Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 3 => Topic started by: bk on January 29, 2005, 11:59:28 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, you've been in both the throes and the throws of reading the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the unwieldy cows come home. To it, I say.
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The unwieldy cows better know how to get home by themselves because the sandman has pitched some unwieldy sand in my eyes and I can barely stay awake to type this.
I'm up because I needed to do some saline spray to clear my sinuses.
I am "off" my antihistamines so that I will be properly cleansed for my visit to an allergist Monday morning. I need withdrawal from said anithistamines in order to take a patch test.
Sigh.
And drat.
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And the word of the day is, of course - unwieldy.
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And it's a dadblasted unwieldy word, too...both to type and to "think" when typing it.
But that's the burden I, as a severely allergy-riddled person, must bear, unwieldy as it is.
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I've caught up. I'm here. I'm resisting another bowl of macaroni salad. It's not easy.
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I see, online, TomovOz, Ann and George...wherefore art they...that TomovOz, Ann and George?
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Thank goodness you've posted, Ann.
It was most unwieldy posting alone and carrying on with myself.
I'm certain there are "some" members of this list who would have no trouble carrying on with themselves, but it's simply too unwieldy for me at this hour and in the antihistamine-free condition I am in.
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I'm just ranting to myself, I see.
Damned unwieldy, too.
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Ann, I'm having the same problem not opening the vat of potato salad.
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Now, if I were to open the vat of potato salad and eat some, would it count towards tomorrow's food intake or Saturday's?
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And might I just add - unwieldy.
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That's the third time I've seen Mr. Oz here in the last hour, and yet Mr. Oz hasn't posted one post in that time.
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Perhaps Tom of Oz is feeling - unwieldy?
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Maybe he's playing with us.
Possibly he sees us as toys.
Or, he may have some unwieldy chores to get to and cannot take the time right now.
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This is the fouth time.
I've been checking in as I have been preparing the evening meal here. (I don't usually do the cooking but Colin has been in hospital for a few days and is home again now).
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But Jed is there...and he's looking at us.
I can feel his unwieldy gaze bearing down upon us.
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I do hope Colin is all right???!!
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What does the meal consist of, pray tell?
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I see, online, TomovOz, Ann and George...wherefore art they...that TomovOz, Ann and George?
I had to put ketchup all over the posts and notes so that I would be in the know.
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I REALLY want some potato salad but to eat it now would be unwieldy.
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The Seattle Storm women's basketball team has two Australians on the team. Because they're Australian, during the pre-game stuff, they broadcast on the giant teletron videotape of the team to raise the energy and spirit. They yell:
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%][size=8]Aussie-Aussie-Aussie!!![/size][/move]
And the crowd has to yell:
[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%][size=8]Oi-Oi-Oi!!![/size][/move]
It's actually quite fun...when you're there at the arena. ;D
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Well, I guess I'll toddle along to the bedroom environment.
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This is the fouth time.
I've been checking in as I have been preparing the evening meal here. (I don't usually do the cooking but Colin has been in hospital for a few days and is home again now).
DRs .. what Tomovoz has failed to tell you is that there is a medical alert out in Melbourne at the moment ... DO NOT EAT TOMOVOZ'S COOKING ... poor, poor Colin!!!!!!
;D
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Corned Beef - (Can't remember what you call it in the USA) . potatoes, beans and carrots. Followed by yoghurt and bananas. Now chamomile tea.
Thank you Ron. Col is in recovery mode but the bathroom is his best friend.
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well, hello bk, george and tomovoz ....
it appears to be relatively quiet on HHW tonight.
hope you are all well.
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Why, here in the US we call corned beef corned beef, although I have never found any corn in my corned beef is all these years of eating it.
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I notice you are still out of hospital OzDerek. Did you find an antidote?
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Topics, that's what we need.
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An antidote to corned beef?
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Well, I really must toddle off to the bedroom environment, for I must get up in the morning, coif myself and go to a rather large get-together in a rather small restaurant.
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Holy moley on rye - page two.
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I notice you are still out of hospital OzDerek. Did you find an antidote?
cough! cough! splutter! splutter!
having an unwieldly reaction!!!!
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Maybe just to OzDerek corn.
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Maybe just to OzDerek corn.
.. well tomovoz, you can now buy my dvd ... did i tell you i was a corn star???!!!
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MBarnum - listened to Japanese girls at last with 60's songs/ quite fun.
Eventually I get around to things. Love their version of Petite Fleur.
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I must sleep now. Good night all!
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MBarnum - listened to the Japanese girls at last with 60's songs/ quite fun.
Eventually I get around to things. Love their version of Petitie Fleur.
Glad you enjoyed them. THE PEANUTS, Yumi and Emi Ito...I wonder if DR Hisaka is familiar with them?
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I have know idea why I am up at 1:20 am, so I am going to bed. Night!
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They yell:And the crowd has to yell:
[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%][size=8]Oi-Oi-Oi!!![/size][/move]
It's actually quite fun...when you're there at the arena. ;D
In Japan there’s a chain store called “oi”(pronounced Marui) and their advertisement looks like the flickering line "oi-oi-oi". It’s very similar! Unfotunately I couldn't find anything to show you to prove it right now...
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Glad you enjoyed them. THE PEANUTS, Yumi and Emi Ito...I wonder if DR Hisaka is familiar with them?
The Peanuts! I was a big fan of them when I was child. Yes, Petite Fleur was/is one of my favorites and also Koi No Fuga and Jonetsu No Hana (I have no idea how to say in English them). They sang also American pops like Be my Baby. I really like them, the duo having perfectly perfect harmony. Very sorry that they retired so early, as they no longer had a passion for singing.
I found this from Yahoo!Auctions.
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What a lovely picture of Spur, DR Pogue! He(She?) is pretty as a model!
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CAPTAIN NEWMAN MD - for some reason I thought this film was in b/w but it was in COLOR. It was one of those films that is set in 1944 (in an Alabama medical camp) in which all of the ladies wear 1960's hair styles.
Bobby Darin plays a nice role, Dick Sargent, James Gregory, Ann Doran, Angie Dickinson, Jane Withers, Ted Bessell, and Gregory Walcott (muzzled by Army Brass) are all in it. My problem is that it becomes one of those mental hospital as fraternity house movies where the Italian patient and the Jewish patient get everyone together to do a Christmas show. Robert Duvall and Bethel Leslie play a married couple with serious problems and Eddie Albert is around as well. NOT the best movie in the world, but okay for some of the performances.
THE PEANUTS!!!
DR DANISE - even by mail you should have your refund in about 17 days. You can go to the site at www.irs.gov and then click on WHERE IS MY REFUND....it will ask you for your SS# and the amount of your refund and then tell you when it is scheduled to be mailed to you.
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Topics....hmmmmmmmmm....in honor of Project Runway. Let's talk about costumes. What are your favorite "costume" movies and costume in said movie....and/or what is your favorite costume you have worn in a play or other type show....do you have a picture?
I will start just by mentioning Dirk Bogarde's version of A TALE OF TWO CITIES - he always looks so great. I am sad it was not shot in color. And of course GONE WITH THE WIND - Scarlet's red dress. And another b/w movie THE HEIRESS with great dresses for deHavilland and wonderful suits for Montgomery Clift and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
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Corned Beef - (Can't remember what you call it in the USA) . potatoes, beans and carrots. Followed by yoghurt and bananas. Now chamomile tea.
Corned beef is called corned beef here in the USA. Not very imaginative, but it works. It's usually made from the beef brisket.
My mother introduced me to this cut early in life, in the form of the "New England Boiled Dinner." This was a corned beef brisket, boiled in a large pot. To this she would add carrots, potatoes, and cabbage wedges. The veggies would be brought to the table in a large bowl, and the brisket would be ready for carving. It was marvelous with fresh country bread and mustard.
Der Brucer also loves this meal, and loves the brisket for later, when he makes sandwiches.
For some reason, it's considered a traditional St. Patrick's Day dinner. This is peculiar, since the Irish in Ireland have never heard of it, aside from being told about it by their American cousins.
Best of health vibes to DP Colin!
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Why, here in the US we call corned beef corned beef, although I have never found any corn in my corned beef is all these years of eating it.
Here we have the word "corn" going back to an earlier definition. Corn used to refer to "a small, hard particle," and came to mean grain, which is why the most common grain in America, maize, came to be called corn. But the word corn also referred to anything that was granular, such as salt.
"Corned," of course, is a verb, which indicates that something granular has been applied to the beef. That granular stuff was salt, either applied directly to the brisket or through brining. Salt is an excellent preservative, along with giving flavor, but is often too intense without being soaked or washed off. Hence, salted cod is soaked both to rehydrate the fish and to cut down the saltiness; so, too, is a country ham first soaked and then scrubbed before cooking. And that is why corned beef is usually boiled before serving.
(And you all thought I was going to come up with something corny, didn't you! ;D)
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One of my favorite scenes in a costume drama was in the Branagh version of Much Ado About Nothing, where Branagh and the rest of returning soldiers washed up before entering the villa. (Although Denzel was noticably missing during this sequence; I guess his character was supposed to be so high up in the nobility that his pits never sweated.)
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I think I remember that scene....oh yes, I do.
I will also say I liked the costumes in Branagh's HENRY V.
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Good vibes to DP Colin.
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Well, we got the ice they were predicting, and the roads were like glass (an ALL ABOUT EVE reference) this morning. I'll be inside all day. I think I could handle the driving, but I don't trust others in this slippery weather.
First DVD up to bat today: KING SOLOMON'S MINES with Deborah Kerr.
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DR Jrand, don't you mean Sir Ralph Richardson in THE HEIRESS? One of my all-time favorites, missing on DVD naturally. Montgomery Clift has never looked more beautiful or dashing.
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Favorite costume films. I think Donald Brooks' 126 outfits for Julie Andrews in STAR! are unmatched.
Love the red dress and the white gown for Bette Davis in JEZEBEL.
The ball sequence in TO CATCH A THIEF is really astonishing to look at, too.
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Forgot to mention that after talking about the stereo laserdisc of DEEP IN MY HEART yesterday, I sat down and watched the first hour of the laserdisc. The sound really is wonderfully enveloping.
Then, I put in the DVD of GUYS AND DOLLS which I just bought used. (I had the remastered laserdisc prior to this). The DVD isn't anamorphic, but I still enjoyed watching some of the numbers (didn't watch the dialogue sections, just jumped to the musical scenes.)
If someone is looking for a musical to re-do for TV, this is the one.
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM wouldn't be a bad choice for a re-do either.
What movie musicals of famous Broadway shows would other DRs like to see redone?
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Good Morning!
Well, it looks pretty outside...
I woke up this morning, and looked outside and saw a nice covering of snow on the ground and trees. Very pretty. However, since I have a matinee at 2:00, and we're supposed to have my Dad's birthday lunch at Noon... I'm just want to make sure I leave enough to head into DC, but I also don't want to miss my the birthday lunch. -My mom is already giving me a little bit of attitude about the slight possibility of me missing it.
:-/
In any case...
I need to get ready to head in...
Laters...
-Oh, and since we're due for some more snow this afternoon and evening - just a few more inches - it doesn't look like I'll be heading back to Richmond (again) tonight. I guess I'll try in the morning. -And Richmond is due for some more snow too tonight.
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Good morning, all! This morning it's housecleaning. I have a book meeting at 1:00, guests tomorrow afternoon, and the place is a dump, I tell you, a dump,
I will try to have some dinner with DRPenyO this evening, and I've got to make a dent on DARLING OF THE DAY as well. I've also lost my copy of the libretto, which I hope will turn up in the tidying.
Dear Friend BK, I haven't seen the film but you might enjoy the French comedy THE CLOSET with Daniel Auteuil. I first remember seeing Auteuil in THE ELEGANT CRIMINAL, which was about a thief from 1830s Paris, Lacenaire, who also appears in the great film CHILDREN OF PARADISE as the murder of Garance's lover, the Baron or Count, don't remember.
Costume design: Zefferelli's ROMEO AND JULIET (Donati?), THE KING AND I (excellent work by the usually overrated Irene Sharaf), GONE WITH THE WIND, Tony Richardson's TOM JONES for the best 18th Century design.
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DRMATTH of course Ralph Richardson in THE HEIRESS....whew!
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I liked Sharaff's ballet costumes for AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, too.
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I'm up, I'm up, and quite frankly, am feeling very unwieldy this morning. I really must try and feel wieldy at some point.
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I favorite costume design of all-time is Daisy Mae in Li'l Abner.
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The movie musical I would love to have seen is The Most Happy Fella as directed by Francis Ford Coppola at the height of his powers. He couldn't do it now - there is no director working today who could do it now and pull it off, but back then it would have been fascinating.
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Holy moley on rye - page three. How unwieldy.
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Good Noon! -At least here on the East Coast...
Well, "moral" dilemna solved - the lunch was cancelled due to snow. It's started falling again kind of heavily - even though the Winter Storm Warning was called off...
???
So, now I must get outside and clear off my car, and start the slow, cautious drive into town. The radio reports say the roads are more or less clear. It's the "less" I'm worried about.
I'll be bringing my iBook with me to the theatre, so maybe I'll be able to check in between shows.
Laters...
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Oh... And I think we may have covered this before, but...
What is the most amount of snow you've ever seen/experienced in person?
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So sad to be all alone in the world..
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OH! Hi, JRand!
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...And now that it's just you and me...
;)
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OK...
This time, for real, I'm going...
Ciao for niao!
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Hello DR JOSE!
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Be careful driving into town. Watch out for the other guy!
I think MR BK it is Daisy Mae's design that you appreciate more so than the costume.
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OH.. And just heard on the radio that the DGA awarded Clint Eastwood Best Director.
-That may be old news from yesterday or the day before...Or not...
Wasn't I going somewhere???
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Jane was here, but she scurried off, perhaps to eat some breakfast. I was here, but I was feeling unwieldy.
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Actually MATTH - I don't think I would want to see any of the musicals TV'ized and broken up into little chunks with lead into commercial climaxes every 12 minutes....on top of everything else....
But a MOVIE musical of PROMISES PROMISES directed by hmmmmm....I don't know.....maybe Bruce Kimmel....
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Good for Clint. Hopefully, that will translate into an Oscar as well.
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Why do some of these movie critics on these two-bit television programs talk about movies TODAY as if no movies were made before 1990?
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Because they are idiots?
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Doesn't Jane have a new shower door?
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The wind seems to have left us and in so doing left clear blue skies. It looks very beautiful out my window.
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Td I want updated pictures of Dixie Bell as she grows. She looks more adult in the last photo. Thank you. :D
Jose happy, healthy birthday to your Dad.
La Jolie Femme & CP I’m a big believer in physical therapy and feel it should be done along with any other treatment.
Good health vibes to Colin!
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elmore please give Penny a hug and Good New Home Vibes from me.
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I once had a physical therapist named Erna, a German lady with incredibly strong thumbs. That was after the accident where my car was broadsided on the freeway. I went to her for about six weeks. I can STILL feel those steel thumbs going up my back.
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What is the most amount of snow you've ever seen/experienced in person?
24 inches of snow, which arrived within 24 hours. I was in Massachusetts and Keith was working in Pennsylvania.
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That's a lot of snow.
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Some would say that that much snow is - unwieldy.
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I don't like musicals broken up into small segments for TV viewing either, but there are ways around that. Have a bunch of ads centralized before and after and at only a few commercial intervals during the show. It's certainly been done with other shows (with limited commercial interruption, as they say).
Also, the subsequent DVD will play uninterrupted - as I saw recently with the TV-BYE BYE BIRDIE. Plays much better than it did on ABC. Still don't like Jason Alexander (and that wig with its floppy curl over his forehead; who's stupid idea was that?), but it's an enjoyable version of the show and much more faithful to the show's source material than the 1963 film.
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I pretty much detest the Alexander version of Biridie, even though, as MattH states, it is more faithful to the show itself. What it doesn't have and can't have these days, is Paul Lynde, Dick van Dyke (well, Hugh Jackman could do it) and a Birdie who is plausible, like Jesse Pearson (and NOT like Dick Gautier or Marc Kudisch).
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I have shaved, and now I will shower, and then, at some point soon, I shall mosey on over to the City of Culver.
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On costuming, I think Milo Anderson did a marvelous job dressing Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood.
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Why do some of these movie critics on these two-bit television programs talk about movies TODAY as if no movies were made before 1990?
Because they haven't seen a film made before 1990?
I once was told of a friend auditioning with a well-known Cole Porter song for a director-writer who had acted in the 1950s and 60s. After the song, the director said something like "Lovely! Who wrote that?" All right, he's also a well-know idiot!
I've read the screenplay draft for THE MOST HAPPY FELLA, BK. Perhaps it's just as well it didn't get made. If memory serves, Rosabella and the bus leave and Tony has to chase them down. The screenwriter had also decided there were too many songs and replaced the slighter ones with his own dialogue
PROMISES, PROMISES: Dear Friend BK should have played the role in the film during the 70s.
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Interesting thing, the word "unwieldy."
I can find the word "wield" in the dictionary. It means "to deal with successfully," or "to handle," and even "to exert one's authority."
"Wieldy" is in the dictionary. It means "capable of being wielded."
"Unwieldy" is in the dictionary. It means "not easily handled, managed, or used.
"Unwield" is NOT in the dictionary. I'd think it would be, given the other words, but "unwield" is not there.
We thus cannot say things like "Unwield that wench, you callous knave!" This, in spite of the fact that most wenches are, when accosted by callous knaves, stuggling to escape and quite unwieldy.
Thus endeth my lecture on the English language for today.
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elmore, I didn't even know a screenplay had been written. But back in the mid-seventies I always had this idea that Coppola could make a marvelously marvelous film of it without changing much at all. He lives in that part of the country and was a very operatic director back then.
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Holy moley on rye - page four. How unwieldy.
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Okay, I shall now be on my way to the City of Culver, and then I shall return with a full report. Keep the home fries burning until my returning. I want some excellent postings to read.
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elmore, CHILDREN OF PARADISE is probably my favourite foreign films and one of my favourite films about theatre.
Woody, if you liked the costumes in Adventures of Robin Hood, you should watch the extras on the DVD where Basil Rathbone is trying on about twenty differenet helmets.
BK, I first saw Le Bossu/On Guard at the City of Lights/City of Angels film festival they have here every year and is partially hosted by the WGA. I loved the film and, as you say, it has some of the best swordplay ever filmed. I got to speak with Vincent Perez afterward.
I get invited to this film festival every year because I was part of a French/American culture exchange that they used to do back in the nineties where several American film-makers were invited each year to sit on panels at a film conference in Beaune. I was on a panel at the very first one...and that year, I took on the great cultural imperialist, Jack Valenti, who loved to cram the big studio American film product down Europe's throat which the Europeans, particularly the French, hate. They were also not fond of Valenti...so when I exhorted the Europeans to hold onto their culture against the onslaught of crass American product , I was adored as if I was new Jerry Lewis or something...director Claude Lanzmann called me a "hero". It was a great weekend and the film festival is a lot of fun. Auteuil is usually at least one of the films each year. You must see him in Queen Margot.
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BK, I think Coppola still has the chops to be Operatic. I quite liked his DRACULA a few years back and, in fact, my description of it was operatic. I also liked that it was a studio-bound and all done on indoor sets.
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I don't know if "Promises, Promises" ever got into planning, but it was originally acquired for movie production by 20th Century-Fox.
It was in their "future productions" listings in the late 60s or early 70s.
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Feldspar...........................
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Woody, if you liked the costumes in Adventures of Robin Hood, you should watch the extras on the DVD where Basil Rathbone is trying on about twenty differenet helmets.
Been there, seen that! (And not in a negative way; the extras on the disc are very good.)
My next challenge will be to convince Alex, the elder grandlad, to give Adventures a try. He's convinced that Robin Hood is a fox, because of the Disney version. Well, I think he's a fox, too, but not in the same way.
Right now, Alex is at a stage where the first way he's introduced to something is the only way he thinks it exists. For example, he's had lumpy mashed potatoes, and "hated" them, so he avoids mashed potatoes made from real potatoes. He thinks Potato Buds are a superior product. Fortunately, we've convinced his father to give real potatoes a try. (Our next trick is to get said father a potato masher, or maybe a ricer. Lumpless real potatoes, here we come!)
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Oh... And I think we may have covered this before, but...
What is the most amount of snow you've ever seen/experienced in person?
Several years ago, here in western Washington, we had an ice storm. Literally, there was about a half inch of solid ice covering everything...trees, power lines, everything. It was incredibly beautiful, but very dangerous. My sister lost power for five days. I'm living in that house now! At the time, I was living in an apartment that was on the same power grid as a retirement community and the hospital. I only lost power for about an hour. From what I remember, it was considered one of the most dangerous storms to hit the area.
When we lived in Colorado (when my dad was in the army) there was one season when it started snowing before Halloween and snow was still on the ground at Easter! There wasn't a lot of snow, but it stuck around for a long time.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, we have snowage!
It's coming down in big fluffy flakes, pretty in a Currier and Ives way.
I'm glad I got my shopping done yesterday; the car's brakes need work, and there's no way I'd make der B drive right now.
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My next challenge will be to convince Alex, the elder grandlad, to give Adventures a try. He's convinced that Robin Hood is a fox, because of the Disney version. Well, I think he's a fox, too, but not in the same way.
For me, Disney's Robin Hood will always be Richard Todd.
DRPogue, I too am a fan of QUEEN MARGOT, which I feel is a vast improvement over the Dumas novel it was taken from. There's a newly published biography of Catherine de Medici that goes heavily into the St Bartholomew's Day massacre. I have yet to see a THREE MUSKETEERS that matches the book without condensing or campng it, but the two Richard Lester films come close in achieving the novel's sweep. I think Milady de Winter may be the first case of a character actually committing to print, "I'm too young to die."
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Spent a nice time in Africa today with KING SOLOMON'S MINES. Some of the obvious jungle photography where the actors weren't present looks a bit washed out, but all of the scenes with the stars look in beautiful shape with only a speck or two here and there to betray its age. Nice to see it looking so good. Other than a trailer, however, no extras at all.
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I had planned on watching THE LETTER after KSM finished, but then I thought I'd like to see something a bit grittier, so I took THE BOSTON STRANGLER off the shelf. Had only gotten through maybe the first 10 minutes before deciding to get my afternoon internet surf done, and will then go back to finish it. The DVDE transfer looked wonderful thus far, and so great to see it in Panavision after all those years of TV showings in pan and scan which makes a total hash of this film with all of the multi-screen imagry.
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Growing up in Minnesota I was witness to lots and lots and lots of snow.
It's a quite morning/afternoon here at Chez McLaughlin/Morelli. We went to Bed, Bath and Beyond and bought new guest towels for the bathroom. I did my state taxes and will be getting a nice refund. I already did my federal taxes using TeleFile (just like George and Danise) and my refund was deposited into my savings account on Friday. I will begin making dinner (salmon marinated in a lemon pepper mixture with steamed vegetables and wild rice) in about an hour and then we will watch something on television perhaps or I will ride the exercise bike while Mr. Morelli does magic on the computer.
TTFN
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Our ice/snow is all gone now. Beautiful, crisp day with lots of sunshine melting the icy tree coating away by midday.
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Sunshine and melting snow here as well. Just little patches around.
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My goodness, you'd think this was a Sunday, with this dearth of posts. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, we have had a dearth of posts. We mustn't have a dearth of posts after these record days. That is unseemly, and more important, it's unwieldy.
I'm back from this strang get-together, which I'll tell you about in detail in tomorrow's notes. Some of it was quite fun, and I must say there were a few people who'd read and loved the Kritzer books who were quite kind, and boy did they spread the word - I didn't have to do any work. I think we'll be selling a few books off amazon this very day.
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Now, really, let's get off our Hillary and Howard Duffs and get some lively and sparkling posting going on, shall we?
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It's a pretty damn gloriously glorious day here in Los Angeles, California, USA.
On the way home, I picked up the new Warners Gangster collection, and also Robert Altman's film, California Split.
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elmore, I just wish the Lester Musketeers movies had been spliced together into one long movie. As they stand now, I find them a bit unbalanced...with the second suddenly getting all the heavy stuff in them...also continuity is bad, you'll see Michael York walk into a house in one costume and then be in the house in another costume from like the first movie...scenes were obviously being re-arranged.
Still they're fantastic movies and the best of the musketeers movies I've ever seen. And the fencing...well...magnificent! I just got both on DVD recently.
BK, hope you got lots of accolades at your do this afternoon. Maybe the Krtizer books will get a bump that will surpass them in sales to Writers' Block.
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The sun was out here in Salem today, as well! Very nice T-shirt and jeans day...so I worked out in the yard most of the day pulling up dead plants, doing a little weeding, mowed the lawn, and chatted with my neighbor Judy who was walking her dog. Then I did some cleaning in the garage and now I am all done! Whew!
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I love Michel Legrand's score to The Three Musketeers. We put it out on Bay Cities.
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And now - drumroll - I'm diving into the potato salad. I shall return shortly, as soon as I'm at the point where I want to vomit on the ground.
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it is not sunny at all around here. It's about 50 degrees and gray and cloudy.
I'm desperate to get off my butt and do something...so tempted to try the gym today...but it might be a bad idea.
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I love Michel Legrand's score to The Three Musketeers. We put it out on Bay Cities.
The Legrand score was magnificent, matching the film perfectly. Why he didn't write the score for The Four Musketeers has always puzzled me; Schifrin's score was no better than servicable for the second film.
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What is the most amount of snow you've ever seen/experienced in person?
What is snow? ;D
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I don't know how often any of you go to Michael Shayne's www.brucekimmel.com , but I just took my first pass through in a while and...Wow! What a delightful site about our host here. I don't think I'd been before Michael had put up all the WHAT IF? materials, but I read several reviews that I hadn't even seen. Nice work, Michael!
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Today we saw a local small professional theater production of "A Chorus Line" which was quite wonderful.
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What is snow? ;D
Snow is something you see on your television.
Usually during a sports show that is highlighting downhill skiing.
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DRLaura-LOL
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Snow: well my parents' house outside of SLC was well over 4000 feet above sea level, so we knew from snow. It was not unusual to get several feet overnight. In fact, we had a little tractor with a snowplow to clear the driveway that I got to use when I was a kid (didn't seem like a chore--even taught me to use a stick shift when I was 8 or 9!).
Words: I know not why the talk of "wield" and "unwield" reminded me of this, but there is an infamous anecdote in our family about a little essay I wrote about my father when I was in the first grade. It went something like this:
My dad was in the big war. He was in the war for three years. One day he got hurt in the war and got to come home. My mom said she never wanted him in another war again.
Now, what is so infamous about that, you may ask? Well, I'll tell you--I was taught to read and spell phonetically, and to my little 6 year old mind (I was a year ahead, but that's another story), war was spelled whore!
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I didn't totally overdo the potato salad, AS YET. But there are more hours in the day and evening.
Now, I see quite a few people on this board - so, what's that haps people on this board?
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My haps is that I'm watching Mr. Robert Altman's film, California Split. It's got some good stuff at a poker casino I used to frequent (The Normandie Club, south of downtown LA), but I'm just no fan of Mr. Altman's overlayered dialogue and improvisation that goes nowhere. However, there are several interesting things about the film which I'll go into when I talk about it in the notes.
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elmore, I just wish the Lester Musketeers movies had been spliced together into one long movie. As they stand now, I find them a bit unbalanced...with the second suddenly getting all the heavy stuff in them...also continuity is bad, you'll see Michael York walk into a house in one costume and then be in the house in another costume from like the first movie...scenes were obviously being re-arranged.
Still they're fantastic movies and the best of the musketeers movies I've ever seen. And the fencing...well...magnificent! I just got both on DVD recently.
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DRPogue, I was reading the THE THREE MUSKETEERS the summer of 1973 while I was working at The Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, and I still remember how I excited I was by an article in the NY Times about the Lester film. At that point it was to be one long film, and the producers cut it into two, forcing the cast to demand payment for two film instead of one. I think the films, which are amazingly faithful to the book's long plot, are a hoot, but a lot more tongue in cheek than Dumas' romantic adventure intended. Still, I love the casting, the design, and the sweep. I have this strange memory that each film has a different composer. Like the films, the book gets darker once Milady starts manipulating the plot with Buckingham's assassination and Constance's death, but that's also part of Dumas' development of D'Artagnan's character from country squire to sophisticated protector of Queen Anne against Richilieu.
About two years ago, I read the unabridged COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, which is the first novel I can think of with two lesbian characters, omitted from every screen version! It was an excellent new Penguin translation and took me several months to get through it. I enjoyed it much more than the unabridged LES MISERABLES, which I thought I would never get through; it was a jury duty read around 1992 or so. I think knowing the book got me through the plot lapses of the musical, but it also soured me on reading NOTRE DAME DE PARIS. I'm so pulp fiction, preferring Dumas to Hugo!
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DR Laura,
I saw snow once.
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Run, Eliza, Run!
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I never has seen snow.
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bk - you've seriously never seen snow??
I did it, I went to the gym and used the treadmill! It wore me out pretty quickly, but I managed it.
I have found The Gay Divorcee on TCM. I haven't seen it in a few years, and I'm excited to watch it again. It was one of my childhood favorites.
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I remember snow.
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I've seen snow. I was quoting a song. I've seen lots of snow on my many winter visitations to New York, New York.
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The sun is setting in the west. The west is setting in the sun. There is no sun.
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Growing up in Michigan, I saw plenty of snow, but only remember one time when Detroit schools (which I attended K-12) were closed. My sophomore year in high school we had a 26" snowfall. There was a fire station at the end of our street and the hook and ladder got stuck in front of out house.
Winters are much milder here in southern Ohio, but in 1978 we had a blizzard with about 20+ inches and blowing and drifting.
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I am in a White Christmas mood now with all this talk of snow. I may have to have an out of season viewing of the movie. :-) I watched Meet Me in St. Louis the other evening also. Two movies with Christmas in it that can be watched year round. :-)
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After chipping out the front walk so students on their way to class won't have to slip and fall, I have to say I am not a fan of ice unless it is in a rink though.
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Was it here on HHW or somewhere else that I heard they are planning on opening several productions of White Christmas in different cities next season?
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Spent a nice time in Africa today with KING SOLOMON'S MINES. Some of the obvious jungle photography where the actors weren't present looks a bit washed out, but all of the scenes with the stars look in beautiful shape with only a speck or two here and there to betray its age. Nice to see it looking so good. Other than a trailer, however, no extras at all.
I'm betting the washed out sequences were from the studio footage shot back in the late 30s for "Trader Horn". MGM sent a cinematographer to Africa back then to get footage for "Trader Horn" and he, apparently, came back with quite a bit of usable stuff. I recall reading that "King Solomon's Mines" took advantage of the stock footage from that trip.
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Was it here on HHW or somewhere else that I heard they are planning on opening several productions of White Christmas in different cities next season?
A production was mounted this past November at San Francisco's Curran Theater. It was based on the film story and used Berlin's music.
It was so popular, according to something I read in the San Francisco Chronicle, that it is being considered for a Broadway production.
Don't know if that's linked to other productions you've heard off....it may be they've taken the production that played here through the end of last year and are planning on testing it in other cities.
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elmore I, too,love the 3 Musketeers casting in Lester's film. Olivier Reed as Athos is my fav (of course, I also love Van Heflin as Athos too in the '48 version...Athos is my favourite musketeer, because of all the darkness in his story). In college, I remember seeing a televised version of a wonderful stage production of the Musketeers done by Stratford, in Ontario Canada. Wish someone would put that out on DVD.
Speaking of Reed and swashbuckling scores, anyone else here like the Maurice Jarre score to Crossed Swords (aka Prince and Pauper) from the 70's which starred Reed and was produced by the Salkinds who did 3 Musketeers and directed by Richard Fleischer (of Vikings fame)? It had a great whistling main theme.
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Van Heflin's daughter Vana (O'Brien) lives here and is one of the grandes dames of the Portland theater scene. She played a psychotherapist in the tv movie Pillars of Portland that I helped to score.
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JMK-ROTFLOL
Ann I’m glad you only used the treadmill at the gym.
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I also loved the cast in Lester’s cast THREE MUSKETTERS
There are Lesbians in THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO? LOL-Guess I was too young when I read the book. Maybe I should read it again and discover what else I’m missing.
Elmore the first time I read LES MISERABLES I was in 9th grade and barely put it down until I was finished reading it-read all night. I did not care for the musical.
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Well I've never seen snow.
Oops, just kidding. :)
Wow, DR Ann, that is impressive that you were using the treadmill. Just be careful.
Good night all.
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LOL JMK...it must have been the Second World Whore.
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DR RON - wasn't TRADER HORN in Black and White. There was a 1937 British version, but I think some of the footage was used in some of the early Tarzan films.
Extra footage from KING SOLOMON'S MINES in 1950 was used in the 1959 film WATUSI.
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There was a '37 British version of King Solomon's Mines. Gaumont, I think. Cecil Hardwicke, John Loder, and Paul Robeson. Trader Horn was in black and white and copious amounts of its footage got used in the Tarzan film and it seems like every other black and white jungle picture ad nauseum.
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There are Lesbians in THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO? LOL-Guess I was too young when I read the book. Maybe I should read it again and discover what else I’m missing.
Elmore the first time I read LES MISERABLES I was in 9th grade and barely put it down until I was finished reading it-read all night. I did not care for the musical.
DRJane, yes, dear, there are lesbians, the daughter of one of the men who betrayed Dantes and her music teacher. When all the revenge plots take over, the two women have run away together and are caught in bed at an inn and publicly disgraced. The older translations of the novel puritanically cleaned all this up, but it's very clear in the new Penguin translation! There are also lesbian characters in Zola's backstage novel NANA, based on Offenbach's musical comedy star Hortense Schneider.
I'm glad you liked LES MISERABLES, which I found a fascinating but too long novel. The last film version with Liam Neeson was pretty good up until the barricades; then I felt like they ran out of money and had to wrap the damned thing up quickly. Uma Thurman(?) was a lovely Fantine, and I don't remember much else about it now, the book or the film. I am not a fan of the musical either but I do like "I Dreamed a Dream."
DRPogue, I've read the Stratford Musketeers script by Raby, I think. Dramatists Play Service handles it, and I would love to see that Canadian broadcast. The photos I've seen look fantastic.
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LOL JMK...it must have been the Second World Whore.
I know the Third avenue Whore. Oh, what a lovely!
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I used to enjoy watching the whores who were in the neighborhood of the St. Moritz in NY. My friend Nick Redman and I used to chat them up.
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Is that right? The St. Moritz? On 59th and sixth or something?
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This is the slowest day we've had since the 2nd of January. Come now, we must send off the month with flying colors.
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I'm thinking a Jacuzzi might be in the cards. How a Jacuzzi got in the cards I'll never know.
I'm currently watching Little Caesar. It's obviously very dated, and Mervyn LeRoy is not one of my favorite directors, but Eddie G - you can't take your eyes off him.
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Mother of mercy - page six! Unwieldy.
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Jacuzzi was in my cards...just got out. The Lovely Wife is still in, listening to Broadway Bound.
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This may be a dumb question, but hopefully someone here will know the answer:
I know that Dickens wrote his books in installments, a certain number of chapters published in what we would now think of as magazines. Were Hugo and the Dumas family (pere and fils) also published in this fashion?
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Jacuzzi in the snow...somehow, I don't want to go there.
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I'm in the mood to - RHUMBA!
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Welcome six GUESTS. We're talkin' about whatever the HELL we feel like.
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elmore I shall have to find my copy of the Count.
A book isn’t too long when you read it within two days. I told you I barely put it down. ;D
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I just got through doing the rhumba and I am energized. I am seething with energy. I am teeming with energy. I've got so much energy that I could light up a city block.
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What book is that, JANE?
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I'm so Latin right now. I'm feeling entirely Latin.
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I also reek of potato salad, which I ate more of and shouldn't have.
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I am my own frenzy.
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One, Two Three..Kick!
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I am very pleased with myself. Today I did two things I have not done yet without Echo. I walked along our country road and around our yard. It may seem strange I haven’t been in our yard but Echo and I would go for our walk and then circle our property while enjoying the view-well I enjoyed the view and Echo played. In the six years we have lived here I have not gone on that walk without her. I must say I did very well and I wasn’t too nervous I might run into scary wildlife. :-\ It helped that last week our, soon to be neighbor, came over and we walked the road together. :D
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What book is that, JANE?
Les Miserables. I read faster back then.
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I'm currently watching Little Caesar. It's obviously very dated, and Mervyn LeRoy is not one of my favorite directors, but Eddie G - you can't take your eyes off him.
I agree. I never think of Edw. G. Robinson as a favorite...but whenever I see him in a film I enjoy it so.
Have you ever seen him in THE RED HOUSE! Wonderful film.
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THE BOSTON STRANGLER really looked spiffy on DVD. Really enjoyed seeing it again. Also watched some of the AMC Backstory in the special features but had to stop because COLD CASE was coming on. Will finish that tomorrow.
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This may be a dumb question, but hopefully someone here will know the answer:
I know that Dickens wrote his books in installments, a certain number of chapters published in what we would now think of as magazines. Were Hugo and the Dumas family (pere and fils) also published in this fashion?
DRSWW, I know that Dumas wrote in installments, as did Thackeray, but I really know next to nothing about Hugo's writing. I know there were some novels, including one that became the silent film "The Man Who Laughs," several plays, of which a couple became operas, and some beautful poetry. I have this memory of a gigantic Hugo bio by Maurois (?) that I wanted to read.
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Am listening to a very lovely and relaxing CD called MUSIC FROM THE CHOCOLATE LANDS..."unforgettable songs from countries where chocolate originates"...sort of light pop music is how I would describe it...Border's has been promoting it of late.
Music from Cuba, Peru, Belize, Hawaii, Switzerland, Ivory Coast, Belgium, Brazil, India, Haiti, the Congo and others.
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I guess I should try to get to THE LETTER tomorrow, and SILVERADO is still angry at me for putting it back on the shelf. Must try to make that up at some point in the next few days.
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And I would kill for a big slab of dark chocolate right now!
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I didn't want all of the films in the Gangsters Box, so I just ordered WHITE HEAT. I'll try to find THE PETRIFIED FOREST used in a week or two.
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elmore I shall have to find my copy of the Count.
A book isn’t too long when you read it within two days. I told you I barely put it down. ;D
DRJane, if you read the UNABRIDGED version, it would take more than 2 days, more like 2 weeks! Did you read the Classics Illustrated comic? I loved those comics.
I think I'll reread Monte Cristo again.
DRSWW, I think Dumas fils also wrote in installments, but I can't think of any Dumas fils novels besides "The Lady of the Camelias."
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And I would kill for a big slab of dark chocolate right now!
Anybody I know?
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Good Evening!
What a long day this has been! And it really isn't even over yet.
I made it in to the matinee with time to spare. In fact, I even made a stop at Target to pick up some snacks for the cast and crew as well as some necessaries for myself. The main roads were practically all clear this afternoon, and there was next to no traffic. The snow was still falling, but it had died down a bit.
When I went out for dinner between shows, the sun was out, the temp was up a little bit, and all the snow was starting to melt. Of course, all that melted snow is now currently freezing to ice, so...
I had actually decided to go ahead and head back to Richmond tonight after the show. I had even brought a change of clothes with me to the theatre because of all the snow and slush.
However, as soon as the second show started, my body just wanted to go into Sleep Mode. In fact, everyone had hit the proverbial wall. So, by the time intermission started, I decided to go ahead and stay up here tonight, and just head back in the morning. I was even turning off my stand light between songs so that I could "rest my eyes".
...Oh, I did have a wonderful Thai dinner between shows. It's all about the food!
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RE: White Christmas - From various reports from various sources...
At the very least, White Christmas may reopen in San Francisco next Christmas - it would be their A Christmas Carol equivalent. Additionally, other theatres and producers have expressed an interest in producing it too. So, the show may end up getting "franchised" and run in multiple cities at the same time.
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OH! And it looks like my New York plans are continuing to fall into place...
I'm going to be "homeless" for about two months since I'll be on the road, but come May 1 or June 1, it looks like I'll be becoming a resident of Manhattan!
Details to follow...
;D
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DR MattH - I may have missed it over the past few days...
Did you and your friend ever get the cable issue figured out with the new home theatre set-up?
I did check with my brother, and he said it was a matter of going into all the various menus for all the various equipment, and making sure all the inputs/outputs were activated.
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Damn! I just got outbid for a DVD on eBay...2 seconds before it ended! I hate it when that happens! >:( Well, on to the next auction. :-\
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IMHO best version by far of Les Mis. is the most recent (6 hours or so)with John Malkovich as Javert and Gerard Depardieu. Made for TV but released in English now as a 3 hour film. (Not watched the English version as yet).
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Heating up ye olde Jacuzzi.
I have The Red House on DVD - I'll have to watch it one of these days.
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RHUMBA!
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Mother of mercy, is this the end of Little Rico?
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(http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20050130/i/r615698509.jpg)
Funny picture of the day! ;D
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A friend of mine sent an article about this to me and I couldn't resist sharing it with all of you.
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The Pope looks like he has a bad case of John Ford tongue. And BK will know what I'm talking about.
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Boy, do I know what you're talkin' about.
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About fourteen more degrees and I shall be in the Jacuzzi. Should be about ten or fifteen minutes from now. I'm READY. In the meantime: RHUMBA!
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Oh, would that I could rhumba but I have actual career-oriented work that I'll probably be up the better part of the night doing.
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Mis-quote alert. The line is actually: Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?
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It's like a ghost town around these here parts. What a shame. I'm going out to the Jacuzzi now and hopefully when I return I will have some rhumba partners.
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Well, it' won't be me. Sorry. ;) I'm going to have to do the wussburger thing. I just remembered (literally, just now!) that I have to be at work at 7:00 a.m.! We're having some additional training tomorrow AND Tuesday for the new computer system at work and it starts early. Too damn early, if you ask me. So, I'm actually going to go to bed now so that I'll be refreshed and able to get up in time. Good night, all!
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Well, this is a FINE how do you do.
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Just me and you rhumba-ing, BK. And now I'm rhumba-ing off back to work!
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I'm here, but I can't Rhumba very well at the moment.
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Ann, darling, please don't do too much too soon. You must be a good girl and take care of yourself, otherwise I shall have to fly up to your region and bitch-slap you from here to eternity and hell and back.
I am so ready to RHUMBA!
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I am so filled with potato salad it isn't even funny. I think that I'll make some buttered popcorn to cut the taste a little.
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I've finished off almost all of my macaroni salad. The last of it will probably be lunch tomorrow. I'm still in the mood for some type of snack, though...
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Can we reach 200 posts? I think it's a definitely possibility.
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Pudding...I'm in the mood for chocolate pudding.
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Pudding...I'm in the mood for chocolate pudding.
Check the refrigerator for underpants...there's sure to be some puddin' in 'em!
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Lissome.
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I see I'm By Myself...
I'll try to Apply Myself...
I'm By Myself, Alone...
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There must be something to which I can aspire.
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I have an appointment first thing in the a.m. to determine how severe my allergies might be.
And then I'm off the rest of the day.
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New notes in a mere six minutes.
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Last chance to say "unwieldy".
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RHUMBA!
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unlocked
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He who laughs last laughs....last.
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unwieldy