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Title: THE GAME IS AFOOT
Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 12:09:08 AM: Yes, the game is afoot, the notes have been read and now all that's left is for posts to be posted so go to it.

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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 01:00:57 AM: Well, I was going to post this "yesterday", but then I dilly-dallied too long, and got locked out... And since it's now REALLY late - almost bordering on early, here's the quick version...

Hotels in NYC - The Skyline Hotel, 725 10th Ave. (at 52nd). Nice rooms - large for NYC - be sure to ask for a room in the west wing, fully renovated and a pool on the 10th floor! Plus, the parking is very cheap - whether or not you're staying there. *I've priced this for my trip in January - some rates as low as $90/night! And just far away from the noise of Times Square, but still close enough to walk to everything.

Alma Mahler - Maya mentioned the movie... And I think there was a soundtrack released too with some of his and her music on it.

Oh, and I was snacking on some Buffalo Wing and Blue Cheese potato chips. Surprisingly - and scarily - tasty. And I washed it all down with an ice cold Fresca. Hopefully, I'll be able to sleep tonight.. or at least NOT have bad dreams.

Well, I'll sleep on the detective topic - literally...

Goodnight.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 01:05:50 AM: Oh, and as for the Hotel Pennsylvania... Yes, it's cheap. Yes, it's right across from MSG. BUT since it is across the street from MSG, it's one of the "host" hotels for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. They put sawdust down in the hallways during that time. And the one and only time I stayed there - not my choice - I could tell that the Kennel Club used the hotel if you know what I mean. Also, the rooms were dark, the bed was uncomfortable, and the water pressure was non-existent. I guess you could say I give it a "thumbs down".
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 02:49:00 AM: December the First! :o

Nick and Nora Charles are two of my favorite fictional sleuths. And of course Miss Marple.

Mike Hammer - particularly as played by Mr Ralph Meeker in Kiss Me, Deadly.

And in a round about way: Dagny Taggert! ;D

Well I am going to buy BOTH "Odds Against Tomorrow" and "Crime of Passion".

Richard Bright is the actor who plays Coco, the gay thug in OAT. When I saw it last year on TCM, I was a bit surprised at the performance myself. He doesn't have a lot of screen time, but his couple of scenes are revelatory.
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Post by: William E. Lurie on December 01, 2003, 05:59:25 AM: Fictional Detectives? Nancy Drew and the Scooby Doo gang (not together).
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Post by: William E. Lurie on December 01, 2003, 06:01:54 AM: Oh and regarding The Hotel Pennsylvania - I haven't stayed there in about fifteen years and I assume Jose's stay was more recent, so I guess it must have deteriorated since then. I know the dogs weren't there when I was.
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Post by: steveg on December 01, 2003, 06:02:42 AM: Inspector Clouseau

I saw two movies this weekend: Bad Santa, and a preview of The Last Samurai.

The first was produced by the Coen Brothers, although not written or directed by either. It got good reviews in the NY area, and critics called it hilarious. Hilarious it was not! In fact, and I'm no prude, I thought it was vulgar with just a few minor chuckles. The theater was packed, and other than load guffaws by a few in the audience, my feeling is that the audience hated it. It was the 6th highest grossing film this weekend, but I'm going to predict that it falls dramatically next, when the word of mouth gets out. This is the second Coen Brothers film this season that I've disliked - I thought that Intolerable Cruelty was also awful and not funny at all.

With respect to The Last Samurai, this is a terrific film that has to be seen on a large screen in a theater to get is full impact. Although it is large in scope, it really tells an intimate story. The main theme has to do with the Westernization of Japan, which reminded of Sondheim's Pacific Overtures. In fact, many of the Japanese are seen in their bowler hats, which of course caused my to replay "A Bowler Hat" in my mind throughout the movie. This is the type of film that is likely to generate many Academy Award nominations and falls in the class of Bravehart, Dances With Wolves, and Gladiator. Cruise and the supporting cast are all excellent and I won't be surprised to see Cruise capture the elusive Oscar that he has for so long sought to win. I'm sure the film itself will be in the running for best picture along side Seabiscuit. The film runs almost 2 1/2 hours, but it didn't seem long and the entire packed audience did not appear to be restless at all. A very cinematic experience in both sight and sound. The musical score by Hans Zimmer was very powerful. BK, you might find the score too intrusive, but I would disagree here. I highly recommend this movie.
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Post by: William E. Lurie on December 01, 2003, 06:12:50 AM: By the way, I was doing a search for a book that was mentioned on this here site a couple of weeks ago. I thought the name was EVER AFTER but an unseemly search could not find it and the book was not listed on Amazon. It was a book on musical theatre from the last quarter century or so. Does anyone know the correct name and the author? Thanks.
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Post by: Kerry on December 01, 2003, 06:16:59 AM: DRMusicGuy is a sucker for just about ANY sleuth--- he loves them all.

I love Agatha Christie's creations-- Miss Marple especially (in print and in film), M. Poirot also.

The Bobbsey Twins solved mysteries, too, you know!

Columbo and Jessica Fletcher are faves. The various incarnations of Richard Diamond and Sam Spade, the real and only Nick and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy and William Powell).
Amos Burke and Honey West were faves too.
Charlie Chan and the rest.
Which is why I appreciate "Murder By Death" so much and its spoof of plot devices, etc.
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Post by: Noel on December 01, 2003, 06:22:19 AM: It was utter coincidence that DW Joy had Alma Mahler and other Tom Lehrer TWTWTW favorites on her CD for the bus ride back from Pennsylvania. Made the time pass mirthfully, although we'd waited more than a half hour in the cold for the bus.

My favorite fictional tecs come from musicals, of course. I like Mo Brummel, from Mr. Douglas Cohen's No Way To Treat a Lady, and of course have a dear spot in my heart for the first sleuth I saw on a musical stage, Peter Pulley of the Yard. Not only can he catch your crook, but he can step into patter baritone roles at a moment's notice
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Post by: Danise on December 01, 2003, 06:41:59 AM: Good morning all. Even though I am on vacation, I thought I should start to get my butt out of bed even if I did stay up past midnight with the chat and all. If I let myself get to far out of routine, I will have a devil of a time with getting readjusted to the work schedule and the Holidays are tiring enough as it is.

December 1st. Wow. Where has the year gone? Is it truly almost Christmas? How can that be?

I enjoyed last nights chat, few people that were there. The one time I can stay up late and chat till the cows come home (and I really wanted to see a cow come home) and only a couple were there. Not that they were A couple–at least, I didn’t get the impression they were. Any who, I hope the cookies turned out for you, George.

Hope your headache is much better, Noel. Did you dream of the Shire? Golem? Frodo?

I gave some thought to what you said last night and think perhaps you are right–at least in the case of a playwright. Maybe one should take the size of a stage and the limits as to what can be done into consideration when writing a play but I still do not agree that holds true for a motion picture or my Animal Christmas.

After all, any leader, like Jean-Luc, only has to say, “Make it so!”. That’s a Star Trek: Next Generation reference, in case you don’t know. He doesn’t provide the blue print for the Mass Trans Crystal Humbug Inverter Thing. He just tells them to build it! The same with my Animal Christmas. I just know what I want. Doing it is a whole different set of variables that are not my problem. Sigh, getting good help is so hard these days.

Well, I guess since I'm on vacation, I should go do something fun and take pictures while doing it. Isn't that what vacations are for? Taking pictures, I mean? :)

D
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Post by: Danise on December 01, 2003, 06:47:08 AM: Almost forgot--Encyclopedia Brown was my favorite PI., book wise while growning up. We watched so many on TV, I can't really pick one from there.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 07:14:18 AM: Wow, this is the first time I have logged on and been the only reader!

I love Nancy Drew. Did anyone see the tv movie that was on last year? I actually loved it.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 07:29:03 AM: Where is everybody today?

I am starving, starving, starving. I think I need food.

Gee, it looks like the karma gremlins were out last night! :)

And we need to send out a searchparty to find all the Hainsies and Kimlets. How long does Thankgiving last in the US? :)
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 07:33:00 AM: I would like to see ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW. Kim Hamilton of LEECH WOMAN fame is in it as, I believe, Harry Belefonte's wife...does she have much of a role BK or JRand53??

Favorite detectives:
Hildegard Withers in those quaint old 1930s films as portrayed by Edna Mae Oliver.

Perry Mason as portrayed by Raymond Burr on television

Dave (Lee Patterson) and Ken (Van Williams) on SURFSIDE 6

Miss Marple on film

On the printed page there are many that I like as I love a good mystery book!
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 07:34:54 AM: Hi MBarnum and Craig: I was getting lonely!
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 07:38:02 AM: For DR Emily: Amazon.ca news. Ha I ordered Boy from Oz and Avenue Q on Saturday and they said that the latter would take 1 to 2 weeks. Yet they are shipping it now. Very bizarre. For some reason whenever they usually say there will be delays there always are! So this is a nice surprise.

So tell us what you are considering for your NY trip? Last we heard you were going on a bus tour. Then you mentioned hotels and hostels. Do tell! (I miss NYC and need to live vicariously through somebody).
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 07:39:12 AM: Oh BK is up. Yippee!

And how pathetic am I for people watching here :)
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 07:39:45 AM: Kim Hamilton has two good scenes in Odds Against Tomorrow. Shelley Winters, who is top-billed, doesn't have much more, and Gloria Grahame only has two little scenes and her performance is so strange I didn't know what to make of it.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 07:50:11 AM: Favorite fictional detectives? I love SO many of them because mysteries are my passion.

Sherlock Holmes tops the list, and as I've been foaming at the mouth with joy over the pleasures of the two (so far) boxed sets of Universal HOLMES movies, he has to rank at the top.

Miss Marple is right up there, too, as my blather last week about the four Margaret Rutherford movies occupied a couple of days of posts from me. Rutherford wasn't true to the Miss Marple from Christie's books, of course, but those four movies she made were nevertheless VERY entertaining. Joan Hickson's BBC movies as Miss Marple are, of course, definitive, and I've got them all here and they are watched constantly. NEMESIS is my favorite of her films.

Hercule Poirot is wonderful, but I find a little of him goes a long way. I am STILL pining for Paramount to release MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS on DVD, but my widescreen videotape is OK for now.

Phillip Marlowe is really enjoyable, and my favorite Marlowe is Robert Mitchum in FAREWELL MY LOVELY. Bogie's Marlowe is fine in THE BIG SLEEP, but he's better as Sam Spade in THE MALTESE FALCON, perhaps the greatest movie mystery ever made.

TV: My first choice is Jim Hutton's ELLERY QUEEN, and I would love to have a complete set of the one season he did that series on television. Those period mysteries were really wonderfully done and very baffling, yet the clues WERE right there if you were observent enough to catch them.

Angela Lansbury's Jessica Fletcher would have been my pick if the series had ended after six years, but I felt the last six years were mere reflections of the highly polished and well done stories of the first years.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 07:54:10 AM: DR MBARNUM, Mr BK is correct and I must say that Kim's scenes are very good. I forgot she was in LEECH WOMAN. I am going to order it tomorrow when I can get the DeepDiscount 20 percent off - you can't get it on pre-orders of new releases and the street date for ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW is oddly enough, tomorrow! It is the same for Crime of Passion with Missy Stanwyck.

How could I forget Sherlock Holmes - I didn't count Perry Mason as a detective....but then there were also those guys at 77 Sunset Strip and Surfside 6 who were Private Investigaors! And Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys.
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Post by: Lulu on December 01, 2003, 07:58:21 AM: Fictional Detectives: Sam Spade, Nancy Drew, Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora, and (for me) the ultimate detective: Columbo.

BK: RE: Spielberg mucking up the story with too many flourishes and too much shoehorning of formulaic schmaltz (not that you phrased it just that way; perhaps I embellished a bit), ITA. I love early Spielberg: Sugarland Express, Murder by the Book (an episode of Columbo he directed), Jaws...pretty much up through Raiders of the Lost Ark (one of my favorite films of all time). Then something happened. Too much adulation? His early stuff was SO sharp and smart and creative - so visually dynamic and distinctive. Then he turned into a big sap. I could get angry about it if I let myself.

Over the weekend The Hubby and I rented the DVD of Monsters, Inc. This came out two summers ago, IIRC, and I don't think it was one of Pixar's bigger hits; didn't Shrek get all the attention when it came out at the same time?

Well, I still haven't brought myself to watch Shrek, even though I own it (a gift); the little clips I've seen look pretty awful. But Monsters, Inc. was delightful - incredible to look at (as is usually the case with Pixar) but also very inventive and clever. We've waded through many of the extras, most of which are extremely entertaining - but there are still many to go, and the DVD is due back soon. We might just buy it so we can see it again and have the time to explore all the special features at our leisure. Anyway, if you haven't seen it yet, I recommend doing so.
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Post by: Lulu on December 01, 2003, 08:00:40 AM: Dear Lord, Jrand...when I saw your new picture I thought for all the world that it was a picture of somebody mooning all of us at HHW - complete with pressed ham.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 08:01:42 AM: Hmmm, after that long post, I realized I didn't talk about Poirot as much as I should since he IS one of the greats. All of the actors who have played him in the movies that I've seen (some of the earliest incarnations made in England in the early 1930s I've never seen) have done excellent jobs (funny yet different in portraying his annoying little habits and eccentricities) with the exception of Tony Randall who I felt was wildly miscast in THE ALPHABET MURDERS. Thankfully, David Suchet's Poirot righted that masterpiece of detective fiction in the BBC version of the story THE ABC MURDERS.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 08:08:49 AM: DR Lulu, MONSTERS INC. was Pixar/Disney's biggest hit until FINDING NEMO. Yes, SHREK won the Oscar for Best ANimated Feature that year, but it was a monster hit at the box-office. I just happen to have the list of Disney's Top 25 biggest grossing world hits in animnation, and MONSTER'S INC ranked 2nd next to THE LION KING (this as of October 16) with $256 million in US/Canada gross and $268 million in Overseas gross. NEMO has made more domestically, but it hasn't launched all around the world yet so it ranks only 6th in this list.
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Post by: William E. Lurie on December 01, 2003, 08:15:56 AM: Is the "Unseemly search" not working? I get an error message when I try to search from the notes page and results without what I am looking for when I search from the message page.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 08:32:10 AM: Sorry DR LULU - sharpeis are like that...you have to make them bark so you know if they are coming or going.
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Post by: Lulu on December 01, 2003, 08:45:39 AM: Matt: Fantastic! For some reason I was under the impression that Shrek kind of stole Monsters, Inc's thunder. I'm glad I was mistaken!

LOL, Jrand! ;)
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Post by: Noel on December 01, 2003, 08:49:04 AM: I, too, had the same thought about the dog photo.
And continue to have it, every time it shows its, er - face
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 08:52:33 AM: hMMM, well, since Ms. Hamilton does such a good job in ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW you have convinced me to buy it! She is on Fox movies this week in THE WIZARD OF BAGHDAD and I am toying with the idea of interviewing her. She is still a working actress so perhaps she will be agreable to that.

I cannot recall if I have seen Crimes of Passion or not!? But I sure wish someone would release Bab's movie NO MAN OF HER OWN!
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 08:55:42 AM: Don't forget MBARNUM, that it is Crime of Passion, singular! The plural will get you Kathleen Turner.

Maybe I should find a better picture! Maybe that is why my Karma went down yesterday!
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 09:02:39 AM: I like Bab's ALL I DESIRE. That'll never be released either.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 09:05:58 AM: There no butts about it - DRs Lulu and Noel can relax! ;D

No Man of Her Own - that is some meller-drama with a train wreck 'n everything....in fact, everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end! :P

All I Desire is one strange movie DR MATTH. Sometimes I get it confused with the one where she comes back into town and her ex manufactures toy robots....but I think that is a different movie, isn't it? I know AID was one of Sirk's Universal pictures, not sure about the other one.
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 09:06:42 AM: Yes, ALL I DESIRE is a very good movie! I was released on VHS a few years back..in fact I have a VHS on it's way to me at this very moment!! She is also quite good in THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW which I don't think has been released at all, yet.
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Post by: Maya on December 01, 2003, 09:06:46 AM: Chat last night was very fun, even though I left about an hour in to do some unpacking. I'm sooo not wanting to go back to school today...ah well, what can ya do? The semester will be over soon anyway, and then....Christmas break! It can not happen soon enough.

Hmmm....I'm afraid I can't really contribute much to the discussion of favorite sleuths, because I'm really not much of a mystery/detective gal. I don't know a Hercule Poirot from a Philip Marlowe. But can I go with Nancy Drew? I read one or two of the ND books when I was little.

Jose--What did you think of "Bride of the Wind?" I thought it was pretty serviceable, and it turned me into an Oscar Kokoschka fan!

SteveG--I have to respectfully disagree about "Bad Santa." I saw it in NYC, and I thought that while it was very vulgar, it was acridly funny. I liked Terry Zwigoff's previous film "Ghost World" better, but I thought "Bad Santa" was a good follow-up with the same dark spirit. I mean, sure, the characters weren't exactly three-dimensional, and the ending didn't quite gel with the rest of the movie, but I laughed a great deal. I DO want to see "The Last Samurai" though!

MBarnum--love the new pic!

Jrand--your pic is swell too! And I'm sure your karma being taken away was just a mistake.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 09:10:44 AM: Thanks DR MAYA. Oh you saw Ghost World...then you saw the head shaking dance from GUMNAAM!
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Post by: Kerry on December 01, 2003, 09:14:06 AM: Does ANYONE have a tape of the Mark Twain awards which were on PBS last week that they'd be willing to share.

Likewise, does anyone have a copy of "Who Killled Teddy Bear?"
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 09:14:53 AM: Well, I haven't seen THE LAST SAMUARI, but after seeing the previews on TV, I thought to myself that it looked like a cross between BRAVEHEART, DANCES WITH WOLVES, and SEVEN SAMUARI, none of which would interest me. (Well, I DID like DANCES WITH WOLVES, but I really endured BRAVEHEART looking at my watch the entire time.)

Lo and behold, I open VARIETY on-line this morning, and the review was all about how it resembled those movies coming up short in every respect from each of them. And it's 154 minutes, another negative from my rear end's perspective.

I'm sure it's beautifully made and I wish everyone connected with it well, but they won't be getting my money on the theater or on home video. This is one I may give a chance once it makes it to HBO/Showtime, but that's all the chance I'll give it.
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 09:16:06 AM: JRand, now that is a cute picture of pups...are one of those yours? I think we should have day wherein we all post a pic of our pets...maybe this weekend!

Just remember that Lori Nelson and Marcia (THE HYPNOTIC EYE) Henderson are in AID, and William Reynolds and Gigi Pereau (I think I spelled that wrong) are in THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW.
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 09:21:23 AM: I have a VCD of Who Killed Teddy Bear. Maya, here are my recommendations - for Philip Marlowe read Farewell, My Lovely or The High Window (both available in paperback) and then, for Lew Archer, read The Chill, one of the best PI novels ever. For Poirot, I still love Roger Ackroyd best, even though he's more central to many of the other Christie books.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 09:22:13 AM: Oh, gosh, I forgot all about Nick and Nora Charles of THE THIN MAN series. Love them all, and wouldn't part with my laserdisc boxed set for anything. Warners released the first film on DVD last year, and the next two were in the running for their classics series this year, but neither of them won in the voting at AOL (THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, DR. JECKYLL AND MR. HYDE, THE WIND AND THE LION did), so I don't know when that will mean they will get released.
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 09:22:57 AM: I know people will probably enjoy The Last Samurai, but I just can't stand this overblown type of film (at least that's what it sounds like) - Mr. Ed Zwick loves this sort of bombast, but at that length I'll just pass for a while.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 09:28:40 AM: Ugh!

Augh!

Yuck!

Monday!

Work Day!

Dec. 1.

I got the blahs....!!!
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 09:30:38 AM: DR KERRY I also have a VCD of Who Killed Teddy Bear? that I have seen ALL I want to see. Email me if you would like to add it to your collection....in fact, it puts me to sleep!!
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 09:32:26 AM: Besides being a toothpaste, can someone tell me what AIM is? Is this somehow connected with AOL? I have heard it mentioned but don't have a clue!
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 09:33:25 AM: Don't forget what today is.........
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 09:34:11 AM: Instant message service, MBARNUM, from AOL!

No, not my dogs....but I was waiting for someone to ask if they bite.... ;D
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Post by: George on December 01, 2003, 09:47:49 AM: Quote from: Danise on December 01, 2003, 06:41:59 AM
I enjoyed last nights chat, few people that were there. The one time I can stay up late and chat till the cows come home (and I really wanted to see a cow come home) and only a couple were there. Not that they were A couple–at least, I didn’t get the impression they were. Any who, I hope the cookies turned out for you, George.

They turned out very nicely, thank you...if I do say so myself! It's only 9:45 a.m. and some have already sold! (I'm on a team to raise money for the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life. We're "The Bookers.")
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Post by: William E. Lurie on December 01, 2003, 09:52:17 AM: Kerry -
I have "Teddy Bear" on VHS and can make you a copy if you want. It's one of those films that is totally bizarre and needs to be seen at least once.

BK -
See my prior post about "Search". Is it not working or working correctly?
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 09:55:44 AM: Thanks JRand53! So if someone has an AIM name then I can put them on my buddy list on AOL instant messenger? Cool!

I cannot seem to wake up this morning, despite 2 cups of coffee (instant). My supervisor should be brining me my "real" coffee any minute now (she isn't coming in until 10:00 am). Oh, I hear the door opening now! Maybe that is her! :D
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 09:57:11 AM: JRand53, are you on AIM? If so then put AOPP into your AIM thingy and see if you can instant message me sometime!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 10:12:22 AM: Good morning... well, it's the afternoon here already in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Well, since I did not get to bed until around 4:30am last night/morning, I had no choice but to sleep in this morning. I first peeked at my clock radio around 9:56.. then again at 11:00-ish... and that's when I got out of bed. -I got "sucked" into watching that movie about Bob Crane last night on cable - Auto Focus (?). Interesting, eh...

I've gone through my mail from the past week - the usual bills and some new CDs - let's see how long it takes for me to listen to all of them - let alone get them unwrapped. ;)

As for fictional detectives... I never got into any of the Agatha Christie creations - Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. But I did have to read "Ten Little Indians" for my English class my freshman year in high school. -I still remember the method of murder, but not the one who carried them out...

Growing up, I watched the usual TV detective/police shows: Columbo, Mannix, Hawaii-Five-O, Rockford Files, etc. Oh, and Quincy! And I guess Night Stalker could be considered a sort of detective show.

As for The Last Samurai - I just saw the commercial on TV - first time for me (just too much time in the theatre lately). I may have to wait on this one too. *Unfortunately, when I'm in a show, sometimes the last thing I want to do is to spend some more time in another theatre.

And one more follow up on The Hotel Pennsylvania - My guess is that they have some nicer floors and nicer rooms than the one I stayed in. However, I do remember the room being large by NYC standards. I just happened to be placed in a not-so-nice one. I remember staying at the Hotel Edison during a few trips up in high school. They were in the middle of renovating the hotel. It was shocking the difference in quality between the "old" rooms and the "new" rooms. -And they really did a nice job with the renovations. Oh, and I've also foung the Wellington Hotel pretty reasonable - and if you have a bunch of people in your party, they have some nice two room suites with two bathrooms(!) that don't cost much more than their regular rooms. *They have a big international clientele - lots of tour groups - and their desk staff is multi-lingual.

As for hostels in NYC... I've never used them, but I have friends who have. Some of the usual caveats apply here: Do you have an International Youth Hostel card? Do you mind having limited access to your room during the day? Etc., etc., etc...

Well, time for me to get in gear...

*Oh, and any Y&R fans? Brad (Don Diamont) doesn't look bad with facial hair... :P

Oh - DR MBarnum - As Jrand already stated - AIM = AOL Instant Messenger. *AIM actually is more fully-featured than AIM-in-AOL. And you can actually run both at the same time.

And DR JRand53 - Thank you for the reminder about World AIDS Day.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 10:14:16 AM: Oohh MBarnum has a new picture of himself up! Who is with you and what are you holding up?

And Jrand has some fighting doggies!
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Post by: Maya on December 01, 2003, 10:21:16 AM: Jrand--I did see that sequence, and thought it was great! One of these days I WILL get through a 4-hour Bollywood movie!

BK--thanks for the recommendations!
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 10:22:33 AM: WEL: I don't have the answer. Post it on the tech board, and when Mr. Bakalor is backalor he can address it.
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Post by: Jed on December 01, 2003, 10:28:03 AM: Detectives, eh? Hmm... not something I"ve read a whole heck of a lot of. I did greatly enjoy the only Agatha Christie I've read, Ten Little Indians. When I was but a twig of a sprig of a lad, I was a big Encyclopedia Brown fan. And after that, I couldn't get enough Hardy Boys.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 10:28:08 AM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 10:12:22 AM
*Oh, and any Y&R fans? Brad (Don Diamont) doesn't look bad with facial hair... :P

I am addicted to this show. And, I actually met him a couple years ago when he was here promoting something or other. Very cute!
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 10:33:27 AM: Hmmm I love that DR Mark is now coming back as Mr. Mark Bakalor. Whose idea was that? :)

Btw, for DR WEL, I will try out the search function now and tell you if it works for me.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 10:39:56 AM: Quote from: William E. Lurie on December 01, 2003, 08:15:56 AM
Is the "Unseemly search" not working? I get an error message when I try to search from the notes page and results without what I am looking for when I search from the message page.

I just did a search from the message page and got lots of results. Maybe you can tell us what you are searching for and we can try. I will try from the notes page. But from this message board it works for me.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 10:40:59 AM: DR MBarnum: What kind of job has supervisors who bring their employees coffee???

I want a job there!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 10:42:51 AM: Quote from: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 10:33:27 AM
Hmmm I love that DR Mark is now coming back as Mr. Mark Bakalor. Whose idea was that? :)

???

Confused, Jennifer, I am.

To my knowledge, he was always Mr. Mark Bakalor!
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 10:43:02 AM: DR WEL: Yes I also get an error message when doing a search from the notes page.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 10:44:25 AM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 10:42:51 AM
???

Confused, Jennifer, I am.

To my knowledge, he was always Mr. Mark Bakalor!

He was always Mr.?

Okay then maybe I am the confused one :)
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 10:46:25 AM: You? Confused? Say it isn't so, Joe.
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 10:50:23 AM: Jennifer,
That is a pic of myself with actress Carolyn Kearney when I went to her house for lunch last September during my lovely visit to Los Angeles. She is holding up a copy of Filmfax which is opened up to the interview article I did on her. She is such a sweet lady and I fell in love with her big dog Coda! The picture is quite blurry. I don't know how to fix that.
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Post by: Emily on December 01, 2003, 10:51:25 AM: Anyone feel like taking a trip to Iceland with me? :)
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 10:53:56 AM: Keflavik or Reykjavik?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 10:55:06 AM: BK: You cracked me up.

Jennifer: One of the longstanding BKisms of this forum is that BK has always called DR Mark "Mr. Mark Bakalor"!

:)
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 10:55:18 AM: Emily, believe it or not I have always been fascinated by Iceland ever since I was a child. I would love to go there someday.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 10:55:32 AM: DR JENNIFER, I think my dogs are playing, but I am not sure....because that's not my dog. ;D

I will tryp AOPP on my AIM when I get home later MBARNUM. I very rarely use IM, but I know if I got into it, I would use it ALL THE TIME!! :P

DRJOSE - I forgot about the Edison Hotel. A lot of my friends who are teachers and who take their classes on Broadway trips stay there. I will see if I can get a handle on what it's like now....or at least recently!
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 11:00:40 AM: JRand53, I don't use it much either, but sometimes it comes in handy for a quick message (as opposed to e-mail).

AIM=AOL INstant Message. Of course. You would think I would have figured that out! LOL!
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Post by: Lulu on December 01, 2003, 11:06:56 AM: Oh, my ears and whiskers! How could I have forgotten to nominate Jim Rockford as one of the All Time Favorite Fictional Detectives? DH and I were listing his wonderful qualities just the other day, to wit:

Lives in a trailer
Gets winded chasing after bad guys
Hurts his hand after punching bad guys
Great relationship with his dad Rocky
Puts up with Angel

and finally...

The Answering Machine
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Post by: Maya on December 01, 2003, 11:10:57 AM: Emily--Hahahaha...Iceland sounds divine, my dear! When shall we leave??
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Post by: William E. Lurie on December 01, 2003, 11:17:11 AM: Jennifer---
I got a lot of results, but none of them had what I was searching for and they were all from the last couple of days even though what I wanted was mentioned here two or three weeks ago.

I am trying to find the author of EVER AFTER, a book that was discussed on this here site. I tried searching EVER AFTER and got the results I described above; part of the book is supposed to be about A CHORUS LINE but a search for that did nothing.

If you can find this I'd appreciate it as I am going to Drama Book Store later (they just got THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF FRANK LOESSER in stock) and I want to pre-order EVER AFTER but need make sure that is the right title and find out who is the author.

I'll post the problem on the technical board.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 11:18:25 AM: DRs Emily, Andrea and any others who want to order from amazon.ca: I got another $5 off discount coupon this time from Canada post. I think that anyone can use this one (as long as you order from amazon canada and not amazon.com).

It is MAPDECSTAMPS expires dec 31st.

Not sure how much you have to buy. But of course we always order $39 to get the free shipping.

Oh there is also a good coupon from chapters (http://www.chapters.indigo.ca) that gives you $10 if you order $50 (with free shipping in canada).

Love these coupons. You just go to www.chapters.indigo.ca/canadapost to register and they send you the coupon by email.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 11:19:22 AM: I always stay at the Edison when I go to NYC. The rooms are smallish but it's clean and conveniently located in the theater district. It's all I need since I only sleep and change clothes there and am out around and about at all other times.
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Post by: Jane on December 01, 2003, 11:22:24 AM: Quote from: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 07:50:11 AM
Favorite fictional detectives? I love SO many of them because mysteries are my passion.

TV: My first choice is Jim Hutton's ELLERY QUEEN, and I would love to have a complete set of the one season he did that series on television. Those period mysteries were really wonderfully done and very baffling, yet the clues WERE right there if you were observent enough to catch them.

Great choice!
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 11:24:15 AM: Quote from: William E. Lurie on December 01, 2003, 11:17:11 AM
Jennifer---
I got a lot of results, but none of them had what I was searching for and they were all from the last couple of days even though what I wanted was mentioned here two or three weeks ago.

I am trying to find the author of EVER AFTER, a book that was discussed on this here site. I tried searching EVER AFTER and got the results I described above; part of the book is supposed to be about A CHORUS LINE but a search for that did nothing.

If you can find this I'd appreciate it as I am going to Drama Book Store later (they just got THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF FRANK LOESSER in stock) and I want to pre-order EVER AFTER but need make sure that is the right title and find out who is the author.

I'll post the problem on the technical board.

Yah I see what you mean. Most of the results are newish.

What I would suggest is trying to remember who posted the title. And then emailing their HHW account.
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Post by: Craig on December 01, 2003, 11:31:48 AM: Iceland sounds divine. I, personally have never been to Iceland. I do, however, know a few people that live there.
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Post by: Jane on December 01, 2003, 11:31:57 AM: Jrand53, I didn’t have such a strange response to the previous photo, but the new one is much cuter. :)
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 11:32:18 AM: THank you, DR Jane. COlumbia House that sells videotapes of many series in monthly installments (which is how I collected KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER; now I understand it's coming to DVD in a boxed set) did not offer ELLERY QUEEN or I would have them. Too bad I wasn't recording them when A&E used to show them regularly. The MYSTERY channel doesn't have them either, or they didn't back when I had that channel. It's in another tier on digital cable now so I don't subscribe to it.
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Post by: George on December 01, 2003, 11:32:27 AM: Quote from: bk on December 01, 2003, 09:21:23 AM
I have a VCD of Who Killed Teddy Bear.

A few weeks ago I saw an eBay listing for the video to Who Killed Teddy Bear and it said that the video didn't include the infamous swimming pool scene. BK, does your VCD include that scene and what's so infamous about it? Does anyone know (or care) if there is a video release with the infamous swimming pool scene?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 11:33:40 AM: Aughghghghghghghghghgh!

I've been trying to post an image here since yesterday and NOTHING works for me.

Nothing, nothing, nothing. It is SO frustrating!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 11:34:53 AM: I need some lunch.

I need fuel.

I need a massive dose of complex carbohydrates.

Or something Chinese.....
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 11:35:20 AM: DR Ron, since I have that image, would you like me to try to see if it will load on my end?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 11:36:16 AM: Something Italian will work, too.

Just not anything with turkey, please!

No, I don't think I can handle turkey today.

Or stuffing.

Or poultry.
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 11:37:14 AM: DR WEL I found your book!

http://www.dramabookshop.com

Ever After: The Last Years of Musical Theater - And Beyond

Author:Singer, Barry
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 11:38:06 AM: Did anyone watch THE REAGANS on Showtime last night? Having suffered through eight years of his Presidency, I really wasn't in the mood to see it, but it has gotten surprisingly good reviews, especially for the remarkable Judy Davis as Nancy.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 11:41:28 AM: that URL put me into Cinemascope

DR Jane - glad you like the Sharpei while he was there LOL. 8)
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 11:44:02 AM: DR JRand: Yes i noticed the link put us into widescreen. That is so weird. I thought it would loop.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 11:46:12 AM: Complete addys like that never loop. They need a line to themselves. (I think it's the addys in #74 that caused the widescreen effect, but I could be wrong.)
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Post by: Jane on December 01, 2003, 11:47:47 AM: Ron, if we are going to list what we need…

I NEED MORE TIME. :o (where is the screaming face?)

It is already December. Due to all the stuff going on with my family I missed most of the summer and fall. Now I think I will most of the holiday season. I usually have my cards ready to mail by now. Last year I was late, this year they just might not make it at all. Do they make New Years cards?
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 11:53:42 AM: all fixed, thanks DR Jennifer. Yes, that book sounds interesting, I remember when we were talking about it.

DRCharlesPogue - did you ever get your issue of Scarlet Street? ???
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 12:01:44 PM: Since everyone else is still listing their choices for hotels in New York, I will list my favorite, although I already sent my suggestion to Emily. My favorite place to stay, when I am in New York, is the Milford Plaza. It is always clean and comfortable, their security people strictly control who goes up to the room floors, and you couldn't ask for a more convenient hotel. There must be eight Broadway theaters within half a block of the hotel. And the employees are usually very friendly. (Don't go there, Ozzie!)
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 12:04:40 PM: What a nice day it is outside here in Richmond. The sky has been going back and forth between really cloudy and gray, and now partly cloudy and nicely blue. And the temp feels like Fall- even though we're almost to winter.

Good trip to the bank - hopefully, I'll never have to make a bad trip to the bank - and a nice impromptu grocery store run. Picked up some lunch - a nice rotisserie turkey panini on olive bread, and some pea salad - as well as some mini-chocolate chips (on sale), and some Oreos (almost 1/2 price!). Oh, and a nice chocolate almond bar. ;D

Now to do something today... or not... I should do some cleaning up around the apartment. My roomie started setting up the Christmas stuff over the weekend. Unfortunately, he failed to clean the dust and other stuff off the places where he decorated. So... I may be doing some redecorating this afternoon. Or I may just leave it all in place since it's all "hidden" right now - and I really won't be here during the holiday season... But it's the fact that I know it's there... Ah, well...

As for the Hotel Edison - It's nice. I always make a point to walk through the lobby at least once when I'm in NYC. Just brings back lots of happy memories from high school. And I usually end up having breakfast or a quick pre-theatre dinner there with all the gypsies and assorted theatre folk.

Maya - I never got the see the Alma Mahler movie - just read all the blurbs about it. I don't think it stayed long enough in DC for me to catch it between shows.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 12:05:03 PM: I was thinking about the MP as well. I stayed there once, and I don't think I had to take a cab to any theatre I wanted to go to!
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 12:07:32 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 11:46:12 AM
Complete addys like that never loop. They need a line to themselves. (I think it's the addys in #74 that caused the widescreen effect, but I could be wrong.)

It was the address I posted for the Drama Shop.

So if I wanted to post the whole link, how would I do it so as not to affect the board? I have never had that happen before when posting a link.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 12:08:58 PM: I have stayed at the Milford Plaza quite a few times in my life, too, but not lately. Their lobby is so small, and when you're waiting on people to meet you, there often isn't a place to sit. But the rooms are comparable to the Edison, I think, about the same size. The security feature is nice, I have to admit.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 12:09:40 PM: DR MAttH: Yes, please.

That piece of sheet music is one of my treasures and it's in near-mint condition.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 12:11:16 PM: Isn't it about time DR Tom from Oz was up having his morning meusli or Vegemite?

Tom? Tom? Aren't you up yet?

How's Colin today?
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 12:11:18 PM: I have stayed at the Milford too. For some reason I like the Days and Best Western and Howard Johnson's better.

But I"m not sure if these are above DR Emily's price range.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 12:15:12 PM: Here's the piece of sheet music DR Ron was talking about. It does look wonderful.
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Post by: Charles Pogue on December 01, 2003, 12:18:12 PM: JRand 53...I bought a couple of the latest issue of Scarlet Street, but have not received any.

Well, today's topic is one that warms my heart. Favourite sleuths:

I'd have to start with Sherlock who has not only given me lots of reading pleasure, but has been an inordinate boost to my career what with having written three Sherlock movies and a Sherlock Holmes play.

I think Young Sherlock a flatulent piece of crap, that wreaks havoc on the mythos of the Holmes canon. Terrible movie.

I love Nick and Nora, both its literary source and the resulting films.

Ditto for Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. I also like the haughty, arch Mr. Philo Vance of the books. Ed and Am Hunter by Fredric Brown are fun as is any mystery by Fredric Brown. Elvis Cole by Bob Crais and Harry Stoner, a Cincinnati detective, by Jonathan Valin are favs. Paul Pine by Howard Browne (originally published in the fifties under his pseudonym, John Evans).

I also fancy historical detectives: Nicholas Bracewell, company mananger of an Elizabethan acting troup, by Edward Marston, and Roman detectives, Marcus Didius Falco by Lindsey Davis, and Gordianus the Finder by Steven Saylor.

And let us not forget Stuart Kaminsky's wonderful Toby Peters, Hollywood sleuth in the thirties and forties whose cases always revolve around a major Hollywood Star of the period.

And though not pure detectives, I always enjoy Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie's efforts in unraveling the inscrutable mysterious machinations of Fu Manchu (by Sax Rohmer). Along similar lines Jules De Grandin and Dr. Trowbridge uncover occult mysteries written by Seabury quinn, mostly for Weird Tales Magazine.

I am enjoying all the Warner Bros. detectives....Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, & Surfside Six...that are currently being revived on the Good Times Network.

And there's the PBS mystery stuff with Tommy and Tuppence and Lord Peter Whimsey.
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 12:19:05 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 12:11:16 PM
Isn't it about time DR Tom from Oz was up having his morning muesli or Vegemite?

Tom? Tom? Aren't you up yet?

Ron, let's hope he has finished his Vegemite before he signs on to HHW. The thought of it is enough to make me sick.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 12:19:11 PM: What a beautiful piece of music...Oh my....the things you can see at HHW...things you don't even know existed!
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Post by: William E. Lurie on December 01, 2003, 12:19:36 PM: Jennifer
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I couldn't even find it on Amazon. Since I'm going to DBS tonight hopefully I can pick it up.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on December 01, 2003, 12:22:55 PM: Of course, you can always hang The King on your tree for that true Christmas spirit.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 12:23:31 PM: DR WEL - I forget the publication date for EVER AFTER....but it might not be available quite yet.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 12:24:46 PM: Remember that we talked about this famous detective several weeks ago? Here she is in the flesh! :D
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 12:26:57 PM: Here's the Amazon link

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1557835292/ref=pd_sbs_b_1/102-8904063-1405725?v=glance&s=books (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1557835292/ref=pd_sbs_b_1/102-8904063-1405725?v=glance&s=books)
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Post by: Jane on December 01, 2003, 12:29:38 PM: Quote from: TCB on December 01, 2003, 12:19:05 PM
Ron, let's hope he has finished his Vegemite before he signs on to HHW. The thought of it is enough to make me sick.

Plain it is rather gross, but it does add a nice flavoring to vegetarian dishes.
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Post by: Jane on December 01, 2003, 12:32:19 PM: Off to a not so nice trip to the bank. Seems someone stole our debit, visa card info and was having a good time in Italy with it. We are going to get an ATM only card now.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 12:34:28 PM: And a pic of my TV favorite I mentioned earlier this morning.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 12:46:37 PM: Sorry to hear that DR Jane. I hope everything eventually works itself out in your favor.

One of my credit card numbers was "hijacked" a few years ago. Luckily, the limit on it was low, and the charges never got run through. The crook was trying to charge almost $400 of liquor at a store in Brooklyn. Thankfully, my credit card company knew I would never buy $400 of liquor anywhere.

And back to NYC hotels... I've stayed at the Milford Plaza too. Just remember, when they say it's a "small" room - they mean small - I think my door hit the bed when I opened it!
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Post by: Charles Pogue on December 01, 2003, 12:47:35 PM: I saw THE LAST SAMURAI yesterday. While it moves along predictable lines, I enjoyed it well enough while watching it.
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Post by: seaclifr on December 01, 2003, 12:55:45 PM: Hi all!

Growing up it was the Hardy Boys - both the books (which I devoured) and a TV mini-series (?) that was a part of one of the Disney kids shows. Never got into Sherlock Holmes (although a good friend of mine really studies the minutae). Occasionally watched "Murder She Wrote" and "Columbo", but now I enjoy "Law & Order".

Quick note - Port Singers of Port Washington NY will be presenting an Irving Berlin revue mid-January. Anyone interested, please email me off line. Thanks!
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 01:05:04 PM: Oh golly Jane. That happened to me with my visa card number. My bank called me to find out if I was going on a shopping spree in South Korea! Thankfully I wasn't responsible for the $4000 credit card bill that was the result! Whew!

And it all started with sending an order for something in New York via the USPS. It wasn't even an internet theft!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 01:14:16 PM: DR MattH: You know what's amazing to me?

That photo of Jim Hutton looks like Eric Stoltz!

That's amazing.

And thanks for posting my image!
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 01, 2003, 01:15:34 PM: I am not the detective fan in the family. That's the role the most literate der Brucer plays. I've lost track of the hours he's spent watching reruns of Murder She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder, he's got the bug so bad.

In book form, he's of course recommending Nero Wolfe and Kinsey Millhone. Christie's Tommy and Tuppence Beresford rank high on his list. A few that some people might not have heard of are:

The Roma Sub Rosa stories by Steven Saylor, featuring his detective Gordianus the Finder, all set in Ancient Rome.

The Monsieur Pamplemousse stories by Michael Bond, who also created Paddington Bear. (Der Brucer discovered these stories while we were at a reading of excerpts from Benjamin Kritzer by BK at the Bookfellows Bookstore in Glendale, CA. Consider yourself labled guilty, BK!)

And, if you care for a gay detective, there's the Dave Brandstetter stories, by Joseph Hansen.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 01:21:13 PM: I, too, love "The Thin Man" movies and have the laserdisc set of them.

I was also very fond of the TV series with Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk. I understand there were 70 episodes of this show, and they should all be in the MGM vaults somewhere decomposing as we sit and peruse this forum.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 01:27:19 PM: I'm beginning to fear that it's bath day Down Under.

DR Tom from Oz must have his hands full with Magnus, Fosca AND Colin!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 01:30:38 PM: Assistance Request:

What's the buzz, the skinny, the lowdown on American Theatre magazine?

I've just received a membership solicitation. Anyone have any opinions of this mag????
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 01:38:19 PM: I am indeed in the bath with Colin, Fosca & Magnus. We are all covered in vegemite.
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 01, 2003, 01:41:04 PM: Good afternoon DRs --

Well, DR Kerry was exactly right....I love good mystery stories and fictional sleuths.

Probably Poirot first, then Miss Marple. And also in the book category, a most interesting twist on the "who-dunnit" type of book came out a few years back. It was a series of books with titles like "Gold," "Scarlet," or stuff like that. The main sleuth was a gay hairdresser in the Boston area named Stan something, and he always ended up kind of assisting a slightly gruff and apparently handsome police detective. I'm sure a bunch of sharp readers on this site can name the author and the correct titles.

And I like Nick & Nora, and the recent incarnation of Nero Wolfe on made-for-TV films.
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 01:43:13 PM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 12:46:37 PM
And back to NYC hotels... I've stayed at the Milford Plaza too. Just remember, when they say it's a "small" room - they mean small - I think my door hit the bed when I opened it!

You do have to be firm with the people at the Milford. They have some rooms on each floor that are microscopic, and they try to put newcomers, who don't any better, into them. If you get put in one of those rooms, you just go back and tell them that it is unacceptable, and if they say that is all they have left, tell them they either find out a larger room or you demand a discount on the room rate. The regular rooms at the Milford are very nice.
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 01, 2003, 01:45:52 PM: Oh, and I must agree with the honorable Jrand, that one of the all-time most complex and fascinating "mysteries" of all time is "Atlas Shrugged." I know, it is lots of philosophy and social comment, but there is a huge dose of mystery-soving in there as well.

What a hell of a book !!
::)
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Post by: Noel on December 01, 2003, 01:50:15 PM: Seriously, I don't understand why people think Emily should stay in the 30s, 40's, 50's or even 60's. She's hale and hardy, and it will cost her roughly $100 per night more to stay a stone's throw away from Broadway Theatres.

You know why I don't ask if dogs bite? Because, when owners say they don't bite, and have never bitten anyone, that's when they invariably bite me.
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 01:50:35 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 01:21:13 PM
I was also very fond of the TV series with Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk. I understand there were 70 episodes of this show, and they should all be in the MGM vaults somewhere decomposing as we sit and peruse this forum.

Isn't that what Beethoven is doing?
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 01:51:39 PM: I heard that groan!
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 01:54:49 PM: I watched some of those THIN MAN TV shows (I imagine they were in syndication; I don't think I would have seen them in first run though I was around certainly in 1957-58). I liked them, too, but my memories are so sketchy. I'd like to see them again.
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 02:01:21 PM: I loved The Thin Man on TV, mainly because of the divoon Phyllis Kirk. I also enjoyed Mr. and Mrs. North, with Richard Denning and Barbara Britton. Also liked Boston Blackie when I was REALLY young.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 01, 2003, 02:07:05 PM: I ran across the following, from an interview Matthew Amster-Burton held with the classic Julia Child, over at eGullet.com, and had to share:

Just once during our conversation, I felt that I was in the presence of Julia Child the entertainer. We were talking about the microwave oven, and she asked, "Have you ever tried cooking a lobster in it? A horrible experience! You turn it on, the lobster begins leaping around, and it's an awful thing. Do try it if you want an awful experience." How was the lobster? I asked. "Oh, it was good, it was done perfectly. I never want to try it again."
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 02:07:07 PM: Quote from: TCB on December 01, 2003, 01:51:39 PM
I heard that groan!

That wasn't a groan, that was a self-applied Bitch Slap!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 02:08:10 PM: Tom from Oz: I have quite a mental picture of the four of you rolling around in vegemite!

Must be therapeutic, eh! No spas in your area, then?

Who gets to hose whom off?

TCB: Do NOT touch that with anything!
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 02:11:15 PM: LOL.....I have one and one only episode of Phyllis and Peter and Asta. It is not one of the ones I remember best - and I have noticed of late that Phyllis is wearing a Helen Rose jumper that Sandra Dee wore a few years earlier in THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE!

I want more THIN MAN episodes!

OH DR MATTH thanks for the Honey West photo!

I love reading about everyone's favorite. And MG thanks for reading my post and thanks for knowing Dagny!
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 02:27:45 PM: TCB is on his way with the hose. Problem is we have severe water restrictions here. What sort of site is this?
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 02:35:10 PM: That was a nice pic of Honey West, but where is her sidekick John Ericson???
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 02:45:14 PM: I've just read the label. After all this years and now I know you are supposed to EAT vegemite. Oh my God!
Today's topics: I tend to prefer British TV detectives such as Dalziel & Pasco, McCallum, Hamish Macbeth etc. Did however quite enjoy the "Nero" series - mostly because of the design and the guest stars - many from Broadway.
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Post by: Andrea on December 01, 2003, 02:49:58 PM: ok... coming out of self-imposed exile just briefly...

And only cause I'm taking a women and detective fiction course.

Sir Peter Wimsey: dashing and debonair.

Amelia Peabody: Does she count?

Philip Marlowe: wonderful sense of humor

Kinsey Millhone from the grafton series: she's tough, I like her.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 02:51:39 PM: Let's see a course in "women and detectives" and Marlowe is involved....I see a lot of calling women "dames", "dolls" and there's probably gonna be some "big lug" who does some "roughing up of his moll."
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Post by: George on December 01, 2003, 02:51:44 PM: I only have the CD, but does the musical Nick & Nora by Charles Strouse & Richard Maltby, Jr. count??
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 02:52:22 PM: Sorry, but there was no John Ericson in the photo or believe me I would have printed it! He was FINE!

David Wayne was in the photograph with Jim Hutton for ELLERY QUEEN but I cropped him out. Just not quite the same feeling as with John Ericson.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 02:54:11 PM: I love Kinsey Millhone in Sue Grafton's alphabet series. Have black dress, will travel. M IS FOR MALICE was my absolute favorite of the series thus far. I was crying at the end of it.
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Post by: ladodgerjon on December 01, 2003, 02:58:52 PM: 'Tis my first post... be gentle on me, please, and shower me with gallons of praise for my witty and insightful comments. Anything less, and I'll think poorly of the lot of you for not realizing a god-given prodigy has landed in your midst...

That said, it's clear that BK has somehow mucked-up the process, and managed to to get our heart rates a'bubbling by the ommision of one of entertainment's finest sleuths: Mr. "Magnum PI." Tisk, tisk, Senor Kimmel... how could you have done THAT??!!?? Honestly. With or without famed facial hair, now see if Mr. Selleck will ever grace your virtual portals.

On a serious note: run, children, run to the www on your homepage, and check-out "On The Avenue" in NYC. A faboo boutique hotel in the 70's off Broadway. Deals a plenty for this venue on hotels.com. Rich earth tones, fresh decor, entertainment centers, and big, comfy beds.
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Post by: Maya on December 01, 2003, 03:04:32 PM: George--how is the Nick and Nora OCR? I want to get it just for that great cast!

Welcome to new DR ladodgerjon....please tell us about yourself....I think I've already picked up on the fact that you like baseball!

Read some great casting news....Debbie Gravitte is going to be the new Mama Morton! If Brent stays in longer, this is soo going to give me incentive to go and see Chicago again!
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Post by: Jay on December 01, 2003, 03:06:56 PM: Welcome, ladodgerjon! Keep posting and join in the fun.

Tell us a little about yourself. How'd you find the site? How long have you been lurking? (We all lurked before posting that first time.) I'll take a great leap of mental deduction and assume you're in the L.A. area? Details, details, we want details!
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 03:08:51 PM: DR Maya, you must have been away at Thanksgiving when we discussed Debbie's upcoming Matron Mama Morton. I guess it was over the holidays when lots of people were not on-line. She should do great with those songs.
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 03:09:53 PM: Welcome LAdodgerjon :D

I was a big fan of Magnum PI as a kid/teen. Still like Tom Selleck to this day!
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Post by: Maya on December 01, 2003, 03:11:15 PM: Matt H.--I was in NYC for all of Thanksgiving weekend, and I didn't get to catch up on all the posts yet. Debbie will knock 'em dead. I absolutely love her belt...so strong and rich.
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Post by: Andrea on December 01, 2003, 03:14:37 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 02:51:39 PM
Let's see a course in "women and detectives" and Marlowe is involved....I see a lot of calling women "dames", "dolls" and there's probably gonna be some "big lug" who does some "roughing up of his moll."

Actually, most of it centers around the fact that there are not enough gay and lesbian characters who are portrayed favourable (See the big sleep with Joe Cairo).

So we also read lesbian detective fiction.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 03:16:20 PM: I love her belt and shoes!
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 03:16:46 PM: Finally, ladodgerjon comes out! Ladodgerjon is my new pal and compatriot here at reality central and is working on the same show as I. He can also regale you with tales of our various and sundried lunches. He is currently wearing a baseball shirt.
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 03:18:07 PM: Did you know that if we hit the number of posts we've hit quite a bit in the last week that we could conceivably pass the 10,000 post mark this evening? We will be having a BIG celebration when that happens, let me tell you THAT.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 03:21:24 PM: Well, here is my totally superfluous post to help us reach 10,000 posts. I'm ready for the usual celebration food, of course, but could we have some cake, too? :D
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Post by: Charles Pogue on December 01, 2003, 03:22:16 PM: DR Ron Pulliam, I subscribe to American Theatre Magazine, which also makes me a member of the Theater Communications Group. AT is the organization's publication. If you like serious theatre, particularly are interested in what's going on in regional as well as educational theatre, this can be an interesting magazine. I sometimes feel it can be a bit too erudite, elitest, and arch...and I am an arch, erudite elitest. Dealing often with off-mainstream playwrights and non-commercial, intellectual bullshit that can sometimes just get too precious. I think it sometimes deals with the aesthetic over the practical. They usually have a play script published in each issue. It's usually a play you've never heard of and rarely hear of again. It also always carries a list of the production doings of all the major regional theatres who are a members of the organization.

For musical mavens or even those just interested in the mainstream commercial theatre, this mag would probably a disappointment.

The TCG organization has the following perks:

10 issues a year of American Theatre

Discounts on tickets to performances at participating theatres

15% discount on resource materials

1o% discount on all book from TCG and select theatre publishers.

Free catalog of publications...and a few other odds and ends.

Personally, I prefer Plays and Players and Plays International, but they're British with a focus on British Theatre. American Theate is not however like the old Theatre Week or even the old Theatre Arts Magazine from the forties thru the sixties.
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Post by: ladodgerjon on December 01, 2003, 03:25:18 PM: Thank you, Maya, for your quick response & greeting! I already feel welcome. Assuming that's your picture, you are LOVELY, to boot, and I can imagine being wholly inappropriate with you!

Do I like baseball? Not in the least... this was the automatic name assigned me by Mr. Kimmel's new internet provider.

I lie. Like a rug.

Yes-- I LOVE baseball... mostly as it is played by those dressed in a "Dodgers" costume. I also like football, when performed by the jugadores de los Steelers Y Trojans del Southern California (Did I completely muck-up my spanglish?? Apologies).

BTW: Did I mention that I've been dining with Mr. Kimmel nearly every lunch hour for the past three weeks?? I honestly belive I could do a "mini unseemly journal" entry every day with my observations from those precious few minutes we share together...

A sample: Mostly I am coerced into a sort of servant boy role... whereas I am the one to phone-in the order, and then made to carry the "yummilicious" (BK's term) foodstuffs from the madding crowd far below and into the confines of the edit bay ("Where magic is made," again, BK's terminology) high atop the skyskraper where we toil for the benefit of those who purchase basic cable fare for their tellys. If allowed, I am sometimes invited to 'sup in' with BK and his harried editor.

Today's lunchtime revelation: our phone order wasn't processed properly, and Bruce was forced to eat his chicken salad sandwich without pickle chips properly inserted between said salad and the bread roll. Instead, a whole pickle spear was lying -- like a dead mackerel -- along the inside edge of the bread roll and chicken salad mix. In a moment of devine inspiration, Senor Kimmel made lemmons from lemonade, bit the bullet, and devoured the spear right along with the rest of the roll's contents... thereby FOOLING his tastebuds into believing they were eating simply (merely??) a girthier pickle chip. The new combination was decreed a winner, and the proclamation uttered, "I'll never have a sandwich any other way!"
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Post by: Maya on December 01, 2003, 03:30:06 PM: *Blushes* Why thank you, Jon, I'm very flattered! You are quite charming yourself! (Hmmm...if you've been lurking a while you've probably realized by now that I'm no slouch with the flirting)! I can't say I'm really into baseball but I love "Damn Yankees." Does that count for anything?

Quote from: Andrea on December 01, 2003, 03:14:37 PM
Actually, most of it centers around the fact that there are not enough gay and lesbian characters who are portrayed favourable (See the big sleep with Joe Cairo).

So we also read lesbian detective fiction.

My, there is a literary subgenre for everything these days! Very cool.

Well, I must be off to Sociology class....later!
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 03:33:24 PM: Quote from: Maya on December 01, 2003, 03:04:32 PM
Read some great casting news....Debbie Gravitte is going to be the new Mama Morton! If Brent stays in longer, this is soo going to give me incentive to go and see Chicago again!

Maya -- That will teach you to run off to New York for the weekend. Debbie's casting was mentioned over the weekend. I was under the impression that Brent left the show last month. Was I incorrect on my hubby's whereabouts?
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 03:37:03 PM: Welcome ladodgerjon. Baseball? Isn't that like cricket but on a differently shaped ground? (I have only been to one cricket game in my life - sport is so not me. I have not even seen "Danm Yankees" but I did suffer throught ALW's "The Beautiful Game")
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Post by: Jed on December 01, 2003, 03:37:51 PM: My mail just arrived... Thank you, DR Tom from Oz! You are simply too too, good sir!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 03:40:26 PM: Wearing a baseball shirt?

JUST a baseball shirt?

My, my, my (that's three mys)!

And a woo-hoo! to boot!
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 03:41:06 PM: If only my male would arrive too. Remember Jed - you wanted to know about the Disco!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 03:42:17 PM: And somebody better tell Br. Bakalor to abandon the monastery to return posthaste!

Another feller's got Maya blushin'!
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 01, 2003, 03:44:54 PM: Welcome to new DR L.A.D.Jon --

First, we simply must come up with a shorter nickname for you....ball-boy is somehow unseemly, and as to your fetching the lunch-time vittles, "boy-servant" could really get you into the proverbial hot water in some quarters (and dimes too). So, maybe we can initialize you or think of something more easily typeable.

That said though, WELCOME, WELCOME EVERBODY...... ( a muzzy reference!) and you Jon. Anyone who sticks up for Tom Selleck has points going already.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 03:44:54 PM: DR Pogue: Thank you very much. You've told me exactly what I needed to know about the magazine!

Regards!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 03:46:18 PM: Quote from: MusicGuy on December 01, 2003, 03:44:54 PM
Welcome to new DR L.A.D.Jon --

First, we simply must come up with a shorter nickname for you....ball-boy is somehow unseemly, and as to your fetching the lunch-time vittles, "boy-servant" could really get you into the proverbial hot water in some quarters (and dimes too). So, maybe we can initialize you or think of something more easily typeable.

That said though, WELCOME, WELCOME EVERBODY...... ( a muzzy reference!) and you Jon. Anyone who sticks up for Tom Selleck has points going already.

Ya mean somethin' like BAT MAN?

Or, howeabout "ArtfulDodgerFan"????????
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 01, 2003, 03:48:09 PM: DR Ron --

Yes, but wherever there's a Bat Man, there's a ball boy!!

;)
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Post by: George on December 01, 2003, 03:49:31 PM: Quote from: Maya on December 01, 2003, 03:04:32 PM
George--how is the Nick and Nora OCR? I want to get it just for that great cast!

I love the cast and I like the songs as presented on the CD. It says in the liner notes that the score on the recording is really different than the score that was presented on the stage (all four performances). They had extended musical sequences that went in and out of the dialog(ue) scenes and they felt that to try and duplicate that for a recording wouldn't really work. So they reconceived the songs as individual songs (for the most part) and recorded them that way.
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 01, 2003, 03:52:44 PM: DR Oz-Tom --

Did Colin come through everything successfully? And hopefully he is recovering as smoothly as is possible?? I think a "Colin update" would be welcomed here...

(Wipe that vegemite off of your knees, you scampy bear!) :-X
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Post by: Jed on December 01, 2003, 03:53:21 PM: Ha! I have now truly experienced disco, Tom. :D Quite the experience, I tell you that! Will be checking out the Brocklehurst shortly... must head off to the bank and post office first, however.
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Post by: Danise on December 01, 2003, 03:54:12 PM: Hi, ladodgerjon. Happy posting!

I have to tell you all what just happened less than hour ago. I took the dogs for their walk and as we were walking down the sidewalk beside a busy street a car backfired. Well, Bear, the terror of Tampa pulled his tail between his legs and looked like he'd been shot! He then took off down the sidewalk, pulling me & Brandi for all he was worth. I swear I heard, "There's no place but HOME!" . I was laughing my butt off the whole way.

I know I hurt his doggie pride by laughing but I couldn't help myself. :)

My hero. I don't know who protects who when we go for a walk.

Today has been a laugh filled one. I received my copy of Babylon 5 bloopers that I won off of E-bay. To many funny things to even start to tell about.

Regarding pickles--I don't know what happened but I bit into a Checkers hamburger with a pickle that was so sour (or bad--still not sure) that it turned me totally off of pickles on sandwiches for the past year at least. I always liked them before but now I either try to remember to say no pickles or I pick them off. Shutter.

Glad all the cookies sold, George. Had I been there, I would have bought one myself.
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Post by: Jed on December 01, 2003, 03:56:19 PM: Woohoo! I'm over 200 posts! Only 50 to go for another of them nifty little stars!
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Post by: William E. Lurie on December 01, 2003, 03:58:24 PM: Back from Drama Book Shop...

The Loesser looks great.

EVER AFTER was listed on their computer for a November release which it obviously didn't have. At least I put a hold on it and they will call me when it comes in.
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 04:03:36 PM: To the absent and truant: Colin has certainly improved and fortunately is back in charge of the kitchen. He posted a note at HHW on Saturday (make that Friday for most of you). He is still on some mild pain killers but the vegemite has helped. At least you can't see the bruises now. I'll try and find his post!
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 04:07:46 PM: "Cliff's notes #171" thanks MusicGuy.
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Post by: Emily on December 01, 2003, 04:10:54 PM: Thank you everyone so much for all the hotel suggestions! I am sorry I couldn't respond to them before now... but school gets in the way of HHW sometimes (unfortunately).

I have tried a ton of what you guys suggested but have found that all of them are either sold out (who goes to NYC for New Year's Eve... oh wait :) ) or WAAAAAYYY out of my price range.

I phoned the tour group that is going from McGill (4 days, 3 nights for $298 including transport) and have decided that if I go - that is the way to do it. :)

This is the hotel they will be using - which IMHO looks very nice. Has anyone heard anything about it? (oh and Noel... it is unfortunately right smack near Times Square. But who needs to sleep anyway? :( )

http://www.clarionfifthave.com
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 04:14:15 PM: Well, the first bite of the sandwich was fine. Subsequent bites were not, but you'll read all about it in tomorrow's notes, which were, of course, written today. I believe I've phoned in an order or two, and I remember having to schlep all the way to P.F. Chang's by myself to pick up a rather substantial baggy of foodstuffs.
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 04:15:54 PM: I'm thinkin' we haz a shot at making the 10,000 by this evening - but if we don't, tomorrow for sure! That's quite an achievement if you ask me, or even if you don't ask me.
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Post by: Noel on December 01, 2003, 04:20:56 PM: That hotel's not on Times Square at all. MUCH more expensive than those suggested in that Morning Call article, but, if you can afford to look out on the library, I'd say go for it.

We live very near the Youth Hostel, which would cost you about a quarter as much...
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 04:23:14 PM: Quote from: ladodgerjon on December 01, 2003, 03:25:18 PM

BTW: Did I mention that I've been dining with Mr. Kimmel nearly every lunch hour for the past three weeks?? I honestly belive I could do a "mini unseemly journal" entry every day with my observations from those precious few minutes we share together...

Definitely welcome!

Well let's take a vote. I'd definitely vote for a daily mini unseemly journal with all the dirt posted here.

And hi DR Andrea!
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 04:24:23 PM: Welcome to LADODGERJON
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Post by: Emily on December 01, 2003, 04:26:15 PM: Actually Noel, all things considered the trip is going to cost me $298 CDN (about $230 US) for transport and 2 nights stay at a hotel. Which isn't that bad. God bless Mcgill! :)

Hmm... they said it was near Times Square and the map showed it to be about two blocks east of it. Hmmm....
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 04:31:00 PM: I concur with the "mini unseemly journal" idea that ladodgerjon (Welcome to BK's Lair!!!) suggested he could easily write!

I suspect we'd read about more "do-for-me, buy-for-me, lift-me, carry-me" incidents between him and BK if such a journal were to be posted each day! (And Yes, that was most definitely an FG reference!).
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Post by: George on December 01, 2003, 04:46:07 PM: Quote from: Jed on December 01, 2003, 03:56:19 PM
Woohoo! I'm over 200 posts! Only 50 to go for another of them nifty little stars!

Jed, just keep telling yourself, "I think I can, I think I can!" and you will!

And I just realized that I have over 250 posts and another star!

***

Here's one more "Welcome ladodgerjon!" Hope you enjoy (and contribute to) the musings.
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Post by: Michael on December 01, 2003, 04:57:28 PM: NO ONE HAS MENTIONED ME!!!
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Post by: Maya on December 01, 2003, 04:58:02 PM: Well, my break is almost over so I have to type this fairly quickly....

TCB--Hmmm...maybe the WSMA did leave. Now I'm going to have to go and look it up.

Ron--LOL! I blush way too easily.

George--Thanks for the Nick and Nora report...you make a very good case for my going out and getting the cast recording.

TFO--I'm glad to hear that Colin is on the mend!

*Sigh* Back to class.
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 05:00:14 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 03:46:18 PM
Ya mean somethin' like BAT MAN?

Or, howeabout "ArtfulDodgerFan"????????

Personally, I prefer ArtfulDodgerFan, but that has more to do with my ego, than it does with baseball!
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Post by: Jed on December 01, 2003, 05:03:57 PM: TFO - I just noticed that the pastel accompanying my package from Oz was painted by a fellow named Colin. Could it possibly be your very same thankfully-recuperating-so-quickly Colin?
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 05:09:07 PM: Countdown to 10,000 posts begins now.

I forgot about Paul Pine, Pogue. Love John Evans/Howard Browne. Also, I'm not at home to remember the names, but the professional detective and his amateur sidekick are really fun in my pal Dick Lochte's book Sleeping Dog and its sequel.
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Post by: SwishySarah on December 01, 2003, 05:11:07 PM: Hello fellow DR's, how were your days? Mine was alright...didn't do much...got to read Macbeth in English for a bit, and GUESS who I was cast as, Miss Maya? ;)

I don't know WHAT Jose is talking about. It's freezing in Virginia. I wore my big poofy winter coat all day, as the temperature outside was equal to the temperature inside.

Welcome to the cookie jar, ladodgerjon! What flavor are YOU? :)

I was going to say Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes, and obviously you beat me to it. So I am smiling and nodding in agreement.

Let it be known that I drive for an HOUR today and didn't kill anyone/put lives in danger/make my mom mad/make my passengers mad/have a nervous breakdown. That is so cool. 33 hours to go! (I have to get 40 hours in before i can get my license, 20 of which have to be nighttime.)

I reaaaaally want to go to Iceland. A huge resounding "ICELAND!!!" was sung out when I read that Emily. Iceland, Iceland, Iceland. Let's go.

And sorry I missed chat last night, my computer won't let me on chat. I open the chat page, and all of the links around the "chat box" are blank, with the red X's in them, and the "chat box" has a white square with a triangle, circle, and square in it. I tried, I really did, but it didn't work. Ah, there's always next week, I hope.
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Post by: Charles Pogue on December 01, 2003, 05:25:47 PM: How could any of us Sam Spade/Nick & Nora/Hammett fans forget the Continental Op. RED HARVEST & THE DAIN CURSE are terrific books!
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 05:27:43 PM: Quote from: Emily on December 01, 2003, 04:26:15 PM
Actually Noel, all things considered the trip is going to cost me $298 CDN (about $230 US) for transport and 2 nights stay at a hotel. Which isn't that bad. God bless Mcgill! :)

Hmm... they said it was near Times Square and the map showed it to be about two blocks east of it. Hmmm....

Well, Emily, I guess you can get away with sayiing that your hotel is near Times Square. I guess I didn't realize that you were going to New York for New Year's Eve. If I had, I would have suggested the Holiday Inn on Route 3 in New Jersey.
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Post by: Jane on December 01, 2003, 05:36:03 PM: Welcome ladodgerjon and thanks for all the laughs I have had today since you joined our happy group. :)

All went well at the bank. We had to open a new checking account as a hold was put on the money in the old account. Eventually we shall have our money returned and all will be well. We do not expect to use the debit card again except for ATM withdrawals. At least with a credit card you don’t have to pay the bill, and then get reimbursed.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 05:37:10 PM: Oh my - on TRIO this evening I just saw an episode of QUEEN FOR A DAY from the famous Hollywood Moulin Rouge. And those of us who thought it came from that famous Hotel, can rest assured that our memories were not completely faulty....lovely Jeanne Cagney's wardrobe came from a designer whose home base was.....Hollywood's own Roosevelt Hotel!
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 01, 2003, 05:48:01 PM: DR Jrand --

Glad you got to watch Queen For A Day. When I lived in Hollywood, it was not far north of Sunset & Vine (...it's Music City, Sunset & Vine...) and always wanted to go to see QFAD in person. I didn't get to, but it was at that same theatre (renamed the Aquarius) that I saw my very first live, on-stage dangling participle on a male cast member in "Hair." It was pretty daring stuff for its time!

Unfortunately, I looked closer, and it was no big deal.

8)
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 01, 2003, 05:51:18 PM: DR TCB --

Regarding your recommendation to Emily about the Holiday Inn; just remember the immortal words of Willy Clark.. "you know, people don't go to New Jersey unless they have to!"
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 05:59:19 PM: Countdown to 10,000 posts. Only about fifty-five to go. I'm going home now where I will have the pleasure of viewing two hours or more of footage I haven't seen yet. O Joy! O Rapture! O Calcutta!
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 06:00:21 PM: So the Moulin Rouge became the Aquarius Theatre? Hmmmmmmmmm.....
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Post by: Jed on December 01, 2003, 06:10:42 PM: Let us all send some good vibes to DR Ann, whose senior voice recital begins in less than an hour!
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 06:18:51 PM: Quote from: JRand53 on December 01, 2003, 05:37:10 PM
Oh my - on TRIO this evening I just saw an episode of QUEEN FOR A DAY from the famous Hollywood Moulin Rouge. And those of us who thought it came from that famous Hotel, can rest assured that our memories were not completely faulty....lovely Jeanne Cagney's wardrobe came from a designer whose home base was.....Hollywood's own Roosevelt Hotel!

So when will we have Queen for a Day at HHW?
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 06:26:42 PM: Quote from: Emily on December 01, 2003, 04:26:15 PM
Actually Noel, all things considered the trip is going to cost me $298 CDN (about $230 US) for transport and 2 nights stay at a hotel. Which isn't that bad. God bless Mcgill! :)

Hmm... they said it was near Times Square and the map showed it to be about two blocks east of it. Hmmm....

The price is very good for hotel and bus (since I think the bus costs about $115Cdn and the hotel would cost at least 100Cdn a night, which is VERY generous).

But remember theatre tickets might add a lot to the mix. Even if you have discounts (make sure you take PBOL ...).
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Post by: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 06:38:47 PM: DR Jane: Sorry to hear about your bank troubles. Thankfully that has never happened to me. But it's good that you will get the money back.

Good night all. I'm off to watch Average Joe. Anyone else addicted to this funny reality show?
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 06:47:23 PM: Countdown to 10,000 posts - only about 41 to go. Very exciting. I'm not asking anyone to post, just keeping you abreast or, at the very least, athigh.
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Post by: Jrand74 on December 01, 2003, 06:58:38 PM: Well....I don't know if we could beat those stories! But we could try!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 07:05:33 PM: I will strive to do my meager part in this endeavor to attain 10,000 posts.

Tom from Oz, I believe that's "meagre" to you!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 07:07:26 PM: Quote from: Jennifer on December 01, 2003, 06:18:51 PM
So when will we have Queen for a Day at HHW?

Come on, TCB! Answer that question!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 07:08:39 PM: We need some more people to log on, BK.

I'm sure you'll get the 35 or so posts before the day is done, though.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 07:11:10 PM: Quote from: Michael Shayne on December 01, 2003, 04:57:28 PM
NO ONE HAS MENTIONED ME!!!

Mentioned whom?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh....Mike Shayne?

Never read him!
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Post by: Michael on December 01, 2003, 07:15:36 PM: By proxy Mr. Tony Tale ask me to say that Brother Cadfael & Bud White (From LA Confidential) are two of his favorite. Also would like to add that Basil of Baker Street is his film favorite. In addition to the multitudes that have been already mentioned.
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Post by: Jane on December 01, 2003, 07:18:27 PM: Quote from: JRand53 on December 01, 2003, 05:37:10 PM
Oh my - on TRIO this evening I just saw an episode of QUEEN FOR A DAY from the famous Hollywood Moulin Rouge. And those of us who thought it came from that famous Hotel, can rest assured that our memories were not completely faulty....lovely Jeanne Cagney's wardrobe came from a designer whose home base was.....Hollywood's own Roosevelt Hotel!

What is TRIO? How fun. Maybe fun isn't the best word. Did you cry? ;)
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 07:21:55 PM: Who is Tony Tale and why is he saying those terrible things about me?

Countdown to 10,000 posts - only 30 or so more to go.
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Post by: Jane on December 01, 2003, 07:23:39 PM: My brother just emailed me there might be a possible buyer for my father’s condo. :o Please send good vibes my way. If this happens I won’t have to go fix up the place and can stay here enjoying the holidays as they should be enjoyed.
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Post by: Michael on December 01, 2003, 07:27:49 PM: Mr Tony Dale asks by proxy can we add Agents Scully and Mulder and Private Detective Angel
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 07:28:00 PM: Vibes and xylophones to Jane.
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Post by: Jane on December 01, 2003, 08:09:57 PM: I found Queen for a Day.

Thanks Bruce.
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 08:15:50 PM: Best of Vibes Jane. (...and we bought this little condominium: SS). Hope DR Ann's recital went well (It is so difficult to send vibes on time when it is always tomorrow here). Indeed Jed the artist does indeed reside at this address.
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Post by: Noel on December 01, 2003, 08:16:43 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 04:31:00 PM
I suspect we'd read about more "do-for-me, buy-for-me, lift-me, carry-me" incidents between him and BK if such a journal were to be posted each day! (And Yes, that was most definitely an FG reference!).

That song has resounded again and again in our household for about a month and a half now.

I'm gratified by the way Emily's hotel problems have worked out. Don't walk on the south side of Bryant Park and you should be fine.
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Post by: MusicGuy on December 01, 2003, 08:17:11 PM: Oh well Crap....someone has to say it... (TCB, Ron, OzTom, Jrand, all being so demure)...

For any number of us, trying to be Queen For A Day would be just plain redundant !!

No groaning........

:o :P
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 08:19:07 PM: Welcome, ladodgerjon!

Well... My day off has turned into a day of supreme laziness. I don't think I've done anything really productive at all today. Hmm.. -It is my day off after all... But still feeling a little "guilty" for basically doing nothing all day.

I did go out to dinner with my friend, Mark. We went for some pretty yummy and spicy Thai food. And for dessert, I headed to the ice cream place next door and got a sundae - coconut-brownie ice cream, hot fudge, crushed almonds and whipped cream! -And the young woman who scooped my ice cream was very generous with the scoops! I'm actually a little logey, but, hey, it sure was delicious!

DR Swishy - Well, it was kind of "warm" here in Richmond for part of the day - low 60's. I did have a pullover on - and remember, I said it felt like Fall - not like Summer. ;-) *I've always liked a slight chill in the air. And having the sun out also made it seem warmer.

DR Emily - That is a great rate! Is McGill the school you go to? *Just be aware that they set up some "access restrictions" in and around Times Square once the revellers start to disperse. I remember one year trying to get my friend's apartment, but since I didn't have a hotel key or a New York city address/license, the police would not let me through the barricades until after 3:00AM! And you wanna talk about cold! *Are you planning on doing the whole New Year's Eve in Times Square experience as part of your trip?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 08:20:22 PM: I thought TCB would have weighed in by now, but my thought was that EVERY day was "Queen for a Day" day here on HHW.com!
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 08:27:27 PM: Jed, I also received a lovely package in the mail from down-under and I am now enjoying Ms. Dorothy Provine singing about singing in the tub! Hoohaw! Thanks very, very much Tom from Oz, this CD is great! And tomorrow I shall take the Peter Brocklehurst CD to work and listen!

Such wonderfully nice people on HHW!
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 08:27:53 PM: MusicGuy: What indeed would be the point of yet another day when we have all had so many? (I wonder if Fred Bear made the cloak for the OZ version "Lady For A Day". It may still be around and in use).
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 08:28:39 PM: By the way Michael Shayne, that picture of MS that you posted looks more then just a little bit like 1950s actor Ken Clark! I wonder if he might have been the model for that painting???
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 08:32:03 PM: Countdown to 10,000 posts - only twenty or so to go.

I am so not happy having to spend my entire evening viewing this footage. Oh, well, one more tape to go, about ninety minutes worth, then I'm done.
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Post by: Jay on December 01, 2003, 08:34:35 PM: I have broken bread with Dear BK on two occasions now, once in the company of Dear Reader Jose and Dear Reader Music Guy, and at another time with Dear Reader Jane. New Dear Reader LADodgerJon has proposed committing a journal to this here site recounting his experiences having lunch with Dear BK each day whilst they toil away in some claustrophobic editing bay high atop a skyscraper in the Oaks of Sherman.

Far be it from me to dissuade a newbie from posting, especially one who, in his first post, demonstrated unparallelled modesty. I must remind Dear Reader LADodger Jon, however, that this is a family site, and urge him to consider the propriety of committing to words the strange and unusual events he witnesses as he and Dear BK share their gustatory adventures. Be advised: if you thought the imbroglio with the pickle was strange, watch what happens when whipped cream is involved.

;)
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 08:36:07 PM: JRand53 - looking at Trio's list of this months shows they shall show more QUEEN FOR A DAY episodes! I must watch! Also they are showing a Miss America contest from 1983 and from 1958! What a cool network!

I must finish looking at this months schedule!
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Post by: Jay on December 01, 2003, 08:37:20 PM: You know what I want for Christmas? I'll tell you what I want for Christmas. I want Dear Reader Jose's metabolism.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 08:40:10 PM: Sorry, DR Michael Shayne, but I've never read any of your namesake's adventures, so I can't call him a favorite. One of these days, I must look them, up and give them a try.
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 08:42:31 PM: Good to know you can rely on NW Male - Mail Mr Barnum.
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 08:42:59 PM: Got an e-mail from Jed Levin (son of Ira) with a question - I don't have the answer, so I'm hoping one of you does. Here it is:

Bruce:

Hope you don't mind a question way out of left field. A friend and I are
trying to remember details (title, cast, etc.) of a TV movie from the 70s
that was filmed (possibly on video) in Central Park) and was a musical
version of "The Gift of the Magi." My friend remembers that the male lead had
a big 70s mustache, and he thinks there was a song called "I Can't Give You
Anything for Christmas." This may have only been broadcast locally. That's
about all we can rememember, and Google and a bunch of message boards are
coming up empty handed. Any memories of this? I thought the song title might
be the strongest thread, but I've had no luck, and if the title's off by just
a word it can make it very difficult to track.

Just thought you were someone worth trying this on. Thanks!

Jed Levin
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 08:44:48 PM: Trio is also famous for running those "Brilliant but Cancelled" shows, TV programs that got good reviews but were dropped by their networks after only a few airings. I don't often watch it, but the few times I've been aware of things they were showing, I was glad it's on my cable's listings.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 08:49:52 PM: BK, the show was called "The Gift of Love" and starred Marie Osmond and TImothy Bottoms. Telecast on 12/8/79. Fred Karlin and Norman Gimbel contributed songs to the two hour show. It was on ABC.

I've got the whole cast and crew here if you need more info.
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Post by: Jane on December 01, 2003, 08:50:09 PM: Jay, ROTFLOL (rolling on the floor laughing out loud). LADodgerJon needs to read the archives now.
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Post by: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 08:55:11 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 08:49:52 PM

I've got the whole cast and crew here if you need more info.

Wow, you must have a very large living room!
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 08:58:08 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on December 01, 2003, 08:55:11 PM
Wow, you must have a very large living room!

Hurmph! Try to do a friend a favor and what do I get? Backtalk! Sarcastic backtalk! (A MOMMIE DEAREST reference). ::)
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Post by: George on December 01, 2003, 09:02:21 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 08:49:52 PM
BK, the show was called "The Gift of Love" and starred Marie Osmond and TImothy Bottoms. Telecast on 12/8/79. Fred Karlin and Norman Gimbel contributed songs to the two hour show. It was on ABC.

I've got the whole cast and crew here if you need more info.

According to imdb.com, there was another made for TV version with Debby Boone and John Rubinstein called "The Gift of the Magi (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385722/)" (click on the title to see the very limited listing). Imdb.com indicates that the 1978 Debby Boone version is also a musical, but the only non-cast credit is for the director Marc Daniels. Hope this doesn't confuse the issue too much.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 09:03:32 PM: DR Jay - I wish I had my metabolism! Well, at least the one I had pre-Australia. I'm still working on the "Aussie 12" I put on, and with the holiday season upon us, the timing is just plain bad. Not that I'm complaining, but... However, I have not put back on all the weight I lost last year, so that's the sunny side of the situation. Mainly, I just need to get my exercise routine back into routine.

I like TRIO too. Unfortunately, when the cable system in Richmond reorganized the channel line-up, TRIO was moved to the "top tier" subscription level - ???? Ah, well. At least I still have BBC America.
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 09:11:50 PM: I am leaving that post from Jose well alone. Others may venture there but I shall not.
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Post by: Matt H. on December 01, 2003, 09:17:11 PM: Well, I figured if it was "The Gift of the Magi" they were looking for, they would have found that one since it's the same title. But it could very well be that one rather than the Osmond Company produced special.
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Post by: S. Woody White on December 01, 2003, 09:18:36 PM: This is beginning to feel like New Years Eve!
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Post by: Jay on December 01, 2003, 09:20:43 PM: I saw The Missing this evening, Dear Readers. The errant and truant Dear Reader Jason suggested that this film has been made before, and several other Dear Readers concurred. I have no doubt that this film, indeed, has been made before, but, truth be told, I never saw it. Therefore, I must say that I rather enjoyed this motion picture. Cate Blanchette and Tommie Lee Jones are quite good, and the movie's narrative and pace kept me engrossed over the course of the entire film. I thought Ron Howard and the writers did an excellent job of balancing the personal story between the two leads with the adventure/rescue element of the movie.
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Post by: George on December 01, 2003, 09:21:53 PM: Matt, that does make a lot of sense. I do remember watching both of them when they were on TV. I have a CD of a stage musical version with Eddie Korbich and Walter Charles that I love very much.
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Post by: Jed on December 01, 2003, 09:22:10 PM: Post #10,000!!!
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Post by: George on December 01, 2003, 09:22:18 PM: Post # 10,000!!

Damn, 8 seconds too late! Okay, I'm 10,001!!!
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Post by: Jay on December 01, 2003, 09:22:41 PM: And am I alone in the perception that Tommie Lee Jones is a dead ringer for President Bush?
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Post by: George on December 01, 2003, 09:25:30 PM: Quote from: Jay on December 01, 2003, 09:22:41 PM
And am I alone in the perception that Tommie Lee Jones is a dead ringer for President Bush?

When the dust settled on the presidential election, Comedy Central (I think) had a sitcom called "That's My Bush!" starring Timothy Bottoms. HE was absolutely a dead ringer for GWB. Tongue-in-cheeck of course, but it was an uncanny impersonation. He also played GWB in a serious made for TV movie called "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis."
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Post by: Jed on December 01, 2003, 09:26:49 PM: Why didn't the confetti and balloons fall from my ceiling? Dang thing must be busted.
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 09:30:48 PM: I would have thought if the ceiling were to be busted then the confetti and balloons would have already fallen! But then we are upside down here so that may not happen in Washington.
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 09:36:14 PM: Jed: just sent you an email so you may not recognise the address. The link is to an article on Peter B/hurst.
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Post by: bk on December 01, 2003, 09:41:02 PM: Just finished viewing and came back and hold your hats and hallelujah, looks like we made it - oh, a Barry Manilow reference.

10,000 posts, dear readers, in forty days. That is an amazing feat and also an amazing feet. I am proud as a peacock and pleased as punch, and also proud as punch and pleased as a peacock. I shall now make myself something to eat in honor of our festive achievement and occasion.

Thank you MattH and George - I shall forward your answers on to Mr. Levin - I knew if anyone could come up with it would be you people.
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 09:55:08 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 07:07:26 PM
Come on, TCB! Answer that question!

Sorry Ron, I was at rehearsal. How's this:

Every day is Queen for a Day day at HHW!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 09:56:47 PM: Well, I uploaded a pic... Didn't realize it would get all fuzzy in the transfer... I'll have to see what those other "buttons" do in my pic editing software.
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 09:58:30 PM: Quote from: Tom from OZ on December 01, 2003, 08:15:50 PM
Best of Vibes Jane. (...and we bought this little condominium: SS). Hope DR Ann's recital went well (It is so difficult to send vibes on time when it is always tomorrow here). Indeed Jed the artist does indeed reside at this address.

So, Ozzie, how did Ann's recital go yesterday?
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 10:05:19 PM: Welcome back TCB - boots and all. I was going to call you a clever donkey but you would no doubt take that as a compliment when I really meant SA. Ann's recital went as expected but I think it is for her to post her feelings about it.
DR Jose: You are naturally fuzzy. Accept it along with your aussie 12.
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Post by: Ann on December 01, 2003, 10:16:04 PM: Hello all!!!
I'm pleased to say that my recital went better than I'd expected. Not a very big crowd, but an appreciative one. And I got it recorded on CD, so that's good. I can sleep well tonight...
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 10:16:07 PM: DR Ann. The board is yours. It is only family here in Washington. How went the recital?
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 10:18:14 PM: Now can we reverse the last two posts for the sake of continuity.

Well done Ann. You of course will be giving all Hainsies and Kimlets a copy of The Cd for Christmas (which we shall all copy and then sell the original on ebay in a few years time).
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 10:20:50 PM: Quote from: Tom from OZ on December 01, 2003, 10:16:07 PM
DR Ann. The board is yours. It is only family here in Washington. How went the recital?

Ozzie: I thought you were a day ahead of us. Why are you asking Ann the question after she answers it?
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Post by: TCB on December 01, 2003, 10:24:42 PM: Congtratulations Ann! I am glad it went well. You will, of course, be autographing our copies of your CD won't you?
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 10:25:45 PM: I did give a vague indication about the recital in my post above but thought it would be unseemly to comment before Ann was able to give own views.
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 10:27:58 PM: Forgot that bit about the autographs TCB. We should make even more on ebay with those. Now will there be cast recordings of those other Washingon events "Oliver" and "A Christmas Carol"? There be a market for a set of autographed Cds.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on December 01, 2003, 10:30:33 PM: Quote from: TCB on December 01, 2003, 10:20:50 PM
Ozzie: I thought you were a day ahead of us. Why are you asking Ann the question after she answers it?

I'm pretty sure it has to do with that hole in the ozone layer, TCB.

That hole probably has an effect on the space-time continuum and any time Tommy gets too far ahead of himself, he gets jerked back a day and has to start catching up.
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 10:36:44 PM: I wonder if I was asking about the next recital. Did you know there is another one Ann! I feel like I am in "Merrily We Roll Along".
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Post by: Jane on December 01, 2003, 10:38:11 PM: Ann, I'm so pleased your recital went well. Your good news made my evening. :)

Good night.
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Post by: Ann on December 01, 2003, 10:39:56 PM: TCB - I will be seeing Oliver on the 12th. I very much look forward to seeing a DR in action. I'm sure you will steal the show :)

btw, I will send copies of the Broadway portion of my recital if anyone actually wants it.
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 10:46:39 PM: Sell instead of send Ann. I would love to hear you but you will need to get a fulltime job and work towards the postage to OZ. TCB will probably deliver it if you give him the fare. He is kind like that.
Goodnight Jane. May the good news continue for you.

Dinner time for Fosca & Magnus. Ah priorities!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 10:52:18 PM: DR Ann - Could you post your recital program? -Forgive me if you had done this already. I used to do a lot of accompanying, especially for vocalists. I especially love the French repertoire - Faure, Chausson, Duparc, Ravel, Debussy, etc...
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Post by: Ann on December 01, 2003, 11:08:09 PM: Sure, Jose.
There are two pieces that I doubt anyone would know, my voice teacher didn't even know them before I showed her. So here's the rest -

Handel - Father Of Heav'n, from Judas Maccabaeus
Brahms - Treue Liebe
Der Gang zum Liebchen
Simon - How Could I Ever Know
Sondheim - I Remember
Miller's Son
Children Will Listen

There ya go! :)
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Post by: Jed on December 01, 2003, 11:10:59 PM: Quote from: Ann on December 01, 2003, 11:08:09 PM
There are two pieces that I doubt anyone would know, my voice teacher didn't even know them before I showed her.

You forget the kind of people we have around here, Ann. :)
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 11:17:28 PM: Even if we don't know Ann, we will research and pretend we knew all the time. Now to find out who the Sondheim person is. Didn't he write disco music?
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 11:17:37 PM: Yeah... I'd like to know the other two selections...
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 11:22:01 PM: I forgot to say, "Please"... ;)
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Post by: Ann on December 01, 2003, 11:23:35 PM: your wish is my command -
Amidst the Shades - Purcell
Find Me A Lonely Cave - John Eccles
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Post by: Jed on December 01, 2003, 11:29:30 PM: Quote from: Tom from OZ on December 01, 2003, 11:17:28 PM
Now to find out who the Sondheim person is. Didn't he write disco music?

Imagine my despair when I discovered this afternoon how completely wrong I was when I did "Losing My Mind" two years ago at one of my recitals!
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 11:33:15 PM: I remember my grandmother singing me those songs Ann. I was only a kindergarten child in the 1700's though.
I must check and see if Joan Sutherland sings them on "Songs My Mother Taught Me". She may have had the same recital books.

Jed: Practise.
I love the droll Pet Shop Boys. I think Liza had lost hers!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 11:33:59 PM: Find me a lonely cave,
Remote from human kind,
Dark as the midnight grave,
And dismal as my mind.
There let me sigh my soul away,
And mourn at cruel death's delay.

Is this the one? :D

There are some lovely early English songs. It always struck me how the serious songs were truly serious in tone, while the "happier" ones tended to be on the naughty side. All those "code" words and phrases. I remember blushing in Song Lit class when some of the texts were "translated".
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Post by: JoseSPiano on December 01, 2003, 11:40:20 PM: Quote from: Jed on December 01, 2003, 11:29:30 PM
Imagine my despair when I discovered this afternoon how completely wrong I was when I did "Losing My Mind" two years ago at one of my recitals!

??????

Although, the first song I ever used for an audition was, "I Enjoy Being A Girl". I just really liked the song and wanted to sing it. I guess I was fated ever since... :P
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Post by: Ann on December 01, 2003, 11:42:19 PM: Wow Jose! That is indeed the right song! I'm impressed...
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Post by: Jed on December 01, 2003, 11:52:44 PM: Quote from: Jed on December 01, 2003, 11:29:30 PM
Imagine my despair when I discovered this afternoon how completely wrong I was when I did "Losing My Mind" two years ago at one of my recitals!

Jose - This is in response to disco renditions shared with me by our dear Tom from Oz. :D
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 11:55:08 PM: Time for me to sign off for the night. I think it is Ann's turn to be first post of the new day!
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Post by: Tomovoz on December 01, 2003, 11:55:52 PM: Good night my friends. "See" you tomorrow.
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Post by: Ann on December 01, 2003, 11:59:48 PM: Is this board closed yet?
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Post by: Ann on December 02, 2003, 12:00:18 AM: guess not :)
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Post by: Jed on December 02, 2003, 12:06:24 AM: I think you just hit a new standard in vanity posts, Ann. :D
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Post by: George on December 02, 2003, 12:15:59 AM: Congratulations on your recital, Ann! Just wanted to get that in before the end of the day.