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Title: SCARY NOTES
Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 12:44:23 AM: Now that you've read the notes, it's time for our Halloween posts and discussion of the topic of the day. Be creative, be wild, be free, and let us party until the cows come home whilst dispensing with multitudes of both tricks, treats, and Amys.

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Post by: Angela on October 31, 2003, 12:50:07 AM: Can this be true -- I'm the first post of the day! :)
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Post by: Angela on October 31, 2003, 12:52:00 AM: Wow, what a rocket scientist I am -- a post and an edit all in the same minute.

No costume this year, as I'll be trekking to Los Angeles for a Retreat weekend. Thank goodness the fires in Santa Clarita & Simi Valley are under control.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 02:53:51 AM: Here you are, my pretties. Why wait until your demise to find out where you will spend eternity?

Yes, take the Dante's Inferno test and discover your own Ring of Hell! Bwaaa-hahahahahahahahaha!

http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv (http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv)

I don't have a picture of my costume. ???

Tonight I will be joining my sister Molly Scattered Sun in the Spirit Circle at the World of Wisdom Bookstore.

Tomorrow night I will be doing Tarot Readings....but other than that, it's just another day in paradise.
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Post by: Michael on October 31, 2003, 04:48:39 AM: I always thought that Diana Ross and the Supremes sing Funny Girl was scary

I really don't have a favorite costume, but I always sorta like the home made ones. Oftten I went as an old man. Aged myself with makeup and old 2nd hand clothes.

The easiest ones of course were the ghost and looking back as a child I was an F.I.T. even then. I would not use any old polyester sheet. They had to be satin!

But this year since I wasn't invited anywhere. No costume. But as I get older it really isn't a big deal.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 05:13:41 AM: MDS - that Album is Scary. Sometimes I play it and keep saying....it's just an album...it's just an album.

Other scary LP's I own:

George Hamilton Sings!

Elke Sommer - Ich Liebe Diche

Monique Van Vooren - Cocktails and Mink

Golden Rainbow - Original Broadway Cast, Steve & Eydie

My favorite Halloween costume - white tie and tails & a cabbage patch character - I was the Valet of the Dolls.
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Post by: Ben on October 31, 2003, 05:32:38 AM: JRand, I had to remember that there is no groaning at HHW (Valet of the Dolls).

My favorite Halloween Costume was when I went as a Q-Tip. I was still living in Minnesota (in St. Paul actually in the Homo House (there were 4 of us sharing a house, 3 extremely happy men and one straight but not narrow) and we had a hoppin' Halloween party. I have the picture at home. If I can find it and scan it in I will try to post it. I went to the local second hand store and happened upon this amazing hat-like thing. I looked at it and knew exactly what it should be. I had a white unitard, white socks, white fuzzy slippers, white gloves and the fuzzy peaked white hat. I was quite a success. I have also gone as Mr. Peanut (Anthony made two sides of a peanut out of tag board, we painted them and attached like a sandwich board. I had a monocle, a top hat, gloves and a cane. The only difficult part was sitting down. You can't sit down in a sandwich board. One of my other favorite costumes was going as the Cracker Jack boy. I dressed in an old-fashioned Navy outfit and we found a dog that resembled the dog on the Cracker Jack box. We sewed him to the leg of my Navy pants and Voila, a creative and original costume.

I think I mentioned yesterday that I won't be doing anything this year. When you live in the middle of Halloween Hell, some of the joy is taken out of it. The Parade route is a half block away from our apartment and it becomes a traffic nightmare, both for cars and people. It becomes difficult to get anywhere or do anything if you don't do it before 5pm. We generally just stay in and watch the parade on our local all news channel, New York 1. If we are on Long Island when it happens, we are more inclined to partake in the festivities but this year we are in the city.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 05:40:52 AM: Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!

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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 05:48:17 AM: A really truly scary happening.

Click on the link for information about the solar flares.

Some great space photography! ;D

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solar_flare_031029.html (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solar_flare_031029.html)
Title: Re:SCARY NOTES
Post by: Noel on October 31, 2003, 05:58:01 AM: My costume this year is opera-goer. A former roommate of mine is doing a big role at a big theatre. And I mean big. So big he crushes things. There: that's enough hints.

My ask BK questions went unanswered.

George's ghost joke from late yesterday is one I often tell. I think I told it to 3 out of the 4 'rents at the rehearsal dinner. Lots of relatives were offended that they'd not been invited to the rehearsal dinner, but I ask you: What had they rehearsed? That dinner was just for all those who'd trod the boards that day. There is no free lunch. What the hell am I talking about?

I also told a riddle I'd heard the previous night at the bachelor party: What's the difference between erotic and kinky? If you use a feather, it's erotic. It's kinky...when you use the entire chicken.

Now, who could argue with that?
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 06:01:21 AM: So - DR Noel....hmmmmmmmm....I know:

GODZILLA - The Opera!
Title: Re:SCARY NOTES
Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 06:16:37 AM: I think that we should all sing "very hairy, very scary" (Ah! a KISMET reference!) and I shall go to work dressed as LaLume. . . .NOW THAT'S SCARY! !

Scary Albums:
PATTY DUKES SINGS VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
MARIANNE FAITHFUL - BROKEN ENGLISH
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Post by: Emily on October 31, 2003, 06:18:45 AM: ... the whole chicken?

OMG - ROTFLMAO!!!

coffee spitting out Noel!!! I'm charging you for the damage to my monitor!

(I'll post later)
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Post by: William E. Lurie on October 31, 2003, 06:31:20 AM: BK - Did you answer my "Ask BK Day" Questions on the recording of LUCKY STIFF? I thought I read through everything from the time I posted to now but I never saw the answer.

To clairify something from yesterday's posts, Oscar Hammerstein II did hand those words to Mary Martin on a piece of paper but he was handing her what turned out to be the final lyrics he wrote (the intro to her reprise of "16 Going on 17"), not something that she asked to be added to the show.

Also someone mentioned that Bea Benadarit (I know it's spelled wrong) was Lucy's original choice for Ethel Mertz but failed to mention that Gale Gordon was the first choice for Fred. Bea was busy on the Burns and Allen Show and Gale was on "Our Miss Brooks". Thus was formed the team of Vivian Vance and William Frawley, two actors who never let their mutual hate of each other show on screen.
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Post by: DallasM on October 31, 2003, 06:36:17 AM: My most favoritest costume was a Judy Garland Concert. How did I achieve that, you ask -- and rightly so? A rainbow painted across my eyes and down my face, a sandwich board with all of Garland's movie titles stenciled on the back, a reproduction of the Carnegie Hall concert poster on the front, and "Lest We Forget" stenciled in gold letters on the bottom. A pair of red sequinned tennis shoes. And to top it off, a hidden speaker and portable battery operated cd player blaring "Judy at Carnegie Hall" on my person. Probably the gayest thing I've ever done..although Bruce dressing as Effie Melody White performing "I Am Changing" ranks right up there. :)
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 06:47:23 AM: http://www.topqualityrockandroll.com/multimedia/PattyDuke_ill_plant_my.mp3 (http://www.topqualityrockandroll.com/multimedia/PattyDuke_ill_plant_my.mp3)

TD is correct - click on the link if you DARE to hear Ms. Patty Duke - Oscar, Emmy, and Tony winner singing the Andre & Dory Previn hit: I'll Plant My Own Tree.

I repeat, this is only for the brave!
Title: Re:SCARY NOTES
Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 06:48:28 AM: ;D
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 06:53:05 AM: Warning: GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrr....song takes a LONG time to load.
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Post by: Angela on October 31, 2003, 06:53:59 AM: Oh Karma Fairy -- you giveth and then takenth.

Ah, the story of my life. :D
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 07:31:55 AM: WEL, I was the one who posted the information about Bea Benadaret being Lucy's first choice for Ethel Mertz. Of course, I knew that Gale Gordon was her first choice for Fred, but as Bea's name had been discussed on previous messages, I didn't find it pertinent to mention Gale Gordon.

I don't think Patty Duke has ever won a Tony, DR Jrand. Amazingly, she wasn't even nominated for THE MIRACLE WORKER, the role that won her the Oscar!
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Post by: Ben on October 31, 2003, 07:43:54 AM: JRand, that album and song clips have been posted before so I've heard them. You're right, they are scary!!! It's Patty at her most undiagnosed. I think it was you (I may be wrong but I won't check the archives) who said Patty and the Orchestra are racing to the finish line but the orchestra wins. All those songs as performed by Patty are quite the camp treasures. She seems to have a good take on the whole thing, knowing that she was suffering from undiagnosed psychological problems, it seems she can look at that period in her life without anger or recrimination.
Title: Re:SCARY NOTES
Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 07:44:42 AM: Good Rhoda Morgenstern. I didn't want to get out of bed this morning. It has finally cooled off here and I like to stay in bed when it is chilly in the morning. Ah, well, on Sunday I'll get to stay in bed.

Noel and WEL - I said in yesterday's posts that I hadn't answered most of the questions because of the bad computer situation at work - I will answer them, but probably not until tomorrow - although, if I can do them on my lunch hour today, I shall.

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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 07:58:02 AM: I forgot to talk about Halloween costumes. The most elaborate I ever had was a Merlin costume I had about 10 years ago. I think that's probably the last costume party I've ever gone to, but there was no way to go but down after that elaborate thing with robes and pointy hat, wigs, beard, etc.

One year I had a flannel monk's costume, but it was an unseasonably tropical night with temperatures in the 80s, and I knew I would die from the heat in that long robe, so I pulled out some old boxing trunks and other equipment I had used in ROTC and that was the bulk of my costume.
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Post by: Noel on October 31, 2003, 08:01:46 AM: Is that smiley some subtle suggestion that I grow hair, BK? Nay, I say: I will not bow to the pressure of smilies.
Title: Re:SCARY NOTES
Post by: DearReaderLaura on October 31, 2003, 08:05:16 AM: Dear Readers in southern California -- how is the fire situation from your perspectives? We've got smoky skies all the way here into Arizona.

I'm on standby to be sent over for disaster relief whenever they call me.
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Post by: William E. Lurie on October 31, 2003, 08:11:41 AM: Notice to all DRs in the NYC area:
Since there has been very little publicity so far, you may not be aware that on Monday 11/24 there will be a benefit for BC/EFA of AUNTIE MAME with Charles Busch in the title role and an all star cast including Olympia Dukakis, Swoosie Kurtz, Robert Sean Leonard, Marian Seldes, Douglas Sills, B.D. Wong and Louis Zorich. Tickets start at $40 for the balcony but it is a very small theatre (John Jay College at 10th Avenue and 58th Street) so even the cheap seats aren't too bad. Phone (212) 840-0770 x268 for info or tickets.
Title: Re:SCARY NOTES
Post by: Matthew on October 31, 2003, 08:11:49 AM: Scary Recordings - I can't recall any at the moment, but I'm sure I'll come up with a few.

Best Halloween Costume - Homemade ones are the best. Last year I went as "The Big Blue House" from the "Bear in the Big Blue House" series (Disney/Hensen) This year, I'm going as Bear. I didn't make this one tho', it was an eBay find. So exciting, last year, when the costume came in the mail, I wore it to a perfromance of "Annie" that was conducting, and Bear conducted (and played keyboards) the first half of the first act of "Annie" (the orchestra was hidden, of course) but the looks from the cast when they passed the orchestra backstage were priceless!! It eventually got way too hot in the costume, so Bear left after NYC. This year, Bear will make an appearence at my niece's pre-school and join in their parade. :D

Who is Bear? Check the picture on the left.
Title: Re:SCARY NOTES
Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 08:14:21 AM: DR MattH - you are indeed correct. Ms Duke did not win a Tony Award - YET! Maybe I was prognosticating. :o

And yes Ben - I did post that comment before - but certainly it bears repeating! ::)

And while this get-up would work, I don't think this photo of Patty was taken before she went out trick or treating.
Title: Re:SCARY NOTES
Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 08:41:02 AM: Today's Topic

I don't think I have any favorite costumes, because I really never liked Halloween or dressing up in costume! And God forbid, I should ever go to a Costume Party. Maybe it has something to do with being an actor, or maybe I am just an old stick in the mud.

One year, back in the ‘80s, I got so fed up at being badgered by my co-workers, about not dressing up, that I got up very early on Halloween morning, took a bottle of liquid latex and a very vivid red lipstick, and created a very convincing copy of Freddy Krueger's face. I even had the right kind of hat, and the striped shirt. The only thing missing were the hands, but since I was going to be driving to work with the costume and then sitting and writing all day, I decided to skip the hands. Still, I was amused by the reactions people had to seeing Freddy driving on the freeway or working in their local Welfare Office.

Tonight, after work, I will drive home, feed the cats, and then head out of town to have dinner out with some friends. That way I don’t have to pass out candy to the undeserving kiddies.

I am the one that wrote about the Mary Martin story yesterday. I didn’t say the story was true, all I did was repeat the story that I heard Mary tell.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 08:45:54 AM: Elysa Gardner in USA TODAY, called "Wicked" a thoroughly enchanting experience! She says Kristen in "ideally cast" and says complimentary things about Idina and Norbert as well!
Title: Re:SCARY NOTES
Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 08:48:35 AM: I remember Patty Duke appearing on Joey Bishop's old ABC talk show to promote her first album of songs. (I think VALLEY OF THE DOLLS was her second LP, but I could be wrong about that.) Anyway, she sang some song that kind of predated "Momma Look Sharp" about a woman longing for her lost love involved in some war. I think it was Irish in spirit, but it's all so vague now (must have been around 1967 or 1968.) I remember being surprised because she had sounded so GREAT in VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (I should have suspected she was dubbed but I didn't at the time), and her voice on Bishop was halting and kind of bland. The song didn't do her any favors either as it was sung in short, clipped verse and featured the repetative "ah-roo" in the lyrics.

I don't have that Duke album. Does anyone who has it know what song I'm talking about?
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 09:05:13 AM: Well, DR MattH - it's probably one of the songs listed here on a Never-Released Patty Duke Folk Song album.

This is a faux cover put together by someone on a website, but Patty warbling Puff The Magic Dragon really needs to be heard! :o

Click for a link to the album - not an individual song! :P

http://www.topqualityrockandroll.com/mm-Unreleasedrecord.html (http://www.topqualityrockandroll.com/mm-Unreleasedrecord.html)
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 09:14:49 AM: Thank you so much for that link, DR Jrand.

It was "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye."
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 10:01:10 AM: Um, is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the lack of folks here today? I guess we have reached back to our errant and truant phase. Oh, well, I guess it will not be the raucous Halloween bash I'd hoped for.
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Post by: Jay on October 31, 2003, 10:03:37 AM: I'm here, I'm here. Just recovering from nearly drowning as I practiced bobbing for apples.

;)
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Post by: Jay on October 31, 2003, 10:15:25 AM: Dear Reader Laura--It is considerably cooler here now than it's been, and damp, too. (I even had drizzle this morning in Pasadena.) This should be of great help to the firefighters. Still, thousands of homes have been destroyed and thousands of people are homeless, so rescue efforts will no doubt continue for some time. 'Tis a noble thing you do to volunteer for such an effort.

Dear Reader JRand--My brother is an absolute Steve and Eydie freak and the recording of Golden Rainbow is one of his prized possessions. De gustibus non es diputandum es. (Or something like that.)

Dear Reader DallasM--Welcome to the cookie jar/sandbox/almost most popular site on the internet. Tell us a bit about yourself and join the fun!
Title: Re:SCARY NOTES
Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 10:17:53 AM: It is rather scary (but not in a good way) how few people have been around the board today.

Jay: Back in my drinking days, it used to be a lot more fun bobbing for stuffed olives in a small punchbowl full of gin. Ahhh, those were the days.

Just out of curiousity, I was wondering how others here at HHW feel about the supernatural (i.e. ghosts, poltergiests, witches {looks like a list of 80s movies}, goblins, etc.)? I know it isn't ask anyone day, but I was interested because of the holiday.
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 10:19:58 AM: Yes, excuse my manners DallasM, welcome to the neighborhood!
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Post by: Jennifer on October 31, 2003, 10:48:56 AM: Happy Halloween everyone!

I have much to do today and I think I'm coming down with something.

How cute are these?

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Here are my favorite costumes:

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Post by: Jennifer on October 31, 2003, 10:52:55 AM: If anyone wants a good laugh, I keep my halloween candies closed and tied up in plastic bags so I don't eat any of it before Oct 31st :)

But today it's fair game!!!
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Post by: Ben on October 31, 2003, 10:55:10 AM: Welcome to DallasM. Oh, JRand, you do find the most amazing things. Miss Duke singing I Want Your Love is truly something. What, I don't know, but it's something. The fact that these things still exist somewhere and someone took the time to upload them to the Internet is just as amazing.
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Post by: MBarnum on October 31, 2003, 11:07:38 AM: I searched and searched last night for a pic of me in a halloween costume circa 1968...but can't find the darn thing!

If I come across it I will put it up.

I don't think I have a favorite halloween costume, but I do recall dressing as casper the friendly ghost once. A store-bought mask and costume that was on a rack at the grocery store in 1969 or 70.
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Post by: Matthew on October 31, 2003, 11:08:01 AM: What's Halloween without a listen to "Jeepers Creepers", that's probably where all the DR's are at this moment.

I suggest keeping it in the changer with Maury Yeston's "Phantom" and Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera" selections with Ethan Freeman, Claire Moore, and John Barrowman (a JAY release) and of course your least favorite cast recording for the scary effect!!! :D
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 11:24:00 AM: Glad you found the song, DR MattH. And yes, DR Ben it is amazing what you can find. As soon as I discovered the album, I burned it and Patty's VOD to a CD in order to amaze my friends...and since there was time left over on the disk, I added Miss Judy Garland's pre-recording of I'll Plant My Own Tree. :D

DR MBarnum - bought your costume at the grocery store? You must have been rich. We made ours! :-X

Welcome DR Dallas!! 8)

TCM is having a Frankenstein Movie Festival tonight. DR Jay - I am a believer in ghosts, etc. Not that I receive a lot of messages from the other side! But as I wrote earlier today, my sister does have a Spirit Guide and I will be joining her in a Spirit Circle tonight.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 11:25:35 AM: Oh and DR Jay - I guess I should have classified GOLDEN RAINBOW as a guilty pleasure rather than a horror.

I did use the last part of the overture as a great musical number in VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM!
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 11:28:07 AM: (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/sehrgrosse/large-smiley-004.gif)

Well, it isn't exactly The Great Pumpkin, but it is the best I could find on short notice. I hope this little face isn't saying anything rude. Our computers at work don't have any sound, so I can't tell if he is really talking.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 11:29:57 AM: Sorry DR TCB - that was a answer to YOUR question!
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Post by: Sandra on October 31, 2003, 11:34:12 AM: Boo!

Happy Halloween, everybody. My Geology teacher (Queen Merry, Goddess of Geology) came to class today dressed as Mama from Mama's Family. Every so often during class, she'd open the door and throw candy to the people outside. And she gave me a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. :)
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 12:07:41 PM: That's okay, Jrand, I knew to whom it was addressed. Besides, I never got around to copyrighting that question anyway.
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 12:20:47 PM: Speaking of ghosts, it's like a ghost town around here. I'm eating a bagel.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 12:23:03 PM: Well.....what gennamins say and what gennamins thinks is two different things, and besides, I doan notisss Mis' Ashley askin' for to marry ya!

P A N A V I S I O N!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An' I told ya, ya ain't gonna show your bosom before 3 o'clock in the afternoon!
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 12:23:11 PM: did i just turn the site into CinemaScope? ? ? ?

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Post by: Maya on October 31, 2003, 12:27:37 PM: Hello, everyone! I've no intention of being E&T on Halloween! Not when BK posts such hilarious (and not a little scary) notes about him dressing up as Effie from Dreamgirls!

Hmmm....I don't even know if I'm dressing up today. I have an old flapper costume I could wear, so perhaps I could be one of Millie's flapper friends with bad taste (the costume is really too sequined and tacky). And my hair is way too long.

I love reading about everyone's old costumes! Too funny! I've had a few interesting ones in the past...one year I wore a blond wig and went as an 12-year old Marilyn Monroe. In the future, I want to go as Ethel Merman. I'm not joking....I could find a Mama Rose coat and dress, but it would take hours I'm afraid to get my hair like hers! Marc's (who isn't a brand-newbie, just has a different screenname) Judy costume seems pretty hard to beat though!

George (from yesterday's notes)--I am NOT a goth! That said, LOL!

Jennifer--what cute costumes! Do you have any real pics of you as a wizard, jester or in a 'fro, lol?

OH! Operation Convert Macbeth to Musical Theatre Fandom has had some small success! Last night, we watched Chicago (I think the idea of seeing Catherine ZJ and Renee Z in sexy clothes was not a small inducement for him). He enjoyed it, I think...even tapping his feet during some of the numbers. This from a guy who says he DOES NOT LIKE musicals. Hmmm....should I try to make him a Sondhead next?
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 12:29:56 PM: Non 'scope and cropped. . .

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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 12:30:05 PM: Y E S !
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Post by: Maya on October 31, 2003, 12:31:07 PM: Oh, wow, TD!

I really have to say, in all honesty....

You looked quite lovely! :D
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Post by: Maya on October 31, 2003, 12:31:57 PM: LOL, TCB...

Must initiate Operation Convert Macbeth to Sondhead-ness.
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 12:36:01 PM: td: I am feeling strangely aroused.
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Post by: Matthew on October 31, 2003, 01:05:02 PM: It's 1:00 and only two pages of posts?? That's rather odd. I'm on my second listen of Jeepers Creepers!!
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Post by: Matthew on October 31, 2003, 01:07:15 PM: Ooo... add Michael Jackson's "Thiriller" to the already aforementioned, Jeepers Creepers, Yeston's Phantom, and the studio recording of ALW'S POTO, and the mix is getting better and better.
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 01:17:49 PM: In honour of that holdiday celebrated in north America, I watched "Young Frankenstein" last night - IMHO still the funniest of the Mel Brooks movies made after "The Producers". I also found that I was already logged on to HHW from yesterday - spooky indeed.
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 01:22:18 PM: Well, we made three pages. The Errant and Truant are SCARING me. The amusing thing is to see who is browsing the board and yet not posting and I mean YOU Jason! Big BK is Watching You.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 01:25:29 PM: TD - I will think about your costume tomorrow - after all, tomorrow is another day!
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 01:32:46 PM: Might I suggest "Wayne Newton's Greatest Hits" as a very scary album. Now to see if I can "log off". I will be back!
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 01:34:50 PM: Oh, my...how frightening to be chided by BK himself on this very frightening of days. I was, indeed, reading the posts, but every time I started to write a post, my boss would walk by and give me the evil eye, so I had to close the window...it's quite unseemly.

I hope everyone is having a lovely Halloween. I haven't really any plans, with the exception of a midnight screening of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE with some friends at a theatre in Times Square. I used www.movietickets.com for the first time today to buy my ticket, so we'll see if it's actually there waiting for me.

Tomorrow I depart for Washington, DC, to see BOUNCE. Twice. Oy. I'll give a full report on Monday when I return.

Good news for WICKED: They've managed over $350,000 in ticket sales today, which is nearly double what they were doing yesterday and according to Playbill.com, their producer has stated that they haven't even begun their advertising campaigns. I can't believe that, considering how much I've seen about the show in papers, magazines, theatre shops, Times Square, etc., and now they have a radio commercial running. Good for them, I say. Perhaps it will be a hit after all. I sure hope so.

I want some candy.

My favorite Halloween costume? Well, don't laugh, but one year I was the Wicked Witch of the West--green skin, green nails, black wig et al. It was during my obsessive WIZARD OF OZ period, and I simply felt that Margaret Hamilton had the best makeup and costumes of all the characters, so that's who I wanted to be. My parents didn't quite get it, and still claim not to "get" it... Hmm...

My other favorite was the Phantom of the Opera costume I did for two or three years, complete with an extensive home-made makeup job that looked quite wonderful if I do say so myself. Stage Makeup 101 did wonders for me. In fact, the Phantom makeup was my final project in that class.
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Post by: Andrea on October 31, 2003, 01:36:35 PM: Quote from: Maya on October 31, 2003, 12:27:37 PM

Hmmm....I don't even know if I'm dressing up today. I have an old flapper costume I could wear, so perhaps I could be one of Millie's flapper friends with bad taste (the costume is really too sequined and tacky). And my hair is way too long.

oh! I'm doing flapper:)
Oldie but a goody... if only I could figure out my hair...
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 01:37:16 PM: Does that mean that Jason is a lurker?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 01:37:21 PM: Quote from: Ben on October 31, 2003, 05:32:38 AM
One of my other favorite costumes was going as the Cracker Jack boy. I dressed in an old-fashioned Navy outfit and we found a dog that resembled the dog on the Cracker Jack box. We sewed him to the leg of my Navy pants and Voila, a creative and original costume.

What? Am I the only person who felt the need to ask?

You sewed a dog to your leg? Couldn't you have just found one in heat that would have stayed by your leg no matter what?

_{(I HAD to say it. No, really! It was just bugging the hell out of the smartass in me! I did try to let it go.....)}

;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 01:38:02 PM: DR td, your chest is arousing. The rest, well, um . . . .

Speaking of scary, Judy Garland's rendition of "I'll Plant My Own Tree" is one of the saddest and most depressing things I've ever heard.
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 01:38:44 PM: I'm so close to 50 posts! This should do it!!
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 01:41:10 PM: Ladies and germs...I am now an official Junior Member. :D
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 01:42:43 PM: Congratulations! How does it feel to reach a new stage in your maturity? :D
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 01:43:54 PM: It puts a little hair on your chest...not as much as TD's, but a hair or two nonetheless. :P
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 01:44:19 PM: I've got the Jeremy Brett/Sherlock Holmes DVD THE LAST VAMPYRE cued up for tonight.
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 01:45:16 PM: I'm wearing my DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES t-shirt today in honor of this most WICKED of holidays.

(That will be the only time I use the titles of those two shows in the same sentence ever again.)
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Post by: Michael on October 31, 2003, 01:45:33 PM: Quote from: JRand53 on October 31, 2003, 05:13:41 AM
MDS - that Album is Scary. Sometimes I play it and keep saying....it's \
Golden Rainbow - Original Broadway Cast, Steve & Eydie

Actually I was surprised to learn that two reasonably good songs to come from that show: "I Got to Be Me" and "We Got Us"
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 01:46:22 PM: Quote from: TCB on October 31, 2003, 12:36:01 PM
td: I am feeling strangely aroused.

Fiddle-dee-dee, Mr. TCB!
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 01:48:33 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 01:38:02 PM
DR td, your chest is arousing. The rest, well, um . . . .

Speaking of scary, Judy Garland's rendition of "I'll Plant My Own Tree" is one of the saddest and most depressing things I've ever heard.

. . .and a fiddle-dee-dee to you-all, too, Mr. Matt!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 01:49:06 PM: My favorite Halloween costume:

It was 1983, and I was "invited" to a party being thrown by one of my fellow journalism instructors in Indianapolis. It promised to be a whoop-di-doo affair and I wanted to make an impression.

I visited an Army-Navy store and picked up a few essential items. On Halloween afternoon (it was a Saturday as I recall), I got out everything.

I had loose-fitting camouflage pants, a close-fitting black tanktop, a black military-style beret, a gun belt and three different kinds of camouflage body paint. Oh,yes, and pair of very serious military jungle boots.

I put on my VHS tape of "Conan the Barbarian" and fast-forwarded to the scene where Conan and his two cohorts invaded the throne room of Thulsa Doom. If you recall, the trio was extensively covered in body paint and I used that as my model. When I was done, I drove to the party.

When I got there, I knew I was in the perfect attire. No one I knew recognized me right off. And no one I knew ever reacted the same to me again afterward. I'm not sure why, but I don't think they had given much thought to how creative I could be (that and the fact that I was the only one there who had gone so far with doing a costume...most wore masks and head-thingies and/or something extra over regular street clothes.

One of the neighbor ladies was there and she said her boyfriend would be right behind her. And then he appeared. He came to the party as something that he was at that time: The reigning Golden Gloves champion of the region. He wore the trunks and the shoes and his belt.

We shared the prize for costume!! ;D
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 01:50:49 PM: Quote from: Maya on October 31, 2003, 12:31:07 PM
Oh, wow, TD!

I really have to say, in all honesty....

You looked quite lovely! :D

Ah, fie and fiddle-dee-dee! Let's talk about the war. . .
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 01:54:52 PM: War! War! War! All anyone ever talks about is WAR!
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 01:56:22 PM: Also, before I went accidentally went to CinemaScope, I inquired about other DRs opinions on Miss Marianne Faithful. I thought for sure that Jrand and MBarnum (love those interviews in the new Scarlet Street, btw) about Miss Faithful's film work. . .
Seriously, the voice on the album BROKEN ENGLISH is miles away from the girl who sang "As Tears Go By."
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 01:57:17 PM: Okay, answers to questions:

Jrand: I haven't seen The Legend of Tom Dooley since it came out - perhaps Mr. Stein wrote some guitar strums or something.

Ben: I did see the '71 production of Funny Thing. It was not great but it certainly was enjoyable. I was/am a huge Phil Silvers fan and he was, at times, very funny, but he was also a bit out of it (if I remember, they had to cut Pretty Little Picture because he couldn't do it). I think the Hero had just played or went on to play Christine Jorgensen.

WEL: The Lucky Stiff cast was part original cast, part studio cast, but had nothing to do with me - Lynn and Steve put the cast together, with my blessings. The orchestration was augmented quite a bit for the album.

Matt: What one classic film not on DVD would I like to see on DVD? Toughie for just one, but I'll just say Li'l Abner and be done with it.

Noel: CD duplication, in the numbers you're talking about, will be pretty much the same wherever you do it. Your question re packaging would depend on where you were selling and how much you were charging. Jewel cases are cheap as can be now, in fact to press a CD with booklet, inlay and everything should cost under a buck. It's nice to have a graphic on the CD itself, and most pressing places do a simple black on silver for nothing.

Kerry: That is me speaking with Susan Gordon on Jeepers Creepers. Guy wanted to but we are all a bit tired of him by that point.

Sarah: I don't have anything against the idea of reality shows, I just don't care for them very much. Same with country music unless it's like Here You Come Again.
Title: Re:SCARY NOTES
Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 01:57:47 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 01:54:52 PM
War! War! War! All anyone ever talks about is WAR!

Don't make me fiddle-dee-dee you too, Ron!
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Post by: Jay on October 31, 2003, 02:03:20 PM: OK. My question from Wednesday gets shifted to the chopped liver pile. :(

The question, posed in all sincerity, Dear BK, was if there were any non-musical properties (play, film or book) out there that you'd like to see made into a musical.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 02:05:11 PM: DR td, you understand I was only commenting on a man in drag, not THE man in drag. Get rid of the dress, and I need a palmetto fan to cool me off.

:D
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 02:09:11 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 02:05:11 PM
DR td, you understand I was only commenting on a man in drag, not THE man in drag. Get rid of the dress, and I need a palmetto fan to cool me off.

:D

Ah, youth.

8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

:-*
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 02:14:23 PM: DVD Excitement:

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Not done yet... we also have a list of upcoming Paramount catalog titles for early 2004. No street dates yet, but these are reportedly all in the works: Top Gun: Collector's Edition, We're No Angels (1989), Permanent Record, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, The Ten Commandments: Collector's Edition, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Little Prince, Half a Sixpence, Fat Man and Little Boy, The Molly Maguires and My Side of the Mountain.

This is from thedigitalbits.com (http://thedigitalbits.com)
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 02:15:30 PM: Quote from: bk on October 31, 2003, 01:57:17 PM

I think the Hero had just played or went on to play Christine Jorgensen.

.................ROTFLMAO....................
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 02:18:56 PM: Judy's tree is indeed painful.....

Marianne Faithful I don't know from.....never saw The Leather Boys...only know some of her songs. Yes, I know, my education is deficient.

My favorite song from GOLDEN RAINBOW is For Once in Your Life - a duet for Steve and Eydie. One of those songs that has an annoying pronoun change.....she is singing 'for once in my life' and he is singing 'for once in your life' EVEN when they are singing together...and it pisses me off!!!

Anyway....Lassie just cured a blind war hero on Jeff's Collie. And I watched even though I swore I would never watch it again when Lassie brought in a motorboat after the sailor fainted...but I did.
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 02:19:34 PM: Jay: I've said it before and I'll say it again: Fellini's Variety Lights. I have the take on it, I've offered the idea to at least six different well-known writers, and not one of those people ever even took the time to look at the film.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 02:21:10 PM: John Hansen was his name, I think. Geez. I remember the great gay film cirtic Parker Tyler commenting that Hansen looked more masculine playing Christine than he did before the sex change as George. Poor guy. I guess that movie pretty much ended his career.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 02:21:14 PM: I WANT MY NEW SCARLET STREET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 02:26:04 PM: Quote from: td on October 31, 2003, 02:14:23 PM
DVD Excitement:

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Not done yet... we also have a list of upcoming Paramount catalog titles for early 2004. No street dates yet, but these are reportedly all in the works: Top Gun: Collector's Edition, We're No Angels (1989), Permanent Record, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, The Ten Commandments: Collector's Edition, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Little Prince, Half a Sixpence, Fat Man and Little Boy, The Molly Maguires and My Side of the Mountain.

Ahhh, that is what they used to call my ex and me.
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 02:27:38 PM: Quote from: Jason on October 31, 2003, 01:43:54 PM
It puts a little hair on your chest...not as much as TD's, but a hair or two nonetheless. :P

Prove it, Jason!
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 02:28:18 PM: Quote from: JRand53 on October 31, 2003, 02:21:14 PM
I WANT MY NEW SCARLET STREET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mine arrived in the mailbox today. :D

So did LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION and the WARNERS LEGENDS COLLECTION. . .but, not in the mailbox. . .but, they arrived. . .so, that'll be what's in my dvd player for the next couple of days. . .
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 02:29:34 PM: Amazing that Paramount would release on DVD HALF A SIXPENSE and THE LITTLE PRINCE, both box-office disappointments, instead of LI'L ABNER or THE FIVE PENNIES.
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 02:30:16 PM: Quote
Prove it, Jason!

Umm...This site is a family site.
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Post by: Jay on October 31, 2003, 02:31:07 PM: Thank you, Dear BK. ;D
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 02:31:21 PM: Oh, I really want those three DVD sets in the Warners Legends Collection. I'm sure the transfers are glorious. Love all three of those movies.
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 02:32:11 PM: how is it that everyone else seems to be around a 7, 8 or 9 on their Karma charts and I'm still stuck here at 5? Something stinks in the state of Denmark...
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Post by: Jay on October 31, 2003, 02:32:13 PM: C'mon, Jason. Half the posters here are "family." Don't be shy.
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 02:34:16 PM: Jay: I don't even remove my shirt for my real family, let alone for "family." You'd all thank me for that if you knew what you were missing.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 02:34:36 PM: LOL, DR Jay! You are SO right.

Hey, we're over 100 posts for today, bk! :D
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 02:37:19 PM: Quote from: td on October 31, 2003, 01:57:47 PM
Quote from: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 01:54:52 PM
War! War! War! All anyone ever talks about is WAR!

Don't make me fiddle-dee-dee you too, Ron!

Awww. gee.....go ahead and give it a shot, td. I haven't been fiddle-dee-deed in a lo-o-o-ng time!

At least, not altogether....
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 02:40:01 PM: We want our The Five Pennies
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 02:40:16 PM: Yes, we are trudging ever onward, oh, yes, we are trudging ever onward. But we must have more trudging and it must be ever onward. I'm actually all caught up, viewing-wise, but will sit here for another two hours before calling it a day. I love to call it a day because it gets so angry. It's quite amusing when it gets angry.
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 02:41:18 PM: Here's me as Jud Fry...does that count as a costume?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 02:42:06 PM: Quote from: Jason on October 31, 2003, 02:32:11 PM
how is it that everyone else seems to be around a 7, 8 or 9 on their Karma charts and I'm still stuck here at 5? Something stinks in the state of Denmark...

"Bitch, bitch, bitch...! Victoria to Toddy, "Victor/Victoria"

_{Now you're ahead of some of us!!!}
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 02:43:07 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 02:37:19 PM
Quote from: td on October 31, 2003, 01:57:47 PM
Quote from: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 01:54:52 PM
War! War! War! All anyone ever talks about is WAR!

Don't make me fiddle-dee-dee you too, Ron!

Awww. gee.....go ahead and give it a shot, td. I haven't been fiddle-dee-deed in a lo-o-o-ng time!

At least, not altogether....

Well, I don't know how good by fiddling is, but, my dee-dee-ing is something quite karmaliscious. . .
as ABBA once sang, "take a chance on me. . ."
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 02:43:17 PM: Quote from: Jason on October 31, 2003, 02:41:18 PM
Here's me as Jud Fry...does that count as a costume?

Wow! Jason! You didn't tell us you knew Michael Weiss. Was this photo taken at a figure skating competition?
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 02:43:41 PM: Jason: Now what the Hell is wrong with that chest???
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 02:44:46 PM: Well, DR Ron, in the (misquoted) words of Bette Davis:

"I'd love to fiddle-dee-dee ya, but I just washed mah hair."
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 02:46:27 PM: DR Jason,. I love Jud's unibrow! :)
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 02:47:45 PM: Quote from: TCB on October 31, 2003, 02:26:04 PM
Quote from: td on October 31, 2003, 02:14:23 PM
DVD Excitement:

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Fat Man and Little Boy, The Molly Maguires and My Side of the Mountain.

Ahhh, that is what they used to call my ex and me.

Dude! Are you into "fat men"?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 02:48:29 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 02:46:27 PM
DR Jason,. I love Jud's unibrow! :)

Yah....I noticed that, too. But is that post-completion of makeup or weren't you done yet?
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 02:49:30 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 02:47:45 PM
Quote from: TCB on October 31, 2003, 02:26:04 PM
Quote from: td on October 31, 2003, 02:14:23 PM
DVD Excitement:

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Fat Man and Little Boy, The Molly Maguires and My Side of the Mountain.

Ahhh, that is what they used to call my ex and me.

Dud! Are you into "fat men"?

I think you meant to call Ron "Dude," not "Dud." :)
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Post by: Jennifer on October 31, 2003, 02:50:53 PM: Well I have only a minute to post a quick message.

Maya I actually have a picture of me in my favorite costume. It's the red sequenced devil woman. If I get a chance I will try to post it tomorrow.

I gotta go put my enchiladas in the oven and put the light in the pumpkin. The trick-or-treaters should be here very soon.
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 02:51:00 PM: Ron: That was post-completion. I hope you're not implying that the unibrow could possibly be a real one! I can assure you, it's simply the application of some mascara and eye-liner.

And who is Michael Weiss?
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Post by: Michael on October 31, 2003, 02:51:43 PM: Strange three people now think that Judy Garland's I'll Plant My Own Tree is sad. (Exact word) I have different memories of it. Judy would have been very interesting in the role.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 02:52:40 PM: DR Jason, the karma fairy has been at work so you should be happy now. See what happens when you show a little (hairy) skin?
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Post by: Michael on October 31, 2003, 02:53:01 PM: Quote from: MDS on October 31, 2003, 02:51:43 PM
Strange three people now think that Judy Garland's I'll Plant My Own Tree is sad. (Exact word) I have different memories of it. Judy would have been very interesting in the role.

Is this song available by Garland other than on the LP Outakes?
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 02:54:22 PM: Another makeup challenge...trying to make me--the whitest of white boys--into a Siamese prime minister. The tan is mine...the rest is not.
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 02:54:57 PM: I don't feel it is scary enough here at haineshisway.com. Perhaps I'll change what I'm going as tonight - perhaps I'll go as Topsy from The King and I. Perhaps I'll go as Daisy Mae from Li'l Abner. Perhaps I'll go as the set from Sweeney Todd.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 02:55:16 PM: Michael Weiss is the U.S. Men's National Figure Skating Champion.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 02:55:43 PM: Not to be confused with Michael T. Weiss who is "The Pretender."
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Post by: Michael on October 31, 2003, 02:55:58 PM: Quote from: Jason on October 31, 2003, 02:54:22 PM
Another makeup challenge...trying to make me--the whitest of white boys--into a Siamese prime minister. The tan is mine...the rest is not.

Can you post a bigger picture hard to see
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 02:56:41 PM: td: I was I, Ron, calling TCB "dud", which I edited to read "dude".

One of them there Floridian slips you read so much about!

:)
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 02:57:17 PM: MDS: If I could, I would, but I can't right now.
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 03:01:02 PM: Jennifer, I tried putting my enchiladas in the oven once. Never again.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 03:01:18 PM: Of course, at this moment, Michael Weiss is not the national champion, but he has been. Timothy Goebel won the title last year and finished second in the world.

Michael did just win Skate America, however.
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Post by: Maya on October 31, 2003, 03:01:54 PM: Andrea--Yay, flappers rule! I bet your costume is really cute! I just thought of another reason that I should NOT wear my flapper costume tonight. Uhh...how do I say this...I have a little too much up top for that ideal streamlined flapper figure.

Jennifer--please do post! I'd love to see your (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/verkleidung/costumed-smiley-087.gif) costume!

LOL, TD!

Jason--you look very cute as Jud, and I might say the same for the cutie Curly!
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 03:03:44 PM: My ex-wife had an enchilada in the oven - it turned out to be my daughter, who is HOT and SPICY.

Has anyone else noticed that we are trudging ever onward? I am excited about this trudging.

Today I have eaten a scone and two bagels. That may be it for the day, or I might have a salad later.

I am wearing scary jeans, scary white t-shirt, scary plaid shirt over scary white t-shirt, scary tennis shoes and scary hat.
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Post by: Maya on October 31, 2003, 03:04:20 PM: That was supposed to be a (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/teufel/devil-smiley-014.gif) costume. Not a Renaissance courtier!
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 03:04:55 PM: No, no, no, Ron, this Dud is the fat man!
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Post by: Michael on October 31, 2003, 03:05:05 PM: (http://www.cienciaficcion.org/cine/plancf/cn_alx.jpg)

Anyone know about the director's cut that has been released?
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 31, 2003, 03:06:17 PM: I guess I called it "sad" in comparison to her earlier movie recordings, DR MDS. Of course it wasn't even a final track, so I am sure Judy would have come through. The arrangement is certainly more exciting than the one in the movie!

DR Jason - it's the perfect makeup to wear when singing 'Lonely Room.'

Who is Michael Weiss? LOL....watch some ice skating competitions! Those bitches are mean! And the girls are just as bad!
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Post by: Maya on October 31, 2003, 03:06:35 PM: BK--don't get too scary now! Little children will be coming to your door soon!

I'm wearing a black top with a flared neckline and black jeans.

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Repeat: I AM NOT A GOTH![/move]
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 03:06:57 PM: All I can say re director's cut is: If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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Post by: Michael on October 31, 2003, 03:08:32 PM: I forgot to mention I went to work today dressed as a Kinko's employee.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 03:08:41 PM: I read the review in the local paper today about the new director's cut of ALIEN. If you have the DVD, it's the same extra footage that's there. You see Tom Skerritt in a cocoon and some other longer scenes.
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 03:09:39 PM: Maya: Thanks. That's not Curly, though...that's my friend from school who was in the chorus of the show. He was also one of my brothers in SEVEN BRIDES.
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 03:09:42 PM: There are very few men who will ever be confused for Michael T. Weiss. But then Michael T. Weiss, will never be confused with very many actors.
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 03:11:07 PM: Now, MusicGuy you mustn't just peruse you must post. We see you perusing but we don't see you posting. We like when you post and you have not been posting nearly enough and if you don't post RIGHT NOW I will pelt you with shrimp cocktail shrimp from Musso and Frank. And that goes for you, too, Tom from Wicked.
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Post by: Michael on October 31, 2003, 03:11:37 PM: Quote from: JRand53 on October 31, 2003, 03:06:17 PM

Who is Michael Weiss?

wasn't he on Days of Oir Lives as Mike Horton, the film Jeffrey and tv series the Pretender?

Mr. Weiss is on the left

(http://tv.zap2it.com/images/shows/p/pretender/pretender_002.jpg)

and a couple more shots

(http://lonestar.texas.net/~mallarj/images/mtweiss/chest01.jpg)

and from Jeffrey

(http://lonestar.texas.net/~mallarj/images/mtweiss/jeff01.jpg)

and when he was on Days of Our Lives

(http://web.dreamsoft.com/yorkie/dayswebsite(2).jpg)
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 03:12:04 PM: I did think the Director's Cut of BLADE RUNNER was a tremendous improvement to what played in the theater, but I guess that's a special case since that first theatrical release was kind of forced on Scott.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 03:13:27 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 03:01:18 PM
Of course, at this moment, Michael Weiss is not the national champion, but he has been. Timothy Goebel won the title last year and finished second in the world.

Michael did just win Skate America, however.

I'm sorry, Matt, but Michael Weiss WON the 2003 U.S. Figure Skating Association Men's title and will hold the title until the 2004 competition.

:D

That makes him the "reigning" U.S. men's title holder, yes?
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 03:14:35 PM: Better yet I will pelt you with a smelt. Have you ever been pelted by a smelt? It is none-too-pleasant to be pelted with a smelt, unless you are pelted by a pelt. Did you ever pelt with a pelt? I was once pelt with a pelt and I got a welt. You can imagine how I felt.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 03:15:10 PM: Michael T. Weiss also plays Jill Hennessey's brother on CROSSING JORDAN.
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 03:16:45 PM: Ron -- An 11-year reign???
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 03:17:07 PM: I really could have sworn that TImothy won it since Michael has been skating so very poorly these last few years, but I'm sure you've checked your sources and are right. THanks for the correction.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 03:19:25 PM: Gadzooks! Now you can see who's NOT really into the new millenium!!! Thanks, TCB. It was 2003, not 1993.

THIS is Michael Weiss:

(http://www.usfsa.org/uschamp03/pics/Harvpics/1-18-03/srmen-free/weismich-sm.jpg)

Matt H: I'ts one of those anomalies that haunt U.S. figure skaters....Michelle Kwan and all those titles only to have the Olympic gold elude her....

Janet Lynn...lyrical skater who could never win major contests because her technicals were less steady...and then couldn't win the big one when they lowered the value of technical marks...just for her!!!!

And Michael Weiss...Three-time national champion, thwarted only by Todd Edlredge twice in five years...never able to grapple with the quads that elude him just as they did Todd. Goebel has more quads than anyone and no artistic sensibility whatsoever. Eldredge oozes artistry but has no quads....but his triples are so spectacular he never really needed the quad.

When Weiss lets his "butch guard" down, he's quite dazzling. But he's more often than not too self-conscious of his posture (mustn't let that wrist bend even the slightest bit, Mikey, or your gym--owning dad may lose respect for you).
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 03:22:47 PM: Always wears muscle shirts to show off his physique. The USFSA loves him because he's straight in a sport that has been dominated by gay skaters in years past.
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 03:24:26 PM: Cinemascope again. I may just enjoy being bashed around by a shrimp. It might indeed be just like so much fish. I could just read part of the above posts and thought we had a post from Russ Tamblyn. Ah! No. It was Jason. I thought "Tom Thumb" had joined us but no it was the unibrow kid.
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Post by: Michael on October 31, 2003, 03:25:55 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 03:12:04 PM
I did think the Director's Cut of BLADE RUNNER was a tremendous improvement to what played in the theater, but I guess that's a special case since that first theatrical release was kind of forced on Scott.

I also agree that the director's version (as opposed to cut) is better than the original version that was imposed on him by the studo. There is another DVD release due out with more lost footage, I am looking forward to that one. Or even a theatrical re-release!!

(http://www.lumiere.org/films/images/blade-runner.jpg)
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 03:26:18 PM: He (or his agent) makes it a point to trot out those children of his for the TV camera even though they're way too young to fathom what's going on.
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Post by: TCB on October 31, 2003, 03:26:27 PM: What? They are allowing straight men to figure skate now?
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 03:30:39 PM: MusicGuy: I was discussing Fred Bear with a friend last night. The friend is a bear too but not of the TV children's show variety. He tells me his aunt was shattered by my revelations. Now to remember which of yesterday's posters was looking for his bear costume. Maybe it was Jay.
At least I am posting. Halloween is just not a topic that I have any knowedge of at all. (I do have a tendency to believe in the Great Pumpkin of Linus fame).
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 03:30:54 PM: Whatever do you mean, TCB?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 03:32:34 PM: Dear Tom from OZ: You talk about whatever tickles your fancy!

We're listening.....
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 03:32:44 PM: Skating is also not a topic upon which I can add much. One of my favourite comedy performances was dancer Wayne Sleep in a "Torville & Dean" routine.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on October 31, 2003, 03:33:35 PM: In honor of this spooky day, here's a not-so-spooky picture of bats leaving a cave.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 03:34:14 PM: I watched IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN on DVD yesterday. I didn't want to suffer through the commercials when ABC showed it the other night.

Such a charming little show.
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 03:36:10 PM: DR Ron: A few Dear readers no doubt know what tickles my fancy. I don't think we need to go there!
I had hoped to post a photo of DR Jose today by my friendly Bear who has the photos gave me a copy of the theme form "Six Feet Under" on a disc instead! Maybe in a few days he will be able unearth the photos instead.
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 03:40:07 PM: Are we Cinemascope on page five? If so, is it the Alien pic? If so, I'll delete it. If so, let me know or I'll pelt you with a smelt
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Post by: MusicGuy on October 31, 2003, 03:41:12 PM: Dear esteemed, eerie, cobweb-covered, and scarrrry BK --

I was trying to be a good H/K, and read the days notes first, and then all of the existing posts before I added a comment here. You are most welcome to lob shrimp cocktail shrimp at my gaping maw, as long as you aim carefully, so that I can enjoy them.

A VERY happy and scary Halloween to all of the lovely dear readers. I have been travelling and performing for the past week, and have had almost no computer access. But at the moment, I'm sitting in a rather drab Marriott in Waterbury, Connecticutt, bored to hell, but....can you believe it, they actually give you FREE hi-speed internet access for your laptop, right here in my very own, drab, room... FRREEEE !!

So, I am checking in, and enjoying the plethora of pretty people and pictures, and pithy and plentiful posts.

DR Jason....if you don't quit talking negatively about yourself and your looks, you're gonna make me come back there and do things to you that could frighten fish!!

My favorite costume I ever wore?? Well, as DR Kerry could tell you, I must have been frightened (or turned on ;) ) as a small child by anything that involved a cape. So, I tend to always revert to that look. Sorry, I don't have a picture that I know of.

Finally, I'm not saying anything yet, but DR Kerry may have some pretty monumental news to announce next week. Stay tuned....same time, same station. ;)
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Post by: Matt H. on October 31, 2003, 03:42:46 PM: It didn't seem that way to me when I was on that page, bk, but maybe someone else can be more enlightening.
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 03:44:34 PM: Very exciting about monumental news. We look forward to monumental news and if we don't get it we shall pelt you with a pelt.
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Post by: Michael on October 31, 2003, 03:44:49 PM: No cinemascope when I see it. I did ask MattH to check it though and he said no. So I left it
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Post by: MusicGuy on October 31, 2003, 03:47:56 PM: DR Jay -- I love the little caption at the bottom left, under your picture. I'm sure that Grandma Gelfinbaum would have absolutely loved that angelic punim !

::)
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 03:48:17 PM: Page 5 is still cinemascope for me. Maybe I need to log off or refresh the page or some such thing.
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Post by: MusicGuy on October 31, 2003, 03:52:33 PM: Welcome, Welcome to DR Dallas. Tell us a little about yourself....enlighten us with your radiance.....'splain yourself, Lucy.. ??

I have to log off, and go eat some just too too exciting, plastic hotel food. Where the hell is a good latke when you need one.

Happy Halloween to dear Kerry.....wish I was home!!! :-[
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 03:56:58 PM: No food breaks. Eat at your computers. This is Halloween. We need to be scary. Soon I will be home scaring all the little children who come to my door, where they will be greeted by Fruma Sara.
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 04:09:10 PM: I don't know, we were trudging ever onward, we had a tremendous burst of activity, and then everyone decides to go on a vacation? We need more trudging, we need more bursts.
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 04:26:18 PM: Worth a photo opportunity - I have been washing my car. with water restrictions here, I am limited to using a bucket of water and not a hose. I think it is all Saints day here. Where then is St Françis D'Angouleme?
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Post by: Sandra on October 31, 2003, 04:38:02 PM: Here I am in my costume.
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Post by: Danise on October 31, 2003, 04:51:32 PM: Happy Hall-o-screem all!

Well I got my trick for the night. Just wasted another good half hour or more trying to figure out how to add an off board smiley. I attemped to cut and paste, I tried copy and paste, I linked, I attached, I tried to up load. I pointed and clicked. I tried to drag and drop. I clicked on every button in the post reply section. Nothing works. Clearly it's beyond me. Sigh. They down load fine. They work on my computer fine--geting them from there to here...... Someone cue up the "Mission: Impossible" Theme please.

Favorite costume? I spent months collecting the pull tabs (anyone remember them?) from Old Milwaukee beer cans. They were the only ones that were perfectly round. I made a chain mail skirt and shirt, a pair of bracers and a head piece that looked Egyptian. I took the Cobra head from my “Voice of Mummies Tomb” game and attached it to the head piece. I wore a black body suit underneath and created a long black cape that attached to my shoulders. My shoes were a pair of thigh high black boots. Then I made a crook and whip–the “whip” was made of those light fibers and I had a flash light hidden in the handle. When I turned it on, it glowed.

I named the character “Re” (short for recycle). The joke was that if I ever tired of it, I could take down to the local recycle center and get some cash for it. Now it’s a kinda collectors item. I still have it–somewhere.

I only wore it once at Star Trek Con–Jonathan Frakes was one of the judges of the costume contest and I won! I’ve been told I should have entered it in some other contests but I never got around to it.

George–I never heard your version of that ditty. I am VERY glad that neither elephants or cows can fly! *chuckle*

D
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 04:52:48 PM: You look ready for your close-up, Sandra.
Is it a musical version of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, or, SOMEWHERE IN TIME?
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Post by: George on October 31, 2003, 04:57:10 PM: I was logged in to HHW all day (as I do when I'm at work), but I never had a chance to read or post until now. Here at work, we had a lunchtime snack potluck. I brought mini-brownie cupcakes that I bought (didn't want to take the time or expense to bake something) and a good time was had by all who ate! I dressed as Charlie Brown. Last year I was in a production of the revised version of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and I still have the shirt. Actually, it was my shirt to begin with. The costume coordinator just ironed on the zigzag...only a couple of costumes were actually built, the rest were the actors' own clothes.

The best part was the music that was played during the entire lunchtime festivities:
JEEPERS CREEPERS: Great Songs From Horror Films
I brought in my very own copy (purchased through www.scarletstreet.com ) and everyone loved it, especially Mothra's Song.

I copied this image is from Scarlet Street's website (I hope that they don't mind):
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Post by: Matthew on October 31, 2003, 05:10:57 PM: WOAH - all these...ummm... pictures of shirtless men, or semi-shirtless (DR Jason.. wow!) Ok Ok, I'll stop. The parade at my nieces school was fun, although it rained and we had the parade in the church. It's was too fun. My costume was a hit, but very warm. My sis took pictures so when she gets me a copy, I'll post. The rest of my eve will be doing "Once Upon a Matress" (the musical!!!) and watching movies with my... ummm... pal.. yeah that's it... pal, James. What a night :D
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 05:11:55 PM: DR Sandra: You could have stepped off the screen out of "Sense and Sensibility" or "Emma" or "Persuasion".

But for my money, you could be a double for Mrs. Almanzo Wilder, aka Laura Ingalls from "Little House on the Prairie."
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 05:12:41 PM: Let's try this again: Here I am as the Kralahome in THE KING AND I. The tan is mine, the rest is not, but I painted it on myself!
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Post by: George on October 31, 2003, 05:13:17 PM: Hey, I know it's not "Ask BK (or Dear Reader) Day" but I have a question. Has anyone heard of the book "Making Americans : Jews and the Broadway Musical" by Andrea Most? It's not due to be published until February 2004. I was just wondering if anyone knows what it's about (specifically) and if there have been any write-ups about it yet. I work for a library and I just place the order for it. I will, of course, request it and get it when it arrives.

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0674011651.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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Post by: Danise on October 31, 2003, 05:13:58 PM: Hey, I have another karma point! Thank you!

:) :)

Before anyone asks (and I guess I should have said this before) No, I didn't drink the beer to get the tabs. I went to the local parks to get them.

Beer--yuck.

D
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Post by: Jay on October 31, 2003, 05:17:54 PM: Dear Reader MDS--Here's the L.A. Times' take on the "new" Alien: http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-dargis29oct29,2,2019132.story?coll=cl-mreview (http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-dargis29oct29,2,2019132.story?coll=cl-mreview)

Dear Reader Tom from Oz--I can assure you I was not trying to hunt down a costume, and even if I were, I can doubly assure you that it would not be that of a bear, be it of the ursine or homo sapien variety.

Dear Reader Music Guy--If Grandma Gelfinbaum were anything like either of my grandmothers, she'd call me a momzer now and then, too.

Dear Reader Sandra--That picture of you in your costume (now imagine this in my best ersatz Southern accent) just takes my breath away.
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 05:19:18 PM: A post from me! that should scare some of you for sure!

Since 1992, Halloween is also an official holiday here in France, but flying so high, with some pumpkin in the sky
leaves totally cold....;Oh, a colporteur référence! Now, THAT'S scary!

Just read that a musical revue, starring Isabelle Georges -- from the original French version of AMOUR -- and Jérôme Pradon -- of many West End productions as Martin Guerre -- will open at ESPACE CARDIN next November 7.

The revue will showcases French standards made famous by Piaf, Trénet, Léo Ferré, etc, etc...

Hope it'll be a frightening good show!

Happy Halloween to all y'all!
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 05:25:24 PM: Here's my favorite one, I think... This was for a White Trash Party we went to in college. My friend is wearing a Cher t-shirt with a denim mini skirt that had some sort of really tacky writing printed all over it. She was also wearing a small lock...no, not a locket, but a lock...on a chain around her neck.

I had the key on a gold chain around my neck, in addition to the lovely afro wig, fake moustache, yellowed teeth, stuffed crotch, stinky Chucks and really tacky white vinyl jacket. My face is made up to look like I'd fallen asleep outside while wearing sunglasses and I got sunburnt. Isn't that clever? Oh, yes...the sweatshirt underneath is one that I bought for $.75 at an OKC grocery store. It featured a family of color and read, "One of the family." It was a big hit.
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Post by: George on October 31, 2003, 05:28:18 PM: My favorite costume was my junior year in college (the first year that I moved away). Before I left my job here in Olympia to go to school in Bellingham, I had to train my replacement. She bought me a going-away gift. It was a yellow knit cap that had green stuffed cloth slug feelers sewn on in. It was really cute.

For my costume that year, I had the slug hat and I got some green garbage bags that had the handles built into the bags (they weren't the drawstring-type of handles). I cut open the bottom of one and put it over my head, using the handles as shoulder straps. I took another one and cut open the bottom (again) but cut off the shoulder straps and taped that to the bottom half of the shirt top to make the body of the slug. Then I took a third, cut off the handles (but left the bottom sealed) and stuffed it with old newspapers and stapled that to the bottom of the outfit to be the slug tail. I (finally) took several strips of plastic wrap (of different lengths) and stapled those to the end of the tail to be the slime trail.

It was hot in there (plastic doesn't breathe, you know) but it was a pretty cool costume. Everybody loved the slime trail idea. By the time I graduated from college and moved back home, I lost the slug hat and have never seen another one like it.

You wanted details, Bruce! ;D
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Post by: Jay on October 31, 2003, 05:28:21 PM: Dear Reader Jason--Now that we can see you in that picture, I gotta tell you: you give me cheekbone envy.

Dear Reader George--A book about Jews and the Broadway musical is like a book about Catholics and the Priesthood. They sort of go hand in hand. (Okay, okay. The Jews did let a few goyim have a go at it. Of course, most of them are/were gay.) Last time I checked, you still had to be Catholic to be a priest, though. As to whether they let gays in, ooooh, I'm not going to go there.
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 05:33:46 PM: Sorry to contredict you, Danise, but elephants DO fly!

Ever heard of DUMBO? ;)
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 05:36:48 PM: DR Jay: Thank you for the cheekbone compliment, but let me assure you that without the shadows and highlights, my face looks like a big ole' basketball--big and round with no definition whatsoever. :P

Here's that first KING & I picture I tried posting before. This is the same girl from my White Trash picture, this time as Tuptim (yes, this was the all-white version of KING & I).
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 05:38:09 PM: That's all for the pictures for today. I don't mean to take up too much space or slow anyone's computers down...
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Post by: Jay on October 31, 2003, 05:39:59 PM: Honey, I could slather on all the makeup in the world and have the world's best lighting and my cheekbones would still hang down somewhere around my tits.

(Hmm. Can I say that here?)
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 05:42:37 PM: Oh, I see! -- I'm such a nerd when it comes to that, among other things!... -- when one reaches the Jr Member status, one can get cheered on or booed!!!

Gee; just like with "Real" TV! How scary!
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 05:44:39 PM: td, please repost your michael weiss pic, just smaller - it really was too big and slowed my fast load time down in half.
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 05:46:29 PM: YES, Jay, you can use "tits" here, of course!

It's a A CHORUS LINE reference after all!....
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 05:48:14 PM: I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that that book is about Jews and the Broadway musical.

I hear tons of kids outside, but not one of them has come to the door. No comprende.

(http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/huepfen/jumping-smiley-021.gif)
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 05:50:32 PM: Given your house's HAUNTED past -- flying dead things, bee corpses, dead things at your doorstep -- can you BLAME the kids from steering clear?

IF there was ever a candidate for a haunted house, I'd think it was yours, Bruce.

No wonder poor Luckie peed everywhere she went!!!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 05:51:25 PM: Oh! And good call on the subject of that book.

It all comes together for me now! A fine companion piece for Medved's treatise on Jews in Hollywood!!!

:)
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 05:53:11 PM: Frankie, boy!

Bon soir!!

How's it goin?
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 05:54:18 PM: Finally, some trick or treaters arrived and I gave them good candy.
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Post by: Jay on October 31, 2003, 05:54:45 PM: I'm off to see Gunmetal Blues at the Colony Theatre in Burbank. I really don't know much about the show, save that it is a musical takeoff on the noir movies of the '30s and '40s that were based on Hammett and Cain and those of that ilk.
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Post by: Jay on October 31, 2003, 05:56:02 PM: There are Jews in Hollywood?! One can learn so much at this site.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 05:57:59 PM: Gave 'em the good stuff, eh, BK?

And who gets the other candy????

Hmmmmm?
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 05:59:08 PM: I'm still experimenting:
(http://)
This maybe a photo of Jose in an OZ sandwhich
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 06:00:33 PM: That should be scary. The guy on the right is my partner of 25 years, Colin.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 06:01:42 PM: François: I had a rather wonderful luncheon yesterday at a restaurant called "Soizic" here in Oakland.

I asked what "Soizic" means, and what do you suppose I was told????
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 06:05:38 PM: Who took the photo, Tom? And where was it?
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 06:06:54 PM: A couple more trick or treaters have been here. Unfortunately (or fortunately, as we need it) it is drizzling. It has really cooled off and is actually quite chilly around these here parts, which is a lovely change of pace.

For those of you who've been enjoying my art, I've taken some more pix. Here's a beautiful piece by Howard Connelly, which is also featured in the book The Great American Pinup.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 06:10:16 PM: Wow! After a scary start, this day has shaped up as the second best of the week, thus far, and that's saying quite a bit, I think!
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 06:12:02 PM: DR Ron. My good freind Jim (who has spent the last 5 years in San Jose area) came to dinner (we needed someone to translate American to Oz etc for Jose), and took the photo. Our "rumpus" room (which was once a four car garage) is now our major entertaining area with TV, Pool table etc. The curtains are not hiding the stage!
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 06:13:25 PM: Freind is of course the Oz spelling for friend.
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Post by: Danise on October 31, 2003, 06:13:56 PM: I stand corrected by a fellow Taurus! I forgot all about Dumbo.

Look out–In coming! I guess I should have asked--Where’s the nearest fall out shelter on this board? :D ;D

We only had 3 kids show up. I gave them big handfuls of candy but I still have gobs. I'll take it to work on Monday, I'm sure the "kids" there will enjoy it.

D
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Post by: Ben on October 31, 2003, 06:19:53 PM: Tom, what a great picture. Good to finally see Colin as well. I'll have to post a larger pic of Anthony and me so you can see him as well.
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Post by: Ben on October 31, 2003, 06:21:11 PM: We also need to get our dear Francois to post a picture. Maybe as he sits in the hotel lobby looking suave and debonaire.
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 06:22:25 PM: Yes, I was worried that we wouldn't even get to 100 posts, but we did it, doubled it and now I am a happy Halloweener.

More art, this a beautiful piece from a 1919 Printzess dress brochure, by the brilliant Gene Pressler - this is one of my prizes.
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 06:28:48 PM: Tom,

The Andrews Sisters -- and I don't mean Julie here! -- sure have changed over the years!!!!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 06:28:49 PM: Hey! Don't forget the PERFECT Halloween entertainment. All of us should revisit the famous "Halloween sequence" of "Meet Me in St. Louis"!

(http://www.thejudyroom.com/directingmarg.jpg)

_{Vincente Minnelli directing his two juvenile cast members, including Margaret O'Brien, right.}
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 06:34:59 PM: Thanks Ben. Please do post a picture of yourself and Ant. For the mysterious François we are faced with the difficulty of only having the hotel computer for access. Can we convince him to send a photo to one of us so that we can post it on his behalf.
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 06:38:10 PM: The Andrews sisters certainly had a harmonious evening on the Oz tour. We still are waiting to see a photo of Jose's close encounter with a kangaroo. (Joey Joey Joey).
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Post by: Sandra on October 31, 2003, 06:41:16 PM: The Grim Reaper just rode by the house on a bicycle.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 06:43:14 PM: I hear clawing at my windows. Those Oakland vampires are supposed to stay home on Halloween!

I guess they've been staking me out (so to speak)!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 06:44:45 PM: Okay, I just HAVE to see what happens. If not with this post (#150), then the next!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 06:45:10 PM: Do I get another star? Or do we have to hit 200?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 06:45:53 PM: Nothing? Nothing happens?

Sigh.

Oh, well....fuss...fidget...complain...whine....fuss. ...
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 06:46:28 PM: Love that art BK!

Saw some Norman Rockwell work here some years ago in Paris; the real stuff, not reproductions, and that was quite a moving experience! T'was in some big department store, but showcased as in a legitimate museum, for the Xmas season, and I was so taken that I went there three times...

DR Ron... so what was the translation given for SOIZIC;
a very uncommon first name here!

I've found the sitof said restaurant!

http://www.soizicbistro.com/
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 06:48:15 PM: I was told it was a nickname for .... François!

Oh, and I had the portabello mushrooms and the warm duck confit salad.

It was scrumptiddlyumptious!

They had a special for dessert -- chocolate mousse!

Jason will pardon the expression!
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 06:54:45 PM: DR Ron: Are you getting familiar with DR François? Next you will be calling me Tommy!
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Post by: MBarnum on October 31, 2003, 06:59:23 PM: That picture of the 1940ish woman in the fall leaves is quite lovely! You should give tours of your artwork! And it would be most interesting to know who that women in the painting is/was and what she looks like today!

Sandra, that picture of you is beautiful!

TD, thank you for enjoying the interviews! I just got mine in the mail today and have only flipped through it but it looks good! Lots of pics of Jeepers Creepers people in color...love the one of BK, Susan, and Zacherly!
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 07:03:22 PM: "sitof"????

Didn't know I could write Russian that well!

site of...

Was checking in folks at the same time, at 4:00 am here!

DR RON; are you sure it's vampires and NOT Mis Vickie who need to go out?????

DR Tom from OZ: I love the indirect asking for my picture!

DR Ben: I always look suave and debonaire -- like Fred Astaire -- even tho I tried debonaire AND suave but failed!

I precisely have one picture of me that American guests took -- they had some film to waste -- some weeks ago in the lobby and recently sent to me: wonder if I should mailed it back with an autograph???
Now wait, who said I'm vain?
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 07:09:19 PM: François: "Indirect"! Moi?
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 07:19:06 PM: Dr Ron,

Well, after a Google search, it seems they know what they're talking about.
More precisely, I found that Soizic is from Brittany (Bretagne, here) and is both male and female and means little François or little Françoise.

That's what I call terrorifically news!
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 07:22:52 PM: Tom,

No, DR Ron is only getting familiar with BK today; I still can't believe what he wrote about the candy thing!

LOL!
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Post by: Michael on October 31, 2003, 07:24:00 PM: Here is my costume. I am going as Bruce Kimmel
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 07:31:01 PM: Delightful Mike: A prize winner indeed.
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 07:33:33 PM: Tom,

I don't understand why you'd like to post my picture on my behalf, since it's a very unseemly place to choose.
Besides, I have to ask my behalf's agreement....

Am I starting to sound like BK?
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 07:36:34 PM: Mike,

We need to see the "buns of steel" we've heard so much about!

Or was it the tummy of steel?
Tommy Steele?

YES, groaning is allowed on Halloween night!
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 07:42:07 PM: DR François I did not mean to imply that your "behalf" needed to be covered. It is probably as cute as hell.
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Post by: Craig on October 31, 2003, 07:49:24 PM: Happy Halloween to all the Ghoulies/Ghosties here at HHW

First, let me say that with people in costumes in the subways here in NYC - it's not all that different than any other day..

The kids walking around in my building are adorable... no one is dressed up as a ham chunk, cheese slice or even a Benjamin Kritzer though...

I am mostly errant and truant this evening because after unloading 26 boxes that I shipped up from storage, I am wiped out. BUT I am finally able to convert my Sweeney Todd laserdisc to DVD - which is why I must bid adieu and allow my computer to use its resources for that purpose.

So, I am sure to get a flogging like Judge Turpin when Bruce reads this post.....
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Post by: Maya on October 31, 2003, 08:03:39 PM: Halloween was very nice and quiet tonight. Adorable little kiddies came and we showered them with Tootsie Rolls, which ran out very fast.

MDS--LMAO! You made me spit out my apple cider with that pic!!

Sandra--you look absolutely lovely in your pic! Thanks for posting!

François--I was very glad to see you mention Ferré! I think I'm one of the few Americans who knows his music...the guy was a musical genius. Did you ever get to see him perform live, I wonder?

Hmmm....well this isn't a Halloween costume pic, but I do have a costume pic from an anime convention I went to this year.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 08:31:03 PM: François: No it wasn't Miss Vickie. She's curled up in front of the fireplace. It's very much on the cold side here in Oakland today/tonight. It's nice to light the first fire of the season, too.

So, François, the next time you're in a situation in which you're not sure what level of intimacy your partner is willing to invite, you can suggest that "Soizic" come out to play...oui, mon ami?

Tommy Boy from OZ: Intimate? Moi?

François: Moi? Familiar with BK? With my candy comment? What on earth did you think it meant? OHHHHHhhhhh! Mind in the gutter, eh!??? :)

You know, we are only 40 posts away from MATCHING the best day we've had with the "new format" on this here board.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 08:33:16 PM: Quote from: [size=3]Maya[/size] on October 31, 2003, 08:03:39 PM
Halloween was very nice and quiet tonight. Adorable little kiddies came and we showered them with Tootsie Rolls, which ran out very fast.

Now THAT's an image I hadn't counted on tonight...of little Tootsie Rolls with legs running out the door, no doubt scaring the poop out of the kiddies!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 08:37:21 PM: Anyone else ever have one of those days when nothing will do but that you MUST see Fred Astaire dance????

(http://hometown.aol.com/cydfan/cydhome/girlhnt.jpg)
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Post by: Maya on October 31, 2003, 08:41:44 PM: LOL, Ron!

No, the running Tootsie Rolls didn't scare them. It was more of the singing Butterfingers that had them fleeing in terror.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 08:48:17 PM: How well I remember those nasty little Butterfingers, grasping at me as I fled someone's front door.

Almost as bad as the galloping Jujubes that would pounce out from nowhere.
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 08:50:06 PM: DR Maya,

Yes, I do remember you mentioning Léo Ferré some weeks ago and was surprised indeed to see that you know him. Most people think that Sondheim's music is not easy, well, they don't know Ferré's.

No, I've only seen him on TV; he wrote all kinds of music and deeply enjoyed conducting as well.

BTW, love the dress but the shoes don't match, which you know I'm sure! Are you "Candy"?

... speaking of candy....

DR Ron,
I knew you would say that.... like "beauty's in the eye of the beholder", hey?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 08:51:07 PM: I think BK should have dressed up as SwishySarah, not Fruma Sara, this year.

Wearing a little strapless number and speaking in a strained voice that hasn't recovered from laryngities. He could have dabbed sparklies all over him, too!

I wonder what SwishySarah, HERSELF, did this fine evening!!!????!!!!
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Post by: SwishySarah on October 31, 2003, 08:53:56 PM: This has to be very short, as I'm in need of sleep, but I DID read all of todays posts (every...last...one of them...*faint*) After school, Best Friends Aly, Danielle, and I went to Blockbuster, rented Hannibal, Silence of the Lambs, and Carrie, went to Food Lion, grabbed some sugar, and then went to Aly's house. We watched Carrie (I thought it was pretty boring...I was able to carry on a conversation through it.), had some sugar, and then decided to have a seance. Not that we know HOW to have a seance, but it was fun trying. We had our candles and our salt and we told scary stories, and Aly scared me half to death, and I almost fell in her pool (which would have been BAD, as it's FREEZING.)

Unfortunately, I have to take the SAT's at 8 tomorrow morning, so I had to leave early. Since I'm not actually required to take them, I called my dad and asked him if I could stay, and he got quite pissy with me, came and picked me up, and went on to tell me how absolutely immature and selfish that was of me, and how I was taking the damn test, and that was that, any argument was bull****.

So I am not very happy and I'm getting online and I don't care if he sees. Poo on him!

ANYWAY, I have to get to sleep now, so if you could send me some happy vibes, I would appreciate it, as I'm going to FAIL that stupid test tomorrow.

Best Halloween Costume: The Yankees fan thing from a year or two ago. Easy, and lots of candy. I posted about it yesterday, I'm not going to retell the costume.

DR MDS: I wish you had come to MY house for candy, that BK costume is...appealing!

Jason: Check out those arms! Hubba hubba! You look great in those pictures, no need to be modest.

TD: For some reason, the chest ruins the whole "feminine" look of the costume.

Oh, once, my dad dressed up as a blind person (glasses, cane, etc.), and put a sign around his neck saying "To Venice". He dressed up as Venitian Blinds.

Wish me luck!
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 08:54:20 PM: Now, this is uncanny!

I see Ron mentioning Jujube....
Well, Léo Ferré wrote songs that were recorded by quite a lot of other singers, among them Juliette Gréco whose nickname is ... Jujube.
Title to her autobiographie!!
The following is from Google!

.. Jujube ” ouvrage autobiographique dans lequel elle a choisi de parler d’elle
à la troisième personne… “ Jujube ” ou “ Gréco ”...;
Uncanny, I tell you!
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Post by: SwishySarah on October 31, 2003, 08:55:59 PM: That wasn't short at all...hmpf.

Ron: BK would look DIVINE as me. I should have gone as BK. I have jeans, sneakers, a white shirt, and I'm sure I could find a plaid shirt to go over. With a hat to finish it off, I could get tons of candy. There's always next year...
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 09:00:06 PM: Note to Self: NEVER invite SwishySarah to screenings of favorite films. She'll find them boring and talk through them...if she isn't run out of town first!

Note to François: UNCANNY? I was thinking of Juliette Greco earlier this evening in relation to "Roots of Heaven" when she was mistress to Darryl F. Zanuck. I'm guessing she was HIS little jujube!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 09:01:40 PM: SwishySarah: If you'd consider pulling that hat over your eyes, you could go as Guy Haines!

Isn't THAT uncanny! :)
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 09:06:35 PM: So Juliette was Darryl's "Buddy" Greco.
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 09:08:46 PM: Now, would not it be "fun" if, when people watching movies they find boring start talking, actors on the screen would stop until silence resume?????

I'm a little surreal tonight.

Oh yes, Mr Zanuch was definitely in love with Jujube.... before she had her nose job, I believe....

Well, you know who was fond of Zizi Jeanmaire too??... and she was married then... to the same person she's married to now! She played the game and never gave in.... from what she says!

Gossips, gossips!

Zizi, Jujube! I ask you? What names are those?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 09:09:57 PM: El Greco was one of "many", including Bella Darvi, Irina Demich (remember her from "The Longest Day"?), and Genevieve Gilles (who, so far as I know, never even knew there was an art to acting).
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 09:12:01 PM: It seems that once again my calculations are way "off". I thought you would on your way home by now François. Note for future reference: Australian tenor "Peter Brocklehurst"
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 09:14:19 PM: We should be wary of such people bearing gifts - especially on Halloween. Weren't the Grecos supposed to inherit the earth.
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Post by: Maya on October 31, 2003, 09:20:11 PM: LOL, Swishy! I think you'd make a great BK! Although Emily too would be a good BK cause she has the impression so mastered.

Oh, and good vibes on your SATs tomorrow! You'll do great! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

François--Yes, the shoes are awful, I know! I wasn't even planning on dressing up at the convention, but my friend had extra costumes and decided to lend me one. And those blue and yellow sneakers were the only shoes I had with me!

I've only heard some of Ferré's pop music ("C'est Extra" is sooo gorgeous), and some of the musical settings he did of French poets, but I've also heard that he wrote symphonies and operas too! Amazing! I'd love to hear Juliette Greco one of these days. That name is so pretty...I think I'll just say it a couple of times in a row!
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 09:24:29 PM: The Romans stole most from the Grecos... from what I heard!

I can leave now if you want Tom, but my boss won't approve...
Almost 6:30 am in the glorious, fabulous, mysticus, populus city of Paris.....

I'm still in my surreal mood, can't you tell?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 09:28:17 PM: I've heard that "The Grecos Had A Name For It"!
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 09:29:48 PM: Is that Elgin lost his marbles?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 09:30:24 PM: Wow! What do you suppose has happened to Bruce? Do you think the boogey man got him when he opened the door to trick-or-treaters?

Or do you think he's in a sugar coma from sampling all that "good" candy?
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 09:33:44 PM: Another 20 posts and no doubt we will be given candy. I shall be mostly truant tomorrow so I am trying to build up credit.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 09:36:27 PM: All this talk of Grecos reminded me of Alexander the Great (who wasn't really Greco, at all), and the best portrayal of Alexander was on the TV production "The Search for Alexander the Great" starring Nicholas Clay (the late Mr. Clay, as I've only just learned, died of cancer three years ago). The teleplay was set in the heavens with the Greek gods commenting on Alexander's life and decisions. It was very well done.

Clay was a magnificent Lancelot in "Excalibur," too!

(http://dandalf.com/dandalf/NicholasClay4.jpg)
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 09:40:44 PM: Well, we finally have it - glorious wonderful rain - buckets of rain. Too bad it had to start quite so early (it really hindered our neighborhood's trick or treaters) but boy did we need it, and I hope it continues for the next three days, unabated. Of course, then everyone will begin to complain about the rain, but not I.

Man, I was worried we wouldn't break a hundred and we're close to having our third best day since the changeover. Who knew.
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 09:41:35 PM: And speaking of Lancelot. I enjoyed the TV adaption of "The Mists Of Avalon". Good book too.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 09:47:05 PM: I must be looking at the numbers wrong. This is post #266 (I think)and the SECOND best day was 268 with the best day being 280.

I think we're amazingly close to a record!
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on October 31, 2003, 09:48:58 PM: I sure hope that the rains in LA will be enough to help with the firefighting conditions. Then the business of recovering can begin.
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Post by: François on October 31, 2003, 09:59:11 PM: My! Didn't know that Nicholas Clay had died... and at age 53!

California -- hot oven! -- sure needs the rain; my heart goes to all those people who've lost part of their life in the fire!
We should count our blessings in times like these!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 31, 2003, 09:59:19 PM: And this is number 269. We did it and today is our second best day.

As only LC and François remain in lurk, I daresay we won't go much further.

Especially since I'm calling it a night...adieu, adieu, adieu.....
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 31, 2003, 10:16:23 PM: It is too early for me to call it a night. I shall call it a late afternoon. Adieu indeed.
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 10:34:19 PM: Quote from: bk on October 31, 2003, 05:44:39 PM
td, please repost your michael weiss pic, just smaller - it really was too big and slowed my fast load time down in half.

BK, I reposted it (at a smaller size) in the tech support folder. . .
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Post by: td on October 31, 2003, 10:38:21 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on October 31, 2003, 06:59:23 PM

TD, thank you for enjoying the interviews! I just got mine in the mail today and have only flipped through it but it looks good! Lots of pics of Jeepers Creepers people in color...love the one of BK, Susan, and Zacherly!

Well, I had to start with those interviews, having only recently seeing HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD for the first time. . .

DR Swishy - - You've gotta admit that Ms. O'Hara was a ballsy lady. . .who said she couldn't have been hirsute as well?
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Post by: bk on October 31, 2003, 11:19:14 PM: What a turnaround. The best part, of course, is reading all the wonderful posts. Just finished the Alias box set, and now watching my brand spanking new Jack Benny 2DVD set. Only seven more posts to a new record.
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Post by: Jason on October 31, 2003, 11:57:27 PM: Just back from seeing THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE again (the new version). It was a lot of fun again...there were MANY more people in there tonight who were all in the Halloween spirit, so they were quite vocal when they were scared. Lots of nervous giggling. Anywho...a couple of friends of mine from the Met went with me and I think I had more fun watching and hearing them than I did with the movie, but I will admit, I jumped and screamed explitives again. I won't lie about it...I'm a man. As we were walking out, next to the trash can, I noticed that someone had actually vomited on the floor. That was more disgusting than the movie, but it made me think of Benjamin Kritzer. :)

Well, I must needs get to bed. I have to catch a bus to Washington in the morning. My sojourn to see BOUNCE begins at 11:00 and I still haven't packed. :\ See you on Monday morning!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 01, 2003, 12:04:18 AM: George: I see you lurking.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are...and see the young lady who fell from a star."
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Post by: TCB on November 01, 2003, 12:09:15 AM: Ron: I thought you said good night several hours ago?

Jason: You too are suppose to have gone to bed so that you will be bright and perky tomorrow for Bounce

Actually this is the time of night that we Washington Kimlets gather here in the shadows and plot the overthrow of Western Civilization.
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Post by: TCB on November 01, 2003, 12:11:23 AM: Hmmm, we need five more posts to break the record.
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Post by: TCB on November 01, 2003, 12:12:26 AM: Hmmm, I need four more posts to become a real boy!
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Post by: TCB on November 01, 2003, 12:13:17 AM: Do you think it would be fair of me to try to break both records with the same post?
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Post by: TCB on November 01, 2003, 12:17:22 AM: I had a very lovely evening with friends. We dined at this chic little place called The Golden Steer. There was no tofu on the menu. All beef! I had a lovely filet, we had sparkling conversation, and then returned to their home for chocolate cake. Unfortunately, I didn't get home in time to give out any candy.

So now, the bags of candy are all mine!!!
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Post by: TCB on November 01, 2003, 12:18:16 AM: Now let me see, was the record 280? Or 281? I have forgotten.
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Post by: TCB on November 01, 2003, 12:19:53 AM: Damn! I hit the post button, and suddenly all this confetti fell from the ceiling. I think I have really done it!!!
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Post by: bk on November 01, 2003, 12:29:15 AM: Well, thanks to TCB we have a new record on a day when I thought we would have one of our lowest.

Well, the new notes will be up momentarily and then we can merrily start posting for tomorrow.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on November 01, 2003, 12:32:46 AM: Well, dang, TCB, I would have helped!

But it's gratifying to see another record busted all to hell here at HHW.com

And just think how "scary" it was earlier Friday when BK was thinking we might not even get to 100 posts!

Oooooooh. It was Eeeeeeeerie!
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Post by: George on November 01, 2003, 12:35:24 AM: Who will have the first post of Saturday?? I have to admit that as soon I get home (or when I get to work), I log into HHW and just leave it there. I surf the web, watch TV (or work when I'm at work) and just pop in and refresh the screen every once in a while. So although it may appear that I'm sitting here reading, I'm...really...not. But, like I said, I pop back and read what's been posted since the last time I refreshed the browser.

Well, I must be off to bed (even if I don't make the first post of Saturday). I'll read the daily notes and post in the morning or afternoon. I have absolutely NO plans for the day at all!! Yea!!