Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 2 => Topic started by: bk on May 14, 2004, 12:01:40 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you feel lazy and poetic and therefore ready to post until the poets come home. To it, I say.
A toast
To those who post
On either coast
Let's eat a roast
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Last post yesterday, and first post today! Huzzah!!
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That's poetic?
Like this:
I was last
Now I'm first
That makes me blessed
And not accursed.
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Welcome nine GUESTS.
The GUESTS they lurk
They do not post
It's too much work
And then they're toast
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Since we're waxing (or shaving) poetic, a Haiku follows:
Denizens of night
Do post all your pretty thoughts
Haines his Way sleeps not
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The beauty of Haiku is you don't have to rhyme. You just have to be able to count.
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BK, I was never poetic. "Not a poet, don't ya know it?" is about as poetical as I can get. It's a flaw, I know. ::)
In my DVD player (since I just got them in the mail on Thursday!): a Sondheim double-bill...Sweeney Todd and The Last of Sheila!!
In my VCR: the tape with yesterday's (Thursday's) last episode of "Frasier" and the 55 minute pre-final-episode clip-fest. I started watching "Frasier" at about 9:10, so I didn't see anything before that. I knew that I would be home late and I had the forsight to not only set my VCR to tape the shows, but to actually put a brand new blank tape into the VCR!
In my CD player at work: the new Broadway cast recording of Wonderful Town...to be listened to at work when I'm actually at work.
In my CD burner in my computer at home: nothing, yet...because I'm not at home, I'm house-sitting and anyway I have to break up the big long .wav files of Candide before I can burn the final CDs. Hopefully, I'll be able to do that this weekend.
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Here we are at night,
Trying to rhyme for B-K.
It isn't working.
How's that, Panni?
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Wussburgers of the night
They sleep tightly in their beds
Whilst we post away
They rest their weary heads
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Anna goes to bed
Wussberger some may just say
She laughs and cares not
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Welcome nine GUESTS
I see Pogue,
He's quite a rogue
And I see Jed
He's not in bed
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Excellent, George.
bk - I must be psychic :o - I posted my wussberger haiku at the same time you posted your wussberger poem.
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Video: One taped off of A & E when it actually was Arts and Entertainment. A wonderful production of OEDIPUS THE KING with Michael Pennington, Claire Bloom, and John Gielgud. Really good stuff. A perfect example of how inexorable tragedy can be...
DVD...The terrific British Comedy Series, YES, PRIME MINISTER...
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S. Woody White
And even Jay
But will they post?
If not, they'll pay.
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If anyone has the DVD of Pollyanna with Hayley Mills and IF you've read Kritzer Time - you might want to go to the sequence where Hayley and some girls sing America the Beautiful. You might want to look at the last girl on the right.
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Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods or steepy mountains yields.
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...Okay, I didn't make that one up. But I could have if I'd tried really hard.
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In answer to DR Jose's question from yesterday's thread, yes, the citizens of Brigadoon would have had ale for breakfast. And ale for lunch, and dinner too.
Which explains why it didn't bother them, sleeping for a century between some of those meals.
Truth to tell, the story of Brigadoon is kind of creepy. They only live one day per century? So, if they plant a crop, by the time they awaken, that crop will have gone to seed a hundred times already? How are they supposed to live, if they can't grow new food? After a certain number of millenia, they'd all starve to death! And I'd not want to consider what they'd be like during the end time, when there's only a teensy, weensy amount of food left and they're all battling for the last crumb! This marvelous fairy tale could rapidly turn into a retelling of the Donner Party story!
Like I say, creepy.
The moral being, of course, be careful what you wish for.
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If anyone has the DVD of Pollyanna with Hayley Mills and IF you've read Kritzer Time - you might want to go to the sequence where Hayley and some girls sing America the Beautiful. You might want to look at the last girl on the right.
That's not fair to the people who DON'T have the DVD of Pollyanna -- which I suspect would be a lot of people.
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I'm three hours ahead of some of you; 'tis time to Wussburger.
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Oh, I think quite a few hainsies/kimlets have Pollyanna. There is a Kritzer Time connection in that scene. Just look where I said.
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I'm off to bed... wondering about the last girl on the right. We know it's not George Chakiris.
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Jay, don't you want to tell us what you saw tonight?
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Time to say good night.
Haines His Way keeps me up late.
I must wake refreshed.
This is me sleeping: 8)
I am wearing a sleep mask,
Undisturbed by light!
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Oh, and I watched the two little documentaries on the Night at the Opera and Day at the Races DVDs. Terrible. Whoever is allowing the people who make these to make these should be flogged like Judge Turpin. Nothing but talking heads, no thought, lots of repetition, and they use the strangest people, as well as overuse the already overused Robert Osborne. I mean, these docs can be really good, but Warners is getting too reliant on people who just slap these things together. I mean, they're PAYING for these, they might as well pay someone who's good at it.
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Nope, I guess Jay didn't want to post. I guess Jay didn't want to tell us about what he saw tonight. I guess Jay read and run. SHAME.
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And now it's time for old bk
To say goodnight and hit the hay
But I'll be back, you can be sure
For tomorrow is another day
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I saw POLLYANNA....and watched the girl on the right, and of course thought of Benjamin Kritzer! 8)
In the DVD player: POLLYANNA, duh!
In the VCR: Kismet
In CD Player: State Fair Original Broadway Cast Album
That's all I can think of right now.
It's early morning - and how!
Sleep won't come, but that is fine.
On Game Show Network: What's My Line?!!
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Who says we live vicarious lives
I've been listening to MBarnum's 45s
Next will be Michael's "Indian tracks"
With the volume turned up to the Max.
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This weekend my Cd player will be full
Of Eurovision songs - this year from Istanbul!
No DVD for me in store
Tonight it Eurovison;
On Sunday - more!
Songs often win if they mention peace
This year's tip is the song from Greece.
For results you'll have to surf the NET
Can we cope with another Abba yet?
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MichaelBarnum sent me mail.
I will receive it without fail.
The box I'll check
And know, by heck,
The subject will be male.
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DVD: Marx Bros. Set
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I don't think I could go on singing is anamorphic and if it isn't why isn't it.
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Little Prince: What in hell was Stanley Donen trying to do? A terrible film. The editing was abrupt and the use of the fisheye lense was annoying. Also annoying was switching back and forth between location and soundstage. Saving graces were the performances of Kiley, Warner, Fosse and Wilderer and what was left of most of the songs. Strange that they cut Be Happy in half, but is used as a musical motif afterwards.
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DRMS - ICGOS is slightly letterboxed - the same as the VHS, but it is NOT enhanced for widescreen televisions and has a few other problems I have posted about at THE DVD Place.
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MR BK are you going to Post Pollyanna thoughts tomorrow at the DVD PLACE?
Always thought it was some sort of statement that Walt Disney allowed the movie to start with an EXTREME CLOSEUP of a pre-adolescent boy's backside!
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"Little Prince" deserved so much more
Thank goodness for the charming score
The actors worked so hard I'm sure
Bu the film's direction I abhore.
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Michael Shayne what are your plans
To LA or off to distant lands?
If the choice were left to me
I'd take a plane to see NZ.
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As BK mentioned in the notes (wow, 36 posts since last night and we're already on page 2) Millie is closing. Here is a POL link. It will have played 32 previews and 904 regular performances since its March 2002 debut (making the run a tad over 2 years)
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/86150.html
Hunter Foster will begin in the role of Leo Bloom in The Producers in June. Brad Oscar will continue in the role of the morally challenged producer Max Bialystock. Mr. Joey Fantone will replace Foster in Little Shop, which, by the by (or by the sell) did not get a Tony nod for best revival. If Fantone doesn't boost business, which, according to the wags on Bway is not good right now, it will most likely close. Here is the POL link.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/86136.html
Kathleen Marshall will direct and choreograph a new television production of Once Upon A Mattress starring Carol Burnett. Production and air dates have yet to be announced. "Marshall could not confirm to Playbill On-Line the casting of the central role of Princess Winnifred (which Burnett originated on stage and subsequently played in 1964 and 1972 TV films), but reports have placed Hairspray's Marissa Jaret Winokur in the role."
Here's the POL link.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/86146.html
Also, Match, the Frank Langella piece will close on May 23rd. I'm seeing it next Friday (thank G*d for TDF) Hope it doesn't decide to close a little earlier than the 23rd.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/86153.html
In the work CD player a Living Era/ASV disc called Breezin' Along with The Revelers a quartet of male singers from the 20s-30s doing songs like Dinah, Baby Face, Birth of the Blues, Dancing in the Dark and more, all recorded between 1925 and 1931.
Nothing in the VCR. Anthony is on the Island for a clown show and I have theatre all weekend. I'm seeing Hombody/Kabul tonight, Chinese Friends tomorrow and Frozen on Sunday. I still have to see Bombay Dreams before the Tonys. I also want to see Jumpers to see what all the buzz is about.
Signing off from the Great White Way, your humble reporter, Ben.
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Thanks, DRBEN!
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These have been around for years, but they're still funny.
Jewish Haiku
Is one Nobel Prize
so much to ask from a child
after all I've done?
In the ice sculpture
reflected bar-mitzvah guests
nosh on chopped liver.
Yenta. Shmeer. Gevalt.
Shlemiel. Shlimazl. Tuchis.
Oy! To be fluent!
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Very funny DR D-I-T.
Media Watch:
CD (Work): Liz Callaway/On & Off Broadway
CD (Car): Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public
VCR: Pretty sure it's empty
DVD: I am sure it's empty
Sorry to be E&T these past few days.
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I read elsewhere that Marissa has dropped out of the MATTRESS television version. Maybe it conflicted with her new sitcom. Knowing the way they cast made for television musicals, they'll probably forget the recent revisal and cast Sarah Jessica with Malcom as Dauntless.
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CD - BOUNCE again
DVD - Thank God the deluge of new releases is over; I'll close my eyes and pick one
VHS - The recent Dick Van Dyke and Carol Burnett reunions... the first time in I don't know how long I've watched 2 things from CBS in one week
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Because I'm sure that half of the shows Ray and I go to are primarily because I want to see them I went last night to another concert by Ray's favorite music group: YES at Madison Square Garden. An hour would have been fine; by three hours and ten minutes I was about to climb the walls. I have two questions for people who go to rock concerts: do people always stand up for most of the concert despite the fact that you can see perfectly fine from the comfortable seats except for all the people standing in front of you? And why is there so much action in the aisles... a steady stream of people running to and from the lobby. Didn't they come to see and hear the concert? Fortunately they only play New York about once every two years.
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Good morning, all! I slept late, but I'm amazed to see page 2 already!
TOD:
DVD: I have to drag out POLLYANNA today
CD: a complete unreleased BABES IN TOYLAND I'm working on, playing with track sequences; also Liz Callaway THE BEAT GOES ON, Saint-Saens' CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS
VCR: Nada, I'm waiting for a package from DR MBarnum
Fair Phoebe floats on clouds of white
Her happiness is something rare
She's found true love, her heart's delight
Her happiness my heart's despair
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In my CD player at home,
The cast recording of Bounce plays.
And like so much fish, it just lays.
I have for this one not much praise.
In my CD player at home.
In my CD player at work,
I've a burnt bootleg of new Candide.
This new Candide, it no succeed.
Lupone, Chenowith--they exceed.
In my CD player at work.
As for DVDs at the mo',
I got a set of Jonny Quest,
Fun and adventure--it's the best!
Five males who live in Key West.
That's for DVDs at the mo'.
In my VHS recorder,
Last night's great Fraiser finale.
This show's always been up my alley.
Kelsey G's a bit of a Sally.
In my VHS recorder.
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DRWEL - I have stopped going to concerts for just the reasons you wrote about. It must be a rule.
One night in late October
When I was far sober.
Returning with my load with manly pride.
My feet began to stutter
So I lay down in the gutter.
And a pig came up and lay down by my side.
A woman passing by was heard to say:
"You can tell a man who boozes
By the company he chooses."
And the pig got up
And slowly walked away.
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Good morning. Late last night I figured out who the Pollyanna "girl on the right" is. Couldn't go to sleep without knowing. To confirm what I was thinking, I Googled the actress' name coupled with Pollyanna, etc... Found the strangest site -- for movie/TV fans who happen to be foot fetishists ("Foot-Lovers' Database") -- which lists scenes from movies/TV from the POV of feet, so to speak.
Here's the listing for POLLYANNA:
POLLYANNA. PG-rated, 1960. Rather charming story centred on the escapades of 13-year-old orphan Pollyanna (Hayley Mills) when she goes to live with a rich maiden aunt. At the 25-minute mark there is a commotion in the town square with a bunch of barefoot girls and boys paddling in water, but a very brief scene. Then, right near the end of the movie Pollyanna is carried from her bed to see a crowd of people. We get a reasonably good but middle-distant view of her bare feet; regrettably a very short one. At least she wasn't wearing sox in bed - so often seen in movies! Score: 2.
And here's another classic...
ROMAN HOLIDAY. G-rated, 1953. Audrey Hepburn plays a princess. At a big reception she is standing wearing a full-flowing dress and, obviously tiring of the formalities, under the dress pulls out a stockingued foot to ease it. Not bare under the circumstances but the stocking is sheer so her foot is seen reasonably well. She continues the action several times until she eventually loses the shoe. Soon after we see her briefly barefoot in her bedroom but only very briefly. Score: 2.
Chacun a son gout. (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/sport/sport-smiley-006.gif)
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Isn't the internet wonderful?
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Barefoot boys and girls
Also appear in Picnic
Rates only a "4".
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Well I turned on the Frasier finale at about 9:20pm. The wedding stuff was very funny, as was the birth at the vet. Then it got a bit slow.
I will say this, I totally didn't understand the ending. I was like, "what the heck is in Chicago??"
I wasn't sure if that was where Lilith lived. Or where Frasier's girlfriend was. So it was sort of a downer for me.
Although I just read this story:
http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/may14_end-sun.html
So I think I'm okay now. Oy!
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To Ol' Chicago,
Fraiser followed his new love.
I'd prefer Lilith.
(Haiku just ain't haiku unless you italicize it.)
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DR WEL: Yep for some reason people like to stand at rock concerts!
And speaking of concerts, it was just in the paper today that AI winner Ruben Studdard (along with Canadian Idol 4th place finisher Audrey) will be playing at a club here NEXT week.
Okay, let's see, Clay went on a tour and will be touring MAJORLY this summer and Ruben is playing clubs. Wow.
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Interesting theatre bits:
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4712
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Hmmm, I got the "too many users on HHW" thingie when I hit post. THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.
:(
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Michael Riedel:
Interesting comments about Tony voters.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05142004/entertainment/20847.htm
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I will have to respectfully disagree with comments made about FRIENDS last night sagging in its middle seasons. I have the first seven seasons on DVD and find nothing saggy about any of them. COmedy, of course, is always a debatable medium, and what works for one doesn't for another, but I find every season consistently funny and inventive amazed that the writers could combine the six stars in so many different combinations, and the comedy just flowed wonderfully no matter who was with whom. And, of course, it won the Best Comedy Series Emmy during its 8th season.
As for FRASIER's last year, it's true Christopher Lloyd and Joe Keenan steadied a sinking ship and provided a couple of memorable episodes this year, but on the whole I didn't find the season that much stronger than the previous two or three that I did watch.
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Yes, I, also, got the “too many users warning,” when I tried to go from Today’s Column to Today’s Post. It said there were 58 current users. And I laughed, and I laughed……….
I wish that I could be so witty
I wish my thoughts could rhyme,
But I’m afraid I’d be in trouble
I’m working on the taxpayers’ dime.
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Good Morning!
Hmmm... I'm not in a rhyming mood - yet - today - nor am I in a haiku-ing mode yet. So... I shall not even attempt to "do" such a thing...
-Well, I guess if you considered this blank verse, then maybe...
-Oh, the cicadas have started their "buzzing" or whatever they call it outside. Very interesting sound in this neighborhood. With all the buildings around here, the echo of the "buzz" sounds almost metallic.
As for media check, just the CD player, and just some Bill Charlap Trio CDs, "Written in The Stars", "Stardust" and his newest one, "Cool: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein". Great post-show wind down music.
Ok - I think I need to wake up more - or maybe even go back to bed... ;)... laters...
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Friday Media Alert:
CD - BOUNCE (OCR)
DVD - the rest of FUN & FANCY FREE to be followed by SPY KIDS 3-D. I'm looking forward to seeing what 3-D looks like on a widescreen TV.
DVR - last night's FRASIER finale
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http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1875136 (http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1875136)
Stephen Schwartz on NPR gives fascinating insight into his process. (We've much in common.) Do yourself a favor and listen to it all.
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From my murder-mystery musical, the lass who discovered the corpse of Larry Dapple sings.
JESSIE
A sight so gory
To tell the story
Would certainly make you wince
The body lay there
In disarray there
In various crimson tints.
His limbs and head
Were all askew;
His arteries, red
His veins were blue,
And there was nothing I could do
But give an account to you -
But I am much too ladylike
To utter words so shady, like
The picture I must make clear
Yes, I am much too dignified
My noble stance is signified
By my hestitation
To give a narration
To the situation
Here
CHORUS: We thank you for your reticence
For we don't care to get a sense
Of the situation here.
JESSIE:
I saw his jawbone
Was just a raw bone
Protruding out from his chin
He lost one eyeball.
I can't describe all
The ugliness there within
His coated tongue
His runny nose
His withered lung
His shrivelled toes
He didn't smell much like a rose
When he started to decompose -
But I am much too feminine
To tell of the smell of lemon in
The room where he lies in state
Yes, due to my gentility
I haven't the ability
To evoke a story
So horribly gory
As Dapple's sorry
Fate
CHORUS: The tale you tell is sad enough
If you don't mind, we've had enough
Of Dapple's sorry fate
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No rhymes for me I am afraid! My brain doesn't work that good in the morning! LOL!
CD player: Various Eurovision CDs from DR Tomovoz (hmmm...those Turkish ones sound interesting!)
VHS: Tons of stuff taped off of TCM this week.
DVD player: CITY OF MISSING GIRLS with a VERY young Gale (billed as Gail) Storm.
and my Bollywood movie(s) for this week (I am taking a long 5 day weekend so I will watch 2 Indian movies):
WOH KAUN THI? and BEES SALL BAAD, two ghost thrillers from the early 60s. Both in scary black and white. I am in the middle of WOH KAUN THI? right now and it is quite good and quite creepy: A handsome young doctor who just inherited a lot of money keeps seeing a ghost woman dressed all in white!
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http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1875136 (http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1875136)
Stephen Schwartz on NPR gives fascinating insight into his process. (We've much in common.) Do yourself a favor and listen to it all.
When I was working on Working at Signature Theatre a few years ago, Mr. Schwartz was "in residence" for rehearsals. -Actually, it was this version that was the basis for the subsequent Long Wharf version, and the one that got recorded out in L.A. *I was one of the first people to play the Grocery Checker's Song - and finding the right sound on the keyboard for all those "beeps" was "fun" too! Well...
Mr. Schwartz was in the process of getting the final drafts of music for "Gepetto" done at the time. In fact, if I remember correctly, he was under quite the deadline. Well, there was one afternoon where I had to come in to do some keyboard programming, and it just so happened that Mr. Schwartz was also in the "pit" too working on his music. I was all set to leave, but he said my work wouldn't bother him (I had headphones for the keyboard, but I wasn't sure if all the button pushing would bother him). So, for about an hour or so, I sat next to him - well, actually just behind him while he worked away. It was very neat to hear and see him work. He was working mainly on Gepetto's big ballad, and to hear him sing it was kind of emotional. (And it's just too bad Drew Carey was chosen to play the part for Disney.)
-And the NPR interview is very good too. I liked the snippet they played last week - especially since it gave a plug for our production of Children of Eden at Ford's. -Which Mr. Schwartz seemed very pleased with too. :D
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Media Check
DVD Player: NORTH BY NORTHWEST (The third time making it to the top of the DVD pile, but, so far, it hasn’t made it out of the box.)
CD Player: ULTIMATE MANILOW (I can’t help it, I love his music.)
Video Player: The Tacoma Little Theatre’s 85th Anniversary Gala (Damn, I’m good! Just kidding)
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My apologies for my absence this week, Dear BK and Dear Readers. I'm afraid I was a tad under the weather. (Now where did an expression like that come from?)
I have kept up with the witty columns and cherce posts, however. First things first:
Belated happy birthday greetings to Dear Reader Robin and to Dear Wife of Dear Reader Charles Pogue Julieanne!
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Excellent poetic posts!
If the answer Panni sent me by e-mail for the girl on the right is who she thinks it is, she is incorrect. The girl on the extreme right of that sequence is the real-life version of a major character in KT.
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Jay, don't you want to tell us what you saw tonight?
Of course I do! I saw the national tour of Urinetown, at the historic Wilshire Theatre in the Hills of Beverly.
I'd not seen the show before. The OBC recording of the show clued me in to the notion that this show has great tongue-in-cheek fun parodying various Broadway musical styles and conventions. What was new to me was how the artistic team made brash use of choregraphy to achieve that objective as well. It was great fun!
Mr. Jeff McCarthy, from the original cast, played Officer Lockstock to huge laughs. Miss Christiane Noll was delightful as Hope Cladwell. She has a gorgeous voice and is quite easy on the eyes. I look forward to seeing her in a meaty starring role sometime soon. Mr. Ron Holgate was pure ham (appropriately so) as Caldwell B. Cladwell and Mr. Charlie Pollock was spot on as Bobby Strong, as was Miss Meghan Strange as Little Sally, and Miss Beth McVey as Penelope Pennywise.
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In a message yesterday, BK wrote:
"Oh, RLP, don't be such a poop. Just be happy, dear. We're all happy - if people want to make one sentence posts to run the numbers up, let them. We've got quality, we've got quantity - or, to quote Mr. Maltby and Mr. Shire - "I want it all""
I was responding to TCB's lament about having slipped in his number of posts.
I reminded him of what everyone here learned very early on in response to the daily rush to beat the previous day's numbers: Post one-sentence -- or one-word -- posts. Quantity long ago was established as the desired goal.
Thanks for someone noticing I am approaching godhood.
It's my SECOND time, actually.
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Welcome eight GUESTS. Join us in our poetic day.
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I have not, alas, contributed a poem to today's proceedings. I am not very good at poetry extempore so I shall add a little ditty composed by the wonderfully acerbic Miss Dorothy Parker:
<ahem>
Life is a Glorious Cycle of Song
A Medley of Extemporania
And Love Is A Thing That Can Never Go Wrong...
And I Am Marie of Rumania
<bow, exit left>
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Love Dorothy Parker!
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Anna must stop posting, get off her butt and work Haiku:
Errands must be done
Words that dance and sing written
Phonecalls made, answered
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I just finished listening to Man Tora, the Manhattan Transfer's concert from Tokyo and in a half hour I will mosey over to BBC 2 and listen to Part 4 (the final installment) of the Doris Day retrospective.
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When MGM did That's Entertainment, was that a metrospective?
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WOW!
Even the highly-esteemed Ms. Barbara Cook gets sick!?!?! ;)
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/86168.html (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/86168.html)
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I saw a number from Bombay Dreams on Good Morning America this morning. The number was lip-synched which really bothered me, since to me the best part of a musical is hearing the people sing.
I was just wondering how many of the numbers in the show are done this way.
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Jennifer---
I have not seen (and have no desire to see) BOMBAY DREAMS, but it was probably lip-synched for television and is not done that way in the theatre. This is often the case when a number from a show is teledvised.
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Can someone teach me how to haiku.
Is it just 5-7-5? Or is there a special technique involved?
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... Found the strangest site -- for movie/TV fans who happen to be foot fetishists ("Foot-Lovers' Database") -- which lists scenes from movies/TV from the POV of feet, so to speak. ...
So, what was the review they gave for Tootsie? ;)
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Can someone teach me how to haiku.
Is it just 5-7-5? Or is there a special technique involved?
Jenn, there are tons of schools of tradition on composing haikus. Some even say that you do not have to strictly adhere to the 5-7-5 rule. But for the most part, 5-7-5 is the way to go.
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Jennifer,
Here's one of MANY Web sites on how to compose Haiku.
http://www.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/Start-Writing.html (http://www.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/Start-Writing.html)
Google "composing haiku" and you'll get lots of sites to choose from
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DR Ben, thanks for the haiku site. I had actually seen another one. But their explanations are SO LONG!
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Is DR Jane still in Los Angeles, or is she currently in Tarnation?
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Mr. Orr, it is nice to see you around these here parts, even if you are only lurking.
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I would have thought Jane would have been back by now.
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In the CD player: Rod McKuen: Early Harvest...Rod as a folk singer.
And...
DICK HAYMES: It Might As Well Be Spring
Off to the Reds/Dodgers game later this evening with Mr. Drake...
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In the CD player: Rod McKuen: Early Harvest...Rod as a folk singer.
And...
DICK HAYMES: It Might As Well Be Spring
Off to the Reds/Dodgers game later this evening with Mr. Drake...
Larry or Alfred?
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Come now people, we started out so well this morning with a large and eclectic number of posts, but we seem to have slowed to a crawl (except for me, of the Magic Fingers -- why yes I do rent out to motels) We must not allow this deluge of chere posts to slow to a trickle. We must not allow Friday the 14th to become a day synonymous with low posts!
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A whole semester acting like a nerd,
in writing essays, and in counting "hee-uhs,"
in wond'ring at the oddities absurd
that dangle from my English teacher's ea-uhs.
At last it's through, the final final done,
the papers writ, my teachers' problem now;
no school today- now I can have some fun,
sit on my futon, watch cartoons, and chow.
Until I get my grades and must account
for each and every mark my dad will see,
it's Cherry Coke- unlimited amount-
and animated aardvarks on TV.
It's summer- I can do just as I please.
Too bad outside's one hundred eight degrees.
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In our discussions of chorus people glimpsed in films who later became stars, I thought of Julie Newmar as one of the femme fatales in THE BAND WAGON (she flashes by very hurriedly in "The Girl Hunt," but it's her a year before playing Dorcas in SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS.
In watching DUBARRY WAS A LADY last week, I noticed one of the calendar girls who went on to big success in movies and TV - Marilyn Maxwell.
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And, of course, that's Gower Champion in the strawberry blonde hair whirling across the screen with Cyd Charisse in TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY.
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Where is everybody today?
It seems like everybody is missing!
Btw, my favorite type of poem (not sure if it has a name), is where the first lines are nice and the last ones are funny/mean.
Like:
jen is nice
jen is sweet
too bad she has ugly feet
:)
I have a friend who goes crazy on these, and they crack me up!
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Hi all from SLC!
I only have a moment but wanted to say I am safe and happy.
The best news is I may get to meet MB tomorrow at a signing at Boarders. At least I hope so.
Will tell you all about it when I get home.
Take care.
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PAGE FOUR DANCE!!!
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TCB, Larry...though Alfred is always with me in spirit...But Alfred was probably a Dodger fan (from their Brooklyn days) and Larry and I love to root against the Dodgers...when they're playing anyone!
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Oh how cute, the smileys glow. I didn't know I could do that!
And I must have chosen 3 colors that didn't exist. I wanted my words to be bright pink. :(
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Does anyone have any preferred throat lozenges?
I have these good ones called cepacal (not sure of the spelling) that seem to really coat my throat. But I only have one left. Is there anything better?
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Browsing through the DVDs at Target today, I was dumbfounded by another MGM transfer of a widescreen film that was not encoded for widescreen TVs: FORBIDDEN PLANET. At least, there's nothing on the box that says it's anamorphic.
Didn't I read somewhere at least a year ago that Warners was planning on a special edition of FORBIDDEN PLANET that would give it a spiffy new DVD transfer. I certainly would LOVE to see one. It's one of my favorite sci-fi movies.
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The previous three times that I clicked on this site today, my picture had disappeared and had been replaced by a small red X. Everyone else's photos seemed fine, and I wasn't a Guest, so I don't know what was wrong. This time my photo had been reinstated in all of its fabulous color by Technicolor and Cinemscope.
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I thought it was a close up of your left eye TCB.
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Dear Reader TCB,
Same thing happened yesterday on my side when i checked the site all night long; it was Dear Reader SWW's picture which was replaced by a Red Cross... I mean a red X!
Any meaning to that?
NO citeop -- poetic, backwards! -- inspiration from me right now!
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Hi all from SLC!
I only have a moment but wanted to say I am safe and happy.
The best news is I may get to meet MB tomorrow at a signing at Boarders. At least I hope so.
Will tell you all about it when I get home.
Take care.
DR Danise not only gets to see Michael Ball in concert but gets to meet MBarnum at Borders. Some people have all the luck.
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Ain't technology wonderful. Cepacol are the best that I know of, DRJENNIFER.
Well I watched POLLYANNA, didn't mean to watch it all, but I like it a lot. I don't recognize the girl....and I am thinking in KRITZER TIME maybe it is Iris or Betty. I DON'T KNOW.
I do know that David Swift the director wanted to shorten and tighten the film a bit from its' 129 minutes, but studio head Mr Walt Disney loved every frame and said....EVERYTHING STAYS IN!!
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MattH: The Forbidden Planet transfer IS anamorphic - it just doesn't look very good, with very faded colors. A new SE is on its way this summer I believe.
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Thanks for the update, bk. The box didn't say anamorphic, so I thought the worst. Serves me right for jumping to conclusions. I guess I'll wait for the Special Edition. Of course, it's Eastman Color so I don't know how great the color is EVER going to look. My laserdisc isn't the most beautiful thing in the world, either.
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Just read an advanced review of the Walt Disney Treasure tin World War II set. It got an unqualified rave saying because much of the material has been housed in vaults and not allowed to be screened for decades, the material is in superlative shape. SHould be something to see.
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From what I understand, the new SE of Forbidden Planet should look pretty spectacular. There's nothing wrong with Eastman color if it's rendered perfectly.
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In the CD player: Rod McKuen: Early Harvest...Rod as a folk singer.
There's a wonderful moment in the Elaine Stritch docu when Rod McKuen comes backstage to visit her. Very fun. Very Stritch.
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Our news reports this weekend are full of news of the Royal Wedding in Denmark. The fact that the bride was an Australian citizen until yesterday (I don't think she can have dual citizenship as the Princess of another realm) may have something to do with it. I wondered if it a newsworthy item in North America. It does seem to have that whole "fairy tale princess" element and it does, at least for the moment, take us aware from the horrors of the Middle East.
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Speaking of Elaine Stritch, I'm still reading the Noel Coward diaries, and I'm up to 1959. Of course, at this point, SAIL AWAY is still a bit in the future, but he had thought her vulgar in PAL JOEY and so loathed GOLDILOCKS that he didn't even mention any performers in it, so I'm anxious to see how his opinion changes once I get to that part of the diary involving the creation of SAIL AWAY. Should be interesting.
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Our news reports this weekend are full of news of the Royal Wedding in Denmark. The fact that the bride was an Australian citizen until yesterday (I don't think she can have dual citizenship as the Princess of another realm) may have something to do with it. I wondered if it a newsworthy item in North America. It does seem to have that whole "fairy tale princess" element and it does, at least for the moment, take us aware from the horrors of the Middle East.
Well, the crowned prince of Denmark is one gorgeous man, so the "fairy tale princess" element seems appropriate with such a wonderful Prince Charming.
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Does that Prince springle Pixie Dust when he goes to the bathroom?
Pardon my French, but who needs "princes" and "princesses" in today's world?
Euro Disney SARL, maybe, which is waiting for its Arabic Prince to save it from its financial disgrace?
Someday My Prince Will Come
And I'll be in the bathroom
Will you give me money
I'll say?
No way!
Why don't you fly on your broom?
Silly groom!
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That was a lovely sonnet, DR Sandra. I can see the money we spent on tuition was not wasted.
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Went to the pharmacy. Lots of great lozenges. And since I cannot diet when I'm under the weather (need to drink too much juice and soup), I drove into the McDonald's drive-thru to get a strawberry milkshake. Cannot wait to have that later.
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Speaking of Elaine Stritch, I'm still reading the Noel Coward diaries, and I'm up to 1959.
I sold two entire bookcases of books before moving back to LA. One of the books sold was the Noel Coward diaries (it was thick and heavy and I was ruthless). Now I regret it!
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DR Tom OZ
I think I will be winging my way to NZ with a stopover in LA. I just have to plan it out and hopefully it is not too expensive to fly there from LA.
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Media check:
I am presently listening to a three cd set I got tonight -- it's 1:45 am here right now! -- of archives recordings of Waltzes - Strauss, Waldteufel, Lehar, Lanner.... -- taking from recordings from the early 20's through the 50's by some "obscure" European orchestras (Le Grand orchestre Bohémien, Marek Weber, Albert Locatelli, Marcel Cariven, Dajos Bela, Paul Godwin...)
Compositeur : JOSEF STRAUSS - JOHANN (PERE) STRAUSS - JOHANN (FILS) STRAUSS
Genre : DIVERTISSEMENT APRES 1800
Date de sortie : 28/01/2000
Référence : 423157
Editeur : M10
Rôle : ORCHESTRE
Le beau Danube bleu
Valse des poupées
Perpetuum mobile
L'esprit Viennois
Tik-Tak-polka
Etoiles du soir
Les mille et une nuits
Danse styriennes
Contes d'Orient
Valse de rêve
Les thermes
Dans l'île de lobaú
Femmes de Vienne
Lampe de mineur
Les petites femmes du Danube
Chanson de l'oiseleur
Traú-Schaú-Wem
Entrez donc!
Sans souci
Chantez ! Riez ! Dansez !
La joie du chanteur
Dollar
Où les citronniers fleurissent
Enfant, tu peux danser comme ma femme
Ma bonne amie
Les vrais coeurs Viennois
Intimité
La jeune fille du roi
Valse des millions
Violettes des bois
Feuilles du matin
Danse des amourettes
Annen-polka
Joyeuse Vienne
Perpetuum mobile
Sur le beau Narenta vert
Sang Viennois
Eva
Délires
Mes lèvres sont faites pour embrasser
Esprits vagabonds
Vous vous souviendrez de Vienne
Saines doctrines
Salut à Vienne
Le monde appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt
Plaisirs Viennois du Prater
Marche de radetzky
Etc, etc, etc........
One, two, three, one, two, three!
Again!
:)
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Dear Reader Michael Shayne,
Why in the world do you want to go to New Zambia??? :o
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I have to decide whether to go to the Egyptian Theater tonight. They've been doing a Peckinpah retrospective, which my friend, our very own Nick Redman, is very involved in. I was supposed to go last Saturday but didn't because of my stomach problems. So, he's left me a ticket for tonight's screening of Straw Dogs. But, I've seen it recently on DVD, so I don't know how up for it I am. We shall see.
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Well, graduation is in an hour, and my teachers still haven't posted my grades so I don't even know if I'm graduating.
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I don't think I ever saw Straw Dogs, but, for some reason, the mention of that film makes me think of the very disturbing (to me, at least) Kazan's The VISITORS. Talk about "heavy"!............
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I didn't see "The Visitors" but it too sounds like an unpleasant film. A long time since I saw "Straw Dogs" but I do remember not enjoying the film nor having sympathy for the husband or the wife trapped by their own naivity. 30+ years later my appreciation and views may have changed considerably. I just don't think I will revist the film again anyway.
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Sandra/aka Swedish Chef.... "Graduation vibes" seem a little silly... but it can't hurt."
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PAGE FIVE! I won't dance, don't ask me... (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/party/party-smiley-045.gif)
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In our discussion of documentaries yesterday, I forgot to mention MOON OVER BROADWAY another Pennebaker film.
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There is an Icelandic movie playing up at the Hollywood theater in Portland called SEAGULL'S LAUGHTER. Has anyone seen it? It sounds very good and I am contemplating going to it Sunday evening (by myself of course as my buddies wouldn't think of seeing something with subtitles! Shees!) :(
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Hello, all! Just got back from seeing TROY with my goddaughter Charlotte. It's long, it's got several good performances, and it plays fast and loose with the various legends of the Trojan War (no 10 years here, maybe 10 weeks!), but I still enjoyed it, perhaps not as much as the Robert Wise version from the 1950s. I really enjoyed Eric Bana, Peter O'Toole, Sean Bean, and Brad Pitt, but I missed several essential characters like Cassandra, Hecuba, other princes of Troy (Priam had 50 children!) like Troilus and Aeneas, who pops up at the end as a nobody who suddenly has greatness thrust upon him.
Briseis' character, the love of Achilles, is a combo of the ILIAD's Briseis and the Trojan princess in one of the Troy legends, set up as a peace marriage between her and Achilles, and Patroclus is not more than a friend as Shakespeare made clear in TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. I thought the director and writer - although I'll never know what he originally intended - made a bit about the parallels between Iraq and Troy but totally ignored the horror of the aftermath, from Cassandra's death as a concubine of Agamemnon or the great emotional upheaval of Euripides' TROJAN WOMEN. Someday, although I doubt any budget could stand it, I wish we'd get a better overview of the Trojan War from the judgment of Paris through the disbursement of the Greeks afterwards, maybe including the 10 years' wandering of Odysseus. Dramatically, I think the best plays about the war are TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (Fry, lechery!) and TROJAN WOMEN.
I also missed the sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis, lured there by a supposed marriage to Achilles and killed by her screwed-up father to promote a war (I could see George W doing that!), and I missed some humor, which is very abundant in the ILIAD, especially when Hera seduces Zeus so the Greeks can get some wins in while Achilles sulks.
Sword and sandal beefcake fans will love the bare chests, and Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom have some rather revealing moments as well. However, the women don't!
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I was on my way, then decided I just couldn't sit through it again so soon after seeing it. So, here I be.
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Oh, I meant to include a sonnet I wrote last year during some introspection, entitled FROGS AND PRINCES
She kissed him and her frog became the handsomest of princes;
The story says it ended in the tenderest of clinches.
Well, good for her! I wish I had her luck when I was aiming
To find my prince; instead I kissed a million frogs all claiming
Their blood was blue and they were meant to be my royal lover,
And I believed them all since I'm a fairytale pushover.
But none were princes, sad to say, I wanted princely beauty
(Our shallow time dictates pursuit of glamor is our duty)
And so I passed up several frogs that could have been my new love
Pursuing handsome princes that I hoped would be my true love.
Their pedigrees were excellent, likewise their style and diction
But selfish and conceited, not at all like those in fiction!
I hope one day I find true love, I'll see him and I'll know him;
As for princes and the dogs they daye, well that's another poem!
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Dear Reader TCB,
Same thing happened yesterday on my side when i checked the site all night long; it was Dear Reader SWW's picture which was replaced by a Red Cross... I mean a red X!
Any meaning to that?
Your computer doesn't like dog pictures?
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In our discussion of documentaries yesterday, I forgot to mention MOON OVER BROADWAY another Pennebaker film.
I mentioned it for you.
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Well I didn't do any dvd watching just a lot ot tv channel hopping. What crap is out there. I missed the day when there was five networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, CBC & CTV)and NET. Porgrams were usually better
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...I really enjoyed Eric Bana, Peter O'Toole, Sean Bean, and Brad Pitt, but I missed several essential characters like Cassandra, Hecuba, other princes of Troy (Priam had 50 children!)
And a very tired wife or two.
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And a very tired wife or two.
Or three or four!
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Why in the world do you want to go to New Zambia??? :o
Is there a new Ziemba already? Because the old one is, you know, still very good.
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Tonight was the "Good Taste" fundraiser for the Rehoboth Art League. 25 bucks a ticket, walk around town to various restaurants and sample appetizers and look at art by local artists.
It would have worked better if all the restaurants had actually shown some art, because some didn't. It would have worked better if some of the restaurants had tried to showcase what their kitchens can do, because some didn't.
There was one artist, working in "mixed media compositions" (what some of us would call collage, but that reeks of glued paper and he was using wood, gold leaf, painted sections from old theater sets, stuff like that instead) whose work was interesting. By way of coincidence, one thematic trick he likes to use is to compose a five inch square of various materials, and then write a haiku around the square.
Too bad we can't afford anything just now, because we'd add his work to our walls in an instant.
That his work was being displayed in the restaurant that best served it's appetizers, a Japanese restaurant specializing in sushi called Abstractions, was another coincidence. Most of the restaurants simply set out a buffet; this place had a couple of waiters circulating around with trays of maki and such, a much more elegant way of getting guests to sample the food.
(And people told us there would never be anything to do when we moved, and that we'd be bored to tears. Shows what they knew.)
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I have to confide that to you!
It's 5:20 am here and I have 3 guests from the UK, completely loaded!, who ask me, after saying "good evening!! (well, the drinks don't help, I know!) where can they find a place to eat!
At 5:20 am!!
We're no palace here, with room service at all times!
I should have sent them to the Ritz!
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Playing around with photos day. Next up is some art work for Mike Shayne. The South Isalnd Of NZ - Lake Tekapo.
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Old dog Kelsey is getting more active daily. He's been having trouble with his back legs, but somehow made it from der Brucer's room across the hall (with slippery hardwood floors) to my room, to explore and say hi. He's also made it all the way down the hall to the dining room, trying to find der Brucer (who is usually in his office when this happens). That's quite a trek for the old fellow!
And I've got another job interview lined up for Monday. The timing on this is running really tight, because I'd like to get some on-the-job training in before Memorial Day arrives and the season hits.
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You know, Dear Reader Noel, I thought hard to find something that could apply to Miss Zembia when I posted earlier but could not come up with anything...
Well done! You succeeded!
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It's 5:20 am here and I have 3 guests from the UK, completely loaded!, who ask me, after saying "good evening!! (well, the drinks don't help, I know!) where can they find a place to eat!
At 5:20 am!!
We're no palace here, with room service at all times!
What a time to realize that Paris doesn't have all-night diners! :-\
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For Mike Shayne:
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Sorry, Dear Reader S Woody White!
My computer is cat friendly only! ;)
... and it can't play music any longer either!
Pooh! :P
Except for the cd player that i used for the Waltz programme I had ealier!
Leroy Anderson's Waltzing Cat!
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Btw -- born to waltz?!? -- Where is Dear Reader Jane?
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We have posted at identical times François. Wow!
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I think DR Jane is still in the land of California.
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I could not sit through STRAW DOGS in screenings close together.
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I have been movie watching all day. WYATT EARP on laserdisc (to see if I wanted to upgrade). I COULD GO ON SINGING (to check out the laserdisc transfer - kind of oversaturated and smeary but it is the entire Panavision frame on the laser), SPY KIDS 3-D, and FULL METAL JACKET.
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SPY KIDS 3-D is the best 3-D technology utilized for the home theater that I've seen. I actually enjoyed it.
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I don't know about you, but I getting real tired and sick of seeing pictures of Miss Lynndie England in papers, Foreign AND French, day after day!
Sick!
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DR Danise not only gets to see Michael Ball in concert but gets to meet MBarnum at Borders. Some people have all the luck.
I just want to know what-the-Hell MBarnum is doing in Salt Lake City?
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Dear Michael Shayne!
There's a lake waiting for you, thanks to talented Colin from Oz!
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Shall we dance?
AND one, two, threeè
Oom pah pah!
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It's sad to be all alone in this world!
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Dear Reader MBarnum is in Salt Lake City to check his Family Tree, since there's a sucker born ev'ry minute... so they say!
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Don't you have enough problems keeping track of your son without MBarnum not telling you his plans TCB. I wonder if Michael knows he is meeting DR Danise. She may be unlucky and find Michael Ball there instead.
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I just want to know what-the-Hell MBarnum is doing in Salt Lake City?
Mormons!
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I like your poem, Elmoore. And you know what they say about that prince showing up one day... You never know...
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Glad Kelsey is doing so much better, SWW. Abie sends his best.
Good luck/vibes on the job interview!
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I like your poem, Elmoore. And you know what they say about that prince showing up one day... You never know...
I thought I had met a prince one time, turned out to be a Queen.
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TCB!
Was that Prince a singer too?
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I thought I had met a prince one time, turned out to be a Queen.
Well, at least you still got to go to the balls, right?
For those of you not on the east coast, watch David Letterman tonight and meet my latest pretend girlfriend, Amy Sedaris. She's so funny and cute and funny I could eat her up. I heard that she once did a performance of 'Night, Mother wearing a fat suit.
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As long as that Michael is not Feinstein, dear Reader Danise is pretty safe! Right, Tomovoz?
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Dear Reader Dan,
You are worse than Dear Reader TCB!
He's gonna be proud of you!!
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Good Evening!
A very good show tonight! Our "alternate" Father/God went on tonight, and did a wonderful job! -Although, he was quite the "perspirer" on stage... He thinks he lost about 4 pounds in sweat tonight. And from the looks of it, he probably did. However, some of the sweat was from nerves, and some of it was from the heat in the theatre - again! Ugh!! When I was at Target this afternoon, I found a great little clip fan and I had it on my music stand all night. Made such a nice difference! Oh, and we also had some fun in the pit tonight... Some new dance moves.. and even some "rescue signs"... You'll have to come see the show to see what I'm talking about. ;)
OK - I need to check into some bank business.. I went to buy some food on the way home, and my credit card got declined - and I was only buying $12.00 of food - ??? -However, after watching the manager/clerk who was ringing me up - and watching his hostess running around like crazy - I suspect it was an error on their part. -I called the automated info line, and everything seemed to be in order.. now to check the web....
back in a few...
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Michael Douglas would be further down my list François.
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It must be useful to have alternate God DR Jose.
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Factoid of the night: For those of you rushing out to get SHOWGIRLS, VIP EDITION -- It comes with a pair of sequined pasties.
(http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/alles_moegliche/mixed-smiley-022.gif)
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Thanks for the complement, DR François, but DR TCB is still the master.
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I don't know what got into me, but I started cleaning out my very messy garage. This is a task that will take a few weeks, but I found some very interesting things, like the original LP soundtrack to Young Girls of Rochefort in English, a very rare record. Unfortunately, it was at the bottom of a pile of stuff, not in its sleeve and filled with dust and dirt and grime. Now, I know I'd already transfered it to CDR, but it's somewhere buried deep in storage. So, I did as much cleanup work as I could and it's playing fine, albeit scratchy-sounding, but good enough to retransfer until I find my clean copy.
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Factoid of the night: For those of you rushing out to get SHOWGIRLS, VIP EDITION -- It comes with a pair of sequined pasties.
That's funny, so do I!
Ba-Ding-Boom!
But seriously, folks...
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Now I'm going to have to watch Young Girls of Rochefort. I LOVE this music. The English version is lots of fun, too. Although the dialogue portions of the film were dubbed conventionally (actors speaking French, dubbed in English), the numbers were shot two ways - once with the actors mouthing French words, once with them mouthing English words. And in the English version you actually get Gene Kelly singing his own songs (except for the high notes).
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Hmmm
Dear reader BK,`
you've got Dirty Young Girls of Rochefort then...
A very rare item indeed!
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Catherine Deneuve sang the high notes for Kelly and vice versa!
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If I cleaned out my garage (my landlord's actually - but filled with my things) - I think I would find Catherine Deneuve at the bottom of a pile of stuff. Not in her sleeves, and filled with dust and grime, but still fine.
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In fact, our own Jason Graae sang for Kelly once..... in Forbidden Broadway.
But you all know, don't you?
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Poor Catherine! "Filled with dust and grime", like Tammy, but in her Dior dress, none the less!
How pathetic!
How poetic!
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Follow the bouncing ball!
Les demoiselles de Rochefort
La chanson des jumelles
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DELPHINE et SOLANGE
Nous sommes deux soeurs jumelles
Nées sous le signe des gémeaux
Mi fa sol la mi ré, ré mi fa sol sol sol ré do
Toutes deux demoiselles
Ayant eu des amants très tôt
Mi fa sol la mi ré, ré mi fa sol sol sol ré do
DELPHINE
Nous fûmes toutes deux élevées par Maman
Qui pour nous se priva, travailla vaillamment
SOLANGE
Elle voulait de nous faire des érudites
Et pour cela vendit toute sa vie des frites.
DELPHINE et SOLANGE
Nous sommes toutes deux nées de père inconnu
Cela ne se voit pas, mais quand nous sommes nues
Nous avons toutes deux au creux des reins
C'est fou...
DELPHINE
... là un grain de beauté...
SOLANGE
... qu'il avait sur la joue
DELPHINE et SOLANGE
Nous sommes deux soeurs jumelles, nées sous le signe des gémeaux
Mi fa sol la mi ré, ré mi fa sol sol sol ré do
Aimant la ritournelle, les calembours et les bons mots
Mi fa sol la mi ré, ré mi fa sol sol sol rédo.
DELPHINE
Nous sommes toutes deux joyeuses et ingénues...
SOLANGE
... attendant de l'amour ce qu'il est convenu...
DELPHINE
... d'appeler coup de foudre...
SOLANGE
... ou sauvage passion...
DELPHINE et SOLANGE
... nous sommes toutes deux prêtes à perdre raison
Nous avons toutes deux une âme délicate
DELPHINE
Artistes passionnées...
SOLANGE
... musiciennes...
DELPHINE
... acrobates...
SOLANGE
... cherchant un homme bon...
DELPHINE
... cherchant un homme beau...
DELPHINE et SOLANGE
... bref un homme idéal, avec ou sans défauts
Nous sommes deux soeurs jumelles, nées sous le signe des gémeaux
Mi fa sol la mi ré, ré mi fa sol sol sol ré do
Du plomb dans la cervelle, de la fantaisie à gogo
Mi fa sol la mi ré, ré mi fa sol sol sol ré do
SOLANGE
Je n'enseignerai pas toujours l'art de l'arpège
J'ai vécu jusqu'ici de leçons de solfège
Mais j'en ai jusque-là, la province m'ennuit
Je veux vivre à présent de mon art à Paris.
DELPHINE
Je n'enseignerai pas toute ma vie la danse
A Paris moi aussi je tenterai ma chance
Pourquoi passer mon temps à enseigner des pas
Alors que j'ai envie d'aller à l'opéra
DELPHINE et SOLANGE
Nous sommes deux soeurs jumelles, nées sous le signe des gémeaux
Mi fa sol la mi ré, ré mi fa sol sol sol ré do
Deux coeurs, quatre prunelles, à embarquer allegreto
Mi fa sol la mi ré, ré mi fa sol sol sol ré do
DELPHINE
Oh ! Midi moins le quart. Cà y est, je suis en retard.
SOLANGE
Delphine !
DELPHINE
Oui.
SOLANGE
Tu vas chercher Boubou ?
DELPHINE
Oh tu peux pas y aller ?
SOLANGE
J'irai cet après-midi.
DELPHINE
J'peux pas sortir avec ça ! Oh puis si. Oh puis non. J'ai rendez-vous à midi
avec Guillaume, je n'y serai jamais.
SOLANGE
Qu'est-ce qu'il veut encore celui-là ?
DELPHINE
Je ne sais pas... me voir.
SOLANGE
Oh bien il attendra. Tu rentres déjeuner ?
DELPHINE
Oui. Mais pas avant une heure. Qu'est-ce que j'ai fait de mon poudrier ? Ah
non je l'ai.
DELPHINE et SOLANGE
Jouant du violoncelle, de la trompette ou du banjo
Aimant la ritournelle, les calembours et les bons mots
Du plomb dans la cervelle, de la fantaisie à gogo
Nous sommes soeurs jumelles, nées sous le signe des gémeaux
SOLANGE
Au revoir.
DELPHINE
Au revoir.
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...in the English version you actually get Gene Kelly singing his own songs (except for the high notes).
Yes, well, he always was worried about his reputation. :-\
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Arthur Laurents talks about this in his autobio.....
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There must be a faulty trapdoor under Dear Reader Francois de Paris' chair.
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And before you ask, Dear BK, I was at the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center's Renberg Theatre to see Miss Varla Jean Merman in her latest show, "Under A Big Top" [sic].
I am not a big fan of drag acts, generally speaking, and my only previous exposure to this Miss Merman was in one of the worst films I've ever seen, Girls Will Be Girls.
I was going to skip this theatrical extravaganza, but the L.A. Times gave it a very favorable review, so I bought a ticket.
I should have heeded my better judgment.
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On the way home I stopped at In-N-Out Burger and got a Double Double.
I could wax poetic endlessly about this culinary delight!
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I am my own posting frenzy.
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And one for Bruckner.
(The composer, not the expressway.)
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I was going to see GLOOMY SUNDAY tonight - but didn't feel like going out in the world. Sounds like an interesting film. Takes place in Budapest in the 1940's.
Hope you're feeling better DR Jay.
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Didn't see all your posts, Jay. You MUST be feeling better.
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I was going to see GLOOMY SUNDAY tonight - but didn't feel like going out in the world. Sounds like an interesting film. Takes place in Budapest in the 1940's.
Hope you're feeling better DR Jay.
Thanks, Dear Reader Panni. I am feeling better.
Don't let Gloomy Sunday get away from you. It's a fascinating film.
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Well, now I'm just staying up late because I can... and that's not good... Two shows tomorrow!!!
So...
Bonne nuit mes amis!
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I just want to know what-the-Hell MBarnum is doing in Salt Lake City?
I would guess a lot of people find themselves wondering what the hell they're doing in Salt Lake City.
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If I cleaned out my garage (my landlord's actually - but filled with my things) - I think I would find Catherine Deneuve at the bottom of a pile of stuff. Not in her sleeves, and filled with dust and grime, but still fine.
Hmm... I think I need to get a garage so I can find French beauties.
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Hmm... I think I need to get a garage so I can find French beauties.
Jed, what do you need French beauties for, when we have the delightful François right here at HHW? Ohhh, now I get it.
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I have crashed a father and son discussion. Excuse me. Good night my friends. See you tomorrow.
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I must have an In 'n' Out burger soon - perhaps tomorrow. I do love them so.
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And one for Mahler.
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I must have an In 'n' Out burger sometime, simply because I've never had one.
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They are quite yummilicious.
WEHT, Laura II, Swishy Sarah, Jenny (well, we know she's having computer problems), Ann and all the other errant and truant folks.
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Fifteen minutes more
Then new notes are in store
So post your last
And post them fast
Before I lock the door.
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Oh, I see - you're all going to sit there like bumps on logs and we'll miss two hundred by three posts. I SEE.
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I must have an In 'n' Out burger sometime, simply because I've never had one.
I haven't had one in about ten years, but do have fond memories of them. But I no longer desire them, no siree. Life can go on without hamburgers. (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/ernaehrung/food-smiley-002.gif)
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I don't want to post just to...
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...bring the posts to 200. That wouldn't be...
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...Kosher.
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202.
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I subbed for metal shop today. No blood, no explosions... I consider that a successful day.