NO NO NO - THE LAST VOYAGE is on TCM tonight!!!
RE: The chili and bean debate from the other day. I'm watching a b-b-q & chili cook-off in Vagas and the rule is NO BEANS in competition chili contests...just meat and sauce.This is the standard for chili competitions, dating back to when the whole competition stuff started in 1967. There are two main organizations, the International Chili Society (ICS) based in California, and the Chili Appreciation Society International (CASI), each having their own set of rules (http://floridachili.com/so_you_want_to_cook_competition_.htm).
JRand54, I made a DVDr of THE LAST VOYAGE...I need to make you a copy....of course when my DVD burner works again. ::)
DR Michael Shayne, THE LAST VOYAGE is a wonderful movie! You will enjoy it! Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders, Woody Strode, and little Tammy Marihugh.
We're off to relocate a boxer...have fun!
I think it's a wonderful gesture, vixmom!???
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Thanks, but I do not know to what you are referring
DR Matt perhaps we can arrange a NY HHW meet up on August 7?
What do the other NY area Hainse/Kimlets think?
I can't help it if you're busily typing another post or two after your last one popped up! :)
I was referring to the "recent" gesture:
Thanks DR DANISE. I did!
MADAME X for some reason is on TCM again this Sunday if you want to see the whole thing. AND THE LAST VOYAGE is on TCM tomorrow night!
A high school production of TMM? I didn't realize it had been released yet. DRJASON really needs to come back and keep us up to date on these things!
DR MS - to add to what MB and TCB have said - THE LAST VOYAGE is one of those Andrew & Virginia Stone docu-dramas. Very intense with some good performances by Stack & Malone (although it is strange to see them married, since I remember them as brother and sister in WRITTEN ON THE WIND) - of course that explains Tami Marihugh, a young actress that DR MBARNUM likes and I find strange. There is no excuse for her parents letting her do some of the stunts she obviously does in THE LAST VOYAGE.
Well unofrtunately I missed most of the partay yesterday. So I must catch up.
Last night was the Girl Scout Mother/ Daughter Dinner which was quite lovely.
Too much dancing... I have blisters on the balls of my feet!
The Hamilton High teacher Rich Schraier, is persistant, and one of his former students was in the show and understudied and played Millie many times - she's choreographing the show. So, strings were pulled - they're the first school to do the show. It will be an exact replica of the B'way show, staging-wise. That is his 'thing'.
Last night was the Girl Scout Mother/ Daughter Dinner which was quite lovely.
Too much dancing... I have blisters on the balls of my feet!
I've seen The Last Voyage many times, first at my beloved Stadium Theater. I remember it being advertised as "the most intense (or suspenseful) ninety whatever minutes you'll ever spend" or something like that - can anyone find an image of the poster - it has that line on it.
I thought only 3 year olds could run! :o
A derby for the derby winner would be redundant.
Was that because you're daughter's feet were on top of yours while you were dancing?????
As Bruce says, the party starts before the race, there is a TV droning on in the background with the various prelimmaries before the race and several dope sheets culled from the internet and newspapers for people to handicap their horses for the pool and place their bets.
Everything quiets down for the actual race. We sing My Old Kentucky Home. The race is watched on two TVs. One out on the back deck and one in the TV room off the back deck. Then those who picked the winner split the pot, according to their size of their bet.
Then the TVs are turned off. Music is put on and the party continues well into the night. There are nibblies before the race and the real food comes out after it. The race is just an excuse to throw a big party on a day that will not be co-opted by anything else. If you have one on 4th of July, say, too much competition. But Derby Day, especially in California??? The Lovely Wife and I own that day out here.
I tried dancing in three-and-a-half-inch heels - very painful and I fell over three times.
And my Bollywood movie for the weekend:
MY BROTHER NIKHIL (2005)
A champion swimmer is diagnosied with HIV...his family freaks out at this, and the revelation that he is gay. The only two who stand by him are his sister and his boyfriend.
This is the first Bollywood movie to deal with the subject of male homosexuality, and only the second to deal with the issue of HIV and AIDs....the first being last years remake of the film PHILADELPHIA, but with a woman in the lead role (which I have on DVD but have not watched yet)
Despite the serious tone of the film there is still the requisite singing and dancing!
(http://216.247.121.93/dvdImages/b7629.jpg)
I'm a strange party-giver. I really don't like big parties, but when I do my Christmas Eve do, no matter how many people attend, I usually try to herd them into one room, because that's how I think parties are fun, with everyone together, yakking and schmoozing. I have a really nice place for party-flow, but I just don't like flow, I guess. My favorite parties to have are small dinner parties - love those, and I must do one very soon.
Well, I had a productive lunch. Why, oh, why do I go to Academy after lunch??? But I did happen across some very nice things which will provide me with listening material this afternoon.
I got The Happy Time with [/b]Robert Goulet[/b], David Wayne and "Mike" Rupert (before he became Michael Rupert).
I also got Allegro with the original cover art and CD booklet. Apparently there were two other later releases. This one uses the 1947 record cover art.
And I also got Mr. Wonderful, "a new musical comedy" starring Sammy Davis, Jr.. I have seen this record at various used record stores but didn't want to part with $50 or more. I know the CD is out of print so I was very happy to get it for a mere $15. Along with Sammy we get The Will Mastin Trio, Jack Carter, Pat Marshall, Olga James AND Miss Chita Rivera. Book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman with music and lyrics by a trio Jerry Bock, Larry Holofgener and George Weiss.
My afternoon listening is set.
Mermaid.Why, did someone mention mermaid?
We throw two big parties a year: Derby and a Holiday one in December. There's anywhere from 30-60 people at them. But they are open house in nature and people seem to come in waves, which always makes it better. Still Julieanne and I are so busy playing hostess and host, we rarely have time to revel in the day until the end when several of our hardcore friends stay late into the night and it gets small enough to really relax.
Still this is the only time we see some people in the year. People that we don't want to lose touch with. Also both parties have become such fixtures that expectations run high and people would be disappointed if we didn't have them, so we're almost obligated. Every few years we take a break though. Partially we need the rest; and also just to weed out some folk who got invited for a few years, but with whom we never really connected and no great bonds were forged...people I met doing a film or therapists she worked with for awhile.
Throughout the year, we might have smaller gatherings. Usually, we have a few folks over on Halloween to sit around our fire in the courtyard as we hand out candy to trick or treaters and consume several bottles of wine.
We will also have game nights....where we have six or eight people over to play various games...from board to parlour. These are always fun. And occasionally, I will have boys' night in...which could be anything from poker to trivial pursuit with a half dozen guys. Though both of these last two we haven't done for a couple of years, it seems.
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Oh...my...gosh.
It matched me up with EDIE!
Oh...my...gosh.
It matched me up with EDIE!
Well, we must have a poker night, Pardner Pogue. And, by gum and by golly and buy bonds I'm going to plan a dinner party in the next four weeks so I can make my famous and yummilicious Beef Stroganoff. I haven't had a dinner party since throwing one for Mr. Stephen Schwartz and Miss Susan Egan. THAT was a great dinner party.
I love THE LAST VOYAGE. I have a friend (obviously much older than I) who was on the literal last voyage of the Ile de France...He still claims that the Ile de France was his favorite ocean liner of all time; although, by now, he seems to have forgotten his first voyage on the Mayflower.From what I've heard, the staterooms on the Mayflower were on the tiny side, even for the time. And the dinner service was inadequate. :-\
WFO I drove past your house last night on the way home from the GS dinner at the Huntington Town House... the wicked witch & co are really going to town on their driveway entrance aren't they? Do they think they live in the Taj Mahal?
From what I've heard, the staterooms on the Mayflower were on the tiny side, even for the time. And the dinner service was inadequate. :-\
I'm sure I didn't wear a sportcoat to the Schmidt/Jones thing - I probably didn't wear a coat at all.This sounds suggestive! :o
The only time I've worn a sport coat is to Crustacaen because one must. It's not that I have a rule, it's that my sportcoat (my one and only) is fifteen years old (and still in style) - fifteen years ago I weighed twenty pounds less than I do now, and it's just too too snug and uncomfortable. These three new sportcoats fit splendidly.In which case, it's a good thing you're in California and not in a major city on the East Coast, because so many of them require coats. And ties. And...SHOES!!!
TOD:No, I believe that's Barrowman's mother that joins him on that track. Very nice lady; der B and I met her the night we saw him in Putting It Together at the Taper in LA.
CD at Work: John Barrowman, "Reflections of Broadway". ...There is also a "hidden track" at the end (wonder where they got that idea!): "Not While I'm Around", a duet between John and, I thinK, Deam Edna, but I am not sure.
Oh, and you haven't seen (or heard) the worst of it.
Last summer, Lady Macbeth and her consort finally moved their driveway from illegally right on, and over, our property line to the south side. By "driveway", I mean 150-foot dirt track leading to a large dirt parking lot in front of the house.
They actually tore down several trees (old growth forest) and gouged a sort of valley into the land. This is, of course, causing a lot of erosion and a lot of dirt and sand to flow down the street whenever it rains.
What you saw was Her Highness's new concrete block wall along the front of the house, which is fortunately holding back some of the erosion. They have purchased enough of those blocks that they seem to be planning to line the whole new driveway with them.
But the latest addition, which you cannot see from the street, was to widen the parking lot even more and create a similar elegant wall around the remaining grove of trees. The parking lot is right below our bedroom windows, and every night this week their "friend" has been going from his real job to their house and working on this wall with a stone-cutting saw and a loud car radio until around 11:00. Same "friend" who comes over for an occasional long indoor afternoon visit while Lord Macbeth is at work.
Quite right, it is rather pretentious as the entrance to a house the size of a two-car garage.
Prentention I can tolerate. But these people are MALEVOLENT.
...and if you look at the mouths you'll see they are doing things that don't resemble what is being sung....This TCB moment is brought to you by... :o ::) ;D
Reviews for Goulet are generally quite positive, especially about his singing.
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=511733
I thought it was shorthand for "medieval elf".
CD at Home: Tom Wopat "The Still of the Night" Love his treatment of these songs. He isn't as cute as Barrowman though. More like what we "Crusade" fans call "rugged good looks".
(http://www.broadwaytovegas.com/tomwopat.jpg)
Here his is duking it around at a somewhat earlier age:
(http://www.serienoldies.de/images3/duke_tom.jpg)
No, I believe that's Barrowman's mother that joins him on that track. Very nice lady; der B and I met her the night we saw him in Putting It Together at the Taper in LA.
Incidentally, Barrowman is now part of the Whoniverse. He's listed as playing Captain Jack Harkness in the eighth thru thirteenth episodes of the current season of Doctor Who, with no word yet as to whether his character will continue into the next season (probably in order to eliminate spoilers).
But of course that was back before Joey was born.
And he will also appear in the film of melom by Brooks musical "Prodyusery", singing solo tenor in "Springtime for Hitler".
And speaking of Brooks, I should note that Bruce, as Brooks, not only wrote outstanding scenario and he became the to- director of picture, but also magnificently played the role "of director -devstvennika" John smiti (surname Smithee it must much say to amateurs and experts of cinematography...;)), and it also wrote entire music and songs to the picture (here already truly - man of many-sided talents),!
And he will also appear in the film of melom by Brooks musical "Prodyusery", singing solo tenor in "Springtime for Hitler".
And speaking of Brooks, I should note that Bruce, as Brooks, not only wrote outstanding scenario and he became the to- director of picture, but also magnificently played the role "of director -devstvennika" John smiti (surname Smithee it must much say to amateurs and experts of cinematography...;)), and it also wrote entire music and songs to the picture (here already truly - man of many-sided talents),!
Vixmom said:
"Ben, we (the Vixmom Trio), have requested places for A Little of What You Fancy on 5/14"
Glad to hear it. I will be there with you (my third time seeing the show). I just hope Mr. Vix doesn't judge the British accents too harshly ;)
We do not book online. To make reservations for "A Little Of What You Fancy"
you must call the 25 hour reservation hotline at 212-288-3246 x3.
Thank you
I'm curious, if you are male does it say YOU ARE LIKE EDIE, or does it just say she is your match? :)
It said I am Susan (who is actually my favorite Desperate Housewife).
I don't know from Desperate Housewives.
Yes, Vixmom, even though they have a Web site, Theatre 1010 does not take full advantage of that technological wonder. They do respond to e-mail from the site but they don't do much updating. I think the pictures at the site are from 2001 and 2002.
Oh, well, that's all right. We're a rather exclusive bunch, anyway.
:)
Oh, well, that's all right. We're a rather exclusive bunch, anyway.
:)
yep, just you, Laura Bush, Lynn Cheney....
Neil Diamond was on ABC this morning.
DR MS - to add to what MB and TCB have said - THE LAST VOYAGE is one of those Andrew & Virginia Stone docu-dramas. Very intense with some good performances by Stack & Malone (although it is strange to see them married, since I remember them as brother and sister in WRITTEN ON THE WIND) - of course that explains Tami Marihugh, a young actress that DR MBARNUM likes and I find strange. There is no excuse for her parents letting her do some of the stunts she obviously does in THE LAST VOYAGE.
DR Matt perhaps we can arrange a NY HHW meet up on August 7?
What do the other NY area Hainse/Kimlets think?
No sparkling prize - but can anyone guess what this is from?
I had no idea it even existed.
;D
(http://i10.ebayimg.com/03/i/03/f8/ab/4e_1_b.JPG)
The 7th probably wouldn't work for me since that's the date I'd be flying back and would probably have to be at the airport by noon.
Anybody know how to play Three Days in Tijuana?
dang
are you seeing a matinee or an evening performance on the 6th?
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I went back to Armani Wells just now, for I needed a black belt for tonight's fashion plate outfit. I ended up with three more lovely shirts. She also sells tuxedos, and since I spend ninety bucks a pop whenever I rent them, I'm buying one on Monday (already chosen, looks great) for 185. Incredible. I also want to get a few more pairs of pants on Monday. Then I'll be set for awhile, but I can see how her store may become addicting.
Both - PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE in the afternoon and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS at night.
DR Vixmom, not sure if anybody else has answered you. But Lynnette is Felicity Huffman, the once exec now stay at home mom of 4.
Yes, classic black, and the latest style, too.
It's the thought that counts, and things may change between now and August. That's a few months away when anything can happen.
I have never been much of bollywood fan but this sounds very interesting. Do you think it would available to rent anywhere?
Actually, I prefer the older Mr. Wopat!
I matched up with Susan! What does this really mean?? ;)
Does that make me lovable, needy, a s**t or a b***h?
Does that make me lovable, needy, a s**t or a b***h?
The new book that is NOT the book of short stories, but is NOT a mystery, that's the book coming out in September, right?
Jackie Wayne (Salvatore) who was in the Broadway Cast of DAMN YANKEES as a replacement for the original kid says:
My parents took me to the circus when I was about 6 or 7, and I was really excited about the acrobats. I started tumbling around our tiny Brooklyn apartment, and my parents figured (before I fell down a flight of stairs) that I should take some lessons. I did...and the same school also taught tap, which I became interested in.
I advanced quickly, and started taking song-and-dance lessons from an old vaudevillian, in New York City. A casting call went out for a replacement for one of the boys in the original cast of "Damn Yankees", who had outgrown the part. I auditioned and got it, and stayed with the show for 2 years until closing, singing "You Gotta Have Heart" every night.
Some memories are vivid today. My best friends in the cast were Ray Walston, Jean Stapleton, and the stagehands. At intermission on matinee days, the stagehands would take me out in the alley behind the theater, and we'd play baseball...or just toss an old "spawl-deen" around. Most of the other shows on Broadway went to intermission around the same time...so one of the stagehands---Bill Brannigan was his name, sweet old guy---would take me with him through the back entrances to theaters, and we'd stop in and see the farm animals at "Li'l Abner"...or the strippers at "Gypsy"...or the gunslinging cowboys at "Destry Rides Again". It was pretty cool for a young kid.
As for Ray Walston...he was a big kid, himself. Also a bit of a hypochondriac. I remember he always carried a small rubber ball with him offstage...and he was constantly squeezing it, to relieve stress. It was an obsession. One performance, I was sitting in his dressing room as he went on for a scene. I mischievously decided to swipe the little ball and hide it. Well, when he got off between scenes, he was so frantic at not being able to find his "security blanket" that I thought he was gonna burst. I gave it back to him pretty quickly, because it looked like he was about to miss his next entrance. He was not amused. But he got over it quickly, and good-naturedly vowed to take revenge. (I don't think he ever did...)
I'm hoping that someone who liked the Phantom film will offer a different perspective than mine.
MALEVOLENT, baby, MALEVOLENT. The first time I ever saw that word I thought it was pronounced male-volent. Who knew?Which, of course, raises the question: Why is MALEVOLENT a word, while FEMALEVOLENT is not?
Neil Diamond was on ABC this morning.
DR MS - to add to what MB and TCB have said - THE LAST VOYAGE is one of those Andrew & Virginia Stone docu-dramas.
As of tonight, there were only three episode of ENTERPRISE left, and tonight's show ended with "to be continued. . . " Argh! I had NO idea it was a two part episode. Good show, but I wanted three more stories, not two more! :(