Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 2 => Topic started by: bk on November 20, 2004, 11:59:29 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, you've flashbacked on the notes, and now it is time to flash forward to the posts - yes, it's time to post until the cows flashback and come home.
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Guess I was hoping for too much from "Beyond The Sea".
There are a few Darin fans at HHW. I wonder what favourite tracks we have.
I am partial to his "Venice Blue" and really like his version of "Milord". Love all the "Hits" of course and "Beyond The Sea" is one of my all time favourite pop chart entries.
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I think Mr. Spacey is too full of himself. I miss the days when before he became famous when he could act and just be himself instead of acting off screen as well.
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Soooooooooooooo Where is everyone? it after 8am and there are usually east coasters who have posted already!!
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Re: tipping
I agree with DR Danise, sometimes it gets confusing who to tip. One good example is on the cruise I went on. Even with the detailed descriptions of who to tip, I found it crazy (leave this amount on the pillow, sneak this amount to the head waiter in the dining room ...).
As for DR Jane's comments about leaving extra tip, do most people leave cash tips? I know I usually pay by credit card and leave the tip there (and so do many people I know). Hmmmm, if someone else is paying, how exactly do you sneak a look at the bill and then check what they've left? I guess I'm not used to this!
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Speaking from experience, many of my customers DO leave the tip on their charge charges WITH an additional amount of cash on the table. ;D
I, too, was looking forward to BEYOND THE SEA. Maybe the soundtrack will have to suffice.
Is anyone other than me looking forward to Oliver Stone's take on ALEXANDER (the Great)? I don't even like Angelina Jolie!
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Morning all! What a lovely day it is already! Lots of sunshine and warm. Hard to believe that this week is Turkey day.
So what kind of goodies are ya'll looking forward to on the official "Stuff Yourself Silly" day?
Of all of the pies, cookies, goodies, I have to say the one thing I look forward to more than anything else is the stuffing. We only make it one day of year. Silly, I know, we could make it more often but that's what makes it special.
I tell you my mouth is already watering for it. That and the chestnuts we'll have Turkey day evening. I love'em.
I bought everything for the feast yesterday. You can forget any thoughts about my being on a diet on that day. Let the calories fall where they may, Danise is going to EAT!
I think I've caught the Holiday Spirit early this year for some reason. I sang all the songs from White Christmas in van while I drove around yesterday and I'm in the mood to decorate the house. I just hope I don't run out of steam.
Since I'm in a Holiday mood, here is another question. What was/is your favorite Holiday classic? Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin' To Town, Frosty The Snowman, The Little Drummer Boy, Year Without a Santa Claus, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, etc?
For me, it's The Little Drummer Boy. It's not Christmas until I see it.
I know I've said this before but not sure if I said it here, does anyone know the title of a story about 3 guys in the nuthouse who get it into their head they are the 3 Wisemen. They break out and think they see the Star in the distance (but it's really a building or something like that. They go to the zoo and get the camels to head out on their quest but everywhere they stop, they do some kind of good.
I don't know if that was a movie or a show but I never forgot it. It was a very cute movie/show and I wish they would repeat it.
Gotta run. Got lots of things to do. Have GREAT day everyone and I'll be back this evening!
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Oh, before I go, let me try one more time to post that last Dark Shadows picture for Jrand. See anyone there you know? ;)
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About that getting into the holiday spirit, I've been in it since the release of Joe Nichols' TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS album ;) Well, I could hardly buy the cd and NOT listen to it. . .
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OMG DRDANISE - in fact I see TWO people I know! LOL. What a great pic! Thanks so much for posting!
I too am sad to hear that BEYOND THE SEA is beyond the pale, but I didn't see how it could NOT be. Kevin Spacey is very precious - and his mannered performance in THE USUAL SUSPECTS gave away the "surprise" at least for me very early on, and I am NOT that difficult to fool.
Yes TomOvOZ - I like the Darin hits.....my favorites Beyond the Sea, Clementine, Splish Splash, Mack the Knife, and Dream Lover. His live album At the Copa is such fun.
Last night I watched one selection from the Deanna Durbin Collection DVD set. I watched LADY ON A TRAIN - and it just got better and better as it went along. She sang some songs, of course, but the supporting cast was wonderful: Ralph Bellamy, Edward Everett Horton, David Bruce, and Elizabeth Patterson (Mrs Trumbell).
Off to rehearsal to finish the last number - and then a birthday party for a friend.
Sunday.
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Just when you thought I was gone, I'm back with more questions.
Star Wars: Full Screen or Wide Screen? Which one would you buy?
I had another question and can't think of it right now. Ah well.
Laters!
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Your welcome, Jrand. It looks kinda funny because it was in a picture frame for years so part of it faded before the rest did.
I felt so sorry for him. He did a reading and was shaking like a leaf.
Pity to be type cast but on the other hand, how many actors would give their eye teeth for just ONE role that would make people remember them?
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Speaking from experience, many of my customers DO leave the tip on their charge charges WITH an additional amount of cash on the table. ;D
I, too, was looking forward to BEYOND THE SEA. Maybe the soundtrack will have to suffice.
Is anyone other than me looking forward to Oliver Stone's take on ALEXANDER (the Great)? I don't even like Angelina Jolie!
I just saw somewhere that the early reviews for Alexander have not been kind.
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I've also seen the mixed reviews for PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. . .still, I'm looking forward to seeing Patrick Wilson in a big screen musical.
Much of the negativity I've read on ALEXANDER concerns Colin's blond tresses. . .people, get over it!
Stone is such a fascinating director, that this costume drama/epic/biography might just be a very interrrresting experience.
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Good morning TCB!
What can YOU tell us about ALEXANDER? Was he truly great, or only so-so? ;)
(Just pulling your leg, TCB. . .the RIGHT one, of course).
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Good morning, all!
DRPanni, the guestroom looks quite inviting, and Abie seems to be quite comfortable there.
DRDanise, wide- or fullscreen for STAR WARS? Always widescreen. I want to see the full picture. I recently purchased a DVD that only exists in fullscreen and it really pissed me off.
I have no plans for Thanksgiving, so I'll most likely cross the street to one of several nice restaurants and have a bit of turkey. I hope I'll have DRPanni's movie from Netflix, and I'll watch that. It seems quite holiday-appropriate.
Tomorrow and most of Tuesday, I shall be E&T. I have to hit the Library of Congress for some research, see several friends, and get back for DRtd's weekend arrival.
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Tomorrow and most of Tuesday, I shall be E&T. I have to hit the Library of Congress for some research, see several friends, and get back for DRtd's weekend arrival.
Oooh! Are you gonna have a parade for me? Trim the streets of NYC with festive holiday decorations? you're simply too too! :)
Looking forward to dinner at Joe Allen on Saturday, and everything else the weekend holds in store!
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The VARIETY review for ALEXANDER that I read this morning was very mixed but decidedly negative.
Also read in VARIETY that there is now a kiss between Albin and Georges as they walk off together at the end of the LA CAGE revival. That certainly makes sense.
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Favorite Darin song is definitely "Beyond the Sea" which I think is one of the hippest sung pop songs of the era. I really loved his vocal stylings. I have never thought it was a smart idea for Kevin Spacey to portray Bobby Darin.
When I was taking dance as a kid, we had a pianist who accompanied all our numbers. The school did not use recorded music. The very first dance that was ever choreographed by my dance teacher to a record was "Mack the Knife" which marked a turning point in that teacher's dance school and in my learning to dance to prerecorded music. By the next year, the pianist was gone, and ALL of our numbers were set to records.
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I had two invitations to friends' homes for Thanksgiving on Thursday. I accepted the first one, and when a second friend called several days later to invite me and I told him I already had plans for Thursday, he moved his dinner to Friday, so I will have TWO Thanksgiving meals this week. I am one lucky fella.
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Good morning TCB!
What can YOU tell us about ALEXANDER? Was he truly great, or only so-so? ;)
(Just pulling your leg, TCB. . .the RIGHT one, of course).
Actually, td, I was too young to start dating while Alexander was alive. I didn't come out of the historical closet until I met Hannibal about 100 years later. In fact, the stories regarding our torrid affair eventually gave rise (pardon the pun) to the legend of Hannibal riding an elephant across the Alps!
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Good Morning!
Well, last night I fell asleep on the regular couch upstairs. My back... eh...
My niece and nephew have just come over, and my brother and his wife are "slowly" sneaking away to do some shopping. John Michael loves hanging out with his grandparents and uncles, but Alyssa still goes through some distress when her parents are not in sight. However, "Uncle Jojo" found some Sponge Bob Square Pants cookies the other day, and those seem to be keeping them occupied right now. -And it sounds like my nephew, John Michael, is trying to help my mom redecorate and reorganize the upstairs guestroom. Hmm....
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TCB :
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Another review in VARIETY this morning was of the Kelsey Grammer A CHRISTMAS CAROL which comes on next Sunday. This is the Alan Menken/Lynn Ahrens Madison Square Garden version of the story that I'm sure some of you have seen (I haven't; don't even have the cast CD that was made). I've always been so partial to the Leslie Bricusse SCROOGE that any other musical version just hasn't ever interested me.
The VARIETY review mentions that it's not nearly as good as SCROOGE or as good as the MISTER MAGOO CHRISTMAS CAROL musical, but that it would come in third place among musical versions of the story. That said, the review did say it was moderately entertaining (after a slow start) and better than you might think it's going to be.
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Another review in VARIETY this morning was of the Kelsey Grammer A CHRISTMAS CAROL which comes on next Sunday. This is the Alan Menken/Lynn Ahrens Madison Square Garden version of the story that I'm sure some of you have seen (I haven't; don't even have the cast CD that was made). I've always been so partial to the Leslie Bricusse SCROOGE that any other musical version just hasn't ever interested me.
And the Menken version contains two of my favorites of his compositions, "A Place Called Home" and "God Bless Us Everyone," both of which have been featured on albums which BK has produced.
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DR Danise:
-Widescreen - always. I don't even have that big a TV, but I always prefer the widescreen so that I can see the whole picture.
-It's a tie between "Frosty the Snowman" and whichever Santa Claus one that has Mr. Heat Miser. Although, I am happy to have "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" on DVD now too.
-I'm also a big fan of stuffing/dressing. Especially from the side pan - not cooked in the turkey - since I like it when the topping gets crunchy.
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Another review in VARIETY this morning was of the Kelsey Grammer A CHRISTMAS CAROL which comes on next Sunday. This is the Alan Menken/Lynn Ahrens Madison Square Garden version of the story that I'm sure some of you have seen (I haven't; don't even have the cast CD that was made). I've always been so partial to the Leslie Bricusse SCROOGE that any other musical version just hasn't ever interested me.
The VARIETY review mentions that it's not nearly as good as SCROOGE or as good as the MISTER MAGOO CHRISTMAS CAROL musical, but that it would come in third place among musical versions of the story. That said, the review did say it was moderately entertaining (after a slow start) and better than you might think it's going to be.
I just find it interesting that none of the commercials I've seen for the upcoming A Christmas Carol with Kelsey Grammer mention that it's a musical. Or at least featured a clip of singing in the commercials. Or even a musical by the composer of A Little Mermaid and/or Beauty & The Beast. At least in the few commercials that I've seen for the program. I wonder if the fact that it's being shown on NBC and not ABC has anything to do with those "omissions".
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That's an interesting point, DR Jose. You're right: nothing has been made of the fact that it's a musical. Christmas musicals often garner big ratings. Angela Lansbury's MRS. SANTA CLAUS (despite a really mediocre score by Jerry Herman) did very big in the ratings the first year it aired.
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I also am in the widescreen ALWAYS camp. And it infuriates me when we're not even offered a choice. Still angry at Warners for releasing DEATHTRAP in full screen only. Irritating.
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Speaking from experience, many of my customers DO leave the tip on their charge charges WITH an additional amount of cash on the table. ;D
I, too, was looking forward to BEYOND THE SEA. Maybe the soundtrack will have to suffice.
Is anyone other than me looking forward to Oliver Stone's take on ALEXANDER (the Great)? I don't even like Angelina Jolie!
Whenever possible, I try to leave a cash tip when I charge my meal to my credit card. Or at least some cash. Knowing what some waiters and waitresses have to go through when the tip is left on the credit card... Some restaurants will not "tip out" at the end of the evening when a tip is left on the credit card. They usually wait until the full charge has gone through and been approved (which is usually not until the "batch" at the end of the week), and/or put the tip amount into the next paycheck. A friend of mine works at a place that actually has the gall to take out a percentage of credit card tips in order to compensate for the restaurant's processing fee! Talk about cheap!
-And if I feel that the bartender has been generous that night with his "pours" - or if he has sent over something complimentary for me and my party to try (which happened to us in NYC last week) - then I always drop off a separate tip at the bar on my way out.
As for Alexander... There have been ads in the Metro system in DC for the movie since early summer! And they were side by side with... was it Orlando? I keep thinking the movie has already come and gone. The current publicity blitz seems a bit vague to me, but I think that has to do with Oliver Stone. Colin Farrell's blond tresses don't bother, but I find my mind wandering to the question, "What kind of makeup did they us to cover up his tattoos?"
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-And I didn't realize A Home At The End of the World came out on DVD the other week already. It's on my list!
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What I find interesting is that everywhere I've looked, it's being referred to as A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE MUSICAL!
http://www.hallmarkent.com/property.php?propertyId=christmascarolmu (http://www.hallmarkent.com/property.php?propertyId=christmascarolmu)
Geraldine Chaplin is certainly an interesting choice for the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. . .
. . .and there will be a recording on JAY Records. :)
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What I find interesting is that everywhere I've looked, it's being referred to as A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE MUSICAL!
http://www.hallmarkent.com/property.php?propertyId=christmascarolmu (http://www.hallmarkent.com/property.php?propertyId=christmascarolmu)
Geraldine Chaplin is certainly an interesting choice for the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. . .
. . .and there will be a recording on JAY Records. :)
Yep... Even NBC's website has "The Musical" in small print below the title. I guess they're just counting on the star power factor to attract the audiences.
At least they cast mainly "adult" stars - well, not "adult - XXX", "adult - grown up" - older demographic. Jennifer Love-Hewitt seems to be the only one who skews young. In any case, I hope it does attract families and not just the parents.
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Now, an ADULT (XXX) CHRISTMAS CAROL could conceivably be conceived by the dangerous and brilliant mind that brought us THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL. . . . . ::)
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Hmmm, am I the only one who hates widescreen?
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YEAH! My niece, Alyssa, no longer starts crying and screaming when I get near her. She just starts shaking her head, and backing away, "No, no, no!" -Hey, it's progress! ;)
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Yesterday I heard Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is? on the radio and I decided that it must be the stupidiest non song ever recorded. Does anyone have other choices for the stupidiest non song ever recorded?
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Hmmm, am I the only one who hates widescreen?
Once you get a widescreen tv you will see what you are missing
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Has Alan Menkan ever won a Tony Award? I don't think so, but nbc.com says he has
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td I remember the ordeals of getting my father places in his walker. Finally I refused and insisted he go in a wheel chair. Taking 45 minutes from the car to get inside the restaurant was too much for us both. I went with groups of people from the nursing home on excursions, none of which equaled outings with my father. Finally Keith & I would go to the deli and take food to his house for a quiet dinner. I think he was happier with that too. But then I had to sit under the bird cage with the birds that never shut up and the cat trying to reach the birds by climbing on me.
Kerry, GOOD JOB VIBES!
Jose we have watched a few fun and interesting episodes of DINNER FOR FIVE. I didn’t know it was still on.
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Always widescreen. Jennifer, you are simply tied to your square TV and wanting to fill it with an image. However, when you fill it with an image of a scope film you are missing forty percent of the image, and every composition that the director and cameraman strove for is no longer in evidence. The motion picture is an art form. Would you prefer the painting of The Last Supper with only the center portion, so it could fit your TV?
By all means I think everyone who's interested in the Darin picture should see it themselves - it might be to someone else's tastes. I'm curious to see how it fares in reviews - given the inanity of nearly every critic writing, I wouldn't be surprised if they thought it was "innovative" rather than just a pale copy of others who did it better.
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And the joke about gettting a widescreen TV - people like Jennifer (and there are millions) who want their TVs filled, will then be upset that older Academy ratio films and TV shows (you know, anything made before 1953 and most TV shows up until the last few years) have bars on the sides of the image and only fill the center of the screen - I fully expect that they will want those images reformatted or they'll use their zoom feature and just lop off the heads and feet.
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Not only does re-framing a widescreen movie to TV destroy those compositions, but it blows the picture up so that it looks overly grainy, lacking color, and generally horrible. I simply cannot stand to watch full frame versions of widescreen movies.
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Alan Menken has never won a Tony Award for a score. If he has one (and I don't think he does), he was one of numerous producers of some show that won for Best Musical.
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Menken was only a nominee for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, not a winner. Now, Academy Awards, he has plenty of. . .
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I saw Kinsey last week, too, and rather enjoyed it. While I thought Mr. Liam Neeson was quite good, I was most impressed by three members of the supporting cast: Miss Laura Linney (always, always wonderful), Mr. Peter Saarsgaard (sp?) and especially Mr. John Lithgow as Dr. Kinsey's father.
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Menken also has many Grammy Awards to his credit:
http://www.grammy.com/awards/search/index.aspx (http://www.grammy.com/awards/search/index.aspx)
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Actually, td, I was too young to start dating while Alexander was alive. I didn't come out of the historical closet until I met Hannibal about 100 years later. In fact, the stories regarding our torrid affair eventually gave rise (pardon the pun) to the legend of Hannibal riding an elephant across the Alps!
Oh, my Golly TCB...that gave me such a good laugh this morning! LOL!
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Mr. Menken's shelf certainly isn't empty, even without a Tony:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0579678/awards (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0579678/awards)
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I must now hie myself to the town of Independence where I will attend a grand partay for my nephew Jeffrey who is on leave from service in Iraq. My brother Allen and his wife Barb (parents of Jeffrey) and my mom are driving up from Medford and many other family members will be in attendance! It will be held at my siblings father's house. He has an airplane hanger attached to his home and they are forever trying to get me to fly in his plane...I however do not fancy flying in a plane with a 78 year old pilot...and that is that! (actually I don't fancy flying in a plane at all if I can help it!)
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Yes, I forgot to mention Mr. Lithgow, who was, as always, terrific. The cast is excellent (including Timothy Hutton), it's just the film which, for me, only had sporadic moments. Others at my screening thought it was the best film of the year, so there you are. I haven't seen a "best" film this year, but then I've seen very little.
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From the "Kids Say The Darndest Things" file...
I turn on my laptop, and start IE. Playbill.com is my home page. And on the homepage today is a picture of Dame Edna's opening night playbill:
(http://www.playbill.com/images/photos/dameednalead_1100879107.jpg)
My nephew comes by... "Hey, is that a picture of you?"
-"What?!??! No!"
"Well, it sure looks like grandma!"
Hmmm...
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Yesterday I heard Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is? on the radio and I decided that it must be the stupidiest non song ever recorded. Does anyone have other choices for the stupidiest non song ever recorded?
Try Terry Jacks' cover of Jacques Brel's ill-translated "Seasons in the Sun," the English lyrics written by Rod McKuen.
I suppose we could also say "Those Were the Days," NOT the ALL IN THE FAMILY theme, but the one that Mary Hopkin(s) sang.
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My nephew comes by... "Hey, is that a picture of you?"
Jose, isn't it amazing what a little hair color, lipstick and outre glasses can do?
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I enjoyed Kinsey. Liked all the performances and it was an interesting way to discover the history of this famed sex researcher that I really knew little about.
My wonderful exec at NBC on HERCULES was the same executive for the CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE MUSICAL. (He's also a fan of Bruce Kimmel's, having many of his produced-CDs). He showed me some footage of Christmas Carol and I'd certainly watch it if I was going to be here on Thanksgiving. It's apparently based on some perenniel extravagaza musical that was performed every year in NYC.
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elmore: Don't forget amazon, while you still have the tome in your head.
I've seen the Christmas Carol extravaganza twice, the first two years of its running, as I had friends in it and friends behind the scenes. I thought it was not well-directed for the stage, but liked the adaptation pretty well, and there were some lovely songs by Menken and Ahrens. The first time I saw it I saw it from Miss Ahrens' house seats - she put me directly under the "snow" that dumps on the audience at the end - she thought that was very amusing.
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Jose, isn't it amazing what a little hair color, lipstick and outre glasses can do?
Well, at least I didn't have on my "I'm a friend of Kenny" t-shirt!
;D
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elmore: Don't forget amazon, while you still have the tome in your head.
Well, it's posted. I did a better job yesterday. Damn Amazon.com for crashing!
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DR Elmore,
I think you mentioned Amanda Plummer in a recent post. I just read that she'll be starring in THE LARK at next summer's Stratford Festival. Michael Lindsay-Hogg is directing.
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DR Elmore,
I think you mentioned Amanda Plummer in a recent post. I just read that she'll be starring in THE LARK at next summer's Stratford Festival. Michael Lindsay-Hogg is directing.
I love Amanda! I think she'll be wonderful. Are they doing Lillian Hellman's or Chrtstopher Fry's version, do you know?
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The confusion about the Tony Award-winning creator of A Christmas Carol: lyricist Lynn Ahrens won a Tony, for Ragtime. Composer Alan Menken has won many an Oscar, but never the Tony. Like a lot of people, I wish he'd write more for the stage.
Snow falls on people in Joy's show, Christmas Dreams, in which she plays Mrs. Santa Claus. In fact, she sings a rousing Jerry Herman tune, but it's not one from Mrs. Santa Claus.
Wednesday, between West Wing and Law & Order, the ad for A Christmas Carol showed little else but Jesse L. Martin (of Law & Order) singing and dancing. It was quite obvious it's a musical, although they merely showed the faces of Kelsey Grammar and Jason Alexander (neither singing).
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So what kind of goodies are ya'll looking forward to on the official "Stuff Yourself Silly" day?
Thanksgiving will be spent with der Brucer's family, his daughter and all of her fixings menfolk. I've been asked to bring sweet potatoes and the Smithfield ham der B promised to share some time ago.
The sweet potatoes will be very traditional, as requested. (Also, as it becoming tradition, she asked her daddy to ask me, instead of doing the asking direct >:(.) Orange juice, brown sugar, chopped pecans, marshmallows browned on top. The advantage to this is that I can make it at home, and we can reheat it at their place. The disadvantage is that son-in-law cannot stand sweet potatoes.
By the way, the tradition of marshmallows on sweet potatoes apparently started in the 1930s. A lot of bad food ideas come from that decade.
I've never prepared a Smithfield ham before, so I've been looking up country hams and aged hams in my cookbooks to get the basic idea of what I'm supposed to do. Apparently, step one is to get out a good scrub brush and some plain soap and start scrubbing. Smithfield hams get a patina of mold on the outside while they're aging, and that needs to be washed off before anything else can happen. They're also coated with salt, which also has to be washed off first, then leached out by soaking, preferably for a couple of days. Then, the ham has to be skinned and a lot of the fat layer cut away...
This sounds like a lot of work! :o
Fortunately, I was able to talk about this with my favorite chef, Charles. His suggestion was to soak the ham in the sink, usually the most spacious area in any kitchen and the easiest to drain away the salty water. He also gave a few suggestions on roasting the pig leg when it's been fully soaked.
So, I'll be scrubbing that ham tonight.
Since I'm in a Holiday mood, here is another question. What was/is your favorite Holiday classic? Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin' To Town, Frosty The Snowman, The Little Drummer Boy, Year Without a Santa Claus, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, etc?
Oh, how I remember Rudolph. Der B has never seen it, but we were able to find it on DVD and he's got no excuse now!
I also fondly remember Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, with razzleberry everything.
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An animated Christmas page three dance to you all!
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Star Wars: Full Screen or Wide Screen? Which one would you buy?
Wide screen. Just don't try to watch it on one of those TVs you can set on your stomach while you lay down on the couch after Thanksgiving dinner.
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FYI - The newest CHRISTMAS CAROL was shot in jolly old Budapest.
I walked to the Studio City Farmers Market this morning, Bought some nice fresh tomatoes and lovely flowers for the new home environment, as well as a few other items. Now will clean up the office, await a visit from my landlord, Giorgio (yes, he has a charming accent) and then do an errand or two. After that I will finish clearing my office space -- tomorrow it's back to work full time. Among other things, tomorrow afternoon I have a big phone meeting with New York (not the whole city, just a few select people) regarding what I dearly hope will be my next gig.
DR Elmore - Gift of Love was run on United Airline flights to (or from) Hawaii a few Christmases ago, so I guess it must be holiday appropriate. Debbie Reynolds gives a lovely performance for which she was Emmy nominated. As I said yesterday, it's not War and Peace, but it has some nice moments.
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Yesterday I heard Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is? on the radio and I decided that it must be the stupidiest non song ever recorded. Does anyone have other choices for the stupidiest non song ever recorded?
"They're Coming to Take Me Away"?
What bothers me about "Is That All There Is" is that it is such a damned depressing song. How can it ever have been a hit? Or was it that a lot of people identified with the ditty, because it was released before Prozac became the drug of choice?
We'll break out the wine and self-medicate
If that's all there is!
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Always widescreen. Jennifer, you are simply tied to your square TV and wanting to fill it with an image. However, when you fill it with an image of a scope film you are missing forty percent of the image, and every composition that the director and cameraman strove for is no longer in evidence. The motion picture is an art form. Would you prefer the painting of The Last Supper with only the center portion, so it could fit your TV?
If you can stick to films made prior to the Scope processes became popular, you should have plenty to watch without losing any of the filmed image. And there are plenty of films out there that were made for the TV screen.
Of course, since many current television programs are being made in "widescreen", you may soon have to stop watching anything new. :-\
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And the joke about gettting a widescreen TV - people like Jennifer (and there are millions) who want their TVs filled, will then be upset that older Academy ratio films and TV shows (you know, anything made before 1953 and most TV shows up until the last few years) have bars on the sides of the image and only fill the center of the screen - I fully expect that they will want those images reformatted or they'll use their zoom feature and just lop off the heads and feet.
Cinematography by the great Sidney Carton! Love it!
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From the "Kids Say The Darndest Things" file...
I turn on my laptop, and start IE. Playbill.com is my home page. And on the homepage today is a picture of Dame Edna's opening night playbill:
(http://www.playbill.com/images/photos/dameednalead_1100879107.jpg)
My nephew comes by... "Hey, is that a picture of you?"
-"What?!??! No!"
"Well, it sure looks like grandma!"
Hmmm...
I can't quite see you with fuchsia hair, DR Jose. Teal, perhaps, or possibly lilac...but you'd risk being mistaken for Mrs. Slocombe.
;)
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...Unless I'm just blind to my own post... Or maybe I just thought I hit the "Post" button... I thought I had posted this already... In any case...
DR elmore - I'm heading back down to Richmond tonight, so I'm afraid I won't be able to meet up with you while during your LoC visit. Safe travels, and short waits (at the LoC).
...Now I go back through the posts now and see that I indeed already post this, then...
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Hmmm, am I the only one who hates widescreen?
No. I work with a woman who doesn't like widescreen, either. Up until a few years ago, there were even a couple of movies that she wouldn't get because they were only available in widescreen. She has since relaxed her standards. ::)
I prefer the "original aspect ratio." Whatever it was filmed in or originally shown in. The worst is when they take some TV shows (and some movies) that were full frame and cut off the top and bottom to make widescreen DVDs. I hate it when they do that. Modern movies such as "Dick Tracy" were shot full frame and matted for the theatrical release and that's okay...for the most part. In that case, I have the full frame laserdisc. But when they take older movies that were NEVER widescreen and crop them because audiences want widescreen no matter what, then that's just plain wrong...in my humble opinion (IMHO in Internet lingo).
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Dear husband Richard and I just returned from major Thanksgiving grocery shopping, which we had to do today, because I work Monday and Tuesday and didn't want to put it off until the day before the big day. Have other fun and important things to do that day like baking pumpkin and pecan pies and going to the Univ. of Cincinnati to pick up our freshman son, Rob.
Safe travels to the Pogues and to elmore, who's going to LoC, one of my favorite places.
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I've never prepared a Smithfield ham before, so I've been looking up country hams and aged hams in my cookbooks to get the basic idea of what I'm supposed to do. Apparently, step one is to get out a good scrub brush and some plain soap and start scrubbing. Smithfield hams get a patina of mold on the outside while they're aging, and that needs to be washed off before anything else can happen. They're also coated with salt, which also has to be washed off first, then leached out by soaking, preferably for a couple of days. Then, the ham has to be skinned and a lot of the fat layer cut away...
This sounds like a lot of work! :o
Sounds disgusting! :P :-X
I have to admit...well, I don't have to, but I'm going to...I don't like turkey. Chicken's okay, but I just have never liked turkey. Or stuffing. When I was still in school (middle and high), there was a period of about five years where I got sick at Thanksgiving time and wasn't able to eat. Shucky darn! ::) Anyway, nowadays I only like turkey thinly sliced on a sub sandwich. This year, we're having the food fest at my sister's house. She's getting me sandwich stuff. Fine with me. :)
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And Peggy Lee won her only Grammy as Best Female Performance for "Is That All There Is."
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This afternoon I watched the third in the NUNSENSE family of musicals: NUNSENSE JAMBOREE. During the course of NUNCRACKERS, several of the characters including the character I play make reference to JAMBOREE, so I thought I ought to watch it to see what they were talking about.
It was as tuneful and silly as all the NUNSENSE shows are, but even if I'm very prejudiced, I think NUNCRACKERS is a far superior show to JAMBOREE with a lot more heart and better songs. It's also not as long, for when you go too much past 90 minutes, the whole worldly nun concept really wears out its welcome. JAMBOREE was over two hours.
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According to my exec, everybody including Jennifer Love Hewitt does their own singing.
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...The worst is when they take some TV shows (and some movies) that were full frame and cut off the top and bottom to make widescreen DVDs....But when they take older movies that were NEVER widescreen and crop them because audiences want widescreen no matter what, then that's just plain wrong...in my humble opinion (IMHO in Internet lingo).
It's the new colorization! Eeeewwwww! :(
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On a related-if-odd note (D flat, I think), I've lost track of the number of times I've been asked while shopping for DVDs what the difference is between fullscreen and widescreen.
All right, it's only happened maybe five or six times, but since I'm not really sure of the exact count, that counts as losing track, right?
It usually happens at Sam's Club, where an older couple (my age or older) will be holding two different copies of a film, one widescreen and the other full. From the puzzled looks on their faces, I can guess what the problem is, so I go over and help them understand why the film has two versions in release. No, I don't pretend to be an employee. No, I don't tell them which version to buy; there have been enough films on TV by now shown in widescreen that people have seen what it looks like. And I get a lot of thank-yous for the help.
My next job, perhaps?
(By the way, this used to happen to me at the Long Beach Sam's Club, as well as the local store in Dover. I suspect it would happen to me in Kalamazoo.)
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On a related-if-odd note (D flat, I think), I've lost track of the number of times I've been asked while shopping for DVDs what the difference is between fullscreen and widescreen.
I work for a library and co-workers ask me what's the difference between widescreen and letterbox! :o
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Which reminds me, we need to get large dog biscuits.
It's one of those odd shopping things. Normally, der B and I are nominally together, often covering different parts of a store, and Sam's Club is no exception. I'll have the list, and he sort of explores.
Friday, because he was up with the Grandlads, he ended up going to Sam's Club without me (but not alone, since the younger grandlad was with him. Precocious fellow, William knew what he and his family needed Grampa to buy, like cereal. Even at four years, he's better organized than anyone else in that household). There were two items I knew we needed ourselves: dog biscuits and mushrooms. Only problem was, I told der B over the phone that we needed the LITTLE dog biscuits, when it was the LARGE biscuits we were almost out of.
Why I remembered little, instead of large, I don't know. I do know that if I'd been there, I would have visually remembered large. It's a visual thing, but one that didn't translate into the right words.
But we've got plenty of little dog biscuits right now. At least we won't be running out of those for a while.
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That's easy: Widescreen is a pretty good song by Rupert Holmes. Letterbox isn't.
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That's easy: Widescreen is a pretty good song by Rupert Holmes. Letterbox isn't.
Thanks! I'll remember that the next time the questions comes up! ;D
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DR Elmore,
Good question (whose translation of The Lark, at Stratford). Checked Stratford's website, but couldn't find out. It opens August 11, 05.
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That's quite a trivia question (questions). Each time I think I have a new angle, it fizzes out.
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I've oversung today. How do I know? I feel like I've pulled a tendon in my throat. Not a good thing.
Re. tipping: Someone asked yesterday if I thought the people around us didn't tip at the end of the night because they heard me call out El Cheapo. I don't know. I'm not even sure they checked their coats. It wasn't my intention to say it loudly so they'd tip me - I just wanted to embarrass the hell out of him, which I think I did. I'm sad to say it's the norm to only walk out with $5-$10 in tips after a four hour show.
I'm of the opinion that if someone provides a service for you that you could be doing yourself, then you should tip. That hateful man asked me if I would expect him to tip for a $1.25 cup of coffee. I said I would and that if he didn't want to tip $.50 for a $1.25 cup of coffee then he should make his own coffee at home and carry a Thermos. If you can do it yourself and don't want to pay for it, then by all means, do it yourself. No sweat off my back - literally. Eat at home. Keep your coat on your lap. Bring your own cup of coffee. Schlep your own luggage. Fine by me, but if I'm going to serve you your meal, carry your suitcase, pour your drink or hang your coat, you better believe you should tip me, and when I go out and people do those things for me, you better believe I tip them the way I would hope to be tipped. It's called courtesy.
And now I will step down off my soapbox.
I'm off to the Encores! Bash at City Center. Ms. Patti LuPone will be singing "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and Mr. Brent Barrett (TSMOE) will be performing, as well. Tres exciting!
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On the subject of tipping (I'm catching up on posts). I have a neighbor, a retired CNR (Canadian National Railway) porter, who has some interesting stories about tippers, generous and miserly. He tells me that "service people" like himself are almost always healthy tippers.
As for museums, my favorites include The Cloisters in upper Manhattan; and the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo.
Years ago (merging topics) I went to New York with an extraordinarily wealthy friend and her husband. We went to the Cloisters, where the admission wasn't set - it was simply whatever you wished to pay. I placed a five dollar bill into the box. My friend's husband told me I was nuts. He dropped in a quarter. (I don't go out with these people any more, but I do remember topping up their meager tip at a Chinese restaurant.) (How wealthy are they, BTW? They have one kid - and nine bathrooms.)
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I have a friend who, as a general rule, tips 20% but never less than $2.00. Just had to share. :)
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elmore's review is up at amazon - I liked it very much.
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Re: tipping
As for DR Jane's comments about leaving extra tip, do most people leave cash tips? I know I usually pay by credit card and leave the tip there (and so do many people I know). Hmmmm, if someone else is paying, how exactly do you sneak a look at the bill and then check what they've left? I guess I'm not used to this!
Jennifer you nonchalantly get money out of your purse, and then as you are leaving you make sure you are the last person to do so. Another method is to leave something personal on the table you have to retrieve. I usually know before hand if I need to leave an extra trip. Remember this is only if someone else has paid and I feel the tip is too meager. If a group is putting in money and I don’t feel it is enough I will openly say they need more and throw it in. You must be careful then, yes this has happened to me, someone will then remove the portion they put down.
Like td, if we are paying to begin with then it isn’t a problem including a big tip for additional service, or to cover our rude co-diners. Sometimes instead of including the tip with the credit card slip I leave cash on the table.
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I'll be leaving shortly to meet some friends for dinner, after which we will hie ourselves to Walt Disney Concert Hall for a concert by Miss Barbara Cook.
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I'll be leaving shortly to meet some friends for dinner, after which we will hie ourselves to Walt Disney Concert Hall for a concert by Miss Barbara Cook.
DRJay, I'm jealous!
Dear Friend BK, thank you. I thought I'd phrased it better yesterday. I am so looking forward to seeing you in two weeks, PARTAY!
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Back from my nephew's party. We had an early Christmas for him as he will be back in Iraq during the holiday. Lots of fun, but I left when they pulled the airplane out of the hanger as I knew what was coming next!
Back home I raked the leaves and gave the front yard one last mow. Now I am pooped.
I then decided to take my new (cheap) stereo out of it's box and set it up. I didn't need a new stereo really but I did need something that had dual cassettes...very hard to find anymore. I wanted just a little boombox with dual cassettes so that I could make dupes of my recorded interviews. I always make a dupe in case something should happen to the original tape...wouldn't want to have to do a whole interview over!
So I am setting up the stereo in my crampt office space/dinning room and not paying attention I lift one of the speakers and knock off of the wall a display of old salt and pepper shakers (very cute ones of animals and people, etc) off of the wall. Well they came crashing down! Broke a set from the 1930s >:(
But now it is all set up...however, for some strange reason the buttons for the cassette player part are not marked so I do not know which are the play, record, stop, open buttons! Why in the world would they not mark them I do not know...???
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"They're Coming to Take Me Away"?
What bothers me about "Is That All There Is" is that it is such a damned depressing song. How can it ever have been a hit? Or was it that a lot of people identified with the ditty, because it was released before Prozac became the drug of choice?
;D Maybe that is why I liked it so much. I found it funny, not depressing.
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The cd player part of the new stereo is marked well...and I am now listening to BUS AND TRUCK! My, but that mysterious Guy Haines has such a nice voice!
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Oh, I forgot, while at the partay my big brother Jeff (who is also in Iraq) IM'd us on my sibling's father's computer...several of us just happened to be at the computer at the time so it was a nice surprise...it was 11:00pm Iraqi time and he was about to head to bed. We each chatted with my brother. He will return to the US in December. My nephew Jeffrey returns to Iraq Nov. 30 but then will be back home for good in February or March. Then hopefully I will have no other relatives in Iraq...although my cousin Bob is in one of the Arabian countries, I think.
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elmore have fun. The Library of Congress is a place I have never seen and should. Remind me to go next October.
Jose I’m so glad you are making progress with your niece.
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Danise I might make stuffing, if nothing else this Thanksgiving. Our neighbors invited us over for pumpkin pie. I’m not a fan of canned pumpkin pie. I like my pie made with fresh ingredients.
I haven’t watched Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer since I was a child. It was a favorite of mine then, but I will wait to watch it again with a child.
Holiday Classics:
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET-Natalie Wood
WHITE CHRISTMAS
CHRISTMAS IN CONNETICUT
THE BISHOP’S WIFE-Loretta Young, Cary Grant, David Niven
SCROOGED
My favorite CHRISTMAS CAROLE is with Albert Finney.
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Yes, Jane you must watch RUDOLPH again! I love that special! Have watched it almost every year since I was a child. The one that I have not seen in many, many years is THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY...it is on DVD, but 14.99 is a lot of money to shell out for 1 half hour show.
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I read a touching article on Kevin Spacey. Seems he is a big fan of Bobby Darrin and did this movie at his mother’s urging, before she passed away. They were very close.
I’m sitting here wondering why I don’t have any CD’s of Bobby Darrin, odd since I’m a big fan. The radio station plays his songs often, including BLACK COFFEE.
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THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY is not one of my favorite songs. As a results I don't believe I have seen the show.
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elmore have fun. The Library of Congress is a place I have never seen and should. Remind me to go next October.
I'll come down and meet you so that you can meet all my friends in the Music Division.
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Good Evening!
I'm back home in Richmond. Very easy drive back down I-95. I did a double take when I looked at the clock in my car and it said 6:50 - I had just left Fairfax at 5:15. Very good time. And I was not speeding. It really is amazing how fast 65mph is.
So, now I'm doing some laundry, just heated up some dinner (roast chicken), and I'm about to check on some bills and stuff on-line. Very exciting evening, huh?
-Although, I thinking I may go out later for scare-aoke later on. It usually doesn't get going until around 10:00. We shall see.
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I'll come down and meet you so that you can meet all my friends in the Music Division.
That sounds like fun and then we can take the train back to NY together.
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Watch Broadway: The Golden Age tonight. I think I actually liked it better than the other Broadway documentary. Onto the extras now.
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Praise to Buddah that Kevin Spacey's mother was not a Vic Damone fan.
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Two posts in two hours - exactly what universe is this?
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Just finished watching RUNAWAY GIRL (1962) starring Lili St. Cyr. Poor Lili...she was a much better stripper then she was an actress! Ugh! But Laurie Mitchell and Jock Mahony were both fun.
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Had a very long rehearsal tonight, and I'm very tired. Act I is very physically tiring for me, and when it was over, the director commanded that we jump right into Act II. Thankfully, I'm not in the opening number of the second act so it gave me a chance to recover, and the next number that I am in is a very stationary song, so by the time we got to the Village People parody, I had my second wind and was able to do it.
Am I getting too old to do this stuff? Don't even want to think about it.
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I have WALK ON THE WILD SIDE in the DVD player, so at some point this week, I WILL see it.
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Might I just ask where in tarnation IS everyone? Gone to pasture?
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Hello, fellow dear readers. I was at church all morning, at a play all afternoon, and have been slaving over a hot xerox machine all evening. How's that for an exciting day?
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I'm here, I'm here...
Alas, no karaoke for me tonight. Instead I did three, count 'em three loads of laundry! Isn't that just too exciting?!?!?
:P
In other news...
I had asked about E-bay a few weeks ago, and since I was reminded again by my father again about my "stuff" in the basement...
Does it really help to have some of those bells and whistles when it comes to listing things on E-bay? Or is it still just a matter of people will search for what they are searching for?
Is there still a market out there for LPs (vinyl) - mainly OCRs?
Is it really worth keeping print issues of Gourmet magazine anymore? (I suspect they'll go into the recycling bin.)
...I'm sure I'll think of some other "getting rid of stuff" questions later on.
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I'm going to attempt to watch Love is a Many Splendored Thing. I just finished Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. The big question is, to eat or not too eat. I had some air hot dogs earlier (you know, no fat grams, fifty calories each) on air buns (you know, no fat grams, eighty calories each), and I had a small hot fudge sundae (you know, a zillion fat grams, and a few hundred calories). But, I'm hungry for something - I'll have to ponder.
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About as exciting as the day of DearReaderLaura.
I have been trasferring children's songs (ie songs for children) from tape to CD. They are all about 90 seconds long and there are so many. They are for a friend of a friend in New Zealand. She recorded them in the 1970's I think. I refrained from joining in the "action" songs.
I've finished one tape - another one to do. Why did I say yes?
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The Cds will be sent to New Zealand - I guess for hobbit educational programmes.
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I think I need coffee or tea or both!
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I opted for surrealism on a Sunday night, and watched Jodorowsky's FANDO & LIS as well as the accompaning documentary THE CONSTELLATION JODOROWSKY.
Strange film, but not without merit. At times I wish today's cinema was as unpolished and surreal as Jodorowsky's works. The print on the dvd put out by FANTOMAS is quite nice: stark black and white cinematography, nary a sign of age. Seeing this film for the first time, it reminded me of Fellini and John Waters.
The documentary features a speaking appearance by Marcel Marceau.
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I watched Darin's "Mack Is Back" DVD last night. A somewhat self-indulgent looking TV broadcast - maybe it was just the style of the times. His talent certainly still shone through. The documentary material included was interesting.
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Another Dusty Springfield Cd arrived in the mail for me today. Her material is being repackaged so much - I can't remember which tracks I have where. Albums were issued with different tracks in the USA. It's all too confusing. This Cd set has her version of Carole King's "You've Got A Friend" which should be interesting. (I of course may well have it somewhere else).
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My favorite Christmas special of all time is A Charlie Brown Christmas. I was a huge Peanuts fan when I was a lad and I loved all the Charlie Brown TV specials. Ironically, though, I missed the first showing of A Charlie Brown Christmas because my family was out shopping for and buying an artificial Christmas tree. But I did see it the following year, and every year since. The same Christmas tree has been used almost every year since, too.
What is kind of a shame about Christmas specials is that they're not that special anymore. Because of the existance of VCRs, marketed videos and DVDs, kids and families can watch shows like ACBC, Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer and How the Grinch Stole Christmas over and over again, whenever they like. These shows were major events for me as a child. Big bowls of popcorn were made. Cushions were pulled up closer to the TV than normally allowed. Grownups let themselves be "shushed" if they talked too loud. And you had to pay attention, cause if you missed that first terrifing peek of the Abominable Snow Monster, you didn't get to see it for another year. And when it was over, all you could really do was sort of bask in it and replay it the best you could in your mind.
Nowadays, it's nice that we have these shows at our fingertips, ready to view at any time at our convience with no annoying commercial breaks. But at the same time, there's something within me that yearns for simpler times, when ACHB was truely a Christmas special and not just another DVD amongst many others crammed into my video bookcase.
Ugh! How terribly nostalgic I am tonight! Next thing you know I'll be pulling out my collection of Sears Christmas Wishbooks to lull myself asleep.
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My sentimental state of mind was probably set off by watching tonight's Hallmark Hall of Fame, When We Were Grownups. I thought it was an above average Hallmark outing overall, and it managed to push my emotional buttons at the end. And it's wonderful to see Blythe Danner come to the fore for a change, instead of playing someone or other's ditsy mother. She still is a marvelous actress.
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And one for Mahler.
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Page Five Dance:
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Almost one in the morning and I'm not a bit sleepy. This is the results of deciding to go ahead and slug down a 20 oz. bottle of Pepsi Holiday Spice tonight even though I full well knew it contains caffeine.
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I've had complaints from certain quarters about the paucity of my posts of late. Oh well. What with going to Europe and moving, I do believe I have a legitimate excuse or two.
Re today's posts... I happen to like Is That All There Is? I like it a lot.
I didn't know there were any Lili St. Cyr movies available for home viewing. I've written a movie about her. On the other hand, I think I'd rather keep her in my imagination. It's not a biopic, so it doesn't really matter.
Certain quarters may not like this... but I'm zonked. This post may just be it for tonight.
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I've never heard of Pepsi Holiday Spice. What does it taste like? Is it a regional delicacy? Does it come in diet?
So, I was reading on the TV screen in the elevator tonight of the antioxidant properties of white tea. I've never heard of white tea, although I distinctly remember when I first heard of red tea. Any truth to these antioxidant claims? I don't know from antioxidants. It's such a long word. What are they supposed to do?
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This will come as no news to most of the Dear Readers out there in the dark, but Miss Barbara Cook surely is a national treasure. Her voice has mellowed to gold, and her interpretive powers remain unparallelled. Her Broadway concert, which I heard tonight, covers a broad range of top-notch material from the "Golden Age" of Broadway--with most of the program comprised of music that Miss Cook either introduced or sang in revivals and/or tours. She has a lovely sense of humor and clearly is energized by connecting with an audience. The most refreshing aspect of seeing Miss Cook in concert is the genuine appreciation she articulates for the opportunities she has experienced over the course of her lengthy career. So many of today's celebrities could learn quite a lesson from Miss Cook in this regard.
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This will come as no news to most of the Dear Readers out there in the dark, but Miss Barbara Cook surely is a national treasure. Her voice has mellowed to gold, and her interpretive powers remain unparallelled. Her Broadway concert, which I heard tonight, covers a broad range of top-notch material from the "Golden Age" of Broadway--with most of the program comprised of music that Miss Cook either introduced or sang in revivals and/or tours. She has a lovely sense of humor and clearly is energized by connecting with an audience. The most refreshing aspect of seeing Miss Cook in concert is the genuine appreciation she articulates for the opportunities she has experienced over the course of her lengthy career. So many of today's celebrities could learn quite a lesson from Miss Cook in this regard.
Who is currently accompanying her? Or was it a symphony concert?
-I just can't imagine what she went through after Wally Harper died earlier this year.
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Who is currently accompanying her? Or was it a symphony concert?
-I just can't imagine what she went through after Wally Harper died earlier this year.
Don Rebic was on the piano. The bassist--surprisingly and unfortunately--went uncredited both in the program and by Miss Cook.
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I believe Lili St. Cyr did an opus called Son of Sinbad with Dale Roberston and, if memory serves, an amusing Vincent Price as Omar Kayyam. The son of Sinbad meets up with the daughters of the 40 Thieves. I can't remember if Lili is one of these or just some babe in the caliph's palace who does a mean dance of the seven veils or some such nonsense. And nonsense it is, but rather entertaining with lots of lovely cheesecake. I believe the Forty Thieves' hangout was the ever-durable Bronson Caves right around the corner from where I live. I don't think Lili had any lines.
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I've never heard of Pepsi Holiday Spice. What does it taste like? Is it a regional delicacy? Does it come in diet?
So, I was reading on the TV screen in the elevator tonight of the antioxidant properties of white tea. I've never heard of white tea, although I distinctly remember when I first heard of red tea. Any truth to these antioxidant claims? I don't know from antioxidants. It's such a long word. What are they supposed to do?
Pepsi Holiday Spice is being rolled out this year for the first time, I think. It's a national promotion. And I don't believe it comes in diet. As for the taste, I'll have to wait for DR Dan (the Man) to answer that question, since I have yet to find it on my local shelves. -But I have been seeing the commercials on TV.
-I'm guessing a touch of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.
As for white tea... It's tea brewed from particular varieties of teas, and from very young leaves which have not been allowed to oxidize (and turn brown, dark, etc.). It's more like a very pale green tea. And like green teas, the leaves are handpicked from the top of the bush. Antioxidants help fight the free-radicals in your body - basically they help fight some of the pollutants in the body. Vitamins C and E are "related".
Here's link to Stash Teas:
Stash Teas (http://www.stashtea.com/teatypes.htm)
There are a bunch of links to click on for info. *And Stash Teas Bed & Breakfast Promotion is also worth checking out. Some good deals!
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Right now, I'm watching "Cirque du Soleil: Midnight Sun" on Bravo. The Cirque du Soleil shows never cease to amaze me...and they never will! What these people can do with their bodies is nothing less than absolutely amazing! And the costumes and make up! I haven't seen every Cirque du Soleil DVD, but I've got the 13 that are available from Netflix in my queue, including three for "Fire Within" (the TV show) and two different versions of "Alegria"...one from 1998 and one from 2003!
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Don Rebic was on the piano. The bassist--surprisingly and unfortunately--went uncredited both in the program and by Miss Cook.
I wonder if it was John Burr.
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Is it really worth keeping print issues of Gourmet magazine anymore? (I suspect they'll go into the recycling bin.)
I lost count of how many boxes of Bon App and others I have stacked up downstairs. Der B wouldn't let me throw out anything, and it all came East with the move. (Heck, at least there's that much less weight on the Western Continental Shelf, so it'll be a little longer before the Big One strikes!)
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"Allegria" is the only Cirque du Soleil I have seen live. Amazing. Have seen a few of the made for TV shows which are magic. Hope to see another performance in Melbourne in 2005.
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I've never heard of Pepsi Holiday Spice. What does it taste like? Is it a regional delicacy? Does it come in diet?
Pepsi Holiday Spice has some ginger and cinnamon added. It's not a regional thing, it's a holiday thing. Holiday (http://holidayspice.pepsiworld.com/home.php) Spice, get it?
Sorry to hear your television watching is restricted to the elevator. The drink is being advertised all over the place. Little elves trying to drive the big truck, too-big-for-his-britches announcer doing the voiceover, that sort of thing.
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And for more info, including recipes, nutritional content and actual content:
http://holidayspice.pepsiworld.com/home.php
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Or just click on Holiday in DR SWW's post above.. ;)
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DR SWW - Did you like Alton Brown's Stuffing/Dressing episode? My only quibble was with the amount of stuffing. I like stuffing. And I was hoping he would have come up with an alternative out-of-the-bird variation. -I like it when it gets crunchy.
-And good luck with the ham. I come and go with Smithfield ham. Sometimes it almost tastes fishy from all the salinity. Other times, I just can't get enough of it. Oh, and as for soaking it, a large food-grade bucket works well, or a cooler. I've used a cooler before, and it's nice just opening up the drain plug to drain off the water.