It's called "Those Plucking Strings" and features the Charles Blackwell Orchestra playing folk songs with melody line played by pizzacato strings.
How is your DM, MissKaren, Cason?
Joe Meek is indeed a legendary producer of pop records. He was obsessed with Buddy Holly and committed suicide on the anniversary of Holly's death.
RLP's favourite "The Hucklebuck"
"Joe Meek - The Alchemist Of Pop" is an excellent introduction to his work.
DR JoseSPiano - that's awful. I know you were coughing a lot the other evening. That's ALL you need, with tonight's performance approaching.
May Duane provide the antidote to all your symptoms!
By the way, DR JoseSPiano, when you were on the 7th floor of the theatre for Lestat, were you with any other musicians? Or were you up there all by yourself?
I would think that would be very wierd, being so unconnected to the show.
By the way, DR JoseSPiano, when you were on the 7th floor of the theatre for Lestat, were you with any other musicians? Or were you up there all by yourself?
we didn't have to dress up...but all of us would gather in the musician's locker/dressing room before the show and at intermission.
I'm off...
It's the BIG FAT CONDUCTOR OF LTTLE TALENT who doesn't play well with others, speaking of careers in the toilet.
How many people remember that The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical is named after Helen Hayes' husband?
Good morning, all! I'm still writing my retort to the BIG FAT CONDUCTOR OF ENORMOUS EGO & LITTLE TALENT for his agitation a week ago.
Did you mention what JM's agitation was?
Did you mention what JM's agitation was?
Actually, DR Michael S, I don't think DR elmore3003 had mentioned initials, either. But now we have a clew as to who this might be! ;)
My guess is Jerry Mahoney.
Re: The Helen Hayes Awards
You would think with all the awards that they were divide the Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production into male and female instead of combining it as other categories divide them by the sexes.
Re: Helen Hayes Awards II
How many people remember that The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical is named after Helen Hayes' husband?
Re: Helen Hayes Awards III
Some people received muliutple nominations within the same category like Irina Tsikurishvili who received three separate nominations for choreography. She won one. I wonder if she thought what was wrong with the other two shows that the she was nominated for that she only won for one?
And why don't they just combine multiple nominations into one and award (or don't award) for the body of work that year?
Shouldn't you be downtown young man??? (Larry that is)
Will we never get to page two?
I'm going.
Why am I awake....
Oh, Drywall Man,
When you gonna come to town?
Oh, Drywall Man,
When you gonna come to town?
'Cause all I see is these bare studs,
And they are bringin' me down.
Speaking of my mother's trip out here -- I think it was first prompted by an offer of a LA Hainsie/Kimlet Reunion brought up by one MBarnum...is this plan still in effect here?
DR Ron Pulliam -
Please let us know how youmade out withdealt with the meddlesome co-worker!
I was up there with the associate conductor/keyboard II player, and the percussionist. It was a bit weird being disconnected at times, but we didn't have to dress up, and we had our own bathroom. But all of us would gather in the musician's locker/dressing room before the show and at intermission.
And...
Why Was I Born?
DR TCB and DR Laura, re: american idol and voting for sanjaya. Obviously i wasn't suggesting that DR Laura was voting. :)
Still working on the bathroom?
Morning all!
"Woman up", Miss Karen!
Are you suggesting you can't hold your own against posts-only-two-days-a-week François?
"Woman up", Miss Karen!
Are you suggesting you can't hold your own against posts-only-two-days-a-week François?
Good morning
Naomi can have puce....... just don't f*#k around with pink ! That is, after all, my signature color !!
But, I always wanted to do The Lambada (the forbidden dance).
Who said what that scared away EverlovinHeather after just one post btw....
Does anyone know what I could use to fake a prison uniform? I would just get one, except that I can only find them in sizes ten times too large.
I do not feel like doing my scene today.....
Still waiting ...
Some people actually seem to enjoy Sanjaya's presence on the show.
Some think he's got the "young" vibe that the show always claims it's looking for.
Not a few think he's a talented, too.
Given the thousands of auditions that were just plain terrible, Sanjaya still stands out.
A real prison uniform or something like they wear in cartoon prisons (white with the black horizontal stripes)?
Does anyone know what I could use to fake a prison uniform? I would just get one, except that I can only find them in sizes ten times too large.
And a lot of viewers are tone deaf.
And a lot of viewers are tone deaf.
Would it help if I sang another chorus of "Drywall Man"?
I'm thinking more along the lines of one of those orange jumpsuits you sometimes see them wearing when they're being interviewed on TV.
Those should be easy to find....and any prison name can be stencilled on the back.
I stand by my ORANGE (http://cgi.ebay.com/PRISONER-APPAREL-SHIRT-COUNTY-JAIL-OR-FEDERAL-PRISON_W0QQitemZ330109770489QQihZ014QQcategoryZ2999QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem) suggestion!
The prisoners out here wear black/white stripes. And pink underwear.
Jail pink underwear:
"Something in stripes, perhaps..."Sweeney Todd???
What's that from?
Who said what that scared away EverlovinHeather after just one post btw....
Sweeney Todd???
Or was the line: "And me in stripes"
"Something in stripes, perhaps..."
What's that from?
I have been listening to the title song from the new Bollywood film SHAKALAK BOOM, BOOM...and I cannot get it out of my head.
I am very much looking forward to this movie! Perhaps it will be in the theatre in Times Square when I go to NYC. Perhaps DR Jose will not chicken out this time.
Sweeney Todd!
Beat Generation, daddy-o! .... Why am I here?
"How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it, why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager -- I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?" (Kierkegaard's "Repetition" reference)
Good morning dear DR Miss Karen.....sometimes I feel like we are just little specks out here in the middle of the barren wasteland....
On the actual CBS.com Amazin' Race site, they actually say about next week's episode:
"One team is left in a state of shock when they become victims of a deal between the Beauty Queens and a certain other Team."
My guess is that the target team is Mirna and Schmirna and that the other team is--Eric and Danielle! I think that they're pissed off at how Mirna pushed her way onto the second flight ahead of them, which hurt them far more in the competition than the Barbies' Yield of them did.
Page Four Dance:
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Okay is anybody else disturbed by having to look at the campus killer's face everytime their browser opens on yahoo.com? :(
My sympathies to anyone who knows someone at VT. ~~~~~~~~
The Twist, the Mashed Potato, the Pony, the Swim.
Why don't I learn how to cut and paste like DR der Brucer so I wouldn't have to type out long passages? Most existential.. and with that I must really take my leave -- my kingdom for a conclusion!
THere was an actual dance called the mashed potato?
Have you NEVER seen the movie "Hairspray"??????
Alas, that theatre is now closed.
::)
nope...
Alas, that theatre is now closed.
::)
...and there was real dancing...
Yes. And the living room wall where we removed the mirrors.
After the drywall man, the plumbers will put the bathroom back together, and then tilemen will tile the shower/tub.
Probably another three months, the way these guys show up when they feel like it.
And a lot of viewers are tone deaf.
I have a phobia on commitment. Don't ask!
Who are you? What are you? How are you?
.. if you and Francois keep "mounting" these frenzies...
... we should pull her text-messaging files to prove it! ;)
LM: I have a phobia on commitment.
DB: Commitment as in Prison? Marriage? Published Diaries?
LM: Yes
der Brucer
Does anyone know what I could use to fake a prison uniform? I would just get one, except that I can only find them in sizes ten times too large.
just don't f*#k around with pink!
And pink underwear.
I really, really DON'T want to know how you know that!!! ;)
I just received a lovely package containing my second batch of BK produced CDs. I've been on a Burt Bacharach kick this past week, so I can't wait to throw THE BURT BACHARACH ALBUM into the ol' iPod.
Who's afraid of Bollywood?
The control they have is that they can fire their carriers.
Why did the Times Square Loews State theater close down...this is an outrage to me.
I'm contemplating staying up at Westport tonight (again), I'll see how I feel after the show.
I find Bollywood curious!
der Brucer - Becket is widescreen.
I have noticed that the hall light is old and looks shabby with the new paint job.
Those of us with the "redecorating" genes recognize that stunt a block away - hope DH has his VISA handy :)
If you get to meet Mr. Barnum he will do his best to persuade you. You don't even have to meet him, just ask him and he will recommend many Bollywood movies for your edification and enlightenment
'Question Mark' Killer Quietly Seethed With Rage
Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman who apparently killed 32 people and himself Monday morning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va., seems to have been a shy, quiet type seething with rage at unspecified tormentors.
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A rambling note left in Cho's dorm room reportedly railed for several pages against "rich kids" and "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus, and at one point states, "You caused me to do this."
An English professor said Cho's creative-writing work was so disturbing that he had been referred to on-campus counseling services.
In one class, he refused to speak and signed his name using a question mark. Fellow pupils called him "The Question Mark Kid."
There were also reports that Cho, a senior majoring in English from Centreville, Va., had been taking medication for depression, and had also recently set fire to a dorm room and stalked women.
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I'll be the first to admit it; I know nothing about it and actually am a Bollywood virgin.
But I'm open to persuasion! :)
Who's afraid of Bollywood?
Good Afternoon!
Well, I've had a very "slow" afternoon, which is good. Just taking it easy. I'm contemplating staying up at Westport tonight (again), I'll see how I feel after the show.
Which reminds me, TCB has not reported on his GUMNAAM experience. Or perhaps he is still trying to digest it.
Or still in shock over the "West Side Zorro" ballet!
In my day it was spelled "reel", as in Virginia.
der Brucer
Note for MattH (HHW pre-release guru):
I have in my Amazon Cart:
The following pre-orders:
Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series
Dreamgirls (Two-Disc Showstopper Edition)
The Queen -
A Little Night Music
Night at the Museum (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Becket (Not indicated as Widescreen?)
Already released:
A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition)
Do you see any missteps?
My DS is taking over the painting, now that he is home from class.
Or still in shock over the "West Side Zorro" ballet!
Did you "know" Walt Whitman?
That wasn't GUMNAAM DR Elmore, that was BHOOT BUNGLA (Ghost Mansion).
That is nice of him.
So your job now switches to watching it dry? ;)
Did you "know" Walt Whitman?
I didn't buy the new MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. I have the original release, and the new one is supposed to be sharper and with better color..
I danced in the 70s. I do not indulge in that past time any longer. If it was the 1940s and there was real dancing I might change my opinion but jiggering around the dance floor to "house music" which sounds like the same 2 notes sampled and repeated endlessly is not my idea of dancing.
I hate house music; it makes me want to bite someone.Especially when they play BKs "I Want To Eat Your Face"
Ooh, I arrived back from lunch and have lovely Amazon.com boxes.Another film that was" Robbed" of an Oscar for its song!
The other has the incredible "Bagdad Cafe"....I just LOVE this movie.
That wasn't GUMNAAM DR Elmore, that was BHOOT BUNGLA (Ghost Mansion).
Yeah, Larry....keep your Bollywood movies and plots straight, will ya?!!!
;)
The drywall man will come on Thursday.
Have you watched these things? It's quite hard to keep them separate. And, much as I hate to say it, DR MBarnum was wrong.
"The end"
Eureka! That's it! I'm done!! Why didn't I think of that?! Brilliant, creative, original -- AND existential.
My conclusion for my paper: "The End" (Mr. P) -- due credit noted on the Works Cited page...
Time to run it off and get it delivered! (as she dances around the study)..
The drywall man will come on Thursday.
Perhaps there should be a "Bollywood Challenge" -- for every Bollywood movie any Hainsie/Kimlet watches, DR MBarnum has to watch a classic American film he has never seen before...which is seemingly "a lot" of them.
;)
I thought "simple and direct" was the way for you to go.
It's clean.
It's finite.
It's wunderbar!
Have you watched these things?
The drywall man will come on Thursday.
Mr. Spirtas has left the premises. Interestingly, "Laura" was discussed, and prior to my reading the suggestion here. Mr. Spirtas will most likely not be at the Courts show - I think he got some kind of gig.
DR MISS KAREN - as a fellow community theatre costumer, do you know how to make seamed stockings? I learned it on YAHOO.
Crazy last few days. I thought I was changing jobs, but happily am not as a new offer came through and I will no longer have to work in Queens. Hooray!!
To me, they're like dazzling light displays. But a little goes a long way.
That's more excitement than we like, isn't it, DakotaCelt.
I really, really DON'T want to know how you know that!!! ;)
I read that due to the Virginia Tech slayings, tomorrow night's new episode of BONES which dealt with the death of a student whose body was found under the bleachers in a gym has been pulled and a rerun substituted. Probably a good idea.
TOD: The Bump.As it happens I transferred my Silver Convention songs to Cd the other day!
Tomovoz can perhaps comment on Penny McLean and her international smash "Lady Bump" and follow-up, "Wizard Bump."
It's on the TV/news ALL the time -- that's Arizona! Go figure -- we're just crazy like that...voyuers! ...watching our prisoners in their pink boxers (and I dont' mean DR Music Guy)
I have noticed that the hall light is old and looks shabby with the new paint job.
I know not the answer to that last question, RP, but for the first the answers are yes and yes. Moving to the Manhattan office.
It was soooooo in character that I was aghast, agape, and agog. At the same time.
Miss Karen - DHS has a job opening for you!
der Brucer
Although, I guess DR MusicGuy is our little HHW Prisoner of Love... :-*
Crazy last few days. I thought I was changing jobs, but happily am not as a new offer came through and I will no longer have to work in Queens. Hooray!!
I beg to differ, DR MBarnum! You posted the West Side Zorro photo yourself!
I've already loaded the Hugo and Luigi mix onto my Ipod. The Beer Cd is great so far. I want the track listing for that.will email that.
DR Elmore, what has that shaking head dance have to do with West Side Story? You are just confused. The West Side Story dance is from that ghost comedy movie. It would appear to me that you need to be watching those movies again....and again...and again...and again...just like I do.
As it happens I transferred my Silver Convention songs to Cd the other day!
"Fly Robin Fly.
and another smash he produced "Have I the Right?" by the Honeycombs.
Perhaps there should be a "Bollywood Challenge" -- for every Bollywood movie any Hainsie/Kimlet watches, DR MBarnum has to watch a classic American film he has never seen before...which is seemingly "a lot" of them.
;)
will email that.
15 beers ago is Ben Colder,
I know not the answer to that last question, RP, but for the first the answers are yes and yes. Moving to the Manhattan office.
Well there are other little Indias. Mini India on Lexington and the 26th. And Mini-little India down near the East Village.
The prisoners out here wear black/white stripes. And pink underwear.Vertical stripes or horizontal?
I love that play!
DR edisaurus, did you ever move to your new home? Weren't you planning on moving? Is the Frasier Street address still good?
How come no one told me this before.
Ben Colder is Mr Purple People Eater Sheb Wooley.
How come no one told me this before.
Perhaps they wanted to surprise you upon your return?
I need to go to bed. I only caught up to the top of page 17 of yesterday's posts, so I'll have to go back to that when I get a chance. ::)
Good night, all!
They are more Indian-food oriented. The DVD selection is nowhere near what Queens's Little India has to offer.
Does anyone know what I could use to fake a prison uniform? I would just get one, except that I can only find them in sizes ten times too large.
Stripes:
...but I will certainly be wanting to eat some Indian while I am in NY!I do hope you are referring to Indian cuisine.
DR Tomovoz, did you ever listen to Loving Repeating? Did you love it? :)I thought "Loving Repeating" was a gem. Great listening and certainly no need for visuals.
I thought "Loving Repeating" was a gem. Great listening and certainly no need for visuals.
I received my DVD of "A Man Of No Importance" this week. A beautiful film and I like the musical version very much indeed
Which Bollywood movie has the West Side Story dance?
Which Bollywood movie has the West Side Story dance?
I will certainly be wanting to eat some Indian while I am in NY!
I think I see a picture of Alton Brown!!!
Around here such a photo can cause as much excitement as a photo of John Kander!! Where else on all the internet, I ask you?
Strange as its Seams - my new line of weird pantyhose
...Here's my handsome drywall man with someone you may recognize...Hmmm... they make a cute couple!
...
BHOOT BUNGLA...that black and white one starring comedian MEHMOOD which has the song Twist Karan and the cool big dance number towards the end of the film that starts outside a haunted house and then has a whole bunch of little kiddies dancing and singing with Mehmood around a giant slide.
You wrote about it in the notes a couple of years ago.
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Strange as its Seams - my new line of weird pantyhose
Time to get tonight's din-din prepared.
Nothing fancy, just good ol' hamburger stroganoff.
From scratch, not from a box, natch.
By the way, JRand - A is indeed A.
I'm working my way through that third section of the book...
Dear DR Cason -- I have a very complete book of South Pacific, even including some of the wonderful instrumental stuff..... but I've gone and looked twice now, and it isn't in my regular music files?? Somehow, about a year and a half ago, a bunch of my music went missing.
I'm sorry I can't help.... :(
A little of Mehmood goes a LONG way for me.
Question:
Does anyone have the sheet music to "There Is Nothing Like A Dame" in PDF format...or perhaps anyone in the LA area has it to copy?
Use "drywall" in a sentence:
After the adult film festival, there wasn't a dry wall in the house.
I watched THE DEPARTED this afternoon.... I see dead people...LOTS of dead people.
Ooh, I arrived back from lunch and have lovely Amazon.com boxes.
One has the first season of "Popular", a TV show that aired two seasons.
The other has the incredible "Bagdad Cafe"....I just LOVE this movie.
Chain mail cod pieces?
But before I leave, I feel I have to clarify something.......
"Pink" is indeed my exterior signature color ....shirts, socks, etc. But as far as the under things.....I'm so masculine that you could just plotz! And I know that is hard to believe.
Any public (or LACC?) library in one of the Rodgers&Hammerstein song books or SOUTH PACIFIC vocal selections.
I never said West Side Story; I called the opening number in the gold 1960s Dance-at-the-Gym dresses and the masks in GUMNAAM the West Side Zorro number.
MBarnum, have seen WATER yet?
Oh. Well, does that mean I never sent you a copy of BHOOT BUNGLA? I will have to rectify that.Mother of God, don't send it!
Why does the Mehmood-Johar combo remind me of ISHTAR?
Will we never get to page fifteen?
I do hope you are referring to Indian cuisine.
!
[choke]
!!
[spit take]
!!!
[snot bubbles]
He-he-he-he-he!
I've never seen "Ishtar." Should I?
I have been smelling smoke all afternoon and evening.
But before I leave, I feel I have to clarify something.......
"Pink" is indeed my exterior signature color ....shirts, socks, etc. But as far as the under things.....I'm so masculine that you could just plotz! And I know that is hard to believe.
God has a mother???
Sanjaya was so horrible it defies description. ......
I'm confused and intrigued. When MBarnum wrote. "I will certainly be wanting to eat some Indian while I am in NY!" - I assumed he was fully aware of his own entendre, double, single or otherwise, and thought it was quite amusing.
But some of the subsequent comments seem to react to it as if MBarnum didn't intend the joke.
Maybe there are more important things to be wodnering about, but this fascinates me for some reason.
I have been smelling smoke all afternoon and evening.
Do they burn witches in Prescott?
der Brucer
or Harry Potter books?
What genius did TNT get to do the CLOSER teasers for next season (with the "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone" soundtrack)
Good Evening!
I arrived a few minutes just past the half hour call.
Whew!
Edi, let me know if you ever come to Fargo....
How are you feeling tonight, DR Jose? Are you GERD-ing your loins?
Edi, I just noted that you edited Daughters of the Dust....
A professor has that film on reserve here at hte library. I took a peak and it is a very interesting film.
Anyway, she's a friend of mine so I will pass on your compliments!
OH!!! Before I go...
I did catch "American Idol" courtesy of the DVR...
What the heck was up with that out of tune(!!!!!!!) violin?!?!?!?! And why didn't the judges say anything about it when they were critiquing Chris R.? You could tell he was trying to match his pitch to the violin... then he wasn't... then he was again... :-\
Can you imagine how OLD that makes me feel?
The young producers I work with at Turner often tell me they studied this film in college, either in Film History, African-American or Women's Studies. Can you imagine how OLD that makes me feel? Creeeeeaaaaakkk!
And it was chosen for the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Creeeeeeaaaaaakkk!
I was just checking to see on here first - but I'll most likely make a trip to the library tomorrow or Thursday if need be. :)
Hi DR dear Cason.... someone may have already mentioned this... but one of the best resources that I used to use alot when I lived in Hollywood, was the public library on (and I'm not sure anymore) but Ivar, or one of those small "north-south" streets, south of Hollywood Blvd., maybe around Selma. It's the "Hollywood branch" of the library. And they always had a wonderfully complete section of full conductor scores of shows from the 20s and 30s, up through (when I was there) the 60s.
First there is a mountain...then there is no mountain...then there is.
I'm confused and intrigued. When MBarnum wrote. "I will certainly be wanting to eat some Indian while I am in NY!" - I assumed he was fully aware of his own entendre, double, single or otherwise, and thought it was quite amusing.
But some of the subsequent comments seem to react to it as if MBarnum didn't intend the joke.
Maybe there are more important things to be wodnering about, but this fascinates me for some reason.
I've never seen "Ishtar." Should I?
;)
No one else logged in...odd
ND no longer has mountains, the mountain removal project was finished years ago in ND...