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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were like an opening night, and now it is time for you to post until the veritible cows come home - they're playing What's My Line (SPOILER - the first guest is a cow).
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And the word of the day is: BILIOUS!
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Whilst I like Pet Clarke's songs I find it difficult to listen to more than a few songs in a row.
I like her her pre "Downtown" material like "Romeo", My Friend the Sea" and "Whistling for the Moon".
I tend to prefer her less successful pop hits like "Cat in The Window" and "Heart" and "You'd Better Come Home".
I've always loathed the very repetitive "My Love" and "You're The One".
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Good morning DR Elmore. Welcome to your Saturday.
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Good morning, all! And a special good moring hug to DR Tomovoz!
I enjoyed nearly all of my evening at home quite a lot except for the 30-minute update call from my sister-in-law which depressed me to no end: my father has lost 10 more lbs in the past several days and his doctors have decided to reduce the dosage on his next chemo since his body has reacted so badly to the first round.
My immediate reaction, beyond bursting into tears and fighting the urge to wail, is to hop a plane to Ohio, but once there, besides being with him, what would I do? Damned if I do and damned if I don't, and it's not a comfortable position. On a much cheerier note, I spent about an hour on the phone catching up with my dear friend Larry Hochman, who was robbed of his Tony Award for SPAMALOT.
So, today: Toyland for a couple of hours, then the Moross opera. After that, I don't know.
TOD:
Downtown
Don't Sleep in the Subway
How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
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Warmest thoughts for you and your family Larry.
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TOD:
You and I
Walk Through The World
(Both from the MGM musical presentation of Goodbye Mr. Chips)
I Know A Place
and she is one of the better singers who have recorded the oft recorded songs: Tell Me Its Not True and Norma's Songs from Sunset Blvd.
and of course
Downtown which I never get tired of hearing and as a matter of fact I am listening to it as I write these words right now.
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Sorry to hear that, Larry. I'm wishing for the best.
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BK:
Did Rose Marie remember you from your episode of Honeymoon Suite?
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"Downtown," "Sign of the Times," and her first greatest hits LP features a song I LOVE that she co-wrote I think, called "Two Rivers."
"In this heart, with every beat, two rivers flow. Two rivers meet. And love. And love."
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and dear Larry my thoughts are with you.
I do understand your situation. It is the fact that you want to go that is so important.
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Awaiting our friends picking us up to take us to Pennsylvania. I hope the weather brightens up a bit. It is supposed to stay cool today.
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Good vibes to DR Elmore and his family. ~~~~~~~~~~~
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Saturday morning greetings! The torrential rains in which I drove home Thursday evening and to work Friday morning ushered in gloriously cool, clear skies. It's a beautiful day in the Miami Valley and my first all-information-waitressing 5th day of the week.
DR Elmore - thoughts and prayers :-*
Travel vibes for DRs Rodzinski & TPunk!
Bye 'til lunch time!
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Have a good trip DRS TPUNK & RODZINSKI!
Size 33 jeans....I am GREEN with envy...and it's not easy being green.
Lovely photos DR JOSE....
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Thanks for the report, Mr First Nighter. Did the autograph hounds not ask who you were?
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Comfortable, dry weather predicted for today and tomorrow. Hurray!
I am selling tickets for THE SOUND OF MUSIC tonight, which will be easy. There ain't none....none for the rest of the run. The word is out. If you ain't got a ticket, you ain't gonna see the show.
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Well DR RLP - Miss Hayes was never dressed by the Minsky costumer, however she certainly followed the dictum of another big star, Miss Jayne Mansfield:
"To be in the movies it helps if you can act a little, but you certainly don't have to go around covered up with a blanket."
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Thoughts for DR ELMORE.
Have fun with the public DRGINNY. I am off work today!
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TOD:
Downtown, of course.
You and I from GOODBYE MR CHIPS
Love, This is My Song..... (I don't think that is the correct title) is probably my FAVORITE FAVORITE FAVORITE
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Sorry, DR TOMovOZ...
My Love is one of my favorites as well.....such breath control....
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Good morning.
DR Elmore - my thoughts and prayers are with you.
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DR Elmore, my thoughts and prayers are with your dad and the whole family.
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I woke up very early today. But for the first time in a while I will be spending my Saturday alone. I usually go shopping with my mom and my sister (and niece). But my mom is out of town. And my sis and little megan are off to a birthday party.
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Enjoy your day off, DR JENNIFER!
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DR Elmore - thoughts and vibes to your father and for the family,
TOD - Downtown, Tell Me It's Not True, With One Look, Don't Sleep in the Subway, My Love, and I Couldn't Live WIthout Your Love
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Good morning!
It rained during the night and is still overcast here which means it's cool and wonderful. I have doors and windows open with the attic fan cooling off the whole house, and I couldn't be happier.
The high today is to be 82, considerably cooler than the last week's highs.
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Favorite Petula Clark songs:
"Downtown"
"I Know a Place"
"Don't Sleep in the Subway"
"London Is London"
"You and I"
I saw her in the national tour of SUNSET BLVD. and though she did very, very well, my dislike of the show precluded my being blown away by her. Wish I could have seen her in something else, possibly her Maria in THE SOUND OF MUSIC would have pleased me more.
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I have THE INNOCENTS lined up for DVD play at some point today.
Laserdisc-wise, I'll be watching WORDS AND MUSIC.
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Sorry you're having to endure your dad's suffering condition, DR Elmore. I'll be thinking about you this weekend and hoping for the best.
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Oh, I also have TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME lined up on DVD. Since there is absolutely nothing on TV for me tonight, I should be able to fit all of these films in my viewing schedule.
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Page Two Nemo Swim!!!
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I liked the LUCY dances more, DR MATTH, but I realize there is NOT an infinite variety of them. With Disney I shall have to live.
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Ah, two knowledgeable young men!
Do either of you (or anyone) have any idea why you can't find a copy of the 1945 Paulette Goddard film, KITTY?[/size]
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Hiya, TCB - jes' you and me, kid.
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How are you feeling?
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Boy, this weather hurts my old bones. Looking forward to end o' week sunshine...
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Elmore, if you check in later on, my heart goes to you, boy. I know. I know...
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T.O.D.
"How Are Things in Glocca Morra?"
"Look to the Rainbow"
"I Know a Place"
"Round Every Corner"
"My Love"
"This is My Song"
"Downtown"
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Good morning, PennyO! Has Ann caught up yet?
I am feeling rather uncomfortable this morning.
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Don't know, DR TCB.
Mitchell Leisen directed Paramount comedy that should have passed through MCA/Universal hands for television..... TCM is now showing titles from that library, so my guess is that it will show up there sooner or later. Probably on Paulette Goddard OR Ray Milland's birthday....
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Another Leisen effort that hasn't seen the light of day is THE MATING SEASON with a gem of a performance by Thelma Ritter and a sweet one by Gene Tierney.
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Another Leisen effort that hasn't seen the light of day is THE MATING SEASON with a gem of a performance by Thelma Ritter and a sweet one by Gene Tierney.
Damn them, damn them all to Hell!
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Good thoughts and special vibes to DR Elmore, his dad, and family...
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Ah, two knowledgeable young men!
Do either of you (or anyone) have any idea why you can't find a copy of the 1945 Paulette Goddard film, KITTY?[/size]
Very interesting question, DR TCB. There are those rare A-class movies that have never received any video release at all - either on tape, laserdisc, or DVD. This is one of them. I've never read anything about there being rights issues. Betty Hutton's DREAM GIRL is another. Both of these were Paramount movies.
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Ah, just thought of another Mitchell Leisen that hasn't had a video release - LADY IN THE DARK. It's another Paramount film, too!
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I liked the LUCY dances more, DR MATTH, but I realize there is NOT an infinite variety of them. With Disney I shall have to live.
Sorry, DR JRand. I uses what I gots. :D
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Well, the sun is starting to make its presence known now, so I need to get things closed up so as not to lose the cool air I've forcefed my house during the past few hours.
WBBL.
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I'm up, I'm up - must get dressed before she of the Evil Eye arrives. Speaking of arriving - where in tarnation IS everyone?
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I told Rose Marie we'd worked together but didn't get specific, because there's no way she would have remembered that show.
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Well, I'm here...
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cold and drizzly here - as usual... my back is pretty sore from the murderous weedings of yesterday. Hey, I'm glad you had fun last night.
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TOD - I heard a disc of more recent Petula Clark stuff in the not-too-distant past -- it was all French chanteuse stuff, and GREAT! Don't remember the title. But now I am curious to find it, and maybe I'll look for it. It was really fantastic, authentic.
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Or maybe i just dreamed I heard it?
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Okay, so I'm talking to myself again... blahblahblah... comes with age, they say... later, gator.
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Good day one and all!!
VIBES to DR ELMORE and his FAMILY!!! Vibes to his father!!
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Hugs and prayers and more to Larry and his dad!
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I do love New York even when it's wet and humid. I went uptown this morning, arriving at the Broadhurst Theatre at 9:30am to find two people already waiting for the ticket office to open at 10:00am. I was Number 3 and as we waited, the line grew. By 10 o'clock there were 8 or 9 people. The first person, a student, tried to buy rush tickets but they only sell them Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday so she settled for standing room. The gentleman in front of me bought two full price tickets for the evening performance and then I got my two standing room tickets for the matinee! Hooray. I'll be seeing History Boys at 2pm. By the time I left the window there were about 15 people on line and more joining.
I may run into former DR Jason who now works concessions at the Broadhurst. I won't get a free t-shirt but I will be able to say hello to him.
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TOTD:
Downtown: Petula Clark
Journey to the Past: Liz Callaway -- Beautiful, beautiful voice
The Rose by Bette Midler
It's Almost Like Being in Love - Nat King Cole (I believe it was also in the musical Brigadoon)
Always by Frank Sinatra
Citi su Gumain; Si Do Maimeo; Dulaman {sung in Irish Gaelic) - Mairead Ni Mhaionaigh (vocalist with the group Altan)
She also has one song in English that I really like. "Time is Passed". {Side note here, I have actually met her. Lovely person}
Desperado by the Eagles
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Good Morning! Good Afternoon!
Well, the rains have stopped. It's still a bit gray and misty outside, but the temps have cooled down, and most of the subway trains are back on track - literally. *Of course, since it's the weekend, the 1 is running skip stops heading uptown, so... In any case...
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As for Petula Clark songs...
DITTO ;)
"Downtown" and "Don't Sleep in the Subway" are the two that immediately come to mind, but I don't think I've ever heard Petula Clark sing a song I didn't like. -Well, at least her rendition of it.
*And - I'm sure DR Tomovoz will appreciate this - I saw her and the Cassidy brothers in Blood Brothers on Broadway. Twice! -And I even the "International Cast Recording" of the show with them.
;D
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Larry, my thoughts are with you!
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OK all you readers out there, I am trying to slog through The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. The book received great reviews and a National Book Award when it came out in 2001 but I'm having real trouble getting "into" the book. I am about 115 pages into it and I'm reaching my limit. Has anyone else read the book? If so, should I continue? Does it get better? Right now it's just one dysfunctional episode after another and I really don't care. I'm at the point where Enid is asking Denise if she would come home for one last Christmas in St. Jude. I know that sometimes a book needs a few chapters to "take off" but I'm ready to just take it back to the library and find something else. I am not a believer in finishing a book just because I started reading it. There is so much out there to read that if I don't like something I don't see the point in finishing the book. But since this book comes so highly praised, I thought I would ask around for other opinions. If I take it back to the library I will look for Kite Runner and go to another branch if Jefferson Market doesn't have a copy or I will just browse around. Perhaps I can find a copy of the Eileen Heckart bio that DR Larry is reading.
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And the title of today's Notes reminds me of another song...
"You spell veritable,
And I spell veritible..."
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Fav Pet Clark:
Still can't beat Downtown or Don't Sleep in the Subway.
But also very fond of her Chips numbers Walk Through the World With Me and London is London.
BK, I also worked with Rose Marie, in a tacky dinner theatre piece called Everybody's Girl. I was a replacement in the show which I learned in one day.
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DR elmore - Thinking of you and your family.
*James and I were thinking of heading to the New York Film Forum tonight to catch that documentary about the Stage Door Manor theatre camp. Care to join us? -I'll give you a call in a bit too.
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OK all you readers out there, I am trying to slog through The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. The book received great reviews and a National Book Award when it came out in 2001 but I'm having real trouble getting "into" the book. I am about 115 pages into it and I'm reaching my limit. Has anyone else read the book? If so, should I continue? Does it get better?....
DR Ben - The book is a bit slow-moving - even when it starts "moving", so... I'd say give it another 30 pages or so and decide from there. It's definitely not casual reading - and I seem to remember having to consult my dictionary a few times while reading it, some of those words!
-I prefer reading David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs to get my fix of dysfunctional family models.
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Lunchtime! It's been a pleasant morning in the library. I spent the first few minutes of my lunch hour standing on the front steps watching the Miami Valley Rainbow Parade. Now, I'm at my desk listening to WNYC and enjoying the other half of my pork tenderloin sandwich from last night's dinner.
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DR Ben - And I hope you enjoy The History Boys. I hope to be able to catch it - and a bunch of other shows - over the next couple of weeks.
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DR Ben - Nancy Pearl, retired Seattle librarian who invented the One City/One Book concept and who's written Book Lust and More Book Lust suggests the following formula:
Give a book fifty pages and, if it hasn't grabbed you by then, move on to something else. If you're over age 50, subtract your age from 100 and that's the number of pages a book should get to grab you. Nancy says something like, "Life's too short to spend time slogging through books that don't draw you in!"
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Ginny, you have become a convert! WNYC, my home station. I listen to Prairie Home Companion on that very station. I'm looking forward to next weekend when the movie opens.
I'm looking forward to History Boys! Next week I'm seeing Stopping Traffic, a one woman show by Mary Pat Gleason. She's a journeyman actor having appeared in character roles in many, many movies and in star spots in lots of television shows. I knew her briefly in Minnesota in the 70s when we were at the U of MN. I hear the show is excellent. It's about her life as an actor dealing with bi-polar disease. Sounds like a downer but if I remember Miss Pat Gleason it should be quite a ride.
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DR Ben - Please tell Jason I said HI!
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elmore, my heart goes out to you & your family.
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TOD:
Downtown
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Back to the information marketplace...bye for now!
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Just back from a garage sale in south Salem...didn't buy anything...now must get out and mow the lawn and pull some weeds.
This afternoon brother's Dan and Allen will be driving a large truck full of mom's belongings and we will officially move mom in to her new apartment at Jason Lee Manor.
Then a bar-b-q at neice Katie's house in Aumsville.
So that will be my day today.
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Dear Friends, thank you all for the kind vibes! I do believe all of them will enormously benefit my Father. I have to beg your pardon over all of this, because I'll most likely be bringing you down every few days with another update. I can only hope some will be positive. When my Mother died, it was a sudden rush: a week of hell, a week of worse, lingering hell, a rally when I returned to New York, and a death I missed three days later. This one's going to be longer and no one in my family will get through it as gracefully as I, or they, would like. All of this confirms that I want to be walking down the street and have a piano/safe/cement block fall on me.
I do thank you all enormously, and appreciate your kindness more than you know.
DR Jose, I would love to see a movie tonight!
DR Ben, we need to do a spot of shopping at the Farmer's Market and, maybe, Academy!
Now we return to SORRY, WRONG NUMBER!
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Good Afternoon!
-Just listening to the new cast recording of Sunday In The Park With George. So far, so good. A few quibbles, but I'm liking what I'm hearing.
...And the whole "Color and Light" sequence... and the break in the middle of "Everybody Loves Louis" ("We lose things, And then we choose things... And there are Louis's... And there are Georges...")... And "Beautiful" still cause me to tear up a bit...
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OH!
And "Stagedoor" tonight at New York Film Forum, 8:15. Be there or be square! -See you later, DR elmore.
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Elmore, for the most part all we can really do is be here to support you while you go through this, no pardon needed. I just wish I could take some of the pain from you and make this easier.
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The Corrections, from what I've seen of it, was just another flavor of the month book - it's a shame the Kritzer books couldn't have had that attention.
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It's so hot here, I just don't know about a jog, although I'll probably give it a whirl, if only to be out of here while I air condition the house.
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Back from Ye Olde Jog - very, very difficult - went the two extra blocks but not the two extra extra blocks, as I was ready to faint by the time I finished. There is simply no air outside.
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GOod afternoon!
The sun joined us in the late morning, but not enough to make it unendurable. Very beautiful outside, but I'm content to stay indoors today.
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OK all you readers out there, I am trying to slog through The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. The book received great reviews and a National Book Award when it came out in 2001 but I'm having real trouble getting "into" the book. I am about 115 pages into it and I'm reaching my limit. Has anyone else read the book? If so, should I continue? Does it get better? Right now it's just one dysfunctional episode after another and I really don't care. I'm at the point where Enid is asking Denise if she would come home for one last Christmas in St. Jude. I know that sometimes a book needs a few chapters to "take off" but I'm ready to just take it back to the library and find something else. I am not a believer in finishing a book just because I started reading it. There is so much out there to read that if I don't like something I don't see the point in finishing the book. But since this book comes so highly praised, I thought I would ask around for other opinions. If I take it back to the library I will look for Kite Runner and go to another branch if Jefferson Market doesn't have a copy or I will just browse around. Perhaps I can find a copy of the Eileen Heckart bio that DR Larry is reading.
I have it but have never been able to get through it, so I don't know if it gets better.
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I was on the phone for a bit but did manage to watch a couple of things on video.
First up was the remainder of the Anne Bolyn segment of THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII.
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And the title of today's Notes reminds me of another song...
"You spell veritable,
And I spell veritible..."
I don't know WHAT you're talking about. :o
Serves me right for taking the word of the Word spell check. The dictionary certainly says "table".
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Then, I put in TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME. The score by Edens, Comden, and Green is so much fun. And apart from some speckles, the DVD looks grand.
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Eating some pineapple and watching a DVD.
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Ginny, you have become a convert! WNYC, my home station. I listen to Prairie Home Companion on that very station. I'm looking forward to next weekend when the movie opens.
I'm looking forward to History Boys! Next week I'm seeing Stopping Traffic, a one woman show by Mary Pat Gleason. She's a journeyman actor having appeared in character roles in many, many movies and in star spots in lots of television shows. I knew her briefly in Minnesota in the 70s when we were at the U of MN. I hear the show is excellent. It's about her life as an actor dealing with bi-polar disease. Sounds like a downer but if I remember Miss Pat Gleason it should be quite a ride.
I love Prairie Home Companion. It was really fun when they broadcast from Sioux City - although I think their research people looked up Sioux County instead of Sioux City - nothing he said of the history was accurate for Sioux City. I was surprised. We have a very colorful history, lots of stuff to use in stories....but it was still fun
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I'll be starting on WORDS AND MUSIC when I finish with BALLGAME.
I'm saving THE INNOCENTS for when it gets totally dark outside so I can appreciate those superb black and white compositions of the photography with no ambient light spoiling them.
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It's too darn hot... I've unpacked a few more boxes and made some potato salad for later. I did buy a telephoto lens for my new camera. I'm hoping to go to Spirit Mound early in the morning. It's all prairie flowers there, although I don't know what would be in bloom now. Anyway, there are usually lots of birds which should be good for checking out the telephoto
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Hasn't MattH had the DVD of The Innocents for many weeks now?
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Hasn't MattH had the DVD of The Innocents for many weeks now?
No, just about 10 days. I didn't buy it when it first came out because I had just seen it on the Fox Movie Channel - widescreen but not enhanced. I'm really looking forward to it tonight.
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I've spent a very frustrating part of the afternoon searching for the animated 101 DALMATIANS. I could have sworn I had the DVD, but it was nowhere to be found. So, I thought maybe I never bought the DVD because I KNEW I had the laserdisc. Well, the laser wasn't downstairs. So, I began an exhaustive search upstairs for the laser and have finally found it.
But, with its being upstairs, that means I DID have the DVD and someone has borrowed it. Now, I must track that down.
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And now, I think I'll head back downstairs with my prized laserdisc (not to watch but to file back into its place) and see the conclusion of TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME.
WBBL.
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Cillaliz, HISTORY BOYS is brilliant! Saw it in London when it first played the National. Terrific piece of theatre!
BK, no bookfair?
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Cillaliz, HISTORY BOYS is brilliant! Saw it in London when it first played the National. Terrific piece of theatre!
BK, no bookfair?
CP - I was referring to the Prairie Home Companion part of the post, but I would LOVE to see HISTORY BOYS...
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Good day Cilla, I agree, I was surprised that they did not cover Sioux City more.
They have broadcast twice from Grand Forks.
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Went for a long walk today, did some buff hunting, some writing and walked back. Warm her today and breezy.
I actually got a fair amount of writing done. I am impressed for it has been tough lately to do much writing due to writer's block....
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Has anyone read the book called, "The Historian"?
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Cillaliz, HISTORY BOYS is brilliant! Saw it in London when it first played the National. Terrific piece of theatre!
CP I agree 110%. Oh, what an afternoon in the theatre. I loved it. And I stood! I will try and see it again for standing room. Worth every penny of the $22.25. Richard Griffiths will be the recipient of the Tony for Best Actor in a Play, no question. My friend had some trouble with the dialects (it takes place in the Yorkshire area of England and they have heavy accents). He was not quite as taken with it as I but he is not an Anglophile like me. What a great afternoon.
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Thanks for remembering my admiration for "Blood Brothers" DR Jose. LOL
DR JRand. "This Is My Song" - Chaplin's song from "A Countess in Hong Kong". It was Pet's only #1 recording here. Her next biggest seller was 1961/2's "Romeo" (Salome) (I think music by Robert Stoltz)
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My editor told me I didn't need to come by, as he was just transfering stuff, so I toddled over to the book fair. This particular fair is always pretty dreary - I saw some dealers I know, and I made one five-dollar purchase - an original ad mock-up for the film Sweet Charity. This is when it had just opened road show and was a HUGE bomb. Universal was trying everything to turn it around and this ad is hilarious proof of how low they sunk - it features a photo of a group of about maybe a hundred people - all different types, smiling, looking happy - the tag line is: They've all just seen Sweet Charity. I couldn't resist it for five bucks. Otherwise it was the usual dealers with the usual overpriced stuff. In fact, the guy I got the ad from was the only dealer there who was reasonable - everything he had for sale was five dollars. Unfortunately, he had nothing interesting except this ad. There was one real bargain which I saw as soon as I entered - a first edition of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To The Forum - a nice copy but with a faded spine. It was seventy-five bucks and a bargain in that condition - that book usually goes for two to three hundred bucks - but I just didn't feel like spending the dough.
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Continued vibes of strength to Larry and his family.
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Seeing SPRING AWAKENING tonight, but feeling tired. Hearing very mixed things about it, but I'm hoping it's lively at least.
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Back from moving my mom into her apartment...whew...it is so friggin humid today and we were all sweating up a storm!
Brothers Allen, Dan, Jeff and I along with nephew-in-law Brian unloaded and took the stuff up to mom's 3rd floor apartment (thankful for the elevator). Sister Sue unpacked and chatted with people ( ::) ) while mom directed the flow of traffic.
What wouldn't fit into my mom's place (she has a studio for now, she move into a 1 bedroom as one is available) is now stuffed into my garage.
Dan, Allen, and I took the moving truck back (they both drove 4 hours up from Medford this morning with the truck load) and they are headed east to Aumsville where my neice Katie is fixing to barbeque for us all.
Allen told me that DR Jane says to say "hi" to me! :D
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I have showered and cleaned up. Bosco and I will now drive over to Aumsville to join the rest of the crew for hamburgers.
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Oh, and while I was out the mailman delivered a very nice package from Australia containing some fantastic CDs...one of which I am listening to right now...Eurovision!!!!
Thanks Tomovoz!
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For anyone who is a Prairie Home Companion fan. Meryl Streep and John C. Reilly are on the show this week singing some of the songs they sing in the movie.
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Seeing SPRING AWAKENING tonight, but feeling tired. Hearing very mixed things about it, but I'm hoping it's lively at least.
Perhaps the Awakening is just what you need
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Back from moving my mom into her apartment...whew...it is so friggin humid today and we were all sweating up a storm!
Brothers Allen, Dan, Jeff and I along with nephew-in-law Brian unloaded and took the stuff up to mom's 3rd floor apartment (thankful for the elevator). Sister Sue unpacked and chatted with people ( ::) ) while mom directed the flow of traffic.
What wouldn't fit into my mom's place (she has a studio for now, she move into a 1 bedroom as one is available) is now stuffed into my garage.
Dan, Allen, and I took the moving truck back (they both drove 4 hours up from Medford this morning with the truck load) and they are headed east to Aumsville where my neice Katie is fixing to barbeque for us all.
Allen told me that DR Jane says to say "hi" to me! :D
What? No pictures?
A photo of all the Brothers Barnum would indeed be a prize!
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I have been told that there was a special photo waiting for me on HHW. . . .and I say, "Thank you, Jose!"
There are also photos of me on JimStanek.com in the galleries on Tony Walton's wonderful FORUM set. . .
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td!!! You are here!
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You have truly been missed.
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Dan, Allen, and I took the moving truck back (they both drove 4 hours up from Medford this morning with the truck load) and they are headed east to Aumsville where my neice Katie is fixing to barbeque for us all.
Allen told me that DR Jane says to say "hi" to me! :D
If I had know you were going to return home before going to the BBQ I would have said to say hello to Allen from us. Now I have missed you again.
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td!!! You are here!
Actually, I'm STILL here. . . ah! a FOLLIES reference!
I have so little time. . . .
:'(
It's off to work I trudge.
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Well, one of my top-ten worst nightmares has just happened - I was at my local DVD store doing some trading. I had my wallet in my hand, as I always do. I probably put it on the counter briefly while the owner was doing the trades and bagging the new stuff. I went to my car, drove directly home (two minutes away), looked in my glove compartment (where I keep said wallet whilst driving) and it wasn't there. I looked all over the car, thinking I'd dropped it - not there. Immediately drove back and ran into the store - nothing. When I was there, there were only three or four people, but my guess is that either someone walked in, saw it, lifted it, and walked out, or one of the people in the store grabbed it on their way out. The owner looked everywhere, I retraced my steps to the car - nothing. I HATE THIS! I called my bank and put blocks on my ATM cards, and blocks on my two credit cards. I then immediately filed a police report, but now I have to deal with getting a new license, my favorite pic of my daughter was in that wallet (one I've had since 1974), my social security card that I've had since I was sixteen, auto club, DGA, SAG, and AFTRA cards, blah, blah, blah. Horrible, and I hope whoever took it dies a slow and horrible death - unless it's returned, of course, in which case they can live a long and healthful life.
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td-I'm so glad you stopped by. See you tomorrow?
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Bruce-good vibes your wallet is returned.
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Seems everyone left at once. Should I take that personally? ;D
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Good wallet return vibes to BK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
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BK, I don't know what you need to do about your social security, but there's identity theft just waiting to happen. Check your car again real good and your bag and everything else. This has got to be a bitch, but they now know far too much about you.
I stopped carrying my social security card in my wallet a long time ago. If you've got it memorized...no need to carry it. I also just refuse to give it out anymore unless it for an actual necessary form.
I bitch to Julieanne all the time about leaving her wallet on shop counters while she's doing transactions. It's just too easy for you to be distracted and someone sweep by and nip it.
I'm sorry, I know this is a major bitch and half for you! It's the one thing I'm paranoid about whenever I'm out. I know where my where my wallet is all the time. Man, I feel for you. I hope it turns up.
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Oh, how terrible about the wallet. My last partner left his wallet on the front seat of his car and then walked away from the car with it unlocked. Of course, it was gone when he got back to the car. Fortunately for him, the wallet was found in a gutter (relieved of cash but nothing else) by an honest soul and turned in to the police.
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Nice to see DR td back however fleetingly. COme back, Shane!!! ;D
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I've had a wonderful evening of filmed entertainment. First, I finished TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME and also watched the outtakes on the disk. I'm not sure I ever watched "Baby Doll" before. If I had, I didn't remember it. "Boys and Girls Like You and Me" was on the BALLGAME laserdisc, so I've seen it many times.
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Next came WORDS & MUSIC on laserdisc. The laserdisc box claimed this was a Technicolor restoration, and it did look quite nice.
Funniest thing to me is that Perry Como plays the part of Eddie Egan during the movie (a pretty big part), and then at the end of the film, he's introduced by "Richard Rodgers" as Perry Como singing "With a Song in My Heart." I'll never understand why they did that.
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I then put in HIT THE DECK (a DVD-R I burned from the laserdisc) and watched selected numbers.
I've been going through a real MGM musical mania phase for the past couple of weeks. Can't get enough of them.
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Once it got good and dark, I put in THE INNOCENTS. Boy, does it ever look wonderful! And I jumped a couple of times! What a genuinely creepy and unsettling movie this is! Highly recommended.
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I've cued up DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE to watch tomorrow. Haven't seen it in a couple of years, so that should be a fun Sunday afternoon.
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Topic of the Day:
Downtown
How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
I Have Confidence
Look to the Rainbow
Tell Me It's Not True
:)
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BK, I hope your wallet turns up untouched tomorrow.
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Time to head off for bed.
Good night!
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I received DEVIL AT 4 O'CLOCK from Netflix today and I really don't know why I ordered it....there is no one in it that I am interviewing...I must have been fixated on Kerwin Mathews for a moment or two and just put it into my movie queue.
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~~~Wallet Vibes for BK!!~~~
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Wallet-be-returned, or else smooth-process-of-replacing-its-contents vibes to BK.
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Hello td, well hello td, it's so nice to have you here where you belong vibes to td.
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BK_ Hope you find the wallet or that someone was just out for cash, tosses the rest and it's found and returned. That happened to me a couple times when I lived in Phoenix.
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SPRING AWAKENING is beautifully staged, and contains some nice writing - but the whole on-the-nose approach to teen sexuality (although I'm pretty sure the actors are all adults) made me feel icky almost throughout. The masturbation number in the first act almost felt pornographic (heck, maybe not even almost), and when I say it must be seen to be believed, that may make people want to see it for themselves, and I suspect that scene will be much talked about, unless they tone it down a bit. Definitely not for kids under 18, this one.
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Right now, I'm watching the group Pink Martini (http://www.pinkmartini.com/) on PBS (beg-fest) and they're fabulous (their piano player is very attractive, but that's not why they're fabulous...I have their two CDs). Anyway, they're from Portland, Oregon, which is where the show was recorded! They're local! They're also going to be performing at the Chateau St. Michelle (http://www.ste-michelle.com/) in July, the day after A Prairie Home Companion starring Garrison Keillor performs. ;D
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Good Evening!
Back from seeing "Stagedoor" with DRs elmore and Ben, and my Dear Friend, James. A nice little movie/documentary. Ah, gotta love that teen angst and drama. Beforehand, we supped at Hannafin's. Good food all around. Good company too!
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Hmm... No post-movie report from DR elmore nor DR Ben... Hmm...
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DR td - Glad you could stop by. :)
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Well...
So after the movie, James and I walked around the Village for a while. A nice, cool evening to do so too. And now... well, I'm a bit beat... So...
Goodnight.
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BK - Have you checked with your bank to see if anyone has tried to used your credit card yet? If you have, and no one has, let's just hope that your wallet is just missing and not stolen.
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BK -- I am so sorry to hear about your wallet. It happened to me once (including the SS card I had since I was sixteen). Of course, in my case, any attempt to use my SS # could only improve my credit rating.
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I have also been watching Pink Martini. They are fantastic. I had never heard them before.
George, I agree about the piano player and the trumpet player.
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I have also been watching Pink Martini. They are fantastic. I had never heard them before.
George, I agree about the piano player and the trumpet player.
Ooo...the trumpet player! ;)
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Ooo...the trumpet player! ;)
Somhow, George, I knew you would be familiar with Pink Martini.
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Somhow, George, I knew you would be familiar with Pink Martini.
Sadly, not personally. ;)
But still...jealous??
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George! Oz! hello, and good night!
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I just got in - took myself out tonight to Woodinville, to a coffe bar where they do a poetry open mike once a month - I used to frequent this group's readings back in Redmond, years and years ago... even made some cash contributions to their Write Out Loud Festival a couple of years in a row. Last year, I did a three-hour seminar on performing your own work, during said Write Out Loud Fest...
Anyhow, it was nice to hear the pieces and see familiar faces. I even read a bit. And here I am, awaiting the nocturnal visit of my lovely raccoons...
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So, off I toddle to bed. Maybe I'll sleep to Tin Cup. Again. Nothing like GOLF to put me to sleep...
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So, good night, George, ol' pal.
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Goodnight Penny and George. A quiet Sunday in OZ.
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I'm back...I had to log out of my computer.
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Okay, I'm a dufus. More than three hours ago (before the Pink Martini PBS special started), I put some basmati rice in a pot to soak for 15 minutes...then promptly forgot about it until now! It's been soaking for more than three hours! I'm going to cook it to see how it turns out, so, we'll see. :)
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Finally back from show and supper. Will now write the notes. I'm very depressed about the wallet situation.