Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 3 => Topic started by: bk on March 18, 2005, 09:51:03 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes, like the city, have not slept, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home, although that won't be any time soon since the cows, like city, never sleep. They just keep rollin' along, just like Ol' Man River. I have NO idea what the HELL I'm talking about, so just go ahead and start posting.
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And the word of the day is: PERFUNCTORY!
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This topic appears below yesterday's for some reason. Mighty confusifying...
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Ah, that's better.
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Meridian may not be anything special, but Prime Meridian, that's the good stuff.
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PERFUNCTORY!
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Favourite American magazines of my childhood were Saturday Evening Post, National Geographic and, later, Mad Magazine.
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Putin's visit to France is quite... perfunctory!
There!
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I am fading. Someone do something BRILLIANT to give me my second wind.
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I like Au Bon Climat; Qupe; Montes...those are wines, now magazines...
MAGS: I too loved Mad as a boy. My parents got Life, Look, and The Saturday Evening Post...and I looked at every one of them every week. I've been reading PLAYBOY since I was a boy until I let my subscription finally lapse this past fall. When they start have columns about video games , it no longer has relevance for me and I can't even read the articles anymore.
When I was a boy collecting books...I subscribe to ERB-dom, ERBania (Both Edgar Rice Burroughs fan mags) and AMRA which was a very classy fanzine for fantasy that had a lot of eminent authors writing articles. I'm still a member of the Burroughs Bibliophiles and get their mag, The Burroughs Bulletin.
I used to love SHOW magazine and the short-lived Show Business Illustrated. I also loved old Liberty magazines when I could find them.
These days I subscribe to Men's Health, Cincinnati Magazine, Mystery Scene Magazine, The Week, and American Theatre (which comes with my TCG membership)...
I also get the Dramatist Guild magazine and other union publication from my various guilds...most rather boring. I used to subscribe to Plays International and really should again.
Like BK, I am a fan of Scarlet Street.
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Something BRILLIANT like in ... brilliantine?
Oh... the milkman has arrived!
I'll be back! -- now, that's far from brilliant! --
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BK- For immediate brilliance you may appreciate, check out this website called secretfunspot.com
Look in the gallery called "Truth in Ads" which features a lot of the scam toys and pranks sold in comic books throughout the ages, and the one called "Adams Pranks" which features prank toys from the 50s.
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I, too, loved Show and Show Business Illustrated - never missed an issue of either. That's when they knew how to put out a magazine. Also, the marvelous Cinema - that was grand. And I collected the film mag The Velvet Light Trap - many fine articles. There was a genre mag called Photon that was very good, and I enjoy still Little Shoppe of Horrors, devoted to Hammer films. I used to love going to the newstand and loading up - don't do it much anymore. In its heyday, Sight and Sound was good, as was Films and Filming (one of the high moments of my life is when Nudie Musical was on its cover).
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I lived for ads in comic books - I wanted everything. My favorite issue of MAD, when it was in comic book format, was the one with the faux ad cover.
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PERFUNCTORY! That's what I'M talkin' about.
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All right, I must toddle off to the bed to get my beauty sleep. You West Coasters keep the partay goin' on.
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I always wondered what one got when one ordered the 7-foot tall Frankenstein. It was just a giant poster.
One thing I could stare at all day was the ad, usually on the back cover of a comic, that was for all the things you could win if you sold seeds or GRIT Magazine. A guitar! A portable TV! A bike! A radio controlled dune buggy! I would just stare at those pictures, but I never once thought of actually trying to sign up to sell stuff.
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Just looked online to find that GRIT Magazine still exists.
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Good Morning!
Magazines...
I loved MAD too, but, in retrospect, a lot of the humor went totally over my head. The folding back cover was the treat for me! -And how many other DRs would try to discreetly fold the magazine while still in the store, before purchasing it? - if purchasing it at all. Come on, fess up! -I know I did.
I tried to get into National Lampoon since it always seemed to be featured prominently on the newstand - and usually next to MAD, but, again, the humor just completely went over my head at the time.
I went through a big Reader's Digest phase when I was in high school. I would usually end up reading it over at a relative's house when we went to visit. My parents never subscribed to it, but we always ended up with copies passed along from other people. However, they did receive the Reader's Digest Condensed Books for many years. -Came in very handy when I was doing book reports in elementary and high school. -And, of course - and this is the truth - it took me a couple of years to realize exactly what "condensed book" meant. I figured "condensed" just referred to the fact that they combined four books under one cover, and not that they had also condensed/shortened the books too.
Presently, I subscribe to Gourmet and Cook's Illustrated. I go through phases with Bon Appetit and Cooking Light and Food & Wine.
I used to get American Theatre, Show Music Magazine, and some other music-oriented magazines. And I get Out and Instinct since they were offered as bonuses to other services and subscriptions.
I finally discontinued my Men's Health subscription after many, many years - practically since they started. Yes, they had some new and interesting articles from time to time, but, like many other Men's Health readers, I just got tired of the recycling of the various workout and diet regimens appearing every three to four months under different titles. However, I do like their quarterly publication, Best Life.
Oh... And I was a big fan of Highlights as a child. It was one of my favorite reasons for going to the dentist - there was always a nice stack of Highlights magazine in the waiting room. And, if I was really lucky, the puzzles hadn't been penciled in yet!
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OH! And I was a Sheet Music Magazine subscriber for many years. And I still have a nice stack of them too - I did not put those in the recycling bin a few weeks ago. I loved the theory and "How to play..." articles. I learned a lot of the American Popular Songbook through that magazine.
Oh... And Bananas! I always felt "naughty" when I was reading that one. ;)
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OK... Matinee in 12 hours...
Goodnight.
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I wouldn't go near Meridian Chardonnay. California Chards are too oakey for drinking, and lousy for cooking. I'd rather have a nice Sauvignon Blanc.
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A quote, for PennyO and Jose - :-*
"A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand"
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Okay, I have to apologize to DRs Jane, MBarnum, JMK (and his lovely wife, Betsy) and JRand by proxy. Yesterday, I wrote:
It sounds like a great evening! Someday...soon, I hope, I'll be able to make it to a regional HHW Gathering!
JMK wrote:
Hey, what were Jane, MB and I, chopped liver?
and then BMarnum wrote:
And George does seem to have forgotten about the Pacific Northwest gathering of he, myself, JMK, and Jane (with a special IM appearence by DR JRand54)!
I have been writing and re-writing trying to explain what I meant, but I've just been making it worse, ::) so I'll just apologize. I didn't mean to slight our get-together in the least. It was a wonderful evening and I will treasure the memory! I probably meant that I would love to go further away from my home state of Washington (by flight) to a very large gathering of HHWers, where I could meet HHWers from across the country and even BK himself. And, I would just love to go to New York again. ;D Someday....
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And with that, I'm off to bed. I'm glad that the evening was a success!
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The book signing/reading/singing was just wonderful. I so enjoyed meeting all of you DRS- PennyO, Jose, Danise, Panni,
Ben, Michael Shayne, WFO, and re-meeting Rodzinski.
Sorry I won't get the chance to meet you, Vixmom, and Ginny, and anyone else attending the festivities on Saturday.
Have a wonderful time!
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DR Ben, don't forget to look for me Wednesday night at Light in the Piazza- come on up at intermission. I'm in the front row mezz, Row A, seat 312.
DR Jose, that Chocolate Therapy ice cream sounds equally dangerous and delicious! I vote that it should be the food of the day.
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[size=8] A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DR JAY[/size]
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Happy Birthday, DR Jay!!!
We miss you!
Glad to hear much fun was had last night.
Now I'm off to the Welcome Back Buzzard Festival!
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Goodness, such a PERFUNCTORY dismissal of our Voracious Aficionado's B-Day in today's notes - no party hats nor pantaloons (not even sect caps nor trousergrebes; perhaps some wit will suffice:
A minister decided that a visual demonstration would add emphasis to his Sunday sermon. Four worms were placed into four separate jars.
The first worm was put into a jar of alcohol.
The second worm was put into a jar of cigarette smoke.
The third worm was put into a jar of sperm.
The fourth worm was put into a jar of good, clean soil.
At the conclusion of the sermon, the minister reported the following
results:
The worm in the alcohol had died.
The worm in the smoke had died.
The worm in the sperm had died.
The worm in the good, clean soil was alive and well.
So, the minister asked the congregation, "What can we learn from this demonstration?"
A little old lady in the back raised her hand and said, "As long as you drink, smoke, and have sex, you won't have worms."
May DR Jay have many worm-free days ahead.
der Brucer
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Good morning, alll. First the post office, then a jaunt with DRs Danise, Ben, and possibly Michael Shayne. We will subway down to see DRBen, and then we will all head to Footlight Records on East 12th Street, where DRDanise may find possibly more recordings by Michaels Crawford and Ball than she knew about. We may go to Academy as well. Who knows? I have a late afternoon date with DRPanni, and then PennyO.
Dear Friend BK, I wish you were a regular New York denizen, but I'm happy you're here whenever and however. I'm still puzzled over the ice cream situation at your hotel. I'd rather find a chocolate on the pillow.
Magazines:
National Geographic, which I loved for so many reasons: dinosaurs, exotic realms and occasionally naked people.
Show Business Illustrated and Show: one of them published excerpts from Patrick Dennis' LITTLE ME, which I read, then purchased the book, and then read everything Dennis published from that point on; I believe the two Auntie Mame books were all I'd read before LITTLE ME.
Famous Monsters from Filmland: I had them all from the first issue as well as a zillion comic books, all of which my mother tossed when I was away to college.
Opera News: still a favorite.
Theatre Arts: I bought them rarely, but I always purchased an issue when they published a musical for the monthly play.
High Fidelity and Stereo Review: religiously, for the classical and broadway recordings; today I get Gramophone, American Record Guide, and Fanfare.
When I was recording with BK in the mid-1990's, I noticed an issue of Film Score Monthly on his desk, and I've subscribed ever since.
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I, too, loved MAD Magazine, and I saved about a dozen from the mid-60s because they had pieces in them that I thought were just too brilliant to ever give away.
SHOW was a favorite of mine as well, and I think we've discussed before how much SOME of us loved AFTER DARK.
I am old enough to have been around when Disney's first magazine came around. It could only be bought at newstands at the very beginning, and nowhere in my town did anyone sell it. My father was in Atlanta on business, and he bought me two different issues of Disney magazine. Don't know how he scored two, but I treasured those magazines for many years. It had a Zorro running serial and I'm sure lots of ads and articles about various Disney merchandise you could buy. I just loved the pictures from the animated features because at that time, there were no videos, and one had to rely on his memory and the Disney albums from the films if you wanted to relive the movie experience.
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In more recent times, I loved THEATER WEEK and later IN THEATER and was very sad to see them fade away.
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Last night, vixmom wrote:
"Is anybody selling the aforementioned recently departed WB set? I was planning to get it as I am a big Hepburn fan and Stage Door is one of my favorites....now don't cringe when I say this Matt H... but I may have to settle for just watching my old VHS tapes....."
Hey, you do what you have to do to have classics ready for viewing when necessary. I still have a VHS of STAGE DOOR as well that will make a nice surprise gift for a friend (also DINNER AT EIGHT on VHS). I still have some of the MGM classics on videotape because I never got them on laserdisc, and they haven't come out on DVD yet: SAN FRANSISCO, YOLANDA AND THE THIEF, LOVELY TO LOOK AT, DAVID COPPERFIELD.
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WARNING - DANGEROUS INTERNET VIRUS ON THE LOOSE!
Look at my poor mouse!
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Sounds like everyone's having a wonderful time in NYC. So glad the reading/singing went well. Look forward to any pics that might show up in these pages.
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Dedicated to elmore:
BODY MEETING :
All the organs of the body were having a meeting, trying to decide who was the one in charge.
"I should be in charge," said the brain, "because I run all the body's systems, so without me nothing would happen".
"I should be in charge," said the blood, "because I circulate oxygen all over so without me you'd all waste away."
"I should be in charge," said the stomach," because I process food and give all of you energy."
"I should be in charge," said the legs, "because I carry the body wherever it needs to go."
"I should be in charge," said the eyes, "because I allow the body to see where it goes."
"I should be in charge," said the rectum, "Because I'm responsible for waste removal."
All the other body parts laughed at the rectum and insulted him, so in a huff, he shut down tight.
Within a few days, the brain had a terrible headache, the stomach was bloated, the legs got wobbly, the eyes got watery, and the blood was toxic. They all decided that the rectum should be the boss.
The Moral of the story?
The asshole is usually in charge !!
der Brucer
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From the Christain Charity Digest (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050318-9999-1n18funeral.html)
Bishop won't allow funeral for club owner
By Alex Roth
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
March 18, 2005
The owner of a popular local nightclub with a gay clientele can't have a funeral in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego because the church has deemed his business "inconsistent with Catholic moral teaching."
None of the 98 Catholic churches in San Diego or Imperial counties will be allowed to provide services for Club Montage owner John McCusker as a result of the decision by San Diego Bishop Robert Brom.
McCusker, 31, died Sunday of congestive heart failure while vacationing in Mammoth, his family said. The bishop made the decision three days later after learning that McCusker's family planned to hold his funeral at the Immaculata Catholic Church on the campus of the University of San Diego, where McCusker went to school.
Brom's decision – which prompted the church to cancel the funeral – has provoked heated debate in local Catholic and gay communities. Several prominent gay leaders say they plan to file a formal protest with the diocese and demand that Brom apologize to McCusker's family.
Ah yes, hate the sin, love the sinner!
der Brucer
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Wonderful reading about Friday in New York. And we must have more postings and some photos of Saturday in New York!
MAD magazine, of course. My favorite grown-up magazines were The Saturday Evening Post and The Reader's Digest. I also liked Look magazine because they had lots of celebrity photos IN COLOR.
Disney (land) magazine had many Mouseketeer photos and stories.
More recently Scarlet Street, InTheatre, and Show Music.....RIP that last two.
I also used to like Rona Barrett's movie magazines when she was publishing them.
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CATS in Russia? Rare Sound of Music LP's?
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Happy Birthday DRJAY out there in sunny California!
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Greetings from NYC!
My niece and I arrived safely, not it time for the reading, but in time to join the dinner group at Joe Allen. Today she and I are going to try to get tickets for a matinee, then join Danise to walk to Penny's show. Looking forward to the get-together afterward, too.
I'm keeping my time online brief, 'cause there's one, count 'em one, computer for the entire hotel where I'm staying. Don't want to hog it. I'll check in later.
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Nice to see that former DR PANNI was among the crowd yesterday! She must be in NYC for a meeting about her script! Maybe it's the one she's working on for Julia Roberts!
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Good morning DR HISAKA!
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An MBarnum date flick coming soon:
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der Brucer
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TOD:
Young Years - Jack and Jill
Teen Years - Colliers, MAD, CONFIDENTIAL
College Years - National Review (Surprise!)
Breeding Years - TIME, ANALOG
Mellow Years - TIME, CINEFEX
der Brucer
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My brothers sold GRIT newspaper for many years. They didn't get many points, but it was an interesting Weekly National Newspaper.
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Yes, definitely SHOW MUSIC. Can't believe I forgot it. I am still in mourning over its demise.
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You're right. The Disney magazine did have lots of stuff about the Mickey Mouse Club. One of the reasons I wanted it so badly.
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Oh my you can get a yearly E-subscription to GRIT for only $12.95! ;D
http://www.grit.com/ (http://www.grit.com/)
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I'm up, I'm up. First of all, apologies for not catching the birthday - I didn't look at the calendar (which sometimes happens) and I didn't scroll down on the home page. So, let's give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer for former dear reader Jay. On the count of three: One, two, three - A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER FOR FORMER DEAR READER JAY! Hoping he's having a lovely day.
I'm going to get dressed and go try to score a ticket, then I'll be back.
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Mad Magazine - 25 Cents - Cheap! ;D
http://www.clish.com/jaraseli/jcst/jcst016-24.jpg (http://www.clish.com/jaraseli/jcst/jcst016-24.jpg)
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Good News from Techno-Geek
(Extract from Weedly Standard (http://84.40.21.229/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/375jjrac.asp?pg=1)):
Turn Them Off. Turn Them All Off.
From the March 28, 2005 issue: The subversive joys of TV-B-Gone.
by Andrew Ferguson
03/28/2005, Volume 010, Issue 26
San Francisco
IF YOU DISCOUNT his magenta and burnt-orange hair, teased into long curls that dangle down the nape of his neck, Mitch Altman is a modest man, with a diffident manner. He's the sort of person who, if he has to use a cell phone in a public place, turns away and covers his mouth with his free hand, lest he bother someone. His modesty is not only charming and rare but also wholly unjustified. For Mitch is the founder, CEO, and co-owner (with his mom) of Cornfield Electronics, and he has invented the single greatest technological breakthrough of the past three-and-a-half centuries, at least. He has nothing to be modest about.
Mitch's invention is called TV-B-Gone. He carries one on his keychain, as, God willing, you will someday carry one on yours. It fits snugly in the palm, a near-weightless lump of black plastic. Its shape vaguely suggests the Batman logo. A tiny diode rests on the very tip of Batman's head, between his pointy bat ears. Press a button and from this diode a beam of invisible light escapes that can turn off any television--any television--within a radius of 45 feet.
Yes, yes, yes: Imagine the possibilities. You sit in a doctor's waiting room, casting your mind forward to the grisly procedures he has in store for you (you can almost hear the snap of the rubber gloves) and hung high above you in a corner near the ceiling, well out of reach, Maury Povich is interviewing an adulteress, her daughter, and her daughter's transgendered lover, as the studio audience whoops and yelps and stomps its hairy feet. You reach in your pocket and withdraw your key chain. You tilt Batman's head toward the screen: TV-B-Gone! And it's gone!
Or the airline has delayed your flight, again, and all you want is to go home, and as you pace the soulless terminal from one end to the other the voice of Wolf Blitzer trails you like a police siren, roaring out from the CNN television monitors which have been spaced every 10 yards, so you're never out of earshot. The TSA guards may have taken your Swiss Army Knife, but they've left you with your lump of plastic. You point and press. Wolf-B-Gone!
On the phone your girlfriend has whispered the ominous words, "We have to talk." You meet in a neutral bar, amid the ferns and gleaming brass. Yet you can scarcely hear a word she says for the soccer game blaring in Spanish from the inevitable television that no one is watching. Hasta la vista, televisión!
der Brucer (eagarly awaiting CellFon-B-Gone)
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Happy Birthday to FDR (a Franklin D. Roosevelt reference) Jay!
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TOD: Well like everyone else, I loved Mad. I used to have every issue from about 1967 through probably 1970 but I think one of my nieces or nephew took them after I moved out of my parents' home. I did get the multi-disc CD-ROM with every issue (up to that time) a few years ago. I've also collected Saturday Evening Posts since I was a child and have a very large collection going back well into the 19th century. My favorite SEP ad is from the teens of the 20th century: an ad for toilet paper with the tagline, "Guaranteed, no splinters!"
Mags that have lost their lustre for Betsy and me include Entertainment Weekly. About a year and a half ago they redesigned it and the articles suddenly became largely about 20-somethings we've never heard of. We will not be renewing our subscription.
It is a busy day for us here. Betsy's mom flew in last night (and boy are her arms tired...). Betsy's folks were going to make an offer on the little house next door to us until we found out the seller was listing it at 365K (for probably 1000 sq. ft.--outrageous if you ask me). So Betsy and I found this incredible condo just about a mile from us. It's an old estate built by one of Portland's founding families. There is a huge mansion that dwarfs the White House (no joke), and several outbuildings, which is where I assume their voluminous staff lived. One of these outbuildings is for sale now as a separate condo--2000 sq. ft. for 260K. Plus you get the use of the estate gardens and Olympic size swimming pool (surrounded by, I kid you not, Grecian columns and statuary). The setting is magnificent. Sp Betsy's mom is going down to take a gander (or perhaps a goose) and probably make an offer today.
Then this afternoon is my winter/spring Tigard Pops Choir concert. Pray for me, HHW-ers. I booked a guy over two months ago to digitally record this concert, because it's taking place at a venue other than our regular one (where I normally do the recording myself). So of course the guy comes to our dress rehearsal Thursday, stays for 2 hours, takes copious notes, and then says, "I'm not feeling well, I may or may not be there Saturday." What is it with people nowadays??
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I still like ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, but not so much for the puff piece articles as for the reviews of films and TV. I wish they'd do more with stage rather than a once every other month section, but otherwise, it's about where it always was quality-wise. I think they choose their article topics based on what's popular or hot at the moment. Thus, there have been multiple pieces on LOST and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, for example, over the last few months. But as with all mags, I read what I find interesting and skip the rest (such as the music section).
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Happy Birthday DR JAY!
Hope you'll have a beautiful birthday.
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Good vibes for JMK's recording date.....
Off to a MOVIE DAY with friends - as in VHS & DVD not big screen.
Back later.
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The Mad magazine: I’ve never seen/read it, but Mad TV(is telecasting daily now).
Is the Mad Boy face appearing on the show same as the magazine’s one? Or Mad Board Game?
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Fave mags: MAD, Lampoon, Scientific American (had that subscription for years), National Geographic (had to let that one lapse - you can't throw any of 'em away, and they pile up...), Prevention!! (my grandfather gave me a subscription, I had it for years - still use a thirty year old bread recipe...), and I started taking Writer's Magazine for a couple of years - maybe fifteen years ago?? -, read everything cover to cover. It was a door opening for me. I used to like Mother Earth News - does that count? Full of screaming lefties, but I am SUCH the organic gardener and conservation-forest-stream-birds'n'raccoons woodsprite...
Can't WAIT for tonight. I may cancel this afternoon's show, just to be FRESH for y'all...
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Yes, that's Alfred E. Neumann, the MAD icon. Not in the early comic book days, though. I think the first time Alfred appeared was in the "ad" cover I was speaking about.
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Wow! Did I just begin page 3??? Huzzah!
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And I believe the first Alfred E. Neumann cover was issue 30.
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Glad the reading/signing/singing went well and everyone have fun in NYC.
Hope everyone will enjoy the performances of DR Penny and Jose tomorrow.
Good Luck to both of you!
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I'll be seeing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf today - scored a lovely sixth row center seat.
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Yikes! it's after 11... gotta leave here in about an hour. Time to get on with it!
Oh, before I go... Happy Birthday, Jay! We'll be thinking of you at the partay, and lift a glass in your honor.
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Thank you Hisaka - and off I go!
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You mean Mad icon boy's name is Alfred E. Neumann?
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You mean Mad icon boy's name is Alfred E. Neumann?
Not sure if that's the right spelling, but yes, that's his name.
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I do believe that is the exact spelling. We love Alfred E. Neumann. That face has been around since the turn of the century, in various forms. MAD adopted it as their poster boy. Our very own Mr. Grant Geissman is one of the foremost authorities on all things MAD - and has written about seven tomes or more maybe.
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I do believe that is the exact spelling. We love Alfred E. Neumann. That face has been around since the turn of the century, in various forms. MAD adopted it as their poster boy. Our very own Mr. Grant Geissman is one of the foremost authorities on all things MAD - and has written about seven tomes or more maybe.
I do believe it is NOT the exact spelling, bk. I am looking at the March 1965 issue of MAD, and the spelling in the header is NEUMAN. Now, if the spelling changed in later years, that I can't respond to since I haven't seen an issue in 20 years or more, but that's the way it's spelled in the masterhead of the issue I'm looking at now.
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Welcome eight GUESTS. We're talkin' about magazines.
Someone told me that when Carol Channing did her reading and signing at the Drama Bookshop and when Ted Chapin did his, they each had about ten people. So, we did REALLY well last night!
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I may be in error, then, but I always though it was two "n"s. I can't check later issues until I get home.
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If it's not two "n"s then I shall recommend that they change it IMMEDIATELY!
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There's going to be a letter about this in the Times!
PERFUNCTORY!
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Perhaps I'll take my shower now and ready myself for the matinee of Virginia Woolf. I think it's a nice three-hour play, so I won't get back to the hotel until after five.
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I am my own frenzy.
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oops, and I meant to say "masthead," not "masterhead." Just goes to show we all make mistakes occasionally. I make MORE than my share.
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TOD: Well like everyone else, I loved Mad. I used to have every issue from about 1967 ...
Goodness, such a late bloomer!
When I was just a Frosh in High School, and bunch of us were surreptitiously passing this around English class:
(http://www.dccomics.com/mad/images/cover_001.jpg)
Professor Butterworth, noting the commotion, queried "What's all the fuss about?"
Your humble poster, embarking on a career of being a smart ass, said, "It's something you wouldn't understand!"
At which point old Butterworth reached into his desk drawer, extracted his copy of MAD Comics #!, and asked, "Does it look like this!"
I sheepishly sat down while he got all the laughs!
der humbled-Brucer
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I do believe that is the exact spelling. We love Alfred E. Neumann. That face has been around since the turn of the century, in various forms. MAD adopted it as their poster boy. Our very own Mr. Grant Geissman is one of the foremost authorities on all things MAD - and has written about seven tomes or more maybe.
One N.
MAD Timeline (http://www.dccomics.com/mad/?action=timeline):
July 1955
MAD Magazine is born (#24). Gaines and Kurtzman turn MAD into a bi-monthly, black-and-white magazine. More importantly, they get to raise the price from 10-cents to a quarter! Although it will be another year before he's named and adopted as MAD's official mascot, Alfred E. Neuman makes his first appearance on the border of MAD (#24) as the "What, Me Worry" Kid
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From MD FAQ (http://www.dccomics.com/mad/?action=faq):
Where did Alfred E. Neuman come from? When did he first appear in MAD? No one's exactly sure where Alfred came from, although illustrations of a grinning gap-toothed boy similar to Alfred have been traced back to at least the 1800s. Other Alfred-like images kicked around for years in various ads, postcards and even other magazines, before first appearing in early issues of MAD. At first, Alfred was a character with several different names (including Mel Haney, Melvin Coznowski and the What-Me Worry? kid) who simply appeared in the background of different articles, but in issue #29 (September, 1956) he was stuck with the name Alfred E. Neuman and one issue later, Alfred made his first full-color appearance on the cover in a portrait drawn by Norman Mingo. If you'd like to know more, we suggest that you read Maria Reidelbach's Completely MAD, a book that traces the history of MAD. But first we suggest that you call the publisher and beg them to put the book back in print! (In the meantime, you can check your local used bookstore to see if they have a copy.)
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Good Morning!
Allowed myself a few extra minutes on the futon this morning, so...
Looking forward to tonight!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR JAY!!
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OK - Time to hop on the A-Train.... Hmm... I wonder if the A is running Local again this weekend... Hmm... Guess I'll find out in a few...
Laters...
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Our very own Mr. Grant Geissman is one of the foremost authorities on all things MAD - and has written about seven tomes or more maybe.
From MAD FAQ (http://www.dccomics.com/mad/?action=faq):
There is a price guide for MAD merchandise in the book Collectibly MAD by Grant Geissman. This highly collectible book is currently out of print, but might be available at used book stores.
der Brucer
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Today's Morning Puppy Madness:
Peggy has taught Baxter how to dig >:(
Fletcher inspects the excavation:
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Baxter double checks:
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Bonnie takes a look:
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Peggy rests after a long class:
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The crowd viewing the teacher:
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der Brucer
PS: for you city-folk that white thingie next to Bonnie is the well!
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What a crowd last night!! I can't wait for pictures!!
Favorite magazines: When I was a kid I read FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, TV GUIDE, and, because my mom had subscriptions to them, READERS DIGEST and FAMILY CIRCLE.
FILMFAX and CLASSIC IMAGES are the only magazines that I currently have subscriptions to. I pick up SCARLET STREET, CULT FILMS, and PSYCHOTRONIC if they have articles of interest in them.
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Happy Birthday Jay! I hope things are going well for you!!!
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And to think I used to own the original Kelly Freas art to the back cover of Issue thirty (the back of Alfred's head). Sadly, in the dark days that followed the disgusting events of which we do not speak, I had to sell most of my classic art to keep up with the lawyer bills.
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I think all our hainsies/kimlets who are not in NY will have to keep the home fries burning today and this evening. Everyone here is out doing things and seeing each other and whatnot.
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And one for Mahler. I will shortly be on my way to Virginia Woolf.
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Holy moley on rye - page four!
PERFUNCTORY!
What me worry?
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All right then, I guess I'll mosey on over to the theater now.
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WARNING - DANGEROUS INTERNET VIRUS ON THE LOOSE!
Look at my poor mouse!
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ROTFLMAO ;D
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Well DH washed my car in preparation for out drive in thei afternoon. We are having a lovely spring day, warm, no wind and very sunny..thank yu bk fpr bringing some California weather with you, and Danise for bringing some Florida weather! We sure could use it!
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DH Jane, your cookies are in the mail!! Do not worry about the postage..they should be there Monday or Tuesday
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I hope I remember everyything I have to bring in today
1. elmores copy of What If
2. Ginny's cookies
3.My three Kritzer books for bk to sign
4 A suprise for Ben
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well the "at home lipo" didn't work out at all, apparently you need specialized equiptment, the vaccum cleaner just left unslightly hicky type marks....
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I suppose I shouldn't even attempt the at home face lift....
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An MBarnum date flick coming soon:
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It is just me? Somehow, when the pics don't match the order of the stars listed, it looks strange. The one with the tits jugs mammaries is right over the name Steve Zahn, and the one with more muscles than brains curves is right over the name Penelope Cruz.
Strange.
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Hello all! I,m typing this LIVE from the lobby of the Muse hotel using my PDA!
Thank you, DR Jose for teaching me how to make it work!
What a wonderful day I have had and the fun isn't over by half.
I spent a GREAT morning/lunch with DR's Michael, Ben and Larry. We roade the subway and the bus and it was all too,too.
Lest I forget, last night was simply fabo as well. It has been a very long time since I have enjoyed myself so much. I really, really, really loved meeting everyone. My only sorrow is that it was over much to soon. I want to do it again! And so I shall tonight!
Going to rest for a bit then get ready for the do!
Laters all!
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DRDanise, you and Michael Shayne just left me on the bus! I'm going to lie down for a bit, then I meet DRPanni, to wander about the Upper West Side, perhaps have a drink or two, later a bit of din and a wander Down to The Big Show.
I wish all you DRs were here with us, and I feel this sentiment is shared by everyone who is here.
DRJose, you are one fickle Filipino! First you propose to DRMBarnum for an HHW reality show wedding and now you're barking at DRRodzinski. Do I have to ask Angus McIndoe to put saltpeter in your meal tonight? Meanwhile, I look forward to wonderful sounds from your magic fingers between 8:00 and 9:30 tonight.
I meant to add that while Michael, Ben, Danise, and I wandered through Forbidden Planet, Footlight Records and Academy, I picked up a CD of Lesley Garrett singing "Love Is Where You Find It." which was a matter of discussion some weeks back. Would any DR care for a copy of the CD?
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... Virginia Woolf. I think it's a nice three-hour play...
Somehow, "nice" has never been a word associated with the play until now.
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Der Brucer is insisting that we take the dogs down the the boardwalk in a little bit.
He has not, however, made any attempt at saying which dogs we should take down the the boardwalk in a little bit.
I can see it now: he'll insist that we load all eight dogs into the car and take them down to the boardwalk in a little bit. We will then try to walk eight dogs on the boardwalk...he'll take the puppies and Mikey (the terrier) while I get dragged by the other five dogs hither and yon up and down the boardwalk.
My back and shoulders are already aching.
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Jose, I used to buy National Lampoon in college. Elmore, I have a collection of Theatr Atrts magazines from about 1949 to 1964. I acquired them when The Lovely Wife used to be President of the Friends of the Hollywood Library and I was the guy who went out and collected the books for the book sales. I always got first pick that way. MattH I loved the Theatre Week and mourned it's passing...Unfortunately, I did not save all the issues (my life is awash with paper as it is). My Dad had a collection of National Geographics that went back to 1910 , ten years before he was born up until he died. I suspect they are still in stored in the shed behind the house, unless one of my siblings has acquired them.
Happiest of Birthday's to our Pasadena Dear Reader Jay and a fervent wish for his imminent return.
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If any DRS are resting in their hotel rooms this afternoon, Wall to Wall Sondheim is being broadcast live on FM 93.9-it's quite splendid.
elmore, I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to visit with you this trip.
Happy Birthday, Jay!
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For those who need a Dame Julie fix:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91823.html
Birthday Wishes to the Boy from Pasadena.
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Mad has a CD-ROM that has every issue from the first to up to 1998 on it. It's quite a kick.
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We get pictures!
From London, England!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050317/482/lab11303172328
http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2005/03/18/marypoppins/index.html
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050318/ap_en_ot/people_andrews_1
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I spent a lively afternoon watching an old favorite from my childhood days that I've had on DVD for over a year but not taken off the shelf until today: THE VIKINGS.
I enjoyed seeing it again. Purely a popcorn movie, and it was fun just to settle back and watch. Nice transfer (some of those vistas with cascading waterfalls were quite spectacular). I wish MGM could have souped up the sound. That majestic score and those booming Viking horns would have been so much more impressive coming out of all the speakers instead of just the center one. Alas, mono sound on an adventure film like this spoils a bit of the fun, but just a bit.
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Thanks François. The yahoo links don't work now. Good to see an Australian (Elle) connection.
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I had the feeling someone (ALW?) has used the main theme from "The Vikings" recently. It was favourite film from my childhood - except for Mr Douglas who I really don't care for at all as an actor. Nor his son come to think of it.
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I had thrown out my copy of MAD that contained their masterful parody EAST SIDE STORY, and I searched in vain for many years trying to find it, even bought many of the MAD paperbacks hoping I'd get one that had it, but it was never in the ones I bought. Finally, I got a MAD Treasury book, and there it was after all these years, and I laughed just as much reading it and singing along as I did when I first saw it as a kid.
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A quick post before dinner and then the long-awaited show.
Danise, Michael Shayne and Larry and I had a wonderful late morning/afternoon stroll and shopping spreee at Footlight and Academy. We had lunch at the Comfort Diner on 23rd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues (closer to 5th Avenue). For a while in the booth in back of us sat Mr. B. D. Wong. Larry spoke to him briefly and then we continued with our lunch. I had a grilled cheese on 7 Grain Bread, Larry had a cheeseburger, Danise had an execellent omlette stuffed with many things and Michael had a chicken club. I left my mates to take the bus uptown so Michael could see Spamalot, Danise could rest up and Larry could get back to the abode to rest up for an afternoon visit w/Panni. I headed home, rode the exercise bike, showered and helped Anthony run lines for his callback for Applegate on Tuesday. Then I took a nap and now we will have quiche and a salad for dinner. Then on to the show.
Also, thanks all for the info about Quarters. I have thought about getting the Mint Proofs. They are only $15 dollars for 5 quarters. I'll continue to ponder that question.
Jane, you're right, it seems to be getting harder to find the quarters. I know they are minting fewer of each state. My brothers says he heard one of the reasons they are minting fewer is because since each quarter honors a specific state, that state is asked to pitch in for part of the cost. Since many states are having their own financial crises, they are not putting is as much, hence, fewer coins being minted. Don't know if it's true but it makes sense.
On that note, (C#) I will leave to prepare dinner.
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I had the feeling someone (ALW?) has used the main theme from "The Vikings" recently. It was favourite film from my childhood - except for Mr Douglas who I really don't care for at all as an actor. Nor his son come to think of it.
I run hot and cold on Kirk Douglas. The ego always seems to be bursting out in all directions which colors every scene he's in, but it works with a character like he plays in THE VIKINGS or as the two-faced boxer in CHAMPION.
I wish I could have seen him play Randall P. McMurphy in CUCKOO'S NEST on the stage. He had to have been perfect for that role.
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Before I forget, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAY!!!
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I hope to get to Footlight Records this summer. I haven't been in my last couple of trips to NYC, and I'd like to pay a return visit just to see what they have.
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I LOVE THE VIKINGS! And I think Kirk is great in it. And Janet Leigh's gloriously impossible breasts! The frequent fantasy of this adolescent lad! And the great, great score!
A few years back I got the privilege of writing a Viking script based on an idea by Calder Willingham who wrote the 1959 Vikings. It is a script that has something of a cult following, but we cannot get the people who own it to go for it. Director Uli Edel has tried three times to direct it. He really gets the script and would be wonderful for it. In fact, that script helped me to get the Hercules' writing job. My Hallmark and NBC execs are big fans of the script.
But I generally like Kirk Douglas...
I like his early work in things like OUT OF THE PAST and THE STRANGE LOVES OF MARTHA IVERS, CAMPION, YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, and especially THE BAD & THE BEAUTIFUL.
His middle period is great with LUST FOR LIFE (He should have won an Academy Award), PATHS OF GLORY, GUNFIGHT AT OK CORRAL THE VIKINGS, THE LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL, SPARTACUS...I've never seen LONELY ARE THE BRAVE.
I can't say there is much in his later years that compells me...But the ones I've mentioned are a substantial body of work.
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Sorry!
Because the url -- is that the correct word??? -- is too long it gets "cut off" BUT, if one copies and pastes the WHOLE line.... the links do work!
Sorry again for the bother!
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New page!
Let's do the Chimney Sweep Dance: Step In Time!
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Just a quick hello from Broadway and 54th. I just came from the matinee of Spamelot. I liked it better than the Producers. Everyone was wonderful. I hope that I can get to see it again. as I was in the mezz. far left and missed some stuff. Very funny well acted and the audience really enjoyed and some were even ahead of the action knowing what will happen. I reccommend it to all.
Back to the hotel and a rest before Penny O show a post dinner and then some time with my friend from Orlando who has moved up here.
Spent pre-Spamalot with Ben, Denise and Larry cd shopping at Footlights where everyone know Bruce's name. Then on to Academy Records and then we had lunch. It has been way too fast and I must come back here real soon. Pictures will be posted on Monday and I even shot a video of the reading and the songs which will be sale in the lobby after the show.
So until Monday.......
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And let's don't forget DETECTIVE STORY. Sure would love to have that on DVD.
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YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN is coming in the Doris Day box later this year.
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Thanks for the info on SPAMALOT, DR Michael. I hope to get to see it in August.
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I LOVE THE VIKINGS! And I think Kirk is great in it. And Janet Leigh's gloriously impossible breasts! The frequent fantasy of this adolescent lad! And the great, great score!
His middle period is great with LUST FOR LIFE (He should have won an Academy Award), PATHS OF GLORY, GUNFIGHT AT OK CORRAL THE VIKINGS, THE LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL, SPARTACUS...I've never seen LONELY ARE THE BRAVE.
I can't say there is much in his later years that compells me...But the one's I've mentioned are a substantial body of work.
DRPogue, I've always been a fan of Mr Douglas as well, ever since TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, and as a boy, I thought he was great in both ULYSSES and THE VIKINGS, of which I have absolutely no memory. I've never forgotten ULYSSES and the frightening Polyphemus.
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Quick update from Laura and Aunt Ginny: We went to TKTS this morning and got matinee tickets for La Cage aux Folles, then walked over to Rockefeller Center to watch skating (only saw the Zamboni), then to La Bonne Soupe for lunch before the show. Loved the show - at the end they did some fundraising for Broadway Cares.
On the way back to our hotels we went to visit Danise and she was on the phone with our very own Jane, so I got to meet Jane's voice. Laura, Danise and I are going to have a quick little bite of something before proceeding to Penny's show.
Wish y'all were here!
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Hello all! Finally getting around to posting this week! It's been crazy busy around here. We just got done with our Newman Idol rehearsal. Basically a talent show. The 8 of us who live here at the church are doing Joyful, Joyful to a karaoke track with costumes, choreography and singing! It's pretty hilarious. I choreographed it and luckily they didn't have to much trouble with the choreography. I pulled some of it off the movie and simplified it in several parts so it wouldn't be extremely difficult to learn. It should be a good time. I hope everyone is having a wonderful time in New York and I hope the show is going wonderfully! ;D
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I'm back from Virginia Woolf about which I'll have much to say in tomorrow's notes.
It was critics day at VW - spotted were the heinous Jeffrey Lyons, the acerbic John Simon, and the lovely Peter Filichia. Coming out of the theater I ran into Walter Willison, who'd also seen it, and the lovely Heather McRae and her mum, Sheila. We had quite a lively conversation, talking about the play, the production and everything under the sun.
I'm doing some advance packing now and then I shall toddle off for the long walk to the Clurman.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR JAY!!
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I have to go. I'm listening to Wall to Wall Sondheim on XM radio and it's sort of breaking up. I think that being on the Internet doing other things doesn't help. So, I'll be back later!
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Happy Birthday to DR Jay!
And for all the DRs in NYC I am enjoying reading about your adventures.
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This afternoon I called Danise at her hotel and we had a nice chat. :D While we were talking Ginny arrived to pick Danise up and check out her room. Lucky me got to meet Ginny on the phone. :D How fun. I wish I were there.
Once again I have been running all day. I’m going to go soak in the tub and return later.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAY!!
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Nobody here but us chickens. We all must be on the town.
I have done most of my packing, and I've written the first half of tomorrow's notes, while Virginia Woolf was still fresh in my head.
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All right then, I'm on my way to the Clurman Theater to see Miss PennyO and join our merry troupe. I'm very excited to see the show, and I'm sure our gathering afterwards will be FASCINATING, oh, yes, I'm sure our gathering afterwards will be FASCINATING. I shall, of course, have a full report for you dear, dear people out there in the dark.
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JRand I haven’t seen the Betty Hutton interview yet. I did read a nice one a long time ago.
Jose do you share food? I can only eat a bite or two at a time-Maybe not, at the rate I’m gaining weight these days come Oct I might be up to eating all you do. ;D
I’m saving your tour post until Oct. Sweet potato chips at The Chippery sounds great! I’m glad Ben & Jerry’s wasn’t on your tour-I only want Carvel’s. :)
Bruce remember, I like soupy ice cream. Did they leave it on ice?
Rodzinski I don’t believe I have seen Prime Meridian-thanks for the tip.
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Jose my mother also had Reader’s Digest magazines and condensed books. Unlike you I knew what condensed meant. Most times it was okay the books were condensed but every once in awhile I wished I had the entire book to read. When I was in 10th grade we read the condensed version of Les Miserables and I was very disappointed. I also kept forgetting what and been left out and answering the discussions and tests with too much information.
Dare I say I don’t like MAD. I always found the pictures creepy, the stuff night mares are made of.
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DH Jane, your cookies are in the mail!! Do not worry about the postage..they should be there Monday or Tuesday
Thanks. May I add a small donation for Vixter's troop? :)
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George I have only been laughing, not offended. :D
DerBrucer such a sad story of the Bishop’s decision to force the poor man’s family such pain.
As always, darling pics of the gang. :)
JMK I’m praying for you. Also hoping the condo thing works out. If so I guess you won’t be moving
Ben, very interesting about the coins-thanks.
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Larry, I forgot ULYSSES, but I always enjoyed it too. Michael Shayne, how was my neighbour Tim Curry in Spamalot?
BK, I await your report on Virginia Woolf. I've loved Kathleen Turner since BODY HEAT and I'm a fan of Bill Irwin's.
Matt H, yes, DETECTIVE STORY is also rather nice.
I saw THE LONG HOT SUYMMER again this afternoon. Although there are some seams in the movie that slightly betray that it was adapted from several different stories, the dialogue is so delicious and so ably performed. The scene between Newman and Woodward in the store is just so fraught with sexual tension. And the great scene between her and Orson Welles where he's comparing Newman to a stud bull. And I love the elliptical treatment of so many things...they can allude to the sex and the homosexuality of Richard Anderson's character and so many other things just through stylish dialogue and great performances rich in subtext. They don't have to hit you over the head with anything blatant. Just style and smarts.
It must have been wonderful when mainstream movies like this gave actors wonderful words to say. Where things were accomplished through performance and nothing had to be blown up or riddled with a hundred bullets.
And I must find a copy of the title song by Jimmy Rodgers.
And speaking of the good ole days, I was watching the game network last night when they show old black and white games shows. Something called the Name's the Same with Bob and Ray as the hosts and What's My Line? People we just so polite and eloquent and well-mannered and groomed. I miss that genteel , more gracious time.
The Lovely Wife and I spent the afternoon at BIG LOTS, stocking up on odd provisions and what-not. I was so happy. Someone has put out candy corn for Easter. It's in Spring pastels of green, blue, pink, and yellow and called Candy Bunnies, but it looks and taste like candy corn. I love that stuff!
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My mother wouldn't let me read Mad. She thought it was subversive, and inappropriate reading for young people.
She also thought the music of Petula Clark was subversive, because she (Petula) once took a public anti-war stance.
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CP thank you for interrupting the conversation I was having with myself. :D
I shall have to watch for Candy Easter Bunnies. I won’t buy it since I can’t eat just a few of them.
I recall an interview with Joanne Woodman saying she was offered the role of the sexy wife and turned it down, requesting the role she played-smart move. (I can’t remember the names of the charactors).
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We took Peggy and the Pups, along with Fletcher, to the beach today. They all had a wonderful time, meeting lots of people and getting pets and licking faces. Der Brucer will be posting pics later.
There was one short time of panic. Peggy somehow slipped out of her collar, and went dashing up the street and around the corner. Der B went running after her, but she wasn't there. Then the owner of the corner clothing store came out, asking if we were looking for the dog that was touring the shop. Yep, there was Peggy, doing what all girls like to do for fun...shop!
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DRLaura did you purchase a new camera? I wish I had taken my camera with me today on my hike. I have been delivering Meals on Wheels. One of the houses is down the street from the beginning of a trail I enjoy, so today I left that delivery for last. I had expected to hike in the rain but was treated to some sun and beautiful views of the valley after the rain.
How I wish I were at my dear friend Penny’s show. Even if I’m not there my heart is.
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SWW it is very popular in Ashland for stores to have pet mascots. Did you ask the store owner if he would like Peggy?
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At the moment, we weren't even thinking in that direction. :-\
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LOL-next time.
Goodnight.
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Well we watched movies AND The 1958 Miss America Pageant and ate and had a good time. If I couldn't be in NYC for the HHW confab ... well this was a second choice.
MR BK - Sheila MacRae....she met Lucy Ricardo at Don Loper's salon....I will never forget it! And you were talking to her!
AND DR CP mentions another name that floors me....Calder Willingham....you know those people are out there (people like Harlan Ellison) but you don't imagine that you might know people who know them (June Wilkinson). Mr Willingham wrote END AS A MAN and ETERNAL FIRE - two of my favorite books!
And I would just say to DRCP - LONELY ARE THE BRAVE is very good....but very bleak....almost makes HUD look like MARY POPPINS.
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DRJANE don't lose your video! Betty is waiting impatiently.
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PAGE SIX WAITING DANCE.....
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OUR BITCH AT THE BEACH
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der Brucer (sore and achy from being dragged 100 yards down the beach by Fletcher who spotted another Dalmatian out for a stroll)
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LOL!
An overdose of spots, hey?!
Is there a Kimlet/Hainsie reunion in NYC or what?
Posts are spotty tonight! ;)
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I wonder WHO was walking WHO?
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I watched an episode of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN this afternoon. Hadn't seen one in years. I put three videotapes of episodes taped off TV in a box somewhere, and I haven't viewed them in ages. This was copyrighted 1957, in color, and was not one of the show's finest half hours. Still, kind of fun for 30 minutes.
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Tonight, between conversations on the telephone, I watched the American Masters program JUDY GARLAND: BY MYSELF. So beautifully done and so poignant. One of the great documentaries of the last few years.
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I put the Miss Marple movie MURDER AHOY in the player for tomorrow. After that, not sure what I'll watch. Perhaps DINNER AT EIGHT or STAGE DOOR.
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The "Wall to Wall Sondheim" is over. I only got to hear a little more than five hours of it. But what I heard was cherce!! (or is it cherse?) Anyway, XM Radio is playing Sondheim cast recordings and what they're playing right now (the first song to be played after the end of W2WS) is "Do I Hear a Waltz" from the BK produced cast recording of Do I Hear a Waltz" starring Alyson Reed! I will now catch up with the posts. ::)
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They announced on the broadcast that it was recorded and would be released...but how much of it will be released? All 12 hours? The "Wall to Wall Richard Rodgers" disc that was released a couple of years ago was only one disc!
They also said that it would be rebroadcast. I may have to actually pay for XM Radio just to (hopefully) get the whole thing! I signed up for a three-day freebie. Didn't even need to use a credit card!
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I wonder WHO was walking WHO?
What der B and Fletcher were doing more resembled water skiing than walking, with der B being towed by a very powerful motorboat. Only the water was still about five yards thataway.
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"REFLECTIONS OF ROSEMARY" by Debby Boone will be released on the Concord Label April 26, 2005. An intimate musical portrait of legendary singer Rosemary Clooney - from a "familial" perspective. The collection consists of songs Rosemary loved, or sang to her grandchildren, or that were written by close friends who were integral in Rosemary's life and career. The liner notes for the CD package (written by Boone) have Rosemary/Debby anecdotes, and include photos from the Clooney archives. Rosemary's longtime producer/manager Allen Sviridoff, produced the CD.
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TRACK LISTING
BLUE SKIES
I'LL BE HOME
THE BEST IS YET TO COME
I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY
MOOD INDIGO
IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING
VAN HEUSEN MEDLEY
THE MUSIC THAT MAKES ME DANCE
TIME AFTER TIME
I'VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HIS
FACE
YOU'RE GONNA HEAR FROM ME
IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND/IN THE
WEE SMALL HOURS OF THE
MORNING
YOU ARE THERE
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LINER NOTES FROM
REFLECTIONS OF ROSEMARY
BLUE SKIES: My son Jordan was the first of Rosemary's grandchildren and the relationship they shared for twenty-two years was one of pure joy. When Jordan was two years old, Rosemary began singing "Blue Skies" to him. He loved it! She would sing it to him when he was sad, when he took a fall and was crying, anytime he needed his spirits lifted. She'd call him on the phone from the road and he'd listen to her sing it, and it never failed to put a big bright smile on his face. Eventually, Rosemary made her own cassette recording of the song to give to Jordan so he could have "Grammy" sing "Blue Skies" whenever he wanted her to. Jordan played it frequently on his little Play School tape recorder (once he must have pressed the record button accidentally because there was a brief 'skip' in the middle of the song.) A few months after Rosemary died I remembered that I had saved that cassette. It was labeled in her own handwriting "Jordan's Blue Skies." I immediately put it into a player and listened to her sing the song a cappella, keeping time by tapping on her leg. It was as if she were right there in the room singing those words to me, to Jordan, and to everyone she loved. Like Jordan, I will always find comfort in this beautiful Irving Berlin song.
I'LL BE HOME: When selecting songs that I felt could create a musical portrait of Rosemary, I was searching for a song that personified her. I was also hoping to find a song that could convey the feeling family and friends had when spending time at Rosemary's home lovingly referred to as "The Roxbury House." A feeling of warmth and acceptance was palpable in that house. Rosemary became a surrogate mom to so many people who I'm certain, like me, always felt as if they had come home when they walked into the den to see her sitting in her favorite chair. Recently, when my daughter Dustin was home for a week from college, I asked her if she had any suggestions for a song that could convey the feeling we all had about the Roxbury house, or a song that reminded her of Rosemary. Without hesitation she answered, "What about 'I'll Be Home,' by Randy Newman?" She pulled it up on iTunes, and before the song ended we both had tears running down our cheeks, and I knew that Dustin had found the perfect song. Being with Rosemary was like being home. I am sure anyone who ever experienced the intensity of her love and loyalty can imagine her singing these words to them.
THE BEST IS YET TO COME: Beginning in 1989 - for about 7 seasons, Rosemary included me and my four children in her annual tour of "Rosemary Clooney's White Christmas Party." Sharing the stage with her, year after year was like a Master Class. I was always inspired by her impeccable performance, and the ease with which she communicated with the audience.
Before every show I would spend about 30 minutes vocalizing with a tape of warm-up exercises. My husband Gabri used to say that Rosemary would laugh at the sound of these exercises through the dressing room wall. Rosemary never once took a formal voice lesson but like the inscription on a 1995 ASCAP award said, she was "one of the best friends a song ever had." The extent of her vocal warm-up was a quick pass at the opening melody from "The Best Is Yet To Come" (bah-DAH, bah-DAH, bah-DAHS<caron>) and then one good cough and she'd head for the stage.
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I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY: Rosemary said that she spent a lot of her childhood listening to country music with her maternal grandmother, Grandma Guilfoyle. She and her sister Betty sang together while growing up in Maysville, Kentucky and eventually auditioned for Cincinnati, Ohio's WLW radio station. The Clooney Sisters were featured on the live radio shows for two years. They would arrive when the station was playing all country music as the farmers were beginning their day. Though Rosemary is not perceived this way, a huge portion of her body of work reflects her strong connection to her Kentucky roots. Her first real hit was a country song "Beautiful Brown Eyes" in 1951. Later, she had an even bigger hit with Hank Williams' tune "Half As Much." Red was a contemporary of Hank Williams, Sr. and in fact sang "Peace in The Valley" at Hank's funeral as he had once promised him. Red grew up in Berea, Kentucky, not far from Maysville where Rosemary was born. I chose to sing the Hank Williams song: "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" for Rosemary and for Daddy Red.
MOOD INDIGO: Red Foley's wife Eva, my grandmother, sang on live radio with a girls group called The Three Little Maids and taught my mother to sing with her sisters growing up. My mother in turn taught me and my three sisters to sing in four-part harmony when we were very small, and for years we performed and recorded together just as Rosemary performed and sang with her sister Betty when they were teenagers. Rosemary and I often talked about the "family blend" when brothers or sisters harmonize together.
One of Rosemary's favorite albums that she ever recorded was Blue Rose with Duke Ellington and his orchestra - arranged by the legendary Billy Strayhorn. This version of "Mood Indigo" (which includes my three sisters) is an homage to this great Clooney/Ellington collaboration. I asked the incomparable Earl Brown (who has worked with every singer from Crosby to Elvis, and so often with Rosemary) to do the vocal arrangement for us.
IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING: This song comes from the Broadway musical State Fair. In 1962, my father Pat starred in a film version directed by Jose Ferrer. Little did they know as they enjoyed working together all those years ago that they'd be sharing four grandchildren 24 years later after I fell in love, and married Jose and Rosemary's son Gabriel.
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VAN HEUSEN MEDLEY: Rosemary often told a story about her long-time friend, Bing Crosby, and how he never liked to say the actual words "I love you" when singing. These three Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke songs (written for Crosby) were put together by Rosemary to illustrate how brilliantly songwriters could state the substance in a lyric without actually saying "I love you." Rosemary left me all of her musical arrangements. The magnitude of such a gift is immeasurable.
THE MUSIC THAT MAKES ME DANCE: My husband Gabri is a combination of the very best qualities of both his parents, and anyone who knew Rosemary and Jose will agree that makes him pretty formidable. In the 30 years that I have known him, he never ceases to surprise me. I could go on and on, but this song says it best.
TIME AFTER TIME: In 1996, I fell in love with an album called Chet Baker Sings. I spent the summer tirelessly delighting in his trumpet playing and melting at the sound of his voice, not to mention his picture. I developed a real school girl's crush on Chet. I sent a copy of the record in the mail to Rosemary knowing that she would absolutely love the way this guy sang. My phone rang in my hotel room one evening and when I picked up it was Rosemary's voice, "Do you know I carry around a picture of Chet Baker in my wallet to this day?" We had a crush on the same guy! That was the beginning of a shared obsession between us.
This is one of my favorite songs that Chet recorded. The music was written by Jule Styne and the lyrics written by Rosemary's great friend Sammy Cahn. She sang "Time After Time" at a tribute to Jule and Sammy in 1986.
I'VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HIS FACE: Early in his career Jim Henson was a huge Rosemary Clooney fan. When he decided to give a voice (lip synched) to a little green frog puppet who eventually became Kermit, he chose Rosemary's recording of this song. Rosemary absolutely loved Jim Henson and his Muppets and was thrilled to be the first voice of Kermit the Frog.
YOU'RE GONNA HEAR FROM ME: This song was the first arrangement that John Oddo ever wrote for Rosemary. This version was adapted for a small group from his big band arrangement for her Woody Herman album entitled "My Buddy" (1983). John was playing with Woody's band when he met Rosemary. She heard his terrific arrangements and hired John immediately. Rosemary was very proud of the story that when she was working with Count Basie's Orchestra, Basie was listening to John play at the rehearsal and leaned over to her and said, "You got yourself a great piano player there Rosie". John became Rosemary's musical director and arranger for twenty years! With John Oddo as conductor/pianist, I looked forward to every second of rehearsal and performance each year on the Christmas tours. John's sensitive accompaniment made me a better singer. To find myself in the enviable position of working with John on this record was a dream come true.
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IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND/IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS OF THE MORNING: I had the honor of working with Frank Sinatra on several occasions, including an engagement at The Resorts International Hotel in Atlantic City where I opened for him. He sang the Rodgers and Hart classic "It Never Entered My Mind" in that show and it took my breath away. Live or recorded on his In The Wee Small Hours album, Rosemary and I both loved the way he sang it. Of course Rosemary adored Frank from the time she was a teenager, and throughout their years of working together. When he died, she said she "couldn't imagine a world without Frank Sinatra in it". As a tribute to Frank after his passing, Rosemary would sing "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning" at every concert. I wanted to combine both songs on this CD - for Rosemary, and for Frank.
YOU ARE THERE: When my son Jordan was around twelve or thirteen years old, Rosemary began recording Dave Frishberg songs like "Sweet Kentucky Ham" and "Let's Eat Home." Jordan took a real interest in Dave and bought every Frishberg CD in existence. He discovered this song off of Dave's 1991 "Classics" album and had always wished that Rosemary would record it - she never got the chance. I will never forget sitting in Jordan's car one afternoon, a few years before Rosemary died, as he played me this song. I too wished I could hear her sing it. I still do.
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Debby Boone's first Concord Records release, "Reflections of Rosemary," is an intimate musical portrait of her mother-in-law, the legendary singer Rosemary Clooney. The CD is a collection of 16 songs distinguished by Debby Boone's strong, striking vocal talents and a very personal, emotionally rich story line.
"I wanted to select songs that would give an insight into Rosemary from a family perspective, and from the more than 30-years that I spent with her," says Debby Boone. Although some songs were either recorded or often performed onstage by the "Girl Singer," including Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies," Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo," and Sammy Cahn and Jule Stynes' "Time After Time," Boone included other tunes for more personal family reasons all of which are lovingly and beautifully described in the liner notes for "Reflections of Rosemary".
Debby Boone movingly details why she included each song on the CD, from Rosemary Clooney's respect for Frank Sinatra ("In The Wee Small House of the Morning"), to a song the family agreed expressed their feelings for Rosemary Clooney and her home, fondly referred to as "The Roxbury House" (Randy Newman's haunting and deceptively simple "I'll Be Home").
"Blue Skies," for example, has special meaning for Debby's son, Jordan. "He was the first of Rosemary Clooney's grandchildren and the relationship they shared for twenty-two years was one of pure joy," explains Debby Boone.
"When Jordan was two years old, Rosemary began singing the song to him. He loved it! She would sing it to him when he was sad, when he took a fall and was crying, anytime he needed his spirits lifted. She'd call him from the road,and he'd listen to her sing it, and it never failed to put a big bright smile on his face."
Debby Boone tips her hat to fate when she performs "It Might As Well Be Spring," a song from the movie "State Fair." The screen version of the musical starred her father, Pat Boone, and was directed by her future father-in-law, Jose Ferrer. Debby Boone says, "When Pat and Jose were working together all those years ago and fast becoming friends, little did they know that 24-years later they would share four grandchildren." And for her husband, Gabriel, Debby selected a joyous expression of love in the Jule Styne / Bob Merrill song, "The Music That Makes Me Dance."
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Debby Boone amusingly relates how Clooney used to laugh at her lengthy vocalizing before each show. The extent of Rosemary Clooney's vocal warm-up was a quick pass at the opening melody from "The Best Is Yet to Come." "One good cough and she'd head for the stage," laughs Debby. Rosemary's presence can be felt as Boone sings Dave Frischberg and Johnny Mandel's treasure, "You Are There," while Clooney's good friend, Bing Crosby, is remembered on the CD with the medley from Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke, "But Beautiful / Moonlight Becomes You / Like Someone In Love." And, "You're Gonna Hear From Me," has special meaning for John Oddo, Rosemary Clooney's longtime arranger and musical director, as well as the conductor and pianist on "Reflections of Rosemary", it was the first tune he ever arranged for Rosemary.
"Reflections of Rosemary" was produced by Rosemary Clooney's long-time producer / manager Allen Sviridoff, who helped to fill the CD with musicians who had meant a great deal to Rosemary Clooney throughout her career.
In addition to John Oddo, there are special guest appearances by tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton and guitarist John Pizzarelli, both of whom toured and recorded with Clooney. Throughout the CD, Debby Boone's beautiful vocals are accompanied by Gary Foster (alto and tenor saxophone), Warren Luening (trumpet, flugelhorn), Chuck Berghofer (bass), Gregg Field (drums), Jim Fox (guitar) and Daniel Greco (percussionist). Cellist Armen Ksajikian appears on "I'll Be Home;" Dan Higgins appears on "I'm So Lonesome I could Cry" (tenor sax) and on "It Might Be As Well Be Spring" (alto flute).
Debby Boone earned instant fame in 1977 when "You Light Up My Life" became an overnight hit. The tune, which outranked even The Beatles by claiming the #1 spot on the Billboard charts for ten straight weeks, sold in excess of four million copies; the album went platinum with sales in excess of two million. The song went on to win an Academy Award for Best Song in a Motion Picture, and Debby Boone received the Grammy Award for Best New Artist of the Year. Since her remarkable entree into the music industry, she has won two additional Grammy Awards and has received seven Grammy nominations.
Debby Boone has starred as the lead in numerous stage productions, such as "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" on Broadway and as Maria in Lincoln Center's 30th Anniversary production of The Sound of Music, which garnered a Drama Desk nomination. She also starred as Rizzo in the Broadway production of Grease, and toured nationally in Meet Me In St. Louis. Most recently, Debby performed the role of Anna in the 50th Anniversary staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I and launched her symphony program "Debby Boone Sings Stage and Screen." Debby Boone has also written six charming children's books in collaboration with her husband, Gabriel Ferrer, who created the illustrations for the best-selling series.
This latest project, "Reflections of Rosemary," is clearly more than just a performance for Debby Boone, however. It is a deeply heart-felt tribute to a woman for whom she had great love and respect.
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What is this, the Debby Boone site?
Back from our "do". Everyone else is apparently on their way home.
What a time we all had. First we gathered at the Clurman and saw dear reader PennyO's show, which was lots of fun. It was a small but very vocal audience and PennyO did herself proud. Then we all gathered at Angus McIndoe for our partay. They had us on the second floor (of three) at one long table. What fun we all had, and the food was splendidly splendid, too. It was great seeing Angus, who was very sweet to me. Lots of photos were taken, so I'd better tell Mr. Mark Bakalor to do a purge.
I leave some anecdotes for others to tell, although I must say I did hear some interesting things, oh, yes, I heard some interesting things. I must now finish the notes, get them posted and then try to get a couple of hours of sleep before my four-thirty wake up call.
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DR Jane,
Did you get anything in the mail today?
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New notes are up. Hold on for a sec while I change the topic for the discussion board.