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Well, you've read the notes, you've twiddled the notes, the notes have twiddled you, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're off twiddling and they LOVE it, so it might be a while.
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And the word of the day is: OXYMORON!
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Is that a group of Eight Latter Day Saints?
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CD: Darren Hayes (Secret Garden) - " So Beautiful"
Moody Blues 'Live At Red Rocks"
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DVD: :"Houseboat"
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Good news for Vixmom and the Vixter. It looks like the Radio City Music Hall lockout has been settled. No possible picket lines to cross. Starting today (or tonight) the orchestra will be back so Saturday's Christmas Spectacular will have a live orchestra. Here is a link to a news article
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051118/ap_en_ot/radio_city_strike;_ylt=ApH_KswvwFrOzb6jLQDq26hX24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051118/ap_en_ot/radio_city_strike;_ylt=ApH_KswvwFrOzb6jLQDq26hX24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl)
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I'm listening to a re-broadcast of Friday Night is Music Night on BBC 2 right now.
I don't know what I will be listening to as the day proceeds. I'm working on a revision of our training manual so it's easy enough to listen to something as I work.
I'm all alone here at 7:40am on Friday, November 18th, 2005.
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Mr. Moore is here according to the list at the top of the page.
Good Morning sir.
I have read two reviews of The Woman in White, one from the Reuters critic and one from Ben Brantley at the Times. Both are mixed. I will go away now and read the reviews from the Daily News, Newsday and the New York Post.
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The review round up for Woman in White is decent. No raves, except for Maria Friedman, but no outright pans either. Michael Ball also gets some good reviews. You can go to
Broadway World (http://www.broadwayworld.com/robsblog/)
to get capsule reviews.
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OXYMORON. Isn't that Military Intelligence ;D
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Good morning, Ben! And good morning, all! I, too, thought WITHOUT A TRACE was quite wonderful. I knew Mr LaPaglia many years ago, when he was a bartender and Drama Book Shop habitue; nice man, and I think he's wonderful on the show.
Dear Friend BK, the groans worldwide will be loud all morning, thanks to your curdled cream account. I hope the rest of your day goes excellently.
I'm off to Toyland: yesterday my esteemed colleague Mr Tom Murray made a trip to the Library of Congress to check out some minutiae in the Herbert collection and to photocopy some stock arrangements on BABES, published between 1903 and 1905, made by Mr Herbert's esteemed colleague and orchestrator Otto Langey. Today, we'll go through the materials he's copied.
TOD:
DVD: I still have THE WIZARD OF OZ; I want to check out the early films
CD: Mario Frangoulis, The Last Starfighter
VCR: the usual suspects
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OXYMORON. Isn't that Military Intelligence ;D
I thought it stood for Dick Cheney's staff!
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By the twiddling of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes...
(And I wish it would hurry up--I've been waiting for over an hour!)
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MeDiA cHeCk:
iPod: Kate Bush's first recording in 17 years--Aerial. Very sweet and surreal stuff. Next up will be the new Green Day live CD.
What won't be making an appearance on my iPod is the new Cyndi Lauper CD. It contains the Sony XCP software which must be installed onto any PC it's to be played on and which has since been proved to be malware. Sony is recalling all of the recordings that it released with this software, but I haven't heard any details on how that is supposed to happen. I suppose I could play it on my portable CD player and patch it through to my PC and record it to MP3 files, but that strikes me as a lot of work for what should normally be a simple process. This is the kind of corporate crap that makes me hate the music industry.
Tivo: Gawd--I have about three episodes of INVASION to catch up on, along with the one that I missed recording about three weeks ago. I keep hoping that INVASION will show up in the iTunes music store.
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Three cheers and best wishes for our esteemed BK's reading at Bookfella's tomorrow. Der B and I would be there, if it weren't such a long drive (even we have our limits, sorry).
:D
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I thought it stood for Dick Cheney's staff!
PUH-LEEZE, Larry! This is a family site!
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Friday morning greetings!
Media check:
CD (car) - A Saturday Tradition by The University of Michigan Marching Band. Had to have my own private Wolverine pep rally on my way to work, because at noontime I'll be going downstairs to our training office for Jen's 4th annual Buckeye Bash. She always has a big spread on the Friday before the UM/OSU game and I always wear one of my Michigan sweatshirts to annoy her!
DVD - Six Feet Under, season 4, disc 4; HBO's Warm Springs, starring Kenneth Branagh as FDR and Cynthia Nixon as Eleanor.
VCR - After Jose's comments last night, I'll have to watch The Joy Luck Club. That is one of my all time favorite books and the one for which my book group is named.
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My schedule is totally ker-flammered today. I thought der B and I were going to take Peggy to her potential new home. Unfortunately, the fella who will hopefully be adopting her didn't re-contact der B, which means that trip is cancelled for now. Also unfortunately, der B didn't make this clear yesterday, so I didn't know how the plans had changed until just a few minutes ago.
So, suddenly I've got an entire day to myself. Der Grampa is off to the grandlad's school, for Grandparent's Day. He won't be home until eight-ish tonight.
And I just realized that the CD for Last Starfighter is in the car. And der B has already left. So much for a reading-and-listening combo. Drat.
My very public thanks to FJL and Skip! I'll be doing the reading part today, and I'm looking forward to discovering how you've adapted the piece. If there's anything I enjoy that isn't kitchen-oriented, it's reading a new script and playing it in my mind's theater!
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Besides today being the Great American Smokeout Day, today is also Married to a Scorpio Support Day.
I can think of few things more frightening than being married to a Scorpio who is quitting smoking. Chills up and down my spine, I tell you, absolute chills.
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Today is also National Vichyssoise Day. That's for those of you who like cold soup. Why this is celebrated during a month that hormally has cold weather, I haven't a clue.
And we also celebrate St. Peter the Apostle today. St. Peter is the patron of bakers, butchers, fishermen, harvesters, and...foot problems? I suppose we should be glad he isn't also the patron saint of grape stompers. :P
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ON THIS DAY, in 1307, the legendary William Tell shot an apple from his son's head. The concept of child abuse was quite different back then.
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Speaking of abuse, ON THIS DAY in 1874, the Women's Christian Temperance Union was formed in Cleveland, Ohio. (I've a hunch these ladies wouldn't have approved of the name "Long Island Iced Tea." Their loss.)
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Media check:
CD: BEST OF THE ORLONS
VHS: Last nights SURVIVOR
DVD: Episodes of the color 1950s TV series NORTHWEST PASSAGE
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And my Bollywood movie for this weekend (which I started watching last night) is LALKAR (1972). This star studded World War ll film is tons of fun and is likely to become one of my favorite vintage Bollywoods!
I am not usually a big fan of war films but then most war films don't have a lot of song and dance numbers in them! LOL!
(http://66.223.111.68/dvdImages/b5084.jpg)
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Congrats to DR CILLALIZ on her non-smoking accomplishment.
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Nice pictures DR TOMovOZ.... Lovely birds.
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TOD:
CD - Nothing
VCR - The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (nice performances by Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones)
DVD: The Hammer Horror Collection. So far I have watched CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, Oliver Reed is a sexy werewolf indeed, BRIDES OF DRACULA, Dracula ain't in it, but Baron Meinster is, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA with Herbert Lom - I liked the backstory, but not seeing the villian the awful Michael Gough get killed is a disappointment, PARANOIAC a nifty thriller again with Oliver Reed and Ted Casablanca himself, Alex Davion.
PHANTOM also features Edward de Sousa, who I think is an acquaintance of DR CP.
Good vibes for the Reading tomorrow!
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Good morning!
Very cold here but a gorgeous day otherwise. I have some errands to run during the day today and am going out tonight, and I will have to put on winter clothes for the first time since it going to dip below freezing tonight.
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Tonight I am going to see two actors who were in LA CAGE with me do the play VISITING MR. GREEN. It's going to be a late night since we're going out after the play to have some dessert, but I'm going to try to log back on when I come in this morning to give a play report.
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Mornin' all. I'm waiting for my breakfast to arrive.
WOMAN IN WHITE did, indeed, get a few decent reviews. It'll get mine tomorrow, since I'm seeing the show tonight. I'm sure my review will make or break the show. ;)
I know this will excite many of you - today I shall have cake. Oh, yes...I shall have lots of cake, and why? Because tomorrow is my birthday and the office always "surprises" people with cake and cards on their birthdays. As it turns out, there are three of us celebrating our natal day tomorrow, so there shall be LOTS of cake. :) I'll have a full (bellied) report this evening, I'm sure.
TOD:
DVD: The Birds
CD: Home: LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, THE COLOR PURPLE Demo, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG.
Work: THE COLOR PURPLE Demo.
MP3: CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
VCR: Nada.
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Friday Media Report:
CD - THREE LITTLE WORDS soundtrack (home CD player)
GIGI soundtrack (car CD player)
DVD - MYSTERIOUS SKIN
LIFEBOAT
DVR - last nght's SMALLVILLE
last night's JOEY
last night's REUNION
Tuesday night's SUPERNATURAL
A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
BIRTH
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Page 2 Lucy Dance!!!
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JRand55, have you ever seen NORTHWEST PASSAGE? It is quite a good show...and Keith Larsen and Don Burnett are certainly easy on the eyes...a compilation of 3 episodes is showing on TCM today at noon pacific time...called FRONTIER RANGERS, if interested.
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That list of shows and films on my DVR is ridiculous, but there just never seems to be enough hours in the day.
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Good news for Vixmom and the Vixter. It looks like the Radio City Music Hall lockout has been settled. No possible picket lines to cross. Starting today (or tonight) the orchestra will be back so Saturday's Christmas Spectacular will have a live orchestra. Here is a link to a news article
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051118/ap_en_ot/radio_city_strike;_ylt=ApH_KswvwFrOzb6jLQDq26hX24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051118/ap_en_ot/radio_city_strike;_ylt=ApH_KswvwFrOzb6jLQDq26hX24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl)
Good News indeed!!! I heard this last night on the TV news and actually stood and cheered. WHEW! What a releif, I did not want to cross a picket line, particularly one so closely associated with dear Jose, yet I certainly didn't want to disappoint the Vixter, if it hadn't been a Girl Scout related event I probably would have been looking for a refund before now, but as it stands HOO and RAY!! A LIVE A LIVE A LIVE (that's three alive's a Frankenstein and also Young Frankenstein reference) (and by "LIVE" my dear friend DR Ronald L. "Snarky" Pulliam, I mean an non-recorded, non instrument synching, actually performing the act of playing music at the actual moment my ears are actually in their vicinity) orchestra!!!
Radio City here we come!!!!!!!
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I've crossed picket lines twice in my life and both were religious picket lines:
picketers protesting MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN.
picketers protesting THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST.
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Got to go throw on some clothes fit for the public to see. I have some errands to run but I shall return (a Douglas MacArthur reference).
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(and by "LIVE" my dear friend DR Ronald L. "Snarky" Pulliam, I mean an non-recorded, non instrument synching, actually performing the act of playing music at the actual moment my ears are actually in their vicinity) orchestra!!!
Snarky yourself.
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I recorded "Smallville" and "Everwood" last night, along with "Joey" and "Will and Grace."
I watched "Survivor: Guatemala", comments about which I posted under "SPOILER" alert last night.
I do have something to say about last night's "E.R.":
SPOILER
SPOILER
I'm really PO'd at NBC for its deliberately misleading promos of this episode. A plane does crash..somewhere in New York. But, despite the promos asking us to think that one of "their own" would not survive, ALL survived...at least in that episode, although two are still in limbo regarding injuries...John Stamos is in the hospital and one of the females had smoke inhalation and ignored all warnings to slow down and allow the hospital staff to monitor her. Maybe she'll die next week? Or Stamos?
The red herring for me was Kristen "I wanna be Kirstie Alley" Johnson's annoying character rushing out of the hospital to "catch a flight." I just knew that her plane would be the one I saw exploding over the city. But...NO. She rushes into the E.R. three-quarters of the way through the show to lend a hand after her flight was either missed or cancelled.
I seldom watch "E.R.", save for "event" episodes. This one was promoted as an "event"...and it simply wasn't one. An hour wasted when I might have watched "Joey" and "Will and Grace."
Oh, well. I still have "Smallville" and "Everwood" to look forward to.
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DR MBARNUM - I have seen a couple of those episodes. Interesting series.
edit edit edit
Carol Burnett was married to Don Saroyan 8)
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LOL DR MATTH - Lucy and the chicks!
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I am so thankful today is Friday.
The week has seemed longer than a week, for some reason. It's probably because we had a 3-day weekend that started a week ago today.
I much prefer four-day weeks,
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Tomorrow is haircut day (every 3rd Saturday). I look forward to that and my hour-long visit with Erin, proprietress of Any Body Salon!
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For my 4000th post, and as we move into our Thanksgiving season here in the US of A I would just like to tell each and every one of you how grateful I feel to have this lovely group of friends to chat with, to cry with, to laugh with, to spat with.
Thank you all. When I count my blessings and say my prayers, you are always included.
Even you Ron :-*
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I placed a gi-normous order with Deep Discount DVD last night.
I've completed a couple of series sets from TV faves, and added a bunch of movie titles, as well.
Sigh.
Sale ends today for those who've been putting it off but meant to place an order.
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Even you Ron :-*
8)
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Hooray - I just got an email saying I now have access to sending DR Jason emails at his work address. (This was after an email from the other day got bounced back.) Thanks for whatever (if anything) you had to do to make that work, Jason. And a great early birthday celebration today, too.
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Congratulations on your milestone, vixmom.
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I need to start going through that Hammer set (I do like Edward De Souza :D ), as well. So far I have only watched NIGHTMARE.
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8)
Who's that handsome man behind the Foster Grants?
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Congrats on the new TV, DRJMK!!
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Congratulations on your milestone, vixmom.
Thank you.
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]A very merry UN-Birthday today, DR Jason![/move]
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BK - I got the package, thanks again.
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Who's that handsome man behind the Foster Grants?
C'est moi! C'est moi!
I'm forced to admit!
Tis I, I humbly reply.....
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DR VIXMOM - 4000!!!
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I wonder what DR JMK's DW Betsy thought of the new TV.
I wonder if he'll be able to tear himself away from it long enough to post and tell us
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C'est moi! C'est moi!
I'm forced to admit!
Tis I, I humbly reply.....
eres tu, eres tu!
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Congrats on your 4000th post, vixmom.
Makes my 700-post milestone seem, well, less by comparison. :)
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FLJ, any milestone is a milestone worth celebrating! Soon, you'll get to 4000 posts...and beyond!! ;D
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And Congratulations, Vixmom on 4004!!
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Congrats on your 4000th post, vixmom.
Makes my 700-post milestone seem, well, less by comparison. :)
But you have been here for so much less time than I , and I haven't written and produced a wonderful musical and CD.
I think it is wonderfully wonderful that you have reach 700 posts in such a short tme
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In my DVD player: three DVDs from Netflix and a previously used copy of "War of the Worlds" with C. Thomas Howell. I got it at Blockbuster with a coupon, so it only cost me $4.95 instead of $12.95! And since I also just bought (new) the original "War of the Worlds" DVD, I plan on getting the Tom Cruise "WOTW" whenever that is released. There is also at least a fourth version of the story on DVD that looks like it was made for TV and it's set in the late 1800s...and is the most faithful adaptation of the original H. G. Wells book.
In my CD player at work: a live recording of Sweeney Todd from the very kind Tomovoz. After that will be some other stuff that I can't remember (the CDs are at work and I'm not...yet).
In my VCR: a tape to tape tonight's "Ghost Whisperer" and "Hot Properties." Does anyone know when "Threshold" is coming back? I didn't pay attention. :-\
Well, I must now get ready for work. Laters...to quote Jose. ;D
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TOD:
All courtesy of or otherwise from HHWers!
At home CD: The Last Star Fighter
VCR: The West Wing Debates
DVD : Nada
In the Car: Tape JMK sent me of his lovely group (I always forget the name drat me anyhow)
At Work: A Wonderful Guy
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MattH , no mail from you yesterday but I hold high hopes for today!
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I'm up, I'm up - finally got eight hours of blessed sleep. I'm looking out the window out a beautiful blue sky and yes, I am T. Widdling my thumbs, which makes it very difficult to type.
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I just purchased a ticket to see "Rent" on Thanksgiving night. I'll just toddle down from the Zoo over to the Ziegfeld for the movie. Woohoo!
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OK...so I've been looking all over for these videos and they're out of print. Not to be found.
Does ANYONE have the "Making of..." videos of LES MISERABLES and MISS SAIGON that were released on VHS in the early 90s? I had them back in college and some nitwit borrowed them and never returned them...
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Jose, or anyone who likes macadamia nuts, check this out-http://islandprincesshawaii.com/products/mele_macs/300-1.html
Thanks to our take out Chinese food last night, along with a box of Mini Meles I gained over a pound yesterday.
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Cillaliz you deserved another pat on the back for last night.
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I got the 2-DVD "State Fair" yesterday. I was only able to skim through a little of the 1962 version, which I've only seen in P/S on TV.
The glory of this movie is the musical underscore...Alfred Newman's last, contract-fulfilling work for 20th Century-Fox. He became music director at Fox in 1940 (having guest-conducted/arranged/composed for the studio the previous 5 years at Darryl Zanuck's bidding), and was rather unceremoniously stripped of his music department in the late 1950s.
From having a staff orchestra and offices one day to having to share offices on a sporadic basis, and having to contract orchestra members for specific recording session dates the next.
Of course, when this happened, Zanuck was gone. Most movie studios had divested themselves of staff orchestras. Unions had taken over for the musicians. Everything in Hollywood had changed.
I'm told Newman's last project with the staff orchestra was for pre-recordings on "South Pacific." After that, he still had the same musicians, but they had to be hired for specific jobs on a limited basis. He scored "Diary of Anne Frank" and "The Best of Everything" in this manner. And although contractually committed to score another Fox film, he did some work at Universal for "Flower Drum Song", and he scored "The Pleasure of His Company" and "The Counterfeit Traitor" for Paramount.
All his future work, after completing his Fox contract with "State Fair", was for other studios, notably MGM for "How the West Was Won," Warner Brothers for "Camelot" and Universal for "Airport."
Ken Darby, Newman's associate from 1950 onward, has said the MGM job was the happiest he and Newman had experienced. I'm sure he meant "since the dissolution of Newman's Fox department," but it speaks volumes about Newman and Darby having been badly treated at Fox in the late 1950s.
(That's just my way of clearing trivia from my brain...no need to be alarmed).
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From what I've been told by several folks, seeing Rent on Thanksgiving is going to be very appropriate.
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From what I've been told by several folks, seeing Rent on Thanksgiving is going to be very appropriate.
Huh? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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It means don't fill up on turkey because you may be having more at the Ziegfeld.
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Ahh...I see. Got it now. I'll reserve judgement until after I've seen it for myself.
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Very interested to hear your thoughts.
A "review" of Nudie Musical that I'd never seen before:
(EXCELLENT!)
FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL (1976) Directed by Bruce Kimmel (Bruce Kimmel, Cindy Williams, Stephen Nathan, Diana Canova)
If your film is going to have to look cheap, use that cheapness effectively. Porn films and exploitation films of the 1970s looked ludicrously cheap with their tacky sets, amateurish acting and poor production values. So what we have here is a tacky, amateurish-looking film about the making of tacky, amateurish-looking film: a 'nudie' musical (porn films of the late 60s and early 70s were called 'nudies' since they were more about showing tits and ass than actual sex). The songs are extremely witty and are presented in an appropriately tacky and hilarious fashion (dancing dildos anyone?). And it is all formatted in the classic movie musical mode, with the protagonists trying to save the studio from turning into a shopping mall. One can look at that plot in retrospect with a deeper appreciation of the film, when one realizes that it was made at an era in which tacky and innocent films were soon to give way to slickness and cynicism, and shopping would soon become the biggest American pastime.
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Sounds like they "got it." Where'd that one come from?
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Well, it's been a long day
Yes, it's been a long...
...been a long...
...been a long...
...been a long day-y-y-y-y!
And I haven't even eaten lunch yet!
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Geez...I was so busy yesterday and now I'm bored out of my head. And two more hours til I get my surprise cake and card. ;)
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OK...so I've been looking all over for these videos and they're out of print. Not to be found.
Does ANYONE have the "Making of..." videos of LES MISERABLES and MISS SAIGON that were released on VHS in the early 90s? I had them back in college and some nitwit borrowed them and never returned them...
Jason, I'm pretty sure I have the Miss Saigon video, but I'm not sure about the Les Miz. The problem is finding where it (they) may be. I'm ushering for a show right after work tonight, but I can look around when I get home.
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Geez...I was so busy yesterday and now I'm bored out of my head. And two more hours til I get my surprise cake and card. ;)
Maybe you could go into the men's room and prcatice your "suprised and pleased and touched" look in the mirror!
:D
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George - I'd be so grateful if you could take a peek when you get a chance. I've lived nearly 10 years without them...there's no rush!! Thanks!!!
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Geez...I was so busy yesterday and now I'm bored out of my head. And two more hours til I get my surprise cake and card. ;)
Geez...I hope the surprise isn't that there isn't a cake!
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Maybe you could go into the men's room and prcatice your "suprised and pleased and touched" look in the mirror!
:D
Yeah...sure...that would go over...in the men's room!
:D
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Hmmm. no JMK all day is he immersed in setting up his new television system, immersed in watching his new television system or back at the store returning hisnew TV system with Sweet Betsy holding a frying pan over his head?
Inquiring minds want to know
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Yeah...sure...that would go over...in the men's room!
:D
Well gosh, DR Jason's office IS peopled by theatrical types I imagine such behavior would not be taken amiss, even by such a manly man as yourself dear Ronny :-*
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Geez...I hope the surprise isn't that there isn't a cake!
May be carrot girl already ATE IT!!!!!!!!!! :o
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Geez...I hope the surprise isn't that there isn't a cake!
Ron: Three of us are celebrating our birthdays tomorrow, so I think there'd be a riot if we didn't have cake. The card I couldn't care less about, but the cake...!?!? There'd be a fight...
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Very interested to hear your thoughts.
A "review" of Nudie Musical that I'd never seen before:
(EXCELLENT!)
FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL (1976) Directed by Bruce Kimmel (Bruce Kimmel, Cindy Williams, Stephen Nathan, Diana Canova)
If your film is going to have to look cheap, use that cheapness effectively. Porn films and exploitation films of the 1970s looked ludicrously cheap with their tacky sets, amateurish acting and poor production values. So what we have here is a tacky, amateurish-looking film about the making of tacky, amateurish-looking film: a 'nudie' musical (porn films of the late 60s and early 70s were called 'nudies' since they were more about showing tits and ass than actual sex). The songs are extremely witty and are presented in an appropriately tacky and hilarious fashion (dancing dildos anyone?). And it is all formatted in the classic movie musical mode, with the protagonists trying to save the studio from turning into a shopping mall. One can look at that plot in retrospect with a deeper appreciation of the film, when one realizes that it was made at an era in which tacky and innocent films were soon to give way to slickness and cynicism, and shopping would soon become the biggest American pastime.
NICE!! Where did you find it?
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Vixmom said:
no JMK all day and also no Danise for more than a day and where has that rascally Kerry gotten to? I know that Arizona is still on the map because DR Laura is here.
Laura, your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to find out if Mr. Hughes and Mr. Larsen are still alive and well and living in Phoenix with Sugar 8)
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Hey yeah, I just realized that Danise is missing today as well.... I assumed the other day was because of the "lockout" as she usually posts early.....
and where did Joy go?
and Iris?
and Rodzinski and Tpunk?
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Very nice TFNM review....LOL.
Probably very appropriate RENT analogy.....sorry I don't get the show. I may see the movie on DVD, because I have been wrong before, but I don't like it, yet!
DRJASON - I have the LES MIZ....but I am thinking it was copy protected...hmmmm. DRGEORGE if you can't find your copy let me know, and I will look for mine.
Thanks for the Fox/Newman info, DR RLP. VERY interesting.
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Finally some time at my "office" desk after a grueling morning in the downtown Dayton
day shelter for the homeless public library. I thought one of our especially colorful characters was going to "go off" earlier and I had my hand poised to hit the panic button. Fortunately, he left the building.
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"To reset hit any key."
Homer Simpson: "Where is the 'any' key?!!!"
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Jumbo shrimp = my favorite oxymoron.
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Oxymoron from my profession: Online Card Catalog
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Finally some time at my "office" desk after a grueling morning in the downtown Dayton day shelter for the homeless public library. I thought one of our especially colorful characters was going to "go off" earlier and I had my hand poised to hit the panic button. Fortunately, he left the building.
I have always thought that it was very kind of the local librarians to allow the local homeless to doze quietly in an alcove seat keeping warm and dry etc.
This past summer my dad , who had been working on his car, ran into some kind "dead end" so he popped up to the library to take a look at one of the car manuals they keep there. He was sitting at a little corner desk when one of the librarians came over to him and whispered, " I have an extra sandwich, would you care for it?"
"Uh, no thank you", my puzzled father answered.
He took down the info he wanted and went home where he told my mother the story about the "weird sandwich offer" and she said, "Have you looked in the mirror?"
Well Dad, being long retired, hadn't shaved in a couple of days, he was wearing his oldest cut off jeans with the tears in them and an old work shirt with the pocket torn off, all his regular "mechanic's outfit" so it was well and permantnetly stained from years of wearing it whenever a dirty job was to be done..
The kind librarian must have thought there was a "new" homeless guy in town.
The inicident made Dad finally heed Mom's advice about paying attention at his appearance when he goes out, and it also made Dad send Mom to the library whenever he needed something! ;D
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DR vixmom - thank you for the story about your dad and the public library. I'd never make such a snap assumption, but when the same scruffy people are sitting in the same chairs day in and day out, it's a pretty sure bet they're not just here doing research. We tolerate much more than I think we should in terms of baggage, aberrant behavior, loitering, etc., but the folks who make the big bucks don't seem to be bothered by it. Of course, they don't have to work in the midst of it to do their jobs. They have offices. With doors. That close.
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Uh....now when I see all of the ads for HDTV and B I G screen TV's and the like....there are also screens that are listed as monitors! But they are advertised in the television sections....
Are these just monitors that have to be hooked up to some kind of receiver....like a satellite dish or cable receiver...but cannot receive BROADCAST stations over the air? This is the only thing I can figure out...I am confused.
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I should be glad the Rehoboth Beach Public Library isn't a major research joint. When der B fixes himself up properly, he looks pretty good, but when he doesn't he can look pretty disorderly. I can only imagine what people would think. :P
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Horses and courses: I just checked Ben's link to TWIW reviews. What I disliked most were the projections, which became very tiresome, and the score!
Best score since "Aspects Of Love". Does that say much?
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At least I got a couple of things cleared off the DVR this afternoon. First up was last night's JOEY which I didn't find very funny at all and even a bit mildly unkind to the elderly. Oh, I know it's all in fun, but getting old and struggling with the infirmities that come with age I just don't find very funny.
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JMK ain't got no satellite or cable, so he is just a watching DVD's and broadcast stations.
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I found the review via google - can't remember the name of the site.
Been A Long Day: That's the number I'm doing in the LACC benefit, along with my original Rosemary, Annette Cardona (the film Cha Cha in Grease) - the original Smitty is in NY starring in The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Linda Hart), so I'm having a recent alum do that.
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MattH , no mail from you yesterday but I hold high hopes for today!
Harumph! See if I use THAT post office again!!
Honestly, when I mail them from my local brach, they usually got there in two-three days. I used a branch across town since I was doing errands over there, and I should have known something would go wrong! Argh!
Maybe it will be there today. I am crossing my fingers.
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Uh....now when I see all of the ads for HDTV and B I G screen TV's and the like....there are also screens that are listed as monitors! But they are advertised in the television sections....
Are these just monitors that have to be hooked up to some kind of receiver....like a satellite dish or cable receiver...but cannot receive BROADCAST stations over the air? This is the only thing I can figure out...I am confused.
Even the TV monitors have an analog tuner, but what they don't have is an ATSC (high definition) tuner built in. So you either have to add one of those or use cable or satellite to get HDTV signals.
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After JOEY, I went to Tuesday night's SUPERNATURAL for an episode that had elements reminiscent of POLTERGEIST. There was even a medium there (a la Zelda Rubenstein). In fact, at one moment, one of the two leading men referred to her seeing things as a Zelda Rubenstein moment. Good episode with some genuine chills.
The ratings this last Tuesday for the show hit season lows for it, so I'm not sure if that's very healthy for the show. It's renewed for the rest of this season, but no more weeks like this in the ratings or its first season might be its only season.
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Next up was SMALLVILLE with an exciting and tender episode with some genuine surprises. Liked it a lot this week.
I was dead set against the producers having Chloe know Clark's secret, but now I see that it's working just fine for the show.
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Even the TV monitors have an analog tuner, but what they don't have is an ATSC (high definition) tuner built in. So you either have to add one of those or use cable or satellite to get HDTV signals.
Ah.....okay. ;D thanks.
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I only had an hour before coming back on-line so instead of pulling out MYSTERIOUS SKIN (which I want to watch at one time having never seen it before; perhaps tomorrow), I put in a movie that always guarantees me a good cry IT'S MY PARTY. Only got an hour in but I was blubbering almost the entire time since I know what's coming.
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Ah.....okay. ;D thanks.
Did I throw you with the word "analog"? I just mean regular TV over-the-air signals. A TV monitor can pull those in.
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Harumph! See if I use THAT post office again!!
Honestly, when I mail them from my local brach, they usually got there in two-three days. I used a branch across town since I was doing errands over there, and I should have known something would go wrong! Argh!
Maybe it will be there today. I am crossing my fingers.
Probably on this end, I find if I have things shipped to my office I get them much quicker than if I get them shipped to my house. I think when my mailcarrier gathers together what he considers a sufficient load for one day he leaves the rest for another day :D
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DR vixmom - thank you for the story about your dad and the public library. I'd never make such a snap assumption, but when the same scruffy people are sitting in the same chairs day in and day out, it's a pretty sure bet they're not just here doing research. We tolerate much more than I think we should in terms of baggage, aberrant behavior, loitering, etc., but the folks who make the big bucks don't seem to be bothered by it. Of course, they don't have to work in the midst of it to do their jobs. They have offices. With doors. That close.
I have SEEN some things in public places that should never ever be seen even in PRIVATE!
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Well it is a busy evening so I msut hurry and scurry so I can get out of here on time.
I hope DR Jason is enjoying a lovely cake right around now!!
It's an overload weekend for me and I don't know if Vixdad has gotten the AOL situation sorted yet, so if you don't see me until Monday you'll know why!
Happy Birthday JASON!!!!!!!!
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I forgot who asked, but THRESHOLD will be on Tuesday night at 10 p.m. on CBS.
If CLOSE TO HOME delivers big ratings again this week on Friday as it did last week, it'll stay put there for the rest of the season.
That will mean that CBS has every single night secure with hit shows (and hit reruns on Saturdays). The Tuesday at 10 time slot is really its biggest weakness right now. If it can shore up Wednesdays at 8, then it will have a schedule with no chinks in it.
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Probably on this end, I find if I have things shipped to my office I get them much quicker than if I get them shipped to my house. I think when my mailcarrier gathers together what he considers a sufficient load for one day he leaves the rest for another day :D
I have thought that about my mail carrier, too, especially on days after a Monday or other holiday when stuff has piled up. I think he just picks parts of the stack to deliver each day until it's all caught up.
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Mmmmm....cookies n' cream ice cream cake. Yum. :D
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Did I throw you with the word "analog"? I just mean regular TV over-the-air signals. A TV monitor can pull those in.
I knew what you meant! ;D
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The VARIETY review of THE WOMAN IN WHITE was mixed-to-negative. Michael Ball got the best notice of the principals. The music was pretty much dismissed and the projections were found to be at odds with the Victorian time period.
I think I'll probably be giving this one a pass if it's still running next summer.
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Mmmmm....cookies n' cream ice cream cake. Yum. :D
Ugh! Fat pills!
Makes me feel bloated to even think about it!
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A co-worker brought in something called a banana creme tartalline....it's very rich and covered with chocolate curls.
I can't do chocolate AND bananas....not in a bite.
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Now to choose selections for tomorrow's reading. I've just found out at least three people who said they'd be there will not be there. Love when that happens, but these things cannot be helped. Hopefully there will be SOMEONE there.
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I forgot who asked, but THRESHOLD will be on Tuesday night at 10 p.m. on CBS.
That was me. Thanks for the info. Do you know if it was it on this past Tuesday (which I would have missed)? Or is this next Tuesday the first time that "Theshold" will be on a Tuesday?
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That was me. Thanks for the info. Do you know if it was it on this past Tuesday (which I would have missed)? Or is this next Tuesday the first time that "Theshold" will be on a Tuesday?
No, you didn't miss it. CBS had the CMA awards last Tuesday.
This week's broadcast will be the first in this time slot.
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Off to get some things done before I head out to the theater tonight. I'll be back on much later than usual tonight, but I should be back with a report on VISITING MR. GREEN.
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Cillaliz you deserved another pat on the back for last night.
Ah gee thanks.....Paul and I are going to Good Night and Good Luck tonight, I'm looking forward to it
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It's almost 2:30 p.m., and the postal delivery person has not come....again. Our normal delivery time is noon, but we haven't had any normal mail delivery since last week.
Several of my co-workers are expecting things that should have already arrived, and they keep pestering me about why the mail hasn't arrived.
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I don't know why they think I could answer questions about the USPS since almost all my parcels arrive via UPS and Priority Mail.
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I did get a priority mail parcel today. It was total surprise since I couldn't recall having ordered anything from the outfit whose name is on the box.
Once opened, though, I totally remembered ordering these glass palm tree ornaments a couple of months ago (or was it only two weeks ago??).
Anyway...it was a surprise!
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PUH-LEEZE, Larry! This is a family site!
You have your family, I have mine! :-*
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OK...so I've been looking all over for these videos and they're out of print. Not to be found.
Does ANYONE have the "Making of..." videos of LES MISERABLES and MISS SAIGON that were released on VHS in the early 90s? I had them back in college and some nitwit borrowed them and never returned them...
email me jason. . . ;)
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I have SEEN some things in public places that should never ever be seen even in PRIVATE!
and vice versa?
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The VARIETY review of THE WOMAN IN WHITE was mixed-to-negative. Michael Ball got the best notice of the principals. The music was pretty much dismissed and the projections were found to be at odds with the Victorian time period.
I think I'll probably be giving this one a pass if it's still running next summer.
Thanks Matt. exDR Allan and I,plus our DPs are not alone!
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and vice versa?
Well...that goes without saying...
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You have your family, I have mine! :-*
Cue Sister Sledge!
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Hi Guys,
Sorry to have been E & T. I spent all of last night in the hospital emergency room and didn’t get home until six o’clock this morning.
I’m alright now but I was in horrible pain all of yesterday. I was to stubborn to go home from work and go to the doctor. At about 7:30 PM it got to the unbearable point so I called the “Ask A Nurse” and she wanted me to call 911 right away.
Well, I wasn’t going to that either (stubborn again—I didn’t want the drama of an ambulance coming to the house and all the neighbors staring , etc and I didn’t want to call someone to come get me because I hate to bother people. I knew I would be there for hours ) so I managed to drive myself to the hospital emergency room. Where I sat for hours before getting any kind of help.
I won’t bore you with details but I found out this is something that will be happening on a fairly regular basis (I’ve been having these attacks for years so what else is new?) and will just have to deal with it as best I can. Here, have some drugs. If it happens again, feel free to come back and see us. One hundred dollars, please.
I slept most of today away after being awake since 4:30 AM yesterday so for one of the few times in my life I was up for over 24 hours. Imagine that. ;)
I’m in some pain right now but at least I have the drugs to take care of it. They knock me out so I if I take one, I’ll be going back to bed again.
Again, I’m fine. Situation normal.
Now let me go back and read posts from yesterday and try to get caught back up. :)
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Best of thoughts to you from the land of OZ, DR Danise.
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Thanks, Tom!
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I forgot I didn't have a chance to catch up on the day befores post lbecause I'm always a day behind with them. I'm slowing catching up on posts I missed. I'm sorry I didn't say Happy Birthday to Skip!
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~~~ Best Health (and Pain-free as possible) Vibes for DR Danise!! ~~~
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~~~ Best Health (and Pain-free as possible) Vibes for DR Danise!! ~~~
I coudn't have said it better, DR Danise!
(Thanks, George). :-X
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I coudn't have said it better, DR Danise!
(Thanks, George). :-X
And I wish you the same, DRDanise!
I have to go and play with my Jane Austen action hero now.
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Feel better Danise....pain free vibes~~~~~~~~~~~
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Thank you all.
I hope that Peggy finds a WONDERFUL home! I'm still slowing catching up!
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Well I went to the the theater and got the tickets for Good Night and Good Luck early tonight. It isn't usually necessary, but it's starting right between 2 Harry Potter showings, so I figure the lines may be long.
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I'm also hoping to see Walk the Line and maybe The Weatherman this weekend. I just can't bring myself to go to Jarhead.
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One of my favorite oxymorons is a "near miss". Isn't that a hit?
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FJL I loved your 700 frenzy. It cracked me up
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Well, time to go...laters
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Feel better DR Danise!
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Congrats to Cillaliz on quiting the smoking.
I should finish catching up but I'm getting tired again. Forgive me but I have to go.
Laters!
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Well, it's the end of an era.
I just received the most disgusting, annoying, and nauseating news - Aron's Records, which I have been going to for close to forty years (first in its original Melrose Ave. location, and then in its current location on Highland) is closing its doors. Amoeba has finally done them in. This is so sickening on so many levels - Amoeba simply ripped off the business model of Aron's. They took a look at the success of that store, and opened their version in San Francisco. It did so well (why wouldn't it - Aron's was hugely successful), and then they decided to come to LA. WHERE did they open a store? One half mile from Aron's. It was the kiss of death, because Amoeba spent hundreds of thousands of dollars getting the word out. And the people came. Idiot teenagers came, and they paid list price for things they could get three or four dollars cheaper ANYWHERE, and considerably cheaper than that at Aron's, which always had the best discount. Amoeba, within weeks, had put a huge dent in Aron's business - why, is another story. Why did all those people who'd been shopping at Aron's for years, suddenly jump ship to another store where they'd be paying MORE money? I'm not talking about the "regulars" like me - I'm talking about these young, disgusting pimple-faced little twits who wouldn't know loyalty if it kicked them in the ass. Apparently it was worth paying more money to be in the flavor of the week hip place. Of course, Amoeba will find this out in three or four years, when someone else comes along and does to them what they did to Aron's.
I've watched with some sadness as Aron's, a store that was usually filled to the brim with shoppers, had their customer base dwindle down to nothing. They were the best store for soundtracks and shows (my pal Brad Bennett was/is their buyer - and no one knows their stuff like Brad), a mecca, and now, as of January (or sooner) they will be gone.
And, unlike Footlight in NY (another mecca, recently closed), there will be no life for Aron's on the Internet. It's just another nail in the coffin of the way we live today and I am truly depressed by this news.
It's the end of an era.
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Sorry to hear about Aron's. I never visited the store in my one (count it, ONE) visit to LA, but I have friends who shopped there.
One found wonderful music jewels on LP and CD and shared them with me over the years.
I always thought I'd make a beeline for Aron's on my sometime-in-the-future return to LA. Alas the day.
I am, however, familiar with Amoeba in Berkeley and San Francisco. But my most favorite special finds were at a similar kind of store called Rasputin's, also in Berkeley (there is also one in San Francisco, but it is in prime real estate and there are no "bargains" to be had...they're only marginally cheaper on used goods than Tower is on new ones).
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This day has turned into an avalanche of crisis must-dos.
Have mercy! I'm still looking at leaving at 5 p.m., but one never knows.
There have been sporadic flurries of crisis-mode angst with gaps of mind-numbing normalcy.
But meetings are underway...oh, yes! Folks are meeting, and planning, and plotting.
I pray for the fat lady to sing...
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Aron's was, I believe, the first store to every buy used LPs and make those the calling card for their customers. They always had the new stuff, well-discounted, but it was the used LPs that brought hordes of people flocking to the store. Once they did that, then everyone jumped on the bandwagon, but they were there first.
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What's that, Tomovoz?
It's great to be retired?
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When Aron's moved to Highland, they began featuring live bands, local LA groups, who could get real exposure for their album. Of course, Amoeba ripped that off, too, and does the exact same thing in their LA store.
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Aron's was, I believe, the first store to every buy used LPs and make those the calling card for their customers. They always had the new stuff, well-discounted, but it was the used LPs that brought hordes of people flocking to the store. Once they did that, then everyone jumped on the bandwagon, but they were there first.
I have a friend who used to find Academy promo CDs of film scores at Aron's...and would buy them for $3-$5 each. And not only that, but such rarities, USED, like "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearn" for mere pennies.
Last I saw, a copy of that CD could be had for $249.99.
The clientele in LA was very diverse and had a wealth of CD materials thrown at them...and many found that Aron's was a great way of getting that material into hands that would value it.
Rats! Damn! Poopie!
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My friend also built a collection of opera recordings, on LP and CD, that would be the envy of most universities with large music departments.
She'd find those enormous boxed sets for $3-$4 each, most never played or barely used. Then she found the same things on CD. Many a birthday and Christmas has seen a 4-CD opera set mailed my way....and Aron's was the source.
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I see a mess of readers "Twiddling My Thumbs" in lurk.
But nothing...NAY NOTHING...seems to move them to post.
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One of my favorite oxymorons is a "near miss". Isn't that a hit?
No, that's an available girl in the neighborhood.
::)
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It's late Saturday morning here DR Ron. Shopping done, birds fed (a few times), dogs fed and now to decide which task to put off next. There are such choices in retirement.
It's been a battle for the independent CD stores to survive but some of them have indeed managed here. I don't think "Borders" have made much of an inroad here - too expensive! Amazon and downloads are still the major issues. I have still never downloaded music from the NET.
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Health vibage to DR Danise!
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Toby and Dylan and their humans send Good Health vibes to DR Danise!!!
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Good Evening!
DR Danise - VIBES! VIBES! VIBES!
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Good afternoon DR Jose! (From Colin, Magnus & Fosca too)
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We had a wonderful day of choreography clean-up. Lots of good work today. And we took an hour "break" to meet some original Washington Senators players - Mickey Vernon and Frank "??". They shared many stories with us, and I found myself moved by their "longevity" and continued dedication to the sport. -Both of their playing careers ended in the late 50's, but they still act as scouts and consultants for Major League Baseball.
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Good Afternoon to You too, my friends Down Under!
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Topic of the Day....
Well...
I did receive a package from the Good Cook Book Club yesterday. I finally used up a bunch of Bonus Points that have been sitting in my account for a while now, so I basically got three books for free (well, I still had to pay S&H).
Tyler Florence - Eat This Book
Alton Brown - I'm Just Here for More Food
Alice Medrich - Bittersweet
I started reading Bittersweet during rehearsal today. It's all about chocolate - and it also is an award-winning cookbook. It's a great read so far, and I've already selected which recipes I want to try first. Should be fun "experimenting"!
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Ginny I will be interested in reading your opinion of THE JOYLUCK CLUB. I preferred the movie to the book.
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Our refrigerator is freezing our food, the food in the freezer is thawing and the microwave is taking longer and longer to heat the food. If only we could use the new appliances scattered around our house.
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Our refrigerator is freezing our food, the food in the freezer is thawing and the microwave is taking longer and longer to heat the food. If only we could use the new appliances scattered around our house.
Well... Why not just put the fridge food in the freezer and vice versa?
;)
*And there's no rule saying that refrigerator has to be in a kitchen... If there's a plug nearby, I say plug them in!
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Feel better DR DANISE! No more trips to the ER!!
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I am watching YOUR CHEATIN' HEART - the movie about the "life" of Hank Williams. I had never seen it. Hmmmm.....but I knew I was in trouble (to say nothing of George Hamilton as Hank) when the credits rolled and it was a Sam Katzman/Clover production directed by Gene Nelson.
Red Buttons and Arthur O'Connell....oh my. Well - I suppose it's as good a movie as could be expected. The music is fine (Hank Williams, Jr sings his daddy's songs).
Watching it because I am (like DR CILLALIZ) probably going to see WALK THE LINE in the next few days. I like Johnny Cash's music - and I really like Joaquin Phoenix - so my fingers are crossed.
I see that the soundtrack CD has Phoenix and co-star Reese Witherspoon singing the songs.....hmmmm....
Awaiting an HHW report on said film!
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I have to go and play with my Jane Austen action hero now.
;D
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GOOD PAIN FREE VIBES DANISE!!!
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Sad to hear about a store like Aron's.
Many eras are ending it seems - all right in front of our eyes. THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!!
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DR vixmom - If you had had to cross the picket lines, I would have understood. You paid good money for those tickets, and I would not have wanted you to end up wasting the money - and the trip into the city - over something you have no control over. Heck, my parents will be making their annual trip up to see the Holiday Spectacular in a week or so with their friends. -They take one of those day charter busses up for the day. -Oh, but that will be after they get back from the Philippines - they've decided to take a sort of last minute trip "just because". I think they were able to get a good deal on an airfare - they're even expediting the renewal of their passports - which they had just realized had expired last year.
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I have still never downloaded music from the NET.
Neither have I. Well...not EXACTLY true. A composer put up some cues from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" on his site and I downloaded/burned them onto CD.
And I daresay I'd do it again if there was anything REMOTELY tempting to me.
Of course, if you encounter something like that and want to give me a heads-up, I'll try to do the deed for you.
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Hello, Jose!
How's it going?
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All right, everyone.
GIRD YOURSELVES!
I see TCB in lurk!
:D
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I am happy to report I have finally acquired a copy of next week's TV Guide and now have my 3-D glasses for Monday evening's "Medium" event!
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While I was shopping I also found a $$$ deal on sirloin steak, rump roast and pork loin.
My eatin's gonna be good again next week!
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All right, everyone.
GIRD YOURSELVES!
I see TCB in lurk!
:D
My loins are girded! (NOT GIRDLED! - that would be most unseemly!)
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Hey, Jane!
Hey, JRand 55!
Hey, FJL!
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Jane winked out and "td" popped up.
Hey, td!
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And TCB is gone again, too. I don't think we challenge him enough any more.
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My loins are girded! (NOT GIRDLED! - that would be most unseemly!)
Steel yourself, in order avoid confusion.
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In...
Out...
They come and go, like gazelles grazing on the savannah....
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DR Ron Pulliam - It goes well. I am a bit tired after playing piano for about six hours today, but that's par for the course. Otherwise, no worries.
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There are gazelles in Georgia?
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Jane winked out and "td" popped up.
Hey, td!
Sometimes, I have been known to pop up without the winking prelude.
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I like what Jrand said about RENT:
Probably very appropriate RENT analogy.....sorry I don't get the show. I may see the movie on DVD, because I have been wrong before, but I don't like it, yet!
It is probably a much better way to phrase it than to say that I hated (sorry SWW) disliked the show. I didn't get the show, and it annoyed me that I didn't get it. Here were all these wonderful characters, standing front and center on a Broadway stage, and all I could think of was, "This is crap." Had I suddenly become an old stoggie traditionalist???
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I like what Jrand said about RENT:It is probably a much better way to phrase it than to say that I hated (sorry SWW) disliked the show. I didn't get the show, and it annoyed me that I didn't get it. Here were all these wonderful characters, standing front and center on a Broadway stage, and all I could think of was, "This is crap." Had I suddenly become an old stoggie traditionalist???
Perhaps we should form a club.
Hey DR RLP.
BALLROOM BOOTCAMP is coming on TLC right now, give it a shot!
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And TCB is gone again, too. I don't think we challenge him enough any more.
Not challenged by you, Ron? Surely (or Shirley), you jest?
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Perhaps we should form a club.
Hey DR RLP.
BALLROOM BOOTCAMP is coming on TLC right now, give it a shot!
Hmm, I'll show you my club, if you show.............
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Well... Why not just put the fridge food in the freezer and vice versa?
;)
*And there's no rule saying that refrigerator has to be in a kitchen... If there's a plug nearby, I say plug them in!
LOL, we already thought of that.
The new frig is plugged in but the handles to open it have not arrived. The oven and the microwave/convection oven are sitting on the floor next to me. If all goes well they will be installed in the next couple of weeks and we will even get to use them before the kitchen is completed.
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I remember OzDerek saying that "Rent" was a show that may well have worked if they'd thought to have a director. It was the aural assault that ruined it for me.
Of course had it been a show about Rent Boys ( a Pet Shop boys reference), I may have found it more interesting.
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I am so excited! My dear friends, Tracy and Gerry won four tickets to an early showing of HARRY POTTER tomorrow. And they asked me to go with them!!!! I figured it would be months before I could afford to go see that movie.
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I am happy to report I have finally acquired a copy of next week's TV Guide and now have my 3-D glasses for Monday evening's "Medium" event!
At least you don't have to share the one pair. ;D
The glasses are so big I will have to hold them up the entire time.
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TCB :D. Have a great time.
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Ron I didn't go anywhere except to read the posts and catch up.
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Jason did you have cake?
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What show is Jason seeing tonight?
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Whew! My modem just came and went!
The Indianapolis STAR reviewer says this Harry Potter movie is the BEST one yet!
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Ron must have gone to watch Ballroom Bootcamp!
DR TCB - it's been so long since I used my club, I forget where I left it.
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I think Jason was seeing the ALW movie. whoops! Musical.
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Best health vibes Denise.
It was this time last year that I too was in a lot of pain went to the emergency room and ended up in the hospital for four days. so glad that didn't happen to you.
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Sad to hear about Aron's. Everytime I went to LA I always made sure I went there. I am sure if I lived in LA I would have been there once a week. A great store. We don't really have anything like where I am.
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BK Picture of the day
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For all the NYCers out there. What is the weather going to be like for the next week? I haven't packed yet and I would like to know what I should need.
Thanks
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What no brassiere?
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Hello fellow Dear Readers.
Danise, sorry you are feeling crappy. I hope you get better soon!
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BK, I always wondered where twiddling thumbs came from. Now we know.
I emailed DR Kerry a few days ago and have not had a response. He still owes me cake from my birthday in September.
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Uh....that post made more sense just below the photo, rather than just below DR MS's query!
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'night all.
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Good night, Jane.
Yes, I went over to eBay and puttered around there awhile.
I got tired of being solo!
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Can anyone tell me why there is no link at this site to the Kritzerland site?
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TCB -- you flatterer!
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Jason said that he was going to see SOUVENIR on Sunday. My dear friends, Sharry and Micheal (who BK and Michael Shayne have met) will also be seeing the show on Sunday. I wonder if Jason will be going backstage to see Judy Kaye after the show? If so, they will probably meet him.
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I have some supper to cook...and the steak has gotten to the right temp, and the potato has baked long enough...so-o-o-o-o-o-o....
Be seein' ya!
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DR Michael S - www.weather.com - use Zip Code 10036
;)
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I think Mr Snark Clackamore is working on a link.
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DR JOSE what's the BEST move in Who's Got the Pain?
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Cillaliz - Thanks for your kind words. I was afraid I'd achieved a new low in frenzy content last night. :)
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DR JOSE what's the BEST move in Who's Got the Pain?
It's all good, but most of it is Mambo and Merengue-based.
However, the lifts in "Shoeless Joe" and "Whatever Lola Wants" are breathtaking.
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Shoeless Joe has always been one of my favorite numbers to STAGE and watch! Is Gloria the only girl in it? Do the guys lift each other?
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Jason said that he was going to see SOUVENIR on Sunday. My dear friends, Sharry and Micheal (who BK and Michael Shayne have met) will also be seeing the show on Sunday. I wonder if Jason will be going backstage to see Judy Kaye after the show? If so, they will probably meet him.
I think I am going Wednesday with my friend Gary who some of you met when I was in NYC last time to see Penny's play
But who knows we may change our plans.
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DR Michael S - www.weather.com - use Zip Code 10036
;)
Thank You
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OKay has anyone seen The Little Prince at NYCO or Peter Pan at MSG?
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For all the NYCers out there. What is the weather going to be like for the next week? I haven't packed yet and I would like to know what I should need.
Thanks
Well thanks to Jose I will need a good sweater and a winter coat.
I mean thanks to Jose and the link he sent me I now know I will need a winter coat and sweater
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I think I will finish watching COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER and then watch HOOTENANNY HOOT!
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OKay has anyone seen The Little Prince at NYCO or Peter Pan at MSG?
I've heard good things about The Little Prince. There's actually a CD and DVD out of this new opera by Rachel Portman (she wrote the score for the movie, "Chocolat").
As for Peter Pan - it's just the Cathy Rigby tour/version. Of course, it is her final tour as Peter, so....
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I've heard good things about The Little Prince. There's actually a CD and DVD out of this new opera by Rachel Portman (she wrote the score for the movie, "Chocolat").
As for Peter Pan - it's just the Cathy Rigby tour/version. Of course, it is her final tour as Peter, so....
Saw a tour about 10 years ago when it played Montreal. Is it staged any different to take advantage of MSG?
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Saw a tour about 10 years ago when it played Montreal. Is it staged any different to take advantage of MSG?
Well, she revised her version of the show a few years ago. It was shown on A&E, and then released on DVD. I've heard that the flying rig as MSG will allow her to fly over the audience.
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I think I will finish watching COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER and then watch HOOTENANNY HOOT!
HOOTENANNY HOOT! What channel is that on!!
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I'm here...the Phantom of the...wait, that's not what I saw tonight! Tonight was WOMAN IN WHITE, which really wasn't that bad of a show. In fact, it's pretty decent. It's not a score that I'd listen to for casual listening, but then again, neither is DAS REINGOLD, and lots o' people dig that Wagner stuff.
The set, while not involving any chandeliers or helicopters, did just what it needed to do. The only times it ever made me queasy was when the images would go one way and the turntable would spin the other. That was my biggest complaint about it.
Ms. Maria Friedman was wonderful, as was Mr. Michael Ball. And DR Danise, I'm sure had he known you were in pain, he'd have sent his good vibes. So, I'll send them for him. :)
DR MattH: I got the DVD today. THANK YOU SO MUCH! (And I LOVE the bonuses) ;)
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This is my final post as a 28-year old...
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Happy Birthday DR Jason...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR JASON!!!!
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I really enjoyed "Goodnight and Good Luck" David Strathairn did an incredible job as Murrow. The soundtrack was fabulous. I heard it's Rosemary Clooney's band with Dianne Reeves singing. I am going to get it ASAP!
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Jason - I'm so glad you're 29 now. When you were 28, I was old enough to be your father. I feel like I've gotten younger as you've gotten older.
When you're my age, that type of logic will make sense. :)
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This is my first post as a 29-year old. The Greek called me at midnight. He was the first person to officially wish me happy birthday. :-\
EDIT: I'm not sure if I told the truth or not - The Greek called and I turned around to notice an IM from DR Jose wishing me a happy birthday. I'm not sure which got there first, but it doesn't really matter - it was a lovely gesture from both. :)
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A PAGE 29, I MEAN PAGE 9, DANCE FOR JASON'S BIRTHDAY
It's late and I don't want to disturb the neighbors, so imagine the birthday dance here.
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It just occurred to me that in 365 1/4 days I will enter my 30's. Wow...so many things to accomplish before then!
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What's the name of that Greek dance they did in ZORBA?
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I just looked it up. They called it "Zorba's Dance."
AKA The Syrtaki
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I have seen Cathy Rigby's PETER PAN three times. I thought that this production was the strongest one she has done. "Ugh a Wug" in this production is a real showstopper. The new company that is flying Cathy (no longer Fly by Foy) got her to within inches of the balcony at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater. Lord only knows where she will end up at MSG.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JASON
(even though you are still 28 on the Left Coast)
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Thanks, everyone, for the birthday wishes. It's going to be a long day tomorrow - SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE and THE COLOR PURPLE - so I better take a shower and hit the hay.
Buenos nachos!
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Is PETER PAN actually at MSG or at the Theater at MSG? IIRC, the Theater at MSG isn't that much more vast than the Gershwin, where Rigby did the show recently.
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Oops. my bad, the Theater at MSG holds 5600 to the Gershwin's approx. 2000. I guess that's a little more vast. But it sure doesn't feel that way.
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Good night, and have a great day tomorrow (or is it today), Jason.
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Be sure to let us know what you thought of HARRY POTTER, DR TCB.
Congrats!
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Glad you got the DVD, DR Jason, and that you liked the bonuses. I thought you might like them, especially the first one. :D
And since it's past midnight on the East CoastL:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR Jason!!!!
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VISITING MR. GREEN was enjoyable if not riveting. The actor playing Ross had some irritating mannerisms and whined too much in the part, but I enjoyed the actor playing Mr. Green very much.
We went out for desserts afterwards, and I had what is called a Carmel Ice Cream Dream. I ate the WHOLE thing all by myself, but as I did without my usual ice cream this afternoon, I felt entitled!
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Driving to the theater, I put in the Rhino soundtrack to MGM's GIGI. My goodness, compared to the soundtrack album of this movie I've listened to for years on LP, this CD has TWICE as much music. I haven't finished with it yet at all. Just got through "I Remember It Well." Looking forward to enjoying the rest of it each time I get in the car over the next few days.
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And now, it's past 1 a.m. here on the East Coast, so I'm heading for bed.
Good night, all!
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LOVED your bird pics, DR Tomovoz. I wish I could get my birds to eat from my hand!
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Back from The Drowsy Chaperone and opening night party - exhausted, but must now have a bite to eat, then write the notes, which won't go up until about 12:30 or thereabouts.
The reason there is no Kritzerland link is because Mr. Mark Bakalor is a very busy boy. I shall ask him to do one, and perhaps he can get around to it.