George - I had no idea that Renton was now in Seattle. How informative these posts are! :D
Jed, be nice. George knows best. George works in a liberry.
What's the best way to store champagne? Tonight I bought a bottle of Dom Perignon Vintage 1995 (from Costco...I figure I couldn't get it any cheaper anywhere) for my parents' 40th wedding anniversary, which will be in June. Should it be refrigerated, just kept cool or at room temperature? What about when it's served (in June)? Any information or website links will be most appreciated.
Oh, I guess AI is tape-delayed for the West Coast - so how long do the phone lines really stay open then?
And since is the first time I've watched the prelims - For the Wild Card round, can/do/have they brought back people from the screening rounds? -Ones who didn't make it to the 117 or whatever number is was? -If so, maybe the producers are saving some of those "favorites" for that round.
But George's question has brought to mind something that hasn't been discussed here before.
Dear BK and esteemed DRs: What are your favorite drinking songs?
"The Night They Invented Champagne," from Gigi, has been ringing through my head for over an hour.
Apropos of DRPennyO's selection - I particularly like the "Drinking Song" from The Pleasant Peasant by Lucy Friml and Ethel Romberg!
Apropos of DRPennyO's selection - I particularly like the "Drinking Song" from The Pleasant Peasant by Lucy Friml and Ethel Romberg!
Penny - I've been posting about Mufti ever since BK has had this site. The next season starts in mid-March with BEST FOOT FORWARD, FANNY and WEIRD ROMANCE...
For Ask BK Day --- I'm thrilled you liked TRIPLETS as much as I did. What do you think it's chances are to beat NEMO for the Animation Oscar®? It got fantastic reviews, but NEMO was a lot more successful. In any other year, NEMO would win hands down, but do you think the voters will go for artistic quality of higher grosses?I don't think the grosses are the key factor here. I do, however, think the opinion of animators has some weight, and the Annies, held at the Alex Theater in Glendale, this year gave their top award to Finding Nemo, just as last year they gave the nod to Spirited Away. It's too soon to tell, of course, whether the Annies are the clear signal on the Best Animation Oscar, since that award hasn't been around for very long, but my guess is that it's Pixar's year this time.
I posted a message at BK and Nick's DVD PLACE about this, but I want to bring it up here for those of us who do buy DVDs.I think I'll wait until it's offered in a bargain bin. And then I'll let der Brucer pay for it.
It was announced at the first of the week that Fox will be releasing MASTER & COMMANDER on a 2 disc DVD set priced at $39.95. I think this may be the first mainstream DVD sell through release at this inflated price point. (Criterion sells their discs for more, but they're specialized and of limited print runs.) Fox is selling a single disc pan and scan version of the film for $29.95.
During the laserdisc era, Fox was notorious about overcharging for their wares: $50 for a single disc release and $70 for movies that spread to two discs. Are they starting this same stuff up again on DVD? Just wondering what others thought about this.
Uh, oh. Finding Nemo isn't a Disney film is it. Well, I had better change my favorites list above then.The Brave Little Toaster and it's sequels were produced by Hyperion Films, but released on video by Disney.
Hmmm...post 1960s Disney favorite...the only one that I have seen is that Robin Hood one in the 1970s. So unless THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER was a Disney film I guess Robin Hood would have to be my pick.
The Brave Little Toaster and it's sequels were produced by Hyperion Films, but released on video by Disney.
I like that song DRSWW...but there is of course the ever popular 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.
Apropos of DRPennyO's selection - I particularly like the "Drinking Song" from The Pleasant Peasant by Lucy Friml and Ethel Romberg!
In fact I like ALL those songs! ;D
No TCB that was Ethel Roszensweig who used to have that talk show, too...remember?
No TCB that was Ethel Roszensweig who used to have that talk show, too...remember?
Ah ha! DRPANNI - so you were fooled by their undercover disguises as well! LOL...they were actually subversives working in the employ of an unnamed world power. Subtle.....Thank you, JRand53. Gives a whole new meaning to so many of the episodes!
Actually, Belleville is a combination of hand-drawn and CGI animation.I stand corrected. Now I'll sit down.
Ah ha! DRPANNI - so you were fooled by their undercover disguises as well! LOL...they were actually subversives working in the employ of an unnamed world power. Subtle.....
Jennifer, I cannot see why Scooter Girl would not return, they invested far too much time on her in the prelim episodes not to bring her back. What I can't understand is why she was dropped in the first place, she delivered each time they asked her and was so heads and shoulders above most of the present finalists. And she was damned entertaining. The only thing to worry about is whether her apparent incipient bi-polarness will implode on her...
Since BK has annexed Mimsy and JR and I have dibs on some other person, obsessions about Farmers are now limited to Frank (FF's nephew with quite a string of credits of his own--includling lifting Liz Taylor up on the bar in "Butterfield 6" or "8" or whatever the heck it's called) and the Farmer in the Dell, with, perhaps tangentially, Ma and Pa Kettle (they were farmers, weren't they?).DR Jose and I get dibs on Fanny Farmer.
Jennifer, true, last year the wild card picks were mostly from the top 32...or maybe all of them were... But I noticed that Ryan was very specific last night about saying that the wild cards could be picked from ANY phase of the competition. And, again, I think Scooter Girl just wowed too many people with her antics, personality, and her voice. I was so disappointed she didn't make it, that they almost lost me as a viewer. And most of last night's contestants, as Simon said were safe and bland, a boring, boring group...for the most part.
Ah ha! DRPANNI - so you were fooled by their undercover disguises as well! LOL...they were actually subversives working in the employ of an unnamed world power. Subtle.....I always thought they tipped their hand a bit in the episode "Lucy Goes to Scotland," when they were revealed to be a two-headed dragon.
All these anti-bacterial soaps are overdoing it, because they are also destroying good bacteria that we need.
Oh DR MBarnum - I just checked the Cinemax listings... If I had the multiplex channels, I'd be able to record it today at 4:20pm. But since I don't, I've set my VCR for 7:20am Friday morning for THE LAST WAGON. -And I hope the quality of my VCR is good enough for you... I'll at least tape at SP. ;)
DR Jose and I get dibs on Fanny Farmer.
Of course, how stupid of me!! Someone once said, "I'm not Fanny Farmer, y'know," but for the life of me, I can't remember who. ???Marion Cunningham, perhaps?
Disney may not be Disney much longer if a hostile takeover happens.
Thank you very, very much! Can't wait to see that movie again and add it to my Ken Clark collection of motion picture entertainments...right up there with his films Attack of the Giant Leeches and Hercules Against the Mongels!
Micheal -- You must have one of the world's most eclectic film collections!
Marion Cunningham, perhaps?
;D
(Now, let's see who gets the joke.)
Disney hasn't been Disney since Walt died?So, you would have preferred the company be disbanded as of December 16th, 1966?
Would Walt have made a cartoon full of fart jokes (THE LION KING) or where one cat invites another to her bedroom (OLIVER & COMPANY)?
Would Walt have hired Justin Timberlake, Brittany Spears and Christina Agulara for "The Mickey Mouse Club" and then allowed them to refuse to wear the ears and change the name to MMC to avoid all mention of the Mouse?
Would Walt have turned his "amusement parks where parents and children could have fun together" into gigantic overpriced vacation resorts?
Would Walt have bought a television network that showed decidedly un-Disney-like programing?
Would Walt have created Touchstone so he could release films that he was ashamed to have his name on (actually he wouldn't have needed to... he wouldn't have produced these films in the first place)?
The magic of the Disney name started to die the day Walt did.
Okay, Woody, I confess. I don't get the joke.Here's a hint: I'm not referring to the Happy Days character. There is a real Marion Cunningham.
1. What is your favorite pre-1960 Disney animated film?
2. What is your favorite post-1960 Disney animated film?
3. What is your favorite song from a Disney ankhich do you think is the best animated film of all-time?
Jennifer, I am quasi-obssessed with germs...I think it comes from my father who was always opening public bathrooms with his elbows and telling us kids not to touch anything while there.
(1) how to flush with your foot;
No, Woody. I would have liked to have it continued under the leadership of someone who shared Walt's values and his vision was not in it just for the money.Wherin lies the quandry. Walt Disney was a genius, and his genius lay in his vision. No one else had it but he. There was no substitute, either in the wings or elsewhere.
3c. Allegro non troppo, which is freshly out on deeveedee. Run out and buy/rent it.Ah, yes! I remember seeing this in the theaters when it was first released. It kind of peters out at the end, but the segments are excellent. Kudos for listing it!
Scooter Girl may not have the kind of voice they're looking for, but she was vocally more proficient than most of the women we heard last night with a voice significently brighter and more interesting than many we heard. I will be SHOCKED if she doesn't return for the wild card round.
It's one of those "playing around with photograph mornings". This is of one of Colin's paintings of our garden birds (Crimson Rosellas). They of course were quite happy to pose without a fee.
My Joe is in jail. The judge paid lip service to the state of his health but was just as unmoved by that as he was by witnesses who blatantly perjured themselves. His sentence is sixty days.
Weird Romance is a favorite of mine, even though I've never seen it. Great songs, great scripts (given that it is two one-act plays). I really wish der Brucer hadn't loaned our CD to the director of a theater we were associated with, because said director never returned it. She tended to book seasons at the theater according to reputation, not according to the quality of the work, sound unheard. Which explains why she booked Bed and Sofa, which has won awards from people who don't know better. Making this more salt in the wound is that the CD of Weird Romance is now out of print.
It wouldn't surprise me at all to find myself wrong about the cost of champagne. Der Brucer is the one who really knows that stuff, not I, and he's doing a repeat grandladsit today and so is not available. (My researching websites will clearly be for my own education, as well!)
But George's question has brought to mind something that hasn't been discussed here before.
Dear BK and esteemed DRs: What are your favorite drinking songs?
"The Night They Invented Champagne," from Gigi, has been ringing through my head for over an hour.
Someone had mentioned disinfecting the house (I believe it was Jane).
I want peanuts-in-the-shell! :P I know this isn't the most scintillating topic for posting, but I go on food crazes - I'll fall in love with something and eat it until I get sick of it and move on to a new fave. Recently it's been peanuts-in-the-shell. I know exactly when this new obsession began. A while back I went to the Sunday Farmers Market with bk - who is on a one-man crusade to fatten me up. There was a peanut woman there and he insisted we buy a bag and that I take half of it home. Which is what happened. The peanuts were not great, but I got hooked. (It's fun to sit reading the paper while shelling nuts. I like food you have to work for. And I LOVE salty foods, unhealthy as that is, so I dip the peanuts in salt. Yum.) Since that fateful day at the market I've been refilling my peanut supply regularly. It's actually not that easy to find really fresh peanuts-in-the shell. So it's been a hit and miss enterprise. Anyway, I've run out and I'd have to interrupt my work to go to Trader Joe's for another pack. Probably in the time it took to write this I could've gone out and done it! Oh well. Maybe writing about it will get it out of my system.
Maybe not. I have some errands I could run near Trader Joe's...
I should think that storing the champagne in a cool place should be fine. Preferably on it's side, the same as any wine, so that the cork stays wet. A day or two before the celebration, pop it in the refrigerator to chill. Do not allow the bubbly to freeze, as that will distroy the bubbles.
If it is your parent's 40th anniversary, why are you buying champagne that is "cheap"? This is one of the occasions that deserves quality, and that means spending money. (Cheap champagne is for celebrations where you're pouring for people who you don't really know and probably won't know the difference, like for a New Years Eve party at a bar.) I would suggest checking out a reputable wine merchant, explaining the situation, and setting a limit on how much you want to spend. He (or she) should be able to help you find the best buy.
I think DR George meant that he bought his expensive wine at a bargain price, DR SWW, not that he bought cheap champagne. I don't know from what about Champagne....but a 1995 Dom Perignon probably wasn't cheap!
Now Jose. If you went to the grocery store and bought the right things, you are officially as of this very moment, on your diet. No ifs, ands or butts. And I mean butts as in a few weeks there won't be one! :D
Dear Reader Jane: 101 Dalmations was the very first motion picture I saw in a theatre, as it was for your eldest son!
WFO-- you have my sympathies and regrets. And the 60 days will go by slowly---- for the next 60 days. But it WILL be over and WILL pass. You are both survivors, and you'll survive this.
Panni-- I want to read some of your work!!!!
And the film where a female cat invites a male cat into her quarters is The Aristocats, made during the "What would Walt Do" era, not Oliver and Co., which came much later.
How cute. I haven't a clue what my first movie was.
Elmore3003 thanks for the date. Guess I now know what my favorite post 1960 Disney movie is. :)
Special request: Above, I mentioned my great-aunt. I will be visiting her again this weekend (in PA) for her granddaughter's Baptism. My great-aunt has cancer, and she's not doing well. This might be the last time I will see her. If you wouldn't mind keeping her in your thoughts, I would greatly appreciate it.I will certainly keep your great-aunt in my thoughts.
Cute bears, Tomovoz. This sophisticated European artiste of a certain age is a sucker for stuffed animals."stuffed!" I think not. I hope Butch and his friends don't read this.
I bought Cuvée Dom Perignon 1995 (normally $130-$180 a bottle!) at Costco for only $99. No, it ain't cheap, even from Costco.I deservedly stand corrected.
No - It's OLIVER & COMPANY - It was the Bette Midler cat and the Cheech Marin cat.Cheech Marin was a male dog. Bette Midler was a b...uh, female dog. ::)
"Butch" is second from the left and he arrived here WITH his name.
Green? No, that's a color-blind clue.G R _ _ N .[/color]
... we were eating good at the Blue Moon (very yum!) and got home too late...All right. We weren't really planning on dining out, just going out for a drink while der Brucer recounted the day's grandladsitting. We ended up at the Blue Moon, perhaps the top restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, only planning on cocktails. But along the way der Brucer picked up a menu, and he began to smile as his eyes got wider and happier.
You are all very special people, and I am proud to have such Hainsies/Kimlets here at haineshisway.com.I agree totally with the sentiment. And of course it must mean that you no longer think I'm insane, dear proud bk, as I am one of the special people on this here site. Correct?