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Well, you've read the notes, you've sung the notes (if you haven't, go back immediately and sing them, each and every paragraph), and you are now ready to post until the singing cows come home. Orchestra, give me an A, even though we're in B.
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At least the topic gives me a chance to recommend the wonderful Katie Meluah's recording of "The Closest Thing To Crazy" (Composer Mike Batt).
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I don't hear SINGING. Has Ann caught up?
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You do NOT want to hear me sing. My singing sounds like Jabba the Hutt. Not like Pizza the Hutt, which would at least be an off-key rendition of O Sole Mio, but like Jabba the Hutt. Or like an elephant playing the tuba.
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I'm singing from Down Under
It's been raining - now there's thunder
Now the line I have to borrow
Is "The sun will come out tomorrow"
Hope all are well and smiling
Gawd, this song is quite beguiling
Well must dash away because
I have to speak to Tomofoz.
Sorry all, but it was the best song I could sing with such short notice.
(A la Dolly Levi....) "Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye"
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We need some audio.
Okay, I do believe we have a topic here. I used to wrestle on people's front lawns with my friend when we were in junior high school. I don't really remember why, but we got some rather lovely looks from people.
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was this friend male or female?
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Male. The one in Kritzerland.
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And what about you, Ann.
Another thing that a friend did in college - this guy named Tommy Lowe (I based a character in my musical Stages on him) used to go with all of us to Norm's. All Tommy wanted to be was an actor who could play cowboys. That's how he spoke, that's how he behaved. Some people at another table were giving us looks, probably because we were loud or something, but they were being really obnoxious about it. They'd finished eating and were about to leave when Tommy got up, sidled over to their table, gave them a mean cowboy look, and picked up what was left of a steak on a plate and put it in his pocket and walked away. The people hied themselves right out of there. Tommy's dream did come true, albeit briefly - he has a key role in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
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Howcum when I go to today's column I'm getting yesterday's column, not today's?
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Ahh. When I was in elementary school my best friend (male) and I used to ride our bikes around the neighborhood pretending they were horses. We got some odd looks too. He gave me a potted flower for my birthday in third grade.
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Not sure why, Pogue. It's definitely there. Try refreshing.
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Do you still have that potted flower, Ann?
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I feel like a potted flower right now.
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I keep forgetting that if I feel like it I can just up and carry this here Powerbook anywhere else in the house whilst staying online.
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So, I get this Ozzie version of the SE Mary Poppins because someone on that DVD forum said it had a 5.1 theater mix track instead of the US 2.0. Guess what? It doesn't. What planet do these idiots come from when they post this stuff?
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At least the topic gives me a chance to recommend the wonderful Katie Meluah's recording of "The Closest Thing To Crazy" (Composer Mike Batt).
which brings us to her wonderful rendition of Mike Batt's "Blame It on The Moon"! ... If anybody is able to get a copy of the complete " Blame It On the Moon" suite, (sung by Anna Maria Kaufmann) it is well worth a listen. - A beautiful recording.
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On that very same DVD site, someone has posted that he's found info that Li'l Abner will be out on DVD in April. Needless to say, if true it's the best DVD news of the year. However, given the track record of this site, I take it with a large urn of salt.
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I feel what we have here is a severe case of WUSSBURGERITIS. I'm already starving for Musso and Frank, and yet I will not be eating until seven o'clock in the evening hours.
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I am my own frenzy.
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So, I get this Ozzie version of the SE Mary Poppins because someone on that DVD forum said it had a 5.1 theater mix track instead of the US 2.0. Guess what? It doesn't. What planet do these idiots come from when they post this stuff?
hi bk. i have the MARY POPPINS dvd - be advised there were apparently 2 versions released here. The 40th anniversary edition I have has English language in 5.1 ration
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Ann, did you sing the notes in your lilting soprano?
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hi bk. i have the MARY POPPINS dvd - be advised there were apparently 2 versions released here. The 40th anniversary edition I have has English language in 5.1 ration
Was given "Mary Poppins" for My Birthday (Some gift givers are so thoughtful)- just checked. Mine too is as with OZDerek.
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HMV have not done well in Australia. Not good service and not good prices!!
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i'm with Tomofoz on that one .... there are better (and cheaper) stores in Australia - try www.jbhifi.com : i;m not sure if they post, but they do have the largest selection .. and the best prices.
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I, too, am seeing yesterday's notes where today's should be.
Had this bit of dialogue with my wife:
She: You're just stringing random words together and hoping they make sense.
Me: That's what writers do, honey.
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So where are the professional pics from age 15?
Hmmmmmmmmm......promises to read and then doesn't read.....Hollywood is the not the only place that happens.
DRMS - I also print out and re-write from a hard copy. Marking it up, making corrections, and finding errors I didn't notice on the screen, then go back into the computer.
IE is going away? Surely he meant for MAC's....what would Windows use? ALthough I don't use it anymore, a LOT of people do. Mozilla.org for me!
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm......when I was in the third and fourth grade, I lived next to the man who drove the school bus, and so did my cousins Linda and Danny. So we were the first ones on the bus at 6:15 am and the last ones off the bus at 4:30.
In the afternoon, Linda and I would always sit together on the very back seat - then everytime a stop was made, we would move to an empty seat, taking turns. The first one who got to the seat behind the driver was the winner!
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I went to bed early - always a mistake. Because here I am, up at 3 AM. Too early to work - brain's not functionining yet. Caught up on the posts. Now I'll go back to bed and get up at my usual time - 6 - in a bit.
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(Gregorian chant) I read all the notes and the posts so far and bk I must ask. Must we sing each others posts as we read them also? I have sung all the posts so far just to be safe but with your permission I will stop and just sing mine. I was rather suprised as I sang today's notes, I changed styles every paragraph and I amazingly switched to the style you suggested in each paragraph even before I got to the part where you told us the style. (Except for the soaring operatic one.) I was quite suprised and flabbergasted, but like a proffesional I did not let it stop me from singing the notes at hand. Wow this takes longer to sing than to just type and read. I cannot, I cannot, I cannot let myself fall behind today! I would never catch up. Amen.
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HMV have not done well in Australia. Not good service and not good prices!!
I remember that when an HMV opened here in Philly, the joke was that it stood for "Here Money Vanishes".
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And what about you, Ann.
Another thing that a friend did in college - this guy named Tommy Lowe (I based a character in my musical Stages on him) used to go with all of us to Norm's. All Tommy wanted to be was an actor who could play cowboys. That's how he spoke, that's how he behaved. Some people at another table were giving us looks, probably because we were loud or something, but they were being really obnoxious about it. They'd finished eating and were about to leave when Tommy got up, sidled over to their table, gave them a mean cowboy look, and picked up what was left of a steak on a plate and put it in his pocket and walked away. The people hied themselves right out of there. Tommy's dream did come true, albeit briefly - he has a key role in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Did he sing Cowbiy Buckaroo?
Character's name is Lorne Roy Wayne
He was billed as Tom Roy Lowe in Outlow Josey Wales
(http://www.brucekimmel.com/images/STAGESCowboy%20Buckaroo2.jpg)
(http://www.brucekimmel.com/images/STAGESCowboybuckaroo1.jpg)
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Welcome DR OZDEREK! Hope you understand my English.
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DR PANNI: lovely pictures from Choosters tour! Abie liked Chooster? It seems to me he didn’t much….. Abie was cute.
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Last night we were offered tickets to a certain Beach Boys-influenced musical, Good Vibrations, the first of the "jukebox" productions to open this season on Broadway. I don't want to bash indiscriminately, nor do I want to come off as one of those musical theatre twits who barely know how to spell musical theatre but this is a show in trouble. It is early in the process (they have been performing for about 2 1/2 weeks now) but still, without major work I don't know how this show will survive. I think I've said this before, I don't go to the theatre wanting to dislike something. I love theatre, it's been a part of my life for so many years, but this show just points up everything that's wrong with Broadway right now. Based on last night's performance, this show makes Mama Mia look like A Little Night Music. The Beach Boys music is just so much fun. They have taken it and wrung all the life out. Orchestrations are awful, the singing is not pleasant and (I know this is a common complaint) the miking is so bad as to make some lyrics unintelligible. The performers are adequate but no one stands out. The book is appalling! Talk about using a crowbar to fit in songs. The production looks cheap, much of the set consists of rear projections. There are anachronisms throughout the show. It supposed to be set sometime in the mid-60s though they are deliberately unclear as to a specific year. However, no matter what 196X year it took place in, male high school seniors, especially the most popular boys in school, DID NOT have pierced ears and California girls DID NOT have tattoos and navel piercings. The current "dude" handshake between men was not even a glimmer in someone's eye back then. If you're doing a show set in the amorphous 60s, why are you singing as if you just stepped off the set of American Idol?
I could go on, but I won't. Suffice it to say the show needs help. I hope it gets help because it won't last much past opening without it and then another group of actors will be out of a job and producers will see another case of a concept show blowing up in their faces. The most dedicated press agent in the world won't be able to market this show as it stands now.
OK, I've been negative enough this rainy New York morning. I must get back to work and prepare for my cousin's arrival this evening. He's a newly discovered branch of the family tree from Sheffield England. We spoke last year at Christmas but were not able to meet. He will be in New York for four days so we will spend time this weekend meeting and filling each other in on family history.
Later.
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I just caught up on the rest of yesterdays notes. I'm sorry about your bad encounter with the agent, BK, and that you are out 2 books nd $50. Did you at least get your goat back?
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When I was in college, in July of 1976 we put on a month long production of 1776, every day for the entire month.
After each show we would go to a local diner named "The Liberety Diner", there would be about 35 of us, cast & crew. One evening when it came to reckoning up, we were short on the bill. :o
We were seated a a bunch of tables pushed together and stretched across the center of the diner. Of course we were calling back and forth about he lack of funds and our plight was aparent to everyone in the place.
A man in a booth next to us jokingly told us we would have to "sing for our supper ". He didn't know he was talking to the cast and crew of a musical, and was most suprised when we took him at his suggestion. We sang the complete opening number, I might add to great applause, and then few of us got up and passed our hats (Greek Fisherman hats were big that July) amongst the patrons, paid our bill and left a hefty tip. :D
Unfortunatley the next evening we were barred from entering the diner. :(
Who knew they had a no singing policy? ???
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Good Morning folks,
I’m posting this quickly because I may have leave at any moment.
Thank you for asking about Mom, DearReaderLaura. She had a very, very, very bad night last night. So bad that when I went to get her up before I would have left for work she was crying and saying she wants to go to the doctor.
Since I can never get her to GO to the doctor that told me more then anything that something is really wrong.
I called the doctor’s office (who has no record of her since she hasn’t been there in over three years) and explained the situation and they are going to work her in.
Update—just got the call back—they want to see her at 10:45.
I don’t know if I will be posting later on—I don’t know where I’ll be—the doctors office or the hospital.
Sorry to be a downer. I hope everyone else has a nice day.
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! ! ! ! ! VIBES OF HEALTH FOR DR DANISE'S MOM ! ! ! ! !
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Danise:
Much hopeful wishes, prayers, and vibes your way.
Some of the New Yorkers on this forum might remember a piano bar called Eighty-Eights in Greenwich Village. Well, Eighty-Eights was my home away from home for a good three years, and I served as the token straight boy in the impromptu Saturday night chorus. One night, we were singing "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror, and somehow I wound up doing the Columbia solo by myself ("Well I was walking down the street, just a havin' a think"), complete with movie choreography (before I discovered piano bars, I was a Rocky freak... how on earth did I turn out straight, anyhow?)... I think about half the place fell out of their seats laughing (Rochelle Seldin, the singing waitress to end all singing waitresses, literally dropped her drink tray).
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Dear DR Danaise I am sorry about your Mom. I hope the DR can make her feel better. It's terrible to see theones you love in pain so good vibes to both of you
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Good morning, all! I'm still in shock about the possible demise of IE! I have to call my Mac Man.
DRBen, when are you seeing AFTER THE BALL? Tony Walton called me about it yesterday, but he was off to Goodspeed to work on THE BOYFRIEND, so we played phone tag.
My mellifluous tenor now has the sound quality of a brillo pad, so I'm singing everything in B-flat, but, as DRJoey said, it's so much faster to keep up with the postings if you don't sing them; there are some words you want to hold on to. If you pick up the speed, it all sounds like recitative from Mozart or Rossini, and I'd like some harpsichord accompaniment, please, Maestro!
The only real out-of-control moment I can think of happened the second year I lived in New York. I was involved with this cabaret act, Just Good Friends, and I missed a birthday party in Queens for my friend Wayne. Wayne's wife said I should come out the following night (Saturday), have the leftover pizza, leftover wine, and we'd have a second birthday party. Well, something was spoiled, and I woke up Sunday morning in Queens, knowing I had food poisoning and I had to get back to Manhattan to die in my own bed. This meant two subways: the RR from Astoria to 42nd Street and the No. 1 from 42nd Street to 79th and Broadway. On sunday mornings, the trains run infrequently so I was in agony getting back to my apartment, fearing I'd be violently ill on the train.
I got to 79th and Broadway around 10 am, walked up the steps to the street, and walked almost two blocks to 81st Street when I threw up all over the sidewalk in front of a lot of churchgoers. Food poisoning, criticism, who's to say?
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Some of the New Yorkers on this forum might remember a piano bar called Eighty-Eights in Greenwich Village. Well, Eighty-Eights was my home away from home for a good three years, and I served as the token straight boy in the impromptu Saturday night chorus. One night, we were singing "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror, and somehow I wound up doing the Columbia solo by myself ("Well I was walking down the street, just a havin' a think"), complete with movie choreography (before I discovered piano bars, I was a Rocky freak... how on earth did I turn out straight, anyhow?)... I think about half the place fell out of their seats laughing (Rochelle Seldin, the singing waitress to end all singing waitresses, literally dropped her drink tray).
DRElan, welcome back! "Just Good Friends" played Eighty-Eights a couple of times around 1981 or so.
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Last night BK wrote in reference to the series LOST:
"By "shaky" I meant all that obnoxious shakycam junk I hate. Just my opinion, though."
That has been the photographic motif since the pilot, and I find it effective to keep the viewer in a state of nervous anxiety, just like the people on the island. These people are stranded on a semi-hostile island with no apparent sign of rescue in the offing. There are all kinds of personalities on the island (some criminals, some with violent tempers, some who mark their hostility with a sweet exterior) that keep everyone stirred up, and things have been happening that are (so far) unexplained. There's danger around every turn, and now the sea is turning on them by eroding their beach and driving them farther inland (where many of them didn't want to be). That herky-jerky camerwork seems totally appropriate for the situation.
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Last night BK wrote in reference to the series LOST:
"By "shaky" I meant all that obnoxious shakycam junk I hate. Just my opinion, though."
That has been the photographic motif since the pilot, and I find it effective to keep the viewer in a state of nervous anxiety, just like the people on the island. These people are stranded on a semi-hostile island with no apparent sign of rescue in the offing. There are all kinds of personalities on the island (some criminals, some with violent tempers, some who mark their hostility with a sweet exterior) that keep everyone stirred up, and things have been happening that are (so far) unexplained. There's danger around every turn, and now the sea is turning on them by eroding their beach and driving them farther inland (where many of them didn't want to be). That herky-jerky camerwork seems totally appropriate for the situation.
I have to agree with BK on this one, the jerky camerawork gives me headache.
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Maybe I should try dramamine
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...(Rochelle Seldin, the singing waitress to end all singing waitresses, literally dropped her drink tray).
There's a blast from the past. While mostly a Marie's Crisis boy myself, once in a blue moon I would venture "uptown" to 88s. Saw a couple of shows there, too. Had brunch there too, when they were doing that.
But Rochelle always did a great version of.....what? She was kind of known for her rendition of it...but what was the name of it??? (She was also known for her hair.)
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Vibes for DR Danise's Mom. I hope she knows she is in our thoughts and prayers.
I tried singing the notes, but it was suggested to me that I not sing any more.
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I think the demise of IE is just for Mac computers. IE is built into the operating system of Windows and Mr. Gates and company, in essence, won the lawsuit from a few years ago regarding this issue so it is not in danger of being removed. Windows users have the option of using any browser they choose but most people use IE by default because it's there. If you don't take the time to download Netscape (a shell of it's former self and not nearly as useful as it used to be IMHO) or Mozilla or Firefox or Opera then all you have is IE or worse, if AOL is your ISP and you don't open IE separately then you have AOL's version of IE, which, to speak in the vernacular, sucks.
IE is not built into the operating system of Apple and from what I've heard, users of Apple products don't care much for IE and flock to other browsers.
Elmore, we won't be seeing After the Ball this weekend due to my cousin's imminent arrival. Hope to see it the week of the 10th.
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Healing vibes to Danise's mom.
Some of you may have caught a thin thread in some of my posts, but as of tomorrow at this time, I will be well on my way to the County of Orange, in the land of California. It is time for me to visit the mother of myself and DR Jay. It will be a short trip, but since I haven't seen my mother in longer than I care to admit, it is one that I needed to make.
Other than flipping her mattress (don't ask), and seeing DR Jay on Saturday evening, we have no definitive plans. Though I did tell her I would take her shopping for a belated Chanukah present. (I actually told her that her Chanukah present was that I would come to California so we could shop and choose her present together. Which I will then buy.) And I am sure that Scrabble will be played.
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I, too, remember Eighty-Eights, having spent a few Saturday nights, when I was single, perpetuating homosexual stereotypes by belting out showtunes with others of the tribe.
I also remember Rochelle but I can't recall her signature song right now either.
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DR DANISE: Sorry about your mother. It must be trying time for you. Good Vibes for both of you.
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Good healing vibes to DRDANISE and her mom!
Travel vibes to DR STUART! Orange County - the home of Allison Hayes - she lived in San Clemente on La Ventana and spent many happy months on the beach there I am sure!
LOL DRElan! DRBEN thanks for the preview of the BB musical....oh my....sounds like a LOT of people are asleep at the switch.
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I did 12 weeks of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW as a Transylvanian without a name. Loved singing those songs....especially "The Time Warp" and all of the ending from the "show" to the finale.
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Thank you for MORE Kritzer photographs, dear BK! These buildings and places in the rain, especially the window view of your moter car with raindrops, were very nostalgic. I love them.
One question for dear BK: Do you have any plan to make your books translated into other foreign languages, for instance, into Japanese/French? Hope you make them INTERNATIONAL. I’m sure they’ll like your books.
So sorry about your loss of 2 books and about your disappointment.
:-[ >:(
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My most out of control moment: In 1982, a bunch of my gay friends and I spent a week at Hilton Head, an upscale resort beach in South Carolina. One day, at dusk, I don't know (or remember) exactly why we did it, but four of us linked our arms together and went singing and skipping down the beach singing at the tops of our voices "We're Off to See the Wizard." We sang the entire song and then turned around and sang it all the way back.
Usually I'm very aware of not drawing attention to myself (when not on stage, that is), but for this one time in my life, I was having a ball and just didn't care what anyone thought of us. We did get lots of weird stares.
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I did 12 weeks of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW as a Transylvanian without a name. Loved singing those songs....especially "The Time Warp" and all of the ending from the "show" to the finale.
Was that in Indy or was it someplace else Jrand54?
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I always wanted to go to EIGHTY-EIGHTS and also BACKSTAGE. Never made it to either one.
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DISCUSSION OF LAST NIGHT'S ALIAS:
I also enjoyed last night's show. But it was bizarre to me how they wanted to tie up so many of the loose ends. Yeah we have Nadia's revelation at the end. But when that samarai guy said someone put a hit on Sydney. It was SO OBVIOUS who it was going to be. But as I said, i was totally surprised that they revealed that so quickly.
Geez, I guess one episode of being mad at daddy was enough. :)
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Re: LOST
I'm not sure if this show is easy to get into on one viewing. You almost have to have followed it from the start.
I like the way that they keep bringing us the backstory. Although the girl (bank robber scene) that they keep showing us does not seem like the sweet girl we see on the island!
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I used to go to the midnight showings of Rocky Horror at the 'MiniCinema" on Long Island back in the late 70's I used to get up and dance in front of the screen. My boyfriend and I used to be able to do that dance where I would leap up and put my legs on one side of his hips and then on the other and then around his waist before bouncing back down :-*
Of course that was back in my 100 lb days..these days I would break the poor boy's back :-[
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OOH first post on page three and it was about dancing!!
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In highschool, my friend Patty and I rode the subway home together. It was often quite crowded, and sometimes we'd surreptitiously twang our Jew's harps. Nobody could figure out where the weird sound was coming from - or what it was.
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DISCUSSION OF LAST NIGHT'S ALIAS:
Geez, I guess one episode of being mad at daddy was enough. :)
In the world of ALIAS, there are plenty of secrets still remaining, and I think it's pretty clear that there's more to Irina's murder by Jack that we've been told thus far. This father-daughter relationship is never going to be easy for long.
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Have any of you AMAZING RACE fans read about a TAR all star?
That sounds amazing to me!
http://community.realitytvworld.com/boards/DCForumID37/942.shtml
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Good morning to all. I'll be heading back to NYC on Sturday, out of Long Beach airport pursuant to BK's recommendation of Jet Blue last time he was in NYC.
Will I have time to pack, is the big question... my brother, who has been taking care of my dad, is ill... so I pulled Daddy Duty this week - 10 AM to 8 PM. My sister, who is also ill (and who was in BK's class at Hamilton High!), will not be able to do Friday Daddy Duty - ah, well.
The good news is that Peter Filichia who gave such a nice review of BK's Writer's Block in his theatremania column remembers me from a hundred years ago - even quoted a lyric of a song I wrote when we were in BMI Workshop together over a quarter of a century ago! Other good news: the fundraising (can you spell 501-c-3?) is going well. Many nice folk have contributed to Chaspen, to help produce Jewish Thighs. Even in a tiny house like the Clurman, it looks like ticket sales (pray for Butts In Seats!!) may just cover the rest of the expenses of producing my show!!
My mother is failing rapidly, and I may not see her again once I leave on Saturday. My dad is just blurring - at 96 his health is (dare I say "unfortunately"?) still good. Their future flows in their DNA - 2 grandchildren engagd to be married this coming year, one grandchile graduating from college and one from high school heading off to college on a baseball scholarship; and my show heading to NY after 5 years on the road. Not such a bad way to end a long and complicated life together, is it.
Oh, look! a patch of sunlight! Feels almost like Spring, doesn't it. The journey continues...
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There was the August back in 1972 or 73 when my church youth group traveled to Houston for a convention.
On our trip we visited Six Flags. There was a terrible thunderstorm, lighting, pouring rain and they closed the park . On our way out we passed a fountain and, since we were all soaked anyway, we thought we would wade in it. Turns out it was about four foot deep, so we went swimming instead
the counselers and the park guards were not amused
but we were!!
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it looks like ticket sales (pray for Butts In Seats!!) may just cover the rest of the expenses of producing my show!!
and my show heading to NY after 5 years on the road. ...
My thoughts and prayers to you at this difficult time for your family
A far as your show goes, when and where? We New Yorkers need details please. Perhaps we can help fill your seats!! ( my butt alone can probably handle several!!) ;D
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DRJOEY it was at the Phoenix Theatre on N Park Av....lots of fun. I used a have a picture somewhere.....hmmmmmmmmmmm
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But Rochelle always did a great version of.....what? She was kind of known for her rendition of it...but what was the name of it??? (She was also known for her hair.)
possibilities:
"Good Thing [She] Can't Read My Mind" Christine Lavin
"Bouncing Back"
"We Live on Borrowed Time" and "Help is on the Way" David Friedman
"Dear Mr. Sondheim" Wayne Abravanel (has this number ever been recorded?)
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possibilities:
"Good Thing [She] Can't Read My Mind" Christine Lavin
"Bouncing Back"
"We Live on Borrowed Time" and "Help is on the Way" David Friedman
"Dear Mr. Sondheim" Wayne Abravanel (has this number ever been recorded?)
I am thinking I am remembering either "Good Thing She Can't Read My Mind" or "Help is on the Way" but I am not sure....
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Evil Jonathan (from AMAZING RACE) has a website:
http://www.jonathanbakerandvictoriafuller.com/
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DR PennyO:
I lost both my parents within a year of each other with them both in the 80s. So I can identify with your feelings. My best wishes go with you.
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For those who enjoyed MEDIUM earlier in the week (and there were a lot of people who did; the ratings were the best NBC has done in that time slot in a decade), don't forget that there is another episode tonight at 10 (in the ER time slot). The pilot episode is being shown again on Saturday (when I will watch it).
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For those who like Rob and Amber from Survivor, there is a rumor that they are doing TAR7 (amazing race):
http://p085.ezboard.com/fsurvivorsucksfrm23.showMessage?topicID=3813.topic (http://p085.ezboard.com/fsurvivorsucksfrm23.showMessage?topicID=3813.topic)
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NBC is also airing another episode of COMMITTED at 8:30pm after JOEY.
I forget if I mentioned this, but I sort of enjoyed COMMITTED. It was quirky, and I think the female lead could become big. She was refreshingly enjoyable. And it was funny. Not hilarious, but cute.
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I wanted to like "Committed" very much. It seems to have been edited by the folks who edited "Friends" and "Seinfeld"....first, a shot of the city, then an establishing shot of the streetfront of the building where the action will take place, and then the interior with action. That gave it a familiar feel and it was comforting.
I truly wanted to love it and chuckle and guffaw.
But I found not one second of it funny, guffaw-worthy and, worst of all, it only barely "mildly" amused.
Tom Poston's character gets such HUGE laughs on the laugh track (presumably from a "live" audience????) but it seemed tired and forced to me.
I want so much more than this show has to offer.
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Parent care-giving vibes to DR's Danise and PennyO.
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Good Afternoon!
It's a totally gray, drizzly and dreary day here in Fairfax, VA. There's even some fog... A perfect day for sleeping in - which I did - and for just staying at home surfing the web... and posting here on HHW, of course!
-Btw, the previous paragraph was sung in the key of G#-minor - the relative minor to the key of B. I guess it could be sort of like a B-section, or would that be a G#-section?
As for the most outrageous thing I've done in public... Hmmm... I was on a bus & truck tour with Anything Goes for about two and a half months, and I'm pretty sure somewhere in there I did something crazy and uncalled for, but I can't seem to remember anything right now. -Well, maybe I can't remember anything since I really was "crazy and uncalled for".... And most likely courtesy of Yeungling Black & Tans and/or tequila shots.
-I decided to go modal for the above paragraph. Mix it up a little bit. I started off in Mixolydian (starting on D), then switched to Lydian (starting on F-sharp). The finished it off with some sprechstimme.
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I did jump off a 10-meter diving platform last summer in Gold Coast (AUS) - and on my birthday no less!
And in high school, I would have these "fits" every now and then when I would run around the school all crazy-like. Bouncing off walls - or at least trying to bounce of cinder blocks. Hanging off the stair railings. Talking nonsense. This usually happened after school, so there weren't too many people around, but there were some witnesses. Of course, most of the "witnesses" were other members of the Drama Club, so my somewhat unseemly behavior was just seemly to them.
-That was in 12-tone - Here's my tone row - Get ready to make your matrix! D, B-flat, C-sharp, C, G-sharp, F, A, C, E-flat, E, B, G. *For those astute eyes/ears, the thirds are on purpose, sort of like what Alban Berg did in the Violin Concerto.
I've played a show in boxers and a bathrobe. -The pit was covered.
Hmmm... Of course, there are crazy things I've done in private, but that's another day, another topic.... another internet site.
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;D
-Oh, and, of course, the last part came back to the burnished key of B.
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DR Danise - Best of Vibes to Your Mother and You!
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DR PennyO - Safe travels. See you in NYC!!
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Max Preeo - the one person whose announcements of new releases are 99% accurate - has just confirmed the April 19 DVD release of L'IL ABNER. Also, the Bette Midler GYPSY will be out on DVD March 15.
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DR Elan et al... Back to Eighty-Eights...
It was Erv Raible, Rochelle Seldin, and ??
-I'm drawing a blank right now, and I don't have the business card on me right now with all three names on it. -I always liked that card - silver with red print. One of the guys who ran sound there from time to time had a place basically across the street from the club. He would let me hang out at his place from time to time, and we'd dish about who had just sang, or was about to sing.
-Oh, did you ever run into Perry Payne (was Esleeck until the divorce)? I knew her here in DC, and we did some shows together. I lost track of her when she moved to NYC, but would sometimes get greetings from her - and vice versa - from people who had seen her at Eighty-Eights.
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Was given "Mary Poppins" for My Birthday (Some gift givers are so thoughtful)- just checked. Mine too is as with OZDerek.
I went through all the audio options - the 5.1 track is the "Enhanced Disney Home Theater Mix" and the 2.0 track is the theater mix, the same as on the US. Unless I missed it or it's mislabeled.
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possibilities:
"Good Thing [She] Can't Read My Mind" Christine Lavin
"Bouncing Back"
"We Live on Borrowed Time" and "Help is on the Way" David Friedman
"Dear Mr. Sondheim" Wayne Abravanel (has this number ever been recorded?)
"Good Thing He [She] Can't Read My Mind" was a sort of mini-hit among the music theatre majors at Catholic University a couple of years ago.
OH! And to bring this back to something we talked about a few days ago, Christine Lavin was one of the original "Four Bitchin' Babes", and I believe this song is on one of those albums. Maybe so, maybe not.
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Orange County - the home of Allison Hayes - she lived in San Clemente on La Ventana and spent many happy months on the beach there I am sure!
Hmmm. What was the number on La Ventana? Do I sense another drive-by shooting (of a photograph, that is) in my future?
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Max Preeo - the one person whose announcements of new releases are 99% accurate - has just confirmed the April 19 DVD release of L'IL ABNER. Also, the Bette Midler GYPSY will be out on DVD March 15.
Great that Max confirmed it! I have been trying to find a way in to Paramount Home Vid to suggest that I do a little documentary about the film and play, but I had no luck and now it's too late and will, most likely, be the usual Paramount bare-bones release. However, as long as the transfer is top-notch that's all I care about.
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Just to give credit, that's my pal Phil Clark as Lorne Roy Wayne. I met Phil when I did my very first TV guest shot on The Young Lawyers - he was a regular on the show.
Hisaka, I'd love to have the Kritzer books translated into Japanese and French. Can you do it?
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Wonderful postings. No, you don't have to sing other people's posts, just your own. And loudly. And we need some audio proof of said singing. I want to hear a few sentences of the sung notes.
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Welcome ten GUESTS. We're singin' about our craziest behavior.
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DR Ben - Thanks for your review/opinion about Good Vibrations. I had been wondering what the buzz was right now.
It turns out a young man I had the pleasure of working with a few years ago, is making his Broadway debut in this show. Tituss Burgess - he's the African-American of the four leads. Amazing voice! And a great sense of musicality. I had seen his name listed in the press releases, but I wasn't sure it was really him until I checked out the press photos on the shows website.
I also know the Music Director/Conductor too, Susan Draus. She was on the Mamma Mia! tour for a while, and she left the tour when she was asked by the Music Supervisor to come on board.
So, I do hope that the show does work out it's kinks and provides many weeks, months, years of employment for them, but...
I'm amazed John Carrafa was given this project, especially after his ridiculous choreography for Dance of the Vampires. And his statements about having a "very sexy cast" with some of the "most amazing bodies" on Broadway really raised some flags for me. And then looking at the cast photos, and seeing no one who is really drop-dead gorgeous or that appealing for that matter - and I do like eye candy. The girls look like chorus girls do today, and the guys are on the Abercrombie & Fitch scale of body fat - which is not necessarily a bad thing, but not entirely appropriate for this period. -And Tituss was never "known" for his body, and he wears a shirt in all the publicity stills. ;) And I had also worked with Mr. Carrafa on A Little Night Music at the Kennedy Center...
*Oh, does the cast at least have tans? I know the publicity stills were taken early on, but no one really seems to have that California tan. Heck, if the cast of Mamma Mia! gets free tanning with their contracts...
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Confidential to BK - You may want to run buy your mail/package place today...
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...and buy some milk on the way back too!
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Evil Jonathan (from AMAZING RACE) has a website:
http://www.jonathanbakerandvictoriafuller.com/
I just scanned through it and now I dislike them more than ever.
I feel blah today. Blah in my head, blah in my stomach. I have no energy and I hurt my hand somehow because it aches when I flex it at the wrist (I haven't been able to perform a proper bye-bye all day.)
TOD:
My most outlandish public moment involved snow, vast amounts of alcohol, vast amounts of nudity, and the wife of the mayor of Princeton, NJ.
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I wasn't sure it was really him until I checked out the press photos on the shows website.
Oh. you thought it was the other Tituss Burgess!
But doesn't he spell it with three S's, not all four? Just so Equity doesn't get them confused?
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Small world check:
Jose said:
"It turns out a young man I had the pleasure of working with a few years ago, is making his Broadway debut in this show. Tituss Burgess"
and last year my Anthony worked with Tituss in a Fringe Show called Captain Gravy's Wavy Navy. Tituss does have an amazing voice and does great work but I think he's wasted in the sophomoric book sections of the show.
No tans, although the first act takes place in an unnamed town, perhaps upstate New York because in the rear projections as they start driving to CA there is a shot of the Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel, but when they get to CA the actors are all white and winter-looking (except for Tituss).
The guys are absolutely Abercrombie & Fitch types, except for the three leads, but then they came from an upstate New York factory town.
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Re: "Lost" and the "shakycam" effect being discussed -- I have never noticed it much.
I am so totally immersed into the offbeat drama unfolding...and the wonderful character development flashbacks...that none of the devices being used to increase that sense of dizzying uncertainty register wrongly with me.
It's a brilliant show...even though the occasional episode fails to fully sustain the rush.
I still find "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" the most rewarding, albeit far too quickly gone, two hours of my week!
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Confidential to BK - You may want to run buy your mail/package place today...
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Oh...my...golly! Are mail/package places about to experience a price surge on the stock market?????
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I'll be going by the mail place at one. I can smell the package from here, however! Oh, boy.
Just heard from my framing place - my order is ready. I'd totally forgotten what I'd taken in there - the painting of Gloria Swanson that used to hang in the Wattles Mansion (I think that's how you spell "Wattles").
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Just so you know, "Wattles Mansion" was sung on a Db to C with the C falling on the final syllable of mansion.
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I think the confusion over the Ozzie DVD of Mary Poppins is the way the box layout is on the back - they do list a 5.1 track and that is sitting next to the Dolby Digital logo, so people assume that's what it is (unless they've actually heard the track). The 5.1 track IS the Enhanced Home Theater Mix track and it's horrible - my opinion is someone made a mistake in the transfer - it can't sound like that on purpose. It's literally all reverb.
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Small world check:
Jose said:
"It turns out a young man I had the pleasure of working with a few years ago, is making his Broadway debut in this show. Tituss Burgess"
and last year my Anthony worked with Tituss in a Fringe Show called Captain Gravy's Wavy Navy. Tituss does have an amazing voice and does great work but I think he's wasted in the sophomoric book sections of the show.
No tans, although the first act takes place in an unnamed town, perhaps upstate New York because in the rear projections as they start driving to CA there is a shot of the Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel, but when they get to CA the actors are all white and winter-looking (except for Tituss).
The guys are absolutely Abercrombie & Fitch types, except for the three leads, but then they came from an upstate New York factory town.
:D
Or maybe
8)
is more appropriate for The Beach Boys...
-I wonder what the Beach Boys think/will think of the show.
Of course, I'm just trying to imagine Brian Wilson at Opening Night...
I'll be sending cards and maybe some treats up to them for opening. I haven't seen or talked to Tituss in about two years, so, hopefully, it will be a nice surprise. And, hopefully, I can see the show - and I better get comped in! - once Hallelujah, Baby! closes here in DC in mid-February... if it's still running by then. But I guess if Dracula can creep on for a few months...
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What is the DVD forum/DVD site that was previously being discussed as a source about the upcoming release of "Li'l Abner"?????
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My Dad wants to go grocery shopping... He wants to go by himself, well, he says he can go by himself, but...
Laters..
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Vibes for Danise and her mother.
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It was first mentioned on the hometheaterforum.com board.
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I sung the above post in a bossa nova rhythm.
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I went through all the audio options - the 5.1 track is the "Enhanced Disney Home Theater Mix" and the 2.0 track is the theater mix, the same as on the US. Unless I missed it or it's mislabeled.
hi bk - are you able to post a pic of the cover of your dvd? will check to see if you have the correct 5.1 version as they may have sent you the "other" version that was released. cheers from down under!
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Safe travels to DR PennyO and good parent health vibes. ~~~~~~~
Btw, re: Alias. As BK mentioned last night, it's sort of weird how they started the show (not bringing up anything about last season's cliffhanger). Then finally when they brought it up, it didn't make sense to me. I thought last year they showed something that dad had done TO SYDNEY. I thought that is what the papers said.
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DR Dan-The-Man, re: Jonathan's TAR site:
It actually sort of made me like them a bit. To know that he was disgusted by how he is being portrayed, says something (at least he is disgusted by it too!). It tells me that either they edit people unfairly to have one evil team each season.
Or what I think is probably the case this season, they edit stuff that happened to fit the story they want to create. So even if Jonathan did 100 nice things and 3 crappy ones. They will highlight the crappy things to portray him as a villain.
Btw, I'm not saying that he didn't do the things they showed him doing. But I'd be interested to hear his point of view. Since last season we found out that much of the stuff they showed Colin doing (screaming at Christie for example) never happened (and he was yelling at a bull!).
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ozderek - it's the right one - the two-disc 40th Anniversary Edition that just came out. I was quite careful when ordering it.
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I'm going to the framers now and then to do some errands and when I return I will let you know what was at the mail place.
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Thank you elmore & DRLaura.
Bruce the episode you watched of LOST was unusually terrible. Maybe you will give it another chance. It is a shame you didn’t watch the previous episode. TIVO it and speed through the commercials.
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Their future flows in their DNA - 2 grandchildren engaged to be married this coming year
Yes, I'd say that if those grandchildren marry, their offspring may have a teeny bit of a DNA problem
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DR Elan et al... Back to Eighty-Eights...
It was Erv Raible, Rochelle Seldin, and ??
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-Oh, did you ever run into Perry Payne (was Esleeck until the divorce)? I knew her here in DC, and we did some shows together. I lost track of her when she moved to NYC, but would sometimes get greetings from her - and vice versa - from people who had seen her at Eighty-Eights.
Karen Miller was the third member of the musical trinity (the only trinity I ever did, or will, believe in ;D), and singlehandedly responsible for introducing me to the piano bar world (we ran into each other at a Sam Goody's where I was looking for a "Forbidden Broadway" cast recording. She asked "oh, do you like showtunes?" and the rest, as they say, is history). Eighty-Eight's played a major part in my finding The Lovely Wife(tm), so it has a particularly powerful place in my heart.
I indeed saw Perry Payne (I never knew her as anything else) many times at Eighty-Eights and several other piano bars in the city (Rose's Turn and Judy's, if memory serves). A lovely woman with a great voice. I haven't seen her around recently, but she may well still be on the circuit.
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the first act takes place in an unnamed town, perhaps upstate New York because in the rear projections as they start driving to CA there is a shot of the Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel
By definition, if they were coming from upstate New York, they wouldn't be taking the Holland Tunnel to go west. They'd have to have some reason to travel East and to the lower part of Manhattan.
As you know, I'd never comment on a show I haven't seen. As WRITER'S BLOCK aptly reminds us, getting a musical ready for Broadway takes the hard work of all the collaborators. That would include the composer, the lyricist, the librettist, and all the directorial staff. Things always need changing, to say the least: a lyric here, a note there. Hard work, indeed, and, if you're missing key members of the staff (is there a composer or a lyricist in the house?) well, you're screwed.
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Vixmom your flashing “coming attractions” made it difficult for me to read your great story of singing for your supper. ;D The Liberty Dinner didn’t happen to be in New Jersey?
Denise I was shocked to read your mother asked to go to the doctor. Best of vibes to you both.
Stuart have a good trip and visit with your mother and DB Jay.
Matt H your beach story made me laugh. When I’m in a good mood I enjoy skipping.
Jennifer, we knew she wasn’t the “sweet girl” we see on the beach.
Penny, good travels and good vibes surviving night duty.
Noel- ;D
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The mayor's wife?!!!
Great news about LI'L ABNER DVD - don't that take the rag offen the bush?
DR JAY - she lived at 2821 La Ventana. That's the house she was living in when she got into her 1974 Camaro, drove herself to the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla for an out-patient blood transfusion as part of her regular leukemia treatment....and within 18 hours was dead at the UCLA Medical Center in San Diego.
I got a few photos of the house when I wrote to the neighbors, an retired attorney named Anthony. He also talked to the owner of the house, a woman who lived in a retirement home who had bought the house many years before. It's a lovely home. And I would always like new photos. The ones I have are about 6 years old. I will send you a scan if you want to identify it.
Of course the neighbors, except for the owner of the house, couldn't tell Anthony anything.....the owner only remember that "she was an actress of some sort and very concerned with her diet."
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DR Dan-The-Man, re: Jonathan's TAR site:
It actually sort of made me like them a bit. To know that he was disgusted by how he is being portrayed, says something (at least he is disgusted by it too!). It tells me that either they edit people unfairly to have one evil team each season.
Or what I think is probably the case this season, they edit stuff that happened to fit the story they want to create. So even if Jonathan did 100 nice things and 3 crappy ones. They will highlight the crappy things to portray him as a villain.
Btw, I'm not saying that he didn't do the things they showed him doing. But I'd be interested to hear his point of view. Since last season we found out that much of the stuff they showed Colin doing (screaming at Christie for example) never happened (and he was yelling at a bull!).
I would hazard to guess that what they show of Jonathan is what he is really like...and as you have seen he blames any and all things on anyone but himself.
As for Colin last season, the commercial for the episode did give the impression he was shouting at his girlfriend/wife...but when it aired I fully understood that he was shouting at/about the bull.
With 3 days worth of activity between several teams they obviously have to edit to get that all down to 1 hour and we are just seeing the highlights...so Jonathan's bad points are likely to be emphasized....because he has soooo many! LOL!
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Thanks, DR Jane!
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NBC is also airing another episode of COMMITTED at 8:30pm after JOEY.
I forget if I mentioned this, but I sort of enjoyed COMMITTED. It was quirky, and I think the female lead could become big. She was refreshingly enjoyable. And it was funny. Not hilarious, but cute.
She's already "kind of big." It's Jennifer Finnigan who has won the last three Daytime Emmys for Best Supporting Actress, the only supporting actress in Emmy history to have accomplished that.
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Once again DRs (and dear friends) it is time for TCB and his acting angst. Tonight is the unofficial preview / command performance, glitzy fund-raiser, for my latest theatrical endeavor. Tonight I open in the play NATIONAL PASTIME, a wonderful new play about Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball. Despite rumors to the contrary, I am not playing Jackie Robinson, but rather Branch Rickey, the General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who hired Jackie as the first African-American player in the Major Leagues. It is a beautifully written play, and I feel extremely fortunate to be involved with this production.
However, the play requires me to use numerous racial slurs that I have never before had to use in either public or private. There is one particularly powerful scene that occurs between Jackie and Branch at the end of the first act. It is a gut-wrenching scene. To compound my stress, tonight’s fundraiser is a benefit for the local African-American Museum, which means that we will have a predominantly African-American audience. I confess that I have been losing sleep and having nightmares over this performance. I know that these theatre-goers realize that I am portraying a character, but that doesn’t make me feel any less uneasy.
Well, I guess in the great scheme of things, Danise and her mother have far more important worries than my acting career, so I guess I will shut up about me, and wish good health vibes to Danise’s mom and peace of mind vibes for Danise.
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Too tired to do a dance....
So I will do my Panni imitation:
One for Mahler!
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Max Preeo - the one person whose announcements of new releases are 99% accurate - has just confirmed the April 19 DVD release of L'IL ABNER. Also, the Bette Midler GYPSY will be out on DVD March 15.
That's really great news about LI'L ABNER.
This will be the second time around for the Midler GYPSY. I already have it on DVD.
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Vibes to DR TCB.
Been there - done that - playing in MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM.....tough to do.....but yes audiences know that you are playing a character. It is a compliment to your acting if they hate "you."
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However, the play requires me to use numerous racial slurs that I have never before had to use in either public or private. There is one particularly powerful scene that occurs between Jackie and Branch at the end of the first act. It is a gut-wrenching scene. To compound my stress, tonight’s fundraiser is a benefit for the local African-American Museum, which means that we will have a predominantly African-American audience. I confess that I have been losing sleep and having nightmares over this performance. I know that these theatre-goers realize that I am portraying a character, but that doesn’t make me feel any less uneasy.
I can relate, DR TCB. I played Karl Lindner in A RAISIN IN THE SUN eight years ago, and though the character is sweet to the family in Act II, he turns and shows his true (bigoted) colors in the third act, and I would regularly get hissed by black audiences during the revelatory moments of my character.
Smartly, the director staged the bows so that I took my bow with the two young black suitors and thus spared my being booed. I am sure I would have been had I bowed alone.
Break a leg on your opening!
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BTW, William E. Lurie, does Max Preeo have a website or home page, or are you getting this information from him personally?
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Max Preeo - the one person whose announcements of new releases are 99% accurate - has just confirmed the April 19 DVD release of L'IL ABNER. Also, the Bette Midler GYPSY will be out on DVD March 15.
WEL may not post as regularly these days but the information is worth the wait. Thanks Bill.
Special thougths from OZ are with you Danise.
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Yes, I'd say that if those grandchildren marry, their offspring may have a teeny bit of a DNA problem
ROTFLMAO!
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TCB-GOOD VIBES TONIGHT!!
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Where did Danise go? I spoke to her and she was about to post-guess she received a call back from the doctor with the results of her mother's tests.
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That's really great news about LI'L ABNER.
This will be the second time around for the Midler GYPSY. I already have it on DVD.
The trouble with the Midler Gypsy DVD is that it's been out of print for a few years. I've been looking for it on eBay but it always bids up to prices that far outstrip its value to me.
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NBC is also airing another episode of COMMITTED at 8:30pm after JOEY.
I forget if I mentioned this, but I sort of enjoyed COMMITTED. It was quirky, and I think the female lead could become big. She was refreshingly enjoyable. And it was funny. Not hilarious, but cute.
DRJennifer, I wanted to like COMMITTED more than I did. I liked the secondary people a lot, but I wanted both of the two leads to calm down a bit. I don't find hysterical mugging either comic or interesting unless I'm doing it.
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@ @ @ @ @ BREAK A LEG VIBES TO DR TCB! @ @ @ @ @
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The trouble with the Midler Gypsy DVD is that it's been out of print for a few years. I've been looking for it on eBay but it always bids up to prices that far outstrip its value to me.
Yes, I knew it was out of print. I bought the one I have at a used site at least a year ago, maybe two.
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As I said on Tuesday night after I saw it, I found COMMITTED quirky and fun. Not hilarious or gut-busting, but just enough off-center to make me look forward to seeing the next episode tonight after JOEY. And I think it'll make a good match with the quirky SCRUBS once it comes back on the air.
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Max Preeo has a listserve called CASTRECL (or, in its new format, Castrecl, which I can't get used to). I'm not sure what the new protocol for subscribing is since they just changed servers. Someone else probably will know.
Tales from the fringe department: Most of you know that there was a feature article a little while ago in these parts about my Frances Farmer research. Well I received a cryptic phone message at the church I work for (which was mentioned in the article) that some lady wanted to talk to me about Frances. So I contact her by phone and she asks me to come to her house to look at some stuff she has. Leaving her name, address and phone number with Betsy lest I ended up chopped up in little pieces and placed in a trash compactor, I went up there this morning.
Scary little house in a scary part of town. But walk into her front room which is adorned with a gorgeous mint 3 sheet of Ebb Tide (Frances' only color film), halfsheet of Rhythm on the Range and an insert for Too Many Parents. Then she pulls out the photos. Quite a few I'd seen, but there was a great set of three candids from Come and Get It, with two of them being absolutely classic shots of what looks to me to be William Wyler (I need to track down some other pics of him from 1936 to be sure) screaming at her while she turns her head in an "I'm not listening to you" pose. They are hilarious.
She also had a pressbook for South of Pago Pago, which I had never seen before. It included one great three sheet that had imported the graphic of Frances from the original release of Come and Get It. Wonder how that happened.
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-That was in 12-tone - Here's my tone row - Get ready to make your matrix! D, B-flat, C-sharp, C, G-sharp, F, A, C, E-flat, E, B, G. *For those astute eyes/ears, the thirds are on purpose, sort of like what Alban Berg did in the Violin Concerto.
DRJose, isn't that the main theme from Britten's DEATH IN VENICE?
DRPennyO, I've missed you in New York! Pack your woolies; it's getting colder. I look forward to catching up, as well as a full report on your parents next week.
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Max Preeo - the one person whose announcements of new releases are 99% accurate - has just confirmed the April 19 DVD release of L'IL ABNER. Also, the Bette Midler GYPSY will be out on DVD March 15.
great to hear the BM version of GYPSY finally getting a decent release. I'm sure Tomofoz will be over the moon - I understand it is one of his favourites !!!!!!!!! :)
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In my college second year theory class we all had to compose a dodecaphonic piece, and I named mine "It Ain't Necessarily Row." Yes, I managed to quote Gershwin in it. :)
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Break-a-leg vibes to DR TCB
It's verboten, vishing "luck" on opening night
Take advice, don't think twice
Or your show will surely end
Up in the Scheiss!
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What is the DVD forum/DVD site that was previously being discussed as a source about the upcoming release of "Li'l Abner"?????
DRRLP, check out talkinbroadway.com. Max posts forthcoming things there.
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I, too, already have the Midler Gypsy on DVD. I received a lovely little box loaded with lovely little cookies and biscotti from dear reader Jose. So far, I've only sampled the biscotti, which is yummilicious and totally addictive. I also received a lovely little box filled with lovely little CDs - I'm listening to Johnny Williams' groovy score to Penelope, which is part of a two CD Film Score Monthly release - the other CD is Henry Mancini's groovy score to Bachelor in Paradise.
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Has anyone else notcied that Amazon.com doesn't give that exhaustive list of upcoming DVD releases for each Tuesday any more? Wonder why they stopped that? That's where I went every Wednesday to find out what was coming out the following Tuesday.
So, who else has a comprehensive list of the coming week's DVD releases?
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great to hear the BM version of GYPSY finally getting a decent release. I'm sure Tomofoz will be over the moon - I understand it is one of his favourites !!!!!!!!! :)
I hope they use Ros Russell to dub the voice of Midler. If they cut all Bette's "mugging" to the camera, there won't be much of the movie left. lol.
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Lovely quote OzDerek. At 59 - No lighting at all is a better choice.
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the BM version of GYPSY
That about says it all.
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Great find, JMK. What were the origins of the items, was the woman just a fan?
Did you get the videos you wrote about last month?
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Good Afternoon!
Back from grocery shopping with my Dad...
Since he's Retired Coast Guard - and still works for the government - we shopped at the Ft. Myer (home of "Pershing's Own") Commisary. The new commisary. When we went through the gate, he wasn't driving the way I was used to... Instead of turning left, he turned right. It turns out they built a new commisary about 10 years ago. I guess it has been a while since I've been shopping with my Dad.
What a nice new commisary. Not so industrial looking as the old one. Complete with an in-store bakery and sushi bar now too. It was also neat seeing all the various ethnice foods available on the shelves - a nod to the various nationalities that have enlisted in the U.S. military.
We shopped. Boy, did we shop! I have to say, now I know where I get my sometimes "reckless" sense of spending. "Did you buy some chicken? -Yes. Well, get one more." "Did you buy some cheese? -Yes, two kinds. Well, let me get another one, it's on sale." "Do you want some ice cream? -No, you still have some from last week. Are you sure? Some vanilla?" It started to take on a comical edge to me. So, what else was I to do... I ended up doing some shopping for myself. :)
I had also forgotten just how "cheap" the prices are at the commisary. Most of the "solid" goods were about the same as "outside" - shampoo, soap, batteries, etc. But the meats and vegetables were incredible bargains. Perdue chicken breasts were going for $1.87/pound - and that was not on sale! -So, I bought two packages. ;)
After everything had gotten rung up, we walked out of there with 12 bags of groceries! Not bad for a father and son who had only spent about 30 minutes in the commisary!
On the way back, my Dad wanted to stop to buy some lottery tickets, so we stopped by this oriental market he goes to all the time. -Which also happens to be in the same strip as my godmother's restaurant, so I stopped in and said HI to her too. Pick 3, Pick 4, Pick 5, LottoSouth and MegaMillions - at least two tickets for each one! -Then he gave me a five to buy some tickets for myself. -Cross your fingers everyone!
Once we got home, he headed back up to his bedroom. He enjoyed getting out of the house for a while - he even drove - but it was definitely time for him to get off his feet. I put everything away, and now I'm doing laundry and posting...
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Hmmmm....an episode of "Joey" followed by "Committed"....Zzzzz-z-z-z-z-z-z!
:D
If "Joey" doesn't perk up REAL SOON, it may become the longest-running dud in TV history.
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No one did weird things in public? And has everyone been singing their posts?
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BK - Glad to know the cookies made it to you! And so quick too! I only mailed them on Tuesday.
*The trick - which I learned from one of the friendliest US Postal clerks I've ever dealt with - is to splurge on the Tracking/Delivery Confirmation with Priority Mail. Since it's tracked, and since the USPS wants to keep a good track record of their delivery times... My mail to NYC makes it up to the Big Apple overnight that way about 80% of the time from DC and Richmond.
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Has anyone else notcied that Amazon.com doesn't give that exhaustive list of upcoming DVD releases for each Tuesday any more? Wonder why they stopped that? That's where I went every Wednesday to find out what was coming out the following Tuesday.
So, who else has a comprehensive list of the coming week's DVD releases?
MattH, check out www.dvdverdict.com. They list each weeks new releases and also a daily list of just announced titles...and fun DVD reviews too!
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And just in case you have any food allergies..
Cantuccini - the Almond biscotti, with a hint of cinnamon.
Oatmeal-Chocolate Chip-Pecan-Toffee Cookies - recipe of which was posted a few weeks ago here in HHW.
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Here is a photograph of the Gloria Swanson painting I just got back from the framers.
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And here is a photograph of my brand spanking new Converse classic tennis shoe.
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I wish you could have heard me sing that last post. Guy Haines watch out!
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And has everyone been singing their posts?
I've been singing everyone's posts.
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Did it again. Just burst out singing, "I've got a new pair of shoes." Can't help myself.
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Did it again. Just burst out singing, "I've got a new pair of shoes." Can't help myself.
Catchy tune, ain't it?
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Catchy tune, ain't it?
Are we singing a duet?
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I wish you could have heard me sing that last post. Guy Haines watch out!
Don't you go joining that gang, now...that Guy Haines is apparently the leader....the doppel gangleader!
;D
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Not a shine on your shoes
Not a shine on your shoes
Shine
Shine
Shine
Need a shoe shine
Need a shoe shine
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Jose: I was stationed at Fort Myer back in the late 1970s. Actually, I was assigned to the Navy Annex, but I was housed on Fort Myer in a multi-service barracks near the chow hall.
I remember the "old" commissary very well. For about a year during my time there, I moved off the post and into an apartment building very nearby...it was called The Virgnian. It was on Arlington Blvd., and was two blocks behind the Iwo Jima Memorial. (I think it has since been converted into a condominium building).
I drove to work via the "back gate" of Fort Myer (the one nearest the Iwo Jima), parked in the lot near the gate to Henderson Hall and walked through that Marine compound over to the Annex.
Those were good years!!!
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I feel so with it with my new sneakers. I am happening and now. Henry Mancini's delightfully lounge Bachelor in Paradise is blaring forth.
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I've been typing up all my notes for my new book idea - so they're all in one place (they're scattered about on many sheets of paper and pads and stuff).
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I feel I must eat another biscotti, which I'm sure are quite dietetic.
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Jose: I was stationed at Fort Myer back in the late 1970s. Actually, I was assigned to the Navy Annex, but I was housed on Fort Myer in a multi-service barracks near the chow hall.
I remember the "old" commissary very well. For about a year during my time there, I moved off the post and into an apartment building very nearby...it was called The Virgnian. It was on Arlington Blvd., and was two blocks behind the Iwo Jima Memorial. (I think it has since been converted into a condominium building).
I drove to work via the "back gate" of Fort Myer (the one nearest the Iwo Jima), parked in the lot near the gate to Henderson Hall and walked through that Marine compound over to the Annex.
Those were good years!!!
You might have run into my father shopping at the commisary and/or PX back then too! -He was stationed at CGHQ at the time.
The Virginian is still there. Some prime fireworks viewing from that building. It is a condo, but they also have some units set aside for temporary housing/extended stay purposes. Some of the "stars" who are in shows at the Kennedy Center sometimes stay over there.
You can still park over by the Marine Barracks - Henderson Hall - and walk between the two compounds. When I still had base privileges, I would park over at Henderson Hall, go shopping at the Post Exchange over there. *Henderson Hall got a spiffy new PX about 15 years ago. Then walk through the gate over to Ft. Myer, and take a nice walk over to their Exchange. I would usually grab a bite to eat at their snack bar. And whenever I was over at the Rader Clinic on Ft. Myer for a check up, physical, etc., I always liked walking around - such nice grounds. And Arlington National Cemetery just over the brick wall too.
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I feel I must eat another biscotti, which I'm sure are quite dietetic.
Well, the almonds are good for you. Only three eggs in the whole batch (you have about 1/8 of the batch). I use only whole wheat, unbleached AP flour. And only 3/4 cup sugar for the whole batch. No additional fat or butter in the recipe. Dietetic indeed! -Now, if I had dipped them in chocolate...
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DR RLP - Which church did you go to - if you went to church at the time - when you were stationed at Ft. Myer?
And do you remember the Family Fish House chain? Whitey's? Hsian Foong?
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Lovely quote OzDerek. At 59 - No lighting at all is a better choice.
Well Tomofoz .. at 59 i'd have the power cut if I were you ....!!!!!
:)
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I did indeed eat two more biscottis. Very tasty. I could dip them in some C.C. Brown's hot fudge.
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I always wanted to go to EIGHTY-EIGHTS and also BACKSTAGE. Never made it to either one.
The one time I went to New York, a bunch of us went to Eighty-Eights and Terry White was one of the bartenders. I got her autograph and told her that I loved her in Nunsense on TV (and I did)! I also sang "Tap Your Troubles Away" there. Several of us in the tour group were taking tap dancing lessons at the time, so it was very appropriate! That was one of the few times that I've sung what was basically live karaoke, otherwise I hate doing karaoke. I don't mind performing in a show or concert or whatever, but karaoke, especially in a bar, turns me off...as a performer. I don't mind watching friends of mine make fools of themselves!
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Marcy the Marketing Lady is hard at work trying to book more signings, especially in Portland and in Arizona. Hopefully we'll have some news soon. We're still doing very well in the amazon sales rank.
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RLP and Jose it is nice you can share those memories of the base.
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Wait for it, Dear Readers. The other day we had haineshisway.com nuptials. Today we shall have a haineshisway.com long-lost-twins-separated-at-birth reunion.
Mazel tov, Dear Readers Jose and RLP.
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Wait for it, Dear Readers. The other day we had haineshisway.com nuptials. Today we shall have a haineshisway.com long-lost-twins-separated-at-birth reunion.
Mazel tov, Dear Readers Jose and RLP.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of...
...Father?
:o
;D
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I've been listening more to JEEPERS CREEPERS, of which I'm growing quite fond.
I don't know Susan Gordon, but I don't think she'll set the world on fire as a singer; her track is probably my least favorite, although Alison Fraser's "The Blob" is close behind it; it may be Bacharach and David, but it works better in a medley since there's not enough song to sustain several minutes of materal. I love alison, but I think she's working too hard to make the something strong out of flimsy material. One last complaint: I find the cover art unpolished, neither as good as the material on the disc nor particularly inviting to a buyer.
However, everyone else is first class, from Judy Kaye's "sing, gypsies!" to Rebecca Luker's fantastic ballad, both of which I mentioned the other day, along with Michele's "Aurora" and DRJose's topnotch vocal job. I can't believe that I forgot to mention Guy Haines' wonderful Tony Hatch song or Christiane Nol's wonderful "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte." I think I'll be playing this almost as much as Mr Haines' solo album. Mr Geisman's work is quite stunning as well.
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DR Elmore3003, the WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR song is my fave!!
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BK, am happy to know you and Marcy the marketing lady are still working on Portland!!
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DR RLP - Which church did you go to - if you went to church at the time - when you were stationed at Ft. Myer?
And do you remember the Family Fish House chain? Whitey's? Hsian Foong?
I didn't do church back then (my hedonist phase), and I don't remember any food establishments, although I'm certain I went out to eat quite a lot. Usually Mexican or pizza or upscale burgers (Georgetown, ya know).
I have great memories of the Marine Exchange at Henderson Hall...they had GREAT men's clothing there...really quality stuff at good prices. Pendleton shirts could be had for about $25 each when they were $50 on the outside.
Many times I went over that wall into Arlington Cemetery...I used to walk all over it...
I remember going to see "Give Em Hell, Harry" when they were filming it for PBS...I was in the audience for at least the first act. They stopped so many times, my group left because we were starving.
I was an extra in the movie "F.I.S.T" when they shot outside the Senate office building one Saturday. It was a neat experience. I shaved my beard that day...and found out years later when I saw the movie on video that I was in a freeze frame just over Stallone's right shoulder.
I saw Barbara Cook in a little night spot in Georgetown back then...don't remember where or when...she was there, I had discovered the joys of "She Loves Me" a couple of years earlier (after having the 2-LP set for several years before listening to it). It was an expense I found totally worthwhile, although "nightclub entertainment" wasn't really something I could afford.
I saw "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters" and "Superman" on huge screens in Dolby stereo during my time in the D.C. area and found my life much-enriched by the experiences.
I attended Sunset Parades at the Iwo Jima in the summertime...great free entertainment...and yes, the place I lived was a prime fireworks viewing location.
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I've been listening more to JEEPERS CREEPERS, of which I'm growing quite fond.
I don't know Susan Gordon, but I don't think she'll set the world on fire as a singer;
Susan, as a little girl, played the daughter of Danny Kaye in "The Five Pennies". She has other credits, as well.
She was a much-loved contributor in these parts for a while, and a longtime pal of BK's.
She does not, to my knowledge, aspire to a professional or semi-professional singing career. I'm betting she did the song, as did all the others, because BK asked her to sing.
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Gotta run to the theatre... I almost forgot actually!?!?!?!?
DR RLP - Barbara Cook was probably at the now closed Charlie's in Georgetown. Or was it spelled Charley's. ???? Right across the alley sort of from Blues Alley.
And the Marine Exchange still carries some great clothes. My mom still buys me Polo shirts every now and then from there. -And they even have a Godiva stand!!!
Laters!....
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DR Elmore3003, the WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR song is my fave!!
I meant to add that Sharon McKnight sounds a bit like Miss Eartha Kitt. I saw Remy Zaken in A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN at Goodspeed. She was amazing.
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I agree with elmore's thoughts on the album. The cover is okay, and what they thought they needed for their audience. Susan, who was a friend of mine and was a contributor here, is not a singer. We had her do the song because her father directed the film it is from.
Now, you want a brighter day? Take a look at the next three photographs, all of which I've just scanned (I'm quite the scanning expert now). Are you ready? Here is my most darling daughter - one of the cutest children whoever lived - she is holding some of her original art.
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Here is daughter with her very own grandfather, my father, and the model for Ernie Kritzer (this photo was taken two years before he died - he'd lost a lot of weight because he'd had a slight stroke).
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I meant to add that Sharon McKnight sounds a bit like Miss Eartha Kitt. I saw Remy Zaken in A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN at Goodspeed. She was amazing.
My favorite is the one that didn't make it to the final cd. The Jewish version of The Mothra Song had me almost peeing in my pants.
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And one more - the posed daughter looking mighty happy - she was, in fact, an incredibly happy child.
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elmore, Tony Walton called about an hour ago and just as we were starting to have a nice chat some gal who's a potential replacement for someone in After the Ball came to audition. So, our chat has been postponed, not for too long I hope.
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And still is incredibly happy, I might add.
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elmore, Tony Walton called about an hour ago and just as we were starting to have a nice chat some gal who's a potential replacement for someone in After the Ball came to audition. So, our chat has been postponed, not for too long I hope.
I spoke to him about AFTER THE BALL this morning. It's probably a replacement for the beautiful Kristin Huxhold who has pneumonia.
Dear Friend BK, you could have found an artist to do a better cover for the album! Everything you did for Varese and Fynsworth had much better artwork. I hope I'm not offending Richard and Tom by saying that, because I like them, but I know you'd have some good ideas for a better cover.
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My favorite is the one that didn't make it to the final cd. The Jewish version of The Mothra Song had me almost peeing in my pants.
DRMichael Shayne, is there a JEEPERS CREEPERS page on your Kimmel site yet? If so, I couldn't open it yesterday.
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I didn't really have any ideas for a cover and this seemed to suit their needs. Not my cup of tea, and yes, I would have done something completely different.
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DR elmore, funny you should mention the Susan Gordon track as I was just listening to it yesterday. I remember she was a contributor to these parts when I first started reading/posting here, but then suddenly disappeared. I hope she is well.
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Susan is a survivor and I'm sure she's perfectly fine.
Welcome eight GUESTS (was twelve GUESTS just a mere moment ago). We're singin' our posts in the key of B.
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elmore, you've got a PM which is, I suppose, better than a PMS.
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My daughter is so CUTE.
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And one for Mahler.
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elmore, you've got a PM which is, I suppose, better than a PMS.
Dear Friend BK, I've been a medical wonder for years: the only male with terminal PMS. You should know, you've worked with me.
You're right, she is a beautiful young lady. I think your Dad looks great. Ernie is one of my favorite characters in the Kritzer books; his acts of kindness and generosity were clearly inherited by Benjamin.
I took "little" out. I wasn't implying petty acts, but sudden and suprising moments of awareness, kindness and generosity to Benjamin that were quite moving.
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[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~Health Vibes to Danise and her Mother!!~~~[/move]
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~Health Vibes to PennyO's Family!!~~~[/move]
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We've got so many people here now we could have a choral post.
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I'm very hungry and can't wait until I am seated at Musso and Frank, which I will be in a mere two count them two hours.
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...Tonight I open in the play NATIONAL PASTIME, a wonderful new play about Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball. Despite rumors to the contrary, I am not playing Jackie Robinson, but rather Branch Rickey, the General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who hired Jackie as the first African-American player in the Major Leagues....the play requires me to use numerous racial slurs that I have never before had to use in either public or private.
Opening night vibes to TCB!
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I thought I'd share some of my new art that I recently treated myself to.
First the case that in comes in.
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Miss Gale from Kansas
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The first guy she met on the way
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The next one
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As you know, I'd never comment on a show I haven't seen.
Children of Eden.
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The one who was born to be a sissy
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Just got back from a two and half hour lunch at Orso's with my manager, discussing the year ahead and griping about the industry in general. Leonard Maltin was sitting directly behind me. On the other side of us was a very old gentleman chatting with an elderly lady and his conversation skipped everywhere and was quite entertaining. He is apparently a costume designer known as Noel Taylor. The lady was some wig maker in the biz. Orso is nice enough; but it ain't Joe Allen's which used to occupy the spot.
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Page Eight Dance:
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%][size=20]The Return of the Animals[/size][/move]
(Jose will know what I'm talking about.)
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In my college second year theory class we all had to compose a dodecaphonic piece, and I named mine "It Ain't Necessarily Row." Yes, I managed to quote Gershwin in it. :)
LOL! ;D
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Thank you all for your good wishes for tonight. it has been a long time since I have been this nervous before a show.
And with a snow storm due tomorrow afternoon -- it could be an interesting opening weekend!
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Michael Shayne -- You may have posted the Tin Man, but all I got was the Invisible Man.
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Larry here is the link to the Jeepers Creepers Page
http://www.brucekimmel.com/jeeperscreepersrecording.html (http://www.brucekimmel.com/jeeperscreepersrecording.html)
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Michael Shayne -- You may have posted the Tin Man, but all I got was the Invisible Man.
Try again.
I see dead dead tin men (A 6th Sense reference)
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BTW (By The Way in internet lingo) any of you living in the Southern California area who enjoy good theater (Jay), the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena will be producing NATIONAL PASTIME beginning March 18. They originally had billed their production as a "World Premiere," but I guess we beat them to the punch on that!
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A new feature on HHW
The Paul Haber photo of the week
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Larry here is the link to the Jeepers Creepers Page
http://www.brucekimmel.com/jeeperscreepersrecording.html (http://www.brucekimmel.com/jeeperscreepersrecording.html)
Michael, at the bottom of the page, the very last picture has the caption, "Jonathan Stanczyk's Bruce assistant in New York." I didn't know that there was such as job as a "Bruce assistant!" ;)
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Marcy the Marketing Lady is hard at work trying to book more signings, especially in Portland and in Arizona. Hopefully we'll have some news soon. We're still doing very well in the amazon sales rank.
Portland, Oregon or Portland, Maine?? :o
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I've been listening more to JEEPERS CREEPERS, of which I'm growing quite fond.
I don't know Susan Gordon, but I don't think she'll set the world on fire as a singer; her track is probably my least favorite, although Alison Fraser's "The Blob" is close behind it; it may be Bacharach and David, but it works better in a medley since there's not enough song to sustain several minutes of materal. I love alison, but I think she's working too hard to make the something strong out of flimsy material. One last complaint: I find the cover art unpolished, neither as good as the material on the disc nor particularly inviting to a buyer.
However, everyone else is first class, from Judy Kaye's "sing, gypsies!" to Rebecca Luker's fantastic ballad, both of which I mentioned the other day, along with Michele's "Aurora" and DRJose's topnotch vocal job. I can't believe that I forgot to mention Guy Haines' wonderful Tony Hatch song or Christiane Nol's wonderful "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte." I think I'll be playing this almost as much as Mr Haines' solo album. Mr Geisman's work is quite stunning as well.
Did you listen to the hidden bonus track?? ::)
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Jennifer is darling in those pictures. It was nice to see the one of your father. I always liked him.
Nice book Michael Shayne.
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I must say I'm actually figuring out things on this Powerbook that I never figured out on my Dell. Mr. Mac Man is coming tomorrow at two to show me how a few other things work. It's fun nosing around. I wonder what Garage Band is and how it works.
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I spoke with Panni earlier and she is busy writing and hopes everyone is well, or something like that. Since she asked me to relay the message I have had multiple interruptions from workmen. Panni, sorry I took so long to relay your good wishes.
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Jennifer was a smart cookie and a lot of fun to be with in those days. Still is, of course. But my most treasured memories with her were us doing Kimmel tours of LA, stopping at all sorts of weird places, grabbing food wherever we felt like it, singing Gypsy and Pippin (her fave) at the top of our lungs, visiting Little Tokyo every Saturday, playing Scrabble whilset eating yards of Taco Bell, and, of course, going to every movie in town. When she was six I started taking her to theater, too.
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Nice memories and I'm sure she treasures them.
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Larry here is the link to the Jeepers Creepers Page
http://www.brucekimmel.com/jeeperscreepersrecording.html (http://www.brucekimmel.com/jeeperscreepersrecording.html)
Thank you, DRMichael Shayne.
I wanted to mention that I just watched the second episode of COMMITTED, which I liked a lot more than the first. Nice surprise at the end.
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BTW (By The Way in internet lingo) any of you living in the Southern California area who enjoy good theater (Jay), the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena will be producing NATIONAL PASTIME beginning March 18. They originally had billed their production as a "World Premiere," but I guess we beat them to the punch on that!
DRTCB, break a leg tonight! I've been an oaf about posting this all day.
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Did you listen to the hidden bonus track?? ::)
Of course.
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Michael, at the bottom of the page, the very last picture has the caption, "Jonathan Stanczyk's Bruce assistant in New York." I didn't know that there was such as job as a "Bruce assistant!" ;)
Fixed it! Thanks
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Jennifer is darling in those pictures. It was nice to see the one of your father. I always liked him.
Nice book Michael Shayne.
Actually it is not a book.
They are Limited Editions Fine Art Giclee
The artist is Joe Petruccio
This edition was an an AP and limited to 22. I have 11/22
They are also releasing the Wicked Witch with Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead music.
I've seen and I think it's the best of the lot.
The main edition of 275 will be released in March
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Can anyone who saw Medium the other night (the pilot episode) explain something to me? If it's a spoiler, IM me. We didn't catch the first few minutes, which I am assuming had the scene shown in the trailers of all the dead people around her bed.
What we're wondering is, was something said in the opening segment that had something to do with the guy in jail at the very end? (The very last segment, not the guy she was trying to put away that took up the bulk of the pilot episode).
Thanks for any clarification.
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As you know, I'd never comment on a show I haven't seen.
Children of Eden.
Your post seems to have been written for one reason and one reason only, Mr. White: to annoy me. I don't come here to be annoyed. If I want lies told about me, or meaningless nitpicking, I'll go to RATM and read Newport.
Some of us came here looking to avoid such small-mindedness
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Caught up on some of the posts. Not all. just the last two pages...
Very cute pictures of DD.
Back to work.
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Can anyone who saw Medium the other night (the pilot episode) explain something to me? If it's a spoiler, IM me. We didn't catch the first few minutes, which I am assuming had the scene shown in the trailers of all the dead people around her bed.
What we're wondering is, was something said in the opening segment that had something to do with the guy in jail at the very end? (The very last segment, not the guy she was trying to put away that took up the bulk of the pilot episode).
Thanks for any clarification.
According to der B: Yes.
But since I wasn't watching the show, I don't know.
Didn't spoil a thing for me.
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Thank you, DR MBarnum, for the DVD release website.
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...If I want lies told about me,...
Noel, on December 12th, 2004, at 02:54:56 PM, reply # 76, you wrote the following:
I didn't diss Children of Eden because it hasn't played New York. I dissed Children of Eden because it's bad.
On the same day, at 09:09:32 PM, reply # 156, you also wrote:
I answered, being careful to point out that my assessment of Children of Eden's score was based on playing through many of its songs, not seeing it.
Are these quotes lies, or did you misremember?
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Can anyone who saw Medium the other night (the pilot episode) explain something to me? If it's a spoiler, IM me. We didn't catch the first few minutes, which I am assuming had the scene shown in the trailers of all the dead people around her bed.
What we're wondering is, was something said in the opening segment that had something to do with the guy in jail at the very end? (The very last segment, not the guy she was trying to put away that took up the bulk of the pilot episode).
Thanks for any clarification.
She had a dream about the guy at the beginning of the episode in which he basically confessed to the murder that he (or his lawyer in the written statement she was referring to) was going to try to deny to her in the interrogation at the end.
BTW, I enjoyed the episode, and now have two shows on Monday night facing off against each other that I'll be watching and/or recording.
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I laughed out loud twice and smiled repeatedly during COMMITTED tonight, just like the pilot episode for me as far as laugh quotient.
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Re: Children of Eden. Well, I've never seen the show, and I am a bit underwhelmed by the OC I have, but I must say it is a total gas to play Spark of Creation when you have someone as dynamic as Susannah Mars singing it with you.
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DR SWW - As for "The Return of the Animals"... Yes, I get it.
Can we leave it now? That was so 2004.
;)
Thank you.
:)
*Modified since I didn't know my years.
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Re: Children of Eden. Well, I've never seen the show, and I am a bit underwhelmed by the OC I have, but I must say it is a total gas to play Spark of Creation when you have someone as dynamic as Susannah Mars singing it with you.
DR JMK - You're soooo right about playing "Spark of Creation" for an amazing singer. I just always have to be careful that I don't get carried away and start playing the opening accompaniment figure too fast.. or faster. Of course, some singers like it fast, so...
However, I remember the first time I had played the song for someone from the MTI piano/vocal score. I was so used to playing it from the Vocal Selections and from the London score - which are both published in the key of C. The Papermill key - and consequently the p/v score key - is in D-flat. A half step up. But what a difference that half-step makes in regards to fingering!! I had to take a few moments to "realize" what I was playing. *I've also played in B-flat and B a few times, oh, and as well as D(!) - that girl could BELT!!!!
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DR JMK - Did my Confession post make sense? help? clarify? -I'd be more than happy to post some excerpts from my catechism. ;)
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Looking at the list of next week's DVD releases (thanks again, MBarnum), I was reminded that the five classic DVDs voted on by the public are being released next week:
THE LETTER
ICE STATION ZEBRA
IVANHOE
KING SOLOMON'S MINES
RANDOM HARVEST
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I didn't do church back then (my hedonist phase), and I don't remember any food establishments, although I'm certain I went out to eat quite a lot. Usually Mexican or pizza or upscale burgers (Georgetown, ya know).
I asked about church since my family went to St. Thomas More Cathedral, and my brothers and I went to St. Thomas More school - and onto Bishop O'Connell High School. We had a lot of other military families in the parish, and I went to school with lots of other military brats. And a bunch of Army and Navy guys sang in the Cathedral Chorus too. Did you know the Malovics? Gortons?
As for pizza - Marino's on Wilson? -I actually stopped by there on the way home from the show tonight and picked up a few slices. The trigger was this whole trip down memory lane. ;)
Hamburger's - I guess you either went to Hamburger Hamlet and/or Clyde's. Great burgers at both places.
I have great memories of the Marine Exchange at Henderson Hall...they had GREAT men's clothing there...really quality stuff at good prices. Pendleton shirts could be had for about $25 each when they were $50 on the outside.
As I mentioned earlier, the Marine Exchange still does carry some real quality stuff. My parents would usually shop there for gifts and special occasion clothes, and then head over to Ft. Myer for the family stuff. ;)
I saw "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters" and "Superman" on huge screens in Dolby stereo during my time in the D.C. area and found my life much-enriched by the experiences.
I'm guessing you're talking about the Uptown. Still a great place to catch a movie - and they did a wonderful remodeling and facelift on the place a few years ago. -They were one of the few theatres to run the whole "Lord of the Rings" trilogy as an all day affair once the third one came out. Sadly, a lot of the classic single and double screen movie houses in DC have closed over the years, but some of them are starting to reopen and/or are being reinvented as other performance spaces. I miss the small art house complex that was in Georgetown. I saw many, many films there while I was in high school - "Like Water for Chocolate", "Un Coeur en Hiver" (hmm.. is this on DVD?), "La Lectrice", "Manon of the Spring", "Cinema Paradiso" (in it's first release), etc., etc...
I attended Sunset Parades at the Iwo Jima in the summertime...great free entertainment...and yes, the place I lived was a prime fireworks viewing location.
In all my years of living in and around the DC area, I don't think I've ever been to a Sunset Parade, nor the other marching ceremony they would do on the base. However, I've been to a couple of Twilight Tatoos on the Tidal Basin.
When was the last time you were back in the DC area? It's amazing just how fast this area has changed, been built up. And then built up again. The whole Ballston and Clarendon areas have gone through multiple "upgrades" over the past 10-15 years. And poor Ballston Mall - It was closed for a while for upgrading. Business picked up again. Then business started to die off again. Then they added another whole floor and a parking deck to it, and business picked up again. Then it started to die down again. Then they added movie theatres and some more restaurants. Business picked up again, however, mainly for the restaurants and movies. There are hardly any real stores left in the Mall, although Hecht's is still the anchor store. The JC Penney closed a few years ago.
-Oh, and remember the Sears on Wilson Blvd?
..and... and... and...
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My most out of control moment: In 1982, a bunch of my gay friends and I spent a week at Hilton Head, an upscale resort beach in South Carolina. One day, at dusk, I don't know (or remember) exactly why we did it, but four of us linked our arms together and went singing and skipping down the beach singing at the tops of our voices "We're Off to See the Wizard." We sang the entire song and then turned around and sang it all the way back.
What's weird about that? :P
The first thing that came to my mind when I read today's topic was the time my brother pushed me on the lawnmower down the street so we could see the neighbor's new car. It was a Cadillac, I think. After we got a nice look at the car, he turned the lawnmower around and pushed me back to our yard. To this day, I'm not sure why.
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Vibes to Danise and her mom. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vibes to PennyO and her parents. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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And my mom and I used to put on Porch-swing Productions a few times a week. We'd sit out on the porch-swing and listen to a CD on headphones and sing along at the top of our lungs. We'd sing the wrong words off-key while all our neighbors stared at us.
Good times.
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I'm back from a lovely dinner with the Geissmans and our very own Tammy Minoff, who is back in town. We had much to catch up on and we had a high old time stuffing ourselves silly. I have some photos, which I'll post in a bit.
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That last post, as sung by me, was very Pucciniesque.
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Oh, and the time I accidentally hailed a taxi. My cousin and I were walking to the grocery store to get more sugar and we were goofing around and laughing. I was kinda waving my arms around like a weirdo, and this taxi stopped and started backing up so we could get in. We didn't know what to do, so we ran away.
And then there's the time my brother and I found an abandoned shopping cart by the canal and played with it. Apparently, I think this is funnier than it really is.
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Here the Geissmans are toasting haineshisway.com and all hainsies/kimlets.
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And here is our very own Tammy Minoff.
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I have done so many outrageous things in public (most of them even G-rated)-- especially between the ages of 15 and 19.
I will have to work on what the MOST outrageous things were. I still do outrageous things (Thank God I have not lost that ability or desire-- and I hope I never do).
I tapdanced down the Montmartre steps; I skip occasionally when I'm shopping or was at the office. These are pretty tame though.
I have worn some of the most outrageous things in public (also most of them G-rated). I used to have a large coolie hat (about four feet around) that I'd wear to school. For a few months I would wear a vegetable as a boutoniere everyday instead of a flower in the lapel of my trenchcoat. (Fresh broccoli after a few hours does lose its charm; so do radishes).
None of this is truly outrageous, but some of the stories are just way too long to type! Does anyone take dictation? (Watch it, TCB!)
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That last post, as sung by me, was very Pucciniesque.
I was amazed and thrilled by your high C.
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Oh... I guess think this was sort of in public.. - and I think I may told this story before... In any case...
I was in the sixth or seventh grade at St. Thomas More School. Since it was a Catholic school attached to a church, the Cathedral, we usually ended up attending Mass on the big Holy Days throughout the school year. The Thursday before Easter, Holy Thursday, there is a Mass held where the holy oil, chrism, is blessed and distributed to the other parishes in the diocese. It's a full house. Most of the priests from the parishes are in attendance, as well as the whole student body of St. Thomas More School - grades K-8. And the Bishop presides over the service.
Well... I was singing in the Junior Choir at the time, and for that Mass we were positioned on the "ground floor" rather than up in the choir loft (among the organ pipes). At the end of the Mass, I'm singing the Recessional hymn while the Bishop walks out of the church. As the Bishop walks by me, he waves to me. And I wave back.
My friend, Chrissy, starts laughing hysterically. "He was not waving at you, he was making the Sign of the Cross!" That's when I started laughing too. And to this day, the thought it still makes me laugh.
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...Oh, and I guess there was that time when I was staying over at John Reed's house - we were in the 8th Grade at the time - and we decided to play "Altered States".
John's house was near an intersection with a stop light. So, around 1:00 in the morning, when there wasn't too much traffic, we would wait for a red light, and the proceed to run out in the street in front of the car or cars that was stopped there like "Altered States". Crazy, deranged... almost ape-like, like in the movie "Altered States". Sometimes one of us would even press our face to the window of the car.
Thinking back, it's amazing none of us ever got hurt and/or arrested.
Oh, and speaking of "dangerous"... We would go to the movies at Springfield Mall. Outside the movie theatre, there was always a line of cars waiting to pick people up. Well, sometimes my friends and I would spot a really nice looking car, and proceed to get in it. There were a few times when the driver - usually a parent - was on auto-pilot would just start driving off assuming it was his/her kids their friends. Other times, it was truly total strangers who would get us out of the car as soon as possible. But there were also times when the driver actually got the joke too. -Not something I'd try to pull in today's world...
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I was amazed and thrilled by your high C.
Hmm... So, if he's singing in the key of B, for him to sing a high C... -Just trying to figure out the harmonies here....
;)
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I just found this information over at IMBD. This is a partial quote.
The Oscar race came into even clearer view with this morning's Director Guild nominations, which cited four of the five films that received mention from the Producers Guild yesterday. Veterans Martin Scorsese (The Aviator) and Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby), previous DGA nominees (Eastwood won for 1992's Unforgiven), both snagged nominations as did first time nominees Marc Forster (Finding Neverland) and Alexander Payne (Sideways). All four movies were nominated alongside The Incredibles for the PGA's Best Picture award, and those four directors also have Golden Globe nominations under their belt this year. The fifth DGA nominee, a bit of a surprise choice, was Taylor Hackford, who picked up his first major mention of any kind this awards season for the biopic Ray.
Naturally, I haven't seen any of the DGA nominees. And the only PGA nominee I've seen is the not-DGA-nominated The Incredibles. Der B and I have some catching up to do!
(At least they didn't nominate Van Helsing! :o :o :P)
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They'll be having screenings of all five nominated films at the DGA in a week or so, and I'll be able to see all these then - I'm really looking forward to the Eastwood film, and thankfully I've already seen The Aviator.
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I know der B wants to see Aviator. Just on subject matter, I'm more of a Finding Neverland kind of guy. And from my family history in the Napa vinyards, I might enjoy Sideways.
The awards I'm most interested in each year are for writing, however. Anyone know when the Writers Guild puts out it's nominations?
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I'll admit, seeing a film in a theater isn't the same as it was when I was living in SoCal. Mostly this is because there's just two theaters in town, compared with the countless screens in easy reach before.
The first theater, the Midway, has fourteen screens. It gets the first-run films. The Rehoboth Mall Cinema has six screens, and gets the films that have already left the Midway, at a discount price.
I haven't really been keeping track, but I think the only DGA nominated film at the Midway right now is The Aviator. I hope I'm wrong, but I think Finding Neverland has already come and gone, and Sideways and Million Dollar Baby haven't reached here yet. Ray is playing at the Mall Cinema already; it didn't get much of an audience at the Midway.
A few years ago, der B and I made an effort to see every film nominated in the major catagories. Last year, with the expected LOTR sweep, we didn't bother catching everything (and moving filled our minds and emptied our wallets). This year, with no clear-cut winners, seeing a number of the films becomes interesting again...now, we just have to figure out how to find the films without driving to DC, Philly, or further!
(This could give us an excuse to drive over to Baltimore, of course.)
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I was going to go to my room to watch M*A*S*H, but the fussy cat in my lap says no way am I getting up. So I guess I'm stuck here until he feels like getting up.
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Has Ann caught up?
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I will get up early tomorrow.
I will get up early tomorrow.
I will get up early tomorrow.
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-Of course, early for me is anytime before 9:00, so...
I will get up early tomorrow...
Goodnight.
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Oh..
BK - Will I need to send some more biscotti next week?
;)
Jose is now afraid that he asked the question...
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Well, I have become totally obsessed with said biscotti, if that tells you anything.
I guess Ann didn't get caught up.
I guess Sandra is just sitting there like so much fish.
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Like fish under a cat. I don't have anything else to say.
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You're not supposed to say anything - you're supposed to SING.
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Has Ann caught up?
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Just for you Sandra - complete the following (but it must be sung):
I see England, I see France...
I see someone's
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*Singing like an opera singer*
UNDERPANTS!!
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Ann has finally caught up.
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Bravo, Sandra, that was magnificent.
Bravo, Ann.
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*Bowing*
My cat is now on the floor, pigging out on cat food, which means I am free to get up and go to futon. Good night everybody!
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Good night??? The evening is young, which is more than I can say.
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Well, perhaps our handful of late-night denizens will keep me company.
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I'll be around for a bit, BK.
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Then we shall have sparkling conversation whilst sipping our late-night Diet Cokes.
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I am watching Blast from the Past. A silly movie, but a guilty pleasure of mine.
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Actually I'm sitting here sipping Black Cherry flavored bottled water. I love this stuff...
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Is that the Brendon F movie Ann. A guilty pleasure here too. The camera loves Brendon.
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-Btw, the previous paragraph was sung in the key of G#-minor - the relative minor to the key of B. I guess it could be sort of like a B-section, or would that be a G#-section?
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I decided to go modal for the above paragraph. Mix it up a little bit. I started off in Mixolydian (starting on D), then switched to Lydian (starting on F-sharp). The finished it off with some sprechstimme.
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That was in 12-tone - Here's my tone row - Get ready to make your matrix! D, B-flat, C-sharp, C, G-sharp, F, A, C, E-flat, E, B, G. *For those astute eyes/ears, the thirds are on purpose, sort of like what Alban Berg did in the Violin Concerto.
Thank you, Jose, for bringing a smile to another theory nerd's face.
Ahh, 12-tone matrices... hmmm, perhaps if we do a 3rd species counterpoint incorporating the inverted retrograde starting on the 9th chromatic degree... :D
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Jose is back. Stay up with us for a while, won't you, you wild kid ya.
Welcome six GUESTS. Last chance to sing.
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I'm cooking up some rice for a late-nite snack. (No carbophobe I!)
And after measuring out the rice, and putting the rest away, and then coming back to the computer while the water came to a boil, I went back to totally forget where I'd set the measured-out rice! I must have spent a full minute, trying to find it.
(But it has been found, and my sanity restored.)
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Yes, the camera loves Brendan...and so do I :)
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Thank you, Jose, for bringing a smile to another theory nerd's face.
Ahh, 12-tone matrices... hmmm, perhaps if we do a 3rd species counterpoint incorporating the inverted retrograde starting on the 9th chromatic degree... :D
Jed, I hope you sang that in the style of Harry Partch.
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I'm ba-ack...
Never really left. I remembered there was something I meant to research earlier on the web, so... Before I forgot... again... Consequently, one search led to another and so on and so on....
Guess I'll hang out for the new notes...
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This calls for tea, to celebrate.
(Sorry, Diet Coke is just too sweet for rice munchies.)
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Excellent - you can eat rice whilst reading the new notes, and then we can all post and you can tell us all about your rice. If Ann were eating rice she'd be Ann Rice.
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I'm cooking up some rice for a late-nite snack. (No carbophobe I!)
And after measuring out the rice, and putting the rest away, and then coming back to the computer while the water came to a boil, I went back to totally forget where I'd set the measured-out rice! I must have spent a full minute, trying to find it.
(But it has been found, and my sanity restored.)
Rice? For a late night snack?
Are you sure you're not Filipino too?
:P