Yesterday Woody said, in reference to the Tonys
Rosie O'Donnell is to blame, I believe.
Wood man, you haven't been paying attention.
Jose is to blame. For everything! For ever! ;)
Good Morning!
Bug-a-boos...
Actors - or even directors - who come into a rehearsal and complain that they are tired and want to take it slow... After they had been out late the night before drinking and whatnot. Especially if this happens twice in a row... or, unfortunately, three or more. I mean, I can understand being tired because a rehearsal went late, or there was something on the homefront that needed attending to, but if you're gonna go ahead and come into a rehearsal tired and hungover.... Well, I have no tolerance for that. Whip!
Thankfully, we have not had that problem up here at WTF.
Whew!
And on semi-related bug-a-boo - people who have absolutely no sense of time and punctuality. Running late is one thing. Just showing up whenever it's convenient, however, is another.
Larry, if you and Joey do make it down to trendy Chelsea and Academy (on 18th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues on the south side of the street halfway down the block just steps from Books of Wonder which now has a Cupcake Cafe outlet installed), give me a call, if you get a chance. I'm at work until around noon and at home for lunch from noon to 1pm.
I, of course, am guilty of not being clear last night. I should have added that Rosie is one of Jose's many stooges. He's fiendish that way, fiendish, I tell you!
I'm writing a screenplay: JOSE: SCOURGE OF GOD!!!
DRJose, are you aware, since I keep forgetting to tell you, that the Williams College Library has the Paul Whiteman collection of music? You should go check it out in your copious free time. ;D
Umm...
DR elmore - The was kick-kick-turn-step-kick, not kick-turn-kick-kick-step.
Again![/b]
And now the ballet combination...
-A-1-2-3-4-5-6....
DR elmore.... watch those arms... kick higher.... keep the leg in extension.... Flexed foot!... THIS IS NOT A JAZZ COMBINATION, STRAIGHT LEG!...
You better watch it Mister, or I'm going to "have" Mikey John "ask" you to orchestrate his next show.
>:(
That was my next guess that YOU actually wrote the song, but I couldn't figure out the initials. Nice work - it's such a great song and has a real bk sound to it. However, the cell phone reference in the 70's? :)
Bugaboos - OR sitting behind someone at a stoplight, and when the light turns green, the driver turns on the left turn signal.....so you wait and wait as cars by you on the right....and wait and wait.
Yesterday Woody said, in reference to the Tonys
Rosie O'Donnell is to blame, I believe.
Hey, for those of you who watch The LawFirm. NBC cancelled it. I think they are showing the remaining episodes on some other cable channel i don't get.
I HATE it when stations cancel shows mid-stream. Very unfair to the viewers who tune in.
DR George, but wasn't there a way that we were still able to watch that last show?
Don't even get me started on my Jewish thighs, LOL.
Photos! Post photos!
Bug-a-boos? How much time do you have?
LIARS! I abhor them and will go to extreme lengths to prove them liars...especially if they are telling lies about me!
PEOPLE WHO BREAK THEIR WORD.
TARDINESS IN ALL FORMS. I had being late (and subsequently, have rarely ever been so); I hate people who are constantly late...it's so rude to other people, basically saying that I'm more important than you, my time is more valuable than yours, you must wait for my convenience. I have been known to leave Hollywood waiting rooms if people are more than twenty minutes late for a meeting with me.
The Lovely Wife and I have ongoing differences about getting to an airport. She will be packing things up to the last minute. I like to leave early (in the eventuality of possibilities like traffic, flat tires, accidents) and get there way early. Once I'm through the conga lines of ticketing and baggage check, etc. I can then relax and kick back, even if I have to read a book or twiddle my thumbs for a couple of hours.
Big bugaboo: People who eat, remove, take, etc., the last thing in a package. And then put the package back. I haveyelled atchided the dear partner for about 15 years on this issue. And still he does it. Grrrrrrr!
Tall people in front of you, in a theatre without sufficient rake, who insist on moving from side to side during the entire performance so that you have to keep sliding froom side to side in order to see anything other than their big fat head
TOD - Being in public service, as I am, I get very annoyed when the situation is reversed and the people in places like banks, stores, airports, box offices, and (gasp) even libraries (including my own) who are supposed to be waiting on me don't extend the level of courtesy and service that I try to provide. I mean, making eye contact and trying to be pleasant are not THAT difficult.
Likewise, when I'm on the giving end of service, it's annoying to not receive a simple "Thank you."
Since I give a lot of presentations, I try not to do some of the things that annoy me when I'm in an audience. One of my biggest peeves is a speaker who says, "I don't have enough hand-outs for everybody." Like those of us (and I'm included) who like to get to the airport early, I always have 'way more materials prepared than people registered for a presentation.
Me, too DR GINNY! ;D
Sounds like DR JOEY is being shown the town by experts....very nice of you, DR ELMORE. Good practice for when New York Newbie DRMBARNUM shows up in the fall! 8)
DRJRand, our DRJoey has taken to New York like a duck to water. I don't believe I assimilated so quickly. He's been a fantastic guest and his happiness at being in New York is quite infectious. When DRMichael Barnum shows up, I'm taking him to the lower East side where I understand there's an Indian film theatre, dropping him off, and waiting for him to resurface after several days.
When DRMichael Barnum shows up, I'm taking him to the lower East side where I understand there's an Indian film theatre, dropping him off, and waiting for him to resurface after several days.
DR elmore - is this DR Joey's first visit to the city? Will it be DR MBarnum's?
It will also be DRMBarnum's first trip as well, but since it will be a terrific social week with you, Danise, Jane, hopefully all the local DRs, and I think a few surprise guests, DRMBarnum is arriving a few days early to acclimate.
This was indeed DRJoey's first trip, and he has been more prepared than the invasion of Normandy. He arrived knowing more about New York than I do after 25 years of living here! Luckily for me, he wears his preparedness lightly. It will also be DRMBarnum's first trip as well, but since it will be a terrific social week with you, Danise, Jane, hopefully all the local DRs, and I think a few surprise guests, DRMBarnum is arriving a few days early to acclimate.
How very familiar this sounds. Thankfully, Ann is beginning to learn (and it hasn't even been close to 15 years). :D
Mass MoCA
Hmm, it sounds like some kind of chocolate coffee dessert!
You can be replaced.
Speaking of cell phones, one went off during DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS the other night, and the person with it didn't answer it, so it rang and rang until I guess the voice mail got it. I was SO furious.
Had it been a year ago and Hugh Jackman had been on the stage, he would have stayed in character as Peter Allen and come out in the audience to retrieve the darn thing. How I longed Norbert or John would have done the same thing.
Well, I'm back from a delightful trek with DRJoey: we first went to Central Park this morning, saw the Delacourte Theatre, the statues of Alice in Wonderland and Hans Christian Andersen, the Bethesda Fountain, the Boat Basin, the Sheep Meadow, and Tavern on the Green. We left the Park at 72nd Street, went to the Dakota, where Joey photographed the spot where John Lennon was shot. The trip took about an hour and a half. We then took the subway down to 18th Street and walked over to Academy where we met Ben, visited briefly, and then walked Ben back to work. Joey bought a couple of CDs, including an Irving Berlin compilation. We walked to Footlight, where I bought a British import of a LADY IN THE DARK compilation with Gertrude Lawrence, Danny Kaye, and Hildegarde. We then walked down to Washington Square and over to the subway. Joey is now checking out the TIX booth and I think he's going over to Rockefeller Center. This old whore is tired.
DRPogue, I agree with you. I'd rather be hours earlier to the airport. Since I usually travel with a book the length of WAR & PEACE, I'd rather read and wait in peace. Hmmm, WHORE AND PIECE, it may be my autobio, but is it a better title than SLOUCHING TOWARD IMMORALITY, my other choice?
SWW & DerBrucer is there a story that goes with Snowball?No, not yet.
DR elmore.... I must get you to give your tour to me and the Vixter one day... I am ashamed to admit it but I have never seen the Delacourt Theatre, the statues of Alice and Hans Christian Anderson, The Central Park Zoo, or any of the other wonders of Central Park
when I was young it was Washington Square Park I went to a dn then I just stopped going 6to the city except for theatre and then I was just in & out....
I really must start bringing the Vixter in and start doing the tourist thing
DRJRand, our DRJoey has taken to New York like a duck to water. I don't believe I assimilated so quickly. He's been a fantastic guest and his happiness at being in New York is quite infectious. When DRMichael Barnum shows up, I'm taking him to the lower East side where I understand there's an Indian film theatre, dropping him off, and waiting for him to resurface after several days.
Unbelievable cell phone use department: On our recent trip, we stopped in the Grand Tetons at Jenny Lake, took the little boat ride across, and hiked the two miles or so up to Inspiration Point (and I do mean UP to Inspiration Point--oy). Anyway, there we are enjoying the view, and up comes this ridiculous woman, SCREAMING into her cell phone that she can't believe she had service there. And she wasn't even talking about anything important (is anyone on a cell phone?)--she segued into what color she was going to paint her living room. A bunch of us stared at her and some people made comments, but of course she just kept SCREAMING into her phone, because, after all, she had service. >:(Just be glad she wasn't standing at Echo Point!
Stuart, it seems there is more than one Dear Partner with your aforementioned problem. It affects someone here in New York City also, but I won't mention any names :-)
Stuart, it seems there is more than one Dear Partner with your aforementioned problem. It affects someone here in New York City also, but I won't mention any names :-)
Welcome to BernadetteFan. Come and join in with us. We are swell people.
Speaking of Bernadette ::) ... yesterday, I received in the mail Bernadette Peters' newly released CD, "Sondheim, Etc., Etc. Live at Carnegie Hall: The Rest of It," the rest of her live concert recorded in 1996. I have it in my CD player and it's on pause. I was reading the liner notes and she wrote (and I quote):
"I Believe In You" is a song Stephen Sondheim gave me for that special evening and hadn't ever been recorded...."
Well, she didn't do her research! I think we all know that it had been recorded three years earlier (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000014TG/qid=1123798949/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-7701208-5864855?v=glance&s=music&n=507846)!
Now, I'm going to listen to the CD. Just had to share. ;)
Vincent Bell's rendition of Burt Bacharach's "Nikki" just finished.
I guess her mind is declining with her voice.
Having worked with Bernadette once, and having met her on several other occasions, I can say that she is a wonderfully nice person - very genuine and sweet. But, like most stars, it's about her, which is why she either had no clew or chose to ignore the fact that the Sondheim song had been recorded on Unsung Sondheim three years prior. My guess is that that is where she heard it.
It's nice having my cassette player back up and running. I'm now listening to one of my most treasured boot's - highlights from "Blood Brothers" with Helen Reddy.
That's what we're missing--the Helen Reddy jukebox musical. It would tell the intermingling tales of Delta Dawn, Ruby Red Dress and Angie Baby. Of course, the show's title would be I Am Woman.
That's what we're missing--the Helen Reddy jukebox musical. It would tell the intermingling tales of Delta Dawn, Ruby Red Dress and Angie Baby. Of course, the show's title would be I Am Woman.
:o Dan, you're supposed to copywrite an idea before you post it on the Internet! Now everyone will be doing one! Think of the money that you would have made...now, all gone. ;) ;D
I'm sure I could do a little searching and find out easily, but I'm lazy so...
When did you work with Bernadette, BK? Nothing is leaping to my mind here.
Now to see if MichaelShayne will beat BK to my answer...
"The Girl from OZ".
I know! I know!
SPOILER:
Ruthless: The Musical
;D
Anyone have the running order of the BP Sondheim concert? It would be nice to put the tracks on both CD's in the order of the concert.
But - was she actually there for that recording????
TCB
HHW God
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PB could stand for "Partial Blockage", so look out, the view might not be great.
I think that would apply to Danise.
DISCUSSION OF BIG BROTHER LIVE FEEDS.
Wow this endurance challenge could make things interesting! I guess people on the west coast can watch before they've even seen the show.
I think it's a crazy idea to put them in that box. I would be freaking out.
Now apparently they are allowed to bribe people with the contents of their box (you hold a button and lose if you take your hand off, then each gets to open a mystery box).
What's worse, and is my TRUE bug-a-boo is when he (or anyone) puts back, let's say, a bag of potato chips (Baked Lays, nowadays, natch!) with maybe 2 chips left. Or...puts an ice cube tray back in the freezer with one cube in it. (And hasn't re-filled the rest of the spots!) Or a half gallon of orange juice with maybe a quarter inch of OJ left.
So has anyone watched any of The Muppet Show Season One collection yet? We all seemed so eager to get it, but I haven't read anything here about it this week.
(I should talk--my copy is still in the cellophane.)
My chief bug-a-boo areAs one of those serving these people, I can both sympathize and disagree at the same time. These are usually very old women, whose bodies are failing them. They are also often on limited incomes, having to pinch their pennies and feeling embarrassed because of it. As a cashier, I try to be as patient as I can with them, to be supportive and caring for them... I think sometimes that I'm the only friendly face they see all day. Today I had a repeat customer, who asked me again to help her run her charge card through the swiper, and I was glad to help her, taking her through the process step by step.womenpeople who count out change when paying for their purchases in a store when there is a long line of customers behind them. ...
As one of those serving these people, I can both sympathize and disagree at the same time. These are usually very old women, whose bodies are failing them.
No, DR SWW, it's never little old ladies 'cause I just push them right out of the way.Clean-up in Aisle Seven!!!
I know how frustrating this can be to the other customers in line.
*I don't have the CDs here at home, so I can't check if the song "The Hills of Shiloh" is quoted on the new CD or if it's even on the CD at all, but it's not listed on amazon.com's listing of the CD. It would take some time to put it all together as one whole recording and make it sound good. The songs on the CDs are not in the order of the concert. They're all over the place.