-
Well, you've read the notes, you are sleuthing around to find out who killed who, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home, unless, of course, curiosity also killed the cows.
-
And the word of the day is: SYCOPHANT!
And let's not forget SYCOPHANT'S better half ELEPHANT!
-
I would like to do a biography of Rafael Sabatini, because so little is known about him. Unfortunately, I suspect that is one reason why no one has written a bio of him. Actually a book acquaintance of mine made an attempt once...but could find so little about him that he had to abandon the project.
-
It could be a short biography.
-
So many of my heroes have had bios - like Thurber, Lardner, Chandler, Woolrich, Macdonald. It wouldn't mind writing one on Harper Lee, as I think it's fascinating that someone who wrote one of the all-time great books, has never written a book since. I would find it fascinating to know how much of Mockingbird is based on truth and how much is fiction. Plus, if that came out of her life, I should think there would be much more of interest.
-
Good morning, all! When I dragged myself from bed at 5:45 am, there was an email from Colin saying that DRTomovoz' operation was successful. It made my day.
I'm now off for my big event, so I'll be E&T for most, if not all, of today. Thanks again for all the good vibes!
-
Good morning! Great news about Tom! Now we just need great news about you, Elmore!
Healing vibes and thoughts your way!
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[/move]
-
Hello all ... here's an update on Tomovoz ....
(and best wishes to DR Elmore for his event!)
... The operation was delayed for a few hours due to some urgent surgery that needed to be done before Tom could go in .. needless to say, he would not be happy ... apparently during the operation he lost quite a bit of blood and the doctors had to do a transfusion .. thankfully, all went ok .. when I spoke to Colin it was 20 minutes after Tom had been taken to recovery.
I will keep you posted when I hear anything else. I will be going in to visit Tom on Saturday and will pass on best wishes from you all.
Trusting everybody on hhw is well and happy.
Cheers from Down Under.
-
Hi Ozderek! GREAT NEWS ABOUT TOM!
Something to smile about. :D
Tell him that I miss him and wish him a speedy recovery.
Have a great day!
Forgive me but I gotta run for the bus!
-
I repeat DR Danise's words: GREAT NEWS ABOUT TOM!
Now we want more of the same about DR Elmore later tonight!
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~ ~ ~ ~ ~ VIBES OF HEALTH & RECOVERY FOR BOTH! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ [/move]
-
I think I would like to write a biography about writer/director/producer/actor Blake Edwards. His grandfather was a silent film director (Directed Theda Bara) and his father was and his father was a stage director and movie production manager. He worked as an actor and then moved into writing for radio before becoming a film writer and director. Also worked in tv and theater. His career with its ups and downs including battling depression, studio bosses and rumors of his affair with Rock Hudson.
I think it would be a great read and an inside look at business of filmmaking.
-
Glad to here about Tom.
Now let's hear the same about Larry!!
-
I'll continue to send out good health vibes to Tom and to Elmore.
I think I'd write a bio of the cat that was killed. Poor cat.
-
Is there a published biography of Goddard Lieberson? I think I wouldn't mind doing the r & d into his life and his work at Columbia Records.
-
If curiosity killed the cat today, the CSI unit would have the case tied up in a matter of hours. Hercule Poirot would have taken a few days longer to solve the mystery, but we would have been introduced to many fascinating friends, servants and family members of the cat. And there would also be that red herring where curiosity would drink poison in order to throw off suspicion. But in the end, of course, at a gathering of all the suspects, Poirot would announce, "There is only one of us here who had the perfect means, motive and opportunity to end the life of the cat. Isn't that true, Monsieur Curiosity?"
-
Speaking of CSI, this week's coming finale reminds me of an ABC Movie of the Week that told the story of a similar kidnapping/buried in a box case, though the victim was a little girl. I think it was based on a true story. For the life of me, I can't remember the title of the TV movie or anyone who was in it. Anyone recall that one?
-
If someone came to you and said, here’s some dough, you can write a biography of anyone you want to, who would you choose and why?
My money would be spent on the delightful Miss Winnie Lightner, whom I like to think of as "The Bette Midler of Early Sound Films." Other than her marriage to director Mervyn LeRoy, there's truly not a wealth of information on this big, bawdy talent. Miss Lightner appeared in one of those "lost films," an early technicolor version of THE GOLDDIGGERS OF BROADWAY in addition to her attention-getting numbers in SHOW OF SHOWS.
-
Good news from down under on DR Tomovoz's successful surgery - waiting for a similar report regarding DR elmore...
-
Last night, bk wondered: " I do wonder if the DVD will be widescreen - it doesn't look like it was shot that way to my eye, so it will be interesting to see which ratio the DVD is in."
I didn't watch HERCULES, but during the commercials for CSI:MIAMI I did flip over to it, and it was not filmed in high definition, so I'm assuming they used the old Academy ratio to film this.
-
Just saw ABC's fall schedule, and many, many returning shows have been moved around.
BOSTON LEGAL moves to Tuesday at 10.
LOST moves back an hour to Wednesdays at 9.
ALIAS moves to Thursdays at 8 (and will start the season rather than waiting until January as it did this year).
The Sunday line-up stays the same.
ABC is reviving THE NIGHT STALKER (hooray!) but is giving it an impossible time period - Thursdays at 9 opposite CBS' CSI.
-
I have both of those old SUPERMAN serials on VHS done in two-tape boxed sets that look quite good for tape. Yep, that's Noel Neill as Lois and Tommy Bond (Butch from the old OUR GANG comedies) as Jimmy Olsen. They're enjoyable.
-
I'd like to do a biography on director Charles Walters. He had a fascinating (and little known) Broadway career before going to MGM to serve as a dance director and then graduating to full-time director with GOOD NEWS. He worked with many of the greats, and I'm sure it could generate a fasinating glimpse of the last years of Hollywood's Golden Age.
-
Glad to hear everything went well with Australian Tom, and huge hopes for a speedy return to these pages.
-
Got up an hour earlier than usual because I've got to finish watching an ANGEL episode I started yesterday and then dive into some of the shows on the DVR that I've recorded over the last few days: DEADWOOD, '24,' and the Fox musical THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE (which I've never seen).
-
After the huge success of LOST this year, CBS, ABC, and NBC are all featuring alien-themed shows on their fall schedules. Wonder how quickly folks will tire of so many cookie-cutter imitations?
-
Good news about Tomovoz
Wishing I could be there holding DR elmores hand
~~~VIBES FOR QUICK AND FULL RECOVERY~~~
for both of them.
-
Leelee Sobieski MUST be related to Helen Hunt. When I first saw her as a child I thought she looked very like Helen Hunt, but last night, now that she is all grown up I noticed that they have nearly the same voice! Are they sisters?
-
I found Hercules (what I saw of it) quite entertaining, although I am afraid I did not care for the CGI at all.
Unfortunately, the combination of 41/2 hours sleep the previous eveing, my soft comfy recliner chair, my cozy afghan and a particularly long commercial break at 9:45 seduced me into "resting my eyes" "just for a minute" The next thing I knew Mr. Vixmom was shaking me awake and ordering me to bed since it was half ast eleven.
I was very dissapointe especially since Newsday's (our local paper) TV reviewer had said
"The movie is at its best in the third hour, when all the cruelty and double-crossing among Hercules' human relatives brings to mind Robert Graves' "I, Claudius."
I look forward to seeing it in all ts four hour glory in the near future.
-
Well BK, if you are unnerved by Superman suddenly turning into a cartoon, you must have been totally dicombobulated by Hulk and Spiderman and the Star Wars prequels and a host of other recent movies. The practice is now totally standard. Only they call it CGI.
Not that I am against the proper use of CGI. But when, as in Star Wars 2, it looks exactly like a Tom and Jerry cartoon, it takes me right out of the movie.
I think Lou Farigno made a much better Hulk than his digital replacement.
-
And Hip, Hip and Hooray for DR Tomovz. Recovery vibes are being prepared for shipment.
-
Taped Hercules last night and hope to watch it tonight.
It is a film I EXPECTORATE highly.
Oops, that was yesterday's word.
Never mind.
FIG-THROWER, baby, FIG-THROWER!
-
PAGE TWO!
(http://www.swr3.de/__pix/cover/500x435/2726.jpg)
-
Just saw ABC's fall schedule, and many, many returning shows have been moved around.
BOSTON LEGAL moves to Tuesday at 10.
LOST moves back an hour to Wednesdays at 9.
ALIAS moves to Thursdays at 8 (and will start the season rather than waiting until January as it did this year).
Not happy about any of these changes. I liked the LOST/ALIAS COMBO. And Thursdays at 8pm is a terrible timeslot to go against SURVIVOR. :(
-
Great news about Tom. Hopefully he is feeling okay.
And hopefully DR Elmore is doing well too!
So how did Raymond end? The only thing I saw was Doris Roberts jumping into bed with Ray (right as he was in bed with his wife). Ewwww!!!!! ;)
-
Good Morning!
I guess I must have needed my sleep... I don't even remember getting ready for bed last night. In fact, I woke up with my clothes on - jeans and t-shirt - and my side-table lamp on. ???
In any case...
I think I got a good night's sleep.
:-\
-
DR MattH, are there links to any of the fall line-ups? If so can you post them? The only I've seen is NBC:
http://www.tvrules.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8148
-
~~~~~~~~~~
SPEEDY RECOVERY VIBES TO DR TOMOVOZ
~~~~~~~~~~
-
~~~~~~~~~~
GOOD HEALTH AND RECOVERY VIBES TO DR elmore
~~~~~~~~~~
-
jane , thank you for the lovely picture. I think I need to move to Oregon, what beautiful scenery!!!
-
Still sending the vibes to TOMovOZ for a quick recovery.
AND to DRELMORE for his surgery today!
-
Hmmmmmmmm....well of course, I would like to write a FULL biography of Miss Allison Hayes - to fill out the Internet biography that I wrote about her. I see facts about her that have come from that bio in other articles on the internet all the time, so it is being read....so there is some interest.
-
Your Allison Hayes Picture of the Week.
-
Curiosity Killed the Cat was one of my favorite bands from the 80s. Their first CD, which contained their biggest hit "Misfit," is a minor classic. Their follow-up largely fizzled, and then they disappeared. Ah, the vagaries of pop music stardom.
Well this should be no surprise, but I of course would love to write a factual, non-sensationalized bio of Frances Farmer. In fact, as some here know, several people have asked me to do just that, including one Emmy winning writer and another very well known mystery writer who even pitched the idea to his literary agent. She passed on the idea, saying no major publishing house would be interested in the idea. In the meantime, one of my former film professors, who is now a big mucky-muck at UCLA, gave me a bunch of institutional (as in educational, not the other kind, though that would be quite apropos considering the subject matter, LOL) publishing houses to contact, but I haven't had the time. I know there is significant interest in Frances to this day, because my web article gets hundreds of hits monthly and I receive scores of emails from people all over the world on a daily basis about her.
-
What was today's topic? Oh...
I'd actually love to write about a lot of the chorus gypsies that have treaded the boards over the years. It would be a sort of compilation deal.
I would also like to look into the lives of those people you see listed during the credits at the end of a TV show. The set designers, the set dressers, costumers, lighting people, grips, best boys, etc. The so-called "little people".
I still remember a radio contest that WRNL in New London, CT, held when I was around nine years old. They would have some sort of trivia contest each morning with a prize of a couple of records/LPs or some tickets to some upcoming concert. Well, this particular morning, it was an entertainment question, and they announced that the prize for this particular contest would be extra special since they thought the question/answer was particularly tricky. The question:
"Who is Norman Rockett?"
-If you happen to know the answer, keep reading anyway... ;)
So during the breaks between songs, they would take calls to see if anyone had the right answer. No one had the right answer during the first break. Nor the second. Nor the third... the fourth... the fifth... etc. The DJ eventually started giving clues. "Yes. He works in TV." "Yes. He's been working for a couple of years." Etc., etc., etc.
Well, since it was a school day... By the time I had to leave for school, they still did not have a correct answer. And by that time they had upped the prize to something like 50 records AND $200 cash. Even while listening to the radio on the ride to school, they still did not get a correct answer. In fact, they carried the contest over to the next DJ. And, apparently, the next one after that. They had not yet had a correct answer by the time I was coming home from school!
"You can see his work every day here in New London."
"He's part of a major television show."
And, then, this was supposedly the giveaway clue:
"His name is in yellow."
???
By this time of day, the prize was up to something like $500 cash, 100 records, free pizza at Spiro's, etc...
"Who is Norman Rockett?"
The answer: The Set Decorator for the TV series "M*A*S*H"
I don't remember if anyone eventually won the contest/prize that day, but I guess that was the event that got me to start staying through the credits at the end of a TV show or movie, reading all the credits in a Playbill, etc. -You could just never know when it may come in handy. ;)
*Of course, I just checked the IMDB and some other sources for Norman Rockett... He does come up as an Set Decorator and Art Director... Just not for "M*A*S*H". ???
However, I do remember seeing his name many times "in yellow." :)
-
Note to DR SWW (et al) - Remember how I said Donna Migliaccio would not be in the upcoming production of Pacific Overtures down here at Signature Theatre... -They start previews tonight... Well...
After a picture posted in the Washington Post, it appears I did assume... In fact, after checking with a few more sources it appears that they are using a totally "Western" cast. Hmm... And according to the Post, they've also invented their own version of Kabuki make-up and "style". Hmm...
However, it does mention that Eric Schaeffer has designed the sets for this production - as well as directing it - which I think is kind of cool. I still remember some of his designs from his community theatre days. His A Little Night Music for The Arlington Players still lives vividly in my mind.
-
My pet biography project would be on Roger Edens, the real genius behind "The Freed Unit" at MGM and one of the all-time great musical wunderkinds in Hollywood's history.
Edens molded Judy Garland's musical "style" and arranged almost all of her material both at MGM and for all her concert appearances.
Too little is known about him and his talent, and far too little credit has been given him regarding his role behind some of MGM's greatest musical achievements.
-
Oh... Since sound check is at 3:00 at the National, that means I have to be on the Metro by 2:00 which means I have to be ready to leave by 1:30 which means...
*I'd drive in today, but parking downtown during the day is next to impossible on the street, and the garages in that part of town are exorbitantly priced. So..
I'll be staying downtown between the sound check and the show, but I'll be bringing my laptop with me. I'll either camp out in the theatre and use the stage managements Airport setup and/or I'll camp out in Starbucks for a while.
And then tomorrow morning we're having a band rehearsal at 10:00AM...ugh... which means I have to be on the subway by 9:00AM... ugh-ugh... Which means I have to be up by 8:00AM... UGH-UGH-UGH! And since I probably won't get back tonight until around 11:30... Ah, well.. That's showbiz!
;)
-
TOD:
My grandfather, he never did sanything "great" or "newsworthy" but I know far too little about the details of his life. What I do know though I find fascinating
He grew up in Hungary, was in the Hungarian Army stationed in Italy in WWI, when they lost he deserted and walked back to Hungary where the powers that be were looking for him (desertion y'know) so he wandered over to Czechoslavakia and worked as a maitre'd (and black marketeer and bootlegger) until things got too hot and he ran for the US, bribing his way through checkpoints etc
Over the years (besides his "career" in Europe) he was a professional boxer, a chef, a chauffer (for some of the richest families on the Long Island Gold Coast in the late 1920's) , a live in gardener on Glen Cove estate, a foreman at a steel plant, and an all around handy man at various estates on the north shore of Long Island.
He met my grandmother at a dance in NYC, who refused to give him her address. Not having the bus fare, he ran behind her bus until she got off and he found where she was living as a live- in maid. She had one day off every two weeks. He met her on her next two days off and on their fourth meeting they married .
He was able to speak six languages, self taught, as he only had the equivalent of a 6th grade education in a one room schoolhouse.
He could take anything mechanical apart and put it back together working perfectly, he was a wonderul gardener and chef. He was a carpenter, a pianter, a wallpaperer, you name he could do. If you had asked him to build the space shuttle he would have had a go with complete confindence, and I bet he would have done it too!
He died in 1986 and hundreds of people came to his funeral, people the family had never met, Apparently "everyone" knew and loved "Joe". I still
miss him terribly.
-
Vixmom Leelee Sobieski is not related to Helen, however, her bio mentions she bares”an uncanny resemblance to Helen”. Leelee, Helen and Jodie Foster should do a movie together.
Your grandfather’s story would make a wonderful and interesting book. You should write it.
-
Ozderek thank you for the news regarding Tomovoz. Have a nice visit with him.
Hi td. I was just thinking about you yesterday and here you are today. :)
-
Well, if I was given a bunch o' dough to write the biography of anyone, first I would have to hire a first rate author because there's no way that I[/b] could write it. Too many words! ;) Besides, I can agonize of the slightest of choices and never be able to make a decision.
Otherwise, I don't know who I'd write about. The famous people that I'd want to know about already have auto/biographies written about them. If anther came along, it couldn't add much more to what's already known.
How about a fabulously written (but not by me) biography of the songwriting duo, Meltz and Ernest. That way, their story could be told, it could generate interest (and money) and BK could make the movie about them that he's always wanted to! ;D
(Am I remembering that correctly? You were hoping to make a movie of their partnership, weren't you BK?)
-
Vixmom Leelee Sobieski is not related to Helen, however, her bio mentions she bares”an uncanny resemblance to Helen”. Leelee, Helen and Jodie Foster should do a movie together.
I always thought that Jodie Foster and Holly Hunter could play sisters...and maybe Julianne Moore. And speaking of Moore:
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~ Best Health Vibes to Elmore (a.k.a. Larry Moore)!! ~~~[/move]
[move=right,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~ Best Health Vibes also to Tomovoz!! ~~~[/move]
-
OK... Time for me to get ready to head in...
Laters...
-
"Who is Norman Rockett?"
Whenever I watch Star Trek: The Next Generation or Voyager, my eye is caught by the name of Al Smutko, head of construction.
Just a quick Google, and I find:
The operating system of Starfleet computers (LCARS was first introduced in [TNG]). LCARS control panels, interfaces and monitors (including wall-mounted) can be seen throughout USS Voyager and in Starfleet facilities. (LCARS stands for Library Computer Access and Retrieval System.) The furniture which LCARS sits in is built, usually from wood, by Al Smutko (head of construction) and his staff (Al Smutko is the only head of construction who can boast his own fan club).
Well, the link http://www.mcs.net/~frnklyn/smutko/fanclub.htm doesn't work, but I find on a related site that the page is temporarily down for reconstruction.
I think I would like to write a biography of Al Smutko, thank you very much.
-
DR Jose, seeing your posts reminded me that I got tix to MAMMA MIA when it comes here in July! :)
I love this show, but I've already seen it twice. Anyhow they added another week and my mom was mentioning to me that my aunt and uncle really really wanted to go (my mom has already seen it and my sis will be too pregnant).
So I got the tix! Yeah!
-
Sort of on the TOD, I had my meeting a couple of weeks ago with the editor of a major magazine who is writing a biography of a deceased friend of mine--and this friend, although a bit of a celebrity, was certainly not a star on the Frances Farmer level.
Quite an experience, as it set me digging through boxes for any possible memorabilia and trying to remember every word of every conversation we had ever had. I became overwhelmed with seventies nostalgia.
The biographer came out to the Island of Long, we went out for lunch, and he set his recorder going while we talked. Surprisingly, he had only spoken with "coworkers" [that's co-workers, not cow-orkers] up to this point and not with "friends", which means that I was the first person to give him some insight into any personal aspect of the biographee, although we were not the closest of friends, and our friendship spanned only seven years.
I was, I hope, helpful in pointing toward other people who might prove better sources--I myself had tried to no avail to track down one of the biographees closest (yes, intimate) friends, but during the interview I happened to remember that that missing person was quite thick with another in the profession who is readily available, so maybe she can provide some clues.
I expect a big acknowledgement in the eventual book nonetheless.
-
George I don't see the resemblance. ;D
I believe Helen and Jodie were often compared to each other as children and competed for a number of roles. At the time it seemed that way to me.
-
WFU, very interesting. You will tell us when the book is published.
-
SYCOPHANT, Baby, SYCOPHANT!
But aren't we all SYCOPHANTs here? At least that is what some rude persons on other web sites would have you believe.
Or was that ACOLYTE, Baby, ACOLYTE?
I was an acolyte in Grace Lutheran Church in Tulsa [a slut spelled backwards--oh! a Jason Grae Graae reference!], Oklahoma when I was a wee sprig of a twig of a thing.
-
DR WFO....I might even get a SMALL mention in said book as well!
Last night....last night I almost saw LeeLee Sobieski's teles.
-
Here is Jason Graae of Tulsa, Oklahoma:
(http://mednews.wustl.edu/pub/libs/images/usr/2488.jpg)
-
Jason bares it all for BK.
(http://www.culturevulture.net/Books/leadingJGraae.gif)
-
For DR Danise, more confirmation that Michael Ball is indeed performing in NYCO production:
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/6034
-
PAGE 3
(http://media.movieweb.com/dvd/hi/082551758821.jpg)
-
DR WFO for some reason that movie looks very scary.
GREAT story DRVIXMOM! Your grandfather was Jay Gatsby!
-
DR WFO....I might even get a SMALL mention in said book as well!
Indeed, I should hope so. You were one of the sources I put him onto, of course.
And do your friends really all call you Speedo?
-
Gatsby was Hungarian?
-
Sort of on the TOD, I had my meeting a couple of weeks ago with the editor of a major magazine who is writing a biography of a deceased friend of mine--and this friend, although a bit of a celebrity, was certainly not a star on the Frances Farmer level.
Quite an experience, as it set me digging through boxes for any possible memorabilia and trying to remember every word of every conversation we had ever had. I became overwhelmed with seventies nostalgia.
The biographer came out to the Island of Long, we went out for lunch, and he set his recorder going while we talked. Surprisingly, he had only spoken with "coworkers" [that's co-workers, not cow-orkers] up to this point and not with "friends", which means that I was the first person to give him some insight into any personal aspect of the biographee, although we were not the closest of friends, and our friendship spanned only seven years.
I was, I hope, helpful in pointing toward other people who might prove better sources--I myself had tried to no avail to track down one of the biographees closest (yes, intimate) friends, but during the interview I happened to remember that that missing person was quite thick with another in the profession who is readily available, so maybe she can provide some clues.
I expect a big acknowledgement in the eventual book nonetheless.
I meant to ask you how this was going. Very Interesting!!!
-
SYCOPHANT, Baby, SYCOPHANT!
Or was that ACOLYTE, Baby, ACOLYTE?
I was an acolyte in Grace Lutheran Church in Tulsa [a slut spelled backwards--oh! a Jason Grae Graae reference!], Oklahoma when I was a wee sprig of a twig of a thing.
I was an acolyte at Ascension Lutheran Church in Deer Park, New York when I wasyoung, slim and trim and had long blonde hair that reached my pert bottom
Ah to be able to wear those long vestments today, they would cover a multitude of sins!!!
-
Gatsby was Hungarian?
Aren't all the best people, dahling?
-
DR WFO for some reason that movie looks very scary.
GREAT story DRVIXMOM! Your grandfather was Jay Gatsby!
Doncha think it would be interesting, even if he never was famous? Maybe I should try and research it and then write it as novel!!!
(of couresei would need someone else to tpye it :D)
I proabably should obaytin some talent as wrtier as well that mught help..
and sis I menyion the professional typiost? One who knows whewr the keys are actually locat5ed aont he jkeybprrad and abole toaccess them in the right order?
-
Last night....last night I almost saw LeeLee Sobieski's teles.
Almost. And if that isn't proof of bad direction I don't know what is. ;D
-
I'm up, I'm up, and must now begin the phone calling for the day.
Good news about our very own Tomovoz. Excellent vibes and xylophones for elmore's good news.
-
SYCOPHANT brings up some very creepy Google images.
-
Want to see something really scary?
The Discovery Channel is doing a show on the Greatest Americans. How to decide? Why run an on-line poll on AOL, of course.
If you had any doubts about the intelligence of the American public, click here for a list of the 100 Greatest Americans. (http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican)
-
Last night....last night I almost saw LeeLee Sobieski's teles.
MY EYES!! MY EYES!! :o
-
Almost. And if that isn't proof of bad direction I don't know what is. ;D
I tried to watch a few scenes...and the acting was horrific.
-
For example, if you were to pick the greatest American composer, would it be Charles Ives? George Gershwin? Perhaps Leonard Bernstein or Aaron Copeland?
Sorry, you have only two choices: Madonna or Michael Jackson.
-
Want to see something really scary?
The Discovery Channel is doing a show on the Greatest Americans. How to decide? Why run an on-line poll on AOL, of course.
If you had any doubts about the intelligence of the American public, click here for a list of the 100 Greatest Americans. (http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican)
That is one damn sorry list.
-
In the sciences we fare a little better: The Wright brothers, Tesla, Einstein (American?), Carl Sagan, Jonas Salk, and... Dr. Phil?????
-
My nominee for the most incredible name on the list, however, is Rush Limbaugh.
-
And four members of the Bouche family.
-
sycophant \SIK-uh-fuhnt\, noun:
A person who seeks favor by flattering people of wealth or influence; a parasite; a toady.
The praise Oxford received as a poet may simply have issued from the mouths of sycophants hungry for patronage.
--Howard Chua-Eoan and Helen Gibson, "The Bard's Beard?" Time, February 15, 1999
Friendship with the son and daughter-in-law of an imprisoned Supreme Court justice afforded me a special pipeline into high-level Ghanaian gossip about the alarming psychological condition of the head of state, said alternately to be suffering from delusions of grandeur fed by sycophants or to be reduced to quivering agoraphobia after the attempts on his life.
--David Levering Lewis, "Ghana, 1963," The American Scholar, Winter 1999
Sycophant derives from Greek sukophantes, "an accuser (especially a false accuser) or rogue," from sukon, "fig" + phantes, "one who shows," from phainein, "to show."
So here is my offering to BK:
(http://www.punchstock.com/image/italiastock/3333101/comp/is1fru2036.jpg)
-
And here is a toady.
(http://www.supyo.com/home/crazypics/images_15/toady.jpg)
-
As an interloper said back in the early days of this site, we're all a bunch of figs.
-
Your Allison Hayes Picture of the Week.
Allison has two heads. And she's got hairy arms.
:o
-
As I sit around waiting the man to come and install my new screen door I have been watching a Judy Canova movie called LAY THAT RIFLE DOWN. I had not seen a Judy Canova movie since I was a wee sprig of a twig so I wasn't sure how the comedy would hold up now that I am a mature branch...but I am happy to say that it was quite amusing!
Of course a lot of it is due to the rest of the cast of the film...Jacqueline DeWitt, Richard Deacon, James Bell and little Mimi Gibson (who must be the most adorable child actress ever!)...cute film and I wouldn't mind seeing a few more of Judy's movies.
-
Allison has two heads. And she's got hairy arms.
:o
Those hairy arms, connected to a very hairy chest, belong to Mr. Race Gentry...Universal-International contract player of the 50s.
-
Yes indeed, DRMBARNUM....and I think Allison was a better thespian that Mr Gentry, although he did indeed have the better "made up" name.
-
I just finished catching up on the posts, but der Brucer wants to get back on (after spending hours online himself earlier today), so I have to say toodles.
-
Still looking for a picture of Race Gentry's hairy chest....
And this is what Google gives me:
1. Read my article on Lawrence Washington and the Reverend Charles Green in the 1992 issue of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, which was handed out in class. What does it reveal about the character of Lawrence and of William Fairfax? [Present a brief written response of approximately one page]. For discussion, what does it reveal about Virginia society such as the role of women, religion, race, gentry, etc?
-
Still looking for a picture of Race Gentry's hairy chest....
And this is what Google gives me:
1. Read my article on Lawrence Washington and the Reverend Charles Green in the 1992 issue of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, which was handed out in class. What does it reveal about the character of Lawrence and of William Fairfax? [Present a brief written response of approximately one page]. For discussion, what does it reveal about Virginia society such as the role of women, religion, race, gentry, etc?
Google gave me this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Race+Gentry%22
When looking for a person, put "quotes" around the name.
-
And the Google Images search leads to one of my favorite sites (that I shared with JR a long time ago), The Meeker Museum. You should all go there--some really hilarious stuff.
-
Yes, The Meeker Museum has some High Quality photos!
-
Aw fellas, can't you even give a hint as to who this famous pal of yours was who is being biographied?? The curiosity is enough to kill this cat.
-
While reading about Moe of the 3 Stooges on the findadeath site, I found another interesting site.
Seems a teenager in the late 60s began writing letters to Moe, and Moe answered every one in his own handwriting. The kid eventually went to Moe's house and spent the day hanging out. The website shows all of Moe's letters and photos of Moe at home.
http://web2.airmail.net/willdogs/
-
As it always has been....
-
DR RODZINSKI the findadeath site it one of favorites....a bit macabre, but interesting.
-
Last night, my brother did another one of his famous impressions. This time it was his impression of a drunken cowboy doing an impression of Jerry Seinfeld. That is my new favorite impression.
-
That's great about Dear Reader Tom! Recovery vibes! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And successful surgery vibes for Dear Reader Elmore! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
PAGE 4!
(http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-11-12/cols_ventura-1.jpg)
-
Aw fellas, can't you even give a hint as to who this famous pal of yours was who is being biographied?? The curiosity is enough to kill this cat.
Since the project is in the planning stages, I don't think the author would appreciate a public announcement at this point, but I will send you a private message, you currious old cat, you.
-
Me, too, WFO, me too!!!!!
-
I made a rather nice find over the weekend which I finalized today. There was a completely unadvertised showing of old movie memorabilia by three collectors in downtown Portland that someone emailed me about, so I shlepped the kids down with me and looked it over. Found a very good condition 1 sheet of "Badlands of Dakota," Frances' Universal western in which she portrays Calamity Jane. It was priced a little high for my taste, so I got the seller's info and ended up getting the poster for $100 less than he had it listed for. Picked it up today. It has minimal paper loss at the center fold (as is usual with these older ones), but other than that is bright and solid. They don't do movie posters like they used to.
-
I must go see if I have any lovely packages. I'll shall return momentarily.
-
I forget if i mentioned this, but on Saturday I got some beautiful hanging baskets (impatiens). They were $8.99/basket (which is very good here). And I was the first one to go through and make my choices (which I always prefer). The saran was still wrapped around the pallet.
They are very lovely.
-
So happy to hear that Tomovoz is doing well. Looking forward to hearing the same about Larry very soon!
Vibes, fellas, vibes!
-
Just saw ABC's fall schedule, and many, many returning shows have been moved around.
BOSTON LEGAL moves to Tuesday at 10.
LOST moves back an hour to Wednesdays at 9.
ALIAS moves to Thursdays at 8 (and will start the season rather than waiting until January as it did this year).
The Sunday line-up stays the same.
Works for me! The only moved show I personally give a hoot about is BOSTON LEGAL, and I rather like this new timeslot for it. With THE WEST WING now being moved to Sunday, the ABC 9-11 block will give me a full night of viewing I actually find worth watching... how unusual!
-
I totally agree about a biography of Roger Edens is LONG overdue. But I suspect the best source of information on Roger, Leonard Gershe, never gave up much information, and now he is sadly gone as well.
-
Old TOD:
Since I was mainly errant and truant and also truant and errant all week-end, I thought I might still address an old topic or two:
Science Fiction: I was what you a call "fan" [plural "fen"], back in the 60s and 70s, to the point of subscribing to Locus and Fantasy & Science Fiction. In those days, things, I gather, were different.
The term "sci-fi" was anathema to all true fen. The correct term was SF. Which could also stand for Speculative Fiction. Fandom was centered almost entirely around written science fiction. Many fen had a disdain for the film and television versions--at least until 2001 and Star Trek came along. Science fiction conventions ("cons") were run by amateurs, not corporations. They were not advertised on local television.
Nobody ran fandom, except for the rumored SMOF--Secret Masters of Fandom. When notables disappeared from public gatherings, they were presumed to be off smoffing.
Pre-Internet, the main method of communication among fen was the Fanzine, of which almost everyone published one. Forry Ackerman's house must be at least 3/4 stuffed to the ceiling with fanzines.
And I attended Cons hither and yon, and Worldcons in Berkeley and St. Louis.
So, if I am to list my favorite science fiction novels and stories, they will all date from that time.
Asimov, The Foundation Series; I Robot [Dr. A must have rolled around in his grave when the abominable Will Smith movie was released]; The End of Eternity; The Stars, Like Dust. Asimov once told me my fly was open on a ship off the African coast the day before a total solar eclipse. So much for name-dropping.
Everything by William Tenn, everything by D. G. Compton--a British writer who produced a flurry of novels all at once and then disappeared; James Tiptree, Jr.--who after wild speculation about his real name revealed himself to be a woman; Harlan Ellison (of course); Poul Andersen; Phillip José Farmer.
Most all of Samuel ("Chip") Delaney. I once slept in a sleeping bag on the floor of his apartment. I got the crabs. Name-dropping always seems to come out like that with me.
And then I must mention William F. Orr, because I did myself publish two short stories in hard-bound anthologies, probably available at your public library. "The Mouth Is for Eating" appeared in volume 13 of Damon Knight's Orbit series and "Euclid Alone" in volume 16. The latter was also reprinted in Rudy Rucker's anthology The Mathenauts. You can also find a pirated version here (http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/jordan/euclidalone.html).
-
After I finshed watching the rest of the third ANGEL disc and last night's exciting '24,' I settled in to watch THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE. I got about two minutes in, and then the lovelies at Fox began panning and scanning this Cinemascope movie, so I deleted it immediately.
I know the Fox Movie Channel does occasionally show "full frame" versions of their widescreen films. Sadly, I picked one of those broadcasts to record, but I was NOT going to let my first experience with this Cinemascope musical be a pan and scan nightmare. (The image was so grainy and defused of color that even if I didn't care about losing 45% of the picture, it was of unwatchable quality anyway.)
-
Jennifer, there was a grid at the TV GUIDE online site yesterday that the editors planned to fill in as each new schedule was released. They had NBC's yesterday with all the other networks showing TBA. I'm sure ABC's will be filled in now. I'll go looking for it and post if I find it again.
-
William F. Orr, Harlan will still go into a rage and not speak to someone if they refer to him as a Sci-Fi writer...a term he abhors. But he does not like being labelled with any genre. He just considers himself a "writer", period.
-
After reading what I was writing about yesterday's grandladsitting, I realized that I was being petty, whining about little things.
I've decided to not whine about little things.
I'm gonna go BIG!!!
So, here goes:
This country made a big mistake when it decided to outlaw infanticide.
There, I've said it, I've gotten it off my chest, and I feel better now.
-
Rodzinski I enjoyed the tribute to Moe, very nice. Now if I could only remember which of the Stooges was the uncle of my classmate.
-
We went to see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the only film at the cineplex rated PG. The grandlads were a little impatient with it, but thought the visuals were neat. I pretty much enjoyed it. How often does one get to see a SciFi film where all the nasty aliens look like Charles Laughton?
-
William F. Orr, Harlan will still go into a rage and not speak to someone if they refer to him as a Sci-Fi writer...a term he abhors. But he does not like being labelled with any genre. He just considers himself a "writer", period.
Well, I can understand that. Like people who speak of "a great Black American". Why not just "a great American"? The same, only different.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr always insisted he was not a science fiction writer, and sf people took that as an insult. Publishing houses used to treat their science fiction line as a poor relative, of whom they were a bit ashamed.
But pidgeon-holes always seem to restrict. Perhaps one should say that Harlan is a writer, who has written, among many other things, some terrific science fiction.
Pidgeon holes. How many people say, "I don't like musicals... " and then add "...except..." followed by a somewhat lengthy list. "I don't like science fiction, " same thing. "Genre" classifications are, after all, not a literary term but rather a marketing tool. The real meaning of genre has to do with form, not content. Play, poem, short story, novel--those are genres. Not western, mystery, science fiction. At least in the original meaning of the word.
-
**WRITERS IN HOLLYWOOD**
David Mamet has written a five-page essay about the lot of the Hollywood writer.
It's titled "Bambi v. Godzilla", and will be published in the June issue of Harper's Magazine.
"Writing for Hollywood is a constant trauma," he claims. He goes on to say that Hollywood treats writers as one more below-the-line expense, and not a very important one at that.
Mr.Mamet says that the Hollywood machine would rid itself of the necessity of dealing with and paying for writers if it could. "The problem for them is, the story is the one thing that producers can't do," he says.
-
If I were to write a biography, it would be about Dorothy Fields. Fascinating woman, but you'd never know it by the one bio published so far. And any other books that mention her hardly mention her. Phooey.
-
Jennifer, here's that link to the schedule grid at TV GUIDE. The WB announced its schedule today as well, and they've got a few shake-ups, too.
http://www.tvguide.com/tv/showguide/grid.asp
-
What's the line from All About Eve? "Audiences don't know anybody writes movies. They thing the actors just make it up as they go along."
From what I hear, all too many do these days.
-
PAGE 5
(http://www.ffbooks.co.uk/images/n12/n62448.jpg)
And I'm outa here...
-
A rhyme for the word of the day:
I've never been a sycophant.
I hope I'll never be one.
But in the proper circumstance,
I know one when I see one.
:D
-
Still looking for a picture of Race Gentry's hairy chest....
It is quite prominently displayed in the film THUNDER IN CAROLINA!
-
Today is a special day, Bogie is 15 years old. This morning I fried some fresh tuna in butter. He enjoyed what little of it he ate. At least he ate since he hasn’t had much else in the last few days. So while it is a joyous day it is also a sad one.
-
Today is a special day, Bogie is 15 years old. This morning I fried some fresh tuna in butter. He enjoyed what little of it he ate. At least he ate since he hasn’t had much else in the last few days. So while it is a joyous day it is also a sad one.
I feel your sadness.
-
Has anyone gotten an update on DR Elmoore3003?
-
Tom? Tom? We're waiting for your return!
Colin, if you're reading this, please tell Tom we miss him.
Ozderek, please do the same when you see him!!!
-
Not yet. If he is up to it he will make a quick post here or email someone to do so, otherwise we might have to wait until tomorrow for any news.
-
William F. Orr, actually I think the line you quoted is said by William Holden in SUNSET BOULEVARD.
-
The line from All About Eve is:
Margo
[/b]
"ALL playwrights should be dead for three hundred years!"
-
Jane , Happy Birthday to Bogie
-
Thank you Vixmom. :)
-
Vibes for Bogie and Jane! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I hope everything turns out for the best.
My furry brown meowing lump has just woken up from a very long nap he was taking on my stomach. I am now eating Oreos. It is a slow news day at this house.
-
The wording from Sunset Boulevard is:
Joe Gillis
Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along.
-
Take care, Bogie.
-
A very happy birthday to Bogie. He is one lucky cat to be so well loved!!
(http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/aapaperc/.mids/9353a_001.JPG)
-
Thank you Sandra & SWW.
Sandra I’m smiling at the thought of you and the furry brown lump-sweet picture. :)
MBarnum- ;D :D
-
Hi all.
Still waiting on word on DR Elmore. I'm thinking good thoughts!
I'm also very, very, very glad that DR Tom is alright. :)
-
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DEAR CAT, BOGIE! :) :D :) [/move]
-
Thank you, thank you, thank you DR Danise :)
-
Thanks very much DR MattH.
I am a huge WB gal. So what do you mean when you say there are a few shake-ups there? Do you just mean they are on different days?
It's weird for me, cause we don't get the WB. But our Fox station picks up the shows the same day from 10pm-midnight. So I usually just tape them.
-
For DR Danise, more confirmation that Michael Ball is indeed performing in NYCO production:
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/6034
And thank you, DR Jennifer and DR George for looking out for my.....errr......interests. :D
-
There was an exchange in "All About Eve":
Lloyd Richards: I shall never understand the weird process by which a body with a voice suddenly fancies itself as a mind. Just when exactly does an actress decide they're HER words she's speaking and HER thoughts she's expressing?
Margo Channing: Usually at the point where she has to rewrite and rethink them, to keep the audience from leaving the theatre!
-
Happy Birthday to Bogie. Good cat vibes. !!~~~~~~~~~~
-
BK said in Today's Column:
If anyone has any website suggestions for Kritzerland, please pass them along. We will have sound clips, the ability to have video clips, too, and we’ll even have the occasional interview with people who’ve recorded for us. I’m keeping it very simple, though.
I think you should have a vitural tour--pictures of the real places from the books.
-
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]BREAKING NEWS!!!!![/move]
DR ELMORE IS HOME! YAY!!!!!!
-
Hello, all! I just got in from a very long day, and I hurt all over. I'm taking two Tylenol w/codeine and two Tylenol PM and hitting the bed. Thanks for all your vibes, kind notes and thoughts!
Love to all!
-
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PAIN FREE VIBES FOR THE NIGHT DR ELMORE ~ ~ ~ ~ ~[/move]
-
Rest well, dear Elmore!
-
Welcome home elmore!![/size]
-
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]! ! ! ! ! MEOWPY MEOWTH-MEOWAY DC BOGIE ! ! ! ! ![/move]
Y'all didn't know I could speak cat, did ya's.
-
Thanks Jennifer.
In honor of Bogie's birthday....
-
DtM-LOL
-
My bookends, Bogie and his sister Bacall 15 years ago.
-
Should I make those smaller? :-\
-
Should I make those smaller? :-\
It's fine for me.
-
I came across this on Amazon.com. Let's make it the:
Dave Matthews Band CD "Stand Up" Page Six Dance!
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008D5HMK.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
-
I love the picture of Bogie and Bacall. I captured that just as they immerged together from under the bed. I called them My Bookends when they were little.
-
VCR Alert!!
-
Well, Jane, if only one Stooge was the fellow's uncle, that eliminates Moe, Curly and Shemp for starters, since they were brothers.
-
Our other cat Knudson loved the kittens a little bit too much ;D
-
We had it all
just like Bogie and Bacall
Starring in our own late late show
Sailing away to Key Largo
Any Bertie Higgins fans out there?
-
Knudson is a little harder to work into a song.
How was that one named?
-
Last one, I promise.
-
Knudson loved food more than any cat we had ever seen. He would even try and take food out of your mouth. Knudson is a popular dairy product in California. I hated the name and very few people on the East Coast had heard of Knudson products.
We are fans of Bertie Higgins and LOVE the song.
-
I found Hercules (what I saw of it) quite entertaining, although I am afraid I did not care for the CGI at all.
I agree! Television CGI rarely works for me. I didn't know until this morning that dr pogue penned the literate screenplay! Cheers! Elizabeth Perkins certainly made the most of her dialogue!
Cheers as well to the healing down under and those in manhattan!
-
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOGIE!
-
Td thank you.
I just realized in every one of those pictures Bogie’s eyes are more amber and not the strikingly beautiful green they really are.
-
DR Jane, thank you so much for the pictures!!!
Now I understand how Bogie got his name. I did not remember that you had a cat named Bacall! The picuture of all 3 cats is priceless!
Those photos just warmed my heart!
-
Bogie, with the green eyes, is sitting next to me.
MBarnum you just made my day. :)
-
I noticed this afternoon that I still had the link to BOOKWORM listed in my bookmarks. I made the mistake of clicking on it...and and hour and 1/2 later I was still playing the darned game! Aaargh!
I finally just had to stop the game even though I was unfinished. It is still addicting!
Rodzinski, Vixmom, and Ginny...this BOOKWORM game had us HHWers quite busy for sometime until we all managed to kick the habit!
Click on the link...I dare you! .....http://www.popcap.com/gamepopup.php?theGame=bookworm
-
Lovely photos drJANE, thanks so much. Happy Birthday, Bogie!
-
Yay for Dear Reader Elmore!! I would drink a Cherry Coke to celebrate your coming home, but I'm all out. I'll drag my brother to a grocery store when we go out on day three of birthday shopping for his boss's daughter. Why this is such a big production I don't know.
DC Bogie is such a handsome gentleman!
DC Tumbly (alias Lloyd) is asleep on my arm. He is snoring quite loudly.
-
Happy Birthday to DR Jane's Dear Cat Bogie!!
-
Oh DR Jane, that photo of Bogie and Bacall is stunning.
DR Elmore, glad you got home safely.
-
JRand & Jennifer thank you. :)
Sandra, thanks & I think Bogie fits his name. Tumbly snores, how funny. ;D
George the card is darling.
-
Time for to go to bed.
-
Well, it was defnitely Bo Bice night on IDOL. Every song was strong and secure. The others seemed to be jockeying in his shadow, but one never knows how the vote will go. I didn't try either of the ladies' numbers, but Bo's was consistently busy for the 1 1/4 hours I was home and able to call. He deserves to win on the basis of tonight.
If they do next week what they did last year, the contestants pick songs they've already sung for the finals making it definitely anticlimactic.
-
Thanks MBarnum. Just spent the last two hours playing that Bookworm game. Then the Gal came home and got hooked too. Finally had to say "enough"!
-
My furry brown meowing lump has just woken up from a very long nap he was taking on my stomach. I am now eating Oreos. It is a slow news day at this house.
My Furry Brown Meowing Lump - that's the title of my next novel.
-
Well, it was defnitely Bo Bice night on IDOL. Every song was strong and secure. The others seemed to be jockeying in his shadow, but one never knows how the vote will go. I didn't try either of the ladies' numbers, but Bo's was consistently busy for the 1 1/4 hours I was home and able to call. He deserves to win on the basis of tonight.
I definitely agree. I've never voted for an American Idol before, but tonight I decided that I'd vote for Bo. It took a long time but I finally did get through and voted for him.
-
I found out tonight that the actress playing Anne is no longer with us. Is this production cursed with flakey actors or not? Good lord, I can't remember in many years having this kind of turnover so late in the preparation for a show. Sheesh!
-
Nice to see TD back among us.
I'm back from a wonderful dinner with a gal pal I haven't seen for a few years. We had quite a lot of fun, and we laughed and laughed until we could laugh no more and then we laughed again. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory, and had good food and we caught up and we'll now be more regular friends. I love when that happens.
-
I had a fairly rotten night of sleep last night, so I must be off now to try to improve on that tonight.
-
We don't need no stinking sleep. We are HERCULES, SUPERMAN, CAPTAIN MARVEL.
-
We had it all
just like Bogie and Bacall
Starring in our own late late show
Sailing away to Key Largo
Any Bertie Higgins fans out there?
I have that song on my iPod 80's playlist.
-
We had it all
just like Bogie and Bacall
Starring in our own late late show
Sailing away to Key Largo
Any Bertie Higgins fans out there?
My dad said that he met Bertie Higgins. ;D It was quite a few years ago. I don't know the details, though.
-
Good Afternoon! Good Evening!
Greetings from the pit of the historic National Theatre in Washington, DC. I was hoping to post from the Barnes & Noble next door, or the Starbucks on the corner - well, one of the Starbuck on one of the many corners around here - but I didn't realize they all went to pay-as-you-go plans (FreedomLink, TMobile, etc.), and since I'm cheap.... Ah, well... Might as well take advantage of the free connection via the Mamma Mia! stage management while I can.
So far, so good.
It truly is a different vibe with a new percussionist and Guitar 2. It will probably take us a few performances to get "in the pocket", again, so far, so good. (Ah, a No Way To Treat A Lady reference! -Whose Cast Album happened to be produced by our very own, BK, and which happens to have my favorite hidden track too!) In any case...
I realized that the last few times I've played at the National, it's been for some special events or rehearsals. When I ran into the assistant conductor before the sound check, and he asked me how to get to the pit, I had no idea. So, we just followed our logic, and headed down a set of stairs, and, lo and behold, we found the pit. And what a pit.
It's a bit smaller than "we" are used to. In fact, the drummer and bass player are sitting outside the pit proper, and being guided via video monitors. It's a little strange having the main parts of the rhythm section away from everyone else, but... We were hoping the keyboards would be placed "outside" like they usually are - makes it a whole lot easier to dress - or not dress - for the show, since we wouldn't be seen. But...
It's my first time in the pit of the National Theatre.
:D
*I'm composing this post from one of the Starbucks on one of the many corners, so... I shall be reading the day's posts posthaste.
**I will admit that it's a little strange being observed this week. My "replacement" will be starting next week, and I will be doing whatever I end up doing. I'm thinking of going back to the music store for a while. But, still, it's a little strange knowing that I'll be on-call after this week. And, thus, my payroll will be "on-call" too. :( I think - the contractor is still being a little vague about all of this. I think. But I'm thankful for the work,
***And in another bit of weirdness - Due to the local union arrangement, each keyboard has a local "cover". Gotta love those minimums... Eh...
-
**The above was not posted from the pit of the historic National Theatre due to technical difficulties beyond my control. So...
I'm home. My alarm clock is set to go off at 7:45. And 8:00. AM. ;)
Now to read the rest of today's posts...
I'll be back... I hope...
;)
Laters...
-
What?!?!? No posts in 20 minutes?!?!?
SKAMMEN!!!
-
...Or should that have been SYCOPHANT!!!!
;)
-For the longest time I always thought the word was "syNcophant". Hmmm... Just how would that word be defined?...
-
Happy Birthday, Bogie!
*Beautiful pictures, DR Jane.
-
Welcome home, DR elmore!
-
Well....
I'm feeling a little queasy right now. There was a nice reception at the Old Ebbitt Grill tonight after the show. Three types of pasta. Assorted finger foods. A Mexican station. A Chinese station. An Italian station. Free beer and wine - I did not partake. Oh, and, of course, a dessert table. *The cheesecake brownies and the macaroon brownies were very good. So was the coffee. In any case...
I think what did me in was the subway ride home. It usually does. There's something about the smell of the vinyl on those cars that makes me a little nauseous at times. Especially when I'm already dealing with some very slight allergies/sinus conditions - which I currently am, so....
OK... I'm rambling....
Next post...
-
Great show tonight.
There were some understandable balance issues within the pit since it was the first night in a few theatre, but, all in all, a very good night. I also realized that it was my first time playing under the main conductor since the last two show in Indy. The past two weeks when I've played, I've been playing under the assistant since Martyn was on vacation. -And it was his first show back too after two weeks of vacation.
The cast's energy was also very high despite a very long day. Part of this "boost" was due to the fact that some of the tour supervisors were in the audience tonight, but we also just had an amazing audience tonight too. They were hooting and hollering during the Overture! *I did spy two large groups of high school kids before the show, so... ;)
But it was a great high-energy show. And now I'm very tired. And I have a rehearsal in 10 hours...
Ugh...
-
So...
Tomorrow, after waking up, I head to the subway station. Rehearsal goes from 10:00-1:00 tomorrow, and then the show at 8:00. I'll be coming back home between shows, and then I'll pick up my friend, Andy. He'll be seeing the show tomorrow night. *The contractor always works out comps for the local musicians for the opening week of the shows there - a very nice, and generous perk. So, Andy will be my guest tomorrow night. **My parents will also be coming since I was able to use one of the other local's tickets. Ssssshhh...
But tomorrow will be a long day. Again. I hope to be able to post, but I'm not sure if I'll have internet access at any time. Well, free internet access. ;)
So...
-
Nice to see TD back among us.
I am always here, in spirit anyway. . .
And I am always happy when I am here.
-
I've just triple-checked my alarm clock.
And my headache is starting to go away....
**OH! It looks like I may start picking up some work playing understudy rehearsals for the show! Very cool!!! And since I'm the only local in the pit right now who actually know the show... :)
Where was I... Oh, yes...
Best of Vibes to Everyone. Hopefully, I'll be able to check in in the morning before I head downtown... Until then...
Goodnight.
-
Hi, DR td!!!
-
OK - That frenzy just tuckered me out...
Once again...
Goodnight.
-
For the longest time I always thought the word was "syNcophant". Hmmm... Just how would that word be defined?...
Beats me. I'm just glad that the days are gone when my sister was an N'Syncophant.
-
I think, Jed, we are allowed to boo!
Thank you, Jane, for Bogie photos, especially the last one.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOGIE,
YOU ARE LOVED.
[/color]
-
elmore, very glad you are home safe and sound. Hopefully you had a comfortable first night.........
and hopefully this will all be behind you!
-
Have finished Hercules and must now write the notes. Back in a few.