Favourite Sinatra? I've always been a fan of young Sinatra with Dorsey. Some favs would be NIGHT & DAY, OH LOOK AT ME NOW, EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME, POLKA DOTS & MOON BEAMS.
I'll be leaving for Du-Par's shortly. Be there or be round.
Wussburgers. Ain't gonna happen. What kind of talk is that? What if the Lord had said, "Ain't gonna happen" when creating the world in seven days? What then, I ask. I ask, what then. Then I ask what. What I ask then. Then ask I what? Well, I think we've beaten THAT every which way but loose.What goes on a Wussburger? Are there Atkins Wussburgers, sans buns? And how is being sans buns supposed to improve the looks of your buns?
I have never seen the movie HIGH SOCIETY...for several reasons, I think. First of all, I love THE PHILADELPHIA STORY and find the three leads in HIGH SOCIETY poor substitutes for Gary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Kate Hepburn.
But most of all, I absolutely hate the song "True Love." It is probably my least favourite Cole Porter song just like "Always" is my least favourite Irving Berlin song and "Yesterday" is my least favourite Beatles song. And they'd all be right up there with Alley Cat, It's a Small World, and Pepe as my least favourite songs of all time.
I miss Du-Par's. I have a vague memory of a large group dinner there
...I don't care for "True Love" that much either. I mean, I'm as big a Porter fan as they come, but I just find it rather...banal.Good point, Maya, it is a plain song. It requires a truly great voice to lift it above itself (such as Rebecca Luker's recording, that BK produced), and those are hard to come by.
I've never been a Sinatra fan.
Right now, der Brucer is listening (with much brio and volume) to the OCR of The Secret Garden. The Marsha Norman/Lucy Simon version. The new speakers serve the recording well! Interesting what has become of some of the cast since then: Rebecca Luker is the queen of Broadway revivals, John Cameron Mitchell is the world's most famous German transsexual rocker, Robert Westenberg has been touring the nation (and world) taking his clothes off,
I like Frank; I like der Bingle; Grace Kelly I was always ambivalent about...but somehow this movie has always been a real who cares for me.
Question for you, Bruce--why did you choose Adkins over South Beach? I read both books and choose South Beach because it seemed so close to what I already eat. I didn't think I would have a hard time sticking with it and that's very true. I don't really feel like I'm on a diet.
Question for you, Bruce--why did you choose Adkins over South Beach? I read both books and choose South Beach because it seemed so close to what I already eat. I didn't think I would have a hard time sticking with it and that's very true. I don't really feel like I'm on a diet.
I've come across another example of the lack of film history that too many film reviewers suffer from. This time, the example is the CNN review of Hidalgo. (http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/05/hidalgo.ap/index.html)
Consider the following extract:
...Lawrence of Arabia obviously springs to mind, especially with Omar Sharif playing the powerful Sheikh Riyadh, against whose horses Hopkins is competing. (It is marvelous, though, to see Sharif's formidable presence on the big screen again after nearly a decade-long absence, and the role is a perfect fit.)...
End extract.
Oh, and would you like to know who you missed at Du-Par's? Well, I'll tell you who you missed. Mr. Curtis Harrington, director of What's the Matter with Helen and Games. And my pal, Mr. David Lee, creator of Frazier, who's about to direct the Reprise! Company and then 110 In the Shade at the Pasadena Playhouse.Oh who cares about them! You missed Anna Sandor, screenwriter divine, world-class raconteur, and Jayne Mansfield look-alike.
A word of advice to BK or any other authors...never, ever do a tag-team reading/signing with other authors...
FS Pogue - Saw your name on a soundtrack record of THE FLY today.
Just came back from the wilds of Glendale and there is so much here to comment on.
Jane - The wonderdog is back to his wonderself today. Thanks for asking. I think it was the medication the new vet (to whom I shall never go again) put him on. I specifically said to her, "If the tests show nothing wrong, why put him on meds? What if they have side effects?" She looked at me like I just crawled out of a hole and said, "I'm not in the habit of giving medication to animals that would make them worse." I should have known right there. But I thought maybe the meds would clear up whatever it was in his system that was giving him an upset stomach. Anyway, I know better for next time. Just go with my instincts.
Maya - My daughter, who is Jewish, goes to a Jesuit school. So just because the place is a Jesuit college, it doesn't mean the scholarship offer is not legit.
Jane again - Yes, that young man's story is so very sad. But sometimes even friends don't know. The daughter of the friend who told me of the tragedy was out with him just hours before it happened. He seemed fine. True, she'd been trying to help him cope with his depression with long phone conversations in the middle of the night, and so on. But I think most young people refuse to even entertain the thought that a friend might kill himself.
I am not a big fan of Sinatra. I like his Big Band stuff from the 40s, but that is about it I am afraid.
I don't like "The Red Blues" or "The Ritz Roll and Rock," but the former does look good on the SILK STOCKINGS DVD.
Many of the songs he composed for ALADDIN are forgettable.
But I could easily list fifty that I think are smashing with inventive tunes and almost unparalleled witty lyrics.
The truth is, there are clunkers in virtually EVERY musical out there.
How did this become pick on Cole Porter day?
In COLORED LIGHTS, Kander and Ebb do not have nice things to say about Sinatra's take on "New York, New York." Ebb especially did not like his lyrics tampered with.They were both gracious enough to put in print that they appreciate the "fame" and $ that Sinatra's version brought to them! - despite his changing of the lyrics.
... a version of "Lara's Theme"?Done as a polka, right?
Glad he is feeling better. If you need referrals for a new vet I can check with my friends if you like.
I think I have been to the Jesuit school. Where is it located?
Noel: my late Uncle, the infamous leftist, was indeed called before the HUAC (in fact Martin Dies called him "the baby-faced Pinko of New York's docks," which I have always loved
... I have his complete trial transcript from my FOIA requests. It's a disturbing yet fascinating record (kind of like some Ray Conniff records I used to have--oh, wait, that's a different kind of record).
Michael Shayne, I had that LP up until this last summer when I had my garage sale! Sorry!
I didn't know Miyoshi Umeki had won an emmy! I know she won an Oscar for her performance in Sayonara, however. Is that what you needed to know?
Oh, I wuz only funnin'. What care I if we achieve a new low and by quite a margin, too. I care not, it is just The Way of Things. I've got the McGuire Sisters singing Subways are for Sleeping to assuage my bitter tears of Emmanuel Kant.
That's all it says on the Album Michael.
As above in post # 129 Michael.
...That being said, I'll be seeing it again on the 27th because I already have tickets. ::)
Ouch. Why not give them away? That way you don't have to suffer through it again and somebody else at least gets a chance to see a production of SWEENEY TODD.
Jenny, you are frighteningly bright.
If Sweeney can't rise from the grave at the end of The Ballad of Sweeney Todd, then I don't want to see it.
However, do you happen to know if Keith Jameson is listed as singing all the performances? I worked with Keith many years ago when was still a baritone(!), and his name was Keith Richard (!!! - which he changed for obvious reasons). Great guy. And I also worked with Walter Charles too when he did Judge Turpin at the Kennedy Center two years ago - wow! - two years already! *I would have loved to see him as Sweeney - he covered both Cariou and Hearn at various points during the Broadway run and the tour. And another great guy. -And his stories of the original cast of Sweeney are priceless!
When Sweeney was done here in LA (the tour) the set was but a pale shadow of what it was on Broadway, and the grave was gone. The chorus all got in a circle while screeching "Sweeney, Sweeney, Sweeney" and then he was just there. On Broadway, it's one of the great entrances of all time. Before the show, there are two gravediggers digging earth out of a hole on stage, and then, at the end of the number up he comes from that grave. Then, at the end of the show, both he and Mrs. Lovett come up from the grave.
I am getting really sick of the sight of my picture, that much I can tell you.
Does anyone have the LP version of the broadway cast of Flower Drum Song? I was wondering if you do can you look on the back that has the bio for Myoshi Umeki and see what tv show it says she won an emmy award for. Trying to figure it out having a discussion with DR Matt about it
And I quote:
"...she received the Emmy Award as the top female television personality on the West Coast."
No mention of any specific TV show, but the bio does note that she won the Academy Award for Sayonara that same year, and that no one had ever won both an Oscar and an Emmy in the same year before.