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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 12:10:59 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were unpopular and had opinions, and now it is time for you to post until the unpopular cows come home.
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 12:12:11 AM
And the word of the day is: ARGOT!
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 12:16:03 AM
'night
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 01:44:29 AM
Well, this is cool...I don't know for how long, but both Ann (https://www.pbs.org/video/ann-3fpvx3/), a play about former Texas governor Ann Richards starring Holland Taylor, and Gloria: A Life (https://www.pbs.org/video/gloria-a-life-wx5l3u/), a play about Gloria Steinem starring Christine Lahti, are streaming on PBS' website.  Highly recommended (unless you just don't like either subject, or either actress ;) ).
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 02:19:56 AM
Have a good day, all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 04:30:36 AM
Good morning, all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 04:32:19 AM
If it weren't for three cats, I would still be sleeping.  It was quite difficult getting out of bed this morning, and I think I will spend most of my day there dozing and watching the telly.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 04:33:58 AM
I have absolutely no plans, but there are a few things I could do if my energy rises to the occasion:
  1.  pay bills
  2.  cook
  3.  laundry
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 05:24:16 AM
Sad to read that Elly Stone has died.  I met her once after seeing her in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well . . . in Philadelphia in 1972.  She was very sweet.  Of the many times I saw the Brel show, at tyhe Village Gate, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, none of her replacements came close to her performance.  I also saw one of her Carnegie Hall concerts in 1972.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/theater/elly-stone-dead.html
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 05:27:35 AM
The other lady in the original Brel cast was Alice Whitfield, mother of My Cousin Vinny actor Mitchell Whitfield, and Alice became a friend in the late 1980s.  One day I asked her why she had only two solos in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well . . . and she said, Because Elly Stone is a BITCH!
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 06:17:54 AM
This is one of my favorite Brel songs performed by Miss Stone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4tMl9_fWi8
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 06:32:07 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 06:32:57 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 06:33:28 AM
The other lady in the original Brel cast was Alice Whitfield, mother of My Cousin Vinny actor Mitchell Whitfield, and Alice became a friend in the late 1980s.  One day I asked her why she had only two solos in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well . . . and she said, Because Elly Stone is a BITCH!
If we only have love ....
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 06:41:29 AM
Oh, my. Elly Stone.

I played that record to death back in 1992. That show was literally my entry into working in musical theater since moving here. I'd been attending things, of course, but I heard about an audition call at one of my local nernts, and decided to go over and check out what, if anything, they might need in the way of musicians. They'd already hired a music director, but I played the auditions and learned Brel from scratch; I'd never played it and had only some familiarity with a few of the songs. They weren't hiring a band, just piano, and as it turned out, due to some family situation, I ended up doing most of the rehearsing and I played their opening weekend. The director was ineffective and the production was about as rough around the edges as they get, but I loved it and succeeded in getting my feet.

So as it happens, that was exactly the time that the Village Gate revival was going on. I went down and saw it and loved the show (I honestly don't remember anything about that cast now), and one of our own cast members and I went down a few weeks later to see it again. It was a good time getting to know Jacques Brel, and I'd love to have a proper second go at it someday.

She directed that revival, didn't she? I haven't read the obits yet. I will have to dig out my program.
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 06:52:32 AM
Ah, "Carousel". Listening now.

Oh man, learning that score from scratch with those crazy rental materials. That was a trip. I look at it now and ask, how did I do that way back then? Well, I need to do it again.
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Post by: Jennifer on June 28, 2020, 06:53:08 AM
Feel better vibes for DR TCB!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Post by: Druxy on June 28, 2020, 06:53:36 AM
THE GREEN SLIME

Robert Horton was (briefly) my publicity client when that film came out.
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Post by: Jennifer on June 28, 2020, 06:54:49 AM
DR Jane, I noticed yesterday that you mentioned reading on your tablet. Do you also have an ereader only. Or do you do all of your reading on a tablet?  Does it hurt your eyes or give you headaches? I can't imagine reading as much as I do and reading on a tablet. Although my mom started reading on her ipad mini since covid started. And she seems to like it.
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Post by: Druxy on June 28, 2020, 06:54:59 AM
I just signed an actor to do my Peter Lorre audio.

Fingers crossed.
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 06:55:43 AM
Feel better vibes for DR TCB!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And more vibes.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 06:58:39 AM
Feel better vibes for DR TCB!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And more vibes.

And more vibes!
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 07:03:08 AM
Ah, "Carousel". Listening now.

Oh man, learning that score from scratch with those crazy rental materials. That was a trip. I look at it now and ask, how did I do that way back then? Well, I need to do it again.


Elly Stone made two solo albums, and this is one of my favorite songs.  It's about her father-in-law, who was a taxi driver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygiEsSX2X7w
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 07:06:44 AM
And the great "Marieke."  I always wanted to meet Wolfgang Knittel just to tell him how brilliant his arrangements were for Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0qMaPJwlzQ
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 07:16:24 AM
Such an amazing singing style.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 07:16:30 AM
Ah, "Carousel". Listening now.

Oh man, learning that score from scratch with those crazy rental materials. That was a trip. I look at it now and ask, how did I do that way back then? Well, I need to do it again.


I kept a copy of the arranger's score after I did the show in 1976.  I loved our program cover, and here are the foure principals in "Madeleine." There were six people cast, two men alternated Man I, and I added a third man.  Of those six, three are now dead.  Sad.
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 07:16:45 AM
And the great "Marieke."  I always wanted to meet Wolfgang Knittel just to tell him how brilliant his arrangements were for Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0qMaPJwlzQ

Yes!
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 07:20:25 AM
Ah, "Carousel". Listening now.

Oh man, learning that score from scratch with those crazy rental materials. That was a trip. I look at it now and ask, how did I do that way back then? Well, I need to do it again.


I kept a copy of the arranger's score after I did the show in 1976.  I loved our program cover, and here are the foure principals in "Madeleine."

Pardon my ignorance, but is the arranger's score different from the handwritten PC score I kept a copy of?
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 07:20:34 AM
Ah, "Carousel". Listening now.

Oh man, learning that score from scratch with those crazy rental materials. That was a trip. I look at it now and ask, how did I do that way back then? Well, I need to do it again.


I kept a copy of the arranger's score after I did the show in 1976.  I loved our program cover, and here are the foure principals in "Madeleine."

Pardon my ignorance, but is the arranger's score different from the handwritten PC score I kept a copy of?

Probably the same score:  the four (five?) band parts and no vocals?
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 07:21:15 AM
Yes, that's it!
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Post by: Jrand73 on June 28, 2020, 07:23:55 AM
I liked Lucy when she was in the French restaurant and asked for ketchup on her ARGOT.
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Post by: Jrand73 on June 28, 2020, 07:24:16 AM
DR JANE - I guess it's LRT - Linda Ronstadt time......
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 07:24:40 AM
Yes, that's it!

It remains amazing to me how cheap a lot of those rental places are.  This show was making a lot of money, and they couldn't afford to create a decent rehearsal score or vocal parts. parts.
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Post by: Jrand73 on June 28, 2020, 07:24:42 AM
I love the Jacques Brel LP and played it many times when I got it.
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 07:33:07 AM
I've been letting YouTube run with the autoplays on this one. Amazing to hear it after so many years.
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 07:36:24 AM
I found it an adjustment, after learning the show, to listen to Brel's own solo albums. A year or two later at some record sale I picked up a series of 8 or 9 import LPs of him performing in various venues. Should take those out.
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 07:41:40 AM
Here's the poster for the one I played. I don't even recognize that MD's name. They must have gone through two of them while I was filling in!
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 07:50:55 AM
Today would have been New York's Gay Pride Parade.  I stopped marching when I left the Men's Chorus in 1998, and these days I would be trampled by those marching behind me, but in honor of the day, I will post this song by Fred Small as performed by my friends in the group, The Flirtations.  I dedicate it to the new grandmothers on HHW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sl2n0J3_LA
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Post by: KevinH on June 28, 2020, 08:16:19 AM
Good morning!
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Post by: KevinH on June 28, 2020, 08:16:28 AM
Vibes for TCB!
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Post by: Ginny on June 28, 2020, 08:56:47 AM
Sunday morning greetings!  We've Zoomed through church and are now ready for the rest of the day.
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Post by: Ginny on June 28, 2020, 09:00:08 AM
Ah, "Carousel". Listening now.

Oh man, learning that score from scratch with those crazy rental materials. That was a trip. I look at it now and ask, how did I do that way back then? Well, I need to do it again.


I kept a copy of the arranger's score after I did the show in 1976.  I loved our program cover, and here are the foure principals in "Madeleine." There were six people cast, two men alternated Man I, and I added a third man.  Of those six, three are now dead.  Sad.

I loved being DR Elmore's rehearsal assistant and head waitress for the cabaret-style performance.  This afternoon I'll listen to the cast album, in memory of Elly Stone and, moreover, of our dear departed friends.
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Post by: Ginny on June 28, 2020, 09:02:01 AM
Well, this is cool...I don't know for how long, but both Ann (https://www.pbs.org/video/ann-3fpvx3/), a play about former Texas governor Ann Richards starring Holland Taylor, and Gloria: A Life (https://www.pbs.org/video/gloria-a-life-wx5l3u/), a play about Gloria Steinem starring Christine Lahti, are streaming on PBS' website.  Highly recommended (unless you just don't like either subject, or either actress ;) ).

It was fun to watch my University of Michigan classmate, Christine Lahti, in this performance Friday evening.  She's come a long way from Student Lab Theatre productions in Ann Arbor!
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 09:26:51 AM
Just finished a wonderful movie called Frankie. It stars Isabelle Huppert, Brendan Gleeson and Marisa Tomei -- and the amazing landscape of Sintra, Portugal, which is one of the most gorgeous places I've ever been. And it showed me so much of that area that I missed in my one day there.
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Post by: Ginny on June 28, 2020, 09:37:30 AM
Last night I "attended" an online screening of a movie about Shirley Jackson, with Elisabeth Moss in the title role.  After the movie, there was a live chat with the director and star.  It was fun and well worth the $12 I spent to do it.
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Post by: Jrand73 on June 28, 2020, 09:41:17 AM
Nice DR ELMORE.
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Post by: Jrand73 on June 28, 2020, 09:41:29 AM
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT!!!!
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 09:42:28 AM
Last night I "attended" an online screening of a movie about Shirley Jackson, with Elisabeth Moss in the title role.  After the movie, there was a live chat with the director and star.  It was fun and well worth the $12 I spent to do it.

Did you like the movie? Moss seems really intense and funny at the same time, which is how Shirley comes off in her semi-autobiographical stuff.
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Post by: Jrand73 on June 28, 2020, 09:42:57 AM
Hmmm.....those interested in the arcane may like this website.  I just discovered it today looking for the cast of Susan Hayward's Las Vegas MAME production...

I may just be late to the party.

www.ovrtur.com
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 09:45:27 AM

I played that record to death back in 1992. That show was literally my entry into working in musical theater since moving here. I'd been attending things, of course, but I heard about an audition call at one of my local nernts, and decided to go over and check out what, if anything, they might need in the way of musicians. They'd already hired a music director, but I played the auditions and learned Brel from scratch; I'd never played it and had only some familiarity with a few of the songs. They weren't hiring a band, just piano, and as it turned out, due to some family situation, I ended up doing most of the rehearsing and I played their opening weekend. The director was ineffective and the production was about as rough around the edges as they get, but I loved it and succeeded in getting my feet.

So as it happens, that was exactly the time that the Village Gate revival was going on. I went down and saw it and loved the show (I honestly don't remember anything about that cast now), and one of our own cast members and I went down a few weeks later to see it again. It was a good time getting to know Jacques Brel, and I'd love to have a proper second go at it someday.


Nice story about your entry into local show business.
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Post by: Jrand73 on June 28, 2020, 09:50:11 AM
And btw - the cast list was there.....
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 09:50:16 AM
DR Jane, I noticed yesterday that you mentioned reading on your tablet. Do you also have an ereader only. Or do you do all of your reading on a tablet?  Does it hurt your eyes or give you headaches? I can't imagine reading as much as I do and reading on a tablet. Although my mom started reading on her ipad mini since covid started. And she seems to like it.

I almost got a kindle when Bryan gave me a new tablet.  My Samsung tablet is about the size of the mini iPad.  I have used Keith's larger tablet and prefer the lighter and more comfortable to hold smaller tablets.

Sometimes at night I need to put the tablet down and stop reading because my head hurts, other times I use it as a distraction from my head.  I woke up this morning around 4:00 with a very little migraine and hadn't read late last night.  I got headaches before I ever had a tablet or eReader. 
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 09:52:14 AM
DR Jennifer I also like the ability to switch from my book to the internet to look up people,events, and dates.  I
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 09:52:32 AM
DR JANE - I guess it's LRT - Linda Ronstadt time......

;D
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 09:55:23 AM
Last night I "attended" an online screening of a movie about Shirley Jackson, with Elisabeth Moss in the title role.  After the movie, there was a live chat with the director and star.  It was fun and well worth the $12 I spent to do it.

Did you like the movie? Moss seems really intense and funny at the same time, which is how Shirley comes off in her semi-autobiographical stuff.

I didn't watch previews though the movie looks interesting. 
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 09:57:08 AM
Before I read THE LOTTERY I read LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES. 
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 09:57:37 AM
I remember laughing a lot while reading Life Among the Savages.
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 09:57:56 AM
DR TCB how are you feeling today?
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 10:11:14 AM
I don't know if I reported on seeing SHIRLEY last week, but I liked it very much and Moss hits it out of the park. I need to read more of her works (already got them on the reading pile), and to learn more about Shirley Jackson herself.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 10:17:37 AM
Hmmm.....those interested in the arcane may like this website.  I just discovered it today looking for the cast of Susan Hayward's Las Vegas MAME production...

I may just be late to the party.

www.ovrtur.com

A bit late.  my friend Alan Gomberg is behind this site.  It's a great reference.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 10:19:28 AM
Before I read "The Lottery" I read The Haunting of Hill House, still terrifying.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 10:20:30 AM
Page 3 Dance!
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 10:32:11 AM
Before I read "The Lottery" I read The Haunting of Hill House, still terrifying.

Oh, same here. My introduction to that was my mother's Reader's Digest Condensed Books, and I'd read it a couple of times even before the 1963 film was released. I then bought the movie tie-in paperback, my copy of which is still nicely intact.

I was originally quite taken with the illustrations in the Reader's Digest version. Of course they are nothing like Robert Wise's vision, and I later appreciated them for that difference. Years later I mentioned this to friends who just happened to be dumping their collection of the Condensed Books. She pulled that volume and gave it to me so I'd be able to see those illustrations again. They're Canadian, and the RDs printed there had slipcovers, so I have a lovely memento of that moment in history. That's the volume that includes Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, which I also read a couple of times back in the day.
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 10:32:47 AM
But I digress!  :)

It was a few years before I got to "The Lottery" or any of the other books. And now it's time for a revival.
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Post by: Ginny on June 28, 2020, 10:36:39 AM
Last night I "attended" an online screening of a movie about Shirley Jackson, with Elisabeth Moss in the title role.  After the movie, there was a live chat with the director and star.  It was fun and well worth the $12 I spent to do it.

Did you like the movie? Moss seems really intense and funny at the same time, which is how Shirley comes off in her semi-autobiographical stuff.

It's based not on a biography or memoir, but on a novel by Susan Scarf Merrell in which Shirley Jackson is the main character. 

I did like the movie, but was glad I hadn't dragged Richard along.  He had watched GLORIA with me the night before and SHIRLEY would have been too much feminism for him.
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Post by: Ginny on June 28, 2020, 10:38:18 AM
I don't know if I reported on seeing SHIRLEY last week, but I liked it very much and Moss hits it out of the park. I need to read more of her works (already got them on the reading pile), and to learn more about Shirley Jackson herself.

I agree about Elisabeth Moss, and I liked the other principles, too.  And one of my favorite audiobook narrators, Orlagh Cassidy, played the dean's wife who works in the library.
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Post by: ChasSmith on June 28, 2020, 10:44:23 AM
Right, it's not biographical as such, as these characters and situation are fictitious. But it's most compelling nonetheless.
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 11:15:08 AM
I don't know if I reported on seeing SHIRLEY last week, but I liked it very much and Moss hits it out of the park. I need to read more of her works (already got them on the reading pile), and to learn more about Shirley Jackson herself.

If you did I missed it and thank you for repeating your thoughts on SHIRLEY.
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 12:14:01 PM
I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of sleep, straight through.
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 12:43:47 PM
Stanley's Chinese chicken salad will be here at two - the plan is to eat only that.  I must stick to it.
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 01:18:53 PM
Starting The Arrangement, one of two Kirk Douglas movies I got from the library this week. Seems sudsy.
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Post by: Jennifer on June 28, 2020, 01:39:12 PM
DR Jennifer I also like the ability to switch from my book to the internet to look up people,events, and dates.  I

I don't want the distractions and like having an ereader only.  I get headaches easily. So I find it much easier with the e-ink. It's really not like reading on a device at all. And i read outside a lot. So no glare.
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 02:01:10 PM
Just put a tray of brownies in the oven, because, well, sometimes a day just calls for brownies.
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 02:27:36 PM
And the aroma is filling the house.
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 02:36:03 PM
Just put a tray of brownies in the oven, because, well, sometimes a day just calls for brownies.

Yum.
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 02:37:09 PM
DR Jennifer I also like the ability to switch from my book to the internet to look up people,events, and dates.  I

I don't want the distractions and like having an ereader only.  I get headaches easily. So I find it much easier with the e-ink. It's really not like reading on a device at all. And i read outside a lot. So no glare.

I read a lot of historical fiction so looking up info is less distracting than thinking about the details while reading the fiction-lol
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Post by: Jrand73 on June 28, 2020, 02:48:23 PM
Tell him I am intrigued DR ELMORE......I didn't even know there was such a show as A Royal Flush!
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 03:02:11 PM
Stanley's arrived and eaten.  First time they've screwed up an order - I always order extra almonds and then I reiterate it in the special request box that I've checked that option above.  And they've always gotten it right but today the didn't do the extra almonds and instead gave me extra tangerine bits - it was fine but I did miss my extra almonds.
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 03:02:29 PM
Been listening to music and I guess I'll see if my package has arrived.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 03:09:03 PM
Tell him I am intrigued DR ELMORE......I didn't even know there was such a show as A Royal Flush!

Yes . . . sad.
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Post by: elmore3003 on June 28, 2020, 03:13:07 PM
The agency from whom I adopted Annabelle posted this photo for Kitty Pride today.
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 03:54:29 PM
Today’s #MemorialForUsAll features the Mostly Mozart Orchestra. The second piece, Arvo Part’s tribute to Benjamin Britten, is breathtaking. Made me tear up.

https://youtu.be/IXc0-5zBjwQ

Also, the camerawork for a Zoom concert is surprisingly advanced.
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 03:55:15 PM
Beautiful pride cats.
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Post by: Laura on June 28, 2020, 04:25:03 PM
Good afternoon.
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Post by: Laura on June 28, 2020, 04:44:26 PM
We had a foster cat like the orange one one. I named him "Toze."
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Post by: Jrand73 on June 28, 2020, 04:57:14 PM
Nice new picture DR LAURA.
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 05:08:55 PM
Nice new picture DR LAURA.

Very nice.
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 05:13:05 PM
Stanley's arrived and eaten.  First time they've screwed up an order - I always order extra almonds and then I reiterate it in the special request box that I've checked that option above.  And they've always gotten it right but today the didn't do the extra almonds and instead gave me extra tangerine bits - it was fine but I did miss my extra almonds.

I have toasted slivered almonds if you want some.
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 05:13:42 PM
Sweet kitty photos DR elmore.
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 05:13:43 PM
Package was delivered - perfectly timed for it to be too late for me to actually retrieve it.
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 05:14:13 PM
Been watching a motion picture.  I'll go out for a drive later.
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 05:14:18 PM
Good afternoon.

Awww, Ga Ga's little boy is super cute.
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 05:14:42 PM
We had a foster cat like the orange one one. I named him "Toze."

Great name :)
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 05:21:24 PM
Back to The Arrangement. I didn't like any of the characters in the movie, which isn't essential, I know. But I can't figure out why I'm watching all of these ugly people. Douglas can't overcome the writing, which is shallow and narcissistic on Elia Kazan's part. 
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 06:40:41 PM
Went for a nice walk around the neighborhood. With the sun not out, it was sort of pleasant.
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 06:44:57 PM
The White Tower has a promising cast: Glenn Ford, Claude Raines, Lloyd Bridges, Oscar Homolka. But Valli is not my favorite. And Valli in Technicolor is an even less-promising proposition.
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 06:57:12 PM
DR Ginny it seems Highlights for ages 0-2 is a hit.
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 07:01:20 PM
Finished one movie, watching another.
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 08:11:13 PM
Drive time.
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 08:28:47 PM
Great quote from Freddy Cole, Nat King Cole's younger brother and a great musician in his own right, who died recently at age 88:

"You don’t want to play all you know in the first two choruses. So I hit my stride at 70. . . . It’s just a matter of keep on plugging. . . . Sheer persistence.”
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Post by: John G. on June 28, 2020, 08:29:00 PM
Gratuitous post No. 100!
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 09:30:03 PM
Had a nice drive and am now listening to music and why shouldn't I?
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 09:30:15 PM
Awfully quiet around these here parts.
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 09:30:33 PM
Around these here parts it's awfully quiet.
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 09:30:50 PM
Quite, which is quiet rearranged. 
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 09:31:26 PM
I'm feeling rather feisty this evening. 
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Post by: bk on June 28, 2020, 09:31:39 PM
Feisty, I tell you.
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 10:38:09 PM
Great quote from Freddy Cole, Nat King Cole's younger brother and a great musician in his own right, who died recently at age 88:

"You don’t want to play all you know in the first two choruses. So I hit my stride at 70. . . . It’s just a matter of keep on plugging. . . . Sheer persistence.”

💙
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 10:38:41 PM
Sad to read that Elly Stone has died.  I met her once after seeing her in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well . . . in Philadelphia in 1972.  She was very sweet.  Of the many times I saw the Brel show, at tyhe Village Gate, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, none of her replacements came close to her performance.  I also saw one of her Carnegie Hall concerts in 1972.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/theater/elly-stone-dead.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/theater/elly-stone-dead.html)

That's too bad.  But wow...93 years old!
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 10:40:08 PM
The other lady in the original Brel cast was Alice Whitfield, mother of My Cousin Vinny actor Mitchell Whitfield, and Alice became a friend in the late 1980s.  One day I asked her why she had only two solos in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well . . . and she said, Because Elly Stone is a BITCH!

:o
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 10:44:00 PM
I read Freddy Cole died yesterday.  I admit having to look him up.
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 10:45:59 PM
I just signed an actor to do my Peter Lorre audio.

Fingers crossed.

Congrats and Break Legs, Druxy!
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 10:46:43 PM
I read Freddy Cole died yesterday.  I admit having to look him up.

I don't think that I had ever heard of him. :-\
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 10:50:16 PM
The Washington Post has an interesting obit today.
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Post by: Jane on June 28, 2020, 10:51:39 PM
I just signed an actor to do my Peter Lorre audio.

Fingers crossed.

Congrats and Break Legs, Druxy!

I apologize as I meant to say fingers crossed.
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:00:45 PM
Today would have been New York's Gay Pride Parade.  I stopped marching when I left the Men's Chorus in 1998, and these days I would be trampled by those marching behind me, but in honor of the day, I will post this song by Fred Small as performed by my friends in the group, The Flirtations.  I dedicate it to the new grandmothers on HHW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sl2n0J3_LA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sl2n0J3_LA)

I've seen The Flirtations in concert here in Olympia at The Evergreen State College back in the 1990s, and was even able to get their autographs!  I still have (somewhere) their three CDs (https://www.amazon.com/Flirtations/e/B000APY9U2/ref=dp_byline_cont_music_1). 
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:03:08 PM
Well, this is cool...I don't know for how long, but both Ann (https://www.pbs.org/video/ann-3fpvx3/), a play about former Texas governor Ann Richards starring Holland Taylor, and Gloria: A Life (https://www.pbs.org/video/gloria-a-life-wx5l3u/), a play about Gloria Steinem starring Christine Lahti, are streaming on PBS' website.  Highly recommended (unless you just don't like either subject, or either actress ;) ).

It was fun to watch my University of Michigan classmate, Christine Lahti, in this performance Friday evening.  She's come a long way from Student Lab Theatre productions in Ann Arbor!

That's pretty cool that you were classmates, Ginny!  Did you actually get to know her?
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:09:05 PM
DR Jennifer I also like the ability to switch from my book to the internet to look up people,events, and dates.  I

I don't want the distractions and like having an ereader only.  I get headaches easily. So I find it much easier with the e-ink. It's really not like reading on a device at all. And i read outside a lot. So no glare.

I also don't like the glare, but I read on my Kindles because I got them used...meaning cheap. ;)
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:09:30 PM
Just put a tray of brownies in the oven, because, well, sometimes a day just calls for brownies.

Yum.

Ditto! ;D
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:10:38 PM
The agency from whom I adopted Annabelle posted this photo for Kitty Pride today.

(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6178.0;attach=10134)

So cute!!
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:17:43 PM
PAGE FIVE DANCE!!
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:17:52 PM
Nice new picture DR LAURA.

Very nice.

Agreed!
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Post by: TCB on June 28, 2020, 11:22:22 PM
Today would have been New York's Gay Pride Parade.  I stopped marching when I left the Men's Chorus in 1998, and these days I would be trampled by those marching behind me, but in honor of the day, I will post this song by Fred Small as performed by my friends in the group, The Flirtations.  I dedicate it to the new grandmothers on HHW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sl2n0J3_LA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sl2n0J3_LA)

I've seen The Flirtations in concert here in Olympia at The Evergreen State College back in the 1990s, and was even able to get their autographs!  I still have (somewhere) their three CDs (https://www.amazon.com/Flirtations/e/B000APY9U2/ref=dp_byline_cont_music_1). 


I read that as the Flintstones.
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Post by: TCB on June 28, 2020, 11:24:55 PM
I am feeling better today.
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Post by: TCB on June 28, 2020, 11:25:42 PM
Thank you all for the feel better vibes!
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:26:06 PM
I am feeling better today.

That's great, Tom!
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Post by: TCB on June 28, 2020, 11:27:01 PM
I must report approximately 96% compliance with face masks today.
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Post by: TCB on June 28, 2020, 11:27:29 PM
What a difference a day makes.
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Post by: TCB on June 28, 2020, 11:30:32 PM
What a difference a day makes.


Or, on this Pride Sunday, what a difference a gay makes.
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:34:17 PM
What a difference a day makes.


Or, on this Pride Sunday, what a difference a gay makes.

:))
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:34:48 PM
So, Did comedian Sacha Baron Cohen crash rally in downtown Olympia? (https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article243834242.html)
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:35:26 PM
Yes!  Those at rally share details of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s surprise appearance (https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article243857372.html)!
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:35:40 PM
Who knew??  Not me!
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:35:55 PM
I certainly wouldn't have gone, even if I had known.
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Post by: TCB on June 28, 2020, 11:40:49 PM
I just saw a preview on the new film IRRESISTIBLES.  They quoted two reviews Praising Jon Stewart and mentioned (at least) twice the the film was written and directed by Jon Stewart.  Except the entire trailer was shots of Steve Carell, except his name was never mentioned once in the entire ad.
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Post by: TCB on June 28, 2020, 11:41:06 PM
Good night.
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:45:31 PM
I just saw a preview on the new film IRRESISTIBLES.  They quoted two reviews Praising Jon Stewart and mentioned (at least) twice the the film was written and directed by Jon Stewart.  Except the entire trailer was shots of Steve Carell, except his name was never mentioned once in the entire ad.

That's weird. 
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Post by: George on June 28, 2020, 11:45:39 PM
Good night.

Good night, Tom.
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Post by: George on June 29, 2020, 12:08:58 AM
Here's a video of Sacha Baron Cohen in Olympia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb5dQycDnPE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb5dQycDnPE)
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Post by: George on June 29, 2020, 12:18:55 AM
Well, I hate to do it, but I'm heading to bed.  I have a bit of a headache and I can't keep my eyes open, so I'm going to give up trying.

Have a good day tomorrow, all!
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Post by: bk on June 29, 2020, 12:36:14 AM
Sandy Rosenberg, the wonderful actress who played Mrs. Keller in the first Outside the Box episode (The Miracle Worker, The Musical), died this evening - cancer - too young.