Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 1 => Topic started by: bk on November 09, 2003, 11:06:44 PM
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Now that you've read the handy-dandy notes, it's time to post until the cows come home, and believe me I will need lots of reading matter for my mental delectation, so go to it, you dear, dear people.
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Coincidences: I bought two Vic Damone's Cds today. He is one of my favourites but I was not really familiar with his "Mercury Years" which I found for under $10 today. I guess Nat King Cole will always be my favourite as will the superb Peggy Lee. For those who know or want to search, Vince Jones is also a favourite and sells well in OZ.
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I got back from ushering the Warren Miller film (after a bit of shopping) at about 11:00 pm. The chat room was closed, of course, but before I had time to read all of Sunday's posts, the day was closed by Bruce. So, I'm posting now.
The movie was quite intense and very visually stimulating. The fact that people actually went to the tops of these mountains just to ski down them AND IT WAS ALL FILMED...well, that was incredible. They even had a couple of people who were helicoptered (is that a real word?) 1000 feet ABOVE a mountain top, they then JUMPED OUT OF THE HELICOPTER with webbed wings between their arms and legs so that they glided down the mountain, then they landed with parachutes. Wow!
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A very brief note -- bed is calling and I'm half asleep as it is.
Just finished watching the restored "Lost Horizon" and it was amazing. I've truly NEVER seen the film as complete before.
Wonderful movie movie! It's reason enough to invent a time machine, and to go back and create a digital copy from the camera negative -- for posterity. That and several hundred other films, of course.!
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Oh, and Noel, is the answer to your question from yesterday, A Connecticut Yankee? :D
Do I win something?
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What's this, closing yesterday's notes already?!?!
Sorry I've been errant and truant as of late. I've gotten myself hooked on a computer game and quite literally have had to tear myself from the keyboard just to eat and sleep and little more. I apologize.
Before I go any further: HAPPY SECOND ANNIVERSARY TO HAINES HIS WAY!!!
There...now that that is out of my system, I suppose I'll share my favorite HHW.com memories/moments: I think my biggest thrill to come out of HHW.com was being involved in the recording of JEEPERS CREEPERS. I invited myself to sit in on the recording, wanting to shadow BK for a day to find out what a producer does and how he does it, and I ended up getting to sing/speak on the CD! What a treat that was. Who knows...maybe BK will produce my first solo album once I hit big...? I'm also glad to have found this site because through it I have met some of the most kind and caring people on the planet. You have all been with me through some very interesting times in my life--the DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES adventures, the job searches, countless auditions, celebrity sightings, panic attacks, and the Great Mouse Saga--and your support has been the most wonderful thing anyone could ask for. I've met some of you in real life, received packages from others who I have not met, torn through the KRITZER books (both of them) in less than a week, increased my CD collection, had several laughs and a few really great meals and learned a few things along the way, too. It's the people that make this place special.
Anywho...it's really late and I have to work tomorrow/today. Isn't it a holiday? Why is MTI going to be open? Maybe they'll close early. I sure hope so...not that it matters...I have to work at the Met. LA JUIVE. Oy vey.
Emily: When can I get on the Hunks of Broadway list?
DR MusicGuy: I'm still here! Don't cry for me, Argentina...the truth is I'll never leave you. :) (Wow...two musical theatre references in one paragraph...it's a sickness.)
DR Noel: DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES' plot revolved around waiting for a total eclipse--both of the moon AND of the heart--but I've a feeling you're not talking about DOTV.
Oh...one final thing. I didn't get to see WONDERFUL TOWN this weekend as planned. Ms. Donna Murphy is apparently quite ill and cancelled all performances since Thursday night. I do hope she gets well soon and I thank her, as an audience member, for taking the time right off the bat to get well rather than giving a run of mediocre to bad performances. Perhaps another Broadway diva (who shall, for the moment, remain nameless) should follow Ms. Murphy's example next time...
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Who are your favorite classic crooners from the classic crooner era, both male and female?
Sinatra but when he was a band singer. Absolutely amazing and so different in style once he made it big.
Streisand. I will also have to agree with the 60's Streisand cannot matche any of her recordings from the 70's onwards although she had her moments.
Others include Mel Torme, Rosemary Clooney, Judy Garland, Margret Whiting and Mr. Tony Bennett who is still chugging along there.
Not sure if Julie Andrews counts but the few solo albums she made in the late 50's early 60's are amazing. A reminder how beautiful and clear her voice was then. Also Barbar Cook then and now, but again not sure if she counts as a crooner,
Then there are so many contemporsary cabaret/saloon singers that I enjoy but not sure if they fall ion the exact definition of a crooner.
The then one crooner that never did anything for me was Bing Crosby, His voice bothers me. The early years at least, I know I can stomach him from the 50's onwards. The "True Love" era.
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BUT>>>>>>>>>>>>>
If I had to just chose one crooner this is who it would be
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LOL DR MDS....what a lovely photo, taken at the Sands, no doubt!
Yes the chat was lively and informative. I left to keep watch on a couple of EBAY items, but I lost them both anyway. BUT he who won them had to pay and pay and pay a HIGH price! ;D
Favorite crooners....many of which have been mentioned, but I will also add:
Al Martino and Johnny Mathis :D
Polly Bergen and Giselle MacKenzie and yes, Gale Storm 8)
Monday :(
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And here is your Allison Hayes picture of the Day! From the 1956 Roger Corman western Gunslinger.
Allison is Erica Page owner of the Red Dog Saloon, who hires killer Cain Miro (John Ireland) to kill the sheriff - a woman named Rose (Beverly Garland). Things don't turn out quite the way Erica planned. Or the way Allison and Corman planned either, Allison fell off her horse and broke her arm when Garland fired a stray shot.
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So many mentioned already, like Frank (I've said before that I like early Frank before he became so obnoxious and mean), and early Barbra. Tony Bennet is wonderful. George Clooney's aunt, Miss Rosemary and the amazing Judy Garland. I also love Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughn (she's a hot jazz singer but I think she can croon with the best of them).
Had a great time in Chat last night. Now it's off to work. Later, gaters.
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Perry Como, as Mr BK mentioned, is a favorite. His television show was very entertaining. And I remember a couple of novelty songs he sang that had a lot of 45 rpm play from me: Glendora and The Railroad Runs Through the Middle of the House.
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The term "crooner" is very limited and I think of Bing, Perry and Frank using that term. However from the examples given I think what you are looking for are "classic pop" singers and for that it's JUDY GARLAND all the way.
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Jason - You aren't on the list because you are in a higher category of hunkiness.
What 'puter game are you playing that's so addictive? I want a burnt copy! :)
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I'm not feeling well today. I think I ate something that isn't setting well. In fact, I KNOW I ate something that isn't setting well...I just don't know what it was. I called in, but then was reminded that we have a lot of work to do today, so stupid me said I'd come in anyway. I'll take some Immodium and see what happens. If it hasn't started to work within the hour, I'll call them again and tell them I'm not going (oh! A DREAMGIRLS reference).
Emily: Nice save on the Hunk List question, though having seen and/or met most of the guys on that list in person, I have to question your sincerity (and your sanity) when you say that I'm a higher category. ;)
The game is called ZOO TYCOON, which I already had, but I got the expansion pack on Friday and that was all she wrote for the rest of the weekend. Here's the gist of it:
You start out with an empty lot--be it grassy, rocky, snowy or whatever--and you literally build a zoo of your own design. You have to design the zoo in such a fashion that you keep your guests and animals happy and safe (it sometimes makes me laugh to tear down a section of an exhibit fence to let one of the lions out--they tend to eat people). You get to decide where the bathrooms go, how many wildebeest to put into one exhibit, or how often the dolphins perform their show. It's quite addictive. I don't know if you're familiar with Rollercoaster Tycoon, but it's basically the same idea. The expansion pack includes Marine Mania, which allows you to build marine exhibits, including the dolphin show, orca, great white shark, sea lion and otter shows, and all sorts of cool swimming-things exhibits, as well as Dinosaur Digs, which basically allows you to build a Jurassic Park in the middle of your very own zoo. I haven't done much with the Dino bit yet as I'm still figuring out how to use Marine Mania to it's best advantage, but I'll get there. Unfortunately, it's a Microsoft program, which means there's no copying or burning. Sorry. :-\
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Good Morning All. I did not get to post yesterday, but I WAS at the chat for a bit. How could I not be on such a special occasion?!?!?!?!?!?!
Crooners,huh?
Well, Buddy Clark was great. It's a shame he died as early as he did.
Dick Haymes was great (despite being a bastard in real life-- but such a voice)
Frank Sinatra before 1960 was great (and occasionally after 1960)
Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day, Peggy Lee, Jeri Southern, Polly Bergen, Ella Fitzgerald are all favorite singers (although I don't think of them as "crooners" per se) but they're my fab faves.
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Good morning, everyone. My, what an exciting party yesterday! I'm sorry I couldn't be at the chat. Now I remember why I prefer unemployment!
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I was a bit "hazy" as to the definition of "crooner" as well - I have only thought of Bing as a "crooner" - but I added those other names as well.
DR George - your description was frightening. Why do people do it? And why do other people take pictures of them doing it? And why do we look at the pictures? Yikes!
DR Ron - yes the Lost Horizon DVD is wonderful. I love the music, and the extras. Isabel Jewell was very good. I like when she says: "Ya better take some those men, they might faint on ya!" And the look Thomas Mitchell gives her after she says it! And Margo is good as well....."I hate the High Llama!"
I am working on a tape for you DR Ron. Email me your snail mail so I can send it to you.
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With all due respect to the ladies of HHW, I think you missed one of Broadway's most glorious hunks, and one I'd choose over several of the ones named (though they are ALL worthy candidates): Brian d'Arcy James.
DR George: I got Noel's trivia question during the chat, but I'm not sure he remembers. There was A LOT going on in there! It was, as you said, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE.
I really am not a fan of Frank Sinatra. I was reading the ZORBA/70 GIRLS 70 chapter of the Kander/Ebb book COLORED LIGHTS last night, and they were not a fan of his interpretive singing either. They were grateful that his "New York, New York" was a big hit and put money in their pockets, but they didn't care for his singing of the melody and especially of his lyric revisions. I've always had problems with his too-improvisational way with songs. I've always thought singers like Garland, Clooney, Como, and Damone were more respectful of both words and music.
Here's also another vote for the Barbra Streisand of the 1960s. Loved all her recorded work then. I find much of it now uninteresting, over processed, and lacking flavor.
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Favourite Crooners...crooner according to Bk'S definition...would be:
Johnny Hartman, Vic Damone, Buddy Clark, young...pre-scooby-scooby-do, Vegased-up...Sinatra, Helen Merrill (though some of her stuff gets a little too jazzy for me), Jeri Southern, Rosemary Clooney, Herb Jeffries, Al Hibbler, Dick Haymes, Leslie Hutchinson. Would Brook Benton qualify as a crooner?
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One has to wonder...how is our very own BK feeling this morning? I hope he's doing well.
Obviously, I called in. I probably could've dragged myself in, but since I have to be at the Met from 7-12:30, I thought it best that I not be away from "home" for thirteen hours...
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MattH.: I second the motion for Brian d'Arcy James. He is indeed a hunk and an incredible talent.
Jason: I hope you are feeling better. I think I saw your name on the Buck's County Hunks list. And, Jason, speaking of hunks, what happened to your friend from Buck’s County that posted here for awhile. Where is he now?
Crooners:
Sinatra, of course; but I would include Steve Lawrence, Vic Damone, and Jerry Vale.
Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, and, personal choice only, any Barbra Streisand.
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Good morning all on this Happy Happy Biirthday.
M is for the Million things she gave me
O means that she's only growing old
T is for the tears she shed to save me
H is for her heart of purest gold.
E is for her eyes of love lights shining
R means "Right" and right she'll always be
Put them all together they spell:
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The word that means the world to me!
Happy Birthday, Mom!
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Sorry I wasn't at the chat for very long. I was afraid I was going to have another attack so I just sat back and read for the most part.
Favorite crooners? Bing, Dean, Rosemary Clooney to name a few.
Have a good day all! I'm either taking Mom out to dinner or cooking a special one. Which ever she wants.
D
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Andy Williams is another crooner who is often forgotten. In fact, I think I prefer his Christmas album to almost anyone else's.
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Jason - I guess I'll just have to dream about the day I do get to meet all those wonderful wonderful singing men! :)
Re: Zoo Tycoon - I am a HUGE fan of simulation games like this (Sim City Classic - 3000, Sims, Railroad Tycoon etc.) Have you ever played Tropico? It is one of my absolute favorites. You get your very own Tropical Island during the Cold War to manage as a dictator complete with secret police! There are so many directions you can take the Island, from tourist mecca to communist satelite state and the music is sooo catchy (very tropical as one might imagine.) I find the Rollecoaster and Zoo Tycoon games can be a little too easy once you "get" them but Tropico has so many changing factors that you can play over and over and over.
Oh and Jason, never underestimate the power of good "no-cd" crack :) That's how I have Tropico!
(I'll burn you a copy if you want)
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Does Lena Horne count as a crooner? If so, I LOVE her! :)
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All the names I'd have suggested have already been mentioned, save one: Vaughn Monroe. Now there was a croon you wanted to put your arms around and snuggle with.
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Crooners: Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes, Mel Torme, Perry Como
Jane Froman, Margaret Whiting, Dinah Shore.
Now about Barbra Streisand: I love the 60s Barbra, but I am crazy about the 70s Barbra. "Barbra Joan Streisand" is, for me, one of her finest accomplishments.
I, too, love Andy Williams. John Davidson and Jack Jones were great, too.
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Oh!
Did I forget to mention Frank Sinatra?
Yes, and no. I forgot all about him, but I didn't intend to mention him, either.
Never has been a favorite...or even a marginal like...for me.
Dunno why.
He's also never bothered me, either. I can be around folks who love him and play him and that's fine. But I never seem to get involved...except when I listen to him singing "New York, New York" and I know how much better it can be sung.
I did like his version of "Bein' Green" -- it was very touching.
Never took to catch phrases like "Ring-a-ding-ding-ding" -- way too smarmy for me, even as a teen.
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Crooners to me are the classic singers of old who did standards (even if they were "newly" written standards), the people who just sang songs and sang them well. Dorothy Collins would be on my list, along with Ethel Ennis, Carmen McCrae, Andy Williams, Dean Martin and the ones I've already mentioned.
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Sorry I couldn't make the special chat last night. I'm still not completely over my "cold" and for some reason I've been waking up VERY early. I was so dead tired by 9pm last night I think I actually fell asleep as soon as my head in the pillow. I never go to bed that early. But it felt so good. Hope you all had fun!
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DR Ben I am WAY behind you. But at least we don't have too much more to go. Did anyone find out if anything actually happens at 500 posts?
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My college roommate was a HUGE fan of Jane Froman. Spent years trying to find everything out about her he could. Got it touch with her widower, and he even found and sent me a copy of some Jane Froman show episodes circa 1954-55. How he got them, I'll never know.
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How come nobody wants to name the baby?
Emily? Maya? Anyone?
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Does this remind anyone else of an M+M? (http://www.click-smilie.de/sammlung0903/huepfen/jumping-smiley-024.gif)
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Had fun at the chat last night.
JR, sorry to hear your "Ebay nemesis" won out.
For those who took part in my insta-poll about Mulholland Dr., I heartily recommend this very excellent article:
http://www.avguide.com/film_music/film/reviews/david_lynch.jsp
Some really good stuff in there.
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Wow, I got to 200 without even realizing it.
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How about naming the baby, Kim?
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Fascinating stuff in last night's chat. We talked about our new crepe pan and learned that Maya likes her crepes sprinkled with ground bits of human knee caps. Now, where else could one get this information?
Our favorite crooner appears to be Dinah Washington.
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Dean Martin -- Yes! Now I loved to hear Dean Martin sing.
And I'm a fan of Jimmy Durante, too! He could put over a tune!
And there were Vic Damone and Tony Martin (a real SOB, I've read). But they sang beautifully.
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Yep, I'd rather hear Jimmy Durante's version of "Young at Heart" than Sinatra's (though that's one of the few tunes Sinatra sang that I like his rendition. I also like "Time After Time" and "I Didn't Know What Time It Was.")
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I feel one can't talk enough about a new crepe pan. So, I pulled myself out of bed and dragged myself to work only to learn that my editor is doing an "emergency" fix on another show and we won't start till eleven or even noon. Had I but known that I would and could have slept in. That said, I did get my full eight hours last night, thank goodness. I feel a little better today, and hopefully that means I'm at the end of this thing.
Only a handful more posts and we pass the 4,000 mark, which we've achieved in a very short amount of time.
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Babs Streisand has gotten to a point with me where's she just showing off the instrument. I hate all these singers who think their voice is more important than the song and proceed to go through with all these trills and frills and vocal gyrations. Just sing the damned song the way it was written. It doesn't need your help. Let it live and fall on its own merits.
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One of my favorite crooners is Frankie Laine (Mr. Nan Grey). Also like Gordon MacCrea, and Roy Hamilton.
Judy Garland, Kitty Kallen, Doris Day, and Kay Starr on the female side.
If Paul Robeson counts then I would add him in there too as he has one of the most beautiful voices of any singer anywhere!
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Babs Streisand has gotten to a point with me where's she just showing off the instrument. I hate all these singers who think their voice is more important than the song and proceed to go through with all these trills and frills and vocal gyrations. Just sing the damned song the way it was written. It doesn't need your help. Let it live and fall on its own merits.
I second that! That is one of my pet peeves with so many current singers.
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What is the proper way to season a new crepes pan?
Anyone have an inkling?
And while we're at it, I've often needed, and have never found, a good double boiler.
Any recommendations?
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Regards my above post about vocally gyrating singers who show off their voices, I mentioned this to Nick Clooney when his sister Rosemary died and how I appreciated that she was a pure singer who served the song, rather than her ego. He told me the following: "She (Rosemary) and I were listening to a very popular contemporary singer trilling all around the melody, when Rosemary said in irritation "I wish she'd light somewhere."
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Don't have a clue how to season a new crepe pan. Haven't needed a double boiler since, forever! I know they do come in handy when you're melting chocolate and things like that but I've never used one before.
Well, if this day is any indication, it will take me more than a week to pump up my posts to 251 so I can become a senior member.
I think in the next couple of weeks we will find out if anything happens at 500, via the Posting Duo of Pulliam and Jack (sounds like a comedy team, eh?)
I will do my bit, though, to push us over the 4000 total mark. Hoo and Ray.
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210 here I come!
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DR MBarnum, I agree about Gordon MacCrae. I have an album of his called Gordon MacCrae: THE CAPITAL YEARS, where he sings a lot of nice standards like Where or When, Spring is Here, I'll Remember April. They're somewhat atypical when you think of MacCrae because they seem to be in his higher register. It's a little smoother and less robust. No one recognizes it as MacCrae when I play it. I wish he had recorded more stuff in this vein and less operattas and some of the other tatty stuff he did.
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Oh yes, I had forgotten all about Gordon MacRae. God, how I loved his voice. His If I Loved You was the song that actually taught me what the word swoon meant.
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DR Ron Pulliam, was Tony Martin an SOB? I always found him somewhat dull as a singer, but when I worked with Cyd Charisse many years ago, Martin was around a lot and seemed nice enough...again, a little dull, but both he and Ms. Charisse were perectly nice to me.
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This just in from Playbill On-Line. Bobbie Boland, the new play starring Farrah Fawcett has closed in previews. Yesterday was the last performance. It started previews November 4 and was scheduled to open November 24.
Not much more info at the site, but I bet the rumor boards are hoppin'
Here's the link.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/82669.html (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/82669.html)
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I'm here at school, finally on HHW! I'm in lunch right now, but I feel awful and I'm afraid of the vile reactions I might have if exposed to food. BLECH, BK, you have passed your stupid sickness on to me!
I miss HHW, although Maya and Laura II have been sending me all of the posts via email. Report cards are distributed on Wednesday, so unless I get some awful comments, I should be back soon. I was FULLY planning on attenting chat last night, and I very well could have...if my internet had not gone down. It's karma...I'm being sneaky, it's punishing me. ERG!
Crooners? I like everything that has been said. I'd be more creative and think of some good ones, but I think my head is about to explode. And the librarians are being vultures and eyeing my every move. If they ask, I'm researching singers that have influenced music dramatically.
And hmmm...not much else to say. Email me, damnit! Hopefully my internet wil be up when I get home, and I expect messages galore. Babble away, my dears.
Oh, and since I have a few minutes:
I found HHW on accident I think. Someone said that it was through Julianas Journal, but I don't think it was. However it happened, I know that I've learned more in the last 4 months than I have in my singing lifetime. Echoing what Jason said earlier, the people here are what keep me coming back everyday. I've made some great friends through this site! It keeps me sane :).
I had better get goin' to History, where I shall fail a test on Chapters 16 and 17. Erg. Au revoir!
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I read it in a book. Perhaps Martin's toned down over the decades.
Ken Darby, vocal supervisor and musical associate for Alfred Newman at 20th Century-Fox (and winner of Academy Awards for his work with Newman on "The King and I," Previn on "Porgy and Bess" and Newman again on "Camelot"), wrote a book called "Hollywood Holyland" about the travails he and Alfred Newman endured at the hands of the megalomanical George Stevens during production of "The Greatest Story Ever Told." Some of the story involved Newman's nomination for the Oscar for "How the West Was Won" and the trip to the Oscarcast, during which "the Tony Martins" cut Newman's car off in traffic and Martin apparently laughed and flipped them off or something -- at any rate, Darby had a comment or two about Martin that pointed to SOB-ness. This would have been the spring of 1964. Perhaps Martin has gotten over himself after all this time.
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DR Ron - when you get your double boiler, have it shipped by Wells Fargo Wagon.
DR MBarnum - I agree heartily with your choices of Kay Starr and Doris Day and Gordon MacRae (or however it is spelled)!
DR Jennifer - my baby name suggestion is Treble Clef.
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Does anyone else have a sense that SwishySarah's time at lunch might have been better spent STUDYING for that history test?
I hate to see bad things happen, but flunking history is not going to be overlooked just because one passes algebra!
Of course, it was only a few minutes. And she's sick.
Let's hope it's phlegm/mucous sick and not "going to the bushes" sick, as in Ann's case.
Still feeling like "leftovers", Ann?
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Just looked it up - it is Gordon MacRae
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Jack: I sure hope that Wells Fargo Wagon doesn't dare to stop unless it stops for m -- be it with a double boiler or a new mackinaw!
Thanks for the Willson reference! I think I'll watch "The Music Man" tonight!
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No it isn't it's Gordon MacRea
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DR Ron there are certainly less entertaining ways to spend the evening than in River City, Io-way!
DR JMK - what I lost were two bound volumes of the Indiana edition of TV GUIDE from 1959 and 1960. And we know whose name would have been featured prominently in each issue!
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Treble Clef, that's good. I vote for that name.
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Hi Swishy Sarah! Well if DRs Maya and Laura II are sending you the posts then you are sort of still with it! Hope you feel better.
Btw, I need more names for little karma kameleon.
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Can I make a request for a recipe day? (where all DRs post their favorite recipes).
I am currently desperately trying to find something interesting to make for a dinner tomorrow. And I'm having no luck (except that reading recipes is making me hungry).
Btw, DR Ben you are still 10 ahead of me! :(
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Will somebody PLEASE solve the Arab-Israeli Conflict so that I don't have to write any more papers on failed peace negotiations?
This is SOOOOOOOO depressing. Really. I am depressed. And I'm tired. Blech. :(
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How is it that I only have made 90 posts? This is ridiculous!
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Karma Kameleon is also good. I guess we do need more names to choose from.
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Interesting, PBOL reports that Matthew Bourne is developing Edward Scissorhands for Stage; Aiming for UK 2005 Opening.
http://web.playbill.com/news/article/82676.html (http://web.playbill.com/news/article/82676.html)
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DR Emily wrote:
How is it that I only have made 90 posts? This is ridiculous!
Poor Emily. Well at least you only have a few more to go till you get your next star! Will that cheer you up?
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DR Ben (who is constantly staying ahead of me) wrote:
Karma Kameleon is also good. I guess we do need more names to choose from
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What about a name that relates more to HHW? Something that means "little hainsie or kimlet" or something that means "karma fairy".
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what about "giblet"?
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Oh before I go, did you guys see what Hildy and Doug did on Trading Spaces? She did a bright orange kitchen. And he did a living room with black walls. Then last night Hildy did a sitting room with NEWSPAPERS for wallpaper. Looking forward to reading any comments.
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Is a "giblet" a baby kimlet?
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Did somebody say gimlet?
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With a twist.
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I LOVE the classic crooners, and no matter how many I list, I just know I'm going to forget some.
Vintage male--Sinatra, Bennett, Tormé, Como, Sammy Davis Jr.
Vintage female--Fitzgerald, Holliday, Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Clooney
Modern male--Michael Feinstein, Michael Bublé, Peter Cincotti
Modern female--Diana Krall, Jane Monheit
Jennifer--hmmm....I really like Giblet, but can I also recommend the name Cammy, being short for karma chameleon?
Jason--Welcome back! Of course you are list-worthy, as Emily said! When are you seeing Wonderful Town, btw? I'm seeing it on the 29th.
Matt H.--Brian D'Arcy James would be a great addition to the list! Although a friend and I joked that he and Peter Gallagher should have some kind of big eyebrow contest!
Swishy--I'm glad to see you posting, sweetie! Hopefully within a day or two, you will be able to without the vulture-eyes of librarians and the ban of your parents on you!
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Holy cow! I can't believe I left out Doris Day, one of my all-time favorite singers! Stupendous, creamy vocals, and the ones that deserved extra emotion got them without sacrificing the integrity of music or words.
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George that little guy is a riot when his hair goes up and he looks scared.
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Jennifer - I didn't get to see TS this weekend, but I am sure it will be re-run shortly. And how about chicken and noodles for dinner? That sounds good to me.
Matthew Bourne - I especially like The Car Man, not sure what to think about an Edward Scissorhands ballet.
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DR JRand, River City is a wonderful place to spend time as long as it's not with Matthew Broderick et al. I did NOT find that an inspired rendition of a classic theater piece.
Frankly, I saw no need for a new MUSIC MAN. The 1962 one is still fresh as a daisy.
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So true DR MattH - so true.
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I agree about the Music Man remake. Broderick was a pale shadow of Preston. But what did you guys think of Kristin? I thought she was splendid.
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Excellent posts. Re Bobbi Boland - it's the first show in quite a while to close during previews. Producers today simply have too much ego to do that, so it's interesting to see a producer who was willing to cut his losses.
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Rock n roll!
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Well, I don't know what sex assignment has been made on the baby, but I offer the following:
Bru-Bru if it's a boy!
Kim-she if it's a girl!
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kim-she?
oy... groan (and yeas I know there is none of that at HHW!) :)
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Well, Kim was supposed to be short for Kim-lette.
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What does the Bru-bru stand for, Ron? ???
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Thanks to all those who are giving Karma today! I need it!
In addition to Treble Clef - which Jennifer must not like, how about KarMutt?
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DR MBarnum, I agree about Gordon MacCrae. I have an album of his called Gordon MacCrae: THE CAPITAL YEARS, where he sings a lot of nice standards like Where or When, Spring is Here, I'll Remember April. They're somewhat atypical when you think of MacCrae because they seem to be in his higher register. It's a little smoother and less robust. No one recognizes it as MacCrae when I play it. I wish he had recorded more stuff in this vein and less operattas and some of the other tatty stuff he did.
I want this CD. :)
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Now, Jane dear, the Holidays are coming up. You will just have to wait and see what Santa has for you.
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I was always a little in love with Gordon MacRae - loved his voice too. As the "Crooner" definition is now somewhat wider than I envisaged I would add Johnny Mathis to my list. I forgot Mel Torme and Dinah Washington.
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I didn't mention Jo Stafford either - great duets with Gordon too.
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I don't think they could have found a better Curly or Billy for the movie versions of OKLAHOMA and CAROUSEL than Gordon MacRae. He was absolutely wonderful. And to think Frank Sinatra was originally cast as Billy for the film of CAROUSEL. Good lord, someone must have been drunk.
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I don't think they could have found a better Curly or Billy for the movie versions of OKLAHOMA and CAROUSEL than Gordon MacRae. He was absolutely wonderful. And to think Frank Sinatra was originally cast as Billy for the film of CAROUSEL. Good lord, someone must have been drunk.
Just think how Frank would have been as Curly. Ouch!
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Actually, I think Sinatra might have made a very interesting Billy Bigelow. He could have played that chip-on-the-shoulder pugnaciousness very well probably
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TCB: Seriously? Bru-Bru -- a diminutive baby-talk version of "Bruce"!
How about Biklet?
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In that PBS special "Richard Rodgers: The Sound of Movies," they played a prerecording of Frank's version of "If I Loved You" (he made all the prerecordings before he quit; it was OK), and showed a wardrobe test of him with permed hair, and he looked simply ridiculous.
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Charles, I never would have believed his contrite behavior at the end. He was a pretty good actor, but not THAT good.
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First - congrats to bk (and Mark & Craig) for their perseverence in keeping HHW going (and going and going.....). The only thing better than chatting with the gang is meeting them in person (Jason, Jose, Juiliana, Susan and all - what a lovely bunch of coconuts we are!)
Taking the lead from a fellow HHW'er, here are my top 3 in each group:
Vintage male - Sammy Davis Jr. (what couldn't he do?), Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme (fog indeed)
Vintage female - Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald
Modern male - Michael Bublé (only one album, but what an album!), Michael Feinstein
Modern female - Diana Krall, Nancy LaMott (RIP), Jane Monheit (a work in progress)
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I think Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland were the original "hopes" to star. As it was, Frank "approved" Shirly Jones as Julie, I'm told.
I think it would have been a d-i-s-a-s-t-e-r. At that time, Frank was too skinny. He would have looked very odd, IMO, dressed as a barker. And I've never heard him sing with anywhere near the range Billy really needs.
I'd also never have been convinced Jones' "Julie Jordan" could have fallen for Sinatra's physical type. She'd have made him look like a twig.
To each his own, I guess, but I'm so grateful it was cast the way it was.
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Good morning all on this Happy Happy Biirthday.
M is for the Million things she gave me
O means that she's only growing old
T is for the tears she shed to save me
H is for her heart of purest gold.
E is for her eyes of love lights shining
R means "Right" and right she'll always be
Put them all together they spell:
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Mother![/move]
The word that means the world to me!
Happy Birthday, Mom!
:)
It's my mother's birthday as well:) I hope she likes her gift:)
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Re: Bobbi Boland, saw a portion of the press release about the closure and it made sense. She said the show just doesn't work in a big Broadway house (and the Cort is one of the smaller houses). She said it wasn't the same show she saw off Broadway and she learned that some shows just don't belong on Broadway. Good for her.
Can't remember the name of the show that they are saying was the last to close in previews but it was a play by David Henry Wang (M Butterfly and the new book for Flower Drum Song). It closed in previews in 1993 and it also played at the Cort. Hmmm, what's up with that house. I do like the Cort Theatre. I've been there for Frog and Toad and other small shows. It's a nice little space.
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It's not a record, but there are 15 people at this here board right now!
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TCB: Seriously? Bru-Bru -- a diminutive baby-talk version of "Bruce"!
How about Biklet?
Ron -- What seriously?
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My puupy just discovered the printer... he's watching it intently.
This morning he discovered the alarm clock radio-- hilarity ensues.
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Emily go to a walk or do some sort of exercise and give those endorphins a boost. Be happy.
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The Cort has the misfortune to be on the "wrong" side of 7th Avenue. Those few theaters on THAT side haven't had any long runs for a long, long time. I don't think I've ever seen a theatrical piece at the Cort. When Merv Griffin was doing his CBS late night talk show, he used the Cort, and I was at his second ever show from that theater. Dinah Shore and Sonny and Cher were the guests that night.
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TCB: You asked me what "Bru-Bru" stood for. I was asking, "Seriously"? I thought it was a dead giveaway.
I guess it wasn't, though.
That's all I meant by 'seriously'.
: )
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DR JRand wrote:
Jennifer - I didn't get to see TS this weekend, but I am sure it will be re-run shortly. And how about chicken and noodles for dinner? That sounds good to me.
What kind of chicken and noodles?
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I vote for Cammy!
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Welcome, Newbie Seaclifr! Nice to see you posting.
Now...where are some of those other names I see online but never posting....who is JB-NYC? Who is Eric Otterberg (GREAT NAME!!!)? Who is wlajb?
All these folks keeping to the shadows.......oooohhhh!
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Dear Reader seaclifr, I see your first post on the new board. Are you a newcomer, or am I simply not recognizing your handle. In any event, welcome, welcome!
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It's almost past my lunch time and I've not given one thought to what I should have for a pleasant repast.
So many folks have taken today off (tomorrow is a holiday for us) that my usual luncheon partners are either gone or swamped.
Have had a busy morning, myself...but OBVIOUSLY not TOO busy! Hee-heeeeeeeee!
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okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay
I have 4 PAGES out of a 10-15 PAGE paper that is due TOMORROW at 11:30 am.
I need caffeine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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DR RonP wrote:
Well, I don't know what sex assignment has been made on the baby, but I offer the following:
Bru-Bru if it's a boy!
Kim-she if it's a girl!
Ha ha. Bru-bru. That is too funny.
And DR TCB I totally did not get that Kim was short for Kim-lette. D'uh!
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Maybe I can do a little push.....oooooomphhh...
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I need karma!
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...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....300 posts.
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Question. I am trying to quote posts that are on page 3. How can I do this without having to post and then go back to page 3 each time (we are now on page 4)?
It's too bad that when I am on page 3 and I hit "reply" that the posts below (that i see from reply, are all those from the current page). Otherwise I could just quote that way. Is this making any sense?
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Ron: I refuse to post for the sake of posting just to try and keep up with you. Whoops! I guess I did just that! Back much later. I have a day out there waiting to be enjoyed.
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I think you guys are cutting Frank's talent short, both in the acting and the singing. A wardrobe test is just that - a test. No guarantee what you saw would have been the end result. In terms of typecasting, he is probably closer to Billy than Gordon was. I suspect ultimately his range as an actor was greater than Gordon's as well. Mind you, I'm not taking a position of one being better or worse. But I think to dismiss Sinatra in the role as "horrible" is naive and short-sighted. He could have brought values to it that Gordon couldn't.
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Maya wrote:
Jennifer--hmmm....I really like Giblet, but can I also recommend the name Cammy, being short for karma chameleon?
Hmmmm, how is cammy short for karma chameleon? :)
Jrand wrote:
In addition to Treble Clef - which Jennifer must not like, how about KarMutt?
I'm sorry, I didn't say I didn't like Treble Clef. I like it. I like all the choices so far. KarMutt ... ha ha ha that one makes me laugh. Btw, it sort of looks like a boy to me? (does anyone else think that?)
Okay I just did something interesting. I used quick-reply and copied all the things i wanted to quote. Then I modified it and added the quotes later.
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Another desperate cry for good vibes from a college student...
Oddly enough, I actually feel worse today than i did yesterday. I still haven't eaten anything, every muscle and joint feels like it was beat up, and my mind is in a constant state of fuzziness. Nonetheless I am at work, watching the baby pour goldfish crackers all over the room, then dancing on them, digging out the vaccum cleaner, discovering the bag is full, not finding any more bags, meanwhile baby has succeeded in turning every tub of toys upside down and mixing them in with the cracker crumbs on the floor. I'm also trying to study for this test and slowly realizing that in this weakened condition I have almost no chance of getting all this information in my head before 9 am tomorrow morning. I have a jazz choir dress rehearsal that i might not make it out of work in time to be at, and a opera rehearsal double booked at the same time, and i have no idea which one I'm supposed to go to go to...
I feel like crying...
good vibes please....
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Ahhh, that explains it Ron, but I am afraid I wasn't the guilty party that asked the question. You see, I knew what you meant by Bru Bru.
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Crooners: Perry Como, Andy Williams, Rosmary Cloony, Jack Jones, Dean Martin, Vic Damone, Gordon MacRae, Sammy Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Darren, Dinah Shore, Judy Garland, Frankie Laine, Nat King Cole, Johnny Matthis. Barbara Streisand. Does Linda Ronstat count as a crooner?
I must stop now and pick Echo up from now from the her bath. She will be very pretty and smell nice tomorrow for my book group friends.
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DR Emily: I tried to give you karma but I wasn't allowed. I guess I must have already given you karma within the last 72 hours. Good luck on your paper. Someone give the girl karma for me please!
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Good vibes indeed Ann.
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Seaclif is dear reader Phil.
I have learned that two of our dear readers who access the site via their work computers have been blocked because their firewall detects "adult" content here at haineshisway.com. Well. There could be several reasons for this, but the most likely of them is that when we changed servers we were assigned an IP that had formerly belonged to an "adult" site. Someone started a thread about this over at broadwayworld, and of course our very close personal friend, findingnamo, couldn't help but offer his two cents. Michael, aka findingnamo, is a funster - I do enjoy him actually.
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Yes good vibes to DR Ann. Little Bru-bru/Cammy/Kim-lette/Treble Clef/KarMutt (sorry if i forgot any) wishes you good karma!
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Ann good vibes and I sent you some more Karma your way.
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Speaking of adult content, check out the bottom portion of the love section on clicksmilies.com. Blush.
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Ahhh, that explains it Ron, but I am afraid I wasn't the guilty party that asked the question. You see, I knew what you meant by Bru Bru.
Well, dang it! It was MAYA who asked. In a post just below one of yours.
So sorry!
Geez....another senior moment!
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And speaking of senior moments....
I've totally lost track of what it is folks are trying to name?
Is it that little celebratory smilie thingie from yesterday?
If so, just name him "party dude"!
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Ann: Good vibes indeed. I wasn't here yesterday to hear about your illness. I am so sorry. Be very careful, there is a bad bug (I won't call it flu) going around Tacoma right now. I got it last week, and I thought that I was, at best, having a heart attack.
Danise: Are you feeling any better? Sorry to hear that you haven't been well.
And Happy Birthday to, not one, but two, Kimlet mothers (glad I checked my spelling, I first wrote mothras).
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Tom from Oz: I am totally in DENIAL!
If I were in Egypt, I'd be all wet and covered with mud and lotus leaves.
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Good God! Tom from Oz and I both wrote, Good vibes indeed to Ann. I am afraid we have become Ray Milland and Rosey Grier!
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WARNING!
My previous post will probably only be understood by those forty years of age or older.
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What is it, a lull? Are we lull and void. Can we a void the lull? Time for a volley, if you ask me.
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It's a HUGE LULL....post-lunch lullabying, I suppose.
I could use a nap.
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Matthew Bourne - I especially like The Car Man, not sure what to think about an Edward Scissorhands ballet.
I had heard of The Car Man and wanted to watch it because I like Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake as well. I looked in my local library's on-line catalog and they only had the title, "Carman the Champion." Fortunately there was also a synopsis of the title and it's not the same thing!
Former champion boxer Orlando Leone (Carman) is "the preacher" at an inner city youth center. Wanting to give something back to the community, he bought a large building for a church youth center. When funds run low, he takes on one last fight, but when he enters the ring, he's not alone. He has faith on his side.
If anyone's interested, it's rated PG-13. Not my kind of movie.
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Happy Birthday, Andrea's Mother!
Good vibes to Ann.............
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Welcome to DR Seaclf
Hmmmmmmmm DR George, I think I taped CarMan!
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I enjoyed Bourne's Carman , but thought his Swan Lake was superior and absolutely brilliant. I saw Swan Lake both live and on the PBS telecast, and to my mind, I do not think it made the transfer to the small screen very successfully. (I tend to have that opinion about most dance performances that are shown on TV.) I also saw Bourne's Cinderella, but was somewhat disappointed by it. There were some rumors a while ago that his Nutcracker would make its way to the United States from the U.K., but, alas, I've heard nothing more. Perhaps next year.
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Well, Charles, we'll just have to agree to disagree because I think you're giving Sinatra too much credit as a singer and actor. A wardrobe test may be just a test, but it does pretty much show us what he would have looked like, and his slight physical presence for me would have not been compensated for by his pugnacious attitude. In fact, it would have compounded the problem.
The very fact that he quit the production with no notice when he learned each scene was going to have to be filmed twice, once for Cinemascope 55 and once in standard format 35MM Cinemascope, makes me even more delighted he wasn't used. (The producers had a weekend to contact Gordon MacRae and get him to New England so that shooting wouldn't fall behind schedule.) Turned out, before filming started, Fox technicians figured out a way to preclude having to film and print each scene twice thus making Sinatra's temper tantrum look even more ridiculous.
As I said in an earlier post, I am not a fan of Sinatra's.
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I've seen CARMAN THE CHAMPION. It's as predictable as that synopsis would lead you to believe it was. The movie was financed by a fundamentalist Christian group (Trinity Broadcasting Network), the same group that produced the forgettable THE OMEGA CODE.
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Happy birthday to all Kimlet mothers whose daughters peruse this here board!
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DR Jennifer, we are now equal, at 6:04pm on Monday, November 10, 2003. We each have 216 posts. How will it end? You'll probably win. You're younger, you have more stamina. You ask more questions. You caught up to me. We'll see in a few days.
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Hmmm...."Kimlets"...and "Daughters of Kimlets"....and next year, "Sons of Kimlets"....
Are these going to be Hammer Films productions?
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So many people under the weather,-- Jennifer, BK, Ann --for one reason or the other. ::hugs:: to everyone under the weather! Feel better! :)
Happy B-day to your Dear Mother as well, Andrea! May she have many, many more!
Good Vibes, Ann!
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Thank you, TCB. I'm getting there. I don't exactly feel like dancing around the room but I'm here.
Someone started a thread about this over at broadwayworld, and of course our very close personal friend, findingnamo, couldn't help but offer his two cents. Michael, aka findingnamo, is a funster - I do enjoy him actually.
Michael is a nice name. Works for me.
D
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GL DR Emily.. however your stress proves why you should't read novels all the time.
I believe my mother had a happy birthday. She didn't cook dinner or do the dishes, left for her romanian class and liked her gift (which was an hour make-up application and lesson the day of the St. Andrew's Ball).
I'm off to my dance practice and to be tortured by my debutantes. We rented CYGOPP's tux today. Rather, he stood there, got measured, paid for it and I told the sales girl what I wanted (single-breasted, slightly satin lapels (but not over the top) smoking jacket, with a wing-tip collar, windsor tie and vest-- all black. I've even offer to shine his shoes!). Hopefully the pictures will be nice.
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I came home because the Arab-Israeli Conflict combined with a really dismal empty AUS Lounge were freaking me out.
As I was crossing the lawn to go inside and dreading attacking the paper once again I was accosted by a swarm of Sparks which is the younger branch of the Girl Guides/Brownies organization. There were something like 15 six year olds jumping up and down and screaming "cookies! four dollars! four bucks! cookies! cookies! four bucks!"
I now have two boxes of GG cookies, a slightly lighter wallet (it's for a good cause!) and my life is looking better. Isn't it amazing what sugar can do when you are in the depths of despair?
Maybe we should send a pack of cookie-selling-six year olds to Palestine/Israel :)
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And I don't read NOVELS all the time DR Andrea.
Somtimes I just sit and sip coffee ;)
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I almost forgot, Jennifer wants a recipe. Well how about what I made my Mom for her Birthday dinner? This is very good on a cold or rainy night (which unfortunately we are having here).
Chicken Coq Au Vin
Serves 4
8 slices bacon, cut into ½ inch Pieces
4 (2 lbs) whole boneless Chicken Breasts, skinned, cut into 2 inch pieces
1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh garlic
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 (10 3/4 ounce) can chicken broth
2 cups (8 ounces) whole fresh mushrooms
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 cup red wine
8 small new red potatoes, cut in half
8 medium carrots, cut into 1 inch pieces
3 medium onions, quartered
1 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
Heat oven to 375 degrees. In Dutch oven, cook bacon over medium high heat 5 minutes. Add chicken and garlic. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until chicken is browned (8 to 10 minutes). Meanwhile, in a medium bowl whisk together flour, chicken broth and wine. Add to browned chicken mixture. Stir in all remaining ingredients. Cover, bake for 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 45 minutes or until carrots and potatoes are fork tender.
I’ve made a few changes–I cook the bacon, chicken & garlic in a fry pan. I only use ½ teaspoon of pepper, 4 slices of bacon and maybe 2 chicken breasts and I put everything in a crock pot.
It’s very good and warms you up from the inside out. The pepper and the wine, I think. Notice there isn’t any salt. I think the bacon takes care of that.
BTW--you can use any kind of red wine. I've tried several differnt kinds and it makes no difference. It still tastes good.
Serve with rolls or fresh bread and butter.
Enjoy!
D
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DR RonP wrote:
And speaking of senior moments....
I've totally lost track of what it is folks are trying to name?
Is it that little celebratory smilie thingie from yesterday?
If so, just name him "party dude"!
We are trying to name the little karma guy:
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DR Ben wrote:
DR Jennifer, we are now equal, at 6:04pm on Monday, November 10, 2003. We each have 216 posts. How will it end? You'll probably win. You're younger, you have more stamina. You ask more questions. You caught up to me. We'll see in a few days.
Yes we shall see. But I am probably more obsessive than you :)
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What on earth is this?
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Some of these are just too funny. This one is not so nice. But it totally cracked me up.
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Hey thanks for the recipe. I am thinking I will probably go with chicken. My absolute favorite dish in the whole world is General Taos. But all the recipes I see, have you deep fry it, (or fry it in lots of oil).I found one recipe where you bake it. I may try this one. Btw, is it bad to try out recipes on company? :)
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Hey thanks for the recipe. I am thinking I will probably go with chicken
er... Jennifer... Coq au Vin IS chicken :)
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Your welcome, Jennifer. One thing I will say about myself, I do know how to cook and what I cook is usually very good. If you ever need a receipe, let me know. I have lots of them! ::Please note--that is a understatement:: ::)
There's a lady at work that loves to cook as well and we are always trading new tips and recipes. Yum!
I don't think trying something new on guests is a bad thing.
Thanks, Ben for the good wishes for my Mom.
D
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I'm going to try to get out of here by five, since my editor has enough stuff to do on his own - then I can just look at what he's done in the morning.
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When I first learned that "cocoa van" was chicken prepared in wine I was very surprised!
But don't ask me how I thought a van could be made of cocoa! I was just a wee sprig of a tad of a yout'!
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If you want recipes, click here:
http://houseandhome.msn.com/food/recipes/RecipeCategories.aspx
and you can have recipes. You can search by main ingredient, cuisine type, dietary type, type of preparation, special occasion or brand name recipes. I found this site last year looking for low fat recipes. Lots of good eatin' in them thar pages!
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My sixth graders earned 5 class points this quarter, so the deal is, if a class earns 5 class points, I bake them a treat. I made chocolate chip and skor pieces cookies. They are yummy. It takes a a lot to get 5 class points in a quarter, but this class was exceptionally good. They sang well (100% at times) they paid attention and were almost all together with their notebooks. Maybe I should change the class points to karma points, although I'm not sure they'd understand karma. :)
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Jennifer, I like those smilies/emoticons. ;D I don't know if anyone has posted this before, but this is one of my favorites:
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Lookin' for some good cookin'? You should watch/tape this man's Food Channel shows:
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Tyler Florence does it all. One of his shows is Food 9-1-1 where he teaches you how to do things no matter how lost you are in the kitchen.
He also has other shows on the channel. I much prefer his cookin and kitchen training to that of Emeril La(GivesMe)Gasse.
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Need a dessert?
Waldorf-Astoria Cheese Cake
Crust:
1 cup sifted enriched flour
¼ cup sugar
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
½ cup butter
1 slightly beaten egg yolk
¼ teaspoon vanilla
Combine, flour, sugar and lemon peel. Cut in butter until mixture is crumbly. Add egg yolk and vanilla. Blend thoroughly. Pat 1/3 of dough on bottom of 9-inch spring form pan with sides removed. Bake 6 minutes at F 400 until golden. Cool. Butter sides of pan and attach to bottom. Pat remaining dough evenly on sides.
Cheese Filling:
5 8-ounce packages cream cheese
¼ teaspoon vanilla
¾ teaspoon grated lemon peel
1 ¾ cups sugar
3 tablespoons enriched flour
¼ teaspoon salt
5 eggs
2 egg yolks
¼ cup heavy cream
Stir cheese to soften; beat until fluffy. Add vanilla and lemon peel. Mix sugar, flour and salt; gradually blend into cheese. Add eggs and yolks, one at a time, beating well after each. Gently stir in cream. Turn into crust-lined pan. Bake 5 minutes at F 500. Reduce oven heat to F 200 and bake 2 hours longer.
Cream Topping (optional):
1 pint fresh thick sour cream
2 tablespoons sugar
¼ teaspoon vanilla
(Mix and pour on top of cake. Bake 5 minutes longer at F 475).
Cool at least four hours in refrigerator before removing sides. Cake can be topped with either fruit or toasted almonds, if desired.
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Bruce, here are a few smilies that you (and others) might like:
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Here's a real cute one:
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Wow, George! That's a GREAT site! I hope you don't mind that I e-mailed it to my friend at work. She's gonna go ape when she sees that site!
I have to laugh at the Cheese Cake recipe--not because of the receipe itself--it sounds wonderful but guess what I just finished eating? My Mom wanted a cheesecake instead the regular kind so that's what I made for her B-day.
D
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And here is your Allison Hayes picture of the Day! From the 1956 Roger Corman western Gunslinger.
Allison is Erica Page owner of the Red Dog Saloon, who hires killer Cain Miro (John Ireland) to kill the sheriff - a woman named Rose (Beverly Garland). Things don't turn out quite the way Erica planned. Or the way Allison and Corman planned either, Allison fell off her horse and broke her arm when Garland fired a stray shot.
I do believe this is the only Allison Hayes film I've seen... but it was the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version! Ahh, how I do love a good MST3K. ;D
"Mitchell... Mitchell... Eyes on the sammich... Mitchell!"
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Hello all. I don't know from crooners but I grew up with my family listening to the likes of Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Barbra Streisand, so all of that reminds me of childhood and my grandfather's Oldsmobile with its 8 track player.
The quest to name the little party dude is amusing me because I haven't actually named my cat yet. I keep calling her "cat" and better figure something out before it sticks.
I started my new job today. Everyone is really nice, which was a relief because I had made myself nervous about it for no apparent reason. I already have much work to do, which is no fun because it makes it harder to sneak in HHW readings during the day. :(
Danise, your recipe is making me hungry!
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It's simple, LC. Just name your cat "Dog."
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I like these:
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LC, It was very good.
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LC, I have a friend who had a tiny little dog named Katherine. They called their dog Kitty. I've always wanted a cat named Berkeley (pronounced Barkly), like the song by The Manhattan Transfer (and others), "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square."
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Love the butt cheek smiley. Maybe that's why we're an "adult" tagged site. Also, someone pointed out that it might be because of the word Nudie. Wouldn't that be a fine kettle of what is it, fish?
I'm home, ready to rest and hopefully continue to get well.
Now, why do I see only two browsers? We must have more browsers because more browsers lead to more posters and we must have more posters hence we must have more browsers.
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LOL, Jed and George! You are not the first people to suggest canine names! Maybe I will go call her "dog" and see if she responds. I actually thought about naming her Kitiara, from a fantasy series I like, because then I could call her "kitty" for short. My roommate wants to name her Kiara, after Simba's daughter in The Lion King, so we have a two-letter problem. (http://www.stupid-boy.com/smilies/contrib/icw/007.gif)
There was one day I logged on here and all the ads at the top were for Hanes underwear. Google's logic amused me.
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What is it about the green ones? (http://smilies.crowd9.com/ups/DeNiro/m&mgreen.gif)
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Open question to all DR
After you 1st read BK's column for the day (and I know we all do that first) and we post our thoughts in the daily discussion forum (and I know we all do that second) I would like to know what you do when you want to post additional thoughts for the day.
1) Do you start off at BK column and click your way through or
2) Do you have a quick link to the daily discussion page?
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Are you kidding me? How can you discuss the great crooners intelligently and neglect to mention . . . Al Bowlly?
(Sorry, I'm hard-pressed to think of crooners nobody's mentioned yet.)
Also, am I the only person here to suspect that between Martin and Lewis, it was Jerry Lewis who had the better vocal chops? True, his role as the "monkey" rarely permitted him to demonstrate 'em . . .
And what kind of devotee would I be if I didn't remind you all once more of the song stylings of LEONARD NIMOY?
(Mwahahahahaaaa!!!)
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DR Jed - actually the MST3K massacre of Gunslinger was pretty funny, especially the comments on the dancing girls!
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I can't believe I just spent more than one minute watching this thing to see how it ended:
(http://smilies.crowd9.com/ups/kamikaze/explorers.gif)
Thank you karma fairy!
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And what kind of devotee would I be if I didn't remind you all once more of the song stylings of LEONARD NIMOY?
Yes, who could forget "The Ballard of Bilbo Baggins"? Or "Once I Smiled" (I think that was the name. ) I used to have 3 or 4 of his albums.
Open question to all DR
After you 1st read BK's column for the day (and I know we all do that first) and we post our thoughts in the daily discussion forum (and I know we all do that second) I would like to know what you do when you want to post additional thoughts for the day.
1) Do you start off at BK column and click your way through or
2) Do you have a quick link to the daily discussion page?
Number 2.
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I usually leave the message page in my tray, then I click to open the window and click refresh....
DRLC that smiley is funny!
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And through all this livelong day, we have discussed crooners -- male singers whose style really "sends" us -- and it wasn't until RIGHT THIS SECOND that I thought of my favorite of them all:
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Nat King Cole[/move]
If someone already mentioned him, don't be offended. It just didn't register with me somehow.
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Where have all the browers gone
Long time errant
Where have all the browsers gone
Truant as well.
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I do the same thing as Jrand (leave the browser open, refresh later). How long does it take for your logon to time out if you do something like that? (in other words for the site to stop saying you are online)
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Hey, everyone.
Please excuse the very downbeat post. Macbeth and I broke up. The same old stereotypical break-up, I'm afraid. He wasn't emotionally open enough, I was too much. Please send me good vibes. I really need them right now. At any rate, I'm planning to spend the night at my friends house so she can help me keep my mind off him. It's at times like this that you realize who your true friends are!
On the plus side, this means that any HHW guys are free to flirt with my newly single self!
Ann--feel better soon!
Jennifer--I thought Cammy would be short for chameleon. Chammy maybe?
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Maya that sucks. :(
But look at it this way - at least now you can search for straight musical theatre loving male persons with me!
Let the quest continue! :)
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This is my 100th post!
whopee! yippee!
*dance-dance-dance*
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one more for that star! :)
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Hey thanks for the recipe. I am thinking I will probably go with chicken. My absolute favorite dish in the whole world is General Taos. But all the recipes I see, have you deep fry it, (or fry it in lots of oil).I found one recipe where you bake it. I may try this one. Btw, is it bad to try out recipes on company? :)
Jennifer, you can always try general tao on me! I'll seriously walk to your place for general tao!
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Hey, everyone.
Please excuse the very downbeat post. Macbeth and I broke up.
You were too pretty for him. Besides, he isn't really king in the end, so why bother?
kisses and hugs and godiva
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I was the only browser when I arrived here tonight! Boy, there must be some good books, some good music, some good TV, and/or some good food out there for EVERYONE to be gone. It's the first time this has ever happened to me. :(
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%] ;D Sending Happy Vibes to Maya ;)[/move]
Sorry to hear of your breakup Maya. Breaking up is one of life's hard lessons...but on the positive side there will be a very lucky guy out there just waiting for you to come along! In the meantime here is some karma for you *poof*
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Maya, I hear that Cal Bolder is single!!
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Breaking up is hard to do. Hmmmm.... someone said that once. It might make a catchy tune.
Seriously, it hurts now, but in time the hurt goes away, and it just means there's someone out there even better and more deserving of you. Some of the more mature members of HHW (no names PLEASE) certainly have had experience along these same lines.
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Maya, do not give him another thought. You belong here, with us, not with some non-musical theater-loving boy. And one for Mahler.
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I do have the feeling we will hit 200 posts tonight. What the 200 posts feel about that is anyone's guess.
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My positive thoughts to you Maya. Guess we have all been there and it does not get easier when you are much much older. And no-one ever really understands the feeling you have.
S Holmes. I intended to mention Al Bowley but thought he would be unknown. Apologies. He was so popular in the UK and here in OZ. I would also list Don Cherry as one of my favourites. I also like Vale and Martino.
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Paper #1 is DONE!!![/move]
Yippee!
Woohoo!
Only 2 more to go! :o
I am going to bed right now :)
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I would also list Don Cherry as one of my favourites.
Tom - the Canadians on the board all laughed REAAAAALLLY hard.
Don Cherry is this awful awful iconic hockey commentator for the CBC. I'm sure the name is really common - but the image of this man singing just cracks me up!
(http://images.google.ca/images?q=tbn:iceGPltujGUC:graphics.boston.com/images/daily)
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Emily: There is also a jazz trumpeter Don Cherry. The singer Don Cherry won the Canadian Golf open or some such thing years ago. He has some successful pop songs in the 50;s "Band Of Gold" and "Love Is Just Around The Corner". Pleased to give you all some smiles from down here in OZ.
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Isn't there anyone out there trying for post #200?
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Sorry Maya. I’m glad you are with a friend tonight.
Jennifer I’m sorry I don’t have time to post any recipes for you until tomorrow afternoon. I think that will be too late.
I just tried a new recipe for ginger cookies to serve tomorrow. They are HORRIBLE! So I made rice crispy treats and will get up early tomorrow to make oatmeal cookies.
Thinking healthy thoughts to all of you poor sick ones out there. Feel better tomorrow.
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I'm guessing that you folks are seeing animation with some of these smilies that I'm just not seeing. Sorta like watching a color movie in black and white, I guess.
DR Maya--Men. Can't live with them. Can't live without 'em. Don't worry. Give up on Thanes. Your prince will come. Just keep kissing those frogs.
Dear Readers--I saw Love Actually this evening. I rather liked it, though it does have its flaws. As DR LC previously stated, there are multiple (as in quite a few) characters in multiple story lines that unfold during the weeks that lead into Christmas in London in, apparently, current time. The story lines do not really intersect, save for a very contrived denouement. (For an absolutely darling movie with multiple story lines that do intersect, take a look at Km. 0, a tiny film from Spain that was released here in the U.S for about a nanosecond earlier this year that I and about four other people saw.) The story line in Love Actually involving Hugh Grant is totally implausible and slicker than ice. The story line involving Colin Firth (be still, my heart) is Hollywood romanticism at its most predictable. Liam Neeson is rather miscast, though the kid who plays his stepson will go far. There's a rather clever line about a couple who work together as stand-ins on movie shoots. There are lines that are downright feel good, and other lines that are rather wistful, if not downright sad. Laura Linney continues to prove that she is the next Meryl Streep. Her story line, I thought, though perhaps not the most original, was the most touchingly played out.
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Thanks for the review Jay. It was difficult to get past the mention of Colin Firth though.
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Have courage, DR TFO.
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Hmmm...."Kimlets"...and "Daughters of Kimlets"....and next year, "Sons of Kimlets"....
Are these going to be Hammer Films productions?
THE SONS OF KATIE KIMLET
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The Washington Post has arrived.
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Back from the Met. My stomach is feeling significantly better, and I was even able to eat! LA JUIVE was very long, which means a bigger paycheck, so I can't complain. I'm working another JUIVE on Friday night and LA TRAVIATA on Sat. night. Woohoo!
I saw LOVE ACTUALLY last night. I thought it was a very sweet movie. Yes, as previously stated, it has it's issues, but I loved it...especially the Laura Linney thread. She really is a fine actress...and then, of course, there is the lovely and ever-wonderful Ms. Emma Thompson. She's always wonderful. Let's face it, the whole darn cast was great.
I should go to bed. I have to work at MTI tomorrow. :(
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LOL Please forgive the previous post. I crack myself up sometimes.
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Speaking as a Washingtonian (well sort of) I found it funny. I had to be tied up and gagged to get myself under control. Maybe I am easy to please?
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Cheer up, DR Maya (if I bold both, does that make her a doctor?), Macbeth was not good enough for you. You will find Mr. Right. Trust me, there are thousands of straight guys out there in theater, or at least that is what they tell me when I try to sleep with them.
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Mymy, I'm so sorry! :( Eat ice cream--it's good for the soul!
Hope all you DRs are feeling better very soon!
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Mymy, I'm so sorry! :( Eat ice cream--it's good for the soul!
Hope all you DRs are feeling better very soon!
Laura II: If you really felt bad, you would send her Josh Harnett.
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heehee TCB, if I could, I would! I would give you karma for that, but at the moment, I can't. As soon as the 72 hours has passed from whenever I last gave you karma, you will get some more!
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Consider it done on your behalf Laura II. The karma fairies are internationally supportive of a good cause.
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Hmm, the recipes from before made me hungry...I only ate tomato soup today, and now the rumblies in my tummblie have started. (Isn't that a Winnie the Pooh reference?)
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DR TFO, thank you for helping DR TCB out! You shall have some karma too!
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Dear Readers--I saw Love Actually this evening. <SNIP> Laura Linney continues to prove that she is the next Meryl Streep. Her story line, I thought, though perhaps not the most original, was the most touchingly played out.
I saw Holiday in 1995 with Laura Linney and Tony Goldwyn. It was so good and our group was close enough that we could see facial expressions! That's always nice. It was at the Circle in the Square Theatre which was 3/4 in the round so it didn't seem like there were any bad seats, anyway.
About the Crooners topic of the day: everyone that has been mentioned is very good but I wasn't much of a listener of crooners. Hoever, I can certainly appreciate the good singers, especially Rosemary Clooney and Tony Bennett and the others. My dad loves Tony Bennett and Frankie Laine. Those two are his favorites.
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Plenty o' good vibes to Maya. As you said, good friends can be beyond fantastic at times like this.
On the plus side, this means that any HHW guys are free to flirt with my newly single self!
As if he would have deterred us anyway!!! :D
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Trust me, there are thousands of straight guys out there in theater, or at least that is what they tell me when I try to sleep with them.
ROTFLMAO!!!!! TCB, you caused me to do an honest-to-God spit take when I read your post!