Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 1 => Topic started by: bk on April 03, 2004, 12:03:38 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you've become jazzified by the notes and beautified by the notes and now you are ready to post until the cows come home. To it, I say.
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And do keep the home fries burning until my early afternoon return, won't you?
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Good topic. So many films I'd like to have been on the set of... Although being on the set is actually pretty boring for the most part... let's see...
CASABLANCA. Everyone confused, not knowing what the hell was going on or how the fershluganah movie was going to end.
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY - because, as I've said many times before, I loved Monty Clift.
THE WIZARD OF OZ - no need to explain that one.
Maybe take a trip to Rome and be on the set of some of the early (or even not early - AMARCORD) Fellini films. Oh yes! Now that wouldn't be a boring set. Must learn Italian for that one.
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BK, you must give me your computer guy's name and phone for future reference.
I bet the film set of BECKETT would have been fun...O'Toole, Burton, Gielgud, and even Donald Wolfit.
Also GUNGA DIN & my fav, ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD.
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One specific Fellini set to add: bk introduced me to THE WHITE SHEIK some time ago. Now there's a set I'd like to have visited. There's a world I'd like to have entered. If you haven't seen that delicious film - do.
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On location with "Don't Look Now" and "Room with A View" would be great. "Tea With Mussolini" might have been interesting too.
Please note: No mention of Kevin Spacey and the shower scene!
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I would have held my breath until I turned blue to been on the sets of:
Titanic - for the sets- the mock-up and the underwater scenes visiting the real ship would have been way interesting.
Metropolis - Fritz Lang's Abstract Expressionist sets of future cities and large underground factories must have been awesome and scary to see.
Oliver! - I'd love to have been there, on every set for every second of every shot! (I was about Twist's age then, too).
The Sound of Music - Austria. Ms. Andrews. A no brainer.
And the winner is:
The Shining- I know most of the time was spent with Stanley making Shelly cry over and over and over and over, but I'd love to see Jack be Jack, and the haunting Overlook Hotel sets at Shepperton, and the exterior shots of the Rockies, shot at Glacier National Park starting the movie off above Lake MacDonald then picking up with the puke yellow volkswagon driving below on the on the Going-to-the-Sun-Road, which incidentaly, I fly directly over in my Microsoft Flight Simulator and softly hum the Wendy Carlos opening theme - Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum / Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum, hahahahahaha, whooooooo, aieeeeeeaaaa etc.. on a bi-weekly basis; I also bought a dvd on E-Bay of a film of an actual drive up this historic road, and one day I will go there in person to see the park with my own three eyes. I mean two eyes.
Dave in the Valley
cool Glacier webcams: http://www.nps.gov/glac/whatsnew.htm
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I would like to have been at
#1: GONE WIT THE WIND First scene to be shot was the fires in Atlanta, filmed on 10 December 1938. They burned were a whole lot of old sets on the studio backlot, including the "Great Gate" from King Kong. The fire was so intense that the unwarned public of Culver City jammed the telephones lines, thinking MGM was burning down. But also Myron Selznick introduced Vivian Leigh to David O. that night and I would have loved to be there.
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I would like to have been at:
#2 On the soundstage of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane the day Bette Davis had a shipment of Coca-Cola delivered to the set for the cast and crew.
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I would like to have been at:
#3 Blake Edward's The Party. To see Peter Sellers and all those wonderful characters actors at work The film was improvised from a 40-page outline. Each scene was shot in sequence, and built upon the previous scene
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I AM NOW A MILLENNIUM MAN!
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On location with "Don't Look Now" and "Room with A View" would be great. "Tea With Mussolini" might have been interesting too.
Please note: No mention of Kevin Spacey and the shower scene!
Don't Look Now infamous bedroom scene would be interesting
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I The Sound of Music - Austria. Ms. Andrews. A no brainer.
Dave in the Valley
I did the next best thing. When I visited Salzburg I went on the Sound of Music tour. A couple of interesting fact. The Front of the house was one location and the back of the house was actually two!! Facing the house was one. Facing towards the lake was another and there were no mountains in the distance! (Wrong angle) So they were drawn in!!
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One specific Fellini set to add: bk introduced me to THE WHITE SHEIK some time ago. Now there's a set I'd like to have visited. There's a world I'd like to have entered. If you haven't seen that delicious film - do.
That is also a great choice. It would be better if I spoke and understood Italian.
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This one wasn't a film moment, but a theater moment. When Pia Zadora as a child actress and was doing The Diary of Anne Frank. Zadora who is not know for her acting talents was particularly bad that one opening night when at the end of the play the Nazis come banging on the door someone in the audience yelled out "She's In the Attic!"
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I would like to have been at:
#4 Ben-Hur's (1925 or 1959) chariot race. Although 1925 probably would have been more interesting since they were more wreckless back then.
the 1925 version was filmed at what is now the intersection of LaCienega and Venice Boulevards in Los Angeles.
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This one wasn't a film moment, but a theater moment. When Pia Zadora as a child actress and was doing The Diary of Anne Frank. Zadora who is not know for her acting talents was particularly bad that one opening night when at the end of the play the Nazis come banging on the door someone in the audience yelled out "She's In the Attic!"
...except that's an urban legend.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/zadora.htm
All I can think of is that I would have liked to have been on the set of The First Nudie Musical and maybe All That Jazz for similar reasons.
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Truly great TOD!
Although it requires a lot of thought, my first choice would be obvious to anyone who knows me (as a matter of fact, so would the second):
1. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - though technically NOT a set, but the entire desert. . .soemthing which I would like to experience at least once in my life.
2. THE LORD OF THE RINGS (entire trilogy) - Jackson's use of natural splendor astonishes me, taking me to a new world of Hobbits and the like, even if it is only New Zealand.
3. FUNNY FACE/CHARADE - Audrey Hepburn and Paris, what more can I say?
4. DARLING LILI - just to see if the "I'm the only queen on this set" quip actually came from Julie's lips. (THE SOUND OF MUSIC would be nice, too, another example of natural locations being used to the best of their abilities).
5. WOMEN IN LOVE/TOMMY/THE DEVILS - I'm sure that any Ken Russell set would have been a hip place to be, but, to watch Russell at the height of his cinematic powers would have been wonderful.
6. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN - I' would have liked to have been there for the entire shoot.
7. HELLO, DOLLY! - so much so, that I worked a young man bearing a slight resemblence to me into a script personally being taken under Gene Kelly's wing on the set of this film, unfortunately, that scene was gone before the play was produced.
8. SHOW OF SHOWS - strange choice, I know, since it is hardly a great musical film, or even a great filmed revue; but I really would have liked to have seen Winnie Lightner performing live.
9. DAYS OF HEAVEN - Richard Gere, Sam Shepard. . .need I say more?
10. GIANT - Dean, Hudson, Taylor and more. . .it's TEXAS CARNIVAL without the songs or the water.
So many, many more; sadly I didn't get to be the first poster to mention THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL. . . :'(
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Good morning. Weird. When I looked at the site through AOL, I saw no DR photos. Through IE, I do.
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******* Special VIBES Request********
DD (Dear Daughter) Rachel has her final audition for Wheel of Fortune this morning (in San Francisco). Request for Major Good Vibes her way.
After the audition she flies home for a few days of visiting.
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Good Vibes to DD Rachel!
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Confidential to Rachel:
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Excellent choices. I'll add a few upon my return. Shortly I shall be on my way to tape the radio show.
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Glad your computer is well BK. I had similar problems a couple of months ago.
I'll write and post my KRITZER TIME review later today. How do I post it to Amazon and B&N?
GIVE A GIRL A BREAK is one of my favorite MGMusicals. I also like I LOVE MELVIN.
I'd go back to 1939 to see the Buddy Ebsen as Tinman scenes in WIZARD.
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Great, WEL. amazon = simple as pie. Go to amazon.com - from the pull down menu on the left select "books" type in Kritzer Time. Click on that selection when it comes up. Scroll down until you find "I've read this book and I'd like to review it" click and voila. Same at barnesandnoble - and you can simply cut and paste the same review.
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Thanks for the Rachel vibes! She's there right now. Just about to begin.
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Dan (the Man), having seen the movie at least a dozen times (or parts of it) I think I shall delete THE MAJOR & THE MINOR from TIVO. No point in watching. Thanks for the warning.
Oh, Danise-I’m sorry you didn’t sleep. HEALTHY VIBES TO YOU!
SWW the Jimmy Webb song is beautiful. I’m going to try & find it.
Darn, we don’t get Showtime.
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[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]FORTUNATE WHEEL VIBES FOR RACHEL!!![/move]
There's a huge number of movies sets I would have loved to have been on. GWTW and The Wizard of Oz have already been mentioned. Also, I would have liked to have seen any number of the B&W films of the 30's and 40's to see what costumes, sets, and leading ladies' hair-dos and make-up looked in color. Rebecca, Mrs. Miniver, The Great Zigfeld (At least for "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody"), the Astaire and Rodgers RKO films, the Busby Burkley films, Tod Browning's Dracula and Whale's Frankenstein. Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein (mostly because it looks like it was a lot of fun.) Stage Door must have been interesting, too. And of course, All About Eve. I could go on and on...
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Major Good Vibes Rachel!
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Michael Shayne, millennium man, I thought you would say LORD OF THE RINGS for the location.
Hint as to which set I would like to have been on, I’m listening to AS TIME SO BY.
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Jane, BK and other TIVO-ites out there: Can you all tell me how happy you are with TIVO? Do you pay for the monthly service or did you go for the lifetime package? What about the recording quality? Are there recording speed levels like SP and EP on VCRs? If so, how bad is the lowest level (is there a LOT of pixelation?) For that matter, how good is the highest level (does it approach DVD quality?) When they talk about a TIVO's hard drive holding up to 40 or 80 hours, do they mean only if you record at the lowest recording level? When you record something that's a keeper, do you transfer to video tape or do you also have a DVD recorder and how is that quality of that? Does your TIVO lose its flavor on the bedpost over night? I think I'm ready to make the leap into TIVO culture, but I want more of an idea of what I'm getting myself into.
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Td SINGING IN THE RAIN is a great choice, Gene and Donald together would have been something.
I think movies with great locations, such as LORD OF THE RINGS, would be wonderful. I would have said THE SOUND OF MUSIC, but where were the mountains? ;D A movie of interest would be THE AFRICAN QUEEN, great cast and I want to go to Africa, but not the way they did it. Waking NED DEVINE would have been fun. It was filmed on a part of The Isle of Man I haven’t seen, and I could have visited my cousins.
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Just wanted to pop in and let everyone know that Freddy the cat has returned home from his 3 day adventure! LOL!
It turns out he wasn't far, he had gotten locked up in the neighbors garage! I was taking my Uncles and Aunts an a tour of my house, as they hadn't seen it yet, and when we were in the front yard my neighbor Clara opened up her garage door and out popped a gigantic cat...Freddy! He ran out and then when he noticed everyone was looking at him he slowed to a trot came over and let my aunts admire and pet him! Then he meowed and meowed like he was telling his story of what happened (of course I am sure in his version it wasn't his fault he was in the neighbors garage!).
Anyway, thank you all for your concern, it really helped to be able to vent on HHW. I was trying to keep a positive outlook but was inside getting very panicky and worried. If it hadn't been for HHW and being involved with my neices wedding I might not have handled it as well. Just glad he is safe and at home.
He wants to go outside (it is a beautiful day) but I am thinking I ought make him stay in for awhile! I am sure I will give in to him, but for at least the next half hour I can pretend that I am in charge of things around here!
Thanks again guys and gals!!
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Now to read the rest of yesterdays notes and todays notes! Then up to Tigard to babysit my neice Taylor (my first babysitting job in about 25 years!) while my nephew and his wife go to a Blazers game. I think Finding Nemo will be watched tonight!
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Dan (the Man), I LOVE TIVO! The friends we have talked into getting TIVO love it too.
The quality is great. You have three different levels you can record on; best, med & low, depending on how much space you want to use up (so yes to your question regarding the number of hours it holds). We record on best quality since we have an 80gb storage capacity. I don’t think I would want to use the poorest level of recording. The quality also depends on the signal you are recording from. An HDTV broadcast can be comparable to a DVD.
We have lifetime but do they still offer it?
We don’t have a DVD recorder. I have transferred to VCR but we don’t save those. The transfers are fine, we just don’t save them.
TIVO never looses its flavor. :D Take the leap.
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WELCOME HOME FREDDY!!!
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Just wanted to pop in and let everyone know that Freddy the cat has returned home from his 3 day adventure! LOL!
That is excellent news, man! You shoud treat Freddy and yourself to an exquisite welcome home dinner tonight and then watch That Darn Cat on video.
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SWW the Jimmy Webb song is beautiful. I’m going to try & find it.
I have it on LP, the original release titled Land's End. Checking over at Amazon, this has been re-released on CD, as an import, but is out of stock.
A better buy, although also an import and thus pricy, would be the disc Archive (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000007600/qid=1081019420/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/002-2722460-8749610). This includes "Asleep on the Wind," along with Webb's own versions of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," "Galveston," a medley of "Let It Be Me/Never My Love/I Wanna Be Free," and best of all his song "The Highwayman," which makes more sense as a solo than the way Kristofferson, Cash, Nelson and Jennings sung it when they teamed together as the Highwaymen. Twenty songs, at a little more than a dollar per song, sounds like a good deal to me!
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That is excellent news, man! You shoud treat Freddy and yourself to an exquisite welcome home dinner tonight and then watch That Darn Cat on video.
By which I hope Dan (the Man) is referring to the original That Darn Cat, and not the remake.
But since you, DR MBarnum, will be babysitting tonight, the celebration will have to wait. (Babysitting your nephew's daughter? Well, yeah, I can see you as being a pretty grand uncle.)
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TOD: I'm going to take a different tack on this one. Instead of being on the set of a picture, I want to be in the room while Walt Disney was pitching the story of Pinocchio to his animators. From what I've read, he took on every part, and had a pretty good idea of what he wanted going into the project. That one night would have been amazing.
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Good vibes to Rachal, daughter of DR Panni (or DoDR of Panni, in HHW speak)!
Of course I would like to be on the set of ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE so that I could visit with the cast of my favorite film and watch how it was done and see the flubs and the giant sets!
Also would want to be on the set of THE UNDEAD to see and meet Allison Hayes, Pamela Duncan, and Dorothy Neumann!
Lastly I would like to visit the set of Dhadkan so that I could see Sunil Shetty and Akshay Kumar in all their handsome glory!!
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Posting on location from DR Ann's apartment, before we get to see Thoroughly Modern Millie tonight! Wonderful news, MBarnum! :D A bit late, but still sending all them vibes to Rachel!
Such an incredibly beautiful drive across the Cascades yesterday afternoon, passing right through PennyO's neck of the woods. What a gorgeous area you're in, Penny! If your neighbors reported an errant and truant blown kiss roaming about the neighborhood about 4pm yesterday, it was intended for you, PennyO, sent as I passed by Mt. Index Road! :D I'm half-tempted to drive over Stevens Pass again for my return trip in a couple days... longer drive home from here, but SOOOO lovely!
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Well, we shouldn't stop posting now that the cat has come home!
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I'm glad the DR Dan (the man) brought up Tod Browning's DRACULA, since someone should have asked Mr. Browning what the f**k the ARMADILLOS were doing in Transylvania!
Actually, the set of and of Browning's silents and up to and including FREAKS would have been quite interesting.
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Just wanted to pop in and say how happy I am that Freddy was found.
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Yea Freddy the Cat! It's very much not uncommon for cats to get locked in garages... it happens to us every so often with our two. Their stealth-ness makes it hard to know that they've followed us in there.
Good Wheel vibes to R(S-T-L-N-E)achel!
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WELCOME HOME, FREDDY!!! ;D
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Thanks for all the good vibes for Rachel. She just called and unfortunately did not make it onto the show. She's VERY disappointed and down on herself -- which is what I was afraid of. I told her that you can never tell with these things. People are picked for odd reasons. She said some of the people picked to continue on didn't do well in the mock games. Exactly - but they fit the profile of a particular type they wanted for the show. Anyway - thanks for the vibes.
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SWW thanks for the info. Do you mean a better buy, money wise, or a better CD to own?
Jed, we have only been to visit Penny O once and it truly is beautiful there. The Cascades at that end are very different then our Cascades here, more like our Siskiyou Mountains.
I couldn’t take worrying about missing cats and years ago decided to keep ours inside, unless we were out with them. Bosco, our tortie & white, went out with our dog Belle and followed her everywhere, including back into the house. Once Belle was too old to play with Bosco, she too stayed in the house. Before we were married Gaea could come & go as she pleases through my apartment balcony. That is until she didn’t come home one night. I finally found her, around midnight, up a tree in a neighbor’s driveway. I was trying to coax her down when the neighbor yelled “I have a gun”. Not only did that scare the s___ out of me, but Gaea came scurrying down the tree. I called out what I was doing and a very nice woman came out of her house. We both apologized profusely for frightening each other. ;D
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I was of two minds about posting today about her audition. On the one hand, why make a big thing of it and be publicly disappointed. On the other hand - we're all friends here and good vibes certainly can't hurt. Obviously, I opted for the latter.
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Sorry Rachel.
Keith & I tried out for the Newlywed game. We got all the answers correct & didn't make idiots of ourselves (I didn’t under strict orders from Keith ;D). I’m sure we were very cute, loving & sweet, but of course we didn't get picked. Not that we cared. I swear that show gave out the ugliest prizes.
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The film I would've wanted to be on the set of?
No contest.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
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Panni, yes we are all friends here and it was nice you shared with us. :D
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The great Timi Yuro, who sang such hits as "HURT" and "WHAT'S THE MATTER, BABY" passed away.
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OK - My KRITZER TIME review is now posted on this here site (in the KRITZER forum as a reply to the first topic KRITZER TIME POSTS). I am pretty busy for the rest of the afterrnoon (it's time to do my taxes) but I promise to get it posted on Amazon & B&N by the end of the weekend. I have it in a Word file so I canjust cut and paste.
And BK - I mean every word of it. I'll start the Pulitzer process in a couple of weeks since they are announcing the 2003 this week.
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Dan the Man: I love TIVO - my first unit was a lemon, but the replacement has been great. I didn't know there were multiple levels you could record on - I just use the preset which is best. The unit I have holds 100 hours of programming, which is about fifty hours more than I would ever need.
Jed and Ann: Be sure to go backstage and say hi to Juliana.
The Hollywood Collector's show was not very interesting and I'm really glad I waited until April. Oh, it was crowded but I'd say the majority of the "celebrities" were people who'd done one or two action films that I never heard of. Susan Anton was there, as was Susan Blakely. The big attraction was Jane Russell. Don Knotts was there and Lois Lane, Phyllis Coates, but that's really about it.
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Sad to be all alone in the world, especially at 2:00 in the fershluganah afternoon. RALLY, baby, RALLY
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WEL: What a wonderful thing you wrote. Everyone must go read it under the Kritzer Time thread on the Kritzer board. Beautifully done, for which I'm grateful and say thanks from the bottom of my heart.
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WEL - Terrific review of KRITZER TIME!
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Oh, and WEL, DON'T forget amazon and b&n - they MUST have the review. Don't let it slip your mind.
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MBarnum: I'm so glad that Freddy is home. We were all worried. I'll bet he's hungry.
DR Panni: Sorry about Wheel of Fortune. But why do they have to give them so many auditions? I hate the idea of all the people they are disappointing.
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Films I'd like to have been on the set for:
"Victor, Victoria"
"The Robe"
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1969)
"Finian's Rainbow"
"There's No Business Like Show Business"
"Spartacus"
"Cleopatra"
...and I, too, would have loved being on the set of "Amarcord"!!! Add to that Italian fantasy, Zeffirelli's sets of "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Taming of the Shrew."
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Jed - had I but known you were within ten minutes of my cabin, I would have met you on Hwy 2 and brought you up here. So pretty here right now, with all the bulbs just about to flower, a few daff's already open today. Anybody wanna buy a cabin nestled in a magical garden on a lovely stream in a forest?
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DR Panni: Sorry about Wheel of Fortune. But why do they have to give them so many auditions? I hate the idea of all the people they are disappointing.
Thanks Jennifer. I don't know the ins and outs of their audition process.
For myself, I'm more philosophical about these things. (Has to do with having lived longer, I would think.) Doesn't happen, you say a few choice words, maybe yell at the wall a bit, and you move on. Rachel is another story. She's extremely disappointed.
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http://www.timescommunity.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=11209991&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6
LOOK at how stupid my County is. Please, if you don't mind, write in a comment about exactly how stupid this is. Mine is the second one down. I submitted a reply to what the man who posted after me said, but I doubt they'd put it up, no matter how correct it is.
AGH!
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You go girl!
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Now, where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Swishy - when I read a sentence like...
"At a special meeting Tuesday, School Board members laid out their options: increase class size; cut teacher and staff salaries; eliminate foreign language, art and drama in schools; and do away with such extracurricular activities as sports, band and chorus."
...I think I've entered the Twilight Zone. Unbelievable!
Your letter was excellent. And you're right. They ARE stupid. and that's a kind word for them. Hope you win your battle.
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Swishy Sarah, well done! It is a difficult time for schools these days but it appears your county is coming up with some extreme solutions. GOOD VIBES these cutbacks don’t happen.
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Bruce I was where I usually am on a Saturday afternoon, at the nursing home with Echo.
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But now it is a time to be here. We must all be here. Here is where we should be. We should not be there, we should be here.
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Oh, and I had a lot of fun doing the radio show - can't remember if it's for tomorrow or a week from. I read three brief sections from the book, we played not only the Kritzer Time CD but some songs from musicals Benjamin loved. I then did one of my rants.
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I have never been able to get the radio show. I don't want to miss this one.
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So, BK, how did the big attraction look? ? ?
Now that Ms. Russell was mentioned, who thinks that it would have been fun to have been on the set of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES whilst Jane was musically complaining, "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?"
. . not to mention being on the sets of any Josh Logan production. . . .
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Miss Russell looked a bit strange.
Jane, maybe Keith can help with the radio show.
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Sorry Rachel.
Keith & I tried out for the Newlywed game. We got all the answers correct & didn't make idiots of ourselves (I didn’t under strict orders from Keith ;D). I’m sure we were very cute, loving & sweet, but of course we didn't get picked. Not that we cared. I swear that show gave out the ugliest prizes.
I have a theory that they actually were looking for people who made idiots of themselves, Dear Reader Jane. And Dear Reader Panni, I bet that Rachel did not get picked today because she solved the puzzles in her mock games too quickly, making her look as if she were smart, which, of course, she is. A reason for the popularity of game shows like this is that they give the viewers at home the opportunity to feel a little bit....well...you know...superior. People at home usually solve the rebus before the contestants on the show do. That feeling of superiority (related though it may be to the deadly sin of pride) is a good feeling, which brings viewers back time and again. Which is exactly what the advertisers and shows' producers are looking for.
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Just wanted to pop in and let everyone know that Freddy the cat has returned home from his 3 day adventure!
Freddy!!! Dude!!! Welcome home!!!
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http://www.timescommunity.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=11209991&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6
LOOK at how stupid my County is. Please, if you don't mind, write in a comment about exactly how stupid this is. Mine is the second one down. I submitted a reply to what the man who posted after me said, but I doubt they'd put it up, no matter how correct it is.
AGH!
What a great letter, Swish! It is very well thought out and argued, and all the more powerful because it comes from a student and not a parent. It doesn't take much to get me started when it comes to the issue of the funding of public education and the range of academic and extra-curricular activities offered--or not--to students today. If all the money that goes into building new jails these days went into the public schools instead, I'm mighty certain that the need for those jails would evaporate.
I hope your voice is heard and is joined by many others.
Swish on, girl!
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http://www.timescommunity.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=11209991&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6
LOOK at how stupid my County is. Please, if you don't mind, write in a comment about exactly how stupid this is. Mine is the second one down. I submitted a reply to what the man who posted after me said, but I doubt they'd put it up, no matter how correct it is.
AGH!
For good or ill, this story got my dander up and I posted my own opinion. I'm sure the Loudoun County school board will be aghast and gunning for me. Fortunately, they don't have a clue who or where I am.
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The SO and myself went to the movies today. Yeah, I know...whatta shock. We caught Hellboy and Latter Days, both of which were simply marvy, albeit for different reasons.
Hellboy was such a blood-and-thunder good time, and directed by one of my new favorites, Guillermo del Toro. And Ron Perlman, in the title role, is a hoot and a half. And they kill lotsa Nazis. Always a good thing.
Latter Days, though it suffers a bit in the technique department, was sweet, and had its' heart in the right place. The Mormons aren't gonna like this movie, though. To heck with 'em. I identified with the LDS boy, because of my own strict religious upbringing, and his coming to accept who he was and how he fits in with the world really did echo my own coming of age. (They could've used a decent songwriter, though. The songs in the movie were, to put it kindly, trite.)
Still and all, a pleasant day...and tonight, a few more movies on deeveedee.
Life is good...
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I went to the Museum on the Mount (AKA the Getty) today, Dear Readers, to see an exhibit entitled "Photographers of Genius." The show is rather impressive, and succeeds in its mission to demonstrate the incredible breadth and depth of the Getty's photography collection. I also stopped in at a small exhibit devoted to the commerce of art, which was quite interesting.
I will be leaving shortly to head to North Hollywood to see Mr. Jason Graae play the 30 some-odd characters in Fully Committed. I've seen the show before (with Mr. Mark Setlock) and it was hysterically funny then; it should be even more so this evening with Mr. Graae.
I will check in when I return.
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What a day. I received my special gift from DR Tomofoz today and I also recieved my special package of demos from She Loves Me, A Little Night Music and the Reunion Concert of Falsettos and videos of dear and the very missed Laurie Beechman in concert and some other videos as well. I have been sample everything and about to sample DR Tom's gift.
My similar gift will be making its way to you soon too!
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OKAY I just noticed only 82 posts where is everyone!!!
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SWW thanks for the info. Do you mean a better buy, money wise, or a better CD to own?
I'm thinking Archive would be the better CD to own. It represents a larger portion of Webb's career, with tracks from several albums over a seven or eight year period. And, let's face it, no artist can hit the ball out of the park with every track on an album.
While we're at it, here's a link to Webb's own webbsite (http://www.jimmywebb.com/) (sorry, couldn't resist the pun).
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Did we ever think we'd see the day when a post said "only eighty-two posts" at 6:00? I love this here site. But, let's keep the home fries burning, shall we?
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Good news Mike. NOW that you have it I shall wait for mail SOON or LATER!
At least that's 85!
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I have a theory that they actually were looking for people who made idiots of themselves, Dear Reader Jane. And Dear Reader Panni, I bet that Rachel did not get picked today because she solved the puzzles in her mock games too quickly, making her look as if she were smart, which, of course, she is.
A few years ago, I auditioned three times to get on The Weakest Link. After the third try, I was never contacted again. They had us play "mock games"...perhaps it was because I actually did well, or perhaps I didn't photograph well, but by the third audition, I was really beginning not to give a rat's behind whether or not I actually got on the show.
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I TIVOd the Doris Day movie, Caprice, which I saw way back when, but remember nothing of. I was surprised to see it's directed by the great Frank Tashlin. I watched the first ten minutes which weren't too good, but I will always give Mr. Tashlin the benefit of the doubt.
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I was turned down for The Dating Game. And let me tell you, I was very amusing.
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I'll admit, I'm not feeling very good right now, due to my allergies acting up and moving up into my sinuses (first spring in a new environment), but please, DO NOT SEND ME VIBES!
Send your vibes, every single one you can spare, to our DR Swishy Sarah. What she's dealing with is much more important!
And while I'm at it, here's my vibes to you, SS!
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Okay I posted on Amazon and B&N. Now that I know how easy it is other authors beware!
BK - Maybe the reason there are so few posts is that everyone is busy reading KRITZER TIME.
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BK - Maybe the reason there are so few posts is that everyone is busy reading KRITZER TIME.
That or... they're waiting for another brilliant cheerleading routine. Sorry, no can do. The Dallas Cheerleaders have put me under exclusive contract.
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I was turned down for The Dating Game. And let me tell you, I was very amusing.
I also was turned down for the dating game. I was talked into this by a friend’s fiancé who was sure I would be picked. The guy interviewing me on the phone & I talked for about two hours (I think he liked me). When I had the actual trial game I was behind a curtain. A couple of the guys were really flirting with me and obviously curious to see me. Afterwards the curtain was removed & there I was face to face with these much older guys/men. They looked so shocked when they saw me I almost started laughing. I was younger (17) to begin with & looked like a baby. ;D
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We don't need no stinking cheerleading. We need stinking posts.
Saturday night can't be the loneliest night of the week, that would be much too unseemly.
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Do we feel a new all-time low coming? Oh, well, what will be will be, just like Dodo Day said.
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Now, now, you dear dear people, what say we have a little teamwork? I'm off to dinner and I hope I'm not depressed upon my return, oh, yes, I hope I am not depressed.
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What am I, doing a monologue?
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Robin now I’m really looking forward to HELLBOY. We will see have to go to the theater with the large screen and stadium seating to really enjoy it. I don’t believe LATTER DAYS is playing here yet.
SWW Thanks for the ARCHIVE info. Now just to get moving & actually purchase some of these CD’s I’ve asked about.
Bruce I believe it was Keith who said we can’t get the radio show, but that was a long time ago. We shall try again.
After a five year absence we returned to a local Italian restaurant. Big mistake! Shortly after we were seated the waiter walked up and to our amazement, in a gruff voice, asked if we were ready to order. Later we heard him offering the specials of the day to other customers, something he hadn’t done for us. Keith said his dinner wasn’t very good. I, thinking it was comparable to mine was semi sympathetic. Near the end of the meal, which neither of us finished, we tasted each other’s dinner. My comment to poor Keith after tasting his was, “my dinner must taste really good after yours”. He was thinking it did. ;D All we could do after dinner was walk across the street to The Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory & get something yummy to get rid of the bad taste in our mouths. ;)
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Guy walks into a bar and sits down and orders a drink. He hears a voice say, "Hey, nice shirt." He looks around, doesn't see anyone. He hears the voice again. "Hey, nice tie." He looks around, doesn't see anyone. Baffled, he takes a sip of his drink - hears the voice again. "Hey, nice sport coat." He looks around - nobody there. He calls the bartender over and says, "It's the weirdest thing - I keep hearing a voice saying things like 'nice shirt' 'nice tie' 'nice sport coat'. What gives?" The bartender points to a bowl on the bar and says, "Oh, that's the peanuts - they're complimentary."
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It’s time to finish watching LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.
First, I mustn’t forget SWW’s good vibes for Sarah.
Goodnight all.
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I audition for one game show in my life and I got on it. It was called The New Chain Reaction. It was the same as the old Chain Reaction but it did not have celebrity players. My appearance was delayed because the original host was fired and was later replaced by Geoff Edwards.
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I am listening to A Little Night Music and was wondering if you are required to have the Quintet sing the overture or was that just part of Hal Prince's original staging and in your production you can have the orchestra play it or omit it all together?
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So I watched Chess in Concert, Laurie Beechman from 1991 (pre-Bruce Kimmel) and coming up Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall. Both were very entertaining.
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Sinus-stuffed and achey as I am, der Brucer and I still made our way to Cafe Zeus this evening. For one thing, he'd taken some pics on our last jaunt over, and wanted to show them off. For another, he wanted to sample their pate appetizer.
It is a genuine pate de fois gras, very rich and very creamy, complemented by a bit of roasted fig and a nice glazing of aspic. It was quite delicious, and made up for much of the rest of the day.
The worst part of the day was our kitchen table. I had put off it's actual construction for a week, as I wasn't entirely sure of how to do it. There were five basic pieces: the tabletop, the top of the central pillar, the pillar itself, and the base/foot. The top of the pillar screws into the tabletop, and a central rod connects the top and the base, travelling through the tubular pillar.
Confused? This gets worse.
After constructing the table, which took a bit of doing as the whole thing had to be done in something of a reverse order from what we would have thought necessary, we turned the table rightside up and discovered it to be a little taller than we had expected. Mind, I had wanted a taller than usual table, because my intention has been to work at it standing up, and being taller than usual had decided that a taller table would be a good idea.
Taller by two (repeat: TWO) inches.
Most tables constructed for working standing up are thirty-six inches tall. Ours was to be thirty-eight inches tall, the better to reduce back strain for a fellow like myself.
Well, part of the table is, indeed, thirty-eight inches tall. The central pillar is that height, in fact. The problem is, when the thickness of the table-top itself, and the pillar top, and the pillar base are all added to that thirty-eight inches in height, we've ended up with a table forty-two and one-quarter inches tall! I mean, I'm tall, but not Mike Jordan tall.
A visit was paid to the store where we ordered the table. Dave, the owner, heaved a sigh. He's had problems with this particular manufacturer before. They quite often fu...uh, fudge up orders. He'll be dropping by tomorrow, to take the table back and have the problem corrected.
The good news is that we don't have to dismantle the table ourselves. The bad news is, I still don't have a kitchen table. Well...Fudge!
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I believe the ALNM quintet is written in as part of the score. Every recording I have heard has included them (other than the film version), and that includes a reduced chamber orchestra recording. I personally find the use of the onstage quintet a charming part of the sound of the show. While I can understand their absence in the film (also directed by Prince), as the conceit would have been harder to explain (and, onstage, they never are explained), the lack of the five voices subtracts from the film.
And, let's face it, that film needed all the help it could get!
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It’s time to finish watching LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.
So, how're you and Keith enjoying my all-time favorite film?
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Are you asking them "Why is the desert?"
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Are you asking them "Why is the desert?"
Naturalement!
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At least we know what we are talking about. Of course "I'm on your side" and love Lawrence too! Not Gertrude but I am looking forward to "Star".
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Thank you everyone who left a comment or sent me vibes. The website is SUPER slow with putting comments up, and reads them all for content. It took about 9 hours for my post to be...posted...But I really appreciate it. I doubt it'll happen, but you never know.
I am in love with the Six Flags commercial with the dancing man. It just makes me smile.
Donald Trump is an awful SNL host.
Goodnight, all!
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At least we know what we are talking about. Of course "I'm on your side" and love Lawrence too! Not Gertrude but I am looking forward to "Star".
I should have my LITTLE PRINCE and HALF A SIXPENCE on Monday; Tuesday is a go for MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS. . .among sooo many others.
APRIL 2004 is the month to go for broke on dvd buying!
Only a couple more weeks until CALL ME MADAM and STAR!
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A full report on your finding your Prince please. I may well have to order one myself. I'll be on the streets (without street lighting) before long if I buy any more DVDs. "Star" will be a MUST. I think Sweeney is all I have on order at present. Will be watching a borrowed copy of "Camp" tomorrow night.
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I would never call you Madam td. You're far too young and I think you are worth far more than threepence.
All these posts could of course be personal messages but ......
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Hello, dear readers! I still exist, but I spend my week days making pathetic attempts to pass chemistry, leaving only my weekends available for the wonderful HainesHisWay.com. Luckily, spring break is upon us (hurrah hurrah!), so I will have some more time to spend here. :)
Tonight I saw the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of "Assassins" which, I must admit, surprised me. Before I elaborate, I just want to mention that my review will most likely contain spoilers.
When I first entered the theatre, I was shocked to see that the space was left exactly as it was for "Cabaret". The thrust stage has no curtain and there are about four steps leading from the foot of the stage into the audience. Instead of having a traditional pit, half of the orchestra sits on stage left and the other stage right in the equivolent of a "normal" theatre's box seats. The orchestra seating is all table seating. The set is slightly reminiscent of the recent "Man Of La Mancha" revival's set in that it utilizes various levels of wood planking and sets of stairs for various purposes. Before the show began I had no idea what I was looking at, but as
soon as it started, it became clear that the set was made to resemble Coney Island's Cyclone roller coaster. Mantello clearly took the fair ground/shooting gallery idea and ran with it, and that proved to be a wonderful decision. The entire show is played out on this set, and it serves all different purposes while still keeping that feel of the fair ground in tact. Marc Kudisch's Proprietor is very much a presence in the show. Looking like, well, a proprietor with shaved head and tattooed arms, Kudisch rarely left the stage and sort of served as an anti-Balladeer by being this sinister figure looming over the action. While the Balladeer comments on the events taking place, the Proprietor creates them by placing guns in various assassins' hands, spinning a roulette wheel that determines which assassin would have his or her turn next, and shouting "Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!" whenever an assassin hits his target. I
think that "Everybody's Got The Right" is now in a lower key, but I suppose that that doesn't really matter. The set was utilized brilliantly in this number, as the Proprietor stalks about the various levels underneath an enormous neon sign reading "Hit the prez! Win a prize!". Sadly, the following scene does not work nearly as well. While Ceveris is a terrific Booth, he seemed to
reach all the points he wanted to both physically and emotionally without building up to those moments. I'm sure that after a few more performances, that problem will no longer exist. In that scene, we're also introduced to Neil Patrick Harris as the Balladeer. Harris sounds fine, but his presence is slightly jarring because he is costumed in light colors, while literally everything else in the entire theatre is dark. Also, he sort of appears out of nowhere and, when there's already a sort of narrator in this production(the Proprietor), his presence is a bit awkward. From the next scene (the bar) onward, there was a bit of a struggle between weather or not this would be a comedy. Many performers, such as the miscast Mario Cantone, played for laughs at completely inappropriate moments, giving this portion of the show a light and campy feel. There is no question that all of
the assassins were creepy, but they didn't seem the least bit dangerous, which I think an audience needs to sense. This problem was definitely present in "How I Saved Roosevelt", as Jeffrey Kuhn did a little dance in the electric chair a la Guiteau's cake walk. In my opinion, since the same general idea is experessed in
the "Ballad Of Guiteau", that was unnecesary and out of character. For all of these scenes, the Proprietor merely sits onstage, sometimes contributing to the action (Handing Zangara the gun, strapping him into the chair...), being an incredibly creepy omnipresent figure. Interestingly, the performances seemed to get
lighter and lighter as various production elements (lighting, use of set, and the Proprietor's presence) got increasingly dark and sinister. The two joined together nicely, creating a sort of funhouse feeling that one might get after visiting a sideshow where it's all fun and games until you think about how creepy it is. Denis
O'Hare's "Ballad Of Guiteau" was incredibly disturbing, begining optimistic but then building to the point of terrifying hysteria. Truly perfect. Whenever an assassination or attempted assassination would occur, the assassin in question would turn upstage where skrims showing the silhouettes of men in suits were pulled down and shoot at their "target". If they were successful, the skrim would light up and the Proprietor would shout "WE HAVE A WINNER!" and if they were
not, a lound buzzer would sound and the Proprietor would apologize. It was interesting, and it worked very well. These skrims were seperated by wooden bars that created nine little portals. After each assassination (successful or otherwise), the assassin would back into the booth once inhabited by his "target" and, unless he was participating in a scene, spend the rest of the show there. A shadowy light was cast over them, making them look like exhibits in a wax museum, which solidified the idea of "footnotes in a history book". They also resembled caged sideshow freaks, which also
coencides with comments made during the Oswald scene. "Another National Anthem" utilized these interpretations of the portals by having the assassins spend part of the song seeming as though they're
trying to escape their "cages". In this production, instead of having the Balladeer sing most of the song, he shared it with the Proprietor who sang the more ominous parts of the narration, creating a sort of devil/angel on the shoulder effect for the rest of the
cast. During this song, it is the Proprietor who shoves the Balladeer offstage and then sets the scene for the Texas School Book Depository, which is basically just a bunch of boxes. Harris' Oswald is appropriatly understated. Throughout the scene, Booth inforces
this idea that Oswald never did anything in his life, he merely had things happen to him. I've always interpreted this scene as Oswald finally taking control of his own life and doing something, but Harris' portrayal makes it clear that this is just one more instance where Oswald is a victim of circumstance and can't made decisions for himself. He doesn't make the event happen, it happens to him. A few lines were cut from this scene ("Is Artie Bremer here tonight?" "It was a bum rap! My penis made me do it!" "Death to the enemies of Palestine!" "Of course, of course, Sirhan Sirhan." "Yeeeeha!" "And James Earl Ray! Why do these red-knecks always have three names? John Wilkes Booth, James Earl Ray..." "Lee Harvey Oswald."), which
turned out to be a very wise decision because "Another National Anthem" proved to be the turning point from the comedic and campy earlier portion of the evening to the very serious conclusion, and those funny lines would have a negative impact on the mood. The
scene was incredibly powerful and truly perfect. As soon as Oswald fires his weapon, he gets up, faces the audience, and freezes. The spotlight is taken off him and the film of Kennedy's assassination is projected onto his t-shirt. It's brilliant and terrifying. Sadly, it was followed by "Something Just Broke" which I think just doesn't work.
Interestingly, there was no audience reaction to the Kennedy assassination scene which I attribute to four factors: Nothing shocks us anymore, I think that most of the audience already knew the show, few in the audience actually lived through the Kennedy assassination (very young crowd), and after 9/11, the Kennedy assassination is no longer the great american tragedy that it once was. It's a shame that I'll never know how I would have reacted to this production had
I not already been very familiar with the show. All in all, this production managed to be both very fun and entertaining while remainingly appropriatly disturbing and, at times, terrifying.
Because of the way the Proprietor was incorporated into this production, it might have been interesting to see his role doubled with Booth. Seeing as Booth is a sort of extenstion of the Balladeer in the Oswald scene as he fills in for him by convincing Oswald to kill Kennedy (which, in this production, should be the Proprietor's job), it could have been appropriate to double the roles.
I apologize for my choppy writing, but it's late and I'm having great difficulty expressing myself. I hope that this was relatively coherent.
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Hello, fellow dear readers. DR Sandra and I took a spontaneous trip and just got home.
Glad to hear Freddy is back home. Sorry to hear Rachel didn't get on the show.
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Hello, fellow dear readers. DR Sandra and I took a spontaneous trip and just got home.
Glad to hear Freddy is back home. Sorry to hear Rachel didn't get on the show.
Were you in the neighborhood, Dear Reader Laura, and not let anyone know???
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I looked for you at the theater last night, Jay, but didn't se you.
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Thanks for the review Jenny. No way will I get there any way. Your comments about the age of the crowd and the 9/11 impact are interesting. Perhaps because of those factors the audience will be more accepting. I hope this time that the timing is "Right". the show was very well accepted here in Oz and in the UK but the audience did not have to fact the same demons.
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Jay, did you meet Mrs. G?
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Do we get at least a mini review tonight Jay? Some of us have to enjoy our theatrical experiences vicariously.
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Fully Committed was great fun and Mr. Jason Graae was simply marvelous in it.
Mr. Graae's mom was in from Tulsa ("a slut," spelled backwards) to see the play, and I had the chance to chat with her for a bit afterwards. With only a little prompting from Mr. Graae, I told her how much I enjoyed "her" CD and she got a kick out of that. (For those who do not have it, you simply must run out and buy Mr. Graae's An Evening of Self Indulgence: Live at the Cinegrill--produced by our own BK--on which Mr. Graae's mom makes a cameo singing appearance.)
Miss Marcia Seligson, who runs Reprise!, was seated immediately in front of me this evening. Mr. George Ball was in the audience, too, though I did not see his lovely wife, Miss Amanda McBroom.
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Do we get at least a mini review tonight Jay? Some of us have to enjoy our theatrical experiences vicariously.
Maybe that's too mini?
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Thanks Jay. I have no idea how you remember everyone and to whom they are married. Most recording stars, film stars and stage stars could be sitting next to me (except Mr Spacey) and I would have no idea who they were!
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I'm showing my age. My first thought was running Reprise Records! I remember when the label was launched. It's Ok I am now back in the present.
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Back from a most luscious dinner about which more in tomorrow's notes. We aren't really going to achieve a new low, are we? I can't believe that we could allow this to happen. I suppose I could make fourteen posts in a row but I don't think that's a way to do things, so if we do, we do, and that's that.
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I'm showing my age. My first thought was running Reprise Records! I remember when the label was launched. It's Ok I am now back in the present.
Sorry. The full name, which contains an entirely unnecessary exclamation point and is too long by half, is Reprise! Broadway's Best. The outfit that did Babes in Arms and Kismet earlier this season and will be doing Company in May.
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Hm...the spacing on my post is all crazy. That's strange.
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There's nearly an hour BK! Who knows? The West coasters may just be coming home from Saturday night festivities. Maybe DRs Ann & Jed will be reporting on their thoroughly modern evening.
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Maybe we'll just squeak by again, like last Saturday. Jenny, speak to me of things.
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Silly me. I've already changed my clocks, so I was looking for tomorrow's notes. But tomorrow (oh, an Annie reference), which will be a 23-hour day, doesn't really come for another forty-five minutes.
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As much as I enjoy "Company" I wish it could have a rest for a few years. I don't know about in the US of A but it seems to be done so often here. I am hoping that the next year will see "Saturday Night" get a performance here - it will probably happen when I am out of the country experiencing the wonders of "The Woman In White". I just hope the new ALW has more to offer than "The Beautiful Game".
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Our clocks were changed last week - the end of daylight savings. Do I have to make yet another adjustment in comparitive times! I've have enough trouble knowing that you are still in yesterday.
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There's nearly an hour BK! Who knows? The West coasters may just be coming home from Saturday night festivities. Maybe DRs Ann & Jed will be reporting on their thoroughly modern evening.
Unless they're canoodling. But even if they are canoodling, they'll both deny, deny, deny (that is three denys) that they were.
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Our clocks were changed last week - the end of daylight savings. Do I have to make yet another adjustment in comparitive times! I've have enough trouble knowing that you are still in yesterday.
Yep. You and Dear Reader Laura get to watch the rest of "spring forward" tonight.
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I wonder where RLP is this evening. Jose often drops in at this time. I am hopeful that this will not be my third post in a row! Rally round the flag boys.
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A new low? Fugheddaboudit.
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Clocks, clocks, what care we for clocks?
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Thanks Jay. Talking to myself can be so addictive.
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Time for the ritual feeding of Magnus and Fosca. I know my priorities. Good night Sundried Readers.
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Great review, Jenny. And don't worry about spoilers. We don't give a whit about spoilers around here.
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By coincidence, der Brucer was playing the LP for STAR today. I found the album cover amazingly precient, with Julie's eye covered with a star, fortelling the make-up used by the rock band KISS! (Only they did it in black and white, she did it in orange and pink!)
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Digesting luscious dinner of which more will be heard tomorrow, I gather. So here's a joke, compliments of DD Rachel.
Guy pulls into a gas station with six penguins sitting in his car. Attendant says, "Sorry if I'm being nosy, but what's with the penguins?"
The guy replies, "When I went to get my car this morning, there they were. I don't know what to do with them."
Attendant says, "Easy. Take them to the zoo."
Guy thanks him for the great idea and drives off.
A few days later he pulls into the same gas station. Penguins are still in the car.
Attendant says, "I thought you took them to the zoo!"
"I did," answers the guy. "They loved it! Today I'm taking them to the circus." ;D