Marshals for information on DOGE after a similar raid, joins to discuss the unprecedented nature of DOGE leveraging the threat of armed law enforcement against another part of the government.''
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But on a happier note (B-flat):
The Secret To Rich and Creamy New York Deli-Style Rice Pudding (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g56PMuSj2sc)
:)
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I don't love rice pudding, but this sounds really good.
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Does anyone order pet food from Chewy? I've gotten coupons for them, but I don't have a pet right now, so I don't order from them.
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Anyway, this video short tells about what the company does if you have pet food autoshipped but then your pet dies:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RdiZI_QiE-o (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RdiZI_QiE-o)
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That's amazing!
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People love the company. Read some of the comments.
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Some comments mention that Chewy have also sent hand painted pictures of the peoples' pets!
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Page six???
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Page you-know-what???
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This is most unseemly.
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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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But there's no one here to read them.
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No one but us chickens and us chickens have read them.
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Not very sporting.
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It just isn't.
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Sporting would be page ten.
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PAGE SEVEN CHEWY DANCE!!
(https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/presto/2022/06/21/USAT/23a64edb-3909-411a-8888-c4584f6d5ef2-1.png)