Does anyone else out there have similar stores, like those BK and der Brucer and I have, about having fun with repairmen and the like.
DR TCB, I know you've got stories to tell! :o
Oh, and here's a topic I'd like to see discussed here...
Are there any movies that you seem to be the only fan of? What movie (or movies) is it, and why to you love it as opposed to everyone else hating it?
A..but they include XANADU and BERSERK! and HARLOW with Miss Carroll Baker!
Does anyone else have a favorite Carroll Baker movie?
Oh, and here's a topic I'd like to see discussed here...
Are there any movies that you seem to be the only fan of? What movie (or movies) is it, and why to you love it as opposed to everyone else hating it?
I have two movies in mind, which I'll mention later in the day...!
Oh, and here's a topic I'd like to see discussed here...
Are there any movies that you seem to be the only fan of? What movie (or movies) is it, and why to you love it as opposed to everyone else hating it?
I have two movies in mind, which I'll mention later in the day...!
We had a swell Valentine's Day. DRs Kerry and Sandra and I drove to Palm Springs to see a concert.....and just as we were getting ready to find our seats, who should walk in the door but DR Jay. Coincidentally, he had a seat directly behind us.
"What the F!@#(*&^$(*&!^@##(@*&^!@#(!@*#^@!!!!!"
Panni, an Indian, Jewish ballet dancer-fascinating. I have never, knowingly, met a person from India that was Jewish.The other Indian Jewish person whom I knew very slightly in Toronto was an actor named Brian George. You've probably seen him on TV or in films without thinking "There's an Indian Jew!" He played Bhaboo (sp.) on Seinfeld -- the restaurant owner Jerry accidentally had deported.
td (for some reason) asked for a parody entitled When the Parents Are Asleep...
When the parents are asleep, we're gonna plotz
For sis and I will steal a few tequila shots
When the parents are asleep and you're a kid
No Mom keeps track of your bed; in back of her head
Are eyes that can say "I
Saw what you did."
When the parents are asleep, we'll fool around
We'll see what fun we can have and unravel their every rule
We'll say to the cops, if one stops us, we know that
When the parents are asleep, it's super cool
I once knew a Spanish Jew - his name was Jesus Schwartz. I once knew an Italian Jew. His name was Marcello Cohen. I once knew an Indian Jew. His name was Little Running Water Bernstein.Funny. But the truth is even funnier. (Not that I'm implying anyone is funnier than our beloved bk.)The Indian Jewish ballet dancer I took acting classes with in Toronto was named Sam Moses. ""Dancing the Prince in Swan Lake tonight will be... Sam Moses." ...I think not.
, as well as that great country classic "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" from Evita! Funny, I thought the only Lloyd-Webber/Rice song in this style was "One More Angel in Heaven"."U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D." from "Starlight Express".
Believe it or not, my paternal grandmother was an Irish Jew--Molly Bloom?
Believe it or not, my paternal grandmother was an Irish Jew--I didn't believe there could be such a thing,You must run right out and read James Joyce's ULYSSES. If not the whole book - which ain't easy, to say the least - then Molly Bloom's soliloquy -- one long uninterrupted sentence about love and life and all the good stuff -- ending with the word YES. One of the great Irish-Jewish broads!
But I also read this article and was a bit baffled about what point they were trying to make. Isn't the point of theatre to try and strike a chord that is universal to us all? To find the universal in the specific? A point of human drama that resonates with everybody?
Sam Moses is funnier than Little Running Water Bernstein?Only if he wears pointy ears and clown shoes (and a tutu.)
So what is the writer advocating? Pogroms and persecution again so certain theatre pieces retain their "Jewish soul"?
Jewish or not, why can't Molina play Tevye?I was in a wonderful production of THE DYBBUK many years ago. (Directed by John Hirsch. In Canadian theatrical circles, it's still legendary.) I joined the company in Toronto, the only new person in the cast. The play had been running for some time in Winnipeg and was about to play Toronto and go on tour. I played a friend of the lead. (I posted once about falling off the stage opening night in Ottawa at the National Arts Center in this very production.) My first day of rehearsal I was informed that I was also understudying the lead. Zowie. That left me a little nervous as I had to learn my part and the lead in a company where everybody else knew exactly what they were doing.
A movie I love that nobody else seems to like is The Tall Guy, which answers the musical question, What if Andrew Lloyd Webber had based a show on The Elephant Man?
DW Joy and I have had no gas in our stove/oven since January 12. Friday, five workman crossed our threshhold to reconnect it. Still, no gas.
And we tried DSL, but gave up in frustration --- never got it to work. And the company finance department was after us for a while, saying we owed them for the service we never got. I believe that was Verizon.
How can I get the music to One Hand Tied Behind My Back?
MBarnum, my friend Patrick Read Johnson who directed BABY'S DAY OUT will be pleased to hear you liked it.
Now, may I VENT, please? When will otherwise intelligent people learn that "Jewish" is not a nationality? I'm just reading a major article/review in the LA Times of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. The point of the whole thing is that the writer feels that Fiddler has lost whatever true Jewish soul it had and is now just too "universal.".....(God! I just checked the name of the writer of the article. It's "Rosenbaum." So what's HIS excuse?)Self-importance, perhaps?
Two movies that I absolutely love, that no one else seems to like or even seen, are BABY'S DAY OUT and Bette Midler's ISN'T SHE GREAT. I saw both in the theater and enjoyed them greatly.
Huh? DR Jennifer, wouldn't he be your nephew too? Unless he's a nephew by marriage, I suppose...
DR Robin do you have the special edition SUPERGIRL dvd?
You want to know why, ultimately, The DVD Place will become popular (without anyone really knowing about it, it's already getting quite a bit of traffic)? Go read Nick Redman's followup to my One From the Heart thoughts.Just read it. Excellent. I particularly liked (and laughed at) his reference to Mr. C as the Willy Wonka of film.
http://dvd.allaccessworld.com
I'm enjoying the Francois Villion pictures. I've been intrigued by this character ever since I found a tattered copy of the Justin Huntly McCarthy play, If I Were King in our school library when I was about thirteen. I also have several copies of the novel (one a lovely copy with a dj and photos from the filmed operetta THE VAGABOND KING, based on the book and play). Years later in a bookstore in Shreveport, LA., I found my own tattered copy of the play which I treasure (would love to do it some day) and I am a fan of the Ronald Colman movie as well.
I'm enjoying the Francois Villion pictures. I've been intrigued by this character ever since I found a tattered copy of the Justin Huntly McCarthy play, If I Were King in our school library when I was about thirteen. I also have several copies of the novel (one a lovely copy with a dj and photos from the filmed operetta THE VAGABOND KING, based on the book and play). Years later in a bookstore in Shreveport, LA., I found my own tattered copy of the play which I treasure (would love to do it some day) and I am a fan of the Ronald Colman movie as well.
Jane, yes, I have got Janet's email. Thanks. I've just been remiss in emailing her. In rewrite throes and having to read a ton of novels with a possibility of maybe wanting to adapt. It's amazing the tripe that people want to do.
TOMOVOZ....I am sure Jimmy and Rocky did wear curtains at one time or another..... just NOT in the movies.As designed by Bob Mackie?
You did that in your very best Hitchcock impersonation, right?GOOD EVENING!
I hope I am not interupting anything.
Just finished Death in VeniceI haven't seen that film since it came out. How I loved it back then! I bought the soundtrack and played it endlessly. I think that was the year I was in a Mahler/Death frame of mind.