Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on June 27, 2020, 12:09:43 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes zoomed along, and now it is time for you to post until the zooming cows come home - they actually prefer the spelled backwards version of MOOz.
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And the word of the day is: INCONTROVERTIBLE!
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The new Kritzerland sounds like it's going to be fun. :)
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Last night on PBS, they showed Gloria: A Life, a play about Gloria Steinem, starring Christine Lahti. It's really good.
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Good morning
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Good morning, all!
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DR Vixmom, did you see my inquiry the other day about the life alert system you engaged?
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I slept well until around 3:45, when the throbbing of my left leg ankle tendon became really unbearable. On top of that, I had this truly weird and unpleasant dream about finishing up a version of Cinderella at Goodspeed with a Cinderella a good 40=60 lbs overweight.
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Today I must make a trip to the UPS store at 86th Street and Columbus.
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BK, I find listening to too much Kalman only reinforces my opinion that his Hungarian-Gypsy music too often sounds the same to me. You might like Oscar Straus' Der Tapfere Soldat, better known as The Chocolate Soldier, whose debt to Shaw's Arms and the Man gives it a bit more solid construction and bite than some operetta. The 1908 standard English translation is quite poor, but it sparkles in German.
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I've never seen Herb Ross' Pennies from Heaven, and I've always wanted to see the BBC original miniseries before I did.
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But this leads to my Herb Ross story about the loathsome queen. In 1998, because he had had a success staging Anyone Can Whistle for a Gay Men's Health Crisis benefit at Carnegie Hall, they asked ghim to stage my reconstruction of Cole Porter's Jubilee. My whole memory of the experience is not good. I was at Goodspeed orchestrating the second-rate murder musical Redhead, and every day I got a call from GMHC: who do I want to conduct? The 1986 conductor Greg Dlugos. Herb says he's not a name. Jonathan Tunick then. Paul Gemignani gave him a bad recommendation. We settled on Todd Ellison, whom I love, and I havbe no idea to this day how Todd liked working with Herb Ross.
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Casting:
GMHC: who would you like as the Queen? Me: Carol Burnett. GMHC: Herb wants Bea Arthur.
GMHC: who would you like as Karen? Me: Karen Ziemba. GMHC: Herb hates her. He wants Sandy Duncan.
GMHC: any thoughts on the Princess? Me: Rebecca Luker was brilliant in 1986. GMHC: Herb says she's bland.
GMHC: who would you like as Mowgli? Me: Greg Louganis. GMHC: He's busy. We've got a body builder who cannot sing, act or dance.
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I was never asked to put in any appearance, but I did attend the sitzprobe, which Todd beautifully conducted. Mr Ross, whose deal included lots of perks for him and his then-wife Lee Radziwill. never once spoke to me. He had the good sense to ask Danny Daniels, who was a complete delight, to choreograph. He and I got along quite well. Sandy Duncan was a pain in the butt, who mentioned in all her publicity that she shouldn't be singing "Begin the Beguine." and who in performance rewrote a line in "Just One of Those Things" from "goodbye, dear, and amen/Here's hoping we meet now and then" to "Goodbye, dear, and good luck/Here's hoping we meet and we . . ." (coy moue and shrug). The Cole Porter Trust was not amused.
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I would not stop to pee on Herb Ross if he were on fire. He had talent, but he was a loathsome individual.
His films I sorta like:
The Turning Point
Nijinsky
The Seven Percent Solution
Yje Owl and the Pussycat
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Kitty cleanup is finished, and I need to make the bed.
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We always had a station wagon when I was growing up, but I always wanted an INCONTROVERTIBLE.
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DR JANE - I don't know.....to answer your question.....but then I don't have a new grandchild......
I don't know.....just for me....probably - no - but your circumstances are very different.
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DR DRUXY I thought that you wrote you were bored and driving to San Antonio for a change of scenery - but I didn't go back and check before I posted.
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I was excited to see The Turning Point because of all of the fantastic reviews, etc.....and I read the book, which may have been a novelization of the movie - I'm not sure....and the praise for Leslie Browne's acting as the daughter.....
And then I saw it......Browne was hideous, Bancroft as a ballet dancer was laughable, and MacLaine was her very own annoying self....I was very disappointed.
Herb Ross - I can't name a movie of his that I can say anything good about....maybe MAYBE The Owl & The Pussycat....MAYBE....
Olympia Dukakis was exposed as the ham she is in Steel Magnolias (what the hell was that accent she used).....so maybe that is something to his credit.
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Steve Martin.....
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Good morning, all.
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I've seen very few of Steve Martin's movies, which includes PENNIES FROM HEAVEN. Sounds like I should see it for the cast and those musical numbers. Nothing in particular against him, but unlike apparently the rest of humanity, I was never much taken with him. That changed over the years, and I've enjoyed catching up on a few of his films. I especially love DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, and LEAP OF FAITH has grown on me.
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I've seen very few of Steve Martin's movies, which includes PENNIES FROM HEAVEN. Sounds like I should see it for the cast and those musical numbers. Nothing in particular against him, but unlike apparently the rest of humanity, I was never much taken with him. That changed over the years, and I've enjoyed catching up on a few of his films. I especially love DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, and LEAP OF FAITH has grown on me.
My favorite Steve Martin film is his Cyrano take, Roxanne.
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Good morning, all.
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Once again, BK "triggers" me with mention of the Mahler Sixth, especially as regards the Leinsdorf recording. I've recounted the story of Szell's performance having been my first ever Cleveland Orchestra concert when I was just starting school. Talk about an auspicious beginning. I went to it twice that week, listened to it on the weekly FM broadcast shortly thereafter, and finally got to play in it the following year at school, in the company of several Cleveland Orchestra ringers who had played it under Szell.
Anyhoo, in those days there were only a couple of recordings: an early mono one from Holland (?) that I remember as being very weird (it was likely the first ever recording of the piece), and the Leinsdorf. I remember my dorm-mate and I snatching up that Leinsdorf with glee at Willis Music downtown in the Cleveland Arcade.
As I recall it, the Bernstein one (paired with the Ninth) would be the next to appear, but it wasn't yet released when my friends and I were studying for our performance of it, so the Leinsdorf was our go-to for listening. I really loved it and listened to it probably more times than I can imagine. I shall soon enjoy taking my copy off the shelf and hearing it again for the first time in a few decades.
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I've seen very few of Steve Martin's movies, which includes PENNIES FROM HEAVEN. Sounds like I should see it for the cast and those musical numbers. Nothing in particular against him, but unlike apparently the rest of humanity, I was never much taken with him. That changed over the years, and I've enjoyed catching up on a few of his films. I especially love DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, and LEAP OF FAITH has grown on me.
My favorite Steve Martin film is his Cyrano take, Roxanne.
I'll check that out.
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I sat through Pennies from Heaven two times in a row the day it came out. I didn’t know Dennis Potter’s work before, but this one left me gobsmacked. I think it’s the best screen work from a lot of people before and behind the camera, as BK mentions. Vernel Bagneris’ dancing of the title song is spectacular.
Other Ross films I like:
Funny Lady
The Last of Sheila
The Seven Percent Solution
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Steve Martin
All of Me
Cyrano
A Simple Twist of Fate
Pennies from Heaven
LA Story
Little Shop of Horrors
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Onward ...
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Two!
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I must step out to the UPS store.
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DR DRUXY I thought that you wrote you were bored and driving to San Antonio for a change of scenery - but I didn't go back and check before I posted.
I am a bit bored, but not driving to San Antonio.
Been there. Done that.
:D
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Actually, for the past couple of months, I've been busy directing audio versions of my plays.
Two are up and running (Audrey Hepburn & Jason Robards)
Another has been approved and will be out within a day or two (Gary Cooper)
Two more are finished and waiting approval (Roy Scheider and Bud Abbott)
A novel is in production (NOBODY DROWNS IN MINERAL LAKE)
Hopefully, I'm about to cast my Peter Lorre play.
Not sure what I'll do next.
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Actually, for the past couple of months, I've been busy directing audio versions of my plays.
Two are up and running (Audrey Hepburn & Jason Robards)
Another has been approved and will be out within a day or two (Gary Cooper)
Two more are finished and waiting approval (Roy Scheider and Bud Abbott)
A novel is in production (NOBODY DROWNS IN MINERAL LAKE)
Hopefully, I'm about to cast my Peter Lorre play.
Not sure what I'll do next.
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I'd recast.
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I didn't get to all my errands. I was moving so poorly today that I got to the UPS store and the market. I did not make it to the bank, and that can wait until Monday. For the first time ever in my forty years as a New Yorker I was actually terrified to be out on the streets. I don't like this fear, but I'm terrified I will fall down and no one will help me up.
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On a happier note, my new lease arrived in the mail and I have a home for two more years.
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Good afternoon!
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DR JANE - I don't know.....to answer your question.....but then I don't have a new grandchild......
I don't know.....just for me....probably - no - but your circumstances are very different.
Right, you wouldn't go and I wouldn't either if this wasn't such an emotional event I am missing.
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The brain vs the heart is very difficult.
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I've seen very few of Steve Martin's movies, which includes PENNIES FROM HEAVEN. Sounds like I should see it for the cast and those musical numbers. Nothing in particular against him, but unlike apparently the rest of humanity, I was never much taken with him. That changed over the years, and I've enjoyed catching up on a few of his films. I especially love DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, and LEAP OF FAITH has grown on me.
My favorite Steve Martin film is his Cyrano take, Roxanne.
Now I am in the mood to watch this again.
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On a happier note, my new lease arrived in the mail and I have a home for two more years.
Good.
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Saturday afternoon greetings! We've already had one downpour and more rain is expected for the next several days.
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The brain vs the heart is very difficult.
We're having the same battle, DR Jane...
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On a happier note, my new lease arrived in the mail and I have a home for two more years.
Nice to get some good news!
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Topsy-Turvy is brilliant. I am so enjoying this. Forgot how good the entire cast, including Shirley Henderson and Kevin McKidd, are.
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Topsy-Turvy is brilliant. I am so enjoying this. Forgot how good the entire cast, including Shirley Henderson and Kevin McKidd, are.
There's so much accurate about this film I still wonder why he made one of the characters (Grossmith?) a drug addict.
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Topsy-Turvy is brilliant. I am so enjoying this. Forgot how good the entire cast, including Shirley Henderson and Kevin McKidd, are.
There's so much accurate about this film I still wonder why he made one of the characters (Grossmith?) a drug addict.
In an interview in the extras of Naked, he said that shocked a lot of people, and he believes it is largely because it suggested that nothing backstage has changed much through the years.
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Watching the deleted scenes and extras, and then maybe a bootleg of Our Island Home, a musical Gilbert wrote with Thomas German Reed. I don't know anything about it.
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Watching the deleted scenes and extras, and then maybe a bootleg of Our Island Home, a musical Gilbert wrote with Thomas German Reed. I don't know anything about it.
The German Reeds produced several of Gilbert's musicals. You might find this site interesting: https://www.gsarchive.net
Or this: http://becksraredvds.com/home
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The brain vs the heart is very difficult.
We're having the same battle, DR Jane...
With the shorter distance it will be easier for you to see your granddaughter. I also gather there is a yard you can sit in once there, something we won't have.
It gets harder with each month as she gets older.
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I'm up, I'm up - eight and a half hours of sleep. Straight through.
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Watching the deleted scenes and extras, and then maybe a bootleg of Our Island Home, a musical Gilbert wrote with Thomas German Reed. I don't know anything about it.
The German Reeds produced several of Gilbert's musicals. You might find this site interesting: https://www.gsarchive.net
Or this: http://becksraredvds.com/home
Looks fun.
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Costco run is complete. Got out for less than I expected.
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Now watching a hilarious short film from Mike Leigh starring a very young Jim Broadbent. It's called A Sense of History and it's a merciless satire of the British nobility. Think of an anti-Downton Abbey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zbguO3npE
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Now watching a hilarious short film from Mike Leigh starring a very young Jim Broadbent. It's called A Sense of History and it's a merciless satire of the British nobility. Think of an anti-Downton Abbey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zbguO3npE
You might enjoy The Young Visiters.
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Now watching a hilarious short film from Mike Leigh starring a very young Jim Broadbent. It's called A Sense of History and it's a merciless satire of the British nobility. Think of an anti-Downton Abbey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zbguO3npE
You might enjoy The Young Visiters.
Perhaps later today. I'm watching the last of the extras. After that, a nap.
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Topsy-Turvy is brilliant. I am so enjoying this. Forgot how good the entire cast, including Shirley Henderson and Kevin McKidd, are.
I received this as a gift from the lovely TCB some years ago. I shall have to revisit it. It is a wonderful movie
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On a happier note, my new lease arrived in the mail and I have a home for two more years.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
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Just chortling in my joy of that news
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The brain vs the heart is very difficult.
In my experience the stomach wins
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The brain vs the heart is very difficult.
In my experience the stomach wins
Are you avoiding my life alert inquiry?
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TOD
Three Amigos
Little Shop of Horrors
Roxanne
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
My Blue Heaven
L.A. Story
Parenthood
Leap of Faith
The Big Year
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The brain vs the heart is very difficult.
In my experience the stomach wins
Are you avoiding my life alert inquiry?
Oh sorry I keep forgetting to look up the name
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Please hold
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Medical Alert
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Thank you, dear!
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Costco run is complete. Got out for less than I expected.
That's good unless less meant you couldn't find everything you wanted.
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The brain vs the heart is very difficult.
In my experience the stomach wins
Not my sensitive stomach ;D
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Thank you, dear!
DR elmore are you looking at getting one for yourself?
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I liked Topsy Turvy and I think I have the DVD around here.
RE: Mr Steve Martin.....I learned from the Laurel Canyon documentary that he also had a serious relationship with Miss Linda Ronstadt which I never knew.....or forgot about.
He opened for her band at several clubs including, I think, The Troubadour.....they went out for a couple of weeks, and she asked him: "Do you always go out with girls for such a long time before you try sleep with them?"
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I liked Topsy Turvy and I think I have the DVD around here.
RE: Mr Steve Martin.....I learned from the Laurel Canyon documentary that he also had a serious relationship with Miss Linda Ronstadt which I never knew.....or forgot about.
He opened for her band at several clubs including, I think, The Troubadour.....they went out for a couple of weeks, and she asked him: "Do you always go out with girls for such a long time before you try sleep with them?"
:o I didn't realize two weeks was a long time ;D
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Another Dennis Potter sighting. He is quoted at the end of Daniel J. Levitin's Successful Aging, a book I just finished. Potter, knowing he was dying of pancreatic cancer, wrote in his last days, "The only thing you know for sure is the present tense. That nowness becomes so vivid to me now that, in a perverse sort of way, I'm serene. I can celebrate life. ... Things are both more trivial than they ever were -- and more important than they ever were. And the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous."
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I liked Topsy Turvy and I think I have the DVD around here.
RE: Mr Steve Martin.....I learned from the Laurel Canyon documentary that he also had a serious relationship with Miss Linda Ronstadt which I never knew.....or forgot about.
He opened for her band at several clubs including, I think, The Troubadour.....they went out for a couple of weeks, and she asked him: "Do you always go out with girls for such a long time before you try sleep with them?"
Great story.
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Making dinner. A salmon burger (from Costco) paired with leftover red cabbage.
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Picked up no packages and a five-dollar residual, had McDonald's for lunch, and watched a motion picture and snoozed.
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Thank you, dear!
You are welcome!
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Just got an Amber Alert warning me of the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the county.
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:o :o :o
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Did it actually say Amber alert?
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I occasionally receive warnings for things on my cell phone that don't say "Amber".
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Did it actually say Amber alert?
Yes. I received two. One said Amber. The other says: Emergency Alert
STAY HOME. The COVID-19 virus is spreading rapidly across Bexar County. Local hospitals are approaching capacity. Protect yourself and your family. Stay home except for essential activities, wear a face covering and avoid gathering with people outside your household. STAY SAFE. For more info visit covid19.sanantonio.gov
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Just finished Our Island Home. Very strange early Gilbert and still very funny. The big thing they kept singing about is anchovy sauce, which I loved to no end. Turns out the pirate king who shows up at the end of the show has to kill the others because of the pirate vow he's taken. He was an apprentice pirate but that ends tomorrow. Except it's already today because of the time zone they're in. So, he doesn't have to kill them after all.
Yes, he used quite a few things later in his career, especially in H.M.S. Pinafore and Pirates of Penzance.
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Apparently, there were 800 new cases in San Antonio today alone, which is why the alert.
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So, if you can't get enough cat videos on YouTube, you can watch a feature-length collection of them as a fundraiser.
https://catfest.vhx.tv/products/quarantine-cat-film-festival-miracle-theatre
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Starting A Thousand Clowns, but I may not be able to watch all of it today. THe tone of the score is not what I need to hear today.
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Did it actually say Amber alert?
Yes. I received two. One said Amber. The other says: Emergency Alert
STAY HOME. The COVID-19 virus is spreading rapidly across Bexar County. Local hospitals are approaching capacity. Protect yourself and your family. Stay home except for essential activities, wear a face covering and avoid gathering with people outside your household. STAY SAFE. For more info visit covid19.sanantonio.gov
They really made sure you got it. I think that is great but very sad it is needed. Stay well.
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Apparently, there were 800 new cases in San Antonio today alone, which is why the alert.
Sigh.
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Apparently, there were 800 new cases in San Antonio today alone, which is why the alert.
You know if they only slowed down testing I bet they could have cut that number in half
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Apparently, there were 800 new cases in San Antonio today alone, which is why the alert.
You know if they only slowed down testing I bet they could have cut that number in half
Exactly. You need to come run the program here. You could do it proud.
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Four!
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:D
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Starting A Thousand Clowns, but I may not be able to watch all of it today. THe tone of the score is not what I need to hear today.
I love A THOUSAND CLOWNS.
Directed a production back in the late 1960s.
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The score to A Thousand Clowns is one of the film's issues.
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Poor Druxy's memory banks must be going, since we had quite the long discussion of A Thousand Clowns a couple of weeks ago :)
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I enjoyed A Thousand Clowns quite a lot thanks to some great performances. I can also see the role of Murray is a difficult one to cast. The thought of Tom Selleck in the revival makes me understand why it flopped. He's too passive.
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Good night, all.
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Earthlink appears to be down and out.
Can't send/receive e-mails.
Nobody at Earthlink is responding either by phone or Internet.
Indeed, their entire site appears to be down.
Anybody know anything about what's going on?
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Poor Druxy's memory banks must be going, since we had quite the long discussion of A Thousand Clowns a couple of weeks ago :)
If I'm supposed to remember what was discussed on this site 2-3 weeks ago, I guess my memory is going.
Of course, I do have other things I'm dealing with in my life.
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I didn't get to all my errands. I was moving so poorly today that I got to the UPS store and the market. I did not make it to the bank, and that can wait until Monday. For the first time ever in my forty years as a New Yorker I was actually terrified to be out on the streets. I don't like this fear, but I'm terrified I will fall down and no one will help me up.
~~~Don't-Fall-Down Vibes for Larry!!~~~
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100!!
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On a happier note, my new lease arrived in the mail and I have a home for two more years.
Congrats, Larry!
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Just got an Amber Alert warning me of the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the county.
:o
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Today, I went to Subway for a Spicy Italian wrap.
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It wasn't too bad. :)
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I ate it at the Subway, but I don't think I should have...it was FREEZING in there! :o
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Then, I came back home and read on my Kindle for a while.
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Now, I'm on my computer, and my DVR is recording "Global Goal: Unite."
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It's another concert fundraiser.
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Finished with my viewing.
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Has anyone discussed A Thousand Clowns?
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Has anyone discussed A Thousand Clowns?
I haven't.
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Then, I came back home and read on my Kindle for a while.
I am going to read on my tablet for awhile.
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I've been a good boy today, food-wise - nothing beyond what I ate earlier - same thing yesterday - got to drop some weight.
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One of the substitutes from Ralph's was teeny-tiny little Canada Dry diet ginger ale cans. I do not understand the point of these - two sips and you're done.
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I also do not understand the point of page four.
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Maybe if we discussed A Thousand Clowns or, at the very least, A Thousand-Island Dressing.
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I gotta tell you.
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I think we're being gaslit here, there is no way we can still be on page four.
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It's really that simple.
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And yet...
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One of the substitutes from Ralph's was teeny-tiny little Canada Dry diet ginger ale cans. I do not understand the point of these - two sips and you're done.
Exactly! What is the point??
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My friend Margo called me today and we chatted a bit. Coincidentally, she told me that just yesterday she was looking for some diet Pepsi at a store near where she lives, and all she could find were the small cans. She and I both are diet Pepsi drinkers, and the tiny little cans are just not enough, so I never buy them, and Margo didn't. :P
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Has anyone discussed A Thousand Clowns?
Are you saying we can’t discuss a subject twice within a certain period of time?
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Hell, we discuss some things daily!
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I have limited things I can discuss tonight.
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I stayed in bed and slept until 3:30 this afternoon.
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I just felt horrible all day.
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I usually try to get up for a while, even if I don’t feel good, but today that was impossible.
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I hope this is just a continuation of the same cold that has been hanging around.
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But I certainly don’t want CoVid-19.
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I just hope I can sleep tonight.
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Oh, I guess I lost George.
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I guess I don’t have to ask if I was boring him.
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Didn’t we mention a while back the idea of doing a chat room again sometime?
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Or is that not possible on this system?
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Who are you talking too, dummy?
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Oh, yeah. Good night.
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One of the substitutes from Ralph's was teeny-tiny little Canada Dry diet ginger ale cans. I do not understand the point of these - two sips and you're done.
If they are the same size as the little Pepsi cans then I think the size is perfect. This stuff isn't good for you, especially if you have reflux issues.
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I usually try to get up for a while, even if I don’t feel good, but today that was impossible.
I am sorry and hope you feel better tomorrow.
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But I certainly don’t want CoVid-19.
How I felt the other night when I was concerned if we were sick or just paranoid. I really freaked out after Keith felt like he might be getting a fever.
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BE WELL VIBES FOR DR TCB AND EVERYONE ELSE!
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I just felt horrible all day.
~~~Continued Feel Better Vibes for Tom!!~~~
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Oh, I guess I lost George.
Sorry, I was watching some theatrical videos on YouTube.
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I guess I don’t have to ask if I was boring him.
My answer would always be: NEVER! :D
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Was TCB unaware that I was having sport with A Thousand Clowns?