And two Comden & Green/Styne songs keep going through my head: Good To Be Back Home and Is It a Crime?
BK question: Is it a crime to start each day with a laugh and a smile and a song?
Don't know why I'm up. Way too much rehearsal for the 4/22 revue. And two Comden & Green/Styne songs keep going through my head: Good To Be Back Home and Is It a Crime?
I think that all the parents involved should be forced to watch GYPSY until it finally sinks in.
Thanks, Tomovoz. Your birds are so COLORFUL!
I watched a very strange documentary (actually the first part of a multi-part documentary) on Bravo last night about real life Mama Roses (and one Papa Rose)... stage parents.
BK question: Is it a crime to start each day with a laugh and a smile and a song?
A question for our most esteemed BK:
In writing your new book, since as you've already told us is a mystery, were you working from an outline this time, with a solid idea of where you wanted to go?
And (second question): Do you have any idea when the new book will be ready for other trusted readers (such as our DR Charles Pogue and Panni) to point out the plot loopholes to you, so that you can hone your new tome to perfection?
BK, I was completely fascinated that you had something like the recording record player when you were a kid. I would have killed to have something like that. Were the recordable disks themselves relatively expensive back then or were they bought in quantity and tossable like recordable CDs today? Were your "recording sessions" carefully rehearsed or free-wheeling? What happened first: did the recorder break or did the they stop making the recordable disks? And most importantly, do these disks still exist today and are they playable?
For Ask BK Day ---
According to THE RICHARD RODGERS READER, there were many problems with Act II of CAROUSEL on the road and songs were cut. In doing your research for the LOST IN BOSTON series did you ever come across any of these songs and if so (1) what were they and (2) why didn't you use any of them in the series?
I actually have a question for Mr. BK. I don't think it's been answered in the interview from last week.
Is Soon It's Gonna Rain still your favorite song from The Fantastiks?
For BK: I recently acquired the CD of Sherry--with the video extras. I am fascinated by the story of how the score was lost for thirty years until (Sondheim scholar and LoC Curator) Mark Eden Horowitz mentioned off-handedly that it was all sitting in a trunk in the Library of Congress. Presumably next to the Ark of the Covenant and the arms of Venus de Milo.
Oh, my question. When you recorded the title song to the show, was it before or after the reappearance of the missing trunk? How did you acquire it? And what about the lyric, "You could see the lights of lower Broadway" on your version, which is, "You could see the Promised Land quite clearly" on the new CD?
And Welcome Back, DR Joy! Nothing against your DH DR Noel, but your face is much prettier to look at. When will you know about 42nd Street? If you get it, will you travel with DH in tow? Vibes, of course. Many vibes.Thanks, WFO! I think DH Noel would agree with you on the face thing. ;)
I'd actually really like much more ephemeral stuff from the '70s available on TV, too...specials like Battle of the Network Stars and Circus of the Stars and TV movies starring the likes of Ben Gazzara, Charles Nelson-Reilly and Cloris Leachman, for example?
With all of the TV series that are being released on DVD what series would you most like to see released,on DVD, and of the ones that already have come out on DVD what has been your favorite series DVD release so far?
I am looking forward to AMERICAN IDOL tonight even with Quentin Tarentino as guest judge...Is Fantasia going to perform with a samuri sword?
I'm really trying to hold back on buying too many of these DVD sets. I have little enough time to watch current shows, let alone whole seasons of past shows. So as much as I would like to buy the Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Fraiser and Barney Miller sets, I just don't for sure if I'll ever really sit down and watch them all.
Dan (the Man) where does your mother live? I know there were Cardinals in Bucks County where we were. It wasn’t so far from the city.
Is Fantasia going to perform with a samuri sword?
Hey, Jane - did you and Keith keep those two downloads - the headshots and resumes? I have lost them, or maybe never downloaded them. I'm going ahead with the casting of the show, and those guys looked promising.
SWW your mac & cheese recipe looks very good. Mine has less seasoning and sour cream, which is probably why young children liked it.
Joy, I believe “V” aired again not to long ago. I don’t recall if it was the series or the original mini-series. I just saw a few minutes of it so it’s possible I thought it was “V” & was simply mistaken.I found out that the movie and the miniseries was released on DVD, but not the actual TV series. I added it to my Amazon wish list. :)
Sorry you’re having a bad day even if you made me laugh with the description of your operator skills. What is in store for tomorrow?
A question for our most esteemed BK:
And (second question): Do you have any idea when the new book will be ready for other trusted readers (such as our DR Charles Pogue and Panni) to point out the plot loopholes to you, so that you can hone your new tome to perfection?
What's in store for tomorrow? Another audition, this time for Full Monty. The casting director saw me at another audition and said "Make sure you come to Full Monty! There's lots of stuff in there for you!" So I guess I gotta go! God knows.
Watched all 149 minutes of SHIP OF FOOLS yesterday. Another Columbia full frame transfer, of course, which was a little infuriating (looked very good, though, I must say), but isn't it amazing how that rear screen photography was used so often back in the day. This movie looks to have been done about 98% in the studio. Wonder if Stanley Kramer got that huge star cast to take less than their usual fees to do the film?
TCB, your news has given me the biggest smile I've had in a long time! :D
IT'S PARTY TIME!
Elmore33 you are so sweet, but it is cinnamon, not hot, I want. I want them for baking as well as eating.
SWW, don't you know that Hungarians can't be trusted? 8)
LULU...I agree. Release all of the SCTV on DVD, both NBC and syndicated stuff. Funniest satire since South Park
Look at that happy face! I trust you.
The score wasn't "lost" the orchestral parts were "lost". I got the music for the title song directly from the composer and we did the lyrics that were on that music. Perhaps they revised it later, although I like "the lights of lower Broadway" better. I didn't really love any of the other songs from the show, which is why I never went back to record them for future volumes.
Tarantino is guest judging on AI tonight? Geeze, Kill Bill #2 must be a Fox film or an advertiser. I hate this kind of transparent cross-promotional crap. I like a lot of Tarantino's movies but what does he know about singing pop idols?
Tarantino is guest judging on AI tonight? Geeze, Kill Bill #2 must be a Fox film or an advertiser. I hate this kind of transparent cross-promotional crap. I like a lot of Tarantino's movies but what does he know about singing pop idols?
Tarantino is guest judging on AI tonight? Geeze, Kill Bill #2 must be a Fox film or an advertiser. I hate this kind of transparent cross-promotional crap. I like a lot of Tarantino's movies ....
S. Woody...doesn't Good Eats run twice a night...and that is what VCR's are for...You can watch one show while you tape another.There's been a schedule shift over at FoodTV. Good Eats is now stripped at 7:00 pm nightly, moved from it's 11:30 pm/3:30 am showings. In the 11:00 pm slot, they're stripping Iron Chef, cause for late-nite indigestion.
I watched a very strange documentary (actually the first part of a multi-part documentary) on Bravo last night about real life Mama Roses (and one Papa Rose)... stage parents. <SNIP>
The most bizarre story is about a man named Duncan Nutter. This man has decided that his family will all be big stars so he moved from a big house in Vermont to a tiny apartment in Queens and spends most of his time going to auditions with his wife and seven children, none of whom have any talent or interest. His wife is a teacher and he tears tickets at THE PRODUCERS. He also comes off as gay as any of the Queer Eye stars.
I watched a very strange documentary (actually the first part of a multi-part documentary) on Bravo last night about real life Mama Roses (and one Papa Rose)... stage parents.
Everyone has been naming such wonderful TV shows that ought to be put on DVD...."Days Of Our Lives...
All 38 years worth?!?!? :D
He appreciates the well wishing, and will get to the chemistry homework the moment he feels better.
Jenny... the idea of a 7 year old playing Mama Rose is slowly unfolding in my mind. Keep that tape!!! :)
::Nods positively::
Mm-hm! I want to see Alice Horton in her prime, and Hope when she was still a chubby ice skater, and I want to see all the various actors who have played Roman!
My school is weird. Three years ago, I was suspended for saying about a teacher "I hate her! I could just kill her!" after school to a fellow student. Zero tolerance is really annoying. ::) (But necesary, I understand...)So, zero tolerance means that anything a student is feeling is supposed to be kept bottled up, unexpressed, right? Put things on the back burner if they're not acceptable, where they will simmer away until there's no more juice left in the pot, and you're lucky if ten years with a brillo pad or a shrink brings it back to usability. Or maybe the heat under that back burner is just a little higher, and things boil over and you've got oatmeal acting out all over the place.
Robin: There are less than a handful of tracks that didn't make various albums. There's one on the Guy Haines album -Here's that Rainy Day, which I just wasn't happy enough with, both arrangement-wise and vocal-wise - it was replaced with the simple and much more effective You Must Believe in Spring (done in one live take). There was a track on Paige O'Hara's Jerry Herman album which didn't work (Dancing). And there was a track on Laurie Beechman's No One is Alone album that I found to jarring and strange to include, a duet with Ken Page. I think that's about it. There have been more than a few instances where I just said to folks, here's a song (something that hadn't been planned), let's see what we can do with it, and then we'd just play around and record whatever we came up with - those tracks have always made the albums.
Mm-hm! I want to see Alice Horton in her prime, and Hope when she was still a chubby ice skater, and I want to see all the various actors who have played Roman!