Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 28, 2023, 12:03:59 AM
-
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were Hitchcockian, and now it is time for you to post until the Hitchcockian cows come home.
-
And the word of the day is: METTLE!
-
And now - Dino at the piano.
-
~~~Vibes for a Gargantuan Major Miracle for BK!!~~~
-
Topic of the Day: I haven't really seen many Hitchcock films, so I can't say I know from "Hitchcockian." ::)
-
From Rodzinsky:
Vixmom and Jane. Because my wife was born in Canada we can as long as the school has room, though it costs like 6-8k per child per year. Still could if my wife was not born there, but would need special permits and such.
I read past elementary school the kids continue in Blaine. How close are the Canadians schools to you and do other children from your neighborhood also attend?
As Vixmom said, congrats on being able to do this. I gather you are also pleased with the level of education.
-
To continue from last night: while looking through literally ALL but one of the boxes in my storage unit, I did manage to find a couple of other items that I really wanted to find and hadn't looked for in a long time (actually, since before I moved into my place more than 16 years ago ::) ). One was "The Hansen Treasury of Stephen Sondheim Songs (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0849400961/)." It's a songbook that was published right after Follies, because there are no songs form A Little Night Music. The interesting thing is that in the song "Broadway Baby," there's an extra stanza that as far as I know has never been recorded, and it wasn't even referenced in "Finishing the Hat," Sondheim's first book of lyrics:
Say, Mister producer,
Some girls get the breaks.
Just give me my cue, sir.
I've got what it takes.
Say, Mister Producer,
I'm talkin' to you, sir.
I don't need a lot,
Only what I got,
Plus a tube of grease-paint and a follow spot!
-
;D
-
The other item that I was looking for was the 1938 published script to The Cradle Will Rock, by Marc Blitzstein.
-
Here's the cover:
-
What's cool about this is that the music for several songs (but not all) are printed in the book:
-
What's also cool is that this publication is listed on Amazon...from $50 to $650!
https://www.amazon.com/Play-Music-Cradle-Will-Rock/dp/B00520DMZ8/ (https://www.amazon.com/Play-Music-Cradle-Will-Rock/dp/B00520DMZ8/)
-
My copy is is a former library copy and not in very good condition, so I don't think it's worth very much, but I think it's cool, and that's all that matters. :)
-
George, congrats on all your finds in your storage unit.
-
Apparently I was too active on FB and have been kicked off for an hour
-
I know others who have complained about "liking" too many posts and then had the same thing happen to them.
-
Keith was just about to finally put up some photos.
-
Looking forward to those, DR Jane.
-
Good morning, friends.
-
Interesting finds, DR George.
-
Good morning, all!
-
DR George, check out "Ah, Paris!" in that Hansen collection. If I remember correctly, it has a different verse and other oddities.
-
~~~CONTINUED GARGATNTUAN MAJOR MIRACLE VIBES~~~ for the likes of BK!!!!!!!!!
-
I own that Hansen book of Sondheim. I have no idea where it is at the moment, however.
-
Well, I did not sleep badly, but the morning - all sixty minutes of it - has had several missteps that make me pray to God that I'm not having a stroke or the calamities will not continue throughout the day.
-
At 10:30 I have a Zoom meeting about scenes two and three of the ballet.
-
DR Jrand72, thanks for mentioning the CBS tribute to The Young and the Restless last evening. I enjoyed it. I got hooked on the show when my dad was ill in 2006 because my sister-in-law JoAnn watched it.
-
Good morning, all.
-
Not a great night of deep sleep. Dreamt of dancing.
-
Onward!
-
Two!
-
Looking forward to Jane’s photos.
-
Good morning
-
I slept
-
I woke
-
I coffeed
-
Guess I’ll wordle
-
Wordle 647 6/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
-
Almost got me!
-
TOD:
Charade
-
Wordle 4, Phoodle 5
-
I would like to quit my job and spend my days making pies.
-
How did that lottery ticket work out for you, DR vixmom?
-
I'm waiting for my ship to come in.
-
Or go out.
-
One of those.
-
Good morning, all.
-
And thus begins the most hellish day of my past few weeks.
After today it returns to being manageable, but today is Hell - with practicing in the morning, an hour drive to Norwalk for a rehearsal, an hour and a half drive to Poughkeepsie for a rehearsal followed by a show-conditions run-through, and an hour drive home late at night.
-
I do have to wonder...
When we get to the point where every American family with children has lost a child to gun violence...
We we still elect politicians who oppose gun restrictions?
-
That sounds hell-ish indeed, DR ChasSmith.
~~~STAMINA AND SURVIVAL VIBES~~~ for you!!!!!!
-
Vibes for all, including myself, and I’ll see yez all tomorrow morning.
-
Hitchcockian?
What about Kimmellian?
-
Looking forward to those, DR Jane.
Kyoto is up.
-
Not a great night of deep sleep. Dreamt of dancing.
I am envious.
-
Looking forward to Jane’s photos.
The only photos that are mine are the ones with Keith in them.
-
The upside of visiting Japan right now is that the cherry blossoms are beautiful.
-
The downside of being in Japan right now are the crowds here to see the trees.
-
'night
-
I would like to quit my job and spend my days making pies.
You and me both.
-
Uno mas.
-
Tres!
-
Good morning!
-
Almost got me!
Me too! Wordle: 6/6
-
Vibes for MR BK.
-
Feel better vibes for DR ELMORE.
-
I watched Strangers On A Train yesterday - so I can't classify any film Hitchcockian except those by Mr. Hitchcock.
The others are but pale imitations.
-
I am astonished that the cast members of DR GEORGE's show are expected to print out their own scores & scripts.
Now of course, some people may use them on their phones or tablets.....but how do you make blocking notes?
I don't like it.
-
My Zoom meetig went well, but there are sure a lotta notes in this score!
-
I like thrillers, but I don't feel I've seen enough Hitchcock films to know what the hell allusions to another movie as Hitchcockian even means.
-
Okay, I'm back for just a minute. :)
-
Definitely MIRAGE, as BK noted, but first in that decade there was CHARADE.
Other than those, what would I personally identify as really Hitchcockian? I don't know. Could FRANTIC qualify?
I won't include Brian De Palma's blatant homages to Hitchcock, because, well, duh. And the mostly dumb remakes of things by other people only copy the general story line; they have no idea what made the original film a masterpiece.
-
I am astonished that the cast members of DR GEORGE's show are expected to print out their own scores & scripts.
Now of course, some people may use them on their phones or tablets.....but how do you make blocking notes?
I don't like it.
Yes, same here, unless something was lost in translation. Since when are cast members not handed their scripts or sides or libretto books or whatever they're called on day one? Sunday and the other Sondheims are MTI, right? Has something changed on certain shows?
-
Okay, must go now. See ya's!
-
Apple Music Classical service/app launches today, but so far the app is only available for Apple devices.
-
Safe driving vibes for DR CHAS SMITH.
-
Continued Japanese vibes for DR JANE.
-
This may be one of DR JANE's photos from her Facebook page.
(https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/337874646_603131618342659_2735347931193667769_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=Can0h1GJqY4AX_wS5nl&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&oh=00_AfBgprHYS5kmqXOlCzkJxIbk_0uwld8R72q4XATffYG9Wg&oe=642851A1)
-
Has anyone read Shades of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson? It’s set in London after WWI and before the Great Depression. It’s fun so far. I’m about a quarter in.
There have been two Dickens jokes that made me laugh out loud. One involved an uneducated lass who thought Oliver Twist was the name of a biscuit.
-
Olive with a twist - isn't that what you put in a martini?
-
This day is moving at a glacial pace.
-
Sort of like a gazelle watching Jeanne Dielman.
-
Has anyone seen the PBS series, Beecham House?
-
Safe driving vibes for DR CHAS SMITH.
And safe home vibes, too.
-
I have not, DR elmore3003.
-
Olive with a twist - isn't that what you put in a martini?
A martini with a biscuit in it.
-
Has anyone seen the PBS series, Beecham House?
Nope.
-
PT was not fun today. But the hand is getting stronger.
-
Good news, DR John G.
-
Slow and steady wins the race.
-
One more.
-
Four.
-
Speaking of Alfred Hitchcock...
On This Day in 1963, his film The Birds premiered.
-
For dinner I fried a couple of salmon burgers. Quite delicious.
-
Ushering for a dress rehearsal of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. I don’t think this is the one with a happy ending. I saw one French opera version that did have a happy ending. I hadn’t read the program notes and was shocked when Juliet woke up before Romeo killed himself. Sort of ruined my evening.
-
I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep.
-
Frantic would definitely qualify. I'm always surprised when people say they haven't seen many Hitchcock films. He's made some of, IMO, the greatest movies ever made. If you haven't seen any of the following you really owe it to yourself to watch: Notorious. Shadow of a Doubt (one of his greatest), Strangers on a Train, Dial 'M' for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief. the 1956 The Man Who Knew too Much, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, and especially North by Northwest. Each of those are great.
-
It would be nice if there were a definitive box set, but the home releases seem so piecemeal.
-
Frantic would definitely qualify. I'm always surprised when people say they haven't seen many Hitchcock films. He's made some of, IMO, the greatest movies ever made. If you haven't seen any of the following you really owe it to yourself to watch: Notorious. Shadow of a Doubt (one of his greatest), Strangers on a Train, Dial 'M' for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief. the 1956 The Man Who Knew too Much, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, and especially North by Northwest. Each of those are great.
Yup on all of those. I am particularly fond of Frenzy. And the last time I saw Family Plot, I enjoyed it much more than the first. Then there are the early greats like 39 Steps and Foreign Correspondent.
-
I have not read the book nor seen the television show mentioned by DR JOHN G and DR ELMORE. I am obviously a heathen.
However I have seen all of the movies in the list MR BK just posted. And they are certainly MUST SEE films.
-
I just watched MR HULOT'S HOLIDAY......for the first time in a few years.
I laughed and laughed again. This time I particularly watched how the children in the scenes reacted to him and their actions with their parents and each other......
The boy slapped in the face in the first minute of the film and the little boy with his head stuck in the steering wheel of the bus....
All of it is so funny.
-
I have ScreenPix through something else that I also subscribed to, I think maybe the TCM sports package......it has some good movies to be sure. And they add a few each month or rotate some films in and out.
Another similar service is MGM+.....which I get because I subscribe to HBO. They have all of the MGM/UA films from the 1950's which are fun to see now and then.
-
George, congrats on all your finds in your storage unit.
Thanks, Jane!
-
DR George, check out "Ah, Paris!" in that Hansen collection. If I remember correctly, it has a different verse and other oddities.
It does! The first verse is:
I have traveled over this earth.
From Bombay to Venice to Perth.
I've been down to Rio and up to Brest,
To East and West and to all the rest.
I have seen the gardens of Kew
And I've been to Timbuktu, too.
But when I've returned
The things I've learned
Is what I always knew:
New York has neon, Berlin has bars....
-
And the rest are familiar lyrics. :)
-
DR George, check out "Ah, Paris!" in that Hansen collection. If I remember correctly, it has a different verse and other oddities.
.
It does! The first verse is:
I have traveled over this earth.
From Bombay to Venice to Perth.
I've been down to Rio and up to Brest,
To East and West and to all the rest.
I have seen the gardens of Kew
And I've been to Timbuktu, too.
But when I've returned
The things I've learned
Is what I always knew:
New York has neon, Berlin has bars....
Look at "Broadway Baby." I seem to remember something new there as well
-
I am hoping that DR Jane and DH Keith are seeing sights like this:
-
Wordle 647 6/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I took all six tries, too!
Wordle 647 6/6
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
-
Frantic would definitely qualify. I'm always surprised when people say they haven't seen many Hitchcock films. He's made some of, IMO, the greatest movies ever made. If you haven't seen any of the following you really owe it to yourself to watch: Notorious. Shadow of a Doubt (one of his greatest), Strangers on a Train, Dial 'M' for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief. the 1956 The Man Who Knew too Much, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, and especially North by Northwest. Each of those are great.
I've seen:
Stage Fright
Strangers on a Train
Dial 'M' for Murder
the 1956 The Man Who Knew too Much
Vertigo
Psycho
The Birds
North by Northwest
Frenzy
Family Plot
-
DR George, check out "Ah, Paris!" in that Hansen collection. If I remember correctly, it has a different verse and other oddities.
.
It does! The first verse is:
I have traveled over this earth.
From Bombay to Venice to Perth.
I've been down to Rio and up to Brest,
To East and West and to all the rest.
I have seen the gardens of Kew
And I've been to Timbuktu, too.
But when I've returned
The things I've learned
Is what I always knew:
New York has neon, Berlin has bars....
Look at "Broadway Baby." I seem to remember something new there as well
I did mention that in one of my firsts posts today. :)
-
I am astonished that the cast members of DR GEORGE's show are expected to print out their own scores & scripts.
Now of course, some people may use them on their phones or tablets.....but how do you make blocking notes?
I don't like it.
We're not expected to make our own copies. We were given the script/vocal books, but I prefer to make my own copies so that I don't have to be careful with them, and I get to keep it.
-
I am astonished that the cast members of DR GEORGE's show are expected to print out their own scores & scripts.
Now of course, some people may use them on their phones or tablets.....but how do you make blocking notes?
I don't like it.
Yes, same here, unless something was lost in translation. Since when are cast members not handed their scripts or sides or libretto books or whatever they're called on day one? Sunday and the other Sondheims are MTI, right? Has something changed on certain shows?
We didn't get the books on the first music rehearsal because they hadn't arrived yet, so they sent us PDFs in the meantime. Our first read-through isn't until a week from today, so everyone has gotten the actual scripts/vocal books.
-
This may be one of DR JANE's photos from her Facebook page.
(https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/337874646_603131618342659_2735347931193667769_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=Can0h1GJqY4AX_wS5nl&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&oh=00_AfBgprHYS5kmqXOlCzkJxIbk_0uwld8R72q4XATffYG9Wg&oe=642851A1)
Nice!
-
Has anyone read Shades of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson? It’s set in London after WWI and before the Great Depression. It’s fun so far. I’m about a quarter in.
There have been two Dickens jokes that made me laugh out loud. One involved an uneducated lass who thought Oliver Twist was the name of a biscuit.
Maybe they'd like to enjoy a piece of Mahler's with that twist of Oliver's. ;D
-
Has anyone read Shades of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson? It’s set in London after WWI and before the Great Depression. It’s fun so far. I’m about a quarter in.
There have been two Dickens jokes that made me laugh out loud. One involved an uneducated lass who thought Oliver Twist was the name of a biscuit.
Maybe they'd like to enjoy a piece of Mahler's with that twist of Oliver's. ;D
Since I don’t like cheesecake…
-
A video version of London’s Heathers the Musical is coming. June 5 is the supposed release date.
-
Flopdoodle post 115!
-
I’ve got balcony tonight.
-
PT was not fun today. But the hand is getting stronger.
Very good news.
-
DR Jrand, thank you for sharing my photo.
-
Frantic would definitely qualify. I'm always surprised when people say they haven't seen many Hitchcock films. He's made some of, IMO, the greatest movies ever made. If you haven't seen any of the following you really owe it to yourself to watch: Notorious. Shadow of a Doubt (one of his greatest), Strangers on a Train, Dial 'M' for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief. the 1956 The Man Who Knew too Much, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, and especially North by Northwest. Each of those are great.
To add to thisgreat list.
Marnie
Rebecca
-
I am hoping that DR Jane and DH Keith are seeing sights like this:
I don't think so.
-
Thanks George.
-
How did that lottery ticket work out for you, DR vixmom?
I forgot to check!
-
A video version of London’s Heathers the Musical is coming. June 5 is the supposed release date.
I know a couple of people who LOVE that show. ::)
-
I enjoyed the cast album, but I didn't LOVE it.
-
I would like to see the video, though. :)
-
Thanks George.
You're welcome, Jane.
-
:)
-
I don't think this film is quite in the league of most of the other films mentioned at HHW today. 8)
-
You truly don't like cheesecake, DR John G.?
-
Would you say that Mindy's sells more cheesecake? Or strudel?
-
We are barely half way through page five, and yet I find myself longing to lay down.
-
Good night, friends.
-
You truly don't like cheesecake, DR John G.?
One of two foods I loathe. Yogurt is the other.
-
I remembered Rebecca earlier. Also, The Lady Vanishes.
-
The opera dress rehearsal was fun. The audience was made up of school kids, who were mostly well behaved. They saved their America’s Got Talent screams for the curtain call.
-
There’s a scene toward the end when Romeo and Juliet consummate their wedding. It prompted one kid to say Ewwww out loud.
-
I was surprised at the scale of the production. Sixty on stage and about 40 in the orchestra pit.
-
Some of the singers were protecting their voices, but it sounded like the Juliet was going fairly full throttle.
-
Good night, all.
-
You are welcome DR JANE.
-
Ah thanks DR GEORGE now it all becomes clear.
-
There’s a scene toward the end when Romeo and Juliet consummate their wedding. It prompted one kid to say Ewwww out loud.
;D
-
We are on the ship.
-
We each had a big salad for lunch.
-
From Rodzinsky:
Vixmom and Jane. Because my wife was born in Canada we can as long as the school has room, though it costs like 6-8k per child per year. Still could if my wife was not born there, but would need special permits and such.
I read past elementary school the kids continue in Blaine. How close are the Canadians schools to you and do other children from your neighborhood also attend?
As Vixmom said, congrats on being able to do this. I gather you are also pleased with the level of education.
The school here only goes to 3rd grade (soon to be 2nd), after that they get bussed to Blaine. The Canadian public school my son attends is 10 min away. Daughter is in a preschool 20 min away.
-
I had a bite of the mislabeled death by chocolate cake.
-
You truly don't like cheesecake, DR John G.?
One of two foods I loathe. Yogurt is the other.
I'll have both of yours, then. :)
-
There’s a scene toward the end when Romeo and Juliet consummate their wedding. It prompted one kid to say Ewwww out loud.
:))
-
Okay, I don't get it.
-
Page FIVE?
-
Page SIX?
-
We were on our way to breaking every record for posting in a month but not this way.
-
What IS going on here?
-
I had a nice glass of white wine with lunch. I never saw exactly what kind of white wine to order again.
-
I had a bite of the mislabeled death by chocolate cake.
In A Murder is Announced (the Miss Marple sghow that I was in last year), the chocolate cake is referred to as "Delicious Death."
-
Too much errant and truant behavior.
-
Let's get some posting going on.
-
Like now.
-
Like a lot.
-
A Whole Lotta Postin' Goin' On.
-
That is what's needed.
-
And yet, here I am doing a damn monologue.
-
Get with the damn program.
-
We are now in the smoking lounge while we wait for our cabin to be available.
-
Don't just sit there like rancid sour cream.
-
Now Jane smokes?
-
Really?
-
It is quiet in here. Keith is enjoying a cigar and a glass of Pinot Grigio.
-
Jane is smoking in a lounge.
-
Healing hand vibes to DR John G!
-
Keith smokes a cigar???
-
I had a bite of the mislabeled death by chocolate cake.
In A Murder is Announced (the Miss Marple sghow that I was in last year), the chocolate cake is referred to as "Delicious Death."
I like that.
-
Jane is probably partaking of the marijuana cigarettes.
-
Keith smokes a cigar???
He likes cigars and, thanks to my father, I like the smell of a good cigar.
-
Get me off this damn page.
-
I didn't know there was a good smell to a cigar, and my father smoked 'em, as did uncles and grandfathers.
-
So Jane is a smoker now.
-
Jane is probably partaking of the marijuana cigarettes.
:)) I think not. The smoke from those makes me ill.
-
Smoked Jane.
-
Jane and Keith in Kyoto…quite a delight!
Now on the high seas!
-
Who knew?
-
And George just disappears when you need him to post the most.
-
Get me off this damn page.
-
I need respite from this damn page.
-
Jane is probably partaking of the marijuana cigarettes.
A.k.a. Mary Jane. ;)
-
Brian DePalma was said to be the heir to Hitchcock. I’m not sure how many of his suspense films hold up that well now.
-
I didn't know there was a good smell to a cigar, and my father smoked 'em, as did uncles and grandfathers.
I used to go into Dunhill's in Beverly Hills just to go into the walk in humidor to enjoy the smell.
-
Respite, do you hear me?
-
I puffed on a cigarillo once.
-
And a pipe once.
-
And a cigar once.
-
Today, I went to Jo-Ann's to get some more frames for my posters.
-
Smoked Jane.
My parents let me smoke my father's cigar thinking I would never want to smoke. When they realized how much I was enjoying it they quickly took it away from me ;D
-
Eight weeks of cigarettes in a play, long before they had herb cigarettes, but no inhaling.
-
Jane and Keith in Kyoto…quite a delight!
Now on the high seas!
It was :)
-
I got two frames that I'll put posters in (I haven't done that yet, though) and two frames for album covers.
-
Your parents were as wacky as mine.
-
And mine were wacky.
-
Wicky wacky.
-
Gratuitous Post #200!!
-
At least get us to page eight.
-
I have three autographed albums, so I'll have to go back and get one more album frame.
-
We can DO it.
-
So, let's DO it.
-
All here.
-
All hands on deck.
-
From page 5 to 8 in no time flate.
-
Don't just sit there like a marijuana cigarette.
-
We're damn close.
-
DAMN close.
-
Finally!
-
About time.
-
My sister introduced me to Newports. I said if she didn't let me have a cigarette I would tell on her if she smoked.
-
Here we all are.
-
I really thought she wouldn't let her 12 year old sister smoke.
-
Jane, here I thought you were all innocent and you were, in fact, a WICKED girl.
-
Smokin’ in the Boys Room
-
A Pretzel.
-
Why did I nickname you Pretzel?
-
Riddle me that.
-
Don't just sit there like a marijuana cigarette.
I never liked the smell of marijuana. :P
-
Inquiring minds want to know.
-
And I have an inquiring mind.
-
I don't know why since she already had me sneak liquor with her ::)
-
And since I don't like cigarette smoke either (I had to grow up with it), it made it very easy for me not to smoke pot.
-
And?
-
Why did I nickname you Pretzel?
My lack of body curves
-
So, Jane was an alcoholic, too?
-
So much I didn't know.
-
I thought I was the wild one.
-
But nooooo, Jane was the wild one.
-
Jane, here I thought you were all innocent and you were, in fact, a WICKED girl.
I know you never saw me drink or smoke ;D
-
New notes are up.
-
Up are new notes.
-
I've seen them.
-
I've read them.
-
I wrote them.
-
No, I never saw Pretzel drink or smoke. She was living a SECRET life.
-
A life of liquor and smoking.
-
Jane’s Secret Life Revealed tonight on HHW Late Night
-
I wonder what else I didn't know.
-
Don't tell me.
-
Let me live in ignorant bliss.
-
Page nine and in record time.
-
Live from the Sea of Japan
-
And since I don't like cigarette smoke either (I had to grow up with it), it made it very easy for me not to smoke pot.
I never liked my mother's cigarettes but Newports tasted and smelled good.
-
I started at 12, and thank goodness had the good sense to stop when I realized I was addicted and a 12 year old looked stupid smoking.