Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 1 => Topic started by: bk on February 23, 2004, 12:02:03 AM
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Well, you've read the notes (newbies - best to read the notes first, for they set the tone of the day - for example, today's tone is Franchot), you've understood their content, their content is rife with portent, their portent is rife with intent, so post away, my pretties, and I shall be posting with you every step of the way, right here from the home environment.
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Jed -- I am very glad to hear that Milo is doing well.
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Hoo and Ray!
The first post of the day, and totally by accident.
Now, I am worn out. Off to bed.
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For my compilation CD I would do... "Yes, We Have No Bananas" 10 times because now I can't get it out of my head either. There would be a bonus track of The Banana Boat Song.
Seriously folks, that's a good question of the day and I may try and answer it tomorrow. Or maybe I'll just enjoy reading the answers of other DRs. Good night and this time I mean it.
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Warning: Long Post Ahead:
ONLY 10 TRACKS?? I'm sorry, but I have this need to fill up an entire 80 minute CD and have very little (if any) left over space. I have a collection of 15 compilation CDs (so far) that I've made for myself. It was originally going to be individual songs taken from a performer's CD when I didn't want to buy the entire CD...but it became filled with much more than just those kinds of songs. Things taped from TV, videos and DVDs; stuff downloaded from the Internet; songs from CDs that I owned that I wanted to put with other similar songs; etc., etc., etc. (a King and I reference). I just finished my 15th CD and I've started collecting songs for #16! Isn't that exciting? Isn't that just too too? (a BK reference!) Anyway, just to get an idea of what I like (and in this case, it's what I had been collecting about two years ago), here's the track listing of my very first compilation CD (all 21 of them...don't ask me to cut it down to 10--and don't worry, I won't post all 15 CD track listings):
1. If We Never Meet Again* – Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley
2. Disneyland* – Michelle Nicastro (hidden track on Michelle's "On My Own" CD)
3. Dream World – ABBA (a song never released until their 4-CD set "Thank You for the Music." Part of this song, musically, became part of "Does Your Mother Know?")
4. Dublin Lady – Bernadette Peters with John Whelan (the only song she sings on his CD)
5. That’s All – Sam Harris and Laurie Beechman
6. The Codependency Duet* – Randy Graff
7. What Fools These Lovers Be – Matt Slinger (this and song #8 are from A Rock 'n' Roll Twelfth Night (http://www.rr12n.org/home.html) that was written and performed here in Olympia. It's VERY good!)
8. Halleboogaloodaday! – Karen Naughton
9. Trashing the Camp – Rosie O’Donnell and Cast (from Disney's "Tarzan" soundtrack)
10. Love Is All Around – Joan Jett and the Black Hearts
11. Sufferin’ Till Suffrage – Essra Mohawk and Chorus (yes, the song from "School House Rock!")
12. One of Us – Go West (from the ABBA 25th Anniversary CD)
13. Someday/God Help the Outcasts* – Debbie Shapiro Gravitte (met her on Saturday!!)
14. If We Only Have Love* – Laurie and Claudia Beechman
15. Now That I’ve Seen Her – Claire Moore (I bought the original Miss Saigon release with the song "It's Her or Me." A friend bought the recording later and it had this song on it instead.
16. April Fools – Rufus Wainwright
17. Dancing Queen – The Real Group with Frida (this song a cappella and also from the ABBA 25th Anniversary CD)
18. We Close Our Eyes – Go West
19. The Day After That – Liza Minnelli (this was from a CD single)
20. Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey* – Debbie Shapiro Gravitte
21. Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner* (this was the hidden track on their first duet album--it's my own bonus track)
*=BK Produced (unless I remembered incorrectly)
I know that this doesn't specifically "express [my] tastes in all things musical" but it's a small sample of the kinds of things that I like. Also, I still like all of these songs. I know some people (a Sondheim reference) that will like a song for a little while, get sick of it and never listen to it again. I'm not like that. Usually, once I like a song, I always like that song. I may not listen to it every day, but I do pull things off of my shelves and listen to them every once in a while.
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Lots of great posts last night! Welcome DRJenny.
I don't watch SEX IN THE CITY, so no chance of spoiler from me DREmily.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....I like the song selections on the Kritzer Time CD! Can hardly wait to hear it...and read it.
I will do a couple of lists for my CD - and then I will post. It will be - I am sure - a bit like the guest list in Father of the Bride.....Church Only....Church & Reception....Reception Only.... And boy did those cards fly!
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I was errant and truant all weekend. I won't spoil SATC but I will say that the ending posited by Brockman pere made me laugh.
I will come back later with a CD compilation.
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SSShhhh!
Listen!
What's that sound?
It's BK snoring!!!
There is a smile on BK's face. Could a 197 post Sunday be the cause?
Der Denizen Day Brucer
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BK, "Yes, We Have No Bananas": I had an LP with the great Tessie O'Shea doing the song, but I don't think any of those Command recordings have ever been released on CD; I'd like to have their Bernstein disc just for Roberta Peters' "Glitter and Be Gay." Now there's a piece that was ignored by sopranos for years and suddenly everyone's doing it; not to change the subject, but who does it the best and worst?
A CD compilation would have to include a couple of novelty songs like "Bananas," and another I like from the 20s is "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?" Off the bat, I can't think of a single novelty for the 30s, but my mother used to drive us crazy with "Mairzy Doats," and I recall a really dumb 70s song I heard constantly on the radio of my first car, "Chirpy Cheep Cheep."
CD List: "Yes, We Have No Bananas" (I have no idea who gets credit for this)
Overture to "The Bartered Bride" (Smetena)
Overture to "Gypsy" (Styne)
Overture to "Le Nozze di Figaro" (Mozart)
Overture to "Candide" (Bernstein)
"Another Hundred People" (Sondheim)
"This Funny World" (Rodgers & Hart)
"Downtown" (Tony Hatch)
"Disneyland" (did you use my orchestration for Michelle as well? I'd love
to hear it)
"Were I Thy Bride" (Sullivan)
"Glitter and Be Gay" (Bernstein)
"Idaho Home" (Ronee Blakeley?)
"Till The Clouds Roll By" (Kern)
"Time After Time" (Cyndi Lauper)
"Moon River" (Mancini)
In no particular order, but 15 of my top favorite pieces of music. If I could go to 20, I'd include more Rodgers & Hart, maybe "People Will Say We're in Love" for Rodgers & Hammerstein because I love the score to OKLAHOMA! and find it as fresh today as it was 60 years ago, more Kern, and either a Handel or Mozart aria or something from CARMEN.
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Today on the news they announced "The 'Sex and the City' girls have hung up their manolos (might be spelled wrong). Since I have never watched the show, could some DR explain what a "monolo" is and why it had such importance that it was included in a one-sentence announcement about the show going off the air.
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DRelmore - yes Ronee Blakley wrote all of her Nashville songs - my sister and I were singing "Idaho Home" last Friday night!!
Hmmmmm....finally got my ten songs...
Gypsy Overture
Some People - both from the new soundtrack release
Disneyland
New Words - from Unsung Broadway
It Took Dreams - Annette
Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis
Mutual Admiration Society - Teresa Brewer
Good Morning Starshine - Oliver
The Rose - Bette Midler
Hahahahah....and I could burn that CD too....all of my choices are on CD! ;D
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Well, I actually have made compliation tapes of favourite songs that probably all express me. I've made Broadway/movie compliations; standards compliations; rock compliations; cowboy song compliations.
But if I had to pick ten songs, in no particular order...and understanding they could change from day-to-day, I say:
MY REVERIE (based on Debussy Reverie; Larry Clinton's orchestra)
IN THE HEART OF THE DARK (Barbara Cook on a Bagley album)
WINDFLOWERS (Judy Kaye's exquisite version)
OUT OF THIS WORLD (Johnny Mercer; Crobsy Version)
BALLAD OF THE SAD YOUNG MEN (Johnny Hartman version)
I AM IN LOVE (Ella Fitzgerald version)
NIGHT & DAY (Early Sinatra version)
I'M GLAD THERE IS YOU (lots of versions)
DAYDREAMER (Robert Goulet)
MIRRORS & SHADOWS (from LOLA; sung by, I think, Brent Barrett?)
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It would depend a lot on who I was making the CD for. I have made a lot of compilation tapes and CD's, and it does depend on the other person. But I will think ad gt a list together later. This seems close to the 10 favorite songs list and am sure will include some duplicates.
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WEL, manolos are expensive designer shoes that Carrie Bradshaw prefers.
My morning newspaper spoiled the ending of the show before I got a chance to watch it. Oh, I'll still enjoy the sentiment and emotions involved in saying goodbye to this fictionalized New York that I've grown to love over the past six years, but page 2 of my newspaper did spell out the ending in a big headline, bigger even than who won last night's Screen Actors Guild awards.
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It is too early for me to think well enough to list ten songs for a CD compilation (although I have made many of them for myself and for friends). I will need some coffee first before I can think clearly.
DR George, am glad to see another GO WEST fan! I love their music! And I am pretty sure that WE CLOSE OUR EYES would be one of my top ten also!
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My ten selections:
1. "Losing My Mind" - Dorothy Collins from the OCR of FOLLIES
2. "I Am What I Am" - George Hearn from the OCR of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
3. "You Can't Hurry Love" - The Supremes
4. "My Guy" - Marry Wells
5. "Not While I'm Around" - Ken Jennings/Angela Lansbury in the OCR of SWEENEY TODD
6. "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" - OCR COMPANY
7. "Last Dance" - Donna Summer
8. "Water Under the Bridge" - Debbie Gravitte
9. "Try to Remember" - OCR THE FANTASTICKS
10. "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" - Jennifer Holliday from OCR DREAMGIRLS.
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Ok, my supervisor just brought me my freshly home brewed giant cup of coffee (which she does each Monday) and one of our HR managers brought in home-made almond roca. I have a new Bollywood soundtrack (from the movie Khauff) playing on my computer's CD player...life is good! ;D
But I still haven't thought of my ten songs.
And where in tarnation is everyone this morning...still waking up I suppose!
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My 10 songs:
He Touched Me, Barbra Streisand
Superstar, Bette Midler
Is That All There Is?, Peggy Lee
That’s Amore, Dean Martin
White Christmas, Bing Crosby
The World is Waiting for the Sunrise, Les Paul and Mary Ford
Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
I Am the Walrus, The Beatles
April Love, Pat Boone
Wichita Lineman, Glen Campbell
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Good Morning!
And, YES!, it's actually still morning! :)
Before I forget:
DR MattH - What exactly was the headline/spoiler in your local paper? *From reading various other articles here and there, I was under the impression that they did not release the final episode - well, all of it - for review purposes.
DR George - Did they re-do the London OCR of Miss Saigon to replace "It's Her or Me" with "Now That I've Seen Her"? I much prefer "It's Her or Me" over "Now That I've Seen Her". *And I'm also glad I have a copy of the original vocal selections they released before Hal Leonard took the London ones - which were licensed for sale stateside initially - and "big-noted" them. And it's also too bad that when HL put some of the songs into their Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology series that they used those "big-note" style arrangements instead of the accompaniment only versions.
And as for "Yes, We Have No Bananas" - That was one of the first songs I ever remember plunking my way through since my parents had a Reader's Digest Collection with it in it. And what else would appeal to an eight-year old except for a song with "bananas" in the title?!?! -Oh, maybe "How Much Is That Doggie In the Window?" (bark-bark). ;)
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Okay, you can use a full CDs worth of songs if you like. I find these lists fascinating and, of course, I get to discover songs I don't know. This isn't at all the same as "favorite songs" I don't think.
elmoore: Yes, we used the Disneyland track from Unsung Musicals, and by the time we did Michelle's Broadway album, Vinnie and I were so much better that the track sounds much fuller and better to my ears. I'll see if I have one laying around somewhere. It's technically OOP because the label that issued it never applied for mechanical royalties on the songs (which you must do prior to the album's hitting the stores) and Herbert Kretzmer found out about his Les Miz songs being on the album (I think he was sent a copy by Boublil and Schonberg, who liked it), and had his lawyer write the label and tell them to cease and desist and that he wouldn't grant a mechanical now (they have no choice but to grant any mechanical royalty that's filed on time, but once that time has elapsed, they do have the choice). Rather than delete the three songs, they simply pulled the album and sold off the existing stock.
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BK, "Yes, We Have No Bananas": I had an LP with the great Tessie O'Shea doing the song,
Tessie O'Shea was wonderful indeed. But I have a Tessie O'Shea story (have I posted it before?) in which she is the arch villain. When I was a very young actress I would take any small role in films/TV to get camera experience. The stage I knew, but I really wanted to get good in front of the camera. So I was thrilled to get a tiny part (you don't even have to blink to miss it) in JEKYLL AND HYDE starring Jack Palance. It was shot in the old CBC studios in Toronto. Great cast, including old Tessie. Now at the time my mother was on her third marriage and this time she decided to have a BIG ceremony. I hated the guy she was marrying, but when Mama Gets Married, you attend. Except that the wedding was at the same time that we were shooting a big J & H scene. So I timed the whole thing down to the second. If I jumped out of my costume and wig, ran like hell and had a pre-ordered cab waiting, I could probably make the nuptials. Everything worked beautifully. We wrapped on time, I threw off my costume and ran. And there was the waiting cab. As I made my way to the cab, Tessie O'Shea swept in front of me. She was a hefty lady and I'm not, so when she swept I fell by the wayside. She grabbed the cab and before I could a utter a "But I..." she was gone!
I did make the wedding, but barely. My mother later divorced the jerk, so it was all for nothing - except a good Tessie story.
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I will probably be E & T (or T & E) for most of today. I stayed home from work today, because I could not sleep at all last night, so by the time I got up, before the alarm, I was feeling like Hell (yes, yes, I probably looked like Hell, too).
Tonight, I have a rehearsal that I must attend, so I will probably not be here for chat tonight either.
I will try to get my brain to focus on a CD list sometime today, but interestingly enough, several of MattH's choices were ones that I had considered for my own list.
THE END
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DR TCB - what kind of rehearsal is it that makes it a MUST ATTEND....I thought they all were.
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As for my list of songs. I do agree that it depends who you are making it for - your grandmother or you lover, let's say. Might be different songs.
But for now, I'll assume it's not grandma and take the lazy way out by selecting the bk produced album A BROADWAY LOVE STORY. It has so many great songs, greatly sung (by Christiane Noll) and from the first time I heard it, it had one of those "Oh yes!" effects on me. I guess I should list the songs. I will in another post.
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Well I am officially still Sex & The City spoiler free.
Thank you so much to all the DRs who were so kind to me and DR Emily.
I knew the papers here wouldn't mention the show.
Btw, MONOLO BLAHNIKS are SHOES :)
Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) has made these VERY EXPENSIVE shoes a household name (well for people who watch the show).
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And as for my CD compilation:
1 - J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in B-Flat Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1; Andras Schiff, pianist
2 - Samuel Barber: "Knoxville: Summer of 1915"; Dawn Upshaw, soprano
3 - Alberto Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas; Santiago Rodriguez, pianist
4 - "This Time the Dream's On Me"; Ella Fitzgerald
5 - "The Surrey With the Fringe On Top"; Nancy Lamott
6 - "Something's Coming"; Oscar Peterson Trio
7 - "Shower the People"; James Taylor
8 - "Love In Any Language"; Sandy Patti
9 - "Sunday" (Finale, Act 2); Sunday in the Park with George (OCR)
10 - "Until the Night"; Billy Joel
Hidden Bonus Track - "I Will Survive"; Gloria Gaynor
Hmmm... That was harder than I thought it would be. And it brought back some titles that I haven't listened to in a while... Hmm... I wonder what I'll be listening too in the near future...
-And in local news, it appears the Richmond ABC affiliate is having major technical issues right now - no signal at all - oh they finally put up the test pattern... and, now the station logo... hmmm...
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Wow DR PANNI - that was one of those Dan Curtis productions, you were lucky you had a costume and a wig!
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My list (which is actually the Tracklist from A BROADWAY LOVE STORY sung by Christiane Noll, produced by bk). I know it's cheating to let Bruce do the work, but somedbody has to, so why me?
1 - Wherever He Ain't (from "Mack & Mabel") / No More (from "The Goodbye Girl")
2 - Times Like This (from "Lucky Stiff")
3 - Tonight At Eight (from "She Loves Me") / Look At That Face (from "The Roar Of The Greasepaint, The Smell Of The Crowd")
4 - Things Are Looking Up (from "Damsel In Distress") / Nice Work If You Can Get It (from "Crazy For You")
5 - You're Just In Love (from "Call Me Madam")
6 - Quiet Thing, A (from "Flora, The Red Menace")
7 - Twenty-Four Hours Of Lovin' (from "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas")
8 - Unexpected Song (from "Song & Dance") / The Last Man In My Life (from "Tell Me On A Sunday")
9 - Who Are You Now? (from "Funny Girl")
10 - Marry Me A Little (from "Company")
11 - Good Thing Going (from "Merrily We Roll Along")
12 - Now When The Rain Falls (from "The Scarlet Pimpernel")
13 - I Don't Remember Christmas (from "Starting Here, Starting Now")
14 - The Next Time It Happens (from "Pipe Dream")
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Wow DR PANNI - that was one of those Dan Curtis productions, you were lucky you had a costume and a wig!
Fast forward many years and I am no longer a little glorified extra in J& H, but a Respected Writer (RW) and I'm on a panel - "The Writer and the Holocaust" - at the Museum of Television and Radio. I think I was there as eye candy - because (and I say this as a Jew) the panel was made up of four rather distinguished but not overly attractive gentlemen of the Jewish persuasion and moi. One of these men was Dan Curtis who was terribly respectful towards me - as he should have been - me being an RW and all. And I totally forgot about J&H! Otherwise what a cute conversation we could've had about the good old days.
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DR Panni, I think you may have posted this before, but I have evidently forgotten. What was your screen name as an actress? I would love to see some of the films that you have appeared in!
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Shoes? You mean that the shoes were so important that New York One chose them to represent the whole series. I would go along with that for "Cinderella", but if that was the show was about, I'm glad I didn't waste all that time watching it. I guess it was a program for foot fetishists.
It would be hard for me to list only one CD worth of perfect songs, but it would have to include some Al Carmines and some Sondheim. The one track tht would be a must would be Dame Edna doing "Losing My Mind".
I notice that many of the ads on the "Home Page" for this here site are for salad dressings. Is one of them for Aunt Martha's dressing? They had very effective television ads for that brand in the 50s.
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My Bring Your Hanky CD:
Meditation - Shenandoah
Something Wonderful– King and I
Pity the Child – Chess
Somewhere – West Side Story
Stars…Javert’s Suicide (Les Miz)
Why God – Miss Saigon
Make Them Hear You - Ragtime
Con onor muore - Madame Butterfly
Che gelida manina - La Boheme
I Want to Live - John Denver
Deleted with Difficulty
Time Heals Everything – Mack and Mabel
There But for You Go I - Brigadoon
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Somewhere That’s Green (Little Shop of Horrors)
Old Friend (Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road)
As If We Never Said Goodbye – Sunset Blvd
Bimba dagli occhi - Madame Butterfly
Bui Dui - Miss Saigon
The Bus From Amarillo (Best Little...in Texas)
If we included orchestral:
"Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony in D - Cesar Franck
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Prelude - Wagner
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Rachmaninoff
Symphony #6 - Tchaikovsky
Aida, opera Triumphal March - Verdi
Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin
Violin Concerto #1 in D Major - Paganini
Requiem, K.626: Dies Irae (Day Of Wrath) Mozart
der Brucer (Bonus Track - "Blame Canada" -South Park)
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This just in...
AMOUR co-stars Melissa Errico and Malcom Gets will be reunited in Irish Rep's FINIANS' RAINBOW concert revisal opening later next month!
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DR Panni, I think you may have posted this before, but I have evidently forgotten. What was your screen name as an actress? I would love to see some of the films that you have appeared in!
Thank you for the interest, MBarnum, but there is absolutely nothing worth seeing. And I'm not being coy or modest, just truthful. All my good acting work was done on the stage in Canada and that's gone with the wind. As it is, I haven't acted in over 25 years, except at network meetings.
The only work of mine worth looking at is my writing work - and some of that you can find for sale online or at rental places.
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I notice that many of the ads on the "Home Page" for this here site are for salad dressings. Is one of them for Aunt Martha's dressing? They had very effective television ads for that brand in the 50s.
Here is the Mary Margaret McBrideMertz delivery service for Aunt Martha's Salad Dressing:
(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/2016318/46560037.jpg)
Though sold at a loss, they hoped to make up the diffence with volume.
der Bucer (I'll stick with Paul Newman - nicer eyes)
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Hey everyone....the new Broadway Radio Show is available for your listening pleasure....this week we play selections from the new recording of SHERRY! and I chat with an original cast member of the show.
Enjoy!
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It was Aunt Martha's HOMEMADE Salad Dressing!
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A CD compilation would have to include a couple of novelty songs like "Bananas," and another I like from the 20s is "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?"
That reminds me of Paul Taylor's THE WRECKING BALL, which had a bananas song (I can't think of the title at the mo'.)
My Off-the-Top-of-My-Head-Ten-Song CD:
"Milord" -- Edith Piaf
"Mack The Knife" -- Ella Fitzgerald
"Mood Indigo" -- Sinatra
"Blue Rhondo A La Turk" -- Dave Brubeck Quartet
"Appalachian Spring" -- Copeland, conducted by Bernstein
"Overture" -- SOUTH PACIFIC
"Respect" -- Aretha Franklin
"Walkin' After Midnight" -- Patsy Cline
"Every Breath You Take" -- The Police
"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" -- The Jet
This list is subject to change by the time I click the "Post" button.
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DR George - Did they re-do the London OCR of Miss Saigon to replace "It's Her or Me" with "Now That I've Seen Her"? I much prefer "It's Her or Me" over "Now That I've Seen Her". *And I'm also glad I have a copy of the original vocal selections they released before Hal Leonard took the London ones - which were licensed for sale stateside initially - and "big-noted" them. And it's also too bad that when HL put some of the songs into their Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology series that they used those "big-note" style arrangements instead of the accompaniment only versions.
As far as I could tell, they just replaced the one song. However, they didn't change the booklet, just the outside endcard, on my friend's copy. The library where I work bought the CD and the inside booklet was changed to reflect the new song. Evidently, they didn't do everything all at once. ::)
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Why is it that I always seem to see so many things that I want on Ebay at the end of the month when I don't have any money left instead of at the beginning of the month when my checking account is still full? I hate that!
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SAG Awards (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112159,00.html):
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LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp was a surprise lead actor winner Sunday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," while Charlize Theron took the best-actress honor for the serial-killer drama "Monster."
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The supporting acting awards went to Tim Robbins for the brooding drama "Mystic River" and Renee Zellweger for the Civil War saga "Cold Mountain."
The ensemble acting award, the guild's equivalent of a best-picture prize, went to "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," the front-runner to win the top honor at next Sunday's Academy Awards.
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Among the guild's TV awards, "Sex and the City" won for comedy-acting ensemble on the same night the series ended its six-year run. The cast won the same prize two years ago, while star Sarah Jessica Parker won the comedy-actress honor in 2001.
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Other comedy TV honors went to Megan Mullally for "Will & Grace" and Tony Shalhoub for "Monk."
Kiefer Sutherland of "24" and Frances Conroy of "Six Feet Under" won for best dramatic actor and actress. "Six Feet Under" also was honored for best acting ensemble in a drama.
"Angels in America" earned Meryl Streep and Al Pacino the acting awards for a TV movie or miniseries.
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The guild presented its lifetime achievement award to 91-year-old Karl Malden, an Academy Award winner as supporting actor for "A Streetcar Named Desire."
der Brucer
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A little off the deep end, perhaps:
Extracted from Tolerance (http://tolerance.org/news/article_tol.jsp?id=932):
A 'Return' of the White Patriarchy?
EDITOR'S NOTE: "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" led this week's Academy Awards nominations with 11, including Best Picture and Best Director. But for Andrea Lewis, the "King" is little more than a glorified vision of white patriarchy. Unlike Academy voters, she prefers the multiracial worldview of "The Matrix."
Like most, I was entertained and awed by the artistry and technical achievements of "The Return of the King," but by the end of the film's 3.5 hours I thought the final chapter should have been dubbed "The Return of the Patriarchy."
The "Rings" films are like promotional ads for those tired old race and gender paradigms that were all the rage back in author J.R.R. Tolkien's day.
Almost all of the heroes of the series are manly men who are whiter than white. They are frequently framed in halos of blinding bright light and exude a heavenly aura of all that is Eurocentric and good. Who but these courageous Anglo-Saxon souls can save Middle Earth from the dark and evil forces of the world?
On the good side, even the mighty wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) is sanitized and transformed from the weed-smoking, rather dingy figure we first meet in the "The Fellowship of the Ring," into Gandalf the White, who, by the time of "Return of the King," has become a powerful military leader complete with pure white hair and an Eisenhower attitude.
Say what you will about the convoluted storyline of the "Matrix" trilogy — at least those films give women and people of color some characters they can relate to.
der Brucer (wondering what ethnicity you can assign to a villian without alienting someone?)
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Good Afternoon!
-Time to be productive!... I hope!
Well, at least time to finally make up my bed and fold some clothes... Then...
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Donald, This week's installment is great. Your interview with your friend from Sherry is wonderful. Thanks for the show.
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Regarding the "Return of the White Patriarchy" item from "Tolerance" posted by derBrucer.
...it gives me pause to wonder whether Ms. Andrea Lewis also found similar "racial" fault with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
Heaven forbid any religious movie in which bright white light might be used to indicate a sacred, much less, masculine, presence. That would, of course, further the silly idea of "white" patricarchy (never mind, of course, that the biblical history is wholly patriarchal).
Let's see...tolkien's whole world was meant to be set in pre-history Europe. How DARE he people it only with white folk!!???
I think her mindset is simply sad.
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BK - Check out Peter Filichia's column at TheaterMania.Com today. It's about Sherry and he mentions you by name in connection with the track on Unsung Musicals.
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Well I will add the afore-chosen "Moon River" as a hidden track on my CD....and just for some culture Tchiakovsky's First Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor as recorded by Van Cliburn. Just for culture, ya know.
'Cos when it comes to culture - us people hyer in Indiana are the first hogs to the trough.
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JoseSPiano - yesterday
Your main concern with driving up will be the Lincoln Tunnel. Either get in before rush hour by 7:30, or after rush hour after 9:30. Now, if you're going up on a weekend, then... Just make sure there's no parades or presidential visits planned for the day you plan to go up. Gridlock!
Having been there, seen it, done it - I WILL NOT DRIVE ONTO MANHATTEN AND PARK.
Present plan is to take the Cape May Ferry and then drive to Journal Square in Jersey City and take PATH into the city. I know both the streets and the Subways to get any where on the island.
der Brucer (looking for discount tickets to "WICKED" to keep SWW happy.)
Anybody seen or heard much about "Golda's Balcony", "Agamemnon", or "THE EXONERATED" ?
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Dear Reader WEL--Regarding the Manolos on Sex and the City: Think of it as shoe as metaphor.
A belated welcome to Dear Reader Jenny!
Very belated birthday wishes to Dear Reader Matthew!
I agree with Dear Reader TCB on Phantom of the Opera: it is quite enjoyable as an entertainment.
The Pearl Fishers was quite good yesterday. The three principal singers were excellent, and the production was quite eye-catching. Although this opera has some wonderful musical highlights, it also has some fairly hackneyed musical passages. We won't even discuss the quality of the libretto!
It took me forever to drive home from San Diego, as it was pouring rain most of the way. Got back in time to turn on the SAG awards and then was too tired to even turn on the computer last night.
I'm surprised there's been so little chatter here about the SAG awards. Much as I enjoyed his performance, I was rather astonished to see Mr. Johnny Depp take the Best Actor (Male) in a Feature Motion Picture award.
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But you weren't as astonished as Rosalind Russell was when Loretta Young won the Oscar for "The Farmer's Daughter" - I bet!
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Jay: Unlike the other awards that have goen to Bill Murray for "Lost in Translation," the SAG award isn't a critics prize. I don't know whether Mr. Murray is popular enough to actually win the Oscar. I've heard some tales that he can be "unpleasant."
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Y'all ain't gonna believe this, I'll bet:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3389000893&category=778
Merrick's "Tony" medallion for "Hello, Dolly!" is apparently on the eBay auction block...having been recycled back in 1969 to bear someone else's name.
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Jay, I as well was astonished that Johnny Depp won. While I certainly enjoyed his performance, it is basically just a music hall turn.
But then it's actors voting...I don't know if all SAG votes, but if so that something like 20,000 people, the vast majority of which are out-of-work simpletons more with the mentality of fans than accomplished working artists. I look at the SAG awards as sort of a people's choice award.
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der Brucer (looking for discount tickets to "WICKED" to keep SWW happy.)
What der B has decided is that we should do a test-run pre-Assassins, and is trying to decide on what to aim for tix-wise.
Which is why I would add to our "Hey, that sounds interesting" list Big Bill, by A. R. Gurney. (I've never been to Lincoln Center.)
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Oh, oh, oh. I am getting used to the new Windows XP operating system here at work, and noticed the Character Map actually has Esperanto letters in it. Let's see if they come out right. They should all have circumflexes (^) on top, except the u, which should have a breve.
Ĉ ĉ
Ĝ ĝ
Ĥ ĥ
Ĵ ĵ
Ŝ ŝ
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Well, they certainly don't look like letters on my screen, only Unicode numbers. Anyone else see letters? If so, what's your software?
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Not necessarily my favorite songs, but ones that have special meaning to me. Limiting Billy Joel to only one song was extremely difficult.
1. Heifetz performing Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy”
2. “When Sonny Gets Blue” Johnny Mathis
3. “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
4. “As Time Goes By”
5. “Key Largo” Bertie Higgins
6. “California Girls” Beach Boys (after all, I am a Calif. girl)
7. “God Only Knows” Beach Boys
8. “Days of Wine and Roses” Andy Williams
9. “Tell Her About It” Billy Joel
10. “The Best Gift” Barbra Streisand
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These are today's ten. For the last two, the OBCs are fine, though there may be more definitive recordings out there.
Will He Like Me (She Loves Me) - Barbara Cook
Gee, But It's Good To Be Here (Happy Hunting) - Ethel Merman
If Love Were All (Bittersweet) - Julie Andrews
Old Devil Moon (Finian's Rainbow) - Tony Bennett
I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Too Many Girls) - Ella Fitzgerald
Stranger In Paradise (Kismet) - Alfred Drake
Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darrin
Don't Rain On My Parade (Funny Girl) - Barbara Streisand
The Best Of Times (La Cage Aux Folles)
I Talk To The Trees (Paint Your Wagon)
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What, no mix tapes with the song "Mix Tape?" Well, I'm not including it, either.
In order:
(I'd Rather Be) Sailing, Norm Lewis, from A New Brain. An honest love song.
Invocation & Instructions to the Audience, Bob Gunton & cast, A Stephen Sondheim Evening. The lyrics are perfect.
Losing My Mind, Penny Orloff, as performed in Jewish Thighs on Broadway. She hasn't recorded it yet, dang, but I'd want her version over the others.
Look Who's Alone Now, Barry Bostwick, Nick & Nora. Torch song, male style.
Life Goes On, Stephen Schwartz, from the recording Reluctant Pilgrim. A heartbreaker.
The Last Great Waltz, Mason Williams with Jennifer Warnes, from his album Music 1968-1971. One of the funniest songs ever written, imo, and a great story song.
And They're Off, Malcolm Gets and company, A New Brain. Another great story song.
The Sun Whose Rays are All Ablaze, Shirley Henderson, Topsy-Turvy soundtrack.
Somewhere/How Glory Goes, Audra McDonald, How Glory Goes (originally from West Side Story and Floyd Collins.) A perfect pairing of the songs.
BONUS TRACK: Times Like This, Judy Blazer, Lucky Stiff. You didn't think I wouldn't include a dog song, did you?
I've learned not to hit new friends over the head with classical too early. Otherwise, I'd be including Copland's Third Symphony, fourth movement (based on Fanfare for the Common Man).
Somewhere, there's a psychiatrist rubbing his or her hands with glee, anticipating the chance to analyze our selections.
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Oh, oh, oh. I am getting used to the new Windows XP operating system here at work, and noticed the Character Map actually has Esperanto letters in it. Let's see if they come out right. They should all have circumflexes (^) on top, except the u, which should have a breve.
Ĉ ĉ
Ĝ ĝ
Ĥ ĥ
Ĵ ĵ
Ŝ ŝ
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I'm glad I re-read what you wrote at the top of your post, DR William. At first, I thought this was your list of numbers for your mix tape!
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Use this link for WICKED discount tickets
http://www.theatermania.com/tickets/index.cfm?int_show_id=22654
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Preorders start tomorrow for Kritzer Time. Anyone who is predisposed to get a jump on such things can do so right this very minute by going to our home page, clicking on The Kritzer Novels, scrolling down until you see Kritzer Time on the right.
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Shoes? You mean that the shoes were so important that New York One chose them to represent the whole series. I would go along with that for "Cinderella", but if that was the show was about, I'm glad I didn't waste all that time watching it. I guess it was a program for foot fetishists.
Yes, EXACTLY! You've totally cracked the code. All the critical and audience acclaim, plus all the awards, were strictly bestowed upon the show by foot fetishists.
That's what the show was about....SHOES. Just like "Mame" is about long pants, and "Hello, Dolly" is about a feed store in Yonkers.
You got it! :)
And don't forget that "Fiddler on the Roof" was about property values in the Ukraine, and "Guys and Dolls" was about sewer rats in NYC, and "Fiorello" was about a little tin box.
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We're having such a fun day. I'm washing sheets and seasoning der Brucer's new cast-iron sandwich press in the oven, and he's alphabetizing the cast album CDs. (I've just made his day by handing him the stack of CDs we brought east with us in the car. He doesn't always swear like a sailor, but it's fun to tempt him. ;D)
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All right, enough of this "Spoiler Free" thing on Sex and the City. If anyone wants a spoiler, Television Without Pity (http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=7&story=6264&limit=&sort=) did it fairly well. Since we now have this one spoiler, we don't need another. Get it? Good.
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Saw a movie I've been missing for years just now - THE SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET that won Helen hayes her first Oscar. Recorded from TCM this morning and just watched it. Soap opera from the word go that makes STELLA DALLAS look like LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, but Hayes does OK. And nice to see Neil Hamilton, a very young Robert Young, and Jean Hersholt in the cast.
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I am knee-deep in one of the coolest sites I have ever stumbled across: newspaperarchive.com. This site has papers going back to the 1700s, all in .PDF format and all completely searchable. I have found so much info on my favorite research subject, no to mention copious news articles about my late Uncle, the alleged Soviet Spy (betcha didn't know that about me, eh?).
Is anyone an Adobe expert out there? Is there any way to "crop" Adobe files, so that I don't need to print out a whole newspaper page every time? Are Adobe files importable into Picture Viewers or can they be converted to .jpegs.
Because you are a highly sensitive and spiritually aware lot, and vis a vis my favorite research subject, I ask all of you to please pray for the Farmer family. My dear friend Frances' nephew David has just had the worst news any parent can experience: his 23 year old daughter has just died from a car accident in Las Vegas. I firmly believe in the healing power of prayer, especially anonymous prayer, so for those of you so moved, I know the "vibes" will get where they need to be.
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Somewhere, there's a psychiatrist rubbing his or her hands with glee, anticipating the chance to analyze our selections.
And that psychiatrist would most likely say, in the words of Mr. Mark Bakalor, "You're all crazy!!!"
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...not to mention copious news articles about my late Uncle, the alleged Soviet Spy (betcha didn't know that about me, eh?)...
Dang. The beard and the shifty eyes should have been a tip-off.
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And more seriously, vibes.
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Good Afternoon!
Well... 1/2 mile walk, 2 mile run/jog, 1/2 mile walk, 100 crunches (5 sets of 20, each set in a different position), 20 push-ups (2 sets of 10), and various stretches.
Guess who's gonna be sore tomorrow?!?!?! But it'll be a good sore. And I'm be smiling.. through the pain.
;D
It actually felt very good to get back out there today and just go for it. At first I was just going to run a mile, but then I just decided, what the heck? -Might as well... And it was actually a bit easier than I thought it would be. Nice to know I'm not that out of it - this was my first run in about four months! And I kept up a pretty good pace throughout the run. However, my flexibility has gone out the window - some of those stretches... hmm... Time to dust off the Pilates machine in the morning!
-Nothing like a bit of internet-induced motivation. ;)
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Because you are a highly sensitive and spiritually aware lot, and vis a vis my favorite research subject, I ask all of you to please pray for the Farmer family. My dear friend Frances' nephew David has just had the worst news any parent can experience: his 23 year old daughter has just died from a car accident in Las Vegas. I firmly believe in the healing power of prayer, especially anonymous prayer, so for those of you so moved, I know the "vibes" will get where they need to be.
Very, very sad news. :'( My heart goes out to your friend.
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Attention, DR. Jose:
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]ALTON ALERT!!!!! ALTON ALERT!!!!![/move]
New episode on Wednesday, titled "Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut." (Food TV, 9:00 pm EST/PST)
Reruns on late-nite:
Monday: Broiled, butterflied chicken
Tuesday: Ice Cream
Wednesday: Scones, Shortcake, & Souther Biscuits
Thursday: Gravy
Friday: French Onion Soup
I suppose he could do manolos, sort of as a tribute to Charlie Chaplin...nah.
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JMK was the alleged Soviet Spy your father's brother? :D
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JMK was the alleged Soviet Spy your father's brother? :D
Indeed, Jane--and if you recall some of my other posts, my father was a General in the U.S. Army (in fact, his brother's arrest occurred about 15 seconds after my dad had been nominated to be a Brigadier General). Needless to say, this created huge problems for my family (on top of which it was the height of the Berlin Wall crisis, not exactly a cozy time in US-USSR relations).
DRs Pogue and Panni may be interested to know this story was optioned many years ago (Rip Torn, a lifelong friend of my family's who gave the eulogy at both my Uncles' funerals, was interested), but the option lapsed. I am currently developing the story on my own. Hence the research.
The case is not remembered at all today, but it was front page news at the time, and is still mentioned in textbooks about Soviet "outreach" (if you catch my drift).
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JoseSPiano - yesterdayHaving been there, seen it, done it - I WILL NOT DRIVE ONTO MANHATTEN AND PARK.
Present plan is to take the Cape May Ferry and then drive to Journal Square in Jersey City and take PATH into the city. I know both the streets and the Subways to get any where on the island.
der Brucer (looking for discount tickets to "WICKED" to keep SWW happy.)
Anybody seen or heard much about "Golda's Balcony", "Agamemnon", or "THE EXONERATED" ?
I actually like driving into the city. And I've found some very reasonably priced garages at various points on the island. Of course, traffic can be bad, but traffic is traffic. I guess growing up in the DC metro area has kind of conditioned me to deal with traffic. And depending upon how long I am up there, I also tend to get lucky with the alternate side of the street parking too. <knock wood>
-Although I like your route too.
When are you going? -And does this mean you'll now be making two trips up?
I believe The Exonerated just posted their closing notice. -It's quite a good piece. I think the tour is still out of the road with various actors stepping in and out at various cities. When it was in DC, they had one of the people "profiled" in the play in the audience. Quite a moving moment. Have you seen I Am My Own Wife yet?
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JMK we find your family very interesting.
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DR JMK - You can crop Adobe .pdf files, but you will need a full-fledge version of Adobe Acrobat, not just the free browser plug-in version.
-And so sorry to hear about your friend's bad news. Thoughts of comfort on their way.
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DR SWW - Thank you for the Alton Brown Alert! If I recall, I think the spring season is all new episodes, n'est-ce pas?
It's been fun watching some of the ones they've been rerunning during the 11:30 slot lately. The different hair cuts. The still evolving look and style of the show. And whatever happened to some of those early "special guests"? I loved the guy in the hardware store during the steak show who didn't eat meat... and who's family didn't eat meat. No steak for them! ;)
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JMK we find your family very interesting.
LOL, Jane--I haven't even gotten to my OTHER Uncle (another infamous leftist who became a mini-Trump in his day, owning a great deal of lower Manhattan), or the whole "don't tell anyone we're Jews" angle. Oy. Oy I say again.
I did a FOIA request on my Uncles' FBI and CIA records over two years ago, and stuff is STILL coming in. My fave documents in that regard are the 30 years of letters from J. Edgar to various field agents as he personally looked into my Uncle's (the mini-Trump) activities, including supposed aliases, followed by a late 60s addendum that the 30 or so aliases they had ascribed to my Uncle for 25+ years had, in fact, NEVER been used by him--he changed his surname from Kauffman to escape anti-Semitism and that's the only "other" name he ever had. Your tax dollars at work. :-\
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No one wants to be first?
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OMG DR RPL - Hello Dolly 1969! This has Ginger Rogers' fine fingerprints all over it....she was married to William Marshall when she was doing the show....when she showed up that is!
Must have been a gag gift she got for him.....or since she had NO sense of humor, someone else must have.....maybe one of his drinking buddies gave it to him when he finally married Ginger! Big Deal indeed!
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Preorders start tomorrow for Kritzer Time. Anyone who is predisposed to get a jump on such things can do so right this very minute by going to our home page, clicking on The Kritzer Novels, scrolling down until you see Kritzer Time on the right.
Did you mean I can order today? If so, it's not working or I'm doing something wrong.
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Is Alton that blonde guy with glasses?
I like his show and I don't even cook! ;D
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Tell me what you're doing? I tried it, got to the order page (the one with the paypal info) and I presume if I clicked it would take the order. So, let me know what's what and if there's a prob I'll have it taken care of.
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Jrand ordered (first order!) so it's definitely working. Maybe you misunderstood "home page". By home page I mean our real home page, where the notes reside. So, if you either go to www.haineshisway.com or just click today's notes. On THAT page you'll find "The Kritzer Novels on the left. Click there, then scroll down and the Kritzer Time link will be on your right.
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Wow a hard choice
Listen to My Heart (Nancy LaMott)
Somewhere in Time (Kevin Koelbl)
Jonathan Wesley Oliver, Jr. (Lee Lessack)
My Heart Is So Full Of (Liz Callaway)
Disneyland (Jodi Benson)
She Wasn't You (Brent Barrett)
Unsuspecting Heart (Skinner and Ripley)
Whistling Away the Dark (Julie Andrews)
What More Can I Say? (Jason Graae)
A Quiet Thing (Scott Coulter)
Climb Every Mountain (Laurie Beechman)
Way We Were (Barbra Streisand)
It's a New World (Judy Garland)
Miss Byrd (Sally Mayes)
The Ladies Who Lunch (Elaine Stritch)
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I click on The Kritzer Novels, scroll down to The Kritzer Novels again, find The Life and Times of Benjamin Kritzer under that. I don’t see Kritzer Time on the right or anywhere else.
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Hurray! Yes, I just clicked home here first....before I realized where I should really go!
Thanks, MR BK! Anticipation..................................... ....
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Yes DR Jane go to the front front front page where the notes are and click on the Kritzer Novels link!
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I was clicking on "home page", not starting over. Oh well, and I thought I would be the first to order.
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Jane, are you understanding? You don't click on the message board "home" page - that's only the threads about the book. Just go to where the day's notes are and you'll see it on the left.
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Oh my, Jane wanted to be first. I am so mean! Sorry DR JANE.
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This site has papers going back to the 1700s, all in .PDF format and all completely searchable.
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Is anyone an Adobe expert out there? Is there any way to "crop" Adobe files, so that I don't need to print out a whole newspaper page every time?
I'm no expert, but if the .pdf is searchable, Adobe recogzines the text; therefore using the Text Select tool in the free Acrobat Reader will allow you to select portions of an article and then copy/paste them to a word processor.
(If the documents, however, are scanned into .pdf files as grapahics, i.e. they have not been OCR "recognizeded" your'e SOL.)
I have often used my reader to extract sections of tect from instruction manuals to import them to Word and then do some manipulation.
der Brucer
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Now I need to figure out how to change, not add, my credit card info plus my email address. I might have to do this later as I'm short on patience today.
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Oh my, Jane wanted to be first. I am so mean! Sorry DR JANE.
:D :D
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YOu also can just register anew, since you'll be using a new credit card and e-mail address. That way, you might even get the five dollar credit.
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No discount but I ordered the book-YES!
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Okay, it ain't happening. So how do you reduce a file (a Jpeg) - I don't even know how to ask the right question.
I tried to post a photo - advice please.
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email the jpeg to me Panni and I will reduce it for you...is it for your profile or for a post?
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First two orders! Hoo and ray.
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Jrand53 - I just emailed the jpeg to you. I tried doing it through the site and it didn't send, so I just copied your email address to my personal email and sent it that way. The subject line is "Photo"...
Thanks for doing this! BTW - how do you reduce a jpeg?
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I guess I'm number 3. I just ordered through PayPal! Hoo and Rah
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Congrats on the first book sales, bk. May they be the first of thousands!
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RLP did you see my post re Ginger and William Marshall?
DRPANNI - I use a program that came with my scanner PHOTOIMPRESSION 3.
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Hey up for bid on Ebay - the August 1977 issue of TV & Movie Screen!
Why should we care? WELL.........one article is entitled "Cindy Williams Secret Love Problem Revealed - Why No Man Will Marry Her Now" - featuring a pictures of Cindy alone, and in poses with Henry Winkler, Ed Begley, David Lander, Robb Lewine, and BRUCE KIMMEL!!!! ;D
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"I say! I was rather wondering if I might fondle your manolos!"
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Courtesy DR Panni - here is Ms Panni and Mr BK at the WGA Awards on Saturday night! :o
But we can't see the shiny shoes. Pay no attention to the bartender on the left.
DR Panni - you forgot your turtleneck sweater under that dress!
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LOL RLP - that's the girl who revels in early English perpendicular!
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Thank you, Jrand53! The bartender thanks you, too.
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My, what a handsome couple just above me. Understated, yet elegant.
DR BEN: The Hubby and I just re-watched Trouble In Paradise tonight; we enjoyed it immensely. Thank you, thank you once again for your thoughtfulness!
I don't know if I can really boil down the essence of Lulu into ten songs, but I'll give it a shot:
Because (The Beatles)
Let's Misbehave (Irving Aaronson and his Commanders)
Scatterbrain (Frankie Masters and his Orchestra)
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White (Perez Prado)
Vivaldi's The Four Seasons (don't ask me to pick a concerto...the thing is impossible)
Blitzkrieg Bop (The Ramones)
Good Ol' Days (The Little Rascals/Our Gang theme) (LeRoy Shield)
Theme from "A Man and a Woman" (?)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
Linger (Cranberries)
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Lulu, Francis Lai wrote A Man and a Woman, not to mention Live for Life and, lest we forget, Love Story. Where do I begin?
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Thanks, JMK.
I know what you mean...I'm already contemplating listing another ten, just because I've already thought of a bunch I can't BELIEVE I left off the first list!
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NOTICE TO EVERY OTHER HOLLYWOOD COUPLE:
Eat your heart out!!!
What a swell photo!
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Courtesy DR Panni - here is Ms Panni and Mr BK at the WGA Awards on Saturday night! :o
What a damn fine couple these two make! ;D You'd think that they were a real "couple"! ;)
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Thanks to those who ordered Kritzer Time already in advance of the official "start" tomorrow. The more the merrier, say I.
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Oh, and I just received an advance copy of Richard Valley's Scarlet Street review of Kritzerland. I'll add it to the Kritzer books section later, and probably print it in tomorrow's notes.
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DR Panni and BK, what a wonderful photo! You look like the Nick and Nora Charles of the millenium, and you're about to put the Thin Man in his place!
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I forgot to mention it - Unseemly Live Chat in a mere ten minutes. Be there or be round.
elmoore: Come to our live chat. Click on "Live Chat" at the top or bottom of the page, and all you have to do is put in your username (no password necessary) and click enter.
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Bruce & Panni, what a lovely photo. You both look striking! :)
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Chat in a mere three minutes.
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Chat in a mere two minutes. I have it on good authority that Miss Swishy Sarah will be there.
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Chat in a mere minute.
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What a wonderful photo! And so nice to put a face to Panni's screenname too!
Oh, and since I'm back from dinner... I guess I can make chat tonight too!
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Chat in a mere. Now, chat now!
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Okay, you can use a full CDs worth of songs if you like. I find these lists fascinating and, of course, I get to discover songs I don't know. This isn't at all the same as "favorite songs" I don't think.
It' odd that this should be the TOD, as I have just made a few compilation discs for people (or at least got the tracks onto the computer)!
This afternoon's cd burning was:
FUN SONGS:
(for my friends who like pop music)
"The Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats
"Land Down Under" - Men at Work
"Come On Eileen" - Dexy's Midnight Runners
"500 Miles" - The Proclaimers
"If I Had a Million Dollars" - Barenaked Ladies
"Never Ending Story" - Limahl
"Wild Wild West" - Escape Club
"Go West" - Pet Shop Boys (via Village People)
"Move Away" - Culture Club
"Rock DJ" - Robbie Williams
"Walk on the Wild Side" - Brook Benton
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What a wonderful photo! And so nice to put a face to Panni's screenname too!
I definately agree! And in my case, putting the face to the screenname was something I should have done long ago, because I've now realized that I met Panni at the reading and signing of Kritzerland at Bookfellows! Somehow, I never matched the face with the name. I can be so slow on the uptake sometimes. My fault, DR Panni, and I appologize. :-[ :-\
(Of course, der Brucer was there too, but Panni and I had a very nice conversation while he was off finding a basketfull of books, so he has an excuse.)
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My writing, or at least my ability to review, is improving. I've been keeping up a running thread over at eGullet.com on our RB discoveries, foodwise. This is what I added tonight:
One of the signatures of Rehoboth Beach is the use of color everywhere. This is natural for the town, befitting the summer resort business. Bright paint is splashed everywhere. Mattel's Barbie would approve of a store called "Tickled Pink." Fences are painted in rainbow shades.
Cloud 9 http://cloud9restaurant.com/ is almost discreetly yellow in comparison; much of it's color comes from the lighting on the roof. That's as far as the outside goes. Inside, the walls are burnished gold, with a sky blue skylight over the dining room, and cartoon-ballooned paintings in bold graphic style by Matt Adler on the walls.
We went because we wanted a change of pace, and had heard that they have a pasta special running on Monday nights. Indeed, there is a special menu of pasta dishes and individual pizzas, and the pastas on the regular menu are at half price. (There is also currently a second-entree-free special on Thursday nights.)
Der Brucer started with the baked oysters, which are served with andouille sausage, spinach, and aioli. He thought the bite of the andouille complemented the oysters very well. For my appetizer, I thought the sweet chili-garlic sauce that was paired with the coconut crusted shrimp also a good match, with the light heat of the sauce cutting the coconut's own sweetness.
For the entree, he went for the duck confit pizza, which was paired with scallions, tomatoes, asparagus tips, and cheddar. I tried the lobster ravioli from the regular menu, which was served with a sherry cream sauce. No, I told our waiter, I didn't care for fresh Parmesan. What I did find myself wishing for was some contrast on the plate. The ravioli was very good, tender and striped orange and white, and filled with flavorful lobster. The sherry cream sauce was a good pairing with the ravioli. But...
White and orange raviolis, with a white sauce, and served in a deep white dish somehow lacked a certain visual something. There was too much white, which went well with the late 70s soft rock playing in the background but wasn't as appealing to look at. The whole combination needed something green, like a glazed decoration to the plate itself, and maybe just a small sprinkling of seaweed salad on the raviolis to give a flavor contrast.
The service was as pale as my entree. Tasty, but lacking something.
As we were driving home, der Brucer commented that they're sure to rake in the bucks during the season. I'm sure he's right.
I do wonder how it looks, however, to be sitting at the table with a small notepad near my water glass, while I'm taking notes. I know there are others at eGullet who do the exact same thing; some of them even take pictures! But are waiters astute enough to know that the notes will be used later? And do they say anything to the back of the house?
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Panni and BK, woohoo - what a picture! what a photograph!
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S. Woody, I didn't know Panni at the Kritzerland signing - it must have been some other Hungarian blonde.
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Gee, BK, I hope you're just ribbing me, because it's unfair for one fellow like yourself to know that many pretty women!
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Not ribbing. I don't think I met Panni before last summer.
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Note to JMK re the lovely chat:
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
[King James]
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So I would just have to assume that this line is in Mel's screenplay.
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Not ribbing. I don't think I met Panni before last summer.
And June 21st would have been last summer.
(No, I'm not magical at remembering dates. The reading was the same day that Harry Potter #5 came out, so I had a practical memory jogger.)
And if it wasn't Panni, then who was that other lovely lady?
Addendum: I just went back and found my own post from that date. Sadly, I wasn't very good at naming names myself, and didn't give all the details. Here it is:
Der Brucer and I had a wonderful time this afternoon, meeting those who DID show up at the Kritzerland reading and signing. BK, for those who haven't had the chance to hear him, has a wonderful reading voice. He even sang a little, and while Guy Haines has nothing to worry about as far as BK being any real vocal competition, he would do well to ask BK to be a backup vocalist the next time he (GH) records a song.
We had a very enjoyable chat, ranging in topics from chat board organization to Lemony Snickett, while noshing on cheese bits, chocolate cake, and lemon bars (a tasteful confluence, I thought). Der Brucer found several books by Michael Bond about a gastronomic detective named Monsieur Pamplemousse, which he will be devouring shortly. And BK scolded us for not yet having the Ann Margaret CD of Best Little Whorehouse, which he produced.
If I'm a bit late in posting this, it is because der Brucer and I went shopping afterwards, trying to find a copy of BLW, along with BK's Pasadena Playhouse recording of Do I Hear a Waltz. Sadly, none of the stores in Glendale that we checked had either recording. Der Brucer DID purchase a couple of very nice neckties, which struck me as strange, since we both avoid situations where we have to wear neckties. We then had a very nice dinner at a restaurant in Glendale called Jax, before heading home. All and all, it was a very pleasant day.
Even though they were sold out, the staffers at all the bookstores were still being beseiged by people wanting copies of Potter. Thus I was able to research the date.
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And June 21st would have been last summer.
(No, I'm not magical at remembering dates. The reading was the same day that Harry Potter #5 came out, so I had a practical memory jogger.)
And if it wasn't Panni, then who was that other lovely lady?
My evil twin, no doubt, S. Woody. Waren't me. I've never been to a Kritzer book signing. And I hadn't met bk last summer.
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My evil twin, no doubt, S. Woody. Waren't me. I've never been to a Kritzer book signing. And I didn't know bk last summer.
Hmmmm...Twin, perhaps, certainly lovely and a personality to match, I wouldn't ever say evil.
This is strange, because she looked very much like you! It may be one of these mysteries that we don't get to solve. :-\
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The same old technical difficulties made it impossible for me to attend chat, again.
Very happy to receive the envelope from Jose. Thanks.
Did another huge class cabaret show tonight. When You Got If, Flaunt It, done by an actual Swedish bombshell, seems to have been the hit of the evening. Also, two numbers from The Full Monty.
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Oh goodness, I just spent the last three hours of my life reading semi-recent daily threads. It was exhausting! I should be writing blocking notation for "Assassins" right now (I'll hopefully be directing scenes from it at school), but you lovely people are terribly distracting! (Lovely being the operative word. What a terrific photo of BK and Panni!)
I suppose if I was trying to make a CD to reflect my musical tastes I'd include
"Our Time" (Original cast, "Merrily")
"How Long Has This Been Going On?" (Judy Garland)
"Some Other Time" (Original cast, "On The Town")
"Birdhouse In Your Soul" (They Might Be Giants)
"Va Pensiero" ("Nabucco", the recording with Callas)
"Been On A Train" (Laura Nyro)
"Finishing The Hat" (Original cast, "Sunday")
"Monica's Waltz" (Renee Flemming)
Opening of "First Lady Suite"
"Breakfast Over Sugar" (Original cast, "In Trousers")
*Bonus track: Liza singing "SaraLee", for the fat girl inside all of us.
It just occured to me that it might be interesting to try to tell our life stories (In chronological order) using only pre-existing songs (I don't think it could be limited to ten!). I'm not sure what I'd include, but it would certainly be a very different list than the one above!
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I met Panni at the reading and signing of Kritzerland at Bookfellows! Somehow, I never matched the face with the name. I can be so slow on the uptake sometimes. My fault, DR Panni, and I appologize. :-[ :-\
(Of course, der Brucer was there too, but Panni and I had a very nice conversation while he was off finding a basketfull of books, so he has an excuse.)
And I don't think I've been to Bookfellows. I love book stores and would remember THAT. This has a very Twilight Zone-ish feel to it. Der Brucer did not see the lady either. Did anybody - except you, SWW? Could she have been a spirit who haunts Bookfellows waiting for the kind and loving man who will sacrifice his life so that her soul may at last find peace. Did you narrowly escape with your life, SWW? (Or, as bk said, she may just have been another blonde Hungarian tomato.)
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Whoever the other Panni was, thank you all for the compliments on the photo. I've always fancied myself a Nora Charles kinda gal. And if Nick could switch from martinis to Diet Coke, bk fits the bill perfectly.
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I was at the Bookfellows signing, Dear Reader S. Woody White, and we did chat briefly, but I doubt that you would confuse me with Dear Reader Panni.
Or with the hallucination you had of her, for that matter.
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TOTD
1. Feelings - Morris Albert
2. Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast - Wayne Newton
3. Delilah - Tom Jones
4. Downtown - Frank Sinatra
5. Send In The Clowns - Mel Torme
6. Take That Look Off Your Face - Bernadette Peters
7. Cry Me A River - Justin Timberlake
8. All I Have - Jennifer Lopez
9. Lose Yourself - Eminem
10. Die Another Day - Madonna
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Good evening!
Chat was indeed lively and sparkling again as usual! And it was so nice that DR SwishySarah was able to pop in. -She's busy with school, studies and CAMELOT. -And I think she'd appreciate some good HHW Vibes right now too. ;)
I ended up meeting some friends for dinner tonight, and we had a wonderful time. And my friend, John, was very gracious and generous and picked up the check tonight.
Hmm... I think I need to check the pilot light on the furnace... I'm not feeling any heat right now.. Hmm...
DR Noel - Glad to know my mail reached you.
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Looking forward to AMERICAN IDOL tomorrow night. The "fountain pen salesman" is one of tomorrow's contestants. let's hope for a better set of 8 for tomorrow night.
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"Yes We Have No Bananas" was supposed to have been inspired by a Greek Pedlar in the Phillipines. US Army men found the "call" worthy remembering and tunesmiths turned it into a hit in the early 20s. I wrote much more this morning but had difficulties logging on etc.
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Oh, my Lord, I have just read the stupidest most ill-written "review" ever - just mosey on over to www.hometheatreforum.com, scroll down to DVD software and find the Peyton Place "review". And people tell this dweeb "good job, man". His first line is something about how he hates to watch classic films but he has to for his "reviews". He ends up liking them, though, so that's good. The "review" is rife with errors, both grammatical and factual. For instance, he says he doesn't know how they got such great stereo sound from a mono film. Oops. Stereo film, bucko. I mean, it's just nauseatingly amusing.
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Hmmm.... BK - I just "linked" over to hometheatreforum.com and couldn't scroll down to any DVD section - since there was not one there. Could it possibly be hometheatERforum.com? Hmm... -And I dislike pop-ups too! Especially the ones that pop-up when you close another window! grrrrrrr...
And as I mentioned during the chat tonight, Carl Anderson, Judas in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar, died today from leukemia. Here's the link to the notice on broadway.com. *I'm surprised that Playbill did not add the news at midnight.
http://www.broadway.com/template_1.asp?CI=34296&CT=38 (http://www.broadway.com/template_1.asp?CI=34296&CT=38)
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Oh - And BK - Have you heard anything about the movie, "Club Dread" that's opening soon. I had to wonder if someone was monitoring one of our Joe Allen chats. Hmmm... Unfortunately, it looks like they're making it a boob-fest type of movie, so.. Ah, well...
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What's Club Dread? It is hometheaterforum.com sorry
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Dang, didn't realize tonight was a chat night. Ah well, maybe next time.
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Thank you for the interest, MBarnum, but there is absolutely nothing worth seeing. And I'm not being coy or modest, just truthful. All my good acting work was done on the stage in Canada and that's gone with the wind. As it is, I haven't acted in over 25 years, except at network meetings.
The only work of mine worth looking at is my writing work - and some of that you can find for sale online or at rental places.
So, Panni, you were in Gone With the Wind?
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Didn't know it was a chat night? Someone has been speed-reading through the notes and posts perhaps? I'm not mentioning names, though.
I know you're out there, I can hear you breathing.
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Panni IS Gone with the Wind.
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I too were at the Bookfellows reading. The only other woman I remember being there besides Christine, one of the shop's proprietors, was Julie Kirgo, but she is dark whereas Panni is blonde. Although she too is a fellow scribe. Her father George Kirgo was a much-loved president of the WGA and an all-around delightful, witty fellow. Oh...and Christine looks nothing like Panni either, though she and her better half, Malcolm, run the best used bookstore in town. The chocolate cake at the reading was very good. BK, have you signed Bookfellows "wall of authors"?
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Club Dread appears to be "Survivor" meets Friday the 13th. Sound familiar?
WOW! Just checked out the review of Peyton Place. So, if the guy starts off by saying he was "forced" to watch the DVD then, I have to wonder:
Has he read the book? - Most likely no.
Did he see the film in it's original release? Most definitely no.
Has he seen the film on VHS or LD? Most likely no.
Then how the heck can he fully recommend people to purchase the DVD if they loved the book, loved the original movie, loved the previous video releases? Huh?
Oh, and if he wants to hear "drifting", he should check out the OCR of West Side Story. Or even just one of the "barber chair to pie shop slides" on the Sweeney Todd OCR.
WOW!
*And what a horribly designed site too! -IMHO
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Nope, this woman was most definately blonde.
Perhaps it was an astral projection of Panni? A foretelling, a meeting because we were not meant to meet in reality, or at least not yet?
Elsewhere, I checked out the Peyton Place review, and checked out the reviewer's profile. He looks like his writing reads.
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I'm reading a wonderful book and am eager to get back to it. So the REAL Panni/Anna, not the astral projection, will now say good night.
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Pogue: I am happy to tell you that I was among the very first to sign the Wall of Authors.
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Among the first? You were the first.
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I WAS the first, damn it! I couldn't remember and I didn't want to seem all stuck up.
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Then I will have to scrutinize the wall very carefully the next time I'm there for your John Hancock.
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Not a problem, BK, we'll
stuck up stick up for you!
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Didn't know it was a chat night? Someone has been speed-reading through the notes and posts perhaps? I'm not mentioning names, though.
Had to double check to make sure, but the chat was not mentioned in today's notes, so I plead "not guilty" on that charge! If it was mentioned in the posts before 2pm or so, then I guess you might have me there. ::)
Spent the last hour looking through old posts to a message board a bunch of my college friends and I had (still have the board, just goes a couple months or so between our week-long flurries of posting). Very fun bit of reminiscing. Hope to see them all more often when I relocate to the other side of the state (many of them are in the Seattle area).
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You're off the hook - chat was actually mentioned in the Saturday notes, and then I forgot about it, and didn't mention it again until a half-hour before chat, when Swishy reminded me.