Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 1 => Topic started by: bk on January 31, 2004, 12:06:53 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you've understood the notes, you've been note-ified, and therefore, you are hereby notified to post until the cows come home.
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First post! Huzzah!
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DR KERRY - DR NOEL is correct, Montgomery Ward sent me a bathtub and crosscut saw!
"Wells Fargo Wagon" is one of my favorite songs in one of my favorite shows. When I staged it a couple of years ago, I took a page from the movie book and had two little kids do the first 16 measures (the chorus repeated it) and it was great.....Dane Van Paris and his sister Alix were so funny....Dane was 4 at the time and he was swinging his arms and tapping his foot to get the beat and NEVER missed his lyric entrance! ;D ;D And a couple of years later he was a great Pud in On Borrowed Time! :'(
I will tell another Music Man story - of another production - later today if anyone is interested.
Well many opinions and differences of opinions about knowing or not knowing before you see a musical. I always read everything I can - sometimes knowing keeps you from being confused, because sometimes the performers - the lyrics - the actions - SOMETHING keeps you from understanding what you just saw. I can see wanting to be surprised, but as DRJose said, many of us see a musical more than once. And sometimes I see or hear something differently! ::)
MR BK - I think I will check out this movie you mentioned, it sounds fascinating. I just ordered the Cocteau 3-DVD set, so it will have to wait a bit.
Pantheon Performances:
VERY DIFFICULT
And I will cheat and do two of each: (totally subjective of course)
Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate
Olivia deHavilland in The Heiress
Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr Chips
Kenneth Branagh Henry V
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Two more Pantheon Performances:
Boris Karloff as the "dear old monster" in Frankenstein.
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.
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Yesterday, MattH wrote that:
<<Can I just say that James Fransiscus was one of the great beauties of his day? Good lord, that man was Adonis.>>
Yes, he was an Adonis, if a rather runty one. Check out how he's dwarfed by Charlton Heston in Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Good Lord, Heston was at least a head and a half taller than Mr. Fransiscus. (Didn't Mr. Fransiscus die of lung cancer brought on by chainsmoking?)
About The Valley of Gwangi. When I was a runty lad myself, my two favorite film genres were westerns and dinosaur movies. Just imagine the rejoicing in my runty lad's heart when this movie came out, which had both cowboys and dinosaurs in it. Ninety minutes of heaven, my friend, ninety minutes of heaven. (I always loved the scene in which Gwangi gets revealed to the audience at the arena, and he's gobbling down that little guy. Talk about a show stopper!) Oh, and the score by Jerome Moross is just plain terrific!
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DRMATTH - you MUST see Youngblood Hawke!
I taped it from television MANY years ago, and I will see if my copy can be copied!
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It's a shame they shaved his chest for "Youngblood Hawke." And there's nothing wrong with short!!!!!!!!
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td - send me your snail mail address.
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I'll have to work on Pantheon performances. Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue in "Summer Place" perhaps? :>D
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Pantheon performances:
Judy Garland in A STAR IS BORN
Bette Davis in ALL ABOUT EVE
Anne Bancroft in THE MIRACLE WORKER
Richard Burton in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
Jack Lemmon in SOME LIKE IT HOT
Monty Woolley in THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
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Pantheon performances:
Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
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Dear Reader Matt H--
GMTLA, at least on one of your female Pantheon-nominated performances.
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Thanks Noel and others for helping me the other day with "Wells Fargo Wagon."
Now, if only I could get my raisins from Fresno.
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Isn't THE MUSIC MAN one of the most enjoyable musicals to just sit down and listen to? The wonderful mix of ballads and up tempo tunes, the marches, the comedy numbers, the barbershop singing. It's a great, great score.
How unfair that it and WEST SIDE STORY had to compete against each other at the Tonys that year. Argh!
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Yes, DR Jay, we were on the same Valhalla cloud at that moment! :D
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Speaking of James Franciscus, who has seen MAROONED that he did with Gregory Peck, David Janssen, and Richard Crenna (among other hunky men of the perod)? I have to confess I've never seen it, but it's gratifying to know thatg it's on DVD and that I can watch it at some point.
I hated it when Hollywood producers made male stars shave their chests. Seeing William Holden all hairy and hunky in STALAG 13 and then all waxed and smooth in PICNIC is sickening.
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MAROONED!
I have made your Youngblood Hawke tape DR MATTH - and I am putting a surprise second feature on....something rarely shown on TV and OOP on VHS and NOT on DVD!
Email me your snail mail address....thanks td...got yours!
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Good morning all!
Well the weather man was right for a change and we do indeed still have rain and I guess that means wet roads until tomorrow afternoon. Good sleeping weather--I didn't wake up one time.
What is it about a gentle rain on the roof that lulls you to sleep?
I love The Music Man also. Another play I can say I did at one time. :-) I got to sing the "And a double boiler" line. It was my first "speaking" part on stage.
Have a good day all!
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All those great solo lines in Wells Fargo are so great! I was "raisins from Fresno" once as well....and another time...I was the horse pulling the Wells Fargo Wagon! Although come to think about it now - it would have been funny if the horse had sung that line.....Wiiiiilllllbuurrrrrrrrr! ;D
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Yes.... Florence is a doll... I'm so looking foward to seeing her...
Seriously, out of curiousity, does anyone know if it's cheaper to fly to Rome, Paris, or London?
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Pantheonic Performances:
Toshiro Mifune: THRONE OF BLOOD
Marlon Brando: LAST TANGO IN PARIS
Vivien Leigh: GONE WITH THE WIND
Janice Rule: 3 WOMEN
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LOL, Jrand--did you have to have a pony tail?
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Shoot, I hit post before I was ready.
I had one of the Mr. Ed puppets when I was kid. The kind where you pulled the sting and Ed "spoke" lines like: "My girlfriend has a pony tail" and "My shoes are good luck". I loved that thing. Wish I could remember what happened to it.
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Here's a contest for Saturday.....no sparkling prizes....but who knows what guesses we can come up with.
Here he is at 2 1/2 years of age. He would be a film star in the 1950's and a television star in the 1960's up until today.
Who is it? *DRMBarnum you already know, so you can't guess!
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LOL DRDanise...yes I did!
DR ANDREA check at Orbitz.com they usually have fares listed for everywhere.....looks like all your destinations are between $550 and $700....
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LOL DR JRand53, he hasn't changed much has he!
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bk, thanks for the report on Ikiru. I have always been curious about that film and I might have to pick it up.
Pantheon performances:
Barbara Stanwyck in NO MAN OF HER OWN and/or MIRACLE WOMAN
Joan Crawford in MILDRED PIERCE
Shirley McClaine in THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
June Kenney in ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (LOL!)
ladies and gentlemen...MISS JUNE KENNEY
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Woops, I think June put us into Regalscope!
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MBarnum, can you please resize June and shrink her as she was in the film so we can be normal again. Thank you.
Mr. Franz
Apparently MBarnum is not capable of shrinking June, so I'm afraid I'll have to shrink her into oblivion.
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No not much!
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Phone listing:
Dolls Incorporated AX - 5701
We lost June!
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Page one is now in its proper ratio.
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Is Lassie in LASSIE COME HOME considered a male performance or a female performance?
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And may I just ask a simple question? Where in tarnation IS everyone? You'd think this was a Saturday.
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I'm leaving now to get a haircut. Isn't that exciting? Isn't that too too?
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I'm leaving now to get a haircut. Isn't that exciting? Isn't that too too?
Any hair in paricular?
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I keep remembering Dolly Parton's answer when a member of her audience asked how long it took the hairdresser to do her hair....
Dolly replied: "I don't know, I'm never there when she does it!" ;D
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Jay good luck! Hair today, gone tomorrow!
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Also, I'm happy to welcome the darling daughter (JB) to our family of registered users. I don't know that she'll be online all that often, but I've just e-mailed her a tutorial on how to use our new board.
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I am now off to buy some of Tuesday's DVDs. It's a heavy week - all these Warner titles like Gaslight and such (truth be told there are no real must-haves in this batch - I'm on the fence about picking up the new My Fair Lady because the old transfer is excellent and I just don't love the movie). I'll let you know what I've got when I get back.
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When I was in The Music Man, I got a box of maple sugar on my birthday. I remember having to PUSH through the crowd of kids who wanted to be at the front of the stage to be seen. They kept telling them that they HAD to move backwards during one line, because the soloists had to get to the front, but they never did. During one rehearsal, one girl stuck her foot out in front of me, and I tripped. They put her in the back for the rest of the number!
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It's a rule DRSarah....it happens in every production!
Some people don't understand that the director and or choreographer made a CONSCIOUS decision to put them in the back! :P
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Speaking of James Franciscus, who has seen MAROONED that he did with Gregory Peck, David Janssen, and Richard Crenna (among other hunky men of the perod)?
I have two words for Marooned: Beau Wring. Seriously, don't bother; it's incredibly tedious.
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True, DR RobinAnderson - but lots of nice actors earning a paycheck!
No guesses yet on the photo?
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Is Lassie in LASSIE COME HOME considered a male performance or a female performance?
How was Linda Hunt nominated? Lassie would be handled the same way I think....performer of one sex portraying a character of the other. 8)
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Like Streep as the little old rabbi...
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Hey - is anyone here in LA who can play the Queen of the Night's Vengeance aria for me today or tomorrow??? I'm in a spot. It's a paying gig...
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Good morning. Favorite performances (And this is what comes to mind this morning. Ask me this afternoon and the list wouldn't be the same)...
Montgomery Clift in anything. I love(d) Montgomery Clift. Perhaps FROM HERE TO ETERNITY or RAINTREE COUNTY (where his beautiful face is forever changed mid-movie - or earlier - haven't seen it in years), in his bit in JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG where he just breaks your heart.
I like Laurence Harvey in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE; Ray Milland in LOST WEEKEND; Gene Kelly in SINGING IN THE RAIN...
Female performances... A few I can think of right now: Naomi Watts in MULHOLLAND DRIVE. Lee Remmick in DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES; Jeanne Morreau in JULES ET JIM; Simone Signoret in ROOM AT THE TOP, Diane Keaton in ANNIE HALL.
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the Queen of the Night's Vengeance aria for me today or tomorrow??? I'm in a spot. It's a paying gig...
Wow. I'm impressed you can sing that, Penny! Hope you find an accompanist. Where would you be performing it?
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Penny, I sent you a private message about an accompanist. let me know if you don't get it - or email me. I have a phone number for you.
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I bought Marooned on DVD and didn't last forty minutes - it's really bad.
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BK, been listening to GUY HAINES: A WONDERFUL GUY. Though Guy Haines may not have the biggest voice in the world, or the richest, most dulcet tones, to me it's a perfect voice, one I love and respect more and more with every hearing. It executes a song with simplicity, directness, clarity, and nice phrasing. No frills or trills, no interpolating arias into the composer's melodies just to show off the instrument. It serves the song; finds its heart and emotion and wit and just makes the listener feel good. He also has excellent song selection. I've, who have always thought of myself as a pretty song archeologist, have found more good songs this past year just by listening to Guy Haines' albums...not just by discovering ones I'd never known about, but also by reassessing old ones through Mr. Haines' lovely interpretations. Thanks for bringing this unique artist to my attention.
The lovely wife feels the same way...and she especially loves the Everybody Wants to Be Sondheim song. Everybody wants to finish the hat, indeed!
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Hey - is anyone here in LA who can play the Queen of the Night's Vengeance aria for me today or tomorrow??? I'm in a spot. It's a paying gig...
I can't play it for you but I can sing it for you. Of course, my rendition would make Florence Foster Jenkins sound like Lily Pons, but that's another story.
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My strange Panatheon:
Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ruth Gordon – Rosemary’s Baby
Bette Davis – Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Jason Robards – A Thousand Clowns
Jackie Gleason – A Soldier in the Rain
Red Buttons – Sayonara
IF TV Counts:
Olympia Dukakis – Tales of the City
der Brucer (Fletcher made me so detest Nurse Ratched, that I carried that "hate" emotion over into other times when I saw her perform - she was still giving me the willies when she guested in Deep Space Nine)
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Now - from Mars!
(http://www.foxnews.com/images/115065/3_21_013104_mars1.jpg)
Follow the Dusty Red Tracks.
Follow Dusty Red Tracks, follow the Dusty Red, follow the Dusty Red Tracks
You're off to see the Princess, The Beautiful Princess of Mars.
der Brucer (with apologies to DR Pogue)
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Pogue - I shall pass on your lovely post to Mr. Haines.
Some of my pantheon performances - Of course I'm adding Mr. Shimura from Ikiru - an astonishing performance. Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, Mr. Peck in Mockingbird, Miss Bancroft and Miss Duke (especially the latter) in The Miracle Worker, Mr. Bogart in Casablanca, Mr. Claude Rains in Notorious, Mr. John Wayne in The Searchers, Mr. Joel McCrea and Mr. Randolph Scott in Ride the High Country, Mr. Holden and Miss Swanson in Sunset Blvd., Mr. Preston in The Music Man, Mr. Chaplin in City Lights, Katherine Hepburn in Long Day's Journey into Night (WHERE IS THE DVD), Cary Grant in North by Northwest, James Stewart in Vertigo and Rear Window, Bette Davis in Baby Jane, and I'm sure I'll think of a hundred more shortly.
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Wow. I'm impressed you can sing that, Penny! Hope you find an accompanist. Where would you be performing it?
Garry Marshall's Falcon is mounting a kids' version, and I'd love to work there. Monday is the audition. I used to scream the bejesus out of that song, years ago, in my oh-ain't-she-just-the-opera-diva days... ps - thanks for the ref.
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BK, I would have chosen Wayne in THE SEARCHERS & McCrea & Scott from RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY as well. Also Errol Flynn in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD for its sheer swashbuckling exuberance. O'Toole in so many films.
My wife is giving a shower for a friend this afternoon. I must escape...I think I shall flee to the wilds of Pasadena for a few hours...hunt some books, pay a visit to Canterbury Records, perhaps visit a paper show at the Elks Lodge. O! What frolics and misadventures I shall partake of!
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ps - thanks for the ref.
You're welcome. Hope it works out.
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.hunt some books, pay a visit to Canterbury Records, perhaps visit a paper show at the Elks Lodge. O! What frolics and misadventures I shall partake of!
Sometimes it's SO nice not to have a deadline looming.
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What kind of paper show?
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Oh, and this is a DVD release week not for the meek or timid. I glanced at about seventy new releases today, out of which I chose a few, including the new SE of Planet of the Apes and My Fair Lady, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Ziegfeld, Return to Oz (happiness - enhanced for widescreen TVs!), and a couple of others, including Mr. Hubert Cornfield's supremely surreal Pressure Point with Sidney Potier and Bobby Darin. Even though MGM/UA continues to do these 1:66 movies non-enhanced which, to my mind, makes them reprehensible, I am happy to see that there is a full-length audio commentary from Mr. Cornfield, a truly unique director.
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Talk to me not of deadlines! I have yet another note session on Monday...a little diversion is demanded as the order of the day before once must toil in harness yet again.
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I'm not sure...if it's just postcards and magazine clippings, I'll be making a quick exit. But I often find these things have old magazines and ocassional books. I saw it listed in Weekly. It's the Elks Lodge on Colorado, I believe, right there where it begins, as you come off that first exit.
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How about George C. Scott in "Patton" for a pantheon performance ... actually I'm not sure what you mean by "pantheon performance," but I gave it a shot.
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Pantheon: Dirk Bogarde in "Death In Venice", Maggie Smith in "Travels With My Aunt". James Dean in "East Of Eden".
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I have to leave now to go into work today to finish up some stuff then tonight I'm going to be ushering for a concert by jazz singer Dianne Reeves. I've heard a couple of her CDs and she's very good. It'll be a fun evening!
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Also, I bought (with my income tax refund money--a pure impulse buy) a pair of binoculars with a digital camera attached! The few test pictures that I've taken are totally blurry. Hopefully I'll be able to steady my hand and maybe (shhh! don't tell anyone) take pictures of Dianne during the concert. If not, at least I finally have a great pair of binoculars.
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What? No one has yet mentioned Rosalind Russell as Auntie Mame!
Harrison Ford, in any of the Indiana Jones movies.
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Add to the list:
Julie Andrews, The Sound of Music
Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus
Anthony Perkins, Psycho
Bert Lahr, The Wizard of Oz
Gene Wilder, Young Frankenstein...steen...
And I'd personally add
William Daniels, 1776
and Steve McQueen, The Great Escape (although others would probably say Bullitt)
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FIFTY TO GO!!!
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Too late to ask Mr Brockman senior as to the whereabouts of young Craig who has not posted since January 1st. Has he emigrated?
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If you include Steve McQueen you have to mention Butterfly McQueen in all her films as well.
BK - Which "Return toOz" did you get? The animated one with the voices of Liza, Merman et. al. or the live action Disney from the mid-80s?
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Butterfly riding a motorbike. Great scene.
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DR Danise: If you happen to hit "post" before you are ready, you are still able to fix it, by modifying your post (use the modify button you will see for YOUR posts only).
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DRTOMOVOZ thanks for the CD. I tried to email you but it came back to me.....
Anyway...I had that album when it first came out - even before I bought the soundtrack! I wore it out playing it and playing it....and now I have it again. THANKS!!!
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Only one WRONG guess on the mystery photo!
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JRand: I am impressed with International mail services this week. Was that only 5 or 6 days?
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I guess the actor was a child movie star JRand but I can't think of anyone old enough in TV today. But then we don't get every American TV show. Bill Bixby was my first thought or even Peter Boyle but I don't know enough about either.
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To the Pantheon I would add Jack Lemmon in The Apartment, Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday, and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot.
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Just remembered Jack. That Cd was posted on January 27 OZ time. Today is February 1st. Amazing.
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Craig has been spoken to but he is simply to busy for the likes of the website that MADE him. However, he still is helping out with getting the occasional Juliana's Journal up, and the Unseemly Interviews up.
I think the Liza Oz is Journey back to Oz, but maybe I'm wrong. In any case, what I got is Disney's Return to Oz which was formerly available on Anchor Bay but not enhanced for widescreen TVs. The film is a guilty pleasure of mine, and is worthwhile to get if just for the David Shire score, which is amazing.
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Craig certainly is not in the Land of OZ..although you never know about Craig.
He's been very busy , I gather.
Since the beginning of the year? That is truly amazing.
I will speak to the lad and ask him to post haste!!
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Thanks BK & Arnold.
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Almost an hour between posts: I have been busy listening to such delights as Sophia Loren singing "Bing Bang Bong". I have such an exciting Sundays.
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Good afternoon!
I'm back home in Richmond, and about to head out to dinner... with a cocktail, beer, and/or a glass (or bottle) of wine... or two.
What a crazy weekend!?!?!?!?!
I'll post details later....
Oh, but as a teaser - I got my car started... But now it won't stop running - ?!?!?!?!
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We don't like an hour between posts. An hour between posts leads to bitch-slapping. First off, with a mere twenty-five more posts we reach 24,000 posts.
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I also like RETURN TO OZ and its score, but, there's also Piper Laurie who should be considered for the Acting Pantheon for her work in THE HUSTLER and CARRIE.
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THE MUSIC MAN... How unfair that it and WEST SIDE STORY had to compete against each other at the Tonys that year. Argh!
While I say how unfair that we can't get 2 shows of this quality in five or ten seasons now, let alone one!
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td: Where is your evil twin lurking these days?
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No TOMOVOZ....not either of those.
Here is picture number 2. Our mystery man at age 5!
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Hey is that Jane? Aren't you out of town?
Okay I will post. Because I don't want BK to come here and beat me (although I highly doubt he'd venture into these frigid temperatures).
I just realized something so funny and I thought I'd share.
Has anyone ever told a friend/boyfriend that they were mad about something and had them ask "what do you mean?" I never realized until now that this person always asks me to elaborate (basically playing dumb). And I just found out why. Cause he doesn't want to confess in case I'm not mad about what he thinks I'm mad about.
Brilliant :)
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Oh DR Emily: did you see the next big English language musical coming to our fair city?
It's in the Gazette today (back of Entertainment section): SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER!!
Woohoo :)
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Everyone went on a vacation? Enough break already. I'm going out jogging and I hope there will be some posts for my mental delectation on my return because I will need a divertissement.
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Oh DR Emily: did you see the next big English language musical coming to our fair city?
It's in the Gazette today (back of Entertainment section): SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER!!
Woohoo :)
Good. Lord.
I have made a promise to myself that I will no longer fork over huge amounts of money for substandard fare at Place des Arts. Clearly, SNF coming is proof that God likes my way of thinking :D
Tomorrow I am going to a QandA session for my class on Canadian Church History with the composer and performers of Quebecité a jazz opera which examines multiculturalism in Quebec. From what I have heard, it is very interesting (and is sung in French, English and Hindi). I am looking forward to it...
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I watched a dvd today: Uptown Girl (with Brit Murphy).
Gotta run. Everyone post!
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Hey Jennifer, did you hear about the production group that did the French language premiere of Chicago at last year's Juste pour rire fest is following it up with this summer?
RENT - Le musicale :)
Now THAT might draw me (especially if it ISN'T at PdesA)!!!
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Want to contribute to the slow march towards 24,000 with some good news. After all the sturm und drang, today in the mail arrived...My corrected GREEN CARD! About six months sooner than expected (if at all). I guess my letter scared 'em real good.
So thanks for the offers of marriage, but I can stay in the US of A regardless. (I'll still consider a proposal or two, though. Much more fun to be legal AND married. So keep 'em coming.)
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I can hear it now...
"on sorrrrrrttttt ce soir!" ;)
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Panni can you move to Vermont so that I can marry you and get your Green Card privileges?
;)
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td: Where is your evil twin lurking these days?
Well, since you asked. . .
DR Evil Twin needs all of the good vibes we dear readers can offer.
The Monday following her cabaret performance, her mother (who has been suffering from dementia for many years) broke her hip. Janet trekked to Rochester, NY, to be at her mother's side.
Only Thursday, I receieve more saddening news from the Fanale family: Janet's mother, in addition to the dementia and the broken hip, has come down with a drastic case of pneumonia.
Don't know that DR Evil Twin will object to my passing this information on, but, she does need prayers, good thoughts and most especially:
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]GOOD VIBES[/move]
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Good vibes to Janet at such a difficult time.
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Good vibes to DR Janet.
DR Emily: Can you send me the info about the french performance of Rent. I love Rent and would definitely see it. I can't even imagine how great it might be in French.
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Panni can you move to Vermont so that I can marry you and get your Green Card privileges?
;)
I don't think the Dept. of Homeland Security is quite that forward thinking, DR Emily. Anyway, you're too young for me.
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This is a stupid question - but how can you tell what # post we are at overall? I don't see anything on the individual posts, so where do you look?
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I am watching 'The Lawrence Welk Show' on PBS. I have no reason or excuse. It's comforting to know some things will NEVER change.
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Never mind (an Emily Litella reference) - I see where the number of posts show up.
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And only four more after this one will bring us to 24,000...
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So Mr BK is out jogging now huh?
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Well, I was even more pathetic than usual today. I could only do a mile and then because of the heavy wind and my really sore legs (from my first jog on Thursday) I had to stop. I did walk briskly for another mile and a half so at least I got some decent exercise.
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It's quite windy. He may wind up in Oz... or Kansas... or Pasadena.
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Good vibes to DR Janet.
DR Emily: Can you send me the info about the french performance of Rent. I love Rent and would definitely see it. I can't even imagine how great it might be in French.
I have the German cast recording of RENT. Isn't that cool? Isn't that just too too!
Last year a touring company performed "La Boheme" (the opera) at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts and in the same season Rent was supposed to come as well. The powers that be at the center were able to plan it that way. Anyhoo, the Rent tour cancelled all of their performances that they were going to give in Washington State after something happened (I don't know what) in some city on the eastern side of the state (I'm sure that the Eastern Washington HHW contingent had nothing to do with it). Well, at least they got over it because later this year, the tour is coming to the Washington Center...not in the same season with "La Boheme" as was originally planned, but at least it's coming.
24,000th POST!!!
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Now, I must get back to work...then I leave to usher for Dianne Reeves!
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Congrats on 24,000! Way cool.
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24,000, yet another milestone for haineshisway.com. Congrats. Now, let's have a festive Saturday evening. Hopefully Pogue will post about the paper show he attended.
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GOOD VIBES to Janet!
Yes, DR's, I will admit it here tonight! I have been a Polka Champion. Yes, I have two Polka trophies. Yes my partner and I were chosen above others in the dancing of the POLKA!!!
For exercise and aerobic workout I recommend The Polka!
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If we do not get a correct answer in our Mystery Star contest - I will post another photo on page five!
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If we do not get a correct answer in our Mystery Star contest - I will post another photo on page five!
I know who he is! I know who he is! But I am not allowed! LOL! Maybe you need to give a few more hints JRand53...I know that a large amount of DRs know this person!
By the way, had a lovely day, which unfortunately made me E & T for most of Saturday. George from South Beach came up and we went to breakfast and then to a vintage car auction (we both love old cars...he has a 65 Mustang and a 55 Plymouth). Then we dug around a few thrift shops, came home and had some lunch and watched William Castle's I SAW WHAT YOU DID! Very nice day :D
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BK, sorry about the HUGE June Kenney pic on page one. I couldn't figure out how to fix it!
Here it is again, in a proper size!
Ladies and Gentlemen...Ms. June Kenney
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The best of vibes to Janet td. Thnaks for letting us know.
Congratulations Panni on being carded again.
George: Guess I would enjoy "Rent" in German just as much as in English.
So that's your secret Jack. Were you wearing a beer barrel?
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Heartfelt good thoughts to Janet and her mother.
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My sincere good vibes and thoughts to DR Janet and her mother.
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No I didn't, DRTOMOVOZ - but I am sure the sordid details can be found here, along with photos, videos, and costumes! 8)
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Come on folks....here is 13 year old Carmen Orrico! ;D
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Evening all!
My very best vibes/thoughts to both Janet and her mother.
It rained all day. I went out shopping anyway. I don't do that but I had some things I was so looking forward to so I went anyway.
I stopped off and got Moo Gui Gai Pan or Mooie Gooie Gi Pan as I call it. I have to tell you what my cookie said--"When winter comes, heaven will rain success on you.". Wellllll it sure has been raining here!
I did watch "Cowboy U" last night and I have a question for you, Bruce but I may be able to answer it myself. If they are showing the episodes back to back, why did they bother to make them half hour shows? Is it because (and here's the part where I might be answering my own question) if they go to re-runs they could fit them into a smaller time slot?
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Anyhoo, the Rent tour cancelled all of their performances that they were going to give in Washington State after something happened (I don't know what) in some city on the eastern side of the state (I'm sure that the Eastern Washington HHW contingent had nothing to do with it).
When in doubt, blame Yakima! :D That's what we on this side of the state do.
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I have just returned from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dear Readers. Today's concert was part of the Berlioz festival they have been doing over the past few weeks to (belatedly) mark the bicentennial of the composer's birth. The program featured the Symphonie Fantastique and an obscure companion piece called Lelio. An avant garde theatre company, Complicite, was invited to expand on the music.
It was a noble experiment, but it really did not work. The Complicite touches included various projections--including a Warhol-like film of someone sleeping (perhaps it was supposed to be Mr. Berlioz dreaming)--on a scrim in front of the orchestra, various lighting effects, instruments floating from the orchestra toward the ceiling and several actors/dancers seated with the orchestra doing stylized movements now and then.
In reality, no theatrical enhancements of any sort would help Lelio. (There are excellent reasons why it is obscure.) The symphony, of course, needs no help, and I found the theatrical touches distracting rather than illuminating.
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All this talk of moo goo gai pan the past few days keeps making my think of my cousin, Morgan, whose familial nickname has long been MooGoo.
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Der Brucer and I have returned from a wonderful day of shopping. We have found ourselves a wonderful butcher, a wonderful baker, and a wonderful...no, sorry, a wonderful fishmonger! (So much for stereotypes.) And they're all next door to each other, which is wonderfully convenient! And I now have a quart of wonderful duck fat in the fridge.
If you have to ask, don't.
We also stopped by a wonderful restaurant downtown called Espuma, but only for drinks. They're owned by the same people that own the bakery, which got der Brucer's curiosity going. They also have a catering business, and a more casual restaurant called Sir Guy's (currently being remodelled). Espuma is a Mediterranean themed restaurant with Moroccan overtones; Sir Guy's is Caribbean in style.
I could easily gain weight in this town! :D
(Doing my part to keep us from running an hour between posts!)
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Come on folks....here is 13 year old Carmen Orrico! ;D
That's CARMINE!
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No he did not appear on Laverne & Shirley!
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JRand: I have no idea as to costumes that would be worn in Polka competition. I need photographs. (Not necessarily of Lawrence Welk). The only Polka tune that has come to mind is the one from "Romance Romance". Have you read "Accordion Crimes"?
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LOL....no I have not read - or committed - any Accordian Crimes. Just use your imagination and then add a bit more rick rack and you got the costumes.
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James Darren?
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Come on folks....here is 13 year old Carmen Orrico! ;D
Or a prepubescent John Saxon!
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James Darren?
"A TV star to today?" I don't think so.
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DR Janet - [move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Good Vibes [/move] to you and your mom.
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Say.....How's Archie-in-Toronto doing?
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I'd say John Saxon as well.
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Good evening all. Sorry to have been E&T today. I am visiting my family and friends in eburg. It is currently snowing like all get out over here. Tonight I shall probably be spending time with friends, so I shall rely on my other washingtonians to keep up the posts!
Oh, and many many good vibes to DR Janet and her mother
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DR Emily, I found this link for the french version of Rent. I can't believe tix are on sale already. I want to see this!
Btw, I know nothing about this theatre.
http://www.hahaha.com/rent/?l=en-ca
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It sure looks like John Saxon. But he's not a TV star... A conundrum.
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I've already told my not very interesting John Saxon story ( a while back). But if anyone missed it I'll be happy to retell. All to keep me from going back to writing. Save me!
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"A TV star to today?" I don't think so.
I know little about American TV shows Jay but I do know that Darren was in Melrose Place and Deep Space Nine in the late 90's so I'm not that far out!
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I first thought that it was Robert Blake. . .but, what do I know from baby pictures?!?!?!?
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Sorry to mislead...he is a star to me LOL. ;D
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DR JRand - - please check your email. :-X
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I know little about American TV shows Jay but I do know that Darren was in Melrose Place and Deep Space Nine in the late 90's so I'm not that far out!
Oooops. I was reading too quickly and I thought you had said Bobby Darrin. Mea culpa.
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No, Jay, Bobby Darin is dead, and Sandra Dee has been arrested - again!
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Sorry...didn't aim to mislead everyone..... I stand corrected. Sorry TD no sparkling prize. Who do think I am? MR BK, wealthy show business personality?
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DR Jay - Thanks for asking about Archie. He had a checkup yesterday and was given a clean bill of health. But what a scare it was just two and a half weeks ago. I know the strong and caring HHW vibes helped. And Archie was just asking about Roller.
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I will now stand in the corner and promise not to initiate any more contests.
But he did have a role in a movie in 2003 The Road Home.
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When Mary Tyler Moore dropped out of ROSE'S DILEMMA I was disappointed as I already had tickets to see it. Now that I have seen it, I have a question for MTM: didn't you read the script first, and if so how could you have agreed to appear in what has to be the worst thing Neal Simon ever wrote? The cast is excellent, there is a great set and everything about it is first class except Simon's script. Moore would have played a character based on Lillian Hellman (now played by Patricia Hodges) who still sees the ghost of Dashiell Hammet (John Cullum) who had died five years before. He wants her to hire a young writer (David Aaron Baker) to complete the book he was 40 pages from finishing when he died. Her best friend --- who is revealed to be her daughter in Act 2 --- (Geneva Carr) falls in love with the author who writes a book about Lillian and Dashiell instead. They become lovers and in the last scene a dead Lillian is finally reunited with Hammet as a ghost! Now Simon has written plays with bad plots before, but they were usually redeemed by witty dialogue. The dialogue in ROSE'S DILEMMA just lies there like so much fish. The audience barely laughed and the applause at the end was polite at best. Why is it that so many American playwrights run out of steam later in their careers (Williams, Inge, Miller and Hellman herself to name a few).
Did any LA DR see this when it was at the Geffen Playhouse under the title "Rose and Walsh"? How was it and who was in it there? I wonder if all of Simon's re-writting made it better or worse.
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DR WEL - remember what some book writers on a musical project in the late 1960's told William Goldman:
They were trying to make some scenes work and kept rewriting and rewriting and finally proclaimed:
The trouble with washing garbage is - you just end up with more garbage.
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I beg to differ but John Saxon was and is a TV star. Any man who looks that good is beyond a star - he is at least a demi-god.
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Saturday night is the loneliest night of the week...
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Saturday night is the loneliest night of the week...
Now sing it with Kris Kristofferson's growl, and you've got ME watching THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA on a Saturday night.
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Good evening, one and all! Gee, what a crowd, what a crowd. In an effort to finish prior to the start of tomorrow's Super Bowl, I sped-red my way through today's posts, so I may have missed a few things.
Was that a picture of James Darren?
Why did Sandra Dee get arrested -- again?
Did I miss Panni's not-very-interesting John Saxon story?
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Anyway, my sincere good wishes to Janet and her mother.
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Panni, any story about John Saxon would be an interesting one! Please do tell!
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What's so interesting about the Super Bowl when I have already let you know the result TCB?
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I saw Copenhagen on Wednesday. What a superbly written play. It's a tribute to Michael Frayn (who also wrote Noises Off) that it held my interest throughout the evening, given the sometimes strained and distracting staging. Martha Henry - a Stratford luminary who looks a bit like an older Kathleen Turner - gave performance that can best be described as mannered.
On the other hand, I cannot imagine a better production of the Producers than the all-Canadian one at the Canon Theatre. Mel Brooks said it was his favorite outside of New York (Nathan Lane-Matthew Broderick). The staging is brilliant, the sets and costumes are lavish and fresh, and there's not a weak link in the cast. Seán Cullen as Max Bialystock is funny, charming and just manic enough. Michael Therriault (Leo), who's been at Stratford for seven years, is a cross between Gene Wilder and Matthew Broderick. Both leads have great voices, and there's wonderful chemistry between them.
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Somehow, Tommy telling me the south will rise again does not quite constitute revealing the outcome of the game.
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Sometimes my mail gets edited (censored) when it crosses the international date line. I tried. I would mention a Weekend in New England but that's probably not relevant either.
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Panni, any story about John Saxon would be an interesting one! Please do tell!
Sure. It'll be a good thing to do while I take a writing break. I'm now actually re-writing what I wrote earlier today, so that's more fun...
Anyway, here's the story: Back in my acting days, I had a small role, which became almost non-existent after editing, in a slasher-horror film with a pretty good cast (Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin) It was about a killer loose in a sorority house and I was one of the girls living in the house. The detective who came to the house to investigate the killings was to be played by Edmond O'Brien. I was really excited that I was going to meet and be working with this wonderful veteran actor. I had visions of sitting around during lulls, discussing THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA with him...Well, he showed up on set and it was very obvious that Mr. O'Brien was in no shape to work. An immediate emergency replacement was needed and we all wondered who it would be. Lo and behold but who walked in the next day -- Mr. John Saxon. I have to admit that I was more excited by the idea of working with Edmond O'Brien than John Saxon - and I have not one memory or tale of Mr. Saxon. That's why I said my story is not very interesting. And if you watch the movie, don't look for me because if you have the pesky human habit of blinking, you'll miss me. I kept hoping Bob Clark would decide that there needed to be one more murder and I would be it - but no such luck. I just go tot react to all the grizzly discoveries - and most of my precious reacting was left on the cutting room floor. I get to play ALL the roles as the writer!
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I watched Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea earlier. I'll have more to say on it later.
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Too tired to keep writing. Time for some mindless reading or bad television or both. Good-night, all.
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Did that sailor fall from grace earlier in California. The flesh pots of the West Coast strike again. What will the sailor have to say later? And what of Grace?
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Here's an interesting topic, sort of. Since tomorrow is the Super Bowl, has anyone noticed how other television stations/networks are counterprogramming?
Food-TV, for example, is putting in an entire days worth of Paula's Home Cooking, with Paula Dean. Given the choice of watching guys in tight uniforms or a woman with big hair...
There's got to be something better somewhere.
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And after that nonsense I should sign off and go and feed Fosca and Magnus.
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Well, I'll be watching the Super Bowl. However, first thing tomorrow morning I have to go help my brother-in-law download the photos from his digital camera onto his computer.
Well, I know it is still early for us West Coasters, but as I have been suffering from depression for the past few days, I think I shall say Good Night.
But, before you say anything about my leaving early, BK, I have the secret weapon:
"Chinese food in bed, having dinner under covers. We were sweet and sour lovers as we watched the late-night flicks. It was heaven as we worked our special magic with those chopsticks and Chinese food in bed..."
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30 minutes later! Time for me to be fed this time. Good night. See you later. Have a "bonza" Sunday.
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Surfing around, I found an interesting interview with Paul Rudnick (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/arts/theater/01GREE.html) some of you might enjoy.
And good vibes to DR TCB: Hoping your depression doesn't last much longer.
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Good evening! Good morning!
Well, I'm a bit beat... and actually still "enjoying" the wine I had earlier...
So, in short... or maybe not so short...
The auditions I played this weekend for a major university were... interesting... to say the least. These were auditions for a musical theatre program, and the young men and women auditioning were either seniors in high school or freshmen at other schools hoping to transfer.
There were not too many "Wow!"s... But, unfortunately, there were a lot of "Whoa!"s... The biggest mistake these "kids" made was singing material that they thought they should sing, and/or things other people (teachers) thought they should sing... and not necessarily things they liked to sing. For some of the border-line auditionees, we asked them what else they like to sing, what else they had in the book... And, boy, what a difference it made for some of them who just started having fun and enjoying what they were singing, what they were performing... and, most importantly, what they were auditioning with! -Unfortunately, it seems that "soprano-itis" is back in full swing again... Young ladies, just because you can hit the notes, doesn't mean you can sing the notes. There is a difference. A big difference.
Unfortunately, there were more than a couple of auditionees who could have given some of the more memorable contestants on "American Idol" a run for their money. Bad selection of material. Bad pitch. Bad rhythm. Bad acting. Bad choices. Bad preparation. -And, as usually happens at these things, we saw and heard some people who truly don't have enough natural - and shapeable - talent.
What was most frustrating was some of these young men and women just didn't seem like they wanted to be there. That they didn't really want it. Some came in not really aware of what the audition requirements were. Some came in attire that was not "dancer friendly" for the dance part of their audition - some even just seemed to not to even try to learn the dance combination. Even the adjudicator was getting frustrated.
Some of these kids traveled from far and wide - Texas, Michigan, Indiana, etc. And many of them were currently on the circuit of auditions currently going on right now - one city here, one city there. That's a lot of money! And then to show up and not even try to do a good audition?!?!? I mean this was more than an audition - this was an event that could determine the course of their life for the next four years! And could give them a great start to their professional lives!
And there was only ONE auditionee who did not apologize for the condition of their sheet music!?!?!?! Pages not copied correctly. Pages not put in a binder - one girl handed me eight(!) loose pages that had been cut and pasted - EIGHT PAGES! And one girl who sang, "Till There Was You", happened to give me the pop, Beatles, version of the song?!?!? -It had a slight cha-cha accompaniment pattern. I erred on the side of good judgment and played it more traditionally - which is what she wanted in the first place. I counseled her after her audition - she has four more coming up in the next two weeks!
-It's times like this where I want to get their teacher's and coach's phone number and addresses!
But, all in all, it was fun playing auditions, and the adjudicator was a "hoot". And, best of all, we finished early yesterday, and the musical theatre auditions were done by lunch today! So, I was on the 12:40 Amtrak back to Richmond, and back in my apartment by 4:00... Details to follow...
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Well, that post was longer than I thought it would be..., ah, well... So back to my trials and tribulations...
In short -
My cell phone - Missing In Action. ??? I think I left it in the cab that picked me up early Friday morning. Unfortunately, nothing was turned into the cab company since then. And strangely, when I called back today, the dispatcher informed me that that cab had failed inspection so it was no longer on the street, and that the only way I could get in contact with the actual cab driver would be to call back on Monday and talk to the office manager?!?!?!? Then I called the transportation company that had arranged the cab for me, and they hadn't heard of the cab company before - ??? The mystery continues... I'm gonna call the cab company again before heading to bed tonight and talk to the night dispatcher, maybe he/she can help me out. However, I was able to change my cell phone message, and should anyone need to contact me, they now have my home phone number. I just hope it turns up before I leave for Memphis this Friday.
My set of keys (house and car) - When I got to the auditions this morning, I stopped by CVS to pick up some cough drops. When I went to get my chain which has my CVS Extra Care card, I realized I had left my set of keys at my parents's house!!! -I had taken the subway back into town - and would take the subway to Union Station (Amtrak). Thankfully, I called my brother, and he was able to get them in the mail to me this afternoon - Priority Mail, with tracking too! So, those should get to me on Monday...
My car - I think it's possessed right now. Once I got back to my apartment, I had to walk to my car to fetch the keys which were "hidden" in one of the wheel wells. Unfortunately, my roomie had already left for work, but the work to my car only took about 10 minutes, and it felt good to stretch my legs after my two hour train ride. After reaching into the wheel well - and breathing a BIG sigh of relief when I felt the key case - I decided to go ahead and try to start my car. Well, after the first attempt, something told me to give the key a jiggle... Vrrrooom!!! The car started right up, but there was a weird rattling sound under the hood. I stepped out and checked it out, but didn't notice anything out of the oridinary. So, I got my car out of it's space and drove back to my apartment. Well, once I parked the car, I shifted the car into Park, and then turned the key to the Off position. The engine was still running. Hmmm... I shifted into Reverse, turned the key to Off, then shifted back into Park... And the car revved up all on it's own. ?!?!?!? What the ??? So... After some very puzzled looks and some creative thinking, I headed into my apartment and put my bags away... and then drove my car to my service station. They had just closed, but the kind gentleman let me drop it off in their lot, and I'll go back Monday morning to take care of the paperwork. -At least now I know the purpose of that little button on the Shift console - it's an Automatic. So... the mystery will hopefully be solved on Monday... and will, hopefully, not cost too much...
-At least the university already had my check ready for me today - I was expecting at least a week's wait. So, I guess I know where that check is going... Ah, well...
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DR Jose, have you ever thought of starting an "Audition School"? It sounds like that's one of the things a lot of these kids really need, someone to coach them on how to get that job! And that's different from being a voice coach, or a dance coach, or an acting coach. Heck, other professions have trainers who teach people how to interview for jobs, and it works!