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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were both short and sweet, and now it is time for you to post until the short and sweet cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: AFFRANCHISE!
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TOD: I was six and a flower girl in someone's wedding. I have no idea whose. Most recently, I attended a banquet at which a 91-year-old woman I know was inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame.
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tod
the two times I had to wear a tux
My grad and my sister's wedding
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And the word of the day is: AFFRANCHISE!
A Franchise:
People who open their own Burger King restaurant
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Health vibes to DR TCB.
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At least Mr BK's car was not out in the hail the other day, which can be annoying.
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Hmmmmmmmmmm........
Weddings were always dress up days......
I went to a Phoenix Theatre 10th Anniversary Party back in the day in black tie and everyone was very dressed up - it was quite fun.
There have also been a few dance events when everyone looks nice - like in a movie.
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Today is a work day. Oh well.
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I'm back at work after my one-day unexpected vacation. The city is full of snow and ice but it's not shut down.
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Many good thoughts to Dear TCB
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The Ford Foundation calls
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Thursday morning greetings! I'm up early to go to the lab for the blood test I should have had yesterday.
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Sending good vibes out to TCB!
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Sending good vibes to everyone, too! We can all use any good vibes we get! :)
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Good morning, all! First thing, a trip for an eye exam, followed by a visit with Wayne Barker, the Musical Director for this Equity Fights Aids event, to pick up the chart I'm doing for it. That should land me around noon wondering what to do next, so I may venture further north to the Manghattan School of Music in search of Victor Herbert songs and cello-piano music.
So far, that's my day. I also need to reschedule my taxes and call the Amherst Library. Otherwise, I will be waiting for the fallout over the problematic conductor.
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Tonight is the 2 hour season premiere of SURIVOR: heroes vs villains.
Will any other DRs be watching?
And if so I"m curious who are your favorites going in? I am in love with boston rob. I really hope that he and russell form an alliance. I would love to see them go all the way!
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I'm up and have announced and am going back to bed.
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I'm checking out the Olympic schedule for here. It looks like events will not go past 10:30pm at night eastern time. And i guess most thing won't start too early. I was checking out sat and sun. One thing of interest for me is short track speed skating. I love watching that.
I see pairs short program figure skating is on live sunday at 7:30pm eastern.
It looks like i have at least 3 channels that will have full time coverage: CTV, TSN and rogers sportsnet). Plus french channels.
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Here is an exact schedule in pacific time of when the figure skating will happen:
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/figure-skating/results-and-schedules/index.html
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Vibes to DR TCB
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TOD:
There was the senior prom and black-tie dances during college, but beyond that, I've tried to avoid fancy dress stuff. I'm strictly a jeans/t-shirt guy and I only wear a tie if my wife puts a gun to my head.
About the only "fancy" (i.e. black tie) event that I recall attending was back in the 1980s when my friend/client Steve Kanalt was doing DALLAS. A CBS affiliate was opening its new facilities in San Antonio, and Steve and I flew down for the event. I recall that the affiliate rented a tuxedo for me.
I must admit that I had a good time.
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BBC Radio 2 is doing a multi-part bio of the Great American Songbook Composer
Jimmy Van Heusen Rupert Holmes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qll6q/Come_Fly_With_Me_the_Legacy_of_Jimmy_Van_Heusen_Episode_1/)
Episode 1 was broadcast this past Tuesday and will be up on Listen Again until the 16th of February. Click the link to listen.
Priscilla, you might be interested since your friend Rupert Holmes is the narrator of the broadcast.
Here is a description of the program from the Beeb Web site:
Rupert Holmes considers the legacy of songwriter, hellraiser and pilot Jimmy Van Heusen, who wrote many hits for Frank Sinatra.
When Jimmy Van Heusen died 20 years ago, the world of American popular song lost one of its most individual characters. Van Heusen was a man who could combine fine composition with serial womanising, and hard work in Hollywood alongside piloting his own aircraft. It's said that he gave his friend Frank Sinatra many of the elements which Sinatra used to define his own style and the 85 songs he wrote for him created a musical persona for Frank which still resonates today. And it's not just Sinatra who benefited from Van Heusen's music. His legacy is felt today, with performers like Michael Buble having notable successes with his songs.
He was born Edward Chester Babcock in 1913 and was known as "Chet" to his family and friends. He preferred music to school and worked for a time on a local radio station, composing songs for listeners. Eventually, after a name change, he made it to New York where he began writing hit songs like Polka Dots And Moonbeams. An invitation to Hollywood led to his composing songs for Bing Crosby's "Road" movies. With Sammy Cahn he wrote numbers like Call Me Irresponsible and High Hopes, which later became John F. Kennedy's theme song.
The musician, novelist and stage writer Rupert Holmes, famous for his 1979 hit Escape (the Pina Colada song) has an expert knowledge of Van Heusen. He attended the same school and is currently working on the Broadway version of Robin And The 7 Hoods, with music by Van Heusen. In programme one, he explores Van Heusen's early career and his songwriting partnerships with Eddie De Lange and Johnny Burke, which produced hits such as Darn That Dream and Swinging On A Star.
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Good morning!
Took my walk this morning. It was 26, but I dressed smartly this morning and wasn't really cold. A couple of surprising sights on my trip. More about that later. It's going to be another cold but otherwise beautiful day!
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TOD:
I despise dressing up in a tux, and apart from a couple of weddings I was part of, I have only worn a tux on stage in various roles (Max in THE SOUND OF MUSIC, for example).
There was one exception. In 1982, I was nominated as Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for Jacob Anderson in SHENANDOAH by the Metrolina Theater Association (amateur and professional companies in lower NC and upper SC vying for these prizes). I knew I wasn't going to get it, but to be a good sport, I dressed in a rented tux and went. A fellow who played Luther Billis in a local production of SOUTH PACIFIC won. Hard to win against anyone playing Luther Billis.
Other times I've been nominated for awards with various theater groups the dress has been less restrictive, and I've gone in a coat and tie which makes the evening much more comfortable.
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This morning on my walk, I walked by a house three doors down from me, and an oak tree had split in half and fallen on a car and part of the house. It was a godawful mess!
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On the latter third of my walk, I noticed that a wooden pole that held a street lamp and also cracked in two and had obviously fallen in the street. I guess a street crew had picked it up and thrown it onto the sidewalk for removal later.
Both of these "splittings" happened between my walk yesterday morning and my walk this morning!
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Today I'll be finishing up STARGATE UNIVERSE 1.0 on Blu-ray. The episodes are fairly entertaining but it's a darker, more dour world they're playing around in here.
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For some weird reason known only to Fox, BONES is on tonight, but it's a rerun. I guess Fox didn't want to waste a new episode opposite the start-up of SURVIVOR, but BONES has more than held its own against the show this season, so I don't really understand the reasoning behind this.
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BBC Radio 2 is doing a multi-part bio of the Great American Songbook Composer
Jimmy Van Heusen Rupert Holmes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qll6q/Come_Fly_With_Me_the_Legacy_of_Jimmy_Van_Heusen_Episode_1/)
Episode 1 was broadcast this past Tuesday and will be up on Listen Again until the 16th of February. Click the link to listen.
Priscilla, you might be interested since your friend Rupert Holmes is the narrator of the broadcast.
Here is a description of the program from the Beeb Web site:
Rupert Holmes considers the legacy of songwriter, hellraiser and pilot Jimmy Van Heusen, who wrote many hits for Frank Sinatra.
When Jimmy Van Heusen died 20 years ago, the world of American popular song lost one of its most individual characters. Van Heusen was a man who could combine fine composition with serial womanising, and hard work in Hollywood alongside piloting his own aircraft. It's said that he gave his friend Frank Sinatra many of the elements which Sinatra used to define his own style and the 85 songs he wrote for him created a musical persona for Frank which still resonates today. And it's not just Sinatra who benefited from Van Heusen's music. His legacy is felt today, with performers like Michael Buble having notable successes with his songs.
He was born Edward Chester Babcock in 1913 and was known as "Chet" to his family and friends. He preferred music to school and worked for a time on a local radio station, composing songs for listeners. Eventually, after a name change, he made it to New York where he began writing hit songs like Polka Dots And Moonbeams. An invitation to Hollywood led to his composing songs for Bing Crosby's "Road" movies. With Sammy Cahn he wrote numbers like Call Me Irresponsible and High Hopes, which later became John F. Kennedy's theme song.
The musician, novelist and stage writer Rupert Holmes, famous for his 1979 hit Escape (the Pina Colada song) has an expert knowledge of Van Heusen. He attended the same school and is currently working on the Broadway version of Robin And The 7 Hoods, with music by Van Heusen. In programme one, he explores Van Heusen's early career and his songwriting partnerships with Eddie De Lange and Johnny Burke, which produced hits such as Darn That Dream and Swinging On A Star.
Thanks Ben, I didn't know about that. I did know Rupert is working on Robin and The 7 Hoods. It's going to be at the Old Globe in San Diego next summer.
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I know you love SURVIVOR, DR Jennifer, and Boston Rob, etc., but the one thing I really DESPISE about these "Best of" contests is that it has turned some of these folks into "professional reality show celebrities." They're no longer ordinary folks competing on a game show. They're media celebrities of the worst kind, famous for being famous (often obnoxious, hateful, egocentric). And Boston Rob is one of the worst examples (add Jerri Manthey to that list, too). We have had them on three seasons of SURVIVOR. Wasn't he also a contestant on BIG BROTHER or was it THE AMAZING RACE? And CBS paid for and broadcast his wedding.
Popular, no doubt about it, but for me he has nothing to offer.
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Page Two Dance!!!
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I'm not sure how I've gotten so behind this morning, but it's 10:30, and I'm still not through with my morning internet surf.
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I agree about ROB (and AMBER), Matt, though I must admit Rob makes me laugh a lot of the time.
Vibes to TCB.
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And the word of the day is: AFFRANCHISE!
And The Song Of The Day Is: FREE
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Elmore, this new Ring is pretty amazing, if I do say so myself. Mehta is conducting and the production design is astounding--lots of projections and really cool high tech sets.
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I think BK may want to pick up this new Symphonic Legrand "bookcase" CD set.
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My friend, George Lindblade, is a photographer. Back in the 60s he used to work for Frank Sinatra on occasion. He has great photos of the rat pack, Jimmy Van Heusen, Harpo Marks and many more. You can see some of them at www.siouxcitygifts.com (http://www.siouxcitygifts.com) they are under George Lindblade's 60s stars or something like that.
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I agree about ROB (and AMBER), Matt, though I must admit Rob makes me laugh a lot of the time.
Vibes to TCB.
I think the edition of SURVIVOR he was on the first time was the last season of the show I ever watched. I hated him so much and just decided I was WAY too involved with these people. I haven't watched a second of the show since that season.
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I saw TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA at the theater when it first came out. I liked it well enough. I bought the DVD when it was finally released, but it sat on the shelf for a long time before I finally rewatched the movie. I wasn't as enthralled with it the second time.
I would have never bought it on Blu-ray, but it came as a part of the big Fox Blu-ray box last week (though since it's MGM, someone else got first dibs on it, and I didn't review it). I will eventually get around to watching it on Blu-ray, but there are many other movies on Blu-ray (and DVD) that I have that I'd rather watch than it.
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Now I must head downstairs and get cleaned up for my lunch out with friends today.
WBBL.
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Good morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And I'm looking at the very pretty scene in my backyard: snowy and sunny. Alas, it's the slush out front I'm going to be dealing with today. -But that's what boots are for. *As well as putting an extra pair of socks in my bag.
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As for the Topic of the Day...
My first Communion and my Confirmation.
:)
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Otherwise...
I remember dressing up in a suit and tie for my first National Symphony Concert at the Kennedy Center. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Ricardo Chailly conducting and Vladimir Ashkenazy as the soloist in the first (or was is the second?) Brahms' piano concerto. -They were also premiering John Harbison's "Ulysses' Bow". When the composer came back out with Maestro Chailly, I still remember wondering, "Who is that?". ;)
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I LOVE wearing a tux and will look for an excuse to wear one.
I guess my first fancy dress do would have been the junior prom, for which I rented a tux.
When I was going to the British Stunt Ball in London, I bought a tux. It was a very posh affair at the Grosvenor House. Since I have worn the tux to two WGA Awards banquets and to a premiere in Cannes.
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And...
The first time I attended the Helen Hayes Awards - D.C.'s version of The Tony Awards.
And the two times I've attend The Tony Awards.
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Because I was a member of my college's Choral Society and Madrigal group, wearing a tux was almost a weekly thing for me towards the end of each semester - especially when I had to wear one for playing and accompanying recitals. To add some variety, I would buy different tie and cummerbund sets. Consequently, I'd rather wear a tuxedo than a suit.
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While catering at Carnegie Mellon, all male bartenders had to wear a tux (rented with the university's $) for The President's Ball every February. By the end of the evening, jackets were off and vests were on view.
Onstage, I've only appeared in a tux in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, in August. . .but, the Lord family never sweats. . . .
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My first big dress up affair was my sister's wedding in 1970. I was 5 years old and wore a white suit and was one of two kids (I forget who the other one was) who lit the candles.
I have a memory of renting a tux back in the 90s, but for what I do not recall.
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Slept in late this morning. Felt good to do that for a change. Woke up to near-freezing rain and blech outside. May go back and pull the covers over my head again.
I can't remember the first dressy occasion or the most lavish, there have been a few that I have had to cover as a journalist, so renting a tux for an opera gala, etc. happened once or twice. For my prom, I was the only one with white tie and tails, while the rest were in powdered blue and burnt orange tuxedos. I do recall that being strange. I also recall covering the opening of the Armand Hammer exhibit at the University of Kentucky a few years later. Hammer and his wife were there, as was Phyllis George, then the first lady of Kentucky. I thought that was something spectacular, but more because of Hammer's beautiful art than the people. If you have a room full of Corots and Fragonards and even a Rembrandt or two, who cares about the people?
That said, give me jeans any day.
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TCB, I hope you are back to feeling better in no time at all! Take care good buddy!
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DR JMK - The "bookcase" Legrand CD set - Is this a new issue? Or something that has been previously released? I only ask since I've seen a new-to-me Legrand set down at Academy Records.
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And as the morning turns to afternoon here in NYC, I need to get ready to play for a voice lesson or two.
Laters...
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Yes, we need more info on the Legrand.
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I've printed all the orders so far and so far, so good.
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I'm not home so can't inform you about Legrand right now other than to say, yes, it's a new release. It has Symphonic suites (arranged and conducted by Legrand) of a lot of his stuff. I'll give you a catalog number and more info when I get home.
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I went to Barnes & Noble at lunch and they had the new Finian's. Yes, I probably would have saved a few dollars if I had bought it on line but I would have to wait for delivery. I have it now and it's worth it.
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I know you love SURVIVOR, DR Jennifer, and Boston Rob, etc., but the one thing I really DESPISE about these "Best of" contests is that it has turned some of these folks into "professional reality show celebrities." They're no longer ordinary folks competing on a game show. They're media celebrities of the worst kind, famous for being famous (often obnoxious, hateful, egocentric). And Boston Rob is one of the worst examples (add Jerri Manthey to that list, too). We have had them on three seasons of SURVIVOR. Wasn't he also a contestant on BIG BROTHER or was it THE AMAZING RACE? And CBS paid for and broadcast his wedding.
Popular, no doubt about it, but for me he has nothing to offer.
Just from memory rob mariano was on his original season of survivor. And then he was also on survivor all-stars, where he met his now wife amber. They were the final 2. Then they did do THE AMAZING RACE. And did quite well on that.
And now he is on heroes vs villains. I disagree with putting him in the same category as jerri manthey. I think Boston rob is a fantastic survivor player. He is competitive, athletic and hilariously funny.
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I agree about ROB (and AMBER), Matt, though I must admit Rob makes me laugh a lot of the time.
Vibes to TCB.
I think the edition of SURVIVOR he was on the first time was the last season of the show I ever watched. I hated him so much and just decided I was WAY too involved with these people. I haven't watched a second of the show since that season.
For some reason i think that he was meaner on the original season he was on. I loved him from all-stars.
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Back from the post office - I actually got everything but the big orders out.
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TOD:
I guess the first "fancy dress" was when I was dressed as Bobby Shafto (complete with silver buckles) for a dance recital when I was about 5 - the next year I had to do a tap routine in tux with a cane :(
First of-my-own-free-will dress up was probably the end of season formal ball at the local service club that provide ballroom dance instruction (I was 13).
I wore a Tux for my Little Theatre debut in Time Out For Ginger (age 15).
During High School years my Tux got some use at various Debutant Balls and Rainbow Girl cotillions, etc. (Teenage boys who were good dancers and dressed up well were in great demand!) I even tied my own bow-ties!
Of course, college years at Annapolis were filled with formal affairs including Kennedy's Inaugural Ball.
My wedding was a black-tie evening event.
My in-laws made sure my wife and I were trotted out for numerous Military-Industrial Complex formal events in DC.
Both my stint on the Board of Directors of the International City Theatre of Long Beach and with the national Log Cabin Republicans kept Woody and I both in tuxedos for a few years. (The tuxes hung in the closet right next to my motorcycle club uniform; my "unmentionables" required for my reign as Empress de Motorcycling de Los Angeles were kept in the garage.)
der Brucer
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This is the new Legrand:
http://www.amazon.com/Musicales-Comedies-Michel-Legrand/dp/B0026JWDTE
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Dropped by Borders to see if I could special order Lola Montes, since I had both the 33% off coupon and Borders Bucks. Got a kind of snippy clerk whose attitude changed completely as soon as she saw I had $15 in Borders Bucks. Ended up getting Lola for $12, which I like. :)
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TOD - my first real dress-up affair was my sister's wedding when I was 11 and served as junior bridesmaid (too old to be a flower girl). In addition to the fact that I wore a custom-made dress and dyed-to-match shoes, the day stands out as my first appearance in nylon stockings.
At the University of Michigan, my friend Doug and I decided to attend the gala grand opening night of the Power Center for the Performing Arts, for which I bought a black and white print dress that was slit up both sides almost to the hips and came with a pair of long swishy black pants to wear underneath. The evening was magical with a dedication ceremony, the conferring of honorary degrees on Nancy Hanks, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones, Walter Kerr, Jo Mielziner, and Julius Rudel and the premiere of the musical THE GRASS HARP.
Now this was the early 1970s and for a subsequent theatre date, Doug dared me to wear the same dress, not with the long pants underneath, but with black "hot pants," which I made myself and had the figure for back then. I think I wore that outfit to Detroit's Fisher Theatre to see PURLIE.
Of course, Richard and I both selected special outfits for our wedding. My veil cost more than my dress, because I bought my dress "off the rack" at a local department store. I really think it was a rejected special order for something like an Eastern Star initiation, but sort of looked like Princess Leia's dress in STAR WARS. Richard drew inspiration for his attire from Lord Peter Wimsey's wedding outfit in Dorothy Sayers' BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON.
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This is the new Legrand:
http://www.amazon.com/Musicales-Comedies-Michel-Legrand/dp/B0026JWDTE
Oh, I've had that for a couple of months now.
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I shall now be on my way to my lunch meeting, after which I shall return.
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Topic of the Day: I've never actually been to a fancy "dress" event, but when I was in the Western Washington University concert choir, the men had to wear tuxes. And for the one wedding that I was in (my sister's), I wore a suit. Otherwise, the only "fancy" clothes that I wear are when I'm in a show and my character needs to be dressed up.
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I thnk the fanciest affair I've attended was the 1st year party of SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE; the show had just won the Pulitzer and I made the guest list because of my Pulitzer connection. My friend friend Snooky Barton, from my hometown, was my date and we both looked fantastic. the party was great and i got really stoned on the host's excellent pot.
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My taxes are moved to Monday, the 22nd. Excellent!
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I agree about ROB (and AMBER), Matt, though I must admit Rob makes me laugh a lot of the time.
Vibes to TCB.
I think the edition of SURVIVOR he was on the first time was the last season of the show I ever watched. I hated him so much and just decided I was WAY too involved with these people. I haven't watched a second of the show since that season.
For some reason i think that he was meaner on the original season he was on. I loved him from all-stars.
As I said, I know you love him and will find all the reasons in the world to support that. To each his own. I'm glad you like him and enjoy the show. I think he and Jerri Manthey are TWO PEAS IN A POD: folks who'll do ANYTHING to keep their celebrity status going including appearing in endless variations of these SURVIVOR "all-star" seasons.
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Before I headed out to lunch, I had time to watch last night's MODERN FAMILY, another hilarious episode. The real strength of the show is that all three families have the potential to be hilarious. You aren't ever stuck on one hoping for the switch to another of the families. One third is equally as strong and funny as the other two-thirds.
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When I got in, I watched the remaining four episodes of SG-U 1.0 (which is why I'm about 20 minutes late logging on). None of the episodes changed my mind about the show being only a slight notch above mediocre at best. And the episode "Time" (patterned somewhat on CLOVERFIELD) was really lame. I really hated that episode.
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I sampled all of the commentaries while I was watching the shows (nice to be able to switch audio tracks on the fly). These are not great commentary tracks, and when nothing but actors are present, they're too chatty and chummy to give much background information about the making of the episode.
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I still have all the bonus features to get through when I go back down. This will likely take another hour, maybe a little more.
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I would like to see any photos of you men in tuxes, please.
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Today I went for a walk. Here is my DH throwing a boulder to make a stepping stone so I can cross the swollen creek.
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I would like to see any photos of you men in tuxes, please.
Maybe over the weekend, I can get the scene from THE SOUND OF MUSIC, copy it to disc, and take a still frame to send. I know I never had a picture of any of the weddings or that one adult wearing of a tux.
I have some pictures from dance recitals as a kid in a tux (sewn by my mother who made all my costumes back in those days. I'll see if I can find one of those).
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Now I must write a little bit before heading back down.
WBBL.
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Well, the conductor will most likely be retained but no one was happy when they learned that his orchestra scores are still sitting in my office; he hasn't felt any need to consult them since September. So much for preparation.
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re: the TOD.
I remember when i was about 10 getting dressed up in a matching purple dress to my sister and attending my uncle's wedding.
For graduation I remember we all had very fancy dresses. I still have mine but would never wear it. It was sort of an aqua green/blue.
As an adult i was maid of honor for my sister's wedding and had a really nice navy dress.
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80 posts at 3:00 p.m.!
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Left Coast Time
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80 posts at 3:00 p.m.!
Gratuitous Post #82 at 03:22:12 PM!
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TOD: My brother's wedding in 1976; Kennedy Center Honors in 2008
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I cleaned snow off my car again, but I'm not sure when I'll be driving. I saw several people getting stuck trying to get out of the parking lot (which is on an incline).
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Back from a very nice lunch with Sam Bobrick and Ron Clark. Did some errands and whatnot, printed more orders (this will be sold out by tomorrow), packaged up some orders and even got a little proofing done.
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Elmore, this new Ring is pretty amazing, if I do say so myself. Mehta is conducting and the production design is astounding--lots of projections and really cool high tech sets.
Did they use a different score?
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Slept in late this morning. Felt good to do that for a change. Woke up to near-freezing rain and blech outside. May go back and pull the covers over my head again.
I can't remember the first dressy occasion or the most lavish, there have been a few that I have had to cover as a journalist, so renting a tux for an opera gala, etc. happened once or twice. For my prom, I was the only one with white tie and tails, while the rest were in powdered blue and burnt orange tuxedos. I do recall that being strange. I also recall covering the opening of the Armand Hammer exhibit at the University of Kentucky a few years later. Hammer and his wife were there, as was Phyllis George, then the first lady of Kentucky. I thought that was something spectacular, but more because of Hammer's beautiful art than the people. If you have a room full of Corots and Fragonards and even a Rembrandt or two, who cares about the people?
That said, give me jeans any day.
John G., I thought you wrote near-freezing rain and bleach outside.
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TCB, I hope you are back to feeling better in no time at all! Take care good buddy!
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Aww, thank you, Mike!
And thank you to one and all for the good vibes. You must all be as tired of this stuff as I am.
The bad news is that my doctor is out of the office until Monday or Tuesday, and I refuse to see that quack I saw last time.
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I would like to see any photos of you men in tuxes, please.
Here I am at a Fundraiser for PCPH in the late 1980's with my friend Vickie....we did a nice soft shoe. ;D
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Same evening with my friend Linda.....we are still all on the Board of Directors....although Linda and I don't speak unless we have to. :P
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Page Four Jack & Linda Dance.
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Great photos. Thanks, JRand.
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BBC Radio 2 is doing a multi-part bio of the Great American Songbook Composer
Jimmy Van Heusen Rupert Holmes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qll6q/Come_Fly_With_Me_the_Legacy_of_Jimmy_Van_Heusen_Episode_1/)
He was born Edward Chester Babcock in 1913 and was known as "Chet" to his family and friends.
Interesting, thanks. I had to listen just to find out why he changed his name from the perfectly goo Chet Babcock. ;D
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I own a dress up tuxedo.....and a Robert Wagner Special that I wear when I don't care if I fall down or spill food on myself.
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Before I headed out to lunch, I had time to watch last night's MODERN FAMILY, another hilarious episode. The real strength of the show is that all three families have the potential to be hilarious. You aren't ever stuck on one hoping for the switch to another of the families. One third is equally as strong and funny as the other two-thirds.
We are in total agreement :D Extremely funny episode.
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Great photos. Thanks, JRand.
Y.W......of course I wear a BLACK TIE to fancy places....all the colors were for the Fund Raiser.....and everyone looked so nice. I love to be part of a group that gets all dressed up, your personality does change when you're wearing formal wear.
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I hate the STAR versions of reality shows.....and I hope this version of TAR doesn't turn out like the All Stars version.....
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T.O.D.
I think my first dress up occasion was my sister's wedding. I gave the bride away.
I have worn tuxedos in so many different productions that I finally bought my own about 15 years ago. Since then I have taken it on numerous cruise ships, and used it in about twenty different Murder Mystery Dinners.
Actually the most hoity-toity event I have ever attended didn't require a tux. That was the night I served as escort and dinner date for Colleen Dewhurst. I wore just a standard suit and tie.
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Agreed.....everyone is funny and the writing is sharp and in character......
There were two layers of chocolate in that heart.....you know it....and I know it.
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THE OFFICE is on tonight!
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Colleen Dewhurst......pictures please.
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TCB, I hope you are back to feeling better in no time at all! Take care good buddy!
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Aww, thank you, Mike!
And thank you to one and all for the good vibes. You must all be as tired of this stuff as I am.
The bad news is that my doctor is out of the office until Monday or Tuesday, and I refuse to see that quack I saw last time.
Darn, can't he leave instructions? I guess it won't help if the quack won't lance it, or whatever your doctor does.
I'm sure there is no way we can be as tired of this as you, who are living it, must be.
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Okay, I'll bite. What is a Robert Wagner Special?
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Agreed.....everyone is funny and the writing is sharp and in character......
There were two layers of chocolate in that heart.....you know it....and I know it.
;D Did you identify with that one ;)
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Colleen Dewhurst......pictures please.
I wish I had one.
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TCB, I hope you are back to feeling better in no time at all! Take care good buddy!
Aww, thank you, Mike!
And thank you to one and all for the good vibes. You must all be as tired of this stuff as I am.
The bad news is that my doctor is out of the office until Monday or Tuesday, and I refuse to see that quack I saw last time.
Darn, can't he leave instructions? I guess it won't help if the quack won't lance it, or whatever your doctor does.
I'm sure there is no way we can be as tired of this as you, who are living it, must be.
No, the quack won't lance it, he won't even touch me. The last time I was forced to see him, I walked in looking like this, told him it was episode number six or seven; and he told me I had pinkeye.
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The Perfectly Goo Chet Babcock might be one of Elmore's videos, I suspect.
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Yikes, Tom!
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LOL Jane....yes it probably did....I know I did that at least once when I was a kid.....but everyone knows there are TWO layers of chocolates!
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Looks like Pink Eye to me.
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Gee, the things I have stored at Photo Bucket.
Everybody remember these:
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Here it is, DR TCB....the spiffy red handkerchief is NOT a separate piece....it is the lining of the pocket that you can pull up as a handkerchief.
My nifty Robert Wagner Tuxedo - for After Six - was a whole $10 on EBAY two years ago, description said there was a small hole in the shoulder, but I was buying it to wear in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, so I got it.....small hole was a pin hole.....I had to look closely to see it.
You can barely see the red handkerchief in my pocket, but it matches the lining in the jacket....worth all of $10 + $10 shipping.
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Nice glasses.
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Any fallout yet, DR ELMORE.
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I like to stand next to Josh, he makes me look thin......or I guess thinnish......
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Here it is, DR TCB....the spiffy red handkerchief is NOT a separate piece....it is the lining of the pocket that you can pull up as a handkerchief.
My nifty Robert Wagner Tuxedo - for After Six - was a whole $10 on EBAY two years ago, description said there was a small hole in the shoulder, but I was buying it to wear in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, so I got it.....small hole was a pin hole.....I had to look closely to see it.
You can barely see the red handkerchief in my pocket, but it matches the lining in the jacket....worth all of $10 + $10 shipping.
Very nice, and the price is right. I was hopng that Mr Wagner delivered it personally.
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Of course in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN....I liked my Roscoe as Director outfit best. ;D
"Cut! DAMMIT!!"
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Here it is, DR TCB....the spiffy red handkerchief is NOT a separate piece....it is the lining of the pocket that you can pull up as a handkerchief.
My nifty Robert Wagner Tuxedo - for After Six - was a whole $10 on EBAY two years ago, description said there was a small hole in the shoulder, but I was buying it to wear in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, so I got it.....small hole was a pin hole.....I had to look closely to see it.
You can barely see the red handkerchief in my pocket, but it matches the lining in the jacket....worth all of $10 + $10 shipping.
Very nice, and the price is right. I was hopng that Mr Wagner delivered it personally.
I was hoping.....but no....however I don't think there is even a RJW line of evening wear now, so the value can only increase.
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Yikes, Tom!
Yikes is right!!
~~~Super Vibes for DR TCB!!~~~
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In that picture you can't see where I got my ascot.
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Page Five Diary of Anne Frank Dance. :)
Blame DR TCB, he asked me for a picture, and I can't stop.........
Maybe in time for Pwoject Wunway. ;D
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Yikes, Tom!
Yikes is right!!
~~~Super Vibes for DR TCB!!~~~
Of course, that was the last outbreak. No photos will be available of this outbreak.
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I love doing theatre.....being onstage.....directing.....doing the choreography.....MOST of the people make it a joy....and the audience reaction is better than a paycheck.....until the bills are due.
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Page Five Diary of Anne Frank Dance. :)
Blame DR TCB, he asked me for a picture, and I can't stop.........
Maybe in time for Pwoject Wunway. ;D
Keep going, Jack!
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Speaking of eyes.....
Around 1:30 AM I woke up with a terrible pain in my right eye. You know how much it hurts when you accidentally get poked in the eye, well that is nothing compared to what I felt. It was so painful I had to fight not to cry, until I thought go ahead tears will be good, and cry I did with deep sobs. Just so you know, I never cried throughout the shoulder ordeal, yell out yes ;D. This really hurt!!! Of course I upset Keith & Sherlock.
After half an hour in the bathroom alternating drops & a hot washcloth on my eye, I finally sent Keith back to bed & shortly followed him once my vision returned enough to calm me. Keith had been able to pry the eye open & couldn't see anything. At first it was very red and then it was fine, not even any swelling.
My eye still hurts, though very tolerably & the right side of my nose keeps running. It was very stuffed last night. Keith thinks maybe the pain is from my sinus. It is the most logical exclamation I can think of. At first I thought I had poked my eye while sleeping, until I remembered I can't move my right arm to do that. It would be difficult to do that with my left arm.
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A THOUSAND CLOWNS, 1964
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Ready for my close-up, Mr DeMille.
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Any fallout yet, DR ELMORE.
Much less than I expected, but the jerk conductor is now under close surveillance and really pissed at me.
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Any fallout yet, DR ELMORE.
Much less than I expected, but the jerk conductor is now under close surveillance and really pissed at me.
You worry me, elmore.
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I'm enjoying the photos JRand.
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Any fallout yet, DR ELMORE.
Much less than I expected, but the jerk conductor is now under close surveillance and really pissed at me.
You worry me, elmore.
Why? ? ?
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And yours too TCB.
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Any fallout yet, DR ELMORE.
Much less than I expected, but the jerk conductor is now under close surveillance and really pissed at me.
You worry me, elmore.
Why? ? ?
I don't want anyone trying to get even with my friend.
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INHERIT THE WIND
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Any fallout yet, DR ELMORE.
Much less than I expected, but the jerk conductor is now under close surveillance and really pissed at me.
You worry me, elmore.
Why? ? ?
I don't want anyone trying to get even with my friend.
You're very dear to worry, but I will be fine. There's a long line to kill me and he's at the end.
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And finally GLORIOUS (but not the production Laura saw)
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Such lovely pictures.......thanks for sharing, DR TCB.....modesty dictates that I cease.
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Mary Martin - starring in Peter Pan - to Ezio Pinza opening in Fanny on Broadway.
I hope your fanny is as big as my peter. Love Mary.
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I am enjoying the photos of our men in tuxes. Thanks!
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Or perhaps it's a Broadway legend. ;D
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Or perhaps it's a Broadway legend. ;D
Or maybe she really said it to Janet Gaynor!
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Waiting for Barry Pearl to arrive and then we're off to eat and see a musical comedy.
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Waiting for Barry Pearl to arrive and then we're off to eat and see a musical comedy.
Is this DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS?
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Love the pictures, JRand and TCB!!
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Such disappointing news from the wire services regarding Sarah Palin:
News/Washington Post survey released today reflects growing public misgivings about Palin. Her favorability rating sank to 37 percent, the worst showing so far in this series of polls. The figures reveal she's lost support even among conservative Republicans. Palin's "potential as a presidential hopeful takes a severe hit in the survey," the Post said.
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There is hope for us after all.
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If I have read the info correctly there will not be any ice skating until Valentine's Day.
I think I'll program ice skating into my DVR instead of Olympics. Has anyone else done that?
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I wish I had a photo from my first dress up day. The Christmas before my brother's Bar Mitzvah my father's dear, dear friend Joe Stanley & his wonderful wife gave my sister and I beautiful matching dresses. I have special memories of wearing the dress for my brother's Bar Mitzvah.
This is the perfect time for this memory as the wonderful wife was an Olympic diver who taught me how to dive.
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'night
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If I have read the info correctly there will not be any ice skating until Valentine's Day.
I think I'll program ice skating into my DVR instead of Olympics. Has anyone else done that?
From the schedule it looks like the pairs short program will be sunday at 4:30pm pacific time. The pairs free skate on monday and the men's short on tuesday.
Can you program skating into your DVR? I know i can't do that. But mostly because a) the show will be scheduled simply as olympics and not as skating and b) NBC will probably go back and forth between a number of events in that timeslot.
If you guys have alternate channels showing just one event at a time then maybe it would work.
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Vibes for DR Jane. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vibes for DR TCB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Wow, SURVIVOR was crazy tonight!
Especially the preview for next week. I really want to know what happens but don't want to know any other spoilers.
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Thanks Jenifer. I just returned cuz I think I forgot..
From Matt H:
Are you interested in all four disciplines or just the men's and women's singles?
I don't have a list (yet), but I'm sure I can find one.
Singles are my first choice. I also like the pairs skating & some of the dance.
Thanks Cilla, Ginny & Jennifer for the links.
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Another tax-heavy day, but we finally made some decisions about a confusing return - so based on those decisions, i was able to finish preparing it.
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I got the bonus features all watched on STARGATE UNIVERSE. The second disc had the same set-up as disc one: 17 very short featurettes about various aspects of the show's production and interviews with some principal actors. And some especially staged scenes by the cast in character as a spy orb circles around the ship eavesdropping.
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I skimmed through today's ATWT first. Nothing of interest at all and nothing in the previews for tomorrow. It's good CBS is putting this show out of its misery in September.
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Cute Officer Fish was present on today's OLTL (but not enough for my satisfaction). Still, I watched all of his scenes.
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Next I watched this week's WHITE COLLAR. I enjoyed the show very much,
and even though I guessed immediately that the weeping woman was the culprit in that early scene, I still found the episode most entertaining.
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Last night's UGLY BETTY was next. I thought the designer Betty discovered had NO talent at all, and the burned, ratty look was even worse. Yikes!
I did enjoy seeing Claire's son again. I guess he'll be with the show for the rest of its run. I hope so, anyway. Might even make a good boy friend for Amanda. Or Betty. (Those are not spoilers. I know nothing.)
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Then I watched tonight's BONES rerun, the episode in which Angela first hooks up with the intern. I remembered all of the clues and identity of the murderer, but I still enjoyed seeing things fall into place.
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I finished out the evening with tonight's GREY'S ANATOMY. I enjoyed this week's show much more than last weeks mainly because the patient stories this week were gripping and poignant.
Alex and Lexie jumping on each other and Miranda being paired up with that obvious love interest were VERY predictable and par for the course for GREY'S. Still, I hung around because I did enjoy the patient stories.
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TOmorrow I get to have my three easy review days with repeats on Blu-ray of the last three Criterion releases I've watched on regular DVD. I'll start with LOLA MONTES on Blu-ray tomorrow.
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Last night's UGLY BETTY was next. I thought the designer Betty discovered had NO talent at all, and the burned, ratty look was even worse. Yikes!
I did enjoy seeing Claire's son again. I guess he'll be with the show for the rest of its run. I hope so, anyway. Might even make a good boy friend for Amanda. Or Betty. (Those are not spoilers. I know nothing.)
I don't remember seeing Claire's son before. When was he on?
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Last night's UGLY BETTY was next. I thought the designer Betty discovered had NO talent at all, and the burned, ratty look was even worse. Yikes!
I did enjoy seeing Claire's son again. I guess he'll be with the show for the rest of its run. I hope so, anyway. Might even make a good boy friend for Amanda. Or Betty. (Those are not spoilers. I know nothing.)
I don't remember seeing Claire's son before. When was he on?
She went to see him in South Dakota to identify herself as his mother, but she couldn't go through with the revelation even though she did see him and left him a big tip where he was working. I think that was late last season.
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Last night's UGLY BETTY was next. I thought the designer Betty discovered had NO talent at all, and the burned, ratty look was even worse. Yikes!
I did enjoy seeing Claire's son again. I guess he'll be with the show for the rest of its run. I hope so, anyway. Might even make a good boy friend for Amanda. Or Betty. (Those are not spoilers. I know nothing.)
I don't remember seeing Claire's son before. When was he on?
She went to see him in South Dakota to identify herself as his mother, but she couldn't go through with the revelation even though she did see him and left him a big tip where he was working. I think that was late last season.
Ahh...too long ago for me to specifically remember him.
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Well, I need to head down now and get some sleep.
Good night!
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Well, now it's time for me to go home. I've decided to not watch "The Deep End," so I'm not worried about not being there now. I'll certainly be home before "Grey's Anatomy" starts.
Until later!
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Slept in late this morning. Felt good to do that for a change. Woke up to near-freezing rain and blech outside. May go back and pull the covers over my head again.
I can't remember the first dressy occasion or the most lavish, there have been a few that I have had to cover as a journalist, so renting a tux for an opera gala, etc. happened once or twice. For my prom, I was the only one with white tie and tails, while the rest were in powdered blue and burnt orange tuxedos. I do recall that being strange. I also recall covering the opening of the Armand Hammer exhibit at the University of Kentucky a few years later. Hammer and his wife were there, as was Phyllis George, then the first lady of Kentucky. I thought that was something spectacular, but more because of Hammer's beautiful art than the people. If you have a room full of Corots and Fragonards and even a Rembrandt or two, who cares about the people?
That said, give me jeans any day.
John G., I thought you wrote near-freezing rain and bleach outside.
That would have been a more white-washed day than it actually was. And it never warmed up and it never stopped raining for very long. Tomorrow: More of the same.
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Good Evening!
Fried dough rules!
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Oh...
And so does hot chocolate!
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DR MBarnum et others:
MUMBAI JOURNAL - Bollywood and Politics Collide in a Red-Carpet Standoff (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/world/asia/12mumbai.html)
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Before I headed out to lunch, I had time to watch last night's MODERN FAMILY, another hilarious episode. The real strength of the show is that all three families have the potential to be hilarious. You aren't ever stuck on one hoping for the switch to another of the families. One third is equally as strong and funny as the other two-thirds.
We are in total agreement :D Extremely funny episode.
Another "agreement"! -And the kids - young actors - on the show are amazing (too)!
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I would like to see any photos of you men in tuxes, please.
Yes, Ma'am:
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der Brucer
1960 Annapolis Ring Dance
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Speaking of eyes.....
Around 1:30 AM I woke up with a terrible pain in my right eye. You know how much it hurts when you accidentally get poked in the eye, well that is nothing compared to what I felt. It was so painful I had to fight not to cry, until I thought go ahead tears will be good, and cry I did with deep sobs. Just so you know, I never cried throughout the shoulder ordeal, yell out yes ;D. This really hurt!!! Of course I upset Keith & Sherlock.
After half an hour in the bathroom alternating drops & a hot washcloth on my eye, I finally sent Keith back to bed & shortly followed him once my vision returned enough to calm me. Keith had been able to pry the eye open & couldn't see anything. At first it was very red and then it was fine, not even any swelling.
My eye still hurts, though very tolerably & the right side of my nose keeps running. It was very stuffed last night. Keith thinks maybe the pain is from my sinus. It is the most logical exclamation I can think of. At first I thought I had poked my eye while sleeping, until I remembered I can't move my right arm to do that. It would be difficult to do that with my left arm.
DR Jane - Sounds like severe sinus pain to me. If it recurs tonight, call you doctor first thing in the morning. (If you haven't already done so by the time you read this post). ;)
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Last night's UGLY BETTY was next. I thought the designer Betty discovered had NO talent at all, and the burned, ratty look was even worse. Yikes!
I did enjoy seeing Claire's son again. I guess he'll be with the show for the rest of its run. I hope so, anyway. Might even make a good boy friend for Amanda. Or Betty. (Those are not spoilers. I know nothing.)
I don't remember seeing Claire's son before. When was he on?
She went to see him in South Dakota to identify herself as his mother, but she couldn't go through with the revelation even though she did see him and left him a big tip where he was working. I think that was late last season.
Ahh...too long ago for me to specifically remember him.
Wasn't he just on at the end of the first half of this season? ??? ???
Anyhoo... My friend who works as Becky Newton's stand-by on the show says that he's even dreamier in person. ::)
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The previously mentioned hot chocolate:
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*That was City Bakery's "Tropical Hot Chocolate" - pineapple, orange and lemon.
Hot Chocolate Festival (http://hotchocolatefestival.com)
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And the previously mentioned fried dough:
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*And that was from a restaurant out in Flushing, Queens, called "Northeast Taste Cuisine" - or something like that. They just got a nice mention in the New York Times in an article covering food from the Dongbei region of China.
The fried dough - which is like a pāte choux dough - is stir-fried(?) in a wok with a generous sprinkling of granulated sugar. The sugar eventually melts and caramelizes. The dish is then brought to your table along with a bowl of ice cold water. You take a piece of the caramel-coated dough, dip it into the cold water, and... The sugar coating becomes crackly and crispy, while the dough remains hot and doughnut-like. DEE-LISH!!! There's also a version of this done with battered and coated pieces of apple, sweet potato and/or taro root.
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And now....
PAGE SEVEN!!!!!!!
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Food porn! ;)
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Food porn! ;)
PRECISELY, DR George! Precisely!
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And now that we've reached Page Seven...
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There's also a version of this done with battered and coated pieces of apple, sweet potato and/or taro root.
Go whole hog and use bacon :)
der Brucer
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And now that I've posted some posts and some pics...
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There's also a version of this done with battered and coated pieces of apple, sweet potato and/or taro root.
Go whole hog and use bacon :)
der Brucer
I had that the other week at Red Cat in Chelsea: Tempura Bacon!
And one of the Donbei places we tried a few weeks ago also featured "deep-fried beacon". It was basically a plate full of soft pork rinds. YUM!!!
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As I was saying....
I have six hours of auditions to play tomorrow/later today, as well as a dance concert to attend in the evening. In other words, a very full day, so...
Goodnight.
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Well, I guess that's the tail end of that treat!
der Brucer
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Back from dinner with Barry Pearl and seeing a very bad production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. I hadn't seen the show before and I'd imagine it would be funny if comic actors were doing the roles. Although I got irked at all the little self-referential theater jokes that were so stupid and pointless - I cannot care about characters when they say things like, "I have to come back to see if I have anything to do in act two." Sorry, bad laugh, and even if it were a good laugh it's the wrong laugh. I found the score very repetitious but that could be the bad band.