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Well, you've read the notes, you are now in search of a bon mot, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're off searching for a bon moo.
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And the word of the day is: PARSIMONIUS!
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Did you know that bon mot spelled backwards is tom nob?
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That sounds like a name...does Tom Nob hobnob with the swells? Has Tom Nob ever hobnobbed at the Hob Nob restaurant in Tacoma?
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;D
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According to www.m-w.com, "Parsimonious (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/parsimonious)" means:
Pronunciation: "pär-s&-'mO-nE-&s
Function: adjective
: exhibiting or marked by parsimony (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/parsimony); especially : frugal to the point of stinginess
synonym see STINGY (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/stingy)
- par·si·mo·ni·ous·ly adverb
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And I thought you sprinkled Parsimony in pasta.
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It's all just a matter of personal taste.
;)
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First "Art house" film that sprang to mind was "Elvira Madigan" which I still love.
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I'm fond of several art house films from America, including two Frank Perry films, David and Lisa and Ladybug, Ladybug.
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In the sixites it was difficult to distinguish between "Art House", "Foreign Language" and "Cheap Porn". . Perhaps it has not changed that much!
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I don't know if I've seen an actual "art house" film. :-\
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"I bought a copy of "David & Lisa" a couple of days ago. My memory of it is still strong - 40 years later! I hope I'm not disappointed.
"Death In Venice" was I guess an Art House film. It is still in my top 5 best films of all time. (One for Mahler!)
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I'll have to think about what art house movies I may have possibly seen...and wait to see if anyone else posts movies that I've seen, then I can say, "Yes, I've seen that." ;)
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And on that note (A#), I must say, "Goodnight Tomovoz and BK."
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Goodnight George.
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Recent "Art House" films I enjoyed very much indeed were "The Motorcycle Diaries" and "The Chorus".
"March Of The Penguins", "Travelling Birds" and "Russian Ark" were also Art house screenings here.
"A Mighty Wind" and "Howel's Moving Castle" were only shown in "Art House" cinemas here.
Hard line to call between "limited release" and "Art house".
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In the sixites it was difficult to distinguish between "Art House", "Foreign Language" and "Cheap Porn". . Perhaps it has not changed that much!
Got that, Larry? All this time your VCR has been filled with art house films!
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I never doubted it!
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Good morning, all! First of all, thank you for all the Taylor Nichols info last evening. I never watched THE MIND OF THE MARRIED MAN, but I see in its IMDB listing that Jake Weber was also in the series. I loved Taylor in THE BOILER ROOM. I met him in the mid-1980s at a Christmas party of the RING OF FIRE producer. Taylor briefly dated a friend of mine and DR Ginny's (O the gossip!), and we hung out a bit. The dating ended when he went to Atlantic City to play Billy in an abridged edition of NO NO NANETTE and started dating another lady. He did a play at Playwrights Horizons around 10 years ago, and that's the last time I've seen him. I still remember how excited he was about the release of METROPOLITAN, which is rather like an "art house" American film. And that brings us to the TOD:
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Juliet of the Spirits
The Return of Martin Guerre
Smiles of a Summer Night
The Virgin Spring
Two Women
Pourquoi Pas?
La Ronde
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Got that, Larry? All this time your VCR has been filled with art house films!
You knew I was an artiste!
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We are approaching the end of the trip so I think today and tomorrow will be the last two picture days.
Here I am as excited as a child on Christmas morning standing in the lobby of Broadcast House at BBC Radio Wales.
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Here I am in the control room with the presenter of Showtime, Beverley Humphreys.
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And here I am in the studio during a music break. Anthony was in the control room taking pictures but during the break he came into the studio and took this shot.
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And that, my friends, is the end of picture day today, at least for me. Perhaps Laura will enchant us with more pictures of her walks. I'm glad she has her camera back. Those pictures from yesterday were great.
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I just received a special offer for $65 tickets to LESTAT... being parsimonius I was thinking of taking advantage of the offer.... has there been a date set for an official HHW viewing of the production?
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Would STREET OF SHAME be considered "art house?" If so then that would be a favorite.
Least favorite would be Fellini Satyricon .
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Hmmm....waiting for DRJANE's address....if anyone has it.
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Just caught up with yesterday..
Great pictures DR Laura!!
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DRELMORE - yes, yesterday's session attended by YOU sounds right up my alley, so to speak. Styne in Hollywood. Actually Styne anywhere is fine with me.
And today's notes remind me of my famous poem:
Not a Joke
by Jack Randall Earles
Bon mot.
Not.
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ok, DTM or FJL please put me out of my misery what is that Quogue quote? It sounded so familar and I just can't place it!!!!
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Great pics, DRBEN! The radio!!!
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Page Two I must dance!!!!
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A MIGHTY WIND was an "art house" presentation here, as well.
But I think my favorites would be:
BONJOUR TRISTESSE
POINT OF ORDER!
And maybe I will think of some more.
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Thanks for the pix Ben!!
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Good morning!
Gray again today but at least there's no rain, and it promises to be a bit warmer than yesterday without getting into the spring-like 60s.
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I saw BLOW-UP at an art theater (I guess because of the nudity present). I haven't seen it again in years but would like to.
FELLINI SATYRICON was also an art house movie I enjoyed.
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I saw BLOW-UP at an art theater (I guess because of the nudity present). I haven't seen it again in years but would like to.
FELLINI SATYRICON was also an art house movie I enjoyed.
You went to a nudist movie theatre? :o
;D
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A MIGHTY WIND was an "art house" presentation here, as well.
I just picked up a copy of this at the local Costco only $5.49!!
There's a :-* at the end of the rainbow..........
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LOL...DRVIXMOM.....what a fun movie.
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I had DRJANE's address all the time!
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I loved A MIGHTY WIND and every song in its score. They're all terrific, the best movie music I've heard in decades.
It can't hold a candle to BEST IN SHOW as a mockumentary, however. I like it even more than THIS IS SPINAL TAP or WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, both of which are also brilliant.
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Looking forward to ICE STATION ZEBRA today, at least some of it. Don't know I'll have time to finish the whole thing today before network TV kicks in tonight.
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In the sixites it was difficult to distinguish between "Art House", "Foreign Language" and "Cheap Porn". . Perhaps it has not changed that much!
From this we can infer that our beloved DR Elmore is a fan of foreign language and art house films, according to his viewing reports every Friday.
::)
;D
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Got that, Larry? All this time your VCR has been filled with art house films!
Like minds.
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Ah, the clouds are starting to break up, and I'm seeing some blue sky. Nice.
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I used to have a friend named Art Christianson, a man of a great bawdy humor and generous nature. But I don't recall seeing any movies at his house, although I can imagine what sorts of films he would have shown.
He is no longer with us, but I can still hear his laugh.
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If we're all very good, maybe we can get BK to tell us the story of the Randy Vicar and the Parson O'Nious!
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Heading down now to start prepping lunch and begin an afternoon of video watching.
WBBL.
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I watched a film called TOWER OF EVIL last night....hmmmmm
One of the stars was Mr John Hammill, a favorite of producer Herman (TARGET EARTH) Cohen. Mr Hammill was a "physique" model and does some of what he does best in this 1972 film. There is also an actor who wears the tightest pants I have ever seen in a movie.
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DRs MBARNUM and JANE & KEITH have packages on the way to their respective home!
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Der Brucer is off being der Grampa all by himself today. He is taking the grandlads on an exciting trip, to see the dentist! I, meanwhile, will be at work.
Speaking of which, I had a most rude customer yesterday.
Part of my job is to bag people's groceries, which I am quite speedy at doing. The customer in question stood there, watching me bag, and started to get quite agetated. Suddenly, he reached over and grabbed items out of my hands, rearranging them in the bags as I was putting them in, cursing about how I wasn't doing my job right, how I wasn't bagging them correctly because I wasn't bagging the items in the order that he would be putting them on the shelves when he got home!
His lover just stood there, rolling his eyes. I refrained from asking if my bagging competitor had taken his meds recently.
I don't get many rude customers, but when I do they are doozies.
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Here's my famous poem:
Hoosier cast?
by Ronald L. Pulliam
"Did Jack Randall Earles
Cast swine before pearls?"
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Today is National Speak Up and Succeed Day.
It is also National Peanut Butter Day.
(Personally, I would suggest swallowing the peanut butter before trying to speak clearly, of course.)
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It's Tuesday morning in Oakland CA.
The sun is shining.
It's cool, but will be in the mid-60s this afternoon.
And I'm feeling out of sorts. I am not parsimonious with the universe.
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Last night's "Medium":
SPOILER
SPOILER
SPOILER
I found the ending rather unsettling. I also felt just a bit "used" or "manipulated" -- her final dream was a full playout of the partial dream she had before reasoning with the mother to make the difference in her son's life.
Did that mother have the full dream and, realizing it would take her death to save her son, kill herself with an overdose?
Or....???
It makes me think, even now...but I was left wanting to know a bit more about the mother's part in all the doings.
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Last night's "Surface":
NO SPOILER!!
Did I understand correctly at the end that the series has only two more episodes?
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I saw BLOW-UP at an art theater (I guess because of the nudity present). I haven't seen it again in years but would like to.
FELLINI SATYRICON was also an art house movie I enjoyed.
the nudity present--that's the title of my next art house film.
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Here's a question for those of you willing to participate:
What does the term "white trash" mean/imply to you?
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DRs MBARNUM and JANE & KEITH have packages on the way to their respective home!
Coincidently, a package is on it's way to your house...our packages will pass each other at the USPS!
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the nudity present--that's the title of my next art house film.
And mine will be called "Entre Nudes".
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I'm up, I'm up. In a short while I shall attempt to get behind the TV and deal with the morass of wires to see if I can unplug and replug the VCR. A major ordeal, but one must give it a try.
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Art house release: Point of Order - yes.
Bonjour Tristesse - no. BT had a standard big-studio (Columbia) release and played major theaters.
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Here's a question for those of you willing to participate:
What does the term "white trash" mean/imply to you?
We have two waste paper baskets in our house. One is for all the colored paper, and one is for the white trash.
More seriously, "white trash" is a demeaning word used by der Brucer's daughter to indicate people she considers to be of a lower status than she.
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Last night's "Surface":
NO SPOILER!!
Did I understand correctly at the end that the series has only two more episodes?
Der B and I are also puzzled by this. Either the series is going to end with one tremendous cliffhanger (quite likely) or they are referring to two more eps this season (less likely).
And now, off to work I must go!
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DR SWW - maybe next time your customer will put the items on the counter in the order he wants them bagged.
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RE: your poem.
DR RLP - happens ALL the time!
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I only know BONJOUR TRISTESSE from its DVD release, but it sure is ARTY! I am not surprised it had a major release....but I fear it didn't do very well at the Box Office!
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I am anxiously awaiting my copy of QUINCEANEROS, DR MBARNUM. Your Annette CD package also includes a special surprise which I hope you don't already own!
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Hiya, gang.
Loved MY DINNER WITH ANDRE
Loved BEING JULIA
LES PARAPLUIS DE CHERBOURG, aussi
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Good Morning! Good Afternoon!
I somehow slept in until 11:30... Guess I needed the rest, sleep. Well, at least I'm already on San Francisco time, so... However, since I have a Noon matinee tomorrow, I should save my "San Francisco" time for San Francisco... Whatever that means.
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TOD:
The 4th Man
Liquid Sky
Repo Man
La Femme Nakita
Subway
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White Trash, hmmmmmm.... probably nouveau riche, uneducated, colorless posers. Blonde bimbos, like Paris Hilton, who inherit wads o' cash, and get famous for being famous. No talent, no brains, no heart - if they died of a heroin overdose, nobody would notice... is that anywhere close?
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Hmmm... As for Art House films... Most of mine would be foreign films... And I saw most of them at the now-demolished art house in Georgetown.
"Un Coeur en Hiver"
"Like Water for Chocolate"
"Cinema Paradiso"
"La Lectrice"
More recently:
"A Home At the End of the World"
"The Brown Bunny" - NOT![/b] -If that's art, and Vincent Gallo is an artiste, well, then I'm getting out of the biz.
;)
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ok, DTM or FJL please put me out of my misery what is that Quogue quote? It sounded so familar and I just can't place it!!!!
It's a line in "Right", a song in THEY'RE PALYING OUR SONG.
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We have two waste paper baskets in our house. One is for all the colored paper, and one is for the white trash.
More seriously, "white trash" is a demeaning word used by der Brucer's daughter to indicate people she considers to be of a lower status than she.
Yes, it is quite often used in this way.
Its origins are interesting: The phrase was used by slaves in the South in reference to the poor whites who worked in the fields like the slaves did.
My own take on the term -- and what I mean when I use it -- is those people who have had every advantage of education and access to enlightenment and have chosen to ignore it and cling to prejudice and hatred.
But there are those who quibble over the phrase as being guilty of being as discriminatory as the people to whom it has been applied...that it implies whites are not trash unless so designated (which gets a big "duh" from me, since that would be a yes) but that it also implies everyone else who is not white would have to be, by virtue of the discriminatory word "white", also be trash.
So...that's why I'm trying to suss out what the phrase means to different peopl.
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White Trash, hmmmmmm.... probably nouveau riche, uneducated, colorless posers. Blonde bimbos, like Paris Hilton, who inherit wads o' cash, and get famous for being famous. No talent, no brains, no heart - if they died of a heroin overdose, nobody would notice... is that anywhere close?
I sincerely appreciate your analogy. It works for me. :D
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Here's a question for those of you willing to participate:
What does the term "white trash" mean/imply to you?
A derogatory term for low class/no class caucasians. I hate it as much as the n-word, though it seems to be much more acceptable in usage.
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As for White Trash... Sour cream, mayonnaise, potato chip crumbs, crushed corn flakes, creamed corn, Veg-All, canned green beans, French-fried onions, bacon, bacon fat, pork chops... In other words... Good Eatin'!
;D
*And I keep wondering if Volume 1 of the White Trash Cookbook is still available. I always see Vol. 2 on the shelves, but I haven't seen Vol. 1 in a while.
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Jrand, correct, Bonjour Tristesse was not a hit at the box-office.
When I was a kid (as those who've read Benjamin Kritzer know), one of my childhood theaters became an "art-house" venue, and that's where I saw all my first art-house films (well, that and the Fine Arts on Wilshire near La Cienega - that one has a different name but is STILL an art-house). At the Lido, I saw Diabolique, The Red Balloon, several Fernandel films (which I enjoyed) and many others. Of course, what was "art-house" here may have been hugely successful in the films' native country, like Cherbourg, and Sundays and Cybele, and That Man From Rio, all of which I loved.
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And Cherbourg ended up in art-houses here in LA but started exclusively in a large theater - the Beverly in Beverly Hills.
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DR Ron Pulliam - Seriously(?), I've always thought "white trash" had a Southern implication to it. Basically uneducated. Basically a derogatory term. I don't think I really heard the term until I started school in Richmond.
However, I have noticed that it has been recently applied to someone who flaunts their lack of education, lack of modesty, lack of "general style", and garners publicity and money from their "efforts". -And sometimes, these people actually do have a decent amount of education, modesty and style, and they're just putting on an act in order to garner publicity and make money.
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OK... Time for me to do some light stretching. I can tell that my muscles are starting to "lock up" a bit after the past few days of inactivity. And then I think I'm going to go for a short run/jog since the weather is being cooperative.
Laters...
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It worked! Got back there, unplugged, replugged and all is well in VCR-land. A million thanks for the brilliant suggestion.
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I am anxiously awaiting my copy of QUINCEANEROS, DR MBARNUM. Your Annette CD package also includes a special surprise which I hope you don't already own!
You will LOVE the movie...and the Mexican John Saxon who is in it! Woohoo!
And of course MAMBO GIRL is included! Could that be an art house film? LOL! Prolly not.
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DRJOSE deserves those congrats!!
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The Mexican Carmen Orrico? Wow!
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DR MattH, I sort of agree with what you wrote about last night's MEDIUM. Yes it was good. And yes it held my attention. But I don't think it's as good as it has been.
The dreams connection to the plot was more predictable than usual. And even the person involved in the crime was predictable. The only thing i didn't expect was what happened to the mother. That part was interesting.
Still one of my favorite shows though.
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I wonder if GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BARES is an art house film.
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I just read where the UPN and WB networks will both close down this fall, to be replaced by a single new network that is part of a new partnership between CBS and Warner Brothers.
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Yes, Jose - brilliant suggestion. I must now view tapes aimed at two to five year olds.
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Does THE MAD ADVENTURES OF RABBI JACOB qualify as an art-house film? I think it started off art-house in the U.S. but then went a little wider in selected cities.
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BK. are you looking at TV stuff or also Disney straight-to-video features? If you come across HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME PART II, Skip wrote three songs for that one.
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Tuesday greetings! I'm back at work today after 10 glorious days off. DH Richard is home doing laundry and other house-husbanding duties.
Heigh-ho, the glamorous life.
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It worked! Got back there, unplugged, replugged and all is well in VCR-land. A million thanks for the brilliant suggestion.
If I remember correctly, Jose made the suggestion, and for once, we can gladly blame Jose for his suggestion!
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Favorite art house films
A Mighty Wind
The Secret Lives of Altar Boys
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Here's a question for those of you willing to participate:
What does the term "white trash" mean/imply to you?
The "guests' on Jerry Springer
Joey Buttafucco, Amy Fisher, Tonya Harding, The Gottis
People who wear T shirts sporting vulgar phrases
People with bumper stickers that say " My Kid beat up your honor student" or "Don't like my driving call 1-800- F...." well you've seen them
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I am right this minute listening to THE BEST OF JOE AND EDDIE, a wonderful folk music duo from the early 60s who I discovered (for myself) when I recently watched the Peter Breck/Ruta Lee film HOOTENANNY HOOT!
(http://www.moviegoods.com/assets/product_images/1020/236526.1020.A.jpg)
(http://i22.ebayimg.com/01/c/05/a7/3f/fd_8.JPG)
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The promos I'm doing are for one show on The Disney Channel - for little kids. I've watched one episode and am about to start another - it's very sugary and is making my teeth hurt. What we need is another Soupy Sales type of kids show.
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And who knew there was a soundtrack album to the movie HOOTENANNY HOOT...available for $1.99 plus postage on Ebay! LOL!
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I rather feel like having a hootenanny, right now.
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The promos I'm doing are for one show on The Disney Channel - for little kids. I've watched one episode and am about to start another - it's very sugary and is making my teeth hurt. What we need is another Soupy Sales type of kids show.
Jojo's Circus?
Or is it a brand new show?
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Good Afternoon!
BK - Glad to know your VCR is back in proper working order. Sometimes the simple fix really is the fix.
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And now, after some gentle stretching, I'm going to head out for a brisk walk, jog, etc.
Laters...
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I wonder if GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BARES is an art house film.
I am not even sure it's a FILM..... 8)
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I just remember HOOTENANNY HOOT for the most horrific choreography by Hal Belfer (I think)....hideous!!!
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The title song of "Hootenany Hoot" (Sheb Wooley) was Top ten hit here in OZ DR MBarnum. (As indeed was "Hootannany" by The Glencoves) - 1963.
Joe & Eddie's "There's A Meetin' Here Tonight" was very much a one hit wonder here in Melbourne but the duo was very successful in Adelaide!
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Yes, it was Hal. And right after his stunning work on DON'T KNOCK THE TWIST!!
Buy that album DRMBARNUM. I just bought - for $1.99 plus s/h, an album of the Trapp Family singers singing the songs from THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
This album claims that the Von Trapps took their musical mentor Father Franz Wasner with them when they went over the Alps, and he lived with them for the rest of his life. That sure wasn't in the movie!
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The Brothers Four rule.
That is my statement at this time.
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I would buy the album except that I have nothing to play it on :-\
Perhaps it is an album that DR Rodzinski would have an interest in?
Here is the Ebay link...now don't everyone go biddin' on it all at once!
http://cgi.ebay.com/HOOTENANNY-HOOT-FILM-SOUND-TRACK-LP_W0QQitemZ4826216297QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.com/HOOTENANNY-HOOT-FILM-SOUND-TRACK-LP_W0QQitemZ4826216297QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
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I imagine Joe and Eddie would have become much bigger had Joe not crashed his car on the Santa Monica freeway in 1966 while on his way home from his appearance at the Cosmos Club (I have been reading the liner notes!). Very sad...he was only about 25 years old.
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I would buy the album except that I have nothing to play it on :-\
Perhaps it is an album that DR Rodzinski would have an interest in?
Here is the Ebay link...now don't everyone go biddin' on it all at once!
http://cgi.ebay.com/HOOTENANNY-HOOT-FILM-SOUND-TRACK-LP_W0QQitemZ4826216297QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.com/HOOTENANNY-HOOT-FILM-SOUND-TRACK-LP_W0QQitemZ4826216297QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Michael, if you really want it, bid and if you get it, I can make a CD from it. I have my record player hooked up to my computer. Pretty slick. ;D
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Actually, I just really like saying the word HOOTENANNY.
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Actually, I just really like saying the word HOOTENANNY.
Whatever you do, don't do Belfer's choreography at the same time! :P
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I agree with DRRODZINSKI....the Brothers Four Rule!!
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Today is National Speak Up and Succeed Day.
It is also National Peanut Butter Day.
(Personally, I would suggest swallowing the peanut butter before trying to speak clearly, of course.)
Today is the late John Belushi's birthday. He was born in 1949 and would've only been 57 years old.
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Alas my love
You've done me dirt
You've sewn greensleeves
On my yellow shirt.....
Allan Sherman
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JRand55, here is a DVD double feature you might enjoy...it is called RETURN TO TROY, but is a double feature of the Mark Forest film LION OF THEBES and the Gordon Mitchell/Jacques Bergerac epic FURY OF ACHILLES.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007TKNCO/qid=1138131926/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/002-1951582-6517662?n=130 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007TKNCO/qid=1138131926/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/002-1951582-6517662?n=130)
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I have the BROTHERS FOUR in my Amazon.com wish list.
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It's not Jojo's Circus - it's called The Doodlebops. A rock group for the pre-kindergarten set.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/posterfreak/PeplumETC/LaColereDAchille.jpg)
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Mark Forest page 5 dance!
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What BK said:
The DoodleBops (http://www.umusic.ca/thedoodlebops/index.php)
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Women are seductive and treacherous, aren't they!
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Whew.....how can anyone resist those movies?
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What BK said:
The DoodleBops (http://www.umusic.ca/thedoodlebops/index.php)
We saw them on the teevee when we were in Canada last year
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Women are seductive and treacherous, aren't they!
Dance, puppet dance!
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If anyone is interested in getting the new broadway cast album THE COLOR PURPLE (that came out today) someone on ATC posted that it is onsale (maybe today only) at jr.com for $5.99.
If i didn't have the shipping and duty issues i would grab it.
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4076343
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If anyone is interested in getting the new broadway cast album THE COLOR PURPLE (that came out today) someone on ATC posted that it is onsale (maybe today only) at jr.com for $5.99.
If i didn't have the shipping and duty issues i would grab it.
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4076343
Thanks for the link! I just ordered mine!
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From this we can infer that our beloved DR Elmore is a fan of foreign language and art house films, according to his viewing reports every Friday.
::)
;D
I tell ya, I got Klass!
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I watched a film called TOWER OF EVIL last night....hmmmmm
One of the stars was Mr John Hammill, a favorite of producer Herman (TARGET EARTH) Cohen. Mr Hammill was a "physique" model and does some of what he does best in this 1972 film. There is also an actor who wears the tightest pants I have ever seen in a movie.
Well, Mr Hamill was definitely a student of the casting couch school of drama, along with several others I know but won't name.
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Well, Mr Hamill was definitely a student of the casting couch school of drama, along with several others I know but won't name.
Will it be in your book? :D
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Here's a question for those of you willing to participate:
What does the term "white trash" mean/imply to you?
A higher life form than cheap Christmas trash.
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Well, Mr Hamill was definitely a student of the casting couch school of drama, along with several others I know but won't name.
Not even in a PM? 8)
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I wonder if GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BARES is an art house film.
DR MBarnum, some "specialty" houses are not art cinema houses.
I forgot to mention (I think):
BABETTE'S FEAST
MIRACLE IN MILAN with the flying bicycles
NIGHTS OF CABIRIA
I hated, hated, hated LA STRADA!
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DR Ron Pulliam - Seriously(?), I've always thought "white trash" had a Southern implication to it. Basically uneducated. Basically a derogatory term. I don't think I really heard the term until I started school in Richmond.
However, I have noticed that it has been recently applied to someone who flaunts their lack of education, lack of modesty, lack of "general style", and garners publicity and money from their "efforts". -And sometimes, these people actually do have a decent amount of education, modesty and style, and they're just putting on an act in order to garner publicity and make money.
The characters in "Tobacco Road" are white trash, probably in "Baby Doll" as well.
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Now, DRRLP - in and of themselves these items don't point to any particular cultural group:
Nascar memorabilia
Garth Brooks CD box sets
Dress jeans for funerals and weddings
Confederate Flags
A non-running car in the front yard
No screen door on the trailer
Your kids wear only Pampers or Luvs to the WalMart
As I say, individually they don't mean anything....but if you add them all up, said person is probably white trash.
Although DRPENNYO's post is correct, it has nothing to do with income or social position.
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Ya know, sometimes something said on a TV show pops into my head, and still makes me laugh:
CHEERS....at Woody's wedding. Woody comes running into the kitchen where we are spending TOO MUCH time dealing with boring Sam's problems.
WOODY: Quick! Where can I find a plunger?!!
SAM: Are you having trouble in the bathroom?
WOODY: No...no...no. My uncle left his wooden leg on the bus, and there's gonna be dancing!!
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Women are seductive and treacherous, aren't they!
Did you read that somewhere?
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And...if you think MY NAME IS EARL is a reality show, you are probably white trash.
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Will it be in your book? :D
In fine bookstores for a modest price.
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Now, DRRLP - in and of themselves these items don't point to any particular cultural group:
A non-running car in the front yard
As I say, individually they don't mean anything....but if you add them all up, said person is probably white trash.
Although DRPENNYO's post is correct, it has nothing to do with income or social position.
Some times a toilet or sink in the yard.
It's a state of mind, although poor white trash does imply economic poverty as well.
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I just bought the LAST DVD copy of RETURN TO TROY from Amazon....it was a tough choice....THE COLOR PURPLE - RETURN TO TROY....hmmm
Actually no choice at all.
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I rather feel like having a hootenanny, right now.
Well, I'll jus' pull out my jaw harp and twang ya a little vamp there, Clemmet.
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Last night's "Surface":
NO SPOILER!!
Did I understand correctly at the end that the series has only two more episodes?
Two or three more episodes and then the series is history. After the Winter Olympics, NBC is putting the game show DEAL OR NO DEAL into that time slot. I do not think it is on NBC's short list for renewal for next season.
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LA COLERE D'ACHILLE--that must be French for The Colors That Ache
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CSI: MIAMI continued with its colorful ways with a couple of good cases and some interoffice relationships starting to build.
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I've already heard the entire COLOR PURPLE score and I wasn't all that interested in the cast recording, but I can never pass up a bargin like this one.
I bet heads are gonna roll at JR.com.
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Anybody coming to Long Island for the ICON?
(They oughta have DR CEP come and talk about his Hercules movie! Or have BK come and talk about Spaceship!)
http://www.iconsf.org/
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I didn't get wowed by COURTING ALEX. Oh, the actors are all very attractive and delivered their lines well. I just found it very predictable and not especially funny. I felt bad for the sweet guy at the office (Steve?) who has a crush on Alex. Nice guys finish last, it looks like.
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THE OFFICE from last week was another hilarious and poignant episode. Poor boss Michael can't keep a secret, and we find out one of the guys in the office is secretly gay. This show is constantly full of surprises.
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If anyone is interested in getting the new broadway cast album THE COLOR PURPLE (that came out today) someone on ATC posted that it is onsale (maybe today only) at jr.com for $5.99.
If i didn't have the shipping and duty issues i would grab it.
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4076343
I just ordered two...it's cheap at twice the price! ;)
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Page Six Peter Pan Dance!!!
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ICE STATION ZEBRA occupied the last 2 hours of my afternoon. The movie could have lost 10 or 15 minutes of footage with no loss of continuity, but it's still an entertaining movie.
The DVD looks simply wonderful for a film this old, and the repurposed Dolby Digital 5.1 is excellent, especially in the "breaking through the ice" sequences and in the second half once they arrive at the station with the howling wind, etc.
Yes, it's obviously studio sets (no frosty breath when folks talk), but you expect that with most films of that era. Didn't bother me a bit.
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Thanks to all of you for the responses to my "white trash" definition query.
I keep hearing Mammy, in "Gone With the Wind", clucking: "You ain't nothin' BUT trash!"
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Charleston be better for ya...ya jus' git in trouble in Atlanta!
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DRMATTH I think I will watch ICE STATION ZEBRA again....
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Charleston be better for ya...ya jus' git in trouble in Atlanta!
Mammy: Savannah would be better for ya. You just get in trouble in Atlanta.
Scarlett: What trouble you talkin' 'bout?
Mammy: You know what trouble I's talkin' 'bout. Mr. Ashley be comin' to Atlanta when he get's his leave, and you settin' there waitin' for him, just like a spider.
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"Oh, no, you ain't. If you don't care what folks says about this family, I does. And I done told you and told you, you can always tell a lady by the way she eats in front of people - like a bird. And I ain't aimin' to have you go over to Mista John Wilkes' house and eat like a field hand and gobble like a hog."
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"It ain't fittin'... it ain't fittin'. It jes' ain't fittin'... It ain't fittin'"
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Well I'm off... night all!
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Fiddle-dee-dee!
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Mammy: Savannah would be better for ya. You just get in trouble in Atlanta.
Scarlett: What trouble you talkin' 'bout?
Mammy: You know what trouble I's talkin' 'bout. Mr. Ashley be comin' to Atlanta when he get's his leave, and you settin' there waitin' for him, just like a spider.
Yup...it was Savanah....yup!
And of course:
"What gemmins says and gemmins thinks is two different things. An' I doan notice Mist' Ashley askin' fer ta marry ya!" ;D
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Did anyone here go off "In Search of a Bon-Bon" by mistake today?
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But you don't understand. She's gone and married my Mr Kennedy!
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LOL! You're going to rewatch ICE STATION ZEBRA, and now you guys are making me nostalgic for GWTW.
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Lion of Thebes is Mr. Forest's favorite of his films DR JRand55.
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And I need to get off here and do some cleaning myself since I have no Mammy or Prissy or Polk around here.
"How we gone do dat, Miz Scarlett? We'z house workers."
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Good Afternoon!
A nice run. A bit windy, but a nice run. And I believe my pace is picking up. I ran three miles in 26 minutes. That's basically a personal best for me, and I wasn't even huffing and puffing that hard.
:)
And I made my usual stop at Whole Foods for a Jamba Juice - I tried their Coldbuster today (with a Protein Boost) - and I picked up a salad to consume later.
And I've stretched and cooled down, and now...
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And now I must shower and get ready to head in for tonight's show...
Laters...
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My favorite scene was this:
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You can see more pictures and listen to sound clips HERE (http://www.carolburnettfan.com/burnett_wwtw.html)!
;D
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OH!
J&R has had first-day-of-release sales in the past. So, I have a feeling that the $5.99 The Color Purple OCR is not a mistake. I guess they're hoping that people will go ahead and buy something else while they're there. -And, actually, I usually stock up at J&R since their regular prices are equivalent to Tower's and Virgin's sale prices. And they tend to be well-stocked at all time in all categories of music and DVDs.
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...And I just ordered my copy too. :)
OK... Now I'm going...
Laters...
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Your husband is lying dead beside the road....
Scarlett was a piece of work, all right.
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Just had a lovely, touching and funny phone call from Mr. Richard Sherman. He just finished reading Rewind and absolutely loved it. He thought the plot was most interesting and he said it made lots of things make sense to him, and it was just a wonderful call.
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Yes, it was Hal. And right after his stunning work on DON'T KNOCK THE TWIST!!
Buy that album DRMBARNUM. I just bought - for $1.99 plus s/h, an album of the Trapp Family singers singing the songs from THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
This album claims that the Von Trapps took their musical mentor Father Franz Wasner with them when they went over the Alps, and he lived with them for the rest of his life. That sure wasn't in the movie!
That is true....
Hollywood took liberties with the story....
Here is the link for for you
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html
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My favorite scene was this:
One of my favorite scenes of the Carol Burnett show
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One of my favorite scenes of the Carol Burnett show
"I saw it in the window and just couldn't resist it."
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I just read where the UPN and WB networks will both close down this fall, to be replaced by a single new network that is part of a new partnership between CBS and Warner Brothers.
It will be interesting to see how that "marriage" goes.....
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DR MBArnum,
Did you see the Bollywood clip i told you about?
Under a different writer it wouldhave been good.
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Phew!!!
I think I am caught up reading.... Taking a few minute break at work and I thought I would read a bit....
My favorite art movies:
Unter Solen
My Life as a Dog
Somewhere Tomorrow
Like Water for Chocolate.... The book is just as good!!
Chocolat
The return of Martin Guerre
Jean de Florette / Manons of Spring
Playboy of the Western World (the 1963 Irish release)
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Yes, Jose - brilliant suggestion. I must now view tapes aimed at two to five year olds.
Well, I bet Jose could help you with that task, too.
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The Brothers Four rule.
That is my statement at this time.
The Brothers Four were originally from the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Thanks for the SOM link, DRDAKOTA CELT.
Where is DRJANE today?
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The Brothers Four were originally from the University of Washington in Seattle.
They are still from there....they're just not there now. ::)
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Mark Forest page 5 dance!
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I saw that movie at the drive-in.
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DR DakotaCelt - re Playboy of the Western World.
I can thoroughly recommend "The Empress of Ireland" by Christopher Robbins. It is about the life of Director Brian Desmond Hurst" - funny, informative and at times very moving.
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Just had a lovely, touching and funny phone call from Mr. Richard Sherman. He just finished reading Rewind and absolutely loved it. He thought the plot was most interesting and he said it made lots of things make sense to him, and it was just a wonderful call.
Supercalifragaslisticexpialidocious!
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Phew!!!
I think I am caught up reading.... Taking a few minute break at work and I thought I would read a bit....
My favorite art movies:
Unter Solen
My Life as a Dog
Somewhere Tomorrow
Like Water for Chocolate.... The book is just as good!!
Chocolat
The return of Martin Guerre
Jean de Florette / Manons of Spring
Playboy of the Western World (the 1963 Irish release)
I forgot two more:
CYRANO DE BERGERAC with Gerard Depardieu
LA REINE MARGOT
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I saw that movie at the drive-in.
Were you car-hopping?
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Well, Mr Hamill was definitely a student of the casting couch school of drama, along with several others I know but won't name.
I can't even find John Hamill listed in the credits for TOWER OF EVIL. I assume he is not the star. I did see that Jill Haworth is listed as being in the film.
Obviously, Mr. Hamill must now be in his seventies, or Mr. Barnum would not have been watching the film.
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I can't even find John Hamill listed in the credits for TOWER OF EVIL. I assume he is not the star. I did see that Jill Haworth is listed as being in the film.
Obviously, Mr. Hamill must now be in his seventies, or Mr. Barnum would not have been watching the film.
I suspect that many of DR MBarnum's film obsessions were students of the casting couch school of drama!
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I'm now officially on a pre-"Time to Say Goodbye" Sarah Brightman kick. All the pop music, the ALW recordings, The Songs That Got Away, etc.. she was so much better before she went - ummm - legit? LOL
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Eleven users and six GUESTS! That's what I'M talkin' about.
Waiting to finally (it's been a four-month journey) get my new bamboo blinds to replace the broken ones in the dining room. It will be ever so lovely to be able to raise them and let the sun shine in.
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OH!
J&R has had first-day-of-release sales in the past. So, I have a feeling that the $5.99 The Color Purple OCR is not a mistake. I guess they're hoping that people will go ahead and buy something else while they're there. -And, actually, I usually stock up at J&R since their regular prices are equivalent to Tower's and Virgin's sale prices. And they tend to be well-stocked at all time in all categories of music and DVDs.
I don't think it's a mistake anymore, either. I've browsed a little through their selections and I spotted the COMPANY re-release at just $7.99. I think I might do some shopping there later.
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Quick, if each of the eleven users made fifty postings right now, we'd set a new record.
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They are still from there....they're just not there now. ::)
You don't know that!
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I suspect that many of DR MBarnum's film obsessions were students of the casting couch school of drama!
He just wishes that he had been the couch!
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DR DakotaCelt - re Playboy of the Western World.
I can thoroughly recommend "The Empress of Ireland" by Christopher Robbins. It is about the life of Director Brian Desmond Hurst" - funny, informative and at times very moving.
I will check it out...
I love the score from the 1963 version. IT was rather fascinating. It was also great to see one of the greats in Irish pipering, Leo Rowsome. It was done by Sean O Riada and his group, Ceoltoiri Cualann. Ceoltoiri Cualann was the forerunner to the Chieftains led by Paddy Moloney. Huge fan of Irish Music, specially the Chieftains.
It was one of the first movies to incorporate true traditional Irish music from an orchestral point of view. The music is from actual folk melodies and no incorporation of American-Irish vaudevillian influences.
The other movie that incorporated Irish music was Lovespell (AKA Tristan and Isolde). It was the first movie to use Irish traditional instruments for the score. The Chieftains were involved also in Kubrick's film, Barry Lyndon. They won an Oscar for their work on that one. They also contributed music to the movie, The Grey Fox, where they won a Juno award.
DRJRand55, you are welcome!
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I'm now officially on a pre-"Time to Say Goodbye" Sarah Brightman kick. All the pop music, the ALW recordings, The Songs That Got Away, etc.. she was so much better before she went - ummm - legit? LOL
Never legit with that vocal training: she's aiming for a low-brow audience that thinks she's legit. White trash or kitsch is my opinion.
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I forgot two more:
CYRANO DE BERGERAC with Gerard Depardieu
LA REINE MARGOT
I will have to see if I can find a new copy of Cyrano.... My VCR was hungry two weeks ago and ate it....
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I will have to see if I can find a new copy of Cyrano.... My VCR was hungry two weeks ago and ate it....
The Depardieu is now on DVD, and rather inexpensive when I purchased it.
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The Depardieu is now on DVD, and rather inexpensive when I purchased it.
Thanks for the heads up!!
It was not fun pulling the tape out of the VCR. Ironically, it was the newer one that did that. The old one has never eaten a tape, oddly...
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Years ago, I worked with an actress, here in Tacoma, that later went to Hollywood to become a star. Her first feature film was an art-house film, I believe, because of the nudity. It was the X-rated version of Pinocchio ("IT'S NOT THE NOSE THAT GROWS")
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Another interesting movie was Au Revoir Les Enfants
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It's not Jojo's Circus - it's called The Doodlebops. A rock group for the pre-kindergarten set.
I've seen a bit of that show. It is ugly, obnoxious, and yes, sickeningly sweet. It's as if someone was trying to recreate the era of Sid and Marty Kroft, but without the imagination...or the drugs.
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Another interesting movie was Au Revoir Les Enfants
I loved it, but I wept for days after and never want to see it again! Those poor children.
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I just got a good review of Deceit in the mail - some rag I've never heard of before. Unfortunately, it's so ineptly written it's an embarrassement. That, and the fact that the reviewer starts at the beginning of the play and tells the ENTIRE story from start to finish, in detail, with every plot twist there for all to see. I mean, what IS the matter with these people.
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ICE STATION ZEBRA ...Yes, it's obviously studio sets (no frosty breath when folks talk), but you expect that with most films of that era. Didn't bother me a bit.
Can you imagine what a location shoot would have been like?
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Hootnanny Hoot was on TCM right before I left LA. Wooo!
During college I used to go see a lot of art house stuff and foreign films. Madchen in Uniform, Hour of the Wolf, Virgin Spring, Seven Samurai,Claire's Knee, Elvira Madigan. That was back in those years where I felt it was my obligation to see EVERYTHING. I since realized life is too short and have gotten much more selective. Also I used to go every April to the City of Lights, City of Angels French film festival, courtesy of the WGA, and would see things like Captaine Conan and En Garde. I would say En Garde (or Le Bossou) and Ridicule have been my favourite art house films in recent memory.
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Hootnanny Hoot was on TCM right before I left LA. Wooo!
During college I used to go see a lot of art house stuff and foreign films. Madchen in Uniform, Hour of the Wolf, Virgin Spring, Seven Samurai,Claire's Knee, Elvira Madigan. That was back in those years where I felt it was my obligation to see EVERYTHING. I since realized life is too short and have gotten much more selective. Also I used to go every April to the City of Lights, City of Angels French film festival, courtesy of the WGA, and would see things like Captaine Conan and En Garde. I would say En Garde (or Le Bossou) and Ridicule have been my favourite art house films in recent memory.
I forgot:
SEVEN SAMURAI
RASHOMON
What's that Japanese ghost story collection from the 1960s?
RAN
THRONE OF BLOOD, which leads to
KING LEAR (Peter Brook, Paul Scofield, Irene Worth)
MARAT/SADE
I'm gettin' old! Still hate LA STRADA.
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I forgot:
SEVEN SAMURAI
RASHOMON
What's that Japanese ghost story collection from the 1960s?
I'm gettin' old! Still hate LA STRADA.
The Japanese anthology was KWAIDON! What's run away with my mind?
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Der Brucer is at long last back from ladsitting duties, and wants on the computer. Bye, for now...
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What's run away with my mind?
Something with a taste for cheap porn?
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T.O.D.
ELVIRA MADIGAN
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (or is that smut?)
WOMEN IN LOVE
GODS AND MONSTERS
FELLINI'S SATYRICON
FELLINI'S ROMA
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I had a most rude customer yesterday.
Part of my job is to bag people's groceries, which I am quite speedy at doing. The customer in question stood there, watching me bag, and started to get quite agetated. Suddenly, he reached over and grabbed items out of my hands, rearranging them in the bags as I was putting them in, cursing about how I wasn't doing my job right, how I wasn't bagging them correctly because I wasn't bagging the items in the order that he would be putting them on the shelves when he got home!
His lover just stood there, rolling his eyes. I refrained from asking if my bagging competitor had taken his meds recently.
I don't get many rude customers, but when I do they are doozies.
I'm sorry but this made me laugh. ;D
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Something with a taste for cheap porn?
Alas, no. I think it's senility. I used to have total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .recall.
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Jose when I mentioned the Stinking Rose I thought you might have eaten at the LA one, which we have never been to so I can’t compare them. So glad your back is better.
DakotaCelt about the only thing I miss about living on the East Coast and in Michigan are the Cardinals. I still remember the first time I saw one. Beautiful photos, thank you.
MBarnum congratulations on the FILMAX article and the check.
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DRLaura’s I’m also glad you got your camera back.
Ben I will miss your Dublin and Cardiff photos. I like your new avatar.
JRand -I thought you had my address. Now you have it twice. Thank you for making the CD. I will let you know when it arrives. I expect MBarnum’s will arrive a day ahead of mine.
I’m enjoying all the quotes from GWTW and George’s favorite scene.
DakotaCelt I enjoyed the Van Trapp article, thank you.
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Where is DRJANE today?
I had to go to Medford (the town DRMBarnum hails from) and see the dermatologist. He said the spot where he removed the skin cancer is healing fine. What he couldn't tell me is when it would look decent enough I can wear my hair pulled back. Of course he said I must wear a hat if I do that. ;D
I then did a ton of errands in Medford (I really don't enjoy going there) before returning home. I purchased some new dishes and silverware and treated myself to some See's candy.
I like the new silverware very much, just one problem, the fork is longer than our current forks are and I kept poking the back of my throat with it. I must learn to eat more lady-like and not like white trash.
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I'm through screening - I had to split up the five episodes over a six-hour period, otherwise I would have had a severe sugar overdose.
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Jose when I mentioned the Stinking Rose I thought you might have eaten at the LA one, which we have never been to so I can’t compare them. So glad your back is better.
DakotaCelt about the only thing I miss about living on the East Coast and in Michigan are the Cardinals. I still remember the first time I saw one. Beautiful photos, thank you.
MBarnum congratulations on the FILMAX article and the check.
DRJane, they are pretty birds. They are really rare for Eastern ND and when we see one here it is a treat,
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DRLaura’s photos, page 10
I’m also glad you got your camera back.
Ben I will miss your Dublin and Cardiff photos. I like your new avatar.
JRand -I thought you had my address. Now you have it twice. Thank you for making the CD. I will let you know when it arrives. I expect MBarnum’s will arrive a day ahead of mine.
I’m enjoying all the quotes from GWTW and George’s favorite scene.
DakotaCelt I enjoyed the Van Trapp article, thank you.
DRJane, YW.... I also found that article rather interesting. Please share it with Keith. I think he might find it interesting also.
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I'm through screening - I had to split up the five episodes over a six-hour period, otherwise I would have had a severe sugar overdose.
I can understand that. In order to keep my neice entertained I had to sit through 8 hours of Blue's Clues and Barney......
By the end of the 8 hours I was contemplating very nasty thoughts of how to get rid of the purple dinosaur!
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Quote from: DakotaCelt on Today at 05:03:15pm
Another interesting movie was Au Revoir Les Enfants
From elmore:
I loved it, but I wept for days after and never want to see it again! Those poor children.
I agree wonderful film.
TOBACCO ROAD is a great description of white trash.
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FJL-I put THE MAD ADVENTURES OF RABBI JACOB on my NetFlix queue.
Bruce-LOL
Dakota I already saved the article for Keith. :)
Goodness it is late and I haven’t washed the dinner dishes yet.
‘night.
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I just checked the tv guide and see that Doodlebops plays here on CBC everyday at 10am. I wonder if my baby niece would like them.
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This is something I haven't seen before: we are having an ice storm with lightning and thunder. This is end of days weather, this is.
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This is something I haven't seen before: we are having an ice storm with lightning and thunder. This is end of days weather, this is.
O Rapture!
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Netflix sent me BONJOUR TRISTESSE (1958) today...JRand55 has recommended this movie to me for well over a year...and why has it taken me so long to finally get around to seeing it...what a good movie! Mylene Demongeot totally steals the show! Geoffrey Horne is not much of an actor, but he is a looker! And the clothes...wow! I hope the costume designer won some awards for this one!
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Finished ICE STATION ZEBRA and enjoyed it thoroughly. It IS long, but as the film was meant to be roadshown, I guess they felt it HAD to be that long.
Was so very pleased with Warners work on the DVD to get it looking and sounding so good.
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Since the AMERICAN IDOL auditions dealt with the Greensboro, NC auditions tonight, I did watch the entire two hours. Mostly a waste of time but there were a few interesting human interest stories to go along with the few decent performances.
But after watching two hours of it tonight, I'll be skipping tomorrow night completely. They are the San Francisco auditions.
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THE SHIELD had another compelling hour with Forest Whitaker and Michael Chiklis finally facing off after weeks of build-up. Fireworks to come for sure!
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But that means I had to let the DVR get an hour of SCRUBS, THE CLOSER, and LOVE MONKEY tonight as I watched other things.
Should have time to get to them all tomorrow.
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Good Evening!
...We just had a weird bit of weather come through here too. As I was leaving the theatre, it was sprinkling lightly. Then as I crossed the street to the parking lot, it started raining-raining. And then as I got into my car it started pouring. Wind gusts. Some lightning and thunder. And then about 20 minutes later it stopped.
It apparently even caught the local weather people off guard too. The guys on the radio actually sounded surprised. They knew that high winds and lower temps were due in tomorrow, but as for tonight... Just weird.
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Good eve, all.
What a day this has been, let me tell ya... Actually, I won't tell ya cause I'm not sure that I could rehash it all one more time today. "It" is something that I've been dealing with for a very long time - nearly 20 years - and "it" is all finally coming to a head now and will very likely change the dynamics of my family and my life. No, this has nothing to do with coming out and I'm not dying. I'm neither an alcoholic nor a junkie. "It" is of a personal nature and, while I won't divulge details here on the board, I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm going through some stuff right now and may not be around much over the next few days and/or weeks. I was so upset by "it" today that I went into the "ugly cry" at work and had to leave the office at noon. It wasn't pretty.
HHW is like a family to me, and you have all been very supportive and caring and encouraging in the past for much less significant problems. In a rare move for me, I'm asking now for your support and encouragement and prayers to help me wade through my stuff and come out on the other side a better, happier person. You are all very special to me in your own ways and I feel secure in the fact that I will have dozens of friends around the world to see me through.
Here's to new beginnings and hopeful, happier futures!
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Well, I have a Noon matinee tomorrow... And since I didn't get up until 11:30 today... And I also have to get my bag/luggage ready for San Francisco tonight before I head to bed since I'll be out most of tomorrow - and I have to leave for the airport by 6:00am on Thursday morning... So...
Goodnight.
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This is something I haven't seen before: we are having an ice storm with lightning and thunder. This is end of days weather, this is.
We had one of those last fall... Even stranger when we get Thunder Snow
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This is something I haven't seen before: we are having an ice storm with lightning and thunder. This is end of days weather, this is.
You mean you didn't see this in the Rexella forecast segment yesterday? ;D
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DR Jason, please take care of yourself and I am sending many vibes to help!!
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Sorry for your problems, DR Jason, but we're all pulling for you to come through the clouds into the sunshine.
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I read that actor Chris Penn died. I'm sad about that.
He was part of that wonderful "Let's Hear for the Boys" number ion the movie FOOTLOOSE, co-starred in AT CLOSE RANGE with his brother Sean and was also one of the RESERVOIR DOGS.
He had a lovely part on a WILL & GRACE episode as Barry Manilow's road manager who developed a crush on Will.
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I also just read that NBC has taken THE BOOK OF DANIEL off its schedule. It will not complete its run.
Seeing the low ratings and a lack of advertising support for the show, I'm not surprised at all by this decision, but it still makes me sad.
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And now I'm going to head downstairs for bed.
Good night, all!
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I'm sitting here like so much fish.
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Greetings from the extremely errant and truant. Where to begin... where to begin.
I guess I should let you know that Sweeney went well and I was told by many regulars at the theatre that it was the best show they had ever seen at the Muncie Civic. (Still no pictures, hopefully will hve them soon.)
A Tale of Two Cities was great in November. Sadly I didn't really have time to really visit anyone, but it was well worth the trip. James Barbour was amazing, and Natalie Toro nearly stopped the reading with her performance of Out of Sight, Out of Mind. The producers were just great and introduced me to many, many people. Jill Santoriello is perhaps one of the nicest people I have ever met also!
I am now in my third week back at school. Much better schedule this semester. (No more working until 3 AM when I have a 9:30 AM class.) I also am in the process of planning for my eventual goal of trying to open a non-profit theatre group working with underpriviledged children and children with disabilities in an inclusive setting. (What a mouthful!) Fridays are completely devoted to that even though it is a few years away. I am also starting to volunteer with a local theatre program that works with disabled students.
Top that off with 16 hours of classes a week, 17 hours of work, and then all my responsibilities as publicity chair for the Catholic Student Union which is a part time job in and of itself.
I am also helping direct a musical at a local Catholic school in Muncie next spring and we are beginning to plan for that. Small schools generally don't get the opportunity to do a real show experience so we really would like to do "Schoolhouse Rock Live!" with them. We are already trying to figure out how to get the money to pay royalties for that as their funds are extremely limited, but we have a few ideas.
Oh and I dyed my hair purple last Thursday because I lost a bet. (The Colts lost.) It's mostly washed out now and I am slightly dissapointd as I thought it would last a bit longer.
I am sure I am forgetting many, many things.
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Good to see you, Joey. You've been missed! And you've been busy!
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Our last rain here in the desert was October 18. The forecast for tonight and tomorrow is possible rain! Hoo and Ray!!!!!
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Our last rain here in the desert was October 18. The forecast for tonight and tomorrow is possible rain! Hoo and Ray!!!!!
Sending rain vibes to DRDearReaderLaura.... and also to Tomovoz...
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Thank you.