Thank you, DR Vixmom, for the kind words about the show excerpts I sent you. Always nice to have someone appreciate something that you love to do.
Ginny, now that you mention it I was in the Michigan Theatre. It was in 1997 when we were visiting a friend who lived there. We saw a Japanese Animae film there, Princess Something or other (I can't remember the name). The theatre is GORGEOUS!
I must say, I'm so proud of Vice-President Cheney for upholding the standards of the NRA; I so disagree with the Constitution's giving me the right to bear arms. I'd rather it guaranteed a woman's choice to an abortion. End of political rant.
Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards." The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Luebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's. That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States .
Here are this year's winners:
5th Place (tie):
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
5th Place (tie):
19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000. and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr.Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
5th Place (tie):
Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it
shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr.Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place!
4th Place:
Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500. and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time, by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly
with a pellet gun.
3rd Place :
A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500. after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
2nd Place : Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms.Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She
was awarded $12,000. and dental expenses.
1st Place :
This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from a football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise
control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000.00 plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there
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I must say, I'm so proud of Vice-President Cheney for upholding the standards of the NRA; I so disagree with the Constitution's giving me the right to bear arms. I'd rather it guaranteed a woman's choice to an abortion. End of political rant.
Okay....such great snow pics....loved them all....and .... what the ^^%$$#....................... !!!!!
As for the Topic of the Day...
We were a drive-in family growing up, or we went to the movies on the Army base (Ft. Myer).
Should I be looking for an envelope from California?
Didn't know Atragon was out. I have Dogora, though.
I am here. I spent some of the morning before beginning work doing an e-file of my federal taxes. I began using one site but they are less than user friendly in my humble opinion and I would recommend that any DR stay away from TaxEngine.com. I ended up using CitizenTax.com and filed my Federal taxes for free. I am now awaiting confirmation that the filing was accepted and then begins the two to three week wait for my refund. None of the sites offer free State filing so I will mail my NY state taxes in today. It will take longer but the curmudgeon in me refuses to pay money to e-file a simple tax return. I don't have complicated taxes and if they want people to file electronically they should make it easier, not more difficult. It's not even the price, the sites that do e-file for states charge generally around $7.95. It's the principle of the thing....
We LOVE Big Eden (http://www.wolfevideo.com/products.asp?id=90) and highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it yet.
I spent three hours uploading photos to PhotoBucket last night. I blame Jose. He suggested I use their site.
If you'd like to peruse any of my pictures, please visit http://photobucket.com/albums/f49/BroadwayBratt/. You'll find random pics of New York, my many visits to the Zoo and my trip to Washington DC.
Enjoy!
Theatres in Coon Rapids, Minnesota were not of the grand variety. There were a couple of nice old theatres in Minneapolis but by the time I was going there to see movies most of the nice stuff had been covered up. After I left Minnesota two of the remaining old movie theatres were turned into "performing arts spaces" housing road shows and concerts. Some restoration was done and they are nicer now than they were when I was living in Minnesota.
I needs must buy a new laser printer. My current printer (an NEC SuperScript 860) is almost 10 years old and they no longer make toner cartridges for it. I found some discontinued toners on line but they run around $155. For another $100 I can buy a decent new laser printer.
Laura, remind me, please. Which brand of printer was causing you distress? I want to avoid that one when doing my research.
DakotaCelt, I know of the State Theatre in Minneapolis but I don't remember a State in Saint Paul. Here is a link to an old picture of the State in Minneapolis (before my time ;)
State Theatre in Minneapolis (http://cinematreasures.org/theater/1196/)
The old World Theatre in Saint Paul, which is not listed in Cinema Treasures, is now called The Fitzgerald (after F. Scott who lived in Saint Paul for a while) and it's the home of
Prairie Home Companion (http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/)
Cinema Treasures is a lovely site....
Thanks, DRJASON...I love photobucket! I use it for all of our Putnam County Playhouse photos!
Yes, DRRODZINSKI, my 8-track is gone as well.
I love Prairie Home Companion. Keillor is making a return trip to North Dakota and I am hoping to get tickets for the performance in Grand Forks at the Chester Fritz.
If you do, don't forget to fill in a index card for Garrison to read "Hi to all the Hainsies and Kimlets from DakotaCelt!"
I plan on it!!! WEather permitting... I also have to say hello to some JnJers also!!
Work equals boredom.
That is all.
DR DAKOTA CELT - if you pay $25 per year you get UNLIMITED bandwidth...and you might also check out RanchoWeb which charges a bit but it's easy to use!
Atragon, take me away...
Wow - DRTOMovOZ - do you think the Palace ever played ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN?The cinema underneath the Regent was the Plaza - Our "Cinerama" movie palace. A Fifty Foot Woman would have been more at home there.
I am at work and I am hungry.
Ah yes....she would have loved the Plaza, DR TOMovOZ...she was sort of a mezzanine soprano.LOL
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And The Plaza did house "Seven Wonders Of The World". She would have felt right at home with Lowell Thomas
So, I plucked INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE off the shelf and started watching it. Got to "'X' marks the spot" before closing it down to get on-line. Will continue more with it later tonight.
Well, today the idiocy of PASSIONS was quite interesting: a character mentioned that today was Valentine's Day, but New Year's Eve lasted two weeks on the moronic show. I love soap opera time frames. Who writes this crap? Actually, I once knew a really bad playwright from Princeton, now dead of AIDS complications, who wrote crap, and I mean really bad pseudo-Edward Albee Virginia Woolf disasters, and ended up on the staff of ALL MY CHILDREN or ONE LIFE TO LIVE, as I recall. What was that idiot's name? Never liked him. Or his putrid plays, which the Princeton Players actually staged. I'll never forgive him for having to sit through a dreadful Happy Deathday play (I'm not making this up!).
Ya know, DR MATTH - I know that Mr BK and others have said that Tati is a favorite....but I just don't like his movies. I don't GET his comedy - and the visuals don't seem funny to me, at all.
Of course I have only seen his movies on regular commercial TV and in P/S - is there one that you recommend that might be best for me to start a re-evaluation.
DR MattH - that movie has one of my all-time favorite library sequences in it - when the librarian is stamping the books and Indiana Jones is banging on the marble floor.
Jrand, it will be a pdf, not via mail, but I just have to update things before sending it.
I'll try the download thing again.
I think we are all bogging down the Cinematreasures web site. The administrators are probably wondering what is going on.
Regent.
The Awful Truth with Cary and Irene is on TCM again this evening.
If you are using RapidShare and have already downloaded something today....you will have to wait a few hours before you can do another download....then it will work as DRMBARNUM says.....scroll down...click FREE wait for the seconds to tick down then enter the password that comes up.
IF you are at your free limit you won't get that page that allows you to click FREE.
I think you were right about the air crash in '61, DR MATTH....sometimes things run together for me.
The new ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST has some nice vintage photos of Newman & Woodward, Audrey Hepburn, and Ava Gardner.
Also a short Rock Hudson pictorial - he is giving a barbecue for guests that include Lori Nelson and Julia Adams (both pictured).
The expert writing the current article of course declares that Rock was dating a script girl at the time, Betty Abbott....wife of Bud Abbott. The expert should know of course that Betty Abbott was Bud's daughter! And she worked as a continuity person at Universal for MANY MANY years.... Where do the find these "experts?"
Wiped out our entire world championship level team and it took us years to rebuild it. Peggy Fleming was the next bright light on the scene, but that was several years away before she'd win her first world championship (1966).
Thanks, DR MATTH....just let me know what you think....I believe it was HULOT'S HOLIDAY and maybe MON ONCLE or something that I saw and .... well didn't watch ALL of either of them.....
What a gaffe! If he HAD been dating someone's wife (rather than ex-wife), it would have been kept quiet!
I think I will watch THE SERVANT with Sir Dirk BogardeOne of the truly great actors of the 20th Century IMHO.
DR Jed is off at his first day of work, presumably having a grand time finding out about health plans and such things.I meant screams from the Library!
I am trying to get used to the expanse of time that I now find myself confronted with during the days. I did have a job interview this morning, though, which helped speed things up. It was a good job, I'd like to get it...here's hoping.
DR Jed is off at his first day of work, presumably having a grand time finding out about health plans and such things.
I am trying to get used to the expanse of time that I now find myself confronted with during the days. I did have a job interview this morning, though, which helped speed things up. It was a good job, I'd like to get it...here's hoping.
DR Elmore, DO NOT WATCH the Scifi Channel at 9am Eastern....STARGATE? I never watch it, although I knew Ben Browder back in the early 90s, and he's a nice man
THat program they call a show is on at that time.... YOu know which one I am talking about... So much for quality!
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STARGATE? I never watch it, although I knew Ben Browder back in the early 90s, and he's a nice man
No, Stargate I dont mind....
Passions....
On the Sci Fi channel? I'm missing a connection. Duh!
This was the theater where I saw all the road shows that came to town. I remember seeing SOUTH PACIFIC, WEST SIDE STORY, SOUND OF MUZACK, BEN-HUR, and others. Also, Buddy Holly played the Temple the year before he died, and this is the same theater where I saw the touring company of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS. Now, the entire building is the Landmark Convention Center.
What a gaffe! If he HAD been dating someone's wife (rather than ex-wife), it would have been kept quiet!
Oh, this bulletin just in from the Olympics.<Possible spoiler>
In the first day of the Biathlon competition.............
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DR TCB - did you need to wear a masonic apron to go to the movies? "TCB Pinafore"
Less than twenty postings unti we achieve our new plateau.
In the meantime, I'm at a loss for what to do in tomorrow's musical theater workshop (MTW) class - we were originally going to sing tomorrow, but the pianist is coming Thursday - any suggestions greatly appreciated. Should have something to do with the musical theater and performing I suppose, but I'm open to anything and my brain is atrophied at the moment.
Special Valentine's day workshop topic: the evolution of love songs in the theater
As in: How can you shtup so low? Or is it shtup solo?Thank you ever reliable FJL.. your efforts are appreciated by the sundried if not the all.
Now let me get this straight...you can take a major--and I mean major-- fall on the ice, and still manage to win a silver medal?
Michelle Kwan is probably thinking to herself, "Hell, I could have done that!"
DR TCB, did you know that Buddy Holly was on his way to a performance in Moorhead, MN when he died in a plane crash in Iowa? Bobby Vee took over the billing and played. Ironically Waylon Jennings was supposed to be on that flight but backed out so Ritchie Valens could go on it.
Now let me get this straight...you can take a major--and I mean major-- fall on the ice, and still manage to win a silver medal?
Michelle Kwan is probably thinking to herself, "Hell, I could have done that!"
Gone are the days when everyone used to say Alo Vera.
More suggestions, please. And yes, it's a performance workshop, although I can do anything I want.