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Title: OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 12:01:15 AM
Well, you've read the notes, you've read of cabbages and kings, you've read of birthdays to celebrate and you've read of other things, so let's all click our collective heels three times and say, "There's no place like home" - home, of course, being haineshisway.com.  And what better thing to do at home than post until the cows come home.  To it, I say.  The game's afoot or, at the very least, the game's ahand.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 12:27:48 AM
Welcome, six GUESTS.  No posters, just GUESTS.  Lots of GUESTS.  No posters.  I'm going to bed now, given that there are only GUESTS and not posters.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Tomovoz on March 19, 2004, 12:34:15 AM
Happy birthday DR Jay.
CDs: The NEW Guy Haines Cd
         "South Pacific" (with Philip Quast)
         "Musical Of Musicals"

DVD: Probably "Grave Of The Fireflies".
VCR: The making of "Chess" - the original concept album.
Tomorrow's DVD viewing: "The Russian Ark".

Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: George on March 19, 2004, 02:04:09 AM
Very Happy Birthday, DR Jay!!

I have been errant and truant all day Thursday, and will have to be e&t from HHW most of the weekend.  Yesterday, I was supposed to take the whole day off from work and help my sister move some big items from her old house to her freshly built new house.  However, I had to go to work to finish some invoicing and filing (there was a LOT) that had to be done before I left for the weekend, which I did.  After I got to my sister's at about 2:00 p.m., we moved most of the big items.  Today (Friday), I have the whole day off from work, but I have to usher for a show at 6:00 p.m.  We'll finish the last big thing and start to clean the old house, because I'm going to move into it when it's finished...hopefully this weekend (at least the cleaning part.  I can wait till next week to move).

So, today's topic of the day:

In my VCR:  a tape to tape tonight's "Life With Bonnie."

In anything else, nothing...maybe not till Monday when I can listen to my CDs at work.

And yesterday's topic of the day (okay, here are 12, not 8):

Auntie Mame
Blazing Saddles
A Christmas Story
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Princess Bride
Singin’ in the Rain
Sleeper
Some Like It Hot
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Victor/Victoria
Yours, Mine, and Ours
What’s Up, Doc?

Yesterday (a Beatles reference), SwishySarah wrote:
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I have a friend who, for an English class, needs a song from a musical that has to do with someone who's crazy. Any ideas?

If you're still looking, there is also the tour-de-farce [sic] "She's a Nut" from On the Twentieth Century.  It has music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, starring John Cullum, Madeline Kahn, Imogene Coca (the aforementioned nut) and a very young and hunk-a-hunk-a Kevin Kline.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: S. Woody White on March 19, 2004, 03:53:55 AM
THE MEDIA WATCH:

We've got a surfeit of books and discs to read and listen to, and DVDs to watch and hear.  I'm not even half-way through what we collected in NYC last weekend, and more has arrived since!

The Kritzer CD that Haines recorded is wonderful, and will be in the rotation for some time, of course.

Der Brucer's locating the Oregon State University's Food Resource site isn't helping any.  The piece on Tacos, Enchiladas and Refried Beans runs sixteen pages, and the site has so much more!

Add to all of this a couple of articles in the local press on West Rehoboth, which has one of our favorite waitresses in a deserved snit, and which led to us driving through the part of town referred to in the articles last night, to confirm what Violet had reported to us.  Talk about a potent mix of property values and racism!  Yipes!

There are a couple of good results from last night.  For one, Violet's mother has promised us some pate from the restaurant where she works, which she herself makes (yum!).  Second, we've found a really good Chinese take-out joint close to where we live (another yum!).  Third, I've got a few more leads to report on re the local restaurant scene for eGullet, which means that next Friday night is already booked.  (Yums to be confirmed later.)

All of which brings us to the other book of controversy at this here site.  No, BK, not yours; I refer to Hausam's anthology The New American Musical.  Noel has been asking why the four shows included in the book are the ones featured.  I think I've found the answer in Hausam's introduction, titled "Way Back to Paradise: In Search of Today's Great American Musical."

Early in the introduction, Hausam states:

For example, West Side Story begat Stephen Sondheim (the show's lyricist), who begat, through the artistic influence of his work, the composer/lyricists of the four works represented in this volume: Floyd Collins, Rent, Parade, and The Wild Party, all of which premiered in New York City between 1996 and 2000.  What all these works and authors share is a need to stretch the form and content of the musical to portray our increasingly difficult and complex world, and with tools more broadly expressive than a 32-bar song, a good joke, a chorus line, a happy ending and a lot of spectacular razzle-dazzle.

Later, Hausam writes:

Hal Prince likes us to remind us of the critical difference between a flop (a showbiz term) and a failure (an evaluation of artistic worth).  Floyd Collins, Parade, and The Wild Party were flops, but far from failures.  Why weren't they popular?  Looking only at the artistic elements, I would have to say that it's as simple as: they were anti-musicals, and the audience and the critics assumed, expected and insted upon musicals.

It is possible that, unintentionally, this book documents the end of the noble tradition begun by Kern and Hammerstein.  If that turns out to be the case, I want to have gone on record: this work is truly excellent; it's just out of synch with the dominant values of our times.  A fact to pursuade you of the shift in cultural sensibility: not even
West Side Story has been seen on Broadway since 1980!

As you all can see, I've got lots of interesting reading to do, along with all the listening and watching going on.  That, and great food is on the way!  (I've got some chicken thighs soaking in buttermilk, in anticipation of frying this evening, along with the promised pate!  Very yum!)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: S. Woody White on March 19, 2004, 03:55:25 AM
Lest I seem remiss...

[size=20]HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAY!!!!!![/size]

May you get to spend it dressed as the proverbial Jay-bird, if you so choose!   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Michael on March 19, 2004, 04:19:08 AM
Happy B Day Jay
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Michael on March 19, 2004, 04:20:14 AM
And oh no movies this weekend. I have guest visiting from Atlanta and Ottawa this weekend. Busy Busy time.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Michael on March 19, 2004, 04:30:09 AM
A Days Of Our Lives Rant

Now I don't know if there are any Days of Our Lives fans out there, but in my yonger days I was quite a fan of the show and haven't watched the show really in the last 10-15 years. But I have kept up on it. Current story line has long standing character Marlena killing off her family and friends. Long standing characters who have been around for 20-30 years. In doing so alienating many of the long time and core audience. I understand that it is all about demographics and advertising dollars. But from what I have seen of the few episodes I have caught over the years the actors look good but can't act.

But news comes that they are murdering the last of the original actors/character. Frances Reid who has been with the show since the very first episode is to be murdered by Marlena. With this horrible story line they already lost the other original actor fron the first episode John Clarke who "retired for health reason"

If DOOL does kill off Alice Horton I think they may have gonr a little too far. The show needs connection to the past and they have killed off too many of the long standing characters, Abe, Maggie, Doug, Caroline etc. If $$$ was a consideration then they could have been taken off contract. Now with Alice going and John Clarke quitting there is no actor left with the exception of killer Marlena. Julie who is not a regular will be the only connection to the "past". Bob and Hope are the only main characters to the past and they have been on the show on and off for the last many years.

The last time Days killed/wrote out many long standing characters it took years for them to recover and with the demise of Grandma Horton I fear the show will not recover as they will have alienated their long standing fans. To murder her will be too much and the way things work on soaps they will find some stupid excuse for the rest of her children, grandchldren and extended family for not showing up at the funeral. Maggie's children did not show up for hers.

If they wanted to write Alice Horton out they should have done it in a more "dignified" manner.

On the flip side if they really wanted to shock the audience and have a greater impact they wouldn't have announced it to the press
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 04:40:45 AM
Happy Birthday, DR JAY!

Lovely posts yesterday......  ;D

I know TCB...my question as well.  Yes the gif was from the theatre website!

DR JANE by all the means the original and ONLY
Cheaper By the Dozen featuring the star of
Diapers for Cully: Mr Clifton Webb.

Show went well last night and we are hoping for a BIG OPENING!!  8)

CD Player:  Guy Haines CD "His Way"
VCR: DuBarry Was a Lady - love the musical numbers and Red and Lucille!
DVD: Knights of the Round Table with Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer, and Ava Gardner

DRJOSE sounds like they have found him an ideal bunking location!

I loved reading the favorite dialog selections of DRJANE and DRCHARLESPOGUE - both cited a couple of my favorites as well...we use 'em for women....LOL!

On a less sophisticated note, I love the scene in Where the Boys Are - when Frank Gorshin is asking for a date.  He goes around the table, Dolores Hart turns him down, Paula Prentiss turns him down.  There is an agonizing pause...and then Connie Francis says:  "Well, let's not be insulting...."  So he asks her and she is happy to accept....LOL

Link to a story about Megan in "Loving Lucy".   ;D

http://www.indystar.com/entertainment/ (http://www.indystar.com/entertainment/)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Ben on March 19, 2004, 04:40:51 AM
Happy Birthday to Jay!

VCR, the tail end of Queer Eye and Will and Grace

Won't be listening to much. Our new hard drive is supposed to be delivered today. It came from Little Rock to Secaucus (where it was as of yesterday at around 3pm) and it should come to our place sometime between 11am and 4pm. We will then install it and spend most of the weekend putting the computer back together.

We will also be going to a christening on Sunday. Anthony's cousin had a baby in November and the whole family will gather in Brooklyn to celebrate.

Don't know what I will listen to at work today.

I'll pop in later.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 19, 2004, 05:18:05 AM
Have a wonderful birthday, DR Jay -

Hope Roller and Blackjack are planning something special.

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Post by: Kerry on March 19, 2004, 05:38:54 AM
Happy Birhtday, Jay.  Get many dog licks.

And get many licks NOT from the dogs.

Been listening to Michael Buble

Also Maureen McGovern singing the Bergmans (Still stuck on about 4 songs)

Just finsihed a DVD of the movie "The Trip" (A movie about a gay relationship from 1974 to 1987 or so---- not the Peter Sellers' version)

Best of Luck, Jack.  Do you also break the writer/director's leg or just the actors'?   If so, break a leg.  And all  your actors too.

And an episode of "Laugh-In"
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 05:56:06 AM
Thanks DRKERRY - I think EVERYONE should break a leg!

Someone just mentioned THE TRIP to me.....please post a review when you finish it....here and of course at the DVD place!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 06:11:45 AM
Does any DR have a Lucille Ball anecdote I can share in the "circle" this evening?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Lulu on March 19, 2004, 06:29:15 AM
Happy Birthday, Dear Reader Jay!

Jrand, I didn't click on the link because I didn't want to be taken out of this here site, but am I to understand you've written a show that is being produced in Indianapolis?  I am always a day late and a dollar short here, and never seem to understand quite what's going on in everybody's lives, so if I'm wrong, please forgive me.  If I'm right...CONGRATULATIONS!

I don't honestly know just what we'll watch tonight, but last night we watched - first time for either of us - Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur.  I'm also finishing up an excellent biography of Hitch right now: Patrick McGilligan's Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light which I highly recomment; it's thorough, balanced, and very well-written.  Anyhoo, it's very interesting watching the film and then going back to re-read about the making of said film.  Amongst other things, Saboteur was in pre-production beginning in 1941, and the unabashedly "Let's join the Allies in the fight against the Axis" script was repeatedly assailed as a violation of the Neutrality Act.  For awhile, it looked as though the script could not be filmed with these elements intact; then Pearl Harbor happened.  Suddenly, the Neutrality Act was history and Hitchcock was making a film "as current as today's headlines" to use the old cliche.

The film itself is pretty darned good, even though the topicality that was such a plus when it was released now merely dates it.  Of course, the film is very similar to - though not as good as - The 39 Steps, and Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane are two of the blandest leads ever to star in a Hitchcock picture.  But the "wrong man" concept is one that Hitch - as usual - exploits to maximum effect, and two scenes in particular stand out as excellent representatives of the genre: the scene in Mrs. Sutton's ballroom where Cummings and Lane look around and see, amidst the clueless revelers, the many fifth columnists who are closing in all around them (notice the not-so-subtle parallel to the world situation at the time); and, of course, the film's climax on the Statue of Liberty.   A less adept director probably would have scored this scene with copious Danger!  Danger! music, but Hitchcock subverts our expectations (and creeps us out bigtime) by giving us only the sounds of the wind, the dangling man's occasional murmured pleas, and the sounds of his jacket sleeve (which Cummings is holding onto) slowly tearing at the seams.  WOW.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 19, 2004, 06:30:33 AM
Happy Birthday, DR Jay! (The '76's have never been the same without you!)

Friday Media Report:

DVD -- the first disc of The Flintstones Complete First Season set

CD(at home) -- Brian Eno's Music for Airports

CD(at work) -- Patti Loveless -- Mountain Soul (soul tuggingly beautiful music!)

Book on bedstand -- The DaVinci Code Benjamin Kritzer

I woke up this morning before the alarm clock went off and the first thing that popped into my mind was that book from the 70's, Power -- How to Get It, How to Use It and the Richard Gere movie that was based on it.  Very strange because I haven't thought of either of them in years.

Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 06:42:45 AM
Dan the Man - isn't the mind a strange and curious place?

DRLULU - I am directing a show here...didn't write it!  But thanks!

I love SABOTEUR - spies are everywhere and don't look like spies!  The party always reminds me a bit of the one in the later NOTORIOUS.  I love all the "locations" and it also reminds me of the later NORTH BY NORTHWEST when the "'wrong man" travels all over the country chasing and being chased.  Priscilla I can take or leave, but it is Bob Cummings' blandness that really makes the movie work for me.  He is such a nothing person going about his life and his life is thrown into chaos by circumstances beyond his control....oh...well I guess that sounds like most of us!  LOL
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 07:00:54 AM
Happy Birthday DR Jay!

BK, why is the evil eye cleaning on a Friday?

DR Danise: Here are the rush policies for Broadway:
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/boards/rush.html

Rush tickets are very cheap. But it means you often have to put your name in a lottery (which is drawn maybe an hour before the show). It doesn't assure you of a ticket, and it often doesn't let you plan things out.

I would definitely recommend discounted tickets instead.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 07:06:44 AM
For DR Swishy: I guess it depends what you mean by crazy.  But I think the woman in COMPANY singing "Not Getting Married Today" is quite nuts :)

Also I have a question for DRs.  I was watching last night's Will & Grace.  I don't get to see this show that often.   And I'm having a slight disagreement about Debra Messing.  Is she supposed to be pregnant ON THE SHOW?   I didn't think so, since she was hiding her real-life pregnancy behind tables and theatre seats.  Can someone who watches regularly let me know.



Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 07:11:41 AM
OMG DR Michael Shayne: I am a Y&R girl.  But I have seen Days of Our Lives before (many years ago).  I had read in the soap mags about Marlena's killings. I agree with you.  Totally crazy. You should not take a character who has spent MANY years being the show's heroine and then have her kill the whole town (and the show's matriarch). YUCK!
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Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 07:19:18 AM

Michael Riedel: The director from hell

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03192004/entertainment/17312.htm
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 07:20:20 AM

Hugh Jackman: Page Six: I'm not GAY!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03192004/gossip/21200.htm
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 19, 2004, 07:24:36 AM
Good Morning!

Media Check:  Only the CD Player this week:  Michael McDonald's "Motown" album.

Otherwise...

Well, I'll most likely be in keyboard programming land for the next two or three days.  So, I'm asking for my hall pass in advance just in case...

Oh, BK - Did she of the evil eye switch days?  or did you switch days?

 ???

-Time for me to finish waking up and get ready to head back north... Until tonight.. -Ah, a Billy Joel reference.. Well, almost... "Until the night..."  (my favorite non-hit of his).
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Matt H. on March 19, 2004, 07:32:21 AM
First, Happy Birthday, DR Jay.

WILL & GRACE's Debra Messing is pregnant in real life but not on the show. There have been numerous jokes about Grace gaining weight that the writers have mined this season, but Grace is definitely not expecting.

Last night's episode was the season's best. A new potential boy friend was introduced for Will - actor Bobby Cannavale late of THIRD WATCH and also co-starring in this year's well regarded movie THE STATION AGENT. Bobby will appear next week as Will and Vince's first date pays dividends - or not.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Matt H. on March 19, 2004, 07:36:47 AM
Media check:

CD - WONDERFUL TOWN (new Broadway recording)

DVD - GREEN ACRES - Season 1 and also Woody Allen's ANTHING ELSE

DVR - FULL FRONTAL (Steven Soderbergh experiment in improv shot with a  digital camera)
MOTHER WORE TIGHTS which will be ported over to a DVD-R.

laserdisc - GUYS AND DOLLS (Brando/Sinatra)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Matt H. on March 19, 2004, 07:40:43 AM
I watched DAYS OF OUR LIVES when I was in college - also GUIDING LIGHT and GENERAL HOSPITAL, but I haven't kept up with any of those.

I watched ALL MY CHILDREN during the season they had a gay teacher character (with a gay student who came out memorably on the show) and started watching ONE LIFE TO LIVE when nthe gossip was that one of the characters there was going to be revealed as gay. When the producers got cold feet and chickened out, I stopped watching that show, too.
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Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 07:43:48 AM
Thanks DR MattH: That's what I thought.  It didn't make sense to me why they would hide Debra Messing behind tables and movie theatre chairs, if Grace was pregnant.  But the person I was disagreeing with couldn't believe that they would show her belly like that if Grace wasn't pregnant :)
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Post by: Matt H. on March 19, 2004, 07:46:53 AM
I wanted to comment on bk's mentioning the SHERLOCK HOLMES boxed sets.

Having watched these favorite mysteries for years and years in godawful dupes with high contrast, missing scenes, and so much speckling one would think it was snowing all the time in foggy London, these DVDs are a revelation. They almost all look sparkling with sharp, clear images, and wonderful mono sound. For me, these three sets (with the last two Fox/Holmes films coming in April) have been among the year's best releases of classic material, and I will be forever grateful that these B-movies were given such loving and careful handling by MPI.
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Post by: Matt H. on March 19, 2004, 07:50:09 AM
There is only so much they can do now to hide it and keep her on the show. Debra is normally so small and skinny that the pregnancy has affected her looks more than it would have an average sized woman. Early in the pregnancy, she was off the show almost completely because she was confined to bed.
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Post by: William E. Lurie on March 19, 2004, 07:50:49 AM
Cabbages - Well I made cornbeef and cabbage this week and it was delicious.  We're having the leftovers tonight.  And last week I made cole slaw.

Kings - Martin Luther King?  King Vidor?  King Donovan (Mr. Imogene Coca)?  Nat "King" Cole?

Re DAYS OF OUR LIVES - In the late sixties and early seventies it was the best soap on the air.  After that it became unwatchable.  John Clarke actually did quit.  His part was recast with John Ingles, former LA area high school drama teacher who was bumped from contract to recurring by GENERAL HOSPITAL and then quit to move to DAYS.  His GH replacement was Jed Allen, a former DAYS actor whose character left one day to mail a letter and then never returned.  Marlena was not an original cast member.  She joined in about 1967.  The real reason they are killing off so many people is budgetary.  The longer someone is on the show the more they have to pay them, so they are getting rid of older characters and hiring good looking non-actors who work for minimum.  Many of the other soaps are doing the same thing.  By the way, even though Soapnet is owned by ABC/Eisner, they have just begun same day repeats of DAYS (7 pm Eastern) along with the ABC soaps.

CD - The Donna Murphy WONDERFUL TOWN; classic early Cole Porter

DVDs - BEST FOOT FORWARD (Liza version) which I'll be seeing Sunday at Mufti; Cole Porter's YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth (who may not have been the most talented Astaire partner, but was certainly the most beautiful)

Theatre this weekend - BEST FOOT FORWARD at Mufti and Cole Porter's THE GAY DIVORCE at Musicals Tonight

Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 07:54:47 AM
RE: Debra Messing

I thought they did a good job of hiding her stomach.  Yes she is so petite normally.  But I had no problem with them sitting her behind a table.

I don't get to watch Will & Grace too much because I usually watch Survivor (& The Apprentice).

Btw, how come nobody mentioned Survivor this week?
It looks like the preview for next week (where they pick new buffs) means they will be picking new tribes.

Btw2, LEX IS AN IDIOT!
(sorry but getting rid of Colby and Ethan and having a tribe with Kathy, Jerri, & Shii-ann is DUMB).
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Post by: William E. Lurie on March 19, 2004, 07:58:25 AM
Michael - ONE LIFE TO LIVE did have a gay character in the early 90s and the best gay story ever on a soap.  He was played by Ryan Phillipe who has since done many films and married Reese Witherspoon.  The only problem is that he was not the character who the storyline was originally intended for.  It was supposed to be Joey Buchannan son of the character played by the show's star Erika Slezak.  The network went along with the story, but did not want it to be about a major character, so suddenly Joey had a new best friend Billy who came out shortly after joining the show.  Still the storyline was excellent and also involved another character's son who died of AIDS and had several scenes shot outdoors and featuring the AIDS quilt.
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Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 08:12:11 AM
My bad - she of the Evil Eye will be here, as usual, tomorrow.  I got confused - it must be waiting for everyone to finally get around to reading Kritzer Time.  The other two books everyone read the minute they got them.  This one, which I am ANXIOUS for people to read, they sit on.  I'll say no more and will not bring it up again.  
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Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 08:18:18 AM
Ah BK, I'll bet writing the notes the day before can sometimes get confusing.  But we know the Evil Eye comes on Saturdays. And you kept saying "it's Friday, it's Friday" :)
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Post by: Matt H. on March 19, 2004, 08:25:23 AM
After reading the notes, I wondered if your cleaning lady had changed schedules on you, but I wasn't going to pry.
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Post by: MBarnum on March 19, 2004, 08:25:51 AM
For some strange reason I can not get to today's notes. Everytime I try it
tells me that Haineshisway.com is a file that I have to download??!! How
odd.
 I will try again later. But from reading the posts I understand it
is......


[font="courier new"]DR JAY'S
BIRTHDAY
[/font]....

and a very happy one I hope it is!!! ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  :o
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: ArnoldMBrockman on March 19, 2004, 08:29:14 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAY!

May all your birthdays be happy ones!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jay on March 19, 2004, 08:41:46 AM
Thank you, Dear BK and Dear Readers for your fine birthday wishes!
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Post by: MBarnum on March 19, 2004, 08:44:45 AM
Media check:

CD: Kritzer Time and Kritzerland CDs.

VHS: This weeks Survivor (I agree with you Jennifer re: Lex...dumb move). Various movies taped off of TCM this week including MONEY AND THE WOMAN, HERE COMES HAPPINESS, and THE LAST FLIGHT.

DVD: 1930s old dark house mystery called ONE FRIGHTENED NIGHT. And my weekly Bollywood film will be the 2003 film TEHZEEB starring "Society's face of 1994" the very handsome Arjun Rampal! LOL! Anyway the film gets really good reviews and it sounds like a good one.
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Post by: Emily on March 19, 2004, 08:45:02 AM
Happy Birthday Jay!

I'm sitting in the AUS computer lounge writing (what else?) a paper.  This one is on Near Death Experiences though, so at least it isn't boring.  Hoo and Ray!

My audio-visual pleasures have stalled in their diversity just as my bank account has plummetted.  I am sure the two are related....

"The Last Five Years"(my favorite show... imperfections and all) is having its Canadian premiere next month at Canstage in Toronto.  Right now I am in the middle of convincing DR Andrea to travel down with me at the end of April.  Send me good convincing vibes ;)
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Post by: Jay on March 19, 2004, 08:45:13 AM
Confidential to Dear Reader JRand53:  Merde!

Also, The Trip is definitely worth looking at.  Although the wigs on the two main characters may be a bit distracting in the earlier scenes, and there may be a few turns of plot here and there that push the limits of plausibility, on the whole it is a well written, acted and directed film.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 08:47:03 AM
Are any AOLers having trouble with e-mail?  I get no text when I open them via AOL - I can read them if I go to aol.com through IE.  They, of course, say there's no "known" problem, and have filed a report, but say it could also be my software.  To which I say, what could possibly have happened to my software in the last eight hours?  Nothing, of course.  Tried rebooting, that didn't help.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Emily on March 19, 2004, 08:52:49 AM
Add Quebec to the list...

Same-sex marriage is legal: Quebec's top court
Last Updated Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:32:51

MONTREAL - Quebec homosexuals have the right to marry and the traditional definition of marriage is discriminatory and unjustified, the province's top court said Friday.

The Quebec Court of Appeal upheld a lower-court ruling in 2002 that same-sex marriage should be legal.

The ruling follows similar decisions in Ontario and British Columbia.

The Quebec case centred on Michael Hendricks and Rene Leboeuf, who wanted to marry after being together for 30 years.

In 2002, the Quebec Superior Court ruled that restricting marriage to a union between a man and a woman was unjustified under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Religious groups appealed the decision.

Written by CBC News Online staff


Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 08:57:28 AM
Thanks, DRJAY.

MBARNUM - I don't read any Eastern Indian...but I bet looking at that picture I can figure out what tehzeebs are....and she's got 'em!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Noel on March 19, 2004, 09:11:08 AM
I can figure out what tehzeebs are....and she's got 'em!

Say, maybe it's about time for a Bollywood remake of The First Nudie Musical!

I'm not having trouble with my AOL mail.  Got a very thoughtful e-mail from former ratmite Matthew Murray in response to my post of Dan the Man's Wax Museum thoughts.

Happy birthday, Jay.  Another hug for you, sir.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 09:15:56 AM
LOL DR NOEL -  Would love to see an Indian actress do the blonde's audition scene!  LOL
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Bevan on March 19, 2004, 09:19:10 AM
I just wanted to introduce myself...

Hi, my name is Bevan.  I'm 18, live in Ohio, blah blah blah.  Der Brucer invited me to join this site months ago, and so I did.  But I never got the nerve to post anything till now.

So hi.  And happy birthday to Jay.

CD - Godspell (Original Cast)
DVD - Thirteen (Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 09:21:18 AM
Greetings to new DR Bevan!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: DERBRUCER on March 19, 2004, 09:22:17 AM
Shopping suggestion for DR Jay's Birthday gift:

The Actors' Fund of America proudly presents SUNSET BOULEVARD
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adapted by David Rambo and Directed by PETER HUNT

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VALDERRAMA, PATRICK WILSON and NOAH WYLE


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Tickets are on sale now!  Mention BROADWAYWORLD and recieve a 10% discount
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Call The Actors' Fund now at (323) 933-9266 x54 or email your your order
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$500 ~ THE BETTY SCHAEFER "That was Norma Desmond on the phone?" CIRCLE


$250 ~ THE MAX VON MAYERLING "I was her first husband" CIRCLE

Regular tickets also available (includes theatre restoration
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    $53 - Extreme side orchestra, side mezzanine, balcony
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Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Emily on March 19, 2004, 09:25:39 AM
Welcome DR Bevan!

You say you have been watching the movie Thirteen.  What do you think of it?  I was hoping to getting around to renting it this weekend...
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jay on March 19, 2004, 09:28:10 AM
Welcome Dear Reader and Newbie Bevan!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jay on March 19, 2004, 09:31:16 AM
Shopping suggestion for DR Jay's Birthday gift:

The Actors' Fund of America proudly presents SUNSET BOULEVARD

Sweet thinking, Dear Reader Der Brucer, but I will be in San Diego that day taking in a performance of Verdi's Don Carlo.

I really do appreciate the thought, though!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Noel on March 19, 2004, 09:33:21 AM
The bone I'm picking is with Willy Hausum, and I thank DR S. Woody White for quoting him.
Hausam writes:

Hal Prince likes us to remind us of the critical difference between a flop (a showbiz term) and a failure (an evaluation of artistic worth).  Floyd Collins, Parade, and The Wild Party were flops, but far from failures.  Why weren't they popular?  Looking only at the artistic elements, I would have to say that it's as simple as: they were anti-musicals, and the audience and the critics assumed, expected and insisted upon musicals.
...
this work is truly excellent; it's just out of synch with the dominant values of our times
.

I'm glad the book's published: it's good to have the light of the world (beyond New York) shining on exactly what these anti-musicals are.  As someone who writes and loves musicals, I have very little use for anti-musicals and would be even more interested in a volume of Terrence McNally's librettos for recent musicals: Ragtime, The Full Monty and A Man of No Importance.  The point (and I do have one) is that Hausum has chosen to focus on the same motley crew that writers about contemporary musical theatre always seem to focus on: Larson, LaChiusa, Guettel and Brown.  Maybe that's what sells books.

I'll bet that most of you haven't heard of most of the shows I've loved most in recent years:

From the Hip
The Boob Movie
Joe!
A Class Act
Avenue Q
Like You Like It

and four of these shows haven't been produced in any major venue.  Therefore, they need the exposure in a way that the frequently featured trio (AG, JRB, MJLaC) do not.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Panni on March 19, 2004, 09:37:46 AM



HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY (That's 4 happies) BIRTHDAY, JAY!!!!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Panni on March 19, 2004, 09:39:11 AM
No problems in my neck (or elbow) of Studio City with AOL e-mail.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Bevan on March 19, 2004, 09:41:57 AM
Welcome DR Bevan!

You say you have been watching the movie Thirteen.  What do you think of it?  I was hoping to getting around to renting it this weekend...

I thought that it was one of the most honest looks at the lives of young teenagers that has ever been put to film.

Many have knocked Thirteen for being "unrealistic" and an attempt to throw parents into a needless frenzy.  However, I think that the film was necessary.

The fact of the matter is that thirteen year olds (not all, but some) do experiment with a multitude of substances and behaviors.

The quality of the filming is not all that great.  It was filmed using a handheld camcorder, and it's very shaky.  However, first time director (and co-writer) Catharine Hardwicke used that "amateur" quality to her advantage, making the movie feel more like a documentary than a scripted work.

Not to give away too much, but when you watch it, notice the colors and how they change...

On a final note, the acting is superb.  Evan Rachel Wood (who is 15 in real life) plays Tracy, the protagonist of the film.  A young teenager who is perceived to be "dorky," and is willing to do anything to change that.  Nikki Reed (also 15, and co-writer of the film) plays the Evie, the troubled young lady who takes Tracy under her wing.  Brady Corbett (14) plays Tracy's older brother, who has to stand back and witness his sister's downfall.  All three of these youngsters give Oscar-worthy performances that are made even more poignant by the fact that they are so close to the age of their characters.

Holly Hunter gives a tour-de-force performance as Melanie, Tracy's mother.  I cannot even put into words the quality of Hunter's acting.  It is something that must be seen to be understood.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Panni on March 19, 2004, 09:43:12 AM
CD - Dvorjak Piano Quintet - Takacs String Quartet w. Andreas Haefliger

DVD - broken

VCR - blank tape

Not very exciting!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Panni on March 19, 2004, 09:46:19 AM
Welcome, Bevan!

I tried to watch Thirteen on my daughter's insistence. She really wanted to talk about it with me. But the colors on my broken DVD player kept changing from scene to scene (that's when I discovered that it was really, really broken). I finally gave up. Will watch it one of these days.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: William E. Lurie on March 19, 2004, 09:49:37 AM
The Eisner Company has just announced a new TV Movie" "The Muppetts Wizard of Oz" with Miss Piggy as both Elphaba and Galinda!!!  I wonder what part Victor Garber will play in this one.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 09:54:23 AM
Welcome Bevan.  Well, Panni is not having the problem I am, so maybe my AOL software magically became corrupt in the eight hours I slept.  
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Ben on March 19, 2004, 10:01:24 AM
Since the computer at home is still down, I can't say whether we're having AOL trouble.

Welcome Bevan!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jay on March 19, 2004, 10:02:19 AM
I'm in a Leontyne Price sort of mood right now, so I think I shall put Aida on the turntable.  Or maybe Il Trovatore.  Or perhaps Un Ballo in Maschera.  Decisions, decisions.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 19, 2004, 10:03:28 AM
My friend Salah just returned from NYC. Last evening we were having dinner together at another friend's - a delicious (and garlicky) homemade Lebanese meal. I asked Salah about New York, and he said Wicked was so boring that he walked out during intermission. Later I dreamed that I was at the Gershwin Theatre - third row, center - and was having the most splendid time seeing Wicked. There was only one glitch. The guy in front of me kept moving his head.

Would anyone care to analyze that?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 19, 2004, 10:04:54 AM
And a hearty welcome to DR Bevan.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Panni on March 19, 2004, 10:45:20 AM
Later I dreamed that I was at the Gershwin Theatre - third row, center - and was having the most splendid time seeing Wicked. There was only one glitch. The guy in front of me kept moving his head.

Would anyone care to analyze that?
Piece of cake (Dobos)... You're feeling a bit guilty about thinking that your friend Salah is silly to have walked out on WICKED. On the other hand, as he's you're friend and you probably respect his opinions, part of you is thinking that he may be right. Which makes you feel equally guilty because so many of your friends at HHW love the show. Your subconscious has to somehow illuminate the dilemma. So in your dreams it takes you to the theater to see WICKED for yourself. You're having a splendid time (the HHW loyalty) but also a terrible time (the Salah loyalty). Thus, both sides of the emotional landscape you are exploring are reflected in your dream experience of the show. (Now if the man in front of you were smoking a cigar, the analysis would be QUITE different. On the other hand, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.)
...That will be $200. (American funds, please).
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Emily on March 19, 2004, 10:49:43 AM
Panni you missed your true calling in life...

Paging Dr. Panni :)

C'mon people - I am majorly bored right now (NDE are simply NOT as much fun as I thought they were)

Regale me with humourous tidbits toute suit! :D
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Emily on March 19, 2004, 10:50:12 AM
hold on... does "paging" have an "e" as in "pageing" to soften the hard "g"?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: TCB on March 19, 2004, 10:50:44 AM
My friend Salah just returned from NYC. Last evening we were having dinner together at another friend's - a delicious (and garlicky) homemade Lebanese meal. I asked Salah about New York, and he said Wicked was so boring that he walked out during intermission. Later I dreamed that I was at the Gershwin Theatre - third row, center - and was having the most splendid time seeing Wicked. There was only one glitch. The guy in front of me kept moving his head.

Would anyone care to analyze that?

Obviously, the guy in front of you at the theater represents your friend.  His negative opinion of the show is getting in the way of you enjoy Wicked as much as you thought you would.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jay on March 19, 2004, 10:51:17 AM
Dear Reader Panni--

Last night I dreamed about locomotive trains going through tu....

Oh, never mind.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 19, 2004, 10:52:33 AM
I don't get to watch Will & Grace too much because I usually watch Survivor (& The Apprentice).

Cool!  Another Apprentice viewer!  I am so hooked into this show (it's the only reality show I've stuck with since the first go-round of Survivor.)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: TCB on March 19, 2004, 10:58:22 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
DEAR JAY!!!

(http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/sehrgrosse/large-smiley-012.gif)

YOU PUT SUCH AN INTERESTING SPIN ON LIFE.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Panni on March 19, 2004, 10:58:28 AM
Panni you missed your true calling in life...

My true calling was to be a Broadway diva. Only my voice and dancing abilities got in the way.
The reason I can fake dream analysis is that one of my best friends is aces at it. He's even written a book on the subject, which DR Jane ordered a while back. I would phone him up whenever I had an interesting dream (one of them is in his book) and he would analyze it until the cows came home. (Cows in dreams represent...)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Panni on March 19, 2004, 11:00:49 AM
JRand53 - Break a leg!

Now back to work...
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: TCB on March 19, 2004, 11:01:14 AM
I'm in a Leontyne Price sort of mood right now, so I think I shall put Aida on the turntable.  Or maybe Il Trovatore.  Or perhaps Un Ballo in Maschera.  Decisions, decisions.

How about a little Porgy and Bess?  Her recording with William Warfield is the greatest.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: TCB on March 19, 2004, 11:04:40 AM
Welcome to the cookie jar, DR Bevan!

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Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Emily on March 19, 2004, 11:07:15 AM
My true calling was to be a Broadway diva. Only my voice and dancing abillities got in the way.

What I coincidence - I missed out on that same true calling (although you can add a lack of acting talent to the mix as well!) :)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 11:14:27 AM
Thank you DRPANNI
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Bevan on March 19, 2004, 11:14:35 AM
Thank you all for the greeting!

And I will be a Broadway diva as well ;)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jane on March 19, 2004, 11:17:17 AM
Jay, a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY!        

     Right here should be a great collection of happy faces, but I apparently don't have the ability to transfer them. ;D

HAVE A GREAT DAY!


   


              
              
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 19, 2004, 11:20:55 AM
DR Panni, DR TCB, and DR Freud,

Thank you for the analyses. (And I was sure the garlic figured in there.)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jane on March 19, 2004, 11:22:49 AM
Sorry, I don’t have time to read the posts yet and must hurry out for a doctor’s appointment.  But first, Echo is wet from her bath and waiting, (sure she is) for me to blow her dry with the hairdryer.  
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 11:23:20 AM
DRBEVAN looks like DRJED
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 11:27:07 AM
Welcome to our newest DR Bevan.

DR Emily: I want to see L5Y too! :(

I also want to see The Producers and Hairspray and Urinetown (all in Toronto).  Maybe we should live there!

For DR Dan: Yes I really do like The Apprentice.  Even last night's recap episode was fun.  But it is interesting how the first to go were the men. And now he's been getting rid of all the women.  There are only 2 women left (and 4 men).

To me the only possible winner is Amy.  Everyone else is less than stellar.

Oh and for DR MBarnum: RE: Survivor, it should be interesting to see if they have to change teams again (totally unfair to the dominant tribe, but I bet Amber & Rob - even if separated, will still work together. Can we say THROWN CHALLENGE!).

Oh and I finally got some low carb ice cream - I haven't tried it yet, but I have it.  Do they only make vanilla?



Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: DERBRUCER on March 19, 2004, 11:27:33 AM
***WARNING - LEVITY AHEAD***

My latest Straight Dope (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040319.html) newsletter reports:

Can Tupperware cause botulism? (Eskimo version)
19-Mar-2004

(excerpts)

On August 17, 2001, the "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly," published by the Centers for Disease Control, noted that three persons in a southwest Alaskan village had come down with botulism after eating fermented beaver tail and paw…No mention is made of Tupperware.

·According to a 2003 planning document from the Alaska Department of Health & Social Services, in the late 90s a woman contracted botulism after eating "stink eggs" at a dinner party in Sitka. The stink eggs--basically a mixture of salmon roe and seal oil--had been fermented in Tupperware on top of the refrigerator. To confirm the toxin's source, two public health nurses had to go Dumpster diving until they found a discarded Tupperware container full of ripe stink eggs.

So you're the marketing manager for Tupperware's Alaska division. You've got time-honored and for all you know sacred native food-preparation practices on the one hand, botulism on the other, and your company's reliably, nay, proudly airtight container in the middle. You know there's nothing especially pernicious about Tupperware--in this context, even a bucket sealed with plastic wrap could cause trouble--but nonetheless the brand's good name is in peril. What do you do? Put a little slip inside each Tupperware container saying "Not Recommended for Making Stink Eggs"? Apply for a job at Sears selling socket-wrench sets? Well, suck it up, chum, things could be worse. You could be a public health nurse.

der Brucer (Ah, the Lady or the Tiger!)

I will add fermented beaver tail and paws to my Give Up For Lent List.


Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: William E. Lurie on March 19, 2004, 11:30:11 AM
My favorite Porgy and Bess recording features Mel Torme and Francis Faye.

A PLEA TO FANS OF CLASSIC DISNEY ANIMATION

The Disney Studio has completed a classic animated version of The Three Musketeers starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy in the title roles.  Michael Eisner has decided that as good as it is, it would not attract audiences and be too much of a financial risk to release it to theatres since it is not computer animated.  He wants it to release it directly to DVD.  If you feel that a film of this (alleged) quality deserves a regular theatrical release first, please e-mail the Chairman of the Walt Disney Studios at the following address and tell him you would like to see this film released to theatres:

dick.cook@disney.com

Supposedly if enough people show their concern they will change their minds and give it a theatrical issue after all.

And speaking of computer animation, I know the process is totally different, but doesn't it remind you of "puppetoons"?  As much as I loved both TOY STORY movies, I think they would have been more effective with actors as the "live" characters interacting with the computer-generated toys.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 11:31:45 AM
Tail & Paw, isn't that a nightclub on Sepulveda?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Emily on March 19, 2004, 11:38:10 AM
DR Emily: I want to see L5Y too! :(

I also want to see The Producers and Hairspray and Urinetown (all in Toronto).  Maybe we should live there!

DR Jennifer - do not deny your true Montréalaise spririt! That last line of yours should read:

"I also want to see The Producers and Hairspray and Urinetown (all in Toronto).  Maybe THEY should realize that Montreal is way more fun than Toronto and should come to US!" :)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Bevan on March 19, 2004, 11:39:26 AM
DRBEVAN looks like DRJED

I don't know whether that's a compliment or not, so I'm going to take it as one :)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Emily on March 19, 2004, 11:39:51 AM
ooh - Canstage has a special $25 for 25 ticket where if you show proof of being under the age of 25 you get buy a ticket to any of their shows for $25... CDN!!! :D
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Emily on March 19, 2004, 11:40:48 AM
it's true...

DR Bevan and DR Jed are secretly long lost brothers.

I guess DR Jed's unofficial father, DR TCB, had a veeeeerrrryyyy interesting youth... ;)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: TCB on March 19, 2004, 11:45:44 AM
For some strange reason, Saboteur is my favorite Hitchcock film of all time.  Maybe it was because it was one of the first Hitchcock films that I ever saw, catching on the Late Show one Saturday night when I was a kid.  Also, the bomb blast at the shipyards fit right in with my fascination with ships and ship disasters.  By the time we got to the Statue of Liberty, I was totally hooked on the movie.  And speaking of Hitchcock………..

DVD:  North By Northwest and The Tacoma Little Theatre 85th Anniversary Gala, staring Me (not directed by Hitchcock)

CD:   Nothing

Video:  Abbott and Costello’s The Time of Their Lives
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 19, 2004, 11:46:41 AM
Welcome to new DR Bevan.  (Ya know, we really should have an Auntie Mame here to escort newbies up the grand stairs and give them the "life is a banquet speech.)

The Eisner Company has just announced a new TV Movie" "The Muppetts Wizard of Oz" with Miss Piggy as both Elphaba and Galinda!!!  I wonder what part Victor Garber will play in this one.

Shouldn't Kermit play Elphaba?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 11:46:44 AM
I agree Dr Jed and DR Bevan look very much alike!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 11:50:17 AM
Yes it is a compliment to you both, DRBEVAN.  
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Ann on March 19, 2004, 11:50:29 AM
I agree with Jennifer and everyone else.  At least, from those two pics.  Perhaps if I saw a pic of DR Bevan at a different angle, it would be different.  But from that picture, I will agree.  
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: DERBRUCER on March 19, 2004, 11:54:36 AM
CD - Dvorjak Piano Quintet - Takacs String Quartet w. Andreas Haefliger


Folks who are fussing about the spelling of paprikás should be willing to give a Bohemian his due and spell it
Dvorák!

And give fair treatment to:

(http://www.takacsquartet.com/Header/images/Home_TQLogo.gif)

der Brucer (having a love affair with ALT+0225 á)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 11:54:59 AM
And I think DR Emily and I look quite a bit alike.  From our photos we are both lovely and yellow :)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: TCB on March 19, 2004, 11:56:40 AM
ooh - Canstage has a special $25 for 25 ticket where if you show proof of being under the age of 25 you get buy a ticket to any of their shows for $25... CDN!!! :D

Damn!  Too bad I'm not Canadian.  Otherwise, I qualify.


Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 11:58:34 AM
Denial is not just a river in Egypt
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jed on March 19, 2004, 12:01:46 PM
It's Friday, so that means we have an extra celebration.  That's right, today is the day we all get to cheer...

Welcome home, Joe!!!

And the happiest of days to DR Jay!

Welcome to DR Bevan.  Yeah, I can see some resemblance between us.  It's just the whole "young guy with a beard" thing. :)

Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Panni on March 19, 2004, 12:03:38 PM
Folks who are fussing about the spelling of paprikás should be willing to give a Bohemian his due and spell it
Dvorák!

I  am totally MORTIFIED, DerBrucer. I don't know why I did that. Shall I use being in a trance as an excuse. I hang my head in SHAME. Have I mentioned I don't know why I did that? If I had a blackboard I would wear a dunce's hat and write out 1000 times DvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorák
DvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorák...
I don't know why I did that.....
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: DERBRUCER on March 19, 2004, 12:03:46 PM
Maybe THEY should realize that Montreal is way more fun than Toronto and should come to US!" :)

In my experience, Montreal is no fun for an English-only speaker!

der Brucer (resident Francophobe)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jrand73 on March 19, 2004, 12:06:43 PM
Well off to opening night.  Thanks for the good wishes everyone...   8)

Then afterwards home for some highly anticipated KRITZER TIME!  ;D
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: TCB on March 19, 2004, 12:11:25 PM
Break a leg, Jrand!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Emily on March 19, 2004, 12:18:03 PM
In my experience, Montreal is no fun for an English-only speaker!

der Brucer (resident Francophobe)


Der Brucer, my mother and grandmother are unilingual anglophones and believe that Montreal is a great (and fun) place to live.

I'm interested as to when you had an experience that proved otherwise.  

Over 350,000 Montrealers in the most recent census claimed to have English as a mother-tongue... (myself included)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: TCB on March 19, 2004, 12:19:18 PM
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WELCOME HOME, JOE!!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Ben on March 19, 2004, 12:24:56 PM
Yes, DR WFO, give Joe the best of Welcome Homes (bad English) and let him know how much his friends at HHW care for his safe return to a loving home.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: DERBRUCER on March 19, 2004, 12:31:24 PM


A PLEA TO FANS OF CLASSIC DISNEY ANIMATION

The Disney Studio has completed a classic animated version of The Three Musketeers starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy in the title roles.  Michael Eisner has decided that as good as it is, it would not attract audiences and be too much of a financial risk to release it to theatres since it is not computer animated.  He wants it to release it directly to DVD.  

Seems like a day late and a dollar short. The decision to release direct to Video was clearly made some time back. The Lion King 1˝ DVD (released 10 Feb) has a trailer announcing the TM DVD release for Summer 2004. Judging from the trailer, the film will be fun, but probably not "intense" enough for theatrical success - in addition, it introduces no new characters. I'd be surprised that Disney would be gun-shy based on animation techniques, Lilo & Stitch grossed in the neighborhood of $300M on an $80M traditional-animation film.


der Brucer

Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 19, 2004, 12:37:27 PM
Joe,

It's so nice to have you back (where you belong).
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 01:01:06 PM
Welcome home, Joe!

I have been through AOL HELL, and I'm here to tell the tale.  Actually, I will tell the whole sorry tale in tomorrow's notes.  Suffice it to say, I have wasted four hours of my day dealing with it.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Tomovoz on March 19, 2004, 01:06:12 PM
Welcome Bevan.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Tomovoz on March 19, 2004, 01:07:59 PM
Breaks as many legs as you feel appropriate JRand.
Welcome home Joe.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 01:09:49 PM
Oh DR WFO: do let us know when Joe returns home!
(i hope it's already happened).

And DR DerBrucer: I agree with DR Emily, you could easily get along in Montreal with English only (especially downtown and on the West Island where I am).  There are definitely some areas around Montreal that are much more french.  But the downtown core is totally bilingual.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Matt H. on March 19, 2004, 01:10:59 PM
Welcome, new DR Bevan.

FULL FRONTAL is one weird little movie. It's a puzzle piece kind of thing where there are three different levels of "reality" and the film is constantly switching from one to another as you try to sort them out. Not really dramatic or comedic enough to be popular or even a guilty pleasure, but it's an interesting enough film experiment. Not sorry I saw it, but glad I waited to record it from STARZ rather than paying money to see it in the theater or rent it on DVD.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Matt H. on March 19, 2004, 01:15:17 PM
I, too, really like SABOTEUR. I think the suspense it generates throughout is really powerful, and Robert Cummings has never bothered me in the leading role; in fact, he havs that "all-American" look about him that works well in the picture. (I think he's terrible in DIAL 'M' FOR MURDER, however).

Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 19, 2004, 01:17:15 PM
My friend Salah just returned from NYC. Last evening we were having dinner together at another friend's - a delicious (and garlicky) homemade Lebanese meal. I asked Salah about New York, and he said Wicked was so boring that he walked out during intermission. Later I dreamed that I was at the Gershwin Theatre - third row, center - and was having the most splendid time seeing Wicked. There was only one glitch. The guy in front of me kept moving his head.

Would anyone care to analyze that?

You're beginning to doubt Salah's "friendship"...and you're worrying with that head because you're suspicious that it's Salah who is boring, rather than the play.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Ann on March 19, 2004, 01:22:07 PM
Indeed, the warmest and wellest of wishes to Joe on his homecoming.  I know there will be some greiving, but I hope you leave room for some true celebrating as well.  

I am having one of those days where I just want to eat.  I woke up this morning and had yogurt...then that wasn't enough, so I had two scrambled eggs.  I went to work and had campbells chicken soup, but that wasn't enough, so I had two hard boiled eggs.  I seem to be craving eggs today, for some inexplicible reason.  I have decided that today will be a break-from-the-diet day.  I will eat whatever my body fancies, and that's that.  So far its fancying rather healthy things, so that's nice.  

Nothing in the DVD player at the moment, but that will change tonight, as i'll probably be hitting the video store on my way home from work.
Car CD has a broadway mix that i burned at my parents' house last weekend.  An eclectic mix of Wicked, Avenue Q, Chiacgo, with a few tracks from LOTR and The Last Unicorn thrown in there for fun.  Odd, but pleasing to me

Oh yes, and welcome DR Bevan, in case I haven't said so already :)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: William E. Lurie on March 19, 2004, 01:22:43 PM
It is not too late to have Mickey, Donald and Goofy released to theatres if enough interest is shown.  That is the purpose of writing to Mr. Cook who could change the distribution plan if he finds there is enough interest in it.  This information was posted on a Disney fan site today.  Apparently there has already been some interest shown in changing this to a theatrical release and Mr. Cook is concerned that they might be making a mistake.  There have been trailers before on Disney DVDs and VHSs for films whose releases were postponed or that were shown in theatres first and then released to home video later than initially planned (PETER PAN 2 was one of them).  That is why enough e-mails like I suggested could get this released first to theatres.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 19, 2004, 01:29:42 PM

For DR Dan: Yes I really do like The Apprentice.  Even last night's recap episode was fun.  But it is interesting how the first to go were the men. And now he's been getting rid of all the women.  There are only 2 women left (and 4 men).

To me the only possible winner is Amy.  Everyone else is less than stellar.

I was sure it would come down to Troy and Amy, but after the dressdown Troy received last week, I'm not so sure.  As for Amy, someon mentioned to me that she currently has a website where she is fishing for acting offers, which seems kind of odd.  I'll try to find the site address and post it later.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 19, 2004, 01:30:16 PM
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Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Maya on March 19, 2004, 01:33:11 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAY!

To new DR Bevan--

Who the hell are you, stranger?  Where did you come from?  

 :P

Glad to have you aboard, lovey!  :-* :-* :-*

I'm going to see "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" later!  WHEEEE!  (sorry, I'm a little hyper right now)

Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: TCB on March 19, 2004, 01:34:48 PM
BK -- Don't talk to me about problems with AOL.  My AOL - DSL service, for which I pay almost $50.00 a month would not work at all last night, so, as a result, I could not get online.  I  tried from 4:00 p.m. until after 10:00 with no results.  I refused to call AOL Help line because I didn't want to spend two hours being walked through all the steps that I had already tried.  If it is still out this weekend, I guess I will have to break down and call them.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 01:43:11 PM

RE: The apprentice

DR Dan (the man) wrote:
Quote
I was sure it would come down to Troy and Amy, but after the dressdown Troy received last week, I'm not so sure.  As for Amy, someon mentioned to me that she currently has a website where she is fishing for acting offers, which seems kind of odd.  I'll try to find the site address and post it later.

Yes, I would be interested to see it. I don't know her last name. But it was funny to hear her introduce herself as Amelia on last night's show.

The winner will be determined live. So nobody knows who it is.

I have a hard time seeing Nick or Troy win. They have lost so many times.  And they have done some dumb things.

Amy has won EVERY SINGLE OF THE TEN TIMES.  She has come up with some great ideas (including last week's adversiting on the buggy one).  Every time one of the teams has had to choose a replacement, they have chosen AMY.

I'm sorry, but unless she does some really stupid things in the next few weeks, she is golden.

Plus don't all the others get on your nerves? Every single one of the others seems incompetent to me :)

Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 01:55:48 PM
Welcome to DR Bevan, and Happy Birthday to DR Jay!!!!!!

Well, I'm back!  The acts are finished, turned in, paid for and the singer and MD are on a plane to the Mediterranean!  I was averaging 3-5 hours sleep a night from Sunday to last night, when I estimated I'd finish around 3:00 am and hand them the charts before their car picked them up at 4 am.  I finished at 12:30, dropped off the band parts, went to the bank and deposited the check, came home and fell over.  I got up around 2:30 pm, I've got laundry in the dryer and I'm finally catching up on the past two days' worth of reading here.

So, Cabbages and Kings, a Walrus & Carpenter reference from one of my favorite books, which seems to be a Lewis Carroll parody of Coronets and Kings, one of my favorite films, as well as a song in Brendan Behan's "The Hostage."  And that's enough thinking for one day!

Who was looking for a psycho song?  All I can think of is Cole Porter's "Make A Date With A Great Psychoanalyst (And Lie Down)."
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Matt H. on March 19, 2004, 01:56:23 PM
I can't get behind the movement for a theatrical release for Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, but I wish you well with it.

Here's my problem: the original voices for the characters are all dead, and the new folks just don't sound quite right to me. I have the same trouble with the Loony Tunes characters. They just sound "off" enough for me not to like them so much. I guess that comes with having spent so much of my youth and adulthood listening to the originals.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 02:00:36 PM
Sweet thinking, Dear Reader Der Brucer, but I will be in San Diego that day taking in a performance of Verdi's Don Carlo.


DR Jay, how was the CANDIDE directed by Jeffrey Lentz?  It was you. wasn't it?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 19, 2004, 02:05:21 PM
DVD Player:  "The Ladykillers" (Guinness original)
CD Player:  "Diane" by Rozsa
VHS Player: tape of 1st episode of "Wonder Falls"
MD Player/Recorder: Work in progress MD of best performances of final 12 on American Idol.
On TV:  Watching "Star Trek:TNG" on Spike TV channel.

OOH-rah!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 02:13:26 PM
Cool!  Another Apprentice viewer!  I am so hooked into this show (it's the only reality show I've stuck with since the first go-round of Survivor.)

Amen!  I love The Apprentice!  I have no idea who will win, but I thought Omarrosa (too many r's, too big an s) was a pretentious twit and fraud; one more self-promoting resume fraud  you find in every occupation,
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 02:18:06 PM
I  am totally MORTIFIED, DerBrucer. I don't know why I did that. Shall I use being in a trance as an excuse. I hang my head in SHAME. Have I mentioned I don't know why I did that? If I had a blackboard I would wear a dunce's hat and write out 1000 times DvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorák
DvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorák...
I don't know why I did that.....


DR Panni, I love you!  It's more important you appreciate the music than spell his name correctly.  
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jed on March 19, 2004, 02:18:59 PM
I currently can't hear out of my right ear, my nose is all stuffed up, and I have a bit of a fever.  I do believe I've caught the bug that DR Ann had last weekend.  Of course, that could be a bit difficult, as I haven't seen her in over a month, but I'm still gonna blame her. :D
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 02:20:23 PM
Well off to opening night.  Thanks for the good wishes everyone...   8)

Then afterwards home for some highly anticipated KRITZER TIME!  ;D

BREAK A LEG!  KUDOS! KISSES ON YOUR OPENING!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jed on March 19, 2004, 02:22:54 PM
KISSES ON YOUR OPENING!

Well, that just shot our "family site" status all to hell! :o

;D
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: TCB on March 19, 2004, 02:26:10 PM
Well, that just shot our "family site" status all to hell! :o

;D


ROTFLMAO
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Ann on March 19, 2004, 02:27:14 PM
Hey, no fair blaming me if you can't hear out of your right ear...I NEVER hear out of my right ear!  (I'm deaf on my right side, for those who don't know)  But I am sorry you caught my cold via proxy
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 02:36:20 PM
Well, that just shot our "family site" status all to hell! :o

;D

It's all in your mind, dear boy!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Tomovoz on March 19, 2004, 02:52:21 PM
It's all in your mind, dear boy!
Unfortunately for some of us it still is "all in our mind". Thanks for the smile elmore and Jed. I'm with TCB - on the floor. (Don't go there)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 03:07:07 PM
I am still so annoyed from my morning, I can barely write two sentences - which makes me more annoyed.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Tomovoz on March 19, 2004, 03:15:58 PM
I am in mourning for your morning BK. The mourning side of the mountain or the mountains of mourn shall be hummed (no-one want to hear me sing) .
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: TCB on March 19, 2004, 03:20:00 PM
I am still so annoyed from my morning, I can barely write two sentences - which makes me more annoyed.

Did you see, BK, that I had AOL problems, too?  Did you see, BK, that I had AOL problems, too?  They are barely sentences, but there are two of them.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 03:26:38 PM
I'll have a full report on the AOL problems, believe me.

Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 19, 2004, 03:30:57 PM
Unfortunately for some of us it still is "all in our mind". Thanks for the smile elmore and Jed. I'm with TCB - on the floor. (Don't go there)

Don't GO there?  

With Jed having been corrupted by you lot in setting it up, and coupled with yours and TCB's "insinuendoing" laughter, how can we HELP but go there?

It's too late for us to go anywhere else!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jed on March 19, 2004, 03:42:22 PM
Ahh, I now have NyQuil... all will be well in the world again.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Tomovoz on March 19, 2004, 03:51:00 PM
New Yorker's quaint underwear in Laundry! I have never been good with acronyms.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jennifer on March 19, 2004, 03:54:16 PM
Dear BK I feel sorry for you.  Why do you always have to deal with such imcompetent salespeople? :(

Is your AOL at least working now?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: DERBRUCER on March 19, 2004, 04:07:03 PM
Oh DR WFO: do let us know when Joe returns home!
(i hope it's already happened).

And DR DerBrucer: I agree with DR Emily, you could easily get along in Montreal with English only (especially downtown and on the West Island where I am).  There are definitely some areas around Montreal that are much more french.  But the downtown core is totally bilingual.

Well my experience is limited to trips in the late 50's early 60's. I found the wait staff in most downtown establishments insufferably smug, and turning a deaf ear to English. I was made to feel most unwelcome! I've never been to Toronto, but have been to Ottawa and had a blast.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Panni on March 19, 2004, 04:16:05 PM
           WELCOME HOME, JOE!

Jed - Feel better! Health vibes are heading your way.

Larry - Nice to be loved! I still feel silly. I think it's because I hardly ever write "Dvorak" - make that NEVER write it. And my Hungarian brain just spells things phonetically by default. I did, however, spell Andreas Haefliger correctly. So all is not lost.
Amusing story: One of the members of the Takacs is the husband of a very close friend (she's also a musician). He insists on spelling his first name the Hungarian way - "Karoly"... The "LY" in Hungarian is pronounced as a soft "J" - as you know from "Kodaly."  
Karoly has rather long hair, which he throws around with abandon during his passionate violin playing. He's the only one of the quartet who is not "hirsutely challenged" - so I think that makes him doubly proud of his locks.
They were playing a concert in Boston. At intermission a friend of mine who happened to be in the audience overheard an elderly lady, looking quite puzzled, saying to her companion, "That violinist,   "Carollie"... Is she a woman?"
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: DERBRUCER on March 19, 2004, 04:18:28 PM
It is not too late to have Mickey, Donald and Goofy released to theatres if enough interest is shown.  That is the purpose of writing to Mr. Cook who could change the distribution plan if he finds there is enough interest in it.  This information was posted on a Disney fan site today.  Apparently there has already been some interest shown in changing this to a theatrical release and Mr. Cook is concerned that they might be making a mistake.  There have been trailers before on Disney DVDs and VHSs for films whose releases were postponed or that were shown in theatres first and then released to home video later than initially planned (PETER PAN 2 was one of them).  That is why enough e-mails like I suggested could get this released first to theatres.

Well, I guess I'm the Grinch - I love Disney, but even if Three Musketeers was theatrically released, I would not go, but would wait and buy the DVD. The film doesn't seem to need the grand-cinema experience; home viewing would be just fine.

A DVD costs only a buck or two more than 2 theatre tickets, and you have the product for ever.

der Brucer (will return Christmas later)
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jane on March 19, 2004, 04:20:51 PM
DRBEVAN looks like DRJED

LOL- my thought was, not that he looks like him, but there is a familiar feel or look to the photo.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 04:21:57 PM
Everything seems to be working fine now.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 04:24:18 PM
          WELCOME HOME, JOE!


Larry - Nice to be loved! I still feel silly. I think it's because I hardly ever write "Dvorak" - make that NEVER write it. And my Hungarian brain just spells things phonetically by default. I did, however, spell Andreas Haefliger correctly. So all is not lost.

Panni,  I just got the complete Dvorak String Quartets on 10 CDs.  What a great composer!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: DERBRUCER on March 19, 2004, 04:33:56 PM
A great line from Slate Magazine (http://slate.msn.com/id/2097299/)

"Allowing Jayson Blair to judge the ethics of a writer—or publication—is a little like green-lighting Josef Mengele to lead a malpractice investigation of Marcus Welby."
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 04:39:00 PM
A great line from Slate Magazine (http://slate.msn.com/id/2097299/)

"Allowing Jayson Blair to judge the ethics of a writer—or publication—is a little like green-lighting Josef Mengele to lead a malpractice investigation of Marcus Welby."


I like it.  Now that I'm no longer e&t I can't shut up!  I wanted to remind all of you that on Fox tonight is the 2nd episode of "Wonderfalls," and I thought the first episode was quite wonderful.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jane on March 19, 2004, 04:43:34 PM
WELCOME Bevan.  I’m glad you have joined us and your resemblance to Jed is a compliment.

Panni, I have the dream book on my night table along with a good sized stack of books.  It is close to the top of the stack, right below JOHN ADAMS.

Jennifer, regarding your resemblance to Emily-LOL

Jed, hope you feel better-quickly.  

Jrand 53 I’m looking forward to a happy report on your show.

Ann, I didn’t know.  Has that always been the case or did something happen to your ear?  Ignore me if you don’t want to answer the question.

DVD: 21 Grams
CD: Kritzer Time
TIVO: Last night we watched the delightful movie MIDNIGHT.  Just as I was wondering why the movie was called MIDNIGHT I was given my answer.  How is that for timing!  I’m not sure I should say this, but CharlesPogue your favorite line-well I find it funny, in a nice way, that line tickles you so much.  It must be the oddity of the statement.

GOOD VIBES TO JOE for a happy homecoming and may you get stronger & healthier every day.

Now, to feed the hungry pets.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 04:43:58 PM
Shouldn't that be that you thought it was quite wonderfall?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jane on March 19, 2004, 04:47:06 PM
Maybe we should have stuck it out, but we turned WONDERFALLS off after ten minutes.  We found it a bit depressing and boring.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 19, 2004, 04:48:30 PM
Good Evening!

Well, I'm all moved up here into my temporary digs - my really nice temporary digs.  Now I just have to unpack!  Ah, well...

And I got almost all of the first act of my keyboard book this afternoon...  I think I left off at patch change 287!!!  And that's not even the whole first act!  At least the musical director acknowledged today that both of us will be most likely be programming for a few days, and that all the work will not be done in time for Sunday's first orchestra read.  -Hopefully, it will all be done by Tuesday night... We'll see.  We're going in tomorrow morning at 10:00, and we'll stop when one or both of our heads start explode.

I'll come back later and fully read today's post, but dinner beckons, and I'm gonna head out to my parents' house to spend some time with the nieces and nephew. :)

Later...
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: JoseSPiano on March 19, 2004, 04:51:27 PM
OH!

WELCOME HOME, JOE!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 05:08:45 PM
I've got this twit series "Playing it Straight" in the background, and they all seem gay to me!  One thing's for sure:  some mad queen wrote the theme song as a total camp or some sick straight person was trying to do "Blazing Saddles"!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 05:16:18 PM
Did elmoore find today's notes amusing?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: DERBRUCER on March 19, 2004, 05:21:51 PM
Speaking of Cabbages and Kings (http://www.cabbagesandkings.co.nz/)

Tomovoz can pop next door to Tauranga and buy a cornsilk bear for Colin:

(http://www.cabbagesandkings.co.nz/products/IMG_014.jpg)
and a Liquorice Carry Bag for himself


(http://www.cabbagesandkings.co.nz/products/IMG_161.jpg)

der Brucer (Liquorice Carry Bag my foot, it's a Gay Tote!)





Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 05:27:19 PM
Did elmoore find today's notes amusing?

Dearest BK,  everything you do makes me laugh, but I'm sure you'd never dream about a Nazi named Meade!  There couldn't be one:  it's not a German name.  Although there were British sympathizers, so maybe Mr Meade wasn't a Nazi.

I really missed voicing my opinion of comedy films yesterday, but I was happy to see "Christmas Story" on several lists.  Now I want a Kritzer film reflecting all the nostalgia of 1950s LA and Martian parents.

I used to be humiliated by shopping with my mother in the 1950s and I wonder now if she weren't Martian, too.  INVADERS FROM MARS scared the hell out of me, as it did Benjamin, and I dreamed my parents were sucked into the ground to become Martians.  Maybe it wasn't a dream?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: MBarnum on March 19, 2004, 05:43:00 PM
I am still having trouble getting into the page that has today's notes. It keeps saying I must download www.haineshisway.com. I just don't understand. I finally opened up Netscape and then I was able to read today's notes. Very odd. Very strange indeed.

Welcome to HHW new DR Bevan. You will have fun here!

And welcome back home Joe!! I am sure it has been a hellish nightmare but you are safe at home now!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Robin on March 19, 2004, 06:01:22 PM
I originally posted this on the Kritzer thread, but BK kindly asked me if I'd repost it on this one.  Of course, I'm only too happy to oblige, and even add a little bit to it.

<<Even though there were worlds of difference between my own childhood and Benjamin Kritzer's fictional one, there were two (count 'em!) two incidents in Benjamin Kritzer which were echoed in my own childhood.  

And it brought back a warm memory of a wonderful guy that I thought I'd share...

When I was a kid, I had a paper route, which supplied me with actual spending money, which was very rare given my family's economic situation.  And I invariably used to spend a good portion of it at our two neighborhood theaters, the Delft and the Nordic.  And I would see every movie at both theaters.  Most of 'em I loved.  Some of 'em I couldn't understand for the life of me...I was way too young to understand what the heck was going on in Advise and Consent, but I still sat through the entire movie.  (Exactly why they'd let an eight-year-old kid get admittance into Advise and Consent is another story...)

Anyway, both theaters were owned by the same manager, who was way too cheap to hire two projectionists.  So the movies were timed so that Gene Maki (the projectionist in question) could run across the street to the other theater to do the reel changes.  I got to know all the consession girls by name (Sally, Kathleen, and Phyllis), and they remembered what I really liked.  And one day, they introduced me to Gene, who was a jolly fat Santa without a beard, but with a cigar.  He looked a bit like Burl Ives.  And Gene showed me how to load the film, how to spot when the reel changes were, and the differences between lenses.  And from time to time, he'd have me come to the theater to "check the print" of a movie before it opened.   The theater manager agreed to this, but he was such a cheapskate, he insisted that I still pay regular admission to this...but Gene forgot about that, more often than not.

In a very real way, Gene profoundly influenced my tastes in movies.  He bemoaned the fact that black-and-white movies were becoming passe, and was truly troubled by movies like Easy Rider.  He also had a 35mm projector in his basement, and owned some prints of various movies.  The first time I ever saw Dracula, I saw it in Gene's basement.

I loved that guy.  He passed away in 1983, and I travelled 1500 miles to attend his funeral.  The last movie he ran was Psycho II. 
 
I won't share the other incident, as (at least for me!) it was the emotional highpoint of the novel, and would be therefore by classified as a major spoiler.  And I wouldn't dream of spoiling it for anyone who hasn't read Benjamin Kritzer.>>

Anyway, thanks for Benjamin Kritzer, and thanks for bringing back memories of Gene Maki, BK...!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 19, 2004, 06:02:55 PM
One man's "Boring" is another man's "Delightful"!

It never fails.  But I'll be watching "Wonderfalls" tonight, elmore3003, you can be certain of that!

As for "Playing it Straight," I stumbled into that show at mid-point last week when the bim...er..um...lady had just learned that some of the men were gay.  Her response would best be summed up as "paranoically panicked."  Suddenly she's assessing every one of them and MAKING WRONG ASSUMPTIONS.  So she let two men go -- and BOTH WERE STRAIGHT (or so they said).  To me, however, it was the men she invited to stay that seemed gay.  She's clueless and fated to be a "Grace" in life, I guess.

I really loved "The Ladykillers" and I can't wait to see how the Tom Hanks version plays out.  Advance press sounds very promising.

An unexpected bit of hilarity ensued when I played the theatrical trailer for the film.  I'm thinking it must have been the British script but it was definitely a non-British voice doing the reading.

He was a breathless one, whoever he was, and he was quite the sight reader, too, since my favorite bit was when he described the men as a group who carried out their plans "with demoniacal glee" -- and pronounced "demoniacal" as "duh-MOAN'-ee-ACK'-ul".  What a HOOT!

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Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 06:06:47 PM
RLP sniped and won a nice rare CD for a very low price.
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Post by: Jane on March 19, 2004, 06:08:42 PM

I won't share the other incident, as (at least for me!) it was the emotional highpoint of the novel, and would be therefore by classified as a major spoiler.  And I wouldn't dream of spoiling it for anyone who hasn't read Benjamin Kritzer.>>


Oh, please share with me, privately of course.  I enjoyed your first story very much.  Thank you.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 19, 2004, 06:08:51 PM
RLP sniped and won a nice rare CD for a very low price.

I'm very pleased I won that, thanks.  I sniped another one but it was more dear to someone else than it was to me, especially since I've recently bought two posters for $300.  Feeling the pinch, I am.  I'm going to have to scrimp for a month, I guess.
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Post by: Robin on March 19, 2004, 06:10:32 PM
As to this week's weekly media check:

In the deeveedee player:
Peyton Place and The Return of a Man Called Horse, which is actually a lot better than the first movie.  And a killer score by Lawrence Rosenthal.  

In the ceedee player:
The soundtracks to The Triplets of Belleville and The Story of Ruth.

In the VHS player:
The Incredible Drinking Man, a movie in which I appear as the titular character's Best Friend, an annoying new-agey 12-stepper who continually drives him to drink.
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Post by: Robin on March 19, 2004, 06:12:56 PM
Oh, and by the way....

HAPPY NATAL ANNIVERSARY DAY, JAY!!!

and:

WELCOME HOME, JOE!!!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jane on March 19, 2004, 06:17:20 PM
One man's "Boring" is another man's "Delightful"!


That's for sure ;D

I have been thinking about my use of boring and returned to correct that.  I shouldn’t have said boring. Depressing instead of delightful is more like it.  We didn’t like the main character and it wasn’t our kind of quirkiness.  I had read it was more like JOAN OF ACADIA which we enjoy very much.

Elmore I thought you might return and comment on the next 50 minutes I didn’t watch.  So new fans of Wonderfalls, does her personality brighten at all?  
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Post by: Ann on March 19, 2004, 06:18:57 PM

Ann, I didn’t know.  Has that always been the case or did something happen to your ear?  Ignore me if you don’t want to answer the question.


I don't mind answering it.  I was born with some facial birth defects.  Simply put, the bones on the right side of my face didn't form.  After eight or nine surgeries I look...well, you've seen my pic...I look fairly normal.  But one of the results was that the ear on the right side didn't fully form.  I have a shell (the outer part) but no inner mechanism.  The toddler I care for got quite a comical look on his face one day while exploring my face.  He couldn't figure out why one ear had a canal and the other had no opening at all... :)
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Post by: Danise on March 19, 2004, 06:19:56 PM
Good eveing all!

Happy, Happy Birthday, DR Joe!

Welcome home, Joe!  

JRand, break an arm, a leg or whatever it takes but don't get hurt and have a WONDERFUL show!

Bruce, I am reading the book and more important enjoying it.  I have to confess it's kind of a bitter/sweet thing.  If this is the last BK book, I'll miss him so I want to go slow but at the same time I want to know what is going happen so I read fast.    I made myself leave it down at work (in my locked drawer) so I wouldn't be tempted to pick it up over the weekend.  

Thank you once again for all of your posts about my trip.  There are just to many to quote them all.  I am reading all of the links your putting up.  That's why I'm a little E & T.  

Turns out a friend in another department is GOING to NYC next Friday.  I made out a SASE (the big brown kind) and put about $3.00 postage on it.  I asked her to please stop by the vistors center and pick up whatever she saw that she thought I might like.  Maps and hop on/hop off bus info, etc.  

We all had a laugh about the Steak Tartare on the menu I printed out for Joe Allens.  $20.00 and it's not even cooked!   Yet, strange enough the more I think about it, the more I'd like to try it.  It's not like it's raw fish.  Yuck.  

I have to say about the being tired post from Jose.  I'm a little worried about that myself.  Ya'll know how tired I get just making it though the week at work.  I'm going to be dead on my feet by the time I get two trips in.  

I'm trying to build myself up for all of the walking.   My boss, my friend and I have started waking in the 8 story parking garage across the street.  We're doing it once a day for the next week then we're going to try doing it on both breaks.  

Someone said they measured it and it is a little under 2 miles not to mention all the inclines going up so it's a pretty good workout.

Still as a "Just In Case", if your at a show and you hear snoring, it might just be me.  Just give me a good kick/shake and I'll try to stay awake until the end of the show.    Zzzzzzzz.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 19, 2004, 06:20:48 PM
Message for WFO's Joe:  As infuriatingly outrageous as the miscarriage of justice was, I want you to know you are a TRUE HERO in my eyes.






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Post by: Laura II on March 19, 2004, 06:27:26 PM
Happy birthday, happy happy birthday! Happy birthday! Happy birthday, Jay!

(to the tune of "Alouette." They sing it this way at Red Robin so they don't have to pay the royalties for "Happy Birthday." :))

Welcome home, Joe!

Also, welcome Bevan! Remember me, oh friend of Maya? :)

Feel better, Jed!
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 06:28:42 PM
That's for sure ;D

Elmore I thought you might return and comment on the next 50 minutes I didn’t watch.  So new fans of Wonderfalls, does her personality brighten at all?  


DR Jane, part of her charm is her surliness, but the show's quite delightful and quirky.  I can't describe what you missed, but things developed very humorously with some very surprising twists that amused me to no endf.
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Post by: Jane on March 19, 2004, 06:47:27 PM
elmore l shall have to give it another chance.  At the moment I don't have room on TIVO to record the show tonight but I can catch the reruns.
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 19, 2004, 06:49:51 PM
My friend Salah just returned from NYC. Last evening we were having dinner together at another friend's - a delicious (and garlicky) homemade Lebanese meal. I asked Salah about New York, and he said Wicked was so boring that he walked out during intermission. Later I dreamed that I was at the Gershwin Theatre - third row, center - and was having the most splendid time seeing Wicked. There was only one glitch. The guy in front of me kept moving his head.

Would anyone care to analyze that?
Would Salah happen to be tall?
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Post by: Dan-in-Toronto on March 19, 2004, 06:58:25 PM
Would Salah happen to be tall?

You know him?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 19, 2004, 07:14:04 PM
elmore l shall have to give it another chance.  At the moment I don't have room on TIVO to record the show tonight but I can catch the reruns.

DR Jane, it was quite an interesting episode and the denouement was a bit touching.  Clear out your TIVO and give it a chance.
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Post by: Noel on March 19, 2004, 07:34:08 PM
CD: Christiane Noll: A Broadway Love Story; Barbara Cook: As of Today; Avenue Q
VCR: The African Queen
DVD: The Court Jester
Loved the magnetic armour bit.  This explains a lot of things.  Now, at last,  I got it - good!
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Post by: Matt H. on March 19, 2004, 08:23:28 PM
ANYTHING ELSE had some typically wry and funny Woody Allen-isms, but overall I couldn't heartily recommend it. Both leading characters were irritating to me, especially the main character who allowed himself to be used so unmercifully that I got angry with his doltishness.

And isn't it amazing when Woody casts other guys to play the leading roles in his films, they take on his vocal and physical mannerisms. John Cusak did in BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, Kenneth Branagh did in CELEBRITY, and now Jason Biggs was doing it (less expertly) in this film. (And just to prove he's an equal opportunity director, Mia Farrow did it in ALICE.)

I really haven't sung the praises of any of Woody's last few films. SMALL TIME CROOKS was the last one that I really felt was fall down funny.
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Post by: Jane on March 19, 2004, 08:42:21 PM
Matt H-thanks for the movie review.

elmore3003 we cleared TIVO to make room for Wonderfalls.  

Good night.
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Post by: DERBRUCER on March 19, 2004, 08:52:17 PM
The Second Hundred Days: Our Wedding-The Sequel

(http://pic8.picturetrail.com/VOL242/891350/2016318/48757278.jpg)

der Brucer
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 19, 2004, 09:03:56 PM

RE: The apprentice

DR Dan (the man) wrote:Yes, I would be interested to see it. I don't know her last name. But it was funny to hear her introduce herself as Amelia on last night's show.

Here is the link to Amy's page (http://www.acclaimtalent.com/html/henry_a/henry_a_ap1.htm).  It looks a little strange.  Maybe it's pre-Apprentice.

Quote
Plus don't all the others get on your nerves? Every single one of the others seems incompetent to me :)

Oh, I don't know...I think Troy and Bill are pretty smart.  And I think Heidi was a terrific worker (not CEO material, though.)  And as much as I don't like Katrina, she was pretty smart to find a contractor to do the apartment renovations.  Bu I would agree with you as far as Nick and Kwame go.

So who do you think would be the best one for Troy and Kwame to pull over next week?
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 19, 2004, 09:04:05 PM
Dear Reader Panni--

Last night I dreamed about locomotive trains going through tu....

Oh, never mind.
Intrepretation: You have a strange attraction to Alfred Hitchcock.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on March 19, 2004, 09:09:54 PM
Amen!  I love The Apprentice!  I have no idea who will win, but I thought Omarrosa (too many r's, too big an s) was a pretentious twit and fraud; one more self-promoting resume fraud  you find in every occupation,

Yeah, but didn't you just love to hate her?  The perfect villainess!
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Post by: Robin on March 19, 2004, 09:15:10 PM
I feel so out-of-the-loop.  

The Appentice?
American Idol?

Whatever happened to shows I understand?  Bonanza.  I understood that.  Star Trek.  No problem.  Jeapordy!.  Check!

"Reality TV"???

Isn't that the news?
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Charles Pogue on March 19, 2004, 09:21:44 PM
BK, got my list of attendees for the April Ray Courts Show.  Be glad you picked June.  April's line-up looks pretty slim & grim.  The biggest name on there seems to be Jane Russell...and I thought she was dead.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 09:35:53 PM
Glad it's June then.  Will June Wilkinson be there in June?  Then we can sing June Is Bustin' Out All Over, which with her takes on a whole new meaning.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: S. Woody White on March 19, 2004, 09:40:59 PM
We all had a laugh about the Steak Tartare on the menu I printed out for Joe Allens.  $20.00 and it's not even cooked!   Yet, strange enough the more I think about it, the more I'd like to try it.  It's not like it's raw fish.  Yuck.  
What you're paying for with steak tartare is the freshness and quality of the ingredients.  Not only is the beef not cooked, neither is the egg with which it is garnished!  So Joe Allen's has to be very sure of the quality, or they would not be serving it.  Der Brucer enjoys this sort of thing; I personally do not.  (No wonder Jenny's mother was a bit shocked by der B's dinner choices!)
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Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 09:43:08 PM
I'm so bored of these allergy attacks.  Perhaps I'll attack the allergies back one of these days and then there will be hell toupee.

What are you all doing right now?  I entertained dear reader Panni and her guest tonight in the home environment.
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Post by: S. Woody White on March 19, 2004, 10:00:38 PM
Der Brucer and I are very sad.  Violet's mother promised us pate, and she never showed up.  So sad, to be all alone in the world with no pate.
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Post by: George on March 19, 2004, 10:48:54 PM
WELCOME HOME WFO'S JOE!!!

Welcome New Dear Reader Bevan!!

Now I must go to sleep and get up early in the morning.  
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Panni on March 19, 2004, 10:59:36 PM
I entertained dear reader Panni and her guest tonight in the home environment.
And a lovely time was had watching BAREFOOT IN THE PARK while eating take-out from Jerry's Deli. Haven't seen BAREFOOT in ages and it's still delightful. Mildred Natwick is beyond perfect. But I had forgotten that her "advanced" age in the movie is 52! And the exorbitant rate at the Plaza is $30. a night. The outrageously high rent for the little apartment is $125.00. ...1967. Was it THAT long ago?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 19, 2004, 11:13:12 PM
I'm surprised elmore3003 hasn't weighed in on tonight's "Playing it Straight" episode.

It was tasteless, tacky and tawdry.  

It was wonderful!

Ryan is kidding himself about being "straight."  I don't care if that poor girl ousts every straight guy from the show -- she deserves better than what Ryan served up.  

Oddly, it was Alex, who admitted to being gay, who shocked everyone.  No one had a clue about him.  Everyone was trashing everyone else, making comments about hair product and clothing and primping in the mirror.  The ones doing the most talking are the ones who could use a personal grooming regimen of any kind, if you know what I mean.  

My favorite comment about one of the guys:  "He's a Kevin Spacey wannabe."

LMAO I did!  She's watching for telltale mannerisms while the guys are overcompensating AND finding fault with each other.

Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jay on March 19, 2004, 11:37:14 PM
Thank you again, Dear Readers--Dear Friends, really--for all your wonderful birthday wishes.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Tomovoz on March 19, 2004, 11:39:07 PM
I hope your day has been a really special one Jay. Good night.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jay on March 19, 2004, 11:39:14 PM
I  am totally MORTIFIED, DerBrucer. I don't know why I did that. Shall I use being in a trance as an excuse. I hang my head in SHAME. Have I mentioned I don't know why I did that? If I had a blackboard I would wear a dunce's hat and write out 1000 times DvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorák
DvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorákDvorák...
I don't know why I did that.....


Silly you.  You could have gone back, modified the original post, and then asked Der Brucer what the hell he was talking about!
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jay on March 19, 2004, 11:39:51 PM
Welcome home, Joe!
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Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 11:44:17 PM
Hell, I'll make it two hundred.  
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: Jay on March 19, 2004, 11:44:28 PM
DR Jay, how was the CANDIDE directed by Jeffrey Lentz?  It was you. wasn't it?

Yes, it was me, and my apologies for not posting about it after I saw it.  It was quite good!  The singing was good, and the production, which relied heavily on projections to establish the numerous locations on Candide's journey, worked well.  I could have done with a little less of the broad humor, and the balance between sung music (unamplified) and spoken word (amplified) wasn't very good.  Still, the score, as you know, is glorious and it was great to see the work staged once again.
Title: Re:OF CABBAGES AND KINGS
Post by: bk on March 19, 2004, 11:44:29 PM
And one for Mahler
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Post by: Jay on March 19, 2004, 11:51:41 PM
I spent the evening of my birthday in the company of Miss Andrea Marcovicci, Dear Readers.  She appeared at the Smothers Theatre, which is on the Pepperdine campus in Malibu.  Her show tonight was devoted to the songs of Mr. Frank Loesser.  It's no secret that Miss Marcovicci's voice is not the prettiest sounding instrument out there.  I do marvel, however, at her phrasing and interpretation.  Her selection from the Loesser oeuvre was designed to show his range and development over the course of his career, so there were some familiar songs and some not familiar at all.  Miss Marcovicci's patter offered a good deal of biographical background on the composer/lyricist and I learned quite a bit over the course of the evening.