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Well, you've read the notes, you know what MOW stands for and you know what frest means, so now it is time for you to post until the COWs come home.
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And the word of the day is: MIASMA!
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answer: Maureen O'Sullivan.
Perhaps that wasn't the trivia question!
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Five guys named Mow.
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I have no idea what the answer to the little trivia question is. ::)
I don't know if it was an actual "Move of the Week," but on OutZoneTV.com (http://www.outzonetv.com), you can watch one of the first (if not thee first) made-for-TV movies that show gay people in a positive way called "That Certain Summer." It starred Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen. I've watched the first two sections (out of six) and so far, it's pretty good...slow in that 1970s sort of way...but good. ;) According to the blurb on the site:
In 1972, ABC commissioned a TV movie that treated gay people as normal, loving human beings. Not as sick psychopaths who would end up dead, alcoholic, or worse. "That Certain Summer" was truly a groundbreaking film.
The lead roles were played by two mainstream (straight) actors. Recently divorced, Doug (Hal Holbrook) is visited by his son Nick (Scott Jacoby) for the summer. And Nick wants to know who, exactly, is the young "best friend" hanging around dad. Doug decides to tell Nick that his friend is his boyfriend (played by superhot Martin Sheen, seven years before he became a star for his role in Apocalypse Now).
Family values collide but the father and son bond does not crumble — something even more remarkable when you consider the movie was made only three years after Stonewall. "That Certain Summer" is a piece of cinematic and cultural history, a wonderful, heartwarming film about the love between a father and his lover, and between a father and his son.
;D
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And the word of the day is: MIASMA!
You will never catch miasma. I do not cross-dress. I will show up as Pa, but miasma, never. The whole idea makes me sick.
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Today is my day off from work. As usual, my day off has been co-opted.
The grandlads, off from school for the summer, will be spending too much of their time at the day care center their mother sends them to. She is too cheap to send them elsewhere, most of the time. This week, however, the daycaregiver is on "vacation," which she still charges for. So this week, der Brucer had to plan ahead and schedule the lads for a swim camp. The lad's mother didn't have the time or inclination to do the scheduling herself.
Which means, of course, that she meets der Brucer at a convenient (for her) locale on her way to her job, and he drives the lads the rest of the way to the swim camp. The lads get a full day of swim lessons, and play. She goes to work. Der Brucer spends his entire day away from the house (unless he really wants to drive all the way back home, and back again), putzing around until it is time to pick up the lads again and then deliver them to Mommy.
Bleh.
Today, being my day off, I will be joining him for his putz time. We really haven't had any putz time together for quite a while. We'll probably head in to Annapolis, and putz there. It's been a while since he's really putzed in the town of his alma mater, and I'm not familiar with the town at all. Should be interesting.
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Oh, just to get to the parking lot where Mommy meets him and hands over the lads takes something like ninety minutes.
That's three hours, going and returning, of commuting for der Brucer.
For the week, that's fifteen hours of driving.
What would be a good rate to charge for that fifteen hours, I wonder?
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I think I'll be introducing the lads to the London Cast Recording of Mary Poppins today. Time to get them into the idea that there can be more than one version to a story.
Heck, they liked Hoodwinked, which was basically an animated Rashoman.
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Hi all! Well, the rainy season has hit us and every afternoon we get a downpour.
I haven't been able to take the lap top with me on those days for fear it would get wet.
They say it will be hit and miss to day so I thought I'd take the chance.
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As for the topic of the day, wasn't there 3 of them?
Larry, Curry and MOW? ;) :)
Sorry, but it was just to easy.
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You will never catch miasma. I do not cross-dress. I will show up as Pa, but miasma, never. The whole idea makes me sick.
DR SWW! ;D
Good morning, all! After yesterday's tsuris, I think today will be perfectly splendid, and I think all you DRs, whom I love quite a lot, are to thank for it. So, thank you!
Today's my last day in Toyland with Mr Murray, who will either be off to London to MD (depending on casting) THE LAST 5 YEARS by his good friend, Mr Jason Robert Brown, or off to Chicago to work on SEUSSICAL. I believe DR FJL's Skip is coming to Toyland today as well, so we've a full house.
I've read the first act of the hilarious Singing Nun (the cast includes a postulant named Maria, the Flying Nun, and Mother Superior Helen Lawson) musical, and it's a cross between Charles Busch and Charles Ludlum. I'll try to finish it today since I have a meeting with the composer on Tuesday.
Here's a review of its last incarnation:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9F05E6D61139F935A25757C0A960958260
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I'm still fighting with Verizon on being able to send emails from my laptop. I know I could use hotmail or some other web based mail but I want to use Outlook because my PDA sync's with it and all of my address are in Outlook as well.
I don't want to have to look them all up and transfer them to a web mail site and I don't trust them as much either. I don't want anyone breaking into my address book and giving anyone I care about some grief.
Anyway, it's been 3 weeks since this first started and I finely called them up and raised heck with poor tech guy. I've been told that the problem has been fixed but would take 24 hours to take effect. We shall see.
Part of the "fix" is that I will still use RoadRunner to accept emails but I have to use Verizon to send them. So if you get an email from me (only when I'm on the lap top) and it looks like it came from a Verizon account, don't panic and think I changed my email address. I will still receive anything you send to the RoadRunner account. At least that is the theory.
I tried it this morning and it didn't seem to want to work so I guess it will be the full 24 hours and then if it won't work, I'll call and raise heck again.
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Five guys named Mow.
As a bratty teen, I used to say to my mother, "MOW the lawn miasma!"
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Good morning, DR Elmore!
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What would be a good rate to charge for that fifteen hours, I wonder?
$10/hour for the babysitting and the usual $5.00/gallon for the gas.
Good morning, DR Danise!
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All this talk about heck raising has brought me to downtown.
Have a wonderful day everyone!
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BK, I wish you had decked him. My question: Why is there no direct link on this site to your Kritzerland CD site? Or if there is, why can't I find it?
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I believe the first MOW was See How They Run with Leslie Neilsen & john forsythe. Directed by John lowell Rich
Plot: Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel, which has just murdered their father.
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My ASK BK:
Does your director's cut of The Creature Wasn't Nice aka Spaceship have Broderick Crawford as the computer voice?
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The production of Christmas Carol at Mill Mountain this November and December will be told by "homeless" people. It's a large cast (according to publicity the cast will have 26 actors) of actors portraying homeless people who tell the Dickens Christmas Carol story. I don't know. It doesn't sound promising.
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I must get back to the AT&T Foundation. Two days away from the office and I'm a bit behind.
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Favorite Movie of the Week was THE LAST CHILD starring Van heflin. Very provocative.
Yes, Larry, Skip will see you soon in a little over an hour!
Got to find time to catch up. Amazing how when I have almost nothing to do, every little task takes so much time. :)
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Damn Damn DAMN.... *throw the punch bowl*
That was my Florida Evans impression.
I meant to get back on yesterday before the DGA event and mention some of Allison's directors ... just in case.
And of course Walter Graumann directed THE DISEMBODIED and the famous PARALLEL CAPER episode of 77 SUNSET STRIP and he would have said SOMETHING about her, I am sure....if asked.
DAMN DAMN DAMN!
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BAnking and grocery shopping this mornng....I hope to make it back alive.
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If I am not mistaken--and I very seldom is--the first MOW was supposed to be THE KILLERS but was released to theatres instead. (Though with all that high wattage star power included, I have a hard time believing that it was intended for TV in the first place.)
I've never seen it. Is it any good?
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TOD:
There are so many titles I can list, I don't know where to begin.
DO NOT FOLD, SPINDLE OR MUTLIATE
THE GIRL MOST LIKELY TO...
THE NIGHT STALKER
ISN'T IT SHOCKING
THE OVER THE HILL GANG
THE THIRD GIRL FROM THE LEFT (with Kim Novak!)
GET CHRISTIE LOVE
SATAN'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
I could go on and on. Let's just say that I liked/loved all of the ABC MOW's (except the one with Connie Stevens as the pseudo Marilyn Monroe.)
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CROWHAVEN FARM starring Hope Lange was a real favorite of mine as well. Really wonderfully creeeeepy.
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Here is a terrific list of ABC MOW's (http://www.imdb.com/keyword/abc-movie-of-the-week/) at IMDB.
I forgotten how many ABC weekly TV series of the time got their start as a MOW--MARCUS WELBY, OWEN MARSHALL, THE ROOKIES, ALIAS SMITH AND JONES and STARSKY AND HUTCH.
IMDB lists MRS. SUNDANCE as an unsold TV pilot, but I doubt that Elizabeth Montgomery was ready to return to series TV work so soon after BEWITCHED.
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BK, I wish you had decked him. My question: Why is there no direct link on this site to your Kritzerland CD site? Or if there is, why can't I find it?
At some point Mr. Mark Bakalor will get around to it, I suppose.
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My ASK BK:
Does your director's cut of The Creature Wasn't Nice aka Spaceship have Broderick Crawford as the computer voice?
Yes, it is Mr. Crawford's voice as Max, the Computer.
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If I am not mistaken--and I very seldom is--the first MOW was supposed to be THE KILLERS but was released to theatres instead. (Though with all that high wattage star power included, I have a hard time believing that it was intended for TV in the first place.)
I've never seen it. Is it any good?
This is the correct answer to the question I asked (What was the first movie meant to be shown as a movie made especially for TV). Directed by Don Siegel, it was deemed "too strong" for TV and released to theaters instead. While it did have Lee Marvin and Ronald Reagan, Mr. Marvin hadn't quite "arrived" yet, and Mr. Reagan was on the way down. It's quite a good little film - not as good as the Siodmak, but quite different. It's available on DVD as part of the 2 disc The Killers on Criterion.
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Now, can someone tell me why I woke up at six in the morning.
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How about non-ABC MOW's?
IN THIS HOUSE OF BREDE
GARGOYLES
THE NEON CEILING
QUEEN OF THE STARDUST BALLROOM
THE MARCUS NEILSEN MURDERS (the KOJACK pilot)
MY SWEET CHARLIE
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The production of Christmas Carol at Mill Mountain this November and December will be told by "homeless" people. It's a large cast (according to publicity the cast will have 26 actors) of actors portraying homeless people who tell the Dickens Christmas Carol story. I don't know. It doesn't sound promising.
Wow, that sounds like it could be dreadful.
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No clips from most of the TV movies listed here - that's what was so shameful about Workman's work on the clip reel. We got Miss Jane Pittman but not My Sweet Charlie, We got no Levinson and Link, no Marcus-Nelson, but plenty of The Day After and very recent HBO and Lifetime movies, we got no The Glass House or Queen of the Stardust Ballroom.
Why am I up at this hour?
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Yep, it has the potential to be either really awful or if somebody figures out how to pull it off (I don't have a clue how to do it) it could be amazing. Not to be negative, but I have a feeling it won't be amazing.
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What am I doing up at this hour?
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It must be because it's Summer Solstice, whatever the HELL that is.
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I have found that Lifetime always has excellent MOW's, or at the very least great titles for their MOW's. A favorite of mine is "My Stepson, My Lover."
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Yep, it has the potential to be either really awful or if somebody figures out how to pull it off (I don't have a clue how to do it) it could be amazing. Not to be negative, but I have a feeling it won't be amazing.
I will bet you any amount of money that the director will have the cast panhandling through the audience before the curtain.
And will these "homeless" people begin spouting Cockney accents when they tell the tale? Oy!
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What's next...SWEENEY TODD told by people in an insane asylum? :) :) :)
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What other concepts could we come up with? How about Miracle on 34th Street as told by a group of plucky department store employees in Macy's after closing?
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What's next...SWEENEY TODD told by people in an insane asylum? :) :) :)
;D
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I forgot about THE GLASS HOUSE. Stirred up plenty o' controversy at the time.
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Well, I just had 2 chocolate chip cookies for breakfast and now I have absolutely no motivation to go to the gym.
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SHE LOVES ME as presented by the women of Cell Block H.
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Well, I just had 2 chocolate chip cookies for breakfast and now I have absolutely no motivation to go to the gym.
That's okay. As I'm sure DR Rodz will say, there will be more of you to love.
(Just trying to get you motivated :D )
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SHE LOVES ME as presented by the women of Cell Block H.
That just reminded me of this upcoming film:
SLAMMER- directed by Todd Graff. While imprisoned in Sing Sing on trumped-up charges, a publicist (Sarah Jessica Parker) stages an all-inmate musical.
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That's okay. As I'm sure DR Rodz will say, there will be more of you to love.
(Just trying to get you motivated :D )
Okay, that did it! ;D I'm going to the gym.
See, I just needed a little gentle encouragement.
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TOD: Here is a question I should know the answer to...
Why is the director listed as Alan Smithee on the extended version of Dune? (One of Vixdad's Father's Day presents by request)
Wasn't it directed by David Lynch?
I think its because he was displeased with this version and is disassociating himself from it, but am I right?
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What's next...SWEENEY TODD told by people in an insane asylum? :) :) :)
Oh don't be ridiculous! Next you'll be suggesting the actors should replace the orchestra and play all the musical instruments themselves!
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Well I have the dsay off anf the Vixter just came home from her very last final of 7th grade so we are celebrating the Official Beginning of Summer Break on this, the first Official Day of Summer witha luncheon out!
LATERS!!
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As one of our neighbors said about our dog - "He's not fat, he's extra-cute!"
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TOD: Here is a question I should know the answer to...
Why is the director listed as Alan Smithee on the extended version of Dune? (One of Vixdad's Father's Day presents by request)
Wasn't it directed by David Lynch?
I think its because he was displeased with this version and is disassociating himself from it, but am I right?
DR Vixmom, the webpage at this link (http://www.worldsgreatestcritic.com/faqreview.html) explains it all.
That's a new one on me.
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I loved all of those TV movies that Eve Plumb did post Brady Bunch...and the one where Elizabeth Montgomery was in a coma for 25 years, then woke up.
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Question for BK:
I watched (courtesy of Netflix) YOUNG LOVE last night...tell me everything you can remember about Michael Burns and Brenda Sykes.
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Good morning!
A hot one here today, and I am so delighted I finally gave in to the humidity and turned on the A/C. It would have been a miserable evening and a worse night of sleep if I had tried to sleep without it.
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I knew the answer to that trivia question, but DR Dan (tM) beat me to it. Ah, well, such is life.
I loved so many of the ABC Movies-of-the-Week:
DUEL
CROWHAVEN FARM
DYING ROOM ONLY
BRIAN'S SONG
THE NIGHT STALKER and THE NIGHT STRANGLER
THAT CERTAIN SUMMER
THE LETTERS
DO NOT FOLD, SPINDLE, OR MUTILATE
and so many more.
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
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Now, can someone tell me why I woke up at six in the morning.
I woke up at 4:45.
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bk, was it perhaps not possible for the producer of that documentary to be able to get clearance rights to those clips? Hard to imagine he'd do a tribute to the form without including some of those classics.
I mean, the man may be inept, but should we perhaps give him the benefit of the doubt until we get all the facts? It's only fair.
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Well, no Fox musicals for me today. Watching THE DOLLY SISTERS twice yesterday put the kibosh on watching any more of them for a couple of days (I have THAT NIGHT IN RIO on the DVR as well.) Dr. Drew Casper may think they're the equal of the MGM musicals, but I find a little goes a long way with Fox musicals.
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Question for BK:
I watched (courtesy of Netflix) YOUNG LOVE last night...tell me everything you can remember about Michael Burns and Brenda Sykes.
Don't remember much about Brenda except she was very nice. Michael and I were very good friends back then - and he starred in one incarnation of my musical (my first produced book musical), Start At The Top, along with Donna Baccala. We later did a pilot/MOW called The Adventures of Freddie (retitled The Mystical Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa) - I was the first one cast (didn't even have to audition or read - they just ran Nudie Musical and gave me the second lead in the show), and they had such trouble finding the lead that they asked me to test and maybe switch parts. I didn't want to - a few days later they found Michael. We went on location somewhere (not far away) for two days, but they never got to me - they kept getting behind for reasons I don't remember. And then I got the chicken pox (my daughter had it, and I'd never had it). They then rearranged the entire shooting sched to put all my stuff at the end two weeks later. But, I had a really bad case, and even though I was basically over it in a week, it took forever to clear up. When it was time to shoot, they brought me in to one of the Westmore makeup boys and he tried, oh, how he tried, but it was useless - he couldn't cover up the scabs. They had to quickly recast - Dick Blasucci did it (later a writer for SCTV) - unfortunately, Blasucci was not such a good actor and he had no chemistry with Michael. Had we done the show I think it would have sold.
The amusing postscript is that whenever they used to show the MOW on TV, I was always listed as one of the stars in TV Guide.
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I will watch BIG BROTHER tonight to see the potential contestants from previous years. One of them, Bunky Miller from Season 2, was an acquaintance of mine who did a couple of shows with me back in the late 1990s. His face has been featured on commercials for the upcoming vote, but I don't think that necessarily means he's going to be one of the 20 we get to select from.
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bk, was it perhaps not possible for the producer of that documentary to be able to get clearance rights to those clips? Hard to imagine he'd do a tribute to the form without including some of those classics.
I mean, the man may be inept, but should we perhaps give him the benefit of the doubt until we get all the facts? It's only fair.
Because it was DGA commissioned, Mr. Workman had access to everything. And he included clips from studios who produced some of the classics I mentioned. I'd understand if there were no prints to go from, but we know The Glass House and Queen of the Stardust Ballroom and Night Stalker, etc. are all on DVD. Universal produced many classic MOWs (especially for ABC) and so did Fox, and very few of those were represented.
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Perhaps the rights holders wanted too much money. I'm sure he had a budget.
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Well, you can believe what you wish. If he got the rights to Duel, why would that have precluded him getting the rights to any other Universal film. If he'd spent less time fawning over much more current and much less classic mini-series and MOWs, that would have been much better. And I'm not sure how to make this clearer - when it's DGA commissioned and only going to be shown at this event, then there are no monies for clips - they're donated.
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I just think if it bothered you enough to mention it to us, I'd Google this man, get his e-mail address, and let him know you enjoyed what he presented but were disappointed that more MOW clips weren't selected. When I've done less than admirable jobs with things I've been assigned, I've appreciated being told (tactfully) so I could attempt to do better in the future.
Maybe he's got an explanation; that's all I'm alluding to. I'd be curious to see his defense of his project.
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TRIBES, heck yeah, that's a classic. Would have been at home on the big screen.
Somebody needs to get the word out that the point of a montage is not to give people three seconds of random clips thrown together willy nilly.
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Ed Begley Jr. was in a movie trailer I saw the other day for a film called WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR.
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Good Morning!
-While it's still "morning" here on the East Coast....
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If Mr. Workman had been there, I would have told him. Nick was as disappointed as I in the rather disjointed quality of it all, as well as the absence of way too many classics. But, I've found Mr. Workman's work has been on a downhill slide for years, even though he was kind enough to include a clip of Nudie Musical in one of his productions.
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Well... 24 hours from now I should be ending my first production meeting up at New York Stage & Film on the beautiful campus of Vassar in Poughkeepsie, NY. I just got done with another conference call, and we set the plan of attack for the next plan of attack (meaning tomorrow).
I will have internet access while I'm up there, but I have sense that I will be working long days, so... We shall see...
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I think I may have gained a pound or two back over the last few days - very annoying, I must say. Maybe not, though - hard to tell. I'll take it easy for the next three days or so in terms of food intake, but the fact is I've eaten well under 2000 calories a day, plus I've been jogging every day - I just think I've had one of those weeks where no matter what you do you don't lose. Then the next week you end up losing three or four pounds. This final ten pounds is proving to be difficult.
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Heading down now to start preparing lunch.
WBBL.
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THe last 10 are indeed difficult to lose..
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Good day one and all!!
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Now, can someone tell me why I woke up at six in the morning.
Because the cows came home and all the mooing woke you up.
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MOW......
Let me see there are some I remember and a few I wish could forget for the lack of quality.
Tracey Thurman story
Glory, Glory
Never Forget
The Secret Annex
Til we meet again
The Day after
Testament [not sure if was a theatrical release or not - very bleak and depressing]
**will add more later if others come to mind. There is probably more but none that are making a connection at the moment.
My all time favorite miniseries is
Centennial
Other miniseries that I liked are
Roots
Holocaust
Lonesome Dove
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I think I may have gained a pound or two back over the last few days - very annoying, I must say. Maybe not, though - hard to tell. I'll take it easy for the next three days or so in terms of food intake, but the fact is I've eaten well under 2000 calories a day, plus I've been jogging every day - I just think I've had one of those weeks where no matter what you do you don't lose. Then the next week you end up losing three or four pounds. This final ten pounds is proving to be difficult.
Well, also keep in mind that since you've been jogging consistently, your leg muscles are probably bigger, more developed... And the legs muscles are the biggest muscles in your body... You may not be losing weight, but you're most likely losing body fat and gaining muscle... And muscle weighs more than fat...
-And plateaus do happen...
-And if your pants continue to fit better, well... :)
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BK, if anyone deserved to be decked last night, it was Graeme Clifford. After said decking, perhaps you could have regaled him with, "I wanted to be nickel and dimed to death with facts." (Mr. Clifford defends the absurd liberties his "biopic" took with the truth by saying the filmmakers didn't want to nickel and dime people to death with facts).
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Good day, Dakota!
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We had another cool night, thankfully. It was quite warm yesterday, but the HOT is supposed to HIT today.
I don't do hot well.
And I'm glad that I didn't wake up this morning with a death wish.
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That's all I'm sayin' 'bout THAT!
No....don't ask.
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I remember the very first ABC MOW (which I think we've discussed before): Seven in Darkness, with (IIRC) Milton Berle, Red Buttons and (maybe???) Lesley Ann Warren. Seven blind people survive a plane crash. I still remember them inching across a washed out bridge, unaware they're about to fall into the raging river below. :)
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Miasma flared up about two years ago.
Fortunately, I have mialbuterol inhaler to help me over rough spots.
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I watched the first six episodes of "Lois and Clark", Season 3, last night.
I had forgotten about the season 3 proposal, and the mood swings of both characters as to whether or not they really wanted to be married to one another.
I do recall thinking they both needed bitch-slapping until they married and started making babies.
But the show continued to sustain my interest for the season and the final two episodes I am anticipating GREATLY....they led to a great cliffhanger that was neatly resolved in Season 4.
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Was I the only one my age who felt the Movies of the Week were a letdown most of the time?
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Graeme Clifford is one of those people who looks extremely cocky. Don't care for that look at all.
Back from a hugely difficult jog - I don't know why but I was ready to quit after the third block. I didn't, however, and went the full distance plus the extra distance.
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For those fans of BIG BROTHER the 20 all star choices will be on tonight at 8pm.
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Trivia Question: Who was the composer of the ABC MOW theme?
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Burt Bacharach - Nikki
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Not to get controversial :) but if substantial liberties were not taken with the real life facts, we wouldn't have works like GYPSY - so when is it OK and when is it not OK? If the work turns out to be a great work, does that make the liberties acceptable?
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Burt Bacharach - Nikki
Give the man a see-gar (or a Diet Coke.)
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Btw, re: big brother, apparently kaysar and janelle (our favorites from last season) might be among the 20 to choose from. That would be pretty cool.
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Btw, re: big brother, apparently kaysar and janelle (our favorites from last season) might be among the 20 to choose from. That would be pretty cool.
A very good bet...they are the two most popular players in Big Brother history.
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Btw, re: big brother, apparently kaysar and janelle (our favorites from last season) might be among the 20 to choose from. That would be pretty cool.
I would most enjoy seeing Kaysar!!!
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I am shocked that nobody has mentioned that classic MOW SMASH-UP ON I-5!
Everyone I know that is my age remembers seeing that one! LOL!
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I would want everyone from the first season of BIG BROTHER to come back, with the exception of the first two who were voted off. It was the only time I enjoyed the show.
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I am shocked that nobody has mentioned that classic MOW SMASH-UP ON I-5!
Everyone I know that is my age remembers seeing that one! LOL!
Along side THE DEATH OF OCEAN VIEW PARK.
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Good Afternoon!
Well, time for me to buckle down for a few hours, and get some "homework" done in preparation for the next couple of days... Back in couple of hours...
Laters...
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No clips from most of the TV movies listed here - that's what was so shameful about Workman's work on the clip reel. We got Miss Jane Pittman but not My Sweet Charlie, We got no Levinson and Link, no Marcus-Nelson, but plenty of The Day After and very recent HBO and Lifetime movies, we got no The Glass House or Queen of the Stardust Ballroom.
I've always felt a bit let down after watching "The Day After." The buildup is terrific...but after the bombs hit...well...the drama is done...and it's all very bleak and sad, naturally, but it seems a lot of filling-in was done to flesh out the time block Jason Robards was phenomenal in it, though.
NBC, in that same year, produced "Special Bulletin" which I thought was one of the most stunning TV movies I'd ever seen -- totally interesting, done in the style of live TV (this is happening NOW) and very, very chilling.
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That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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I would want everyone from the first season of BIG BROTHER to come back, with the exception of the first two who were voted off. It was the only time I enjoyed the show.
And you know, season 1 is the only one not on DVD!!
I loved the first season...particularly Josh! Woohoo!
But then I have loved every season that followed, also!
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WHEN HE'S NOT A STRANGER (with John Terlesky), CONSENTING ADULT (with John Terlesky), SUMMER GIRL, and AN EARLY FROST are my 4 all time favorite movies of the week....I guess they made some pretty good ones in the 80s.
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One of my favorite guilty pleasure TV movies is Incident in San Francisco, with Richard Kiley and David Opatashu - has a great score by Pat Williams.
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Just booked Matt Asford and myself for the July Ray Courts show. There's a whole Days of our Lives table (including Kevin Spirtas), and I'll be sitting near or next to Matt so we can sell our Deceit DVDs. I'll also have Nudie DVDs, and Naked Space DVDs, and my books, especially Rewind which will be new to the Courts show. And if anyone somehow could do good screen grabs from the Tabitha pilot or especially of my Partridge Family episodes, something I could get duplicated, photo-wise, that would be swell.
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Just discovered the most lovely thing - a bird has built a little nest above a light fixture just outside my patio door, and it's out there nesting, I think - I hope the birth is lovely and successful. I'm trying not to go out via those doors too much, because when I do, the bird gets nervous and flies away.
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I would most enjoy seeing Kaysar!!!
We KNEW that! ;)
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Bruce I hope you have the pleasure of watching the birds take their first flight.
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And you know, season 1 is the only one not on DVD!!
I loved the first season...particularly Josh! Woohoo!
But then I have loved every season that followed, also!
What? No Eddie? :D
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I just received a grunch of DVDs from the last DeepDiscount DVD sale...and with the exception of "Spencer's Mountain" (which I got for about $6), they're all Disney titles..."Greyfriar's Bobby," "Johnny Tremain", "Third Man on the Mountain," "Follow Me, Boys", "Make Mine Music," "Fun and Fancy Free", "Melody Time" and "Brother Bear."
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I have loads to do today, including going under the house with Keith to search for signs of ground squirrels. Chip & Dale are multiplying so we purchased a live trap & have found a place to release them. We will wait a few days longer for the babies to get a bit older.
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Some that have stuck with me over the years:
Kristy McNichol in SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER
DARK SECRET OF HARVEST HOME with Bette Davis
Rona Jaffe's MAZES AND MONSTERS with Tom Hanks
DEATH AT LOVE HOUSE with Kate Jackson
MURDER BY NATURAL CAUSES with Hal Holbrook
LIZZIE BORDEN with Lizzie Montgomery
THURSDAY'S GAME with Gene Wilder and Bob Newhart
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The House on Greenapple Road
Smash Up on Interstate 5....as mentioned by DRMBARNUM ....
A Case of Rape with Miss Elizabeth Montgomery as the victim who is torn apart on the stand and ends up crying..."I'm not the guilty one...." The rapist is set free....and rapes her again with the month....
Planet Earth with Mr John Saxon
So many....and the one with Michael Parks when he and his girlfriend lived in an overcrowded world, but still wanted to have a child...and ending up living in a small square of ground surrounded by barbed wire....surrounded by thousands and thousands of people standing shoulder to shoulder....overpopulation... That shot was scary!!!
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Lizzie Borden with Miss Montgomery as well....in fact if she was in something, I always watched....she was/is a favorite of mine in anything.
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Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?
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Just booked Matt Asford and myself for the July Ray Courts show. There's a whole Days of our Lives table (including Kevin Spirtas), and I'll be sitting near or next to Matt so we can sell our Deceit DVDs. I'll also have Nudie DVDs, and Naked Space DVDs, and my books, especially Rewind which will be new to the Courts show. And if anyone somehow could do good screen grabs from the Tabitha pilot or especially of my Partridge Family episodes, something I could get duplicated, photo-wise, that would be swell.
If you have a date I can post a note for the LA soapfans....
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I remember somemovie about a huge traffic jam in LA
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Ron I remember Special Bulletin
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page 5 dance....
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Lakota Woman
GEronimo
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That must be GRIDLOCK, aka THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAFFIC JAM, with Vic Tayback.
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Another one came to me: WHEN EVERY DAY WAS THE FOURTH OF JULY with Dean Jones and Geoffrey Lewis.
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Light in the DArk
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That must be GRIDLOCK, aka THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAFFIC JAM, with Vic Tayback.
YES!!!
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THe other side of the Mountain
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Outside my kitchen window this morning, on our property, was a mother deer nursing her fawn.
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Trying to remember the name of it but it had Muriel Hemingway and she was teenage mother and she eventually gave up her baby...
There was a telly movie with Susan Dei called Mary Jane Cried Last Night?
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Outside my kitchen window this morning, on our property, was a mother deer nursing her fawn.
sweet!!
Deer come into Fargo all the time... There was one just down the street over the weekend
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Not to get controversial :) but if substantial liberties were not taken with the real life facts, we wouldn't have works like GYPSY - so when is it OK and when is it not OK? If the work turns out to be a great work, does that make the liberties acceptable?
I guess I draw the line at a woman who had obvious difficulties to begin with and wasn't around to defend herself when the film came out (at least Gypsy was still alive when that came out--and she *loved* the musical, from everything I've read). "Frances" goes beyond the pale by inventing a conspiracy that never existed and then compounds it with the hideous lobotomy assertion, and all because both the source material's author and the film's co-producers are/were $cientologists.
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The Courts show is July 15 and 16.
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I thought that MOW about overpopulation had the Michael from Mod Squad (what was his last name?), not Michael Parks. I remember it, too. Didn't it take place in the NW?
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I've always felt a bit let down after watching "The Day After." The buildup is terrific...but after the bombs hit...well...the drama is done...and it's all very bleak and sad, naturally, but it seems a lot of filling-in was done to flesh out the time block Jason Robards was phenomenal in it, though.
A lot of "The Day After" was filmed at the University of Kansas the year after I transfered to Iowa. Friends told me that the cameras were directly over my old dorm room (which was on the top floor of one of the dorms on the hill there) I do remember it was fun watching those scenes and seeing my old view. I had lots of friends who were extras in the scenes of injured people
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Whew, it's been a busy afternoon here at the testing center. But now I have a bit of a break and can catch my breath.
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I'm enjoying reading about all of the MOW's. I loved Mother May I Sleep with Danger?
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Just discovered the most lovely thing - a bird has built a little nest above a light fixture just outside my patio door, and it's out there nesting, I think - I hope the birth is lovely and successful. I'm trying not to go out via those doors too much, because when I do, the bird gets nervous and flies away.
My mother had a robin nest on her front porch once. She taped off the entrance and put up a sign that said "Maternity Ward"
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Happy Solstice to everyone. I'm invited to a party tonight to celebrate. It's a group that isn't really into pagan things, just want a reason to celebrate. We are having a bon fire, though. It's totally weather dependent and it's been raining off and on, so we'll see.
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Well we had the meeting today. It's good. I'm no longer the supervisor, but get to keep the big corner office (which is the only perk you get as supervisor). So, now I get to come to work and just worry about my clients. YEAH!!!! I am very pleased with this development
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JMK - Re GYPSY: Gypsy Rose Lee may not have had any problems with how her family was represented, but for a long while, June Havoc certainly had problems with the fictionalization of her own life story in that piece, and even tried to stop the use of her name in the piece and was reportedly essentially strong-armed into letting them use her name and such. And Rose Hovick couldn't defend herself against any claims the show made about her motivations. It's not only the title characters whose lives are being distorted.
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Re: kaysar and janelle on big brother.
I was hoping that janelle would be on. But truthfully i was not sure which former contestants would even want to do the show again.
There have been a lot of rumors about who the 20 possibles are. Apparently Mike "boogie" has a website. So he is definitely one. And they are saying Marcellas is probably one too. I think Dr.Will would be cool.
I just don't know if i could stand watching some of them again (like jun and allison who are also possibles).
I wonder how many times we can vote. And is it internet only? And will it be worth to vote for the most popular ones like kaysar?
I am curious if those who were friends will automatically align. I'm guessing that people like kaysar and janelle would for sure.
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Police report rash of thefts from cars
06/21/2006 10:56:45 AM
Sioux City police are warning auto owners to close and lock their vehicles after a rash of recent thefts.
In two days last week, 10 purses were stolen from vehicles in parking lots in the city, many while the owners were out walking.
Police remind residents not to leave purses, wallets or other valuables in their cars.
If a purse or wallet is stolen, contact your band and credit card companies as soon as possible. (emphasis added)
Wow! If my purse gets stolen I think I have my band sing me the blues!
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I was just reminded of my favorite MOW of all time- Dance 'til Dawn which came out in the late 80's and starred every sitcom star ever including: Alyssa Milano, Tracey Gold, Christina Applegate, Matthew Perry, Brian Bloom, Cliff DeYoung, Mary Frann, Alan Thicke, Kelsey Grammer, Edie McClurg, and many others.
It was a prom night comedy, and my sister and I taped it off of the tv and watched it constantly.
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JMK - Re GYPSY: Gypsy Rose Lee may not have had any problems with how her family was represented, but for a long while, June Havoc certainly had problems with the fictionalization of her own life story in that piece, and even tried to stop the use of her name in the piece and was reportedly essentially strong-armed into letting them use her name and such. And Rose Hovick couldn't defend herself against any claims the show made about her motivations. It's not only the title characters whose lives are being distorted.
I understand completely and actually agree with you, but, based upon your own criterion (a great work of art), "Gypsy" can be forgiven a multitude of fictionalizing sins, whereas "Frances" (a sloppy Grand Guignol mishmosh at best) can't. I think the fact that "Gypsy" was a musical and by that very fact taken as more of an "entertainment" (if you catch my drift) than the supposedly "factual" "Frances" also plays into my disparate reactions to these two purported biographies.
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I thought that MOW about overpopulation had the Michael from Mod Squad (what was his last name?), not Michael Parks. I remember it, too. Didn't it take place in the NW?
yes, you're right...it was THAT Michael.... ;D
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that is going to be ONE busy hopping table at the Courts show.
Of course THE GLASS HOUSE starred Alan Alda and DR CP's former neighbor, Kristofer Tabori.
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The Last Child with Michael Cole and Janet Margolin and Van Heflin....did someone else already mention this?
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Police report rash of thefts from cars
06/21/2006 10:56:45 AM
Sioux City police are warning auto owners to close and lock their vehicles after a rash of recent thefts.
In two days last week, 10 purses were stolen from vehicles in parking lots in the city, many while the owners were out walking.
Police remind residents not to leave purses, wallets or other valuables in their cars.
If a purse or wallet is stolen, contact your band and credit card companies as soon as possible. (emphasis added)
Wow! If my purse gets stolen I think I have my band sing me the blues!
Maybe it was Sioux City cross dresser trying to match a pair of shoes from the Goodwill store.
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Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?
Ahh, yes....the Tori Spelling classic!
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JRand, are you and JMK in fact talking about THE LAST CHILD? Does it say I'm getting old when I remembered (in my post way above) Van Heflin and not Michael Cole from MOD SQUAD?
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And one for Mod squad!
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Speaking of Janet Margolin:
PRAY FOR THE WILDCATS.
What a cast: Robert Reed, Andy Griffith, Marjoe Gortner, Angie Dickinson, William Shatner.
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I understand completely and actually agree with you, but, based upon your own criterion (a great work of art), "Gypsy" can be forgiven a multitude of fictionalizing sins, whereas "Frances" (a sloppy Grand Guignol mishmosh at best) can't. I think the fact that "Gypsy" was a musical and by that very fact taken as more of an "entertainment" (if you catch my drift) than the supposedly "factual" "Frances" also plays into my disparate reactions to these two purported biographies.
DR FJL - the sad thing is that just a BIT of research would have shown the makers of FRANCES what the truth was...ALL of the information was available, but they went into the project with an AGENDA and no regard for what was a much more interesting and compelling story...
And as DR JMK said...in his commentary on the Special Edition, Clifford indeed said (meaning he was aware he was presenting fiction as fact, as was "biographer" William Arnold): "It didn't happen this way, but we didn't want to nickel and dime the audience to death with facts...."
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JRand, are you and JMK in fact talking about THE LAST CHILD? Does it say I'm getting old when I remembered (in my post way above) Van Heflin and not Michael Cole from MOD SQUAD?
Yes, DR FJL....I remembered you mentioned Van Heflin....but had forgotten the title. 8)
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Ahh, yes....the Tori Spelling classic!
Aren't they ALL? :o
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DR Rodzinski: "Harvest Home" remains a favorite Tom Tryon novel. I thought the TV movie was pretty good, too.
Ditto the first version of Stephen King's "Salem's Lot"...VERY chilling.
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Speaking of Cliff DeYoung: SUNSHINE.
I never saw it, but I have the soundtrack LP, from which Cliff's top-40 song comes, "My Sweet Lady." And I remember my sister had a set of dolls called "The Sunshine Family" which were based on the people in this movie.
How many TV movies spawned hit songs, I wonder. "Time In a Bottle" was from some Desi Arnaz Jr. TV movie. "Brian's Song," of course.
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Ron, I'm trying to get TPunk to read Harvest Home. Ben's Ant actually gave us a copy. The TV movie remains one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen. Even though, for the longest time, it was shown in edited versions that made the ending somewhat inexplicable. It is odd that they had to edit down something made for TV.
I used to watch it on "The 3:30 Movie" in Chicago. Our ABC affiliate for years used to show movies every day in the afternoon. Might be a week of Godzilla movies one week, beach movies the next, Planet of the Apes, etc. HARVEST HOME spanned two days.
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Heading for rehearsal....
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And what ever became of David Ackyroyd? Anybody?
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Am on the phone with amazon - my package did not arrive today, as promised. In fact, it looks like it hasn't even been picked up yet - the tracking notice says "waiting to be picked up" and so does UPS tracking (says they've received billing info but not the package). I called two hours ago and some idiot with no command of English told me it had shipped and would definitely be here today. Now, I've got a lady on the phone who's telling the truth - something got screwed up and it hasn't shipped - she's going to overnight me the package so I can have it tomorrow. IF she gets authorization - which she's doing now. I don't like when they screw up like this.
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Sunshine - later a short run series - was a REAL tear jerker....oh my!
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Speaking of Cliff DeYoung: SUNSHINE.
I never saw it, but I have the soundtrack LP, from which Cliff's top-40 song comes, "My Sweet Lady." And I remember my sister had a set of dolls called "The Sunshine Family" which were based on the people in this movie.
How many TV movies spawned hit songs, I wonder. "Time In a Bottle" was from some Desi Arnaz Jr. TV movie. "Brian's Song," of course.
I remember that shortly after SUNSHINE aired there was an incredibly similar MOW called MESSAGE TO MY DAUGHTER.
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Bitter Harvest is antoher movie about farming
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WOMEN IN CHAINS--another MOW favorite.
You know you're in trouble when you're trapped in a women's prison and Ida Lupino is your matron and Lucille Benson is a cell mate.
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It amazes me that ELizabeth Montgomery never won an Emmy for any of those TV movies she did: A CASE OF RAPE, MRS. SUNDANCE, LIZZIE BORDEN; she was always so good in them. She never won for BEWITCHED either. So unfair.
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TRILOGY OF TERROR was one that scared the bejeepers out of me at the time. I don't think it holds up so well now.
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I convinced the online folks to fashion a Julian Slade obit which you can now read on there.
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I started my afternoon viewing with a couple of CSI: MIAMI episodes from the third season set.
Eric Roberts gave a chilling star turn in the second one I watched. He does play psychopaths so very well.
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Harvest Home was a great book. I read it when I was a kid--wasn't it in first person, which made the denouement all the more horrifying? Talk about speak no evil. :o
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Then I watched LEGALLY BLONDE. I'll admit that there were some funny moments, but so much of it was so contrived and formulaic.
And isn't the sequel supposed to be even more ludicrous?
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I got my Amazon shipping notice yesterday, so I should have THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN Seasons 3-4 tomorrow. Really can't wait to see them again.
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BITTER HARVEST. I saw that one. Ron Howard's cows have eaten tainted grain or something and they are all dying off. Good stuff.
They're just flooding in now...
PORTRAIT OF A CENTERFOLD was also good.
The DALLAS COWBOYS CHEERLEADERS movies. Lauren Tewes was in one.
There was one, kind of like THE LOVE BOAT meets TEN LITTLE INDIANS, where people were being murdered on a cruise ship. I think Tom Bosley was in it.
And THE GREAT HOUDINI with Paul Michael Glaser. That was spooky.
THE LAST OF THE GOOD GUYS with Robert Culp and Larry Hagman. Hagman is a cop who dies a couple weeks short of getting his full pension, so the guys on the force have to pretend he is still there for two weeks, so his wife and kid can get the money.
Ah, memories...
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And now today, he's hemorrhaging internally. I may have to bite the bullet, borrow some money and buy a ticket to Ohio this weekend, if not sooner. I don't like this roller coaster ride I'm on, I loathe US Air, and I'm uncertain which way to turn. This is not fun. I don't know how our DR PennyO managed this megillah at all last year, and I'm more than ever in awe of her grace under pressure.
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http://www.hollywoodcollectorshow.com/Burbank.htm
I also see Patrika DArbo and Patsy Pease will be there with DAys... Interesting....
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Bitter Harvest was a powerful movie.
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DR Elmore, I'm sorry to hear this latest news. I hope it works out so you can get there quickly.
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~~~BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE VIBES FOR DR ELMORE AND HIS FATHER!!~~~
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elmore, try what Jose suggested - priceline.com
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DR elmore - If your Local 802/AFM dues are paid up, you can also check with their Musician's Assistance Program.
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OH! And the AFM also has a Travel Service associated with them. I've used it a couple of times in the past. Sometimes the discounts were quite good. Other times, it was just nice to deal with a real person again instead of a computer terminal.
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Good Afternoon!
Just taking a bit of a break right now. I have a headache, and I'm trying to figure out if it's because my blood sugar may be a little low right now and/or if it's from trying to "absorb" this new score. Probably a bit of both. So... I think I'm gonna heat up some leftover Chinese food from last night, and watch some FoodTV and/or TLC. -Love me some carpenters on "While You Were Out".
;)
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DR elmore - If your Local 802/AFM dues are paid up, you can also check with their Musician's Assistance Program.
Right now a flight on US Air for Friday, returning three weeks later is $408, so that's going to cost me $508 or so with the rscheduling, meaning I'll have to fork over another $260 or so. Since I have this reservation I may never use otherwise since i've vowed never to fly them again, I think I'll bite the bullet and pay it. Then I will at least be booked for this week. I need tomorrow, at least, to pack up some Toyalnd materials to be Fed Exed to me so I'll have some work, arrange my schedule and leave on Friday morning (hopefully).
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Very sorry to read of your continuing troubles, DR Elmore.
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Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?
Yes, you may!
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Off to tend to the cleaning chores.
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Very sorry to read of your continuing troubles, DR Elmore.
Thank you, DRMattH! I don't deal well with frustration and inertia and those are my constant companions right now.
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What was the name of the movie in which Richard Crenna was a police officer that got raped?
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Vibes to DR Elmore and family....
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What was the name of the movie in which Richard Crenna was a police officer that got raped?
THE RAPE OF RICHARD BECK
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I shall shortly be on my way to the editing room for some editing and then a commentary track, after which, I shall return.
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Okay, I just shelled out $280 more and I'm booked for tomorrow morning on the 9:25 AM flight from LaGuardia to Dayton, OH. I'll be returning on July 11, so it will be a bit more than two weeks with my family and now that it's frozen, a great weight is off my shoulders. I can use all the good travel vibes you can send.
Tonight, I need to run down to the office on 14th Street, pick up a few work items to carry with me and pack up a few Toyland scores to be shipped.
I'll be in touch hopefully every day from either the library or one of my brothers' computers. Thank you all for the vibes and thoughts.
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Outside my kitchen window this morning, on our property, was a mother deer nursing her fawn.
Gosh are you lucky :D
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Safe travel vibes, Elmore!!
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DRelmore- Safe travels and a smooth flight. Of course, best of vibes to you and your family.
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SAfe travel vibes DR Elmore
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Just booked Matt Asford and myself for the July Ray Courts show. There's a whole Days of our Lives table (including Kevin Spirtas), and I'll be sitting near or next to Matt so we can sell our Deceit DVDs. I'll also have Nudie DVDs, and Naked Space DVDs, and my books, especially Rewind which will be new to the Courts show. And if anyone somehow could do good screen grabs from the Tabitha pilot or especially of my Partridge Family episodes, something I could get duplicated, photo-wise, that would be swell.
BK, I can do this tonight after I get back from a basketball game in Seattle (it starts at 7:00 pm and I won't get a chance to go home before I need to leave). I only have the Tabitha DVD, so I can't do the Partridge Family episodes. If someone has both the Partridge Family and Tabitha DVDs and they want to do it all, that's fine. I'll catch up with the posts as soon as I get home late tonight to find out.
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BK, I can do this tonight after I get back from a basketball game in Seattle (it starts at 7:00 pm and I won't get a chance to go home before I need to leave). I only have the Tabitha DVD, so I can't do the Partridge Family episodes. If someone has both the Partridge Family and Tabitha DVDs and they want to do it all, that's fine. I'll catch up with the posts as soon as I get home late tonight to find out.
George, you do know that those are women playing basketball?
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Many Many vibes to DR Elmore and family
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Well, I have the TIVO set for BB. I'm off to dance around a bonfire and celebrate the solstice.
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Now, can someone tell me why I woke up at six in the morning.
Maybe you were dreaming you were on the East coast, where it was nine in the morning?
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It must be because it's Summer Solstice, whatever the HELL that is.
"Well, it's been a long
Been a long
Been a long
Been a long day..."
Be grateful you can't really hear me sing.
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I will bet you any amount of money that the director will have the cast panhandling through the audience before the curtain.
And will these "homeless" people begin spouting Cockney accents when they tell the tale? Oy!
And when they tell of the Crachett family dinner, will they be wearing McDonalds uniforms?
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I loved all of those TV movies that Eve Plumb did post Brady Bunch...and the one where Elizabeth Montgomery was in a coma for 25 years, then woke up.
Let me guess...Eve Plumb played the Elizabeth Montgomery character pre-coma, and Liz played the character waking up all grown up, right?
It coulda happened! ::)
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Speaking of Cliff DeYoung: SUNSHINE.
I never saw it, but I have the soundtrack LP, from which Cliff's top-40 song comes, "My Sweet Lady." And I remember my sister had a set of dolls called "The Sunshine Family" which were based on the people in this movie.
How many TV movies spawned hit songs, I wonder. "Time In a Bottle" was from some Desi Arnaz Jr. TV movie. "Brian's Song," of course.
I think you have the movie wrong or Desi Arnaz. BRIAN"S SONG was with James Caan and Billy Dee Williams and was about Brian Picollo the football player who died from Cancer.
BTW Brian's Song was one of the few TV Movies to get a theatrical release after it aired.
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Questions for the New Yorkers or any Broadway Maven
When did the LION KING move to the Minskoff Theater?
And did The Light In the Piazza announce its last weeks before or after its live airing on PBS.
AND THE FANTASTICKS IS RETURNING TO OFF-BROADWAY in July at the SNAPPLE (!) THEATER!
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Som more questions for ASK BK DAY.
How many episodes of LIKELY STORIES were there?
Did each episode have a Volume # after it?
Which ones did you appear and/or work on and what did you in them?
The Barry Manilow Parody Songs are brief snippets (heard of the CD The Music of Bruce Kimmel) is that how they were performed?
Any of the songs from The Elephant Man musical ever released on Cd or recorded by someone else?
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BK:
YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE FROM SCREEN GRABS FROM TABITHA?
ALONE
or with anyone of the actors?
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I was just reminded of my favorite MOW of all time- Dance 'til Dawn which came out in the late 80's and starred every sitcom star ever including: Alyssa Milano, Tracey Gold, Christina Applegate, Matthew Perry, Brian Bloom, Cliff DeYoung, Mary Frann, Alan Thicke, Kelsey Grammer, Edie McClurg, and many others.
It was a prom night comedy, and my sister and I taped it off of the tv and watched it constantly.
This is a very disturbing confession.
::) ;) :-*
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Wonderful looking out my bedroom window tonight... the fireflies are back!
I love magic.
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Der Brucer and I had a great time in Annapolis today. We both found t-shirts (mine has a black lab in cartoon on the back, pointing out the various important parts, such as the tongue (slobber maker) and the nose (butt sniffer)). We ate at a restaurant that proved to be a tourist trap that repeatedly screwed up our meal. Der Brucer had a wonderful time remembering various points in the town where various deeds he had done while at the USNA were in fact done.
The grandlads were total brats. Can't have everything.
Their mother was a total bi..... Nothing new there.
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I've an early call to work tomorrow. Night.
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Cillaliz-your mother’s maternity ward made me laugh.
Keith thinks he has identified the bird sitting on a nest in our yard as a Hutton’s Vireo.
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Questions for the New Yorkers or any Broadway Maven
When did the LION KING move to the Minskoff Theater?
And did The Light In the Piazza announce its last weeks before or after its live airing on PBS.
AND THE FANTASTICKS IS RETURNING TO OFF-BROADWAY in July at the SNAPPLE (!) THEATER!
Lion King re-opened at the Minskoff on Tuesday, June 13th. It moved there so Mary Poppins could move into the New Amsterdam. It closed down for a week before the move. The last performance at the New Amsterdam was June 4th.
Piazza announced the closing dates well before the PBS airing. There was always the possibility of an extension if ticket sales picked up but it's been on both TDF and TKTS for months so that's not gonna happen. Christine Andreas has been announced for the tour which starts soon.
The Snapple Theatre is a new Off-Broadway complex. The producer/star of the jaw-droppingly bad, amazingly bad, excruciating, horrific, ghastly and any other negative adjective you care to insert, Perfect Crime, must have bags of money stored away someplace because she put the whole thing together when the theatre where Perfect Crime was playing (above the Howard Johnson on 46th Street and Broadway) was closed. She took over an upstairs space on 50th and Broadway and re-opened Perfect Crime in the new space. She signed on Snapple as a sponsor and they paid to turn the space into two small theatres. I don't know what either one looks like. I sat through Perfect Crime in 1984 and the pain still lies deep inside. I can't sit through it again ;)
I may go see The Fantasticks when it opens but I don't know the dates yet. Unless Ms. Moneybags is producing I doubt that it will run anywhere near the length of the original run.
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Rodzinski, thanks for getting Playbill On-Line to put up the Julian Slade obituary. I'm surprised that there has not been more news about it. Granted, he was across the pond but he was a big enough name in Musical Theatre that I thought the Times would run something.
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SERENE TRAVEL VIBES FOR DR ELMORE ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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'night
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Ah, yes, dear friend. Vibes and hugs to you in this time of turmoil. We will keep calm for you.
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Questions for the New Yorkers or any Broadway Maven
When did the LION KING move to the Minskoff Theater?
And did The Light In the Piazza announce its last weeks before or after its live airing on PBS.
AND THE FANTASTICKS IS RETURNING TO OFF-BROADWAY in July at the SNAPPLE (!) THEATER!
DR Michael Shayne - Methinks you need to check out Playbill.com more often. ;)
The Lion King moved to the Minskoff last week. It closed at the New Amsterdam (in order to make room for Mary Poppins) on June 4, and reopened at the Minskoff on the 13th. Not a bad turnaround time.
The Light in the Piazza announced their closing back in December. This is the final extension - which I believe was their third.
And, Yes, The Fantasticks is coming back to Broadway - well, at least the street. I was able to get a peek into the new Snapple Center, and I have to say it's a very nice facility. Hopefully, it and the nearby New World Stages (formerly Dodger Stages) will have long-running tenants.
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Well.. that's what I get for taking my time typing... Thanks, DR Ben.
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THE RAPE OF RICHARD BECK
There was also the comedy clunker IT COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY in which Paul Sorvino was raped--by a girl.
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The Snapple Theatre is a new Off-Broadway complex. The producer/star of the jaw-droppingly bad, amazingly bad, excruciating, horrific, ghastly and any other negative adjective you care to insert, Perfect Crime, must have bags of money stored away someplace because she put the whole thing together when the theatre where Perfect Crime was playing (above the Howard Johnson on 46th Street and Broadway) was closed. She took over an upstairs space on 50th and Broadway and re-opened Perfect Crime in the new space. She signed on Snapple as a sponsor and they paid to turn the space into two small theatres. I don't know what either one looks like. I sat through Perfect Crime in 1984 and the pain still lies deep inside. I can't sit through it again ;)
I may go see The Fantasticks when it opens but I don't know the dates yet. Unless Ms. Moneybags is producing I doubt that it will run anywhere near the length of the original run.
Oh.... my..... gosh! PERFECT CRIME is up and running again? That was the most horrible evening of theater I ever sat through in New York.
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...I believe there may still be a video slide show tour of the new Snapple Center on the New York Times website. And I also think Broadway.com or BroadwayWorld.com did a photo feature.
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...And The Fantasticks is being produced by Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel and Thomas Viertel. No Ms. Moneybags listed. It's supposed to open at the end of July. I know they've been holding auditions and getting the show cast, but I haven't heard any news on that end of things.
OH! And Tom Jones is scheduled to direct the production.
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...And The Fantasticks is being produced by Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel and Thomas Viertel. No Ms. Moneybags listed. It's supposed to open at the end of July. I know they've been holding auditions and getting the show cast, but I haven't heard any news on that end of things.
OH! And Tom Jones is scheduled to direct the production.
Maybe this is my chance to finally play The Old Actor!
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Maybe this is my chance to finally play The Old Actor!
Well... Maybe you should call and/or e-mail BK... And then BK can call/or e-mail Tom Jones...
;D
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Well... I think I should start packing my things for my trek up to Poughkeepsie in the morning. Thankfully(?), it looks like I'll be back in the city either tomorrow night or Saturday, so I don't have to pack that much stuff. -And since I have to be back in the City on Monday and Tuesday...
And since that bag ain't gonna pack itself...
Laters...
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Well... Maybe you should call and/or e-mail BK... And then BK can call/or e-mail Tom Jones...
;D
I could call Mr Jones as well, only I'm outa here!
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I think Dylan's in a bit of shell shock right now; he went upstate last weekend to see a Dave Matthews Band concert with his family, and while he was away, his stepfather's brother died. He's been dealing with that, got back last night, and now I'm laying all this apartment security/maintenance crap on him before I vanish tomorrow morning.
In the immortal words of BK, pray for Rosemary's baby.
The laundry is in, I've brought work back from the office, and now I have to pack. My dad is going through more surgery in the morning to look for the source of this latest hemorrhage. I think I'm going at exactly the right time.
Thank you all for your kindness and generosity. Keep those vibes coming. The older I get, the more I fear flying.
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Well... I think I should start packing my things for my trek up to Poughkeepsie in the morning. Thankfully(?), it looks like I'll be back in the city either tomorrow night or Saturday, so I don't have to pack that much stuff. -And since I have to be back in the City on Monday and Tuesday...
And since that bag ain't gonna pack itself...
Laters...
And what day will Nick be back.... pant, pant?
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Take care Elmore. Safe travels and we'll keep thinking good thoughts for you and your family.
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Larry - Skip got your messages. We may have to do something about that "voice" on the answering machine. It seems to confuse people.
Much support and safe travel vibes to you.
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Vibes for ELMORE of EVERY KIND.
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DR MS - I think RODZINSKI was referencing two different movies on purpose....punctuation notwithstanding....
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Safe Travels for DR Larry.
Good thoughts and vibes
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PLAYMATES with Connie Stevens, Alan Alda, Barbara Feldon, Doug McClure.
Alan: Didn't you like the play?
Connie: What? Some woman saying I'm forbidden to love my brother and some guy saying I'm forbidden to love my sister. And all I could think of was, I'm forbidden to leave this theatre...
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I also have a screen capture from Penn and Teller
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Off to work with STINGER....if only it had vodka....but it is instead, a sound FX program.....
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And a few from W*A"C*K*ED OUT.
(This one is not that great and can try again)
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I also have a screen capture from Penn and Teller
The Doctor is IN!!! ;D
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There was also the comedy clunker IT COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY in which Paul Sorvino was raped--by a girl.
I remember this! I watched a re-run of it one night, and I've been wondering what the name of it was for years. Sorvino gets raped by a good looking woman, and nobody believes it. It was played for laughs. Probably never see this thing again with a premise like that.
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Good wishes for DR Elmore's trip and for his father's condition.
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DR MS - I think RODZINSKI was referencing two different movies on purpose....punctuation notwithstanding....
You got it, JRand. (It's not like I'm an editor for a living or anything! D'oh!)
The Desi Jr. ABC MOW that featured "Time in a Bottle" was called SHE LIVES. The tune became a posthumous #1 for Jim Croce.
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I started my evening with another WILD WILD WEST episode, this one not featuring any famous guest stars but featuring loads and loads of Robert Conrad bare chested.
The man was chiseled in his prime. Absolutely gorgeous (and you can tell that he knows it.)
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Then came BIG BROTHER. Seeing those 20 faces and clips from the various seasons sent a flood of memories coming back to me.
I still maintain that Season 2 was the all-time best one.
I know Dr. Will Kirby is one of those popular guys you love to hate, but honestly, I think those that have won before shouldn't be entered. I suspect as with SURVIVOR All-Stars, they'll get rid of previous winners as early as they can, but I still would rather see those who didn't win be the only ones eligible to compete.
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Later, after his prime, say during the BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP DAYS, he would captain the NBC team on Battle of the Network Stars and lose a man on man sprint against Gabe Kaplan.
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Ended my evening with BE COOL, the sequel to GET SHORTY. Not nearly as entertaining as GET SHORTY even though they tried to throw in every famous Hollywood name they could into the movie to give it some lure for the audience (it did not do well at the box-office).
But at almost 2 hours, I think it was at least 30 minujtes too long for the slight story they had to tell, and all the plots and counterplots got so tedious after awhile.
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Later, after his prime, say during the BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP DAYS, he would captain the NBC team on Battle of the Network Stars and lose a man on man sprint against Gabe Kaplan.
And I'll bet he didn't take losing kindly either.
For years, he and Ryan O'Neal tried to get a network to buy into a celebrity boxing series (decades before Fox did a few celebrity boxing specials). O'Neal got to do his boxing movie THE MAIN EVENT instead, and Conrad played an ex-boxer on his series THE DUKE.
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You and yours are in my thoughts and prayers. I think you are doing exactly the right thing.
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TOD:
I cannot remember watching a single Movie of the Week. We were a one TV family and the only thing I can imagine is that my Dad didn't care for them. Growing up in my house, if Daddy didn't want to see it, NOBODY was going to see it!
We did however watch the miniseries Roots, Sho-Gun and The Thornbirds
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And I'll bet he didn't take losing kindly either.
You got that right, Matt. Nobody took the Battles of the Network Stars as seriously as Conrad. He used to get so angry. Type A stuff. The reason he had to race Gabe Kaplan solo is because Conrad was complaining in the first place during the team relay that one of the ABC runners had interfered with an NBC runner. There was a big argument, and Kaplan finally just said, let's go, and everyone thought Conrad would win, but Mr. Kotter blew him out.
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I had a scary moment this evening. I dropped the Vixter off at her rehearsal which I was told would be from 7:30 - 10 PM. The rehearsal space is about 20 minutes from home. At 9:48, as I was enroute to collect her, my cell phone rang with a voice mail (why it didn't ring with the intiial call is a mystery) with the message.. "Come and get me right now. It's really dark and I'm freaking out" now she's supposed to be inside with the director and his wife and the accompianist and a bunch of other kids so now I am freaking out over this message and I hit the return call button (I am minutes away anyhow) and get the director's cell phone voice mail. So I leave a message that I am nearly there.
I arrive at 9:52 to find the building locked up and no one present except for two older ladies who advise me that no one is there, they saw all the kids leave and the only two cars in the parking lot are theirs. They leave and I am all alone
I call the director's phone.. voice mail again. I leave another message,. I call home to Vixdad... he hasn't gotten a call or a dropped off kid
Over the course of the next 20 minutes I make three more calls to the director's phone only to get voice mail and two more to home, becoming more and more frantic with each passing moment
Suddenly I think I hear voices..... I walk through some bushes and lo and behold! There is another parking lot and entrance on the other side of the building accessible only from a different road than the one I came in on. There stands my darling Vixter, the director, his wife, the accompianist, the other kids.... all wondering where the %*^(* I am !!!
Great was my relief! And I'm getting there at 9:30 from now on!!
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There is a gal on the Connotator that has several shows of Battle of the Network stars... They are a riot to watch..
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Good Evening!
Well... I'm packed... almost... Just toiletries to take care of in the morning...
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Well, I'm heading off to bed now. A friend has invited me to his pool for swimming and sunbathing tomorrow, so I'll be on a bit earlier than usual tomorow before I head off to his house.
Good night.
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DR elmore...
Safe Travel Vibes To You.
May you have a cherishable (is that a word?) visit with your father and the rest of your family. My thoughts and prayers are with you, my friend.
*I just wish that I could chauffeur you to La Guardia tomorrow morning... I'll see you when you get back in town. Take care. And Peace.
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Yikes Vixmom, I am glad everything worked out!
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DR vixmom - Whew!
*Now my question is: Was the vixter really freaking out? ???
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~~~SAFE TRAVEL VIBES TO OUR DEAR JOSE!!!!~~~~~~[/color]
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DR vixmom - Whew!
*Now my question is: Was the vixter really freaking out? ???
The lights in the parking lot had gone out so it was dark and some of the kids were telling creepy stories and scaring each other so she was "getting creeped out", in her words!
I do believe that my freaking out beat hers hands down!
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All's well that ends well, Vixmom.
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OK... Well, it's almost midnight here, and I need to start winding down my brain - just way too many details and stuff going through my head right now... So... Until Poughkeepsie...
Goodnight.
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Haven't posted an LP cover in a spell, as MBarnum reminded me. This is not from a recent purchase. I think I got it in Ohio, at "Ohio's Largest Antique Store."
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b52/Maclord/strip.jpg)
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All's well that ends well, Vixmom.
Yes indeed.... but it made me realize that in the next few years she is going to be starting to wander the world on her own and I am NOT ready!!!!!!!
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Well I am off to bed - pleasant dreams to all...
and a special ~~~VIBES~~~ for peaceful and restful night especially for Elmore.
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Aww, Thanks, DR vixmom - I just wish that I could take the MetroNorth train up tomorrow morning - I just love that trip along the Hudson... But since I have to come back into the city over the next couple of days, the train would be a little extravagant... Although with the gas prices being what they are... We shall see... Again, Thanks.
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Haven't posted an LP cover in a spell, as MBarnum reminded me. This is not from a recent purchase. I think I got it in Ohio, at "Ohio's Largest Antique Store."
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b52/Maclord/strip.jpg)
A striptease PARTY??? Who knew?
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Som more questions for ASK BK DAY.
How many episodes of LIKELY STORIES were there?
Did each episode have a Volume # after it?
Which ones did you appear and/or work on and what did you in them?
The Barry Manilow Parody Songs are brief snippets (heard of the CD The Music of Bruce Kimmel) is that how they were performed?
Any of the songs from The Elephant Man musical ever released on Cd or recorded by someone else?
I think there were three volumes of Likely Stories, but am not certain. The Manilow spoof is exactly how you hear it on the CD, snippets - it's really funny on video, though. The Elephant songs have never been released - they're funny, too. I appeared as Barry in Concert, and I also appear as "Anthony Newley" in Elephant!. In my other major contribution to the show as writer/director, a soap opera on cable spoof called The Lays of Our Lives, we've got Gerritt Graham, Timothy Carey, and Debralee Scott. Somewhat amusing.
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BK:
YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE FROM SCREEN GRABS FROM TABITHA?
ALONE
or with anyone of the actors?
Any good close shot with or without actors. I'm much more interested in Partridge Family, though. I think I have two episodes on volume two, and one of them, The Partridge Papers is my most famous episode, so that one would be great to have. I don't know if Give The Band A Hand is on any Happy Days set - although it had to be the first or second season, but that's a great show, too.
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DR elmore...
Safe Travel Vibes To You.
May you have a cherishable (is that a word?) visit with your father and the rest of your family. My thoughts and prayers are with you, my friend.
*I just wish that I could chauffeur you to La Guardia tomorrow morning... I'll see you when you get back in town. Take care. And Peace.
DR Jose, have a fantastic time at Vassar. I look forward to all the unprintable scandalous gossip you will bring back. Break hearts.
Good night, all! I'll sign on briefly in the morning before I leave. I send my love and affection to all of you.
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The editing session was a breeze. For all of Kevin's "I have tons of little nitpicky notes" we basically ended up swapping out eight shots, and that was it. He had a handful of others, but when we showed him why we'd done what we'd done, he completely understood - and a couple of shots I wouldn't budge on because to change them would've hurt the comedy - he understood that, too, when I explained why. So, the whole re-edit took all of one hour. We then did a pretty amusing and crazy commentary track - it's all over the place, with interesting info and also completely off-the-wall stuff. Preorders will begin in about two to three weeks.
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Good vibes to DR ELmore ~~~~~~~~~~~
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Tonight I borrowed a child and we went to the pizza joint that has a theater organ. Child and I had a fun time.
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Vixmom, that is SCARY. I didn't like when DR Sandra took night classes, because I hated her standing out in the dark waiting to be picked up.
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Re: the big brother choices. The ones i want (in order) are:
1.janelle
2.kaysar
3.howie
4.will
5.marcellas
6.erika
7.james
I really think that my first 5 will get in by the public vote.
It will be interesting to see who the producers put in.
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bk, glad to hear that the show will soon be available for pre-order...
speaking of pre-order were trying to talk STephanie into buying two more copies since she had seen it three times. She did order a copy and is looking forward to your performance.
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safe travel vibes to DR Jose...