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Post by: bk on October 30, 2005, 12:06:09 AM: Well, you've read the notes, you've gained an hour reading the notes, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're late because they forgot to turn back their cow clocks.
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Post by: bk on October 30, 2005, 12:06:48 AM: And the word of the day is: BRATWURST!
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Post by: bk on October 30, 2005, 12:07:00 AM: And now - Dino at the piano.
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Post by: Charles Pogue on October 30, 2005, 12:28:54 AM: Well, I stayed at the Halloween do at Mystery & Imagination Book Store for a couple of hours. There were several people reading. It amazes me how some people are really poor readers of their own books. You'd think they would at least rehearse the passages that they intend to read aloud and practice doing it with some sort of flair and panache.

I spent most of my time sleuthing the stacks, persuing the stock.

I only personally signed two DVDs, but then also signed the entire stock they had, Dvds and several vinyl records, along with Bob Burns...collector extraordinaire.

It was also requested I sign the "author wall" which all the authors who have signings or readings do. In bright orange marker (in honour of Halloween) I signed right beside BK's first scrawl there, which was the very first signature to go on the esteemed wall.

I wrote: "Malcolm and Christine, Thanks for having me on Halloween sign "The Fly" Dvd. Did you think my costume was scary? I came as a disgruntled screenwriter. Is there any other kind? Be afraid, be very afraid..."
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 30, 2005, 01:08:34 AM: Halloween is not celebrated in Australia - thus TOTD is ................

Brat Wurst -- Patty McCormack?
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Post by: Hisaka on October 30, 2005, 01:25:51 AM: Halloween is not celebrated in Japan, either.
So I don't have to buy candies for children.

My favorite costume(?) is... E.T. covered with white sheet in E.T.
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Post by: Hisaka on October 30, 2005, 01:29:07 AM: Well, I’ll try to listen to the Donald radio show again today. Hope to get it easily.
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Post by: Hisaka on October 30, 2005, 01:35:25 AM: DR Pogue; I wish I’d asked you for your autograph when I met you. :)
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 30, 2005, 05:14:52 AM: Quote from: Charles Pogue on October 30, 2005, 12:28:54 AM
Well, I stayed at the Halloween do at Mystery & Imagination Book Store for a couple of hours. There were several people reading. It amazes me how some people are really poor readers of their own books. You'd think they would at least rehearse the passages that they intend to read aloud and practice doing it with some sort of flair and panache.

DRPogue, have you ever been to a poetry reading? They're held quite frequently at Barnes & Noble, and most poets who flawlessly juggle words can barely spit them out over a podium.

Good morning, all! Well, I'm nearly ready for my weeek away. Unless I can find a nice internet cafe or the hotel has accessible computers, I shall be quite E&T until next Saturday. Time will tell.

Today, we finish up the orchestra parts for the number I let slide by, I will try to finish a choral arrangement for my publisher, and I have to pack.

DRJose, guilt won out yesterday, and I went to the NYPL Theatre Collection to investigate David Montgomery and Fred Stone, THE LADY OF THE SLIPPER, and other ephemera. No movie after all! Perhaps on my free days in Chicago . . .
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Post by: Jennifer on October 30, 2005, 05:18:05 AM: Not sure if this was posted before. But Dancing With the Stars (the ABC summer hit) will be replacing Alias (while Jennifer Garner is on maternity leave) in the Thurs 8pm timeslot:

http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/articles/story.php?s=3787
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 30, 2005, 05:20:48 AM: I never discussed the TOD! The first year I lived in New York, my friend Kaiper Wilson and I sewed together our bib overalls and walked in the Village Halloween Parade as Siamese Twins. My life is rather dull.

Kaiper went back back to school and became a lawyer. I wonder where she is now. When I knew her she was writing a gossip column under the nom de plume "Rumer Hazzit."

DRCillaliz, you were a delightful Alice Liddel!

DRJason, it sounds like the visit has been rather good, so far. My parents visit around 1990 was a horror with my mother's constant rages over family and friends. When they left, I called my brother Tom in Ohio and asked, "why didn't he smother her 40 years ago?"
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Post by: Jennifer on October 30, 2005, 05:28:25 AM: For those who watch DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES tonight is a repeat. I think it's this season's opener.
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Post by: TPunk on October 30, 2005, 05:53:14 AM: TOD: I don't know if I can name a favorite halloween. I always love halloween, it's my second favorite holiday after Christmas. I think my favorite costume ever was a courtesan/masquerade costume with a huge black gown (courtesy of my very talented mother) a blond wig that I arranged in an updo with feathers and a mask. Very cool. Actually my mom's costume that year was awesome too. We were going to a big halloween party that a director friend had organized at a posh location downtown. She went as a spool of thread with a pincushion hat.
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Post by: TPunk on October 30, 2005, 05:55:02 AM: This year I am going to be a fairy princess, something I have been a variation of off and on since childhood. At my interrnship, we are having a big to do for the residential kids. They get to leave school early and change into their costumes then go trick or treating to all of the therapists offices. The other interns and I are decorating our office and dressing up. There'll be a costume contest and then a pizza party.
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Post by: TPunk on October 30, 2005, 05:56:02 AM: Cillaliz, your costume looked great. And so did the wig!
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Post by: TPunk on October 30, 2005, 05:57:04 AM: I woke up this morning with a sty in my eye. It's not super swollen and you can't really see it unless you look closely. But golly does it hurt! I hope it doesn't get any worse...
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Post by: td on October 30, 2005, 06:14:03 AM: I know that I've said it before, but, I'll say it again. . .my favorite Halloween costume was my Scarlet O'Hara dress made from draperies (green) and my Hysterium costume. . .I'm almost sure I posted a picture many moons ago of me as Scarlet. . .if anyone wants to see it again, let me know, I'm about to put it onto photobucket. ;)
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Post by: td on October 30, 2005, 06:27:28 AM: Scarlet is on photobucket:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/minx_the_dog/scarlettohara.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/minx_the_dog/scarlettohara.jpg)
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 06:36:48 AM: LOL.....DR td - what you did with Miss Ellen's portieres!!
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 06:38:12 AM: Lovely photos from DR CILLALIZ.....and her friend has given me the idea for my costume NEXT YEAR! I love it!

Photos were taken last night, and maybe I will get one eventually. Just my army fatigues, nothing exciting. Lots of people riding horses, some angels, LOTS of policemen and firemen and sailors - interesting evening.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 06:38:53 AM: Great reading all about DR JASON's visit with his family and DR JOSE's wonderful journey Headin' for Broadway.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 06:40:14 AM: For my favorite Halloween costume:

I wore white tie and tails with lovely white gloves and carried my sister's Cabbage Patch Doll on a silver tray. Yes I was.....wait for it....wait....

Valet of the Dolls.

Second favorite - blue faced dead crew member of the Titanic.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 06:53:33 AM: It was great to read about DR CP's visit to the M/I bookstore last night. Mr Bob Burns is one of my favorites of those who do extras on DVD's. Among my favorites of his CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and FLIGHT TO MARS....

DR CP be sure to tell him that you know the man who wrote THE definitive internet biography of Miss Allison Hayes - he will be suitably impressed, I am sure.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 07:21:30 AM: Good morning!

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood (a Mister Rogers reference). [sigh] Hard to get tired of this gorgeous fall weather. Amazing.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 07:22:46 AM: Yes, I knew DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES was a rerun tonight. That will allow me to see ROME "live" since it is a new episode.

CROSSING JORDAN has a new episodetonight, too.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 07:24:24 AM: I had read that a day or two ago about DANCING WITH THE STARS replacing ALIAS during Jennifer Garner's maternity leave. At this point, it didn't make much difference to me. I won't be watching DANCING, and there are already other shows that I watch at 8, so that will actually give me (and the por overworked DVR) a break!
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 07:26:21 AM: As a kid, I think the best costume I ever had was a teddy bear. My mom sewed it, and it was great. I assume it was made out of felt or something else warm because I can remember going trick or treating that night and not being cold.

As an adult, I think the best costume I ever fashioned for myself was Merlin. I can't believe we never took pictures back then, so I have only a memory of it.
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Post by: td on October 30, 2005, 07:26:33 AM: Last night I watched a wonderful dvd version of CASABLANCA, and now I have a question:
Is Dooley Wilson playing "Talk to Me of Love (Parlez-moi d'amour)" when Ilsa enters Rick's Cafe for the first time? That song isn't listed on the soundtrack, but, it is a familiar melody and I just couldn't place it. . .
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 07:28:15 AM: I think today I'd like to watch CAROUSEL again. Haven't seen it in a long time, and I'm anxious to see what this non-anamorphic movie looks like on the bigger TV screen.
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Post by: Rodzinski on October 30, 2005, 07:37:38 AM: Since I cannot help TPunk medically, I am writing a song for her called "There's a Sty in my Eye." It's the least I can do.
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Post by: bk on October 30, 2005, 07:59:26 AM: I'm up, I'm up. I think it's just about nine o'clock and yet it's just about eight o'clock.

I watched last week's Alias, masochist that I am - awful, horrible, terrible, completely out to lunch, out to sea, and out of ideas. It's pathetic that whenever they completely don't know what to do, they just turn to Arvin Sloane - he's bad, he's good, he's bad, he's good, he's bad, he's good. WHO CARES?

One used to think there was some grand plan to this show (most TV series are never picked up without some kind of bible for the first three seasons), but after season one it's completely clear that there wasn't. So, they just went by the skin of our teeth, and sort of got away with it in season two. Season three was worse, and down it went. When Miss Garner announced her pregnancy she should have been replaced immediately or the show should have been canceled. They are, in essence, replacing her anyway (in the action scenes), and I hate to say it, but the reason people watched Alias in the first place had a lot to do with her outfits and wigs and her action scenes. As an actress, she's a one trick pony, and as a pregnant Sydney Bristow, she has taken this show down in flames.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:13:05 AM: Can't argue about the lack of drama in ALIAS these days. As I said, knowing it's in its final season (ratings and obvious apathy from all involved will surely end it come May), I'll watch to the bitter end. Att this point, it's like watching a train wreck anyway.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:16:25 AM: Speaking of Arvin Sloane, Ron Rifkin was another very able actor who was part of the cast of WOLF that I watched last night. I had NO memory of his being part of the cast amid so many other very enterprising actors.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:18:06 AM: Well, I have finished my internet surfing much earlier than usual, so I'm off to get some stuff done around the house.

WBBL.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 08:36:27 AM: Sounds like the reunion was fun, and that you were a satorial bratwurst in your Blue Armani Wells ensemble!
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Post by: bk on October 30, 2005, 08:43:38 AM: One of the few things that's nice about the world we live in today is that most clocks change themselves - the computer clock, the VCR clock. So, I only had to do the oven clock and that was that. And I'll have to do the clock in the car. The Clock In The Car - that sounds like a Dr. Seuss book, doesn't it?
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 09:03:15 AM: Jack Gilardi, Jr - son of Annette Funicello and her first husband agent Jack Gilardi - was married last weekend.

JG, Jr, is an actor-producer-agent with several films to his credit. Annette was too ill to attend the ceremony.
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Post by: Ginny on October 30, 2005, 09:10:07 AM: Quote from: bk on October 30, 2005, 08:43:38 AM
One of the few things that's nice about the world we live in today is that most clocks change themselves - the computer clock, the VCR clock. So, I only had to do the oven clock and that was that. And I'll have to do the clock in the car. The Clock In The Car - that sounds like a Dr. Seuss book, doesn't it?

...and our cell phones! How do they know? And how do they know, when we're traveling, when we change time zones? It's a mystery (a Shakespeare in Love reference).
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Post by: Ginny on October 30, 2005, 09:11:08 AM: DR Cillaliz - how cute you are as Alice in the looking glass!
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Post by: Ginny on October 30, 2005, 09:38:25 AM: It's Day 3 of my mission to see the soup commercial. Friday I "power watched" the soaps all afternoon - switching back and forth to see as many ads as possible. No luck. Watched network dramas that evening. Again, no luck.

Only thing I watched last night was ESPN (Michigan 33, Northwestern 17 ;D), so I didn't expect to see Lithgow advertising premium soup.

There's an hour of figure skating about to start - Campbell's often sponsors skating, so off I go.

Bye for now.
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Post by: PennyO on October 30, 2005, 09:49:22 AM: Wow - Geri Lowe!! Ron Baum!! I remember them!! Geri from Diary of Anne Frank, and Ron as Ricky's brother, the artist. Haven't seen either of them for 40 years... I didn't realize Geri was in your class, Bruce... you had already graduated when we did Diary.
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 30, 2005, 09:50:48 AM: Hello DR Penny O. It's just before 5.00am here. I should be asleep.. Daylight Savings can't have changed my sleep patterns this much. I think my internal clock has shifted to New York time by mistake. I blame Jose.
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Post by: PennyO on October 30, 2005, 09:54:49 AM: Favorite Halloween costume... hmmmm... the best of them were at the opera - I seem to remember a gigantic rooster suit, designed by M. Sendak, that qualified me for Workers' Comp in the Chiropractic Care for a Year Department... that was for Cunning Little Vixen. Oh... in going through old photos after my parents' funerals in July, I found a cute pic of me at about age 9 or 10, in a costume i had made of me as a circus bareback rider, complete with the horse! The head of the horse was a brown paper bag, the body was several coat hangers, wired together and covered with leftover material from my mom's sewing room, the legs were pieces of an old sheet. i wore my ballet togs, and a huge smile.
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Post by: PennyO on October 30, 2005, 09:55:16 AM: Hi, Oz!!
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Post by: PennyO on October 30, 2005, 09:55:40 AM: Go back to bed!!
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Post by: PennyO on October 30, 2005, 09:56:43 AM: My sister Tami - who was in BK's class in school - is going to Australia in a few weeks to attend her best friend's wedding
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Post by: PennyO on October 30, 2005, 09:57:17 AM: I'll find out which city...
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Post by: PennyO on October 30, 2005, 09:58:08 AM: Halloween tomorrow night in Lahaina - The mardi Gras of the Pacific!! I'm going as Titania, the Queen of the Fairies... made the costume myself, of course
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Post by: PennyO on October 30, 2005, 10:01:43 AM: My companion is going as Merlin - I made his costume, too
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Post by: PennyO on October 30, 2005, 10:04:31 AM: I loved my gypsy costumes in NYCO's Carmen... loved the Merry Widow costumes, loved the Marriage of Figaro costumes!! Student Prince!! Ohhh... my Jacqueline costumes in A Doll's Life!! Wowie!!!

I had to become an opera singer, just for the costumes!!!
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 10:09:46 AM: The Merry Widow....my favorite Lehar.

That is the title of the new WB series I'm pitching: My Favorite Lehar.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 10:10:36 AM: Off to the annual meeting of the Putnam County Playhouse wherein the people who did all the work sit around listening to the people who did NONE of the work tell us how it should have been done.

Oh well.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 10:20:01 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on October 30, 2005, 07:37:38 AM
Since I cannot help TPunk medically, I am writing a song for her called "There's a Sty in my Eye." It's the least I can do.

If the eyes are blue, you can call it "Blue Sties"!

If the eye is milky, you can call it "Buttermilk Sties"!
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Post by: Danise on October 30, 2005, 10:36:52 AM: Hi all!

Just spent the last hour trying to get tickets to see Wicked when it comes to town. They went on sale at noon.

Sometimes ordering a single ticket can be a blessing as I got a very good seat but could kick myself because after snatching that one up, if I had looked the next weeks tickets I could have been even closer. Ah well. I do have my binoculars.

This will be the first show that I 've seen on Broadway and now here at home. I'm very interested to see what (if any) differences there will be.

Friend Possum did show up last night but inside the shed where I couldn't get to him/her so the relocation project shall have to wait until next weekend. I don't want to catch the poor thing then make him/her wait in the cage until the weekend when I can get to the state park.

What a cute Alice! And Scarlet! I haven't dressed up for Halloween in years and years. Our street almost never has any kids on it either so it's like any other day/night. I keep a few quarters by the door in case I get a stray. I don't want bags of candy sitting around to tempt me to eat them because no one showed up.

The few kids that have showed up in years past seemed pretty impressed with getting real money instead of candy anyway. :-\
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Post by: Danise on October 30, 2005, 10:40:25 AM: Glad that DR Rodzinski is feeling well enough to post. Good vibes to feel better!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Oh, and the cat question. I don't have a cat but Bear is always so gentle when ever I don't feel good. Even after the surgery, he wants to be with me so he climbs (ever so slowly and gently) into bed with me and lays his head (which weights a ton but he doesn't know that) on me to let me know he is with me. He never moves or cries, just stays with me. Oh, how I am going to miss him when his time comes.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 11:01:11 AM: Quote from: Danise on October 30, 2005, 10:40:25 AM
Oh, how I am going to miss him when his time comes.

Oh, yes.............
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 11:06:41 AM: I have so many things I should do today, but I really want to do something else...and it requires sitting and watching for a few hours.

I really should be washing and cleaning and sorting and putting away.

But I'd rather be lost in a story....

Sigh.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 11:09:20 AM: I'm getting rather excited about my upcoming trip to South Carolina.

I'll be "home away from home" from December 15 until December 29.

I can almost smell the air....and I can almost taste my mom's fried chicken!
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Post by: TCB on October 30, 2005, 11:15:03 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on October 30, 2005, 07:37:38 AM
Since I cannot help TPunk medically, I am writing a song for her called "There's a Sty in my Eye." It's the least I can do.

And if she scratches it to hard, you will have to write "Scabin In The Sty."
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 11:19:56 AM: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............TCB!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 11:20:57 AM: Huzzah!

I have just purchased my ticket to see "Lestat" at the Curran Theater on Dec. 31st for the matinee!

LIFE IS GLORIOUS!

AND...best of all...I got it with American Express Reward Points!!!!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 11:21:18 AM: Oh, yes....Loge, first row (A), seat 14!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 11:21:43 AM: I would do a little vampire dance right now...if I knew one.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 11:23:52 AM: Now....let me hie me hence to the post office to mail my rent check...and to the drug store to pick up some nasal spray...and to the grocery store to buy a few items I need.

Everyone play nicely....
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Post by: TCB on October 30, 2005, 11:31:00 AM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 11:19:56 AM
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............TCB!

At least you didn't boo, Ron.
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Post by: Charles Pogue on October 30, 2005, 11:34:00 AM: By the by, JRand and others who've inquired, I finally sat down yesterday and watched NORTH BY NORTHWEST on TCM. I quite enjoyed it, but I would not list it as either my favourite Cary Grant or my favourite Hitchcock.

I don't recall any particularly favourite Halloween costume. In high school, after I really got too old to trick or treat, a group of pals and I would pass out candy at one of our houses. We'd all dress up as various monsters...one was Dracula, one Frankenstein, I was always a disfigured Hunchback...either Igor or Notre Dame, take your pick. One of the guys dads worked at 3M, so he always came taped up as the Mummy.

We have a Halloween walk in our neighbourhood for the kids. So the outside gate and courtyard of the house gets an appropriately creepy make-over. I carve what is usually acknowledged as the best pumpkin on the block, we play Vaughn Williams' spooky Sinfonia Antarctica and sit outside at the fire-pit, swilling wine with the neighoubrs and passing out candy.
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Post by: George on October 30, 2005, 12:13:29 PM: Quote from: Danise on October 30, 2005, 10:36:52 AM
Hi all!

What a cute Alice! And Scarlet! I haven't dressed up for Halloween in years and years. Our street almost never has any kids on it either so it's like any other day/night. I keep a few quarters by the door in case I get a stray. I don't want bags of candy sitting around to tempt me to eat them because no one showed up.

The few kids that have showed up in years past seemed pretty impressed with getting real money instead of candy anyway. :-\

The local Albertson's grocery store sells coupon books for donuts. You give the kids the coupon and they can get a real donut (at a later date). The parents love it because they can trust that it's a legitimate treat that won't poison their kids and the kids love it because...it's a donut!
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Post by: George on October 30, 2005, 12:14:18 PM: Quote from: Ginny on October 30, 2005, 09:38:25 AM
It's Day 3 of my mission to see the soup commercial. Friday I "power watched" the soaps all afternoon - switching back and forth to see as many ads as possible. No luck. Watched network dramas that evening. Again, no luck.

Only thing I watched last night was ESPN (Michigan 33, Northwestern 17 ;D), so I didn't expect to see Lithgow advertising premium soup.

There's an hour of figure skating about to start - Campbell's often sponsors skating, so off I go.

Bye for now.

Ginny, I taped CBS's "Ghost Whisperer" on Friday and it was there. Do you want a copy? Let me know. ;)
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 12:17:13 PM: I'm back. And it's gorgeous out there....again.

Pleasant temps, brilliant blue sky, autumnal colors on the trees (finally). I took a few side trips up roads I haven't explored in my neighborhood.

There are some so-so houses, mixed in among the nicer ones, on the streets "above" mine, but they have s-p-e-c-t-a-c-u-l-a-r views!

It's good to be alive, isn't it! To take in all the wonders arounnd us and to appreciate them while seeing them!

(All right....I'm not "on" anything...just a rush of something or other brought on by getting tasks accomplished and breathing clean air).
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 12:18:07 PM: Quote from: George on October 30, 2005, 12:14:18 PM
Ginny, I taped CBS's "Ghost Whisperer" on Friday and it was there. Do you want a copy? Let me know. ;)

I've seen it...at least, I've seen one of them.

And John Lithgow is starring in musicals? He's terrible!!

Sadly, this commercial reflects what constitutes choreography for many people these days.
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Post by: George on October 30, 2005, 12:18:09 PM: And I was able to listen to the rest of Donald's radio show with no problem! I don't know if Bruce or Donald specifically did something, or if it just worked itself out, but it worked perfectly. Yea!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 12:26:17 PM: Good Afternoon!

Greetings from New York City!

It was a perfect day for a train ride! Not too cold, not too hot. Clear skies. And gobs and gobs of gorgeous fall foliage to look at outside the window. -And, I have to say, I'm digging the Acela train. Nice seats. Good lighting. And a "gourmet" cafe car. -And double Amtrak Guest Reward points too! -I think I just earned another free trip with this excursion.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 12:28:20 PM: ...And on the Metro ride to Union Station this morning, it was great seeing all the friends and family members who were heading down to the Marine Corps Marathon to root on their friends and family. Lots of creative signage. And a couple of people were receiving updates from their runners on their cell-phones and Blackberries.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 12:28:48 PM: DR Cillaliz - Great costume! -And your friend's costume was great too!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 12:30:05 PM: DR Ron Pulliam - Alas, I won't be there on December 31, but congrats on securing your ticket with Rewards Points! -I guess all those E-bay purchases have paid off.

;)
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Post by: bk on October 30, 2005, 12:32:29 PM: Geri Lowe wasn't in my class - she married someone who was in my class.

AOL is completely down, I can't log into my Adelphia home page, but can get onto the Internet via Safari. I am so over these losers.
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Post by: bk on October 30, 2005, 12:36:46 PM: I'm back from the run-through of The Drowsy Chaperone - or two-thirds of a run-through. About sixty-five minutes into the ninety minute intermissionless musical, Sutton Foster accidentally fell and hurt her wrist. It didn't look bad from where I sat, but they stopped the run-through and gave her an ice pack and took her to the hospital just to be safe and have it x-rayed. I'm sure she'll be fine, and they're not back until Tuesday or Wednesday, so that will give her time to rest.

The amazing thing about that is the just ten minutes earlier she'd done her big solo number, I Don't Want To Show Off, in which she does cartwheels, flips, backflips and the splits.

I won't comment on the show, but will say the performers are all excellent. I've never seen Sutton before but she's very good in this show. I had no idea my pal Danny Burstein was in the show, as well as Lenny Wolpe, so I had a nice chat with both of them. I sat next to Judd Hirsch.

I'll be at the orchestra read-through on Thursday morning, too. That should be fun.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 12:37:27 PM: Topic of the Day - My best Halloween and Halloween Costume happened while I was on tour with Anything Goes. I believe were were in Grand Rapids, SD. (ND?) Everyone on the tour was into it. We even had a "Secret Satan" program going on during the weeks preceding the Big Party.

For the party, the company manager booked a large suite at the hotel we were staying at that night. *And even paid the "cleaning fee" in advance. Everyone dressed up. Lots of creativity went into everyone's outfits. And some people even spent a nice chunk of change too. *We had made a stop at the Mall of America a few weeks before, and that turned into Halloween Costume Central for many people.

Myself, I put together my costume the day of the event. I went to Target and raided the maternity clothes Clearance racks, and then I went to Wal-Mart and picked some fuzzy slippers and my make-up - eye shadow, lipstick, nail polish, etc. -Of course, nothing coordinated. I ended up going as "Imeda in Exile". -I believe I posted a pic last year, so...

;)

But it really was a great Halloween all around that year. One of the more surreal moments of the evening was hanging out in the hotel bar, singing karaoke, while real cowboys (who were wearing their hats not as a costume) were walking in for happy hour drinks. Needless to say, we all gave the locals something to talk about.

:)
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 12:39:34 PM: Quote from: bk on October 30, 2005, 12:32:29 PM
AOL is completely down, I can't log into my Adelphia home page, but can get onto the Internet via Safari. I am so over these losers.

Have you tried clearing your cache?

;)

-And you do know, that the more you "publicly" complain about AOL, the more problems will just happen to "occur".

;D
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 12:40:29 PM: Hello, DR elmore - I'll give you a call in a few. I'm just waiting to hear from the conductor to make arrangements to pick up a copy of the score.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 12:41:53 PM: OH!

And a Very Big Thank You to DRs Rodzinski and TPunk for providing me with a place to stay this week.

And to Kilbot and Walty for letting me invade their space.

;)
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 12:42:44 PM: DR PennyO - Yes, a Broadway show!

So, if you happen to head back to NYC next year...
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Post by: Jane on October 30, 2005, 12:50:03 PM: Bruce that is so cool you found the ashtray. Next time I’m in town I would love to see it. Hey, maybe my parents even used that same ashtray.

It was fun reading about your evening. Did you forget we also know Ron Baum? In fact we will see him in April at his niece’s wedding.
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Post by: Jennifer on October 30, 2005, 12:57:11 PM: DR Cillaliz, I loved your costume!
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Post by: Jane on October 30, 2005, 01:00:41 PM: Quote from: Hisaka on October 30, 2005, 01:25:51 AM
Halloween is not celebrated in Japan, either.
So I don't have to buy candies for children.

My favorite costume(?) is... E.T. covered with white sheet in E.T.

;D
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Post by: Jane on October 30, 2005, 01:01:56 PM: From Matt H:
Quote
It was a beautiful day for it, afternoon or evening. Hope he enjoyed himself.

I will find out when he returns. His girlfriend was expecting the wedding to be very nice. She was also excited for her family to meet Bryan, and Bryan to meet them.
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Post by: Jane on October 30, 2005, 01:11:17 PM: Cillaliz you look darling-great costume! Is there a photo of Paul or did I miss it?
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Post by: bk on October 30, 2005, 01:13:59 PM: I know you knew the Baum's.

AOL SUCKS, AOL IS CREEPY, AOL IS RIDICULOUS. There, that felt good. Had nothing to do with my cache. It's a combo platter of AOL's complete ineptitude and Adelphia's close second. If it's not one, it's the other, and sometimes it's both.
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Post by: bk on October 30, 2005, 01:15:18 PM: Shortly I shall be on my way to see a local production of City of Angels.

I saw the first go at a design for the Deceit set today - not bad, and it does solve the biggest concern, so that's good. I'll be speaking with the designer tomorrow to go over the details and to suggest a few changes.
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 30, 2005, 01:32:27 PM: Four hours later and I'm awake again. Where is everyone? Where is my breakfast reading material?
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Post by: George on October 30, 2005, 01:36:42 PM: And one for Mahler!
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 01:47:40 PM: The sun is already getting very low in the sky. Oh, it's HARD when we go off daylight savings time! Takes some getting used to.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 01:51:44 PM: I can't speak for AOL on the West Coast, but the problems with AOL on the East Coast, at least with my dial-up connection, are practically nonexistant. I might have trouble one day out of every two months.

I have been MORE than satisfied with the service they render.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 01:57:38 PM: I started my afternoon with CAROUSEL. I hadn't seen it in a long while. I haven't even listened to the music in a long time, so it was in many ways experiencing this anew. I was moved to tears on a couple of occasions, and I generally love it.

I could kill Fox, of course, for doing this DVD on the cheap with a flat letterbox transfer. I think not only does it need a good anamorphic transfer, but the color could do with some tweaking, too. But mainly, we need an enhanced transfer. The poor DVD player with its progressive scan switched on and the TV with its 3:2 pulldown elements were striving mightily to deal with all those plaids in pants and aprons and coats, but there was flashing or aliasing all over the place. And with an enhanced transfer would also come much more sharpness to the image.

CAROUSEL isn't highly regarded enough for them to remaster this disc like they've done with the upcoming new release of OKLAHOMA! but it's a shame since this is probably the only movie version of this masterpiece we'll ever get.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 01:59:51 PM: Then I watched the pilot episode of LOIS & CLARK, and it was most enjoyable. I had never seen it before, and those of you who tipped me off ahead of time about the scene with Clark and his mother over his costume were right: it was hilarious. Loved all those outfits (many of the other DC heroes) that he experimented with until he landed on just the right one.

Love Jimmy Olsen, too. What a cutie he is! Lane Smith is great as Perry White as well (though John Hamilton can never, ever be surpassed).
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 02:01:49 PM: I'm doing another home theater installation on Tuesday, too, so I'll be away a bit during the day for that.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 02:04:17 PM: I lost an item on Ebay this morning when the bidding got just too out of sight. I'll just wait around until I can find a better price for said object. It wasn't one of a kind, so I don't mind waiting.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 02:34:16 PM: Headed down now to clean my bathroom. Then some more fun with Lois & Clark before network TV begins.

WBBL.
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Post by: td on October 30, 2005, 02:52:11 PM: Actually, Matt H, CAROUSEL is scheduled for the second round of R&H remasters along with SOUTH PACIFIC and THE KING AND I early in 2006. At least that's the word from the R&H newsletter. . .
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Post by: TCB on October 30, 2005, 03:03:22 PM: T.O.D.

I am not really a fan of Halloween. I guess I don't really have anything against ghosts, goblins, and witches; but I have never cared for trick or treating or for costume parties. Everyone assumes that since I am an actor, I must love dressing up in costumes for parties, but just the opposite is true. I don't consider acting on stage and playing dress-up to have anything in common. Don't ask me why, maybe I was scared by a drag queen at an early age.
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Post by: Tomovoz on October 30, 2005, 03:15:46 PM: It is a holiday here tomorrow. "Melbourne Cup Day".

For those of us no longer working and not interested in horse racing it's just another day That's horse racing I guess. I'm too old to gambol and not interested in gambling.
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Post by: td on October 30, 2005, 03:24:31 PM: Quote from: TCB on October 30, 2005, 03:03:22 PM
T.O.D.
Don't ask me why, maybe I was scared by a drag queen at an early age.
. . .or maybe you saw that picture of me as Scarlet. Lord knows, it scares me!
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 30, 2005, 03:32:20 PM: Quote from: TCB on October 30, 2005, 03:03:22 PM
T.O.D.
Don't ask me why, maybe I was scared by a drag queen at an early age.

I told you to stay away from mirrors! :D
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Post by: TCB on October 30, 2005, 03:45:35 PM: elmore, have a safe trip!
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Post by: TCB on October 30, 2005, 04:05:24 PM: .....and while you are in Chicago, try not to kick over any more lanterns!
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Post by: TCB on October 30, 2005, 04:08:15 PM: Good evening, td.
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 30, 2005, 04:11:14 PM: Quote from: TCB on October 30, 2005, 04:05:24 PM

.....and while you are in Chicago, try not to kick over any more lanterns!

Scarecrow, I'll miss you most of all!
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Post by: Hisaka on October 30, 2005, 04:12:06 PM: DR CILLALIS, How cute you’re in Alice costume!
I wish we had such a enjoyable Halloween custom party in Japan too. It’s looks so fun! If we have that party, I’d like to dress up in a costume of Bake-neko (a ghost cat which every night haunts at the bedside of her husband who poisoned her to death for his mistress).
>:( :-[
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Post by: Danise on October 30, 2005, 04:22:56 PM: I'm late! I'm LATE! Well, it sure feels like I am. Does anyone else hate the time change as much as I do?

And while I'm in a gripe type mood. I don't wanna go back to work tomorrow! :'( :(
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Post by: Danise on October 30, 2005, 04:31:37 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 11:21:43 AM
I would do a little vampire dance right now...if I knew one.

You mean you want to do "Dance of the Vampires"? :D
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 04:39:27 PM: Good Evening!

Back from dinner with DRs TPunk and Rodzinski. Indian. Alas, no one was wearing a kurta, but the hostess behind the counter was wearing a sari.

And now... Some TV...
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Post by: Danise on October 30, 2005, 04:44:12 PM: Elmore, have a safe trip!
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Post by: MBarnum on October 30, 2005, 04:45:37 PM: No Kurta! Why, you 3 should have worn kurtas and saris to the restaurant!
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Post by: td on October 30, 2005, 04:48:06 PM: Quote from: Danise on October 30, 2005, 04:31:37 PM
You mean you want to do "Dance of the Vampires"? :D

Nothing I can do, it's a total eclipse of the heart.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 05:28:09 PM: DR HISAKA - MBARNUM sent me a movie ALL about a Ghost Cat, but it is not the one you wrote about. Very good movie, though.
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Post by: MBarnum on October 30, 2005, 05:30:23 PM: Today I watched a strange movie called THE GREAT GABBO...an old talkie from 1929 starring Erich Von Stroheim...I believe this movie comes highly recommended by DR Rodzinski.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 05:31:17 PM: DR CP - thanks for the update. I am glad you finally got to see NbyN! I just watched it again on TCM. Hope we didn't oversell it to you, it's IMHO just like Mary Poppins - practically perfect in every way.

Everyone at the top of his game - and doing it all for us, the audience. And I don't think Eva Marie Saint was ever again as beautiful onscreen....previously she was a knockout in RAINTREE COUNTY, but no match for Elizabeth Taylor....but here she was coiffed and coutoured within an inch of her life, and it was very becoming.
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Post by: Jrand73 on October 30, 2005, 05:31:51 PM: THE GREAT GABBO - didn't she want to be alone?
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on October 30, 2005, 06:17:00 PM: Well, today's board meeting only lasted 5 hours. Better than last month's.

TOD: I liked halloween when it was a simple kids' holiday. We had the last 20 minutes of the schoolday for a party. Then we dressed up and trick-or-treated in the neighborhood for an hour or so. That was it. Now the whole thing is so overblown it is ridiculous.
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Post by: Ginny on October 30, 2005, 06:18:00 PM: Quote from: George on October 30, 2005, 12:14:18 PM
Ginny, I taped CBS's "Ghost Whisperer" on Friday and it was there. Do you want a copy? Let me know. ;)

George, thanks for the offer, but I did actually get to see the commercial a couple of times this afternoon - once at the end of the skating program and again just surfing. I, too, watched Ghost Whisperer Friday night, but only the last half, so must have missed it then. Don't really care to see it often :P, but now I'll probably see it every time I turn on the TV!
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Post by: Ginny on October 30, 2005, 06:19:49 PM: Travel vibes for DR elmore :-*
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Post by: Cillaliz on October 30, 2005, 06:48:32 PM: Thanks everyone for the compliments on my costume. It really was fun.
DR Jane, Paul decided to go as his ghost all dressed in black with a skull mask. I told him he was the corpse groom.
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Post by: Cillaliz on October 30, 2005, 07:12:32 PM: I had a very busy day. My brother said he wants to stay here tonight. He's got business in Sioux City at 8:00AM, so it's easier. Anyway, it started he would be here at 5:00pm. Well I knew that wouldn't happen. Now it's looking like 10:30 pm. Typical.

Anyway, I rushed around cleaning the house frantically so I could still go to the matinee of "A History of Violence". It was very thought provoking and I thought it was very good.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 07:21:05 PM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 12:30:05 PM
DR Ron Pulliam - Alas, I won't be there on December 31, but congrats on securing your ticket with Rewards Points! -I guess all those E-bay purchases have paid off.

;)

Assuming I like it, I may try to book another seat nearer the end. With "Wicked," I saw it on its 3rd day and on its last day.

If you DO come out, I needn't see the show to meet with you and take a bite somewhere.

But...if you're in the pit, it would be extra exciting for me to take in the show again.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 07:26:06 PM: I spent a pleasant afternoon with the new "Wizard of Oz" set.

WOW! I'm VERY impressed with it. I haven't taken in all the features yet, nor have I watched the film alone sans commentary or with music effects track (nor both the mono and 5.1 tracks), but it looks unbelievably rich and sharp and detailed. And the sound is wonderful...even watched a bit with the 5.1 track and it adds quite a bit of depth to the film, IMO.

Like BK, I likes me original mono tracks...but I am glad to have multiple options.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 07:27:14 PM: I wanted some fresh veggies today, but couldn't choose between collards or cabbage...so I cooked both.

The few times my "smeller" functioned properly today, the apartment smelled to high heaven.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Post by: Cillaliz on October 30, 2005, 07:27:56 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 07:26:06 PM
I spent a pleasant afternoon with the new "Wizard of Oz" set.

WOW! I'm VERY impressed with it. I haven't taken in all the features yet, nor have I watched the film alone sans commentary or with music effects track (nor both the mono and 5.1 tracks), but it looks unbelievably rich and sharp and detailed. And the sound is wonderful...even watched a bit with the 5.1 track and it adds quite a bit of depth to the film, IMO.

Like BK, I likes me original mono tracks...but I am glad to have multiple options.

After everyone talking about it...I had to order the DVD set. I can't wait for it to arrive.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 07:29:19 PM: You won't be disappointed, Cillaliz!
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Post by: Jane on October 30, 2005, 07:31:45 PM: DRLaura I went Trick or Treating for hours. It was great fun. Back then the majority of treats were large candy bars unlike these small ones today.

When the boys were young I mostly went has a witch. I originally found green makeup for a party we attended with Ron Baum’s younger brother. That year Keith went as the mad scientist and I went as his experiment. We won the prize for best costume.

Cillaliz-LOL.
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Post by: Jane on October 30, 2005, 07:33:03 PM: We have another big “floor day” tomorrow. I might have to miss the Halloween party here. Have fun.

‘night.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 07:33:24 PM: Watching a lot of the features, I was painfully reminded of the tremendous void in the DVD market of Judy-Mickey films. We have one: "Love Finds Andy Hardy." But they made several Hardy films together in which Judy's "Betsy Booth" was an integral character, plus "Babes in Arms," "Babes on Broadway," "Girl Crazy", and "Strike Up the Band". Judy also had a number with Mickey in "Words and Music."

I want an Andy Hardy boxed set, a Mickey-Judy boxed set, a Philo Vance boxed set and a Maisie boxed set.
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Post by: MBarnum on October 30, 2005, 07:50:14 PM: A question for those how have DVRs. Does the DVR box replace the digital cable box, or is it actually an additional box that you will add to the DVD, VCR, Digital Cable boxes that are already hooked up to the tv?

I would love to get a DVR but I don't think I could stand having one more thing plugged in and sitting on the shelf.
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Post by: Cillaliz on October 30, 2005, 07:54:52 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on October 30, 2005, 07:50:14 PM
A question for those how have DVRs. Does the DVR box replace the digital cable box, or is it actually an additional box that you will add to the DVD, VCR, Digital Cable boxes that are already hooked up to the tv?

I would love to get a DVR but I don't think I could stand having one more thing plugged in and sitting on the shelf.

My DVR is my cable box.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:12:36 PM: Quote from: td on October 30, 2005, 02:52:11 PM
Actually, Matt H, CAROUSEL is scheduled for the second round of R&H remasters along with SOUTH PACIFIC and THE KING AND I early in 2006. At least that's the word from the R&H newsletter. . .

I do hope it's true. I really don't care about SOUTH PACIFIC, but those other two definitely deserve revisiting.

Thanks for the info!
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:15:02 PM: My DVR is built into the cable box and the one remote runs both the cable box and the DVR functions. Very convenient.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:17:08 PM: Yes, Judy and Mickey made an even earlier film - a low budget outing called THOROUGHBREDS DON'T CRY, the one time she got billing ahead of Mickey.

BABES ON BROADWAY and GIRL CRAZY are the pick of that big four quartet that they did. I'd really love to have beautiful copies of both of those.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:18:25 PM: MAISIE, DR. KILDARE, ANDY HARDY - MGM turned out really quality series films. Certainly would love to have boxed sets of them.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 08:18:34 PM: Good Evening!

Well, I'm already pretty zonked even though it's only 11:17EST. -Or did we start EDT. I always forget. In any case...

It's been a long day, and I'm sure a good night's sleep will be just what I need before embarking upon what I'm sure will be a most exciting day tomorrow.

So...

Goodnight.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:20:03 PM: I started my evening's entertainment with THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS, the twisty mystery starring Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Zachery Scott. ENjoyable and a very sharp beautiful copy of the film from TCM.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on October 30, 2005, 08:20:50 PM: One WUSSBURGER WITH CHEESE AND ONIONS, signing off.

-Can't wait to hear BK's impressions of City of Angels. I wonder which group is doing it? Is is fully-stage or a concert version?

...I guess I'll just have to wait until morning to find out.
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Post by: bk on October 30, 2005, 08:21:28 PM: Finally back, and finally done dealing with Adelphia - it looks like we have at long last figured out all these recent problems - and they're replacing the modem tomorrow morning. I'll explain more in the notes.

And then, I logged onto haineshisway.com and I couldn't get into the discussion board - it had closed up the haineshisway section. I clicked on the + sign but nothing happened, but then I clicked on haineshisway and it came back the way it was supposed to be. The real question is, why was it closed up like that for the first time EVER?

I'll have plenty to say about City of Angels later. But, for now might I just say where in tarnation IS everyone? This is most unseemly and NOT the way we like to send out a month.

I won two other ashtrays from restaurants I used to go to as a kid, both from the same seller who had the ashtray from my father's restaurant. And both of these ashtrays are from places mentioned in the Kritzer books - Kelbo's and The Bagel. It frosts me that I didn't know about these ashtray things or this particular seller, as two weeks ago he had an ashtray from Casa Cienega, which features in the first Kritzer book. I've never seen anything from Casa Cienega - heaven knows what else this guy has had in the past.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:21:42 PM: Then, for some reason I pulled CLOSER off the shelf and started watching it again. I admired the performances in it very much. Possibly because I'll be seeing Natalie Portman in STAR WARS III this week is what made me want to see her doing some GOOD acting. Enjoying CLOSER just as much the second time through though I only got about 30 minutes in.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:23:34 PM: ROME had some intriguing machinations going on tonight including incest, lesbianism, and ritual suicide. Just good old fashioned fun for the whole family! :D
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:25:36 PM: CROSSING JORDAN had some interesting guest stars including Dee Wallace Stone (whom I haven't seen in ages; I knew her husband had died some years ago, but for some reason I thought she had died, too). Also guest starring was Broadway's David Burtka.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 08:38:25 PM: BK: I think you might find menus for sale, too. Some folks have napkins with the names of restaurants printed/embossed on them. Others have artifacts from the restaurants, too.

The sky is definitely the limit when it comes to what you might find on eBay.

I wish I had the room in my life to diversify and branch out with other "collectibles," but I'm doing too much now, drat it all to hell.

I need storage shelves and storage drawers and storage cabinets.

And square footage into which I can place them.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 08:44:12 PM: I'm thinking "pizza" for supper. I had a late lunch, so I'll be ready for din-din in about half an hour or so, I think.

And "pizza" -- "pepperoni pizza", I think, will do the trick.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 08:46:00 PM: THE WIZARD OF OZ set is glorious, but I'm hanging on to my ULTIMATE OZ laserdisc package just the same.
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Post by: Jason on October 30, 2005, 08:50:21 PM: I'm in from today's sightseeing. I love my family - I really do - but I won't lie when I say I think I'm ready for this vacation to end. In fact, I might take Tuesday off to recuperate.

We went to church this morning on the upper west side. Then we toddled down to Matt's Grill for some lunch and they toddled off to 5th Avenue. For my own sanity, I decided to stay behind at their hotel room for a rest. We had dinner at Rosie O'Grady's at 5pm and saw MAMMA MIA! at 7pm. They didn't enjoy the show nearly as much as I had thought they would. I think they're all tired.

After the show, I hoped to Heaven that we'd be going home for the evening, but they wanted to go back to Roxy's Deli for cheesecake, so go we did. We're not meeting tomorrow until 11:30-ish, so we all get to sleep in a little.

I think we're going to the Museum of Natural History and Science tomorrow after we have lunch at the Waldorf. Then we have reservations at Becco at 7:30, after which we're ending their vacation with a trip to the top of the Empire State Building.

And now...I'm ready to go to bed. Buona sera.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on October 30, 2005, 08:50:35 PM: Well, I'm operating on yesterday's time, rather than today's. It feels like 10 of 10 p.m. I know it isn't.

It just feels that way.

I'm gonna prep my pizza, eat, watch a bit more TV, and wait for the sandman.

G'night.
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Post by: bk on October 30, 2005, 08:53:55 PM: Ron, thankfully I've managed to find menu's to most of my childhood haunts, very early on, when I was writing the first Kritzer book.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 09:07:13 PM: I'm heading for Slumberland myself.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the evening.

Good night.
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 09:10:12 PM: Can't go with a Page 6 Lucy Dance!!!
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Post by: Matt H. on October 30, 2005, 09:10:42 PM: And now, good night, all!
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Post by: MBarnum on October 30, 2005, 09:12:11 PM: These DVDs of THE LORETTA YOUNG SHOW/LETTER TO LORETTA are great! It has really made me realize what a wonderful actress she was...I guess I just never knew. And a lot of B-actors/actresses are showing up in the guest casts.
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Post by: George on October 30, 2005, 11:19:07 PM: A lull. ::)
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Post by: George on October 30, 2005, 11:28:49 PM: Today was a busy day...well, I was gone most of the day. After I listened to the last part of last week's radio show before it switched over, I went to my friend Margo's house to help her disassemble a bunk bed set in her youngest daughter's bedroom. It all came apart with allen (alan, allan?) wrenches, exept that it needed metric and Margo only had standard sizes. Fortunately, I looked in my little took box and it had a set of both kinds! The bed set (white, tubular) came apart very easily.

The worst part was that Margo just had her in-floor heating fixed and it was very warm in her house and she didn't open a window, so I was sweating. After the window was opened, and the bed taken apart, we disassembled Margo's California queen bed and put that into her yougest daughter's bedroom. But this bed was just a headboard, footboard and undersupport piece that all just unhooked very easily. We moved it into the room after the tube-bunk-bed was removed and all was well. And sweaty and tired. ;)
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Post by: George on October 30, 2005, 11:30:28 PM: After all of that, I picked up my niece from her house and we went to my parents' house for dinner. Home-made lasagna, garlic bread and some kind of bar dessert that I can't even describe. It was really good, though. But I don't know what it was. We played a couple of rounds of Phase 10 (a family card game that's a lot of fun), then my niece and I came home to our respective homes and I've been watching TV ever since. I got home about 8:30 and watched the second half of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" but skipped "Desperate Housewives." It was a repeat that I've seen before. I watched "Grey's Anatomy." A very touching episode tonight.
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Post by: George on October 30, 2005, 11:32:59 PM: I just realized that I have NO clean laundry...well, no shirts and no clean underwear (I wore my last clean pair today). It feels like it's 12:35 a.m. and I have to do laundry. Pity me. :-\
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Post by: George on October 30, 2005, 11:33:34 PM: ;)