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Well, you've read the notes, you've combed the notes, you've flipped the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home with Blythe Danner's Hair.
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We enjoyed "The Girl on the Bridge" very much too.
Last night we watched "Pay It Forward" which was an enjoyable movie as well. Maybe if the kid in E.T. had the talent (or maybe the direction given to ) of Hayley Joel Osment and the John Williams score wasn't there to state the bleeding obvious I would have liked that film too. I wonder if there is anyone else out there who also thinks E.T. is the most overhyped film of the last few decades.
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I thought Polly Bergen's hair did a great job in "Follies". It was however a "bad hair day" on the Tony Awards that year.
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I do hope that Blythe Danner's Hair hasn't scared away all our late-night denizens.
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If you want SCARY - then there's BK'S Hair. THAT'S scary.
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Welcome six GUESTS. We're talkin' about Blythe Danner's Hair.
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So, BK, I'm here. Where's the frenzy?
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That's what I'M talkin' about. It seems like the WUSSBURGERS are out in force.
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Ann isn't even catching up.
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I seem to be the Last of the Mohicans.
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Since I am not the least bit tired I shall be here for a while.
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Hisaka is here. Speak to me.
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Hi!
Glad to be here on the board again.
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Can't see dear BK any more!
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Dear BK is here. What are you doing right now in far-off Japan?
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And what is dear reader Pulliam doing in far-off Palo Alto or wherever the HELL he is?
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No, Tom....I'm not one of those "E.T." haters. I've loved the film from the first minute I saw it, and all the times since then, too.
And the kid in "E.T." probably gave THE best juvenile performance in any film EVER, IMO.
;)
Love that classic John Williams score! Ahhhhh....
:D
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Welcome eight GUESTS just sitting there like so much fish.
Let's have some questions. Let's have some answers.
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At least DR TomofOz appreciates "Steel Magnolias"!!!!
;D
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Why do you do me like you do, do, do, do?
Why do you do me like you do?
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I love E.T., too. I'm glad that Spielberg put both versions of the film on the DVD. It's just nice to have them. Although I have not watched the "new" version with all the changes. Someday...or not. ::)
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The "new" version is a total waste of time.
Hisaka, speak to me of far-off Japan.
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If I come visit Japan this year, will you show me all the hot spots?
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I have the iPod on Shuffle Play - you know who's a wonderful unsung film composer? Johnny Mandel. The guy can write a tune. Right now Agatha is playing - stunningly beautiful. And I love The Americanization of Emily, and also The Sailor Who Fell From Grace From the Sea.
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Well, guess I'll toddle off to bed and dream of Blythe Danner's Hair.
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I got a package in the mail today, too. It's from the BMG Music club. They were having a buy-one-get-THREE-free sale! Love that! I bought (and paid $19.98 for) John Pizzarelli's 2-CD "Live at Birdland" and got for free (except for shipping "and handling") the "Broadway Deluxe Collector's Edition" of the original Broadway cast recording of Fiddler on the Roof with Zero Mostel. I have never owned this recording at all...well, maybe on vinyl record. But if I have, I've never listened to it. Also for free, the OBC of Paint Your Wagon. I know I've never heard this at all. And finally "Fats Waller: The Centennial Collection." It's a compilation of 24 songs performed by Fats Waller and includes a bonus DVD of five music videos (to use a modern term) and one animated short. It's pretty darned cool! I'm very happy with this. Except that I had to pay $15.14 for shipping and handling. So in effect, I still had to pay the equivalent of 2 CDs and got two free! Good enough for me. ;D
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Free is always good. Good is always free. Always is good free and good free is always. Thus I say and say no more.
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So it is written, so it shall be done.
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Good night, Bruce. :)
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What am I, Charlton Heston all of a sudden? This is what happens when you're not tired and the world is filled with WUSSBURGERS and that includes YOU Mr. Jose Simbulan.
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And one for Mahler!
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All right, now I'm REALLY getting ready to toddle off to bed.
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But first... Meringue!
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You know what other unsung film composer I love? Dave Grusin, especially Mulholland Falls, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and Three Days of the Condor.
Who are your favorite unsung movie composers?
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I was up since 6:15 a.m. Tuesday morning and had to go to Seattle for a work meeting that I was not really part of. I was just the navigator. So, I do not claim the name "Wussburger" tonight. ;)
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Who are your favorite unsung movie composers?
I am definitely going to have to think about this...all night long (a Lionel Ritchie reference!). But since I'll be asleep all night long, I might not get much thinking done. We'll see.
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I guess I'm just not in a toddling mood right now. Other favorite unsung movie composers: Hugo Friedhofer (especially The Best Years of Our Lives), John Scott, Richard Rodney Bennett.
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We'll stay all night and we'll sing 'em all.
And Laurence Rosenthal for his trio of masterpieces: A Raisin in the Sun, Requiem for a Heavyweight, and The Miracle Worker.
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Less than four hundred postings until we achieve our new plateau.
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David Grusin's "Millagro Bean Field War"
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Hello DR HISAKA!
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Well of course Ms BLythe Danner's hair is being most recently done by Shari Perry - key hair stylist on HUFF (Hair Dept Head Voni Hinkle). Does one put Head Hair on one's business card.
And just to show how smart and informed you are, MR BK, you can inform the writer of the email that the hair of Miss Allison Hayes in the 1958 Canadian-American film WOLF DOG was done by Mrs. Mabel Douglas in her beauty shop in the back of her husband's Shell gas station on location in Markdale, Ontario, Canada, in August, 1957!
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My question for ASK BK day - what songs have you yourself BK used at an audition? Which was the best choice, and the worst?
Also what is the best dance audition you ever had? What show, what song, what choreographer?
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If I come visit Japan this year, will you show me all the hot spots?
Will be pleased to take you wherever you like! Are you interested in KABUKI?
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I thank all for your welcome messages.
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...Does one put Head Hair on one's business card.
You'd rather one put Heir Head on said business card?
(Edited for spelling!)
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LOL....no I suppose not!
Heir Port might be better.
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A question for all DRs, although I look forward to BK's answer in particular:
What non-fiction book about the theater or film have you most enjoyed, and/or would you most recommend to someone?
(And thank-you, DR Charles Pogue, for mentioning Adventures in the Screen Trade in yesterday's posts, the trigger for this question. I remember reading the book, and I know we have it...somewhere. I'm going to have to root around to find it again.)
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It's just barely six-forty in the morning here, and I'm already starting to ponder what to about dinner tonight. I've a pair of goose breasts, a pair of beef steaks, and a pair of pork loin chops thawing, but I haven't come to any decisions. But I think I'd like to save the steaks for a day or two, since we had hamburger Stroganoff last night.
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Hmmm...maybe she could be persuaded to lend her name to a bottle or two. Blythe Danner Tawney Hair Port! A nice, throaty after-dinner beverage, I would say. (This would follow a dinner where Marilyn Merlot was served, of course.)
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A few days ago, I reread “Harpo speaks…about New York”, as the other day’s Topic of discussion -Funny People- reminded me that book, and I found an interesting coincidence in it. It’s that Harpo’s real mother’s name is same as Benjamin Kritzer’s mother’s name, MINNIE. It’s interesting, isn’t it?
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Good Morning!
I'm up! I'm up! And no snooze button either! -Actually, I was up before my alarm ever went off. Well, the radio went off - which actually means turned "on" not "off"... - and thanks to call of nature... and the big glass of water I had last night before going to bed...
TMI? ;D
So...
For Ask BK Day:
Is there a particular piece of furniture that is very near and dear to you for any particular reason? Is there a piece of furniture that you miss from your childhood?
On the flip-side - Is there a piece of furniture that you really wish you could get rid of right now but just can't for various and sundried reasons? And was there a piece of furniture that you grew up with but wish you hadn't?
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What am I, Charlton Heston all of a sudden? This is what happens when you're not tired and the world is filled with WUSSBURGERS and that includes YOU Mr. Jose Simbulan.
Umm.... Was I lurking in my sleep or something?
Or something?
???
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A question for all DRs, although I look forward to BK's answer in particular:
What non-fiction book about the theater or film have you most enjoyed, and/or would you most recommend to someone?
Good morning, all! I have to work quite hard today to finish the chart for the session on Monday. I've promied the conductor the copyists will have it tomorrow, and I've got about 23 pages of scoring to do, once I finish the arranging.
DRSWW, my all-time favorite theatre books are these:
A THEATRE DIVIDED by Martin Gottfried
THE SEASON by William Goldman
Musical Theatre:
ORCHESTRATION FOR THE THEATRE by Francis Collinson
BETTER FOOT FORWARD by Ethan Mordden before he crowned himself
NOT SINCE CARRIE by Ken Mandelbaum
SONDHEIM AND CO. by Craig Zadan
Biography
ACT ONE by Moss Hart
GYPSY by Gypsy Rose Lee
DANCE TO THE PIPER by Agnes DeMille
Of film books, I've read little in recent times. I liked the book on the making of the film "Nashville," but I found the last book on "All About Eve" marred because the author may know about movies but he knew next to nothing about the New York commercial theatre of the late 40s and early 50s, much less "grand" acting like that of Katherine Cornell, Gertrude Lawrence and others. I liked David Skal's book on horror films and his book on Dracula from original novel to present. I laughed myself silly at Dennis Hensley's SCREENING PARTY and its caistic look at some sacred and not-so-sacred cows.
And so, to work.
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As for my furniture choices:
My favorite current piece: My bed (mattress and frame) that I bought from IKEA two summers ago. It's the only major piece of furniture I've bought, and, consequently own.
My least favorite current piece: Well... Since the bed is the only thing I've ever bought besides some bookcases, etc... However, some of my roommate's furniture is just downright ugly... And we both know it! ;)
Favorite family piece: The first sleep sofa my parents bought. It was just soooo neat. And for a treat sometimes, we were allowed to pull out the bed on the weekends and have a sort sleepover in our own living room.
Least favorite family piece: My mom used to have this humongous armoire. It was in a faux-Oriental style. Emphasis on "faux". Thankfully, in the last move she finally ditched it... After about 25 years!
-On a related note: I finally realized/learned a few weeks ago that my parents gave away "my" piano at home, the Chickering upright they bought for me when I was nine years old and just starting lessons. Yes, it had been sitting in the garage for the past couple of years, but still... At least it's being played right now. I hope.
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As for non-fiction books... Hmmm.. It's been a while. Maybe too long at this point. I guess there's a been a biography here and there, but no exact title comes to mind right now.
...Something to think about on the drive back up to Fairfax...
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...And speaking of driving back up to Fairfax...
It's just about 8:00am here, and I better get my stuff packed up and start that drive...
Laters...
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I recently read these three theatre-related books:
Moss Hart's ACT ONE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY is surely the best theatre book - and one of the best autobiographies - I've ever read.
I also thoroughly enjoyed the meticulously researched (though not cluttered with footnotes) DAZZLER: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF MOSS HART, by Steven Bach.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT, by Howard Teichmann, is not, IMHO, in the same league as the other two books, but it continued to provide a thoughtful and fascinating look at a remarkable era in the American theatre. And what a contrast it offered to the Kaufman seen through Moss Hart's eyes!
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Actually Ms. Blythe Danner is bald and she wears wigs from the Eva Gabor Collection.
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Re furniture:
My favorite piece ever has been my Grandfather's bed, which I inherited after he died back when I was in Junior High. Only the head- and footboards are in use these days, the headboard coming between my bed and the window (handy on chilly nights), and the footboard as a decorative element in my room. (The sideboards are in the basement, unusable right now.)
I've also inherited the diningroom table and chairs that I grew up with. One of the chairs is now in the livingroom here in Delaware, the table itself supporting all sorts of goodies down in the basement. For years, it was the computer table in Long Beach.
Least favorite piece of furniture was a shelving unit my Dad built for my sister. A very awkward piece, the shelves never quite fit, and the unit was long and low, totally useless. The best I can say about it was that it was blonde (try to hear Menzel's inflection of the word from the recording of Wicked when reading that adjective).
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#1 Question for all:
There is a program available called FINAL BID that helps you win ebay auctions. Does anyone use it (Or a similar program) or know someone who uses it? Does it work?
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What non-fiction book about the theater or film have you most enjoyed, and/or would you most recommend to someone?
The Night and the Music: Rosemary Clooney, Barbara Cook, and Julie Wilson Inside the World of Cabaret, by Deborah Grace Winer
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Question for BK:
When you evaluate a new musical at the ASCAP Workshops are the guidelines or questions they give you to help critique the works?
Can it be adapted for a play? (I am looking for a set a questions that I can give to the audience to answer at my play reading in April.)
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A BLYTHE DANNER PAGE 3 DANCE
(http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/images/follies_pic.jpg)
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Hmmm...maybe she could be persuaded to lend her name to a bottle or two. Blythe Danner Tawney Hair Port! A nice, throaty after-dinner beverage, I would say. (This would follow a dinner where Marilyn Merlot was served, of course.)
Or you could get fly away hair at the Blythe Danner International hair port. Oh that's bad, I better get dressed and go to work....
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I happen to adore Blythe Danner's hair, and the environs below said head of hair.
I've just been googling images of her, and I came upon this:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/bdfiddler.bmp)
Not completely convinced if it is really her or not--so young!
Many years ago, A&E broadcasted Danner in what must have been a very early 70's taping of Invitation to a March. I'm pretty sure I have that on tape somewhere. If not, I'll have to check to see if BroadwayArchives.com has it in print.
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Question for BK and all: What are some of your favorite theatre posters? Do you own a particular favorite? What is something that you would love to own and display?
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Favorite Furniture growing up..my grandmothers rocking chair...my Mom said it had been there as long as SHE could remember and I loved sitting and rocking in it. It was a little lower and a little wider than your typical rocking chiar and was made of solid maple. When my grandmother died (she had oved to Texas to be near my Uncle, we were all still here on Long Island) we were shocked to find the rocking chair missing from the apartment. Apparently about a month before she died she gave it to the Good Will... I dearly wish I could have that rocking chair now.
I can't think of any hated furniture off hand....
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My ask BK day question, saved since last week.... I heard a story on NPR last Thursday about the steps various theatres are taking to try and stop the ringing cellphones during performances.
Does anyone have a story about a cellphone (yours or someone else's) ringing at an inappropriate moment?
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Funny, everyone mentioning "ACT ONE" by Moss Hart, I haven't re-read that in years, but when I was making room for Writer's Block in my bookshelf, Act One tumbled down and nearly hit me in the head, so I took it as a "sign " and put it by the bed to read again..of course DH said it was "a sign that the bloody bookcase is too bloody full", but then he is obviously not as spiritual and as in touch with the cosmos as am I.... ;D
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DR Jane asked me my name..it's Debra Mann
not this one
http://www.debramann.com/
or this one
http://www.tekawiz.com/panamahelicopterpilot.html
or even this one
http://www.brooklinepolice.com/crimes/wantedphotos/mann.jpg
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I happen to adore Blythe Danner's hair, and the environs below said head of hair.
I've just been googling images of her, and I came upon this:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/bdfiddler.bmp)
Not completely convinced if it is really her or not--so young!
Looking at the posters behind her, I'd say that yes, she was that young when the pic was taken.
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A question for all DRs, although I look forward to BK's answer in particular:
What non-fiction book about the theater or film have you most enjoyed, and/or would you most recommend to someone?
I think after all these years my favorite behind-the-scenes book still is The Making of No, No, Nanette by Don Dunn. Who would have thought that the reviving of such a harmless little musical from the 20s would have scarred so many lives?
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Does anyone have a story about a cellphone (yours or someone else's) ringing at an inappropriate moment?
Yes!! I was in Hawaii about 2 years ago - teaching singing at the college in Kahalui, Maui... I took a friend to the ballet one evening. An excerpts concert. Of course it was a slow, breathtaking adagio moment when my cellfone started playing that hideous Eine Kleine Nachtmusik riff. (I was new to cellfones at the time...) I tried to smother the sucker under my sweater... finally it stopped. About a minute later, I beeped that still-more hideous DAH-DAH-DAH-dit-dit-dit-DAH-DAH-DAH to let me know whoever had called had left a message. OY!
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Well, kidz... aunt Penny's show opens 8 weeks from tonight. Feels like Time is hurtling past me. Still need a sublet...
I am presenting a piece at the BMI workshop on Monday - from my Fractured Figaro. Quintet from the end of Act II (in my show it's end of Act I). Finally got all five singers... then, yesterday, the "Drunk Gardener" pulled out. Seems a film producer wants to meet with him that day about writing the musical score for a coming movie. The nerve!!!
Any DR's who read music and sing baritone wanna help me out??? Fun scene. Short run-thru late Sunday afternoon, gig Monday around 5-ish? (I'm 6th on the list). Maury Yeston is the teacher...
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Oh, AND!!!
My web site for the show is up, and it's GAWJUS!! Take a look: www.jewishthighs.com
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It's 12 degrees here...
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Hey, Penny, looks good although the proofreader in me noticed this
diets from Helland a Rogues' Gallery. I think you mean diets from hell and a Rogues' Gallery, unless Helland is a new diet guru ;)
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Oh, Penny before I forget, I spoke with Bill Orr last night, turns out he's been E & T because his computer is down, he and his DP and my DH & I would like to jpoin the HHW party as it were on the 19th, should we buy our tickets trhough the website or were you reserving a "block" for attending Hainsies and Kimlets?
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Hey, Penny, looks good although the proofreader in me noticed this
diets from Helland a Rogues' Gallery. I think you mean diets from hell and a Rogues' Gallery, unless Helland is a new diet guru
And the proofreader in me noticed
"confulsed iwth laughter"
but yes, it is Gawjus!
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#1 Question for all:
There is a program available called FINAL BID that helps you win ebay auctions. Does anyone use it (Or a similar program) or know someone who uses it? Does it work?
Never heard of it, but I would like to hear more. I have dial up at home and its so darn slow I get outbid at the last second on stuff while my screen is refreshing
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It's 12 degrees here...
and snowing...........
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I happen to adore Blythe Danner's hair, and the environs below said head of hair.
I've just been googling images of her, and I came upon this:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/bdfiddler.bmp)
Not completely convinced if it is really her or not--so you
Many years ago, A&E broadcasted Danner in what must have been a very early 70's taping of Invitation to a March. I'm pretty sure I have that on tape somewhere. If not, I'll have to check to see if BroadwayArchives.com has it in print.
DRDTM, it is Blythe Danner; she's standing beside the poster for BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE, which was her first big break. Goldie Hawn played the role in the film.
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RE: GOLDEN BOY question last night.
It's a well made film with outstanding performances, but naturally the ending of the oroginal play (where Joe dies) was not used, a more upbeat ending substituted. And the film, if judging by the print I saw on TCM a month or two ago, is in terrible shape.
The Broadway version is actually much truer to Odets' original play than the film.
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DR Jose,
I forgot to answer your question regarding the Indian filmmaker in the U.S....he didn't come across to me the way that he did to you when he was sort of imitating his countrymen...when they talk in English, many times that is really how they sound! LOL! Especially when they talk English in the Bollywood movies.
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Piece of furniture I loved and mourn - I had a rocking chair - nothing special in terms of furniture - just an ordinary rocking chair painted white that I bought in Toronto. I had put some sweet decals on it to make it look like a baby rocking chair. And this was the very chair where I would rock my little baby (now 21) to sleep, feed her late at night and sit with her and rock her while listening to soft music as the rest of the world slept. Over the years, I've lugged this chair with me through many, many moves all over the fershluganah place. Always meant to give it to DD so she could eventually (a LONG time from now) rock HER baby in it. When I moved back to LA last year, there was no room for it inside the guest house where I was staying. So I put it out back in the little porch area. Stupid decision! By the time I moved to my present home environment, after a year outside, the chair was falling apart. Could not be fixed. Sigh... I'm really not attached to "things" -- but this really upset me. And it was totally my fault. Oh well.
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As for furniture: My favorite piece of furniture is a lamp I have in the living room. It is from the 1950s and very space age looking...like a satellite or rocket or something. I could never part with it.
One piece of furniture I wish I still had is a coffee table that my mom made back in the 1960s. It was one of those things made with some sort of liquid plastacine and cool looking rocks...I can still remember the odor when she was making it. I have the end table still, but one of my brothers ended up with the coffee table years ago...we have no idea whatever became of it.
In the mid 1990s I had a lovely green 1950s studio couch which I REALLY wish I still had! It just reaked of the 50s and the back would fold down and you could sleep on it like a bed.
I hate the bed that I have...it looks like it came out of a a hospital circa the 1920s. One of those big iron things.
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Last night CHarles Pogue wrote:
"The fact that De Niro's extreme weight gain/ loss had to be supervised by a doctor shows the potential risk to health and physical well-being."
But the fact that a doctor was supervising under the safest conditions possible and over a period of months to assure the integrity of the film and De Niro's performance shows an admirable bow to safety AND art and that gives the film an added luster in my mind. Understanding De Niro's total commitment to playing a real person (who was alive and ready to criticize if things weren't done right) was in my mind not an act of ego or self-indulgence but merely a desire to get it right.
"I won't debate whether Olivier's remark was catty or not, but refer you to Bill Goldman's book ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE and his story about Hoffman making Olivier improvise, not only improvise but walk around to do so when the man was obviously ill. I think Hoffman's a fine actor...but I think some of this stuff is just star ego bullshit. While you're at it, read the story about Hoffman and the flashlight in Goldman's book."
I read it; I've had that book for many years. I agree it was absurd. Don't put me in a position to defend Dustin Hoffman who I think is the least appealing actor of his generation despite some good work. He, almost alone among the actors of his generation, seems overly egotistical and puffed up by his own self-importance. I am not really a fan.
You've changed the argument. We were talking merely about Olivier's comment. I stand by my position that an actor has to do what an actor has to do to prepare himself for work. Hoffman's insistance on Olivier trying his method was as unreasonable as Olivier's suggestion that Hoffman merely "act."
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DR Sandra is going to have something to say about her favorite furniture when she gets home from school. She got my mom's beautiful stuff, and we are storing it for her in our very small house. It is quite crowded in here.
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I saw Blythe Danner's hair in the FOLLIES revival, too, and I found it got in the way of her performance. I'm SERIOUS!
For those that saw it, she had a lovely soft but full and fluffy bob in the show, and there was obviously not enough hair spray on it because she CONSTANTLY kept fluffing her hair back with her left hand. It became very distracting after awhile. I first thought it was just something she was doing for her character, but then when she started playing Will's mother on WILL & GRACE, I noticed she did it there, too.
In recent years, she's permed her hair so it has enough stiffness that she's not constantly having to blush it out of her left cheek all the time. I really prefer the soft hair, but if that means she's going to have to brush it away every ten seconds, then keep it permed, dear Blythe.
I must also add that I think she's a marvelous actress and was one of the strengths of that underwhelming FOLLIES revival.
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One other Blythe Danner comment:
Her performance in ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE is one of the GREAT television performances of all time. I remember it to this day (haven't bought it on DVD though I know it was available; may be out of print now) and still prefer this verion to SUMMER AND SMOKE.
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Also love THE SEASON by William Goldman and SONDHEIM & CO. by Craig Zadan.
Stanley Green's THE WORLD OF MUSICAL COMEDY was the first theater book that I read cover to cover and then over and over again. The discographys in the back of the first and second editions of the book were absolutely invaluable for me as a kid learning to love Broadway and trying to get my hands on all the show recordings I could. Later editions of the book edited his comments on some of the older, out of print recordings, but I still have the older versions and wouldn't part with them for anything.
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Also love...SONDHEIM & CO. by Craig Zadan.
Which edition, first or second? ;D
My copy of the first edition disappeared ages ago, but the second, with it's updates, showed that a book like this could be improved upon.
Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions by Mark Eden Horowitz was a difficult book because of the tech on composing, but well worth the effort (imo) as one of the best windows into how the man works.
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Which edition, first or second? ;D
My copy of the first edition disappeared ages ago, but the second, with it's updates, showed that a book like this could be improved upon.
I'm not a fan of the update of Sondheim & Co. It seemed to me that the latter chapters that covered SS's newer shows were on the shallow side and lacking in interesting anecdotes. I don't think that it was so much as the writing skills of the author--I just think that people were less willing to gossip.
But I do like the early parts of the book which comprised to original edition. Sondheim & Co, coupled with Hal Prince's Contridictions (along with last year's Everything Was Possible) do cover that era of Sondheim's career quite nicely.
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One other Blythe Danner comment:
Her performance in ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE is one of the GREAT television performances of all time. I remember it to this day (haven't bought it on DVD though I know it was available; may be out of print now) and still prefer this verion to SUMMER AND SMOKE.
I don't believe that I ever saw Eccentricities. BroadwayArchive.com does not carry Invitation to a March, but it does have Eccentricities. Putting my order through this afternoon (along with Prideaux's Lemonade, another oddity I sort of remember liking.)
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ACT ONE is my favorite show business biographical tomes. One of my favorite books, period. I used to have quite a large collection (large for me, that is) of theatrical bios, but donated or sold most of them in the last couple of moves.
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Also love THE SEASON by William Goldman
Ditto.
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Hey DR MBarnum did you watch TAR last night?
Don't read below if you didn't.
So what did you guys think of last night's show? It was a good one!
I will say this: Is that how Victoria has always been acting? Last night she was crazier than her husband!
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DR Panni, just curious, which show did you go to the taping of yesterday?
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I used to really enjoy reading epistolary books (if there's such a term) and journals...
Some which come to mind are THE GROUCHO LETTERS; MEMO FROM: DAVID O SELZNICK; William Redfield's LETTERS FROM AN ACTOR; The Noel Coward Diaries, etc. More later. I must walk and write (not at the same time).
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My question for ASK BK day - what songs have you yourself BK used at an audition? Which was the best choice, and the worst?
Also what is the best dance audition you ever had? What show, what song, what choreographer?
I don't know that I've sung at many auditions - I've used Nothing Can Stop Me Now, I remember. And a song or two of my own. The worst, stupidest choice? That's easy. I auditioned for Tommy Tune (it must have been for Day in Hollywood) and I decided to be clever and sing Another Hundred People. The pianist couldn't play it and I couldn't sing it. Tommy was very nice.
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A question for all DRs, although I look forward to BK's answer in particular:
What non-fiction book about the theater or film have you most enjoyed, and/or would you most recommend to someone?
(And thank-you, DR Charles Pogue, for mentioning Adventures in the Screen Trade in yesterday's posts, the trigger for this question. I remember reading the book, and I know we have it...somewhere. I'm going to have to root around to find it again.)
My favorite non-fiction book about theater remains The Season by William Goldman. It's brilliant. Ditto this Adventures in the Screen Trade, although there are many film books I like.
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So...
For Ask BK Day:
Is there a particular piece of furniture that is very near and dear to you for any particular reason? Is there a piece of furniture that you miss from your childhood?
On the flip-side - Is there a piece of furniture that you really wish you could get rid of right now but just can't for various and sundried reasons? And was there a piece of furniture that you grew up with but wish you hadn't?
I can't think of any furniture that's so dear to me I'd miss it if it weren't here. I have a really nice little table by the front door, and all the furniture here is nice, but it's just, well, furniture. Those who've read the Kritzer books know that there is probably no furniture from my childhood that I miss. Maybe my grandfather's ancient radio, which I was mesmerized by.
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#1 Question for all:
There is a program available called FINAL BID that helps you win ebay auctions. Does anyone use it (Or a similar program) or know someone who uses it? Does it work?
I use esnipe. It always works, but whether you win or not is dependent on your bid amount.
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Question for BK:
When you evaluate a new musical at the ASCAP Workshops are the guidelines or questions they give you to help critique the works?
Can it be adapted for a play? (I am looking for a set a questions that I can give to the audience to answer at my play reading in April.)
No, there aren't really any guidelines, we just say what we feel.
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Question for BK and all: What are some of your favorite theatre posters? Do you own a particular favorite? What is something that you would love to own and display?
Like everyone, I love Byrd's Follies poster. I had him design several Bay Cities covers, for which I own his original art. I love the Li'l Abner poster, and have one that's duotone with no credits - I'd love to have the full color original with all the credits - it went on eBay about six months ago - for 1200 bucks.
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My ask BK day question, saved since last week.... I heard a story on NPR last Thursday about the steps various theatres are taking to try and stop the ringing cellphones during performances.
Does anyone have a story about a cellphone (yours or someone else's) ringing at an inappropriate moment?
Cell phones, by their nature, always ring at inappropriate moments. I actually haven't heard that many, but the other night at Million Dollar Baby, someone's went off and it had one of those totally obnoxious designer rings with a voice - and it just kept ringing and ringing and I'm sure we were all getting ready to kill the person when we heard, "Oh, is that me?"
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Looking at the posters behind her, I'd say that yes, she was that young when the pic was taken.
If you look at the partial poster to her left, it's Butterflies are Free, which she was starring in at the time that photo was taken.
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Not to continue the Olivier catty debate much further...but I do believe another performer has the right to expect his fellow performer come to work prepared, fresh and focused to work. If one has deliberately stayed up all night and is sleep-deprived through choice which can more than likely lead to a diminishment of awareness and clear-headed thinking, I don't find that very disciplined or considerate of one's fellow actors. You could have an actor as slow and as muddled and unclear as a performer showing up drunk or drugged. If you haven't had sleep, your reaction time is impaired as well as the clarity of your thinking and focus. You're not at your best for the day's work ahead.
Favourite piece of furniture: The mission-style couch in my office. It was my grandmother's. It's very long. I've taken some great naps on that couch.
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Sorry, I didn't see that elmore had pointed this out already, as I answer the questions in order.
I also love James Kirkwood's Diary of a Mad Playwright.
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Another vote for THE SEASON by William Goldman. I read it when I was a teenager - and it made me feel like an Broadway insider and smarter than anyone else about the stage!
Also like DAZZLER, EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE, and REAL LIFE DRAMA by Wendy Smith a "history" of the Group Theatre. UNCLE MAME, COLE PORTER by William McBrien, ORIGINAL STORY by Arthur Laurents, and ANGELS & DEMONS by Ray Stricklyn.
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Ah DRCP - former DR The Evil Kurt has a Mission Style couch. I had never seen one and it is a lovely style of furniture.
My favorite piece of furniture was a big combination television/radio/stereo that had great sound. The downside being that I couldn't play records when anyone wanted to watch television! But the sound was great! Eventually one of the speakers went out or something - some of the solos on THE SOUND OF MUSIC soundtrack were missing, so I knew we were missing music from other stereo records.....so it became a thing of the past.....sigh!
I love the new technology, but there was something comforting and exciting about music - opera or movies or cast albums - coming out of a BIG piece of furniture in the LIVING ROOM!!!
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Looked like this! ;D
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Nice TV console. It's another lovely day today - blue skies forever.
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Stanley Green's THE WORLD OF MUSICAL COMEDY was the first theater book that I read cover to cover and then over and over again. The discographys in the back of the first and second editions of the book were absolutely invaluable for me as a kid learning to love Broadway and trying to get my hands on all the show recordings I could. Later editions of the book edited his comments on some of the older, out of print recordings, but I still have the older versions and wouldn't part with them for anything.
I thought about mentioning Stanley's book because I dearly loved him, and I miss him quite a bit. He was full of good humor, had seen everything since 1935, and he had great memories and stories about all of it. When I finished the JUBILEE restoration in 1986, I gave my copy of the Broadway script to him; JUBILEE in 1935 was his first musical. I, too, loved his book, and I looked forward to the later editions to see him comments on later recordings and the newest shows.
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Non-fiction film books I recommend: ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE by Goldman. He gives an accurate picture of the business and its foibles without bile or an axe to grind.
WARNER BROS. PRESENTS...historian (and pal) Rudy Behlmer does the same thing he did with his other great film book MEMO. He ransacks the files of Warner Brothers from about 1934 to about 1949 and selects a series of memoes and letters about some of the most famous Warner's films.
Theatre books I recommend:
THE SEASON by William Goldman
LETTERS FROM AN ACTOR by William Redfield; one of the best books about theatre and the genesis of a production around.
NOT SINCE CARRIE by Ken Mandlebaum
BROADWAY BABIES SAY GOODNIGHT by Mark Steyn
THEN CAME EACH ACTOR by Bernard Grebanier, wonderful book about Shakespearian acting. The author is often very opinionated about certain actors and performances and I often disagree with him, but it's still a swell book (and if I went back and re-read it, I might even agree with him more today)
GOODNIGHT, SWEET PRINCE by Gene Fowler; bio of John Barrymore.
JOHN GIELGUD: A LIFE IN LETTERS...You get a broad swath of 20th century theatre through Gielgud's letters.
GREAT ACTING, edited by Hal Burton..detailed interviews with some of the greatest actors of our day...Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, Redgrave, Coward, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Sybil Thorndike.
SHOPTALK, by Dennis Brown...conversations about theatre and film with various writers and one producer, Merrick.
PETER HALL'S DIARIES...about the beginnings of the National Theatre.
PETER HALL DIRECTS ANTONY & CLEOPATRA...a behind-the-scenes look at a National production starring Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench in the lead roles.
TRUE & FALSE by David Mamet...Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor. I usually don't care for acting books. But I like Mamet's no-nonsense style and his quaint notion that the actor might just be the servant to the text of the playwright.
FAT CHANCE by Simon Gray...account of Gray's play CELL MATES and the now-famous episode of Stephen Fry going AWOL after it opened.
One of my long-time mentors and friends died last week in Mexico where he was living...Dick Vath. Dick kept me working in dinner theatre through much of the seventies. He also worked with a passel of stars and celebrities (it was through Dick, I met June Wilkinson; and Rudy Behlmer and Bob Osborne and Charlie Pierce, all classmates of his at the Pasadena Playhouse). From the fifties up through the seventies, Dick pretty much knew everybody and everyone in show biz. He was also one of the last great raconteurs. He recently self-published a book, entitled: WHAT? AND QUIT SHOW BIZ?, full of stories from his career as an actor and director and his encounters with the great, near-great, and the awful. In fact, I was present at many of the stories he recounts with some of these folks. So I'm plugging Dick's book. Look for it at We-Publish.com.
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I agree with all about ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE. It's a grand production all-round. And it is, indeed, out in the Broadway Archive series. I've bought it.
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I just got out of my history class. Most of my classmates are the teacher's "regulars." All of them, as a group, get together and take classes from this teacher. I'm not sure why. They're not history majors. They're just groupies for this one teacher.
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Cell phones: Well, here's an anecdote involving Susannah Mars, whose father starred in the Superman video BK just watched. I was doing a cabaret with her and we thought it would be a funny gag if I came out first to do a solo and had my cell phone placed on the piano. During the solo, Susannah, who was already mic'd, was going to call me from her dressing room and start talking to me, giving us the opportunity to do a little "bit" on how people should turn off their phones. So I go out, start playing, and my cell phone rings and I pick it up, only...Susannah had forgotten to turn on her mic. So there am I, trying to alert Susannah to the fact that this fabulous joke is falling flat as she continues with her non-mic'd lines about interrupting a performance with a cell phone. Ultimately she figured out from my repeated stage whispers ("TURN ON YOUR MIC", LOL), and we recovered semi-nicely.
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Yes, I have a lot of my grandma's furniture. My favorite is the desk that belonged to my great-grandmother. My mom is especially fond of the china cabinet that she had to fight her sister to get.
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JRand54, most of the furniture in our house is either mission/craftsman style or vaguely southwestern. I like heavy comfortable furniture that one is not afraid to put their feet up on. Our coffee table is a chunky, weathered old mission door.
A theatre book I love is Daniel Blum's A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN THEATRE. I eventually bought a revised edition from the first one I bought, that took the history up to 1980...but I've still got the original edition too.
Oddly enough, I don't have any theatre posters other than from productions I was in or wrote. I do have a rather extensive collection of vintage film posters though. In the front hall is a seven foot high Gunga Din poster. Over the the steps is a massive poster from THE SCARLET CLAW, a Rathbone Sherlock Holmes film. It must be 5' by 7'. Several smaller ones of Olivier's Hamlet, Sleuth, Prisoner of Zenda (Colman); Lives of a Bengal Lancer. A great Spanish Becket with beautiful artwork hangs in the bedroom. Three different Viking posters hang downstairs (in American, Polish, and Italian). There are a few others around and a bunch more I've yet to frame because I have no wall space for them...a great MAN IN THE IRON MASK (Louis Hayward and a SCARAMOUCHE signed by Janet Leigh. I like ones that have artwork rather than photographic representations.
The most theatrical poster I have is a large portrait-photo poster of John Barrymore, along side it is a large photograph (taken from the original negative) of Barrymore as Svengali.
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My favorite piece of furniture is an antique pie safe that belonged to my grandmother.
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Today's peculiar eBay message department: I just got an official email from eBay (you can tell they're official when they "know" your name) alerting me to the fact that an auction I had bid on was "null and void" because the seller had been suspended. One little problem: the auction closed 2 months ago and I received my items probably a month and a half ago. Are these all former phone company employees?
And don't even ask me what happened when Betsy (who does the books because it's "fun"--I kid you not) tried to change the address of the synagogue at our bank last week. :)
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And just to show how smart and informed you are, MR BK, you can inform the writer of the email that the hair of Miss Allison Hayes in the 1958 Canadian-American film WOLF DOG was done by Mrs. Mabel Douglas in her beauty shop in the back of her husband's Shell gas station on location in Markdale, Ontario, Canada, in August, 1957!
During a recent drive in Bayfield, Ontario (a couple of hours from Markdale) I saw this sign in front of a log house: "Peg's Beauty Shop and Maple Syrup."
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It was nice to see the little blurb in this week's Entertainment Weekly regarding DR Mr. Pogue's televsion film HERCULES. It would have been nicer if they had mentioned who wrote the screenplay, but no such luck.
Oh, this is Wednesday, Ask BK Day, I better change my post to a question.
BK --Did you see the little blurb in this week's Entertainment Weekly regarding DR Mr. Pogue's televsion film HERCULES? Would it have been nicer if they had mentioned who wrote the screenplay?
There, much better.
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I did not see the little blurb as I don't ever have occasion to look at Entertainment Weekly.
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I guess I'll have to go out and buy Entertainment Weekly, even if they don't mention who wrote the screenplay.
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In response to DTM's question about theatre art. My favorites are by Morrow. I think the SHE LOVES ME poster totally captures the flavor of that musical. Another favorite is Morrow's work on PROMENADE - as zany and witty as the show itself. Generally speaking, I think the ugliest pieces of poster art were executed for David Merrick. PROMISES PROMISES is probably the worst.
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Did anyone catch the losers of The Amazing Race on this morning's Early Show? We forgot to watch. I can't find a vid clip on the CBS site anywhere. Can you PM me and tell me what they said?
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DtM maybe that is why Allison's hair looked that way in WOLF DOG.
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Did anyone catch the losers of The Amazing Race on this morning's Early Show? We forgot to watch. I can't find a vid clip on the CBS site anywhere. Can you PM me and tell me what they said?
I know they were promoting it last night, but I didn't see them.
Not sure if it aired in all markets. But check out this site:
http://community.realitytvworld.com/boards/DCForumID20/2097.shtml (http://community.realitytvworld.com/boards/DCForumID20/2097.shtml)
Great news, TAR7 to debut march 1st.
http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/articles/story.php?s=3190
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Oh I forgot A TERRIBLE LIAR by Hume Cronyn
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Question for Anyone:
Am I the only one who constantly gets an image of GWB in their mind everytime they hear the song "Dancing Through Life" ?
I'm listening to the Wicked CD now, and it happened again!
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Another question for the day.
What movies do you like that the rest of the world (including even the movie's own stars, writer and/or director) hates? In my case, it's SHE DEVIL. I've enjoyed it each time I've seen it - in fact, I think it's one of Meryl Streep's best.
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I did watch TAR last night! I think if I had been in a race with Jonathan for several weeks I too would wig out like Victoria was doing! LOL!
I expected Jonathan to blame Victoria for them losing the race, however, but he was actually fairly human for a change.
I found the hosts remark about Bollo and what's her name not smelling too good to be rather amusing!
And how many of you just knew that Bollo would mispronounce the city Nice?! LOL!
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Another question for the day.
What movies do you like that the rest of the world (including even the movie's own stars, writer and/or director) hates? In my case, it's SHE DEVIL. I've enjoyed it each time I've seen it - in fact, I think it's one of Meryl Streep's best.
Oh, my, that list would take so many pages! LOL!
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And don't even ask me what happened when Betsy (who does the books because it's "fun"--I kid you not) tried to change the address of the synagogue at our bank last week. :)
O.K., I'll bite. What happened when Betsy (who does the books because it's "fun"-you kid me not) tried to change the address of the synagogue at your bank last week.
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Well, I guess I don't have to say how I feel after last night's TAR. The maniac is gone, unfortunately without one last egotistic act--he couldn't bare walking up to the pit stop alone (Victoria doesn't count) so he had to gather a parade around him. What an ass!
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I just got out of my history class. Most of my classmates are the teacher's "regulars." All of them, as a group, get together and take classes from this teacher. I'm not sure why. They're not history majors. They're just groupies for this one teacher.
Maybe it has to do with...UNDERPANTS!
;D
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he couldn't bare... What an ass!
Is this turning into one of those sites? ;D
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...And don't even ask me what happened when Betsy (who does the books because it's "fun"--I kid you not) tried to change the address of the synagogue at our bank last week. :)
Your bank has it's own synagogue? :o
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I certainly couldn't sit up all night and day and hope to be able to function at my best the next day, but I'm not Dustin Hoffman and wouldn't presume to know his work habits. I know many people in the business consider him a pill to work with and would rather not, but he keeps getting hried and that must count for something. Somebody must think he's worth the effort.
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Also in this week's ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY is a fantastic essay on what's wrong with WILL & GRACE. In fact, I wrote a letter to the mag this morning praising the critic for his spot-on analysis of what's going wrong over there.
Hopefully the egos of those involved with the show won't be too bruised to set about righting the ship if someone bothers to show them the article.
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Remembering the original SHE-DEVIL mini-series, I have never bothered to see the movie. The mini was quite interesting.
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Speaking of writing about theater recordings, I think Kurt Ganzl's THE BLACKWELL GUIDE TO THE MUSICAL THEATRE ON RECORD is a wonderful book on show recordings. It's in dire need of an update (my copy has a 1990 copyright), but covering recordings up to a year or two before that date, it's excellent.
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The movie I really like that most people I know loathe is MISSION IMPOSSIBLE.
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I certainly couldn't sit up all night and day and hope to be able to function at my best the next day, but I'm not Dustin Hoffman and wouldn't presume to know his work habits. I know many people in the business consider him a pill to work with and would rather not, but he keeps getting hried and that must count for something. Somebody must think he's worth the effort.
In 1984, I worked for around 3 weeks as manager of the Minskoff Rehearsal Studios while my manager friend Diane took a Christmas holiday to see family. During that time, Dustin, John Malkovich, and the group were rehearsing DEATH OF A SASLESMAN. Every morning around 9:45, Dustin and several actors would arrive together and quietly go into their studio, Arthur Miller would show up, etc. Everyone in the company was friendly except for Malkovich. I was working on a recording at the time so every time Dustin came and went, he'd see me working on a score. After about three days, whenever he'd enter or leave, he would say to me, "Good night, Mr Mozart" or "Good night, Mr Liszt" andI'd yell out "You can call me Wolfgang" or "You can call me Franz." whatever person I was that day. The last day I ran the studios, there was a birthday party for an actress in DEATH OF A SALESMAN, and Dustin brought me a glass of wine and a piece of cake. He was a lovely man.
While I was at the Drama Book Shop in the 1990s, the employees of Dustin's production company, Punch Productions, came in regularly for things and I became friendly with several of them. Dustin came in occasionally and he was friendly but seemed very shy. I ended up helping them with research on Shylock and Shakespeare when Dustin was doing Peter Hall's production of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and received a lovely Christmas gift from Dustin in thanks. I saw the show when it came to New York and saw a performance on Mr Hoffman's house seats. It was also that production that introduced me to Ben Browder of FARSCAPE, who was quite friendly when we was in New York with the show.
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Remembering the original SHE-DEVIL mini-series, I have never bothered to see the movie. The mini was quite interesting.
The mini-series followed the novel quite closely, and I enjoyed both, although the novel was quite angry. I liked the humor of the American film, which certainly lightened up the lebianism and the anger.
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Speaking of Dustin Hoffman, there's a very good article about Ben Stiller in the current New Yorker, with references to other actors. At the end of "The Contender," David Denby writes:
And he [Stiller] should relax and stop glaring at the camera like a cornered animal. Dustin Hoffman played an uncomfortable young lover, sixties style, in "The Graduate," then kept growing as an actor. Now, in "Meet the Fockers," he's a joyous, dancing clown, completely at ease in his aging but superb flesh. For an actor about to hit forty, that's a spiritual victory worth imitating."
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Speaking of writing about theater recordings, I think Kurt Ganzl's THE BLACKWELL GUIDE TO THE MUSICAL THEATRE ON RECORD is a wonderful book on show recordings. It's in dire need of an update (my copy has a 1990 copyright), but covering recordings up to a year or two before that date, it's excellent.
I like the book a lot as well, DRMattH. Kurt's better on musicals than operetta but his book is certainly a wonderful companion to Alan Blyth's 3-volume OPERA ON RECORD, a set I read over and over.
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Thanks for the Dustin Hoffman info, DR Elmore. Nice to read something pleasant and positive about him.
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And he [Stiller] should relax and stop glaring at the camera like a cornered animal. Dustin Hoffman played an uncomfortable young lover, sixties style, in "The Graduate," then kept growing as an actor. Now, in "Meet the Fockers," he's a joyous, dancing clown, completely at ease in his aging but superb flesh. For an actor about to hit forty, that's a spiritual victory worth imitating."
I haven't seen the new Focker movie, but I'm not surprised he's having fun. Dustin payed for his acting classes in the 1960s by playing piano for dance classes, and he used to play quite well. At one point, I suggested to the Punch Production folk that Dustin should play Ko-Ko in THE MIKADO.
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Elmore, I recommend "Meet the Fockers." Everyone's very, very good - and nobody has an ego problem - Stiller, De Niro, Hoffman, Streisand, or today's very own Blythe Danner.
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I'm still trying to decide if I have the energy to go over the hill at six to see Ray.
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Re: BK's topic of unsung composers. John Scott one of my favourite scores to a movie of Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra starring Charlton Heston. Don't think I've ever seen the movie, but the score is lush and romantic.
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Until I read about Jamie Foxx's Golden Globe win, I had no idea he was lip-synching to Ray Charles recordings rather than doing his own vocals. This has rather spoiled any enthusiasm I might have had for RAY. Like Jessica Lange in SWEET DREAMS, knowing that the star is lip synching to someone else's voice takes just a tiny bit of the wonder out of the performance.
And, yet as I write this, I realize that it didn't bother me with Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis doing it to Judy Garland's recordings in LIFE WITH JUDY GARLAND. Maybe that was because it was a made-for-TV film.
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It is snowing here in Rehoboth Beach. I've decided (again) that I definately like watching show fall. It's light, whimsical (well, for now, since it's a light snowfall), and not nearly as gloomy as I've heard people say. Rain can be gloomy, very grey, but snow is not like that at all.
Of course, if this were a blizzard, I might have a few different things to say about the matter.
The biggest question right now, for me, is whether I can con der B into Burger Night at Partners, or if I'll be doing the cooking. If it's the latter, it'll be grilled goose breasts with sauteed spinach and (get this!) oatmeal with dried cherries and almonds. I think that would be quite different, but I'd sure like that burger, too. Decisions, decisions.
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Re: Dustin Hoffman. Elmoore, you may not have been around when I posted this a long time ago, but he was one of my late, great Uncle Charlie's many tenants who didn't have to pay rent when they didn't have it, so that was one bill he didn't need to worry about, LOL. I mentioned here many a moon ago that one summer when I was back in NYC the phone in Charlie's apartment rang and I picked it up. The male speaker asked for Charlie, who wasn't there, and said to tell him "Dusty called." It was only later that Charlie told me who "Dusty" was. This was long after The Graduate had hit, but they stayed in touch. In fact, as I think I mentioned, in the commentary on The Producers DVD, when Mel Brooks talks about "Dusty" (hey, I feel I have permission to call him that now) throwing rocks on the window of an apartment house on West 11th between 5th & 6th, that was one of Charlie's buildings. And I think it was probably next door to where "Dusty" rented, since Charlie owned a lot of that block. Why "Dusty" didn't phone is anyone's guess. :)
Re: the bank/synagogue story. Oy. I am still fuming. The synagogue moved, so Betsy, who does the books, called the bank to change the address that the bank statements come to. She only gave them the account numbers for the synagogue, but they asked her to verify the spelling of her last name as a security precaution (she's listed as a signer on the checking account). So, of course, she goes over to pick up the mail yesterday and lo and behold our personal checking account statement is there. So I end up arguing with the frigging bank customer service people (two of them, since the first one had no clue, and the second, an alleged supervisor, had an attitude the size of Texas) about what our address was. I ended up having to call the corporate office in Seattle. Washington Mutual's "Supervisor" Linda is about to get a major taste of her own medicine. The thing that drove me crazy was this was a mistake they created and then they absolutely refused to do anything to rectify it until I called corporate. Unbelievable.
End of rant. For now.
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Well, I guess I don't have to say how I feel after last night's TAR. The maniac is gone, unfortunately without one last egotistic act--he couldn't bare walking up to the pit stop alone (Victoria doesn't count) so he had to gather a parade around him. What an ass!
Not just a parade, but a parade with arms raised as they walked up the hill. Couldn't agree more that he was a total ass
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I learned an important lesson today. Don't ever read those consent forms they make you sign before surgery. I went in for my pre-op appointment today, and had all these forms to sign. One of them actually said, and I quote, "This surgery might not work for you. You may in fact be worse off than you were before." The rest of it talked about how I might become paralyzed, have a heart attack, permanent disability, or just plain die. I know they have to cover their butts, legally speaking, but oy...
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I learned an important lesson today. Don't ever read those consent forms they make you sign before surgery. I went in for my pre-op appointment today, and had all these forms to sign. One of them actually said, and I quote, "This surgery might not work for you. You may in fact be worse off than you were before." The rest of it talked about how I might become paralyzed, have a heart attack, permanent disability, or just plain die. I know they have to cover their butts, legally speaking, but oy...
It's even worse when you're signing for one of your kids. The night Gabe got hit by the car and he was in the trauma unit, they kept shoving these release forms under my nose and it was just maddening.
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JMK - Shortly after my appointment this morning I called my mother. You see, I had many reconstructive surgeries as a kid due to birth defects. Most of them involved cutting and moving bones around my face, and they were downright risky. I asked her if she had to sign those forms for me, and if it was hard knowing the risks I was dealing with. Her response "You have no idea, I may write a book about it someday."
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My ask BK day question, saved since last week.... I heard a story on NPR last Thursday about the steps various theatres are taking to try and stop the ringing cellphones during performances.
Does anyone have a story about a cellphone (yours or someone else's) ringing at an inappropriate moment?
One of the few times when I was in the audience when someone else's phone went off (mine never has...fortunately) was during a local production of Assassins. Actually, the husband of the woman playing Emma Goldman (and other characters) was the offending patron! He was sitting in the back row when it started ringing DURING HIS WIFE'S EMMA GOLDMAN SCENE!! :o It took several rings before he was able to turn it off. He was given a very stern talking to after the show by the director of the show who was in the back of the auditorium right behind the back row when it happened!
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One of the few times when I was in the audience when someone else's phone went off (mine never has...fortunately) was during a local production of Assassins. Actually, the husband of the woman playing Emma Goldman (and other characters) was the offending patron! He was sitting in the back row when it started ringing DURING HIS WIFE'S EMMA GOLDMAN SCENE!! :o It took several rings before he was able to turn it off. He was given a very stern talking to after the show by the director of the show who was in the back of the auditorium right behind the back row when it happened!
The talking-to by the director was probably nothing compared to what he probably got from his wife after they got home! ::)
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The talking-to by the director was probably nothing compared to what he probably got from his wife after they got home! ::)
"I told you to make it go off during Squeaky's scene. She's always been such a bitch to me." ;D
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Furniture:
One of my favorite pieces is a side table/entry table that I saw and fell in love with. It has great lines and looks vaguely 30's (althogh it's new). The wodd is pretty; the lines are pretty-- there's just something about it. Another favorite piece that I've worked hard to hang onto (especially when we had no room for it) is a Victorian sleigh bed that MusicGuy inherited from a relative many moons ago. It's the width of a double bed but shorter. It's now considered my nephew's bed since it is in "his" room at our house. It's quite comfortable, and I have some fond memories of times in that bed.
Have you ever noticed that furniture you don't like has a way of staying around forever? It always makes me very cautious when shoppping because I know if I don't like it'll be always be there. The furniture I hated the most was this awful French Provincial bedroom set that Lyn's mother brought to our first house when MusicGuy and I first got together. She'd gotten it in one of her marriages and thought it was still really something. At the time, our room was the only one big enough for the set, so we ended up using it for years. It took moving from our second house to finally get it back to her and then another 10 years to get it out of the picture altogether. I hated the nightstands, the bed , the dressers-- all of it. So naturally we couldn't get rid of it.
So, caution out there- you have to like the piece of furniture or don't get it because it's like Jason in all the "Halloween" movies-- you can't kill it or get rid of it.
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My favorite consent forms are when you do something dangerous like racing or skydiving. In skydiving, not only do you have to read and sign the consent form, but they show you a video stating that you could be killed or maimed and you waive all rights to sue anybody. They make sure you KNOW before you sign. And of course, you don't go if you don't sign. It's laughable though as they point out all the possibilities for your injury or death and then tell you to have fun.
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The only piece of furniture (if you can call it that) that I'm attached to is my piano. It's in my extra bedroom...and not very accessible, being that the extra bedroom is really my storage room. Anyway, when my sister was about 10 and I was about 8, we lived in Colorado. My parents got the piano for my sister to take lessons and I got accordian lessons (a My Favorite Year reference ::) ). After we moved to Washington (when I was 10), we both gave up lessons. However, I started tickling the ivories (of the piano) and eventually started taking piano lessons myself. Since it was my sister's piano, I traded her (and she accepted) my binoculars and a clock radio for the piano. It's been mine ever since. I've taken that piano with me every place that I've lived, except for college and my last apartment when I was on the second floor. My mom keeps asking why I still have it when I can't get to it, and I just say, "It's mine and I'm keeping it." Someday I will clear out the stuff in the room and have access to it to be able to play. Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! ;D
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Elmore, I recommend "Meet the Fockers." Everyone's very, very good - and nobody has an ego problem - Stiller, De Niro, Hoffman, Streisand, or today's very own Blythe Danner.
Well, since I've been namedropping like mad for the past hour, I'll now tell my Blythe Danner story and drop a lot more names. In June 2000, I scored the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of TONIGHT AT 8:30, six Coward one-acts directed by Michael Greif (God Grief!) and Ann Reinking, three plays each. Michael's three plays featured Blythe, Stephen Collins, and Alix Korey, and Ann's featured Bill Irwin, Charlotte D'Amboise, and Terry Mann. The night after the final dress, I was talking to Blythe in the parking lot and I said, "you should sing more often, you've got a lovely voice." The next thing I knew, she was doing FOLLIES! I am responsible.
The interesting thing is that Steve Collins told me he's always wanted to play Ben in FOLLIES. Unfortunately, SEVENTH HEAVEN (?) hath him in thrall.
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It's even worse when you're signing for one of your kids. The night Gabe got hit by the car and he was in the trauma unit, they kept shoving these release forms under my nose and it was just maddening.
Similarly, but on a much lighter note, we took our son to the ER shortly after his 18th birthday (a minor mishap requiring a couple of stitches) and they totally ignored us. After they turn 18, they sign for themselves and parents become superfluous. That was a rude awakening.
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MANY of the movies I like are not liked by many other people. Hmmmmm.....I guess the one that most fits that description though would be CHICAGO SYNDICATE.
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DR Ann,
Make sure your surgeon knows what meds you've been taking - even over the counter ones, including aspirin.
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DR Ann- One bit of advice - "Don't ever read those consent forms they make you sign before surgery."
When I was living in Boulder, I had a great vet who was like a living consent form. When I would go in for even the most minor ailment of my dog, he'd got through all the POSSIBLE problems which could arise -- leading up, of course, to death. I'm talking fleas --- death.
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I don't know that I'm going to make seeing Ray tonight. I'm just not in a Ray mood. I do have to eat something right this very minute before I fall over. So, tomorrow night I'm definitely going to see Sideways at the DGA, but Ray will have to wait until the DVD.
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Where'd everybody go?
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My cellular phone in theater show.
It happened during a performance of my show Survivors (which I co-wrote and directed). It was during the Montreal Fringe many summers ago.
The moment it happened during a very intimate moment. The actor was very close to the audience during this sequence. (He had single spotlight on him) When the lady who was sitting directly in front of him cell phone went off. She grabbed it and then dropped it on the stage. The phone continued to ring. She eventually grabbed and left the theater to answer the phone. My actor never skipped a beat and continued as if the phone had never rung.
Coda: Once the performance begins no one is allowed into the theater. She complained about not being able to see the rest of the show and wanted her money back.
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Also isn't against the law in NYC to have your cell phones on during a theatrical performance? I believe you can be ejected from the theater and arrested.
Is this true?
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DR BK:
Furthering your response to my ASCAP question.
Could you devise 5 questions for me to ask the audience to give constructive feedback to the play?
Or something I could look out for as we go into rehersals as a guidline.
Thanks
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Re: A queery from yesterday.
Those going to the show. Should we buy our tickets individually or can Penny get a block of tickets and we can send her the money. Inquiring minds want to know
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I just got out of my history class. Most of my classmates are the teacher's "regulars." All of them, as a group, get together and take classes from this teacher. I'm not sure why. They're not history majors. They're just groupies for this one teacher.
Does this one teacher deserve groupies?
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I may come up to NYC at the end of month. Have any new shows opened and are they worth seeing to make the journey worthwhile.
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It is snowing here in Rehoboth Beach. I've decided (again) that I definately like watching show fall. It's light, whimsical (well, for now, since it's a light snowfall), and not nearly as gloomy as I've heard people say. Rain can be gloomy, very grey, but snow is not like that at all.
Of course, if this were a blizzard, I might have a few different things to say about the matter.
DR SWW, have you checked out the weekend forcast? They are calling for a nor'easter style snow storm.
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The interesting thing is that Steve Collins told me he's always wanted to play Ben in FOLLIES. Unfortunately, SEVENTH HEAVEN (?) hath him in thrall.
I think Mr. Collins would be great as Ben in FOLLIES. In fact, I think he would be great in just about anything (or out of anything). The one thing I won't watch him in is SEVENTH HEAVEN. It might send me into insulin shock -- and I am not even diabetic.
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Shayne, e-mail me and I'll see if I can help.
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Ah, TCB, I saw Mr. Collins in "The Ritz" in nothing but a towel. That was my first exposure to Mr. Collins (so to speak).
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AND it was 83 degrees here today with a lovely breeze.
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There is one theater poster that I would give anything to have, but apparently will never get the chance. When the musical, TITANIC, first went into previews it had a different poster. The poster was all black and had a silhouette of the ship in lights, and the name Titanic made-up the four smoke stacks (see below). I loved that poster. I was so disappointed when the CD was released and I realized they had changed posters. I called back to the theater to see if they might still have one around, but the people at the theater swore that no such poster ever existed. I guess I will have to be content with the three copies of the Playbill that I have, but I would love to have a framed poster for my wall……. that is until Jane and Keith decide to give me their original newspaper about the sinking!
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Last night CHarles Pogue wrote:
"I won't debate whether Olivier's remark was catty or not, but refer you to Bill Goldman's book ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE and his story about Hoffman making Olivier improvise, not only improvise but walk around to do so when the man was obviously ill. I think Hoffman's a fine actor...but I think some of this stuff is just star ego bullshit. While you're at it, read the story about Hoffman and the flashlight in Goldman's book."
Okay, what's the story about Hoffman and the flashlight?? ::)
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Ah, TCB, I saw Mr. Collins in "The Ritz" in nothing but a towel. That was my first exposure to Mr. Collins (so to speak).
They let you in the theatre wearing nothing but a towel? :o
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Hi folks,
Sorry to have been E&T last night and most of today. I've had to work overtime at work. Major overtime like until 7:30 tonight. I didn't get home until shortly after eight. My boss had to bring me home--there is no bus after the 5:15.
Since I am planning on the March NYC trip, I can use the extra money so I'm not complaining to much. :) NOTE: I said "to much". It's not that I'm not complaining at all.
I put in for vacation time for that time and got my approval today. So that is part is set. Please keep me up to date with any news from anyone who is going.
Has anyone made any plans on the show? Tickets? Are we buying them there or sending the money in ahead or what? Are we sitting together? Sorry if this was posted already.
What other shows are the rest of you going to see? I think I will be in on Friday afternoon and will stay until Monday or possibly Tuesday. I haven’t seen Ave Q or Little Women but sound like something I’d like to see. Not to sure about Ave Q but have heard so much about it.
Pardon if I make this short, I have many things to do and am very tired. I will try to catch up on all of the posts when things calm down. I may have to work late through the rest of the week.
Vibes and my very best Birthdays wishes to anyone I have missed.
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They let you in the theatre wearing nothing but a towel? :o
Why? What do you usually wear to the theater?
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Off to dinner with an old friend whom I haven't seen for years. We'll be dining at Dan Tana's.
Laters!
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Welcome seven GUESTS. We're talkin' about Blythe Danner's Hair.
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Have fun DRPANNI!
I loved that logo, too, DRTCB - but I don't have the poster either!
HMMMMMMMMM........I think in the case of a movie bio of a strong singer specifically noted for a voice type - I think lip synching is the way to go. I loved Beverly D'Angelo as Patsy Cline in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER and of course Sissy did some great work as Loretta Lynn. But I was glad to hear Patsy's real voice in SWEET DREAMS.....the problem being of course that Jessica Lange's speaking voice didn't come close to Patsy's so the match was imperfect.....her "mouth choreography" was also a bit careless.
But .... hmmmmmmmmmmm
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I did wear my signature bow tie with the towel at least. Mr. Collins, however, only wore the towel.
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What has everybody eaten this fine day? I was good and have only had a Subway Club.
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BTW, DR Panni,
Thank you for sharing the quote the other day from your 21st birthday card. It was just what I needed to read that day, and I have since sent it to a few friends. That has happened before with other things you've quoted or said. Just thought you should know.
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Arby's Roast Beef Melt....5 for 5.95!!
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It is interesting that Blythe Danner won a Tony award for Butterflies Are Free as a supporting role as opposed to a lead role which it was. One of the people who she beat was Eillen Heckart who won the oscar for the film version.
BTW did anyone see Miss Gloria Swanson in the mother role, Butterflies Are Free
Another Questopm
The title song has to be the least recorded of Stephen Schwartz's song. Did you ever consider it for you Stephen Schwartz CD?
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I did wear my signature bow tie with the towel at least. Mr. Collins, however, only wore the towel.
And Treat Williams did it in the film version.
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I just finished some orange peel chicken from a local asian eatery. Mighty fine!
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Treat Williams didn't wear a bowtie either.
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I know there was the theme song in the movie that Edward Albert sang, but can anyone recall anything about it other than, "Butterflies are freeeeee, and so are weeeee."
I heard Gloria Swanson was quite good in the play, but I can't imagine anyone better than Eileen Heckhart.
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I have enjoyed reading all of today’s posts.
I’m tired and still have work to do around here so goodnight.
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Decided to add a photo, not the greatest, but a photo nonetheless. I didn't eat much today, an English Muffin and Orange and a hamburger with no bun. I am, however, back into my skinny jeans!
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They let you in the theatre wearing nothing but a towel? :o
It must have been a performance at the Continental Baths.
:o
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I have emailed DRPennyO about setting aside a block of tickets for March 19. So far, I have the following peoplecoming to the show:
Me
Ginny
Anna
Danise
Ben
Anthony
Vixmom
W F Orr
Michael Shayne
If I've omitted anyone, my apologies. I hope more will show up, but we have a possible 9 right now! I asked her about setting aside 15 tickets. Maybe we'll need more?
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Der Brucer and I feasted on grilled goose breasts, sauteed spinach, and oatmeal with dried cranberries and almonds. The oatmeal was an experiment of mine, and it worked very well with the goose.
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BTW did anyone see Miss Gloria Swanson in the mother role, Butterflies Are Free
I saw her do it at the Royal Alex in Toronto. What I recall is that at the time, Gloria Swanson was heavily involved in her health-food/anti-sugar campaign. In one scene, as the meddling mother, she checked out her son's cupboards. And then, she proceeded to give him - and the entire audience - an endless lecture on the evils of sugar, processed food, etc.
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For tonight's dinner I made a very large Caesar salad. And I'm still sending out garlic fumes.
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General Tso's Chicken with white rice
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I saw the sign at Arby's, but I had never heard of a Melt. A Roast Beef Melt would have, at least, narrowed it down.
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Dan,
You're kidding about the Gloria Swanson food lecture, right? Come to think about it, I've talked to people who worked with her, so it sounds like her.
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And we all know how lovely Blythe's voice was in the film of '1776.'
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To be honest, I MUCH, MUCH, MUCH preferred Beverly D'Angelo's Patsy Cline to Jessica Lange's. And the fact that Beverly did her own vocals just made it that much more impressive in my book.
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Dan,
You're kidding about the Gloria Swanson food lecture, right? Come to think about it, I've talked to people who worked with her, so it sounds like her.
Not kidding. She was a fanatic. At least there was no doubt about why the kid had left home.
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I remember Gloria coming on the Merv Griffin (or Mike Douglas ) Show and lecturing about the evils of sugar.
After hearing that, I knew Gloria was no friend of mine. :D
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For dinner I had a grilled chicken breast that had been marinating all day in olive oil and garlic and a baked potato which was made in a microwave so I guess it was actually a microwaved potato. For dessert, I had a day-old cherry and chocolate strudle which was still flakey and delish. For a beverage, I embibed a very fine bottle of Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi.
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For dinner I had a grilled chicken breast that had been marinating all day in olive oil and garlic and a baked potato which was made in a microwave so I guess it was actually a microwaved potato. For dessert, I had a day-old cherry and chocolate strudle which was still flakey and delish. For a beverage, I embibed a very fine bottle of Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi.
Oh Dan, you party animal!
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I remember Gloria coming on the Merv Griffin (or Mike Douglas ) Show and lecturing about the evils of sugar.
After hearing that, I knew Gloria was no friend of mine. :D
I remember Lola Falana on the Carson Show explaining that the very physical presence of sugar can weaken the body. Carson gamely went through her experiment of holding sugar packs in his fist while she pushed down on his outstretched arm. She barely made his arm move and yet she said that it was enough to prove her theory. ::)
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elmore, I believe I was one of the first to say they were coming to NY. I'm still fairly certain that will be the case - we're just waiting to hear about a signing to coincide with it, although I'll probably come anyway for various reasons. So, put me down, baby.
Which leads me to: If there were to be a signing/reading on Thursday the 15th at 6:00, how many dear readers would be able to attend?
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Are we experiencing an unseemly LULL? We can't have that.
First of all, if we continue the way we've been going, we'll achieve our new plateau of 90,000 posts by tomorrow evening. If we don't, then it's Friday. I'm going out to get a little snack and when I return I want a partay.
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Good Evening!
This has been one incredibly long day for me...
I woke up at 7:00am.
I left Richmond shortly after 9:00am.
The snow started around 10:00am. It was practically white-out conditions by 10:30. I lost track of the accidents I saw on southbound 95 as I was driving northbound. *And I had one total idiot who was following five feet behind for about 10 miles in the snow... without his headlights on?!?!?!?
I made it to the theatre just before 11:00am. -Not bad time considering...
We had a Noon matinee. -Half the audience did not show up due to the snow. A lot of the school busses simply turned around since some of the counties started dismissing early.
The evening show was scheduled to start at 8:00pm, instead of the usual 7:30 since it was another "Close Up" night - 514 high school kids.
Long break between shows. I didn't even attempt to head home since the traffic was literally at a stand still outside the theatre starting around 2:00pm.
By 7:45pm, no one was seated in the theatre. The busses with all the kids were no where in sight. After a few phone calls...
The kids were still eating dinner at 8:00 across the street at Philip's Seafood?!?!?!? -Some had not even been served yet.
We held the curtain for 55(!!!!!!) minutes. -Ah, the "joys" of the LORT contract.
The show finished at 11:12.
So... Needless to say, I'm a bit, tired, frustrated and generally "over" the whole day... But...
On the positive side, I was not in any of the 150+ accidents on 95 that occured between 11:00am and 1:30pm. It did not take me eight hours to get from Richmond like it did for one audience member tonight - if I had left just 15 minutes later...
And, since we hit the three hour mark at 11:00pm, we got over-time for tonight. So...
Sorry to unload that bit of negativity. Of course, since tomorrow is the re-Inauguration, and we still have a show tomorrow night... Ah, well...
I'm still getting my stuff put away here in Fairfax, and I need to take care of a bunch of things before I can start reading the rest of the posts from today. So... It might not be until tomorrow until I can catch up on things...
-I need some hot chocolate...
Laters...
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Well, see what happens when you are gone? Stay with us tonight and all will be well with the world and environs.
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Oh, okay, no posts in an hour. Excuse me while I vomit on the ground.
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DR Kerry - Thank you so much for what you said.
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I just got here. I was at work until 9:00 p.m. (I usually leave at 6:30 or so). Well, when I got home, two packages were waiting for me! One was the London cast recording of ALW's The Woman in White. I haven't listened to it yet. The other package (and the more exciting of the two...to me, at least) is an eBay purchase. I got from England a watch that's also an MP3 player! It can hold 128 megabytes! There are some watches that can hold as much as 512 MB, but I never found one cheap enough. Anyway, I've loaded 34 songs (several are less than two megabytes each) and have almost two and a half hours of music! It's pretty cool! And it's a nice looking watch. Here's the eBay picture:
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And it took me from about 9:15 until now to figure everything out about the watch. Add the files, delete some files, etc.
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Which leads me to: If there were to be a signing/reading on Thursday the 15th at 6:00, how many dear readers would be able to attend?
I haven't booked my flight yet. I was thinking of going on Friday and returning on Monday. OR going on Thursday and returning on Sunday.
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BTW - I just got home a little while ago - so don't go vomiting my way.. I had nothing to do with it.
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I haven't booked my flight yet. I was thinking of going on Friday and returning on Monday. OR going on Thursday and returning on Sunday.
When I was in the concert choir at Western Washington University, we were invited to perform at the National Music Educators Association Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. They were thinking about just flying us in on a Thursday and flying out on Sunday. They found out that they could actually save $30,000 if we flew out to Indiana on a Wednesday and fly back from Chicago on Monday! (Well, that's what we were told. ::)) So, of course, that's what we did. We also took the time to stop and perform at several schools in between Indianapolis and Chicago.
We had one half day in Chicago and several of us went to the Art Institute of Chicago and this being 1989 and Sunday in the Park With George still fresh in my brain, I went instantly to the Seurat painting. I just stood there for the couple of hours that we had. One other guy in the choir took my picture, but he never gave me a copy. Damn him! Damn him to hell!!
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...and I stepped on the ball! ... Well, it was ghastly. It was just ghahstly!!
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Mr. Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra paid a visit to the Walt Disney Concert Hall this evening, Dear Readers. I was there, too, to hear them play Mr. Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony. It's a long, dark piece, but it concludes in a peaceful and ethereal fashion. I was quite moved by the performance.
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And we all know how lovely Blythe's voice was in the film of '1776.'
Lovely in far more than voice. I certainly would have learned to play the violin... :D
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And one for Mahler's Ninth.
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My favorite is Mahler's Sixth.
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Or Seagram's Fifth.
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Well, anything has to be better than Beethoven's Last "Movement"...
-Remember the rule!!!
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When I was in the concert choir at Western Washington University, we were invited to perform at the National Music Educators Association Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. They were thinking about just flying us in on a Thursday and flying out on Sunday. They found out that they could actually save $30,000 if we flew out to Indiana on a Wednesday and fly back from Chicago on Monday! (Well, that's what we were told. ::)) So, of course, that's what we did. We also took the time to stop and perform at several schools in between Indianapolis and Chicago.
I feel I should complain to the powers that be at Central Washington University. When our jazz choir sang at MENC (Music Educators National Convention) in Nashville a few years ago, we only got the Thursday through Sunday trip!
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Stuff is put away.
Hot Chocolate has been sipped - this Aztec Hot Chocolate is soooo good.
And Posts have been read.
All is right with the world...
;)
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Who was the choir director at WWU when you were there, George?
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Countdown to 90,000 posts - less than two hundred to go. I feel we should get a good head start with the posting of the new notes.
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DR TCB - About the TITANIC poster... I've seen that logo/poster a few places... Now I'm just trying to remember where.
Have you tried giving Triton Gallery in NYC a call? They print up almost all the theatre posters, and sell most of them too. That logo is not "listed" on their website currently, but they also have some special items in-store that are not listed on their website. It might be worth a try. They also might be able to do a photo-reproduction of the original poster for you. Not exactly cheap, but...
Here's their website... Info and numbers are all there.
http://www.tritongallery.com
*One other place to try - which I'm hesitant to recommend since I just don't like dealing with them in the first place - is Colony Music, also in NYC. They have a nice collection of posters in the store, and who knows... However, their prices are ALWAYS high - even on regular stuff - so....
http://www.colonymusic.com
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Well, now that I've asked him a question, George has up and disappeared. Suppose it's to be expected from them WWU Vikings types. :)
As my favorite school rivalry t-shirts teach us, "Friends don't let friends go to Western."
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Welcome seven GUESTS. Last chance for Blythe Danner's Hair.
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RE: Dustin Hoffman - He likes the steak knives they use at Ruth Chris' Steak House. -At least he did when he had dinner with his daughter at the DC location when he was in town at the Kennedy Center with DEATH OF A SALEMAN.
WOW! I just realized that was 15+ years ago!?!?!?
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Oh, well.. Just read the latest 'computer model' for this weekend's weather here in the DC area... At least six inches of snow Saturday night into Sunday morning... Most likely more...
Stay tuned!